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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18615	The Best choyce a funerall sermon / published at the desire of some of the friends of the dead.		1607 (1607)	STC 5141.7; ESTC S288	17,327	59

of the heauenly Ierusalem hath no neede of the Sun neither of the Moone to shine in it for the glorie of God did light it and the Lambe is the light of it Then necessarily it must giue much more true content and delight and bee a greater happinesse to bee and abide with Christ to see his glory then to be abide in Salomons Court and to see his glory Yea so happy a thing it is to be with Christ behold his glory that when hee was transfigured vpon the Mountaine and had onely two of the Saints in company with him Moses Elias and they conferring with him of no pleasant discourse but of his death that hee should shortly suffer at Ierusalem yet the view of that short glorie was so excellent in Peters iudgement that though hee and his two fellowes were open to the checke of all weather on the mountaines top and were not themselues inlightened and glorified with that glorie yet was hee so wholly surprised and rauished with the sight of it that hee would gladly there haue made his continual abode to haue had libertie still to behold the same saying in the 17. of Matthew 4. verse Master it is good for vs to be here if thou wilt let vs make here three Tabernacles one for thee and one for Moses and one for Elias Consider still the circumstances of that glorie of Christ which they then sawe and compare it with the reuealed circumstances of the present glory of Christ which the soules of the faithfull now after dissolution doe see in heauen and it will appeare that though it were a good thing and a signe of great fauour to bee admitted to see that glorie of Christ vppon the mountaine yet it is as my text dooth call it Multo magis melius much better best of all and the full fruit of infinite fauour to be with Christ after dissolution and to be admitted in heauen to behold his present glorie The Lord Iesus for his owne part did then shine in glorie his face as the Sunne his garments as the light So that Peter doth call it in his second Epistle 1. chapter 16. verse Maiestie honour and glory yet putting a difference betweene that and another which he calleth excellent glory From whence that voyce came saying This is my welbeloued Sonne in whom I am well pleased But Iesus was then vpon an earthly mountaine vpon Mount Tabor he was not then vpon Mount Sion which Iohn in the Reuelations saw And he was accompanied onely with two of his Saints wanting the honorable traine of an hundred fortie and foure thousands hauing his Fathers name vpon their fore-heads and with heauenly musicke attending him vppon that mountaine And the glory of Iesus in that open and solitary place was short Peter heard Moses Elias talking with him of his death that should shortly follow at Ierusalem Peter also that beheld that glory was as slenderly accompanied with Iames Iohn and in a sort diuided from the fellowship of the Saints And he was also cloathed with mortalitie and in himselfe still full of frailtie and infirmitie and yet hee was astonished at the view of so great glorie But now is Iesus in heauen sitting at the right hand of God cloathed with maiestie and glorie Now is hee accompanied and attended by armies of Saints and Angells Now is his glorie constant and shall neuer more admit any eclips The Saintes that now come vnto him by putting off their bodies in death they put off mortalitie corruption frailty and all infirmitie they are brought by Angells into the societie of Saints and Angells as the Apostle to the Hebrewes speaketh in the 12. chapter the 22. verse Ye are come vnto the mounts Sion and to the Citie of the liuing God the celestiall Ierusalem and to the company of innumerable Angells and to the congregation of the first borne which are written in heauen and to God the Iudge of all and to the spirits of iust and perfect men and to Iesus to Mediator of the new Testament And while thus accompanied they behold the glory of Christ themselues shall bee transformed into glory Our iudgement esteeming of this happinesse to be with Christ may be directed and helped something by our wordes in recounting this happinesse But yet neither can our wordes expresse nor our heart fully conceiue the great happinesse that the Saints of God finde when departing from vs they come vnto the Lord Christ Is not the naturall childe glad to be with his father and doth he not therein find content Is not the louing wife satisfied to bee in company with her kinde husband and dooth not that please her minde Is not a true hearted and faithfull friend glad to enioy the companie of a true hearted and faithfull friend and doe not they being met reioyce togither Euen so the Christian soule that loueth the Lorde Iesus will desire to bee loosed and to bee with Christ for it knoweth that to be best Such to be the desire of a true holie soule euen by death to come vnto him rather then by still liuing here to be kept from him may appeare by the words of priuate meditation that Augustine vseth in the first chapter of his Soliloquia saying Cur faciem tuam abscondis forte dices non videbit me homo viuet Eia Domine moriar vt te videā videam vt hic moriar nolo viuere volo mori dissolui cupio esse cū Christo mori desidero vt videā Christum viuere renue vt vivam cum Christo O Domine Iesu accipe spiritum meum vita mea suscipe animam meam gaudium meum attrahe cor meum That is why doost thou hide thy face Thou wilt say perhaps no man shall see me and liue Come on then Lord let mee die that I may see thee Let mee see thee though I die here Oh I desire not to liue I desire to die I long to bee loosed that I may bee with Christ I wish to die that I may see Christ I refuse to liue that I may liue with Christ O my Lorde Iesus receiue my spirite O thou my life receiue my soule O thou my ioy drawe my heart vnto thee Those which were present with this man in the time of his sicknesse and houre of his death know with what constant desire he waited for and desired his dissolution therefore desiring to die that hee might be with Christ therfore desiring to be with Christ because he knew it to be best of all That the power of faith and true knowledge of Iesus Christ hadde wrougth in him that he preferred Iesus Christ before al things before life riches friends whatsoeuer knowing that to bee with Christ was more then all Blessed be God that is wonderfull in those that beleeue And let vs by such examples bee moued to treasure vp faith in Christ The Apostle saith in his Epistle to the Philippians 3. chapter 17. verse Looke on them which walke so as they haue vs for an example The Apostle himselfe was the example He desired to be loosed that he might be with Christ which is best of all This man walked so for hee desired to bee loosed that he might be with Christ knowing that to be best of all Let vs looke vpon him and while wee haue time helpes let vs lay hold on faith that knowing death to bee the gathering of vs vnto Christ and that companie of Christ to be the highest happinesse wee may with quiet and glad mindes put off our flesh when the day of our dissolution commeth and may rest in the Lord as this our Brother doth Laus Deo Amen FINIS