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spirit_n	body_n	lord_n	soul_n	15,609	5	5.1843	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53432	The best guide in the worst of times delivered in a sermon at the Guild-Hall Chappel on March 27, 1681 before the honourable the aldermen and several eminent citizens of the city of London / by William Orme ...	Orme, William.	1681 (1681)	Wing O437; ESTC R23123	28,642	60

fitly render it as we do In the Lord understanding it not only of Martyrs but likewise of all others that die in the Faith and Fear of God They may be said to die in the Lord that die willingly chearfully resigning their Souls to God that gave them and freely parting with the world and that die penitently in the act of contrition as St. Austin is said to do breathing out his last gasp with a sigh for his sins and that die devoutly calling upon the Lord for mercy and forgiveness and that die charitably forgiving all the world after the example of Christ and his Proto-martyr St. Stephen and that die peaceably having made peace with God and the world and their own consciences they that depart this life with a willing resignation of themselves with repentance faith prayer charity and peace may be said to die in the Lord and be concluded blessed But if we desire to die in the Lord as all good Christians should do we must resolve to live in the Lord for they that do not live in the Lord are not likely to die in the Lord. We must not live the life of the wicked and then think to be saved with Balaam's wish Let me die the death of the Righteous and let my last end be like his No if we will die the death of the righteous we must live the life of the righteous We must live then in the Faith and Fear of God in repentance and obedience piety and devotion love and charity and so shall we die in the Lord and be blessed For blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth And this denotes the time when their blessedness begins 't is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from henceforth Some refer this to the time of the former Vision of John as a consolation to those that should suffer the persecution fore-told therein for it was revealed to him in a Vision that a great Tryal should befal the Christians in the time of Dioclesian the cruel Tyrant and that their persecutions should be so sore that they were happiest who died soonest that within a while should be taken out of this life from doing their part in the evil to come that should die quickly or within a short time thereby to avoid such cruel storms and persecutions and to enjoy their reward of peace and bliss Others refer it to the Resurrection and the day of Judgment the time when those that die in the Lord shall be raised to a blessed life the time spoken of Rev. 11.18 when he shall give the reward unto his Servants the Prophets and to the Saints and to them that fear his Name Small and Great Others refer it to the hour of death as if the sense were this that they that die in the Lord from the time of their death from that very instant they are blessed they no sooner loose a temporal life but they find an eternal one So soon as Lazarus died his Soul was carried by Angels into Abrahams bosom The same day that the Penitent Thief expired on the Cross the same day was he with Christ in Paradice Pious Souls when once they are absent from the body they are quickly present with the Lord when once they depart they are blessed from henceforth And of this we are further assured as by the voice from Heaven so by the Spirit of God it is so Yea saith the Spirit Let Heathens and Hereticks deny or doubt the Immortality of the Soul the Resurrection of the Body and the blessedness of the dead because they know no better and let wicked and ungodly men deny these things because they live no better for they fancy them not to be because they would not have them to be their guilty consciences telling them that if such things be it will be ill with them Let such I say think or speak what they will still we are to conclude that they are cursed who die in their sins and that they are blessed that die in the Lord Yea saith the Spirit so it is for the Spirit saith so in divers places of Scripture telling us that the death of good men that die in the Lord is pretious in his sight that there is hope in their end that all tears shall be wiped from their eyes that they shall enter into joy that there is a Crown of righteousness laid up for them that they shall be with Christ that they shall rest from their Labors and that their works shall follow them And herein their Blessedness consists viz. in a relaxation of their Labours and a retribution of their Works in that they have Rest and Recompence in that they are discharged of their Work and for their Work in that they are freed from it and pay'd well for it They rest from their Labours We are all born in and to Labour we are born by our Mothers Labour and we live by our own This Life is made up of care and toyl pains and pain trouble and sorrow They that are Poor labour for maintenance and are fain in the sweat of their brow to eat their Bread all the days of their life And they that are Rich and have plenty seldom say they have enough but still Labour for more their endeavour to get care to keep avarice to increase fear to loose their Riches these torment them and disturb their happiness as well as repose They that are under a Cloud labour to get from it and appear something in the World and they on whom Fortune shines and Honors sparkles they labour for greater Lustre They that are Low labour to look up and they that are High labour to over-look one another Some labour for Honour some for Wealth some for Knowledg and some for Health The best Christians they are with Paul In labours more abundant exercised dayly in mortifying the flesh with its affections and lusts in denying and even crucifying themselves for those sins that crucified Christ instriving against temptations to sin and their Spiritual enemies in suffering affliction and bearing the Cross Thus our Life is a succession of Labours as well as Sins our sins growing with our years and sorrows with sins and troubles with sorrows so that the comforts of this life are rather Solatia miserorum quam gaudia beatorum comforts of those that are miserable rather than joyes of those that are happy and therefore we have reason to conclude those happy that die in the Lord and so rest from their Labours for such are discharged and free and that both from sin and the evil consequents thereof The Papists would have us believe that after death the Souls of men enter into Purgatory there to suffer sorrow and torment for a while till they be purged and fitted for the region of bliss but they contradict themselves concerning the place the torments the tormentors the extremity of the torments and the continuance under them The place some say is in the bottom of