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A12170	The brides longing for her bride-groomes second comming A sermon preached at the funerall of the right worshipfull, Sir Thomas Crevv, knight, sergeant at law to his maiestie. By the late learned and reverend divine, Rich. Sibs.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.; Hughes, George, 1603-1667, attributed name.	1638 (1638)	STC 22478B; ESTC S113744	32,385	162

of the Gentiles come in the conversion of thy people of the Iewes that their Riches may be an encrease of our Riches that there may be golden times indeed as surely then they will be And then because there is a certaine number of the Elect of God which must bee accomplished and fulfilled and Christ will delay his last comming till that be done Therefore Come and accomplish the number of thine Elect as you have it Revel 6. 11. And white Robes were given to everie one of them and it was said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season untill their fellow servants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled They must stay till the rest come in As they that have invited a companie of Strangers to a Feast doe stay till the last be come so there will not be a glorious comming of Christ untill all the Elect be gathered into one Body And then shall be the Comming of all Commings which is the glorious comming of Christ to take us to himselfe and to make us sit with him to judge the World as so many Kings and Judges of the World and to be with him for ever As the Apostle saith Then shall we be ever with the Lord. And that is a comfort indeed As hee addes there Wherefore comfort one another with these words And so you see the graduall performance thereof Now I come unto the last and that which I meane most to stand upon being a blessed Truth most suteable to this occasion That as it is the dutie so it is the disposition of a gracious heart to aesire the glorious comming of Christ Iesus and to desire all his other commings in way and order to this as they make way for his last comming In the unfoulding of this I shall shew you the grounds and reasons why the Church doth so and then make some tryals whether we doe so or no and then give you some few directions to help us therein Why doth the Church desire so much this second and glorious comming of Christ Because the Church is in want till that time and the ground of all desire is want Wee want our bodies wee want many of our friends c. But then there shall be a supply of all Because our life is hid with Christ in God and when Christ who is our life shall appeare then shall wee also appeare with him in Glory Col. 3. 3 4. Our glorious head is there already when he shall be revealed then our glory shall be revealed for Hee shall come to be glorified in his Saints and to be admired in all those that doe believe In regard of Christ himselfe Christ is in some sort imperfect till the latter day till his second comming for the mysticall body of Christ is his fulnesse Christ is our fulnesse and wee are his fulnesse now Christs fulnesse is made up when all the members of his mystical body are gathered and united together the head and the members make but one naturall body so Christ and the Church but one mysticall 1 Cor. 12. 12. As the body is one and hath many members and all the members of that one body being many are one body so also is Christ. Hence it is that the Saints are called the glory of Christ Christ in this sense is not fully glorious therefore till that time The church desires therfore that Christ may bee glorious in himselfe glorious in them that hee may come to bee glorious in his Saints Because where the treasure is there will the heart be also now where is the Churches treasure but in Christ Our spirits are supernaturall and carried to the best of Spirits and who is the best of spirits but Christ himselfe Because the members are carried to union with the head The happinesse of the Soule is in union with the fountaine of happinesse and the neerer the fountaine of happinesse the more happy what is it that makes the blessed body of Christ more happy then all the Angels and men but because it is hypostatically united to the second Person of the Trinity and so to the fountaine of the God-head the neerer to God the happier the fuller of grace and glory because he is the God of all grace and glory therefore the neerer to Christ the more happy Now after the resurrection we shall be nearer both in soule and body wee may see this by the contrary What is it that makes Hell so horrible because there is an utter and eternall separation from the chiefest and choicest good God himselfe Here the wicked men of the world have the presence of God in the creatures they taste the sweetnesse of Gods goodnesse in them but in Hell they shall have none to all eternity there shal be an utter separation betweene Christ and them But now the joyning to God the fountaine of all good in Heaven makes Heaven to bee Heaven indeed if Christ was not there Heaven would bee no Heaven therfore Paul saith I desire to be dissolved and to bee with Christ and so the Church here Come LORD JESUS then we shall be neare not in soul onely but also in body and soule and in both we shall be for ever joyned to the fountaine of all good It is that which the Church desires here and in the Canticles what is it that the Church prayes for in the beginning Let him kisse me with the kisses of his lips c. There she desires the first comming of Christ but you have it afterwards in the conclusion of the booke make haste my beloved and be thou like to the young Hart or Roe upon the mountaine of Spices Such is the disposition of the Church that before Christ was come good people were knowne by the desire of his comming And therefore it was the description of holy men that they waited for the consolation of Israel Oh Lord come quickly come in the flesh But now the first comming is past they desire as much his second comming and therefore they are described in the Epistle of Saint Paul to be such as love and long for the appearing of Christ a Crowne of Righteousnesse is laid up for all those that love his appearance Therefore if wee had the Spirit of the Church we would Eccho to Christ when he saith I come quickly and say make haste my beloved c. As the Church saith in the latter end of the Canticles Beloved doe but compare the glory of that time with the glory which we have here and and that wil shew another Reason I will shew it by way of comparison a little why the Church should bee desirous of the second comming of Christ. If the good things that we have by grace here are such as eye hath not seene or eare heard neither have entred into the heart of man to consider of for the place is meant

dreadfull Sentence Goe ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his Angels Gods words are not as Winde Indeed they are such a Winde as will blow downe all impenitent sinners to Hell Wee must have a Legall Amen to the Threatnings of God as well as an Evangelicall Amen to the sweet Promises S. Iohn here by the Spirit of God saith Amen to the Promises of the time to come to wit for the confusion of Antichrist for the conversion of the Iewes and for the glorious times to come though he sees no evidence thereof for the present and so must we to all Divine Truths But wee have another kind and companie of men that must be taxed that have indeed an Amen and a Seale but it is to a blank They are presumptuous persons and such which is worse as will have God to say Amen to their courses They will be naught and sinfull and then studie and strive to bring Gods Word to stand bent to their bow and so in their lying conceit make God say Amen to their Lusts. They account it not sufficient to have their will but they will have God to be of their mind too and they will alwayes get some daubers that shall say Goe on and prosper An Ahab will alwayes have his false Prophets What a wicked thing is this that wee should make an Idoll of God and transforme him into the likenesse of Satan his Enemie To make him like that which he hates most We will continue in our sinfull courses and make as though we had the Word of God for us and oh we have the judgement of such and such and thus boulster up our selves by building upon such sandie foundations When wee should bring up our soules and resigne them to God and his Spirit wee will bring God downe to our bent and make him to say this and that agreeable to our carnall reason and corrupt affections But I must not enlarge my selfe in this In a word therefore to conclude this point As there is a sweet harmonie in Gods Truth so let there be a harmonie in our hearts thereunto Gods Truth alwayes agrees with it selfe oh let our hearts agree with it When we heare a Threatning a Precept or a Promise oh let us say Amen It is the sweetest harmonie in the world when we can bring our hearts to close with God and his Word with his Spirit and Truth when we can be delivered into that forme of Doctrine which is delivered unto us But now I goe on Even so come Lord Iesus Wee come from the assent unto the consent yeelding unto that which Christ said as true and good We come unto the desire and prayer of the Church Even so come Lord Iesus Amen is an Hebrew word and it is still retained to shew the consent of the Christian Church with the Iewish both with that which was before and with that which shall be afterward And it is expressed and opened here by a word following Yea or Even so come Lord Iesus You see the Church desires and out of her desire prayes Come Lord Iesus Now this desire of the Church shewes the gracious disposition of the Church These desires are the breathings and motions of the Spirit in the soule tending to further union Even as motion tends to rest so desires tend to the uniting unto the thing desired The Churches desires here are the immediate issue of the soule and therefore undissembled and they shew the true character of a Christian soule We may dissemble words and actions but we cannot dissemble our desires and affections we may paint fire but we cannot paint heat Therefore God judgeth us more by our desires and affections then by our words and actions Now you may know that our desires are holy and good if so be that they be heavenly for then it is a signe that they come downe from Heaven even as a Spring will arise and ascend as high as the Spring Head whence it comes If our desires rise to Heaven as the Churches here doe then it is a signe they come downe from Heaven Our desires are as a streame which I will shew you by prosecuting that metaphor and allusion in sundry particulars A good Streame hath a good Spring so must our desires The Spring of the Churches desires here is Love shee loves Christ and therefore desires him to come quickly A Streame you know carryes all before it so our desires are an holy Streame issuing from a good Spring and carrying all before them They are efficacious not a meere velleitie as they say a bare wishing and woulding A Streame if it be stopped will swell till it breake downe all opposition and carry all before it so let a good desire be stopt and it will swell more and more and grow bigger and bigger till it makes way for it selfe A Streame is restlesse and incessant till it meet with the Ocean and emptie it selfe into the Sea so true and holy desires be restlesse and alwayes in motion They are not like a standing Poole that rests but they are in motion still till they have emptied themselves into the boundlesse and bottomelesse Ocean of endlesse pleasure As true Streames that arise from a Fountaine doe waxe bigger and bigger the neerer they come to the Ocean because other Rivers joyne with them and so they take advantage and augmentation by other streames that run into them so if our desires be true they are growing desires they encrease bigger and bigger still till they come to Heaven At length we see the Streames emptie themselves into the Sea they are swallowed up there where they have a more constant being then in themselves namely of the Ocean the true element and proper place of all waters and so our desires if they be holy as they are restlesse and growing so at last they emptie themselves into Christ and joynes with God and happinesse for the time to come for there is a greater happinesse for the soules of men in God in Christ and in Heaven then there is in themselves and there they are swallowed up Lastly we may trie our desires by this Vapours in a low place doe shew that there is a Spring there you know that the Springs are there where there are most Vapours constantly so where there be breathings of the soule upward as there is here of the Church surely there is a Spring of Love that yeelds these Vapours and whence these desires flow But I come more particularly unto this particular desire of the Church Come Lord Iesus I shall make way by some propositions which I shall praemise before I come to the maine thing which I shall stand upon at this time First we must take it for granted That there will be a second glorious comming of Christ that will be farre more glorious then the former The best times and things are to come for Christians every way every day

severall fevere churlish Monitours that did put him in mind of his end namely the Stone and the Strangurie In these sore Diseases hee carryed himselfe with wonderfull great patience None did ever heare any words fall from him that witnessed any impatience Toward his end hee considered that hee was now for another and a better place Therefore when hee was invited to Dinner in the House of which hee was in Grayes Inne Saith hee I must Dine in another place When his Sicknesse did seize upon him more sharpely though the paine thereof tooke away a great part of the powers of his Soule yet hee did manifest a great deale of strength of Faith by divers words that fell from him As the Hart brayes after the Rivers of Water so panteth my Soule after thee O God And as the Church doth here Come Lord Iesus come quickly And Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word Hee was displeased with them about him that out of their love to him did recall him by Cordialls out of a Swoone and so protracted his life longer then hee would have had it You keepe me too long from Christ saith hee God is mercifull to me but you are not with many the like And when they heaved up his body his spirit was so strong in him as if hee desired to meet Christ before his time And thus at length this blessed man meekely yeelded up his blessed Soule into the hands of his blessed Saviour that had so dearely bought it sanctified it and sealed it by his holy and blessed Spirit Beloved I thinke there were but few men of later times of whom wee had more and a more generall losse then of this worthy man His Servants lost a kind and loving Master his Children lost a most tender and carefull Father his Friends a true cordiall and hearty friend the Professours of the Law a speciall Ornament of it the Ministers especially a sweet encourager the poore Clients a loving Patron the richer sort a grave wise and judicious Counsellour Religion and Justice a great Supporter the Countrey where hee lived a faithfull Magistrate So that here is the losse of many But what hath hee lost Hee hath attained to that which hee desired so earnestly hee hath joyned himselfe to Christ and left behind him a Monument of Mortalitie the sad remembrance and remainder of him his dead Body Hee hath made an happie change of Earth for Heaven of the companie of men for the companie of perfect Soules and Angels in Heaven of troublesome imployments here for glorious imployments for ever So that hee is no loser Hee hath left behind him likewise another sweet memoriall and remembrance of him as sweet as the Ointment of the Apothecarie unto the Church and people of God Hee lived to end all in the best times that have beene in the Church since the Apostles times all his dayes Hee was borne under the Gospel and lived under the Gospel Hee began to savour the best things even from his youth And God lengthened his dayes very long for the good of us Therefore God miraculously almost preserved his weake worne body It was much that such a spirit should endure in such a body so long under such Diseases But at length being full of dayes and full of honour with all good people God having blessed him in his Children for his Childrens Children inherite his Blessing in the comfort and assurance of an happie change hee yeelded up his blessed Soule and triumphant Spirit into the hands of God whom hee had loved whose Cause hee had owned here in the World in the midst of this sinfull generation and whom hee professed even unto death whose comming hee desired so earnestly where and with whom wee now leave him And for you Beloved that fully know as the Apostle Paul saith his purpose his manner of life his Faith his long suffering his Charitie Patience c. I beseech you let not his memorie die with him but let those Vertues that were in him live in you so long as you live If there be any thing prayse-worthie or of good report as indeed there was much in him thinke on these things If there were any infirmities in him as I thinke there were as few in him as in any man Love hath a Mantle to cover them Hee was a gracious man every way one that adorned the Doctrine and Gospel of Christ in everie thing Therefore I beseech you as the Apostle saith be followers of him as hee was of Christ. Wee must one day give an account to God not onely for what Sermons wee have heard but for the examples of those amongst whom wee have lived how wee have profited by the Lights that God hath set before us in the World whether wee have imitated their examples or no. Wee must give an account for all the good wee might have received not onely by the meanes of salvation but also by the Presidents of worthie persons set before us I beseech you in the bowels of the Lord Jesus thinke on these things and the Peace of God be with you FINIS Imprimatur THO. WYKES Feb. 13. 1637. Rev. 6. 10. Note Note Note Rev. 3. 14. 2 Cor. 1. 20. Doct. 1. Reas. 1. Reas. 2. Reas. 3. Reas. 4. Reas. 5. 1 Pet. 3. 21. Psal. 27. 8. Ier. 3. 22. Vse Note Mot. 1. Mot. 2. Vse 2. Reproofe of two sorts Deut. 29. 19. Deut. 32. 22. Matth. 25. 41. 2 Rom. 6. 17. Note 2 3 4 5 6 7 Obser. 1. Obser. 2. Obser. 3. 2 Pet. 1. 4. Obser. 4 Ioh. 11. 42. Psal. 2. 8. Obser. 5. Isa. 66. 22. Rom. 11. 15. 2 Thess. 2. 3. 1 Cor. 6. 2. 1 Thess 4. 17 18. Obser. 6 Reason 1. Reason 2. Reas. 3. 1 Cor. 12. 12 2 Cor. 8. 23. 2 Thes. 1. 10. Reas. 4. Mat. 6. 21 Reason 5. Phil. 1. 21. Cant. 1. 2. Cant. 8. 14. Luke 2. 25. 2 Tim. 4. 8. Reason 6. 1 Cor. 29. Rom. 8. 23 Eph. 1. 14. 2 Cor. 5. 5. 1 Pet. 1. 8. Phil 4. ● Psi. 16. 11. 2 Thes. 1. 10. Luke 2. 14. Ioh. 8. 59. Luke 1. 44. Math. 17. 4 Luk. 2. 29. 2 Cor. 3. 18. 1 Cor. 13. 12 Psal. 119. 1 Ioh. 1. 3. Rom. 8. 21. Heb. 4. 16. Reas. 7. 2 Cor. 5. 6 Mat. 18. 7. Isai. 11. 6. Rom. 7. 24 2 Cor. 127. Tryal 1. Heb. 9. 14. Rom. 8. 23. Tryal 2. Gon. 41. 14. 1 Ioh. 3. 3. Eph. 4. 22 24. Tryal 3. Ioel. 2. 2. Rev. 6. 16. Isa 33. 14. 1 Cor. 16. 22. 2 Thess. 1. Tryal 4 Direct 1. Iob. 5. 23. Hos. 2. 18. Phil. 3. 9. Direct 2. Eph. 3. 19. Direct 3. Rev. 12. 12. 1 Cor. 7. 29. Phil. 2. 12. 2 Pet. 1. 10. 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. 2 Pet. 3. 11. Direct 4. Obiect Answ. Rom. 8. 23. Matth 6. 11 12. Object Answ. Phil. 1. 23. Act. 13. 36. 2 Tim. 4. 8. Vers. 18. Iob. 17. 45. Heb. 12. 1 1 Tim. 6. 12. 1 Thess. 4. 18 Rev. 22. 12. 2 Tim 4. 1. 1 Pet. 1. 4. Act. 24. 25. Heb. 11. 26. Mar. 8. 38. Object Answ. Psal. 42. 1. 2 Tim. 3. 11 Phil. 4. 8.