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A64967	The perfect man described in his life and end In a funeral discourse upon Psalm XXXVII. 37. Occasioned by the death of that pattern of uprightness Mr. Edward Lawrence. By Nathanael Vincent, M.A. minister of the Gospel. Whereunto are added some passages out of two letters, written by two excellent ministers concerning Mr. Lawrence; who were well acquainted with him, and with the worth of him.	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.	1696 (1696)	Wing V416; ESTC R218124	22,953	36

Life Tho his Life on Earth is far from being a noxious and hurtful Vapour yet 't is a vapour which appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away Jam. 4. 14. The Bodies of the Just must be brought down into the Grave as well as the Bodies of others that mankind and best of men may have a sensible Document how hateful Sin is to God upon all that have sinned death passes Rom. 5. 12. Tho the Bodies of the Saints are Members of Christ and Instruments of Righteousness to Holiness and the Temples of the Holy Ghost himself yet these Temples must be demolished and cast to the ground and for a while turned under it and after they have been so long imprisoned in the Grave how glorious will be the strength and love of Christ their Lord and Head in rescuing his Members all of them from under Death's Dominion and in totally abolishing Death it self and how will the power of the Spirit be manifested in rearing up his Temples out of the Dust and in making them so transcendently glorious and likewise so firm and durable that they shall stand and abide unto eternity Rom. 8. 11. If the spirit of him that raised up Christ from the dead dwell in you he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you 5. Death puts an end to all that Corruption which remains in the upright Man Sin was the Parent of Death and at Death sin it self is totally destroyed The mortal and corruptible Body of the Saint shall at length put on Incorruption and Immortality but the body of Sin is annihilated and shall be no more he shall never complain of any evil present with him nor be troubled with any the least lustings of the flesh against the Spirit How contrary and offensive to the new Nature were the remainders of the old Man which is corrupt according to deceitful lusts But at Death the upright man when he puts off his earthly Tabernacle does quite put off the old Man not the least Member of that Body can remain unmortified and in what glorious perfection does he put on the Lord Jesus Christ He is perfecting Holiness while he lives 2 Cor. 7. 1. which intimates that at Death his Work and Labour to cleanse himself will be at an end and Holiness will be perfected And how beautiful and glorious will his separate Soul be in it s perfected and unspotted Purity In the fifth place The end of the perfect and upright man is remarkable as well as himself for his end is Peace The Scripture is true concerning him Eccl. 7. 1. The day of his death is better than the day of his birth He was born into a wicked and a wretched World but Death sends him to an everlasting Habitation of Bliss and Life and Glory His dying day may well be the joyfullest day that ever he lived because the last moment of his time is his entrance into a blessed Eternity He is indeed a Son of Peace and Death should not disturb it 1. The perfect and upright man dies in peace with God He is reconciled to God by the death of his Son How sure is Salvation upon such a Reconciliation The Enmity between God and him being slain by the Cross of Christ Eph. 2. 16. the Value and Virtue of Christ's Crucifixion must needs make Peace that is lasting The middle Wall of Partition that is thrown down shall never be reared up again The upright man's Sins are all removed from him as far as the East is from the West Psalm 103. 12. and he may as well imagine the two Poles that are so far distant should meet together as fear that any of his Sins which are not imputed to him should again be laid unto his charge Rom. 8. 33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect it is God that justifieth who is he that condemneth it is Christ that died Neither at Death nor Judgment shall any of their Sins be found against them that are upright A Covenant of Peace is made with them more firm than the strongest Hills and Mountains Isaiah 54. 10. The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed but my kindness shall not depart from thee nor the covenant of my peace be removed saith the Lord that hath mercy upon thee 2 The perfect and upright man dieth in peace with others If all things are to be done with charity 1 Cor. 16. 14 then dying must be in Charity likewise How can he dye in the love of God whose heart is full of malice and hatred to his Brother I remember what that blessed Martyr Bradford said at his Death I ask all the World forgiveness and I forgive all the World there was a great deal of Judgment and Grace in this Expression The World had dealt very hardly with him and was so furious as to burn him with Fire yet he forgave the Injury Thus the Protomartyr Stephen of old from his heart forgave his Persecutors and his last Prayer was for them that God would not lay their Sin and blood-guiltiness to their charge Acts 7. 60. When the heart is emptied of Wrath and Bitterness and desire of Revenge whatever Injuries have been received when peace has been pursued and there has been an universal Love to all Saints and in Obedience to Christ's Command it has been extended even to despightful Enemies here is a comfortable evidence of Peace with God and of an interest in his Love Forgive says Christ and you your selves shall be forgiven 3. The perfect and upright Man when he comes to dye has reason and good ground to have peace within himself I dare not affirm That every good Man concludes his Days with this Peace The Letters of Mr. Paul Bains discover a great measure of Grace and Holiness and an excellent Spirit in him yet he professes himself a great Stranger to the Sweetness of Religion and the Joys of the Holy Ghost that disconsolate humour of Melancholly possibly might be one reason of it Nay when he came to dye his Death-bed was uncomfortable and sadness remained upon his Spirit till he entred into the Joy of his Lord. Yet I am sure there is sufficient ground for peace within the perfect Man For Christ died that Death might be unstung and that Believers might not be terrified at it but triumph over it Through Death he destroyed the Devil as he had the Power of Death that is to make Death terrible and consequently deliver them who through the fear of death were all their life-time subject to bondage Heb. 2. 14 15. What a most desirable way of dying is this when Conscience has great Peace being purged and healed by the Blood of Christ When the God of Love and Peace speaks Peace to the departing Soul by his comforting Spirit And a Saint can say with righteous Simeon of old Luke 1. 29 30. Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart

him When the world which lives in wickedness and grows more and more wicked is hastening its own Judgment and Condemnation for the sake of the Upright ones that are therein 't is spared Though there was such an abominable Crew of Wicked men in Sodom which were sinners before the Lord exceedingly yet Sodom had stood undestroyed by Fire and Brimstone if ten righteous persons had been found therein Gen. 18. 32. when Abraham said Oh let not my Lord be angry and I will speak but this once peradventure ten righteous ones shall be found there and he said I will not destroy it for ten sake Nay One Moses stood in the Breach when the Sins of Israel had opened a wide Gap for the Wrath of God to break in upon them Psalm 106. 23. Therefore he said he would destroy them had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach to turn away his wrath lest he should destroy them However Infidels and ungodl ones may prate maliciously the Puritans of a Nation are very much the security of it Job 22. 30. He shall deliver the Island of the innocent or it may be translated The Innocent shall deliver the Island and it is delivered by the pureness of thy hands 2. Behold the Grace of God in the upright Man which makes him thus useful Both the esse and the operati of the new Creature is from Divine Grace by Grace the upright man is what he is and by the same Grace he does what he does Who ever laboured so abundantly as the Apostle Paul Whose Labours were more succeeded to the Glory of God to the Church's and the World's benefit than his were Yet he ascribes nothing to himself but gives unto Grace all the Glory 1 Cor. 15. 10. I laboured more abundantly than they all yet not I but the grace of God which was with me When you behold the upright man you must see God in him and with him of a truth Men are not to glory or to be gloried in but he that glorieth let him glory in the Lord 1 Cor. 1. 31. 3. Behold the upright man so as to desire and hope that the same Grace which made him upright may make you so Upright ones were not such by their first Birth but by their second The Apostle readily makes this acknowledgment Eph. 2. 3. Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath even as others Therefore concerning sincere Saints it must be said That they are born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God John 1. 13. And that God who of his own will begat them with the word of truth can easily also regenerate you by the the same means and by his own powerful Grace make more vessels of honour all upright ones are such out of the Mass of corrupted Nature In the fourth place I am to shew What of this perfect and upright Man our eye in a special manner should be upon and that is his end To look to the end of Persons and Things and likewise those things that are endless is a great piece of Wisdom By the upright man's End we are to understand his Dissolution and Death whereby he ceases to be any longer in this World Not that Death does make an end of him the Soul is redeemed from the power of the grave for God doth receives it Psalm 49. 15. and the Body shall not always be the Graves prisoner but the Union between these two constituent parts by Death is dissolved Now there are several things of the perfect and upright man which Death does put an end unto 1. Death puts an end to the upright man's Labour Labour in the Lord and for the Lord is the upright man's business in this World He has no time to waste neither is he allowed to be idle Working hard and living must run parallel Nay with allusion to what Caesar once said we may affirm Necesse est laborare non est necesse vivere Labouring is more necessary than living While the upright man lives he must be stedfast unmoveable always abounding in the doing of good But when Death comes it signifies to him that his Work is at an end Rev. 14. 13. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them 2. Death puts an end to the upright man's Sorrows here in this World he is in his Minority and is under the Discipline of the Rod after Death he will not need it His gracious Father in great faithfulness consults the upright man's necessity and if need be he is in heaviness through manifold temptations 1 Pet. 1. 6. and yet still there is a mixture of mercy with the greatest severity the Son of God is with the sincere Saint in every Furnace and his Presence makes the Furnace both tolerable and purifying Under the heaviest Burthens everlasting Arms shall sustain him and well may he be comforted with the thoughts of everlasting Love But the end of his days puts a full period to his Troubles and Sorrows his Heart shall ake his Tongue complain his Eyes shall weep no more Rev. 7. 17. The Lamb which is in the midst of the Throne shall feed them and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes 3. Death puts an end to the upright man's Conflicts His Life is a warfare he fights every step of his way to Heaven his Enemies are much stronger than he called Principalities and Powers whom he wrrstles with but he is furnished with the whole Armour of God and his strength lies in Christ the Captain of his Salvation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christ has encountred these Enemies in his own Person tried their force and triumphed over them and as he has his Followers at command so he can command Salvation for them Satan is a troublesome and unwearied Adversary and when the upright man is just going this Enemy may give him a blow at parting He usually endeavours to make a Saint's Death-bed uneasy and uncomfortable and sometimes he strives to lift up the perfect man with Spiritual Pride As the famous Knox of Scotland was tempted to an high Opinion of himself when he was near expiring because he had been so faithful in his ministry but he ascribed all that he was and did unto the Grace of God and Satan was quite soiled But when Death comes it removes the upright man out of Satan's reach He is made more than a conqueror through Christ who has loved him having overcome he sits down in that throne with his blessed Lord himself where he shall never be molested more with any of the Enemies of his Salvation 4. Death puts end to the upright man's natural