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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86062	A funeral sermon preached at Deptford June 3. 1688 Upon the occasion of the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Kilbury, late wife of Mr. John Kilbury. By Henry Godman, minister of the gospel. With allowance.	Godman, Henry, 1629 or 30-1702.	1688 (1688)	Wing G940A; ESTC R229589	20,575	42

a far higher degree than yet we have attained unto 1. We should verily be less earthly than we are did we ponder this more in our hearts than we do We should not be so much concerned about the Body and the things thereof as we are did we seriously consider this Certainly men would not spend their days waste their lives prostitute their Consciences in making provision for their Flesh and in getting supplies for their Bodies did they seriously consider that this Fabrick of the Body this Tabernacle of dust this House of clay is falling down about their ears and then what profit will they have of all that they cared for and laboured after under the Sun Were this well considered we should not be so like the Serpent as we are which goes on its Belly and seeds on Dust Mens Souls cleave unto the dust as David speaks though in another sense Psal 119. 25. Adhaerent pavimento They are as if they were all Flesh and had no Spirit to mind at all as if they were all Body and had no Soul which would not be if this were well considered by us 2. We should be surely more heavenly than we are if we did meditate more on the failing of our Flesh and our Heart We should be more heavenly in our Conversations in our Communications in our Hearts and Affections in our Labours and Indeavours This would cause us to groan to be delivered out of this failing Tabernacle and to be cloathed upon with our House which is from Heaven Here we have no continuing City saith the Apostle Heb. 12. 14. There is not a House in it but what is failing decaying and even ready to drop down Therefore we seek one to come even a City that hath Foundations and will never fail whose Builder and Maker is God. VSE III. Let 's from hence learn to hate sin to a greater degree than yet we do This is the evil of evils the greatest evil of all evils and the evil that is the cause of all our other evils It 's this that doth us all the mischief All our Consumptions our Pains Diseases Distempers Failings come from this cause It 's strange indeed that men should be in love with their deadly Enemy that they should entertain it in their Bosoms that they should lodge it so near their Hearts That they should nourish this Viper which will gnaw out their very Bowels and will assuredly feed upon the slaughters and ruins of its dearest lovers Oh if we love our sins we are cruel unto our own Souls If any man among our selves should take away our Money should fall upon us and beat and wound us or deprive us of any worldly accommodation how easily can we hate such a Person and how hardly be reconciled to him Oh learn to hate sin all ye that love the Lord hate evil all ye that love your selves that love your Souls hate sin There 's nothing more prejudicial and destructive to us This is the Enemy that robs and wounds us this weakens and debilitates our Bodies and ruins our Souls This is the Enemy that separates the Soul from the Body and God from the Soul. Thus we have done with the Psalmists complaint My Flesh and my Heart faileth there 's the dark side of the Cloud We pass on now to the bright side thereof which is the Psalmists comfort But God is the strength of my Heart and my portion for ever Thus as in 1 Sam. 30. 6. he encouraged himself in the Lord his God and in the view and apprehension of the failing of his flesh and his heart these consolations did refresh and delight his Soul. Here I shall only glance a little upon these three particulars which may serve for so many Doctrinal Observations 1. That God is the Believers strength 2. That God is the Believers portion 3. That God is the Believers everlasting portion Every one of these is a Well of Salvation out of which with the Bucket of Faith we may draw out abundance of the Waters of Consolation to chear our Hearts withal in our greatest troubles 1. God is the Believers strength From God he hath strength 1. To bear his burdens Alas without the strength of God we should faint in the day of adversity because our strength is small God puts underneath his everlasting arms and enables them to bear He strengthens them with all might by his Spirit in the inward man and helps to undergo the miseries infirmities and burdens that are upon the outward man therefore by Faith we should cast all our burdens upon him for he hath promised to sustain us Psal 55. 22. He will give us shoulders suitable to our burdens or else suite our burdens to our shoulders 2. From God he hath strength to do his Duties As he gives shoulders for every burden he hath for us to bear so he gives hands for every piece of work he hath for us to do Alas Without him we can do nothing as the Hand can do nothing without the Head the Body can do nothing without the Soul no more can we do without the strength of God Therefore where ever there is a command that finds us work there is always a suitable promise to find us strength I will cause you saith God to walk in my ways my grace shall be made sufficient for you God doth not deal with us as the Egyptian Taskmasters did with the Israelites who required Brick but would give them no Straw God doth not require Duty and Service of us and leave us to get strength to do it where we can no but is pleased graciously to promise that he will give what he doth command and that his Spirit shall help our infirmities and that he will strengthen us unto the performance of every good work 3. From God he hath strength to overcome his corruptions Were it not for the power of God resting on them and working in them these Sons of Zerviah would be too hard for them these mighty Philistines would certainly vanquish and overcome them Therefore he goes out against them in the Name of the Lord as David did against that Philistine Giant 1 Sam. 17. 45 knowing that in his own strength he cannot prevail therefore he begs of God to teach his hands to war and to strengthen his fingers to fight that he may be avenged on the Enemies of God and of his Soul and be made more than a Conquerour in and through the strength and power of Christ Jesus It 's from the Spirit and strength of Christ that any Soul is enabled to mortifie the deeds of the flesh without this strength instead of mortifying our lusts our lusts to be sure would mortifie us and lead us captive as it were bound hands and and feet and triumph over us 4. In God is his strength to stand it out against to resist and to overcome Satan's Temptations The Tempter is strong and we are weak he did overcome Man when he had no