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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31451	The certainty of salvation to them who dye in the Lord a sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable, George Lord Delamer, at Boden, in the county-palatine of Chester, September the 9th, 1684 / by Zachary Cawdrey ...	Cawdrey, Zachary, 1616-1684.	1684 (1684)	Wing C1645; ESTC R36290	20,346	38

in well doing seek for honour and glory and immortality eternal life So again in that remarkable place Gal. 6. v. 7 8. Be not deceived God is not mocked 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the middle Voice God doth not mock or delude the Expectancies of his Servants whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting And our Saviour told the Saint-Thief he should that day be with him in Paradise Luk. 23.43 But the Spirit not only witnesses this in the Records of Scripture but in the hearts and by the mouths of his dying Servants Attend at the Stakes of the Martyrs ready to ascend in their fiery Chariots and crying out Come Lord Jesus come quickly I desire to be dissolved and be with the Lord. Or hearken at the Death-beds of other Saints who with old Simeon cry with their last breath Luk. 2.29 Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart according to thy word in peace Or as it is 2 Tim. 4.7 8. I have fought the fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day the day of his departure which Ver. 6. he saith was at hand All these give abundant testimony to this truth In short All the triumphal expressions of dying Saints whether Martyrs or others declaring their assured hope of Bliss amongst the Spirits of other just Men made perfect upon their Dissolution are but the Ecchoes of the Testimony of the Spirit in them sealing to them the Assurance of their immediate Entrance into Life everlasting But this Truth is yet further evidenced from the Arguments of the Text They rest from their labours and their works follow them The first Argument runs thus They that rest from their Labours are blessed but those who dye in the Lord rest from their Labours therefore they are blessed That resting from Labours and things burthensome to Body and Soul but especially those burthensome to the Soul makes Blessedness is the Sense of all wise Heathens as well as Christians Seneca writ a Book about Tranquillity of Mind Seneca de Tranquillitate Plutarch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Plutarch another of the same Subject to shew that Happiness consisted in undisturbedness of the Soul or Spirit and they both give directions how a wise Man might attain that state of a quiet Spirit in the midst of the confusions of his outward condition Their directions are some of them very good and rational but not of virtue enough to work the Cure they pretend to There is one Christian Direction surmounts them all namely this Trust God's Goodness in all things and submit to God's Wisdom and Faithfulness in all things to cause all to work together for good according to his Promise in Christ Jesus Rom. 8.28 But however hence it is evident these Heathen judged that a resting from Labours at least those of the Soul would make a blessed state And Epicurus thought that much of the Happiness of the Gods consisted in their Rest and quiet Recess from the bussles and confusions of the World below And indeed it must needs be the common sense of all Mankind that rest from labours makes a blessed state For who can think but that it is a blessed condition to be free from Pain Sickness Tortures Reproaches tormenting Passions and Compassions and the rest of those Labours which I shewed that even good Men are subject to in this Life And now then that the departed Saints do rest from these Labours is sufficiently proved in that the All-knowing Spirit of Truth here affirms it For the Spirit not only saith They are blessed but says also They are therefore blessed because they rest from their Labours But that they do rest from their Labours may also be made out by Discourse and Reasoning For first They that are departed in the Lord having laid by their Bodies are secured from all impressions that were made upon their Souls by the means of their Senses and Members of their Body they cannot be sick or pained or weary or hungry or feel Cold or Heat or be wrought upon by any Engine of Torture From all these sorts of Labours therefore the separate Souls of the Saints must needs rest Next as to Reproaches and Slanders they affect us not in the Body further than we hear and know them and if we do hear them yet the testimony of our Consciences disarms false Reproaches and Slanders of their Stings Nay even just Reproaches falling upon a good Man through some scandalous act of Sin doth not sharply afflict him when he doth repent for the shame for his sin will sit light where the sorrow for his sin sits heavy And further where a Sinner's Repentance is evident none will reproach him for his sin but Fools and Villains And if a good Man even in this Life is thus secure in a great measure against Reproach much more safe is he in the other World in his separated state for as all the flatteries of surviving Friends and Admirers arrive not at the knowledge of the Damned nor abate or alter their misery no more do all the Libels and Satyrs or other lying Invectives thrown after good Men departed ever reach to their knowledge much less can they impair their joys or disturb their blessed tranquillity Nay the very memory of good Men's sins of David's Adultery and Murder of St. Peter's Denial of his Master and the like which were repented of upon Earth are not recorded in Heaven God removes their transgressions from before his own face and other Saints if they knew them upon Earth cannot possibly upbraid them they all being possessed with the Contemplation of God's infinite Mercies in Christ Jesus who had pardoned and saved themselves and other penitent Sinners The next sort of a good Man's Labours are those which arise from Temptations to sin or to doubting of God's Mercy But first the Saints cannot possibly sin in Heaven not only because there will be nothing to tempt them to it but also because knowing God perfectly according to their capacity they must needs love him perfectly and consequently they cannot sin against him And they loving God perfectly cannot possibly doubt of his love to them seeing the highest effect of the Divine Love to us is this to give us to love him and delight in him Now then there remains nothing but tormenting Passions and Compassions which we before put into the Inventary of good Men upon Earth but none of these can follow them to Heaven For first Anger cannot enter into that Kingdom of Love because they who love him that begets must needs love them that are begotten of him 1 Joh. 5.1 When therefore two Saints meet in Heaven who on account of different Opinions or Practices consistent