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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32022	The happinesse of those who sleep in Jesus, or, The benefit that comes to the dead bodies of the saints even while they are in the grave, sleeping in Jesus delivered in a sermon preached at the funeral of ... Lady Anne Waller, at the new church in Westminst[er], Oct. 31, 1661 : together with the testimony then given unto her / by Edm. Calamy ...	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1662 (1662)	Wing C255; ESTC R1658	30,610	40

Scepter Now the Hour-glass of patience is running the draw-bridge is let down and the white Flag of mercy is hanged out but when Death comes the white Flag is taken down the Hour-glass run out the Draw-bridge taken up the day of grace and patience at an end Et qui fluvios sanguinis nunc dabit guttam aqua in Inferno negabit And he that will now give us rivers of his blood to wash away our sins will not in Hell give us a drop of water 6. A man out of Christ hath also this unhappiness that whensoever he dieth he dieth suddenly though he die never so leasurely Suddenly in regard of preparation though not in regard of time For he dieth like the Foolish Virgins having his Oyl to buy his graces and evidences for Heaven to get which is no little misery For Death is a time of spending not geting whether you consider the Soul or the Body And as that man is in a sad condition as to his outward estate that hath laid up nothing in health to maintain him in sickness So he is in a sadder as to his eternal estate that is unprovided at Death of a Stock of Grace and Scripture Cordials This man dieth suddenly though he die never so leasurely 7. He dieth miserably though he die never so happily though in his bed and in his old age though buried in great pomp yet dying in his sins he is cursed at death and cursed after death 8. Lastly and especially because Death opens a Door to endless and easeless miseries It is gaudiorum finis malorum omnium principium The end of all his joy and the beginning of all his misery If Death were an utter extinction and annihilation it were not so terrible but herein is the terrour of it because it lets the Soul out of the Prison of the body to go to the everlasting Prison of Hell Death is Gods Sergeant to arrest a wicked man and after arrest to carry him to the Iudge there to receive the sentence of Condemnation and after that to be delivered over to the Gaoler to be carried to the fiery Prison of Hell there to remain for ever It deals with every wicked man as it did with Dives it carrieth him a Tenebris ad Tenebras from the darkness of sin to the darkness of Hell All these particulars shew unto us the woful and miserable condition of those who die out of Christ. Use 4. Let us all labour so to live that when we come to die we may be sure to sleep in Iesus For all the ten forementioned Fountains of consolation against the fear of Death belong only to those who sleep in Jesus Quest. What must we do that we may be made partakers of so great a happiness Answ. We must do two things 1. We must labour to get into Christ while we live and we shall be sure to die in Christ when we die and sleep in him when in the grave We must make it not our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not our ultimum but our primum quaerite Not our last but our first and chief work to get out of the Old Adam into the New Adam out of the root of abomination into the root of acceptation by a Christ-appropriating Faith For it is the great office of justifying Faith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Chrys. saith to bring us into the possession of Jesus Christ. We must be willing to part with all our goodly Pearles to buy this Pearle of price We must account all things but dung and dross all creature excellencies all Church-priviledges and all civil righteousness and suffer the loss of all things that we may gain Christ. 2. We must labour to get a Death-enduring assurance of our interest in Christ. The reason why many of Gods children are so unwilling to die is because they do not know their title to Christ and the happiness of those that die in him Before Old Iacob knew his Son Ioseph to be alive he received no comfort by his being alive Before Mary Magdalene knew the person with whom she discoursed to be Christ she was not revived by discoursing with him Before a child of God knows that Christ is his and hath purchased Death for his great advantage it is impossible for him to embrace it with comfort This then is the second work of every good Christian and the work of his whole life to get a Tribunal proof assurance of his being in Christ. Quest. How may a man know that he hath an interest in Christ Answ. By three Texts of Scripture 1. By 2 Cor. 5.17 If any man be in Christ he is a new Creature He that is inwardly and outwardly renewed renewed in every part though imperfectly in every part may assure himself of his interest in Christ. 2. By Rom. 8.1 There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Iesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit A man may have flesh in him and yet be in Christ but he that walks after the flesh and makes provision for it to fulfill the lusts of it hath no share in him But he that walks after the Spirit and is led by the Spirit and is spiritually minded may be assured of his interest in Christ. 3. By Gal. 5.24 They that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts They that make it their work to crucifie not only the flesh but the affections and lusts of it and are alwayes crucifying and mortifying it are in a Gospel-account esteemed as c●ucifiers of the flesh and do crucifie it desiderio conatu though not actu in their desires and indeavours though they cannot while in the body perfectly subdue it and may be confident that Christ is theirs and they are Christs and that Christ Jesus shall be to them in life and death advantage THat you may be the better encouraged to make it the work of your whole Life to gain Christ and an Assurance that you have gained him let me set before you the example of this excellent Lady the Lady Anne Waller for whose funeral we are here met this night Of whom I may truly say as Nazianzene of his Sister Gorgonia That we need not fear lest we should exceed in praising her too much but rather lest we should be deficient in praising her too little It is not my custom to speak much in commendation of the Dead But something I must crave leave to speak at this time not so much for her commendation for she hath no need now of our Eulogies but for our imitation I shall not at all mention her birth and noble extraction nor meddle with any thing that concerns her in her natural and civil capacities but only speak something about her Piety and Godliness which indeed is the truest Nobility She was as Saint Iohn stiles the Lady to whom he wrote his second Epistle an Elect Lady whether you take