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A52387	The cross crowned: or, Short affliction making way for eternal glory Opened in a sermon preached at the funeral of Daniel Waldoe Esq; in the Parish-Church of Alhallows Honey-lane, May 9. 1661. By James Nalton, minister of the gospel, and pastor of Leonards Foster-lane London.	Nalton, James, 1600-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing N121A; ESTC R219314	34,657	97

The Cross Crowned OR SHORT AFFLICTION Making way for ETERNAL GLORY Opened in a SERMON Preached at the Funeral of DANIEL WALDOE Esq in the Parish-Church of Alhallows Honey-lane May 9. 1661. By JAMES NALTON Minister of the Gospel and Pastor of Leonards Foster-lane London 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 London Printed by D.M. for SA GELLIBRAND at the Golden Ball in St Pauls Churchyard 1661. To my Honoured Christian Friend Mris Anne Waldoe Relict of Mr Daniel Waldoe lately deceased IT was the desine of your dear Husband while yet living that I should perform the last Office of Love to a Deceased Friend in preaching his Funeral Sermon The honour that I bore to him not the ambitious humor of appearing in Print ha's made me willing against my own inclination to expose these poor worthless Meditations to publick view This I have done the rather that thereby I might be an Instrument to perpetuate the memorial of so worthy and mitable a Christian and to commend his practise to posterity And for so doing I look't on that passage of Solomon as a sufficient warrant Prov. 10.7 The memory of the just is blessed yea the righteous saith David shall be had in everlasting remembrance Psal 112.6 Wicked men though they be like Nimrod mighty hunters before the Lord Gen. 10.9 he great Oppressors and dare do this before the Lord as if they would provoke him to his face and though they have been the terror of the mighty in the land of the living as the Prophet speaks Ezek. 32.27 Yea though they use all means possible to perpetuate their memorial calling the lands after their own names Psal 49.11 as Absolom reared up a pillar and called it Absoloms place 2 Sam 18.18 and Cain built a Citie and called it after the name of his Son Enoch Gen. 4.17 and some men at this day can build Hospitalls with the money which they have got by force and fraud and crushing the needy Yet all this will not make their memory last the name of the wicked shall rot and their Remembrances shall be like ashes Job 13. 12. that is Those things by which they would be remembred and mentioned among the Sons of men as Wealth and Honour and Power and Greatness shall be but as ashes of no value but trodden under the foot of men but the remembrance of the godly even when they themselves are dead shall still be kept alive with men to be renowned and with God to be rewarded How precious is the memorial of Moses and Aaron though dead so many hundred years ago The Spirit of God sets a Star of Honour upon them Exod. 6.27 These are that Moses and that Aaron And certainly among all those Christian Vertues which do en balm the memorial of the dead there is none of a more sweet and fragrant savour then the Grace of Charity Witness the Speech of our Saviour concerning the woman that annointed his feet with precious ointment Matth. 26.13 Verily I say unto you Wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached in the whole world there shall also this that this woman hath done be told for a memorial of her Maries name now smells as sweet in all the Churches of Christ as her ointment did in the house where it was poured out such an honourable remembrance did blessed Paul leave as a Legacy to Onesiphorus and his family on the same account 2 Tim. 1.16 The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus for he oft refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain And Greg. Nazianzen speaking of Rahabs entertaining the Spies has this remarkable Passage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Her charitable hospitality conduced not only to her commendation but to her eternal salvatition I knew not to whom the Dedication of this Sermon so properly belonged as to your self who was so nearly related to that eminently charitable Citizen whose death occasioned the preaching of it Such as it is I here present unto you not that the view of this Monument should renew your sorrow but that the frequent Commemoration of those vertues wherewith God was pleased to enrich him and the pious fruitful and exemplary conversation wherin he walked before you might not only moderate your grief for the loss of so dear a Husband but also provoke you and all that knew him to tread in the same steps according to the counsel of the Holy Ghost Heb. 6.12 Be followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises The Lord Jesus reveal himself more fully and graciously to your soul fill your heart with joy and peace in believing sweeten your outward loss with those inward comforts of his Spirit which may enable you feelingly to say with the Psalmist In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul Psal 94.19 And this will be better to you then the comfort of all Relations yea it will be Marie's portion that shall never be taken from you And that it may be so is and shall be the hearty prayer of Your much obliged Friend and Servant in the Gospel James Nalton ●HORT AFFLICTION Making way for ETERNAL GLORY 2 COR. 4.17 ●●r our light affliction which is but for a moment The Text. worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory THe holy Apostle in the fore-going Verse layes down an excellent Lesson for us all to learn by his ●●ample though there be sew very 〈◊〉 that have learnt to write after 〈◊〉 Copie in these words For this cause ●…faint not as if he should say Though 〈◊〉 meet with sorrows and sufferings 〈◊〉 all sorts temptations afflictions persecutions reproaches fightings without and fears within yet we do not sit down in despondency and despair but we bear the burden that God hath laid upon us without fainting and without fretting It is true indeed our outward man doth perish that is our body together with our bodily health strength and welfare doth decay and decline but yet our inward man that is our soul together with the powers and faculties of it being renewed by the spirit of grace and strengthened by the graces of the spirit is in the midst of all these troubles and tryals more and more repaired and revived day by day this is strange may some say But would ye know how it comes to passe The Apostle answers in the words of the Text and renders a reason of his not fainting under all his sufferings For our light afflictin which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory The Text contains in it the twofold state or condition of a believer One in this life The other in the life to come And both these ballanced or compared one with the other in a threefold computation First The state of a Beleever in this life is a state of affliction his condition in the life to come is a condition of glory Secondly The afflictions of a beleever in this life are light and

and the more it is emptied the more capable it is of Gods grace and mercy it is the humbled soul that prizes the Lord Jesus at the highest rate saith of him as the Church does Cant. 5.10 My beloved is white and ●uddy white in his innocency and ruddy ●n his passion the choicest of ten thousand ●t is true our humiliation does not serve ●o make us more precious to Christ but it ●●…vs to make Christ more precious to us 2. Thy affliction is sanctified if it make thee more holy and heavenly minded if the hardship thou meetest with here in the wilderness make thee long to be at thy Fathers house If the losse of earthly treasures or outward advantages make thee lay up treasure in Heaven where neither moth can corrupt nor theeves break in and steal if the disappointments thou meetest with here on earth and the uncertainty of outward riches make thee more eagerly seek for the durable riches which Solomon speaks of Prov. 8.18 Riches and honour are with me saith Wisdome yea durable riches and righteousness why what are those durable riches surely such as these peace of Conscience joy in the Holy Ghost assurance of Gods love and favour an evidence of Christ Jesus dwelling in us the saving sanctifying graces of the spirit of God and inward comfort flowing from those graces these are such commodities that the world can neither give us nor take from us they are Maries portion that shall never be taken away Luke 10.42 If I say affliction make thee drive a trade for heaven more vigorously certainly affliction is sanctified to thee and thou art much bettered by thy affliction Sign 3 3. If thy affliction teach thee obedience to thy heavenly Father 1. Active obedience to do what he enjoyneth If thou canst say with Paul after he was unhorst and humbled What wilt thou have me to do Lord Acts 9.6 as if he should say though it be never so crosse and contrary to my carnal and corrupt nature though it be a parting with my right hand or right eye a sin as dear to me as either of them I will be content to do it 2. If it teach thee Passive obedience patiently to suffer what he inflicteth as it was said of our dear Saviour Hebr. 5.8 Though he were a Son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered so if thou canst say It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth I will put my mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope Lam. 3.17 29. In brief if thou canst say as the Church does Mic. 7.9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him certainly affliction has a kindly work upon thy soul 4. If affliction teach thee to prize mercies more and to surfet on them lesse to be more thankful in using them and more fearful of abusing them then thou hast been heretofore it is a token thou hast profited by thy affliction we usually in the Sun-shine of prosperity fall asleep and forget God and our duty to him yea forget our selves and the vows we made in time of trouble it fares with us as with little children the pap makes us wanton Hos 13.6 According to their pasture so were they filled h. e. when God had brought them out of the wildernesse into a land flowing with milk and honey and had fed them to the full they were filled and their heart was exalted therefore have they forgotten me Ephraim and Manasseh ye know were brethren Ephraim in Hebrew signifies fruitful Manasseh signifies forgetful fruitfulness and forgetfulness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are sworn brethren but if the Lord by imbittering our comforts or mingling water with our wine teach us temperance or a spiritual moderation in our carnal desires that which the Scripture call 1 Cor. 7.29 31. That they who have wives be as though they had none and they that rejoyce be as though they rejoyced not and they that use this world is not overusing it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Then certainly such an imbitterment is in mercy Sign 5 Fifthly If Affliction help to melt and mollifie thy heart as Job spake though in another sense God maketh my heart soft and the almighty troubleth me Job 23.16 God sometimes softens our hearts by troubling of us If the bitterness of sorrow make thee to tast the bitternesse of sin and feelingly cry out O what a bitter thing it is that I have forsaken the Lord my God who is the fountain of living water and have been digging broken cisterns that will hold no water Jer. 2.19 13. O what an evill and bitter thing it is that I have so often parted with my peace for the tickling pleasures of sin for a season But it is bitter and bitter again that I have grieved that holy Spirit of God wherewith I am or might have been sealed up to the day of redemption Eph. 4.30 If thy soul can bespeak it self in that language which Josephs brethren used one to another after their consciences were awakened for that sinful and injurious act of selling their innocent brother into the hands of the Ishmaelites Gen. 42.21 We are verily guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us and we would not hear so if thou canst say thus to thy soul Ah vile unworthy wretch that I am verily I am guilty deeply guilty before the Lord for my unkindness and undutifulness to the Holy Spirit of God when he besought med in his heart-melting motions saying Oh do not that abominable thing that I hate Jer 44.4 Do not go on in a way of pride and presumption security and formality brutishness and earthly mindedness but I would not hearken I turned a deaf ear to all his piercing motions and pressing commands Alas alas Is not this that sweet spirit of grace whose counsels I have despised whose secret whisperings I have slighted whose warnings I have resisted and whose warmings I have quenched Might it not be just with God to say to his spirit Never knock more at this sinners heart never strive more with him to bring him to repentance but seeing he will be filthy let him be filthy still Oh that for this my eyes could run down with tears and my eye-lids gush out with waters as the Prophet speaks Jer. 9.18 If thy heart be thus melted with some penitential thawings and heart-irking grief for thy miscarriages certainly affliction has had a kindly work upon thy soul such a softning and sanctifying affliction is an evident sign of thy adoption Sign 6 Sixthly Then is affliction sanctified when it makes thee more fearful of offending such a gracious God and Father If it have taught thee that lesson which Elihu lays down for us all to learn Job 34.31 32. Surely it is meet to be said unto God I have born chastisement I will not offend any more that which I see not teach thou