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spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	lord_n	23,094	5	4.0162	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30273	Christian commemoration, and imitation of saints departed explicated, and pressed from Heb.13.7. Occasioned by the decease of the Reverend Mr. Henry Hurst, lately minister of the gospel in London. By Daniel Burgess.	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1691 (1691)	Wing B5698; ESTC R224015	41,115	135

their Kinds and their Circumstances With their Demerits of outward of inward and of eternal and extremest punishments For these God knows what were their sighs and their groanings were not hid from Him Their mixtures of sin in all Natural Civil and Religious things did foul their faces with weeping Think you that it is a peculiar sin or grief of yours in a great degree to Eat Drink to Buy and Sell yea to use the holy Word and Prayer from selfish Principles and to selfish Ends not Purely from Principles and unto Ends Heavenly your mistake is gross It was the common sin of all your friends in Heaven and the common grief of all while they lived upon Earth Ardently all desired but no one ever attained unto sinless purity no not in any one of their pathes Phil. 3.12 13. 1 Joh. 1.8 Jam. 3.1 In every motion of Nature there was much of Corruption In every Secular thing most lawful there was what was Unlawful In all holy things there were Iniquities And for these went they mourning all their days Their long unaccomplished desires and unanswered Prayers made their hearts sick an hundred times Ours be a sword in our Bones that we are prone to think did never cut any other Souls But it is without any colour of Reason that we think so in our haste It is very well known God used to make our Predecessors wait as long as He makes any of us And as frequently they cryed as we do now cry How long wilt thou forget me O Lord for ever Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God I am weary of my crying my throat is dryed For day and night thy hand is heavy upon me O God I cry in the day time and thou hearest not To conclude this particular The sorrows of death compassed them as they compass us Great was their consternation in the prospect of their Dissolution Unto which all their great Grace could not reconcile their reluctant Nature With fearfulness and trembling they felt the King of Terrors entring and pulling down their Tabernacle of Clay Laying their Earthly House in the Dust Turning their Flesh into rottenness and sending it out of the sight of man into darkness Have we our terrors they were not without theirs Of some and those extraordinarily sanctified it is credibly reported that very Fear was their Executioner And they died for fear of Death Of others I pray bethink your selves how was it that you saw them lye gasping on their Beds and heard them ratling in their Throats and observed them to take the breach of the strings of their Eyes and Heart 'T is impossible here to say all and hard to me not to say too much But I proceed P. 2. These very Souls thus winnowed are gloriously escaped out of all these evils So the Text saith expresly And so the whole Scripture so brightly that all are Believers except such as are not Christians To quote the obvious Texts would be to recite a great part of the Bible Let that one which I produce recall others unto your remembrance Rev. 14.13 Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord. An illustrious Maxim in few words declaring man's great End or Aim which is blessedness And man 's only way unto the same which is by dying in the Lord or in the Faith of Christ Jesus after living in him by Faith This Maxim St. John had from Heaven And this he was bid to write for the use of the Saints on Earth And this he telleth us is confirmed by the Holy Ghost Yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them In which confirmatory reasons we have these things asserted scil 1. That before their death in the Lord these Saints had labours and works for him which were hard Such as to be exempted from was a part of blessedness 2. That at their Death they were exempted from them And now lived no more in Sweat much less in Tears 3. That with freedom from sufferings they now received Gods Rewards of their Obedience His rewards of Grace which are like the Donor beyond comprehension and objects of eternal wonder Their works do follow them That is the immense reward of their slender work The eternal reward of their short work The far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory This argument flows with Milk and Honey stay we and feed a while hereon Think pleasantly of what is proved so evidently Saints raised out of the Valley of Tears are lifted up into the Mount of Joy Wherein no Eye ever wept or Breast sighed or Tongue complained Or ever had cause or occasion so to do Wherein neither the World nor the God of this World could ever give trouble For Satan's Vassals cannot reach it And he and his Angels were long ago cast far enough from it Wherein the Immortal Father never gave a blow to any Child or took from any the Kisses of his Mouth sweeter than Wine Wherein sin the most hateful evil hath no more place than the Devil whose work it is But the perfect purity long desired is fully enjoyed Wherein no one sinful or mixed and imperfect act ever blemished the holy state Wherein no Hope is ever delayed one minute nor ought is desired before God's will is that it should be possessed Wherein there is no Doubt or Grievance of Life nor any Fear or Possibility of Death Wherein we do all know all things are better than any of us upon Earth can know For we know that when Saints enter the House made without hands they presently take possession of all the Goods And who can know till he goes up and sees how many and how rich they be Indeed the holy Oracles do warrant thus much to be said of our good Friends that are entred there They possess blessed Light One in comparison whereof their former knowledge was but a less thick darkness The open light of the Sun vastly exceeds a few Beams strained through the crevice of a Wall And no less doth Gods manifestation of himself above exceed that which he affords his Church below Neither is there any compare between the strength of a glorified Eye and of an imperfectly sanctified one Unto glorified ones the deep Fountains of Wisdom and Grace are laid open The riches of Goodness the beauties of Holiness the glories of Power are manifested The Embroideries of Providence are unfolded 'T is not easie to name what God doth hide from ' em For why He himself is All in all And this we know They do see him as he is Wherefore necessarily They possess blessed Love So argues the infallible Teacher We shall be like him For we shall see him God is love And sight of God turns us into flames of Love Such are our glorified Friends like unto the blessed Angels Ever receiving the highest love that God confers on finite Creatures and giving back the greatest love that God can have from their glorified