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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44693	A sermon on the much lamented death of that reverend and worthy Servant of Christ Mr. Richard Adams, M.A. sometime fellow of Brazen-Nose Colledge in Oxford, afterwards, minister of St. Mildred Breadstreet, London, more lately, pastor of a congregation in SOuthwark, who deceased Febr. 7th, 1697/8 preached, February the 20th, 1698 / by John Howe.	Howe, John, 1630-1705.	1698 (1698)	Wing H3039; ESTC R15457	15,888	56

Christ in that high exaltation of his 't is a State whereof the Humane Spirit is capable It is indeed very unapt very indisposed till the regenerating Work take place till the Divine Spirit have molded it to that State But then in the mean time there is a capacity a ground work upon which the Divine Spirit does operate by Inlightening the Mind and inlarging the Will and refining and defecating the Affections and implanting Coelestial Principles that do all dispose it Heaven-ward But in the mean time it is a useful reflexion for every Intelligent Spirit that inhabits Mortal Flesh to consider What do I here While it is my Lot to be yet inhabiting this Flesh am I only to mind the Things of the Flesh I am capable of an Abode above with the Blessed Glorious Lord of all with Him my greater Concernments do now lie Col. 3 1 2. And 2. It further lets us see the Wonderful Love of God in Christ that he should design such mean abject creatures as we to such a State that is that when we depart and leave this World we are to be with Christ. O kind Design What admirable Love is this that he will not have his own to be always at a distance and far from him When Christ who is our life shall appear with him in Glory in that 1 Colos. 3.4 And again further 3. We may infer hence that Holiness wherever it comes to have place does comprehend and include in it Divine Wisdom so as to make Persons capable of judging right or making a true estimate of things which are more valuable and which are less Till the sanctifying Work of God's Spirit take place in the minds and hearts of Men they Judge like Fools they say a Portion here on Earth is better let us dwell always amid'st the Darkness and Death of this lower World and let them be with Christ that will But says a gracious Spirit to be with Christ is far better incomparably beyond all comparison better and therefore let us depart and be with him as to any interest and concern of ours And this being so it is of the greatest Consequence to us imaginable all of us to endeavour to get this Temper of Spirit made habitual to our selves For it is a Thing of Dreadful Importance to find the Temper of my Mind and Soul differ from that of all good Christians that ever were or ever shall be It is one thing indeed to be willing to have the height of our Happiness deferred for common Good but it is quite another thing to desire to stay here because I love this World better and when the Practical Judgment of our Souls is I had rather be here When not any concern for the interest of Christ or design of doing him Service here does Reconcile me to an Earthly State but my own Temper and Spirit is such that I cannot endure the thoughts of a remove And let me insist here a little When the Best are continually going and though the Worst do not go the same way they are going hence too departing from hence not to be willing to follow To have a desire running counter to the stream and course of Nature in All and the current of Grace in the Best is very unaccountable and wherein we should by no means Tolerate our selves An irrational Desire of what we see to be impossible A Desire that Fights against Necessity which will be too hard for us and will overcome at last as to the term from which an abode here And an Unholy Desire in respect of the term To which viz. Not to be with Christ such a Desire we should no more endure in our selves than Fire in our bosoms To have such an Excellent Person gone from amongst us as is lately gone but to have no Disposition to follow You loved him well and you loved to hear him Preach of Heaven but you cannot endure the thoughts of going where he is gone Is this well The World is Dying and you would live Miser est qui cumque non vult mundo secummoriente mori What a wretched Miscreant is he that would be an Exception from all Mankind And cannot be content to Die when the whole World is Dying with him And for Christians united with Christ they are such in whose hearts there is a rooted Propension towards him so as to covet his Presence above all Things Rev. 22. The Spirit and the Bride say come come Lord Jesus either come and take us to Thee or come and manifest Thy self to us Consider then how absolutely Necessary it is if there be this Terrene Temper of Spirit to get it changed For 1. While it remains it countermines the Summ of Religion All Christianity runs counter in the whole Design of it to this Temper of Spiit for it terminates on the other World But when all our Thoughts and Designs terminate on this World what a dismal Thing is it To have a Temper and Disposition in me wholly repugnant to the Design of the Christian Religion which is but to draw People off from this World and to fit them for another 2. It will Infer in the next Place that whenever any Die they must Die just after the same manner that Wicked Men do a Violent Death be torn away from their Earthly Station He shall pluck him out of his Dwelling Place and root him out of the Land of the Living as the Psalmist speaks Psa. 52.5 This is Dying a Violent Death our Hearts do not consent we cannot go but as we are torn up by the roots and pluckt out of our dwelling places This is quite another thing from that Now lettest thou thy Servant depart in Peace and this desiring to be dissolved and to be with Christ. And it signifies 3. Our not yet having taken God for our God for our taking him to be our God and to be our best Good is the same thing If God be not our best Good he is not our God And can we chuse to be willing to be at an Eternal distance from our best Good It must signifie that the Love of God has no place in us sincere Love true Love to Christ For it is never true if it be not supream But it is the greatest Absurdity imaginable that I should supreamly love one that I desire never to be with or enjoy I shall only add with reference to the sad occasion that lies in view before us that what Instances we meet with of this kind should leave their several correspondent effects and impressions upon our Spirits partly of Lamentation and partly of Imitation and partly of Peaceful Submission and Satisfaction in the issue however Grievous it be to us 1. Of Lamentation It is a much to be Lamented Thing when such go as that Reverend and Worthy Person that is lately gone from amongst you For this Temper of Spirit being supposed by how much the more there was of the conjunct Disposition to have