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A93740	The great, useful and blessed duty of a contentment, willingness and desire to die set forth upon true and assured grounds, in several discourses on these following scriptures. By Richard Stafford, A servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. Recommended as more proper and beneficial to be given at funerals than gloves or rings.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1700 (1700)	Wing S5119A; ESTC R223444	53,707	69

Spirit anointing which we have received of him abideth you and ye need not that any Man teach you But as same Anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is lye and even as it hath taught you ye shall abide in him ●nd now little Children abide in him that when he shall ap●…r we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him 〈◊〉 his coming As the Apostle said I am determined know nothing among ye but Jesus Christ and him cruci●… So for my part I am determined and purposed 〈◊〉 pray God to enable me that herein I may turn my ●…poses into performances and to pay my vows to the most ●hest To turn ouer a new leaf and during the few 〈◊〉 evil days remaining of my Pilgrimage to serve God 〈◊〉 more diligently and earnestly and constantly in the ●…nistry than I have heretofore and to finish that part of 〈◊〉 Ministry which I have received and to testifie the ●…spel of the grace of God to the people of this Gene●…ion For I assuredly know that a dying hour will come ●…d I sensibly feeling within my self a fear of Death ●…ich doth hence arise either because I live in some re●ved or known sin or I leave some duty undone which ●ought to do So that the way to take off and remove ●s same fear and bitterness of Death in me is not to ●e in any manner of sin or appearance of evil as far ●…d as often as I apprehend such a thing to be the ●…mmand and will of God that I should do The same applicable to other people also to live in no sin of ●…ission or commission which if we observe accord●…gly and finish severally the work which God gave us 〈◊〉 do than at length we shall be ever with the Lord 〈◊〉 receive the reward of so doing Wherefore comfort ●…e marginal reading is exhort one another with these ●ords 1 Thes 4. 18. 〈◊〉 Christ did finish the work which God the Father gave ●…n to do as he took upon himself to be the Saviour and ●edeemer of Mankind and as he was the mediatour be●…een God and Man and as he executed that threefold ●…ffice of King Priest and Prophet Yet have I set my ●ing upon the Holy Hill of Zion Psal 2. 6. The Lord hath ●…orn and will not repent Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech Psal 110. 4. For Moses truly sa● unto the Fathers a Prophet shall the Lord God raise up un●… you of your Brethren like unto me him shall ye hear in all thin●… whatsoever he shall say unto you Acts 3. 22. This Peter did a 〈…〉 ply unto Christ and as Christ did perform and fini●… these three several Offices he did finish the work th●… God gave him to do Wherefore himself said on the Cro●… It is finished That is so much and that part of the wo●… which God had given him on this Earth for to do an● finish he did finish accordingly But as to his delive●… ing up the Kingdom to the Father and as to his sitting 〈◊〉 the right hand of God making intercession for us th●… is not finished as yet nor will be finished until the en● of the world when time shall be no longer What kind of work it was which Christ did finish we ma●… gather and understand from what himself aftervvards d●… clares I have manifested thy name unto the Men which th●… gavest me out of the world For I have given unto them 〈◊〉 words which thou gavest unto me and they have received the● John 17. 6 8. This Christ did as he was a Prophet 〈◊〉 Preacher From whence we may gather and observ● that to manifest the name of God to people out of th● World and to make known the words which Go● first gave unto us is the best and most excellent wo●… that one can be imployed in And however other peop●… are busied Martha Martha thou art careful and troubl● about many things but one thing is needful Yet that 〈◊〉 the best employment and the best business which ha● relation immediately to God himself and is about th● things partaining to endless Life And this is life etern●… that they might know thee the only true God and J●… sus Christ whom thou hast sent From hence again it a●… pears that to manifest or make God known or to Pu●… lish those words which contain the knowledge of Go● is the best of Works and Employments Verily th●… art a God that hidest thy self O God of Israel the Savio●… And many times we lose the sence of him No● what brings to the sight or rather apprehension of him or what reneweth the knowledge of him this is th● one thing needful for the Children of Men for in th● ●nowledge of God all their well being doth consist at ●resent and their Life eternal in the world to come ●ow much God himself doth require and is delighted herewith may be understood from what is written For 〈◊〉 desired mercy and not Sacrifice and the knowledge of God ●ore than burnt offerings The world make their Estimate accordingly and think ●hem happy whose Silver and Gold is multiplied or who ●ave fine and plentiful Estates But as the Psalmist ●ith Thou hast put gladness into my heart more than in ●…e Time that their Corn and their Wine increased So I ●ad rather than all those good things to have most of ●…e knowledge of God and the things pertaining to his ●ingdom to have the manifestations of himself other●ise then he manifests himself unto the World to have ●ore of his Heavenly truths Communicated and revealed ●nto me I will praise thee with the Psaltery even thy truth 〈◊〉 my God The Law of thy mouth is better unto me than ●ousands of Gold and Silver I rejoyce at thy word as one ●at findeth great spoil And seeing that the secret of the ●ord is with them that fear him and he revealeth his secret ●nto his Prophets I had therefore rather that his will ●nd secret be revealed unto me than all the mony or ●states of the Earth For these and such like are e●…dences of his favour and loving kindness which is ●…tter then life it self in that it reaches and extends Yet ●rther Those who know and apprehend God by Faith ●o as much desire and labour to have the favour of God ●s others do to get Riches and the favour of great Men. ●or the favour of God in this life is a seal and earnest ●f his Salvation in the World to come Who hath also ●aled us and given the Earnest of the Spirit in our hearts Cor. 1. 21. To get retain or recover when lost the favour of God 〈◊〉 a doing and finishing that work which God gave us ●o do For the work we have to do in this life is to ●erve and obey God and to do the things that are plea●…ng in his sight and thus to become reconciled unto ●…im Though God doth hide himself here on Earth from

fit their Masters use So it is accordingly expected 〈◊〉 us that we work together with his Grace and Sp 〈…〉 which would work in us mightily if we do not rebel 〈◊〉 vex his Holy Spirit that we may become meet re 〈…〉 prepared fit and ripe for God the great proprietou 〈…〉 our Souls who gathereth them up to himself He b 〈…〉 the Father of Spirits and accordingly the faithful speak Into thine hand I commit my Spirit That they 〈◊〉 become also when our Bodies drop into the grave shock of Corn in its season That when it is slipt 〈◊〉 dislodged from the Body it may be such as himself spe 〈…〉 of Behold mine Elect in whom my Soul delighteth 〈◊〉 42. 1. Or which is to the same benefit or significat 〈…〉 for the Lord Jesus who is the Son of God to say 〈◊〉 ye Blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for from the foundation of the World What comfortable w 〈…〉 are here We would unless we be such fools as not to k 〈…〉 the worth thereof give Thousands of Rams and ten T 〈…〉 sand Rivers of oyl yea all we have in the world for assurance thereof But though Rich people have the vantage as to this world they have none as to the w●… to come for the corruptible things of Gold and S●… We were not Redeemed by these but by the precious Blood of Lamb of God will not purchase Heaven nor yet pr 〈…〉 the favour of God Which is to be had by no 〈◊〉 way then that of Obedience and Holiness Obey my 〈◊〉 and live An Holy God loves an Holy Soul For th●… fore it was that God speaks this of Jesus Christ Behold Servant whom I uphold Mine elect in whom my Soul del 〈…〉 eth Because he than knew from the beginning 〈◊〉 his Son Jesus Christ would finish the work that God 〈◊〉 him to do as Christ makes the return thereof th●… had finished it Wherefore when he cometh into world he saith Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not a Body hast thou prepared me In burnt offerings and S●… fices for Sin thou hast had no pleasure than said I Lo 〈◊〉 In the volume of the Book it is written of me T●… will O God From which and many other places of ●…pture it may be truly Reasoned that God hath not much pleasure in outward acts of Worship nei●…r doth he so much insist upon and require them I 〈◊〉 not reprove thee for thy Sacrifices or thy burnt offerings have been continually before me as in the doing his will ●…is is the chief thing which God requires of Man Hath 〈◊〉 Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and Sacri 〈…〉 as in obeying the voice of the Lord Behold to obey is 〈…〉 r than Sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of Rams ●ow this is true Christianity to imitate Christ For as was the first Born amongst many Brethren so he ●…self saith I have given you an example that you should 〈◊〉 I have done Seeing therefore that Christ did all which 〈◊〉 his Father sent him about and finished his work 〈◊〉 did his will So we ought also severally as we his Creatures but more especially as we profess our ●…es to be the Servants of God For his Servants shall ●e him Do all which he sends us about on this Earth 〈◊〉 finish his Work and do his Will all the days of our 〈◊〉 For 't is not sufficient to be good or godly for a sea●… but the promise is To them who by patient continu 〈…〉 in well doing seek for Glory and Honour and Immorta 〈…〉 Eternal Life that towards the end of this present 〈◊〉 we may also make the like comfortable return unto 〈◊〉 I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do 〈◊〉 the other Blessed consequent may be also And now 〈◊〉 I to thee ●o him that shall hear or Read these lines the word ●exhortation saith Go thou and do likewise Be upon 〈◊〉 and finishing the work which God gave thee on 〈◊〉 Earth for to do and finish For if this should be ●…ected Wo unto us for the day goeth away for the shadows ●he Evening are stretched out Thou nor yet I know 〈◊〉 little sand there is the Glass of our life as yet to 〈◊〉 out A great deal of our life is past and the day Immortality is at hand The night is far spent let us ●efore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the ●our of light I say again Be upon the finishing part your work endeavour to have them polished and compleat The Church of Sardis was admonished Be wat●… ful and strengthen the things which remain that are re●… to dye for I have not found thy works perfect before G●… Now this finding fault doth instruct us on the other ha●… that we should have our works perfect before God which we do endeavour with all our Heart and with all our S●… and all our might God himself will perfect and add u● it untill it become acceptable in his sight Being confid●… of this very thing that whatever good work he hath begu●… any of you he will perform it untill the day of the Lord ●…s And again it is written Lord thou wilt ordain 〈◊〉 for us For thou also hast wrought all our works in us 〈◊〉 der which word peace the things that belong to our pe 〈…〉 are comprehended and included even future Salva 〈…〉 and Glory Who are kept by the power of God thr 〈…〉 faith unto Salvation ready to be revealed in the last ti●… Receiving the end of your faith even the Salvation of 〈◊〉 Souls I do hereby exhort the people of this my Gener 〈…〉 on and Country to be upon the finishing part of y●… work which God hath given you severally on the E 〈…〉 for to do For so an entrance shall be ministred unto abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord Saviour Jesus Christ Wherefore I will not be negligent to you always in Remembrance of these things though ye 〈◊〉 them and be established in the present truth Yea I think it 〈◊〉 as long as I am in this Tabernacle to stir you up by putting yo● Remembrance knowing that shortly I must put off this my ●…bernacle even as our Lord Jesus Christ who is the word of G●… hath shewed me Moreover I will endeavour for which sa●… reason I desire that this profitable Book of a content●… and willingness to dye may be Printed and Published 〈◊〉 you may be able after my decease to have these things always remembrance And seeing that it is but a very little while fore that I shall certainly depart of from the Stage of 〈◊〉 Earth I commend you to God and to the word of his gr●… which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritan●… mong all them which are Sanctified I commend you also the teaching of the Spirit Lord evermore give us this Br●… Lord evermore give us the teaching of thy