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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

too hard for the Lord And so it wa● to the promise of God increasing his seed and b●… ing them into the Land of Canaan when they we●… danger to be murdere and destroyed in their birth in 〈…〉 pt and afterwards when they were pursued by Ph●… and his Host and were in peril to be all drowne● the Red Sea and then many of their carkases fell in ●… ●ilderness Yet for all these seemingly contrary events ●od did at length perform and fulfill all his words ●hich he had spoken unto Abraham Throughout the ●…hty ninth Psalm are recited up many particular cove●…nts and promises which God made to David and his ●…ed And therein also is summed up a seeming breach ●…d failure of all those several Covenants and Promises that one might be tempted to think how could ●…vid believe God for all these For even himself did ●… out Lord where are thy former loving kindnesses ●…ch thou swarest unto David in thy truth Remember ●…d the reproach of thy Servants and how I do bear in ●… bosom the reproach of all the mighty people wherewith thine ●…mies have reproached O Lord wherewith they have slander 〈…〉 the footsteps of thine anointed Intimating thereby that ●… enemies of the Lord were apt to reproach and ob●… unto his Servants How was he a God of truth ●…he did fail so in his promises which he had sworn to David in his truth And how was he a good God ●…e did not continue all his former loving kindnesses ●…twithstanding this reproach of his enemies Yet David ●… all this was satisfied in his heart yea and he did be●…e that God would perform all his Covenant which ●… hath done since he is now a doing and will form unto his seed for evermore Thus much may be ●…hered from that form of praise wherewith that whole ●…m is concluded Blessed be the Lord for evermore A●… and Amen A double Ratification thereof and ●…ch is as much as if David was resolved to bless God ●… let his enemies reproach and say what they would ●nother Instance hereof we have in the same David ●… when it was told unto him by Samuel How that ●… day he should be King over all Israel he did after●ds so distrust and dis-believe it because of the then ●kelihood thereof as to say in his haste all men are Liars ●…ch must extend also even to Samuel the Prophet of the ●…d Again when he saith My soul fainteth for thy Sal●on but I hope in thy word Mine eyes fail for thy Salvation ●… for the word of thy Righteousness Psal 119. 81. ●… By Phrasing it on this wise it seems as if God did ●…ay or neglect to perform his Word and bring about his Salvation and yet for all this the Man after Go●… own Heart did hope in his Word Again the Prop●… Jeremiah saith boldly unto God Wilt thou altogether m●… me a liar unto this People and as Waters that fail 〈◊〉 had sent him to foretell the Jews capitivity but a●… he had made known this his message the people ●… not give so much heed and belief to it as they shou●… and partly through the delay of time between ●… also the prophet himself saw no great outward like li 〈…〉 thereof that he cryed out on this wise But at le●… The Lord hath done that which he had devised he hath ful 〈…〉 his word that he had commanded in the days of old 〈◊〉 2. 17. Not to multiply many more instances of this k●… after that Christ had foretold When ye shall see Je●… lem compassed with armies then know that the deso 〈…〉 thereof draweth nigh Luke 21. 20. It was so long ●…fore that was throughly fulfilled even forty years ●… Christ's death that many were apt to say in their h●… in the mean while Where is the promise of his co●… yea when Titus Vespatian first invested Jerusalem wit●… Armies he went off again So that this word seem to be falsified but it was not falsified ●… came on a second time and than was accomp●… the total and entire desolation thereof We ought as firmly to believe that all Scriptu●… true as that there is a God or that Jesus Christ ●… Saviour of Mankind for if we believe that God ●… his visible works of Creation do declare then w●… to believe also that this God is true and than o●… quently that all Scripture is true seeing that all 〈…〉 pture is given by inspiration of God And al 〈…〉 perhaps at first we may not know how to reconci●… truth of several parts and places of Scripture with common and daily events of the world or wit●… lives and manners of the people yet this is our ●… ance and infirmity for if we did seek out of the B●… the Lord and read and if we did understand throu●… we should find and perceive that whatsoever is ●… done on the Earth by all and the several Inhab●… ●…eof It is all but a fulfilling of the ●ame word and ●…gs do so and so come to pass that the Scriptures ●…t be fulfilled Acts 3 18. And those things that God ●… aforeshewed by the mouth of all his Prophets by ●…st and his Apostles He hath so fulfilled is at this day ●…ulfilling and he will fulfill to the end of time as ●… greater things are yet to come and as yet to be ful●…d And whereas it is so ordered of set purpose by alwise God that several things happen out ●…ch seem perplex and hard to be understood this is to ●…e our faith therein and if we hold out and retain ●… faith nevertheless then it is a giving glory unto God ●…e have his word and promise for it then the more ●… believe in hope against hope it is yet the more giving ●… unto God For if in things to be believed there was ●… manner of doubt or unlikelihood what reward hath To be strong in faith doth glorifie God So on the contrary ●…elief doth dishonour him wherefore take heed of un●…ef which notwithstanding the outward profession ●he Gospel is very common amongst Men. There is ●…ot of unbelief growing in the hearts of unregene●… people and there is also a mixture or rather a tin●…e thereof in the hearts of the Regenerate Sometimes ●… in them are little questionings within themselves ●…ther these things are so and sometimes little ●…bts that they are not which cometh to pass because the little likelihood that sometimes appears in the ●n while that they ever will be so which is to prove ●… faith ●…s to obey God and keep his Commandments is to ●…ifie him So to believe on him and his word is to ●…ifie him likewise The several acts of faith do give ●…y unto God yea when we believe his word altho●… it seems against common reason and the outward ●…ability of things in the mean while yet here still believe and be fully perswaded that for all this there ●…ll be yet an expected end this is to be strong in ●…th and to

God the Lord belong the Issues from Death In saving us from Sin God doth save us from Death also inasmuch as Death is by reason of Sin And therefore Jesus Christ in whom was no sin he being the Holy one of God Therefore he should not see corruption and it was not possible that he should not be holden of Death as Peter doth truly averr it So that as God and Christ do save us from sin unto God do belong the Issues from Death for there is a flowing and rising and deliverance from that again As health is an holding together of Temporal Life so Holiness or freedom from sin is the Principle and beginning of Eternal Life It is an act of Salvation or saving to subdue And as to this also we have God speaking on this wise He will turn again he will have compression upon us he wi●… subdue our iniquities Micah 7. 19. which indeed is the greatest instance of compassion that can be shewed unto us Men for unless God did subdue our Iniquities we must die perish and be miserable for ever Now to Subdue our Iniquities is to conquer and subdue the reigning Nature and Power of them so that they shall not involve us into the Death of Sin here nor yet into the Damnation of Hell hereafter Having thus Explained what Salvation is in order that we may the better understand those true and assured grounds of a willingness to dye when we have seen the Salvation of God wrought and accomplished upon and within our Souls Proceed we to speak 〈◊〉 the Nature of Redemption which is also another tr●… and assured Ground of committing our Spirit into th● hand of God because thou hast Redeemed us O Lor● God of Truth The signification of which Redemption may be Understood from what is written Forasmu●… as ye know that ye were not Redeemed with Corruptib●… things as Silver and Gold from your vain Conversation receiv●… by tradition from your Fathers And as the same Apost●… doth elsewhere phrase it By these you might be part●kers of the Divine Nature which none can be un●… be is first Redeemed from the corrupt Nature a● from the Body of Sin which we carry about us having escaped the Corruption that is in the World through lust So that to be Redeemed from Corruption and from Lust both which are very much in the World this ●s Redemption Upon my Discoursing these things Examine your selves whoso shall hear or Read these Lines can ye thus find and witness Redemption in your own Souls That is do ye feel and Experience inwardly a Redemption in ye from that vain Conversation which is so much used and practised by other People and also a Redemption from Corruption and from Lust If it is so Indeed and in Truth then ye have purchased a good degree in the Faith and ye have made a considerable Advancement and Proficiency in the Christian-Life So that ye are in a readiness and willingness to Commit your Spirits into the hand of God because he hath Redeemed them And then in Psal 31. 5. He is called the Lord God of Truth Intimating thereby that he doth Redeem and Sanctifie them by his Truth There is another Scripture which doth clearly open the Nature of Redemption These were they which were ●…ot defiled with Women these were Redeemed observe that ●…rom among Men being the first Fruits unto God and to ●he Lamb. And in their Mouth was found no Guile for they were without fault before the Throne of God Rev. 14. 4. 5. ●t is here to be taken notice of how the Scripture in ●his and many other places doth in a wonderful manner Instruct People in these things of Holiness per●ection and Innocency It is the Point or End which ●…ll Scripture doth drive at and lead unto But in this ●lace to be Redeemed doth import to be Redeemed ●…om among Men and not to be defiled with Women That is not to be Tainted or Touched with the Temptation of either to be freed from Lust Concupicence and from the motions of Sins in our Members and to have in our Mouth no Guile found and to be without fault before the Throne of God Such are his Redeemed and Sanctified ones And the Ransomed of the Lord elsewhere called the Redeemed of the Lord Isa 51. 11. shall return and com● to Zion with Songs and Everlasting joy upon their Head● They shall obtain joy and Gladness and Sorrow and Sigh●ing shall flee away Isa 35. 10. In truth none hav● such Reason to be joyful as these Redeemed of the Lord for nothing can possibly hurt them Not Me● nor Devils nor yet Death it self which is the mo●… Melancholy thing and of doubtful Expectation as t● other People for by Death they are received into God hand the place of Everlasting joy There is yet another Scripture which Explains th● Nature of Redemption Who gave himself for us that 〈◊〉 might Redeem us from all Iniquity and Purifie unto him self a peculiar People zealous of good Works Titus 2. 1 The Scripture is all along consonant and agreeable to 〈◊〉 self for this Redeeming from all Iniquity and Purifyi●… answers exactly to that place aforementioned of bein● without Guile and to have no fault A state of Innocen●… is a state of Redemption for it is a state of Rede●ption from Sin Guilt and whatever may hurt or ma●… the Soul miserable It is a Redeeming from Captivit● Bondage and Thraldom from the Vassalage of S●…tan and the Imprisonment of Hell which as we 〈◊〉 come Obnoxious unto only by reason of Sin Iniqui●… and Transgression So as we are Redeemed from the●… we are consequently Redeemed and saved from t●… other also Besides these two Grounds of having seen the Salv●tion of God and his having Redeemed us there is anoth●… for our willingness and contentment to dye from wh●… is written I have Glorified thee on the Earth I ha●… finished the Work which thou gavest me to do And n●… come I to thee John 17. 4. 13. Now seeing that who●… God did foreknow He did also Predestinate to be conf●…med unto the Image of his Son that he might be t●… first Born amongst many Brethren So that we m●… assuredly Reason that every Servant of God may up●… true grounds be willing to dye and to come unto G●… when he hath before Glorified him on the Earth a●… finished the Work which God gave him to do A●… now come I to thee Words full of consolation and rejoycing Like as when a Servant is sent out to such a place about his Masters Business when he hath done it he returns to his Master with rejoycing and complacency of mind Even so God our Creator sent us Reasonable Creatures to do his Work and Business Wist ye not that I must be about my Fathers Business Luke 2. 49. Said Jesus Christ his beloved Son who herein left us an Example that we should follow his steps Now certainly it must be a Satisfaction to the Creature when he hath