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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66424	A sermon preach'd at the funeral of the Reverend Thomas Jekyll, D.D. late preacher at the New Chappel, Westminster, October 7, 1698 / by John Lord Bishop of Chichester.	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1698 (1698)	Wing W2731; ESTC R7509	15,200	29

shall fall short of it For can we have any thing more clearly revealed to us that is not in our view and which we are not capable by reason of the imperfection of our Natures perfectly to understand Can we have any thing more secured which we have not in present possession Can we have any thing more confirmed than God bearing witness to the truth of it with signs and wonders and divers miracles And can any thing be of greater consequence than the things that are thus revealed promised and secured And when a Promise is thus left us of entring into his Rest shall not we fear lest we come short of it Especially 4. When there is a possibility on our part of coming short of it I say a possibility on our part For there is nothing wanting on God's who is not as Man that he should lie nor the Son of Man that he should repent Hath he said and shall he not do it Hath he spoken and shall he not make it good But yet notwithstanding the amplitude the fulness and firmness of the Promise there is a suspension of it nor will it operate without the conditions belonging to us to perform without which we are in the same state of darkness and misery as if there had been no Revelation nor Promise And when it thus rests on our part and nothing is wanting to compleat our happiness but our own consent could we in reason wish or desire any thing more when it will be at our own choice and refusal whether we will be happy or miserable whether we will be saved or damned And yet alas here is the difficulty the difficulty is to win us over to our own interest and all the arguments and considerations of the Gospel are to dispose us hereunto to be willing and desirous of being saved And all in the conclusion prove generally too little for we remain stupid and sensless as if we were not at all concerned whether we obtain or fall short of this Rest. We are as the Israelites upon the borders of Canaan a few days would have let them into the possession of the promised Land it was to be seen from the top of the Mountain but they believed not the report of Caleb and Joshua and murmur'd so of Six hundred thousand Men that came out of Egypt only those two entred into that Land And we are upon the borders of the promis'd rest we have a prospect of it we have the Gospel preach'd unto us we have our Education in the Church of Christ and are members of his Body are call'd by his Name have eaten and drank in his presence but how sad and miserable will our state be if at the last we shall meet with I know you not depart from me And yet as near as we are to Heaven in profession and faith in appearance and expectation it is possible and without an extraordinary caution it is certain that notwithstanding the promise of God we may come short of this Rest. Thus our Saviour represents it Luk. 13.24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate for many I say unto you will seek to enter in and shall not be able Shall I now need any farther arguments than what the Text affords to make us cautious left we come short of this Rest shall I need to press the Apostle's Exhortation any further Need we to be advised in this matter in a matter of so great importance and absolute necessity Let us beloved look within our selves and try whether our condition be so safe as to be above all hazard that we are arriv'd to a full satisfaction of mind concerning our title to this Rest. I would that every one that hears me at this time and that we all were in the state of St. Paul and were arriv'd to that setled and happy temper of soul as to be able to say That to me to live is Christ and to die is gain And I have fought a good sight I have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord shall give me at that day I could wish that we were out of the reach of all temptations troubles and dangers and that there was no need for us to fear nor occasion to exhort us to it But what should I wish for that which belongs not to the state in which we are That is a Rest which remaineth it is the Rest of Heaven that is God's Rest. It rather becomes me to return to the Apostle to exhort and repeat and exhort again Take heed brethren saith he lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God Let us labour to enter into that rest And in the Text Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entring into his rest any of you should come short of it Thus far have I consider'd the Text and am certain that if our deceased Friend were to speak to you of this Auditory who were so lately His He that is now gone to his Rest would exhort you after the Apostle's manner to caution and fear left having such a promise any of you should come short of it It was in St. Paul's phrase his heart's desire and prayer to God that ye might be saved This was the Theme and Subject he continually insisted upon and made it his restless endeavour to promote This he taught in this Pulpit and this he again taught out of it and confirmed by the regularity of his Life Of whom I have many things to say and might speak of him in his Secular capacity As to his Friendship in which he was sincere intire and stedfast As to his Conversation in which he was free without levity Grave without moroseness Instructive without imposition and not without such a competency of skill even in matters relating to this present life as did render him useful to others and capable of advising them that wanted it I might speak of him as to the Government of himself in his exact Temperance and Sobriety as to his Family in his affectionate tenderness as a Husband and a Father and in the care he took of the meanest of those that were about him and the Exercises of Family-devotion But that which I at this time shall principally respect is the discharge of his Ministerial Office in which he took a special delight and made it the principal business of his Life laying hold of all opportunities of doing good in private and in publick In publick how constant and diligent useful and practical was he in Preaching Preaching with that plainness as might be suitable to the meanest capacity and designed to the most useful purposes of sound Doctrine and unblameable life Preaching as one that was in earnest himself and endeavouring to persuade others so to be What care did he again take to instruct the Youth what pains in the little School that by