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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64971	The saints triumph over the last enemy in a sermon preached at the funeral of that zealous and painful Minister of Christ Mr. James Janeway : unto which is added his character, his sore conflict before he dyed, and afterwards his triumphant manner of departing from earth to the heavenly inheritance / by Nathanael Vincent.	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.	1674 (1674)	Wing V420; ESTC R26349	18,491	46

great a God But Believers are not under the Law Christ has redeemed them from the curse of it Their guilt is all removed as far as the East is from the West and that 's far enough Psal 103. 12 As far as the east is from the west so far hath he removed our transgressions from us 2. We are to take notice of the dominion of sin Where sin is loved and preferred before God where 't is served with both hands earnestly where provision is made for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof we may conclude that sin reigns and has dominion and sins reigns unto death that is joins first and second death together for death is opposed unto eternal life which grace is said to reign unto Rom. 5. ult As sin hath reigned unto death even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. The sum is that all sin though it does deserve to be yet is not the sting of death but sin unpardoned sin reigning and truly 't is unpardoned if 't is reigning is the sting of death In the third place I am to tell you how Believers come to be delivered from this sting of death 1. The Son of God was made flesh he became a mortal man that he might be capable of suffering for Believers As God he could not suffer and if he had been meerly man his sufferings would have been insufficient The Blood of Christ is the Blood of God else it could never have washed away sins The Righteousness of Christ is the Righteousness of him that is Jehovah Jer. 23. 6 else the imputation thereof would not avail for our remission Who can venture his Soul in Christs hand and with satisfaction rely upon him that eyes not his Godhead And how may we be encouraged to believe on him since he has taken our nature and is become our Brother Heb. 2. 11 He is not ashamed to call them brethren 2. Christ was made sin that he might deliver Believers from the sting of death He had none of his own but our sins were imputed to him Isa 53. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own way and the Lord hath made the iniquity of us all to meet on him And as there was an imputation of our sins to Christ so there is of his Righteousness to us 2 Cor. 5. ult as Christ suffered for the sake of our sins which were laid upon him so for the sake of his righteousness his obedience and sufferings our sins are remitted This is the great truth preached up in the Gospel How can death be disarmed of its sting or the conscience have any true peace till the truth be believed and improved Though Papists and never so many others oppose this truth yet through grace we will hold it fast Though Angels from heaven should preach another doctrine we would conclude a second Apostacy of Angels and say they were accursed 3. Christ became obedient unto death that he might unsting death We shall presently be convinced that death was very terrible which Christ did undergo if we consider with how many stings it came armed upon him All the sins of all those that ever were or shall be saved did as it were spit their poison at Christ together If the first sin of the first Adam be so heavy that all the shoulders of his whole progeny bow under it and cannot bear it Oh what a load was all that guilt which lay upon the second Adam Well death thrust its sting into Christ the Head and there left it there lost it it has not now a sting to hurt his Members What was Christs aim when he died He aimed at the satisfaction of divine Justice he designed to justifie many and to pacifie their consciences they receiving the atonement Rom. 5. 9 11. He died that he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the Devil Heb. 2. 14. The Devil has great power to render death formidable by his accusations by his fiery darts which he is liberal of upon the least permission But Christ died to destroy him in this respect to quench his darts and stop his mouth Further he design'd the purging away of iniquity the cleansing of his Church The dominion of sin is at present pull'd down and at last the very being of it shall be abolished By all this you may perceive how death is unstung by the death of Christ 4. Christ loosed the pains of death for it was not possible he should be holden of it Act. 2. 24. By his power he overcame death as by his sufferings he had made sufficient satisfaction Death could not have been unstung if Christ had not risen Sin and Satan and Death might have triumphed if our Lord had been detained still a prisoner in the grave our faith would have been vain we should have been yet in our sins those that have fallen asleep in Christ would all have perished 1 Cor. 15. 17 18. But Christ having taken his life again which he laid down death hath no more dominion over him it is a conquered enemy 5. Believers being by faith united to Christ partake of the benefits which he has procured now remission of sin and freedom from the bondage of corruption which is freedom indeed are to be reckoned among these benefits All that are in Christ share in his victories in their head who is a common person and representative of them all they have already been Conquerors and at length all their foes will be made their footstools the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death but that shall certainly likewise be destroyed The Apostle speaks thus to the Saints All are yours and ye are Christs 1 Cor. 3. ult They that are interested in the Lord Jesus all things are theirs whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas or the world or life or death Death is theirs theirs to serve them theirs to profit them theirs to be an outlet from sin and sorrow and an inlet unto happiness The Application now follows Use 1 of Information in these particulars 1. Does death come to a Believer without a sting Then it ceases to be so great an enemy 'T is confessed that death is a terrible enemy to the Ungodly it strips them naked of all their comforts takes away their portion from them deprives them of their good things and not only so but drags them to the judgment-seat where being condemned they are delivered immediately to the tormentors Luk. 16. 25 Son remember thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented How great a kindness did death do to Lazarus in sending him from the rich mans gate to Abrahams bosom Death does that in an instant for Believers which all ordinances providences the greatest industry and strongest cries could never effect it makes them compleatly holy and sends them to that rest