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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

that perish go on blindly a●… ignorantly for twenty forty or sixty years yea throug●out all their life long in this deceit of being Worshi●…pers of God and yet not doing his will of hearing 〈◊〉 word and not obeying it nor yet doing thereafter whe●… as the Blessedness is to them that hear the word of God a●… keep it Saith David by the Spirit if I regard iniqui●… in my heart the Lord will not hear me Now iniqui●… signifies the thing that is not equal But too many outwa●… Worshippers do not only regard iniquity in their hea●… but also practice it with their hand Nevertheless li●… the Adulterous Woman Who eateth and wipeth her mou●… and saith I have done no wickedness they will not cea●…nor desist to offer up their many and customary Pray●…s unto God as aforetime and as if they had never ●…one any such thing Such may be found amongst the ●umber of those of whom it is written Not every one ●…at saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the king●…m of Heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which 〈◊〉 in Heaven Many will say to me in that day Lord Lord ●ave we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name cast out ●evils And then will I profess unto them I never knew 〈◊〉 depart from me ye that work iniquity All will not be ●…ved that go to Church or Meetings and then where shall ●…e ungodly and sinner appear for of four sorts of hearers 〈◊〉 the word there is but one that bringeth forth fruit ●…to everlasting life Herein also God is glorified when ●…ey bring forth fruit but he is not glorified when they 〈◊〉 not bring forth fruit or when instead of Bringing ●…rth grapes they bring forth wild grapes ●o ye think that the Papists do glorifie God by their Mass 〈◊〉 Idolatrous Worship or by their ignorant mumbling ●…er their Beads when it is the revealed will of God that ●eople should pray with the Spirit and with the under●…nding also 1 Cor 14. 15. That whole Chapter is a●…inst praying in an unknown Tongue God is a ●…irit and they that worship him must worship him in Spi●…t and in truth This is opposite unto and shuts out all ●…eir pompous outside Worship and carnal ordinances ●…ter the institutions and Commandments of Men. For ●…eir Worship stands in divers Washings and Bowings ●…d carnal ordinances imposed on them who would wil●…gly always remain in their corruption and errour ●…d never let Reformation come among them although ●… Blessed be God many have reformed from their ●…ays Again May it be thought that the Mahometans by going ●…nstantly to their mosque and by their making a great ●…y and howling in their Prayers unto the God of Hea●…n although they are never so earnest in Prayer as they ●…em to be in tone and voice and also by their Wa●…ings before Prayer as the manner of them is where●… common reason would shew them that the inward ●…urifying and cleansing of the heart of the Worshippers is more required by God and more pleasing and acceptable in his sight then the outward washing of the●… Bodies with water And so with all their other rites an● ceremonies customs and manners do they glorifie God ●… when all the mean while they know not nor believ●… on Jesus Christ by whom there is access unto the Fathe● he being the alone mediator between God and Man And so we may run over and conceive in our min●… as to all the Religions Superstitions and ways of Wo●ship used in the World together with that manifo●… Errour and Absurdity that is joyn'd therewith Do tho●… Worshippers glorifie God It would be hard to say so●… For the Father seeketh such to worship him as worship him 〈◊〉 Spirit and in Truth And seeing that so much Errour a●… Folly Ignorance and Vanity is crept in and intermin●led with the several Worships of the World especial●… among those of the Roman-Church and that vast mult●tude of others who do not at all name the name of Chr●… it may be thought as to them that in God's Sight and 〈◊〉 to his Acceptation He that Sacrificeth a Lamb is as if ●…●ut off a Dogs neck He that offereth an Oblation as if he ●…fer'd Swines blood He that burneth Incense as if he bless●… an Idol Which last is the highest degree of provoki●… God that can be So that such Worshippers do rath●… displease than please God they do rather dishonour th●… glorifie him They make God more angry and furth●… off then bring him near or reconcile him unto the W●…shippers But to come home and nearer to our selves even 〈◊〉 us who are called Protestants of the pure Reform'd Chur●… who come yet nearer to the Pattern shew'd to us in 〈◊〉 Gospel than they aforementioned Altho' our Worship 〈◊〉 in some measure Spiritual and True Yet here agai●… a right Faith and a wrong Conversation a good Na●… but evil Doings will not save any of us Nor yet is G●… glorified by the work done or only in the outward co●…ing to the Places of Worship for if People do therein dr●…near to God with their Lips but their Hearts are far fr●… him if they bring only their Bodies to the place but the●… in their Souls do mind other Objects besides the Invisib●… ●od then as the Body without the Spirit is dead so such may be ●ore truly called carca●e Worship than Spiritual Wor●…ip for it is the Worship of a dead Body only or of a ●arcase without the Spirit Acting or being concern'd there●… Saith God Now let them put away their Whoredom ●nd the Carcases of their Kings from me and I will dwell in ●he midst of them for ever Ezek. 43. 9 Lip labour in Pray●r or Worship is properly Whordom for it takes away ●he heart from God the right beloved and places it ●n another wrong beloved and so it is a carkase of Wor●hip for the reason aforeassigned Both which God requires ●o be put away before he will dwell in the midst of us Having abundantly and at large discoursed by what kind of Worship God is not glorified it will easily ●ppear by what Worship he is indeed glorified For if ●…e is not glorified by meer outside Worship as indeed he ●s not it follows that he is glorified by such Worship as is spiritual which denotes inward Worship for if it is performed by the Spirit it must be inward because the Spirit is within and true God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in truth For the Father seeketh such to worship him and consequently he is glorified thereby so that to Worship God in Spirit and in truth is a part of our glorifying God here on Earth Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the Salvation of God Pal 50. 23. Seeing that they who order their conversation aright will have the Salvation of God shewn unto them it follows hence also that

and his Commandments are express against ●… Hear what the answer of God saith to such To what ●…rpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me saith the ●…ord I am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat ●… fed beasts and I delight not in the blood of bullocks or ●… lambs or of he goats When ye come to appear before me ●…ho hath required this at your hand to tread my courts ●…ing no more vain oblations incense is an abomination to me ●…e new moons and sabbaths and the calling of the assemblies cannot away with It is iniquity even the solemn meeting ●…d when ye spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes ●…om you yea when ye make many prayers I will not hear your hands are full of blood Wash ye make you clea●… put away the evil of your doings from before mine eye● cease to do evil learn to do well Intimating hereby th●… until people did actually put away the evil of their doing and cease to do evil all their acts of outward Worship all their going to Church or Meeting on the Lor'ds da●… how constant soever they are therein all their ma●… prayers offered up unto him every morning and eveni●… nay if it be at noon each week day are not pleas●… and acceptable in the sight of the Lord and consequent they do not at all glorifie him thereby for himself he saith that he will not receive them that he doth ●… require it at their hands who are sinners and works of iniquity to tread his courts but this he requireth his saints and servants so to do that he cannot aw●… with their calling of the assemblies when such come i● to the congregation their appointed times of Wor●… his soul hateth they are a trouble to me I cannot be them all these sayings do import they do not please G●… and conscequently they do not glorifie him By the way there is no doctrine more necessary a●… useful to be continually made known and preached th●… this for it is the common and uniuersal deceit which ●… people of this generation and Country yea of all c 〈…〉 stendom go upon If they go constantly to Church Meeting upon the first day of the week and those the richer sort have Worship in their respective fami●… every morning and evening they think and say to t●… souls all is well enough As the fool said in the gos●… Thou hast much goods laid up for many years take thine ea● drink and be merry so these foolish and deceived pe●… who serve divers lusts and pleasures do say to themse●… Soul that course of Worship and Religion aforeme●… oned will carry thee to Heaven be quiet as to ●… further thoughts or doubts concerning futurity only sure to go on therein eat drink and be merry take g●… and enjoy as much of the world and worldly comfort● ever thou canst But in the mean while and all along t● not do ●rame their doings to turn unto God They do not fra●… or square all their doings according to the great Rul●… ●…ghteousness in Scripture They do not put away the evil ●… their doings For many of their ways are contrary unto ●… different from the Word and Law of God Until peo●…e do actually put away the evil of their doings ●…d doth not accept of their several acts of Worship ●… We are of them that believe to the saving of the soul Heb. ●… 39. And so there is a sort of People who Serve and ●orship God to the saving of their Souls that is such ●…o do it inwardly and who obey constantly from the ●…art all the Words of God's Law and Gospel ' Again ●…ere is another sort whereof are the greater number Broad ●…he way and wide is the gate which leadeth to destruction ●…d many there be who go in thereat who do not serve and ●orship God to the saving of their Souls for these wor●…ip him outwardly and they do not confirm all the ●ords of God's Gospel to do them and so now they are ●ble unto and will at length fall under that everla●ng destruction which will be unto them that obey not ●…e Gospel For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly and it may be truly Reasoned He is not a Christian or ●…vant of God who is one outwardly neither is that Cir●…mcision which is outward in the flesh but he is a Jew who one inwardly and so he is a Christian who is one in●ardly and Circumcision is that of the heart in the Spirit and ●… in the Letter whose praise is not of Men but of God Rom. ●… 28 29. For I say unto you that except your Righteousness ●…all exceed the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees ye shall ●… no case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 5 20. And ●… it may be truly Reasoned and Applyed to the Peo●…e of this Generation Except your Religion shall exceed ●…e Religion which is according to the Standard and ●…urse of this World it will be in no wise a Religion ●… the saving of your Souls Let that kind of outward Worshippers aforementioned ●…editate throughly upon the significancy of these follow●…g Scriptures But unto the Wicked God saith What hast ●…ou to do to declare my Statutes or that thou shouldst take my ●…venant into thy Mouth Seeing thou hatest Instruction and ●…stest my Words behind thee Psal 50. 16 17. And so this ●…nd of outward worshippers do hate him that Rebuketh in the Gate they abhor him that speaketh uprightly Saith t●… Apostle The time will come but I who live nearer un●… the ends of the World do Testifie that what he the●… foretold of is now fulfilled for at this day the time 〈◊〉 come that they will not endure sound Doctrine but after the●… own lusts shall they heap to themselves Teachers having Itchi●… Ears 2 Tim. 4. 3. Which say to the Seers see not and to 〈◊〉 Prophets Prophesie not unto us right things speak unto 〈◊〉 smooth things Prophesie Deceits Isa 30. 10. This day 〈◊〉 this Scripture fulfilled in our Ears for they go constan●ly to them who speak smooth things and Preach Deceit●… And they will not come to hear him that Preacheth rig●… things which is verified as to the People of this Genera●…on and Country And as to him who Writeth these thing●… for they do not receive his Testimony John 3. 32. But ●…ject his Words John 12. 48. Because he speaketh and pu●…lisheth unto them right things Nevertheless such wor●… as I have truly alledged from the Scriptures will jud●… them at the last day But whether they will hear or forbear whether they w●… Read or not these Scriptures of Truth are again laid b●fore them Now we know that God heareth not sinners but any man be a worshipper of God and doth his will him 〈◊〉 heareth John 9. 31. Notwithstanding this is writt●… so plainly that every capacity may understand it y●… nevertheless many Men and Women Satan acting wi●… all deceivableness in them

sing Psalms unto him ●alk you of all his wondrous works glory ye in his holy name ●e ye mindful always of his covenant shew forth from day to day his Salvation declare his glory among the Heathen ●is marvellous works among all Nations for great is the Lord and greatly to be p●aised he also is to be feared above all Gods glory and honour are in his presence strength and gladness are in his place give unto the Lord ye kindreds of the people glory and strength Now there is no giving of streng●… to him that is Almighty already but it is only 〈◊〉 speak out that he is so Give unto the Lord the glory d●… unto his name 1 Chron. 16. In short it is to acknowled●… and speak out of the glory of God and to give than●… and praise to his Holy Name Provided always th●… this be done by those who have their conversation ord●…ed aright who are of clean lips and obedient heart for therefore it is that those cautionary expressions are he●… necessarily intermingled and incerted in this song of prai●… Be ye mindful always of his Covenant he is also to be fear●… above all Gods intimating thereby that unless people a●… also mindfull of his Covenant and fear God above a●… other things they cannot then give thanks unto t●… Lord nor yet sing Psalms unto him nor declare 〈◊〉 glory nor yet praise him so as for God to be please therewith and accept thereof If we fear any thing ●bove God that is our God also O Lord our God oth●… Lords besides thee have had dominion over us but by th● only will we make mention of thy name It is written of Abraham Who against hope believed 〈◊〉 hope that he might become the father of many nations ●…cording to that which was spoken so shall thy seed be A●… being not weak in faith he considered not his own body no● dead when he was about an hundred years old neither y● the deadness of Sarah's womb he staggered not at the prom●… of God through unbelief but was strong in faith giving glo●… unto God and being fully perswaded that what he had prom●sed he was able also to perform From all which ma● be gathered that to firmly believe and be fully pe●swaded that such a thing shall come to pass althoug● according to humane reason it is unlikely to come 〈◊〉 pass provided always that we have the word and promise of God for it as here Abraham had this also 〈◊〉 a giving glory unto God when the thing seems impossible according to the course of Nature as it was in th● instance here given Yet here to believe that God both ca● and also will perform the same this is a Giving glory unto God for it gives God the glory of his truth and the glory of his Almighty power This thing if it be rightly and throughly understood 〈◊〉 Mystery both to the people of the World and also 〈◊〉 the outward Worshippers for as to them at this day ●…en Moses is read and so it is when the Gospel of Christ ●ead The vail is upon their Hearts The written word 〈◊〉 God and the manner of the Dispensation of his ●…gdom towards us is a Mystery It is given unto 〈◊〉 those of the Discipleship to know the mysteries of the ●…ngdom of Heaven Mat. 13. 11. The mystery of God should ●…nished as he hath declared to his servants the prophets 〈◊〉 10. 7. But that part of this mystery which I would 〈◊〉 just mention is that although all Scripture was given ●…nspiration of God and is true and will be fulfilled to ●…ry tittle thereof yea the Truth and Power and Hono●… of God do all stand engaged to fulfill all and every ●…t of this same word and God himself hath born ●…ness to it both with signs and wonders and with divers ●…acles and gifts of the Holy Ghost according to his own 〈◊〉 So that we ought to believe it all to be true and ●…t it shall all be fulfilled or we make God a liar if 〈◊〉 believe not the Record which God gave of his Son ●…o saith Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my ●…ds shall not pass away Yet still God being willing to ●…ve and exercise the faith of his Servants and also the mixt multitude of people concerning it hath so ●…ered and suffered it to come to pass Behold herein 〈◊〉 Wisdom and Mystery of God that some things ●…ich this his word of truth speaks of should seem ●…e falsified They are not falsified indeed but only ●…y seem to be so on set purpose to prove to the ut●…st degree the faith of people herein If they do re●… their faith therein nevertheless then it is a giving ●…ry unto God But if an evil heart of unbelief is in ●…m like Cleopas and those with him who said we ●…sted it had been he which should have Redeemed Israel 〈◊〉 seeing and hearing of his miracles in his life time 〈◊〉 when he was put to death like a malefactor than 〈◊〉 their hopes were blasted their faith withered and ●ny might probably say it is all come to nothing ●is and the like is not a giving glory unto God And so a root of unbelief springs up in the hea●… many whereby they are defiled For there are in ●… last days many infidels in heart who say Where i● promise of his coming for since the Fathers fell asl●… things continue as they were since the beginning of the ●…tion And so there are many who although they profess Christianity partly to conform to the fa●… and custom of the Country they live in or for se● ends or to provide for and against the doubtful uncert●… if they be of the more considering sort yet they d●… the main disbeleive the truth of Revealed Religion But all these do err not knowing the Scripture and p●… of God nor yet the way and manner of the dispen●… on of his Kingdom towards us Men for they do know throughly how that God doth prove the fai●… Mankind all one as the manners of Mankind As he prove them to know what is in their heart whether they keep his Commandments or no Deut. 8. 2. So he ●… Hide his face from them to see what their end shall be they are a very froward generation Children in whom ●… faith Deut. 32. 20. So he doth prove them likewise whi●… they will give any credence to his word which saith shall be so but in the mean while God orders and fers it to be so on set purpose that seemingly con●… and unexpected events happen and fall out So th●… meer natural Man would be apt to think and say it never be so as the word and promise of God sai● shall be Examples hereof are common in Scripture So it in the case of Abraham to whom Jsaac was prom●… in his old Age that Sarah his Wife laughed at the likelihood thereof for which she received a check reproof from the Angel who brought the messag●… any thing

give so much the more glory unto God We may learn another kind of glorifying God from that ●soning of our Saviour Jesus Christ For if ye love them that love you what reward have ye Do not even the Pu●… cans the same And if ye salute your brethren only 〈◊〉 do ye more than others do not even the Publicans so And 〈◊〉 that reasoning of the Apostle For this is thank wor●… if a man for conscience towards God endure grief suffer wrongfully For what glory is it if when ye be buffeted for 〈◊〉 faults ye take it patiently but if when ye do well and 〈◊〉 fer for it this is acceptable with God If ye be reproached for name of Christ happy are ye for the spirit of Glory and God resteth upon you on their part he is evil spoken of 〈◊〉 on your part he is glorified From all this may be understood that to do those things which are not comm●…ly done by other Men or what is more than other 〈◊〉 will do or to submit our selves to present pain 〈◊〉 inconveniency when we do not deserve it but 〈◊〉 wrongfully inflicted on us provided always that 〈◊〉 happens to us as we are in a way of duty and 〈◊〉 for our obedience unto the Commandments of 〈◊〉 then indeed this and the like is a glorifying of G●… This of suffering wrongfully or to suffer when we do well a kind of taking up the Cross and it is a going 〈◊〉 and contrary to our Natural inclinations which as forementioned is an instance of glorifying God W●… doth not only consist in the bare pain and inconvenie●… that the poor Creature endures He doth not afflict 〈◊〉 lingly nor grieve the Children of men But it is in the do●… of and obedience unto the Commandments of G●… That is when I had rather meet with trouble and irks●ness to my Fleshly Nature as I am in the service the Lord God then avoid the same trouble or irkso●ness by my neglecting and not doing of it For annexing of Trouble Pain Loss or Inconvenie●… which we sometimes meet with in our performing 〈◊〉 keeping of them God doth hereby the more effectu●… prove Mankind to know what is in their heart whi●… they will keep his Commandments or no. For to me●… on here a like Reasoning to that of our Saviour 〈◊〉 Christ if in keeping the Commandments of God it 〈◊〉 all Smoothness and Ease and Pleasure and Agreeable●… to our Nature what reward have ye Do not even ●…●…licans and Sinners of their owns they manage and 〈◊〉 ease and pleasure and what is it but herein they 〈◊〉 gratifying the Flesh And how wo an a Liar For ●…g more than others for do not even th●ice concern●… all Mankind so And consequently what his Reli●…ven unto God by such a kind of life or to do 〈◊〉 it is ●…gs as these for even Beasts do those things which by n●…ure and Sense they are led unto But to do things ●…e the common level of Mankind or to Do more then ●…s as in enduring grief suffering wrongfully when ●…is is in keeping and doing the Commandments of 〈◊〉 and the like is a giving glory unto God 〈◊〉 the several things which have been afore spoken may be instructed how we may glorify God here on 〈◊〉 It must be in keeping of and doing the Com●…dments of God for otherwise instead of vainly and 〈◊〉 thinking to glorify him it may be said to us at the 〈◊〉 Who hath required these things at your hands But if ●o indeed glorify God here on Earth according to directions and intimations aforegiven then which ●…ld quicken stir up and actually perswade us to in●…ly and constantly set about the glorifying God here 〈◊〉 Earth It will be a most comfortable review and ●…ing back to each of us just as we are going off from stage of this Earth if we have the Testimony of Conscience according to truth that we have glori●… God on the Earth or that any Glory Honour and ●…se hath been given and ascribed unto God through ●…y means of any of us Hath thy Life and conver●…n and thy Deeds done in the Body and so have mine ●…fied God our Creator By having been so ordered ●…managed by us that when Men did see our good ●…s our Faith Obedience and Patience they did ●eason of them Glorify our Father which is in Heaven ●…mine and Prove your selves herein Hast thou and thou and so do ye ask your selves Have I and have ●…rified God at all in my past life And according ●he answer of your several consciences are if some ●ou have done it a little others perhaps of ye have done it at all but certainly none of ye have done it so much as ye might have done it nor yet so muc● such of you who are enlightened and Spiritually 〈◊〉 derstanding do wish that ye had done In the nam● God then and for his Glory do it more for the tim●… come during the few and evil days remaining of 〈◊〉 several Pilgrimages here on Earth As ye have been 〈◊〉 Instructed from the Scriptures of truth how ye 〈◊〉 to walk and glorify God We beseech you Brethren●… exhort you by the Lord Jesus Christ that ye would abound 〈◊〉 in more and more For this will be indeed a C●… Consolation to ye severally when ye come to tast 〈◊〉 bitterness of Death it will be as so much Wine mi●… with that Gall if ye can towards the shutting up of 〈◊〉 days make this appeal in truth unto God and Sing Song for it is all rejoycing and comfort as Christ forerunner the First born amongst many Brethren did 〈◊〉 herein also left us an ensample that we should f●… his steps I have glorified thee on the Earth I have f●… the work which thou gavest me to do Proceed we now to handle these last words I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do This Work in the general is the Working out of our S 〈…〉 tion which or the thing signified thereby is often 〈◊〉 Scripture called a work Now the Scripture speak● and according to truth for it was given by in●…tion of God who is alwise and alknowing and for 〈◊〉 it is impossible to lie From hence it may be p●…able to observe how that the multitude of people and ward Worshippers go upon a gross Errour and mi●… which is very dangerous hereby Satan acting wi●… deceivableness in them that perish for they thin● practice accordingly as if Religion and the servi●… God through which people are to save their Souls 〈◊〉 get to Heaven was no Work but only a customa●… side thing which they make not much more of th●… cording to form and fashion talk and discourse 〈◊〉 a thing which they have been bred up and used unto themselves observe it accordingly for they impl●… ●…rk or labour therein and as they manage and ●…der the matter they find none in it but herein they ●…eatly err Let God be true and every Man a Liar For ●…wever