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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51401	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable Roger Earl of Orrery, who dyed the 16th of October, at Castle-Martyr, and was buried at Youghall in Ireland the 18th of the same month, in the year 1679 by Thomas Morris, M.A. ...	Morris, Thomas, M.A.	1681 (1681)	Wing M2812; ESTC R16333	20,753	48

great that to question it will be to injure Christianity and affront our reasons for besides the many other places of Scripture which bear witness to this truth this of the Text also is a most full and unexceptionable proof of it where we have an account from one infallibly inspired by the spirit of truth that he heard a voice from Heaven declare this Blessedness and that the spirit of God said as it were an Amen to it to confirm it For so saith the Holy Pen-man And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me write blessed are c. Which words as they contain in them admirable matter of comfort against the death of our selves or others that dye in the Lord so they will afford me a fair opportunity of speaking something concerning the admirable worth of this Noble person Deceased whose Funeral Obsequies we are here met with loads of grief to solemnize of whom should I say nothing I might well deserve to be branded with ingratitude and injustice His noble Birth and Parentage his honourable Alliance his high Titles and places of honour and trust which the bounty of his most Sacred Majesty thought good to confer on him without repenting though they sufficiently declare to the world that he was a person of no mean Merit and Quality yet for as much as Honour may be possessed by the unworthy as well as worthy therefore I shall here pass by these things of him as the least part of his praise and in the close speak a little of those singular Virtues he was eminent for which have render'd his Memory glorious and happy and his Decease comfortable to his Friends and Relations though our loss of him be most deplorable In the mean time I shall crave leave to consider the import of the Text and discourse so much only of the matter contained in it as will lead me to what I have further to say of this Noble person The sacred Pen-man of this last part of Scripture being in the foregoing Verse acquainted with the invincible patience of the Saints under their afflictions is in the words of the Text acquainted with their blessedness also Where we have First A future blessedness after Death declared and recorded write blessed are the dead Secondly The persons described who are declared to be thus blessed viz. such as dye in the Lord Thirdly The time when these persons are blessed viz. from henceforth from the time of their decease to all Eternity Fourthly the evidence afforded us of the undoubted certainty of this truth Which is twofold 1. The testimony of a voice from Heaven declaring this thing and commanding it to be Recorded which voice was heard by one of the Holy Apostles and attested by him when inspired by the spirit of truth I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me write blessed c. 2. 'T is moreover attested and confirm'd by the Holy spirit of God who is truth it self and cannot lye yea saith the spirit that is the spirit of God saith this is true Fifthly The nature of this blessedness wherein it consists and that we find is in two things 1. In a freedom from those evils which holy persons undergo in the flesh they rest from their labours 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In enjoying the good of all they have done their works do follow them or accompany with them as the words in the original properly signifie I should exceed the bounds of a Funeral Sermon and consequently be too tedious should I take the liberty to say so much as on this Text and on this occasion I might both which afford such a plenty of matter that it is hard to distinguish which is the most copious subject I would do no wrong to the Text and I am as unwilling to be so injurious to the happy memory of this Noble Peer as to pass by in silence those things of him which are worth our knowledge and imitation and I would not exceed my due bounds To be as brief therefore as the subject matter I am to discourse of will handsomly permit I shall crave leave to make no other observations from the words of the Text than what will lead me to speak pertinently though briefly too on the subject of this present sad occasion First And here first 't is worth our while to observe That there is for certain a blissful state to be enter'd upon after Death by those that dye in the Lord for we find in the Text a voice from Heaven from God himself declaring that blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord and this is one of the greatest evidences of the truth of a thing that mortals can expect Exod. 20.1 By such a voice God declared his will upon Mount Sinai By such a voice Christ is declared to be the Son of God Matt. 3.17 And by such a voice they are declared blessed that dye in the Lord. And lest we should have any doubt about the truth of this declaration upon the account of the reporter who perhaps may be thought to be deceived or deceive to obviate such a doubt we find an inspired person reports this one acted by the infallible spirit of God records this and that by a special command too of that voice which he heard declare it and lest yet there should be any place of doubting the spirit of truth peremptorily asserts and confirms it But to speak a little more particularly of this important truth I shall in brief consider 1. Who may be said to dye in the Lord. 2. What rational grounds we have to be perswaded that such are blessed after their death 1. As for dying in the Lord by Lord here we are to understand our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and to dye in him implies two things 1. A being baptized into Christ for a persons dying in Christ doth necessarily suppose his being in Christ before he dyes else he cannot be said to dye in Christ Now Baptism is the ordinary way by which persons are brought to be in Christ for 't is said Gal. 3.27 as many as are baptized into Christ have put on Christ 2. It implies also a living and dying suitable to that profession of Christ which is made in Baptism for all that are baptized do not dye in Christ because many fall away from that profession they made in baptism and so dye in a wicked Apostasie from Christ They therefore only dye in Christ who live and dye suitable to their Baptismal profession believing with all their hearts in Jesus Christ and taking care to yield such unfeigned obedience to all the Gospel precepts as to be always heartily sorry for the committing of any sin or omitting of any duty They that thus live conformable to Christ and his precepts and continue unto the death in such a conformity may be truly said to dye in the Lord Joh. 15.14 Joh. 8.31 for Christ owns such to belong unto him that do whatsoever