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truth_n	hear_v	speak_v	word_n	7,138	5	4.4441	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78006	Christ the Sts advantage both in life and death. A sermon preached at the funerall of Ms Elisabeth Coke, wife to Colonell Tho. Coke of Pebmersh, Esquire. By Thomas Burrough, preacher of the Gospel at Pebmersh in Essex.	Burroughes, Thomas, b. 1611 or 12.	1646 (1646)	Wing B6130; Thomason E1200_3; ESTC R208763	15,668	69

I am confident I may speak of her in the Psalmists words Shee did desire to preferre it before her chiefest joy Shee had learned how to sacrifice her deerest delights to the good of the publick Witnesse her willing not onely yeelding you up unto but also her earnest perswading you to accept of that call from God to serve your Countrey and Kingdome in that publick military imployment which the unanimous consent of the well-affected had cast upon you often professing that in this cause shee could as freely trust God with you in a showre of bullets as of raine being fully perswaded that the Lord could as easily protect you in the one as in the other Shee was a woman of a publick spirit truely sympathizing with the miseries of these sad times never thinking it was or could be well with her selfe or hers whilest it was so ill with the deer Saints and people of God both in the greatest part of our owne Kingdome and in many places elsewhere And as shee was exemplary in her life so was shee consolatory in her sicknesse and death With what a contented and thankfull frame of spirit shee did bear this her last visitation as her constant demeanour in generall did evidently declare so in particular I may instance in those last expressions which according to my best intelligence shee breathed out not long before her last breath when one of them that watched with her laying her eare to hearken what shee spake heard these words once and againe uttered What shall I render to the Lord for all his mercies What shall I render to the Lord for all his mercies Sir I could easily herein enlarge my selfe without exceeding the bounds of truth or intrenching upon the borders of flatterie both which I abhorre But I conceive it very unseemly to prefix a long Epistle before a short Sermon Therefore I shall humbly crave liberty to cease writing to you engaging my selfe upon all occasions not to omit praying for you That the Lord would please to sanctifie this your great losse to your abundant spirituall advantage This is and shall be the earnest request at the Throne of Grace of him who cordiallly subscribeth himselfe Sir Your Worships reall friend and servant for the good of your soul THO. BURROUGH CHRIST THE S t s ADVANTAGE both IN LIFE AND DEATH WEe are met to solemnize the memoriall of our dear friend that vertuous Gentlewoman the Lord hath lately taken from us desiring to improve our best indeavours to make some spirituall advantage of this our great losse If ever there was a time when that sad complaint of the Prophet Isaiah might be taken up viz. The righteous are taken away from the evill to come Isa 57.1 't is surely now If ever the surviving Saints might fear that their dear deceased Christian friends were taken away from future evils then surely may we now in these sad times May we not fear there is still a storm approaching when the Lord houseth his friends And that a night of trouble and perplexity draweth nigh when the great God as I may with reverence so speak dispatcheth his children to bed and thus layeth his beloved ones to sleep Providence hath chosen my Text for mee and I have willingly submitted to it When it pleased the Lord to take away this our deare friend I may truely say my wonned sleep that night immediately ensusuing departed from mine eyes and in the silent time of the night did my phantasie continually present her speaking unto me with her accustomed lively voyce Christ is to mee gain both in life and death whereupon I resolved for this time and occasion to fix my thoughts upon that portion of Scripture to which I shall now crave your attention as it is upon record The TEXT PHILIP 1.21 For to mee to live is Christ and to die is gain Or as the Geneva Translation readeth it Christ is to mee both in life and death advantage THe Apostle Paul when hee wrote this Epistle was prisoner at Rome which the Philippians understanding having formerly received the Gospel by his ministery send Epaphroditus their minister to visit him and by Epaphroditus send reliefe to his necessities Whereupon Paul taketh occasion to write this Epistle to them In the beginning whereof after his salutations he giveth thanks to God in the behalfe of the Philippians for their communion and fellowship in the Gospel confirming them with an assured confidence that the same God who had begun that good work in them would also perfect it unto the end And to this purpose he prayeth for them that they might increase daily in the knowledge of God and abound in the fruits of righteousnesse But fearing lest his present bonds and imprisonments might be an occasion of discouragement to any of them hee tels them that the cause of his imprisonment was well known both in Nero's Palace and to the Citizens of Rome yea his sufferings had been so farre from hindering that they had helped much towards the progresse of the Gospel for many through his bonds had searched more into the cause of his sufferings and were grown more bold and confident in the profession of the Gospel And although there were some that preacht Christ out of envie and contention supposing to add affliction to his bonds yet hee therein rejoyced How these thought to adde affliction to his bonds Expositors doe not absolutely resolve us Some think that they did adulterate and corrupt the Doctrine of the Gospel mixing it with divers erroneous tenents such as they conceived might render Paul more odious in the eyes of authority and so they thought to adde affliction to his bonds Others are of opinion that they observing what high place and esteem Paul had in the hearts and affections of the godly by preaching Christ they resolved that they would also preach Christ thinking thereby to eclipse and obscure his fame But what-ever was their intent in Paul wee have a pattern of a truely Heroick and heavenly spirit Hee was willing to be debased that Christ might thereby be exalted Christ is preached saith hee and therein I rejoyce v. 20. Knowing that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 According to my earncst expectation an expectation with lifting up the head or stretching out the neck as one that looketh for the coming of some speciall friend whose company he much delighteth in so much the word importeth Such an earnest expectation and assured hope had Paul that Christ should be magnified by him either by life or death And upon this perswasion hee findeth it difficult to determine whether to make choice of life or death His life and abode was better for the Philippians but for himselfe it was far better to be dissolved and to be with Christ If I live saith hee I have devoted my life to Christ if I die I am fully perswaded that Christ shall be magnified by my death Therefore Whether I live or die Christ shall be to mee advantage The