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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50488	A funeral sermon preached upon the sad occasion of the death of that emiment and faithful servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Rosewell who departed this life February the 4th : and whose remains were interred February th 19th. 1691/2 / by Mathew Mead.	Mead, Matthew, 1630?-1699.	1692 (1692)	Wing M1554; ESTC R20429	28,985	38

our own progress in grace and frights and scares others from coming into the ways of God which are attended with such consequences And therefore he uses all Arts and Devices to obstruct the Christian's comfort Sometimes he sills the Soul with Doubts and Despondencies about its spiritual state Sometimes he tempts it to downright sinning against God And when upon any fall into sin the Spirit of God comes with new Convictions and opens the sluce of godly sorrow then doth Satan set in and aggravates the guilt till the Soul concludes it unpardonable and thus he raises a flood that the waters do even sink the Soul And this was David's case Psal 69.1 2. I am come into deep waters where the floods overflow me Some times he lays his Brats at the Believer's door charging those sins to his account which are properly his own This is very common especially in the case of thought-sins unclean thoughts murderous thoughts blasphemous thoughts c. Satan doth inject them into the mind and then the Believer not discerning the cunning of Satan on the one hand and knowing the filthiness of his own heart on the other takes them to be his own and charges himself with the guilt of them as if he were the filthiest sinner and vilest blasphemer in the World And this must needs extinguish comfort Some times he charges our Duties with sin and then argues from the sinfulness to the non-acceptance of them Is not God a holy God and can Duties that are done with such a dead frame such a wandering mind such distracted thoughts and such carnal affections ever sind acceptance with such a God Thus by discouraging the Christian in his work he cuts off his comfort which usually comes in this way Some times he puzzles him about his Election and so sets him to the wrong end of his work that he may have no comfort in working whereas we are not to intangle our selves with the intricacies of Election but to look to our Calling This being cleared clears the other Tho God's choosing be the first act yet our believing is the first Evidence The Husbandman knows it is Spring by the putting forth of the Earth tho he be altogether ignorant in the position of the Heavens Some times he poses him about the time of his Conversion and so robs him of the comfort of the thing by puzzling him about the time as if the work could not be wrought unless I know the time of working it Will a man question the water in the stream because he knows not the head of the River Shall I deny that the Sun shines because I do not know what hour it rises the truth of Grace is best known by the fruits of it the fruit shews that the Tree lives tho we know not when it took root Some times he makes a man question the truth of all his former evidences tho they have been many and great He so far unravels the work within as to perswade the Soul all was but delusion which he took for a well-grounded hope Thou a Believer what hast to shew thy deeds are all forged thy evidences were never sealed in the Spirit 's Office but with the counterfeit Seal of a self-deluded heart That which thou hast taken for assurance of the goodness of thy state is nothing but groundless presumption And thus by bringing a man to let go his evidences he cuts off all his comfort at once These are some of the many ways which Satan hath to rob a Christian of his comforts But they that are the ransomed of the Lord may setch comfort and support from this truth under all the temptations of Satan for neither principalities nor powers shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Tho Satan be a potent enemy yet he is a conquered enemy his Temptations may vex and trouble Believers and possibly may in this or that particular case draw them to sin and defile them but they shall never prevail so far as finally to overcome them If he should finally conquer any one Saint he would conquer Christ for every Saint is a Member of Christ Matth. 16.18 and he hath said it That the Gates of Hell shall never prevail against them He who hath delivered them from going down to the pit will e're long deliver them from all Satan's snares Rom. 16.20 It is his promise to tread Satan under your feet shortly Christ don't think it enough to have him under his feet unless he hath him under yours too John 16.33 In Christ we have peace now but shortly we shall have Victory and a Crown And is not this comfort 4. Here is comfort against that which is so much the matter of our fear and that is Death Why should you be afraid to die Would not every good man be willing to injoy the utmost of what Christ hath purchased Why then he must be willing to die for the best lies beyond the Grave When God calls you to die it is only a call to come and inherit the full of what Christ purchased for you when he gave himself a ransom O what comfort is this against the fear of Death it may dissolve us but it cannot hurt us nor hold us Deliver him from the pit I have found a ransom Lastly It is comfort in that this ransoming work will never be compleated till every Believer be brought to Heaven He never reckons he hath a full return of the purchase made by his Blood till all his Members are glorified Christ took up our flesh redeemed us from Hell in our flesh purchased Heaven for us in our flesh ascended thither in our flesh and is glorified there in our flesh and all this as our Head and therefore every Member of his shall in his own flesh be e're long glorified with him It is his will it should be so John 17.24 Father I will that they whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold i. e. partake of my glory Therefore every true Believer may say with as much confidence as Job did Job 19 26. Tho worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall Psee God And this is the next great work which our Lord Christ hath to do here in this World for tho he is gone yet he is to come again there is a great deal of business yet lies upon his hand unfinished He said of the work of his Satisfaction Joh 19.30 It is finished But he never said so of the work of Salvation that will not be finished so long as one Believer is out of Heaven And therefore this is the business of his next coming He came before to finish transgression Dan. 9.24 but when he comes again it is to finish Salvation So says the Apostle Hebr. 9.28 Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him shall he appear the