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A30698 The celestial race a discourse perswading to the practice of celerity, constancy, & sincerity in the ways of God : preached at the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Knack, daughter of Mr. Thomas Knack of Edgerton in Kent, who died January 2, Anno Dom. 1692 in the eleventh year of her age / by William Bush ... Bush, William. 1692 (1692) Wing B6232; ESTC R1534 21,943 74

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The Celestial Race A DISCOURSE Perswading to the PRACTICE OF Celerity Constancy Sincerity IN THE WAYS of GOD. Preached at the Funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Knock Daughter of Mr. Thomas Knock of Edgerton in Kent who died January 2. Anno Dom. 1692. in the Eleventh year of her Age. By William Bush Minister of the Gospel Non dormentibus provenit regnum coelorum nec otio desidiae torpentibus beatitudo aeternitatis ingeritur Prosp de vi contempl LONDON Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in the Poultry MDC●XCII TO THE Christian Readers Especially the AUDITORS OF THIS SERMON HAving now compli'd with the Desires of those that were the Hearers of this Discourse to make it Publick I hope 't will meet with that Acceptation as Discourses of this Nature should among Christians That the Subject might have been managed after a better manner is not at all doubted of but acknowledged and I hope the Reader will be more favourable than to Censure me as Proud or Conceited of my own Labours or Ambitious of appearing in Print assuring you I had not done it now had it been possible for me fairly to have avoided it And altho the manner after which the Subject is managed be mean and despisable yet the Matter it self may be useful by the Blessing of the Almighty to excite Slothful Christians to a greater diligence in their Duty to reduce the wandring to the right way to keep such as are going on in the ways of God from Apostatizing and to discover and beat down that great sin Hypocrisy that is 't is to be fear'd predominant in a great many seeming serious Christians and in some as much unknown to themselves as to others If any object against it because of its plainness I hope this Answer will satisfy them It was not design'd to please Persons Fancies but to profit their Souls and I had rather be understood than admir'd I now hope Christians you will propose the same end to your selves in Reading as I do in Writing which is That your Souls might receive benefit and comfort hereby I shall say no more but beseech the God of all Grace to help and enable you so to run the Race that is set before you that you may at last obtain a Crown of Glory And this I shall do particularly for you that were the Hearers of this Sermon and that usually attend upon my Ministry I conclude my self Your Souls Friend and Servant in the Gospel of Christ Jesus W. BUSH THE CELESTIAL RACE 1 COR. ix 24. latter part So run that ye may obtain VVHEN we seriously reflect upon the certainty of our Dy ng and the uncertainty of the time when when we consider too that the longest time of living is but short so short that if it were well improved in working out our Salvation we should find very few spare minutes or that we had too much we should seldom be heard to complain I say when we seriously consider of these things surely we shall be mov'd to a greater diligence in preparing for Eternity in making ready our Accounts in running swiftly the Race that is set before us lest Death overtake us as we are loytering and stop us before our Course be finished and then we are eternally undone I therefore pray and beseech you in the Name of my Master Christ not only to give serious Attention to this seasonable Exhortation that the Apostle gives you in my Text but also to make it your practice so to run as to obtain In the former part of the verse the Apostle borroweth a Similitude from those that run a Terrestial Race for a Temporary Reward that as in that Race tho many run yet 't is only he that out-runs the rest that persevereth to the end that obtains the Prize even so in the Race of Godliness none shall be crown'd but those that hold out to the end of their lives Yet notwithstanding there is this difference in this Similitude In the Race Terrestial he only is rewarded that cometh first to the Mark but in the Race Celestial not only one but all that run lawfully shall obtain The Doctrine that I shall by the assistance of the Almighty discourse of from the words is this That the greatest Speediness and Celerity in the ways of God must be constantly practised by those that would obtain everlasting Life The Method that I shall follow in speaking to this Doctrine will be this 1. I shall give you Reasons for the proof of it 2. Shew you how you may fit and prepare your selves to run speedily and swiftly in this heavenly Race 3. Speak of the Reward impli'd in my Text which will be certainly given to those that run lawfully And 4. And lastly Apply it That those that run in this heavenly Race must run swiftly and speedily I shall prove by these three Reasons The first may be drawn from the celerity brevity and uncertainty of our Lives which here in my Text is compar'd to a Race for swiftness in passing away for so run that ye may obtain is as if the Apostle had said So live under the Gospel of Christ Jesus that ye may obtain Life everlasting The Life of Man is always in Scripture compared to such things as denote the celerity the brevity and the uncertainty of it sometimes 't is compar'd to a shadow as Psalm 109.23 sometimes to a vapour as James 4.14 that appeareth for a little time and then vanishes away Job Job 9.20 considering the swift passage of mans Life compareth it to the swift motion of the Eagle when hasting to her prey or the swift Ships on the Waters that which is of least duration and of most speedy passage may be a fit Comparison of the Life of Man the youngest and the strongest in a very short space must be removed hence Active Youth is quickly metamorphosed into crooked Age so frail and uncertain are our lives that for ought we know one week or day or hour yea perhaps one moment more may put a period to them We have daily Examples of the uncertainty of the time of our departure hence we see one cut down in his early Spring and in his blooming greener Youth and his Sun is covered with Darkness almost as soon as it begins to rise whilst another weathers out the Storms and grows to a mature and full Age. One does but peep as it were into the World takes a short view of it and is commanded out again and is at his Journeys end in the morning of his Life and another is allowed to travel till the shadows of the Evening are stretched out according to their most regular Advances and till the threescore and ten that is the usual date of long Life is expired One is quickly summon'd to the great Tribunal and judged whilst another has a longer space wherein to prepare for his Tryal Vid. Mr Roger's Practical Discourse of Sickness and Recovery page 13. and his final