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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31451	The certainty of salvation to them who dye in the Lord a sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable, George Lord Delamer, at Boden, in the county-palatine of Chester, September the 9th, 1684 / by Zachary Cawdrey ...	Cawdrey, Zachary, 1616-1684.	1684 (1684)	Wing C1645; ESTC R36290	20,346	38

THE CERTAINTY OF SALVATION To Them who Dye in the LORD A SERMON PREACHED At the FUNERAL of the Right Honourable GEORGE Lord DELAMER AT BODEN In the County-Palatine of CHESTER September the 9th 1684. By ZACHARY CAWDREY Rector of BARTHOMLY in the said County-Palatine of CHESTER LONDON Printed for Peter Gillworth Book-seller in New-Castle in Staffordshire and James Thursion Book-seller in Nantwich 1684. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND PIOUS LADY ELIZABETH Lady DELAMER Madam THough the time allowed me to prepare for the bearing that part I sustained at the Funeral of your Honoured Lord was but short that worthy Person to whom that Province was first committed falling sick some days before the solemnizing of it yet the Deference I bare to the Memory of that Great Good Man and the hopes of being serviceable to the Glory of God and the Good of some who might be present in so numerous an Auditory prevailed with me to attempt the Discharge of it as well as I could And it seems some favourable Auditors of that plain Sermon then preached which your own Retirement through Sorrow did not permit your Honour to hear have given you that account of it that your Honour judges it may be of use and benefit to others to read to excite them to live in the Lord that they also may dye in the Lord and be eternally happy If therefore when your Honour shall have read this Discourse your self it shall appear to your pious Judgment likely to be further useful to that good end for which I preached it and your Honour now desires the publishing of it I humbly submit it to your Honours pleasure and disposal And as I shall follow it with my Prayers to God that it may prosper to the encouragement of humble and pious persons who shall read it so also shall I beg of him in whose sight the death of his Servants is precious that he will build up a lasting Monument to the Memory of your Pious Lord by causing his Lordship that now is and the rest of his Generous Off-spring always to imitate this their great Domestick Exemplar that so your Honour may still be a Naomi Ruth 1.20 and that the Remainder of your Days may be blessed in them as your many Years have been wherein you lived with your most excellent and pious Consort MADAM I am Your Honours Most humble Servant ZACHARY CAWDREY THE CERTAINTY OF SALVATION To them who dye in the Lord. REV. 14.13 And I heard a Voice from Heaven saying unto me Write Blessed are the Dead that dye in the Lord from henceforth Yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their Labours and their Works do follow them IT is an Article of the common Creed of all Mankind that it shall be far better with pious and vertuous Persons and far worse with the vicious and ungodly after this Life than it can possibly be whilst they are in the Body For it is generally believed that this present Life is appointed by God the Supream Judge to be the time of Trial and Probation wherein Men work out for themselves either Eternal Salvation or Damnation It was such even to Adam in Paradise Now if we enquire into the Rise of this common Persuasion at least as to the first part of it about the future happiness of those who are esteemed good Men we shall find that it is not Natural Reason which in its Consequences draws Men into this Belief For Reason will easily convince a considerate person who shall set himself to weigh things seriously and wisely that Humane Nature is sunk into a state below the degree which was due to it according to the scale and distances of the Creatures from one another and is fallen from its primitive temper to affect and do things very Brutish and unbecoming a Rational Being And seeing this proneness to unseemly Actions and Affections is found to be common to all Men of all Ages and Climates or Places it cannot be reasonably conjectured how this Degeneracy of Humane Nature could have come into the World but by the Miscarriage of the first common Parents of all Mankind Besides it is plain to every Man who reflects upon his own Life that he himself hath actually sinned both frequently and heinously against the In-written Law of his own Conscience So that no Man's Reason can secure to himself that God the Righteous Judge will advance him to Bliss hereafter seeing he hath come short of the Glory of God his Maker Rom. 3.23 which ought to be the great end and design of every Man So that though Reason can evince the Immortality of the Soul and that God will judge the World in Righteousness according to their Works and consequently can prove that an Hell and state of Torments doth abide the notoriously debauched and wicked persons yet cannot Reason prove that there remains an Heaven or state of Bliss for any seeing all Men are Sinners From whence then comes it to pass that men of all Religions Heathens Mahumetans Jews and Christians have imbibed a Belief that certainly there is a Reward for the Righteous and that after this Life the Pious the Just the Loyal the Temperate the universally Kind and Obliging and who delight in all other holy and humble persons shall enter into Peace and Bliss If I be able to judge there can be no other Rise of this common Belief and Hope but the Tradition universally carried down from the first Fathers of Nations to their Posterity whom their Parents instructed that though Mankind by the Miscarriage of their first Parents was fallen from their primitive Innocency and had forfeited all Right to Happiness as well as the fallen Angels had done according to the Law and first Covenant of their Creator yet God condescended to make a New Covenant with Man in his lapsed State through the Mediation of that promised Seed of the Woman who by having his Heel bruised by suffering the Curse due to our Sin should break the Serpent's head and defeat the design of the fallen Angels who aimed at the universal destruction of all Mankind And in that Covenant God promised also through the Intercession of the promised Seed to accept graciously of the sincere though imperfect Services of Men and to reward them with an eternal Happiness So that in every Nation they that feared God and worked Righteousness should be accepted with him Act. 10.35 And this Patriarchal Creed about the efficacy of the Propitiation of the promised Seed the Christ to abolish the guilt of Sin and the prevalency of his Intercession as Mediator of the New Covenant to make accepted the Services of sincere and humble Penitents was not only carried down by Catechetical Instruction to all the Families of the Earth but they were taught also to make a Confession of that Faith and to protest that Hope by the offering of Sacrifices till the promised Seed should come to be actually offered as a Propitiation for Sin and to