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A90497	A sermon of Mr. Benjamin Perkins, at the funeral of Mrs. Martha Robient, who deceased September the 15th, at Colchester, 1700 enlarged into a discourse on the excellent life and glorious death of a Christian, from 2 Tim. 4. 7,8 : with an enquiry into the reasons of the grand prohibition on the servants of God to continue here in his service, signify'd to them by death, from Heb. 7. 23 / by T. Beverley.	Perkins, Benjamin.; Beverley, Thomas.	1700 (1700)	Wing P1542aA; ESTC R43716	24,091	54

of his Servants are proportion'd to each He sees and knows and so Limits accordingly There was one Noah and no more in the Old World One Elijah only in view in that so Fowl Apostacy of the Ten Tribes And when the Light is clearest and most High It must not be clear Light till his Kingdom The General Assembly cannot be before so each Time hath such and such Numbers of Stars which He telleth the Number of and calleth them All by their Names and knoweth what Lustre of Rays and Beams each and together shall cast There is a Counterpoizing consideration of Wicked Men in the World and the Darkness and Fire of Hell they spread But that is not within the present purpose 4. There is a Gracious Pleasure of God There should such Numbers of his Servants be all along from Age to AGe with Jesus Christ their Lord Philip. 1. Dissolved from Body and with Him in Spirit Absent from the Body and present with the Lord 2 Cor. 5.1 c. And in their House not made with Hands Eternal in the Heavens And that our God may come and All His Saints with Him Zech. 14. He cometh with Ten Thousand of his Saints as the Armies of Heaven on white Horses Bodys of the Resurrection washed in the Blood of Jesus in fine Linnen clean and white Rev. 19.14 To shew This hath been all along from the former Times of the World There is a Reception in Heaven Styled Abrahams Bosome A Jerusalem above the Mother of us All that shall come down from Heaven Gal. 4. With all its Children Rev. 21. There is the State of the Spirits of Just Men Heb. 12. Who shall be made perfect in Bodys made like to his Glorious Body Phil. 3. ult There must be therefore a Limitation of their Time of Service here below That they may be taken within the Veil and made acquainted with the Glory that is to be Revealed And the Apostle Intimates These Dead in Christ shall have some precedency For the Dead in Christ shall not be prevented by the Living Remaining as we Translate but shall not be so much as overtaken according to the true force of the Original we shall not attain or come equal with those asleep 1 Thes c. 4. v. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nullo Modo Assequemur Now in all such Particularities God is pleas'd to be at Liberty in dealing with His own Servants The essential Glory the Crown of Righteousness the Crown of Life the Crown of Glory being alike sure to all And so I have open'd the second Point propos'd The Limitation of the Time of the Servants of God continuing in His Service here on Earth I come to the Point 3d. 3. That the Limitation of their Time is made known to them in the manner of a severe and angry Process in the way of what we Call a Prohibition the proper sense of what we Translate not saffered Heb. 7.23 And this is a Point worthy to be enquired into for the removing the fears of Death and for the Consolation of Saints in Death 1. It must then be Acknowledg'd that the outward Face and appearance of Death hears the Resemblance of a Judgment and of that Denunciation In the Day thou Eatest thou shalt Dye Dust thou Art and to Dust thou shalt return It comes as a King of Terrors Flesh and Blood is ready to be affrighted at it Life is naturally Dear even to the Servants of God who desire not to be uncloathed They desire to continue in the Service of God here but when they are raised by Higher Considerations of being present with the Lord Clothed upon with their House from Heaven they even desire to be Dissolved And it cannot be denyed That God doth in the Dying of his Servants bear a Regard to that Justice and Truth of His Word That when Sin came in Death came in and passed upon All because All have sinned Rom. 5.12 When the Servants of God therefore are warm and zealous and lively in His Service Often there comes a Prohibition Thou mayest no longer continue in my Service here like the command to Moses to anoint Eleazar and to strip Aaron of his Priestly Garments who was presently to Dye A Prohibition to Moses to carry Israel over Jordan but to come up to Mount Nebo and to Dye Deut. 33. God plainly sent to Hezekiah to set His House in Order and to Dye against which Prohibition that it might be under as it were an Arrest of Judgment He so earnestly Prayed It is therefore to be duly considered That for the Display of the Judgment and Indignation of God against sin and because of the present State of the Saints under a Remaining Body of Sin and so of Death and in the present State of this World full of Sin and Evil and of so many of the Children of Adam Children of Death even of the Second Death In the Wisdom and Holiness of God It was by the Counsel of the Father and the Son that Death should continue and have the Face of a Judgment and of a Legal Prohibition to continue in the Service of God any longer on Earth Till the Kingdom of Christ the Kingdom of Redemption should bring in a State of the Living Saints then Remaining being chang'd and not to Dye 2. Jesus Christ our Lord Because the Children were Partakers of Flesh and Blood He took part of the same that through Death He might subdue Him that had the Power of Death that is the Devil and Deliver them who all their Life were subject to Bondage by reason of the Fear of Death and now therefore Death came upon Him with the Violence and Terror of a Judgment from which He was taken and from Prison Esa 53.8 By the Mighty Power of his Resurrection It becomes all His to submit then to the Face of a Judgment in Dying that they may be conform'd to their Captain and from the First Born Heb. 2.14 Obj. It may be Objected against this necessity of Dying How were those two Enoch and Elias exempted from that sentence of the Righteous and Holy Law that is stretched out so upon all seeing sin had extended it self on them as well as on others Answ The Death of Jesus Christ stood as a Full Ransom and Price of Redemption from the very first promise so that it is not indeed a Point of Justice or of the Truth of God That Believers in Jesus Christ are served as I may so speak with a Prohibition by Death but a Wise and Holy Dispensation of Government with Relation to the Servants of God in the present World where therefore in that wise Government God thinks sit there might be such an exemption from the General Statute of Dying or Prohibition by Death as of Enoch and Flijah and many more Examples of such Exemptions there might have been if He had seen Good having received such full satisfaction to his Law and to his Justice and He hath it in reserve an

A SERMON OF Mr. Benjamin Perkins At the Funeral of Mrs. Martha Robient Who deceased September the 15th at Colchester 1700. Enlarged into a Discourse on the excellent Life and Glorious Death of a Christian From 2 Tim. 4.7 8. With an Enquiry into the Reasons of the Grand Prohibition on the Servants of God to continue here in his Service signify'd to them by Death From Heb. 7.23 By T. BEVERLEY LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Iohn Marshall at the Bible in Grace-Church-Street TO Mr. Thomas AND Mrs. Sarah Prior. Inhabiting the Town of Colchester My very Esteemed Christian Friends AS I have taken the Full Freedom of changing and making Additions to the Sermon committed to my Revisal at your Desire and with the Consent of Mr. Perkins So I do in his Name and I doubt not with his Desire as well as my own give it into your Hand as Persons so nearly concern'd in and related to Her who was the mournful and also the to be rejoiced in occasion of it as the Testimony of my Remembrance of Her and of all the Kindness received from You when with You in the occasional Ministration of the Gospel at Colchester As God hath made you I am much perswaded Instruments of Good where He hath placed You so that He would bless You and Your growing up Family and sanctifie to You both and make Consolatory this Discourse and increase You in all Grace and Service to Him is the Earnest Prayer of My Esteemed Friends in the Lord Your Faithful Friend And Servant in Him T. Beverley THE PREFACE TO THE Serious Candid Christian READER IT hath been always looked upon as one of the greatest Points of the Wisdom of a Man to understand and to consider Death to research into all the Rules of prudent Conduct in the preparing for and regularing our Reception of it All the great Men of Morals have Treated of it as one of the principal Points of Morality but it is the Excellency and Glory of the Word of God to have understood the Way and Path of this Wisdom before whom Death and the Grave are Naked and Open and Destruction hath no Covering That alone Teacheth to number our Days so as to apply our Hearts to Wisdom To make wise to understand this to consider our latter end This gives the sure Grounds of Hope in Death yea of Triumph of appearing more than Conquerors over Death I have considered the many Removes God hath of late made of many eminent Persons of all Conditions From that ever to be with Honour remembred Princess the late Queen that so very lately Illustrious young Duke of Glocester that very Venerable Person Dr. Tillotson A. B. C. those truly Honourable Persons Judge Rokeby Paul Foley Esq in his time Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons the very Eminent Christian the Lady King late Wife to the so known Physician Sir Edmund King Many Eminent Ministers of the Gospel Mr. Thomas Cole Mr. Nathaniel Mather Mr. Matthew Mead Dr. Bates with many others of very worthy Name and I cannot omit because so early taken that young Hopeful Servant of Christ in the Gospel Mr. Philip King The Consideration of so many great Examples of Dying gave me deep Searchings of Heart what the Reason and Meaning of such Transposes should be and nothing hath given me greater Satisfaction than the Reflections I have been enabled to make on the Great High Priest and Apostle of our Profession in whom the Charter of all the Servants of God from the first Promise of him Gen. 3. is founded and whose Intercession Bears them up and by whom they are removed moved into Higher Galleries Zach. 3. into the Walks of Angels who always stand by or next the Presence-Chamber of the Great King waiting His Appearing and Coming forth in Glory who hath the Unchangeable Priesthood Himself alone made after the Power of an endless Life In the mean time their Remove as it appears hath the more severe Style of a Prohibition Heb. 7.23 to express it or not being suffered to continue by Reason of Death This manner of speaking upon the Occasion of the Death of that so Honourable beloved by all Judge Rokeby made great Impression upon me and Thoughts of Heart as in a Publick Congregation I declared soon after and it hath lain by me with an Intention of further Publication For I know God is pleased with His surviving Servants in rendring Precious the Death of his Servants gone out of this State even as in his Sight so in the Sight of others it ought to be precious and not soon forgotten and He is displeased when the Righteous and Merciful are taken away and none considers nor lays it to Heart when They are taken from the Evil to come Oh that now it may not be for that end and each one rests on his Bed walking in their Uprightness Esay 57.1 Such general Honourable Memorials are pleasing to our never-dying High-Priest though the profuse Praises of Funeral Sermons no way encouraged hereby the Occasion of the present Publication is It having pleased God to remove a young Woman from a Family in Colchester where I have had very kind Christian Acquaintance and Reception and had Opportunity of knowing and observing that Person as one who gave all Reasons of Hope of her Love to Jesus Christ his Truths Holy Ways and to his Servants and of Faith and Hope in Him A Sermon hereupon was Preached in Remembrance of Her by a Person I must acknowledge a Stranger to me my self a Stranger to him any other way than by Discourse of Friends this Sermon Presented to Them by Him was by Him and Them my very estemeed Friends the near Relations of the Deceased put wholly under my Power And that Grand Scripture so every way Great in it self was so fitted to the great Purposes of a Discourse on that Prohibition of the Servants of God continuing here That I hope without any just Reason of Offence on either side I took the Advantage of it and not slighting or waving what I found to my Purpose in the Sermon have yet taken the Freedom to adapt all thereunto and have with the most Christian Friendly Respects to that Person and to that Family and to the Memory of their deceased Relation and as a Memorial of the before-recited with all other the Servants of God so lately remov'd I have as I Earnestly Desired to make it Publick so now done And so as that it may be both in Honour to them and also may be recommended to all the living Servants of Christ as a Mirror of their own State in Life and Death and that it might be blessed in general to all Readers but above all that it might be supremely to the Honour of the great Founder of that Happy Society of his Servants who appoints each their Measure in his Service and the Time of it and lays his Prohibition upon them of exceeding either by Death To Him be the

Glory by the meanest and unworthiest of his Servants the Prayer of the Humblest Minister of his Gospel Mon. 9. Day 10. 1700. T. Beverley A FUNERAL SERMON 2 Tim. iv Verse vii viii I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the Faith Henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord the Righteous Judge shall give me at that Day And not to me only but unto all them also that love his appearing SOlomon the Wise tells us To every thing there is a Season and a Time a Time to be Born and a Time to Die a Time to Mourn and a Time to Rejoyce Eccles 3.1 c. I doubt not All the Godly and the Serious and Sensible here present will readily acknowledge with me That this is a Time to Mourn But will it not look like the adventuring on a Paradox to affirm to you That it is also a Time to Rejoyce A Time it is indeed to Mourn for the loss of so dear a Relatîon and so Pious and Christian a Friend But are we not Christians as well as Men And while Nature feeles sighs nay sinks at the dismal Loss of Friends or Relations Grace should triumph over Nature and Faith over Sense While we are bemoaning their loss we should be Rejoycing in the Crown and Glory of Saints of which number she was we have so great Reason to be assured Our Deceased Friend was one of their Number who by their Holy Conversation give a plain and sensible demonstration of the Power of the Principles of our Holy Profession both by their Life and their Death For Words have not that Energy and Force that Action and Conversation hath a shining Life and a triumphant Death perswade beyond all the Power of Argument or charms of Rethoric And concerning the not only unblameableness but Piousness of her Life for whose Death we now Mourn it was so well known to all that knew her that she hath therein a better Character than I can give her for modesty of Stile and Reserves of Expression become me when I consider the Modesty and Humility of her Deportment through the whole of her Life I come therefore now to the Text I have proposed to Discourse upon The whole Text is drawn in Figures borowed from the Olimpic Games well known in the Times and Places in which the Apostle wrote Games appointed for all the activities of Persons prepared by Frame and Constitution of Body Vigour of Mind and Inclination and strictly Disciplined Dieted and Exercised thereunto Such an allusion is at other times made use of by the Apostle as 1 Cor. 9.24 And being Sanctified by the Divine Spirit is most elegant and expressive of holy Senses In this Place The Apostle of the Gentiles gives us under these Emblems a threefold Character of himself and then sets out the Prize 1. His Encountring and Combating all the Temptations of Satan within and of the World without wherein he Fought not as one that beateth the Air but at sharps as they say with great effect for Offence and Defence as those Combatants alluded to used to do 2. He who received the Prize Finished his Course Therein he alludes to those who Run in a Race that they might Obtain He Ran not as in certainly He Ran the whole Course of Doing and Suffering and of his Ministry and Apostleship the whole Race set before him to the very Mark 3. He kept the Faith the great Faith of the Gospel in union to the Crucified Jesus which was the scandal of the Jews and Gentiles even the Cross of Christ and the Obedience of Faith in all the Holiness Mortification to the World and the Lusts of it within and without and doth extend to all kinds of Suffering Heavenlyness of Mind and Conversation Hereby he behaved himself as a mighty Champion that by no means would let go his Hold or Deposium the Pearl of great Prize or surrender it to the violence against it And so he leads us to the second Part of this great Text under the same allusion The Crown or the Prize not the Cornuptible Crown of those Games but the Incorruptible to which the Apostle refers a Man is not Crowned except he strive Lawfully and herein he thus expresses himself Henceforth is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Righteous Lord shall give me Before I begin with the First Character I would consider the Apostles Expression of himself I have Fought I have Finished I have Kept Now it is certain the Apostle who acknowledges himself chief of Snners and least of Saints would not speak of himself as in or of or by himself but is to be interpreted by 1 Cor. 15.10 c. By the Grace of God I am what I am and not I but the Grace of God that was with me And Gal. 2.10 I Live yet not I but Christ Liveth in me Altho' therefore at the first view the Apostle may appear as a self-Subsisting a self Confident Person in that three fold I Yet when we duly weigh what he says in those places Not I● It shews when he speaks thus he considers himself as in Christ the Head and Saviour of the Body who represented his in all he Did and Suffered But further He is in all his united to him by Faith He doth all their Works in them and for them and thus in him by the Power they receive from him by being strong in the Grace that is in Jesus Christ They do all They do so that the Apostle when he saith I does not mean himself by I as single solitary divided from Christ but as in him by him as to the Strength Life Principle he acted from He did all in Christ and not only so but as the Power and the Action flowing from it was in Christ So the acceptance the making up the Imperfections the taking away the Guilt the Corruption The setting him free from the Law of Sin and Death In regard of condemnation falling upon Sin dwelling in him In all this he looks wholly to Christ and so his Fighting Finishing his Course keeping the Faith Are to be limited Not I but Christ alone did all in me and was accepted for me in all This is therefore the not only Encouragement but the very support nay more the subsistnce of Saints in all their holy Action and Motion All is in Christ And this is their consolation in the midst of so many Clouds of Guilt and Imperfection that they have a faithful and merciful high Priest who makes Reconciliation and perfumes their Persons and services with his much Incense And tho' many are ignorant of this great Gospel Doctrin this was the consolation of our Friend in her Dying Hours Now this Explication of the Apostles as it shuts out on one side all the Pharisaic Boasts in our selves all the Self-righteousness and Self-sufficiency of Legalists so it utterly condemns all the Licentious pretensions of Carnalists to live

Righteousness in the Court of Righteousness or Justification and placing all in the Righteousness of God by Faith in Jesus Christ In his obedience in his Expiation Filling up and so replenishing that Court That nothing else can enter but is kept out by the Flaming Sword of the Fiery Law Yea Angels that never sinn'd yet Cover their Faces Esa 6. and their Feet their Excellency and the Nakedness and Folly of all Created Being before Increated and consist in and by Christ Christ as the Head of Amity and Perseverance in their Glorious State and Adam not Flying to it upon those tenders of it signifid to Him as by that real evidence of it That he was and could be no more then the Figure of Him that was to come Rom. 5.12 And that His and His Posteritys standing in Him was only their standing in Christ as this was also represented in those Sacramental Types the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil Gen. 2. Warning Him against subsisting in Himself as a God knowing or able to determine Good and Evil but to look to the Tree of Life so great a Type of Christ as we find in the Revelation Nothing therefore can enter into the Court of Justification but Poor empty single Faith Receiving Owning Acknowledging Grace Receiving Grace in Abundance excluding all else and the Gift of Righteousness by Jesus Christ alone And to this it is enabled by Grace and Accepted only for that Righteousness sake it does receive As to the enforcement by way of Action and Practice we see in this Great Portraicture the Apostle gives of a Man in Christ that Fights the Good Fight Finishes his Course keeps the Faith That a Believer in Christ is not a Loose or an Idle Slothful Unactive Person but shall appear in that Day as of the Overcomers in those so Famed Games or Exercises of all Prowess Courage Action so as to be judg'd worthy of those Crowns of which they were so Ambitious though but corruptible by the justest Judges or Arbitrators of them So the Saints shall be presented before the Father the Lord Jesus the Eternal Spirit of Holiness and before Saints and Angels to the Terror and Amazement of all the Lost as Persons of distinct Excellency and the Overcomers as in the Apocalyptic Expression is repeated and yet all in Christ and to the Glory and Praise of Grace in Him So that the Doctrine of Free Grace is indeed the most Powerful Effective Fruitful Doctrine of Holyness and so is most Discriminative of Persons in Christ and with greatest severity on those who are not and of those who shall be thought worthy of the Crown and who not and yet without the least Injury to Free Grace in Christ 3. Great Consolation have they who knew our Deceased Friend who had always Admiring Adoring thoughts of Free Grace and thereby a great sense of Perfecting Holiness in the Fear of God but all through Christ strengthning Her and in Fighting Running holding fast an Eye to the Crown but as purchased for her by Jesus Christ and that therefore she Loved the Appearance of Jesus When the Crown already received shall with Glory be set upon her at that Day That we may yet enter into the deeper enquiry into and consideration of all this Triumphant Declaration of the Apostle concerning Himself and all Saints in that supreme Point their receiving the Crown of Righteousness I will propose to give a breif resolution of these following Points 1. How in the lost undone State of the Children of Adam there can arise such a Generation of Servants of God both more eminent and smaller in this World 2. How or why they fall all under the Prohibition of serving God any longer here in the World then the Finishing such a Course of service on such a Measure of their Line Prescribed by God 3. Why this Prohibition is serv'd upon them by Death Two Persons only Enoch and Elias and why they only excepted Herein I shall with all the care and Caution according to the understanding given to me by and from the Word of God Discourse each of these Point 1. It is indeed the wonder of Divine Grace and Power That there should have been and are such a Generation of the Servants of God in the World in every Age down to the present Time in the midst of such a World of Men Ignorant of God Alienated from his Life without God in the World without Christ and Enemies in their Minds so much given up to the World and the Lusts of it as to be called The World and the Men of this World in a State of Enmity to God and his Kingdom the Seed of the Serpent the Dragon Haters of his Servants and on all opportunities Slaying them as Cair the Seed of the Wicked one Did Abel in the very Beginning That yet in the midst of all these there should be a Generation of Men and Women that should be in an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a course a Lincal succession of the Saints and Servants of God like the succession as in the House of Levi of the Preisthood and of the High Preisthood in the Family of Aaron the more Eminent and the less Eminent among the Servants of God but all a Royal Priesthood or like the Stars of the First Magnitude in the Regions above and those they call the Sporades the Multitude of the lesser Stars Now the very Root and Foundation and Corner Stone of all this is That Grand Elect Servant of God in whom His Soul delighteth who in Raising up a Generation of the Servants of God dealeth with all mildness A Bruised Reed shall He not break nor smoking Flax shall He quench but shall send forth Judgment unto Truth of Victory Esa 42.1 That Servant of the Lord with the Key of David on his shoulder and strengthn'd with the Girdle of Faithfulness and Righteousness The Nail fasten'd in a sure place Esa 22.20 c. Upon whom is Hung all the Glory of his Fathers House the off-spring and the Issue All Vessels of Greater and smaller Quantity from the Vessels of Cups even to All the Vessels of Flagons Had not He been a Servant in the Foundation There had never been a Servant of God in the World It is He who hath Loved and washed in His Blood and constituted Kings and Preists unto God and His Father Rev. 1.5 Now the Charter of His making Servants to God among the Children of Men was given to the Second Adam Immediately upon the Fall of the First Adam so quick and immediate as to surprize the Power of Sathan in the First Effort when God in a Judiclary process upon Sathan says to Him under the disguise of the Serpent I will put enmity between thy Seed and of the Woman and this Seed of the Woman the one Seed Christ shall break the Head of the Serpent Gen. 3. unto perfect Victory and Thou shall bruise His Heel of which is presently to be spoken There