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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87802	Abraham's image in one of his sonnes: or, The picture of a good old man, represented in a sermon upon the third of November, anno Dom. 1657. in West-Newton, at the funeral of John Dethick Esquire, father to the late lord mayor that was of London in the year 1655. By William Knapp Master of Arts, of Katherine-Hall in Cambridge, now rector of VVest-Newton in Norfolk.	Knapp, William, d. 1688.	1658 (1658)	Wing K667; Thomason E937_2; ESTC R207740	24,523	44

dayes in the service of God let them know that when they dye their hope is not at an end for if it should be the most precious Saints of God of all men would be the most miserable 1. Cor. 15. No certainly they have not their pains only for their labour as we use to say but if they sowe in tears they shall reap in joy if they go forth weeping and bear in their hearts the precious seed of Gods holy word they shall doubtless return with rejoyceing they shall return with the sheaves of their souls so laden with much grain of grace as shall render them only fit to be layd up in the Barne of heaven and there they shall be and possess themselves for ever with the joy of their Master Math. 25.21 Secondly this may be matter of reprehension to others and to those First who are Atheists in Judgement and Epicures in practice who say in their hearts like fooles there is no God and live as if there were neither heaven nor hell there are some who think if they be but half good in this life they shall be made up perfect in purgatory there are others who care not to be good at all presuming that as they live like beasts so they shall totally perish like beasts t●lium stultorum plena sunt omnia all places now a dayes are full of such fooles and some having wickedly armed their fancies with a few ends of Poetry and a little of the out side of Philosophy go go too and fro like the Devil himself seeking whom they may devour into such blind and pernicious perswasions but if such men would but look into the Parable of the rich man and Lazarus they might soon spie out the immortality of the soul nay if such men would but con over their own Bible for so I call their bookes of Poetry a little more ingenuously they would find that Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis when ever such as they are dye the Devil is ready to receive their souls This may be matter of reprehension to all earthly muck-wormes who by endeavouring with such an over-anxious care to feather their own nests acknowledge nothing more than that felicity confines it self within the limits of this transitory world otherwise why should old men oftentimes who have one foot already in the grave lay out the choyce of their thoughts and affections that way 't is indeed a wonder and that to the more ingenuous sort of heathen as Tully Potest enim quicquam esse absurdius Desenct quam quo mi●us vitae restat eo plus viatici quaereres can there be any thing more absurd than when a man hath traveled out the journey of his life almost to an end that then he should lay in greatest provision for the way certainly such men in all their gatherings remember not that their souls shall be gathered unto another life after this either unto a life in hell or a life in heaven which life onely deserves the name of life for in that of hell the soul is in perpetuall dying Oh therefore how does it concern men rather to lay up in store such a foundation of faith as that when they come through death to let go their hold of this vain and empty world they may lay hold on eternall life 1. Tim. 6.19 hence then this may be in the next place matter of instruction to all Thirdly then since there is a certain day of death for all men as well for the friends of God as Abraham was Esay 41.8 as for his greatest enemies since no man can redeem his life from the hand of the grave and that after this life is ended another wil certainly follow as we fall in death so we shall lye to all eternity let us gird up the loines of our minds and fit our selves for our Christian race and in it be alwayes looking at the Lord Jesus Christ the Author and finisher of our faith le ts have a care of making all the * Prov. 18 10. haste we can into the strong tower of his great name le ts be careful that we desire him here as a Christ for grace Government in his service that at the great and terrible day of the Lord we may have him to be a Jesus to shelter us from the fire of Gods anger 'T is certain the Lord hatl * Act. 17 31 appointed a day to judge the world in and therefore le ts remember that of St. Cyprian Qualem te invenit Deus cum de hoc mundo evocat In Ser. de Mer. talem pariter Judicat as death leaves thee so judgement will find thee and if thou beest an aged man and dyest in thy sins what account wilt thou be able to make to God for so many dayes mispent what wilt thou think when thou shalt peep out of thy grave and see all the world in a flame about thy eares Will not the noise of the last Trump strike thee into horror and amazement to think that then thou must be hailed before the Tribunal of Christ to give an account of that talent of thy soul which he hath put into thy hands to use to his glory and shalt have nothing to say why the terrible curse should not be executed upon thee Wilt thou not then rather wish that with Michaiah thou had'st alwayes eaten the bread of affliction or with Esay had'st continually gone barefoot so that thereby thou had'st gotten interest in the Lord Jesus Then think upon these things in time you my deare brethren that are young remember your Creator in the dayes of your youth you that are old despaire not you are yet alive and under the call of God to faith and if you have but faith as a grain of mustard-seed you may say to the mountaines of your manifold sins be ye removed into the midst of the Sea and they shall be removed so far out of the sight of God Micha 7.19 this the Lord hath graciously promised in that immaculate Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world Iohn 1.29 and therefore 't will be but just for God to forgive such sins Iohn 1.9 nay he doth not onely allure us to himself with the promise of remission of sins but of eternall life in the fruition of his face for ever Oh blessed God! Me thinks then if there doth remain such a blessed rest for all the people of God how should we strive to enter in since when the bodies of Gods Saints shall drop to the earth their souls shall be carried by the Angels into Abrahams bosom be gathered to the innumerable company of Angels Heb. 12.22.23 to the generall assembly and Church of the first born which are written in heaven to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect how should we endeavour to be one of that number With what violence of devotion should we