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A60670	Life in death, or The living hope of a dying saint, handled in a sermon preached at the funeral of that eminently vertuous, and religious gentle-woman, Mris. Mary Morley, late wife to Colonel Harbert Morley, Esq; and daughter to Sr. John Trevor Knight. By Zachary Smith, minister of the Gospel, and pastor of the church at Glynde in Sussex, Sept. 18. 1656.	Smith, Zachary, b. 1604 or 5.	1656 (1656)	Wing S4351; ESTC R214782	29,879	40

death that his dead body shall be again united to his Soul and 3. raised up in glory 1. Cor. 15.43 Yea our vile bodies shall then be changed and fashioned like unto the glorious body of Christ Phil. 3.21 Col. 3.4 The Glory of beleivers bodies at the Resurrection will appear in these 5. particulars 1. They will be perfect and entire in regard of Parts limbs or senses however they might be maimed or defective before 2. They will be faire beautifull and illustrious full of splendour and brightnes what ever blemishes or deformityes they were disfigured withall before Matth. 13.43 then shall the Righteous shine forth as the sunne in the Kingdom of their Father The most beautifull body on earth is but like Carrion sullyed with smoke and foot in respect of the glorified body of poor Lazarus at that day 3. They shall be immortall i.e. in such a condition that they can never die again This mortall shall put on immortallity and so Death shall be swallowed up in victory 1. Cor. 15.53 54. 4. Incorruptible i.e. not only free from putrefaction but also from all weaknes both of infirmity and deformity such as cannot again be corrupted with sinne Now our bodies are corruptible and so mutable subject to manifold infirmityes but then they shall be strong and powerfull 1. Cor. 15.42 43. It is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption it is sown in weaknesse it is raised in power 5. Spirituall Bodies not that our bodies shall vanish into Ghosts or spirits but they shall be so admirably glorifyed and perfected that they shall be able to subsist without meat drinke physike sleepe c. wherewith naturall bodies are sustained Rev. 7.16 they shall hunger no more nor thirst any more Matth. 22.30 This hope of a glorious Resurrection of his Body at the latter day comforted and refreshed Jobs spirit in the depth of his misery under Bodily boiles and distempers and all his other pressures This was an Article of that Christian faith which he made Confession of Job 19.25 26 27. Thus have I proved and cleared the truth of this Doctrinall Proposition viz The Righteous hath hope in his Death I shall proceed now to lay down some Reasons and Grounds hereof Reasons Reason Because the Lord hath made many rich and precious Promises to the Righteous concerning the life to come as well as for this life 1. Tim. 4.8 Godlines is profitable unto all things having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come Beleivers have heard of future good things promised in the Gospell to be bestowed upon them after this life and this is a ground of their hope in death Psal 130.5 I wait for the Lord my Soul doth wait and in his Word doe I hope Paul speaking of the fruits of faith and love which abounded among the Colossians mentions a motive whereby they were incited and provoked thereunto Col. 1.5 for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven i.e. for those glorious things which your hope assureth you are laid up for you in heaven Hope being there taken by a Metonymy for the thing hoped for But how came they to hope that there were good things laid up for them in heaven He shews the ground of their hope in the next words to be the Word of God whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospell so Titus 1.2 In hope of eternall life which God that cannot lye promised before the world began but hath in due time manifested his word through preaching Beleivers are heirs of promise unto whom God being abundantly willing to shew the immutability of his Counsell confirmed it by an oath that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lye we might have strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us 2. Reas Because of Christs Resurrection from the dead 1. Cor. 15.17 18 19 20. if Christ be not raised then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished if in this life only we have hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable but now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept Christs Resurrection is a pledge of ours hence Peters Benediction 1. Pet. 1.3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead i.e. confirmed in us a living hope or hope of life in and after death by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ because God raised him up that we might believe and hope in God for our Resurrection unto Glory Vers 21. 3. Reas Because of Christs Ascension Heb. 6.19 20. which hope we have as an Anchor of the Soul both sure and stedfast and which entreth into that within the vail whither the forerunner is for us entred even Jesus Hope is as the Anchor cast out of the ship on firm ground when tossed and driven with winde and waves this anchor of the Soul is cast within heaven though a believer be yet as a ship at sea tossed with troubles and tempations in this world yet all is safe the soul is sure the anchor of hope being cast within heaven taking hold on Christ the rocke of our salvation who is entred and ascended into heaven as our fore-runner to prepare mansions for us Job 14.2 3. 4. Reas Taken from Christs Intercession that is another ground of a believers hope in death Joh. 17.24 Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my Glory which thou hast given me Christ having prayed that believers may be with him in eternall Glory and happines after death they have good ground to hope and expect that they shall be with him and behold his Glory for the Father heareth him alwayes and never denies him in any suit that he makes in the behalf of his People Joh. 11.42 5. Reas Because God hath not only delivered up his Son Christ to die for them and to purchase life and salvation for them but hath also given Christ unto them and revealed and framed him in them and given them his spirit as an earnest in their hearts 2. Cor. 1.22 whereby God assures them that he will pay as it were the whole sum of his promises for an earnest is as a pledge whereby we confirm a bargain or a peice of money whereby we assure the payment of the whole the first gift therefore of the spirit and of life is a pledge of their whole inheritance which they hope to enioy after death so Ephes 1.13 14. Col. 1.27 Christ in you the hope of Glory and Rom. 5.5 Hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost which is given unto us yea the experience of Gods goodnes and

seek to be inherently holy Col. 1.5 6. for the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven whereof ye heard before in the Gospel which bringoth forth fruit in you c. vers 27.28 So Col. 3.1 2 4 5 from the consideration of their hope of future glory with Christ he exhorts them to heavenly mindednesse and to mortify their earthly Members c. So Titus 2.11 12 13 14. The grace of God teacheth us that denying ungodlinesse and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present World looking for that blessed hope c. Try by these marks whether your hope be such as will not make you ashamed but stand you in stead to afford you comfort in the hour of death or whether you be in the number of those that are in danger of being driven away in their wickednesse and so apply comfort or terrour accordingly but I must hasten to one Use more and so conclude 4. Vse Of Exhortation in 2. Branches 1. To the surviving friends and relations of dying and deceased Saints to moderate their grief and sorrow for their Christian friends when they die seeing the righteous hath hope in his death and by death is made partaker of so many priviledges and enjoyes the possession of what we yet desire and hope for let not Christians sorrow as men without hope for them which are asleep in Jesus 1 Thes 4.13 14. He forbids not Christian sorrow for the dead but Heathenish not moderate but excessive and immoderate either in respect of time or measure of our grief we may water our Plants for our deceased friends as one expresseth it but not drown them It is good that we should lay to heart the death of the righteous and take notice of Gods hand in it and our losse and danger thereby so as to mourn and be affected with sorrow for it the Lord blames them for their stupidity and regardlesnesse who laid it not to heart when the righteous were taken away Isa 57.1 but we should not suffer our hearts to be overwhelmed with grief but moderate our sorrow considering their gain and benefit by death they are taken away from evil to come and enter into peace Our Saviour perceiving the hearts of his Disciples sadded at the thoughts of his departure from them tells them Joh. 14.28 if ye loved me ye would rejoyce because I go unto the Father See how David moderated and asswaged his grief and sorrow when he understood that his Childe was dead by considering that God had now revealed his will by his work whereunto his people must patiently submit their wills and that it would be bootlesse 2 Sam. 12.23 and in vain for him to afflict his Soul further with grief in regard of his Childe whom he could not restore to life being now dead and further he considered his own mortality and his Childes happy estate by death which David also comforted himself in hope of attaining unto I shall go to him c. Consider how willing and ready Barzillai was to part with Chimham and glad to have him preferred in the Court of King David 2 Sam. 19.37 and shall not we be content and willing to part with our dearest friends and relations for their good when the King of Heaven sends for them to live in his Court and to stand in his presence where is sulnesse of joy and pleasures for ever more The 2. Branch of this Use of Exhortation is of more general concernment to exhort all so to redeem their time and to improve their talents whilest they live that they may have hope in their death and that their hope may not be cut off and make them ashamed to this purpose observe and practise these 8. Directions 1. Renounce all confidence in the flesh and lay your mouths in the dust sit alone consider your wayes look into the glasse of the Law to discover and take a view of your spiritual spots blemishes and deformities so as to loath and abhorre your selves yea to despair in your selves by reason of your sin and misery Lam. 3.28.29 2. Close in with Christ get interest in him by faith Col. 1.27 Christ in you the hope of glory but without Christ without hope Eph. 2.12 Fides est fundamentum spei Faith is the foundation of true hope Gal 5.5 John 11.25 26. Jesus said unto Martha I am the Resurrection and the life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die 3. Renue thy repentance dayly 1 Joh. 3.3 Every one that hath this hope must purifie himself they that hope to appear with Christ in glory must mortifie their earthly Members Col. 3 4 5. Die dayly to sin lest thou die in sin and so perish for ever The wicked is driven away in his wickednesse such as look for that blessed hope must deny ungodlinesse Tit. 2.12 13. sin deadens and destroyes hope 4. Follow after righteousnesse 1 Tim. 4.8 6.11 12. seek righteousnesse it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lords wrath Zeph. 2.3 saving hope is called the hope of righteousnesse Gal. 5 5. Walk uprightly Isa 57.2 Add to your faith vertue c. for ●o an entrance shall be ministred to you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1.5 11. Be abundant in the work of the Lord for as much as you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord 1 Cor. 15. Ult. This consideration afforded succour and relief to the drooping spirit of Hezekiah when he received the sentence of death from the Lord against himself that he had walked before the Lord in truth and done that which was good in his sight Isa 38.3 5. Sit loose from the World in your hearts and affections and be heavenly-minded having your conversation in Heaven Paul tells the Philippians that their end is destruction who minde earthly things and they that look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ to come from Heaven to change their vile bodies and that they may be fashioned like unto his glorious body have their conversation in Heaven Phil 3.19.20 21. So 1 Tim 6.8 9 10 11. directing them how to lay hold on eternal life he adviseth them to moderate their affections towards the good things of the World and to be content with necessaries because of the danger of covetousnesse and inordinate desire of riches whereby men have been drowned in destruction and perdition and have pierced themselves through with many sorrowes 6. Be well grounded in the knowledge of the Scriptures Joh. 5.39 Col. 3.16 Psal 130 5. I wait for the Lord my Soul doth wait and in his word do I hope Study the Promises the Tenour of them and to whom they are made that so thou mayest be ready to give a reason of the hope that is in thee 1 Pet. 3.15 7. Labour for a patient submissive frame of spirit

fancy whereby they expect some good but have no warrant for it presuming that all is well with them and that God will take them to himself and shew them mercy when they die though they regarded not to take the Lord for their Portion nor his word for their guide while they lived Sperando pereunt a livelesse lazy conceit building castles in the aire casting Anchor among Quicksands their hope will make them ashamed There is the Hope of the Righteous upright 2. Christian Hope which is an undoubted expectationof all promised good things to come being freely given us of God through Jesus Christ Heb. 6.18 19. that we might have strong consolation who have fled for Refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us which Hope we have as an Anchor of the soule sure and stedfast and which entreth into that within the vaile Hath Hope Tremelius renders it thus Recipit se etiam in morte sua justus with this annotation upon it Recipit se à malo adeo vt ne mors quidem ipsa sit ipsi mala i.e. He recovers and delivers himself from evil so that Death it self cannot be evil or hurtfull to him so Mr. Cleaver explains it The righteous hath not only confidence and good expectation but refuge and deliverance in greatest extremities yea in the very danger and torment of death it self yea then especially and more than ever at any time before The Object of the Righteous persons Hope is God himself Ps 39.7 And now Lord what wait I for my hope is in thee 1. Tim. 1.1 And Lord Jesus Christ which is our hope Ier. 14.8 Ier. 17.18 And all those future good things which God hath graciously promised in his word both for soul and body Col. 1.5 for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven vers 27. Christ in you the hope of Glory Titus 1.2 In hope of eternall life which God that cannot lie promised before the world began Tit. 3.7 that being justified by his grace we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternall life The Hope of a Christian is in another world no man hath better surer greater hopes than a Christian a Worldlings Motto is a Bird in the hand but a Christians is spero meliora I hope for better things The Philosopher could say Tolle coelum nullus ero Much better and surer ground hath a true Christian to reioice in hope of the glory of God and to glory in tribulation for the hope that is laid up in heaven for him which hope maketh not ashamed Rom. 5.2 3 5. Pro. 10.28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladnes but the expectation of the wicked shall perish yea when the hope of the wicked shall be cut off then shall the righteous have a vigorous lively or a living hope 1 Pet 3. an hope that shall not fail even in death they have hope of life and by death they come to be partakers of the object of their Hope and so I come to the 3. particular When. 3. When. The time when the Righteous hath hope in his Death in the evil day in time of greatest disconsolation when friends stand weeping and wringing their hands when speech sight senses strength fail when riches will not profit a man when Physicians are of no value when all Creatures prove miserable comforters and when all human helps fail then is a Christians soule full of hope and may comfortably use this motto spero meliora though I leave a faire house pleasant gardens and loving friends and deare Relations yet I hope to enioy and inhabit an house not made with hands eternall in the heavens whose builder is God to dwell with my heavenly father in his Mansion house I hope to enioy better friends more deare Relations Communion with such as are of a more holy society I hope now by death to come unto Mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels To the Generall Assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in heaven and to God the Iudge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect And to Jesus the Mediatour of the New Covenant Heb. 12.22 23 24. 4 Proofs To prove that the Righteous i e. true beleivers who walke uprightly following after Righteousnes have this Hope in their Death consider some testimonies of scripture and some examples Isa 57.1 2. The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart and mercifull men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come He shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds each one walking in his uprightnes Where we have a sad complaint of the Cursed security of most people not regarding nor laying to heart the sad tokens of Gods displeasure nor their own danger approaching threatned by the Lords taking away his righteous servants from among them and secondly a Relation of the blessed security happy estate of Gods people at and after their death however they may seeme to perish from the earth yet they are taken away from the evil to come and enter into peace c. The Lord in that Scripture gives us a Description and Character of his own people and of Others of worldlings that lived among them His own people are described 1. By their Disposition and behaviour while they live here 1. Righteous 2. Mercifull 3. Walking in uprightnes as Micah 6.8 2. By their state and condition at and after Death 1. They are taken from the evil to come 2. They enter into peace 3. They rest in their beds The Description of worldlings and carnall people that lived among them by their disposition and behaviour is partly in the end of the former chapter eagerly and inordinately pursuing worldly profits and sensuall pleasures presuming upon long life and plenty c. 56.11 12. and in the first verse of this chapter they are said to be inconsiderat senselesse stupid dead-hearted not laying things to heart not regarding to heare the rod and who hath appointed it nor to behold the Majesty of the Lord when his hand is lifted up Their Dangerous state and condition when Gods servants are taken away from among them is there also hinted at it s a sad omen and forerunner of evil coming upon them That which I specially quoted this foregoing scripture for was to prove that the Righteous have hope in their death and here it is cleerely and fully affirmed that by death they are taken from the evil to come and enter into a state of blessed peace and sweet security Another proofe here of is Revelation 14.13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto mee write Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works doe follow them This testimony John received by a voice from heaven and

this place was a Bochim Judg. 2.5 yea as Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon where the Inhabitants of Iudah and Ierusalem mourned for the death of Iosiah Zach. 12.11 2 Chron. 35.25 I dare say there hath not been a Gentle-woman living in this County so few years whose death hath been more generally bewailed and lamented over all Sussex But I know you make use of better considerations and grounds of comfort than this And that you are throughly apprehensive of the Lords hand in this sad stroke whose will hath been done by him in this event and quiet submission of our wills to his ought to be yielded by us the examples of Aaron Levit. 10.3 4. of Eli 1 Sam. 3.18 of David 2 Sam. 15.26 and of Iob 1.21 are worthy of your observation and imitation herein The Lord knows how to cause all things to work together for good unto his people and he is the God of all comforts who can comfort you in all your tribulations and fill your hearts with joy and peace in believing so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Ghost that Christ may be in you the hope of glorie and that his love being shed abroad in your hearts by his spirit given unto you you also may have hope in your death Thus prayeth Glynde October 4. 1656. Your Honours Humbly devoted to serve you in all Gospel-duties Zachary Smith LIFE in DEATH OR The living hope of a dying Saint Proverbs 14.34 The righteous hath hope in his death IN this verse Solomon shews the different state and contrary condition of the righteous and the wicked 1 of the good and bad of such as fear God and such as fear him not when they come to die and that in two distinct Propositions 1. The wicked is driven away in his wickednesse as Chaffe driven away by the winde Ps 1.4 2. The Righteous hath Hope in his Death I shall insist onely upon this latter Proposition as the Doctrine to be handled at present and speak something of the former when we come to make Application The Righteous hath hope in his death IN handling this Point these Particulars are to be considered 1. Who is to be understood by the subject of this Hope here spoken of The Righteous 2. What is here affirmed of the Righteous hath Hope where consider 1. the Nature of this Hope 2. the Object of it 3. When the time of actuating this Grace in his Death 4. Proofs that it is so 5. Grounds and Reasons why it is so and then Apply it The Righteous who is he 1. Who The righteous is sometimes understood Civilly Morally for one that is just in his dealings with men sometimes 2. Theologically for one that orders the whole course of his life according to the will of God which is the rule of righteousnesse So again in a Scripture-sence one may be said to be righteous 1. Legally so Adam was righteous before the fall Eccles 7.29 and Christ since a righteout branch Jer. 23.5 who sulfilled all righteousnesse and is called the Sun of righteousnesse Mal. 4.2 Rom 3.10 but none else among the Children of men can be said of themselves to be perfectly righteous according to the righteousnesse of the Law 2. Evangelically righteous so believers are said to be righteous in regard of a twosold righteousnesse 1. of Justification 2. of Sanctification the former by imputation the latter by infesion and inchoation Rom. 10.4 Christ is the end of the Law for righteousnesse to every one that believeth Rom. 4.5 6. To him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousnesse Even as David also describeth the blessednesse of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousnesse without works This is that righteousnesse which Paul so highly esteemed and desired to partake of Phil. 3.9 the righteousnesse which is of God by faith Believers are also made partakers of inherent righteousnesse by the infusion of sanctifying Graces into their hearts and the renuing of the holy Ghost Act. 15.9 purifying their hearts by faith and thus they that were unrighteous may become righteous 1 Cor. 6.9 11. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God And such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God so they are said to be righteous who walk in their unrightnes Isa 57.1 2. Job 27.5 6. till I die I will not remove my integrity from me my righteousnesse I hold fast will not let it go Tit. 2.12 so that by the righteous in the Text we are to upderstand such as believing in Christ walk uprightly doing just and righteous things though impersectly 1 Joh. 3.7 he that doth righteousnesse is righteous thus Noah is said to have been a just man and perfect or upright in his generation walking with God Gen. 6.9 and God gave him this testimony Gen. 7.1 Thee have I found righteous before me What what is here affirmed of the Righteous 2. He hath Hope here consider 1. the nature of Hope 2ly the object of his Hope Hope in commonspeech signifies a bare likelyhood a probable conjecture a groundlesse fancy but in scripture phrase an undoubted certainty Hope is a patient expectation of the accomplishment of that good whereof we receive assurance by faith Rom. 8.24 25. We are saved by hope but hope that is seen is not hope for what a man seeth why doth be yet hope for But if we hope for that we see hot then doe we with patience waite for it Gal. 5.5 we through the spirit waite for the hope of righteousnes by faith There is the Hope of the Hypocrite 1. and the hope of the Righteous Job 8.13.14 Bildad tells Job the hypocrites hope shall perish whose hope shall be cut off and whose trust shall be a spiders web First the object of his hope shall fail him i.e. those benefits blessings accommodations and comforts which he looked for in the Profession of Religion these shall fail him and prove false hopes He shall not enioy the things hoped for Secondly the Act of his Hope shall fail his hope shall die being so long deferred Hypocrites may be full of hope for a time but their Hope will deceive them at last and to lose our Hope is the Utmost of Evills Mr. Caryl on Job 8.13 14. as Mr. Caryll well observes on Job 8.13 14. All that an hypocrite hopeth for or expects shall be utterly taken away and cut off from him his worldly comforts will be gon and heavenly comforts will never come he shall finde that he hath been in a golden dream as one that is hungry who dreames that he is eating but when he awaketh his Soul is empty Job 27.8 What is the Hope of the hypocrite though he hath gained when God taketh away his soule Their hope is a groundlesse