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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62008	King Charles his funeral who was beheaded by base and barbarous hands January 30, 1648, and interred at Windsor, February 9, 1648 with his anniversaries continued untill 1659 / by Thomas Swadlin ...	Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing S6219; ESTC R34629	139,690	216

Rest and Glory both 1. Rest 1 a. 3 ae Job 14. When we are born we are born to Labour sayes Holy Job when we dye we dye to Rest sayes holy John If we dye in the Lord Every man while he lives Psal hath many Troubles sayes holy David even the Righteous Every one when he dyes hath not many hath not any Comforts For some are tormented in Hell sayes holy Abraham But the Righteous have many Comforts sayes holy Isaiah Isa 31.17 The work of Righteousness shall be Peace The End of Righteousness shall be Quietness and Assurance for ever The Righteous while he liveth is troubled in his Body by Diseases In his Soul by Temptations In his Goods by Plunder In his Name by Ignominy But when he is Dead he hath a Quietus est from them all His Body feels no Sicknesse His Soul fears no Temptation His Goods fear no Miscarriage His Name feels no Reproaches For he rests from his Labours No● is this Rest like mans in the Night Natural by sleep from the Sorrowes of the Day nor like Servants every Sunday Ceremonial from the Labours of the Body not yet meerly like Christians upon those Sacred Festivals spiritual from sin but it is Eternal like that of Angels from sin and sorrow both And here you are to mark That this Rest follows Labour q. d. No Labour here No Rest the●e If you labour not while you live but sit down to Eat and Drink and Rise up to Play no Rest when you Dye And therefore labour here labour after a sanctified Rest while you live that you may enjoy a Glorified Rest when you Dye And here again you may mark That the Allegory of this Word compares Death to sleep For as they that sleep Rest so they that Dye If they Dye in the Lord Rest The difference in onely this All that sleep Rest All that Dye sleep but All do not Rest some Rest not at all To make it hold in all to you I beseech you to mark one thing in our Common Rest we never sleep so well at Night as when we work hard in the Day No Rest to the Labourers It is an old Proverb and true So That you may sleep when you Dye Rest ●n ●ha● sleep I beseech you again and again To labour and to labour out the Salvation of your soul though it be with Fear and Trembling as the Apostle speaks Phil. 2.12 That when you have slept the night of D●ath you may Rise in the Morning of your Resurrection to Rest ●om your Labours and have your Works follow you That 's one Blessedness of the Dead mans 2 a. 3 ae his Relaxation He rests from his labou●s And this is another His works follow him For by this Phraise is meant Reward because God rewards us according to our works But here you must take heed of Popery It is not for the merit of our works that we are rewarded but by the Mercy of our Rewarder that our works follow us We press Good works as hard as they They are necessary and so necessary to salvation that without them we cannot be saved For how shall They follow us if we have none of them But they do it to make their Proselytes proud We to make you and our selves Fruitful We are Trees and the Husband-man is not beholding to the Tree if it bears him Fruit when he hath bestowed much cost upon it It is the Duty of a Tree to bring forth Fruits and it is the Duty of Christians to bring forth Good works For that the Tree is spared from Burning and suffered to continue in the Orchard because their Fruits follow them from Year to Year And for this we are spared from Hell and suffered to enter into the Joyes of Heaven that our works may follow us from Generation to Generation for Ever and for Ever The Tree by his Root is entitled to the Orchard but by his Fruit it hath Possession of the Orchard And we by our Faith have Dominion a title to Heaven but by our Good works we have Possessionem i. e. Pedis Positionem the Possession of Heaven Labour therefore for Faith that as Abraham by the Promise of God had a Title to Canaan so you by Faith in the Mercies of God may have a Title to Heaven But let this Faith Travel with and bring forth Good works that as Abraham by his Travel took Possession of Canaan so you by your Good works may take Possession of Heaven One thing more for the Necessity of Good works It is here said They follow you It is to let you know They are your Servants and therefore you must cloath them with Good Liveries such as may do you service and credit both For if they be of a Course Wool or a False Dye They will do you neither Let your works then be sincere i. e. sine Cera without any Wax or Gum Let your Works of Piety Prayer and Fasting be without Hypocrisie Let your VVorks of Charity Almes and Benevolence be without Vain-glory Let your VVorks of Loyalty your Armes in bringing home King Charles the second And punishing the Murther of that Blessed Martyr King Charles the first be without self-ends Do none of these to be seen of men but in secret Ma● That your Father which seeth in Heaven may reward you openly And an open Rewarding you shall have For Angels and Devils Heaven and Hell Saints and Reprobates shall see you follow the Lamb to the Glory of God and they shall see your works follow you to the Glory of your selves This This is the Blessedness of them that Dye in the Lord and of the late King and all his Souldiers who have Dyed for the Lord And now what greater Blessedness can there be than this For here is Rest and here is Glory Rest from your Labours and Glory in your Followers Nor do you tarry long for this after your Dissolution though the Papist would have it so to maintain their Fire of Purgatory Nor can you blame them for it for if it be once quenched it will presently sta●ve the See of Rome and make the Kitching in St. Angelos Castle very cold But St. John saies It is Amodo Immediatly Henceforth so soon as ever the Soul is gone out of the Body By and by the Body rests from sickness and all External Labour The Soul rests from sin and all Internal Labour and both their works follow them till at Doomes-day They shall both be reunited and Crowned with ternal Glory to follow the Lamb wheresoever he goes Even so saith the Spirit And so may He say to us now by the Assurance of Faith that then we may have it by the Assurance of Fruition thorow Jesus Christ Amen Amen Amen Anno Dom. 1657. PSALM 106.29 Thus they provoked him to Anger with their own Inventions and the Plague brake in upon them NOW I have read the words you may happily think It is such a Plague as