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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51401	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable Roger Earl of Orrery, who dyed the 16th of October, at Castle-Martyr, and was buried at Youghall in Ireland the 18th of the same month, in the year 1679 by Thomas Morris, M.A. ...	Morris, Thomas, M.A.	1681 (1681)	Wing M2812; ESTC R16333	20,753	48

an heavy sense of divine vengeance and fill us with such unspeakable horror shame tortures of mind and regret as will render our condition there infinitely sad and dismal Matt. 24.51 represented in Scripture under the direful expressions of Weeping and gnashing of Teeth Mar. 9.48 the stings of a never dying Worm and a burning in unquenchable fire 2. But I pass on to a second thing observable in the words of the Text where from the time when they that dye in the Lord are said to be blessed it may be observed that they who dye in Christ do immediately after their departure out of this life enter upon a blessed state 't is not said they that dye in the Lord shall be blessed but they are blessed or blessed are they and 't is not said they are blessed hereafter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but from henceforth from the time of their departure and so forward for ever And their works that is the joyful sense and reward of their good works do follow or rather accompany with them All which expressions methinks do shew that holy separate souls do immediately upon their separation from the body enter upon a blessed state Hence Christ tells the penitent Thief that that day he should be with him in Paradise Luk. 23.43 Because that day he was to dye in Christ and the Apostle makes no middle state betwixt the dissolving our Earthly House of this Tabernacle and an having a building of God 2 Cor. 5.1 an House not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens nor betwixt departing hence and being with Christ Phil. 1.23 But immediately upon the finishing of this course says that henceforth is laid up for him a crown of Righteousness 2 Tim. 4.7 8. But what should hinder any that dye in Christ from being immediately blessed not the guilt of sin for that we are told is so done away upon our unfeigned Repentance that it shall not be so much as once mentioned Ezek. 33.16 Not the habits and customs of Sin for the same time that God forgives Joh. 1.9 he cleanses also from all unrighteousness Acts 15.9 and the grace of faith which God gives to all that are saved Hebr. 9.14 is said to purifie the heart and Christs blood is said 1 Joh. 1.7 to purge the Conscience from dead works and to cleanse us from all sin And therefore there needs no purging by an I know not what Purgatory fire But is it satisfaction for sin which the soul must yield by suffering certain pains after it is out of the body that hinders it from an immediate entrance upon a blissful state That cannot be for Jesus Christ hath in his own person made a sufficient and compleat satisfaction to Gods justice for our sins insomuch that he is in an eminent manner said to be 2 Joh. 2.2 The propitiation for our sins and not for our sins only but also for the sins of the whole world He hath paid the full price of our Redemption by suffering the value of that in our stead which we should have suffered to all Eternity And upon this account we that are in Christ Rom. 3.24 are said to be justifyed freely through the Redemption that is in Jesus Christ and if freely then there is no satisfaction to be yielded by our sufferings 1 Tim. 2.6 Heb. 9.12 For Christ hath given himself a ransom and obtained an Eternal Redemption for us by his own blood or sufferings So then if none of these things can hinder holy souls from an immediate entrance upon a blessed state after death then nothing else can But though from this very Text much more might be said of this matter yet lest I should turn a Funeral Sermon into a Polemical Discourse I shall crave leave to say no more of it here but shall now proceed to the last thing observable about the the nature of that bliss which they that dye in Christ shall immediately be partakers of And from hence we may observe Thirdly That the blessed state of those that dye in the Lord consists in their being freed from the labours and evils which in this life they underwent and in enjoying the good things which God hath promised and declared are and shall be the reward of all the good works they have done Now in the handling of this observation I shall give a brief account 1. Of the evils and labours Holy Souls rest ●●●n 2. Of the good they enjoy 1. As for the evils and labours which pious souls rest from after their death they are such as these following 1. They are freed from the burthen of sin and rest from all those fears and horrors which sin in this life is often the occasion of good men are grievously troubled here for offending God in any thing and under this grief and trouble they a long while labour till being by Death translated to that blessed condition wherein they are no longer in danger of sinning and then they happily rest from these sad labours 2. They are freed from the grief and trouble of seeing others sin which like righteous Lot they are grievously vexed with here 2 Pet. 2.7 8. Revel 21.27 For no sumer or wicked person can breath in those Regions to which the souls of those that dye in the Lord are by death immediately transplanted 3. They are freed from the labours and toils of their Callings and Employments in which all persons in this world are in some degree or other continually and necessarily engaged 4. They are freed from all bodily infirmities pains and distempers under which many persons groan a long time in this world without relief these no longer trouble the pious soul in its separate state because it 's then freed from the Body by its strict union with which it only became capable of being so affected 5. They are freed from all those crosses and afflictions that cruelly perplex the mind here because after death they are out of that imperfect condition where such things only are afflicting 6. They are freed from all Satans temptations and from all his cruel injections with which pious souls are much disquieted in this life For there is a great Gulph fixed betwixt Satan and the Spirits of just men made perfect Luke 16.26 which keeps that infernal Spirit from being able to molest any in those blissful habitations where holy separate souls are 7. Lastly They are freed from all fears despondencies and doubts about the love and favour of God which create great labours and troubles of mind in this imperfect state 1 John 3.2 for they shall see God as he is and consequently be perfectly sensible of his love and favour And thus all those tears of grief which in the body pious souls laboured under Rev 7.17 shall be wiped away from them in their separate state And so I pass on from the labours and evils pious souls rest from at death