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A96863	The saints entrance into peace and rest by death: as it was held forth in a sermon / preached at the funerall of that honourable statesman, and ever to be valued father and lover of his country, Sir William Armyne baronet one of the members of the high court of Parliament: in the day when hee was buryed with his fathers, being honourably but mournfully attended from London where he dyed, to Lenton in Lincolnshire, where he was interred, in the ancient sepulchre of his ancestors, May 10. 1651. By Seth Wood preacher of the Gospel at Lenton.	Wood, Seth.	1651 (1651)	Wing W3406; Thomason E632_8; ESTC R206455	20,106	28

life given to the bitter in soule which long for death and dig for it as for hid treasure 3 It is rest from oppression there is no tyranny in the grave nor arbitrary power no prerogative Court kept there but all at rest therefore Job in the 3. chap. vers 17. of his booke commends the state of rest in the grave There the wicked cease from troubling there the prisoners rest together and hear not the voyce of the oppressor there the Egyptian Taskemasters shall cal Gods Israel to worke no more there wil be no plundering killing nor destroying the Italians have a Proverb of the dead man That he is gone where the Tyrant cannot send a Pursevant for him and it was a very savory speech of that good old man Mr. Dod in the beginning of these hurling times of war when those first born sons of prey began to plunder spoile and destroy the good of this land Well saith he I will go home and dye being so worn down with age and travel that he continually waited for his change and then he thought he should be out of their reach 3 The third particular which commends this rest is that it is childrens rest and this is indeed the best thats at the bottome of all that the Saints are got to rest as Gods children he gives them rest as he gives his beloved rest Psa 127. death gets sinners to bed also but wrath frights them with the visions of their eternall night and they wake in hell at the resurrection but the righteous rest in Gods love and in his lap and then it is also rest to the children all together and that is comfort to you who were troubled rest with us saith the Apostle Paul 't is rest with the Apostles and Fathers and all the Family together the word which the Latines expresse the Hebrew word in my Text by is cubile which signifies a Bee-hive as well as a Couch or Bed so in that sense the Saints rest in their Bee-hives altogether in their hony-houses 4 Fourthly It is sweet rest because it is after labour all their worke is done and they goe to bed Job speaking of the grave chap. 3 saith There the weary be at rest and as Solomon saith of the labouring man his sleep is sweet eate he little or eate he much so saith the Scripture of the Saints Revel 14. 13. Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord from henceforth they rest from their labours and their workes follow them they are written up for blessed in this regard even with speciall observation yea saith the spirit that they may rest from their labours from henceforth that is they shall never labor more when a labouring mans rest is sweetest yet he must rise at break of day and go to it again but the Saints shall labour no more thou shalt throw away thy workaday cloathes for ever and put on thy garments of gladnesse thy glorious apparell for there shall be no more soyling work after death yet though they rest from their labour they shall not loose their labour nor their labours them for their workes follow them Christ will bring thy workes after thee and perfume them with his odours not that they shall be saved by their works but as Mothers keep their childrens Samplers to show hereafter their ingenuity and willingnes to be doing something at their Parents command so Christ hereafter wil delight to show to his father the garments that his Dorc●'s mad● And this brings us to the last commendation of this rest For 5 Fiftly It is rest in hope yea in assurance or else saith the Apostle we were of all men most miserable but death to the Saints is but a nap till resurrection They shall rest in their Couches A Travellers rest is to refresh him for his journey who will not make his Inne his standing quarters so the grave though it be a beleevers long-home yet it is not his last home It w●re well indeed for sinners if they might sleep on in death and ●●se no more for their waking is their woe because in their ●●●ning the reckoning is brought up They must look to be alarmed and called up by the dreadful Trumpeters to execution but then begins a Saint to make his rich returns of all his faith and patience When he shal rise to meet his venture come home when the old acquaintance of soule and body shall meet and kisse each other and become together an everlasting bride to the Lambe This was that which comforted Christ in his dark lodging of the grave and David as his type as you read in Acts 2. 25 26 27. My flesh shall rest in hope that thou will not leave my soul in hell nor suffer thy holy one to see corruption where by hell is meant the grave And he injoyed the fruit of this hope and was quickly brought forth of that prison and rose the first fruits from the dead for his children and carryes us all with him for Christ is our primum mobile and we are all rapt after the motion of him our first sphear This truth thus opened first takes you fitly by the hand and Vse 1 leads you to the hill whence commeth your salvation where you may fitly take a rich prospect of all the large and far spread love of Christ the fruit of whose labour and travel all this rest and peace is Thou seldome thinkest Christian what cost and chymistry Christ was at to bring to thee such sweet out of the strong and such meat out of the eater to draw such sweet and spicy oyle out of a deaths head and to extract such rich and precious things out of dust and ashes But it is he t is he hath don it The Angel of God said for comfort in one sense he is risen he is not here but if he had not been there before he had risen viz in the grave the bed had never been so soft and sweet for us but Christ took al the hard clots and stones out of the grave for us he tooke the cold off it by first lodging there yea he stuffed the grave with feathers and strowed it with roses by his three nights lodging there and then rise to be our Usher and Assuring Master for a good voyage at the resurrection Then secondly in the strength and sence of this love be comforted against the fear of death to the Saints it is but getting Vse 2 to bed and sleeping a long sleep and a quiet sweet one too for a long winters night till resurrection when our Saviour had said of Lazarus that he was dead and yet that it was not death but sleeping Thomas the twin for so Dydimus signifies saith let us goe dye with him Joh. 11. Many vary in their thoughts of the meaning of this place but in my apprehension it is cleare that Thomas the timerous for of all the rest he was most fearfull having heard our saviour weaken the strength terror of