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A51834	The blessed estate of them that die in the Lord opened in a sermon at the funerals of Mistres Jane Blackwel, wife of Master Elidad Blackwel, pastor of Andrew Undershaft, London / by Tho. Manton.	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1656 (1656)	Wing M518; ESTC R30511	23,515	42

out when you lanch into the other world a wicked man comes to himself when he comes to dye At his latter end he shall be a fool Jer. 17.11 he was ever a fool but then he shall be one in the conviction and acknowledgement of his own Conscience his own heart will make him cry out Oh fool mad-man that I was to be contented with such slight evidences for Eternity You see then it is good to be upon sure terms and to get our union with Christ so cleer and sensible that when we walk in the valley of the shadow of death we may not be afraid Psal. 23. As to the frame of your hearts it is a harder matter to dye well then you are aware of if you would dye well live well otherwise you do but provide matter of dispair and sorrow for your latter end It is every ones wish Oh that I might dye the death of the righteous Numb. 23. but it is not every ones happiness If you would dye in the Lord you had need to have Promises ready and your faith well exercised that you may have good proof of it before it comes to stead you in death In bello non licet his peccare As in war so in death there is no erring twice then you are to throw your last cast for everlasting woe or weale to do that which you never did before you had need of armour of proof to deal with the last enemy How foolishly do they deal that defer all to this hour are then to get faith when they should reduce it into practice Faith is a Grace wrought by degrees to strength and perfection now to put it to the hardest tryal at first is absurd and irrational You should have your Evidences cleer your promises ready your experiences at hand that you may be able to comfort your selves and too plead for God and to speak to the standers-by of the long proof you have had of his being a good Master and a gracious father to you How is it then Are all things set at rights between God and your souls Have you laid up comforts for this great day of expence Is your dying speech ready Are you provided of experiences whereby to commend the Mercifulness and faithfulness of your Redeemer Can you say that you have tryed him often and he never failed you all your days If it be so indeed your great work is done 3. Use To encourage the children of God to be more willing to dye Are you afraid to enter upon your own blessedness and glory Will you shun Christs company when he desires yours Love brought Christ out of heaven that he might be with us he thought of it before the world was Prov. 8.31 and longed for the time in effect saying When will it come We are to go from earth to heaven from conversing with men to converse with Angels and why so loath to remove What could Christ expect upon his coming into the world but hard usage but labour and griefs and shame and death he came to taste the Vinegar and the Gall we are called to the feast of love to taste of hidden Manna and the Rivers of pleasure that flow in his presence If you love Christ why should you be unwilling to be in the arms of Christ to be there where he is beholding his glory love is an affection of union it desireth to be with the party loved and can you be unwilling to be dissolved and to be with Christ Death is the Chariot that is to carry you into his presence Jacobs spirit revived when he saw the Waggons which Joseph sent to carry him into AEgypt Gen. 45.27 what is there in the world to be compared with heaven either there must be something in the world to detain us or we are frighted at the terribleness of the passage or else there is a contempt of what is to come You cannot say any thing of the world is more worthy then Christ in this sense you renounced father and mother brothers and sisters wife and children and friends when you were first acquainted with him It was the language of your souls then whom have I in heaven but thee and there is none on earth that I desire besides thee Psal. 73.25 Did you dissemble then Or have you found cause since to retreat and begrudge your affections to him Christ puts you to the tryal when sickness comes he hath sent h●s waggons to see if you will stand to your word Is it the terribleness of the passage doth nature grudge at the thought of a dissolution where is your faith death is yours 1 Cor. 3.18 Your friend your advantage Christ hath assured you of it will you trust his word you love him little when you have no confidence in what he saith Or is it contempt of things to come Then why is all this cost why came Christ to lay down his soul to purchase that which you care not for what needs all this waste Christians hear for the time to come we know not how soon we may be sent for and put to the tryal it is good to be resolved that we may say the sooner the better 4 Let this comfort us concerning our friends that dye in the Lord 1 Thess. 4.18 Comfort one another with these words This is proper Christian Scripture comfort Heathens to comfort one another can onely say that death is the common passage out of this world that all that are born must dye But Christians can comfort one another upon better terms that they that sleep in Jesus are blessed and shall we whine at their preferment that we shall all meet again in the other world that a day will come when the Captain of our Salvation will have his great rendezvouz and the head of the Church call all the Saints into one Congregation Psal. 1.5 and the whole flock shall follow the great shepherd of the sheep into their everlasting fold triumphing and saying Oh death where is thy sting Oh grave where is thy victory These are comforts proper for Christians especially for Ministers that are messengers of comfort to others that have more frequent advantages of meditation upon those priviledges then others have Shall we murmur and yield to sinkings of heart when God hath made a breach upon our relations how will this disparage our Doctrine and make others suspect the comforts which we reach forth to them upon like occasions Thy words have upholden him that was falling and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees but now it is come upon thee and thou faintest it toucheth thee and thou art troubled Job 4.4 5. To comfort others and faint our selves is to bring a discredit upon what we propound to them Remember the glory of God is concerned in your behaviour under this tryal and the honor of your Ministry Let your Christian friends know there is a reality in what you have held forth for their support in like case Let

now in Heaven there is no sin there is neither spot nor wrinckle upon the face of glorifyed Saints Eph. 5.27 They were once as black as you but now Christ presents them to God as a proof of the cleansing vertue of his blood there they are freed from all sin here with much adoe we mortifie our lust and yet nature will be ever recoyling as the Ivy in the wall cut it never so much it will be breaking out again it is much here if the Dominion of sin be taken away there the being of it is abolished the glorifyed Saints displease God no more and are freed from all the immediate and inseparable consequences of original sin from distractions in duty here love is not perfect and therefore the soul cannot be fixed in the contemplation of God and that is the reason of wandring thoughts but there the heart cleaves to him without stragling from pride which lasts as long as life and therefore called pride of life 1 Joh. 2.16 we cannot have a revelation now but we grow proud of it nor an influence of grace but it lifts us up 2 Cor. 12.2 there is a worm in Manna but there when we are most high we are most hum●le Christians is not this a blessed hope that tells you of a sinless state of being like Christ for purity and holiness 1 Joh. 3.2 We shall see him as he is for we shall be like unto him What is it that you have struggled with and groaned under all your lives but sin Now that is blotted out when the days of refreshing come And as there is no sin so there are no temptations In Paradise there was a tempter but not in heaven Satan was long since cast out thence and the Saints fill up the vacant rooms of the Apostate Angels the world is a place of snares a valley of temptations it is the devils circuit where did he walk to and fro but in the earth But into heaven nothing enters that defiles Rev. 21.27 No Serpent can creep in there Christians lift up your heads you will get rid of sin and displease God no more here we cry Lord deliver us from evil and there our cries are heard at the full Grace weakneth sin but Glory abolisheth it and old Adam is left in the Grave never to rise more 2 The next evil is the evil of affliction whatever is painful and burthensom to nature is a fruit of the fall a brand and mark of our Rebellion against God therefore affliction must be done away as well as sin if we be compleatly happy As in hell there is an evil an onely evil a cup of wrath unmixed without the least temperament of mercy so in heaven there is happiness and onely happiness sorrow is done away as well as sin it is said he will wipe all tears from their eys The afflictions of the soul are gone there are no more doubtings of Gods love nor sense of his displeasure here though we are pardoned and the wound be cured yet the scarrs remain As Absolom could not see the Kings face when he was restored in wise dispensation God sometimes hides his face from us we need to be dyeted and to taste the vinegar and the gall sometimes as well as the honey and sweetness The world is a middle place standing between heaven and hell and therefore hath something of both a mixture of pleasures and sorrows both good and evil are to be received from the hand of God but there there is fulness of joy for evermore Psal. 16.11 here we complain that the candle of the Lord doth not shine over us with a like brightness but there our Sun remains in an eternal high-noon without clowds and the shadows of this night The afflictions of the body are done away heaven is a happy ayr where none are sick there is no such thing there as Gowts and Agues and the grinding pains of the stone The body here is called a vile body Phil. 3.21 as it is the instrument of sin and the subject of diseases we have the root of diseases in the soul and the matter and fewel of diseases in the body peccant humors and principles of corruption as wood is eaten out with worms that breed within it self so are there in our bodies principles of corruption that do at leng●h destroy them but there we are wholly incorruptible Yea because deformity in the body is a monument of Gods displeasure one of the inconveniences introduced by Adams fall it is done away the bodies rise in due proportion whatever was monstrous or mishapen in the first edition is corrected in the second And for violence without heaven is a quiet place when there are tumults in the world God is introduced Psal. 2. as sitting in the heavens a qu●et posture There is nothing to discompose those blessed spirits the company of wicked men is a burthen Lots righteous soul was vexed with it 2 Pet. 2.7 but there they are bound hand and foot and cast into utter darkness as when men will not be ruled they are sent to prison here the children of God are subject to a number of infirmities hunger thirst nakedness cold want but there we have a rich inheritance as well as a glorious Eph. 18. the distinctions of poor and rich as understood in the world do not outlive time we have enough of true riches which is eternal glory and the full fruition of God Labour ceaseth though there be a continual exercise of grace all things rest when they come to their proper place so do those which dye in the Lord we still serve God but without weariness yea we are freed from the necessities of nature eating drinking and sleeping to which the greatest Potentates are subject though they are exempted from hard bodily labour they are not exempted from the necessities of nature meat is for the belly and the belly for meats but God shall destroy both it and them 1 Cor. 6.12 The use of meats and of the stomach and of the belly is abolished it is a piece of our misery that our life is patcht up of so many creatures as a torn Garment is pieced and patcht up with supplies from abroad here the sheep or the silk-worm afford us cloathing the beasts of the earth and fish of the Sea serve for food and all to support a ruinous fabrick ever ready to drop about our eares but then we are above meat and drink and apparel nakedness will be no shame for glory will serve instead of a robe and it will be meat and drink enough to do our fathers will the body will not be a clog to the soul but a help that mass of flesh we carry about us is but the prison of the soul where it looks out by the windows of the senses but then it is no longer the prison of the soul but the Temple In short all that I have said upon this branch is comprised in Rev. 21.4 and God will wipe