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A51257 A lamentation over the dead in Christ, not as those without hope; with instruction, admonition, and encouragement to the survivers As it should have been delivered to the people (had not Satan hindered) at the funeral of Mr. Henry Rix of Cambridge, Jan. 19. 1656--7. in pursuance of his earnest request on his deathbed. Now published for the benefit of those that will hear. By Thomas Moore junior. Moore, Thomas, Junior. 1657 (1657) Wing M2604; ESTC R216352 46,108 56

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manifested in Christ and yet perceives no such preciousnesse in Christ and his testimony as to move him according to his measure to count all things but losse for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ but easily listens to and admires the pretended excellencies of other spirits that lift not up the Son of Man according to the Apostles Doctrine but privily some other thing or work in his stead or embraces and cleaves to the things of this present world nor is moved with like love and compassion towards men from the grace in Christ beleeved nor united in heart with them that fear his Name and call upon him in truth to know and own them as brethren and strive together with them for the faith of the Gospel but hath left his first Love or else hath not yet so received the love of the truth as to save him let us not acknowledge his sayings to bee true that he doth so unfeignedly beleeve the truth as it is in Jesus for so we shall render God a Lyar and his Word without effect but let God be true and every man a Lyar for that grace of God that bringeth salvation to all men teacheth us That denying ungodlinesse and worldly lusts we should live righteously soberly and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the mighty God and our Saviour Let none of us therefore be moved to mean thoughts of the efficacy of the word of faith because we or others prove it not while we think and say we beleeve that thence we should slight that as vain and run to some other way to wait for the Spirit or for perfecting what was begun by the Spirit in the hearing of faith but let us judge our selves of wavering unconstancy or double mindednesse and of neglect of that so great Salvation and having itching ears after something sutable to our divers lusts and let us suffer our hearts by the grace of God while yet admonishing and striving with us to be more fixed trusting in the Lord without guile or waveringnesse seeking righteousnesse in Jesus through the knowledge and faith of him through which he gives all things pertaining to life and godlinesse Let us give more earnest heed to the things we have heard in the word of the truth of the Gospel least at any time we let them slip Consider that love of God to manward appearing in and through Christ saved the Apostles and so and therein they had the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost shed on them abundantly through Jesus Christ and that Gospel of Christ is the power of God to salvation to every one that beleeveth for therein is the righteousnesse of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written The just shall live by faith And to this answers the other descriptions of the righteous ones in this text They are merciful men or men of kindnesse or godlinesse Men filled and seasoned with the apprehension and perswasion of the mercies compassions and kindnesse of God to sinners to the unkind and evil and of that as discovered in the face of Christ where he is to be truly known and worshipped And so of his good will in Christ begotten through the word of truth to their faith and hope in him and joy in hope of the glory to bee revealed and patience in tribulations and thence moved and filled with bowels and mercies compassions and kindnesse answerable to that they beleeve and perceive to be in God towards others even towards all in blindnesse and distresse yea to the unkind and evil the love of Christ constraining them to perswade them to be reconciled to God in Christ and to seek ●heir good by all means within their capacity and with all earnestnesse knowing also the ●errour of the Lord because they thus judge That if one dyed for all then were all dead and that be dyed for all that they which live should not henceforth live to themselves but to him this dyed for them and rose again yea hence also they are filled with delightful love of and desire of fellowship with those that call on the name of the Lord out of a pure heart and with bowels of mercies humblenesse of mind meeknesse and goodnesseone towards another and towards all men answerable to the kindnesse and mercies of God in Christ And so if we read it men of godlinesse it will come to the same for they are the right and true worshippers of God who worship the Father in spirit and truth and such the Father seeks to worship him they worship adore honour magnifie beleeve and trust in him in the Spirit that is in the light and power of and according to the testimony of Jesus and of Gods glory as shined in his face which testimony the Holy Ghost hath given and in it his evidence and demonstration of Christ and of the Father is And therefore when we are called upon to godlinesse or to worship God that testimony of Jesus is said to be the spirit of Prophecy in and according to which we are to worship Rev. 19. 10. and so they in that light and strength of the Spirit have their rejoycing in Christ Jesus The truth And have no confidence in the flesh Joh. 4. 23 24. 5. 23 24. Phil. 3. 3. and in this true worship and fear of the Lord they are made partakers of the Divine Nature in interest in it union or fellowship with it conforming to it so as by Christ through faith so as thereby they goe on purging themselves from all filthinesse of flesh and spirit perfecting holinesse in the fear of the Lord 2 Corinth 6. 16-18 7. 1. purifying their hearts through beleef of the truth and retaining the hope of it in them to unfeigned love of the brethren and to more freedome from the intanglements and cares of this world as those that are pressing after the mark of the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus which pure religion and undefiled brings forth its fruit in their visiting the Sick the Widdows and fatherlesse in their affliction and keeping themselves unspotted in the world so as they walking in the Spirit though they have flesh warring in them are by the light and power of the Spirit in the testimony of Jesus kept from fulfilling the lusts of the flesh and so preserved blamelesse unto the day of Christ Rom. ● 8. 1-13 Gal. 5. And to this agrees that two-fold description of the Persons that shall ascend into the hill of the Lord and stand in his holy place Psal 24. 3 4 6. The first is He that hath clean hands and a pure hears that hath not lift up his soul to vanity nor sworn deceitfully for though there is none righteous no not one but all have sinned and are wholly polluted and unclean yet this truth remains for ever Without holiness no man shall see the Lord so that if there be
once offered is of everlasting value and vertue with the Father for us even for the taking away the sins of the world and for the holding open the door of Life and procuring the continuance of Mercies even to the rebellious that the Lord might dwell among them as well as likewise for the continual covering and presenting compleat and spotless before the Father all that are found in it and for the perfecting what concerns them God hath set him forth in the infinite vertue of that his perfect Righteousness and Sacrifice a standing Propitiation not for our sins only that through grace beleeve but also for the sins of the whole world that through him hee might declare his righteousness in exercising patience and forbearance to Rebells during the day of his grace and patience and that is while it is due time and in justifying whosoever through his Name beleeveth in him that being justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ they might be washed sanctified and made Heirs in the vertues and influences of the same everlasting righteousness Joh. 1. 29. Rom. 3. 25 26. Heb. 7. 25 27. 1 Joh. 2. 1 2. so that though those iniquities or unrighteousnesses in which when the light and power of the grace of God is bringing Salvation and comes nigh to men leading to repentance lifting up the yoke then men close their eyes and harden their hearts and chuse darkness rather because their deeds are evil Though I say sins of this nature be not finished or made an end of in the Court as was said of the fore-mentioned but are detained in Heaven against men while they abide in them they being of a new nature and such as were not nor could have had being in the world if there had not been peace made for them and that also preached to them even by his Spirit to their spirits as 1 Pet. 3. 19 20. Joh. 15. 22 24. they provoke new wrath which abides over men while they continue in them Joh. 3. 18 19 36. and will end in a second death if persisted in till finished by them yet there is Reconciliation and Propitiation made in the vertues of his Blood or being cut off by death even for sins of this nature so that by means of that Death which was for the redemption of the Transgressions under the first Testament in the infinite and abiding vertue of that Bloud he is the Mediator between God and men and maketh intercession for the Transgressors yea hee hath received power and authority in the Name of the Father to procure and give forbearance to Rebells during his pleasure hee hath the Keys of David he opens and no man shuts hee shuts and no man opens he hath received gifts for men yea for the rebellious also observe that additional clause and the instruction in it That he hath received not only gifts for men as men and sinners from Adam considered but for the rebellious also that the Lord God might dwell among them And so also to give through his Name forgiveness even of all sins past to whosoever through this grace seeth and beleeveth on him as well as always to present them acceptable in the presence of God in himself in the vertue of that his perfect and everlasting righteousness yea they have righteousness and strength in the Lord answering to all their needs weakness and nakedness for their covering in the presence of God and that they may be filled with the fruites of it in the Lord shall all the seed of Israel all the generation of seekers of Gods Name and face in Christ be justified and shall glory therefore saith he Look unto me and be yee saved all the ends of the earth for I am a just God and a Saviour and his righteousness is an everlasting righteousness and shall never be abolished however men fight against it 3 Therein he hath sealed or confirmed the Vision and Prophesie of bringing forth blessing in Abrahams Seed to all Nations giving his Son Jesus as raised from the Dead for a Witness to the people a Leader and Commander to the people a Light to the Gentiles and his Salvation to the ends of the earth Gen. 22. 18. Gal. 3. 8 13. Isa 42. 49. 55. 3 5. Acts 2. 13. for bee hath now made the man Christ Jesus in the Name and Majesty of God a testimony to men the Light of the world to bee testified to them in their several Ages and in due time having anoynted the most Holy even that most holy Body the Personal Body of Christ through sufferings glorified with the Fathers owne selfe the glory he had with him as the eternal Son of God before the World was with the vertue of whose Bloud the Heavens themselves were sprinkled that Grace and Truth might thence come forth to us It hath therefore pleased the Father that in him should all fulnesse dwell even the fulnesse of the God-head bodily that of his fulnesse we might all receive for the opening our eyes and turning us from darknesse to light and from the power of Satan to God that we might receive forgivenesse of sins and inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in him Now Jesus Christ in his Personal ministration on earth was a Minister of the Circumcision yea after his Ascension the first pouring out of the Holy Ghost bringing and opening the testimony of Jesus as the Works are finished in his Body was upon his Apostles and Disciples that were all of the Circumcision and by them it was first to be preached to the Circumcision and after to all Nations for the obedience of faith Now this his being a Minister of the Circumcision was to confirme the Promises to the Fathers and that in the confirmation of them and in the grace so coming forth in Abrahams Seed and confirmed among his Family and from thence coming forth to the Nations the Gentiles might glorifie God for his mercy as it is written For this cause I will confesse to thee among the Gentiles c. Rom. 15. 8 9. And this may answer to his confirming the Covenant with many for one week the last of the Seventy in the midst of which himself was cut off and did therein prepare and through those sufferings himself was perfected that everlasting Sacrifice in the comming in of which the Typical Sacrifice and Oblation did cease about or soon after the third day or year of his being manifested to Israel and shewing himself in his Personal Ministration as the Son of God the Saviour of the World and so in the midst of the week he was cut off and through sufferings made perfect Luke 13. 32 33. and in a like time after the revelation of the mystery out of the Scriptures of the Prophets was come forth fully and confirmed in them and by them according to the Commandement of the everlasting God given forth for obedience to the saith among all Nations so that the Lord