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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43583	Meetness for heaven promoted in some brief meditations upon Colos. 1. 12. discovering the nature and necessity of habitual and actual meetness for heaven here, in all that hope for heaven hereafter. Designed for a funeral legacy. By O.H. an unworthy minister of the Gospel of Christ.	Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.	1679 (1679)	Wing H1771; ESTC R216793	64,886	228

world my Peace to make with God an Eternity to provide for which the affairs of the world have thrust out or distracted me in This this shall be my imployment for the future for what will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul I leave all these things to others that succeed me 3. Relative work This also may be in some respects dispatched off our hands and the doing of it maketh more meet for Heaven This is not to be slighted for it is needful in its place When King Hezekiah was sick unto death God sends him this Message Set thine house in order for thou shalt dye and not live Isa 38.1 i. e. Make thy Will and dispose of thy domestical concerns so as may be a prevention of quarrels and contentions in thy Family after thy decease And ver 3. 't is said that Hezekiah wept sore Why so Was not Hezekiah a Godly Man Was not his Soul in a readiness for death Yes doubtless for he dare appeal to God that he had walked before him in truth and with a perfect heart What then was the matter Why Hezekiah had yet no Son Manasseh being not born till three years after this q. d. Lord if it may be thy will spare my Life and give me a Son for if I dye at this time I know not how to dispose of the Crown I am likely to leave the Church and State in miserable distraction and confusion through the great uncertainty of a succession and the proneness of the people to backslide to their false Worship God heard his Prayer gave him a lease of his Life for fifteen years But this is a duty to all though it be more necessary to some then to others But however its useful to settle the Mind at ease and prevent outward ill consequences and inward disturbances of Spirit but as that good Man was loath to go off the stage Heirless so other circumstances may call for the settlement of their Families by their last Will and Testament especially when Children are left young c. Yea and others also may say now God hath lengthened out my days to see my Children brought up and hopeful for Religion setled in Callings and Families there was but this Child or that business that I desired to see well ordered as to my Family-affairs As Jacob closed up his Blessing of Dan Gen. 19.48 I have waited for thy salvation O Lord. Now at last since God hath wrought on such a Child I will say with old Simeon Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word for mine eyes have seen thy salvation Luk. 2.29 30. 4. Another work to be dispatcht off our hands is publick work This concerns men in a publick or private capacity as when Moses had led Israel out of Egypt and through the Wilderness he had dispatcht his work and having been faithful in Gods house he was fit to dye So when Joshua had conquered many Kings in Canaan divided the Land to Israel he got a discharge and fell asleep Thus David after he had served his own generation by the will of God fell on sleep and was laid unto his Fathers Acts 13.36 And so Aaron Samuel and the rest of the Prophets marcht off the Field by the order of our great Lord General when they had dispatcht their warfare and delivered their message Your Fathers where are they and the Prophets do they live for ever Zech. 1.5 And indeed to what purpose should they or we live when our work is done Especially when Gods servants have not only dispatcht that work that concerns present but future Generations For this is also the work of our present day Thus Solomon built God an house for future times And the Apostle Peter lays in for after ages 2 Pet. 1.15 Moreover I will endeavour that you may be able after my decease to have these things alwayes in remembrance It s the property of a good man to take care that Religion may live when he is dead Ambrose saith of Theodosius I loved the man exceedingly that when he dyed he was more sollicitous for the Churches then his own danger Then indeed is the Christian meet for Heaven when he hath dispatcht his work on Earth and laid a foundation for good in after times however bears his testimony against corruptions in future generations as Moses Deut. 31 26.-30 Quest You will say how can any man be said to dispatch his work till his life be done Surely the date of work and life run parallel Answ 1. Active doing work may be oft at an end when suffering work is but a beginning for God often reserves suffering work to the last that patience may have her perfect work that the Christian may be perfect and entire wanting nothing Jam. 1.4 The Christian hath little to do but lye in bed and patiently wait Gods pleasure and this usually follows on doing Gods will See Hebr. 10.36 This is indeed a great work to bear our burden patiently chearfully thankfully and fruitfully and say well for the present and will be better shortly the greatest part is then over 2. Though something be to be done or suffered yet when the greatest part of a Christians work is done it may be said it is finished So it was with our Saviour Joh. 17.4 I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do But was not dying upon the Cross for the sins of Men a principal piece of Christs work Answ It was so nigh that he speaks of it as already done so ver 11. I am not in the world for he was just a going out of it Besides he had done most of his work and was ready prest to do the work fully the rest that was behind And when our Lord had tasted the vinegar he said it is finished Joh. 19.30 This is a closing word as giving up the ghost was a closing work 3. Sometimes Divine Providence takes off Gods children from much of their work before their dayes be ended this is obvious to a rational eye that then their work is done as sometimes by natural causes Thus Isaac Jacob could presage their own death by the certain prognostick of death namely old age Others by some sickness Consumptions which are usually mortal Others are taken off most of their work by Persecutions Prisons c. Others are taken off the stage of the World by violent death As a dying Minister said on the Scaffold Isaac was old and knew not the day of his death I am young and know the day manner and instruments of my death It s but a nodding the head and death doth its office Now my work is ended 4. Yet once more Some godly Ministers and Christians have had a kind of instinct that death was approaching even in their best health and younger days and so consequently of the dispatch of their work as some Creatures by natural instinct foresee a falling house So we