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A79887	An antidote against immoderate mourning for the dead. Being a funeral sermon preached at the burial of Mr. Thomas Bewley junior, December 17th. 1658. By Sa. Clarke, pastor in Bennet Fink, London.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1660 (1660)	Wing C4501; Thomason E1015_5; ESTC R208174	34,512	62

beheld wherein was a confluence of all earthly felicities was but a type and shadow of it Heaven is a large place In my fathers house saith our Saviour there are many mansions Joh. 14. 2. It s a golden City having the glory of God in it and her light like to a stone most precious even like a Jasper stone clear as Chrystal and the wall of it is of Jasper and the City is pure gold clear as glasse the foundations of the wall are garnished with all manner of precious stones and the City hath no need of the Sun neither of the Moon to shine in it for the glory of God doth lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof Rev. 21. 11 19 23. It 's a City whose builder and maker is God Heb. 1. 10. and therefore having such an Architect it must needs infinitely transcend the stateliest Fabricks that were ever made by man It hath been neer these six thousand years in preparing Matt. 25. 34. and Christ ever since his ascension hath been further preparing of it for us Joh. 14. 2. I go saith he to prepare a place for you Let us say therefore as Fulgentius did when he saw the Roman Nobility mounted in their pride and bravery Si talis sit Roma terrestris qualis est Roma coelestis If Rome be such a glorious and glittering place what is Heaven How should these considerations make us to grow weary of the world and groan and breath after heaven where are riches without rust pleasure without pain joy without sorrow youth without decay Ubi totum sit quod velis nihil sit quod nolis where is all that the heart of man can wish and his mind desire where is nothing more that can be desired nothing more than can be desired If an Heathen could say Fugiendum est ad clarissimam patriam ibi pater ibi omnia How much more should a Christian say Let us flee apace to our own Countrey that is above sith there is our Father yea there is all that heart can wish or need require Thirdly a third priviledge wherewith all the Saints departed are invested is that they have immediate fellowship with the blessed Angels and the spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12. 22 23. In heaven they enjoy Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the Patriarchs and all the Prophets and Apostles and the noble army of Martyrs their godly friends and relations which went before them and all other the true members of Jesus Christ of what Tongue or Nation or Kindred soever they have been One of the greatest happinesses which the godly enjoy in this world is the Communion of Saints The Prophet David professeth that all his delight was in the Saints and in those that were most excellent Psal. 16. 3 and though he was a King yet made he himself a companion of all them that feared God and of them that kept his Precepts Psal. 119. 63. He would have such and none but such by his good will about him Mine eyes saith he shall be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with me He that walketh in a perfect way he shall serve me Psal. 101. 6. And yet by woful experience we see how many bones of contention the Devil casts in amongst them to sowr their society and what breaches many times are occasioned by small and trifling matters But in heaven they are all of one mind which makes their society the more comfortable When Grinaeus lay on his death bed he told some friends that came to visit him that he was going to that place Ubi Luthero cum Zuinglio optime convenit where Luther and Zuinglius who because they differed in judgment about the manner of Christs presence in the Sacrament could never agree on earth agreed excellent well In heaven if there be degreesof glory as probably there are yet shall not those who have their choicest graces crowned with the greatest weight of glory despise or over-look the meanest Saint but they are perfectly knit together in the bonds of dearest love Fourthly Another priviledge which our Christian friends departed enjoy in heaven is that they are neerlier united to their Head Christ than possibly they could be in this world It 's true that even whilst they live here they are the members of Christ For the holy Apostle tells us that as we have many members in one body so we being many are one body in Christ Rom. 12. 4. 5. yet are we now at a great distance from him Our head is in heaven and we upon the earth and therefore Saint Paul tells us that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord 2 Cor. 5. 6. and this makes us sigh and groan not for that we would be uncloathed but cloathed upon that mortality might be swallowed up of life vers. 4. And this made the Church to pray so pathetically Cant. 8. 14. Make hast my beloved and be thou like to a Roe or to a young Hart upon the mountains of Spices And Paul himself considering his distance from his Head cties out Dis cupio solvi tecumque O Christe manere Phil. 1. 23. I desire to depart and to be with Christ which is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} by much far the better And no marvel though the members do so long to be conjoyned with their Head in heaven For there as one saith excellently the Lord Jesus Christ perpetually and without intermission manifesteth the most glorious and visible signes of his presence and seals of his love He there pours forth all the plenteous demonstrations of his goodnesse to his members and gives them eyes to see it and minds to conceive it and so fills them with exceeding fulnesse of love to him again so that they even swim in pleasure and are overwhelmed with joy A joy too big to enter into them and therefore they are said to enter into it Matth. 25. 21. A glory fitter to be believed than possibly to be discoursed An exceeding excessive eternal weight of glory 2 Cor. 4. 17. Such a weight that if the body were not upheld by the mighty power of God it were impossible but that it should faint under it Oh therefore let there be continual ascensions in our hearts thitherward Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to our head in heaven Praying with the Church Even so come Lord Jesus come quickly and then ere long he will send his chariots for us as Joseph did for his Father and will fetch us riding upon the clouds and convoy us by his Angels through the air and put us into that general assembly of happy and blessed souls and though death like Peters good Angel smite thee on thy side yet it is only that it may lead thee out of thy prison through the Iron gates into the City of God Fifthly the next priviledge which the Saints enjoy in death is the beatifical

of comfort be your comforter and give you a large measure of prudence patience self-denial with a full and free resignation of your self to the absolute disposal of the All-wise and All-merciful God that you may as well in heart as in words say Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven which is the servent prayer of From my Study in Thred-needle-street Jan. 14. 1658 9. Your affectionate friend to love and serve you S. CLARKE AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST Immoderate Mourning for the DEAD 1 Thes. 4. 13 14. But I would not have you ignorant brethren concerning them which are asleep that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him THe Apostle Paul by Gods blessing upon his Ministry had gathered a large Church in Thessalonica the chiefest City of Macedonia For besides that some of the Jews believed there were also multitudes of the Greeks and of the chief women not a few that readily entertained the Gospel and conforted with Paul and Silas Act. 17. 4. whereupon the Devil moved with envy raised a great persecution against them by the Jews that dwelt there and other lewd fellows of the baser sort that they adjoyned to them upon which occasion Paul and Silas were forced to fly to Berea and from thence Paul went to Athens And after a while Silas and Timotheus coming to him thither he not being unmindful of his flock that he had left at Thessalonica sent Timothy to confirm them in the faith that he before had preached and they had received At Timothy's return to him at Corinth being informed by him of their estate he thought fit and expedient to write to them this Epistle as appears 1 Thess. 3. 1 2. wherein after the Apostolical salutations c. 1. v. 1. the Epistle consists of two principal parts In the first the Apostle indeavours to confirm and strengthen them in the faith received to the end of the third Chapter From thence to the end of the Epistle he exhorts them by a Christian conversation to beautifie and adorn their profession and this he doth First in general ch. 4. v. 1 2. Secondly in particular by perswading them to the practice of sundry Christian Vertues and Duties as 1. To chastity v. 3 4 5. 2. To justice and equity in all their dealings v. 6. 3. To brotherly love v. 9 10. 4. To a quiet life and attending their own businesses v. 11 12. 5. To be moderate in their sorrow for their deceased friends seeing they shall be raised up again by Christ v. 13 14. and thereupon he takes occasion largely to describe the glory of Christs coming to Judgment and the order of the resurrection of the dead declaring the certainty of it though the time was uncertain and this he doth to the fourth verse of the fifth Chapter In these two verses of my text the chiefest scope of the Apostle is to perswade them to keep a mean in their mourning for the dead wherein are considerable First the friendly compellation that he uses Brethren Secondly An information concerning the state of the dead set down negatively I would not have you ignorant as if he should say I would have you well informed of this Doctrine the knowledge whereof will conduce much to your comfort Thirdly the end why he was so careful to inform them of it that they might not sorrow as did others which had no hope viz. as the Heathen did For although they believed the immortality of the soul yet they were never able to comprehend or believe the resurrection of the bodies and re-uniting them with the souls whereof he speaks in the subsequent verse as appears Acts 17. 32. and 26. 23 c. Fourthly a strong argument to inforce his exhortation for their moderate mourning for the dead ver. 14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again c. Thus having heard the occasion and scope of these words and the principal parts of the Text I will make no other curious division of it but proceed to shew you how many useful observations may be gathered out of these verses and First from the friendly compellation used by the Apostle Brethren Whence note first that All Gods children are brethren so saith Abraham to Lot Gen. 13. 8. Let there be no strife I pray-thee between me and thee c. for we are brethren so Col. 1. 2. 1 Thes. 5. 26 27. 1 Tim. 6 2. For First they are the adopted children of the same Father Ephes. 4. 6. Secondly they are born of the same mother the Church 1 Pet. 1. 23. Thirdly They are brought up in the same Family Ephes. 3. 15. Fourthly They are nourished with the same food 1 Pet. 2. 2. Fifthly They have all the same inheritance Rom. 8. 17. Secondly Again consider who it is that calls them brethren the Apostle Paul the great Doctor of the Gentiles and a man endowed with more then ordinary gifts and graces and who they were that he calls Brethren the lately converted Thessalonians most of them of mean rank and mean gifts in comparison of him whence note They which have the greatest gifts and graces bestowed upon them by God must not superciliously overlook those which are meaner and weaker then themselves but must own them for and acknowledge them to be Brethren Hence 1 Cor. 4. 7. who makes thee to differ from another and what hast thou that thou didst not receive Now if thou didst receive it why doest thou glory as if thou hadst not received it Thirdly in that the Apostle was so careful to inform them of this comfortable truth Observe Gods Ministers must be careful to inform their people of all such saving truths as may conduce to their edification and comfort that when they come to leave their people they may be able to say with the Apostle Act. 20. 27. I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God Fourthly It seems that till now the Thessalonians were ignorant of these things which made them to over-sorrow for their dead Hence observe Ignorance of the blessed estate of the Saints departed is the cause of excessive mourning for them Fifthly Paul speaking of the dead saith They were asleep Hence observe The death of the righteous is but a sweet sleep so it is often called in Scripture Christ speaking of dead Lazarus saith Our friend Lazarus sleepeth Joh. 11. 11. with 14. and when Stephen was stoned to death its said that he fell asleep Act. 7. 60. and in these two verses of my Text Paul twice calls it a sleep and hence the grave is called a Bed Isa. 572. and the Greeks called it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a Dormitory or sleeping place Sixthly I would not have you sorrow as do others c. He doth not say I would not have sorrow at all For