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A57376	The Christians advantage both by life and death discovered in a sermon preached at the funeral of that faithful and eminent servant of the Lord, Joseph Jackson, late Esq. and alderman of the city of Bristol, on the 17th day of January, an. Dom. 1661, by Fran. Roberts ...	Roberts, Francis, 1609-1675.	1662 (1662)	Wing R1582; ESTC R32381	25,893	44

THE CHRISTIANS ADVANTAGE BOTH BY Life and Death Discovered in a SERMON PREACHED At the Funeral of that Faithful and Eminent Servant of the LORD JOSEPH JACKSON late Esq and Alderman of the City of Bristol On the 17. day of January An. Dom. 1661. By Fran. Roberts D. D. Rector of the Church at Wrington in the County of Somerset Phil. 1.21 To me to Live is CHRIST and to Die is GAIN Hieronym ad Eustoch in Epitaph Paulae tom 1. Non moeremus quòd talem amisimus Sed gratias agimus quòd habuimus imò habemus Deo enim vivunt omnia quicquid revertitur ad Dominum in familiae numero computatur Hieronym ad Theodor. in Epitaph Lucinii tom 1. Nos dolendi magis qui quotidie stamus in praelio peccatorum vitiis sordidamur accipimus vulnera de otioso verbo reddituri sumus rationem LONDON Printed by Edw. Mottershed 1662. TO My much Honored and entirely beloved Friends in the LORD The Children Brethren Sisters and others in near and dear Relation to JOSEPH JACKSON late Esq and Alderman of the City of Bristol now sleeping in Jesus yea living and triumphing in bliss with IJSUS Grace mercy and peace in this life and eternal glory in the life to come My dear Christian Friends HOw brittle frail and fading is the most flourishing Life of Man here on Earth The Holy Scriptures compute it By 70 or 80 years Psal. 90.10 by a few years Job 16.22 by moneths Job 14.5 by dayes Job 14.5 by a few dayes Job 14.1 by one day Job 14.6 by all denoting the extreme brevity of it And they compare his life and time of abode here below To a vanishing vapour Jam. 4.14 to a transient wind Job 7.7 to a perishing puff of breath Psal. 146.4 Isa. 2.22 to a fading flower Psal. 103.15 16. Job 14.2 to a momentary meditation thought or tale told Psal. 90.9 to withering grass Psal. 90.5 6.1 Pet. 1.24 to a speedy irrevocable flood Psal. 90.5 to yesterday when past and gone Psal. 90.4 to an hastening Post Job 9.25 to a swift Weavers shuttle Job 7.6 to short handbreadths Psal. 39.5 to a Weavers web soon brought to the thrum to be cut off Isa. 38.12 to a Watch in the night but three hours long Psal. 90.4 to a vanishing shadow Job 4.2 8.9 Psal. 102.11 to crumbling dust Psal. 103.14 to a sleep insensibly passing Psal. 90.5 to an Apparition or image Psal. 39.6 And as if all these reached not home to meer Nothing Psal. 39.5 By all these emphatically describing the extreme lubricity uncertainty and vanity of Man's life VVhereupon we may with the Psalmist justly conclude Surely every man at his best state is altogether vanity Selah Psal. 39.5 Not only man but every man not in some state only as of childhood sickness old age c. but at his best state Heb. when setled Is not only vain but vanity it self Not only vanity in part or in some regard but in whole altogether vanity And all this with a Surely prefixed for the more undoubted certainty And with a Selah suffixed for the greater observableness It is not long since his late dear Yokefellow was by Natures dissolution divorced from him And now Himself ● by Death separated and removed from you Oh what is man Little did I think to have preached at the Funeral of either And lo so hath the LORD disposed things that I have not without much reluctancie and grief performed this last office for them both not many years interposing They have prevented both you and me Our work is to prepare to follow after The good Lord teach us so to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom Psal. 90.12 To true spiritual wisdom To wisdom for our selves for our souls for our eternal estate with our dearest Saviour IESUS CHRIST in Heaven We have here no continuing City Let us diligently seek one to come A City that hath foundations whose builder and maker is God Heb. 13.14 11.10 Let us so manage our Earthly Pilgrimage that we may make sure of the Heavenly Heritage Let us so improve this Mortality as not to miss of that Immortality And so live on Earth a while that we may undoubtedly live in Heaven for ever As for you that are surviving My Conscience and Affection I cannot but affectionately love those that belong'd to him whom I so intensively affected for Christ in him prompt me to present a few requests unto you by way of Advice And I hope you will resent them with Christian acceptation 1. Be pleased to peruse and practise those Ten Instructions or Practical Directions published in my Instructive and Hortatory Epistle prefixed to my Sermon preached at the Funeral of Mary Jackson his late religious Yokefellow You have the printed Books and Directions I need not mention any Particulars but compendiously refer you to them I heartily recommend them to your faithful practice beseeching the God of all wisdom to give you salvifical understanding in all things 2. Endeavour to comfort your selves in this your great loss of him and deep affliction for him by Christian considerations And what Consolatory Arguments may you not readily suggest unto your selves His Life was so Christian that his Death must needs be comfortable Of a good life there cannot come a bad death As of a bad life seldom comes a good death Life and Death were his for all manner of spiritual advantages He liv'd to the Lord and died to the Lord both living and dying he was and is the Lords Rom. 14.8 His body as Hierom said of Nepotianus is returned to the earth but his soul is restored to Christ. His Sins and Sorrows are all ended his Graces are perfected and his eternal Joyes are begun VVhile you are lamenting in black He is triumphing in white Are we born that I may use Hierom's words to Paula upon the death of her daughter Blesilla that we should here abide eternally Abraham Moses Isaiah Peter James John Paul the chosen Vessel and above all the Son of God died And are we grieved that one depart the body whose soul was so accepted of God as to be snatched out of the midst of iniquity and error Let that dead person be lamented whom Hell receives whom the Infernal pit devours for whose punishment everlasting fire doth burn As for us whose End the Angels accompany whom Christ meets let us rather grieve that we are kept so long in this tabernacle of Death and may not meet Christ sōoner seeing while we are present in this body we are absent from the Lord. Let Faith Hope and Love be your comforters as Augustine sometimes advised an Italian widow upon the death of her Husband Faith For you are not desolate so long as Christ dwells in your hearts by Faith Hope For you cannot but confidently hope That he is not lost but only sent before you That he is in Heáven with Christ which

known his truth Isa. 38.18 19. Therefore now let the councel of Solomon sink deep into every true Christians heart Whatsoever thine hand findeth to do do it with all thy might for there is no work no● device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave whither t●●● goest Eccles. 9.10 7. Finally Their Hoarding time for Eternity In this Life they that are Christ's lay up for themselves Treasures in Heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt nor thieves break through and steal Matth. 6.20 Now they treasure up Gifts Graces Prayers Tears Promises Experiences Evidences for Heaven c. Now they may be rich in good-works ready to distribute willing to communicate laying up in store for themselves bags that wax not old and a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal life 1 Tim. 6.19 Now they may make themselves friends with the Mammon of unrighteousness that when they fail they may be received into everlasting habitations Luk. 16.9 Now they may meditate of their Mortality and prepare for their Immortality Now they may ponder upon their First Middle and Last things as Bernard ranks them Those bring shame those grief and these Fear They may think whence they came and blush where they are and groan● whither they go and tremble They may remember their latter end that they may not easily do amiss Thus Life is theirs How is Death theirs that are Christ's Resol As I have discovered the bright Day of Life to be theirs so now I shall shew how the dark Night of Death is theirs also It 's appointed to all men Godly and Wicked once to die But oh what a vast disparity is there betwixt the Godly that are Christ's and the Wicked that are Christless in Death To the wicked belong 1 The terrors of Death that King of Terrors as Bildad calls it that Most terrible of terribles as the Heathen stiled it The enmity of Death 1 Cor. 15.25 26. 3 The sting and venom of Death 1 Cor. 15.56 4 The curse and bitterness gall and wormwood of Death Gal. 3.10 5 The woful followers of Death viz. The Judgment of Condemnation Heb. 9.27 Joh. 5.29 And everlasting Torments in Hell Matth. 25.41 46. Luk. 16.23 But from them that are Christ's All this evil and mischief of Death is sweetly removed away by Christ. ● They fear not Death but can desire it and groan after it Having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is much more best Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy Word For in this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our House which is from Heaven 2. Of a● Enemy Death is become their Friend Of Loss their Gain Phil. 1.21 2 Cor. 5.1 3. Of an Hornet Death is become a Drone The sting of Death is plucked out by Christ who hath given them the victory 1 Cor. 15.54 55 56 57. 4. The Curse of Death is turned into a Blessing Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them Rev. 14.13 5. And the Consequents of Death are to them most comfortable viz. The judgement of Absolution Heb. 9.27 with Matth. 25.34 And eternal life in Heaven Matth. 25.46 Luk 16.22 Thus to them that are his Jesus Christ brings light out of Darkness Good out of evil life out of Death He turns this venemous Viper Death into a soveraign Treacle Death is as Sampson's roaring Lyon slain by Christ our true Sampson out of whose carkase he gives his members the sweetest Honey-combs of Spiritual advantages More Particularly let them that are Christs know That 1. Death is their sweet sleep in Jesus It 's often stiled their Sleep As Joh. 11.11 12 13. Acts 13.36 1 Cor. 15.51 11.30 And sometimes their Sleep in Jesus As them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him 1 Thes. 4.14 Then th●y also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished 1 Cor. 15.18 The Grave is their Bed they shall rest in their Beds Isa. 57.2 It is said of godly King Asa they buried him and laid him in the Bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the Apothecaries art 2 Chron. 16.14 But the Saints last bed the Grave is perfumed with better sweets than Spices and Odors even wi●h the Burial of Christs own blessed Body Matth. 27.59 60. In these Beds they rest from all their labours of sin and sorrow Rev. 14.13 Here they sweetly sleep as in the bosom of Christ unto whom even their dead dust remains still mystically united and therefore is of precious account with him And out of this last sleep they shall again awake at Christs glorious appearing Dan. 12.2 1 Cor. 15.23 51 52 c. 1 Th●ss 4.14 15 16. 2. Death is their Alteration not their Abolition their Change not their Confusion Thus ●ob accounted it All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come Job 14.14 And of all men in the world they that are Christ's do at death make an happy change They change Earth for Heaven An earthly Clay-tabernacle for Celestial Mansions in the Heavenly Fathers house 2 Cor. 5.1 Job 14.2 Rags of Mortality for Robes of Immortality 2 Cor. 5.4 1 Cor. 15.53 Society of Saints imperfect for the company of blessed Angels and of the spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12.23 As Hierom said of Nepotianus He did not so much die as remove not so much leave his friends as change them In all respects they change every way for the better 3. Death is their Departure not their Destruction Their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or dissolution not their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or reversion Having a desire to depart Phil. 1.23 Their loosing from this Earthly shore to set sail for Heaven Good old Simeon said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Lord now loosest thou thy servant or lettest thou loose thy servant c. Luk. 2.29 They depart From this Egypt and Wilderness to that Canaan From this earthly to that better and heavenly Country From this decaying City below to that continuing City above Heb. 13.14 From visibles to invisibles From transitory and finite creatures to God the Creator and Jesus Christ the Redeemer blessed for ever Amen Joh. 20.17 Phil. 1.23 1 Thess. 4.17 Rom. 9.5 4. Death is their Gain not their Loss So the Apostle judged it would be to him For to me to live is Christ and to die is Gain Phil. 1.21 What Gain They that are Christ's when they die lose their dearest Natural lives and therewith their earthly relations and acquaintance their Friends houses Lands Livings Honors Riches Pleasures even all these temporal enjoyments True But what are all these Painted shadows vanishing Bubbles magnifi'd Nothings They gain by Dying other manner of Treasures as Perfection of