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A48438	A funeral sermon after the interment of Mrs. Sarah Lye. The late wife of Mr. Thomas Lye of Clapham. By Phil. Lamb, minister of the Word. Together with the scriptual evidence and experiences of the grace of God towards, and in her, left under her own hand	Lamb, Philip, d. 1689.; Lye, Sarah, d. 1678.	1679 (1679)	Wing L206; ESTC R213605	35,653	142

particulars by which he eminently makes known the intireness of his indeared love to his Saints and by the same ways I shall shew you by and by that the Saints of God 〈◊〉 express their love to Jesus Christ. 1. First of all he discovers and makes known his love to his Saints in denying himself of all the glory he had with his Father in leaving those Regions above that he might come down and gather his Saints together that he might redeem them out of the hands of Hell and deliver them out of the House of their Prison and bondage Rev. 1. 6 Vnto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood he gave his heart blood for us Phil. 2. 5 6 7 Who being in the form of God thought it no robbery to be equal with God Gods fellow coequal with the Father What did he do why He made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a Servant and was made in the likeness of men And being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross Was not here love Greater love hath no man than this That a man lay down his life for his friend yet this was greater love for Christ laid down his life for his enemies Rom. 5. 10. 2. He manifests his intire love to his Saints in the delight he hath in their communion and in fellowship with them Christ is never better pleased or more delighted than when his Saints are in communion and fellowship with him When and Where-ever two or three are gathered together in my name there is my heaven here I delight to dwell If you read over this 8th Chapter of Proverbs it the 31 verse you shall see the ●edundancy of Christs love to his people before ever he had a people they were his contemplative delight that he should come down and be with them and give himself for them Rejoycing in the habitable part of his earth and my delights were with the sons of men Do but read Cant. 7. 5 and there you shall see how the Spouse her self takes notice of the delight her Beloved takes in communion with her The King says she is held or bound as in the Margin in the Galleries What are the Galleries why they are the Ordinances wherein he promises to meet his Saints the King will sit at his round Table he will walk with them in the Galleries in private communion he is held or bound there That is he takes so much pleasure and delight he is taken so much with the beauty he hath put upon his Saints that to speak it with reverence he cannot tell how to go from them and leave them as a man with his best beloved is bound as it were with chains of love 3. And lastly Christ manifests his love to his Saints in the earnest longing he hath to have them with him in his glory When any one sinner is converted it is said there is joy in heaven the King of Saints rejoyceth all the Angels and Saints sing together there is I say joy in Heaven when one sinner comes in Christs sends forth his Angels to entertain them and to bring them into his Fathers presence nay he leads them in himself In Joh. 14. 2 3 Christ tells his Disciples In my Fathers house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you And if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto my self that where I am there y●● may be also And you may read at your leisure that ravishing Chapter Joh. 17 and if you read it with understanding and your souls go with your eyes be it spoken with reverence to such a glorious God and King as he is you will perceive that he seems not satisfied with his own glory at the right hand of the Majesty on high without the Company of his dear-bought Saints that he hath bought with his own blood Read especially the 22 23 24 verses And the glory that thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one Vers. 23 I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me Vers. 24 Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world Then Christs Mediatory Kingdom will be compleated and the shame and sufferings that were undergon by him will be answered when he hath gathered his Saints to himself to behold his glory 3. And now I shall shew you the second part if we turn the Table then we shall see that the Saints of God in their measure and according to their strength those that are truly such do love the Lord Jesus with all their hearts and you find it not thus with you you have reason to be jealous of and to suspect your selves I say the true Saints of God do love the Lord Jesus with all their hearts Whom having not seen ye love i● whom though now you see him not yet believing ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1. 8. Whom having not seen ye love with such a love as raises your hearts it is Amor vulnerans ligans c. a love as one says that wounds that strikes them to the very heart a love that binds their souls to Christ which made the Spouse cry out Cant. 2. 5 Stay me with flagons comfort me with apples for I am sick of love The truth is you may imagine that it is an Hyperbolical expression but indeed there is no expression that can fully set it out and therefore you see how the Spouse hangs as it were on the lips of Christ Cant. 1. 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for thy love or loves is better than wine And every Saint while he is in the wilderness in his Wilderness-state leans on his beloved What would a Saint have in any condition None but Christ Christ is his All in all 4. And therefore in the second place I shall shew you That the Saints of God do mutually and reciprocally express and discover their love to Jesus Christ in their measure in their degree as he makes known his love to them As 1. They express their love to Christ in denying all for him Christ left a Kingdom and all the glory of his Fathers House But alas the Saints of God they have nothing to leave in comparison of what he left They that leave Houses Lands Mannors Kingdoms for Christ all this is little I say in comparison of what Christ left for them but the truth is whatever the Saints have all that they have they will lay at

the feet of Christ when he calls them to it and this as soon as ever they apprehend that love of Christ to them as soon as ever they come to be made sensible of the worthiness of Christ of the All-sufficiency that is in Christ to do them good away goes the world they sit loose to it as loose as Elijah's Mantle 2 Kings 2. 13 which fell off when he was taken up to Heaven Thus said and thus did the Disciples of Christ We have left all and followed thee But I shall only add the example of one eminent Saint who left all for Christ and if all the Princes in the World had thrown their Crowns into his lap he would have left them all Phil. 3. 7 8 What things were gain to me those were counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledg of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung that I may win Christ. v. 9 And be found in him c. 2. As Christ discovers his love to the Saints in his delight of communion with them so the people of God do intirely love earnestly desire and delight in communion with the Lord Jesus Christ the● would be in fellowship with Christ where-ever they be Cant. 1. 1● A bundle of myrrh is my well-belove● unto me he shall lye all night betwixt my breasts that is near my heart And therefore is the Spous● brought in Cant. 2. 7 breaking ou● after this strange kind of manner I charge you or I adjure you O y● Daughters of Jerusalem by the Roes and by the Hindes of the field that ye stir not up nor awake my love till he please The Lord Christ as i● she had said is come to abide with me and I take so much delight in communion and fellowiship with him that I charge you not to disturb him I would not have the dearest lust I would not have any sin whatsoever to interpose betwixt Christ and me 3. As Christ discovers the greatness of his love to his Saints in longing to injoy them with himself in his glory so the Saints of God here upon earth do long earnestly long to injoy him in his Fathers presence in the House of his glory to be in those Mansions that he hath provided for them in those Regions of glory above They look earnestly for the glorious appearance of the great God and the Lord Jesus Christ as the Apostle to Titus expresses it Titus 2. 13 14 Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works They look out as Sisera's Mother out of her Window and cry through the Lattice Judg. 5. 28 Why is his Chariot so long in coming why tarry the wheels of his Chariots So the soul of a Saint looks out at every cranny at the eye and at the ear and cries out Why tarries his Chariot why is he so long in coming That dear Saint that is gone before us was wont to tell me That she had waited a long time for her great change and did continue waiting And the truth is it cannot be otherwise when once a Soul is espoused to Jesus Christ and hath been kissed with the kisses of his mouth and knows any thing of his love and loveliness from the very day of espousals there will be there must be a longing desire of enjoyment as it is with young Lovers when once true love is between them all the time after is a time of desire and longing Make haste says the soul to Christ and come away Egredere anima says the longing Saint go out Soul to meet Jesus Christ this is the Case as it is between Christ and a believing Soul Says the Soul to Christ either come down to me or take me up to thee Dear Jesus Christ when shall I come and appear before God I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ which is best of all I would also observe to you that passionate out-cry of the Spouse to Jesus Christ Cant. 8. 14 Make haste my beloved and be thou like to a young Roe or to a young Hart upon the mountains of spices It is the voice of a believer to Jesus Christ. I should now make a transition from hence to the next Observation but let me first a little improve this And the use I shall make of the first Doctrine is this Vse 1. To stand a while together with you admiring at the infinite sovereign and free Grace of God who hath set his love upon man and hath done poor creatures that honour as to engage their hearts to love God and the truths of God God is not beholding to us for our love for he is an object infinitely above our love and 't is a wonder of mercy that God accounts us worthy to love him and to love Jesus Christ What a mercy is this that God should beget in us any love to himself by revealing his infinite love to us that his love should be shed abroad in our hearts Oh! stand amazed at this especially when you hear God saying Isa. 65. 1 I am sought of them that asked not for me I am found of them that sought me not I said behold me behold me unto a nation that was not called by my name But more of this anon when I come to the second Branch Only here we may go away with admiring thoughts into Heaven at this infinite free and condescending love of God to our poor souls and to raise up our hearts to the greater admiration consider 1. What a great what a wonderful and immense Love this Love of God is that he bears to poor creatures his favour is better than life it self Psal. 63. 3 Because says the Psalmist thy loving kindness is better than life my lips shal● praise thee What shall we call it A Fountain a Fountain without brim or bottom Amor Dei est infundens creans bonitatem The Love of Christ as one says 't is that which creates and infuseth goodness all manner of good temporal spiritual and eternal 2. Would you see the fruits and effects of this Love Alas 't is not a small matter for the great and glorious and holy God to tell a poor soul I love thee Men may say so and it may signifie little but God never says so to any but it creates a Heaven in the Soul it fills the Soul with all the joys and delights of Heaven it leads him into the Regions of Life and Peace peace peace and assurance for ever Isa. 26. 3. and 32. 17. In all your duties this will be your delight That God loves you In a time of darkness this will be your light and in the pangs of death this will be your

sure also to keep off every thing that may stifle or quench the heat of your love take heed of those strong blasts those wicked and cursed temptations that arise from Hell take heed also of those damps that arise from the world if you set your affections there those cold vapours arising thence will either abate or extinguish the heat of this pure heavenly fire of love take heed of being Servants with the World to the lusts of the flesh beware of these things Sin the lusts of the flesh the love of the World and Christ are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inconsistent they cannot dwell together in one Soul 1 Joh. 2. 15 If any man love the world the love of the father is not in him These are like two fires in one Chimney the one will extinguish the other Direct 4. Fourthly and Lastly Be sure to add fuel to this fire and keep this heat you have received from Heaven warm take heed that your hearts never get cold I must confess that we live in a cold and frozen age in the worlds old age in an age wherein there is little love to God to Jesus Christ and to the Saints and if you would in this cold season keep up the height of your love to Christ I would advise you 1. To be much in communion with him the nearer you are to the Sun the more heat you will have 2. Be diligent and active and vigorous in the performance of every duty clothe your selves well with the constant performance of duty tender bodies delicate persons if they leave off a Garment are very apt to catch cold and so it will be with us if we neglect the constant performance of duty the neglect of praying morning and evening the neglect of praying constantly in your Closets the neglect of hearing Sermons the neglect of the due observation of the Sabbath in the neglect of these things you will be apt to get cold yet it is not enough barely to attend these duties which is too common a folly and sin but there is one thing more to be done and that is when you have been in the exercise of your love and in communion with Christ when you have warmed your selves in your Closets or at an Ordinance go not too soon into the world this care we do usually take for our bodies when we are warm when we are hot we do not presently expose our selves to the cold and thus we should do in reference to our souls when we have been at an Ordinance and have been warmed and heated there we should not too soon adventure abroad into the world this hath done a world of mischief and persons have thereby cool'd and dampt their love 3. And one thing more When you meet together not to be quench-coals one to another not to abate the love and zeal one of another but as the Apostle exhorts Heb. 10. 24 Consider one another What to do to provoke unto love and to good works love to God love to Christ love one to another love to the Ordinances of God When you meet together do not meet together I say to cool one another but meet as so many live-coals that will kindle and enliven one another that you may make the greater heat that you may warm your selves and one another and so keep your hearts and affections continually warm for God Vse 2. I have yet a word to another sort of people by way of Application and that is to such as have never yet tasted of the love of God nor never yet have found any love to Christ in their souls I hope there are or may be none or few such here and therefore I shall speak but little to this if there should be any such here or any of yours at home should be such their case is as bad as that of Cain or Judas If they have yet no love to God and to Christ I tell them that are here and do you that are here tell them that are at home that they must never content themselves without it any longer without which they can never be able to say truly to say that God loves them for if they hate Christ Christ will hate them and set himself against them yea there is a curse gone out and pronounced against them already 1 Cor. 16. 22 If any man says the Apostle love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha And therefore you that are such as I am now speaking to be you perswaded from henceforth to love Christ and in order thereto wait upon the means of grace where God hath promised to shew forth his love and to inkindle it and inflame their hearts with a greater and higher love to himself In Job 22. 21 says Eliphas to Job Acquaint thy self with him that is with God and be at peace thereby good shall come unto thee And this brings me now at last though I have staid long from it to the second Observation from the Text wherein lies much comfort for poor souls though you have had hitherto but a little light and love from God and but little love to God And that is Doct. 2. That they that seek the Lord early shall certainly find him and shall find him a God full of grace and mercy and shall certainly enjoy him eternally in Heaven Our deceased Friend that precious Saint of God that is gone before us having found the benefit of an early seeking after God and Christ in the way of his Ordinances desired that her nearest Friends Relations and Children might be and indeed by chusing this Text doth advise us all to be a Generation of Seekers and oh that God would make every one of us such as may seek thy face O Jacob O God of Jacob that is that may seek after Jesus Christ This is the work of our lives and it is well for us that Jesus Christ came into the world to seek and to save that which was lost and to put this great advantage into our hands that we could never have had without him In Matt. 7. 7 8 Christ exhorts us Ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you For every one that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh it shall be opened Under the Covenant of works you might seek and seek till your eyes sunk into the holes of your heads and never have found Christ nor God but now he tell us that he is come into the world and that if we seek him with our whole hearts in the way of his Ordinances and appointments we shall find him and that if we knock there it shall be opened unto us In the prosecution of this Observation I shall only speak to these three things 1. First of all I shall shew you That man is born in a natural estrangement from God every man every individual person every Mothers Child is brought into the