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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53236	Blessed Paul's tryal and triumph in a sermon upon the death of Mrs. Elizabeth King / by John Oakes ...	Oakes, John, d. 1689?	1689 (1689)	Wing O18; ESTC R17578	25,131	33

benefits and blessings that he hath purchased called precious Faith the Faith 〈…〉 Pet. 1. 1. 〈…〉 1. 1. of God's Elect as peculiar to God's chosen ones This is committed to Christians by way of operation and infusion and donation By Grace ye are saved through Faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God. 2. By Faith we are to understand the Doctrine of Faith the revelation of the Divine Will in the Gospel of God's Grace which was committed to Paul as a Minister to be by him dispensed and preached to others as being the power of God unto salvation And elsewhere he tells us that Christ hath 〈…〉 m. 1. 16. committed unto us the word of Reconciliation And this is also a trust committed unto all Christians to be professed 〈…〉 Cor. 5. 19. owned obeyed believed against all gainsayers whosoever whether they be Men of unsound Minds or ungodly Livers Which some professing have erred concerning the Faith. This is 1 Tim. 6. 21 Jude 3. that Faith which we are exhorted earnestly to contend for which was once delivered to the Saints Secondly What is meant by his keeping the Faith To which I answer 1. If you take it in the former sense then it imports his constant endeavour to keep that Grace in its exercise by a constant cleaving to and relyance upon God and Christ for Life and Salvation drawing continued supplies of his Grace and Spirit for the enabling a Christian to do his present work and to fit him for his future reward and this against all the opposition that he may meet with from the slie and subtle suggestions and insinuations of the Devil who hath a special spight at the Christians Faith. 2. But if you take it in the latter sence then it imports the holding fast our profession of this both in our principles and practices against all attempts of Seducers and Persecutors and against all the enticing and alluring examples of prophane and ungodly ones Such there have been and never more than in this loose and ungodly Age in which we live When Iniquity abounds and the Love of many waxes cold When Matth. 24. 12. there are great endeavours to laugh all true Religion and Godliness in its power out of countenance and various stratagems to induce Christians to make shipwrack of Faith and a good 1 Tim. 1. 19. Conscience Thus have I given you a short account of the first part of my Text as expressive of the true Christians work a work to be done here I proceed now very briefly to Paul's prospect what he had in view hereafter relating to the Glorious Reward he was upon the matter entring into the possession of Henceforth is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness I purpose only to note a very few things and shut up the whole with a short Application First Here we have an account of that future felicity which is reserved for the Saints 't is a Crown and a Crown of Righteousness A Crown which you know is an Ensign of the greatest Honour upon Earth and an Emblem of the highest Glory in Heaven Such a Crown and such a Kingdom as infinitely exceeds all the Crowns and Kingdoms of the World 't is an Incorruptible Crown a Crown which fadeth not away 〈…〉 9. 25. whereas all the Crowns of Kings and Emperours which are so eagerly contended for by the Men of this World are poor 〈…〉 5. 4. perishing corrupting fading things 'T is a Crown of Life 〈…〉 1. 12. What shall I say T is not only a Glorious Crown but a Crown of Glory Secondly 'T is a Crown of Righteousness as peculiarly belonging to those who are clothed with the Robe of Christ's Righteousness imputed and with the fine Linnen of the Righteousness of Christ imparted And also as a Righteous but yet free Reward which the Righteous God hath promised and will faithfully perform 2. We may observe here the time of Believers entring upon the possession of this future Glory 1. In part as to their Souls Henceforth that is immediately upon their Death and Dissiolution Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord from henceforth yea faith the Spirit 〈…〉 14. 13. that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them So Paul Having a desire to depart and to be with Christ 〈…〉 1. 23 In the same moment wherein they pass from Earth they go to Heaven there is no calling in at Purgatory by the way no middle state to detain the Souls of Believers in 2. Perfectly and compleatly with respect to Soul and Body at a certain day the day of Judgment which will be a day of Retribution which is called by way of emphasis in the Text That Day A remarkable day it will be when the whole World shall be determined and sent to their Everlasting abodes either of Happiness on the one side or Misery on the other Thirdly We may observe the manner of the Saints entring upon this Glorious Possession not as matter of merit but by way of free donation which God the righteous Judge shall give me says Paul here Eternal Life cost Christ very dear no less than his Life-Blood but it comes free to us without price or purchace on our part 'T is not our deserved Wages but the gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 〈…〉 23. Fourthly We have here the Extent of this Gift not only to such as Paul a Believer of the highest Fourm a Star of the first Magnitude in the Firmament of the Church not to me only c. but to every true though weak Believer to all who can approve themselves such as love the Lord Jesus in sincerity and look and long for his appearing It was not the peculiar priviledge of this great Apostle but a common Salvation which belongs to all the faithful from the greatest to the least of Saints And thus I have dispatcht the Doctrinal part of this Text I shall only add a word or two for the practical improvement of it First If they and only they who have good evidence of having done and dispatcht their great Work and Business in this World can with comfort and confidence ensure to themselves the expectation of the promised Reward in the other Then hence we may infer the madness and folly of a great part of those that hear me this day Who have been so often told of this Future State and profess to believe it and by dayly renewed instances of Mortality cannot but be convinced that they are drawing near to it and perhaps may be upon the very brink of it not knowing what a day or night may bring forth and yet they have lived all their days in a total neglect of that work whose accomplishment is a necessary praerequisite to this promised Reward Who are so far from having conquered their Enemies and fought the good fight that they have not yet really listed themselves under Christ's Banner