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A64130	A sermon preached at the funerall of that worthy knight Sr. George Dalston of Dalston in Cumberland, September 28. 1657. By J.T. D.D.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1658 (1658)	Wing T392A; ESTC R219166	28,574	39

it is the comfort of that joy which makes them blessed who die in the love of God and the faith and obedience of the Lord Jesus And now to the proposition it selfe In the state of separation the souls departed perceive the blessing and comfort of their labours they are alive after death and after death immediately they finde great refreshments Iustorum animae in manu Dei sunt non tanget illos tormentum mortis Wisd. 3. The torments of death shall not touch the souls of the righteous because they are in the hands of God And fifteen hundred years after the death of Moses we finde him talking with our Blessed Lord in his transfiguration upon the Mount Tabor and as Moses was then so are all the Saints immediately after death praesentes apud Dominum they are present with the Lord and to be so is not a state of death and yet of this it is that S. Paul affirms it to be much better then to be alive And this was the undoubted sentence of the Jews before Christ and since and therefore our Blessed Saviour told the converted thief that he should that day be with him in Paradise Now without peradventure he spake so as he was to be understood meaning by Paradise that which the Schools and Pulpits of the Rabbins did usually speak of it By Paradise till the time of Esdras it is certain the Jews only meant that Blessed Garden in which God once placed Adam and Eve but in the time of Esdras and so downward when they spake distinctly of things to happen after this life and began to signifie their new discoveries and modern Philosophy by Names they called the state of souls expecting the resurrection of their bodies by the name of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the garden of Eden Hence came that forme of comprecation and blessing to the soul of an Israelite Sit anima ejus in horto Eden Let his soul be in the garden of Eden and in their solemn prayers at the time of their death they were wont to say let his soule rest and let his sleep be in peace untill the Comforter shall come open the gates of Paradise unto him expresly distinguishing Paradise from the state of the Resurrection And so it is evident in the entercourse on the Crosse between Christ and the converted thief That day both were to be in Paradise but Christ himself was not then ascended into heaven and therefore Paradise was no part of that region where Christ now and hereafter the Saints shall reign in glory For {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} did by use and custome signifie any place of beauty and pleasure So the LXX read Eccles. 2. 5. I made me gardens and orchards I made me a Paradise so it is in the Greek and Cicero having found this strange word in Zenophon renders it by agrum conseptum ac diligentèr consitum a field well hedg'd and set with flowers and fruits Vivarium Gellius renders it a place to keep birds and beasts alive for pleasure Pollux sayes this word was Persian by its original yet because by traduction it became Hebrew we may best learn the meaning of it from the Jews who used it most often and whose sense we better understand Their meaning therefore was this that as Paradise or the Garden of Eden was a place of great beauty pleasure and tranquillity so the state of separate souls was a state of peace and excellent delights So Philo allegorically does expound Paradise {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} For the trees that grow in Paradise are not like ours but they bring forth knowledge and life and immortality It is therefore more then probable that when the converted thief heard our Blessed Saviour speak of Paradise or Gan Eden he who was a Jew and heard that on that day he should be there understood the meaning to be that he should be there where all the good Jews did believe the souls of Abraham Isaac and Iacob to be placed As if Christ had said Though you only ask to be remembred when I come into my Kingdome not only that shall be performed in time but even to day thou shalt have great refreshment and this the Hellenist Jews called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the rest of Paradise and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the comfort of Paradise the word being also warranted from that concerning Lazarus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} He is comforted But this we learn more perfectly from the raptures of S. Paul He knew a man meaning himself rapt up into the third heaven And I knew such a man how that he was caught up into Paradise 2 Cor. 2. 3. The raptures visions were distinct for S. Paul being a Jew and speaking after the manner of his Nation makes Paradise a distinct thing from the third Heaven For the Jews deny any orbes to be in Heaven but they make three regions only the one of clouds the second of starrs and the third of Angels To this third or supreme Heaven was S. Paul wrapt but he was also born to Paradise to another place distinct and separate by time and station For by Paradise his Countreymen never understood the Third Heaven but there also it was that he heard {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} unspeakable words great glorifications of God huge excellencies such which he might not or could not utter here below The effect of these considerations is this that although the Saints are not yet admitted to the blessings consequent to a happy resurrection yet they have the intermedial entertainments of a present and a great joy To this purpose are those words to be understood To him that overcomes will I give to eate of the tree of life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God Revel. 2. 7. that is if I may have leave to expound these words to mean what the Jews did about that time understand by such words {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Tree of life does signifie the principle of peace and holiness of wisdome and comforts for ever Philo expounding it calls it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The worship of God the greatest of all vertues by which the soul is made to live for ever as if by eating of this tree of life in the Paradise of God they did mean that they who die well shall immediately be feasted with the deliciousness of a holy Conscience which the spirit of God expresses by saying They shall walke up and down in white garments and their works shall follow them their tree of life shall germinate they shall then feel the comforts of having done good works a sweet remembrance and a holy peace shall caresse and feast them and there they shall walk