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A15674	The state of the godly both in this life, and in the life to come deliuered in a sermon at Chudleigh in Devon: at the funeralls of the right worshipfull, the Ladie Elizabeth Courtney, the 11. of Nouember, 1605. And published for the instruction, and consolation of the faithfull. By R.W. minister. Whereunto is annexed the christian life and godly death of the sayd worshipfull Lady Elizabeth Courtney.	Wolcomb, Robert, b. 1567 or 8.	1606 (1606)	STC 25942; ESTC S106614	39,608	94

Iames 4.7 ● 10 5 13 with zealous praier and hee will drawe neere vnto vs and lift vs vppe And since affliction is the portion and lotte of all the godlie that falls out to them and attendes on them when wee see our Brethren endure tribulation wee must not presentlye censure them to bee hated and vtterlie forsaken of GOD but rather recognize the signes of Gods fauour towardes them For hee that sayes Nihil aliu● cit quā at● non conue● aduersariu● Basil in Ps● that the godly ought not to suffer tribulatiō saies this that a wrestler shoulde not haue an aduersary to encounter him and if a wrestler striue not what garland or glory can he obtaine and since none of the faithfull haue an immunity and priuiledge from affliction but haue them selues dronke at one or other tyme of the cup of tribulation for as noysome and pestilent beastes saith Basil seeke after a praye ●t animalia ●a nos aerū●etere atque●dere con●unt Basil ●sal 45 and surcease not til they haue found it so miseries continually hunt after the godly and find them at length this must teach vs to shew commiseration on the afflicted and not to turne our eye from our owne flesh because our selues knowe the weighte of affliction following the example of Christ our Sauiour who is an highe Prieste which can sympathize and bee touched with the feeling of our infirmities because in all things he was tempted in lyke sort yet without sin Fynally since tribulation must needs trie the faith and patience of the godly ●1415 that after they haue bin tryed they may receiue the recompense let vs not murmur nor grumble against our heauenly Father who afflictes vs for our profite If the earthlye Fathers of our bodyes correct vs yet we reuerence them for though Fathers put their sonnes out of their sighte and binde them to husbandry or employ them in an handycraft or bestowe them in marchandize or send them into the wars yet the sonnes are well content because it makes for their prefermente and aduantage should not we much rather be in subiection vnto the father of spirites Heb. 12 9 that wee might lyue A Generall enioyns perilous seruice to none but most valiant souldiers and those that hee loues best and whome hee woulde aduance for them hee sends out to lye in ambush for the enemye to demolish some fort or to inuade the mayne army of the foe Not one of those that are so sent foorth sayes the Generall hath doone mee wrong or wishes me not well vnlesse perhappes he be a coward and faintehearted but contrarilye if hee bee valorous and woorthye of the name of a Souldier hee sayeth thus the Generall thinkes well of me hee hath a good opinion of mee hee fauours mee and seeks to honour mee So is the case betweene GOD and vs. 1 Cor. 9.24 Out life in this worlde is a warfare and wee all runn in a race let vs therefore striue and fight againste all afflictions that the prouidence of God bringes vppon vs ● Tim. 25 that when wee haue striued as wee oughte to doe we may bee crowned that when wee haue fought a good fighte and finished our course and kept the faith the crowne of righteousnesse may bee layed vppe for vs that when wee haue reioyced in tribulations ● Tim. 4.7 8 knowing that tribulation bringeth foorthe patience Rom 5 3 4 5 patience experience experience hope hope maketh not ashamed at laste wee may come out of tribulation vnto the glorious inheritaunce of the Saintes in lighte And thus far of the state and condition of the faithfull in this life The state of ●he godly af●er this life Now let vs come to the state condition of the godly after they are departed out of this world It is said here by the Angell that they hunger no more neither thirste any more that the sun shall not light on thē any more neither any heate For the Lambe which is in the mids of the throne shal feed gouerne them shall leade them to the fountaines of waters v 16 17 and god shall wipe awaie al teares from their eies The titles and honorable names that are giuen to the place where the faythful are after death doe throughly manifest the excellencie of their estate For it is called in holy scripture sometimes a kingdome sometimes the bosome of Abraham sometimes Paradise sometimes a place of many mansions sometimes reste sometymes the new Ierusalem sometimes a citye And al these titles do declare vnto vs the surpassing cōfort which the godly receaue when they are freed from this wretched worlde It is called a kingdome where Christ sayeth to his disciples feare not little flock Luke 12 32. for it is your fathers pleasure to giue you the Kingdome In which words our Sauiour vseth a moste forcible argument to withdrawe vs from impiety and carefulnesse for earthly thinges and distrusting Gods prouidence that wee shal wante things requisite for this present life for hee that giues the greater and better thinge will not denye the lesser and inferior sens thē our heauenly father hath of his owne grace and pleasure prouided the kingdome of heauen for vs ●n basileian let vs not doubte but hee will giue all other things vnto vs. And albeit our state in this worlde be oftentimes base needy and miserable yet wee must refreshe our soules with the remembrance of that heauenly kingdome in which at length wee shall raign with Christ and gloriously triumph ouer Sathan death bell through Christ if vnfainedly we beleeue in christ It is called Abrahams bosome where Christe sayth that when the beggar Lazarus dyed he was caryed of the Angells into Abrahams bosome ●●ke 16 22. Hee was caryed of the Angells for that as Angells are all ministring Spirits ●eb 1 14. sent fourth to minister for their sakes which shall bee heires of saluation and doe safegarde the godly by the lords apointment from sundry daungers of this mortall life so it is their charge parte to conuay into heauē the soules of the righteous when they are loosed from the fetters of the flesh And as infants doe rest quietly in their mothers bosome so heauen is a receptacle and bosome for the faithfull in which they take their quiet rest and ease Caluin in Har. after the sturres of this tumultuary life ar ended And it is called Abrahams bosome because as Abra●am was a most constant beleeuer Rom. 4.11 Gal 3 7 and a●oue hope beleeued vnder hope and there●ore is calld the father of al the beleeuers so whosoeuer desire to be gathered into that ●osome after this life they must in this life ●mitate follow the faith godlines of faithful Abraham It is called Paradise where ●ur Sauiour sayth to the penitent theefe ●pon the crosse to day thou shalt be with me in Paradice Luke 23.43 Gell lib

they were already placed in gods heuenly temple before the throne of God and before his holy Angells As for this that the godly serue god day and night in his temple Psal 134.1 Leuit 8.35 Luke 18 1. 1 Thess 5.17 Luke 2.37 Psalm 1 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Leu. 26 12 2 Cor 6 16 Reu 3 20 1 Iohn 1 3 Gen. 17.1 the Angell alludes to the office of the ould Leuites for otherwise ther is no night in heauen or els by seruing god day and night may be meant the continuall endeuouring of the godly to glorifie god euen in all their actions And that god will dwell among them or vpon them what doth it signify els but that as they are gods people so he will be theyr God and as they will passe their life in feare and reuerence as being alway in the sight of god so god will haue familiar conuersation among them and wil be theyr protector and exceeding greate rewarde To hunger and thirst no more is to be satisfied with all good and desirable things for meate and drinke are the chiefeste among the desires and cares of this life and to eate and drinke Ioh. 6.35 Luke 22.29 Esai 65.13 Ezech. 34.13 is in scripture to lead an happy and pleasant life By the sunne and heate that after this life shall fall no more vpon the godly must bee conceiued the end and ceasing of the afflictions wherewith the faithfull are exercised in this life For as in hoate regions the parching heate of the sunne dooth much grieue the inhabitants and th●●re god shadowed his people by day with a pillar of a cloude Exod. 13.11 from the feruente heate of the sunne so the scorching of affliction dooth annoy and molest the godlye as long as they remaine in this world but after the race of mortality is finished the place of tribulation shal be found no more And here euen the least droppe of consolation that flowes from this one place of scripture is enough to quenche the whole fire flame of Purgatory For how may purgatory stand if the faithfull after this life shall no more be accumbred with Sunne or any heate Who is the Lambe in the mids of the throne but Iesus Christ The Lamb of god that taketh away the sinn of the world ●ohn 1.36 and who is the great shepheard and Bishop of soules 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that doth feede and gouern the godly like sheepe but Christ and what is the leading of the faithfull to the liuing waters Ezech 34.3 Iohn 10.14 Acts 20.28 Psalm 23.1 Iohn 4.10 7 28. Isai 55 1. Ezech 36.26 but that they after this life shall liue ioyfully and blessedly being freed from all calamities and what is it to wipe away all teares from the godlye but that the fulnes of ioyes shall swalow vp all sorow and cause of sadnes For as the ioy of the wicked is turned into sorow so the sorrowe of the godly is turned into comfort And the Angell sayth Iames 4.9 Isai 65.18 Mat. 5.4 Iohn 16 20. that euerye teare shall be wipt away to giue vs to vnderstand that the teares of the electe are diuers as their tribulations are diuers One laments because he hath done euill another laments because he hath not done good one lamentes because he beares the hard rod of affliction another lamentes because he is assaulted by vices one laments because he is absent and a stranger from the kingdom of heauen for that the blindnes of worldlings is greate another laments for that gods word is contemned despised but the lord wil end all tears wil refresh his people with eternal cōsolatiō And here is ouerturned the erroneous doctrin of mans merit for the onely efficient cause of the glory of the elect both heere and hereafter is but one namely the lamb the Messias the mediator and sauiour Iesus Christ Although many things offer themselues in this text to our view and are worthy of due cōtemplation yet I haue selected only two which at this time shal be vnfolded and made manyfest vnto you as meetest for this present occasion assembly The first is the state and condition of the faythfull in this life The second is the state condition of the faithfull after this life For the first ●he state of the ●odly in this ●●fe v 14 16 17 to wit the state and condition of the godly in this life in that it is heere sayde that they came out of greate tribulation that they shall after this life hunger no more neither thirst any more that the sun shal not light on thē neither any heate and that God shall wipe away all teares from their eies this shewes that while the godly are abiding in this life they endure tribulation they hunger and thirst they are annoyed with sun and heate and they liue in the valley of misery which compelleth to shed teares And it can be no other wise● For our Lord master Christ sayeth that if any will come after him be his disciple he must deny himself take vp his cros dayly follow him If we will be the true scollars of Christ Luke 9 23. it is not enough to cōfes or profes him to subdue curbe the vitious affectiōs of our natural inclination but we must vndergoe the cros tribulatiō neither is yt enough once or twise to vndergoe it but take vp our crosse dayly For as one day followeth another so there is a successiō plurality of tribulatiōs that pursue the godly If wee purpose to build the tower of true Christianity we must first cast on these costs Luke 14 28 if we wil fight battails of vnfained professiō we must make redy to encounter diuers daūgerus aduersaries And therfore Paul and Barnabas knowing that affliction is ā vnseparable cōpanion of godlines did not only publish the truth at Listra Iconium Antiochia but confirmed the disciples harts exhorted thē to cōtinue in the faith and not to fall away and bee daunted through tribulations affirming that we must through many afflictions enter into the kingdome of God This generall lot of the godly Paule moste expressely declares inferring vpon his own president 2 Tim 3 12 That all that will liue godly in Christ Iesus Tim 3.12 shal suffer persecution d For whome he loueth he chasteneth and he scourgeth euery son that he receiuerh If we endure chastning God offereth himselfe vnto vs as vnto sonnes for what sonne is it whome the father chastneth not And therfore the Apostle is bould to conclude ●ebr 12 8. that if wee bee without correction whereof all are partakers then are we bastards and not sonnes Be hold Noah behold Lott behold Abraham Izaac Iaakob behold Ioseph behold Moses were not all these the beloued sonnes of God and yet were not al these pressed with tribulations The time will bee to shorte to speake of Iob of