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kingdom_n	darkness_n	power_n	satan_n	1,823	5	7.7806	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20169	The monument or tombe-stone: or, A sermon preached at Laurence Pountnies Church in London, Nouemb. 21. 1619 at the funerall of Mrs. Elizabeth Iuxon, the late wife of Mr. Iohn Iuxon. By Stephen Denison minister of Gods word, at Kree-Church in the honourable citie of London.	Denison, Stephen, d. 1649 or 50.	1620 (1620)	STC 6604; ESTC S116460	41,077	140

charge and calling in which I am and to discharge it in the conscionable feare of God This our sister was not onely faithfull in her generall calling but also in her particular For first she was a very faithfull wife her very desire was subiect to her husband I am perswaded that if her husband had commanded her to dothe vilest drudgerie about the house she durst not haue refused in verie conscience of Gods Law And moreouer whereas in her carnal estate it was her common practise to put forth her children to be nursed abroad according to the practise of the proud women in our times when the Law of God beganne to be written in her heart she durst no longer nurse her children abroad but tooke paines to nurse them with her owne breasts Againe she did most diligently ouersee the wayes of her family and she eate not the bread of idlenesse but still she employed her selfe in some commendable employment And as for her children and seruants she did diligently instruct them in good wayes She was grieued at any prophanenesse found in them she mourned for them she prayed for them she pitied their estate and as for the soule of her louing and kind husband she had an especiall care Now it is an especiall ma●ke of a true conuert to be found faithfull in the particular calling As we see it is giuen by Paul as an euidence of the truth of the conuersion of Onesimus that now he was become profitable vnto his maister Philem. 11. The sixteenth Marke I desire to glorifie God by a fruitfull profession The faith of this our sister was no dead faith To my knowledge she was exceeding fruitfull in good workes What money she had of her owne in the time of her health she distributed it freely partly to poore Preachers about this Citie partly also to poore Christians She was like vnto Dorcas she made garments and that both woollen and linnen gaue them vnto poore Christians and to their children She was a friend of the fatherlesse and of the widow and what she had not of her owne to releeue Gods poore she intreated her husband to supply Yea she was a very patronesse for such as were in distresse she was a blessed instrument to stirre vp her willing husband to many secret gifts and bountifull almes-deedes especially vnto them which were of the houshold of faith To my knowledge she hath giuen gold and siluer plentifully to some more and to some lesse And amongst the rest of her charitable workes I remember that she gaue to the Minister which was the means vnder God of her conuersion as she supposed She gaue I say vnto him by the consent of her husband the summe of fiftie pounds besides a large portion which she begged of her husband to be distributed after her death vnto charitable vses The sicke had cause to blesse God for her in her health for she visited them with meate with bodily presence with necessarie helpe both by her selfe and by her maides And many that enioy health haue great cause to blesse God for her in her death in respect of her liberall gifts And for mine owne part I haue especiall cause to blesse God in her life and in her death for a most kind mother and nurse she was vnto me Now this fruitfulnesse did argue the goodnesse of the Tree for how doth a Christian shew his faith but by his workes And the Lord as you know promiseth a Prophets reward vnto such as do good vnto his members Matth. 10. 42. Yea at the day of iudgement Christ will say vnto all such fruitfull ones Come vnto me ye blessed of my Father inherite the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world For I was an hungred and ye gaue me meate I was thirstie and ye gaue me drinke I was a stranger and ye tooke me in naked and ye clothed me I was sicke and ye visited me I was in prison and ye came vnto me The seuenteenth Marke I find a daily holy strife to preserue graces giuen vnto me and to preuent falling away She continued faithfull to the end in the most substantiall graces For howsoeuer shee mourned for the want of that degree of ioy which she had felt in former times yet she continued in repentance in the practise of holinesse and righteousnesse in a tender loue to God and to his word and children in holy zeale and fruitfulnesse euen to the last period of her dayes And indeed her want of full ioy was so sanctified vnto her that it was a furtherance to a better grace namely to repentance and selfe-deniall and base esteeme of her selfe And I call repentance a better grace then ioy because howsoeuer ioy is a most excellent gift of the Spirit yet vnto vs repentance is more profitable For I make no doubt but that a mourning Christian may be saued without rauishing ioy that Christ may wipe away his teares in heauen but no Christian shall be saued without repentance and selfe deniall Now constancie and perseuerance in a good and holy course is an vndoubted argument of a blessed and happie estate as doth appeare by the words of our blessed Sauiour himselfe Marth 10. 22. He that endureth to the end shall be saued and Reuel 2. 10. Be thou faithfull to the death and I will giue thee a crowne of life The eighteenth Marke I find an vniuersall change in my selfe from that which I ●●ue bene in former times This marke and the two following I propounded vnto her vpon her death-bed which I mention now because they are as vseful for the church as the former markes which I found n●ted in her paper And that this signe was in our sister as well as the former it was euident For there was a maruellous change wrought in her mind and vnderstanding She that before knew not the right hand from the left in religion she was growne to a very great vnderstanding in so much that she was able both to speak diuinely to instruct her seruants and children and to write letters in the very language of Canaan with great sufficiency Secondly she found a change in her will and affections For she that was dead before vnto any sound pietie now she was reuiued aboue all things to affect and to seeke Gods kingdome Thirdly there was an euident change in her life and conuersation this we all knew which knew her and can testifie Now wheresoeuer this vniuersall change is from darknesse to light from euill to good from the power of Satan to God it is an euident signe of effectuall calling and effectuall calling is an vndoubted signe of election 2. Cor. 5. 17. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things are passed away behold all things are become new The nineteenth Marke I find an vtter deniall of myselfe I know that in me that is in myflesh abideth nothing which is good This blessed seruant of God had attained a