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A52387	The cross crowned: or, Short affliction making way for eternal glory Opened in a sermon preached at the funeral of Daniel Waldoe Esq; in the Parish-Church of Alhallows Honey-lane, May 9. 1661. By James Nalton, minister of the gospel, and pastor of Leonards Foster-lane London.	Nalton, James, 1600-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing N121A; ESTC R219314	34,657	97

ye are elected Therefore get evidences of your effectual vocation by returning an Eccho to Gods call that when he saith Seek ye my face if thy heart can answer thy face Lord will I seek Psal 27.8 When Christ saith Come to me poor dejected sinner thou that art weary of the work of sin and heavy laden with the weight of sin Come to me and I will give thee rest Mat. 11.28 If thy heart can answer Lord I would creep to thee on hands and knees when the spirit of God whispers in a voice behind thee saying This is the way walk in it Isai 30.21 If thy heart can return a yeelding answer Lord if it be the way though it be a narrow way and full of difficulty yet I will walk in it this is an evidence of thy effectual calling So likewise Get Evidences of your Adoption that ye are the children of God because ye are like your father and get evidences of your justification and sanctification by feeling the Lord Christ coming neer your hearts both by blood and water pacifying your Consciences and purifying your hearts and lives this is the way to clear your Title to this everlasting Inheritance In brief There are two things will exceeding much conduce to the clearing of your Title Viz. 1. The Adding to your Graces Viz. 2. The Acting of your Graces For the former Hearken to the counsel of the Holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1.5 7. Give all diligence to adde to your faith vertue that is a well composed life saith Judicious Calvin and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience Godliness and to Godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness Charity This adding to your Graces is a Laying up in store for your selves a good foundation for the time to come that you may lay hold on Enternal Life as St. Paul expresseth it 1 Tim. 6.19 That as wicked men are said to treasure up wrath against the day of wrath Rom 2.5 So ye on the contrary by these Additionals will be treasuring up grace against the day of glory For the latter Be still acting of your Graces and exercising of your selves to godliness 1 Tim. 4.7 For example 1. Let Faith be in exercise still feeding upon the Promises and making vigorous application of them to your own Souls If the Promises feed your faith your faith will feed your Assurance and carry you with comfort and confidence to your journeys end 2. Let Repentance be in exercise by renewing that godly sorrow which comes from God and leads the soul unto God looks on God offended and ends in God reconciled Holy Job though he had a strong faith as appears by that much admired speech of his Job 13.15 Though he slay me yet will I put my trust in him yet in the same verse ye may see he was frequent in renewing his repentance I will saith he reprove my own wayes before him so some read the phrase and the Hebr. word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will well bear it q. d. I will be so far from justifying my self that I will disallow mine own wayes and disavow my own righteousness yea repent daily and abhor my self in dust and ashes Job 42.6 3. Let Love be in exercise Love the Lord Jesus dearly and sincerely Be sick of Love towards so sweet a Saviour as the Spouse was Cant. 2.5 Love nothing much but onely him whom you cannot love too much And if you love him see what he himself saith in that comfortable Scripture John 14.21 He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and will manifest my self to him Now if Christ manifest himself to thy Soul then certainly thy Title to heaven is cleared 4. Let fear be in exercise Happy is the man that feareth always Prov. 28.14 and the more ye walk in the fear of the Lord the more ye walk in the comforts of the Holy Ghost Acts 9.31 This is the first Duty Duty The second The second is this Be more eager and earnest instant and constant in the pursuit of this Eternal Glory than ever ye have been to this day Oh that ye and I could go up to the top of Mount Nebo as Moses did Deut. 32.49 and view the pleasant Land afar off and tast some of the Grapes of Canaan by serious Meditation Oh that we could seriously consider 1. From what we are Redeemed 2. To what we are appointed Redeemed from wrath appointed to me●cy Redeemed from the pit ot hell and appointed to the glory of heaven Redeemed from those infernal flames and everlasting burnings but appointed to those everlasting joyes which no heart can conceive nor tongue express Were these things soundly digested and seriously considered they would awake our drowsie spirits and set the wheels of the soul a going that we should not onely walk in the way that leads to life but we should cheerfully run the race that is set before us Heb. 12.1 The truth is we might do a great deal more in the pursuit of our glorious hopes than we do if we did but put forth our strength to do what we are able and we might put forth our strength more than we do if we were not sick of a spiritual Lethargy and we are sick of a spiritual Lethargy because we do not prize those glorious hopes that are set before us according to the worth of them In Gods fear therefore let us hearken to the Counsel of the Holy Ghost Heb. 6.12 Be not slothfull but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promses This is the second Duty Duty The third The third is this Let us call off our affections from the world the pomp and glory and vanity of it that they may be set upon that Eternal Glory which is prepared for the Saints in light To you that are called with a holy calling and have had a tast of that everlasting Consolation and good hope through Grace God seems to speak in that language wherein Joseph spake to his Brethren Gen. 45.20 Also regard not your Stuff for the good of all the Land of Aegypt is yours So faith God to you set not your hearts on trash and trifles there is a Crown of eternal glory set before you Is it fit for Kings Children to be raking in dunghills This duty of weanedness from the world is seasonable at all times but most suitable to the times whereinto God has cast us for now God seems to say to us as he did to Baruch Jer. 45.4 5. Behold that which I have built will I break down and that which I have planted I will pluck up even this whole Land And seekest thou great things for thy self Seek them not Oh that we had such a spirit as Moses had he refused to be called the son of Pharoah's daughter he trampled upon all the honours and pleasures of Egypt Because he had an eye to the Recompence of Reward Heb. 11.24 26.

worth in our esteem Nay yet more This glory is not only a weighty glory but an hyperbolical transcendent glory far surpassing the capacity and comprehension of such poor creatures as we are for such is the excellency beauty and sweetness of it that as one saith excellently * Bolton of the four last things No mortal man can describe it no created understanding can conceive it or comprehend it Eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2.9 The eye has seene admirable things Solomons Temple and the glory of it which was so great That for the Temples sake at Jerusalem even Kings did bring presents unto God Psal 68.29 and Solomons stately house which was thirteen years in building 1 Kin. 7.1 and all the wonders of the world The ear has heard most delicious exquisite heart-ravishing musick the heart of man can conceive yet much more then either eye hath seen or ear hath heard for in conceit it can turn all the stones upon earth into pearls all the sand upon the sea-shore into Silver and all the water of the Sea into liquid gold yet the height and happiness of heavenly glory do's far surpass all this especially if ye consider these three things most worthy of our meditation 1. The place where this glory is prepared 2. The Properties wherewith it is adorned 3. The Priviledges wherewith it is attended For the first The place where it is prepared is Heaven The new Jerusalem The City of the great King this must needs be a glorious place it ye consider these particulars 1. God himself is the maker and builder of it Hebr. 11.10 The most goodly Palaces that ever were built on earth are but the work of mens hands but this is a house 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made without hands 2 Cor. 5.1 God himself made it without mans help 2. God built this house for himself for the honour of his Majesty to be the place of his residence where he will keep his court as if he should say Here will I dwell for I have a delight therein 3. In building this house he shewed all his skill it was his Master-piece therefore there are two words used in the Text Heb 11.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The former of them signifies an Artificer a curious workman or contriver God did not only build this house but he shew'd extraordinary workmanship in contriving it the frame or fabrick of this earthly globe ye see it is a goodly piece full of beauty but alas this is but a stage or scaffold set up for a while viz. for 5 or 6 thousand years which is but a moment in comparison of eternity but this heavenly house is to last for ever Now if the scaffold be so glorious how infinitely beautiful will the house it self be 4. It must needs be a glorious place because of the Glorious Company there residing viz. The great God of heaven and earth the Lord Christ with a glorified body and all the holy Angels and spirits of just men made perfect continually triumphing in the praises of the Holy One rejoycing in him and he in them For the Second The Properties wherewith this glory is adorned I will name but these three 1 It is a pure Glory without the least mixture of misery or infelicity There the Saints enjoy light without darkness mirth without mourning health without sickness wealth without wo beauty without blemish and honour without envy In this life all our comforts have some mixture of bitterness in them but there are unmixed joyes and delights without the least wormwood or gall mingled with them 2 It is a perfect glory nothing shall be wanting that the soul can desire Fulnesse of joy Psal 16.11 and a full Reward 2 Joh. 8. 3 It is a satisfying Glory The Saints shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatnesse of his house and he will make them drink of the River of his Pleasures Psalm 36.8 All the pleasures and treasures that this world can afford us will not give satisfaction to an immortal Soul They do not feed Esurientem animam but esuriem animae The hungry soul is not filled but the hunger of the soul is increased by them But this glory will so fully delight beautifie and satisfie the soul that it can desire no more For the third The Privileges wherewith this glory is attended They are of two sorts some are Privative Positive 1 Privative in the freedom from all evil For example The soul is here subject to temptations and corruptions desertions from God and provocations from wicked men Psal 120.5 Wo is me that I sojourn in Mesech c. These are so exceeding grievous to a gracious heart that they make a man cry out with holy Job My soul chuseth strangling and death rather than life Job 7.15 But when the Soul comes to enjoy that glory all these shall be removed All tears shall be wiped away from their eyes and there shall be no more death nor sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain Rev. 21.4 2. Positive Priviledges in the fruition of all good things that can be conceived or desired For the Saints shall have an Immediate Communion with God these three wayes viz. By Seeing God Enjoying God Being made like to God 1. The Saints shall see him as he is 1 John 3.2 This is that which is called the Beatifical or blessed-making vision for in his presence Hebr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in his faces is fulness of joy If a man had all the pains of hell upon him this vision were able to make a man rejoyce because totam amaritudinem Gehennae absorberet saith Chrysost It would swallow up the bitterness of hell it self 2. The Saints shall enjoy him as their Portion He shall be All in All that is as one sweetly expresseth it He shall be joy to our Souls Life to our Bodies Beauty to our eyes Musick to our ears Perfume to our nostrils Honey to our mouthes and Contentment to our hearts for what can be wanting to him that has that God for his Portion who has and does all and fills all things in heaven and earth 3. The Saints shall be made like to God and conformed to the Image of his Son Jesus Christ Rom. 8.29 1. Like him in Soul by perfection of Grace for they shall have perfect knowledg perfect holiness and righteousness as much as Creatures can be capable to receive 2. Like him in Body For he shall change our vile Bodies that they may be fashioned like unto his Glorious Body Phil. 3.21 Then shall our Bodies be Spiritual 1 Cor. 15.44 active lively and nimble as Spirits And they shall be Impassible such as are not capable of suffering and Immortal such as can never dye In brief they shall have such an admirable beauty and lustre put upon them that they shall shine forth as the Sun

ever know a man more eminent in Grace than Blessed Paul And was there ever any man more humble I am saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 less than the least of all Saints Ephes 3.8 Thus was it with this dear Brother of ours he so hated Pride and that vain and sinfull excess in apparel so much affected in this luxurious wanton age that he chose rather his own Children should be cloathed beneath their rank than above it And though he kept not a penurious Table yet he professedly declined that delicacy and profuseness which many delight in that in both he might not onely avoid the scandal of the Gospel and offence the Godly but that the superfluity in dyet and apparrel might be improved to the better advantage of cloathing the naked and refreshing the bowels of the hungry 2. He was very Industrious in his Calling and doubtless that is very acceptable and well-pleasing unto God especially when this diligence ariseth not from a covetous desire of heaping up riches but from an obediential respect to Gods Command because he has enjoyned us that duty Prov. 27.23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks and look well to thy herds and again Prov. 10.4 The hand of the diligent maketh rich yea God has annexed a promise to it Prov. 22.29 Seest a man diligent in his business he shall stand before Kings he shall not stand before mean men And indeed God was pleased singularly to bless his endeavors and to enrich him with a Temporal estate For though a large estate was not his design yet was it part of his Reward and a pledg of future and far better hopes laid up for him in heaven 3. He was a Pious man He did not so mind his particular Calling as to neglect his General but he drove a Trade for heaven not onely in his holy and religious observation of the Sabbath but also in a carefull Attendance at the Posts of Wisdoms house on the week dayes as his occasions and bodily infirmities would permit Neither was he an idle and unprositable Hearer but like the Industrious Bee he gathered honey to carry home to his Hive for the feeding of his Family as well as the refreshing of his own Soul witness those heapes of Sermon Notes that are found in his Study 4. He was a Faithfull man one that filled his Relation faithfull a tender hearted Husband to his Wife a loving carefull Father to his Children one that knew how to love them without fondness and to rule them without rigour A prudent Governour towards his Servants minding the good of their Souls as well as the fruit of their Service 5. He was a Charitable man nay I may considently say Eminent and Exemplary in the Grace of Charity being a real Cordial faithful friend to a godly Ministry as appeared by his great bounty manifested on every occasion for to my knowledg he has given very considerabe Sums of Money towards the encouraging of those that were painfull Labourers in Gods Vineyard Never any Minister or Godly man came to propound any work of Piety or Charity publick or private that needed to do any more than to propund it For his heart was so dipt in Charity and so set upon works of mercy that he prevented Importunity by his Christian and Heroick Liberality I do not speak rashly but advisedly He made no more of giving 10 l. to a work of Charity than some of you and those of the richer sort make of giving 10 s. Yea there are divers here present that can witness this Truth Few did match him none that I knew did surpass him in works of Charity His Charity had two singular Concomitants which made it the more Remarkable and praise-worthy 1. He did good while he lived He carried his Lantern before him He made his own hands his Executors and his own eyes his Overseers Some will part with their riches when they can keep them no longer This is like a Cutpurse that being espied or pursued will drop a Purse or gold because he can keep it no longer But to be doing good in our life-time while we have opportunity this is an act of Faith and an evidence that we can trust God with our Estate and our Children that he will provide for them when out heads are laid in the grave according to that of the Psalmist A good man is mercifull and lendeth and his seed is blessed Psal 37.26 2. He dispensed his Charity so secretly without any self-seeking or pharisaical vain-glory that his left hand did not know what his right hand did In brief He did so much good while he lived as if he meant to have nothing to do when he died and yet he gave so largely when he came to die as if he had done no good when he lived Now wherefore is all this spoken Not as if this Funeral Elegy could be any advantage to him No no Funeral Sermons are vivorum solatia not ●●●tuorum subsidia saith Austin They are no helpfull advantages to the dead but wholesom Instructions to the living The dead praise not thee O Lord nor any that go down into silence Psal 115.17 Look as the dead return no praises to the Living God so neither do they regard any praises from Living men It is not therefore spoken so much by way of Commendation as to propound him a pattern of Imitation This deceased friend as it is said of Abel Heb. 11.4 Though he be dead he yet speaketh And what is the language that he useth Surely it is the same that Gideon used to his Souldiers Judg. 7.17 Look on me and do likwise If ye do as he did ye shall speed as he sped Remember you and I must answer for Examples as well as Precepts Ye know what is laid of Noah Heb. 11.7 By building an Ark he condemned the world His piety condemned their impiety His faith condemned their infidelity his uprightness their hypocrysie So this good mans Charity will condemn your want of Charity at the Great day If ye say You have many Children so had he He has left 9. Children alive but the providing for them was no obstruction to his Charity To conclude Blessed is that man that so lives as that he is desired and so dies as that he is missed This Nathaniel so I may call him for his Sincerity as well as a Job for his Charity He lived desired and will be exeedingly missed Missed I say in his family where he was a faithfull Governour In the City where he was a bountifull Benefactor In the Parish where he was a usefull Neighbour In the Company where he was an honoured Member Missed among the Poor especially Widows in necessity to whom he was a Father Oh that God would humble us for our stupidity That the righteous perisheth and no man layeth to heart and mercifull men are taken away and no man regards it Isa 57.1 Oh that God would make his example powerfull and influential on all the Rich men that hear me or shall read this Sermon and the testimony that is given to this Worthy man Oh that God would send us many such WALDOES FINIS