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A96098 The crown of righteousness. Set forth in a sermon preached at Stephens Walbrook, May 1. 1656. At the funeral of Thomas Hodges Esquire. / By Thomas Watson, minister of Stephens Walbrook, in the citie of London. Watson, Thomas, d. 1686. 1656 (1656) Wing W1120; Thomason E882_10; ESTC R204056; ESTC R207285 24,757 39

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on his head and the Crown set on ours Behold what manner of love is this It is beyond all Hyperbole And should not this make our hearts reverberate and eccho back love * Oh Christians light your love at this fire as burning glasses when the Sun hath shin'd on them they burn God having so shin'd upon us in love let our hearts burn and our love to God must be divinely qualified 1. It must be a Genuine love we must not love him propter aliud for something else as a man loves a potion for health sake but as a man loves sweet Wine for it self We must love God for those intrinsick excellencies in him * which are so alluring and amiable 2. It must be a Voluntarie love a else it is not love but coaction It must come freely as water out of a Spring It must be a free-will offering not like the paying of a Tax 3. It must be an Exuberant love it must not bee stinted not a few drops but a stream it must like Nilus over flow the banks 4. It must be a Transcendent love it must be of no ordinary extraction but a choise intire superlative love we must not onely give God the milk of our Love but the cream not onely the truth of it but the spirits and quintessence I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine and the juice of my Pomgranates Cant. 8. 2. If the Spouse hath a cup which is more juicie and spiced Christ shall drink of that 5. It must be a most Intense ardent love The Sun shines as much as it can such must our love to God be ad ultimum virium it must boil over but never give over What unparallel'd love hath God shewn us Oh Christian answer love with love In love we may as Bernard saith reciprocate with God * If God be angry we must not be angry again but if God love us we must love him again O love God the Father who hath made this Crown for us love God the Son who hath bought this Crown for us love God the Holy Ghost who hath made us fit to wear this Crown 2 Branch Exhort Let us pant and breath after this happy condition b Doth not the heire desire to be Crowned Here we have a weight offin c In heaven a weight of glory d How should our souls be big with desire to be gon hence what is the world we so dote on 'T is but a spacious prison and should not we be willing to goe out of prison to be Crowned The bird desires to go out of the cage though it be made of Gold The Academicks compare the Soul of man to a fowle mounting with her wings aloft e Every Saint is a true bird of Paradise he is ever flying up towards heaven in ardent and zealous affections he longs to be out of this earthen cage of the body when with the Phaenix he shall receive his golden Coronet on his head and shine in glory as the Angels of God Tully observes that Scipio when his father had told him of ithat glory the soul should be invested with in a state of mmortality Why then saith Scipio do I tarry thus long upon the earth why do I not hasten to dye Methinks when we heare of this Crown of righteousnesse which will so infinitely enrich and adorn the Soul f it should make us weary of this world and long for the time of our solemn inauguration How did Paul desire to be dissolved g Would not a man be willing to hoise up Seales and crosse the waters though troublesome if he were-sure to be Crown'd assoone as he came at shore Why are our Souls so earthly h We love to be grazing in the worldes full pastures and are affraid to dye Most men look so ghastly at the thoughts of death as if they were rather going to the Crosse then the Crown O long for death The Apostle calls death a putting off our earthly Cloaths 2 Cor. 5. 4. This is all death doth to us if we are in Christ it puts off our cloaths and puts on a Crown This should make us say as Hilarion Go out my Soul go out why tremblest thou thou art going to receive a Crown A believer at death will be the happiest looser and the happiest gainer He will loose his sins he will gain Glory The day of death is the Saints Coronation day 3. Branch Learn so to deport and demeane your selves that this Crown of Righteousness may be set upon your heades when you dye Qu. How is that Answ. Do three things 1. If you would wear the Crown of Righteousnesse find in your hearts the work of Righteousness Isa. 32. 17. That is the work of Grace wrought in you and this Work must be evidenced by a mighty change which is somtimes called an ingrafting somtimes a Transforming Grace makes a Metamorphise p it produceth in the Soul a configuration and likeness to Christ first there must be a Consecrating work before a Crowning work We read in Scripture in the solemne inauguration of their Kings first they anointed them and then they Crown'd them Z●dock the Priest took an horn of oile out of the Tabernacle and anointed solomon and after that he was Crown'd So there must be the unction of the Spirit * q first God powrs on us the anointing oile of grace and after the horn of oile then coms the Crown 2. If you would wear the Crown of Righteousnesse then walk in the way of Righteousnesse Prov. 12. 28. This is called in Scripture a walking {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} after the Spirit Rom. 8. 1. As the people of Israel walked after the Pillar offire and the wisemen walked after the Star r which way the Star went they went And somtimes it is called a walking by rule Gal. 6. 16. Those that expect a Golden Crown must walk by a Golden rule Be sure you walk with Davids Candle and Lanthorn in your hand Psal. 119. 105. He that walks in the dark may soon be out of the way Walk {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Soberly in acts of temperance {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Righteously in acts of Justice {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Godly in acts of Piety * Walk as Christ did upon earth His life was as one saith purer then the Sun-beams ſ Copy out his life in yours Be assured you shall never partake of the priviledge of Christ's death unlesse you imitate the patterne of Christ's life Would you wear the Crown of Righteousnesse walk in the way of Righteousnesse but alas this is a very untroden way 1. Some know the way of Righteousnesse but do not walk in it like the Graecians of whom Plutarch speaks they knew what was honest but did it not 2. Others Commend the