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A66978	A funeral sermon, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Jane Papillon late wife of the very worthy Thomas Papillon, Esq; first preached July 24. 1698. and now published at his request. By John Woodhouse.	Woodhouse, John, d. 1700.	1698 (1698)	Wing W3462; ESTC R220039	22,486	67

in this Text of great Importance to your Souls and mine O that I knew how to ●ffect your Hearts and mine with it ●hat we might know how to give it ●ts Influence upon your Hearts and Lives I say so because of the Great Solemnity with which these Words are introduced here is such an Apparatus as is verily very awful I do not know three Passages in all Scripture so Solemnly introduced I heard a Voice from Heaven whether the Voice of the Angel of God the Angel of the Covenant Or whether a Voice from God more immediately the Text hath not told us And we may safely be ignorant about it But it is A Voice from Heaven a Voice than cannot lye a Voice that cannot deceive us a Voice that should be heard and received with all suitble Reverence and Acceptation and who could have believed it unless well attested and this Voice bids him Write Write why is it worthy to be Written if it is a Voice from Heaven on such an Important Occasion as appears in the Context John might well write it down fro the Comfort of the Followers of Jesus that poor despised reproached persecuted Generation whom the World reckons not worthy to live And their God that knows them better than the World knows them and is not ashamed to be called their God he knows that the World is not worthy of them q. d. Souls bear up under all Discouragements tho' yours is a Distressed Heart-stooping Day here is a Word from Heaven a Cordial for Fainting Seasons and I 'll write it down for you that you may have it ready and may have Recourse to it in your needful Hours and that is Blessed are the Dead that dye in the Lord from henceforth c. The Words Logically considered contain First A Proposition Blessed are the Dead which dye in the Lord. Secondly A Limitation or Determination of the Time and Season of verifying it From henceforth Thirdly A Twofold Reason of the Truth of the Proposition First That they may rest from their Labours Secondly And their Works do follow them Which will be the Reasons of the ctrine and waving to speak to them now I may hope for room for some Application which is the thing I would aim at The Proposition in the Text then that I may for Brevity sake make it serve for the Doctrine is this Doct. Blessed are the Dead which dye in the Lord. I call it a Proposition and yet the accurate Logicians may quarrel at it because the Predicate is in the Place of the Subject But it is a Logical Proposition at least with very little Variation They that are dead and dye in the Lord are Blessed And so I must endeavor to explain the Subject and then the Predicate and though the Subject be last in the Text it is to be reckoned first in the Proposition and must therefore fall first under our Consideration First What are we to understand by The Dead that dye in the Lord There are two Senses that put in very fairly and both of them agreeable enough to the Original Some and Men of Value by Dying in the Lord do understand as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 much as Dying For the Cause and Sake of the Lord as Martyrs do that seal their Testimony with their Blood The Preposition which we render In after the manner of the Hebrews signifying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as much as For and I must not deny but this Preposition in other Places of Scripture is so render'd as in the Margin and elsewhere and the Proposition Mat. 6. 7. Eph. 3. 13. is true take it in this Sense That those that Dye For the Lord are Blessed and it may be in a Degree above other Men that Dye only in the Lord. But I may not exclude the other Sense of it by this tho' there are great Authorities to countenance me in it because I think it is beyond Dispute that when the Apostle uses an Equivalent Phrase Them that sleep in 1 Thes 4. 14. Jesus Sleeping is allow'd to be dying in Jesus For after this he assures us The dead in Christ shall rise first Verse 16. There is nothing in the Context that I can discover should limit us to this Sense therefore it must not I think be understood only of those that Dye for him that suffered a Violent Death for him as many of our Brethren have done and now do in the Christian World The Translation hath a plain and sound Sense different from that for though it may be admitted to signifie Dying for him yet it doth not exclude but take in their Dying in him that dyed not thus for him 1 John 4. 13. Eph. 3. 17. Dying interested in him United to him by the Spirit on his part and by Faith on ours And the Proposition is true of these and all these so that in the same Rom. 8. 1. Rom. 16. 7. Joh. 15. 4. Sense they are said to be in Christ to abide in him and walk in him they may be said to dye in him Let me add that Dying in the Lord thus explain'd doth suppose Two Things First Their Being in him by their Coming to him and Receiving of him which are but two different Scripture Joh. 1. 12. Mat. 11. 28. Expressions for their Believing in him Secondly It is Supposed to Dying in him they did Abide and Walk in him from the time of their Coming to him and Receiving of him be it a longer or shorter time And pray Sinners you that make light of Christ that prefer your other things before him or turn your Backs upon him to serve divers Lusts and Pleasures instead of him that abandon your selves to a Carnal Interest Know that you cannot in this Case dye in him or be blessed in so doing and therefore bethink your selves how it will be with you if Death lay its cold Hands upon you O Get into Christ Get a saving Interest in him give up your selves to him that Death may not find you out of him for Woe to you if you dye and not in Jesus Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord. Let us now briefly see what we are to understand by the Predicate Blessed And of this give me leave to speak something First of the Name and then of the Thing for Names are to lead us to Things and I would I could tell you more of it I am ashamed to think how little I can tell you of the Blessedness of those Souls that Live and Dye in Jesus That I may borrow some Light from the Old Testament let me tell you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the Hebrews have a Word Expressive of this beyond what our Language can fully reach it 's often Translated Blessed and this Word seems to be in that form which the Masters in Sacred Language call Forma Regiminis and may be turned from its concrete to an abstract Signification and therefore if I

avoid being so called Thirdly See hence How little Reason Souls in Christ have to be fond of Life or afraid of Death What fond of Labour and Sorrow What afraid of Rest and Blessedness your Case Christians is not like that of other Men whilst you live and are present in the Body you are absent from the Lord from the Joys of your Lord when you dye in the Lord you enter upon this Blessedness Tho' this Portal be dark and uncomfortable it is an Inlet to this Transcendent Glory to us and to our Dear Friends that dye in Jesus Fourthly See hence What little reason we have to lament immoderately for our Deceased Godly Friends that dye before us What because they are blessed before us Fifthly Learn hence How Holiness becomes so absolutely necessary to this Blessedness It 's that without which it cannot be enjoyed You have heard wherein this Blessedness lyes what Ingredients it hath in it that it includes the Perfection of our Natures and Satisfaction thereof Blessedness is but perfected Holiness Now how impossible is it that Holiness should be perfected in Heaven that was never begun on Earth when this is the State we are to be made meet for So that a Heart conformed to God is in the Nature of the Thing as well as by the Pleasure of God absolutely necessary to a Felicitating Enjoyment of God Wicked Men hope God will save them in their Sins take them to Heaven in their unsanctified State and Temper of Soul which is not only repugnant to the Nature and Word of God as it were easie to evidence but to the Nature of that Happy because Holy State for what Philosophy can shew you true Pleasure and Blessedness can be obtained without a proper suitableness of the Faculty to the Object and Exercise of the Heavenly State A Holy Nature is necessary to the Enjoyment of a Holy God How often have you heard that if it could be supposed that a Carnal Animal Unsanctify'd Wretch void of a Divine Nature and God-like Temper could enter into Heaven where we are as sure as God can make us no such Wretch can come he would find nothing there that would make him Happy no Objects would be found there suitable to his Fleshly Appetites to feed upon and no Holy Appetites in him to relish the pure Pleasures of that Happy because Holy State Oh! if Sinners could but sense this that is so true in it self so evident in Scripture and to Reason it self as depraved as it is surely they would bethink themselves pray for and endeavour in the use of all God's appointed Means to be partakers of a Divine Nature qualifying for Glory Sinner let me tell thee 'till thy Nature and Temper the Disposition and Constitution of thy Soul be turned towards God and Holiness to love and hate as God doth thou mayest dream of Heaven as thine but it will prove but a Dream If thou live and dye short of real Holiness in thy Heart and Life thou must lye down in Everlasting Sorrow short of true Happiness Well then Sinner go home and take this with thee to thy retiring Place and seriously consider how frivolous all thy Pretensions are for Blessedness whilst thou art short of this real Holiness without which thou art absolutely uncapable of it Secondly For Exhortation Is it so that they who dye in the Lord are Blessed Oh! secure to your selves a Share in this Blessedness In Order to which ask your own Hearts whether this be like to be your Case Let me Begg of you to deal Faithfully with your own Souls in a Matter of this Importance There is a Blessedness which Eye has not seen nor Ear heard neither hath it entred into the Heart of Man to conceive adequately of Have I an Interest have I a Share in it Will it be mine at last The Time will come will shortly come it may suddenly come that I must Dye Am I in Jesus Shall I Dye in Jesus Have I that Holiness that is Necessary to render me Meet for this Blessedness Oh! Christians would you put these Question in good Earnest to your own Consciences and take a Deliberate Answer some of you might go home with other Thoughts than you brought hither Do we see the Seats of our deceased Friends emptyed from day to day Will our Places shortly be Vacant as theirs are Must I Dye also and if I Dye in the Case I am in shall I Dye in the Lord Shall I be Blessed And give thy Soul no Rest 'till Conscience well informed and well awakened can furnish thee with a Satisfying Answer that when thou dyest tho' in the State thou art in thou dyest in the Lord and shalt be Blessed in the Eternal Enjoyment of him Secondly As ever thou wouldest be Blessed by Dying in the Lord Get into him United to him Interested in him as thy Lord and Saviour This I told you was supposed There is a Blessedness belongs to them that Dye in the Lord but none can share in it but such as are in him United to him Sinner art thou willing to be in the Lord in order to a Safe and Comfortable Dying in him and sharing in in this Blessedness with him Oh that it were so Oh that thou wert willing heartily willing for then the Hardest of the Work were over Our Dearest Lord hath done his part he hath satisfied Justice and Merited Mercy stands willing to Entertain thee Nay Courts and Solicits thy Compliance with him I know but three things and all highly reasonable in themselves that are absolutely Necessary to thy being in the Lord without which thou canst not Dye in him and be Blessed with him Let these be done and this Affair is well Secured First Give Credit and Assent to all that the Scriptures say of Christ Believing Acts 24. 14. all things that are said in the Law and the Prophets For these are they that Testifie of him And as Faith Unites the Soul to Christ so this is the first Work of Faith the Foundation of all the Rest But this must be an Energetical Operative and Influential Assent to all the Discoveries made of Christ Here is a Gospel that brings good Tydings of him and thou sayest thou believest it but I am notwithstanding all my Charity verily afraid with very many that say so it is not so for they do not carry it as if they did believe it Did they believe it they would not dare to live so opposite to it to the holy Ends of it therefore rest not in a naked Assent hereto but bring thy Heart thereby Secondly To give a Cordial Consent to the Terms proposed by him Thy Assent which is an Act of the Intellect or rather of the Soul as knowing the Truth and Goodness of Gospel Proposals must be accompanied or followed with an unseigned Consent to the Terms on which he is offered to be thine this Act of Faith is called Receiving of Christ As many Joh. 1.