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<HEAD>Excellent Memorables for all Mourners: E&s;pecially Mourners for the Lo&s;s of Deare&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Gathered out of Mr. <HI>B</HI>'s prepared (though not Preached) Farewel Sermon, at <HI>Kedermin&s;ter, Aug.</HI> 24. 1662. upon our Saviours <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></HEAD>
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<Q><BIBL><HI>John 16.22.</HI></BIBL>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> therefore have &s;orrow, but I will &s;ee you again, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Hearts &s;hall rejoice, and your joy no Man tak|e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> you.</P></Q>
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<P>THE Separation of dear Friends, made by Per&s;ecu|tion or Affliction, doth &s;omewhat re&s;emble Death it &s;elf. It doth &s;o in Eleven particulars.</P>
<P N="1">1. Death is <HI>the Separation of dear Companions;</HI> and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></P>
<P N="2">2 Death is <HI>&V;nwelcom unto Both of them:</HI> &s;o is the &s;aid Se|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></P>
<P N="3">3 Death is <HI>the end of Humane Conver&s;e;</HI> &s;o is that.</P>
<P N="4">4 Death is <HI>the end of Earthly Comforts;</HI> &s;o is that.</P>
<P N="5">5 Death is <HI>the end of Humane Labours;</HI> &s;o is that.</P>
<P N="6">6 Death is <HI>the effect of Sickne&s;s, and u&s;ually of Folly, and In|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Over&s;ight of our &s;elves;</HI> &s;o is that al&s;o, mo&s;t com|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></P>
<P N="7">7 Death <HI>puts &s;urviving Friends into Mourning;</HI> &s;o doth that.</P>
<P N="8">8 Death is <HI>the end of all the Living;</HI> &s;o is that.</P>
<P N="9">9 Death is <HI>followed with Judgment, God's and Man's;</HI> &s;o is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></P>
<P N="10">10 Death <HI>de&s;troys not the Relations of Soul and Body, &s;epa|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> doth the &s;aid Separation of Friends de&s;troy their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> unto each other.</P>
<P N="11">11. Death's <HI>Power is not Everla&s;ting; there will be a Re&s;ur|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> So the Power of the &s;aid Separation is not Everla&s;t|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Godly Friends will &s;urely meet again in that Kingdom <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> admits of no parting.</P>
<P N="12">12. Death, I would add, <HI>Works good to the Saints:</HI> and &s;o in the &s;aid Separation, as grievous as it is to &s;en&s;e, <HI>Rom.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></P>
<P>But yet this &s;aid Separation re&s;embles not Death in all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">or,</P>
<P N="1">1. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Friend is the Life of his Friend; no Pa&s;tor is the Life</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span">; as the Soul is the Life of it's Body. It is Chri&s;t alone is our Head and Life.</P>
<P N="2">2. And <HI>the Continuance of ones Welfare depends not on the con|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> of my Friend with us. A Church-&s;tate depends not on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> of any one &s;ingle Pa&s;tor whatever.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Text</HI> contains, [and happy is he that well attains and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">,] the&s;e Six <HI>Doctrinal Propo&s;itions.</HI></P>
<P>D 1. <HI>Sorrow goes before Joy, with Chri&s;ts Di&s;ciples.</HI> Even|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> before Morning. Their Sowing in Tears, before Reap|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> in Joy. Their Pain of Travel, before Joy of Birth. Se|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> of Sorrow, go before their compleat Joy.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Sinful Sorrows go before it.</HI> Though they &s;hould not do <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> do ever &s;o do. Worldly, Pa&s;&s;ionate, Peevi&s;h Sor|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> that are Po&s;itively Sinful.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Sorrows in their nature Lawful, and only in their degree &s;in|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> before it.</HI> The&s;e be our Exce&s;&s;ive troubles, at things <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> we may Lawfully Sorrow for, with Moderation.</P>
<P N="3">3 <HI>Sorrows meerly Natural do go before it.</HI> Such as <HI>Wearine&s;s</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Labour, <HI>Painedne&s;s</HI> with our Di&s;ea&s;es, <HI>grievous Feel|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> of Heat and Cold, of Hunger and Thir&s;t.</P>
<P N="4">4 <HI>Sorrows Ca&s;tigatory go before it.</HI> The&s;e be God's <HI>Cha|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> which have a tendency to do us good, if they be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> improved. Such be all Sufferings in our Souls, Bodies, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, E&s;tates and Friends.</P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>Sorrows Honourable and gainful go before it.</HI> The&s;e be Suf|ferings from Men for the &s;ake of Chri&s;t &amp; the cau&s;e of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="6">6 <HI>Sorrows Penitential do go before it.</HI> The&s;e are Contrition <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> true Repentance, Fa&s;ting, Ab&s;tinence, and Humiliation. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e&s;e Sorrows we mu&s;t inflict upon our &s;elves, to Kill Sin, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> to Promote the work of Grace.</P>
<P N="7">7. <HI>Sorrows Charitable do go before it.</HI> The&s;e be &s;uch as the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> of God and of his Church; and our Pity of the peri&s;h|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> World, do affect us with. Even as long as we live in a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;o full of Sin and Mi&s;ery.</P>
<P>Hear five Rea&s;ons for Sorrow's going before Joy.</P>
<P>R 1. <HI>God will have &s;ome Conformity between the order of PLACE and NAT&V;RE.</HI> In Nature, Nothingne&s;s was be|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Being; Infancy before Manhood; Weakne&s;s before <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">; Crying before Laughter. No wonder then, if <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Sorrow be before our Joy.</P>
<P>R 2. <HI>Sin goes before Grace; and we are the fir&s;t</HI> Adam<HI>'s <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, before we are Chri&s;t's.</HI> It is therefore but ju&s;t that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;hould be before Joy, where Satan goes before Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>R 3. <HI>God &s;eeth this to be the fitte&s;t Method for our Cure.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> may Deny our &s;elves, we mu&s;t know how little we <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> beholden to our &s;elves; and mu&s;t &s;mart by the fruit of our <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> and Folly, before we are ea&s;ed by the fruit of Grace and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">.</P>
<P>R 4. <HI>Fore-going Sorrows rai&s;e the price of following Mercies.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> that come out of great Tribulation, will joyfully &s;ing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> of their Redeemer.</P>
<P>R 5. <HI>God will have the Members conformed unto their Head.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> went to the Crown by the Cro&s;s; and &s;o &s;hall they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e Chri&s;ts. God's Will, alone, &s;hould &s;atisfie our <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> concerning this matter: But the&s;e Rea&s;ons do &s;et to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the Equity and Goodne&s;s of God's Will and Way.</P>
<P>Learn hence two things Exhorted.</P>
<P>E 1. <HI>Judge of your Sorrows not by your pre&s;ent Sen&s;e, but by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &V;&s;e and Tendency.</HI> Count them Purges, and Vomits; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> you like be&s;t, when they work in the way wherein <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> u&s;e to Cure &s;uch as take them. Remember, Sirs, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">,</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> 1. <HI>Who is it you &s;uffer by?</HI> Is it one that you &s;u&s;pect of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> of Power, Wi&s;dom, or Goodne&s;s?</P>
<P>Q. 2. <HI>See you not that Carnal Plea&s;ure is far more dangerous than all your Sorrow?</HI> Would you be in the condition of the ungodly, that pro&s;per in the World?</P>
<P>Q. 3. <HI>Would you not rather follow your Saviour, and be conformed to Him and his Saints, than to the Wicked?</HI> Would you not go the com|mon way to Heaven?</P>
<P>Q. 4. <HI>Hath not Suffering done you good, and the Cro&s;s bore you good Fruit?</HI> Why then afraid of it, and why &s;o de&s;irous of the Ea&s;e and Plea&s;ure that hath often Hurt you?</P>
<P>Obj. <HI>But 'tis not all Sorrow that foretells Joy.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Sol.</HI> No, but all Sorrow of the&s;e three &s;orts doth foretell it.</P>
<P N="1">1. Sorrow <HI>undergone in &s;incerity for Chri&s;t's cau&s;e and &s;ake.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Sorrow <HI>performed as a Duty, for Gods di&s;honour by our own and other Mens &s;ins, and for Mi&s;eries thence ri&s;ing.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. Sorrow <HI>of Cha&s;ti&s;ement patiently &s;uffered, and improved unto Refor|mation.</HI></P>
<P>E. 2. <HI>Condemn not the Generation of the Ju&s;t, becau&s;e you &s;ee them &s;uf|fer more than other Men.</HI> Be not as &s;ome Bea&s;ts; which, when one of their Fellows is wounded, do all for&s;ake him. &mdash;And yet, err not on the other hand; think not that all be Ble&s;&s;ed hereafter, that be Afflicted here. Know the Cau&s;e, e're you judge of the Suffering.</P>
<P>D. 2. <HI>Chri&s;t's Death and Departure was the cau&s;e of his Di&s;ciples Sor|row.</HI> Three things grieved them;</P>
<P N="1">1. That <HI>their Beloved Lord mu&s;t be took from them.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. That <HI>He mu&s;t Die in &s;uch a manner, painfully and ignominiou&s;ly.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. That <HI>He mu&s;t Die while they had &s;o little fore-&s;ight of his Re&s;urrection and Return.</HI> Had they known what would follow, they had been le&s;s troubled.</P>
<P>D. 3. <HI>The Sorrows of Chri&s;t's Di&s;ciples are but &s;hort.</HI> For,</P>
<P>R. 1. <HI>Life is but &s;hort.</HI></P>
<P>R. 2. <HI>God's di&s;plea&s;ure with his Servants, is but &s;hort,</HI> P&s;al. 30.5.</P>
<P>R. 3. <HI>Our Trial, mu&s;t be but &s;hort.</HI> God will &s;ee that the Furnace be not too Hot, nor we in it too Long.</P>
<P>R. 4. <HI>The Power of tho&s;e that afflict us, is but &s;hort.</HI></P>
<P>Ob&s;erve then,</P>
<P N="1">I. 1. <HI>Religion is not a whit di&s;paraged by &s;hort and &s;mall Sufferings.</HI> Do any think them long? Let them con&s;ider,</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Your Suffering will be no longer than your Sin.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Nor any longer than you make them NECESSARY.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>No, not &s;o long as you do de&s;erve.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Nor &s;o long as the Sufferings of the &V;ngodly,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>Nor &s;o long as your following Joys; nor &s;o great.</HI></P>
<P N="1">I. 2. <HI>It is rea&s;onable that we moderate and mix our Sorrows with Joy.</HI> Being they be as hath been &s;aid; <HI>Rejoice evermore,</HI> is no unrea&s;on|able command.</P>
<P>D. 4. <HI>Christ will again vi&s;it his &s;orrowful Di&s;ciples.</HI> He means not to for&s;ake them, when he hides his Face from them. For why?</P>
<P>R. 1. <HI>He hath Conquered the greatest Enemies already; and there be none remaining to Conquer Him.</HI></P>
<P>R. 2. <HI>He retains &s;till his Relation unto his Di&s;ciples.</HI> He is their Head, while they &s;uffer &s;o in the World.</P>
<P>R. 3. <HI>He loveth us now He is in Heaven as much as ever He did on Earth.</HI> He lays not by the lea&s;t mea&s;ure of his Love.</P>
<P>R. 4. <HI>His Covenant with his Servants is &s;till in force.</HI> And his Pro|mi&s;es cannot be broken.</P>
<P>R. 5. <HI>His own Intere&s;t, Honour, Office, Preparations, do engage him to return unto his di&s;con&s;olate Flock.</HI> It doth &s;o; And,</P>
<P>R. 6. <HI>It is for their &s;akes that He withdraweth for a time.</HI> The Bitter of it, is intended as Medicinal for their Benefit. John 16.7. <HI>It is ex|pedient for you that I go away.</HI></P>
<P>Mark ye then, and be Exhorted.</P>
<P>E. 1. <HI>Mi&s;under&s;tand not the Departings of your Lord.</HI> Say not with the Evil Servant, My Lord delayeth his coming.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>He will Return to Judge the World,</HI> at his appointed day, <HI>Job</HI> 19.25.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>He will Return to his &s;eemingly For&s;aken Flocks.</HI> And give them Pa&s;tors after his own Heart, <HI>Jer.</HI> 3.14.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>He will Return to the Souls of his particular Servants &s;eemingly For|&s;aken.</HI> Weeping endures for a Night, but Joy cometh in the Morn|ing, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 30.5.</P>
<P>E. 2. <HI>Learn to behave your &s;elves well, till Chri&s;t doth Return unto you.</HI> Particularly,</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Bear his Ab&s;ence, but be not Plea&s;ed with it.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Be not too Indifferent neither, but Re&s;ent it much.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Be not drawn to take another Lord, or Portion, in his &s;tead.</HI> Let not Riches, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;erve you in&s;tead of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Be not emboldened to Sin by his Ab&s;ence.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>Be not di&s;couraged from Duty, by his Ab&s;ence,</HI> Heb. 12.12.</P>
<P>D. 5. <HI>When Chri&s;t &s;hall again appear to his Di&s;ciples, their Sorrows &s;hall be turned into Joy.</HI> When He comes, Joy comes with him. When the Sun ri&s;eth, it is Light day, and Fro&s;ts are thawed, and all things revived.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>The De&s;erted Soul turns from Complaint, to Triumph.</HI> He that &s;aid, There is no hope; now &s;ays, My Lord and my God.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>The De&s;erted Church doth the &s;ame.</HI> Joying in its re&s;tored Ordi|nances, Order, Opportunities, and Advantages.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>The &V;niver&s;al Church &s;hall have an end of their Sorrows, and a Har|ve&s;t of Joys, when Chri&s;t returns at the la&s;t day.</HI></P>
<P>And here attend ye well.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>It is Chri&s;t Him&s;elf that is the Believers Joy.</HI> The Beloved of their Souls.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>And He will not come Alone neither.</HI> He brings an innumerable Company of Ble&s;&s;ed Saints and Angels.</P>
<P>D. 6. <HI>The Joy that cometh at Chri&s;t's return will be a &s;ecure and ever|la&s;ting Joy.</HI> Who &s;hould deprive us of it?</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Not our Selves.</HI> For our trying time will be out, and Confir|mation will be the reward of Conque&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Not Devils.</HI> For there they cannot corrupt our Imaginations, or pervert our Under&s;tandings, or di&s;turb our Pa&s;&s;ions.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Not any Men.</HI> The Holy and Ble&s;&s;ed, will encrea&s;e our Joy; their Joy will be ours. And as for the Wicked, they will be di&s;en|abled to hurt us, either by Flatteries, Threats, Reproaches <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">+cu&s;ations.</P>
<P>Now ob&s;erve;</P>
<P>I. <HI>The belief of this, rejoices the Soul under all Di&s;appointment</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> Though the ART, and FORM, and WORDS of Holine&s;s <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;o do.</P>
<P>I. 2. <HI>Be not Deceived by a Flattering; nor Dejected by a Frou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> World.</HI> No, but place your hopes on the Joys which no Man can tak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> from you.</P>
<P>O Neglect not the&s;e Coun&s;els and Reque&s;ts.</P>
<P>C. 1. <HI>Spend mo&s;t of your Studies, in confirming your belief of,</HI> 1. <HI>The Truth of the Go&s;pel.</HI> 2. <HI>The Immortality of the Soul; And,</HI> 3. <HI>The Life to come.</HI> Lay up Trea&s;ure in Heaven; and Live for it, as World|lings Live for the Fle&s;h.</P>
<P>C. 2. <HI>Flatter not your &s;elves with the hopes of Long Life. But make it the Summ of your Religion, Care, and Bu&s;ine&s;s, to be ready for a &s;afe and comfortable Death.</HI></P>
<P>C. 3. <HI>Live as in a con&s;tant War again&s;t all Fle&s;hly Lu&s;ts, and Love not the World as it cheri&s;heth tho&s;e Lu&s;ts.</HI> He is never to be tru&s;ted, that falls deeply in Love with Riches.</P>
<P>C. 4. <HI>Be Furni&s;hed before-hand with Expectation and Patience, for all Evils that may befall you.</HI> And make not too great a matter of Pover|ty, or Wrong from Men.</P>
<P>C. 5. <HI>Take heed of a Self-conceited, &V;nhumbled &V;nder&s;tanding, and of ha&s;ty, and ra&s;h Conclu&s;ions.</HI> It is a Fool that rageth, and is confident.</P>
<P>C. 6. <HI>Maintain &V;nion and Communion with all true Chri&s;tian Chur|ches.</HI> Hold to Catholick Principles of meer Chri&s;tianity. Love CHRISTIANS as Chri&s;tians, but Love the BEST mo&s;t.</P>
<P>C. 7. <HI>Be &s;ure you maintain due Honour and Subjection unto your Go|vernours, Prov.</HI> 24.21. Obey no Man again&s;t God. But if you fall under per&s;ecuting Governours, in patience po&s;&s;e&s;s your Souls, tru&s;t God, and hold fa&s;t Innocency, and abhor Rebellion and Revenge. Do nothing but what God will own. Self-&s;aving Men, are u&s;ually the de&s;troyers of them&s;elves and others. Peter, <HI>that drew his Sword for Chri&s;t, denied him the &s;ame Night, with Oaths and Cur&s;es.</HI> Fools tru&s;t them&s;elves, and Wi&s;e Men tru&s;t God. &mdash; We may learn Wit from that Fool, who &s;eeing great Guns and Mu&s;quets, asked, <HI>What they were to do;</HI> and being told, <HI>they were to Kill Men,</HI> &s;aid pre&s;ently; <HI>Do not Men Die here without Killing? In our Countrey they will Die of them&s;elves.</HI></P>
<P>C. 8. <HI>Be &s;ure you keep up Family Religion.</HI> E&s;pecially in the Education of Youth.</P>
<P>C. 9. <HI>Live in the Love of God and Man.</HI> Ble&s;&s;ed be they that faithfully practi&s;e tho&s;e three Principles which all do profe&s;s. <HI>Sc.</HI> 1. <HI>To Love God as God above all, and &s;o to Obey him.</HI> 2. <HI>To Love our Neighbour as our &s;elves.</HI> 3. <HI>And to Do as we would be done unto.</HI></P>
<P>Notes of the &s;ame Author, from <HI>Luke</HI> 20.20.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Doctrine.</HI> To have our Names written in Heaven, is the greate&s;t Mercy, and fir&s;t, and chiefly, and only for it &s;elf to be Rejoiced in. Which &s;o puts the e&s;timate on all inferior Mercies, that further than they refer to this, they are not to be the matter of our Joy. <HI>For why?</HI></HEAD>
<P>R. 1. <HI>All common Mercies may con&s;i&s;t with pre&s;ent Mi&s;ery.</HI></P>
<P>R. 2. <HI>Yea, they are al&s;o the ordinary and &s;trong Means of making Men mi&s;erable, and holding them in Mi&s;ery.</HI></P>
<P>R. 3. <HI>They are often made the Devils Tools to do his Work by, and are u&s;ed again&s;t God, to the hindrance of the Go&s;pel, and injury of the Church.</HI></P>
<P>R. 4. <HI>All of them may end in Mi&s;ery, and leave the Owner in Everla&s;t|ing Woe.</HI></P>
<P>But I challenge all the World to tell me,</P>
<P>Q. 1. <HI>What &s;hould be Rejoiced in if not a Name in Heaven? If not the Lord of Life him&s;elf, the Joy and Glory of Saints?</HI> What is Heaven, but the Enjoyment of Him?</P>
<P>Q. 2. <HI>Is it not fit we now Rejoice, in that wherein we mu&s;t Everla&s;t|ingly Rejoice?</HI> If you knew the Friend and Place in which you were to have but an hundred years Joy, that fore knowledge would make them pre&s;ently more delightful to you, than any other.</P>
<P>Q. 3. And, <HI>Is not this Joy a Divine, Pure, Profitable, and a War|rantable one?</HI> Need you be A&s;hamed of this? Is not he the be&s;t Chri&s;tian, that hath mo&s;t Love, Joy, and Gratitude? Is not he the like&s;t to perform be&s;t his other Duties, and to conquer his remain|ing Sins?</P>
<P>You may be &s;ure your Names be written in Heaven;</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>If Heaven has the preheminence in your Practical E&s;teem.</HI> If you are re&s;olved to &s;tick clo&s;e to Chri&s;t whatever it co&s;t you, and take God for your Portion.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>If obtaining Heaven be your principal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Care, Bu&s;ine&s;s, and Work, which you mind in the World.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>If finding your &s;elves Lo&s;t and filthy in Sin, you &s;ee Chri&s;t's Suffi|ciency and Nece&s;&s;ity, and unfeignedly take him for your Saviour and Lord.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>If the Heavenly Nature be mo&s;t amiable in your Eyes.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>If you have a &s;pecial Love to the Heirs of Heaven.</HI></P>
<P>Rejoice not, till you have the&s;e Evidences; For, 1. <HI>God <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> not you to Rejoice.</HI> 2. Your Joy is <HI>&V;nrea&s;onable.</HI> 3. It is <HI>Di&s;hone&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Di&s;ingenuous.</HI> 4. It is <HI>Di&s;honourable</HI> and <HI>Shameful.</HI> 5. It can be <HI>but Short.</HI> 6. And it is <HI>Unprofitable,</HI> yea <HI>Hurtful.</HI></P>
<P>Rejoice evermore, when you have the&s;e Evidences; For, Joy b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">+longs to you, 'tis your <HI>Priviledge</HI> and your <HI>Duty.</HI> Let not So<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s and Firebrands of Hell, live a more Joyful Life than you, who mu&s;t be Everla&s;tingly as full of Joy, as the Sun is of Light.</P>
<P><HI>Did you but know</HI> ^1 <HI>how God approves holy Right Rejoicing, more than your Pining Sorrow; and</HI> ^2 <HI>how it &s;trengthens the Soul, and</HI> ^3 <HI>&s;weetens</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> ^4 <HI>ca&s;eth Sufferings, and</HI> ^5 <HI>&s;uits Go&s;pel-grace, and</HI> ^6 <HI>encourageth</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> ^7 <HI>&s;erves to &s;ubdue the Sins that trouble you, you would labour and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> your drooping Spirits rai&s;ed.</HI></P>
<P>&rindx; However; if <HI>Melancholy,</HI> and <HI>your Mistakes, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> </HI> &s;hall keep you &s;ad here; as to <HI>your Happine&s;s,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> comparatively great. Heaven will wipe away <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> Tho&s;e Joys will be long enough, when they come.</P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Tho. Parkhur&s;t</HI> at the <HI>Bible</HI> and <HI>Three Crowns</HI> in <HI>Cheap&s;ide,</HI> near <HI>Mercers</HI> Chapel. 1691.</P>
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