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\€irifl the KefurreBion and the LifeA 
 
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 ^'^^m ■Fimeral S E R M O N 
 
 On the much Lamented 
 
 DEATH 
 
 'Of the moft Serene and moft Potent Pringefs, 
 
 SOT HI A CHARLffffA 
 
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 Daughter of the molt Serene 
 
 EleQoral Houfe of Brmfwkk slrA Lune^mg, Sfc,. 
 
 A N D L A T, E 
 
 Iq^ieen of PR^USSIA} 
 
 Of Glorious Memory. 
 PREACH'D 
 
 The Firft Sunday after the Solemnization of the 
 Royal-Funeral at Ber//>, to the Pruffm^ 
 Congregation in the .i^. 
 
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 HER ROYAL HIGHNESS 
 
 The Moft Serene Pdncefs, 
 
 SOPH 
 
 Eled:refs Dowager 
 
 OF 
 
 Brunfwid^ and Lmebnr^, Sec, 
 
 MADAM,/ 
 
 THIS was the Confiant and Great Comfort 
 of the Faithful^ that their Hopes in Chriji 
 are not' in this Lifi^only^- but extend Themjehes 
 beyond all Things' of this World^ even to an End" 
 lefs Blifs and E'verlafiing Glory. Such is the 
 SuhjeB of this prejent Funeral Dijcourje^ on the 
 iin^expeB^d pepaHptre of your Royal High- 
 iiefsV own Daughter, the moft Serene, and 
 
 A 2 moft 
 
Dedication. 
 
 moft Potent Princefs, SophiaCharlotta, 
 late Queen o/Pruflia, of Glorious Memory ;where^ 
 in is laid down the Grekt I^oundation of this In- 
 efiimable Confidence^ Chrift hiajfelf, the Refur^ 
 reftlon and the Life, that whofoever Believes 
 in him, tho' he were Dead, yet fhall he Live: 
 And whofoever Liveth and Believeth in him, 
 fhall never Die. Therewith comforted Them- 
 felves the Two AffliSfed Sifters, at the Death of 
 their Dearefi Brother Lazarus :*" And that this is 
 likewifejour Highnefs's 5«|?^/^ under this frefent 
 heavy AffliBion^ and all the Sorrows of this Li fe^ 
 is the Verjiiajion^ and that thefe Glorious Privi- 
 leges bf the Godly herein promis^d^ a Happy Re^ 
 furrefl:ion and Eternal Life, may he your cer-- 
 tain Inheritance hereafter^ are the Fervent Pray- 
 ers^ of 
 
 Your Royal HighnelsV 
 
 « 
 
 Moft Humbk, arid 
 Moft Devoted Servant, 
 
 John James Cjefar^ 
 
 A 
 
Funeral SERMON 
 
 O N T H E 
 
 DEATH 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 Queen of Pruffia. 
 
 St. Johnxi. 25, a6. 
 
 I Am the RefurreSiion and the Life j he that Believeth m 
 
 wp, tho^ he were Deady yet fljall he Live. 
 Andwhofoever Liveth, and Believeth in me^flrail never Die. 
 
 OV R FriendLazarus Sleepeth, fays the Suprearn 
 Wifdom and Prince of Life, Jefus, when he 
 would give a perfe£t DefcriptiOn of the Death 
 of the Faithful, in the foregoing Eleventh 
 Verfe of this Chapter. Lazarus was really Dead, thus 
 teaches us the whol? Connexion of this Hiftory, and is 
 confirm'd by the moft Faithful and Almighty, who not 
 long after rais'd hira from the Dead. TmbifeiplesMa' 
 
 derftood 
 
*6 Chrifi the RefttrreSion 
 
 ^jQ^od a of xh&NatuFal Sleep^^; tJktfaidfliartiy if^e 
 
 Sftep,' he lt.u!l ij well, sldS thought that be hadfpoken of tak- 
 ikg ufi in Sleep, as is faid in the 1 2th. and i jlhf. Verfes j 
 but our Lord fpdke of his Death, and then faid uitto them 
 plainly, Lazarus /J Dead^ in the 14th. Verfe. And as the 
 Procedure of the Hiftory ihews^ his Bpdy> when Jefus 
 came, . was found to have lain in the Grave four Days 
 already, with evident Tokens of Corruption. Lazarus 
 was, as much as from all thefe Natural Circumftances 
 can be learn'd, adlually Dead, and lamented for fome 
 ftme i land yet is he faid to y^ye, and his iDeath is called, 
 ^^t^^otherwifeimoft Sweet, \ ReffeQii^and Dclight- 
 ftn; x^leep ; becaufe the Death of the FMt^ul is really no- 
 thing elfe, and is even Precious in the Sight of the Lord ; 
 for they then reft from all their Labours, and their 
 Works do follow them : ^ay, the. Dmh of the Godly 
 is in all Circumftances, an^ every wheceltl^^nto a mofl: 
 Comfortable Steep : For, as in the firft Place, they that 
 do naturally Sleepy lye ftiU in the Calmnefs of the Night, 
 without their daily Motionsj ,to give Eafe to their fa- 
 tigu'd Bodies and'outwtrd Sehfes; and nbtwithftanding 
 ^ this, are -Jrvake. in 'their Souls, as the]| Remen*- 
 trance of "their Dreanis dearly proves. TJius likewife 
 the Godly in DeatJ} have their wearied Limbs and Boo^ 
 laid into their Kf/?/»^- Places, to be eas'd after their 
 Worldly Troubles, in an uninterrupted Tranquility, 
 and yet at the.fartie time their Immortal Spirits are4- 
 'Ik"m'God', for the Da/ (or* Body"), returns to the 
 F..xrth^ .asn xv.n \ a?!d the .' Spirit unto God^ ' xvhh-gAVt it, 
 Eccl. 12. 7. As in thefecond Place, He that well and 
 foundly Slteps/'n not hurry'd with the„Cares of this 
 World, and is free from all its anxious Carlungs; /thi^ 
 likewife^ the Oe^d i/t'tke irC'ri' ate" fepiraced frprp. thp 
 ■Js^oilfiandtroublefome Vejtat'ions df this World, ' Hap- 
 py 
 
4ind the Life. j 
 
 py in their Souls, and forever contented in thelFruition 
 of God theif ^upream Good; For the Spirit that is onc^ 
 come unto God, does never, not fo inuch as with hii 
 Thoughts, return to this World, and much lefs the Bo- 
 dy, for, MeflrnH return no more to his Hmfe, rtekherfhalt 
 his PlAce (of Habitation) know him any t^ore, Job 7. id: 
 Atid'Thirdly, As none LofigmotQ 'iov-Reft, and ^leef 
 founder than they, that thro' their daily Labours have 
 tiretl their Limbs and outward Senfes, and born the 
 Burthen and Heat of the Day, thus likewife none Lofjg 
 more to D/^ than the Righteous, who, tirfed by the ma^ 
 licious Proceedings of this -wicked World, and thro'' 
 many AffliQions arc brought to the Knowledge of a bet- 
 ter Happinefs, huve a Deftreto depart and to be ttit^ Chrifiy. 
 which is far better, Phil. 1.2}. And their greateft Plea- 
 fures and Delights in this World having been but Vexa- 
 tion of Spirit, and the beft of their Days but Labmir 
 and SorroWj Theji foo» do forget n^at is hki/fdj and reach 
 forth unto the Everlajiiftg Refi thbfe Happifleffes which 
 are fet before them, and prefs towairds the Mark and that 
 Ineftimable Glorious Frize in Heaven, Phil. j. ij. 14. 
 Nay r Thus are they dcfirous to Depart, that their Days 
 are compav'd to the Days of an Hireling, and a Servant: 
 whoearnej^lj dejires the Shadow, and a Hireling w,ho look- 
 eth forth Reward of his Work, Job 7. i. 2. And theft 
 liavibg obtainM their End, and being in that calm 
 Night of Death, begins their real Happinefs, as being 
 freed from all Evil and Dangers, refting, tiH at the great 
 Morning of Univerfal RefurreQion they fhall Rife a^ 
 gain, and in Soul and Body fee that Everlafting Day of 
 Joy, and partake of that Heavenly Life of the Glorify'd 
 Saints ; and thus are really Hapfy all they that are Par- 
 takers of this Sleep : Thus Happy are the Dead that Sleep in 
 the Lord j nay, thus Happy are the Dettd that Die In the 
 
 Lord! 
 
Chrijt the Refurre&ion 
 
 Lord ! Thus was aftuaUy heard a Voiceof the Spirit of 
 God from Heaven , v^o pronounces them Happy for 
 ever; St. 'John, the Divine, hetrdthisVoice from Heaven, 
 fojing unto him. Write, Bleffed are the Dead nfhich Die in 
 the Lord, from henceforth ; yea, faith the Spirit, that they 
 may refi from their Labours, and their Works do follorv. 
 them. Rev. 14. ij. They Reft from their Labours, 
 fays the Spirit, and therefore affirms, that their Death is, 
 as our Lord expreffes himfelf in this Chapter, a really 
 comfortable and refrelhing Sleef ; when he, in the fore- 
 going Words to his Difciples and the Multitude, fay'd, 
 Our Friend Lazarus Sleemh. 
 
 But whence comes all this Happinefs? From whence 
 do thefe Glorious Privileges of the Godly arife ? And 
 why is not Death equally Troublefome and Terrible to 
 them, as he is to the Wicked and Ungodly ?^ To whom 
 he is an intollerable Plague, an abhorr'd Enemy of fo 
 dreadful an Afpefl:, that they cannot without Trem- 
 bling and Amazement think of him, becaufe he is the 
 Beginning of their Eternal Mifery and Endlefs Woe, 
 as transferring them over to Everlafliing Damnation : 
 I fay, Why is the Death of the Pious thus Happy, and 
 what is otherwife moft Horrible , thus acceptable to 
 them ? You may eafily know that, and be further in- 
 flruSed in it, from this our very Text-Chapter ; it is 
 the fame true Heavenly Friend, and Great Saviour, Jefux, 
 thatfpeaks in it, who hath acquired it for them; Hcj 
 the Prince of Life, and firft Begotten of the Dead, and 
 the Prince of the Kings of the Earth, that lov'd us, 
 ■and wafli'd us from our Sins in his own Blood; hath by 
 his Death and Glorious Refurre£iion gain'd it for them, 
 SanBifpng therewith our Graves, and imparting unto 
 us a Spiritual RtfurreSlion here from Sin, and a Blejfed 
 Corporal Oae hereafter from Ten>}orate Death, and making 
 
 us 
 
and the Life. *• 9 
 
 us thus Partakers of a Spiritual Life on Earth , and 
 an Eternal 0»e in Glory. ^ Do but read a little further, 
 and you will find this the true Caufe of it ; the only 
 Reafon why the Death of the Faithful is fucha Bleffed 
 67ef/, when the Lord himfelf fays to the Afflifted, and 
 -at the Death of her departed Brother, Difconfolate Sifter, 
 Martha^ in our Text, / am the RefurreSiion and the Life ; 
 he that Believeth in me, tho* he were Dead^ yet jhallhe Live: 
 And whofoever Liveth and Believeth in me^ jhdll never 
 Die. 
 
 Here you hear this Heavenly trophet declare himfelf, 
 in the moft fignifieant and very frequent Expreffions 
 through the Holy Gofpel, the only Caufe and Author 
 of all RefurreQion and Life ; and at the fame time 
 to defcribe the Perfons who are thus Happy, and 
 Partakers ofthefe moft Incomparable Privileges; to wit, 
 «hey, that live here in the time of Grace, and believe in 
 him : Whofe Prerogative confifts herein ; that in Death 
 it felf they (hall not die, but live fpiritually here, and in 
 Glory to all Eternity. 
 
 And this is that notable DoSrine, which is the only 
 Support of the Faithful in their Affliftions and Calami- 
 ties of this Life, efpecially at the time of Sicknefs, and 
 the approaching AlpeSs of Death it felf; when either 
 they therofelves, or their neareft Relations arid deareft 
 Friends, are by this Univerfal and Unmerciful Power of 
 Death cut off one from another ; to be affur'd then, that 
 BOtwithftandirigvthis, they fhall live eternally, and are 
 fo far from a total Deftruftion, or Annihilation of them- 
 felves, that they are rather brought over by it^ thjo' 
 their I^ith to a greater Perfedlon/ and a far better State, 
 of an Everlafting Glorious Life. ;/, 
 
 B Hers- 
 
io " Chrifi the ReJurreBion 
 
 Herewith do the Children of God raife up their de- 
 jedted Hearts, on fuch forrowful andmelancholly Occa- 
 fions, and which at prefent is the only Comfort of this 
 Chriftian and Hero like Prvnce, our mofi Gracious KJ»gy 
 it the unexpeded Departure of his neareft Relation in 
 this World, his RojalSpoufe ; (whofe Royd Corps hath 
 not long fitice been laid into the Rojd Tamb, the place 
 of its Corruption, and for which we at prefent Bewail 
 and Mourn) thacS^&fis, notwith (landing this, alive, in 
 Her Immortal Soul, as having believ'd in our Lord Jefus„ 
 and (hall live, after a Glorious RefurreQion, both in 
 Soul and Body to aJl Eternity ; bccaufe Her Redeemer is- 
 the RefurreCfio» Mid the Life^ that whofoever Believeth in- 
 hiffiy thd' he were Dead, yet jhsll he Live : And whofoever 
 Liveth and believeth in hiWy Jhall never Die. Which 
 Comfort of the Godly hath therefore purpofcly been chofen 
 by this Vi6us Kjng^ as the prcpereft SubjeS for the Royal 
 Funeral Difcourfe, and is confequently more amply 
 to be confider'd by us in this prefent Solemn Day of 
 Mourning. 
 
 In its following Three Effential Part% which are, 
 
 J. The Author of thefe Glorious PrivitegeSy in thofe 
 moft Emphatical Words, I *m the RefurreSfion and 
 the Life. 
 
 II. The Partakers of it , Whofoever Liveth and: Be* 
 lieveth i» him, 8rc. 
 
 in. Wherein confifts this Gioriotu Vrerogative ? Thej 
 fi>all never Die, &c. 
 
 Oar 
 
, ■ ' ■ . '■' . - ■ - ' 
 
 and the Life. 1 1 
 
 PART I. 
 
 Our Lord Jeftts direfled, in the next foregoing Words, 
 liis Difcourfe only to Mrnhx, the Deceas'd s own Sifter, 
 who had Faith in him. as the only Redeemer ; and from 
 thence that great Truft, that her Brother tvould not have 
 Died J if he had beenfrefent in his Sicknefs : When in the 
 21 ft. Verfe, Mznha faid unto Jefus^ Lord, if tbouhadfi 
 been here, my Brother had not Died. _Nay, her Faithful 
 Confidence in him was ftill greater, when in the zzd. 
 Verfe, She fo evidently intimates her conceiv'd Hopes, 
 that the dead Body of her deceas'd Brother could, upon 
 Intercefjion of '^efus with his Heaven!} Father^ be broughc 
 to Life again ; whereupon fhc receivM that comfort^ 
 able Fromife from him, that her Brother ftiould be en- 
 liven'dagaifi; wbenin the 2 jd. Verfe, 'Jefus [aid unto 
 her, thy Brother jhall rife again. But it feems the lament- 
 ing Af<tr^^/i, in her deep Sorrow, did not ftretch forth 
 her Thoughts fo far ; neither was her Faith fo ftrbng 
 "at prefent, as to think, or believe, that her Brother 
 Ihouldbe rais'd fo foon, that uery fame Day, by Mi- 
 racle; when flie fpeaks in the 24th. Verfe, of his Re-, 
 iurredion at the laft Day, when Mzxthz faith unto him, 
 1 know that be fhaU rife again in the RefurreBion at the laji 
 Day : Therefore to ftrengthen her Faith, and fully to 
 convince her of his Almighty Power, by which he had 
 no need to defer the Execution of his Divine Fromire 
 made unt-o hery in this very Difcourfe, fo long ;. but can 
 Taife him again every Hour and Minute, he demon- 
 ftrates unto her in the 25th. and 26th. Verfes, the 
 Words of oar Text, how he himfelFis the Author of all 
 Refttrre£}ion and Life, -how he raifeth both from Spri- 
 faal and Corfbi'aliDeath-, tvhen^- and mi/em fitpieafeth, and 
 
 B 2 ■ imparts 
 
11 Chrifi the Refurreciion 
 
 imparts both Spiritual and Corporal Life here, and an 
 Eternal One hereafter ; thus breaking forth, I AM 
 THE RESVRRECriON AND THE 
 LIFE. 
 
 But how is Chrifi the Rifnrre6iion anei the Life? And 
 how efpecially above all, the Refurre£iie» ? He did, as 
 we know, afterwards Rife from the Dead on the Third 
 Dajij according to the Script ares , and is become by it the 
 fir ft Fruits of them that Slept ^ \ Cor. 15. 20. and tlie 
 Firft-BoKn from the Dead^ Col. i. j8. the Firft-Eegotten 
 of the Deady and the Prince of the Kjngs of the Earth, 
 that lov'd us and wajh^d us from our Sins in his own Bloody 
 Rev. 1.5. and hathacquir'd by that for us, the Refur- 
 reStion^ both Spiritual and Corporal ; the SPIRITVJL, 
 for m are Burfd with him bj Baptifm into Death^ that like 
 as Chrifi was raised ap from the Dead by the Glory of the 
 Father, even fo we alfo Jbould (rife from the Spiritual 
 Death of Sin, and) walk in newnefs of Life ^ Rom 6. 4. 
 Nay I He it is that imparts Life unto the fpiritually Dead; 
 for, the Hour is come already, and now fiill is, when the 
 (fpiritually) Dead have heard the Voice of the Son of God ; 
 and they that have heard, that is obferv'd, have liv'*dy. 
 John 5.25. And He hath made them Bleffed and Holy by 
 this fir (i Refurreciion, Rev. 20.^ And thus no lefs hath, 
 he work'd out for them their CORPORAL Refurreciion,. 
 becaufe his Refurreftion is the firfi Caufe and principal 
 Occafton of ours, and both are joyn'd with that infepera- 
 ble Connexion, that whofoever denies the RefurreHion. 
 of the Dead, deDiesa.Ko that Chrifi is rifen, as the great 
 Apoftle argues, and conjoyns them both as the Caufe 
 with its Effefl:, 1 Or. 15. ij„ 17. infomuch, thzt, If 
 u>e believe that jefus Died, and Rofe again, even fo them 
 alfo, which Sleep in Jefus, will God brit^ with hm; as the 
 fameApajftle-aJgainxoncludes, iThef^.!^. And thus 
 
 is. 
 
and the Life. ^ ig 
 
 is Chriji the Firft-Born of the Deadj and by that likewife 
 the Author of the RefuneSfioit^ both Spiritual and Cor- 
 poral. But how again IS HE THE RESVR- 
 RECTION IT SELF? For the very fame Rea- 
 fons juft now alledg'd, becaufe He is the BEGIN- 
 NING^ the Firfi'Bortt from the Deai, that iti allThings 
 he might have the Preeminence ; for it f leased the Father ^ 
 that ia him fhouU ALL FV L L N ESS dwell, Col. 
 1.19. ALL FV LLNESS, and fo by Confequence 
 this Power of Raifing and Quickening the Dead, in fa 
 far, that he is therein like unto his Heavenly Father, and 
 does the fame Works with him: For as the Father Raifeth 
 up the Dead, and Quickefiith them, evenfo the Son Quicken^ 
 eth whom he. will, JohnzQ. 2[. And thus is. He in all 
 manner of Refpefts and Ways the firfl Author, the Be- 
 ginner and Finijher of all Spiritual and Corporal Re fur- 
 region ; and is for that Reafon moft Emphatically call'd 
 the RESVRRECTION it felf, by this notable 
 way of ExprefRon in the Holy Scriptures ; when the 
 Holy-Ghoft not only attributes the Effefl to its Caufe, 
 but exchanges both, and gives i. Defcription of the Caufe 
 by its Effed, efpecially in the Great Effe5fs which our 
 Lord Jefus and Redeemer hatb, as the principle Caufe^ 
 work*d out for our Salvation ; As for Inftance, He hath 
 Juftify'd us, and as the firft Caufe work'd out our Righ- 
 teoufnefs before God, and is for that Reafon call'd the 
 Lord our Rightew^fnefs : He hath imparted unto us the 
 Heavenly Wifdom, and is at the fame time call'd the 
 Supream Wifdom. He is faid to be made unta us Sanifi- 
 f cation, becaufe he hath SanUiffd us by his Word and 
 Holy Spirit ; and our Redemption, becaufe he bath Re- 
 deemed us by his own dear Blood, as you read amongft 
 other Places, in i Cor. i. 50. And in the fame manner 
 is he the Rejurrrelfioff ^ the Refurreiiion and the Life, be- 
 caufe 
 
1 4. Chriji the Refurre^ion 
 
 caufe He hath acofnir^d for us both a Corpord and Spiri- 
 tud RefurreCiiory, from Corporal and Spiritual Dir^/^, to 
 a Spiritual and Eternal Life. O Endlefsnefs of Glory, 
 and Fullnefsof Godliead, that dwells in Chrift Jefus! 
 He is ALL in ALL^ in the great Workof oiir Salvation ; 
 tihe Beginner y and Fimjher , and Mediator of all tliefe 
 Things that bring us over to Eternal Blifs. He was 
 not only in the Beginning with God^ at thefrjt, or vifi- 
 ble Creation ; and dl Things were made by bim ; fo that 
 without him was not anj thing made, that was rnade\ St. John 
 1.2,5. He preferves not only, and upholds all Things. 
 k) the Word of his Power ^ Heb. i. J. inipmuch, That by 
 him were all Things Created thai are in Heaven, and that 
 ^are on Earthy Visible and Invisible ; whether they be Thrones, 
 and Dominions J or Principalities^ er Powers^ dl Things 
 rvere Created by him, and for him ; anei He is before all. 
 Things^ and hy bim all- Things eonffij Col. i . 16, 17. 
 But moreover, He is the frfi: Caufe, the End and the 
 Mediator o( thQfecond Creation^ our Salvation. The Au- 
 thor and FiniJJjer of our Faith, Jefus, Heb. 1 2. 2. The 
 Mediator between God and Man ; the Man, Chri(l Jefus, who 
 ^ave himfelf a Ranfom for all, 1 Tim. 2. K^. who hath 
 reconcile Heaven and Earth, and re-united God and 
 ^n, and given unto us, by his Death and his Refur- 
 reftion, Eternal Life ; from whomy in, and through, and to 
 whom^ wherefore are all Things, and to whom be Glory for 
 ever ; who, being put to Death, in the Flejh, hath ^uickex'd 
 himfelf by his Spirit; that is,, hisi Divine Nature^ or 
 Eternal Godhead', i Pet. ^. 1 8. who makes us alfo Blef- 
 Jfd. and Holy by . this fr^ RefupreBtion, and is to let us 
 hear at the laft Day his Alfliighty Voice to an U>siverfal 
 RefurreUion ; which by its Infinite Power will penetrate 
 the Earth and the Sea, the Hills and the Valleys, the 
 Woods and Plains, to give up their Dead ; when He 
 
 htm/elf. 
 
and the Life. i 5 
 
 himfelf^ this fame Lord Jefus, fhall defcend from Heaven 
 rvith a Shout y with the Voice of the Arch- Angela and tvith 
 the Trumpet cf God^ and the Dead in Chrift jhall rife frjt. 
 Then we, which are alive and remain, fjaii he eaaght up 
 together rvith them in the Clouds^ t& »ieet the Lord in the Air^ 
 andfoxve^ydl he ever with the Lord, i TheC 4. 16, 17. 
 and may thu5,.with a full Emphafis, beJ'call'u the Refur- 
 rc£}ion: And He, the moft Faithful and Holy one, fay,, 
 of himfelf, to this affiifted Sifter, and the Faithful about 
 him. Jam the Re/arre(ii<>n, I am the RefurreSfion and 
 THE LIFEj becaufej quicken the Dead to a Spi- 
 ritual and Eternal Life ; I am the Refurredion and the 
 LIFE. " 
 
 THE LIFE: By which is underftood, in the firft 
 Place, that mofi PerfeB and Endlefs Life, by which He 
 was from Eterrvity with the Father and tht Holj-Ghofi, 
 the fame Bleffed and All-fufRcient.God, of the fame Di- 
 vineEffential Being, Nature and Virtues, from, through 
 tnd in himfelf, uBchangeable to all Eternity; for our Loi-d 
 Jefus was from Everlafiing, from the Beginnings or ever the 
 Ea^thwas ; as it is faid of him under the DenOmiriatipiii 
 of the Supream Wtidom, Prdv.^. 23. hath been ^re 
 Abraham was, and hath neither Beginning of D'ajf. nor 
 End of Life, John 8.58. Heb. 7. j. and is the Firfidnd 
 theLaft\ He that Liveth^ and was Dead, (died on the 
 Tree of the Crofs , but is rifen again from the Dead) and 
 is Alive for ever, Rev. 1. 17, iS. Who is in the fecond 
 place, the Life, the Source 2lx\A Original Spring of all per- 
 kOi Motions and Beings, who hath ithparted unto aM, 
 that is, hath been, and ever fhall be its Stirring and 
 Motion ; for he was, as is already intimated, from 
 the ift. of St. 'John, riot only in the Begiming with God^ 
 and every thing had through and by hitn its Life, not 
 Any thing being made without km y, that was made\ but is 
 
 likewjfe 
 
i6 Chriji the RefurreHion 
 
 likewife now the onlj Qmfe^ that this World with its 
 Livings remains ftili, and is continu'd in its Being, by 
 his Mediatorfhip and great Redemption : For, this we 
 do certainly believe, that without his great Work of 
 Salvation, this Univer fe would have neceffarily Perifh'd 
 by the Divine Wrath, and thefe vifible Heavens and 
 Earth pals'd away by God's Righteous Anger|^ for had 
 there not been a Ranfom for the fallen Sinner, and a 
 Surety for a full Satisfatlion to the injur'd Majefty of 
 Heaven, and its offended Righteoufnefs, Man muft 
 have died an immediate Death; and thus with the prin- 
 cipal Inhabitant of this Vifible World, his Place of Ha- 
 bitation, the Earth and all other Creatures created, 
 partly to his Support, and partly to his Contemplation, 
 would have been deftroy'd. Whereas now the Crea- 
 ture inftead of being thus the ObjeQ: of God's Vengeance 
 thro' Sin, as made fuije^toyanitj^ tbo' not willingly, is 
 likewife made free, and enjoys Life, till the fall De- 
 liverance from the Bondage of Corruption into the glorioai 
 LUferty of the Children of' God, Rom. 8. 21, 22. info- 
 much that our Lord Jefus is not only the Source of all 
 Life from the Beginning, but the Preferver of it alfo 
 by his Redemption, unto whom all Creatures, , Rational 
 and Irrational, owe their Prefervation and Life ; becaufe 
 God in his Forbearance and long Sufferings for this Media- 
 tor's fake, is thus Merciful in his Goodnefs unto the 
 World, to lead Men therein to Repentance, Rom. il. 4. 
 And thus undeniably follows, thatCh^ift is ih& Author 
 Q^ all Life in the Creatures ; and he not only is before all 
 Things, but alfo by him dl Things confifl. Col. i. 17. 
 Further, in the third Place, is he alfo the Life in a more 
 peculiar, and unto the Faithful more comfortable Senfe, 
 the Author 3Ln(\priginal Spring of all Spiritual Life^, they, 
 being thro' his Merits Born of the Water and of the 
 
 Spirit', 
 
and the Life. 17 
 
 John 5. $. and thus made Partakers of that San£lify'd 
 Spiritual Life, confifting in a SanQify'd Knowledge, 
 Love and Fruition of the God of the Covemant, and a 
 fincere Godlinefs in their Actions towards, him ; for He 
 it is 'only that thus imparts Spiritual Life : He -quickemth 
 thus^ whom he will. For., as the Futher hath Life in himfelf ; 
 fo hith he given to the So», to have Life in himfelf., John. 
 5.21,25. That is to fay, He hath given him according 
 to the Holy Oeconomy of the ever Bleffed Trinity,in the 
 ^eat Work of Redemption, as unto the Mediator and 
 Redeemer, the Power of quickening the fpiritually 
 Dead, and is thus to be underftood, not of the Ejfen- 
 tial Divine Life of our Saviour ; for that he had with 
 the Father and Holy-Ghoft from all Eternity, and could 
 not be given unto him , but of his J2»ickening Life, or 
 Divine Virtue, by which he imparts unto "his Eleded 
 their Spiritual Life, of which is fpoken in the next fore- 
 going Verfe ; and bj which he alfo fball on the latl Day 
 raife the Corporally Dead, and Execute the Judgment, 
 as it is exprefly faid in the following 27, 28 and 29 
 Verfes .• So that you may again clearly fee, that this 
 Text fpeaks of his Quickening Virtue, granted unto him 
 by the Father, confider'd as the firft and fupream Per- 
 fon, in the \Vork of Salvation; and the Son, in his 
 State of Exinanit ion ; wherein he is often faid to have 
 received from the Father, and to have humbled himfelf ; 
 not only below the Angels, but likewife, that He took upon 
 him the Form of a Servant., and was made in the Likenefs of 
 Men; as you read, Hci. 2, 9. Phil, 2. j. being other* 
 wife, as we prov'd in the foregoing Paragraphs, ^of the 
 fame Divine Nature and Elfential Life with the Father 
 and the Holy-Ghoft ; which, the Divine Anions, Divine 
 Names, Attributes and Divine Worlhip attributed unto 
 him throughout the Holy Scripture, fuificiently proves : 
 , ' ' C Nay, 
 
1 8 Chriji the RefurreSiion 
 
 Nay, He is often Honour'd above the Father, confi- 
 der'd in his State of Glory, '.vhen He is faid to fit at 
 the Right Hand of the Father^ to Reign, &c. Heb. i. 
 Col. f. Rev. 8. &c. Which together confider'd, con- 
 firms, that this 2^th. Verfe of the 5th. Chapter of St. 
 John, fpccks of that Life of his Mediatorjhip ; by which 
 he gives the Spiritual Life unto his Faithful, fending 
 forth the Holy-Ghoft into his Church, and the Hearts of 
 hisElefted, who is/^« Spirit of Wifdom ttndReveUtioHy 
 in the IQiowledge of him, and enlighteneth the Eyes of our 
 Vnderflanding, Eph. 1. 17, i8. and ^ whom the Love 
 of God is alfo (bed abroad in our Hearts, Rom. 5. 5. and 
 thus worketh out in us the true Sanftification, and is 
 that free Spirit which upholds the Faithful in their Spi- 
 ritual Life, P/ 51. 12. through whom we are freed 
 from Sin, and deliver'd from Spiritual Death, which 
 confifts properly in Sin, and quicken' d together with Chrifl^ 
 and raised up together, and made Jit together in Heavenly 
 Places, in "Jefus Chrifi, Eph. 2. 5, 6. Nay, He, our 
 Lord Jefus, is, Fourthly and LaftJy, befides, and above 
 all this, in a moft perfed and moft glorious Senfe, the 
 Life, the Author, I mean, of an ever Glorious, Eternal 
 Life, This he hath likewife acquir'd for us, by his end- 
 lefs Satisfaction, as our Surety and Redeemer ; to the 
 end, that whofoever believcth in him, fhall live Happy, 
 or not, die, for ever ; for having given by his Death and 
 Sufferings a full Satisfaftion unto the injur'd Majefty, 
 and by that deliver'd us from Eternal Punifhment and 
 Bverkfting Death, he hath by Confequence, on the 
 other hand, brought us unto Eternal Life. Yea ! God 
 fo lov'd the World, that he gave his only Begotten Son, that 
 whofoever Believetb in him, fhould not Perifb, but have 
 Everlafling Life, John 3. 16. And aCtually, He that 
 Believetb on the Son, hath Ever lading Life, ibid, v. 36. 
 
 for 
 
and the Life, i9 
 
 ^ for to this end he hath Purchas'd them with his own 
 Blood, and preferves them for an Eternal Life : He is 
 the Witer of Life^ vehofoever Drinketh of if, /ha/I never 
 Thirfi again , but whqfoever Driffkeih, that is, hath Com- 
 munion with Chrift and his Celeftial Gifts of Grace, in 
 Him it Pj all be a Well of fVater^ fp''^>^g'"g up into Ever- 
 lafiisg Life, John 4. 1 4. He is the Bread of God, which 
 comes down from Heaven, and giveth Life unto the World, 
 John 6. 35. Nay ! Thus was the Word it felf, which 
 was in the Beginning with God, heard to fay in a living 
 Voice, / am the Bread of Life ; He that cometh to me, fhall 
 never Hunger ; and He that believeth on me, (hall never 
 Thirji. And, This is the Will of him that fent me, that 
 ■every one which feeth the Son, and believeth on him, may 
 have Everiafting Life, and I will raife him up at the Up 
 Day, John 6. 35,40. For he knows them, andthey hear his 
 Voice, and they follow him^ and he gives unto them Eternal 
 Life, John 10. 27, 28. Nay! HQistheWay, theTruth 
 and the Life ; no Man cometh unto the Father, but by him^ 
 John 14. 6. In one Word, Through this Prince of Life, 
 and his Refurre^t ion from the Dead, are we begot tes again 
 unto a lively Hope, to an Inheritance Incorruptible and Unde- 
 
 fPd,and that fadeth not away, referv^din Heaven for you, who 
 are kept by the Power of God through Faith unto Salvation, 
 I Pet. 1 . 3, 4. And he is therefore moft Emphatically, 
 fefus, our Lord, 1 he Eternal Source and Original Spring 
 ef all Life ; of the Life Temporal, Spiritual and Eternal ; 
 and therefore does with all manner of Right and Rea- 
 fon, thus Inftruft and Comfort the afflifted Sifter 
 Martha, and the reft of his Hearers, concerning the 
 Death of themfelves, and their dear Relations, when 
 
 .he affures them of a Glorious Refurreftion , both 
 Spiritual and Corporal, and an Evcrlafting Happy 
 
 C 2 Life 
 
20 Chrifi the Refurreclion 
 
 Life hereafter, in thefe moft Comfortable Words froirsi 
 hisBlelTed Lips, / am the Refurre^ion aadthe Life^ &c. 
 
 PART 11. 
 
 Bat who are they now in the fecond Place, that fiiall 
 be Partakers of thefe Glorious Benefits? Who /hall 
 be thus BleiTed and Holy, as to have Part in K.\\\sfir[t 
 Refurreciion and Life? That teaches us the fame 
 Holy and Faithful One , the Maath of Truth , fejas^ 
 in the fecond Part of our Text; Thej that Believe i,t 
 him : He that Believeth in rue (fays he) fhall Live ; anti 
 vhofoever Livetb^ and Believeth in me^ fbaU never Die. 
 B ELIEFET H, not only with a nieer AlTenr, and 
 the Faith of Hiftory, or Miracles, or a Temporary 
 Faith ; for thus do alfo the Ungodly ; nay, the De~ 
 vils alfo; but, with Fear and Tremblingy Ja. 2. 19. But 
 with the True, and Saving Faith, which, befides, 
 and above the bare Aflent, to the Truth of the Hi- 
 ftory and Miracles of Chrift, is accompany'd with a 
 full Truft and AITurance, not only towards all what 
 they have feen and heard of Jcfus here,- but likewife 
 the Things to come; that Future, Invifible and Eter- 
 nal Inheritance of Life , promis'd unto us by him i 
 For, Faith is the Suijlance of Things hofd for, the Evi- 
 dence of Things not Jeettj Heb, 11. i. by which they 
 embrace all the Grace and Celeftial Benefits promised 
 unto them by Jefus ; whereby they, with their Thoughts 
 and Defires, go out of, and beyond themfelves, towards 
 him ; giving themfelves over here with their Bodies 
 and Souls wholly to him, till they fhall be hereafter 
 perfeftly united in Glory : for all thej that are Children ^ 
 of Gody bj Faith in Chrijt Jefas , and haofe been Bap- * 
 r/*V into Chrifi, have thu& PVT ON CHRIST, 
 
 GaL 
 
and the. Life:. di 
 
 Gal. 3. 2^, 27. Their Converfation here^ is already irt 
 Heaven ; from whence alfo they look for their Saviour ^ the 
 Lord Refuse hrijt, Phil. j. 2f. 
 
 And what is mere requir'd to the Accomplifhment 
 of this, F4i>/5»,.inftruQ:s further in this fame Hiftory, our 
 Lord in hisDifcourfe w\th Martha^ where he plainly 
 intimates, that it fhall not only, and chiefly inhabit 
 in our Hearts, but likewife be confirm'd afterwards 
 with an open Confeflion, before the World, and ex- 
 emplary Works ; when She, befides her inward Faith, 
 was led by Him to that free and glorious open Con- 
 feflion , in the following 27th. Verfe ; when the 
 Lord, in the fame 26th. Verfe of our Text, ask'd her, 
 and faid, BeiieveJ thou this ? And fhe confeffes volun- 
 tarily. And faid unto him, jea Lord, I believe that thou 
 art the Chrift, the Son of God, which Jbould come into the 
 World. " For this Interrogation of the Lord was not for 
 Information. fake, he having known, as the Searcher of 
 Hearts and Reins, the deepeft Secrets of her Mind ; and 
 fo by Cdnfequence, her true Faith before, as he us'd 
 by his Divipe Oranifcience, always to fee the Difpoli- 
 tions of the Heart, before the Mouth fpoke ; as we a- 
 raongft other Places read, concerning the evil Thoughts 
 of the Pharifees, Mat. 9. 4. but only to draw from her 
 this publick Confeflion, and thus to Eftablifh her Faith, 
 before God and the Faithful openly ; which fhe accord- 
 ingly moft Emphatically perform'd, in the Words juft 
 now quoted unto you; Tea, Lord, 1 believe, &c. Where- 
 by a moft exa£t Pattern is left unto the Faithful, of a 
 right Difpofition of the true Faith ; which is, to know 
 and believe in our Souls, and to confefs with our Words 
 and Works, as this faithful Sifter did here, that Chrifl 
 Jefus is the RefurreSiion and the Life ;' that he that Believ^ 
 €tb in him, tho* he were Deady jetih4llhe Live : And whofo- 
 
 ever 
 
31 Chrifl the RefuneB'ton 
 
 ever Livetb , and Believeth in him j jhall never Die. 
 And moreover, as Ihe goes on further in her Confef- 
 fion, that lis is the Lord^ or as the Original Text hath 
 it, Ku'e/af, the true God ; and Chrift the Anointed, hke- 
 ■wife a true Man ; the Union of both thefe Natures in 
 him, being the Foundation of his Mediatorfhip, and 
 by Confequeace of our Eternal Salvation. And then 
 in the fccond Place, that he was fent, and came for 
 this Puipofe into the World : Firft propos'd as fuch, 
 and eleded in the Eternal Council of the Tri-une God : 
 Afterwards promis'd in Paradife, and unto the Fathers. 
 Further, as fuch prefigured by Types and Ceremonies 
 of the Mofaick Law, then foretold by the Holy Men of 
 God and Prophets ; tiU laftly, in the Fullnefs of Time 
 is come himfelf into the World, and hath, to the Re- 
 demption and Everlafting Blife of the Sinner, perfefted 
 his Mediatorflaip , and acquirM Eternal Life for the 
 Faithful. This, to confefs with our Heart and Mouth, 
 and to confirm with a Holy Chriftian Life, is to Believe 
 in our Lord Jefus Chrift, I add the Confirmation of it 
 with a Sanftify'd Life ; becaufe the Lord did not only 
 come to Redeem us, by his Sufferings here upon Earth, 
 but likewife to be a Pattern of all our Anions ; and 
 hath left us, as St. Feter fays, an Example, thatm jhould 
 follotv his Steps, i Pet. 2. 21. And good Works are 
 the Iffue coming forth from, and the Charafteriftical 
 Sign, allways accompanying the true Faith : For even 
 Tsith, if it h*th not Works, is Dead, being Alone ; and is 
 therefore requir'd at the fame time. Shew me thj Faith, 
 without thj Works J and I a-ill jhew thee my Faith, by my 
 Works, St. Ja. 2. 17, i8. And as many as receive 
 him thus, and believe in the Lord Jefus, mall be Par- 
 takers of thefe Cosleftial Prerogatives and Glories, of 
 this Refurre{iion, I mean, and Life Eternal: For this 
 
 we 
 
and the Life. 0,2 
 
 we have made appear all along in the Thread of our 
 Difcourfe ; that, Whofoever Belkveth in him, fifoutet not 
 Perijk, hut have EverUJling Life. And bcfides, the ma- 
 ny Places for this Truth already quoted, you hear 
 twice more the Lord himfelf, moft Emphatically ex- 
 prefs himfelf to this Purpofe, to all the fpiritually af- 
 fli£lcd poor Sinners, with this high Oath and Word 
 of Righteoufnefs from his Holy Mouth ; Verily, Verilj,. 
 1 fay unto ymty He that Believeth on me, hath Ever Lfiing 
 Life, John 6. 47. And again, in the fame Chapter ^^ 
 Whofo Eateth mji Ftefi, onA Drinketb my Bloody hath Eter- 
 nd Life ; Mti I will raife him up At the Uft Day, Joh.6. 54. 
 Nay ! Thuslhall live all the Faithful in Chrift, Happy 
 for, ever; notwithftanding their naturally Dying, they 
 fhall live without end, the Life of the eternally Glo- 
 rify*d ; which is the very Subftance of what is taught 
 unto us, in the third and laft Part of our Text. 
 
 PART in. 
 
 When this Eternal KJng and Prince of Life, who 
 himfelf is the RefurreBiaa and Life, promifes in the 
 Remainder of tire Words, That be that thus Believes^ 
 SHALL LIVE, T HO' HE IVE RE D E JD: 
 And whofoever but Liveth, md Believeth in him, SHALL 
 NEVER DIE. A Great and Glorious Salvation the 
 Lord here defcribes ! And ufes this doubl'd Expreffion, 
 the more to confirm its. Certitude and Reality ; The 
 Faithful flrnll Live, for all they Die: Nay I They fhall 
 properly never Die, Underftand it, the Unhappy and 
 Everlafling Death ; for the Exemption from Temporal^ 
 or Corporal Death, does the Lord no ways fpeak of 
 here ; elfe we Ihould take it the wrong way, as the 
 fern did, in another Place j who likewife took the Re- 
 
 demptiQd 
 
14. Chrifi the Refurre&ion 
 
 deraption from Everlafting Death, for the Temporal ; 
 asyourcad, >A« 8. 51, 52. No!' This is no ways 
 the Meaning of our Lord •, thefe Words are alfo Spirit 
 Had Li/e, and do fpeak of the Redemption from the 
 Power of thefecond Death, that is, Eternal Damnation ; 
 for Temporally or Corporally, even all the Faithful 
 imift die : It isappoi^ted unto Men once to Die, and. after 
 this the Judgment, Heb. 9. 27. And by one Man, Siti en- 
 tered into the H'orld^ and Death by Sin ; andfo Death pafPd 
 itpon all Men,for that all haveSiftn^d,Rom. 5. 12. To which 
 fad Fate of Death, alfo, all the Faithful are fubjcSed, as 
 a Fatherly Chaftifement left from the Power of Sin ; but 
 at the fame time fo far from being hurtful to them, that 
 it rather accomplifhes, and brings them over to their 
 Heavenly Freedom and Everlafting Glory, and is the 
 Limit of all their Sorrows and Imperfedions, being but 
 an Exit out of this troublefome World, a Leader into 
 Heaven, and a direft Path to their Heavenly Canaan, 
 whither their Saviour Jcfus guides them, by the Staff of 
 his Eternal Providence, thi o' the fad and dark Valley of 
 the Shadow of Death ; and is then rather nioft Advanta- 
 gious and a gr^at Gain to them, becaufe they receive for 
 this Miferable, Temporal, Sinful Life, wliich was real- 
 ly an incelTant Fight and Series of Adverfities, and con- 
 tinual Death to them, the only true and happy Life ; for 
 this Terreftial, the Coelcftial ; and for this Inconftant, 
 that Immutable Life in Heaven ; the Corruption of their 
 Bodies not deftroying the kali of their Perfeftion, as 
 lying fo long in their Refting- Places, truly to be Purify'd, 
 and to rife with the more Brightnefs . and Glory at tJie 
 great Day of Univerfal Refurreftion ; fome like the 
 Glory of the Sun\ fome like the Glory of the Moon, othtrs 
 like the Glory of the Stars, 1 Cor. 1 5. And, All like unto 
 thi Gbrttyd Body of the Lord.Jefus Chrifl, Phil. ?. 21. 
 
 And 
 
and the Life. 25 
 
 And to this PurpOfe ferves properly this Corruption : If 
 isfown w Corruptions and it is raised in Incorrupt ion ; it is 
 fawn in Dijhonour, and it is raised in Glory ; it is fawn in 
 iVeaknefs, and it is rats'' d in Fomr ; it is fawn a JNatttrai 
 Bodjj -and it is raised a Spiritual Body ; i Cor. 1 5. 42, 44, 
 in order, that, ^s they Died all in thefirfi Adam, they might 
 even fo-be made Alive in Chrifl thejecondj and Iiv«, after 
 the R«fuf reftion, for ever Glorify'd ; as is intimated in 
 the foregoing 22d. Verfe of this fame 1 5 . Chapter. And 
 thus do you fee plainly evldenc'^, that the Faithful in 
 the Lord Jefus, tho'theyD/V, tho* their Bodies are given 
 unto Corruption, they are Happy, and their Immortal 
 Spirit Alive^ and occupyM in the Knowledge^ Love, Joy, 
 and Fruition of their Supream Good: Nay 1 They live 
 thus Glorify'd, and Jhall never Die: For, all they that 
 have thus been Quicken'd in Chrift Jefus, they that have 
 Tart in the fir ft Refarre^ion^ on fuch the facond Death hath 
 no Poiver,Kev. 20. 6. but fhall live that truly perfed Life^ 
 which hath neither Change, Interruption or End,the Life 
 pf the Glorify'd for ever, oc the £ r£ /? A^^ L LIFE. 
 The Glory of which is fo Bright, and its Peffedion fo 
 Immenfe, that all Humane Thoughts can never reach 
 unto it, neither our frail Tongues pronounce, nor any 
 mortal Pen defcribe it ; wherefore I fhall no ways pre- 
 tend to give you a full Explication, according to its Infi- 
 nite and Heavenly Dignity, efpecially in this Hour of 
 Lamentation : Nay! If I had all the Eloquence of Hu- 
 mane Tongues, if I was like Jpollos, Mighty in the 
 Scriptures, and had the Wifdom of the Angels them- 
 felves, never Ihould I, for. all that, be able to .find out 
 Words and Expreflions Emphatical enough, to reprefent 
 unto you the Infinitenefs of its Glory : The Angels them- 
 felves defire at this time ro, look into the Myfiietiis, and Di- 
 ^neWajs, that lead to this Eternal Life -, as it is expreily 
 
 D written. 
 
l6 Chrifi the RefuneH'ton 
 
 written, i Pet. i. 12. And the Holy Apoftle Paul^. 
 when on this Earth, cMght upintotheParitdiJt, heard ti)*' 
 fpenkahle IVordsy which it is not Umful for « Man to utter, 
 2 Cor. 12. 4. And how much lefs can we pretend to 
 a cotnpleat Defcription of it, that have not by far had fo 
 near an Admittance ; wherefore, I give unto you now, 
 out of the reveal'd Light and Word from Heaven, only 
 this (hort and fummary Circumfcription ; how it will 
 chiefly confift, in the Eternal BleffedCqnverfation with, 
 and Fruition of God, our Suprcam Good. Firft, in the 
 full Knowledge of his Infinite Glory and Perfections. 
 Secondly,in a coirfummate Heavenly Love of them. And 
 Thirdly, a complcat Joy thence enfuing to all Eternity :. 
 For thus fpoke of it,the Lord of Life himfelf ; This is Lift 
 Eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and 
 Jefus Chrijl, mom thou haft fent, John 17. j. Aqd in 
 his Sermon on the Mountain, one of the Heavenly Bea- 
 titudes, confifts in this Heavenly Knowledge, in the fee- 
 ing of God; when he fpoke in thefe exprefs Words^^ 
 Bleffed, or Happy, are the Pure in Heart, fortheyjball 
 fee God, Mat. 5. S. Not furely with the Eyes of their- 
 Bodics, for they cannot properly behold God, he being a 
 moft Pure, and a moft Perfe£t Spirit, who hath neither 
 Flejb nor Bones, and confequently can noways befeen 
 Corporally, but only with the Sight of our Underftand- 
 ingPart, the Soul; that is, with our Reafon and Know- 
 ledge, And this confirms like wife the Holy Apoftle^ 
 when in his ift;to the Corinthians, 1 j. 12. he expreffes 
 himfelf thus : Non> m SEE thro* a Glafs darkly ; but then 
 Face to Face: Nwf> I K. NO IV in Part ; hut then fballl 
 KNOW, even, as alfo 1 am known ; where you have the 
 Teftimony of him, who <as you have heard before) was 
 on Earth, already ought up in Paradife ; and therefore 
 muft be a competent Judge alfo of this Eternal Happinefs. 
 
 In 
 
and the Life. ay 
 
 In the fecQfid Plaee in this Eternal Life, this Know 
 ledge alfo ihall be accompaoy'd with a moft Puce; and 
 moft Perftd Coileftial Love-, compleat, in all its Parts, not 
 confiftiflg in Hopes, or intermixt with Fears,' of loafing 
 again that Supream Inheritance, as it isdnvEarih, biititi 
 the very Poffeffion and fuUeft Fruition of the All-fuffid!r 
 entGood: For then, like our Knowledge in Part, a,Hb 
 our Hopes ftiall ceafc, becaufe we are thenfuUy to poflefs; , 
 Wejhdl be fatisffd when we dwake with his Likenefs^ Pf. 1 7, 
 15. when we perfeftly enjoy the ever Bleffed Counte- 
 nance of him, the Beams of his Eternal Glory, and the 
 Benign Tokens of his Infinite Bounty, redounding again 
 upon us from his Divine All-fufEciency : He thus ahun- 
 diHttlyfatisfyitig us with the FuUnefs of ^wCcsleftial Houfe^ 
 ani mAkittg. us drixkdf *)&e Spiritual Rivers of his Heaven- 
 ly Pleafure, Pf. i&, S. For i( t:kis Love of him be iheady 
 here on Earth, jbed shod/i in our Hearts by the^lj'Ghop^ 
 tfhith is given unto us, Rom. 5. $.ihow. much more fenfi' 
 illy fhalf We be affefled with it, in his :eternal Prefence, 
 when we fhall fee him, and love him. Face to Face. Oh t 
 Will not this be an Everlafl:ingGo»i^r^ ? The.'Pmion-cfthe 
 ialoriffd, and the Strmgth^ef their Heart for ever, Pf, 7 j. z6. 
 
 Nay, here will be alfo in the third Place, an unf^eaka- 
 bleEverlafting Joy ; it cannot be otherwile in thepen- 
 fe£t Kjiowledge and confummate Love of this Supream 
 Good: In his Yrefence is Fulnefs of 'Joy, and at his Right 
 Hand there are Pieafuresfor evermore, PC 16. 1 1 . An Eter^. 
 •nal Jey, which the Eye hath notfeen, nor the Ear heard, mh' 
 ther hath yet entered into the Heart of Man, I Cor. 2. 9; 
 For if we love and rejoyce in him to fuch a Degree here^ 
 Whom having not feeffy iawhem, t ho* now we fee hint not, 
 yet htlieving^ ' we rej&yse., with Joy anfpeakahle and full if 
 'Glory J 1 Pet. i. 8. how far greater and more perfect wiH 
 k be, when we fhall fee himfelf in Glory ? When this 
 
 D 2 Heavenly 
 
28 Chrifi the RefumSfion 
 
 Heavenly Bride, the Communion of the Faithfof, fhall 
 fee her Heavenly Bridegroom ; when thefe Spiritual 
 Members <^ Chrift, fhall fee their Head and Redeemer 
 Glorify*d ; when thefe Children of God fhall fee theip 
 Firft-bora Brother, and thefe Spiritual Subjefts of God's 
 Kingdom, their Heavenly King on his bright Throne in 
 Heaven : Nay ! As you may very well guefs, there will 
 be an Inexpreflible Joy; the Righteous will thm he glad 
 and rejqjce before God ; yea^ they mil exceedingly rejayce ; as 
 is faid in Pf. 68. J. For, The Lord God will wipe away the 
 Tears from all Faces, Ifai. 25. 8. When the End comet h, 
 and this Joy fhall thus be compleat, And God will be All 
 in All ; and the Kjngdoms of this World are become the King- 
 doms of our Ltrd and of bis Chrifi^ and he Jhall Reign for 
 ever and ever, 1 Cor. 1 5. 24, 28. and Rev. 11. 15. 
 
 And this is but a fummary and fhort Defcri^Miion of the 
 Kteroal Life, of which the Faithful in Chrifi fhall be 
 Partakers, and live thus Glorify'd, for all they mufl 
 Temporally die : For what is^ I pray you ! This Cor- 
 poral Death? And to be for awhile in Corruption, in 
 Comparifoo, to fucb an Inexpreflible Happinefs, and 
 JEverlafting Life? I may fay, but with little Alteratioa 
 X)f the Words ; The Corruption oi fo /bort a Time in the 
 Grave, is not worthy to be compared with the Glory which 
 fjallbe then Reveal'd in us^ Rom. 8. 18. And therefore, 
 for all they Die, they Live for evcr^ and fhall never Die; 
 For there Jhall he no more Death, neither Strrow nor Crying; 
 neither jball there he any more Pain, for the former Things are 
 pafs'daway: But, They jball fee hii Face, and his Name fhall 
 be in their Foreheads, and there fhall be no Night there, and 
 they need no Candle, neither Light of the Sun ; for the Lord 
 Godgiveth them Light, and they, fhall Reign for ever and 
 tvtTy Rev. 21. 4. and 22. 4, 5. 
 
 Caof 
 
and the Life. 29 
 
 [Conelujiott. 
 
 Oh Real then, and once more Tnexpreflible Glory of 
 the Elefted ! O moft Incomparable Happinefs unto you 
 all, that have heard this, and alfo believ'd in the Lord 
 Jefus 1 Blefled are the Dead that thus die ; for they fhall, 
 as you have heard, live, without Interruption, Happy 
 and Glorify'd 1 Bleffed are the Living, that believe this ; 
 for they (hall never Die ! This is the great and only Com- 
 fort of the Children of God, that they have Hopes in 
 Chrift, not only in this Life, but alfo in that Evcrlafting 
 one to come ; a Comfort that exceeds the Pofleflion of all 
 Riches and Wealth in this World, and all Earthly Glo 
 ries u'hatfoever ! Therewith do the Godly pacific theic 
 troubled and affliCted Minds, at the Lofs of their befl: 
 Friends and neareit Relations, as of their dear Husbands, 
 or Wives, or Children", or Father, or Mother, or Bre- 
 thren, or Sifters, being affur'd, that they do not loofe 
 them for ever ; but on the contrary, fhall find them 
 again in this future State of Glory. 
 
 And this it is, which at prefent comforts this Pious and 
 AfSiSed Prince^ oxxt^moft Gracious mdmoft Poteni t^Jng^ 
 at the unexpefted Departure of his RoyalConfort^ the maji 
 Serene Primefsj Sophia Charlotta, and heretofore t»oj^ 
 Potent Queen of Pruflia ; Who, after having feen the Var 
 nity of this World, and found, that all its Glory and 
 Goodncfs is like the withering Grafs, and the fading 
 Flower of the Field ; that all its greateft Pleafures and 
 Delights, are nothing elfe but Vexations of the Spirit, 
 and the very beftof them but Labour and Sorrow, 'pre- 
 par'd her felf in the raidft of her Days, and the very 
 Flower of her Years, to a Chriftian Departure, and a far 
 better Life, leaving not long after this Earthly Tiaber- 
 
 nacle. 
 
.30 Chrifl the RefurreBion 
 
 nacle, and refigning Her Tranfitory Crown, for the con- 
 flant and Heavenly One in Glory : And herein does this 
 Faithful c'nd really Chrijlim and Hero UkeKjug, no ways 
 fifteem iiferasloft , but, on the contrary, the better pre- 
 ferv'dy and living in the; Comaiumon of the ever Glorc- 
 fy'd in Heaven ; She having alfo^beli'ev'd in the Lord Je- 
 fus, and embrac'd his Holy Merits in a fincere Faith and 
 full Truft, and died alfo Faithful in the L<^d, tvho is 
 himfelf the RefurreUion and the Life ; wha hath promis'd 
 moft faithfully, that, Whofoever.Believeth in him, tho'he 
 Vied, fimll Li;ye : ■ And whofoever Livethy and Believetb 
 in^ him, Jball never Die. 
 
 Nay ! Moft Pious were fuch Thoughts, andbeooming 
 a Chriftian-Kf/<jr»«'J KJng 1 See here, a notable Example 
 left unto the whole People, thus to raife up his Mind in 
 this ^eep Sadnefs, with the very Comfort efthe Stints, and 
 at the fame time to prepare Himfelf by it, to a true Spiri- 
 tual and the Eternal Life. Thefe are like unto the Ani- 
 ons of this truly Chrifiian and Hero like Prince, whofe mofi 
 Serene, and moft Potent HOVSE, hath from all Ages pro- 
 duc'd fuch Zealous Chrijiians and Valiant Heroes ; who 
 have been Patterns to their SubjeSs, not only in Heroick, 
 but likcwife Chrijlian Virtues ; and thus taiken Care, as 
 well for their Eternal, as Temporal Welfare. 
 
 Now let us, for Conclufion, endeavour entirely to fol- 
 low thefe his Royal and Chrijlian Footfieps. Let us ma- 
 turely weigh, how we,andallthedeareftofour Friends, 
 are thus Frail, nothing but Duft and Alb^s; who, as they 
 are likewife Earth, (hall alfo return luito Dw% and fee 
 -Corruption; but with this Holy Remembrance at the 
 fame time, and Chtiftian Comfort, that they ihall not 
 remain in the Grave for ever, that the Lord will not leave 
 their Souls in tiell, neither fuffer that his Holy Ones and 
 £le^ed ihall eto-nally fee Corruption ^ butbe rais'd again 
 
 ac 
 
and the Life. ^ i 
 
 at the lafl: Day, to a mach better Eternal Life. ; and that 
 our Surety and Redeemer, 'Jefus, is the Refurre^ion and 
 the Life, who did firft glorioufly rife from the Dead, and 
 then SanQifyM our Graves, that we might alfo not re- 
 main in Death ; and who, moreover, hath made us BJef- 
 fed and Holy, that the fecond Death might have no 
 Power over us ; Nay I Who is himfelf the Life, who 
 hath given us this Temporal, is the Original Source of 
 our Spiritual, and will, according to his Proraife,im pare 
 unto us hereafter Eternal Life. 
 
 But before all, let us no ways neglefl: to poffefsand re- 
 tain the true Faith in this our Lord Jefus. This is the- 
 only Condition, and the only Means, by which is pro- 
 mis'd unto us this' Happy Life, none, but what believe in; 
 him, fhall live. And this Faith, as you have heard, muftv 
 not only remain reconded in our Hearts, but be manifeft- 
 ed by open Confeffion, and a Holy Coiiverfation of Life;. 
 
 Thus you fhall have Part in this true Comfort of the- 
 Saints, when the laft Moment draws near, and which is- 
 commonly fo terrible to Mankind, the Hour of Death ;. 
 then may you, with the greateftCalmnefsand Peace of 
 Mind, depart, becaufe our Lord Jefus is the Refurrefti- 
 on and the Life, who hath cpnquer'd Death for us :. 
 Nay 1 Thus fhall we, halving faith. Live, tho'm Die ; and 
 fo Living and Believing on the Lord Jefas, never Diet 
 And this grant unto uSj the All-fufficient God and Father, 
 thro' our Lord Jefus Ghrift, with the powerful Aflift- 
 ance of the Holy-Ghoft, . and unto this ever Bleffed Tri- 
 nity, be all Honour and Glory, both in our Profperity and: - 
 Sorrow, and for ever and ever. Amen.- 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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 Boulter, at the Angd, BihlQ and Crown in 
 the Foultry, ^ ;/ 
 
 CHrift the Refurreaion and'the Life : A Funeral-Ser-' 
 mon on the much lamented Death of the moft Se-i 
 rcne,andmoft VottatVunc^Xs/So^uChdrloka^ Daugh- 
 ter qf the rpoft Serene Eleaorat-Houfe 9tBrunfmck, Sfc' 
 ahd late Queen o^Pruffia^ of GIoHolis Memory:' l^reachM 
 the firft Sunday after the ^oleni'nizatibn of the Royaf-' 
 Funeral at Btrlin, to the Pruf$(in Congregatidh-in the' 
 Savoy, by 5f. J^Cafar, Chaplain to theKingof Fr«^4; 
 
 A^Funeral' Sermon ; bccafion'd by the Death of the' 
 Reverend Mv.SAmuel Slater^ late Miniftdr of theGofpel 
 in Lo/tdov, by IV.Tmg, ^to.' 5 
 
 The Plaufible Plea Silenced : A Sermon Pfeach'd at 
 the Vifitation held by .the Reverend ^T^o.5^Mf, JVI.'A/ 
 Arch4i^eacon of Rechefier, at Dartfor^d m Kf/tf^ on J/irii- 
 i^6; 1705. By j. Ovifjotm, D. D. Chapkin to Her 
 JMajefty, 4*ii. .:.;.; Jaa. 
 
 A"4'reatife6ftheKp»!^» Ju!>ilee: Or, an Account of' 
 the- Fopilh -Indulgences j Tranllated from the Fr-eHch, 
 ■u'ith fe\fei^l Addition?, 4/0. • , --. Uv. 
 'A pifcourfe of the Nature and Neceflity of Faith in 
 JefusChrift, with an Anfivertd the Pleaspf our Modern 
 Onftorians, for' the Sofflcieocy of Bare.' Morality, or 
 Meer. Charity- to Salvation, ' by Nath.Tijlorf %vo. 
 
 Two Difcourfes : T^ef;,Fif tt' of Man's Enmity fo God; 
 Uom Rom. 8. 7.-, The Second of the Salvation ot Sinners, 
 from I Tim. j. 15, by Stephen Chamoch. ' ' 
 
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