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The Christians labour and reward, or, A sermon, part of which was preached at…
The Christians labour and reward, or, A sermon, part of which was preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable the Lady Mary Vere, relict of Sir Horace Vere, Baron of Tilbury, on the 10th of January, 1671, at Castle Heviningham in Essex by William Gurnall ...
London: printed by J.M. for Ralph Smith, 1672
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This premised, I address my self to speak of the Christians reward in the other world, this being principally (if not solely) in the Text; where it is set forth two ways. First, By its certainty, For as much as ye know. Secondly, By its transcendency, Your labour is not in vain in the Lord. In which words, you may remember, I told you there is more intended, than expressed.
This premised, I address my self to speak of the Christians reward in the other world, this being principally (if not solely) in the Text; where it is set forth two ways. First, By its certainty, For as much as ye know. Secondly, By its transcendency, Your labour is not in vain in the Lord. In which words, you may remember, I told you there is more intended, than exprest.
First, of the first, The certainty of the Saints reward intimated by this Phrase, ye know: that is, ye know it for a certain indubitable truth; ye make no doubt of this: thus is the Saints future Happiness spoke of, with the greatest assurance and certainty; We know that if our earthly house of his Tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, Eternal in the Heavens, 1 Cor. 5.1. We know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him. The Saints know this so well,1 that they dare venture the loss of all they are worth here, for the reward they expect ⟨p. 59⟩there: Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in your selves, that ye have in Heaven a more enduring substance, Heb. 10.34. yea, they have refused their temporal life, when offered to the prejudice of their eternal, Heb. 11.35. Not accepting Deliverance, that they might obtain a better Resurrection. If any should ask, how do they know so assuredly there is this reward? I would ask such, how they know the Sun to be, when they see it shine? if they say, by seeing of it; they may know, that the Saint sees an Heaven, as certainly, by an eye of Faith, as they can do the Sun, by an eye of Sense; Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.