Death unstung a sermon preached at the funeral of Thomas Mowsley, an apothecary, who…

First, The Saint is free from all sin. The Bolts shall be knocked off, the Prison walls broke down, and the poor Captive ⟨p. 33⟩set at liberty. O blessed Jubilee! How glad would Paul have been, if when he cried out in such an agony: O wretched Man, who shall deliver me? if he had heard a voice from Heaven saying, thy groans have pierced the Clouds, thy Prayer hath reached the Heavens, thy Petitions shall be granted immediately, would not this have been grateful news. When before a few days be at an end, this shall be the condition of every one of God's People. Now indeed if you listen to their Closets, you should hear how dolefully they bemoan their condition, if you follow them into their Families, what is it that they would most desire of God? is it not freedom from sin? what complaints do they make of themselves, that there should be so great an unsuitableness in them to God, that their hearts are unsensible of the worth of divine things, that they should have so little love to the Lord Christ, and be so little taken with the kindness of the Redeemer; How weak and faint, how cold and dull in duty? how ready to betray their Lord, how cowardly in the cause of God? But death will for ever silence these complaints, death tares off Joshua's rags and presents him before the Lord without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; sin indeed accompanieth the ungodly into another World, he rests from his pleasures, and his wicked works follow him: but it is far otherwise with the godly, sin was his burden, and Death shall unload •im; sin shall be confined to Hell, Heaven entertains no such deformity: This Tyrant shall no more enslave any of Christ's subjects. The house of Saul, and the house of David shall no longer contend, that bloody conflict between the flesh ⟨p. 34⟩and spirit shall then be determined by a final Victory, then the Soul will say, farewell my hard heart, farewell unbelief, farewell ingratitude; then thou shalt never entertain an unkind thought of God more; the lame and the blind, and the Jebusites shall be smitten when King David comes to make his Palace in Zion, thy sins must dye when the Lord cometh to take the full possession of this Fort: Royal confession of sin shall shortly be needless; no darkness shall cloud the understanding, no perverseness the will, no disorderliness in the affections, no treachery in the memory;