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body_n	death_n	soul_n	union_n	6,555	5	9.5716	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02571	Pharisaisme and Christianity compared and set forth in a sermon at Pauls Crosse, May 1. 1608. By I.H. Vpon Matth. 5.20.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1608 (1608)	STC 12699; ESTC S116595	49,640	218

no lea●e He alone would bow his head and giue vp his Ghost 〈◊〉 haue power to lay downe my life Man gaue him not his life man could not bereaue it No man takes it frō me Alas who could The High-priests forces when they came against him armed he said but I am he● they st● fall backward How easie 〈◊〉 breath disperst his enemies whom he might as easily haue bidden the earth yea hell to swallow or fire from heauen to deuoure Who cōmanded the diuels they obei'd could not haue bin attached my men He must giue not onely leaue but power to apprehend himselfe else they had not liu'd to take him Hee is laid hold of Peter ●ight St Pu●●● saith Christ Thinkest thou that J cannot pray to my Father and hee will giue mee more then 12 legions of Angels What an Army were heer more thē three-score twelue thousand Angels and euery Angel able to subdue a world of men Hee could but would not bee rescued hee is ledde by his owne power not by his enemies and stands now before Pilate like the scorne of men crowned robbed scourged vvith an Ec●e Homo Yet thou couldest haue no power against mee 〈◊〉 i● vvere giuen thee from aboue Behold he himselfe must giue Pilate power against himselfe else hee could not be condemned Hee will be condemned lifted vp nailed yet no death without himselfe Hee shall giue his soule an offering for sinne● Esay 53 10. No action that fauours of constraint can be meritorious hee would deserue therefore he would suffer and die He bowed his head and gaue vp the Ghost O gracious and bountifull Sauiour hee might haue kept his soule within his ●eeth in spight of all the world the weakeness of God is stronger then men and if he had but spoken the word the heauens and earth should haue vanisht away before him but he wold not Behold when he saw that impotent man could not take away his soule he gaue it vp 〈◊〉 would die that wee might liue See heere a Sauiour that can contemne his ovvne life for ours and cares not to bee dissolued in himself that we might be vnited to his Father Ski●●e for ski●●e saith the diuell 〈◊〉 all that he hath a man will giue for his life Lo heere to proue Satan a lyer skin and life and all hath Christ Iesus giuen for vs. We are besotted with the earth make base shifts to liue one with a mai●ed bodie another vvith a perfu●●d soule a third with a rotten name and how many had 〈…〉 neglect their soul● then their life and 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 then die● It is a shame it● tells many of vs Christians 〈◊〉 op●n life and ●●●●●ble and ●a●h and she 〈◊〉 solue so 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 excesse of loue ●o●ard● 〈◊〉 〈…〉 as Peter denies Christ ●i● forsweares him 〈…〉 graines of incense ●nto the Idols ●ire E●ius 〈…〉 thrice Spir● 〈…〉 a● despa●●es ●de● me liue ●aith the 〈…〉 Whith●● d●st thou 〈◊〉 ●hy selfe 〈…〉 and ●do● us 〈…〉 w●ld'st thou 〈◊〉 with thy selfe 〈◊〉 Thou hast not thus learned Christ● 〈…〉 voluntarilie for thee thou wilt not bee forced to die for him hee gaue vp the Ghost for thee thou wilt not let others take it from thee for him thou wilt not let him take it for himselfe When I looke back to the first Christians and compare their zealous cōtempt of death with our backwardness I am at once amazed ashamed I see there euen women the feebler sex running with their little ones in their armes for the preferment of martyrdome and ambitiouslie striuing for the next blowe I see holy tender virgins chusing rather a sore and shamefull death then honourable espousalls I hear the blessed Martyrs intreating their Tyrants and tormentors for the honour of dying Ignatius amongst the rest fearing least the beasts wil not deuoure him and vowing the first violence to them that he might be dispatched And what lesse courage was there in our memorable glorious fore-fathers of the last of this age and doe vvee their cold and feeble ofspring looke pale at the face of a faire and naturall death abhor the violent tho for Christ Alas how haue we gathered rust with our long peace Our vnwillingnesse is from inconsideration from distrust Looke but vp to Christ Iesus vpon his Crosse and see him bowing his head and breathing out his soule and these feares shall vanish He died wouldest thou liue He gaue vp the ghost and wouldest thou keep it Whom vvouldest thou follow if not thy Redeemer If thou die not if not vvillingly thou goest contrarie to him and shalt neuer meet him Tho thou shouldest euery day die a death for him thou couldest neuer requite his one death and doost thou sticke at one Euery word hath his force both to him and thee He died which is Lord of Life and cōmaunder of Death thou art but a tenant of life a subiect of death And yet it was not a dying but a giuing vp not of a vanishing and aery breath but of a spirituall soule which after separation hath an entire life in it selfe He gaue vp the Ghost Hee died that hath both ouercome and sanctified and sweetned death What fearest thou he hath puld out the sting and malignity of death 〈◊〉 thou bee a Christian cary it in thy bosome it hurts thee not Dar'st thou not trust thy Redeemer If hee had not died death had been a Tyrant now he is a slaue O Death where is thy sting O Graue where is thy victorie Yet the Spirit of God saith not hee died but gaue vp the Ghost The very heathen Poet saith He durst not say that a good man dies It is worth the noting me thinks that vvhen S. Luke would describe to vs the death of Ananias and Sapphira he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hee expired but when S. Iohn vvould describe Christs death he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he gaue vp the Ghost How gaue he it vp and whither How so as after a sort he retained it his soule parted from his body his Godhead was neuer distracted either frō soule or body This vnion is not in nature but in person If the natures of Christ could be diuided each would haue his subsistence so there should bee more persons God forbid one of the natures therefore may haue a separation in it selfe the soule from the body one nature cannot bee separate from other or either nature from the person If you cannot conceiue wonder the Sonne of GOD hath wedded vnto himselfe our humanitie without all possibilitie of diuorce the body hangs on the Crosse the soule is yielded the Godhead is euiternally vnited to them both acknowledges sustaines them both The soule in his agony feeles not the presence of the Godhead the body vpon the Crosse feeles not the presence of the soule Yet as the Fathers of Chalcedon say truly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 indiuisibly inseparably is the Godhead with both of these

still and euer one and the same person The Passion of Christ as Augustine was the sleep of his Diuinitie so I may say The death of Christ was the sleep of his Humanitie Jf hee sleepe hee shall doe well said that disciple of Lazarus Death vvas too weake to dissolue the eternall bonds of this heauenly coniunction Let not vs Christians goe too much by sense we may be firmely knit to God not feele it Thou canst not hope to be so neer to thy God as Christ was vnited personally thou canst not fear that God should seeme more absent from thee then he did from his own Son yet was hee still one with both body soule when they were diuided from thēselues When he was absent to sense hee was present to faith when absent in vision yet in vnion one and the same so will he be to thy soule when it is at worst Hee is thine and thou art his if thy hold seeme loosened his is not Whē temptations will not let thee see him hee sees thee and possesses thee onely belieue thou against sense aboue hope and tho he kil thee yet trust in him Whither gaue hee it vp Himselfe expresses Father into thy hands and This day thou shalt be with mee in Paradise It is iustice to restore whence wee receiue Jnto thy hands He knew where it should be both safe happie true he might be bold thou saist as the Son with the Father The seruants haue done so Dauid before him Steuen after him And least we should not think it our common right Father saith hee J vvill that those thou hast giuen mee may be with me euen where I am hee willes it therefore it must be It is not presumption but faith to charge God with thy spirit neither can there euer be any belieuing soule so meane that he should refuse it all the feare is in thy self how canst thou trust thy iewell with a stranger What suddaine familiaritie is this God hath been with thee and gone by thee thou hast not saluted him and now in all the hast thou bequeathest thy soule to him On what acquaintance How desperate is this carelesnesse If thou haue but a little money whether thou keepe it thou lay'st it vp in the Temple of Trust or whether thou let it thou art sure of good assurance sound bonds If but a little land how carefully doost thou make firme conueyances to thy desired heires If goods thy wil hath taken secure order vvho shall enioy them we need not teach you Cittizens to make sure worke for your estates If children thou disposest of them in trades with portions onelie of thy soule which is thy selfe thou knowest not what shal become The world must haue it no more thy self would'st keep it but thou know'st thou canst not Satan would haue it and thou know'st not whether hee shall thou wouldest haue God haue it and thou knowest not whether hee will yea thy hart is now ready with Pharaoh to say Who is the Lorde O the fearefull and miserable estate of that man that must part with his soule hee knowes not whither Which if thou wouldest auoide as this very vvarning shall iudge thee if thou do not bee acquainted vvith GOD in thy life that thou maist make him the Gardian of thy soule in thy death Giuen vp it must needs be but to him that hath gouern'd it if thou haue giuen it to Satan in thy life hovv canst thou hope God will in thy death entertaine it Did you not hate me and expell mee out of my fathers house how then come ye to me now in this time of your tribulation said Ieptha to the men of Gilead No no either giue vp thy soule to God while he calls for it in his word in the prouocations of his loue in his afflictions in the holy motions of his spirit to thine or else whē thou wouldest giue it hee vvill none of it but as a Iudge to deliuer it to the Tormentor What should God do with an vncleane drunken profane proud couetous soule Without holinesse it is no seeing of GOD Depart from me yee wicked J know yee not goe to the Gods you haue serued See how GOD is euen with men they had in the time of the Gospell said to the holy one of Israell Depart from vs now in the time of iudgement he saith to them Depart from me They would not knowe God when they might now God will not knowe them when they would Novv therefore beloued if thou would'st not haue GOD scorne the offer of thy death-bed fit thy soule for him in thy health furnish it with grace inure it to a sweet conuersation with the God of heauen then maist thou boldly giue it vp he shall as graciously receiue it yea fetch it by his Angels to his glory Hee gaue vp the Ghost Wee must doe as hee did not all with the same successe Giuing vp supposes a receiuing a returning This in-mate that vve haue in our bosome is sent to lodge heer for a time may not dwell heere alwaies The right of this tenure is the Lords not ours As hee said of the hatchet It is but lent it must be restored It is ours to keepe his to dispose and require See and consider both our priuiledge and charge It is not with vs as vvith brute Creatures vvee haue a liuing Ghost to informe vs vvhich yet is not ours and alas what is ours if our soules be not but must bee giuen vp to him that gaue it VVhy doe wee liue as those that tooke no keepe of so glorious a guest as those that should neuer part vvith it as those that thinke it giuen them to spend not to returne with a reckoning If thou hadst no soule if a mortall one if thine owne if neuer to bee required hovv couldest thou liue but sensuallie Oh remember but vvho thou art what thou hast and whither thou must and thou shalt liue like thy selfe vvhile thou art and giue vp thy Ghost confidently vvhen thou shalt cease to bee Neither is there heere more certaintie of our departure then comfort Carie this with thee to thy death-bed and see if it can refresh thee when all the world cannot giue thee one dramme of comfort Our spirit is our deerest riches if wee should lose it here were iust cause of griefe Howle and lament if thou thinkest thy soule perisheth it is not forfeited but surrendred How safely doth our soule passe through the gates of death without any impeachment while it is in the hands of the Almightie Woe were vs if he did not keep it while we haue it much more when we restore it Wee giue it vp to the same hands that created infused redeemed renewed that doe protect preserue establish and will crowne it J knowe vvhom J haue belieued and J am persvvaded that he is able to keepe that vvhich J haue committed to him against that day O secure and happy estate of the godly O