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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63977	Canticum morientis cygni, or, The last dying note of Stephen the first gospel-martyr opened and improved in a sermon preached at Alhallows Barking, London, 17 Septemb. 1658, at the funeral of Mr. Andrew Bassano, gentleman, and since in some particulars enlarged by William Tutty ...	Tutty, William.	1659 (1659)	Wing T3389; ESTC R32882	24,422	34

others he will say Depart from me I know you not now because I never knew you before Mat. 7.23 a very solemn profession he makes of it How many of us would fain live to our selves yet fain dye in Christ as that dissolute young man who was present at the death of Ambrose cryed out to his companions Libenter vobis cum viverens modò cum illo moriar I would willingly live with you so I might dy with him but Jesus Christ very seldom drives such late bargains with any Soul 4. Lord Jesus receive my Spirit The pronouncing hath a great emphasis in it worth the marking and from hence we may observe 2 things Note 1 The godly mans Spirit is his own in opposition to all other Lords and Masters below himself though not above His Spirit is his own he hath not sold it to sin and wickedness as Ahab did who though he was a Prince yet was of the basest mechanick Spirit a hellish huckster as to his own Soul neither hath he morgaged it as Ephraim did hers to Idolatry being a silly dove without heart Hos. 7.11 other Doves as the Naturalists tell us are without gall but she was a Monster in nature without heart because she had pawned it to her wicked paramours and so consequently had though jus ad rem not jus inre no possession of it Neither hath he exchanged his Soul for any part of the World or the whole bulk and body of it as Christ himself uses the expression Math. 16.26 Note 2 The godly man dying can offer up his Soul to God as his own in the former sense It is his own he hath reserved it and saved it for Christ only as Christ hath redeemed it and will save it for the alone enjoyment of himself The holy gracious Soul being once joyned to the Lord by one Spirit 1 Cor 6.17 And married to Jesus Christ by faith the Husbands interest is the Wives or glued the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comes from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gluten and the Wives her Husbands what Christ hath he hath and what he hath Christ hath true grace frees the Soul from all base Masters and Lordly Tyrants and a believer in death it self may say to Christ Lord Jesus receive my Soul which since conversion never knew any bonds but thine own service which is perfect freedom that never was under any yoke or burden but thine which is most easie and light Math. 11.30 which was no willing Servant to sin and lust but upon pure force and highest compulsion receive then dear husband now my Virgin Spirit not abused not deflowred since thou hast entred into a conjugal league with me Happy Soul that can thus argue flying from the Body with an all-searching knowing Master 5. Lord Jesus Receive my Spirit By 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Spirit here he doth not mean his natural breath for as the body is dust and returns to dust so the breath is ayr and in death the air sucks it up we do then expirate not respirate breath it out into its element not suck it in any more but he means his Spiritual not natural breath which was a divine infusion as he breaths out the one he breaths up the other into its proper center the bosom of Jesus Christ Note A gracious Soul minds not in death his natural but his spiritual part his only care is to secure that to lock it up safe in heaven as in a Noahs Ark when the storms of death drown his body But of this more by and by when the words are handled in their second sense unto which I now hasten 2. to handle the words in a compounded united sense and so to bind up the single flowers in a bundle together and the Lord make them a fragrant posy to your spiritual sense For expedition sake I shall joyn Doctrine and Application both in one and so infer 4. particulars from the whole prayer 1. Matter of Information 2. Matter of Consolation 3. Matter of Examination 4. Matter of Exhortation chiefly the last 1. Matter of Information this shall be double 1. It may inform us that the rage of man cannot drive a gratious Soul from Christ Stephen here in this whole prayer goes to Jesus Christ though many stones not only lay in his way but as a massy weight upon him and not only lay upon him but broke and bruised his body when his enemies eyes sparkled fire at him by reason of rage and malice when they gnashed on him with their teeth when they stopt their ears at all his complaints and were desperately united together in their thoughts and Actions of blood and mischief when they cast a shower of stones upon his body and shot a whole volley of cruelty at his naked brest yet all could not stop his mouth nor that heap of stones dam up his passage to heaven but in a moment he flyes thither by prayer to God his Rock his Ammunition of Rocks to Christ his precious corner stone Thus may all the Saints do when their adversaries are set upon the fire of hell they may yet run to the gates of heaven as all the gates of Hell in Hell cannot prevail against their persons so all the gates of Hell on Earth cannot obstruct their petitions they may see their Father their Saviour through the thickest cloud of humane rage and fly to him as with the wings of a Dove by faith and prayer 2. It may inform us that Souls do not sleep in the grave they are received so soon as we dy either by Christ as Stephens here or else by Satan they do not fortuitò vagare wander uncertainly as some sick-braind Philosophers did dream nor pass from one body to another by a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Pythagoras his foolish Scholars thought much less sleep in the grave with the Body till they are awakened by the found of the great Trumpet at the day of judgment as some now among us have sinfully held forth to their Auditors This very prayer to say no more at present abundantly confutes this fond opinion Our Souls are no sooner out of the vessel and ship of the body but presently they are landed and set on shore in Heaven or in Hell An Heathen could say of death Seneca profectio est quam putas mortem it is but a passage from one Town to another or a removal from one house to another This total Soul-sleeping is a worse opinion than Popish purgatory or limbus patrum and their dream of Abrahams bosome in the for old-Testament Disciples until the coming of Christ in the flesh is not so absurd as this of lodging in the bosome of the grave for new-Testament discpiles till the second coming of Christ And truly it seems to be a great encouragement to profaness and discouragement to godliness for an antient * Ambrose Father tells us Angustae mentes irritantur promissis excitantur speratis mercedibus