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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88663	The king of terrors metamorphosis. Or, Death transform'd into sleep. A sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Nicoll, daughter to that worthy, eminently pious, and charitable citizen of London, Mr. John Walter deceased, and late wife of Mr. William Nicoll of London draper. By Thomas Lye rector of Alhal. Lumbard-street, London.	Lye, Thomas, 1621-1684.	1660 (1660)	Wing L3538; Thomason E1053_4; ESTC R207978	20,527	31

yet is it their trouble to conflict yea but now death puts the Saints into such a condition that they are not only without a foyle but without fighting too Thus in respect of its concomitant Rest the death of Saints may well be resembled to sleep 3. In its Consequents which are two Excitationis facilitas Virium reparatio 1. Excitationis facilitas Awaking or rising from sleep Natural sleep is not perpetual we sleep and awake again Psal 3.5 I laid me down and slept I awaked So that though the body lies for a time in the grave yet it shall awake and rise again Many i. e. all of them that sleep in the dust shall awake Dan. 12.2 Psal 17.15 Isai 26.19 John 5.28 Job 19.26 27. Hos 13.14 Rev. 10.13 A time coming when the loud Trump shall awaken the sleeping ashes and those old friends soul and body meet and embrace and never part more 2. Virium reparatio renovatio restitutio The body that was sown in weakness shall be raised in power It was sown a natural body it shall be raised a spiritual body endowed with impassibility subtilty agility clarity It is sown in dishonour it shall be raised in glory 1 Cor. 15.42 43 44. It shall be like unto Christs glorious body Phil. 3.21 shining forth and sparkling like the Sun in its midday-glory Matth. 13.43 And thus we have dispatcht the parallel betwixt a Believers death and sleep The third thing promised was the Application and Improvement of the whole to which we now address our selves 3. Application Applica ∣ tion 3 By way of Information Exhortation Dehortation Consolation Informa ∣ tion 1 1. For the Information of our Judgements in four Corollaries 1. If a Believers death be a sleep then that Aphorisme of the wise Man appears to be a great truth Eccles 7.1 The day of death is better then the day of ones birth Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward Job 7.5 Sparks have a principle in themselves by which they ascend they need no directing they fly upward naturally So 't is a natural course for man as soon as he is born to verge to sorrow Our birth is nothing else but a lanching forth into a deep Ocean of sin and sorrow an intrat to act our parts in a Scene of iniquity and misery Yea but now a Believers death is his happy Exit and Epilogue his calm [r] Rev. 14.13 Port and safe Harbour after all his tollings and tempests Of this truth that Mirrour of her Sex the Lady Jane Grey discovers a clear conviction who being requested by the Lieutenant of the Tower to write her Symbol in his book before her beheading wrote thus Let the glassy condition of this life never deceive thee there is a time to be born and a time to die but the day of death is better then the day of birth 2. If a Believers death c. Hence learn The infinite power wisdom and goodness of God in that he is able and willing to turn the worst of evils into so great a good out of the deadliest poyson to make the most soveraign Antidote to turn a Moses Serpent into a Rod and with that Rod to work wonders to fetch honey and sweetness out of the carcass of a Lion nay to turn the Eater into meat Death into sleep to make that which in it self is the greatest loss to become so great a Gain Phil. 1.23 to render the King of Terrors Job 18.14 most amiable yea most useful to make that so sweet a blessing which was threatned as the saddest curse to turn an Esau's malice into courtesie and salutes his intended stabs into tears and kisses Verily this is the Lords doing and it ought to be marvellous in our eyes 3. If a Believers death c. Hence see the vast difference between an Vnbeliever and a Believer in their death Death to an unbeliever is Poena peccati so threatned Gen. 2.17 so inflicted Rom. 5.12 Their end is destruction Phil. 3.19 Death comes fiercely to them pulls them by the threat like a grim Serjeant arrests and summons them to hell where after ten hundred thousand years scorching and yelling in flames their pain is never the nearer to its period No time gives them hope of abating yea time hath nothing to do with this eternity where they shall be ever dying but never die where Divels who were here ready to tempt them when graceless to sin are as ready to pursue them now damned with torments 'T is true their bodies sleep indeed for a while but 't is as Sampson in Dalilahs lap ready to be given up as a prey to the Philistins as Sisera in Jaels Tent the hammer and nail ready to be set to the Temples or as Peter slept between his cruell Keepers bound they are and lockt up in their graves as in a strait and loathsom prison a doleful disconsolate dungeon where they lie reserved in the chains of darkness until the judgement of the great day Jud. 6.7 But now the death of a Believer is quite another thing To them 't is instar dulcis somni Death comes mildly and sweetly to the m like an humble Page with a courteous invitation to a feast of glory and proffers its service to lead and conduct them to it Be not afraid saith death though my countenance be stern my hand is soft though my pangs seem grievous yet the rest I bring is sweet To others I am death to you only a sleep and such a sleep as God gives his Beloved Psal 127.2 That which is a Grave to others is a Bed to you Isai 57.2 where your bodies shall lie as Christ did in his grave with a guard of Angels John 20.12 Believers are delivered from the sting though not from the stroke of death If death be a Serpent to Saints 't is a Serpent without a sting it has left its sting and teeth and all in the sides of Christ Hence it is that we hear the Apostle sounding out his Io triumphe and find him treading on the neck of his vanquisht enemy playing on the hole of this Aspe and with an holy kind of Sarcasm flouting at it Oh death where is thy sting 1 Cor. 15.55 56 57. Thus we see a vast difference the unbeliever dies howling the Believer singing the one takes death for a gulf of sorrow the other for a port of safety The one sighs because stript for a scourging the other sings because he layes off his cloaths to go to bed and sleep after his toyle 4. If a Believers death be a sleep in Jesus Hence conclude That even death it self dissolves not the strict union that is between Christ and a Believer [t] Aug. de Civ Dei All the faithful though dead are yet the living members of Christ Jesus As in Christs death his soul and body though severed each from other remained united to the Deity so in death Believers souls and bodies still remain united unto