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A67564	The Christians victory over death a sermon at the funeral of the Most Honourable George Duke of Albemarle, &c. : in the Collegiate Church of S. Peter, Westminster, on the XXXth of April M.DC.LXX / by Seth, Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Ward, Seth, 1617-1689.	1670 (1670)	Wing W818; ESTC R12260	16,635	40

the S●ul may be Concluded in Consequence whereof both before and during the t●me of Christ All the Sects of the Iews except the Sadduces And I think All the Philosophers except Epicurus did declare for the Doctrine of an Immortality Yet it is truly said of Christ that he did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he cleared or brought to light the Doctrine of Immortality The Opinions which ruled the World before him both of the Philosophers and of the Rabbins were not only false but pernicious They still made Death the King of Terrors and were so far from Establishing● that they overthrew the Capacity of Personal Rewards and Punishments after Death These are the Consequences of all those Hypotheses which either destroy the substance of the Soul with Epicurus Or the individual permanency of the Soul with the Platonists the Peripateticks and the Stoicks Or which assert the Metempsychosis of Souls passing from Men to Beasts or Men with the Pythagoreans and many of the Iews And these were the Imaginations which had possessed the World before the Ministry of Christ. If the Soul were a Crasis or Harmony a Modus or Motion of the Body it would then be dissolved in Death it would cease to be or sleep in the lifeless Atoms whereof the Body was composed But He hath taught us that men may Kill the Body and not be able to hurt the Soul from whence it follows that the Soul is a distinct and permanent subsistence If the Immortal part in man were a Delibation of the God-head or Intellectus agens or the Soul of the World and upon Death were back again refunded into them the Individual nature would be destroyed But He hath taught us that this is still preserved that the Souls of Abraham Isaac and Iacob are distinctly preserved in the hand of God If Souls did transmigrate from men to beasts or from one man to another who could be rewarded Pythagoras or Euphorbus he hath instructed us that the Soul doth not shift and flit from one body into another but in their departure when they go hence they pass into Everlasting Habitations Lastly He hath informed the World that not only the souls of the Righteous but of the Wicked also are Immortal That as the soul of Lazarus so also the soul of Dives was permanent and existent after Death Thus Christ hath cleared the Doctrine of Immortality and in respect of the soul the capacity of personal Rewards 2. Moreover to fill up and c●mpleat the capacity of the whole person and so render it intire He hath delivered to the World the Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body namely that the time is coming when Death shall be finally swallowed up in Victory That He himself shall then descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Arch-Angel with the Trump of God and the Dead shall rise That the dead in Christ shall rise first That what is sown in Corruption shall be raised in Incorruption That all men shall rise with their own bodys both Just and Unjust that the hour is coming● that all that are in the Grave shall hear his voice and come forth That the Sea shall give up the Dead which are in it And Death and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall deliver up the dead which are in them That those that have done good shall go into the Resurrection of Life and those that have done evil shall go into the Resurrection of Condemnation Thus hath our Lord Christ cleared the Principle and foundation of a Generous Contempt of death by bringing to Light the Capacity of Personal Rewards in the World to come But 2. He hath clearly delivered the whole method and Administration of Rewards themselves Inchoate and particular in our decease 2. Vniversal Consummate in the great Day of Retribution at the time of the general Resurrection In the Gospel we are taught that immediately upon our Dissolution the Souls of the Righteous enter into a state of happiness and the souls of the wicked into a state of Infelicity For the former to be dissolved is to be with Christ for the latter to die is to become miserable Say to the Righteous it shall be well with him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they die in the Lord they rest from their Labours their works follow them Say to the Wicked it shall be ill with him the Other is comforted but he shall be to●mented Lazarus died and immediately was carried by Angels into Abrahams Bosome The rich man died and was buried and presently we find him in Hell in Torments But the great and final distribution of Rewards the Circumstances and intire Oeconomy of the General Judgment as it is delivered only so it is delivered punctually and exactly in and by the Gospel This tells us That God hath appointed a Day wherein he will Judge the World That Christ is ordained of God to be Iudge both of Quick and Dead That he shall come in the Clouds and every Eye shall see him That the Powers of Heaven shall be shaken and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in Heaven and they shall see him coming in the Clouds with power and great glory That he shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet and they shall gather together the Elect from the four Winds from one end of Heaven to the other That he shall sit upon the Throne of his Glory That all Nations shall be gathered before him We must all appear before his Judgment Seat to answer for the things done in the body whether they be good or evil That he shall separate the one from the other as the Shepherd divideth the Sheep from the Goat That the Books shall be opened and the dead shall be Judged out of those things which are written in the Books That every secret thing shall be brought to light the secret Counsels of the Heart the hidden Works of Darkness shall be revealed and he shall Render to every one according to his Deeds That this sentence shall be pronounced upon the blessed Come ye blessed of my Father c. And this upon the cursed Go ye cursed c. Finally that upon the sentence given the righteous shall enter into joy unspeakable and full of Glory And the Wicked shall pass into a state of everlasting torment where shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth These are those Powers of the World to come whereof the Apostle speaks As there are movimenta mechanica mechanical powers whereby the motion of bodies is excited and regulated So Rewards and Punishments are movimenta spiritualia those spiritual powers which excite and regulate the motions of the Soul and that which gives to these their utmost force and moment is this Consideration That they are to be Eternal This Consideration is able effectually to affright men from base and ignoble Actions and to inspire them with noble