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A53903	Enoch's translation, in a sermon preached at the funerals of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Elgin, Baron of Whorlton, &c. In the parish-church of Malden in Bedford-shire, Decemb. 31. 1663. By Rich. Pearson D.D.	Pearson, Richard, Chaplain to the Earl of Elgin.	1664 (1664)	Wing P1012; ESTC R216919	15,936	38

but God The temporizing Hypocrite does all to be seen of men so speaks as hunting after the Favour and Applause and Approbation of men with those sawning Prophets mentioned in Isa 30. 10. which speak smooth things and prophesie deceits The Prophets prophesie falsly and what 's the reason the people love to have it so Jer. 5. 31. He that would approve himself a faithful Servant of God must not look asquint upon the Applause of men S. Paul concludes for himself and it may be a Rule for us Gal. 1. 10. If I should yet please men I were not the servant of Christ The third is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If we must not please our selves if we must not please men much less Satan who is God's adversary Whatsoever pleaseth him is displeasing to God Then we please him when we listen to his suggestions when we commit sin and delight to continue in it As the good Angels rejoyce at our Conversion so our Sin and Confusion is the pleasure and pastime of Satan If we make it our End and our Rule as we ought to doe to please God all these ways are to be abandoned Here then was the high commendation of Enoch's Piety he so lived and so behaved himself in the time of his pilgrimage that by the testimony of God himself he pleased God It was a high Character especially from the mouth of God and that recorded by the finger of the Spirit of God in the Book of God in perpetuam rei memoriam What an honour was it to Apelles to be enrolled among the Nobles of the New Testament with this singular Elogium or Title of honour Apelles approved in Christ What an honour to Moses in the Old Testament to be called Ro. 16. 10. the Servant of God to Abraham to be styled the Friend of God to David to be called A man after God's own heart All these concur in this honourable Elogium given to the Patriarch Enoch in this Scripture He had this testimony that he pleased God And thus much shall suffice for the first part of the Text His pious Conversation whilst he was in the world Being such an one it was not fit that he should make too long a stay in this world which was not worthy of him He was all this while a Candidate for Heaven and having received God's approbation thither God removes him and by a special privilege he takes the Degree of a glorified Saint as it were per saltum leaping over the threshold of Death This we have more particularly described unto us in the Second part of the Text which tells us of his honourable Removal out of the world in these words He was translated that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated him Concerning this Translation of Enoch many Questions have been started but by the help of this Scripture we may be able to resolve the most of them One is Whether Enoch was so translated that as a person privileged from the law of Mortality he died not The Scruple is grounded upon two several phrases which are used by Moses in the story of Enoch Gen. 5. 24. First in that it is said God took him Now this phrase of taking away is used in Scripture to set forth the blessed Departure of the Saints out of this world by the ordinary way of Dissolution Thus Isa 57. 1. Merciful men are taken away that is they die and Job 32. 22. my Maker would soon take me away that is he would take away my Life he would kill me Again it is said in the same Scripture that Enoch was not and this also is a phrase by which the Scripture sometimes points out the state of Death So Gen. 42. 36. Joseph is not and Simeon is not that is they are both dead for so Jacob at that time supposed them to be But this Question is clearly resolved by S. Paul in this Scripture where he tells us plainly Enoch was translated that he should not see death That he should not see death that is that he should not die It is like that other phrase Luk. 9. 27. There be some here that shall not taste of death To see death and to taste of death are phrases borrowed from two distinct Senses but have both the same signification that is saith S. Augustin Mortem non experietur he shall have no experience of death Enoch was so far exempted from the law of Death that he did not so much as Taste it nè primoribus quidem labiis so far privileged that he did not so much as See it nè primoribus quidem oculis So his Taking away was not a Taking away of Dissolution which implies Mortality but a Taking away of Translation which prevents Death Therefore we may observe that in Gen. 5. where the Lives of the Patriarchs are recorded of all the rest who are mentioned both before and after Enoch it runs thus Seth lived so many years and he died Methuselah so many years and he died but of Enoch otherwise he lived so many years and not said He died but to shew that he was a privileged person Moses gives him a singular and privilegiate expression God took him Again whereas it is there further express'd He was not if we take the phrase in its full rigour it signifies an absolute Nullity or Annihilation but here it is so far from intending an Annihilation that it does not betoken so much as an ordinary Extinction by Death It is true that as the Latines were wont to express Death by the word Fuit so the Hebrews by a Non fuit but in this place it does not signifie so much Therefore S. Paul in this Text mollifies the phrase by a word of supply Non fuit He was not that is Non fuit inventus He was not Found He was not any more in a visible communion with men He was secretly translated by God as Moses secretly buried by God It was not known what was become of him till God revealed it We see other men when they go out of the world Even Elias himself was seen by Elisha when he ascended But none of the Patriarchs saw Enoch go and being gone he was not to be found The sons of the Prophets might search and seek for him as they did for Elias but not meet with him Again as it was a Secret so a Total Translation both in Soul and Body Other Saints though their Souls be carried up on the wings of Angels as Lazarus was yet their Bodies are to be found they remain behind and are laid asleep in their graves as S. Peter speaks of the Patriarch David Act. 2. 29. He is both dead and buried and his sepulchre is with us unto this day Enoch was not to be found either way in him there was no Separation of Soul and Body by death but a total Translation of both That for the first Question Secondly Some will grant that Enoch died not