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A62597	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Mr Thomas Gouge, the 4th of Novemb. 1681 at S. Anne's Blackfriars with a brief account of his life / by John Tillotson ...	Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.	1682 (1682)	Wing T1234; ESTC R17437	26,169	94

That there is another state after this life wherein men shall be happy or miserable according as they have lived in this world And this doth not onely suppose the immortality of the Soul but forasmuch as the Body is an essential part of man doth by consequence infer the resurrection of the Body because otherwise the man would not be happy or miserable in the other world But I cannot see any sufficient ground to believe that our Saviour intended by this Argument directly and immediately to prove the resurrection of the Body but onely by consequence and as it follows from the admission of a future state wherein men shall be rewarded or punished For that Reason of our Saviour that God is not a God of the dead but of the living if it did directly prove the resurrection of the Body it would prove that the Bodies of Abraham Isaac and Jacob were raised to life again at or before that time when God spake to Moses and called himself the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob But we do not believe this and therefore ought not to suppose that it was the intention of our Saviour directly and immediately to prove the resurrection of the Body but onely as I said before a future state And that this was all our Saviour intended will more plainly appear if we consider what that Errour of the Sadduces was which our Saviour here confutes And Josephus who very well understood the difference of the Sects among the Jews and gives a particular account of them makes not the least mention of any Controversie between the Pharisees and the Sadduces about the resurrection of the Body All that he says is this That the Pharisees hold the immortality of the Soul and that there are Rewards and Punishments in another world But the Sadduces denied all this and that there was any other state after this life And this is the very same account with that which is given of them in the New Testament ver 27. of this Chap. The Sadduces who deny that there is any resurrection The meaning of which is more fully declared Acts 23. 8. The Sadduces say that there is no resurrection neither angel nor spirit but the Pharisees confess both That is the Sadduces denied that there was any other state of men after this life and that there was any such thing as an immortal Spirit either Angels or the Souls of men surviving their Bodies And as Dr. Hammond hath judiciously observed this is the true importance of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 viz. a future or another state unless in such Texts where the Context does restrain it to the raising again of the Body or where some word that denotes the body as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is added to it Secondly The force of this Argument against those with whom our Saviour disputed will further appear if we consider the great veneration which the Jews in general had for the Writings of Moses above any other Books of the Old Testament which they especially the Sadduces looked upon onely as Explications and Comments upon the Law of Moses But they esteemed nothing as a necessary Article of Faith which had not some foundation in the Writings of Moses And this seems to me to be the true Reason why our Saviour chose to confute them out of Moses rather than any other part of the Old Testament And not as many learned men have imagined because the Sadduces did not receive any part of the Old Testament but onely the five Books of Moses so that it was in vain to argue against them out of any other This I know hath been a general opinion grounded I think upon the mistake of a passage in Josephus who says the Sadduces onely received the written Law But if we carefully consider that passage we shall find that Josephus doth not there oppose the Law to the other Books of the Old Testament which were also written but to Oral Tradition For he says expresly that the Sadduces onely received the written Law but the Pharisees over and besides what was written received the Oral which they call Tradition I deny not but that in the later Prophets there are more express Texts for the proof of a future state than any are to be found in the Books of Moses As Daniel 12. 2. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt And indeed it seems very plain that holy men among the Jews towards the expiration of the Legal dispensation had still clearer and more express apprehensions concerning a future state than are to be met with in the Writings of Moses or of any of the Prophets The Law given by Moses did suppose the Immortality of the Souls of men and the expectation of another life after this as Principles of Religion in some degree naturally known but made no new and express Revelation of these things Nor was there any occasion for it the Law of Moses being a Political Law not intended for the Government of mankind but of one particular Nation and therefore was establish'd as Political Laws are upon temporal promises and threatnings promising temporal prosperity to the observation of its precepts and threatning the breach of them with temporal judgments and calamities And this I take to be the true reason why arguments fetch'd from another world are so obscurely insisted upon under that Dispensation not but that another life after this was always suppos'd and was undoubtedly the hope and expectation of good men under the Law but the clear discovery of it was reserv'd for the Times of the Messias And therefore as those Times drew on and the Sun of righteousness was nearer his rising the shadows of the night began to be chased away and mens apprehensions of a future state to clear up so that in the time of the Maccabees good men spake with more confidence and assurance of these things It is likewise to be consider'd that the temporal calamities and sufferings with which the Jews were almost continually harass'd from the time of their Captivity had very much wean'd good men from the consideration of temporal promises and awaken'd their minds to the more serious thoughts of another world It being natural to men when they are destitute of present comfort to support themselves with the expectation of better things for the future and as the Apostle to the Hebrews expresseth it c. 6. v. 18. to fly for refuge to lay hold upon the hope that is before them and to imploy their reason to fortifie themselves as well as they can in that persuasion And this I doubt not was the true occasion of those clearer and riper apprehensions of good men concerning a future state in those times of distress and persecution it being very agreeable to the wisedom and goodness of the Divine Providence not to leave his People destitute

may meet with that encouraging commendation which he hath already received from the mouth of our Lord Well done good and faithfull servant enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ that great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant make you perfect in every good work to doe his will working in you always that which is pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ To whom be glory for ever Amen THE END A Catalogue of Books Single Sermons Preach'd and Publish'd since the two Volumes in Octavo by the Reverend Dr. Tillotson Dean of Canterbury viz. 1. A Sermon preached on the Fifth of November 1678. at S. Margarets Westminster before the Honourable House of Commons upon this Text Luke 9. 55 56. But he turned and rebuked them and said Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of For the Son of Man is not come to destroy mens lives but to save them 2. A Sermon preached at the First General Meeting of the Gentlemen and others in and near London who were born within the County of York In the Parish Church of S. Mary-le-Bow Dec. 3. 1678. upon John 13. 34 35. A new Commandment I give unto you that ye love one another as I have loved you that ye also love one another By this shall all men know that ye are my Disciples if ye love one another 3. A Sermon preached before the King at White-hall April 4. 1679. upon 1 John 4. 1. Beloved believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false Prophets are gone out into the world 4. The Protestant Religion vindicated from the Charge of Singularity and Novelty In a Sermon preached before the King at White-hall April 2. 1680. upon Joshua 24. 15. If it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord chuse you this day whom you will serve 5. The Lawfulness and Obligation of Oaths A Sermon preached at the Assizes held at Kingston upon Thames July 21. 1681. upon Heb. 6. 16. And an Oath for Confirmation is to them an end of all strife 6. A Sermon preached at the Funeral of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Gouge Novemb. 4. 1681. With an Account of his Life upon Luke 20. 37 38. Now that the dead are raised even Moses shewed at the bush when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God Jacob For he is not a God of the dead but of the living For all live to him Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pigeons against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill And William Rogers at the Sun against S. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet Books Writ by the Learned Dr. Isaac Barrow late Master of Trinity College in Cambridge Viz. A Learned Treatise of The Pope's Supremacy To which is added A Discourse concerning the Vnity of the Church in Quarto The said Discourse of Vnity is also printed alone in Octavo Twelve Sermons preached upon several Occasions in Octavo being the First Volume Ten Sermons against Evil Speaking in Octavo being the Second Volume Eight Sermons of The Love of God and our Neighbour in Octavo being the Third Volume The Duty and Reward of Bounty to the Poor in a Sermon much enlarged preached at the Spittal upon Wednesday in Easter Week Anno Dom. 1671. in Octavo A Sermon upon The Passion of our Blessed Saviour Preached at Guild-hall Chapel on Good-Friday the thirteenth day of April 1677. in Octavo An Exposition of The Lord's Prayer The Ten Commandments and The Doctrine of the Sacraments in Octavo All the said Books of the Learned Dr. Isaac Barrow except the Sermon of Bounty to the Poor are since the Authour's Death Published by the Reverend Dr. Tillotson Dean of Canterbury The true and lively Effigies of Dr. Isaac Barrow a large Print Ingraven from the Life by the Excellent Artist D. Loggan price without Frame six pence Several other Pieces of the Learned Remains of Dr. Barrow may be suddenly expected All Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pigeons against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill The Necessity of Regeneration in two Sermons to the University of Oxon. By John Wallis D. D. Professor of Geometry in that University and a Member of the Royal Society Quarto Light in the Way to Paradise with other Occasionals By Dudley the 2 d L d North. Printed for W. Rogers at the Sun against S. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet FINIS