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A04823	A sermon preached in Saint Maries Church in Oxford March 26. 1612. at the funerall of Thomas Holland, Doctor of the Chaire in Divinitie, and Rector of the Exceter College, by Richard Kilbie Doctor of Divinity, Rector of Lincolne College	Kilbye, Richard, 1560 or 61-1620.	1613 (1613)	STC 14957; ESTC S107985	13,669	24

A SERMON PREACHED IN SAINT MARIES CHVRCH IN OXFORD March 26. 1612. at the funerall of THOMAS HOLLAND Doctor of the Chaire in Divinitie and Rector of Exceter College BY RICHARD KILBIE Doctor of Divinity Rector of Lincolne College AC OX Printed at Oxford by Joseph Barnes and are to be sold by Iohn Barnes dwelling neere Holborne Conduit 1613. 1. COR. 15. 55 O death where is thy sting O graue where is thy victory 56 The sting of death is sinne and the strength of sinne is the law 57 But thankes be vnto God which hath giuen vs victory through our Lord Iesus Christ THese parcels of holy Scripture naturally divide and branch themselues into these foure head-streams 1 The ioyfull Exultation and Triumphant insultation of all the godly in the person of St Paule over Death and the Graue O death where is thy sting O graue where is thy victory 2 The originall Cause of Death which is sinne The sting of death is sinne 3 The Power and life as it were of Sinne which is the Law The strength of sinne is the law 4 And last The Victory and conquest of Christians in their head and Captaine Christ Iesus over Sinne and Death Thankes bee vnto God which hath given vs victory through our Lord Iesus Christ Of all these by Gods gracious assistance c. But first of the cause of Death which is Sinne and so of the rest and in the last place of the triumphant Insultation over death which will best befit the present occasion It was the errour or heresie rather of the Pelagians as St. Augustine writeth that whether Adam had sinned or no Augustin lib. 1. Hypognost contra Art 1. yet hee should surely haue dyed because God had created him mortall and was the author of death as well as of life so that Adam was the immediate subiect both of life and death in Gods first intention and institution of mankind Whereas the truth is that man before his fall was neither mortall nor immortall Necessitate by any necessity of creation and institution from God Hugo de S to Victore de sacramentis legis natur script in dialog and yet hee was both mortall and immortall Potestate by his owne power because then indeed life and death were both in his power For although in regard of the contrary principles whereof man consisted he had in himselfe a naturall propension to corruption inasmuch as contrarieties both in bodies naturall politique alwaies breed destruction of those bodies yet God in the first creation had given that speciall and celestiall power vertue vnto the soule that it was ever able to haue preserued the body from sicknesse and from death to haue perpetuated the same throughout all generations So that the God of Nature in the beginning never intended that Mōster of Death as the Pelagians and Celestians did erroneously conceiue but when the soule by her divorce and separation from God through sinne lost her life both Passiue which she received from God and Actiue which she infused to the body then the soule lost all power and abilitie of perpetuating the life of the body For what is more iust then the law of Retaliation with God even to punish like with like and therefore as St Bernard saith Anima volens perdidit vivere Bernard in serm ad milites Templi Cap. 11. nolens ergo perdat vivificare The soule of her own accord lost the life which she had in God and therefore now will shee nill shee shee must loose the life which she giues vnto the body And so indeed man is now become mortall by necessitie partly by the fraile condition of the body Th. Aquin. in lib. 3. sentent distinct 16. artic 1 vt à causa disponente as the disposing cause as the Schoolemen speake alwaies tending to corruption but especially by sinne vt à causa removente prohibens which did remoue the originall iustice of the soule which was the obstacle and barre of death Math. 7.13 and so let open the doore wide gate to hell destruction Wherefore God is not the cause of Death Sap. 1.13 Deus enim mortem non fecit God made not death but Sathan by suggestion and Adam by sinfull action the one moving to sinne the other committing sinne Wherefore as the theefe or malefactour is the author of his owne death and the iust Iudge no cause thereof albeit he pronounce the sentence of death against him In like manner sinnefull man is the cause of his owne death both of body and soule and God is but the iust Iudge to pronounce the sentence of death Morte morieris Gen. 2.17 Thou hast sinned and therefore thou shalt surely die For sinne is indeed that sting of the serpent that stingeth mā to death Augustin lib. 1. Hypogu it is not the biting of the serpent only as S. Augustine deriues the Latine word Mors à morsu serpentis as if death had its name of the biting of the serpent but it is more even the sting of the serpent because as the poison of the serpent is collected and vnited in a smal sting as the fittest instrument of deadly poison so al the venome poison of Death is in the sting of sinne For sinne is the Father of Death By one man sinne entred into the world Rom. 5.12 and death by sin Iam. 1.15 and it is the Mother of Death When lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and sin bringeth forth death Let none then make God the author of death because by his iust sentence he condemneth man to die for sinnes sake the trespassing of his law as the Iudge the malefactour for offending against the lawes of God and man Neither let any thinke Sathan the author of death or of punishments Propriâ potestate as by his owne power sed permissione divinâ propria suggestione but as of Gods permissiō of his own suggestion And let every one of vs say vnto another 2. Sam. 12.7 as Nathan said to David Thou art the man Thou art the cause of thine owne death For it is sinne as a viper in the bowels of man which eateth out the bowels of man it is the canker of sinne in the heart of man that devoureth the heart of man Hos. 13.8 and as God said to Israël Perditio tua ex te ô Israël O Israël thy destruction commeth of thy selfe the like may God say to every man O sinneful man thy death and thy destruction commeth of thy selfe For as the heathen Oratour saide of the priviledge of a Citizen of Rome Cic. prodomo suâ ad Pontif Nemo Civis Romanus aut libertatem aut civitatē amittere potest nisi ipse author factus sit No citizē of Rome could haue his freedome taken frō him or loose the priviledges and immunities of his City except himselfe was the authour thereof the same may truely bee spoken of

them victorie over sinne and death through his sonne Christ Iesus Numb 21.9 Now is their death become like the brasen serpent in the wildernesse which had indeed the shape and forme of a Serpent but nothing else of a serpent nec motum nec morsum nec venenum neither life nor motiō nor tongue nor sting nor poyson of a serpent In like manner the death of the godly in the wildernesse of this world hath the likenesse and semblance of death but it hath no sting it hath no venome it hath no poyson But whereas it is to the wicked and vngodly the beginning of sorrow and everlasting torments it is to the godly and righteous the end of sorrowes but the beginning of everlasting ioyes to the wicked it is the gate of hell but to the godly the gate to heauen in a word to the wicked it is death indeed even death of body and soule but to the righteous rather a life then a death even the entrance and passage to everlasting life So that when they lie on their death-beds and are even at their last gaspe when they are ready to giue vp the ghost and death seemeth to haue gotten the vpper hand of them and brought them almost as low as the dust Theod. lib. 1. Eccl. Hist cap 20. yet even then as Iulian said to Christ Vicisti Galilaee O Galilean thou hast overcome me so may death say to them Vicisti Christiane O Christian thou hast overcome me No marvaile then if our blessed Apostle here in my Text in the person of all the godly burst forth into that ioyfull 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and triumphant song O death where is thy sting O graue where is thy victory which now followeth in the last place to be considered containing the ioyfull exultation and triumphant insultation of the godly over Death and Hell and the Graue The Heathens and Pagans saith St Origen were wont to celebrate the day of their birth and nativitie Orig. lib. 3. in Iob. as onely louing this and looking for none after this but Christians must not so much celebrate and solemnize the day of their birth as of their death because albeit they loose this life yet they must looke for and more loue another life And the dying out of this world is not a death but a life rather Quia non moriuntur siqui mori videntur Orig. vt supr because they saith the same St Origen who here seeme to die doe not die indeed for albeit they seeme to flesh and blood to die yet in truth and indeed they liue eternally And as Iacob after his wrestling with the Angel was sinew shrunke and had his thigh out of ioint and went halting but had his name changed and was no more called Iacob Gen. 32.28.31 but Israel because hee prevailed with God and did see God Semblably the godly after they haue wrestled with the Angell of death on their death-beds may haue the sinews of their bodies shrūk vp al the parts mēbers thereof out of ioint for death indeed disiointeth all so that they are not able to go vpright but are carried on mens shoulders vnto their graues yet the Angel of death in the end cānot but cōfesse that they haue power with God that God wil blesse thē giue thē a new name Revel 2.17 so that they shal no more be called Iacobs mortal mē supplanting one another here on earth but Israëls prevailers with God seers of God and blessed Saints of God in the kingdome of heaven The godly then haue great cause to reioice and insult over death saying O Death where is thy sting Thou maiest indeed sting our bodies vnto death but thou haste lost thy great string thou canst not now any more sting our soules to death O Tyrant thou mayst kill our bodies for a time but thou canst not kill our soules for ever So that they may say with S. Bernard O mors Bern. serm 26 sup Cantic stimulus tuus non est stimulus sed iubilus O Death thy sting is no sting vnto vs but our jubilee and crowne of reioicing 1. Thess 2.19 thou thinkest to send vs quicke vnto hell Greg. Nyssen but thou sendest vs quickly to heaven thou art as a midwife as Gregorie Nyssene speaketh to helpe to bring vs out of the womb of this world into a better world Psal 27.13 and into the land of the living thou art the ship wherein we saile vnto the haven of our happynesse whilst we are here almost drowned in the deluge of this miserable and wretched life Gen. 5.29 And therefore as Lamech called his sonne Noah because he should comfort him make all his labour and sorrow to cease and rest in like manner all iust and righteous men may call death their Noah the sonne of their rest and comfort from all their labours and sorrowes and sicknesses diseases paines for then all these things and all such like miseries shal bee done away and shall never be againe When Vrbicius Governour vnder the persecuting Emperour Aurelius Verus Euseb l 4 hist Eccles cap. 16 would needs put Lucius to death for the profession of Christianitie Lucius scorned him saying O wicked Tyrant wilt thou put me to death thou dost me a great favour and a great kindnesse for thou sendest me from the tyrannie of a cruell Lord and Governour ad bonum patrē clementem Regem Deum to a good Father a mercifull King even God my Christ and my Lord. So when death that Tyrant to whom every knee must bend and bow at his presence threatneth Christians they may iustly answer him as Lucius there did Vrbicius O Tyrant dost thou threaten to kill vs thou dost vs a great kindnesse thou freest vs from the tyrannie of wicked men here on earth and sendest vs to a loving father and a mercifull Lord in the heavens thou freest vs from the stinking prison of this world to send vs to sweet and pleasant palaces in the world to come And that they may likewise say as St Basil said to Modestus Governour vnder Valens the Emperour Greg. Naz. in orat 30 in laudem Basil whē he threatēd his death mors mihi beneficij loco erit quia cito me ad Deū mittit cui vivo ad quem propero Oh welcome Death thou art a great benefit a great advantage vnto me for thou sends me quickly to God to whome I liue and to whom I long to goe And therefore O Death where is thy sting O Graue where is thy victory And now Beloued lest the stream of discourse should carrie me beyond the compasse of the time Application and I should tire out both my weake spirits and your Christian patience I come briefly to some short application as the present occasion and your expectation requireth that as I haue hither to spoken of death so now I may say something also of this