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A72540	The dampe of death: beaten backe with the glorious light and life of Iesus Christ / In a sermon preached at Lancaster assises in Lent last, to the condemned prisoners there, and before the honourable iudges, and worshipfull of that countie. By William Leigh, bachelor in diuinitie, and pastor at Standish	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1613 (1613)	STC 15423; ESTC S125476	21,274	65

THE DAMPE OF DEATH BEATEN backe with the glorious light and life of Iesus Christ In a Sermon Preached at Lancaster Assises in Lent last to the condemned Prisoners there and before the Honourable Iudges and Worshipfull of that Countie By William Leigh Bachelor in Diuinitie and Pastor at Standish 1. Cor. 15. v. 57. Thankes be to God which hath giuen vs victorie through our Lord Iesus Christ LONDON Printed by Tho Creede for Arthur Iohnson dwelling in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the white Horse 1613. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL THOmas Tildesley Esquire his Maiesties Atturney generall within the Countie Palantine of Lancaster and Vice Chancellor of his Highnes Court of Chancerie there Grace be multiplied in this world and blessednes in the world to come Worshipfull Syr. YOur loue hath ouerawed me much in this busines wherein it hath pleased God and you to put me and for because your place and praise is in the Gospell I durst not consult with fl●sh and blood but haue as you may see most willingly obeyed the heauenly call The Sermon being ended at Lancaster in Lent Assises last where I was enioyned by authoritie to preach to the prisoners then condemned to die it was your desire to have a copie in priuate of that which was then deliuered in publique at what time I truely tolde you my Notes were scattered and vndisgested rather carried in my heart then in my hand yet would God assisting me in conuenient time binde them together ere they were too farre fallen out of my minde and memorie which I haue here done accordingly and sent them to your worship as a constat of my vnfained loue yet with this Caution you neuer thinke what was then deliuered by voyce can be carried so powerfully in papers as it was in speech The words contained in the two tables which God gaue to Moses from the holy Mount were first spoken by the mouth of God ere they were written by the finger of God and then carried into the valley to be heard and kept of all the people So may I likewise say of the Gospell Voyces and Prophesies went of the blood of Christ ere euer it dropt out of his veines But if gratious words had not fallen from the mouth of Christ Christians had neuer conceiued either the power or vertue of his death For as there is a blood of redemption so there is a word of reconsiliation and surely where the word teacheth not there the blood droppeth not you are religiously wise to conceiue whereat I ayme To wit that reading preaching and practizing of pietie may all goe together like Saul and Ionathan of whom it is said that they were louely in their liues and at their deaths were not diuided Learned you are in your owne lawes and therefore knowe better then I can tell that though the body of your lawes lie in your bookes yet the soule thereof is in your mootes and pleadings as also that the barre and bench doe more powerfully end and profitably determine our causes then the bookes in your chambers can doe I speake in no desperagement either of your bookes or our Bibles which in themselues are learned sacred and holy but to intimate to all the world that if you pleade not and we preach not neither states can long stand nor soules can be ordinarily saued For though holy bookes be holy Oracles and registers of Gods truth Malachi 2. v. 7. Yet must the Priests lippes preserue knowledge and the people must seeke the lawe at his mouth for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts Good Sir take what I haue written in lieu of my loue may it pleasure you and benefit Soules either liuing in this world or dying to a better it is all I wish in my heart it is all I begge in my prayer and what is in my power or Element to doe it shall be alwaies yours my penne is yours my paines are yours my selfe am yours to be commaunded in him who commandeth all with my daily prayer to God for you and yours euer to be kept vnder his holy and helping hand of prouidence and protection And so I cease your further trouble but neuer leaue to loue and honour you as I am much bounden Standish this seuenteenth day of Aprill 1613. Your worships euer and so assured in his loue William Leigh THE DAMPE OF DEATH BEATEN BACKE WITH THE glorious light and life of Iesus Christ Colloss 3. verse 3.4 For yee are dead and your life is hidde with Christ in good When Christ which is our life shall appeare then shall yee also appeare with him in glorie WHen I last supplied this place in your honourable presence as now I doe and preached vnto those poore delinquents then readie to die by the doome of iustice I was sharpely censured of some that I preached too much mercie and too little Iudgement and that like an vnskilfull Samaritan I powred into the sores of those wounded soules and broken hearts ouer much oyle and too little vineger Which and if I did I might well say with the Prophet Ieremiah in a cause not much different Ierem. 20.7 O my God if I be deceiued thou hast deceiued me thou hast deceiued me with the extent of thy mercy which reacheth farre euen from the nethermost hell to the highest heauens Thou hast deceiued me with the height of thy mercie which is aboue all thy workes for thy mercie O Lord stretcheth it selfe vnto the heauens and thy truth vnto the cloudes thou hast deceiued me with the depth of thy mercie for one depth calleth vpon an other but that of mercie swalloweth vp all Nay thou hast deceiued me with thine holy offerings of mercie vpon thine holy Altar who hast said I will haue mercie and not sacrifice But oh my God thou art not deceiued neither can thy mercies be limited in thy bountie and why shall they be straitned in my bowels It may be Nature hath made me ouermilde and the sinnes of the world require I should be seuere yet this must I say withall that neither my ouermilde disposition nor yet the worlds transgression shall euer make me cruell against the penitent And such you are whose salt teares this day doe well expresse your sorrowfull hearts who hauing beene humbled at the barre of Gods Iustice why should you not appeale to the barre of his mercie to seeke and sue for grace to helpe in time of need For when is need if not now when the feare of death is before your face when the horrour of your sinnes cryeth vengeance against your soules whē your best friends faile you and this whole world forsaketh you when Sathan winnoweth you like wheate because he knoweth he hath but a short time when is need if not now to pray that your faith faile you not that the Lord would be propitious and that no temptation fall vpon you greater then you are able to beare but that euen in the middest of the temptation

themselues in the free remission of their sinnes those sinnes which thou hast not purged ô my Christ those hast thou pardoned Lastly to die for sinne is so sole and proper to Christ as it can be said of none to haue done it but himselfe For he trode the winepresse alone and of all the world there was none to helpe him he alone was the lambe of God that tooke away the sinnes of the world and the glorious voyce that came downe from heauen fell vpon him and none other This is my welbeloued sonne in whom I am well pleased heare him What should I say more he died he died the Iust for the vniust the innocent for the delinquent and he that knew no sinne died for all sinne all curse and execration lay vpon him who deserued none that it might be laide off vs he matched all miserie that he might merit all mercy Nay he died for our sinnes a dolorous death that he might gaine for vs an eternall and glorious life Good Lord how much are we obliged to thee and to thy death we sinned and thou smarted for vs we were in debt and thou dischargedst it we were euen dropping downe to hell and in suffering thou hast made vs soueraignes in heauen No sacrifice no salue no electuarie could cure the maladie of our sinnes but the death of the Phisitian must be the life of the Patient and therefore in this I may say in some sense as Tulli did to his wife Terentia in that his wofull exile In hoc miserior sum quam tu quae es miserima quod calamitas communis est vtrisque nostrum culpa mea propria herein might it well beseeme me ô my Christ to be more afflicted then thou whose afflictions are aboue all afflictions that the fall is common to vs both but the fault is properly mine for I haue sinned and thou hast smarted the Iust for the vniust And here the rather to breake your hearts with the balme of Christ his loue who died for your sinnes let me assure you in the faith how diuersly this his vnspeakable loue is confirmed and sealed vnto you both by bond and baile for he hath sworne to your saluation and he hath put in himselfe body for body Nay soule for soule to answere the rigour of his father that you his children might be free Psal 9.10 For the first true it is the Lord hath sworne and it hath not repented him thou art a Priest for euer after the order of Melchizadecke A Priest to pray a Priest to bleede a Priest to pleade neuer wanting to stand vp in the gap for vs most miserable sinners Had it not beene enough to haue prayed for vs vpon Mount Oliuet but he must bleede for vs vpon Mount Caluerie And had it not beene sufficient there to haue bled for vs but yet in the heauen of heauens to stand for vs an aduocate euen there to pleade our cause according to that of Saint Iohn If any man sinne we haue an aduocate with the father 1. Ioh. 2. euen Iesus Christ the righteous c. Now in this oath and couenant he hath made with vs and for vs I obserue 1. Stabilitie In that it is from God for so it is said the Lord hath sworne he hath sworne that it is much and he hath sworne neuer to repent him of that he hath done that is more it repented God that he had made man but it neuer repented him that he had redeemed man so much more excellent then is the worke of our Redemption aboue that of our Creation this of Creation greeued for but that of Redemption neuer repented of and no maruell sith the sinnes of the olde water were once washed away with olde water but these with new blood strained out of the vaines of Christ euery droppe whereof was sufficient to redeeme a thousand worlds and therefore I may well say of this gift aboue all that euer God gaue to man that these gifts of God are Ametamellonta without repentance And this is the holy couenant the Lord made with vs before the world was for the safe keeping whereof he hath put in his Christ to enter both bond and baile Life for life body for body soule for soule as the blessed Apostle saith A Suretie of a better Couenant the worthines whereof as I haue said is 1. In firmitudine as confirmed by oath for the Lord hath sworne 2. in perpetuitate as abiding euer for of his kingdome there is no end 3. in pactionis modo ratified with blood neither of Buls nor Calues but with the pretious blood of Iesus Christ 4. In fine virtute as purging our sinnes purchasing our place and pleading our cause whereas Moses testament was established vpon no such sauing grounds for it was confirmed without oath and but for a time with the blood of Buls and Goates with the ashes of an Heyfer scattered in the ayre nor with any promise of eternall saluation but of a temporall rest and Canaan And thus of the aboundance of Christ his grace we haue all receiued grace for grace A grace preuenting when hee thought vpon vs ere we thought vpon him and met our miserie with his mercie A grace assisting supporting our frailtie and fashioning our faith and obedience to his holy will and a grace perfecting Neuer leauing vs till hee haue made vs to appeare before his Father in perfect beautie thus saying Oh Father here am I and the Children which thou hast giuen mee and nowe pardon them because thou hast plagued mee Me me adsum qui feci in me conuertite ferrum ô Rutuli nihil iste nec ausus nec potuit It is I that haue beene made sinne for them and paide the raunsome for their deathes thou ô my GOD hast turned thy furie vpon mee I haue selte it ô turne it from them that they fall not who neither durst nor could endure my danger or drinke of my Cuppe Shall not the Iudge of all the worlde doe according to right That which thou hast punished in mee thou mayest not punish in them againe Oh my GOD heare my prayer forgiue them for they knew not what they did and forgiue them their sinnes with the punishment of their sinnes for me thy sonne and their Sauiours sake And heere seasonable to you be it spoken who are but lookers on and beholders of these wofull tragedies these are now readie to be sacrificed and to act the last and best part of their life vpon the Altar of their Crosse you stay behinde how long God hee knoweth and must endure the warres and woes of this wicked world take heede you trample not vnder your feete the blood of that couenant which these penitent sinners haue laide to their hearts and treasured vp in their dearest thoughts Nor doe you thinke that onely they are sinners vpon whom this Tower of Siloah is fallen for and if yee doe not repent yee shall likewise perish I dare not for my