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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44499	The life of faith in death, in expectation of the resurrection from the dead opened in a sermon at the funerall of the right worshipfull Mr. Thomas Slany late maior of the famous town and corporation of King-Lynn in the county of Norfolk : who deceased in the year of his maioralty, Jan. 10. 1649 / preached there by John Horn ...	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1649 (1649)	Wing H2804; ESTC R19330	35,460	36

and to uncircumcised gentile the body and generality of them not so proselyted The second is the common pro●hannesse of superficiall Christians and turners of the grace and Gospel ●f Christ into wantonness that rest in a name and notion of Christianity but deny the power of it of which sort there are every where too many The third is the sect of the Sadduces that deny the resurrection the visible coming of Christ personally again and the glorious performance of the promises at that his appearing a too too spreading generation May God make it usefull to you to leade you besides all these tocks in the true ancient Scripture-doctrine and faith formerly also attested to in the Church in England so to embrace and love the promised salvation and so to follow the steps of this good man and of other Worthies that have gone before him in the belief of and hearty love to closing with an entertainment of the Word of God that it may produce like fruits in you as in them unto death and in death that you with them also may partake of the glorious resurrection unto life and happinesse I shall have cause of much rejoicing The fountain of mercy and wisedom flow down upon you sill you with truth with peace and righteousnesse direct and blesse you and make you blessings in your places and generations So praieth Your Worships Servant to his ability J. H. Vpon the subject of this Book An INSTRUCTION and HYMN REader see here how great a mystery Lies cropped up in Christianity Strange Paradoxes h●r●'s a bush o● flame Burning yet no● consumed by the same By Coll●quintida death in the set And yet so healed that it his teth not Drink from a rock in gravell w●●●some feed In darknesse light in midst of eval good In sicknesse health the sweetest case in pain In weaknesse strength in losse the greatest gain Yea life in death and in absurdities The depth of wisdom bassling all the wise The tell how men by falling rise and how By lesing what they have they richer grow How by dishonour m●n may mount on high By being overcome have victory Here hast thou meat out of the eater here Sweet from he strong holdnesse in greatest fear A dying man sild full of life and breath Conquer'd and yet triumphing over death But whence all thu or how can these things be Shall Paradoxes be Divinity Behold here 's God with ma● Emmanuel That only word 〈…〉 d●th unspell In God is good light 〈…〉 strength case and gain In man all darknesse sickn●sse weaknesse pain Yea sorrow lesse and misery and death God fountain is of blesse jor life and breath In Christ these 〈◊〉 Behold the mystery Manhead united with the Deity Yea all those properties and consequents Of each found place in him a battell thence In him was fought while sin on righteousnesse Death on eternall life and curse on blesse Made their assault for these on him did seise Cause God to bruise his precious soul did please Death with us train could finde but small alode Though the humanity did yeeld thereto The Deity soon resoued is therefro And since our evils in that death did meet The eater yeelded meat and the strong sweet God shen'd himself in man in weaknesse strength In darknesse glortom light in shortnesse length Even length of daies and immortality Death being swallowed up in victory Of which mans nature being dispessest Is now become in him Gods endlesse rest Yea men is there the seat of blessings all As●e●ded and captivity made thrall Which treastored are in him for us from thence Blessing of every kinde God doth ●●spense Christy his ho●y Word and Spirit by which He peace and pardon in 〈◊〉 Name doth preach● By these he worketh saith and that the 〈◊〉 'Twixt us and Christ bringing to unitie With him from which doth such communion slow That he and we no longer are as two ●oyn'd in one spirit as he took our flesh So he gives us his Spirit which doth refresh And fill our hearts with joy Gods power he is Conquering death and its accomplices In us as once in Christ with whom joyn'd thus He writes his Name upon us God with us He is our life in death hope in despair Our strength in weak●sse and he doth repair Our breaches all while he doth make us see That we shall r●st and reign as well as he Oh glorious death by which our life appears Oh glorious Spirit that our hearts no bears Oh gloricus Word that doth this tidings bring Oh glorious Cha● where our heavenly King Comes riding to 〈…〉 precious Faith That such a spring and such an issue hath Oh precious Lord that bar●st to us such love Try self so to abase ●ll to remove From 〈…〉 whom it lay and would have wrought Our and esse ruine Thou to is hast brought Life yea immortall life Thou art the day That lightnest our night Thou art the way By which God comes to 〈◊〉 in he great night By which he give to 〈◊〉 his holy Spirit By which we come to him and finde his power Infusing life into us in deaths hour Th●●s art the Word on thee the Spirit is put To open eyes that blinde are and unshut The stepped ears from bondage to set free And to get over d●●th full victory Oh shew thy self to us be thou our life Fill us with peece and joy end all our strife Be thou our All open our hearts to see And fill us with●ly glory so shall we Triumph in midst of death and sing thy praise Full well assured that thou then●e wilt raise Vs up again and set us on thy Throne For evermore with God to be at one THE LIFE OF FAITH IN DEATH The Text. HEBREWS 11.13 14. All these died 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in or according to faith not having received the promises but seeing them afar off they were perswaded and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners in the earth For they that say such things manifest that they seek a Countrey THe custome of a solemn interring of the dead bodies of deceased friends and of making lamentations over them is very ancient and laudable the mention of it is as old as Abrahams time we finde it was then a custome usuall in the Eastern countries as we reade in the book of Genesis of the Patriarchs and Egyptians and surely in its original it was tessera fidei amoris a pledge and testimony both of their faith and love fidei a witnesse of their faith that they beleeved and looked for the resurrection of the body and therefore would decently bestow cost upon and interre the body amoris of their love to the deceased whose reliques therefore they so sarre honoured and whose losse or absence rather they lamented as in their presence formerly they had been delighted thus I might shew you Abraham himself the father of the faithfull Gen. 23.2 burying the Corps of his deceased Sarah and