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A28823	The triumph of faith over death, or, The just man's memoriall compris'd in a panegyrick and sermon, at the funerall of the religious, most learned Dr. Combar, late master of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, and deane of Carlile / delivered in Trinity Colledge chappel, by R.B. ... the 29. of March, 1653.	R. B. (Robert Boreman), d. 1675.	1654 (1654)	Wing B3762; ESTC R17491	31,312	50

nobis spiritus De● efficit c. Berv. Ep. 107 Spirit that he is reconciled to God that God is his Friend his Sinnes which God hates and which makes him an enemy being pardoned whence his person is justified and God is more delighted with him because he beholds him in his Sonne Christ Jesus as cloathed with his Righteousnesse than displeased with his sinnes and daily infirmities There is more good in Christ for a godly man than there is evill in sinne against him and God would not have left this Jebusite in the Land I meane sinne in the Soule of a righteous man if notwithstanding that he could not have loved him Chamier 1 John 4.19 God loaths the sinne whilest he loves the person Et qui certus est Charitatis Dei erga se idem certus est salutis suae We love him because he loved us first Our love to God is but a reflex beame darted into our Soules from that Eternall Sonne of Love which burnes hot without wasting or the least Diminution The second worke of the Spirit as Lord in us is opus supprimens to suppresse all bad motions to sinne arising either from the corruption of our natures from the World without or the Devill about us and withall to stirre up good affections and motions to Piety and godlinesse amongst which inward motions the most principall are these First an utter dislike of sinne as sinne for that our good God is thereby displeased and offended Secondly an hungring and thirsting after Grace an eager desire above all things in the World to be at unity with God in Christ and to be reconciled unto him when we have provoked him by any hainous sin c. The third worke of the Holy Ghost in us is opus vivificans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. In Symb. Oriental Eccles. apud Epiph. ad finem Anchorati a quickning or enlivening worke It is the Spirit that quickneth Iohn 6.63 As in the first Creation God Created Light before there was life in the Creature to bring forth and multiply Gen. 1.3.14.20.24 So in our Regeneration which is a new Creation Psal 51.10 there is ever a Principle of Light infused into the Soule before we can have life or be quickned in the exercise or doing of good That spirituall light is a clear and full perswasion of Gods love to us in Christ that He is our Father and we his Children that Christ is our Saviour c. Such a strong Faith is the Adamant that nothing will breake the Palme that sinks not under the most weighty burden The Oyle that ever swimmes above the Water be this poured in never so great quantity upon it It is such a powerfull Chimist that turnes Death into Life Sorrow into joy makes riches of Poverty nay all things of nothing 2 Cor. 6.10 as having nothing yet possessing all things Lastly it turnes cold feares into warme hopes sighs and groans into triumphant and joyfull songs trembling into leaping and clapping of hands witnesse Paul and Silas in the stocks witnesse too Acts 16.25 that renownd for undanted constancy Dr. Taylor of Hadley who when he came within two miles of the place where he was executed fetched a leape or two and withall said Now lack I but two stiles and I am even at my Fathers House he meant Heaven witnesse likewise that famous Hawkes in the booke of Martyrs who being desired to give a signe whether the Fire was tolerable to be borne promised it to his friends and after all expectation was past he lift up his hands halfe burned and being on a light Fire with great rejoycing strook them three times together Whence all this from what spring were derived all these streames of strength and comfort but from a lively Faith in Christ the fruit and effect of Gods Spirit and the cause of a lively Hope of happinesse which Hope is the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril Root and Seminary of good workes and the Mother of Patience In a word it is this wonder-working Faith that quickens and revives us first in Adversity Secondly in Death Thirdly in Duty First in Adversitie Let whole troopes of trouble let Sicknesse or Poverty c. seize upon or lay seige to a righteous Soule armed with a strong affiance in the Lord Jesus it defies this Host this tormenting Regiment of Sinne and Satan it sees * Cant. 2.9 Christ behind this Mud-wall and beholds a Saviour under this † Fides larvam detrabit Christo Aug. Vizard it discernes a mercifull hand through this black Cloud the hand of a wise God and indulgent Father the Heart of a tenderly loving elder Brother who knowing the mold whereof we be made doth exactly measure out every crosse unto us and will not loade us above the strength of our weake natures whose Foundation is frailty our composition dust and ashes Therefore a faithfull Soule having an Eye to this gentle Hand he solaces himselfe with this perswasion from that Principle his Faith extracts this infallible conclusion that this trouble or crosse is not the Axe of perdition but the pruning Knife of correction that God hath given a more strict charge to the army of afflictions 2 Sam 18.5 than Davids was to Ioab and his followers Doe the young man no harme doe mine anointed no hurt c. Nay he is assured not onely of the Negative but also of the Affirmative that is not onely of this that his crosse or affliction shall not hurt him ●quin but also doe him much good Hee knowes that affliction is Gods Physick Medicina animae and so it is sanativa mali praeteriti praeservativa à malo conservativa in bono it is administred to us by our heavenly Physitian to cure us of our sinnes past by driving us to repentance to prevent sinnes to come by begetting in us humility and a carefull watchfulnesse over our wayes And lastly to preserve and keepe us in well-doing whilst God denies a man health and riches which He knowes would be to him the f●mes of sinne and wickednesse upon these considerations a faithfull Soule rejoyces in the crosse and triumphs in his afflictions which he entertaines with joy and embraces with thankfulnesse knowing that comfort is laid up and hid for him though for the present it be hid from him light is sown for the Righteous and that as the crosse came from Heaven Psal 97.11 so it will carry us thither upon the back or rather merits of our crucified Lord Iesus Secondly as in Adversity so in Death it selfe Faith hath a quickning vertue to support us in our encounter with that Giant with that great Goliah who defies all the Host of Infidells holds them in bondage all the dayes of their lives and makes their whole life no better than a living Death Onely Faith encounters with this Giant and grapples with him as a vanquished underling insulting over him as much as he doth over the

to attaine unto it which is by faith in Christs satisfaction made to his Fathers Justice by his obedience to the Law for us c. Secondly the Holy Ghost resides in the two other upper roomes the will and memory The former of which is inhabited by this Spirit of Grace when it is so subjected to the Divine Will so drown'd as I may so say in that great Ocean that a man can say with a contented Spirit as our Saviour did Non mea voluntas Mat. 26.39 Venit dolor meus veniet requies me venit tribulatio mea veniet purgatio mea Aug in Ps 61. Lord not my will but thy will be done Of this temper was he in Vincentius who used to say that Deus nihil faciebat nisi quod ipse volebat quia ipse volebat quod Deus faciebat that God did nothing but what he willed for he willed nothing but what God did The will of the Lord be done Thirdly in the memory which is sanctified by the Holy Ghost when it hath an aptnesse to retaine good things when it is not like to the Saccus faecinaceus the Drugstars Bagge which lets out the pure liquour and keeps in the Druggs but like the sive or fanne that lets out the chaffe and reserves the Corne such was the memory of the blessed Virgin Luke 2.19 where it is said of her that shee laid up in her heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 kept close the things that were related to her from the Angels by the Shepheards concerning her Sonne and our Lord Jesus Whose memories are sanctified they will retaine more of a Sermon than a Song more of a Chapter read than a tale or story heard c. Fourthly there be lower roomes in the Soule they are the Affections and Appetites The Holy Ghost beares rule in these two when the Soule is truly sanctified when we love and desire nothing but God and goodnesse when we hate and shun nothing more than sinne and ungodlinesse and whatsoever is opposite to Grace when we take delight in the service of God and company of good men as David did and greive for nothing more than sinne Psal 16.3 for that thereby God is displeased and dishonoured when our Hope is set upon God so that we can say with that holy Prophet Psal 39. Psal 39.8 Truly my hope is even in thee when we despaire of nothing but our own worth or merit as availing nought to our salvation when we feare nothing but Gods displeasure or the losse of his love and favour when we are as bold as Lyons being engaged in Gods Cause and when wee are angry most with our selves for offending our good God and with others because they anger and provoke him whom they likewise dishonour by sinne when our affections are thus sanctified thus set upon good objects thus in tune thus tempered thus qualified they may be said to be the receptacles of Gods holy Spirit And so may the appetite be when our desires in meate and drinke are so ordered as holy Austines were Confes l. 10. c. 31. Hoc me docuisti ut quemadmodum medicamenta sic alimenia sumpturus accedam c 3. Part. who as he confesses of himselfe ever used his meat as Physick when too the desires of apparell or riches are so tempered and regulated that these three vertues Sobriety Contentation and Chastity shine in our actions and in the whole course of our lives we may inferre upon these and the former grounds that we are possessed by the Spirit of Grace that He dwells in us which in the Third place denotes Stabilitatem Domini His continuance or constant abode in us For the gifts and calling of God are without Repentance Rom. 11 29. If once truly sanctified thou shalt be surely saved whom I love I love unto the end The Saints are said 1 Pet. 1.5 John 13.1 To be kept by the Power of God through faith unto salvation It is the strength and power of grace fetched from Heaven by Faith in Christ that keepes a man from falling away and makes him hold out his race with perseverance which is not opposed to our falling into sinne through weaknesse and infirmity but to our lying downe and continuing in sinne as likewise to ones falling away by a totall and finall Apostacy Defecit Petro confessio in ore sed non fides in corde Aug. Dan. 4.15 In all the declinings and failings of the faithfull there is still left in their Soules a root of Grace Although the Devill cut off the boughes and lop off the branches by some strong temptation yet so long as the root like the stumpe in Nebuchadnezzars Vision is fast bound with Iron i. e. preserved by Gods Power it will budde and sprout out againe when after the Winter of temptation the Soule is refresh'd with the Spring of Consolation It is a good rule of the Schooles Fides quoad actum secundum amittatur nunquam ' tamen amittitur quoad habitum actum primum quo apprehendit Christum And this rule puts me in minde of my promise in my premised method which was after the generall explanation of the termes or phrase in my Text to prescribe unto you some speciall rules whereby you may collect or conclude that you are inhabited by the Spirit 1 Cor. 3 16. 1 Cor. 3. Know yee not that yee are the Temples of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you It is a thing then that may be known and I shall rest for this discovery in the judgement of St. Augustine If any one sayes he desires to be assured that his soule is the habitation of the Holy Spirit Let him seriously consider Aug. de Tempore Quâ humilitate repugnat superbiae First whether humility which is a vile or meane esteeme of ones selfe has driven all kind of pride which is an inordinate desire of excellency out of his heart Secondly let him examine and make a speciall inquiry into himselfe whether benevolence or a well-wishing affection has suppressed in his breast all envy and malice Quâ benevolentiâ obluctetur Invidiae Thirdly let him consider and inquire quam non capiatur adulantium linguis quamque bonis delectetur alienis linguis An pro malo non cupiat malum reddere malitque multas oblivisci injurias quàm imaginem similitudinem Conditoris sui amittere qui pluit super justos injustos c. i. e. whether he be not delighted and taken with the airy and empty sounds of flattering tongues Fourthly whether he delights in the welfare of his brethren so that anothers prosperity is a feast to his thoughts Fifthly whether he hath not a revengefull spirit and had rather forget many injuries than by revenging himselfe on his enemies lose the Image of or make himselfe unlike to his Heavenly Father Mat. 5.44 45. who sendeth Raine upon the just and unjust who hath likewise said in his word Vengeance is mine

c. Sixthly Ipsam demum Charitatem omnium virtutum matrem inquirat Let him by a strict scrutiny and narrow search enquire into his breast and see whether that be the seat of Charity the mother of all Vertues and if he finds there the love of God and his Neighbour so rooted and settled that he could be willing to die and is ready to do any thing for God and stands in this frame and posture of mind toward man that he doth to others what he would have done to himself being of a mercifull disposition and bountifull Spirit Quisquis est hujusmodi Deum Rectorem Habitatorem esse non dubitet whosoever he be that is of this heavenly temper he may assure his Soule that it is the mansion or habitacle of God his Maker Orat. 44. I might adde to these three other markes out of Nazianzen in one of his orations where he ascribes three speciall operations to the spirit of grace 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A purifying An enflaming An elevating work or operation They whose soules are purified from fleshly lusts and worldly desires They who are zealous in Gods cause 1 Pet. 1.22 1 John 3.3 Tit. 2.4 and zealous of good works They whose soules are not only like unto fire but heat of zeal which enflames them and love to God but like fire too in that they are ever soaring and mounting upwards upon the wings of Prayer and Meditation upon the wing of contempt of things here below The Spirit of God Psal 143.5 6. Psal 119.48 Col. 3 2. that descended upon the Apostles in the likenesse of fire dwells in such Souls and at the great day the great God that rais'd up Jesus from the dead will raise up their bodies by virtue of that powerfull 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Holy Spirit of grace This is the position a comfortable Thesis the second generall part of my Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he shall quicken c. i. e. Resuscitabit ad vitam immortalem beatam exemplo Christi capitis primogeniti mortuorum Estius ad Generall part He shall raise them to life and glory that with Christ their head and Saviour in Heaven they may be for ever happy This is the fructus inhabitantis Spiritus the blessed fruit or effect of the spirits dwelling in us which is the first particular of the last generall part of my Text which is also seconded with another and that is per quem accrescit nobis fructus by whom this happinesse of being rais'd to life eternall is derived unto us This is effected by the H. Spirit by the spirit immediatly whose instrumentall action is used by the Father and Son who likewise co-operate and concur though mediatè in this great and glorious worke of the Resurrection as is evident by the Text John 5.28 and the 5. of St. Iohn where our Saviour speaking of himselfe sayes The houre is comming in the which all that are in the Graves shall heare his voyce c. To wave all other doubts and doctrines concerning the Resurrection wherein I might enlarge my meditations I shall close all with some few short Uses by way of Application Use 1 First this Text methinks speakes to every man as Dalilah did once to Sampson Iud. 16.9 Vp for the Philistines are upon thee c. Thou hast a mortall body death is at the doore O therefore thou mud-wall of frailty be not proud whilst the Sun-shine of prosperity reflects upon thee one blast of death by a sicknesse his harbenger may blow thee into thy first dust and tumble thee with thy unrepented sins into hell one glimpse whereof in the judgement of Bellarmine were enough to make a man from a dissolute one turn Monk or which I say is better a strict Christian Think of your houses of clay your 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 your mortall bodies and you cannot you will not be proud or covetous Use 2 Luke 2 10. Againe methinkes this Text sounds in my delighted eare that joyfull message of the Angel to the Shepheards Fear not death O mortalls for I bring you good tidings of great joy although your bodies be crumbled into dust yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that raisd up Christ from the dead shall quicken and restore them unto life Therefore grieve not much for a friend deceased that lived in the feare of God and died in the armes of his mercy as Moses and this our deceas'd friend a second Moses did Grieve not for him who is passed from a Sea of troubles to an Haven of everlasting rest 1 Cor. 6 17. But rejoyce in this that God is your Father and Christ your Saviour that you are made one with Him by his Spirit and that by meanes of this happy union you have a communion in his merit in all the benefits of his Death and Passion whereby you are made partakers of Grace here and shall be of Glory hereafter Use 3 Againe when we read mortall this should minde us of our fraile condition that we carry corruption in our bosomes and death in our bodies as well as in our names 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 methim in the Iewes language signifies men both living dead O therefore seeing death watches for us let us watch and waite for death as holy Job did All the dayes of my appointed time will I waite Job 14.14 till my change come Wait Jugiter orando Poenitendo Benefaciendo By being frequent in prayer Pray continually 1 Thess 5 17. By repenting daily of your sins it is Repentance that turnes death into life and drives out his venome which is sin makes it a drone that it cannot hurt Thirdly waite for it by being much in duty and in the works of Charity Then mayst thou say with greater security then that heathen Phylosopher did Epictetus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let death surprise me so speaking and so doing c. Fourthly if mortall then so because of sin which stings our bodies Use 4 unto death O then expell and hate this bosom enemy let our hatred be implacable without reconciliation constant without intermission and generall without permission of our selves to live in any the least unrepented sin † Non nisi corpus condignum habero potest caput Christum Aug. Mat. 9.11 How can a dead body accord with a living head Thou deceivest thy self O man who being a rotten nominall Christian yet pretendest to be in Christ who is a sound Physitian who came to heale sin not to harbour sinners We read that he went in to sinners conversed with Publicans but sinners shall not go in to Him never be admitted into his glorious Presence I meane such sinners that delight in uncleannesse and are unwash'd from their habituall actuall pollutions Oh therefore wash ye make you clean Is 1.16 for why will ye die venture upon damnation The