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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00510	A sermon preached at Ashby De-la-zouch in the countie of Leicester at the funerall of the truely noble and vertuous lady Elizabeth Stanley one of the daughters and coheires of the Right Honourable Ferdinand late Earle of Derby, and late wife to Henrie Earle of Huntingdon the fifth earle of that familie. The 9. of February. Anno Dom. 1633. By I.F.	I. F., fl. 1633.; Fletcher, Joseph, 1577?-1637, attributed name.	1635 (1635)	STC 10644; ESTC S116875	15,055	48

any new sting to wound either mee or mine Thus death it selfe is dead and the dead live againe death is swallowed up and the dead are rendered up this is the hope of humaneflesh but he must be more then flesh whosoever attaineth to the end of this hope for flesh and bloud shall never inherit the kingdome of heaven As there is a flesh which shall see the salvation of God so there is a flesh which is as grasse Grasse which groweth to day and tomorow perhaps is to be cast into the fornace there to be tormented in aeterno Dei because it sinned in aeterno suo During the eternall pleasure of God because of its owne eternall pleasure it tooke in displeasing of God As there are some qui rapientur in occursum so there are some qui convertentur retrorsum Those which have turned their backes unto me and not their face those shall be turned backward They shall rise againe but it shall be for their greater depression Their bodies shall be delivered from the first death but it shall be to be delivered up unto the second death their soules and bodies shall be united but both devided from God in such manner that they shall wish the bodie had beene rather extinguished then thus united Sed ad augmentum tormenti ut hic de corpore nolens educitur itidem et illic in corpore tenetur in vitus To aggravate the vengeance as here the soule parted out of the bodie against its will so there it s held in the body against its will Marveile not at it though 〈◊〉 be de suo optomus yet he is de nostro Iustus As he is gracious by the propriety of his nature so he is iust for the necessity of the cause And it is equall and iust that if we taste of the sweetnesse of sinne against the will of God we shall taste of the bitternesse of punishment against our owne will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. It is equall if we be here subiected unto that evill one that we should hereafter be possessed of him saith that excellent Homilist Macarius If we make our bodies Prostibula and not Templa rather Temples of Chemosh and Ashtaroth then Domus patris mei they will become rather blockes of hell-fire then Pillars in the Temple and the Courtes of the house of our God Let us therefore spare our Bodies my beloved and not use them as if they were borrowed garments we must give accompts of things done in them And as the scarrs of wounds so the scarrs of sins will appeare therin after death which will be Characters of evidence plaine enough to testifie their un●●●blenesse of Glorie let us therefore here seeke to take them away by taking the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by being washed by being sanctified here Would we so rise from death that we may not sinke into the second death let us remember that Corpora nostra huic Resurrectioni per Regenerationem Spiritus inaugurantur Our bodies must be here intituled unto the Resurrection of glory by the Resurrection of Grace Nature exposeth us all dead dead in the uncircumcision of the flesh dead in the dead workes of the flesh Man who had not knowne sinne should have felt no power of death in his Bodie by sinne contracted a death even of his soule for as the soule is the life of the bodie so is grace the life of the Soule As then when the soule departeth the bodie dies so Grace having abandoned the soule the spirit it selfe is dead And how many doe we discerne everie where in whom the tokens of this death are sensibly apparent men dead in themselves onely Satan moveth in them Satan walketh in them so that they move but like prodigies like the bodies of those which Satan is said to make use of for the atcheiving of his wicked illusions St. Aug observes three sorts of dead persons whom Christ raised up unto life representing three distinct sorts of his spirituall death first the daughter of the Ruler of the Synagogue which was dead in the house resembling those that are dead-hearted senselesse of the impressions of life grace such as sit as dead in these Assemblies as if we were preaching at their funeralls Secondly The young man which was caryed out of the Gates of Natin resembling those whose hearts and hands are engaged in the outward practise of the dead workes of the flesh Thirdly Lazarus that had layen long putryfying in the grave representing those that have layen from the very wombe overwhelmed with the body of death and over-set with a cloud of ignorance insensiblenes so many dead in all these conditions and degrees do we observe every where that we have reason to wish as Ieremie did oh that our eyes were as Rivers of water that we might weepe for the dead for the slaine of our people now then oh wretched men that we are who shall deliver us from the body of this death If we be raised we must be raised by the voice and vertue of the same Christ which raised up these he that in the Gospel bad the yong man arise must by his Gospel bid the new man arise in us As we are sūmoned unto the second Resurrection by the voice of an Archangel so are we here unto this by the voice of the Angel of the covenant in the mouths of the angels of the churches the ministers here both that voice which sounded from mount Sinai and that which sounded from mount Sion have their part in the action The law startleth the Gospell awaketh quickneth us Christ sent the law by his servant as Elisha sent his staffe by which yet the dead child was not raised up till Elisha himselfe came in persō The terrors of the law quicken in us so much sence as may make us sigh for our restoration the refreshings of the gospel quickē in us so much light life as to make us se and run into the arms of our Restorer The law seemes to remove the stone from the mouth of our hearts as it was removed from the mouth of Lazarus Sepulchre but the voice of Christ in the Gospel sumoneth us to awake arise that he may give us light wherin we may be enabled to know follow him that hath visited us done so great things for us now I would that we had made such an advantage of our Attention to that powerfull voice that I might have occasiont 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after a visible evident Resurrection to loose you as Lazarus was from the bondes of the Grave or to say with the father of the prodigall loe these my sonnes were dead but now they live we were dead saith the Apostle but now we are alive in Iesus Christ now we feele the pulse of spirituall life beate in the Arteries of our faith which assureth us that our life is prepared for us of our hope which