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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44069	A cordiall against the feare of death delivered in a sermon before the Vniversity of Oxford May 28, 1654 / by Thomas Hodges.	Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing H2318; ESTC R27407	21,172	40

Christ and the holy Angels and all the company of heaven and though our body and soul part yet the mysticall union betwixt us and Christ the Head continues firme and indissoluble and we are still members of his body that death is a sleep after our labour and travell here and who feares to put off his clothes to goe to sleep in his bed that Christ our Lord dyed to free us from the slavish feare of death I say if we consider all these things we shall not need to be alway way in bondage through feare of death Though death was odious and accounted an enemy to the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hesio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods of the Heathen yet it hath been welcomed and entertained as a friend by godly Christians I have heard or read of a godly man who rejoyced exceedingly when he saw the plague spots upon his arme looking on them as certain signes of his approching dissolution and of a gracious Gentlewoman who being told by a friend that her change probably was not far off brake out after such a manner saying Now blesse the Lord O my soul and all that is within me blesse His Holy Name I would not goe back again for a world or to the like effect And 4ly that we may not feare the approach of Death le ts prepare and provide daily for his comming put on the whole armour of God especially the shield of Faith and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God Cant. 4.4 this is like the Armory of Solomon wherein hung a thousand shields even the shields of the mighty Keep close to our Captaine Christ who leads us and loves us and laid down his life for us and ever lives in heaven to make intercession for us through him we shall doe valiantly through him we shall tread down our enemies and be more then Conquerors over Sin Death and the Divel Le ts take heed of every Sin get and grow in and act as we have opportunity every grace labour to be abundantly fruitfull in every good thought word and worke and be sure to be found upon our watch and upon our guard when death comes And now Sir to return unto you having never preached to you from the Pulpit accept I pray this Sermon from the Presse You who feare God do not you feare Death Let not such a man as you seek to flee but rather stand in your tent door ready to meet him when he comes To this end be rich in Faith and rich in good Works let your own eyes be your Overseers and your own hands in some good measure your Executors Be eyes to the blind feet to the lame deale your bread to the hungry cloath the naked shew your faith by your works Thus whilst others may be compared to Dives or to the rich fool in the Gospell we shall behold you as the wise Merchant in the Parable who though you have indeed a great portion in the things of the world yet are not contented to have the world for your portion and though you have had your share of the treasures hid in the sands yet not satisfied therewith lay up for your selfe treasures in Heaven Thus returning you hearty thanks for the favours and respects you have been pleased to doe me hoping since you are reputed a lover of Ministers you will give a Minister leave still to love and honour you I shall conclude praying for you that when you shall have served your Generation according to the will of God and fall asleepe your soule may be received up into Heaven and your body rest in the Lord so that when you shall awake in the morning of the resurrection and your body and soule be reunited you may be still and ever with the Lord which is best of all Sir This is and shall be the Prayer of your Humble Servant in the Gospell of Christ THOMAS HODGES Souldern Decemb. 23. 1658. Heb 2.15 And deliver them who through feare of Death were all their life time subject to bondage IN this and the verse immediately foregoing we have a rationall account of the Incarnation of the Son of the God why it was expedient that the Messiah should be Emanuel the Word should be made Flesh wherefore the Son of God should become the Son of Man an everliving and all-quickening Spirit partake of flesh and blood like unto us his brethren onely without sin i. e. be of a nature passible and mortall or obnoxious to sufferings and Death namely it was for these two ends 1. That by his death he might destroy our great enemy there named the Divel and described to be him that had the power of Death And 2ly That he might deliver us his own brethren and friends out of the hands of this cruel tyrant and out of the mouth of this roaring Lyon of whom by reason of our sins we either were or had just cause to be all our life time afraid lest we should by him be punished both with temporall and eternall Death There are three observations which I desire to speak to and which I suppose contain the very marrow of these words 1. That t is a grievous bondage to be all our life time in continuall feare of Death 2. Unbelievers or those who are out of Christ either are or have just cause to be through feare of Death all their life time subject unto bondage 3. Believers or they who have part in Christ and they onely are delivered and freed by his death from this intollerable bondage Of the 1. I shall proceed by these steps 1. To shew that feare is a bondage 2. That to fear all on s life time aggravates the bondage 3. That to feare Death all our life time consummates the bondage 1. Feare is a passion which speaks a man a servant t is the badge and cognizance of a Servant whereas Love is the principle and character of a Child to feare our Lords or our Masters anger is servile servile est ac servum arguit saith Rolloc in loc And t is very observable that Rom. 8.15 the spirit of fear is cal'd a Spirit of bondage but the spirit of Adoption or the spirit of Sons is in the Scripture cal'd a spirit of love and distinguished from that spirit of feare or that principle of fear whereby servants commonly do act or are acted rather 2 Tim. 1.7 Feare hath torment sayth the Holy Ghost 1 Joh. 4.18 This foul fiend this torturing Affection was worshipped by the Lacedemonians as a God I suppose for the same cause that the Romans and Indians worshipped the Divel viz. that it should not torment them And truely they say Fear was commonly adored and painted in their Temples with a Lyons head and so very terrible not unlike the Devill that roaring Lyon who goeth about continually seeking whom he may devoure and truly if it be not like the Devill yet some have said Cardan that feare