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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08482	Lifes brevitie and deaths debility Evidently declared in a sermon preached at the funerall of that hopeful and uertuous yong gentleman Edvvard Levvkenor esquire, &c. In whose death is ended the name of that renowned family of the Lewkenors in Suffolke. By Tymothy Oldmayne minister of the Word of God at Denham in Suffolke. Our dayes on earth are as a shaddow, and there is none abiding. Also an elegy and an epitaph on the death of that worthy gentleman, by I.G. Dr. of D.	Oldmayne, Timothy.; Garnons, John, fl. 1636.	1636 (1636)	STC 18806; ESTC S120802	49,291	128

speake unto him sitting upon his glorious Tribunall Thou Almighty King and supreame iudge of the whole World Loe here I am and the children that thou hast given unto me Isa 8.18 The which doubtlesse will be a sight so full of joy that my tongue is not able to expresse the same my desire onely is that into that or the like assembly my selfe may one day come Secondly as the estate of the faithfull labourer wil then be happy so on the other side Ezek. 11.16 17 the condition of him that is an unfaithfull labourer will questionlesse prove most miserable How carefull the Elders were in former times over the soules of such as were committed to their charge may appeare by one example which may serve in stead of many of St. Iohn Clemens Alexādrinus Sozomenus the blessed Evangelist standing upon record in Ecclesiasticall stories which I will as briefly as I can relate unto you St. Iohn saith the story after the death of the Tyrant meaning as I take it Domitian returning out of the I le of Pathmos and comming to the City of Ephesus where having ordayned Elders and dispatched much other busines cōcerning the Chrcuh he commeth at length to a certaine City not farre of whose name saith the Author many at this day doe well remember where amongst divers others there assembled he espyed a certaine young man mighty in body and of a beautifull and manly countenance whom after he had earnestly beheld the blessed Apostle turning himselfe to the Bishop of the place after this manner spake unto him I doe heere saith hee in the presence of Christ and his Church commit this man unto thee to be trained up and instructed with thy greatest diligence And so immediately after the Apostle returned againe to Ephesus The Bishop receiving the young man thus committed to his charge tooke him home with him and through his extraordinary care so wrought upon him that within a short time hee was thought fit not onely to bee Baptized but to have a certaine cure in the Lords behalfe committed to him But after this the young man having obtained his former liberty fel into company againe of certaine of his olde ompanions Idle and dissolute persons that first drew him to their riotous feasts and banquets and after that to the perpetrating and committing of far greater mischiefes and wickednesse So that now he is not onely an asociate of those wretches his companions in the committing of many Murthers Robberies and other horrible out-rages but by reason of the excellency of his wit manlinesse of heart and stoutnesse of courage he is made their head and Captaine In the meane time Saint Iohn comming againe into those parts and meeting by the way with the Bishop before specified required of him the pledge which said hee in the presence of Christ and his Congregation I left in thy hands to keepe The Bishop somewhat amazed supposing hee had some money committed to his custody which he had not as yet received knew not what answer he should make unto him The which Saint Iohn perceiving The young man saith he and soule of our brother committed to your custody is the pledge that I require The Bishop understanding his meaning with teares running downe his cheekes thus replyed He is dead saith he dead unto God being now become a most wicked person a companion of theeves and villaines and haunting these mountaines and desarts hard by At the hearing whereof the blessed Apostle rending his Garments with great lamentation said unto him I have left a good keeper of my brothers soule And thereupon desiring instantly a horse and a guide rod directly to the place where this damned crue haunted where being presently taken by some of that company hee earnestly requested of them to bee brought unto their Captaine who comming to him armed as he was at the first beganne to look fiercely on him but immediately comming to the knowledge who hee was as a man wholy confounded began to flye and run from him But the old man followed him as fast as he might forgetting his age and crying My Sonne why dost thou flye from thy Father an armed man from one without weapon a young man from an old man Have pitty on mee my sonne and feare not for there is yet hope of salvation I will make an answere for thee unto Christ I will dye for thee if neede be as Christ hath dyed I will give my life for thee Beleeve mee Christ hath sent mee The yong man as one amazed first stood still and then casting downe his weapons trembling and bitterly weeeping imbraced the old man being baptized afresh againe through aboundance of teares running downe his manly cheekes whom after the Apostle had upon his knees fervently prayed for he brought back unto the Congregation to which after some time of humiliation and dayly fastings he was happily at length restored The story is too long for me to comment upon let him that hath an eare harken what venerable antiquity speaketh I come now to the second thing to be considered in my Text namely the manner of their resurrection the which is described by the blessed Spirit as we heard to be 1. Very Beautifull 2. Exceeding joyfull And first beautifull in these words With my body shall they arise The which standing as they doe in the originall carrie with them a doubtfull construction which maketh Interpreters somwhat to vary in their translations For that which some translate With my dead body shall they arise others turne My dead bodies or my dead body shall arise The matter is not great in in which sence the words bee taken since they are so neere a kinne and carry with them severall conclusions full of Divine truth and sweete consolation First then if we take the word as the ordinary translation hath them and read them thus With my dead body shall they arise Then must we take the Son of God in the same comforting of his Church together with the severall members thereof with an assured hope of a most glorious resurrection So that however the brutish and ungodly as hee fell Num. 24.21 1 Cor. 10. so hee shall arise and having his bones full of the sinnes of his youth which Iob 20.11 Iob. 20.11 lay downe with him in the dust shall come forth under the Tyranicall command of the second death the resurrection of condemnation yet the servant of God Dan. 12.2 the true sonne of the resurrection Iohn the fift Iohn 5.2 verse the second However his body was sowne in weaknesse yet shall it rise againe in power and putting off the rotten ragges and patched mantle of corruption 1 Cor 15.47 shal be richly cloathed and apparelled with the pure and pretious garments of salvation Isa 61.7 In affirming therefore that those dead bodies shall arise with his glorious body he intimateth thus much That when that day of refreshing shal come from the presence of the