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A95353	Thanatoktasia. Or, Death disarmed: and the grave swallowed up in victory. A sermon preached at St. Maries in Cambridge, Decemb. 22. 1653. At the publick funerals of Dr. Hill, late Master of Trinity Colledge in that University. With a short account of his life and death. To which are added two sermons more upon the same text, preached afterward in the same place. / By Anthony Tuckney, D.D. Master of St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge.	Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.	1654 (1654)	Wing T3218; Thomason E1523_2	63,890	147

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euripid the Scripture of truth I am sure saith of all such that through fear of death they are all their life time subject to bondage Heb. 2. 15. And if life as you use to say be sweet it can be no lesse then the bitternesse of death 1 Sam. 15. 32. How bitter is the bare Ecclus. 41. 1. remembrance of it to him that is at ease but the approach of it was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bitter bitterness as the case was then with him even to an Hezekiah Isa 38. 17. and if the message of it made him weep v. 3. then 1 Sam. 28. 20. wonder not if Saul at it swooned quite away It is a bitter sting that with the So Socrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apud Justin Mart. ad Graeces adhortat 1. prick of it letteth out the life-blood of the dying man if when it taketh away from him this life he hath no assurance of a better but dieth with Aristotles word in his mouth dubius morior quo vadam nescio be he never so wise a Philosopher or Adrians quos nunc abibis in locos should he be with him never so great an Emperor It is not death as death that even the godly desire or rejoice in for in that sense Paul would not be 2 Cor. 5. 4. Joh. 21. 18. unclothed and Peter is said in that respect to be carried whither he would not It is some greater good which God vouchsafeth to such at death and after it which whilest others then want and have no assurance of it must needs be a dolorous and deadly sting that thus first letteth out their dearest life 2. And therewith which is a second stinging wound all the comforts of life Which should they abide yet the man is gone whose very soul was wrapt up in them but now hath no benefit by them and then the stateliest room though never so richly hung and furnished is but a sad sight where's nothing else to be seen but the dead master in his coffin in the midst of it All dearest Relations are at once then snapt asunder The pleasantest childe now half fatherlesse turn's away his face as not being able to endure to see a dear Father die The dearest wife which was before the desire of thine eyes thou now Ezek. 24. 16. 21. Gen. 23. 4. desirest with Abraham to have buried out of thy sight Thy most loving friends may then stand by and weep over thee but cannot help thee and at last with a longum vale bid thee good night and so part and doth not this ●uth 1. 17 sting As for Honors and outward greatness 1 Sam. 4. 10. Phinehas his wife now dying calleth them Ichabod this sting prick's that swoln bladder and so his breath goe's forth and then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all his thoughts all his goodly glistering thoughts as that Psal 146. 4 word seemeth to signifie perish Which words hold not forth a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Pope John the 22. would gather out of them as though after death his soul should sleep and think of nothing but to expresse that all his former great high thoughts in his life time then at death come to nothing For pleasures and former facetious and jovial merriments old Barzillaies 2 Sam. 19. 35. eyes grow dim in that evening when he was but now entred within the shadow of death but are quite closed up in this midnight in old Eccles 12. 5. age desire faileth but in death it is wholly extinct Death if nothing do it before will break many a knot of good fellows then adieu sworn fellow-drunkard well if you and I can now come to a good reckoning and adieu also you sweet Mistress and all that dalliance you wot of till you and I stand before our Judg and all that be brought to light which was done by us in secret And adieu to you too my more innocent merry companion nec ut soles dabis jocos the whole club of wits are now all amort and not one Jest more for now that God and Death are in good earnest it is past Jesting past Drinking Whoring yea rejoicing in wife or children or friends Or Riches which should they as with some Nations they are be buried with thee yet in that day of Prov. 11. 4 wrath they will not be able to profit thee for if in thy life time they do not as often they doe make themselves Prov. 23. 5 wings and flee away from thee yet in death thou wilt be taken from them thy close fist will be then open and all that dust which before thou gripedst in thy hand will then See Shickard in his Jus Regiū cap. 6. Luke 12. 20. run through thy fingers and then thou fool whose shall all these things be Blessed Hezekiah who in this case could say of Gods Word and Promises and Providences In these things is the life of my spirit but Isa 38. 16. the very spirit of the worldlings life is wrapt up in this bundle of outward contentments so that if that threed be once cut and so all these be scattered and lost then as Micah said What have I more the man is Judg. 18. ●4 utterly undone and to whom in time of his life it was death to part with a penny it will be an hell at death to part with all as it was once said by one to a great Lord upon his shewing him his stately house and pleasant Gardens Sir You had need make sure of Heaven or else when you die you will be a very great loser Nor is this all for were it onely the losse of life and outward comforts of it that sting death fastneth even in the heirs of life 3. Thirdly therefore there is a deeper sting in it which the godly are freed from of which we read in the following Verse in these words The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law ie sin Rom. 5. 12. Puncturâ peccati morimur P. Martyr armeth death with its sting which otherwise could never have had power to hurt or touch us whatever the Socinian saith to the contrary and the law now broken doth ex accidente irritate and per se declare and manifest and aggravate sin and so giveth it its strength and death its warrant thus to arrest and execute us and hinc illae lachrymae hence is the deepest sting of death and deadliest groan of the dying sinner for that with death the weight both of sin and the law fall on him together which presseth him yet lower and woundeth him deeper even to the soul and conscience whilest he is hereby made sensible that his death is the wages of his sin so that he dieth not as a Rom. 6. 23 Martyr or barely as a Man but as a Malefactor under the guilt of sin and sense of Gods wrath and if there was a

Rom. 6. 14. From the beeing and inexistence of sin at death Heb. 12. 23. And from death it self which is left last as least hurtful at the resurrection 1 Cor. 15. 26. 54. and it is abundantly enough for our comfort that if not in this life yet at death or to be sure at that last day we shall have the full 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and perfect accomplishment of this great work when Christs rescue of us shall be compleat and death our last enemy shall be wholly and for ever swallowed up in victory And this is the first Negative Death hath not lost its sting so as that believers should never die 2. Nor so neither that at their death they should never feel any kind of smart and pain by the sting of it Isa 38. 3. You heard that Hezekiah then wept sore and you read partly how poor and partly what desperate shifts even Abraham Gen. 12. 12 13. 20. 2. 11. and David 1 Sam. 21. 12 13. and Peter Matth. 26. 70. 72. 74. three of the Scriptures greatest worthies the first famous for faith the second for valour the third for boldnesse in the cause of Christ were driven to through fear of it and sad instances of latter times have shown that when many secure obdurate sinners have died as you use to say like lambs some of the true sheep of Christs pasture have been then half worried by this evening wolf in such evenings these frogs of the insernal pit oft croak aloud and Belzebubs flies then swarm apace Satan when now to be cast out teareth most in Israels Mar. 2. 26. Exod. 14. 5 6 7 c. Exodus or out-gate from Egypt Pharaoh pursueth with all his Charets because if then once gone they will be out of his reach for ever the Devil cometh down with greatest wrath Rev. 12. 12. Deut. 25. 17. 18. because then he hath least time and when Israel is weak Amalek must fall on the Rear and do something now or never And hence it hath been that possibly you may have over-heard some dying Saints groans to have been very deep and seen their death-beds as Davids Couch watred and swimming with tears Especially Psal 6. 6. if Either guilt of sin be then charged on the conscience as not pardoned Or some defilement of sinne then discovered and aggravated if our faith then stumble our hearts will sink and fall and be much bruised against the gates of death a body of Rom. 7. 24 death will then lie very heavy on the weak sick man now hasting to his bodily death and that sin which so defile's him that he cannot with freedome and serenity of spirit at other times appear before God in duty will more abash him when now he is to appear before him in death to receive his doom And thus far for the Negative death hath not lost its sting but partly doth and partly may retain it as to true believers 2. But for the Affirmative so as that in this life at death and at the resurrection they may with Paul in the Text ask where is it For In the General it is but this outward life that death can seise on as our Saviour said of other enemies so may we of this our last enemy it can kill onely the body and after that hath Lu. 12. 4. nothing more that it can doe Obj. Or if you say that it was before granted that it can and sometimes doth sting their souls also Answ All I answer is that thanks be to God yet it is not mortally for on such the second death hath no power Rev. 20. 6. and then if they escape that second death this first to them is but Larva mortis as he calls it but a grim vizard of death in the Scripture account is reckoned for no death indeed for whosoever believeth in me saith our Saviour Iohn 11. 26. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall not die for ever so in the Original which our last Translators not unfitly but as the Greek phrase will bear read it shall never die if not for ever faith construeth it never though I die temporally yet Scripture calleth it a sleep rather then death if I doe not die eternally This in the general But more particularly this sting of death is taken away from believers 1. In this life partly in justification and partly in sanctification for the Apostle in the words following the Text telleth us that the sting of death is sin and sin sting's us both in its terrifying condemning guilt binding over to punishment and in its enslaving power and pollution 1. Now the first wee are freed from in our justification there is then peace Rom. 5. 1. and no condemnation Rom. 8. 1. we are passed from death unto life 1 Iohn 3. 14. the destroying Angel passeth over and strike's not when the door-posts and lintel are first struck with the blood Exod. 12. 12 13. Luk. 2 29 30. of the Paschal Lamb. And how chearfully then doth old Simeon sing his Nunc dimittis when he hath got his Saviour in his arms and his eyes have seen Gods salvation There is no sting of death that he complaineth of the kisses of Christs mouth have sucked that out from a justified Believer and then although the shadow of death should sit on my eye-lids as they did on Iobs yet if Job 16. 16. I can but then discover the eye-lids of the morning but the first and least Job 41. 18. out-lookings of Heaven upon my soul in pardon and peace especially if broad day light and the more glorious shine of the Sunne Mal. 4. 2. of righteousnesse how painful soever deaths sting might otherwise have been my Phoebus is my Physitian so that there will be full healing under his wings and O death where is then thy sting 2. And as for the defiling pollution and enthralling power of sinne though it bee as painfull as the very guilt of it is as a prick in the flesh sting's deep and prick's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 12. 7. the very heart Acts 2. 37. yet a Believer in this life hath an healing plaister for this wound also from the spirit of grace in his sanctification and how quickly doth a clean wound heal with how little pain doth a formerly well-ordered body die and with how much lesse doth a soul not Philosophically purged but spiritually sanctified depart from this earthly tabernacle which is so subject to be foul and the very sweeping raiseth a dust our repentings not being without new defilings Death is not dolorous when my death and my sin do not meet but so part that when the one cometh the other is gone for ever and how doth the undefiled Dove which had before lien among the pots then shine and glister when now in her flight to Heaven the Sunne of righteousnesse shines on her wings which are covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold That I

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Theophylact upon the Text. He endured the conflict and in and by him gained the victory or as Chrysostome expresseth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ille pugna●● sustinuit nos coronis triumphis suis ornavit P. Martyr Rev. 4. 10 11. Ezek. 21. 26 27. He got the victory and let us wear the Crown But shall not then humble and thankful ingenuity cast down our Crowns at his feet or rather set them on his head whose right it is and say thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory and honour and power for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created all is by him and from him and therefore let the praise of all be to him for ever It was 1. His death which gave death its deadly wound and by death be destroyed him who had the power of death Heb. ● 14. which is the Devil And this As most gloriously whilest thus in his greatest weaknesse he foileth Satan in his greatest strength vincit dum 2 Cor. 13. 4 vincitur when as a weak man he is overcome of death as the mighty Almighty God hee overcometh both death and him that had the power of it and on the very Crosse made a shew Coloss 2. 15. Musculus Rom. 6. 23. of him openly when he himself was there made a spectacle So most justly for seeing death is the wages onely of sinne he most righteously forfeited that his power and authority by inflicting death on him who 2 Cor 5. 21 knew no sin and thus Jeroboams arm 1 Kin. 13. 4 In Epitaph Nepot Vt Hydrus Crocodilum interficit P. Dammian li. 2. ep 18. Dentes infringes in nimis solido concoquere non poteris sed sicut Danielis bolo Babylonius draco eruciaberis crepabis Del Rio Adagial pag. 250. drieth up when stretched out to lay hold on Gods Prophet and the waspish angry Bee fastening her sting where shee should not hath lost both it and her life together This made Hierom insult over death illius morte tu mortua es devorasti de●orata es but withall he blesseth Christ for it Gratias tibi Christe Salvator quod tam potentem adversarium nostrum dum occideris occidisti its most just that death should die for seising on the Lord of Life who never deserved it and although we did yet just too that we should be delivered seeing our Surety hath satisfied And thus our blessed Redeemer by being lifted up on the Crosse fought with these our enemies from the higher ground and so mortally wounded their head and that spear which pierced his heart brake this string which else would have wounded ours in hoc sign● vinces so that however other Souldiers are wont to be dismaied at the death of their Captains yet we are delivered and so animated by the death of ours his death is our life therefore let him have that praise which he purchased at so dear a price 2. His Resurrection is both the cause and pledge of ours 1 Cor. 15. 20 21. hath a speciall influence into our justification Rom. 4. 25. 8. 34. affording faith by which we are justified Rom. 5. 1. a sure handhold in that it clearly manifesteth that he had paid the debt when the prisoner was set free satisfied Gods Justice when the arrest of death was taken off and then O death where i● thy sting and by opening his own grave had done as much for ours and then O grave Ezek. 37. 12. where is thy victory 3. The imputation of his sufferings death and unrighteousnesse is that which in our justification takes off Gods revenging wrath and the condemning guilt of sin which our Apostle saith is the sting of death and so he saveth us from going down into the pit or at least bringeth us up out of it because he hath found a ransome Job 33. 24. 4. It is the grace of his Spirit by which we are enabled to mortifie the the deeds and lusts of the flesh Rom. 8. 13. which was another sting of sin and so of death which the finger of the Spirit of Christ only take's out It is not our strongest purposes or resolutions that will be able to over-master these enemies a foul sore til it be indeed healed will run though we say it shall not Nor will the Heathens and Philosophers Purgative virtues cleanse this sink in which the best of them so foully wallowed Nor the Papists Purgatories penances watchings whippings lousie shirts or S. Francis his kissing Bonavent in ejus vita cap. 2. or licking of Lepers sores which will cleanse this fretting leprosie The poor woman in the gospel after she had spent all she had on other miserable Physicians could not get her Mark 5. 25. 26 27. issue of blood stopped till she got a touch of Christs garment Porphyric himself confesseth that nothing else can effect this cleansing sola principia Morn de veritat Rel. cap. 27 hanc purgation● perficere possūt By which Principia some conceive were meant the 3 Persons in the blessed Trinity but whatsoever he meant by them I am sure it was the blood of the sacrifice Lev. 14. 14. 15 16. and the oil that cleanseth the Leper in the Law and that by them was meant the blood of Christ and the grace of his Spirit which alone hath power to cleanse and heal both them then and us now under the Gospel 5. They are also the consolations and comforts of the same Spirit of Christ which are the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Lenitives which actually formally take away all that pain and anguish which the sting of sin and death make Gal. 5. 22. Rom. 14. 17. in our consciences such joy and peace are fruits of this spirit and spring from no other root It is the Lord Joh. 10. 11. See Ainsworth on Gen. 25. 2. Jesus who is our good Shepherd and as it is the good Shepherds work and office first to feed his sheep and then secondly to make them lie down and rest so he onely doeth both these to our souls feedeth us in green pastures Psal 23. 2. and makes us lie down at noon yea and at night too Cant. 1. 7. the first in our life time and the other event in death and thence no sting in death to a good Christian 6. Finally it will be his last glorious appearing at the bright lustre whereof the shadow of death will then quite vanish and death it self which till then had continued and prevailed and just then having cut down all before it had as it were completed its conquest shall then for ever be swallowed up in victory And thus we see our Christ who is our all from first to last in this Col. 3. 11. great atchievement of our victory over death put down all and therefore to him most deservedly let be all the praise and if the Philistims when

for Gods Audit and when we have disposed of our goods to others we might be at more leisure and vacant the more safely to bequeath our souls to God so enter upon our heavenly inheritance but it is but our sin and misery that we lay this double burden on the tired horse-back that the ending of our reckonings with the world and the beginning of our accounts with God are both put off to be made on a death-bed and hence commeth many mens fear of death the man would not die till his Will be made and so he then setteth about it but it usually beginning with his bequeathing of his soul to God and then this sad thought commeth in but upon what acquaintance or grounded assurance which puts the poor man to a stop the wil is for the present laid aside and the sealing of his pardon he then thinks needeth first to be looked after and so it may be at the last neither of them is effected with comfort such men being like those who have neglected to do their work on the weelday and so cannot rest when the Sabbath com's but Heaven sets us a better copy to write after God having finished his works in six dayes Gen. 2. 2. Exod. 31. 17. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rested and was refreshed on the seventh and our Saviour when he had said it is finished then he quietly gave up the ghost and so rested in the grave John 17. 4. 19 20. which was typified by the Jewish Sabbath Happy we if in this working day of our life we could dispatch our greatest businesse first but yet all our other worldly occasions also in time that the day of our death may be our Sabbath in which we may rest from our labours and feriari Rev. 14. 13 Deo even keep a true holy day indeed to God that then with our Saviour we may say it is finished and with Paul we have finished our course and in running our race have outgone all 2 Tim. 4. 7. 8. our griefs and fears and then may have nothing else to do but onely quietly to take our rest and receive the Crown 6. But because our apostle telleth V. 56. us that the sting of death is sin and this as was before expressed both in the guilt and defilement of it they both make death terrible and us then fearful 1. The guilt of sin if then unpardoned or but so apprehended much terrifieth the conscience and so rendreth death very formidable whilest it is looked at as the wages of sin or Rom. 6. 13 Gods arrest and so the fore-runner or beginning of a more terrible execution and as its death to a malefactor to go even out of prison if to be brought So 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is rendred let him be condemned before his Judge so to such a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. a guilty condemned sinner his death is phrased to be a bringing him to the King of terrors Job 18. 5. with 14. and well it may when even a beloved child is afraid to come into his loving Fathers presence when he is angry some such trouble of spirit some Isa 38. 3. Divines conceive Hezekiah lay under when he wept so sore at the message of death and David also when he desired that respite Psal 39. 13. And therefore our cure here is faith's timely and effectual application of the blood and death of Jesus Christ the only tried cure of this tremor cordis for so it s expresly said that he by death hath delivered us Heb. 2. 14 15. from the bondage of the fear of it So that the more or lesse that we are able to apply Christ and his death the more or lesse we are afraid of our own and hence it is that 1. Believers by the clearer discoveries of Christ and his death under the brighter light of the Gospel are lesse in the dark in the gloomy shadow of death then the faithful under the See Calvin in John 19. 40. Rom. 8. 15 Law Their darker vails and shadows had lesse of the spirit of Adoption and confidence and more of the spirit of bondage and fear as the Apostle hinteth in the fore-mentioned place to the Hebrewes where he sheweth that Christ by taking part with the children of flesh and blood in his Incarnation did free us from that bondage and so whereas Moses the giver of the law desired to live Deu. 3. 24 25. Paul a Preacher of the Gospel desireth to be dissolved Phil. 1. 23. when once the Sun of righteousnesse was now more up yea Simeon crave's leave to depart Luke 2. 29. as its first rising 2. Hence also it is that among severall Believers now under the Gospel such use to be more joyful and lesse fearful of death who by faith have more fully applyed Christ and to whom he hath been most manifested and of all such none more then they that have been most humbled their hearts most broken with sense of sin and afterwards have had them more soundly healed and more feelingly comforted and enlarged with the assurance of Gods favour in Christ the bone broken and well set again proves stronger and the Lute broken if well put together makes not the worse but rather the better musick Of all the Apostles Paul at his conversion and in after-sufferings was most humbled and none of them expresse more none so much cheerful readinesse and desire to die in Christ yea to die for him And therefore as our Saviour said Mar. 11. 22 have we faith in God oh that we had more and then could act more faith in God! Could the sting of a fiery serpent make us daily look more up to the brazen Serpent sense of sin drive us more to Christ to get more assurance of part in his death wee should thereby even when we receive the sentence of death be more able to trust in him who quickeneth the dead 2 Cor. 1. 9. then should we not be pinioned as condemned Malefactors are wont to be but have an hand of Faith free and at liberty to lay hold on Christ the Lord of Life yea and gladly reach it it out to receive death it self as that which will more fully unite us to him when the babe is in its mothers arms or laid down with a kisse it then sleep's quietly 2. But Secondly the defilement of sin although faith can see it pardoned will make a child-like shamefacednesse blush and fear so to come into a Fathers presence My little 1 John 2. 28. children saith the Apostle abide in him that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his comming and although the most loving wife heartily desireth her husbands coming home yet she could be content that he would stay out so long til he have righted things in the house if for the present they lie unhandsomely and out of order With Vzziah to be lepers