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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16522	A sermon preached at Flitton in the countie of Bedford at the funerall of the Right Honourable Henrie Earle of Kent, the sixteenth of March 1614. By I.B. D.D.	Bowle, John, d. 1637.	1615 (1615)	STC 3435; ESTC S106815	24,390	50

soule God fashioned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the outward man of the bodie And God ioyned soule and bodie together with an incomprehensible vnion Fire and Water are not so contrarie as flesh and spirit Tell me then what are the strings what the buckles what are the cords of loue what slime of Euphrates what Gumme of Arabia what Cement and Glue doe ioyne an immortall incorporeall insensible soule in a house of Clay in a bodie of earth the most grosse most base most solid element Surely wee are wonderfully made None but God did cōpose vs none but God can preserue vs none but God by his permission or direction ordinarie or extraordinarie administration of second causes can dissolue vs. He with a breath gaue vs breath he with a word takes away our breath and all our thoughts perish Let no Asa trust in his Phisitian no Naamans trust to the Riuers of Damascus no Absolon to the lustre of Beautie no Maximus to the strength of an Elephant no Herod to the flattering clamour of Idolizing People that wee are not men but Gods Those who in regard of their constitutions communicate in the sanguine of the Rose and in the snowie beautie of the Lilly their bodies are sayth Saint Chrysostome but nidus hirundinum A Swallowes nest composed of durt and straw they are no fairer then Ionas Goord a Worme strooke it at the root and the Goord withered The greatest Lord that liues may make King Philips Fable his Motto and Morall Menippus the Satyricall Philosopher meeting Mercurie in the Elizian fields amongst all the ghosts would needs know which was Philip the great King of Macedon Hee quoth Mercurie is Philip of Macedon that hath the bald head Menippus I know him not by this for all their skuls are bald Mercurie Hee which hath a flat nose is Philip of Macedon Menippus Why all haue flat noses Mercurie Hee with the hollow eyes is King Philip of Macedon Menippus Why all haue hollow eyes bare teeth naked ribs open pores disiointed members all are carkasses Mercurie Why then Menippus in death there is no difference betwixt a King and a Beggar We must say that he that was Lord of Salomon the Prince he was Lord of Simeon the Prophet Wee must say with Iob the Lord giueth and the Lord taketh away The ballance of life and death in which the highest and lowest are weighed is onely turned by the imperiall hand of God Simeon therefore as in the rest so in this hee is curious to die hee asketh death of him who only hath the power of life and death So absolute a power that as the Psalmist speaketh Dixit facta sunt hee spake the word and all things were made So Dicat non sunt let him speake but a word and all things will bee marde Therefore Simeon to the dutie of a seruant and the power of a Lord addeth Secundum Verbum tuum according to thy Word Knowing that it is the dutie of a seruant to depart at the least word of his Master Secundum Verbum tuum THis clause is plainely interpreted vers 26. Simeon had a reuelation by the holy Ghost that hee should not see death till he had seene Christ. This was Gods word and this was a certaine word but yet looke into this word and for one certainety you shall finde two vncertainties First the Text saith Expectabat consolationem hee expected the consolation of Israel To see Christ he was certaine but when to see Christ hee was vncertaine Againe he was to liue till Christ came that was certaine but whether hee should then immediately die that also was vncertaine Nicephorus saith he dyed presently at that instant But the Scriptures and Apostolicall Fathers are altogether silent therefore it is dangerous to be confident Simeon therefore had an absolute certainty of life no absolute certainty of death No more had Moses and Aaron they were certaine to die and neuer to enter into Canaan but they were not certaine when they should see Canaan from the Mount and so die Hezekiah that was promised fifteene yeeres life must so be vnderstood as he was threatned a present death both condicionall and limited to the order of second causes which haue not in them an absolute necessitie but a voluble contingencie God did not make Hezekiahs body impassible against externall violence nor incorruptible against internall corruption But thus saith the Lord I haue heard thy prayer I haue seene thy teares I will adde fifteene yeares of strength I will repaire the defects of nature and extend them to a possibilitie of fifteene yeeres with an implicite condition of thy repentance and so of thy liues continuance Yea to goe a little farther that which Christ said of the day of Iudgement is applyed by the Fathers to the day of death that neither the Angels nor Christ the Lord of Angels doth know that day and houre 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hee knoweth that saith Nazian as God but as Man he doth not know it I am not ignorant that the Schoole and some of the Fathers doe interpret those wordes in another sense But Bernard Ambrose and Chrysostome doe concurre with Nazian affirming that Christ as man did not know it not because he could not but because he would not Ne eam ignorantiam feramus molestius quaecum Christo Angelis nobis est communis that wee may beare that ignorance patiently which is common to vs with Christ and his Angels Many men I confesse are sicke of lingring consumptions the infallible harbingers of death and yet they are not certaine of the moment of their consumption Many at the beginning of their sicknesse feele in their hearts a presage of their death and yet they languish in hope and know not the certaine houre of their dissolution The generall rule remayneth that Simeon knew not that no man knoweth the place the manner the moment of death First not the place and it is no great matter since Rachel dyed in the high-way aswell as Iezabel in the streets since Iosias and Achab both dyed in the field since Saul and Ionathan dyed both in one battell and their carkases were hung vp as Trophees of a bloudie Victorie in a barbarous Citie Will you heare a Philosophicall comfort Earth you know is the Cēter heauen is the worlds circumference If any man shall draw a Circle with his pen with a point in the middest of the Circle the Circle is equally distant from all points of the Circle vnto the point of the Center There is therefore from all parts of the point and Center of the earth an equall distance to the Circle and Circumference of Heauen What matter therfore though the bodies of the Martyrs were intombed in the entrailes of wilde beasts though their ashes were scattered vpon Rhodanus though their carkases were made a prey to the fowles of heauen What glorie was it to Martials flie though it were buryed in concreted Christall what shame to Naboth though