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A77231	Death disarmed: the grave buried: or, The Christians future triumph through Christ over death, and the grave. Delivered in a sermon at the interrment of Mr. Henry English; at Salerst in the county of Sussex. Decemb. 10. MDCXLIX. By Iohn Bradshavv Mr. of Arts, preacher of Etchingham.	Bradshaw, John, 17th cent.	1650 (1650)	Wing B4152; Thomason E602_5; ESTC R206407	30,926	37

dangerous mortal thing that can be imagined Hath it not been laid open to you the very Monster of Nature the shame of the Creature the d Sicut putredo aufert pomo decorem colorem odorem et saporem sic peccatum aufert animae decorem vitae odorem fama valorem gratiae saporem gloriae Bonavent spot of the soul the darkness of the minde the obliquity of that which was straight the infection of that which was sound the weakness of that which was strong and the death of that which was living Hath it not been displayed as a sore a wound a stench and now as a sting and will you still venter upon it nay follow after it delight in it nay yet defend and patronize it What then shall we say to draw off your hearts Expressions will not do it warning will not effect it The Lord by the Key of David unlock your hearts that what hath been spoken to you may prevail with you That you may shun the evil and choose the good and though you cannot avoid Death you may avoid what you can the sting of Death which is sin There is a supposed Victory or Conquest which the Enemy for a time hath over all men yea over the Elect themselves O Grave thy Victory (a) Therefore death hath dominion over them that are dead Rom. 6.9 Death hath no more dominion over Christ Rom. 5. v. 14. Death reigned from Adam to Moses this Reign of Death presupposes a Victory that Death hath obteined v. 16. Death reigned by one Psal 55.4 The terrours of Death Why terrours because every one that conquers is still terrible to them he conquers Cant. 8.6 Love is as strong as Death Victorious over our Lives It as easily dissolving the hands and twists that hold soul and body together as Sampson did the cords and withes with which he was bound [a] Prima mors animam pellit volentem a corpore secunda mors animam volentem tenet in corpore Aug. de Civ Dei b This is that which cuts asunder that golden Link that knits the matter and form the body and soul into one compound and so dissolves the composition This is that Bill of Divorce that severs not onely two that were one flesh but two that were one person one man This is that two-edged sword not that divides between the joynts and the marrow the soul and spirit for that is the Word of God but that which cuts betwixt the soul and body the spiritual and fleshy part This is that sword that cuts the knot at one blow which perfection of constitution and diligence about Diet together with the Art of the Physician hath seemed to make up indissoluble It is victorious over our Bodies being dead for it keeps them down to corruption Psal 16.10 Spoken of Christ but cannot be said of us Psal 49.9 ●hat should still live and not see corruption It never leaves stamping and trampling upon us till it hath beaten us to * As Moses did the Molten-calf dust (a) It drives us to the very wals of our first matter It is a most insulting victorious Enemy it even then treads and insults over us when we are down It never leaves us so long as it can finde but one inch left of these mortal Bodies (b) No such tyrant as death because no tyrant can tyrannize more than by inflicting death Nay so it tyrannizes over us that it makes even the Wormes that rise out of us to devour us Over our very memories For it makes us in a short to be forgotten as if we had never been Psal 31.12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of minde I am like a broken vessell The Psalmist puts them fitly together as a dead man and as a broken Vessell because the dead man is as a broken Vessell Eccles 9.5 The memory of them is forgotten 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 viz. Of those that are dead Not onely they are forgotten but their memory if they have been memorable yet they are forgotten How many millions of men that have lived upon earth and that to old age and yet have left no print or footsteps of themselves behind them (c) Dignum certe est ut ipsorum memoria maneat Muscul in Math. 26. Yet this is not universally true of all some having been so famous in their generations such especially as are recorded in the Word of God as no time shall eate them out of remembrance no age but shall speak of them The manner how 1. By divine permission irresistibly Eccles 8.8 There is no man hath power over the spirit to retaine the spirit neither hath he power in the day of death It will force the Scholler to lay aside his bookes because no arguments can confute Death no Rhetorique perswade it nay no Inchantments can take hold of it It will cause the Souldier to lay down his sword or take it per force out of his hand no weapon can kill nor strength repulse it It will force the Emperour to lay downe his Crowne and let fall his Scepter for no power can master it no authoritie can over-rule it It is in vaine to lay ambushments or to contrive any Stratagems for this Conqueror cannot be ensnared It is in vaine to raise any batteries or plant any Ordnance against it for no violence can over-master it It is in vaine to dig any mines to lay any traps for Death will counter-mine a●l undertakings and underworkings against it self 2. According to the course of Nature irrevocably so that if we look no higher than that this all-conquering Enemy shall goe on conquering and never be conquered For (a) Sed haec fides ut est in primis necessaria ita difficillima semper habitat fuit quod humanae rationis intelligentia quam maxime videretur esse remota Estius in sentent lib. 4. part 2. dest 43. Res est creditu dissicilis ubi putredine consumpta fuerint corpora tandem suo tempore resurrectura esse Itaque cum multi ex philosophis asseruerint immortales esse animas carnis resurrectio à paucis probata fuit in quo etsi nulla fuit excusatio inde tamen monemur rem esse magis arduam quam ut hominum sensus ad se trahat Calv. Institut lib. 3. ver 25. Sect. 3. Nature doth not teach a Resurrection but rather furnishes us with arguments against it Acts 17.32 When they heard of the Resurrection some mocked Men led onely by principles of Philosophy wil jeere at such a Doctrine By experience it conquers universally Veni vidi vici I have come seen and overcome may well be the devise in Deaths black colours It hath passed over all men and reigned over all men (b) Vnde non importunè neque incongrue arbitror accidisse etsi non humnâ industria judicio for●asse divino ut hoc-verbum quod est moritur in latina lingua nec grammatici declinare potuerint

your Armour of Proof on your spiritual Armour Object But to what purpose is that I shall be conquer'd let me do my best Was ever man able to grapple with Death and so to overcome Doth it not alwayes get the Victory where ever it comes Is it not called a Aequa leg● Necessitas sortitur insignes et imos Hor. Necessitas So Iob 18.14 According to the Seventy b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let necessity lay hold on him We reade it The King of terrours c Sol a insuperabile fatum c. Ovid. Metamorph. lib. 15. Can any one man overcome that which overcomes all men Resol It is true there is no man is or can be death-proof by any Armour of proof the thickest Walls it can pierce it can scale the highest Walls it can cut through the strongest Coat of Mail. But yet as it was said of d Vtque animadvertit undique se strictis pugionibus peti togâ caput obvolvit simul sinistrâ manu sinum ad ima crura deduxit quo honestius caderet etiam inseriore corporis parte velata Sueton. Iulius Caesar when he saw there was no remedy but die he must the Assassinatours pressing so hard upon him and adding so many wounds to him He covered his head with his Gown and with his left hand drew down the fold of his Garment over his legs that he might fall modestly Covering his lower parts that the nakedness of life might not be seen and covering his face that the Deformities of Death might not be lookt on So if thou canst not avoid the mortal wound of Death yet laboul in another sense honestè cadere Die with a good Name and a good Report and a good Conscience 2. This preparation will serve for an after Victory for as Christ led Captivity captive and triumphed over Death which had before triumphed over him so shall we if we die in Christ and live to Christ We must be content to lose the Victory that we may gain it and give ground at first that we may gain ground at last of this our Enemy And mark what pieces of Armour are necessary against Satan or the World the same are necessary against Death Yet when we have done all we can We are but poor Souldiers it is our Cheiftaine that gets the Victory for us The Weapon of this Enemy wherewith he doth all the mischief that is a sting that Death carries a sting with it A sting is first telum naturale Nature gives stings to those Creatures that have stings it is not any artificial Weapon as the Sword or Bowe 2. Poenale it puts the Creature that is stung be it Man or Beast to a great deal of smart and pain for the time it is very a terrifying pain 3. Lethale some especially are so poysonsom viz. of Adders and Vipers and other Serpents that they corrupt and enflame the bloud and poyson the body and in short time bring Death This sting the Apostle sayes is sin vers 56. For as the Scorpion by the sting transfuses a deadly poyson into those upon whom it fastens so (a) Aculeum enim mortis esse peccatum utque multò gravius malum ipsa morte utpote in quo suas illa vires habeat omnes jam manifestum est Death kils by sin Were it not for sin Death would be weaponless and stingless a toothless thing (b) Or rather it would not be at all For it is Sin only stings men to death It would be to us but as it is to herbs and plants which die in the Winter but live again in the Summer So it would be but as a benumming for a short time whereas sin by which Death stings leaves such a poyson in the nature of man that he shall never recover himself by any natural power as the herb or flower but onely by the mighty power of God in Iesus Christ. Therefore we can never be sufficiently thankfull to him Sequel 1 that shall disarm Death for us and draw out the sting And who is it that can disarm such an universal Enemy but he that hath the universal Militia of all the World the Lord of hosts is his Name But of this more anon in the fourth part If Death carry a sting with it and that sting be sin as Sequel 2 appears by what follows or which is the Ap●stles meaning as Aquinas well notes [c] Sciendum est autem quod strimulus mortis potest dici vel stimulans ad mortem vel quo utitur seu quem facit mors Sed literalis sensus est stimulus mortis i. e. stimulans ad mortem quia qomo per peccatum est impu●sus et dejectus ad mortem Aquin. in 1 Cor. 15. if sin sting men to Death How can we sufficiently wonder at the fool-hardiness of mortal men who make nothing of it to dally and play with sin as if it were some toothless harmless thing as if it were some harmless play-fellow To see people play with Dogs or Birds to see them stroke them and take them in their arms is not strange but to see people play with Snakes and Adders with Scorpions and Cockatrices is a most strange sight and what do men do otherwise in dallying with sin The Serpent in the Garden left a sting in Adams disobedience Adam could not be content with the fruit of Paradise and so was stung to Death by his disobedience As the Israelites could not be content with (a) Numb 21.6 These serpents fiery teeth being the just punishment of their fiery tongues Or the serpents tongue which is his sting being the just punishment of their tongues become stings Manna and so God sent amongst them fiery Serpents which stung them to death that they who murmured at mercies might now have something to murmur for (b) The greatest of boasters is vanquisht by one of the least of creatures Orion boasted that the earth could not produce any such Monster which he would not undertake to encounter and kill and yet this man was after killed by a Scorpion Thus the proud sinner that dares Heaven and Earth Angels and Men nay God himself and all is killed with the sting of one sin It (c) That was applied to him to wound which is ordinarily used for healing was a strange death that Marcus Arethusius the Martyr was put to by Julian the Apostate which was to be annointed all over with honey and so to be stung to death with Waspes and Bees But this is the death of every sinner he annoints himselfe with the sweetness and pleasure of sin and so is stung to death for his labour You that are yet in your sins that draw iniquity with cords of vanity and sin as it were with carr-ropes will no warning serve you Hath not sin been represented to you in the Book of God and by the Ministers of God and through the judgements of God as the most infectious poyson-some