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A05279 The Christians vvatch: or, An heauenly instruction to all Christians, to expect with patience the happy day of their change by death or doome Preached at Prestbury Church in Cheshire, at the funerals of the right worshipfull Thomas Leigh of Adlington Esquire, the 16. of February anno 1601. By William Leigh Bacheler of Diuinitye, and pastor of Standish in the countie of Lancaster. Leigh, William, 1550-1639. 1605 (1605) STC 15422; ESTC S108412 42,071 96

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let vs chearefullie vse the creatures as in youth Let vs fill our selues with costly wine oyntments and let not the flower of youth passe by vs Let vs crowne our selues with rose buds before they be withered let al be partakers of our wantonnes let vs leaue some token of our pleasure in euerie greene field as for rigor rage tiranny what 's that to vs when we are dead come let vs oppresse the poore that is righteous let vs not spare the widdow nor reuerence the white haires of the aged but say they haue liued too lōg let our strength bee a law and let the thing that is feeble bee reprooued as vnprofitable Thus did the Atheist speake in the daies of old out of the error of their soules thus did they practise from a graceles resolution the Lord deliuer the land from such a burden his church from such pelfe our Prince from such a people to whome I may say if any there bee that so remaine yet vnreformed after so acceptable a time and free offer of all grace and Godlinesse I may say without repentāce they are a damned crew and depriued of glorie who for that they will not finde out the Lord in his mercies whilst they liue shal be sure to be found out in iudgement by him when they are dead for if a man die he shall liue againe O it shal not be then with the beastlie Epicure whose bellie is his God eate drinke dye and so an end it shall not bee with the wastfull wanton whose lust is his GOD spend sue pursue speede die and so an end it shall not bee with the greedy cormorant whose gold is his God greeue grate grind the poore oppresse the needy then die and so an end it shall not bee with the distemperate Spirits of bloody Tyrants whose reuenge is their God loath kill stabbe murder the Godlie massaker the Saintes then die and so an end it shall not bee with the idle minion whose pride is her God pricke pinne paint frisle the haire then die and so an end it it shall not be with the desperate ruffian whose villanie is his God sweare forsweare teare the heauens and tire the earth with bloodie oathes and blasphemies then die and so an end it shall not be with the grosse Idolater whose image is his God bow bend crosse creepe to the creatures then die and so an end finally it shal not be with the disloyal subiect whose treasons is his God plot complot practise at home and abroad on this side the seas and on that side the subuersion of a blessed state the deposing of a most gracious Prince as they did by their owne confession The best natured and moste heauenly qualified Queene that euer liued in England it shall not be Grieue her curse her depose her and depriue her of life crowne dignity thē die so an end for thē is but the beginning of sorrows after death commeth iudgement when to hide thy selfe with these sinnes it will bee vnpossible and to appeare it will bee vntollerable Lazarus to Heauen Diues to Hell both shal rise againe the one to death euerliuing the other to a life neuer dying for the Godlye shal haue boldenes in that day but the wicked shall crie vnto the mountaines fall vppon vs fall vppon vs. And so to leaue the wicked in their sins and with their brand to close with your religious hearts seeing you looke for better thinges be dilligent that yee may be found of him in peace without spot and blameles at the comming of our Lord Iesus christ to iudgemēt bee wel assured ye that are the elect of God christ his peculiar that though the wicked shal rise to their confusion yet shal ye liue againe as in soule so in bodie to your vnspeakeable ioy and consolation Which heauenlie Doctrine likewise of your liuing againe to beate out hath been the proper workeof all the Godlye from time to time in their succeeding ages Patriarches Prophets Apostles yea Christ himself as the fountaine whose streames if I should follow to the full it would bee tedious for you to passe ouer vnpossible for mee to keepe the current Onely Paules plea for life againe shall stand as a ground for all the rest whose seueral reasons to proue the resurrection layed downe to the Church of Corinth I referre you vnto resting vppon the first as a butteris or binding stone for all the rest which is this Christ is risen againe the first fruites of them that sleepe wherupon I inferre if he be first wee must second him if he be gone before we must follow after if he be risen we may not rest for where the head is of congruence must all the members follow And now that Christ is risen againe from the dead it is apparant by these seuerall proofes First it is promised in Paradice so to be when God said to Sathan hee shall breake thine head and thou shalt bruse his heele bruse he may by death but breake he may not Thine it is ô Christ to breake sathan sinne and death not in the heele but in the head neuer to rise vp in judgement against vs. 2 Secondly his resurection from the dead was prophecied in Iudah by old Iacob Gen. 49. 9. by a Lyon couchant vnder a painefull passion yet passant too by a glorious resurection so said Iacob as a Lyons whelpe shalt thou come vp from the spoile my Sonne Iudah meaning in a misterie from the spoile of Hell sinne and death to the glorie of Heauen life and immortalitie our english Iudah hath this honor in her armes and wee owe her homage our heauenly Iudah hath this honour in his person we owe him adoratiō al ye faithfull of Iudah take this honour to your soules blesse your christ in the scutchin of your hearts carrye him ô carrie him foorth in your Christian marche against all incounters and say terror hic est hominum quique hunc gerit est Agamemnon which I may english thus This Lyon heere of Iudah tribe a terror is to men and Diuils desperat debar'd of blis Who beares him as his Crest more puisant he then Graecian guide with all his chiualrie 3 Thirdly his resurection was figured by Sampson Iudg. 16 who at midnight rose conueyed away the gates of Azzah and bare them vp to Hebron The gates of Azzah are the bands of death which our true Sampson did breake in the night silence of his resurrection and in despite of death bore vp his blessed body to Heauen where now it abides a pledge of our inheritance Haue I not power to lay downe my life haue I not power to take it vp againe 4. Lastly it was signified in the heaue offering shaken vp shakend vne and shaken vp againe so was our Christ in body the substance of this shadow tost to and fro in
the fulnes of thy ioy Thus much of the manner of our change liuing againe Now to the time when I meane when these vile bodies shall be fashioned like vnto his glorious bodie fined from the graue redeemed from the earth and bought from men whereof I hold for the negatiue that there shall bee no full change or restauraciō of any vntil the generall resurection of all and that before the last day and doome of all the world there shall be silence in the graue no ground stirred no body raised and if raised for a time by diuine dispensation to confirme the glorie of Christ his resurrectiō at what time Sheol shold be shakē yet layed downe againe by like ordination to expect a further refreshing from the Lord when all thinges shall be restored So as I may safely say against our aduersaries presumption in checke of their assumption of the body of the blessed virgin that except the humane bodye of her Son Christ the pawne and pledge of our Inheritance the●'s not a glorified body in heauen it 's true it 's true vppon our disclution the dust of our bodies resolueth into earth from whence it came and the spirit returneth to God that gaue it And as the heauens must holde the body of one Christ till hee come againe so the graues shall holde the bodies of al his saints till al things be restored earth to erath ashes to ashes dust to dust is for all flesh vntil our changing shall come for thou Lord turnest man to destruction againe thou sayest come againe ye children of men And that this is true let these Scriptures waig● with you Iob in the precedent verses of this my text hath it and you may beleeue him in that as in the rest man sleepeth and riseth not hee shall not awake againe nor be raised from his sleepe till the heauens be no more where I take his meaning to bee generallie of all without exception of any other then as formerly I haue said of Christ his perfect glorification for euer and some of his Saints by dispensation for the time and againe layed downe to sleepe til the heauens be no more that is til all thinges be restored Christ himselfe a witnes omni exceptione maior hath said likewise that no man hath ascended vp to heauen but he that hath descended from heauen that Sonne of man which is in heauen the doctrine is positiue Catholike and absolute without exception of any and exclusion of al speaking by a coinonie for the present as attributing that to the diuinitie which is proper to the humanitye but expressing as de futuro for the time to come that no man should ascend in his humanitie before the Sonne of man who did descend in his diuinitie to fetch it vp And heereunto accordeth Paul when he saith as in Adam all dye euen so in Christ shall all bee made aliue but euerie man in his owne order The first fruites is Christ afterward they that are of Christ at his cōming shal rise againe whence I reason thus in the first Adam we all fel by sinne to die once In the second Adam we shall all rise by his righteousnesse to liue euer but in sorte different he as the first fruite we as an after crop at his comming shall rise againe euen at his comming shall rise againe so saith the text and not before so say I. The inferrence is good else were the order inuerted wherat principallie the Apostle aymeth which is that Christ might haue the preheminēce prime and pride of the resurrection if I may so say Againe it is said by the same Apostle that at the Lords comming such as remaine shall not preuent them that are asleepe no● they that are asleepe shall preuent them that are aliue but the Lord shall preuent both and togeather all shall be caught vp in the cloudes to meete the Lord in the ayre and so be euer where he is The diuision is perfect good for at the comming of Christ to iudgement all bodies shall eyther sleepe in their graues dead or bee abiding vppon the earth aliue and for their passage into heauen none shall bee before or after other The time was when that other Disciple did out runne Peter to the Sepulchre and euen now wee see one hasteth to put another in the graue but then when the Trumpet shall blowe and the dead shall rise all shall goe frō their Sepulchers at once vp together meete together and so for euer be with the Lord. Further for better proofe of this Doctrine there is set downe by the Apostolicke Author a choise register of Gods Saints from Abel the iust downe to the daies of the Machabees by the honorable Patriarches worthy Iudges renowned Kinges inspired Prophets who all through faith obtained good reporte but receiued not the promise God prouiding a better thing for vs that they without vs should not be made perfect I say receiued not the promise at full as inioying their desired Christ not fullie come in the day of grace by his death to purge their soules from sinne nor come in the day of glorie by his life to fine their bodies from corruption God prouiding this good for vs that they without vs neyther in grace or glory should bee fully perfected How be it I deny not but their soules were fullie saued by the vertue of Christ his death and resurrection which they foresawe and felt in their hearts and therefore vpon their dissolution were taken vp in soule into the very heauens where now they are with Abraham Isaac and Iacob Mat. 8. 11. But their flesh doth rest in hope so as I may say of them and of all the dead as Peter did of the Patriarch Dauid Dauid is not ascended into heauen And if not Dauid the roote how may Mary the branch or any other straine of Adam nay nay the possession is there giuen by one God and taken by one Christ in right of al thus Sit thou on my right hand vntill I make thine enemies thy foote-stoole thou alone to pleade their cause thou alone to purchase their place thou alone to keepe possession til al thinges be restored and then make good thy purpose with thy promise I goe to prepare a place for you and if I goe I will come againe and receaue you vnto my selfe that where I am there may yee bee also But if all these Scriptures like nailes of the sanctuarie will not fasten thee to this holde then search the heauens for thy better resolution see into that secret and who be there Hebr. 12. 22. c. Mencion is made of Mount Syon which is the celestiall Ierusalem and the Cittie of the liuing God to which blessed assemblie the elect of God are incited to ioyne themselues as free Denisons to be Infranchised Now who be there tell if thou canst let the Spirit speake and all flesh
the hazard of this world vp to the crosse downe to the graue and yet vp againe to glorie What should I say more see the vaulte where they laide him saith the Angell all hollow emptie ther 's the graue where be the Corpes ther 's the Shrine whereis the Sainct Indeede hee is risen hee is not heere goe to Galilie there shall yee see him as he hath said why seeke ye the liuing among the dead Quem mortuum queris viuentem tangere non mereris Marie thou deseruest not to feele him aliue whom still thou seekest thus dead nor was this Sermon preached by the Angell to her alone but was afterward mightily confirmed by many seueral apparitions of our Sauiour Christ ere he left this world that if in the mouth of two or three witnesses euerie truth should be established this so acceptable a Doctrine of Christ his resurection from the dead might want no testimonye eyther of these women of Cephas of the twelue or of moe then fiue hundreth Bretheren at once whose witnesse is true our conscience bearing vs witnes therto in the holie Ghost And thus my deere bretheren beeing fully assured of the Lords resurrection we are well secured of our owne knowing as the Apostle saith that he which hath raised vp the Lord Iesus shall raise vs vp also by Iesus and set vs with the Saints in euerlasting tabernacles whereof yet lest any the weakest reedin this assemblie might faile in iudgement and so saint in hope I haue thought good without straine of Scripture to secure your religious hearts of your owne resurrection by these few grounds of Faith following First for that it is in the will of the Father so to haue it as also a worke of the Sonne so to effect it for this saith Christ is the will of him that sent me that euerie man which seeth the Sonne beleeueth in him shold haue euerlasting life I will raise him vp at the last day will the Father haue it who shall resist his wil will the Sonne worke it who can resist his power if in any work assuredly moste of all in this hath the Lord declared himselfe mightilie to be the Son of God touching the Spirit of sanctification by the resurrection from the dead his ours I say his and ours because hee that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are both one 2. A second ground of our resurrection to builde vppon is the Lords oathe that by two immutable thinges wherein it is vnpossible that God should lie we might haue strong consolation he that hath former he said it is his wil he hath likewise said it is his worke and the Lord his Say might be our assurāce yet God willing more aboūdantly to shew vnto the heires of promise the stablenes of his counsell hath bound himselfe by an oathe of old thus as I liue I will not the death of sinner c. Of new thus verily verily I say vnto you the houre shal come and now is when the dead shal heare the voice of the Sonne of God and they that heare it shall liue where God hauing no greater to sweare by swore by himselfe as he is life and by his Christ as he is truth wheruppon Tertullian infers this blessing O nos felices quorum causa deus iurauerit sed ô nos infelices si ne iuranti Deo credimus O happie wee for whose good God himselfe hath sworne But ô wee most vnhappye if vppon his oathe wee doe not beleeue him Tollit diuinitatem qui tollit veritatem wee greeue the deitie if wee checke the veritie 3. A third assurance is the instrument wee hold by euen our letters pattents from the King of heauen I meane the olde ●estament from Horeb sealed with the blood of Goates and the new testament from Syon sealed with the blood of christ both vnsealing the doore of the Sepulchre that as vppon the touch of Elisha his bones the dead body of the Moabit did rise and at Christ his dolorous crye Lazarus came foorth so both might be pregnant types truthes of our resurection to come and the bookes mentioning the same still remaine as instruments of our holde authentical good to conuey vnto vs an assurance of our immortalitie in which Saint Augustine is bolde to say Euangelium legimus instrumentum nostrum Wee haue read the Gospell which is our euidence wee hold by wherein I dare say there is nothing more current from leafe to line then the doctrine of death's deliuerie 4. A foorth ground of our future resurrection is taken from sufficient testee and clowd of witnesses compassing vs round on euery side Patriarches Prophets Apostles though in diuers ages of the worlde yet all making good this one truth from one God Spirit of our Lord Iesus Christ by which they spake Enoch as Iude saith the seauenth from Adam prophesied of it And Iob said I shall see God in my flesh I my selfe myne eyes and no other for me Isaiah said the dead men shal liue euen with my body shal they rise awake and sing ye that dwel in the dust for thy dewe is as the dewe of hearbes and the earth shall cast out the dead Ezekiell said O Sonne of man prophesie ouer these dead bones say heere ye the word of the Lord when I haue opened your graues ô my people and brought you vp out of your Sepulchres and shall put my Spirit in you yee shall liue then shall ye know that I am the Lord. Daniel said many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth shall awake some to euerlasting life some to shame and perpetuall contempt The distressed Martir said when vppon demaund hee yeelded his tongue and hands into the power o● the tormenter These haue I had from the heauen but now for the law of God I despise them and trust that I shall receiue th● from him againe What should I say more the new Testament is rather in the practise then proof of this Doctrine and Paul is peremptory that it is sowne in corruptiō but riseth in i● corruption sowen in dishonour but riseth againe in glorie sowen in weakenes riseth againe in power sowen a natural bodie riseth againe a spirituall body for there is a naturall bodie and that shall fall but there is a spirituall bodie and that shall rise and all is but one in the substance of beeing the difference is of well beeing as now being made more honorable vppon the fall by Christ who shall change our vile bodies that they may be fashioned like vnto his glorious bodie according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things vnto himselfe Yea and to make it a palpable and feeling Doctrine as to the heart so to the hand of each Christian all the Apostles in one Iohn and one Iohn for all the Apostles brings in the verdict thus That
assured hope to all Gods Children of a ioy ful resurrection to come it remaines we presse the Doctrine yet further to your comfort and tell you how wee shall bee changed and when For the first rise we shall with these verye bodies of flesh skin blood bone nor shal the least ioynt sinew or Artery bee lost but found and fashioned to the rest of the members to giue the body all feature grace and beautie There shall bee no transubstantiacion from one substance into another but an alteration of quality tending to further perfection and therefore wee say with one who said well Gloria non tollit sed perficit naturam our glorie shall not destroy our nature but perfect it And for distinction of ages there shall be no more there as saith the Prophet a Childe of yeares nor an olde man that hath not fild his daies that is in this wonderfull worke of restauration there shal be no weakenes of youth not infirmities of age but all shall bee fresh and flourishing for as when GOD first created man and woman hee made them not eyther Infants old crooked or deformed but strong ripe and beautifull so in the resurrection which is called a new creation It is not like but shal be conformable to the first if not much more excellēt nor doe I doubt but as the Apostle saith wee shall all meete together vnto a perfect Man and vnto the measure of the age of the fulnes of Christ so fully blessed with daies glory and immortalitie This so wonderful change and excellent state is shadowed out vnto vs by Christ his transfiguration vppon the holy mounte when the fashion of his countenance was changed and his garments white and glistred splendor infacie splendor in vestimentis sic gloria in capite gloria in membris brightnes in the face of Christ with brightnes in his garments is nothing else but glorie in the head and glorie in the members This sawe the disciple whome the Lord loued when with a feeling soule and spirit he said dearely belooued now are wee the Sonnes of God but it is not yet made manifest what we shall bee for we knowe that when he shall bee made manifest meaning Christ wee shall be like him for wee shall see him as hee is like him see him and see him as hee is ô excellent state of immortallitie and soueraigne dignitie of Gods elect to bee like him is much to see him is more but to see him as he is moste of all Paul saw the like when he longed after a deliuerance and said wee looke for the Sauiour euen the Lord Iesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may bee fashioned like vnto his glorious bodye according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all thinges vnto himselfe whereuppon I may inferre to your further ioy and greater wonder thus That wee shall bee changed is much that our vile bodies shall bee changed is more but that our vile bodye vppon the change shall bee fashioned like vnto the gloryous body of Iesus CHRIST is moste of all Manye fashions there are in this worlde and all weare out of fashion There 's but one suite for the Saints of GOD and for that it 's cut after the best Patterne viz. after CHRISTS it neuer weareth or waxeth olde but is alwayes faire fresh and glorious had wee been apparelled like Aaron in his holye●obes or like Salomon in his Royall array had wee put on the brightnesse of Angells vpon our change wee might haue thought our selues sufficientlye graced but as and if all that were not sufficient The Lord hath changed our vile bodie that it might bee fashioned like vnto his glorious bodye And this will hee doe when our case is most desperate euen finde vs out when we are lost take vs vp when wee are furthest fallen from him when our woundes are deepest then rediest to power in oyle and to binde them vp when no eye pityeth vs I say when by blacke death we shall be made vile base and despicable Then will he fashion vs like vnto himselfe and as the Psalmist saith make vs glorious by deliuerance For it is an excellencie in our Christ and a mercie infallible found true in the practise of his pyetye euen then to shewe mercye when wee are mosse miserable then to feele him nearest when wee deeme him furthest gone his graces to abound when our sinnes doe superabound I say his mercies are preuentions euer meeting with our miseries and then when wee are moste wofull and wanting When the Scepter was gone from Iudah then Shiloh came when the diseased woman had spent all without remedye then came CHRIST and cured without cost when the poore Paralyticke had laine eight and thirtye yeares by the Poole of Bethesda and none would helpe to put him in Then Iesus said rise take vp thy bed and walke when the Disciples said vnkindely send the people away nay saith Christ giue ye them to eate What should I say more The Lord raysed Lazarus when he stunke in the graue and whilst Martha mooued and Mary mourned he grieued in heart and was troubled in Spirit put to his hand tooke him out deliuered him said now loose him and let him goe So wil he doe in the day of our redemption when our sinnes shall bee full and miserie moste abound then mercie shall bee more full and grace superabound and as at his first cōming of his aboundance we al receaue grace for grace a chereful refreshing to our sinful soules so at his cōming againe wee that dwel in the dust shal awake sing at the shoute and shower of his glorie as also of the aboundance of his glorie receaue glory for glory Thy dew ô Lord is as the dew of hearbs for euen as hearbes dead in winter florish againe by the raine in the Spring tyme so shall they that liue in the dust arise vp to joy when they feele the dew of Gods grace as the hony droppes that water the earth And then shall wee say with a Godly ●uation now death is swallowed vp in victorie for our drie bones are moistned our forlorne hope is recouered we were cleane cut off but now are wee growne againe our bed is precious and our withered branch is glorious the Lord hath opened our graues wee are come out of the Sepulchres and he hath brought vs into the land of the liuing where wee shall see no sinne nor feele corruption any more Hasten thy iudgements ô Lord bowe the heauens and come downe discharge the graues of their dead the world of it doome our soules from sinne and our bodies from corruption ô hasten the daie of our deliuerie that wee may see in glorie what we feele in grace euen the beholding of thy face in righteousnes that when wee shall awake from death wee may be satisfied with thy likenesse and fild with
and drinke thy fil spare him not whome thou hast spilt stop his breath couer his face tye his handes binde his feete imbalme his bodye bury his corpes lay on the stone and seale vp the sepulchre yet Christ is at Bithinia greeuing at the graue and me thinkes I heare him crie with a lowde voice to him and all the dead arise and come to iudgement Evomuit prophetam marina bestia quem deglucierat et tu Humbertum reddes quem videris in tuo vastisimo ventre conclusisse So said Barnard of his friend Humbertus and so may I of this our deere deceassed The Maritine beast pickt vp Ionas whome hee had deuoured And thou earth shalt redeliuer this flower of gentrie whome thou seemest to haue closed vp in thy vaste vault In the last day ô Death thou shalt stand like a foole beguild of the dead when the Saint here fallen shall euer liue and thou his destroyer shalt euer die And nowe to that which thou canst not spil which is the sweete perfume of his life past I will bee the more sparing to speake thereof for that loue can keepe neither meane nor method The rule is good say nothing but well of the dead it is better say nothing but truelye of the dead And the truth is hee hath bin true to this my text for he hath bin watchfull watchfull of his place to performe it with good conscience to God and loyalty to his Prince watchfull of his family to gouerne it withall descretion and godlinesse watchfull of his Golde that the canker thereof should not rust his soule watchfull of his ground that the furrowes should not complaine against him the vniust detaining of the laborers wages watchfull of his building that neither the stone out of the wall should cry or beame out of the tymber should answer it with oppression And for this place and charge where nowe I stand my selfe can witnesse how watchfull and carefull hee hath been of it good with whome hee often dealt to furnish him of an able man as an assistant to ayde and helpe the pastor heere which I know ere this had bin effected but that the Lord delt with him as hee did with Dauid in the Fabricke of the Temple Euen put it of to Salomon his Son by him to bee perfected which I doubt not but he will performe and that readilie in the feare of God according to the zeale of his heart and good conscience towards this great people for thou ô Lord hast put fire in his heart and what is thy desire but that it should burne Besides all these the sweete balme of his hospitalitie was an honour to God a reliefe to the poore a credit to his place calling wherof I may say he was watchfull watchful as Abraham who laye in his Tent doore vnder the oake at Mamre to gather in strangers and at the last God was his guest watchfull as Lot who sat in the gate of Sodome to call in pilgrimes and at last hee receaued Angells Rich Christ is in his poore members and hi● ioyfull message is tyed to his word and Ministrie he relieued the one and countenance● the other A good aduertisement to al christians that they beware against whome they barre their doores least happily cui Domum clauseris cui huminitatem negaueris ips● sit deus Least happilye as Augustin saith it be God himselfe against whome thou shuttest thy doore and denyest thy curiositie The rule is Apostolic be good to all but especiallye to those that are of the housholde of faith And nowe to winde vp all with the watch of his last farewell at what time with good Ezekias seauen yeares before to my knowledge he set his house in order and prepared to die recommēding then as now his soule to God his bodye to the earth his Land to hi● heire his goods to the world with much kinde remembrance of his friendes and many prayers for his enemies if hee had any Not so wicked Alcimus of whome it is said that at the time of his death he was plagued so as hee could neither speake to God or giue order concearning his house And for his Funerals nowe next in place and last in action you see they are not without forme like Ioachims of whome the Lord said by the Prophet They shall not lament him saying ah my Brother or ah my Sister neither shall they mourne for him saying oh Lord or ah his glorie For this so great a concourse of Christian people honouring his buriall following his hearse and giuing him the last duetie of obsequi doth argue they loued him liuing whome they honour thus dead nor is it done without compassion for oh husband oh father oh maister oh friend is in the lamentatiō of all ye see their teares ye heare their groanings God knowes their griefe To whom I leaue them as to the alone comforter doe further pray that the Lord wold teach vs to nuber our daies that we might apply our hearts vnto wisdome so at his comming may bee found watchfull with our oyle readie and our Lampes light Amen Amen FINIS 1. Sam 4 21. c. Mark 5 2 3. 4 5. Eccles 7 4 Psa 126. 5 Exod. 31. 2 1. Co 4 1 Ge 18 2 Gal 6 ● 1. Th. 4. 13 Reuel 14. 13. Eccles. 3. 1 Sophocles The crie of death Ps. 89. 48. Gen. 2. 17. Heb. 9. 27 Dan. 6. 8. Wisd. 2. 24 The reward of sin is death Reu. 10. 6 Ch. 22. 29 Sermo 48. ad ●ratres in Eremo Amos. 6. 2 Isai. 13. 19 Iam. 2. 13 Psal. 49. 1● Phil. 3. 8. The Her●enger of death Eccles. 12. ● 3. c. Old men must die and young men may die Isaiah 40● 6 7. 8. Exod. 14. The plea of death 2. co 5. ●● 2. Pe. 3. 14 Phil. 2. 15. ●● Iohn 5. 2● 29 Re. 20 13. c. 2. Pe. 3. 13 Isa. 30. 33. Isa. 22. 13 Old Atheisme New Atheisme D. Parie Heb. 9. 27 Lu. 16. 22 1 Ioh. 4. 17 ●●● 23. 30 ● Th. 5. 23 The plea of life 1. Cor. 15. that christ is risen Gen. 3. 15. Iudg. 16. 3 Ioh. 10. 17 18 Exo. 29. 24 Mar. 16. 6. 7. Luk 24 5 10 20 17 1 Cor 15. 4 c. That we shall rise 2. co 4 14 Iohn 6 3● 40 Rom 1. 4. Heb. 2 1. ● Heb 6 1● Ez 33 11 Ioh 5 25 2. ● 13 2● Iohn 11. 43 44 Iud. 14 Iob 19. 26 27 Isa 26 19 〈…〉 ●7 4 Dan 12. 2 2 Macc. 7 11 1 Cor 15 42 Phil. 3 21 1 Ioh 1. 1 Iohn 20 24 c. Not sore but open Iohn 5. 28 29 Reu. 6 9 10. 11. Heb. 11 40. Ro. 8. 11 Math. 27 52. 53. Ioh. 14. 3. Ro. 8. 34 Hebr. 9. 24 Re. 21 21 Eph. 2 2 3 A dangerous sect of whome we reade few ●r none to haue been called ma 22. 23 29 2. Tim. 2. 17.