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death_n	body_n	soul_n	temporal_a	4,259	5	8.5467	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87566	A sleeping sicknes the distemper of the times: as it was discovered in its curse and cure. In a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres in the Abby-Church at Westminster upon the 27th of January, the day appointed for their solemne and publicke humiliation. / By William Jenkyn Minister of Gods Word at Christ-Church London.	Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1647 (1647)	Wing J654; Thomason E372_10; ESTC R201315	25,581	45

world can match but onely the power of him that is also an Enemy to him that is a spirituall sleeper If it bee the power of God that keepes to salvation the power of sinne and Satan if not overpowred must needs keep to damnation It is such a power as resisteth all the means that come to rescue the soule from it and that so deeply seizeth upon the sinner that it makes him purely subdued bowed down under it and yet which is worst of all the nature of this power stands in making a man unwilling as well as unable to get from under it hee being a very slave in every thing but onely in that which is common to all others that are in bondage 2. Pet. 2. namely to sigh and groan under it 3. The third particular in the Text whereby the dismalness of this judgment of a deep sleep is set out in the Object the persons upon whom 't is powred You where wee may take notice of two things 1. The Partyes 2. The part of these Partyes that the Prophet here intends to be under a deep sleep 1. The partyes you you a people that are under all my awakning administrations of words and threatnings of judgements and examples You have I known of all the Nations of the Earth with you have I taken pains more the with all the people in the world beside and for you to be in a deepe sleep is a greater both sin and shame and punishment then for others None are such approved try'd friends to lust as they that continew in it under means of recovery none so inexcusable for continuing in their spirituall slumber as they that have had helps to awaken them 'T is a shame for any to bee a sleep but more for them that are in the light the sun and sound of the word 'T is not so great a marvaile for others to be asleep whom God never brought under those helpes that might stir them up but for those that live in the day-time of the Gospell and are under the stirring Ministry of the Prophets to continue slumbring in sin 1 Thes 5.6 there can be no Apology The Apostle makes this an argument that Christians should beware of this distemper of spiriruall sloth Let not us sleep as doe others q. d. 't is enough for those that are in the night of sin and nature to sleep let not us 'T was the argument that the Angell used to Jacob let me goe for the day breaketh Gen. 32.26 whosoever is not awaked by the light of the day the Gospell shall be awaked by the heat of eternall flames 2. The second thing is the part of these parties upon which this spirituall sleepe seizeth and that is intended by the Prophet to be the soule The soule of a judgment is its seizing upon the soule spirituall blessings are the greatest and spirituall judgements the dismallest There are three things whereby it appeares that the judgement of a deep sleep is greatned by befalling the soule 1. The soule is the excellency of man the worthiest part the body is a body of vilenesse Phil. 2.21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the soule a precious soule excellent every way but as it is depraved with sin 'T is the noblest part of man noble in respect of its originall 't is heaven-borne in respect of its functions its endowments If all be well with the soule a man is happy though the body be never so miserable If it goe ill with the soule the man is wretched let the body abound never so much with outwardblessings When a mean conremptible man and one of no account dyeth it 's never spoken of but when a Prince or some great man dyeth all lay it to heart the soul is the Prince the body is but the page and therefore the body is not to be lamented from which only the soul parteth but the soule from which God himselfe parteth 2. The distempers that befall the soule are hardest to remove There 's no herb in the garden no receipt from the Physitian no medicine in the shop that can cure the soule men are only parents of the body and only Physitions of the body he that made the soule can only mend it The father of spirits is the only Physitian of spirits 'T is omnipotent strength that recovers sin-sicke souls man can make them worse but it s only a God that can make them better Outward helpes cannot cure the inward man The God of the heart can only restore the hidden man of the heart 1 Pet. 3.4 He that sits in heaven must touch and teach the heart otherwise it can never be reacht or taught 3. The distempers that befall the soule are most deadly if they be not remedied A scratch on the finger is a slight wound but a wound that reacheth to the heart is alway dangerous if not dendly whatsoever befals the body is but slight and to be slighted in Comparison of what annoyeth the soule Soule curses are the onely dreadfull ones All calamities may be in mercie that befal the body for they only part between us health wealth and friends c. but they which befall the soul part us in some measure from him in whom all blessednesse and true happinesse is laid up If the soule liveth the man dyes not if the soule be dead in sin the man is dead The life of our lives is the health of the soule the death in death is the miscarriage of the soule If a man be not heartficke though otherwise much distempered 't is not look't upon as dangerous he that is not spiritually and soul and sin-sicke is not sick unto death the sicknesses and distempers of the body are but only such in appearance in a sort opinionative the diseases of the soule are onely such in reality Spirituall comforts and miseries are only such vera temporall whether Comforts or miseries are but fallacia seeing and deceiving 't was an excellent advice of Christ to his Disciples fear not him that can kill the bady but feare him that can throw both body and soul into hell Thus of the third reason the object of this judgment you 4. The fourth thing in the Text that makes the spirit of a deepe sleepe so dreadfull a calamity is the inflicter of it and the punisher with it and that is the Lord JEHOVAH The Lord whose punishments are alwayes either the sorest or the sweetest if they better not those whom they befall they ever hurt them Now this is a punishment ever of hurt and distruction not medicina but laniena not the cutting of a chirurgion or a friend but of an Enemy and a destroyer 'T is a blessing of God to correct and love us A great curse for God to punish and leave us nay so to punish as the very punishment is a leaving of us The happinesse of correction stands in teaching us but this punishment of a deep sleep is the giving us up to