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Dives and Lazarus. Or, Rather devilish Dives Delivered in a sermon at Paul's Cross; by R.J. preacher of the Word. Very necessary for these times and purposes; published for the greater comfort of those that taste the bitterness of affliction.
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Johnson, Robert, chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln.
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DIVES AND LAZARUS Dives and Lazarus or rather Devilish DIVE Delivered in a Sermon at Paul's Cross by R. J. Preacher of the Word c. DIVES AND LAZARUS Or Rather Devilish DIVES Delivered in a Sermon at Paul's Cross by R. J. Preacher of the Word Very necessary for these Times and Purposes published for the greater comfort of those that taste the bitterness of Affliction Mat. 5.3 Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven The One and twentieth Edition LONDON Printed for W. Thackeray at the sign of the Angel in Duck Lane 1677. Dives and Lazarus Or Rather Devilish DIVES Luke 16. Verse 19 c. There was a certain Rich man cloathed in Purple and fine Silk and fared well and deliciously every day 20. Also there was a certain Begger named Lazarus which lay at his gate full of sores 21. And desired to be refreshed with the Crumbs that fell from this Rich mans Table Yea the Dogs came and licked his sores 22. And it was so that the Begger dyed and was carried by the Angels into Abrahams Bosom the rich man also died and was buried 23. And being in Hell torments he lift up his eyes and saw Abraham a far off and Lazarus in his bosom c. THese words Right Honourable Right Worshipful and beloved have relation unto the precedent verses in this Chapter wherein our Saviour Christ from the thirteenth Verse to the seventeenth reproveth the Covetousness of the Pharisees by shewing unto them that no man can serve two Masters that is God and Riches All these things heard the Pharisees which were covetous and they mocked him Whereupon he aptly and fitly taketh occasion to relate this Parable of this Rich man and Lazarus Hearken and I will speak of a great Rich Man that flourished here on Earth in all Pomp and Abundance that shined in courtly Purple Robes that was cloathed in Bussus and fine Silk and fared deliciously that was iodged softly that lived pleasantly But understand what became of this Rich man His years being expired and his days numbred and his time determined he was invited to the fatal banquet of black ugly Death that maketh all men Subject to the Rigour of his Low his Body was honourably buried in respect of his much Wealth but what become of his Sould That was carried from his Body to dwell with the Devil from his Purple Robes to burning Flames from his soft Silk and white Byssus to cruel Pains in black Abyssus from his Palace here on earth to the Palace of Pluto in Hell from Paradise to a Dungeon from pleasures to pains from joy to torment and that by hellish means damned spirits into the Infernal Lake of Bottomless Barathrum where is woe woe As alas Where is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth Mat. 25. The wicked shall be turned into Hell and all the People that forget God Psal 6. Hearken also of a certain Poor Begger cloathed in Rags with miseries pained pained with griefs grieved with sores sorely tormented unmercifully condemned lying at this Rich man's Gate desiring to be refreshed but with the crumbs that fell from the Rich man's Table the Dogs had more pity than this Rich man on this distressed creature for they came to visit him they come to comfort him they came and licked his sores Well! his time being also determined he went the way of all flesh and death was the finisher of all his miseries and griefs Vita assumsit mortem ut mors vitam acciperet He dyâ—d once to live for ever And what became of his Soul It was carried from his Body to his Master from a House of Clay to a House not made with hands from a Wilderness to a Paradise from an earthly Prison to a Heavenly Palate from the Rich man's Gate to the City of the Great God from pains to Pleasures from Miseries to Ioys from A clam's Corruption to Abraham's bosom I was carried by Angels into the Quires of Angels to have his being and moving in the very moving Heavens with God himself Vbi vita victus copia gloria salus pax eternitas bona omnia Where is life and food and abundance and glory and health and peace and eternity and all good things All above all that either can be wished or desired And this is the Subject that I am to speak of in your presence Sed quid primum What shall I say first Let it please you to consider the argument of this Scripture which is twofold 1. Our Soviour Christ hereby adviseth all rich men to be merciful to their poor Brethren in this life lest they find no mercy in the life to come 2. He doth comfort all poor men that although they are afflicted in this life with great miseries and calamities yet they shall be comforted in the life to come and rest in Abrahams bosom The parts of Scripture are four 1. The life of the rich man in these words There was a certain rich man cloathed in Purple and fine silk and fared deliciously every day 2. The life of the begger in these words Also there was a certain Begger named Lazarus which was laid at his Gate full of sores c. 3. The Death of the Begger in these words And it was so that the Begger dyed and was carried c. 4. The Death of the Rich man The Rich man also died and was buried In the first part I note these three Circumstances 1. What this Rich man was and whether there were any such man or no. 2. What his Apparel was not mean nor ordinary but Purple and fine Silk 3. That his dyet was not base nor homely but delicious and not once nor twice but every day In the life of the Begger I find four Circumstances 1. Where he lived in no Palace or house but at the Rich Man's Gate 2. How he lived neither in Health nor Wealth but miserable full of Sores 3. That he desired in this life not Lordships or houses or land or gold or silver but Crumbs to save his life 4. Who shewed the Begger kindness in his life not the rich man but the rich mans dogs The Dogs came also and licked his sores In the Death of the Begger I note these three Circumstances 1. What became of his Body being dead No mention hereof is made in holy scriptures It may be buried with little or no respect because he was a poor man or else cast into some ditch by reason of his sores 2. What became of his soul It went not out to Purgatory for there is no such place but it was carried into Abraham's bosom 3. By whom By Angels it was carried by Angels into Abraham's bosom In the Death of the Rich man I note these two Circumstances 1. What became of his Body being dead It was honourably buried because of his great substance 2. What became of his Soul It went to Hell He being in Hell Torments lift
of merciless cruelty It is worth the noting that which Pliny reports of dogs Fidilissimi homini ante omnia sunt Canes equi Dogs and Horses are most loyal and loving unto man above all other Creatures Again Quod impetus eorum sevitia mitigatus ad homine concidente humi That their savageness and cruelty is mitigated when one doth fall to the ground But Lazarus humbled himself on the ground and lay in the dust yet this Rich man hath no pity on him he relieved him not Soli nomina sua canes norunt Dogs only of other sensible Creatures know their names I would all Christians would remember their names and what belongeth thereto how when they were incorporated into the Church they vowed to forsake the devil the world and the flesh Again Soli vocem domesticam agnoscu canis Dogs know the Voices of them that are in the house If one come at midnight and chastise them they will cease to bark they will know the housholders voice and them of the houshold I would men would learn to know Christ their housholder and the voice of the Prophets and Preachers of this houst old Again Scrutantur vestigiacanes They search the foot-paths of their Masters We will not follow the paths of righteousness nor tread in the foot-steps of our Master Christ although he hath said Learn of me and although the Apostle doth earnestly exhort us Be ye followers God as dear children Persequitur enimicum Canis A Dog chaseth an enemy but our enemy the Devil chaseth us See that Medicinable vertue that is in a Dogs tongue for it healeth and was comfortable to Lazarus Mans tongue cutteth and killeth Thy tongue saith David cutteth like a sharp Razor and the tongue that telleth lies slayeth the soul But now let us consider the third part which is the death of the Beggar It was so that the Beggar died Here is the Adage fulfilled More optima rapit deterrima relinquit Now must I speak of Tragical matters of Funerals and Obsequies of dissolution and death which is called by many Metaphors in the Holy Scriptures as sometimes Transitas ex hoc mundo ad Patrem a Passage or going out of this World to the Father Sometimes Dissolution so Paul calls it Cupio dissolvi esse cum Christo I desire to be loosed and to be with Christ Sometimes Lucrum Gain as in the Philippians Death is to me Advantage Sometimes Somnus a Sleep So Abraham and David slept with their Fathers Sometimes Sominantio a sowing it is sown a natural body it riseth again a spiritual body and it is thus desined Mors est separatio animam corpore requies a laboribus miseriis hujus seculâ— Death is a seperation of the soul from the body a rest and quietness from all Labours Pains and miseries of this wicked world But there are three kinds of death to wit Corporal Spiritual and Eternal The Corporal death of a natural separation of the soul from the body c. The Spiritual Death is twofold there is Mors Spiritualis piorum impiorum There is a spiritual Death of the Godly and of the Wicked The Spiritual death of the Godly Mors peccati mundi decitur It is to dye only unto sin and the world the Spiritual death of the ungodly Est mors fidei animae is the death of Faith and Righteousness and the soul which the ungodly taste of although they be yet living The Eternal death is Sempiterna infelicitas miseria quae secunda mors dicitur An everlasting unhappiness and misery when the soul is separated from God and the company of all Saints which is called the second death Moritur ergo homo temporaliter moritur spiritualiter utiliter moritur spiritualiter damnabiliter Man may therefore taste of three deaths First Corporal Secondly Spiritual and Profitable Thirdly Spiritual and Damnable Primum Christus suscipit secundum docuit tertiam demavit The first is a Temporal Death that Christ did suffer himself Non qui noluit sed quia voluit mortuus est Christus Not because he wanted power to withstand Death but because he would dye willingly and offer a Sacrifice for the whole world that do believe in him The second that is the Spiritual profitable Death to dye unto sin and the world he taught by his own Example Ye are Dead with Christ The third that is the spiritual Everlasting Death he shall give unto the Reprobate in the Day of Iudgement Go ye cursed into Hell fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels But in the Death of the Beggar First we noted what became of his Soul It was carried by Angels into Abraham's Bosom Whereby we Learn the Immortality of the Soul Pithagoras was the first among the Grecians That Taught the Soul was immortal The Philosophers also and Heathen Poets do prove the Immortality of the Soul Credit enim retro de terra quod fuit ante In terram sed quod missum est ex aetheris oris Id rursum Coeli fusgentia templa receptant The part of man that was made of Earth went to Earth and that part as came from Heaven went to Heaven again But leaving these we prove by Scripture the immortality of the Soul Man was made a living soul Therefore the soul is Immortal And here in the Text Lazarus being Dead His soul was carried into Abraham's bosom Here therefore is the damnable Opinion of the Atheists overthrown For if they deny God they must also deny that they have souls and so consequently that they are not men But St. John teacheth them That all things were made by the Word of God and without it nothing was made Therefore if they are made they are made by the Word of God and if a Reasonable Soul which do acknowledge and Believe in the Creator Anima est primum principium vita perse subsistans incorporea ac incorruptibilis The soul is the first beginning of life subsisting of it self incorporeal and incorruptible St. Austin Anama est spiritus est substantia incorporea corporis sui vita sensibilis invisibilis rationalis immortalis The soul of Man is a spiritual or incorporeal substance sensible invisible reasonable immortal For as he also saith Solum homo habet onimam rationalem Only man with an immortal soul Lazarus soul was carried into Abraham's bosom which is a quiet haven which the Faithful have gotten by the troublesom Navigation of this life that is the Kingdom of Heaven There is Duplex Regnum Gratia Gloriae There are two Kingdoms the one of Grace the other of Glory Here therefore we note that the Souls of the Elect being seperated from their Bodies are presently in Ioys and are carried into Abrahams Bosome so called because it belongeth only to the Faithful Well then Lazarus soul went to Heaven and Christ said to the Thief on the Cross This Day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Not to Morrow or next year but