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A67564	The Christians victory over death a sermon at the funeral of the Most Honourable George Duke of Albemarle, &c. : in the Collegiate Church of S. Peter, Westminster, on the XXXth of April M.DC.LXX / by Seth, Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Ward, Seth, 1617-1689.	1670 (1670)	Wing W818; ESTC R12260	16,635	40

stinging of a worm that dies not and the tormenting rage of a Fire that never shall be quenched In either of these Cases in the Figurative Language of the Scripture which speaks of Death as of a Person it may be properly asfirmed That Death is too hard for such a man that it gets the victory and holds the Dominion over him But if on the other side the state of a man be advanced and bettered by his Dissolution So that upon good Consideration it be desirable to him to be Dissolved If when Death shall have done its utmost the Essential part of man The Man that is in Man shall be surviving surviving in joy unspeakable to be compleated in a Glorious Resurrection to be continued and increased to all Eternity Then he who doth not perish by the hand of Death nor is thrown by it into a state of infelicity but passes through death into endless Life this man is properly victorious over Death Now this is the Effect and Summary of the Gospel to this every part of it one way or other doth relate it every where assures us that this is the condition of every true believer Whosoever believeth in him shall not perish i. e. shall not cease to be much less do worse but have everlasting Life viz. he hath the victory over Death Secondly Again for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The whole series of this affair is per omnia Causarum genera from the first occasion of the difference to the last performance of the Victory abundantly delivered in the Gospel This tells us that by the Law sin entered into the World and death by sin i. e. death temporal and death eternal So that the sting of death is sin or the Consequent of sin and the strength of sin is the Law It tells us that death reigned over all in as much as all men had sinned That by the Law no flesh could be justified though it was in its nature holy just and good Yet it was become the ministry of condemnation That to take away the strength of sin which is the Law God sent his Son made under the Law to redeem them that were under the Law that to disarm death by taking away the sting thereof He who knew no sin was made sin That sin might not reign in us and death might no more have the Dominion over us That we might not be under the Law but under Grace He humbled himself to Death even the Death of the Cross. There He his own self bare our sins in his own body There he abolished in his flesh the Law of Commandments slaying the enmity thereof There He blotted out the hand-writing and took it out of the way nailing it to his Cross. There he died that by his death he might destroy him that had the power of death even the Devil There he spoyled Principalities and Powers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ● ostentavit eos triumphing over them in it Thus Christ the Captain of our Salvation obtained the Victory over death and hell obtained it for himself and for all his faithful Souldiers and followers Thus all of them have certitudinem objecti Every true believer is victorious over death in truth and in rei veritate But every one hath not in this life certitudinem subjecti This is not a general Interest to which men are entitled by Christianity but a special Grace and priviledge dispensed according to the peculiar prerogative of Gods Will and Pleasure Though Christianity and a just power of Contemning Death may be reciprocal yet Christianity and the actual exercise of the contempt of Death do not by necessity evince one another There are Children of light which walk in darkness working out their Salvation with perpetual fears and tremblings There are on the other side some that having no Charity are yet so far transported as to give their Bodys to be burned There is a way that seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are the paths of death So that the second Observation is limited and particular viz II. Through Christ it is given to some Believers to attain in this life to a settled contempt of death and enabling them to triumph over it This was the Case of St. Paul in the Text and the Case of many others He giveth us the victory saith St. Paul To clear this Observation I ought to shew how Christians come to obtain this priviledge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by and through Christ. To perform this fully it would be requisite to lay before you the Doctrines of the Merits of Christ and of the Grace of God and of the Application of them by Believers But being restrained by the occasion I shall only endeavour to shew that Christ and He indeed alone hath given his followers such a System of principles as is apt and able to bring them to a Rational contempt of Death Now this he hath done 1. By the Theory which he hath left the World concerning the State of the Vitâ functi or Deceased 2. By the assurance which he hath given the World of the truth of that Theory No other Theory supposing it to be true is in its nature able and apt to bring men to this heroic state No other dissenting Theory is or can be true Annihilation and misery Nature abhors and the only ground of a rational Contempt of death is a just expectation to advance and better a mans estate by dying This expectation arises only from a good Conscience To reduce a man to a good habit of Conscience nothing is powerful enough beside the powers of the World to come a right understanding and a deep Consideration of the Pe●sonal Rewards and Punishments of the World to come Now the true Theory concerning Personal Rewards and ●unishments was first of all clearly delivered to the World by our Lord Iesus Christ For 1. He it is that hath cleared the personal capacity of the rewards of the World to come 2. He it is who hath delivered plainly and clearly the Administration of the Rewards themselves 3. Christ has cleared the Capacity of personal rewards and this he hath done by his Doct●ine concerning 1. The Immortality of the Soul and 2. Of the Resurrection of the body First For the Immortality of the Soul Although the simple Apprehension of spiritual Beings The judging things contrary to the representation of sense as in the distance and magnitude of the Sun Moon and Stars The forming universal Pr●positions The Reasoning and Reflecting power of men The strugling betwixt the Sensual and Intellectual part of man The Lashes of Conscience in Wicked men always forecasting g●ievous things Although these and many other indications of Nature do evince that there is in living men something incorporeal and immortal And although beside and above these Indica●ions there are many passage in the Law and the ●rophets from whence the immortality of