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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03427	The last sermon preached before his Maiesties funerals at Denmark house: on Tuesday the third of May. / By Phinees Hodson Dr of Diuinitie, one of his Maiesties chaplaines.	Hodson, Phineas, d. 1646.	1625 (1625)	STC 13552; ESTC S104134	13,284	28

earth wee sometimes lose our Seruices sometimes our Lords and Masters but Nullum tempus occurrit Deo his tenure holds throughout all Generations It s true Nor Servus Meus nor Amicus noster will serue for Priviledge in the case of death but Servus Meus Mortuus Amicus noster dormit onely remember this if Servus Meus and Amicus noster and hee whom Christ loued bee dead Iohn 11.3 why should any man bee afraid If death were a Scorpion Servus Meus and Amicus noster should not bee endangered by it then let sinne raigne to death so Grace also raigne vnto righteousnesse thorow Iesus Christ vnto eternall life Rom. 5. So then nor Servus nor Servus Meus exclude Mortuus But if Death bee not afraid like Aaron and Miriam to set vpon my Seruant dare it aduenture vpon Moses may not hee bee priuiledged whose life was a booke not of Lamentations and mournings and woes Ezek. 2. though euen of these it had reasonable store of marginall notes but a booke of Priuiledges and Miracles and strange obseruations such as set him aside the world neuer had among the Sons of men Begin at his birth In the Edict against the male Children hee was priuiledged and preserued from death When Pharaoh sought his life for slaying the Egyptian then was hee likewise priuiledged Exod. 2. yea in those Wonders which hee wrought in Pharaohs Court hee was so priuiledged that the wrath of the King was not onely no messenger of death but he did fawne vpon Moses as if he would licke the dust of his feet I haue sinned against GOD and against you and I pray you forgiue mee this once Exod. 10.17 Aaron was great yet was Moses his God Exod. 4. Pharaoh was a great King yet was Moses his God too Exod. 7. And as God hee not onely receiued but gaue priuiledges Was it not a great priuiledge that hee gaue vnto the Israelites that they should not wet their feet where Pharaoh was drown'd and all his hoast Exod. 14. No maruell if hee made the Sea a Wall to the Israelites that drew water out of the Rocke for the Israelites The Sea nothing more fluid the Rocke nothing more hard and the Rocke againe a Riuer that still Moses life was a succession of priuiledges Nor was his Power confined to the Earth or Sea it reached to Heauen where it brought downe Manna for their bread and Quailes for their food And may not this Man of priuiledges bee priuiledged to goe some other way but by the gates of death euen Moses must passe to life Hee that had beene so long entertained by Angels food in the Mount that when hee came downe his face did shine as if hee had beene transfigured so as they were afraid to looke vpon him may not He bee translated to heauen body and soule together but that skinne once so bright must bee eaten with wormes GOD intreated Moses Let mee alone as if without his leaue hee could doe nothing that I may consume them hee offers him faire conditious so indulgent was GOD to Moses that hee would buy his consent Let mee consume them and I will make of thee a mighty people Exod. 32.10 And Moses preuailed with GOD but GOD could not preuaile with Moses for Moses prayed and chid verse 11 Why doth the wrath of my Lord waxe hot against his people And pleads verse 12. Lest the Aegyptians say hee brought them malitiously out of Aegypt to destroy thē Yea in the same verse hee importunes GOD yet further Turne from thy fierce wrath nay challenges GOD of his word verse 13. Remember Abraham Isaac and Iacob yea charges him with his oath which thou swarest vnto them Then after all this the Lord changed his minde from the euill he meant to bring vpon them You see his Priviledges and you see his power but neuer a word on Gods part that he shall not die neuer a word on his owne part that hee may not die Hee that would not let GOD alone for his people lets him alone for himselfe neuer opens his mouth but hearing of death as a thing that neuer troubled him hee addresseth himselfe to dispatch such businesse as was fit for a man of his qualitie and place And being ready to depart out of the world hee blessed the people went vp to the mount and there hee dyed I said before if Seruus Meus dye why should any man feare Now if Moses bee dead none shall escape One example we haue before the Law Gen. 5. Enoch was taken away and was no more seene and the same GOD that dispensed with one before priuiledged one other in the time of the Law but long after in the times of Iehoram King of Iuda Elijah in a whirewinde was caried vp to Heauen 2 King 2. GOD vouchsafing to those seuerall ages of the world demonstrations of our immortality But this was extraordinarie two there were and but two to shew that wee are bound and hee is not but hath a transcendent power ouer all the workes of his hands Nor was hee frequent in making such grants lest any man should challenge and those rather to good than to great men And though in Elijahs time when devotion grew cold fifty sonnes of the Prophets were allowed to bee witnesses it was not yeelded to in Enoch's time none were then suffered to bee present yea it is deliuered in obscure tearmes Enoch was taken away not taken vp so wary was GOD in passing such grants The best then must die Servus meus and Amicus noster GODS seruants and friends all are dead and the greatest cannot escape For if Moses so great and besides all ye haue heard so honored that many ages after GOD reviueth his memory and saith Though Moses stood before mee I would not bee intreated Ier. 15.1 If Moses so famous to posterity and whose memory is so frequent in the Scriptures that it is mentioned aboue an hundred and twenty times in the old Testament after his death and almost as often in the new and that by many honourable testimonies euen from our Sauiour Christ himselfe if hee might not be spared let all generations submit themselues to that condition which the best and greatest haue vndergone Then let not strength presume hee whose eye was not dimme nor naturall force abated when hee was an hundred and twenty yeeres old is dead Deut. 34. Let not courage he that so brauely slew the Egyptian in the defence of his Country-man is himselfe dead Let not beauty the glorious Countenance of Moses 2 Cor. 3.7 is now become dust and ashes Let not power magnifie it selfe hee that destroyed Pharaoh and all his people euen Moses is laid downe and cannot rise vp Let not wisdome and learning boast his thoughts are perished that was learned in all the knowledge of the Aegyptians Acts 7. Let not authority and pre-eminence Pharaohs God and Aarons God a man greater thē the Pope wold be thought to be aboue Prince aboue Priest is now