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A01559 A defiance to death Being the funebrious commemoration of the Right Honourable, Baptist Lord Hickes, Viscount Camden, late deceased. Preached at Camden in Gloucester-shire, Nouember 8. 1629. By Iohn Gaule. Gaule, John, 1604?-1687. 1630 (1630) STC 11688; ESTC S102991 19,410 83

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life tooke away death from our life his death gaue life to our death The Text askes not this question O death what is thy sting yet doe the words following make answere to such a question The sting of death is sinne Death belike is not the sting of sinne but sinne the sting of death peccato enim morimur Anselm in l● non morte peccamus Sith we d●e indeed by sinning but sinne not by dying And as the words following answere to a question they aske not So my Text askes a question to which it answeres not O death where is thy sting It does not tell you where it is to tell you it is no where Death hath now no sting I am non est stimulus sed sibilus immo iubilus Reioyce all and be glad This Serpent may hisse at vs this Bee may buzze about vs but now can neither pricke nor sting The sting of death is gone there remaines but the name of death nay not the name of death to them that are in Christ Iesus Mors piorum non mors dicenda c. The death of the godly is not to bee called a death but a sleepe a resting from their labours a deliuery from their prison a laying downe their loade a flitting to their home Death hath lost her sting Death is now no punishment but a passage not so much an end of this present life as an entrance to a better not a destruction now but a dissolution separating body and soule for a time that so both may be conioyned with Christ to eternity Thus haue I askt this one thing of death O death where is thy sting Now let me aske this one thing of you why are you so desperately and forlornely afraid of death hauing heard and knowne how death hath lost her sting Oh saithlesse man and faint hearted Why tremblest thou now to incounter with thy last enemy since her weapon is taken from her Shrinkest thou so at the coldnesse of the Serpent when thou knowest her poyson and sting are both away Oh faithlesse and faint-hearted to be so afraid of a shadow Ah wretches why feare wee death so desperately that are not lost but sent before whom death vtterly destroyes not but eternity once receiues It is for them to feare death so desperately that passe from one death to another namely from a death of the body once on earth to the death of body and soule in hell for euer It is for them so forlornely to feare a temporall death that are either ignorant or desperate of eternall life It is for them so to feare their flittings that goe from their prison to the place of their execution But as for vs that are in Christ Iesus wee passe from a Prison to a Palace from a Dunghill to a Throne from a crazy and wretched Tabernacle to a certaine and blessed home Cypr. de mortal Eius est mortem timere qui non vult ad Christumire It is for them to feare to be dissolued that hope not to be with Christ A forlorne feare of death is but a despaire of life after death Men had rather suffer a great deale of paine and liue then dye but with a little paine the which betokens that it is something after death that is so fearefull and not death it selfe Let them then desire to linger in the miseries of this present life that so but delay awhile the torments of the life to come But as for vs that are in Christ Iesus after many our stormes and shipwracks why feare wee to arriue at our Hauen Hauing fought a good fight and finished our course why doubt we to goe and haue our crowne hauing runne our race why are we so loath to obtaine our price Why should we feare the threatnings of a temporall death that may reioyce in the promises of eternall life Rom. 14.8 Whether we liue wee liue vnto the Lord whether we dye we dye vnto the Lord therefore whether wee liue or dye we are the Lords Neither let vs bee so dissolute and prophane of life as therefore ashamed to liue nor so ignorant and negligent of death as therefore afraid to dye But at the instant of our seuerall flittings say euery one as a dying Saint Egredere quid times Hieron in vita Hilarion egredere anima mea c. Goe forth my soule why fearest thou goe forth Learne each soule to say at the last passage of his pilgrimage what though I dye I know my Redeemer liueth though I be dissolued from my selfe yet shall I bee conioyned with Christ Lye then downe my body and returne vnto thy dust mount thou aloft my soule and meet thy Sauiour in the ayre my body may be but wormes-meate for a while my soule I am assured shall be an Angels fellow for euer I haue done with my Text as concerning you before whom it hath beene vttered I am now onely to apply it to this honourable party for whom it was intended This honourable party your doletull spectacle and my Texts vntimely occasion This honourable party our Master Father Brother this honourable party whose honour for his person now lyes in the dust for his succession Lord let it long and much both continue and increase The blessed Saints of God learne many good lessons in their liues which they both teach and vse at their death Concerning this Saint now departed wee that heard can witnesse how well he had learnt to adapt the prayers and sayings of the faithfull and former Saints to his owne and instant necessities Luk. 2. He sang with Simeon Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace Hee prayed with Saint Paul desiring to be dissolued Phil. 1. and to be with Christ Yea said hee with both the lingring and longing Saints How long Lord how long Euen so come Lord Iesus Reu. 6. Reu. 22. come quickly One of these sweet sayings of his owne application had giuen me my Text to treat of saue that I considered this Text that I haue chosen did as much as intimate them all For to pray to depart to desire to be dissolued to call for the has●ening and to complaine of the deferring What other is all this but as in my Text earnestly to summon death O death and stou●y to daredeath where is thy sting Hee mentioned the departing hee expected the dissoluing but he neuer feared the stinging Hee knew hee should not be lost he should but depart therefore sayes he Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart c. He knew well death could but dissolue him it could not destroy him he therefore said I desire to be dissolued c. And this is no more then as if hee had demanded of death here in defiance O death where is thy sting As hee had thus said O death thou art death indeede and thou mayest dissolue mee but where is thy sting Sting hast thou none and therefore thou canst not destroy me It hath beene