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A04823	A sermon preached in Saint Maries Church in Oxford March 26. 1612. at the funerall of Thomas Holland, Doctor of the Chaire in Divinitie, and Rector of the Exceter College, by Richard Kilbie Doctor of Divinity, Rector of Lincolne College	Kilbye, Richard, 1560 or 61-1620.	1613 (1613)	STC 14957; ESTC S107985	13,669	24

maladie and disease In like manner God the Physition of mens soules who gaue his law as a soveraigne medicine to preserue them from sicknesse and from sinne is not to be blamed or his law in fault but sinfull man who maketh that soveraigne medicine as poyson vnto his soule to increase his sinne Thus you haue heard how the Law is the strength of sinne I come now to the victory cōquest of Christians in their head and Captaine Christ Iesus over sinne and death Thankes bee vnto God which hath given vs victory tbrough our Lord Iesus Christ When mankind was not able to encounter with Death that great Giant which did overcome all people by his power did trample vpon Kings Princes tyrannizing over all at his pleasure for indeede death was like that mighty King Prov. 39. who had his name of a compound Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Alkum Prov. 30 31. and is as much to say as none is able to stand or rise vp against him like Iosua the Captaine of Israel for as he shut Kings Princes in caues of the earth Ios. 10 18. and roaled great stoces vpon the mouthes of the caues Ios 10.50 So death shutteth the greatest Emperors and Kings in caues in graves and rowleth great stones vpon the mouthes thereof maketh great tombes ouer them I say when mankind was not able to enter listes combate with this potent tyrant but was forced to yeeld lie down at his feet Then Christ Iesus that blessed sonne of God and sonne of David 1. Sam. 17. encountreth like his father David with this great Goliah and with a strong maner of fight overcommeth him not with any instrument weapon of warre or by fighting but by dying Hee slayeth death as David did Goliah with his owne sword 1 Sam. 17.51 He overcommeth Death with death Dum occiditur occidit Hieronym lib. 2. Epist 24. as St Hierome speaketh whilst Sathan and death sought to kill him he killeth them both maketh his death their death as it was prophecied of him Hos 13. O Death Hos. 13.14 I will be thy death O graue I will be thy destruction Christi enim morte mors mortua est by Christs death Death died Devorauit Hieronym vbi supra devorata est it sought to devoure and it selfe was devoured for whereas it sought to catch at mans humanity it was devoured of his deitie And even therefore according to the Apostle Heb. 2. Heb. 2.14 did Christ take flesh and blood vpon him that so hee might die in his flesh and through death destroy Death and him that hath the power of Death that is the Devill So that Christ hath carried away the gates of death Iudg. 16.3 Iudg. 16.30 as Samson sometimes did the gates of Azza and hath like another Samson by his death slaine the great Philistines even sinne and death and the Divell But some peradventure will say how hath Christ overcome death how hath his death taken away death seeing death raigneth and ruleth now as much in mens bodies since Christs death as before and men die as fast as before For answer herevnto you must consider that there bee two manners of death the one of the body the other of the soule the one temporall the other eternall Now this eternal spiritual death of the soule Christ hath already taken away In re indeed actually destroying that in all the faithfull through remissiō of their sinnes in his blood But the temporall death of the body hee hath only taken away In spe in hope of the glorious resurrection of the body at the last day when death shall be swallowed vp into victory 1. Cor. 15.54 Revel 21.4 and when there shall be no more death For this corporall death which is a temporall punishment of originall sinne Alex. ab Alex. part 4. qu 8. membr 8. Artic. 2. Christ hath not taken away Simpliciter simply and altogither but quoad dominium only as the Schoolemen speake that is the power and dominion of death is taken away by Christ as appeareth Rom. 5. where it is said that death raigned from Adam to Moses Rom. 5.14 that is all the time of the Law inclusiuely Psal 68.18 evē vntill Christ who by his death hath destroyed the kingdome of death and hath led captivitie captiue And therefore this tyrant Death whose kingdome is alreadie actually destroyed though it selfe shall not be fully destroyed vntill the end of the world for the last enimie that shall be destroyed is Death I say 1. Cor. 15.26 this tyrant Death being thus depulsed and driven out of his kingdome Origen in c. 5. ad Rom. Nō tam regnare quàm latrocinari videtur doth not so much seeme to raigne and play the Tyrant as to play the theefe and murtherer to kill men And this power of death Christ hath not taken away August lib 13. de Civit. Dei Cap. 4. Ne fides enervaretur quae corporis immortalitatem in spe exspectat quam in re nondum habet as St. Augustine giueth the reason namely for the further exercise of that part of a Christiā mans faith whereby he constantly beleeues the immortality of the body hereafter which in this life it cannot haue Yea Christ may bee said in some manner already to haue taken away even the corporall death also in the godly inas much as he hath taken away sinne which is the sting of death and as it were the forme and life of death So that as hony is not truely honie when it hath lost its sweetnesse nor Vineger truely vinegar when it hath lost its tartnesse and sharpnesse nor Aloes and Gall truly so when they haue lost their bitternes no more is the death of the righteous truely death hauing lost its bitternesse Psal 69.21 and fearefulnesse and terrours in the godly The gall and vineger which Christ dranke a little before his death hath taken away the gall and bitternesse of the death of the faithfull in whom death hath lost as the greatest part of its nature so even the very name of it too it being in them no more but a sleepe as it is called in diverse places of holy Scripture 1. Thess 4.15 whereof for brevitie sake I will name but one 1. Thess 4. where it is said that they which liue and are remaining at the comming of the Lord in the resurrection shall not prevent those that sleepe that is all those that are dead before Wherefore to draw towardes a conclusion of this point it doth appeare how the faithfull are conquerours in Christ their head and Captaine over sinne and death for Christs victory is their victory because all his fighting with sinne and death and the Divel the great and capitall enimies of mankind was only to make men his faithfull members Conquerours so that they may say with St Paule in my Text that God hath given