afraid to be Happy Indeed were our Tombs the Everlasting Repositories of our moulded Ashes and the Grave a sad Closet of Eternal Sleep a Man had some reason to tremble at the apprehensions of Death and since the Day cannot arise but through the shadows of the Night and there is no transition to Heaven and Eternal Life but through the Chambers of a Temporal Death we should be content to go that way to Glory that our Saviour went before Venerable Job under the sad Tragedy of Misery with a Triumphant kind of Joy laid up in his Bosome this joyful expectation I know my Redeemer liveth and though Worms destroy this Body yet in my Flesh shall I see God The same individual Bodies that died will be raised Marvel not at this for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the Grave shall hear his voice and come forth And the Resurrection of our Bodies is assured by Christs Testimony the veracity of Christ is witnessed by his Resurrection for Christ is the first-fruits of them that sleep As the first Fruits are a sure demonstration and evidence of the near approach and drawing on of the Harvest so the Resurrection of Christ is a sure ground of hope and comfort for assuring us that all those who dye Christs Disciples shall rise to a Blessed Immortality He shall make us partakers of his Glory and bring us into those everlasting Habitations where dwells an undisturbed Peace where neither Diseases approach the Body nor Vices have access unto the Mind where shall be life without fear of Death and Joys without mixture of Sorrow In the Primitive Times at Funerals they were wont to sing Psalms of Thanksgiving The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Triumphant Song of St Paul O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory bringing them as Champions to the Grave as those that have passed the Pikes and finished their Course and kept the Faith and have conquered the World Sin and Death What cause is there now of Sorrow or Lamentation but rather of Joy and Gladness when we consider Deaths Errand it is our convoy to Heaven the dawning of an Eternal Day and Eve of a Glorious Festival the way wherein we must walk to Happiness If old Jacob when he saw the Chariots come from Aegypt his Heart did leap within him because he should see his Son Joseph We may imagine what a comfort it will be in the beatifical Vision when Adam shall see all his Grand-Children the Sons of Enos together Abraham his faithful Seed Moses his true Israelites Aaron his Spiritual Posterity John the Baptist shall see his Penitents Peter his Converts Paul his Followers the Angels shall see all their Wards God all his Sons Christ all his Members What a glorious appeaing will there be What a ravishing Heavenly Quire What an Anthem shall there be gloriously sung when the Gates of Heaven shall be as it were shut there being no more to enter and these made welcome by the mutual and ineffable embracements of God and Christ Christ now and his Believers like Joseph and Benjamin falling about each others Necks not weeping but shouting for Joy O that this confideration might have its proper operation in the Hearts and Minds of all so as to fear God and practise Religion that we may obtain a Glorious Reward for all Ornaments and Excellencies whether of Art Nature or Policy are but a dead thing unless they be animated and quickned with the power of Religion and fear of God therefore whether we aim at a Temporal or Spiritual good Religion is mainly to be magnified Many Blessings belong to the Religious which they enjoy in this Life The Riches of Grace are poured on them and the Word of Life is preach'd unto them their Thoughts are Heavenly and Hearts the Throne of the Holy Ghost their Tongues talk of the Praises of the Almighty and their Feet stand in the Temple of the Lord their Prayers are like Incense and the lifting up of their Hands as an Evening Sacrifice Who will not now become Religious to wear a Crown that never shall have an end after Death to have Angels their Companions and Saints their Fellows Heaven their dwelling Place and Pleasures of Paradise the recompence of their Reward If sumptuous and stately Buildings do delight what Habitation is so Magnificent and Glorious as the New Jerusalem If Riches what so Rich as that whose Foundation and Wall are of Precious Stones and Gates of Orient Pearls If Honour what Honour comparable to this to be Servants of the Most High the Sons of so mighty a King and Heirs of so Glorious a Kingdom where neither the Teeth of Time can consume nor Rancor of Envy deprive of Honour nor Power of Adversary spoil its Glory being endless and Incomprehensible There is no such gain as trading to Heaven to be Merchant Adventurers for Happiness all other things are nothing let this so raise your apprehensions as your Lives may be an Argument to prove it for if we do expect Salvation Mercy and Glory at the Hands of the Almighty we must be active in well doing Obedient to his Laws Confident in his Promises and Religious in his Service that so being followers of the Blessed Saints who are departed out of this Life in the Faith of Christ directing our Lives after their Good Example and particularly of this Pious Prince who has changed the Terrestrial Paradise of all his Kingdoms to be partaker of a Celestial One which is beyond the Power of Empire and grasps greater things than Authority or Command can compass his Name survives his Life and is anagram'd in the choicest Memories and stands in Renown amongst the greatest Worthies that either Pole can boast of being Embalm'd in Honour and whose Actions blossom in the Dust A voice from Heaven has declared Happiness to the Righteous Because blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord even so saith the Spirit for they rest from their labours and their works follow them NOW after the dayes of Mourning in England for the Death of Britain's Josiah the Great and Good King James the Second hath given us a day of rejoycing in the peaceable Accession to the Imperial Throne of these Kingdoms which hath been long and happily enjoyed by his Royal Ancestors and by an unquestionable Right and lineal Succession descends on his Sacred Majesty We have great cause to rejoyce when we consider our happiness that it hath pleased the Almighty God to give us for our King a Prince of the same Blood Son of Charles the Martyr and Brother to Charles the Good and Great and His Sacred Majesty has attained the Character of James the Just who is not only an Inheritor of the Crowns of his Royal Progenitors in all the Triumphs and Glories of a Coronation but of their Virtues And since the Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the Church it is the happiness of this Nation that the Seed of that Glorious Martyr of happy Memory is still to reign over us which turns our Tears into Joy and Exultation of Spirit praising and glorifying God for so great a Benefit We adore the Divine Goodness and acknowledge it a Miracle of Mercy by which he kept his Sacred Majesty in Store a Blessing in reserve for us who in the depth of our Affliction hath vouchsafed to bring us from Death to Life again by guiding us through the Horror of our Fears into a State of Security and Comfort by his Princely Word and Promise to follow the Example of our late Dread Sovereign in Clemency and Tenderness to his People And with equal Gratitude and hearts full of Duty and Allegiance we pay the Tribute of Thanks to his Sacred Majesty for his most Indulgent Declaration that he will take our Lives Liberties and Religion into his immediate Protection and the inviolable Steddiness of his Royal Word is that on which we rely with an intire Confidence for the Support and Enjoyment of our Establisht Religion a Religion that has been as his Majesty graciously observes and ever will be for the Maintenance of Monarchy And as our Church is the Rule to us of a pure and unspotted Loyalty so it is not possible we should lose the one since his most Illustrious Majesty is so graciously pleas'd to preserve the other And what can we desire more on this side Heaven than that we live under his auspicious Reign safe in our Religion and Properties What better pledges could we have asked for them than what we have his Sacred Word which hath made us intirely secure and hath left us nothing now to wish or pray for save only that it would please Almighty God by a merciful and over ruling Providence to defeat the Malice and to frustrate and disappoint all the Conspiracies of his Enemies And we humbly beseech the Great God the King of Kings to preserve his Sacred Majesty in Health and Happiness to prosper all his Affairs at home and abroad and make all his Subjects truly Loyal and Obedient and establish his Royal Throne many and many Years that he may long and happily Reign over us to the utmost period of Humane Nature and when the Crown shall slide from his Sacred Temples be at last translated to an Eternal Throne of Glory Amen Amen FINIS Gen. 3. 19. Gen. 2. 17. Gen. 5. Heb. 9. 27. Eccl. 12. 14. Matt. 25. 31. 32. Ib. 34. 41. M 〈…〉 25. 46. Dan. 12. 2. 18. 14. Psal 146. 4. Eccl. 2. 1 Eccl. 11. 9. Job 17. 14. Job 4. 19. Cant. 2. 3. Prov. 20. 28. Psal 19. 1. Isal 61. 8. John 25 8. 2 Chron. 8. 14. 2 Chr. 35. 24. Matt. 11. 29. 1 Pet. 5. 5. Jam. 4. 6. Tom. 2. Matt. 5. 41. Psal 112. 9. Isai 57. 2. Job 19. 25 26 27. Joh. 5. 28. John 11. 25. Acts 10. 38 39 40 41. 1 Cor. 15. 20. 1 Cor. 15. 14 15. 1 Cor. 15. 5. Revel 14. 13.
A LOYAL TEAR Dropt on the VAULT OF THE High and Mighty PRINCE CHARLES II. Of Glorious and Happy Memory 2 Chron. 35. 24. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah By HENRY ANDERSON M. A. Vicar of Kingsumborne in Hampshire LONDON Printed for Luke Meredith at the Kings Head in St Paul's Church-Yard 1685. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND FATHER in GOD PETER Lord BISHOP of WINTON AND PRELATE of the GARTER MY LORD THE actings of Providence are no less various than unsearchable and it is both a pleasant and pious Employment to observe and meditate on Gods miraculous proceedings with Mankind For Providential Dispensations are discoveries of the Wisdom and Goodness of God in disposing of the conditions of his People whereby they may best glorifie him in whatever befalls them in this Temporal Life because a true Christian does as seriously study the Celestial Sphere and occurrences of Divine Providence as others do the Terrestrial Globe of this Corruptible Earth And since it has pleased Almighty God to speak to this Nation and Kingdom by the Messenger of Death in taking to his infinite Mercy our late Gracious Soveraign King Charles it must be acknowledg'd the bounty of a Divine Hand and we are bound to adore the Wisdom and Benignity of Heaven as S. Hierom suggested to Paula concerning the Death of Blaesilla whatsoever a good God doth cannot be bad therefore we must submit to the Divine Providence in translating that blessed Prince to a more glorious station to a Kingdom that cannot be shaken which is above all possibility of decay being incorruptible and fades not away Eternal in the Heavens Though the gain be his yet the loss is ours for when a good Prince dies a general damp and consternation seises the hearts of all Loyal Subjects because publick Calamity charges every Man with a rate of sorrow proportionable to the tenure of his understanding and the Memory of his late Majesty may justly oblige all his People to an excess of Tears as a signal of grief and Your Lordship comes in as a Chief Mourner who has had the Emanations of his Royal Favour which incourages my confidence to implore Your Lordships Patronage whereunto if you will vouchsafe to give the least approbation I shall not despair of the more favourable Censures of others and therefore it intreats Your Candid Interpretation and Acceptance of these Dedicatory Lines as a sincere Testimony of my Duty And that Your Lordship would be pleased to place me in the number of those that honour Your true Worth not only as to Episcopal Jurisdiction inspecting the Flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made You Overseer but also to Your Bounty and Liberality which sounds as far as your Name and displays the Ensign of Your Dignity worthy of double Honour for Your Generous and Brave Mind al must needs acknowledge and pay You Homage and Obeisance as Joseph's Brethren did to him with the greatest Veneration in which respect my most honoured Diocesan I am no less than Your Lordship's most Obedient Son and humble Servant HENRY ANDERSON A LOYAL TEAR Dropt on the VAULT OF THE High and Mighty PRINCE CHARLES II. THE frequent Objects of Mortality even of the greatest Monarchs daily presented before our Eyes should make us carefully to manage the moments of our Mortal Life Walking circumspectly not as Fools but as Wise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 redeeming the time because it is enacted by the Statute Law of Heaven semel mori and written indelibly in the Dust That all must Dye If Adam had stood in his Primitive Glory and not fell from his Original Purity in the state of Innocency we had not known what Death or Misery had meant but continued a piece of Immortality to this very Day but Adam in an instant after he had sinned became Mortal no sooner Sin entred into his Soul but mortality and corruption immediately entered into his Body then the parcels of Dust that were bound together by the bond of innocency were shaken loose by the grosser spots of Sin our first Parents disobedience contracted and involv'd their Posterity in a Labyrinth of Miseries and our Misery is not of yesterday but as antient as the first Criminal and our perplexities almost coaeval with Humane Nature The Day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely Dye viz. thou shalt be guilty of Death and thy Body shall that very hour become Mortal subject to infinite number of Chances Diseases and Old Age continually decaying unto the last Destruction of this Bodily Mass languishing to its fatal period and hastening to the dark Cells of the Grave which are the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dormitories and sleeping Places of the Dead till the joyful Morning of the Resurrection Death insults over the frailties of Mankind for all the Tombs and Charnels of the World are but so many Monuments of Deaths Conquests and the instability of Humane Greatness how all things on this side Heaven are fleeting and transitory If I should procure you a Painter to pencil Death he would shew you a grim Anatomy with a lean Body a pale Face and a wann Countenance c. That which hath devoured the World so many times over like Pharaoh's lean Kine is as lean as ever The Bell still toles for the voluptuous Epicure and the Earth that insatiable Grave longs for his corpulent Body to feast Worms The swift motion of the Heavens roles up the thread of our Lives and the fleet Horse on which Death runs is still posting after us Crowns nor Scepters can't secure from the Artillery of Death There is no confidence to be placed in Humane Prosperity for neither Kingdom Empire nor any Greatness whatsoever can secure their owners from ruine Behold Andronicus cloathed in Purple adored by Nations commanding the East his Temples enriched with a Royal Diadem the Imperial Scepter in his Hands and his very Shoes studded with Oriental Gemms yet pays his Life as Tribute to Death so that the Majesty of the greatest Monarchs are subject to perish Think upon this seriously that the Gates of Death are ever open and the Enemy lies continually in ambush to assault u◠nay there is not a Vein or Artery but is a Room in Natures Work-house wherein our humours as so many Cyclops's are forging those Instruments of Mortality and in an instant hurry us into our Graves Every Day Hour and Moment wears away a part of our Life and so much as is already spent so far we are already Dead So that the longest liver as the Antediluvian Patriarchs witness is no more but only longer a dying than others It is appointed saith the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unto Men once to dye but after this to Judgment where they shall receive for the deeds of the Body whether it be good or evil They that have done good to the resurrection of life and they that have done evil unto eternal damnation This proclaims our happiness or
misery and as it tells the danger so in all reason it should awaken our care but Heaven and Hell are Vtopia's in conceit saith the Atheist and no where exist but in melancholy distemper'd Brains The joys of the one promised to a virtuous and holy Life are only pleasant Fancies and torments of the other denounced against Vice and Impiety but fearful Dreams Our Saviour who knows it best hath described unto us the management of the whole affair and the different Portions of the good and bad When the son of man saith St Matthew shall come in his glory and all the holy angels with him all nations shall be gathered before his throne and he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats To the good the King shall say Come ye blessed a Benediction far surpassing that of the old Patriarchs and putting down the dew of Hermon which dispersed it self over the Mountain of Sion Here thou shalt dwell for ever in a Land flowing with Milk and Honey of Divine Blessing abounding with the Bread of Angels and Heavenly Manna freed from all Captivity by the presence of our Lord. But unto the Wicked Go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Be gone thou cursed Fig-Tree thou art not worthy to take Root in blessed Earth to have any place in the Garden of my delight and they are not only eternally exiled from the Glorious Residence of Heaven but their Doom is sealed up to infernal Flames delivered over into the power of the Dragon without all hopes of escaping from him who will seize upon their Souls and carry them to the Abyss of Hell there to be tormented for ever And these shall go saith the Evangelist into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal Men being adjudged rewards and punishments in a future state or life to come sutable to their actions in this World was a general resentment among the Heathens as Justin Martyr truly tells the Greeks in his Oration to them That not only the Prophets and other Divine Persons of the Old Testament but also those that were accounted wise among the Heathens both Poets and Philosophers did acknowledge a Judgment to come after Death If the thoughts of the Worlds last Day filled St Hierom's Heart with such a dread as made him lose both his food and repose because the voice of the Arch-Angels Trumpet sounded incessantly in his imagination surgite mortui venite ad judicium Arise ye Dead and come to Judgment What weight should that Eternal Doom have in all our Hearts that shall crown the Just with Glory and Immortality but involve the Wicked in quenchless flames Death is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 said an Heathen Philosopher which in Job's Language may be rendered the King of Terrors Nature shrinks when we see the pale-horse of Death approaching It is a sharp corrosive to most Men and Women in the World when they think of the separation of these dear Companions the Soul and Body the two constitutive parts of Man His breath goeth forth saith the Psalmist there is the egress of the one and he returns to his Earth there is the regress of the other the one is verified in ipso articulo mortis in the very point of Death the other is most evident in sepultura corporis at the time of Burial they have slept their sleeep and all the Men whose hands were mighty have found nothing The Life of Man is but of little value and all his Honour but contemptible because Mortality is the disgrace of all sublunary things With David the Psalmist Royal I may call him a vain shadow and with the Holy Prophet less than nothing and altogether lighter than vanity it self were it nor for Eternity Consider now the Day is far spent the Night is hastning and spreading its wings over us the Grave expects us and bids other Corps make room Death is ready to grasp us in its cold Arms and hale us to the dreadful Tribunal and yet how little of our great Work is done we burn away our precious Days and miserably wast our light and Life we exhaust our strength and lavish out our affections on fond Toys and Nothings ȧs if Eternity were to be expected here and none hereafter Is the blind and the lame a sacrifice for the great God shall we devote the flower of our Youth to Vanity and Folly and can we think the Majesty of Heaven will accept of the frozen and cold affections of decrepit Old Age he may surely say go to the Gods that ye have serv'd therefore let us remember our Creator in the morning of our Youth not consuming our Days in Vanity and Years in Folly letting the delights and pleasures of this World steal away our Hearts and Affections from God our Maker drawing us from true Happiness The young Man may rejoyce but not so as to forget his Creator and if they live many years and triumph in them all yet let them consider the days of darkness It is not Crowns Imperial nor Thrones nor Diadems that can escape the great Assize The last judgment is such a day as neither Wisdom nor Riches nor Honours can deliver them from it The Minions of the world may brave it awhile as the only Favorites and Darlings of the age they may swim in a stream of Gold and tumble in Arabian Spices but know for all these things God will bring you into judgment therefore the vast concernments of an everlasting state requires the most serious thoughts and consideration both of Prince and People Every object should read something to our observation either of our own mortality or excite us to piety and holiness that so by the memory of death we may learn to live in Gods holy fear that we may die in his favour and dwell in those everlasting habitations of glory and happiness The Romans of old did put a Sergeant in the triumphal chariot to keep the Conqueror amidst all his triumphs within bounds of moderation and sobriety of Spirit by crying to him Memento te esse mortalem Remember thou art a mortal Man Philip King of Macedon directed his Page to call at his chamber door with this morning Salutation Memento mori Remember death and so put him in mind that in the midst of all enjoyments they are still but Stewards and know not how soon our Lord may summon us to appear at the great Audit Saladine also the puissant Emperor of Persia who had extended the limits of his Empire by many victories and successful battles and being in no pitched field ever vanquished or overcome at last falling mortally sick caused one of his chief Commanders to hang his Winding sheet on a staff and to proclaim in the streets of Persia This is all he can have of his many conquests nisi parva quod urna capit but what may suffice to bury
to attain so much as a shadow of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he is always in Impatience Patience is too beautiful for his deformed Nature and crooked disposition being a composition of all those lovely Vertues and Graces of the Holy Spirit to which he is a perfect stranger To die by a Persecutor it s Martyrdom in open work but to suffer injuries and love our hater it is Martyrdom in heart Let Baptism be your Armour Faith your Helmet Love your Spear but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Patience Cap-a-pe your whole Armour of defence it is the sweetest Salve to mishap or desire of revenge the truest Remedy of Injuries and the Shield against Wrongs because through Patience in well-doing we seek for Glory and Honour Life and Immortality It is great Fortitude if being hurt to forgive It is great Glory if thou mightest punish and yet to Pardon This was one of the Gemms in the Crown of his late Majesty that he exercised a Soveraignty over all his Subjects with a rejoycing and delightful kind of Patience which does eternize his Memory and blazon his Honour to Posterity even his auspicious and most gentle Government and Chronicle will free me from the least tincture of flattery if any think I am beyond the bounds either of Sincerity or Truth Now if the Prophet Jeremiah composed the whole sorrowful structure of his Lamentations on the mournful Obsequies of the Good King Josiah shall not the English World weep out Elegies and condole the Death of the Royal Charles the light of our Eyes and breath of our Nostrils of whom we said under his shadow we shall live among the Heathen Thirdly His wonderful Beneficence or Christian Charity displays it self First In forgiving his Enemies when they had forsaken their Allegiance by acts of Rebellion and his late Majesty could have crush'd them with the Hand of Greatness yet he made an act of Indemnity or Oblivion the vehicle of his Kindness which speaks his Kingly Beneficence that he was a Patron of Goodness and Charity and gives us occasion to discern how transporting a delight it is to a Noble and Generous Mind to be an Instrument of good to others As the bountiful light in the Body of the Sun illuminates and beautifies all the Orbs and Heavenly Bodies about it by the projection of its beams it begets all the Beauty Glory Sweetness we have here below on the Earth and it is so communicative of doing good as it never restrains the free Communication of its Influence and Glory until it determine by natural and necessary expiration Even so proportionably his late Majesty as the Sun did cherish and enliven Terrestrial Bodies and folded not up his Rays but dispensed them freely so that his Princely Clemency and Charitable Disposition like a rich Fountain did run with large streams of Goodness which renders his Deceased Majesty deservedly honoured by all his Subjects for all things that have an affinity with the Heavens have a communicative Goodness and move upon the Center of another which they benefit and Man may be by so much Neighbour to the Gods by how much he doth good beyond requital for self is a poor Center of a Mans actions but to do good to others begets a strong reflection of Majesty and Honour O that all those who pretend to greatness of Mind would copy out this Munificence taing all Opportunities 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to do good for 't is goodness which sits gloriously Triumphant at the Top of Heaven and uncharitableness lies miserably grovelling under the bottom of Hell Heaven descends from one as its principal Cause Hell is built on the other as its main Foundation as the one approximates the Blessed Angels to God and beatifies them so the other removeth the cursed Fiends to such a distance from God and Happiness saith a Reverend Divine not to wish not to do any good It is true Nobleness and carrys with it the signatures of Majesty and Greatness Honour and Piety to be of a large diffusive Spirit exercising Bounty and Mercy as holy Athanasius in his Works affirms that Mercifulness is the Queen of Vertues and his late Majesty whose Sacred Memory we celebrate did practise this high piece of Christian Perfection according to the Prescriptions of our Lord in forgiving his Enemies which shews that Goodness and Charity as Fruit did grow on this Royal Tree Secondly His Kingly Munificence and Liberality not only to the Tribe of Levi but to all that implored his Royal Favour dispensing of his Treasures to the supply of the needy and putting on Bowels of Mercy to those in want and necessity giving Bread to the Hungry and cloathing the naked with a garment And one Charitable Action performed in Obedience to the Divine Command will be more conducive to our Eternal Welfare than the value of innumerable Worlds Therefore this Pious Prince was inclined to acts of Beneficence and Compassion who now injoys the happy consequences thereof for Bread cast upon the Waters is trajectitia pecunia Money for which you take a Bill of Exchange from God and it meets you in a far Country no Robbers by Land no Piracies by Sea no unfaithfulness of Factors no violence of Tempests shall take it from you He hath dispersed he hath given to the poor saith the Psalmist and his righteousness endureth for ever And so Goodness and Charity did shine in this Mighty Monarch like the precious Stones in Aarons Breast-Plate There is no felicity now a wanting to this illustrious Monarch but that of Virginius Ruffus to have another Tacitus to write his Funeral Obsequies those just Encomiums and Praises due to his rare and singular Perfections for Vertues are Copies drawn for imitation and left as paths for succeeding Ages to tread in Regis ad Exemplum totus componitur Orbis And his late Majesty being Dead yet speaks by his Royal Example to all his loving Subjects in the Language of the Holy Apostle Be ye followers of me as I was of Christ in Faith and Hope Humility and Meekness Charity and Patience till you come ad interior a velaminis above the reach of dull Mortality filling up those seats of Blessedness and triumphing in the Glories of a Saviour Death however we figure it with the Pencil of Fancy yet it does but rend the vail of Mortality and lets the Soul into the Palace of inestimable Majesty where we shall not only behold Jesus in all his Glory but receive the utmost effects of his mighty Love and live with him for ever in Heavenly Places The quality of the Grave is alter'd since Christ slept there it was a Prison now a Chamber of repose The Prophet Isaiah speaking of the Death of the faithful saith They shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds for Death of a formidable Enemy is made a Friend and a Blessing in Christ a passage from the Valley of Tears to the Kingdom of Glory Now who would be