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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02414	Pieties pillar: or, A sermon preached at the funerall of mistresse Elizabeth Gouge, late wife of Mr. William Gouge, of Black-friers, London With a true narration of her life and death. By Nicholas Guy, pastor of the church at Edge-ware in Middlesex.	Guy, Nicholas, b. 1587 or 8.	1626 (1626)	STC 12543; ESTC S103587	19,555	63

exitus but transitus not obitus but abitus not a dying but a departing A transmigration and exodus out of our earthly pilgrimage vnto our heauenly home Fratres mortui saith Saint Augustine non sunt amissi sed praemissi Profectio est saith Tertullian quam putas mortem A passage from the valley of death to the land of the liuing That all true Beleeuers departing hence are still aliue is euident by the words of our Sauiour that God who is the God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob is not the God of the dead but of the liuing If the father of the faithfull be still aliue no doubt but so are all his children who departed hence in the faith of their father Death to them is but a sleepe So is it said of Dauid of Salomon and of other Kings of Israel and of Iuda that they slept with their fathers So in the New Testament such as are dead in the Lord are said to sleepe in Christ So great a resemblance is there between sleepe and death that sleepe is called by Ouid mortis imago by Virgil consanguineus Lethi Seneca cals it the brother Hesiode the Sister of death Sleepe is a kinde of death and death a kinde of sleepe I would not haue you to bee ignorant saith the Apostle brethren concerning them which are asleepe that yee sorrow not euen as others which haue no hope For if wee beleeue that Iesus died and rose againe euen so them also which sleepe in Iesus will God bring with him The Apostle saith that the Christ the Lord who giues life to all things is dead and mortall man saith he sleepeth which manner of speech at the first sight may seeme strange but there is good reason for it For wee therefore sleepe because Christ died His death made our death but a sleepe Christ by his bitter death made death sweet vnto vs made it I say but the very shadow of death so that death cannot hurt vs because Christ hath taken away sinne the sting thereof O death where is thy sting Lastly though their bodies sleepe in the graue yet their soules liue a glorified life in heauen So that the Saints departed are dead in their worst part onely but liuing in their best euen in that wherein they desire to liue most as Martial an Heathen Poet diuinely Sed lugere nefas nam quite Prisce reliquit Viuit qua voluit viuere parte magis Sith death then to the true Beleeuers in Christ is but a sleepe a passage from misery to eternall happinesse Let vs sing with old Simeon a nunc Dimittis and reioyce that our warfare all our combates and conflicts with the world the flesh and the diuell are ended So long as we are in this world wee must continually fight against those lusts which fight against our soules When we haue conquered couetousnesse lust riseth vp against vs when carnall concupiscence is suppressed ambition takes place when ambition and pride are foyled drunkennesse endeuours to draw vs on to eternall destruction I know that the men of this world count it their blisse to be caried away by the world the flesh and the Diuell and to doe seruice vnto them But the children of God account it their bane to bee in any the least subiection vnto them and therefore doe they continually band themselues against them Blame them not therefore though they reioyce when the combate is ended and all their enemies conquered and crowned What Souldier is not glad when the combate is ended and his enemie conquered who in a great tempest at Sea would not gladly be in a quiet and calme harbour and who in the sea of this tempestuous world would not giue this world to arriue at the hauen of eternall happinesse here is nothing but wailing and weeping Who would not bee there where all teares are wiped away Our Sauiour told his Apostles being sorrowfull for his departure If yee loued me yee would reioyce because I goe to my Father To me saith S. Paul to liue is Christ to dye is gaine Let him therefore dread death who is not borne againe of water and of the Holy Ghost but remaines enthralled to the flames of hell fire Let him feare to die who shall passe from the naturall death to eternall Let him I say be daunted when death drawes nigh who when hee shall passe out of this world shall eternally be tormented in the flames of hell fire but let all true Beleeuers in Christ Iesus whose home is heauen with the Traueller thinke the time long till they returne home to their owne countrey where after the wearisome trauell of this life they shall liue eternally in all rest and happinesse Thus much of my Text. GIue mee leaue to adde a few words about the particular occasion of this our meeting which is euident by the obiect here before our eyes and maketh vnto vs a visible Sermon of our mortalitie For it is a dead corps which was within these few dayes the receptacle of the euer-liuing soule of Mistris Elizabeth Gouge A soule which while it remained in that receptacle enabled the same thorow the good grace of God infused into it to doe much honour to God and good to man Which that I may the better demonstrate vnto you I will make bold to set before you a briefe iust and true view of the whole course of her life that though the substance of her soule bee now taken from among vs to be among those i●… spirits which are made perfect in heauen and her bodie to be couered from ou● sight in the earth in assured hope o● the Resurrection thereof to eternal life yet her graces may remaine fresh among vs for the greater consolation of her friends and imitation of vs all Shee was the daughter of such Parents as while they liued were of very good note and name Her father Mr Henry Calton was a Mercer and Citizen in London of good worth Her mother was of a good Gentlemans house Mr Cois of Stubbers in Essex Both her Parents died while she was yong and had not her Mothers owne brother Master William Coys taken vpon him the tuition of his Sisters children they had beene made a prey But he like a good Mordecai brought vp his said Sisters children which were three in number a sonne who was drowned in swimming while he was a youth and two daughters the eldest whereof was this Gentlewoman whose Funerall wee now solemnize The yonger still liueth being maried to the yonger brother of this Gentlewomans husband Such was the said Guardians care ouer these Orphanes as after he had trained them vp some while in his owne house for their better education hee put them forth to board in a pious painfull faithfull Ministers house Master Huckles by name of Hatfield-Broad-oake in Essex whose wife had a great name and that not without iust desert for skill and faithfull care in training vp yong

wee would a man of his word giue credit to whatsoeuer hee hath said this wee may doe to the Prophets and Apostles but we must come neerer him then so which is the third to beleeue in him which implies a dependency and resolution to cleaue vnto him As wee apprehend Christ so must wee likewise be apprehended of Christ for Faith hath as it were two hands one receiuing Christ from God the other giuing the Beleeuer to God and both these hands ●…t vseth at one and the selfe same time At the same time that the Beleeuer applies Christ to his owne heart he applies his heart to Christ and cleaues to him with full purpose of ●oule This was notably shadowed out vnder the Ceremoniall Law in the coniunction of the sin-offering which pointed out Christ and the burnt-offering which as Saint Paul hath interpreted it more especially signifieth the sacrificing of the flesh the crucifying of the old Adam I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that yee present your bodies a liuing Sacrifice holy acceptable vnto God which is your reasonable seruice True faith offers both these at once But too many mens faith is lame on that hand which should offer the burnt Offering they onely take Christ but they giue not themselues to Christ they offer the Sinne-offering without the burnt Offering and therefore applying Christ to themselues and not themselues to Christ they misapply It is therefore as St. Bernard calls it Infidelis fiducia a faithlesse confidence for any man to perswade himselfe or presume that Christ Iesus is his Sauiour or that he hath any part either in the life or death of Christ albeit hee continue vnder the power of sinne and Satan Such a faith to speake in the words of the Poet is fallax fiducia a confidence whereby men cousen and deceiue themselues in hoping to attaine vnto Heauen though they hold on in the high way that leadeth vnto Hell Nay it is indeed in effect to blaspheme and dishonour Christ by denying though not in word yet indeed that there is any power in his death any vertue in his resurrection any renewing grace receiued from him to sanctifie those who truly beleeue in him Turkes and Pagans who plainely deny him doe not derogate so much from the glory of Christ as doe prophane professors of his name tolerabilius enim lingua quam vita mentitur The lye saith Saint Augustine which is made by the lippe is more tolerable then that which is made by the life Can Christ dwell in their hearts by faith as Saint Paul speaketh and not liue in them In whose heart soeuer Christ is resident by faith there hee reignes and disposeth him as it seemeth best to his godly wisdome By Baptisme we are buried with him into death that like as Christ was raised vp from the dead by the glory of the Father euen so wee also should walke in newnesse of life If we be risen through faith with Christ we must seek those things which are aboue where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God Whosoeuer truly beleeueth in Christ conquereth this world who is he saith Saint Iohn that ouercommeth the world but hee that beleeueth that Iesus is the Sonne of God They that by faith are Christs haue crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Wheresoeuer there is a Christian beliefe there will also be a Christian life Credere in Cristum saith Saint Augustine est credendo amare c. To belieue in Christ is through faith heartily to affect him and to be really incorporated into him so that beleeuing in Christ is more then to comprehend him in the vnderstanding it is also to imbrace him in our hearts and affections As Christ naked without respect of his merits is not the obiect of our faith so our faith naked without our affectionate desire to bee ioyned to him is not the true meanes to apprehend Christ and conueigh his merits vnto vs. This is that which is required on their parts who partake of the priuiledge here promised The taske is not hard it is not to giue a great ransome for our soules so the poore could not enioy it or to discourse accuratly so the simple and vnlearned could not attaine vnto it or to goe a great iourney to finde Christ so the lame and impotent might misse of it but only to beleeue in him which is a matter possible with euery man whosoeuer beleeueth in him shall neuer dye and so I come to the last part of my Text the priuiledge here granted Exemption from Death Death hath a threefold acception It is either naturall spirituall or eternall Whosoeuer beleeueth in Christ is exempted from all these The two later onely haue properly the name of Death For Death to speake properly is either a separation from God here in his Kingdome of grace or a separation from him hereafter in his Kingdome of glory Not to partake of his sauing grace here in this world is to bee spiritually dead and not to be crowned with his glory in the world to come is to be eternally dead They who haue onely vitam naturae the life of nature here in this world and haue not vitam gratiae the life of grace are spiritually dead according to that of the Apostle She that liueth in pleasure is dead while she liueth and according to that of our Sauiour Let the dead bury the dead It may bee said of such as it was of the Angell of the Church of Sardis They haue a name that they liue but are dead So they who in the next world haue onely vitam naturae the life of nature and haue not vitam gloriae the life of glory are eternally dead From both these deaths all true Beleeuers in Christ Iesus are exempted for they liue spiritually and eternally That the true beleeuers in Christ Iesus enioy a spirituall life is euident according to that of S. Iohn 1.12 13. They that beleeue on his Name are borne not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God Besides their naturall birth they haue a spirituall As many as by faith are in Christ Iesus they are new creatures they receiue a new life so likewise doe they enioy eternall life according to that of our Sauiour This is life eternall by faith to know the Father to be the onely True God and whom he hath sent Iesus Christ All the question seemes to be concerning their exemption from the naturall death but if we diligently obserue their condition it will easily appeare that they are exempted frō that death also For as they who enioy natural life are said to bee dead because they are depriued of the spirituall life so they who are naturally dead may be said to be aliue because they enioy the life of glory The naturall death to them especially is changed into a sleepe Death to them is not