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A72540	The dampe of death: beaten backe with the glorious light and life of Iesus Christ / In a sermon preached at Lancaster assises in Lent last, to the condemned prisoners there, and before the honourable iudges, and worshipfull of that countie. By William Leigh, bachelor in diuinitie, and pastor at Standish	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1613 (1613)	STC 15423; ESTC S125476	21,274	65

the Lord would giue you a gratious issue and that so vpon your dissolution which is at hand you might be translated out of this miserable world to liue with God in the mercies of a better Pardon me then againe to passe by these turbulent waters of Iorden I meane of Iudgement that runne roughly vpon the Rockes of your sinne and giue me leaue yet still to bathe in the sweete running waters of Shilo I meane mercie that goe softly by Syon and when Iordan is driuen backe with the Ocean of Gods mercies you may more speedily make your passage into Canaan the land of your inheritance Now therefore to you be it spoken poore suppliants ouer whom we pray with teares and preach with passion lift vp your hearts aboue the height of all Sublimitie Settle your affections on things that are aboue and not on things that are belowe For thoe yee be dead what of that yet your life is hid with Christ in God and when Christ which is your life shall appeare then shall yee appeare with him in glorie The Text is like the fierie Chariot that carried vp Eliah into heauen 2. Kings 2. v. 11. which thoe happily it might turne his bodie into Synders yet it neuer left him till it had brought his soule into solace And it runnes as you may heare see vpon three wheeles the first is of death the second of life and the third of glorie Death goeth before Life followeth after and glorie perfecteth all and so as I may say there is blessednes in death there is blessednes in life and there is blessednes in glorie and with this three folde gable yee are halled vp to heauen Yee are dead that is your blessed mortification Your life is hid with Christ in God that is your blessed regeneration And when Christ which is your life shall appeare then shall yee appeare with him in blessednes that is your glorie Or thus yee are dead that is your blessed crosse but your life is hid in Christ that is your blessed shade or couer and when Christ shall appeare then shall yee appeare with him in glorie that is your blessed crowne and diadem of all heauenly delights Gen. 27. v. 26.27 It is said of aged Isaacke that when his sonne Iacob had prepared for him such sauourie meate as his soule loued cooked and seasoned with the cunning hand of Rebeckah his mother Isaack called vnto him and said Come hither my sonne and let me kisse thee before I die for me thinkes the smell of thy garments is like vnto the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed Though most of you be young yet are yee now aged dead to this world as Isaacke was and I hope the meate prepared for you is such sauorie meate as your soule loueth Cooked with a more curious and cunning hand then that of Rebeckah for the spirit of God hath spoken it by the mouth of Paul and therefore come and kisse your Christ before yee die sith the sweete smell and odour thereof is like vnto the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed For now are yee blessed in death blessed in life and blessed in glorie First then my deare brethren beloued and longed for I say beloued in the best loue which is of Iesus Christ and longed for with a longing desire of your speedie saluation euen at the instant of your desolution let it not seeme strange vnto you that there should be a blessednes in death The truth hath spoken it you may belieue it Reuell 14. v. 13. The dead that die in the Lord are fully blessed Amodo euen now they rest from their labours and their workes follow them This voyce saith Iohn fell downe from heauen that in the sweete ayre thereof breathing life into our soules our dead and dul harts might be comforted and euen here in the midst of death neuer to despaire of life You haue heard belowe in this valley of teares many fearefull voyces when sinne and shame runne after you as it were with Hue and Crye and when yee weare taken in your transgressions against God and the King it was a fearefull voyce when putting your selues vpon God and your countrey yee were found guiltie by the verdict of twelue iust men yet more were yee daunted when yee were sentensed to die with this irreuocable doome from the mouth of Gods minister yee shall goe to the prison from whence yee came thence to the place of execution there shall you hang vntill you be dead and Christ haue mercie vpon your soules your hearts were shaken to heare that voyce and the mercifull Iudge tendering dropped downe teares to pronounce the Iudgement the standers by were compassionate and the whole Bench was moued with your miserie yet what of all this Sith all these voyces are beaten backe with a voyce of greater Maiestie Euen thus The dead that die in the Lord are fully blessed Or as it is in my Text Yee are dead but your life is hid with Christ in God c. But happily it may seeme a Paradox to your passionate hearts that a man should wither and yet flourish that a man should be breathles yet breath that a man should be senselesse and yet feele that a man should be dead and yet aliue Ye are dead yet is your life hid in Christ c. Surely Nature can neuer sounde it yet grace may apprehend it thus It is possible to die to sinne and yet liue to righteousnes It is possible to die to this world and yet liue to a better It is possible like a Dead man to walke vpon this Earth and yet to haue his cōuersation in Heauen Nay it is possible that heauen earth should so blend in one as that one and the selfe same man should be dead in himselfe and yet liue to his God It was so with Saint Paule when hee said Whether in the bodie or out of the bodie I cannot tell God hee knoweth but me thinkes I see things that are invtterable It was so with Iohn Reuel 1. V. 10. V. 17. when Rauished in spirit he fell down dead vpon the sight and at the feete of that heauenly vision It was so with Daniel when groueling vpon the ground Daniell 8. V. 16.17.18 hee lay as dead yet heard a voyce betweene the Bankes of Hula which said Gabriell make this dead man to vnderstand the Vision It was so with Ezekiel at the Riuer Kebar when he was caried betweene heauen earth by the haires of his head And so both heard saw the diuine vision Ezekiel 8. V. 3. All these were aliue and yet dead they were rauished in spirit and therefore lauish of their bodies their thoughts were not mortall whether in their bodies or out of their bodies they could not tell Nor did they care either for the crosses or comfortes of this transitorie worlde so they might solace their soules in the Ioyes of a better The

Luk. 15. Vers. 17. as the louing Fatheer did his lost Childe and say This my Sonne was dead and is aliue againe and he was lost but is found Thirdly Mannah fell from Heauen Exod. 15. Vers 15. when they thought not on it nor knew it not and therefore vpon the sight they said Manhu quid hoc what is this Christ fell downe from heauen like a shower of Raine vpon a fleece of wooll in softnes and in silence his owne knew him not but said Is not this the Carpenters Sonne Who is this that both winde and Seas obey Suddenly hath the Sonne of God rushed vpon you and hath violently taken you out of your sinnes and it cannot be but vpon the sight and relish of his sweete mercies Yee say to the astonishment of your saued soules Manhu who is this that thus fills and feedes our soules with vnspeakable ioy and dulcet loue Fourthly Mannah fell from heauen when Israel was furthest fallen from God murmuring in the wildernes against Moses their gouernour Exit 16. v. 2.3 and Aaron their priest and wishing they had died in Egipt and had neuer heard of Canaan Christ came into this world a Sauiour from sinne when all the world was dead in sinne when the Scepter was gone from Iudah and there was neuer a Prophet left when the sacrifices were ceased and the holy lampes were put out when the house of God was made a denne of theeues and the world was tyred with traditions I say he came when the Lawe was perished from the Priests and the kingdome was in an Ataxie Then euē then came Christ to repaire our ruines to redeeme vs from sinne death and damnation feeding vs with heauenly foode to life and immortalitie And now tell me you that are to die were yee not violently taken to grace when yee were furthest fallen from God when running on in sinne did he not repaire your ruines and did he not thinke vpon you ere yee thought vpon him are not these his mercies pressing out your teares of repentance are they not mercifull preuentions meeting with your miseries doth he not euen now by this temporall death deliuer you from eternall destruction both of body and soule for euer Surely the Lord hath found you out in an acceptable time when you may redeeme a bad life with a blessed death and in the waste and roaring wildernes of this world wherein yee haue wandered tedious waies he hath filled you with Mannah and brought you to Canaan I meane to heauen the land of your inheritance But me thinkes I see you sigh in the silence of your soules and say with griefe of heart notwithstanding all I haue said of Christ in whom yee are hidde and secured alas and woe is me therefore though I be hidde in my Christ yet I die in my sinne and then am I gone with those reprobate Iewes Of whom Christ saide Yee shall seeke me and shall dye in your sinnes whither I goe can yee not come Io. 8. V. 21. Wherevnto I answere to breake off sinne by repentance is a blessed thing but to liue in the solace of sinning and so to die is most woefull and miserable And therefore I say 1. That it if one thing to dye in sinne 2. An other thing to dye with sinne 3. And a third thing to die for sinne The Reprobate from God they die in their sinne whiles they perseuere in sinne to the ende hauing neither sense nor feeling of their wickednes but make shipwracke of a good conscience without care to cure the malady of their soules either by Faith in Christ or Repentance towards God And so one liueth in his Idolatrie and dyeth in his Idolatrie another liueth in his Adulterie and dyeth in his Adulterie a third liueth in his oppression ad dyeth in his oppression a fourth liueth in his malice and dyeth in his malice a fift liueth in his stealth and dieth in his stealth All in their impenitence against the Lord and neuer breaking off their sinne till sinne haue lodged them in their graues and buried them in their impietie Absolon liued in sinne and died in sinne he liued in sinne when he lay with his fathers concubines in the sight of the sonne Absolon died in sinne when in the height of his ambition pride and rebellion his owne lockes hanged him and Ioabs speare pearced him quaelis vita finis ita such a life such a death he sinned with sollace but he died with sorrowe So I may say of Saul Iudas Pharaoh Iulian and of al the damned crue of desperate Epicures who dare say in despight of God and Christ of death and doome let vs eate and drinke to morrowe we shall die and so an end Nay then is no end but a beginning of sorrow neuer to end But to die with sinne is so to kill sinne in this mortall body as not to suffer it to rise rule and rebell like a tyrant but to suppresse it with a continuall fight and mortification and though happily wee cannot beate backe the fume but it will smoake in vs yet must wee striue to quench the flame that it burne vs not to sinders And thus haue the godly of all ages died with their sinne and so fought against sinne as they neuer died in their sinne alwaies crying with the blessed Apostle Miserable man that I am who shall deliuer me from this body of sinne And with holy Iob If I wash my selfe with Snowe water Iob. 9. v. 30.31 and purge mine hands most cleane yet shall thou plunge me in the pitte and mine owne cloathes shall make me filthie These feele their sinnes but withall they finde a sauiour these sorrow for their sinnes and yet reioyce in their Infirmities They feare a daunger but they finde a deliuerance yea they knowe and are well assured that though sinne doe abound yet grace doth superabound they wash their stoles in the blood of the lambe and their red bloodie sinnes are made shim white in the tincture of his blood euery drop whereof is sufficient to redeeme a thousand worlds In a word 2. Cor. 12. v. 9. these are they who reioyce in weakenes and take pleasure in their infirmities that the power of God may dwell in them these are they whom Sathan often buffeteth least they should be exalted out of measure with the aboundance of reuelations these pray to be deliuered and though they preuaile not yet doe they heare to the solace of their saued soules euen from him whose lippes are powdered with much grace My grace is sufficient for thee for my power is made perfect through weakenes my grace hath preuented thee my grace doth assist thee my grace shall perfect thee these are they who mince with no merit but relie vpon the meere mercie of their Christ euer liuing in sinne and yet dying to sinne with an assured hope that their sinnes are purged pardoned forgotten and not imputed as and if their soules should thus solace