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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

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

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 1. Cor. 15. v. 57. Thankes be to God which hath giuen vs victorie through our Lord Iesus Christ LONDON Printed by Tho Creede for Arthur Iohnson dwelling in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the white Horse 1613. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL THOmas Tildesley Esquire his Maiesties Atturney generall within the Countie Palantine of Lancaster and Vice Chancellor of his Highnes Court of Chancerie there Grace be multiplied in this world and blessednes in the world to come Worshipfull Syr. YOur loue hath ouerawed me much in this busines wherein it hath pleased God and you to put me and for because your place and praise is in the Gospell I durst not consult with fl●sh and blood but haue as you may see most willingly obeyed the heauenly call The Sermon being ended at Lancaster in Lent Assises last where I was enioyned by authoritie to preach to the prisoners then condemned to die it was your desire to have a copie in priuate of that which was then deliuered in publique at what time I truely tolde you my Notes were scattered and vndisgested rather carried in my heart then in my hand yet would God assisting me in conuenient time binde them together ere they were too farre fallen out of my minde and memorie which I haue here done accordingly and sent them to your worship as a constat of my vnfained loue yet with this Caution you neuer thinke what was then deliuered by voyce can be carried so powerfully in papers as it was in speech The words contained in the two tables which God gaue to Moses from the holy Mount were first spoken by the mouth of God ere they were written by the finger of God and then carried into the valley to be heard and kept of all the people So may I likewise say of the Gospell Voyces and Prophesies went of the blood of Christ ere euer it dropt out of his veines But if gratious words had not fallen from the mouth of Christ Christians had neuer conceiued either the power or vertue of his death For as there is a blood of redemption so there is a word of reconsiliation and surely where the word teacheth not there the blood droppeth not you are religiously wise to conceiue whereat I ayme To wit that reading preaching and practizing of pietie may all goe together like Saul and Ionathan of whom it is said that they were louely in their liues and at their deaths were not diuided Learned you are in your owne lawes and therefore knowe better then I can tell that though the body of your lawes lie in your bookes yet the soule thereof is in your mootes and pleadings as also that the barre and bench doe more powerfully end and profitably determine our causes then the bookes in your chambers can doe I speake in no desperagement either of your bookes or our Bibles which in themselues are learned sacred and holy but to intimate to all the world that if you pleade not and we preach not neither states can long stand nor soules can be ordinarily saued For though holy bookes be holy Oracles and registers of Gods truth Malachi 2. v. 7. Yet must the Priests lippes preserue knowledge and the people must seeke the lawe at his mouth for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts Good Sir take what I haue written in lieu of my loue may it pleasure you and benefit Soules either liuing in this world or dying to a better it is all I wish in my heart it is all I begge in my prayer and what is in my power or Element to doe it shall be alwaies yours my penne is yours my paines are yours my selfe am yours to be commaunded in him who commandeth all with my daily prayer to God for you and yours euer to be kept vnder his holy and helping hand of prouidence and protection And so I cease your further trouble but neuer leaue to loue and honour you as I am much bounden Standish this seuenteenth day of Aprill 1613. Your worships euer and so assured in his loue William Leigh THE DAMPE OF DEATH BEATEN BACKE WITH THE glorious light and life of Iesus Christ Colloss 3. verse 3.4 For yee are dead and your life is hidde with Christ in good When Christ which is our life shall appeare then shall yee also appeare with him in glorie WHen I last supplied this place in your honourable presence as now I doe and preached vnto those poore delinquents then readie to die by the doome of iustice I was sharpely censured of some that I preached too much mercie and too little Iudgement and that like an vnskilfull Samaritan I powred into the sores of those wounded soules and broken hearts ouer much oyle and too little vineger Which and if I did I might well say with the Prophet Ieremiah in a cause not much different Ierem. 20.7 O my God if I be deceiued thou hast deceiued me thou hast deceiued me with the extent of thy mercy which reacheth farre euen from the nethermost hell to the highest heauens Thou hast deceiued me with the height of thy mercie which is aboue all thy workes for thy mercie O Lord stretcheth it selfe vnto the heauens and thy truth vnto the cloudes thou hast deceiued me with the depth of thy mercie for one depth calleth vpon an other but that of mercie swalloweth vp all Nay thou hast deceiued me with thine holy offerings of mercie vpon thine holy Altar who hast said I will haue mercie and not sacrifice But oh my God thou art not deceiued neither can thy mercies be limited in thy bountie and why shall they be straitned in my bowels It may be Nature hath made me ouermilde and the sinnes of the world require I should be seuere yet this must I say withall that neither my ouermilde disposition nor yet the worlds transgression shall euer make me cruell against the penitent And such you are whose salt teares this day doe well expresse your sorrowfull hearts who hauing beene humbled at the barre of Gods Iustice why should you not appeale to the barre of his mercie to seeke and sue for grace to helpe in time of need For when is need if not now when the feare of death is before your face when the horrour of your sinnes cryeth vengeance against your soules whē your best friends faile you and this whole world forsaketh you when Sathan winnoweth you like wheate because he knoweth he hath but a short time when is need if not now to pray that your faith faile you not that the Lord would be propitious and that no temptation fall vpon you greater then you are able to beare but that euen in the middest of the temptation