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A00510	A sermon preached at Ashby De-la-zouch in the countie of Leicester at the funerall of the truely noble and vertuous lady Elizabeth Stanley one of the daughters and coheires of the Right Honourable Ferdinand late Earle of Derby, and late wife to Henrie Earle of Huntingdon the fifth earle of that familie. The 9. of February. Anno Dom. 1633. By I.F.	I. F., fl. 1633.; Fletcher, Joseph, 1577?-1637, attributed name.	1635 (1635)	STC 10644; ESTC S116875	15,055	48

any new sting to wound either mee or mine Thus death it selfe is dead and the dead live againe death is swallowed up and the dead are rendered up this is the hope of humaneflesh but he must be more then flesh whosoever attaineth to the end of this hope for flesh and bloud shall never inherit the kingdome of heaven As there is a flesh which shall see the salvation of God so there is a flesh which is as grasse Grasse which groweth to day and tomorow perhaps is to be cast into the fornace there to be tormented in aeterno Dei because it sinned in aeterno suo During the eternall pleasure of God because of its owne eternall pleasure it tooke in displeasing of God As there are some qui rapientur in occursum so there are some qui convertentur retrorsum Those which have turned their backes unto me and not their face those shall be turned backward They shall rise againe but it shall be for their greater depression Their bodies shall be delivered from the first death but it shall be to be delivered up unto the second death their soules and bodies shall be united but both devided from God in such manner that they shall wish the bodie had beene rather extinguished then thus united Sed ad augmentum tormenti ut hic de corpore nolens educitur itidem et illic in corpore tenetur in vitus To aggravate the vengeance as here the soule parted out of the bodie against its will so there it s held in the body against its will Marveile not at it though 〈◊〉 be de suo optomus yet he is de nostro Iustus As he is gracious by the propriety of his nature so he is iust for the necessity of the cause And it is equall and iust that if we taste of the sweetnesse of sinne against the will of God we shall taste of the bitternesse of punishment against our owne will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. It is equall if we be here subiected unto that evill one that we should hereafter be possessed of him saith that excellent Homilist Macarius If we make our bodies Prostibula and not Templa rather Temples of Chemosh and Ashtaroth then Domus patris mei they will become rather blockes of hell-fire then Pillars in the Temple and the Courtes of the house of our God Let us therefore spare our Bodies my beloved and not use them as if they were borrowed garments we must give accompts of things done in them And as the scarrs of wounds so the scarrs of sins will appeare therin after death which will be Characters of evidence plaine enough to testifie their un●●●blenesse of Glorie let us therefore here seeke to take them away by taking the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by being washed by being sanctified here Would we so rise from death that we may not sinke into the second death let us remember that Corpora nostra huic Resurrectioni per Regenerationem Spiritus inaugurantur Our bodies must be here intituled unto the Resurrection of glory by the Resurrection of Grace Nature exposeth us all dead dead in the uncircumcision of the flesh dead in the dead workes of the flesh Man who had not knowne sinne should have felt no power of death in his Bodie by sinne contracted a death even of his soule for as the soule is the life of the bodie so is grace the life of the Soule As then when the soule departeth the bodie dies so Grace having abandoned the soule the spirit it selfe is dead And how many doe we discerne everie where in whom the tokens of this death are sensibly apparent men dead in themselves onely Satan moveth in them Satan walketh in them so that they move but like prodigies like the bodies of those which Satan is said to make use of for the atcheiving of his wicked illusions St. Aug observes three sorts of dead persons whom Christ raised up unto life representing three distinct sorts of his spirituall death first the daughter of the Ruler of the Synagogue which was dead in the house resembling those that are dead-hearted senselesse of the impressions of life grace such as sit as dead in these Assemblies as if we were preaching at their funeralls Secondly The young man which was caryed out of the Gates of Natin resembling those whose hearts and hands are engaged in the outward practise of the dead workes of the flesh Thirdly Lazarus that had layen long putryfying in the grave representing those that have layen from the very wombe overwhelmed with the body of death and over-set with a cloud of ignorance insensiblenes so many dead in all these conditions and degrees do we observe every where that we have reason to wish as Ieremie did oh that our eyes were as Rivers of water that we might weepe for the dead for the slaine of our people now then oh wretched men that we are who shall deliver us from the body of this death If we be raised we must be raised by the voice and vertue of the same Christ which raised up these he that in the Gospel bad the yong man arise must by his Gospel bid the new man arise in us As we are sūmoned unto the second Resurrection by the voice of an Archangel so are we here unto this by the voice of the Angel of the covenant in the mouths of the angels of the churches the ministers here both that voice which sounded from mount Sinai and that which sounded from mount Sion have their part in the action The law startleth the Gospell awaketh quickneth us Christ sent the law by his servant as Elisha sent his staffe by which yet the dead child was not raised up till Elisha himselfe came in persō The terrors of the law quicken in us so much sence as may make us sigh for our restoration the refreshings of the gospel quickē in us so much light life as to make us se and run into the arms of our Restorer The law seemes to remove the stone from the mouth of our hearts as it was removed from the mouth of Lazarus Sepulchre but the voice of Christ in the Gospel sumoneth us to awake arise that he may give us light wherin we may be enabled to know follow him that hath visited us done so great things for us now I would that we had made such an advantage of our Attention to that powerfull voice that I might have occasiont 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after a visible evident Resurrection to loose you as Lazarus was from the bondes of the Grave or to say with the father of the prodigall loe these my sonnes were dead but now they live we were dead saith the Apostle but now we are alive in Iesus Christ now we feele the pulse of spirituall life beate in the Arteries of our faith which assureth us that our life is prepared for us of our hope which

is resolute that it is preserved for us of our love which upon these well-grounded perswasions is continually running in a cheerefull prosecution and chase thereof My beloved though we have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 earth to our father and dust to our Sire yet let us not have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dust-creeping soules surely our hope is higher then the dust let our conversation then be as high as our hope is Though we be made of the earth yet we are not made for the Earth We may observe that he that requires the erection of our affections doth with great iealousie withdraw from us all those ensnarements upon which they may fasten here below He is such a Bridegrome as will not that we preferre the king before himselfe this circle the world before the compasse of his Armes All these counterfeit delights which this empty dust is able to yeeld us they are as of purpose made either not to rellish at all with us by reason of their shortnesse and fleetingnesse or to distate us by the admixture of some calamitie and Bitternesse for if we will be children in understanding insteed of being children in Innocency if we will still be sucking here we must be used as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 great babes we must have the breast be smeared and sowred to weane out childish longing from it But the withdrawing of any of these earthly things from us doth not so much withdraw us from the Earth as the calling away of those deare-ones in whose bloud or love we have any interest the wives of our youthes the children of our delight These are they with whom we reioyced and they being gone the remainder of our life seemes bitter unto us and we thinke with our selves what further use is there of us or what portion have we left upon the Earth we crie like children that have their delights and rattles taken from them And at last as when the nurse makes the child beleev she hath layed them in the Cradle to sleepe the childe cries to sleepe likewise that he may be neere them so we when our deare ones are layed downe and composed in their beds of dust we are weary of waking any longer our eyes grow as heavy as our hearts we see nothing to reioyce in or take comfort in we desire as Iacob to goe downe to the grave to our sonnes we desire to sleepe by the sides of our beloved ones that with them we may awake againe after the likenesse of him who layeth us and them unto our rest and shall raise us againe unto our refreshing Thus should ye Right Honorable looke after this renowned Ladie who is now composed unto her rest in the Bed of Earth suspiring and longing after the same refreshing the same hope that hope which is now no lōger hope with her but sight and sense possession it selfe But if you would have your soule find the same rest with hers let your soule seek it as she did If with her you would find the kingdome of God seek with her the Righteousnes therof Let us awhile looke into the Grave with which these deare ashes are entrusted for in that house 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Septuagint reades that of Eccles 13. Though the Grave be the house of death yet we shall derive from hence an example of a gracious life and of such a death as undoubtedly ushers in a glorious life Anciently there were great treasures hid in the Sepulchres of great ones if we looke into this we shall finde a treasure too a treasure of rich example to us all As she was derived of a very noble princely extraction so she ennobled her selfe much more by endevouring to assure her selfe of her regeneration and adoption than by her birth That was the honor by which she valued her selfe and indeede the true and genuine Honor of you all Right Honorable He that called Abraham father was everlastingly accursed because God was not his father It is a good observation of Philo upon that of Gen 6. These are the Generations of Noah Noah was a iust man and walked with God c. Moses saith he setting downe Noahs Genealogie insteed of recounting his Ancestors reckoneth his vertues It were easie for me to name many noble names like unto these to prove that nobility by which she esteemed her selfe principally honored She had a mind of a most excellent cōposure of a noble generous height but attempered with an admirable sweetnesse and humility so that I may affirme that she made use of the greatnesse of her Spirit in nothing so much as either in the magnanimous contempt of unworthy iniuries for some such were aymed at her though none could fasten her vertue had so Oyled her name that no Inke would sticke upon it or else in the patient tollerating of worldly occurrences and afflictions and of them she made this happy advantage that as a thred besmeared with any filth must be drawne through some narrow hole for the cleering of it so the pressure of some afflictions seemed to cleere her from many corruptions through which nature custome and fashion and greatnesse do yet draw the lines of others lives Her understanding was of great perspicacity and as she fayled not to imploy the same for the comprehending of such occasions and affaires as might advantage susteine the estate of her house and procure and reinforce the content and comfort of her noble Lord So principally she directed the strength thereof for the enabling her selfe with the knowledg of the misteries of Redemption her delight was in the law of God she was an unwearied reader of the Oracles of Gods sacred word she that aimed at a living againe though she must die sought not the tree of the knowledge of good and evill which made us all obnoxious to die but the Tree of the knowledge of God which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Tree of life it selfe as Thala●ius calls it in Biblioth Patrum And as she had the knowledge of truth to give light unto her Religion so she had the truth of Religion to give life unto her knowledge I make no doubt but the State thereof hath beene much advanced by her instruction and incouragement in this house which hath beene long honoured for honouring of God It hath pleased her Lord more then once to make profession not onely what refreshing her comforts what support her Counsells have brought him but now much he hath in the estate of the minde beene bettered by her I am perswaded they have beene 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yoke-fellowes in this worke I trust they shal be hereafter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fellow heires of one and the same Grace From him and her selfe she made a diffusion of her goodnesse to all hers educating them in such puritie and inocency as is admirable in those who I know not how are lyable to be betraved by their Birthes and fortunes