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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85022	Life out of death a sermon preached at Chelsey, on the recovery of an honourable person. By Thomas Fuller. B.D.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1655 (1655)	Wing F2450; Thomason E1441_3; ESTC R200924	9,450	31

Life out of Death A SERMON Preached at CHELSEY ON The recovery of an honourable Person By Thomas Fuller B. D. Printed for John Williams at the Crown in St. Pauls Church-yard 1655. TO THE Virtuous and worthy Gentlewoman Mris ANNE DANVERS all increase of grace and happiness YOu are the first Virgin of your sex and probably may be the last to whom my pen hath addressed it self by way of Dedication and indeed you may challenge a just interest in this Sermon First you heard it preached with that exemplarie attention you always use in Gods house Secondly you shared deeply in the welcome occasion thereof the recoverie of your worthy Father Thirdly I am confident you have digested it in your meditations and will bring forth the fruits thereof in your godly life Remember your Name importeth Grace in the language of Israel and Scripture affordeth you two worthy Namesakes one the Mother of a Prophet the other her self a Prophetess The former frequently repaired to the Tabernacle the latter never went out of the Temple The assiduitie of your dayly Devotion to God Dutifulness to your Parents and general Goodness to all raiseth me to a great assurance you will imitate such worthy Presidents Dr. Alexander Nowel when taxed by some Courtiers for flattering Queen Elisabeth in his Preaching was wont to plead for himself he had no other way to instruct the Queen what she should be but by commending her In like manner I pray interpret my praising of you a teaching of you suffer not the brand of falshood to fall upon my Credit Yea I am sure you will endeavor to justifie and exceed this your Character here presented for the performance whereof you shall never want the prayers of him who is an Indebted Servant to the root and branches of your Honorable Extraction THOMAS FULLER Life out of Death ISAIAH 38.9 The writing of Hezekiah King of Juda when he had bin sick and was recovered of his sicknesse IN the first verse of this Chapter Isaiah is dispatched to King Hezekiah with a sad message which he thus expresseth in these short but sharp words Thus saith the Lord. Set thy house in order for thou shalt die and not live At the hearing hereat see the demeanour of King Hezekiah He turned his face to the wall and prayed unto the Lord. O the difference betwixt Hypocrites and Gods servants in their devotions the former desire Mat. 6.5 to pray in the corners of the streets that is as the Greek word importeth in the meeting where two streets decuss or thwart one another where foure Angles come together so that the hypocrite hath in effect the advantage of foure streets two going one way and two another to be seen of men and hard is his happ if he prove invisible to have none take notice of his Religion Clean contrary Hezekiah turneth his face to the wall none but God and himself shall be witnesse of what is transacted betwixt them no attendance standing by shall pry into his behaviour if any posture or passage lesse Courtly chance to fall from him in the height of his passion only God shall see it who will pity and pardon it Here is hearty prayer Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart have done that which is good in thy sight How is the same thing not the same thing when spoken by two several men Had that proud Pharisee in St. Lukes Gospel for whose pride the whole Temple was not large enough except he justled the poor Publican had he who in his Confession acknowledged all his own vertues and the Publicans faults I say had he uttered these words of Hezekiah he might justly have been conceived therein to savor rankly of the leaven of the Pharisees spiritual pride and hypocrisie whereas our Hezekiah pronouncing these words not self-praysing but self-purging in the sincerity of his heart from an upright soul to an all seeing God they resented not of pride but whole humility and were acceptable in the eyes of Heaven And Hezekiah wept sore Strange what made him take on so bitterly at the tidings of death I had thought he would have embraced both message and Messenger if not for their own for their senders sake I had though he would have rewarded him that brought him the first newes of his desired dissolution Was not Hezekiah assured that the setting of his Sun here in a mortal life should be the rising thereof in a blessed immortality How ill then doth those teares become those cheeks those sobs and sighes that heart those moans and complaints that tongue wherein rather we should have expected smiles and joyful acclamations Answ Double the reason of Hezekiahs grief First because though he was a good man yet he was a man and therefore we wonder if unwilling to die our souls and bodies have bin loving play-mates for many yeers together and loath to depart will be their tune at their separation Many through pain may be discontented to live though notwithstanding to die such a love of life is naturally implanted in every man Secondly Hezekiah was unwilling to die because as yet issueless He had no Son to succeed him in the Throne We all know what a great curse barrenness was amongst the Children of Israel though under the Gospel the malediction is so farre removed that wombs which bear not and paps which suckled not are pronounced blessed in time of persecution But besides the general desire of Children common to all Jews A greater longing for issue might be allowed to Hezekiah because descended from David He stood in fair probability to have the Messiah according to the flesh spring from his loyns the greatest outward happiness and which might be improved to spiritual comfort that humanity in that age was capable of besides dying without an Heire a door was open to ambitious competitors to pretend to the Crown So that the Land might be rent a sunder by civil warres betwixt several claims and titles about succession Now that Hezekiah hitherto was without a Child plainly appeareth by the age of Manasseth his eldest Sonne 2 Chron. 33.1 Manasseth was twelve yeers old when he began to raign Seeing therefore God after this time added 15. yeers to Hezekiahs life by computation it plainly appeareth that Manasseth was born three yeers after Hezekiahs recovery and so he childlesse at this present time Well the Prophet Isaiah is sent with a welcom Counter Message that Hezekiahs prayer was heard and a longer lease of life indulged unto him confirmed with miracle from Heaven of the going back of the Sun Hezekiah thus restored to health thought it was too low and little thanks onely to speak thanks Litera scripta manet whereas words quickly vanish away and therefore for the better perpetuation confirmation and propagation of the memory of his recovery to make it the longer the broader the deeper to all posterity he entereth the same