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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26904	A sermon, or, The survey of man taken by J.B. as it was delivered at his father's funeral, September 4th, 1638.	J. B.	1652 (1652)	Wing B123; ESTC R32846	17,502	24

his untimly fall so cancelled the divine character His fall and misery whence all the faculties of our soul are corrupted continually prone to sin This now is the law of our members and the wages thereof is death O the hard condition of a man that before he can offend even from the womb he is necessitated to it Heraclitus therefore still wept in the consideration of our humane misery and Plinie accounted him most happy which should die unborn or being born should die Usually the new born babe that is a Male cryeth A and the Female E. Dicentes E vel A quotquot nascuntur ab Evah And what means Evah but Heu Ha both are interjections of sorrow expressing the greatnesse of their calamity There was some reason then for that custom amongst the Scythians who still wept at the birth of their children and did feast it out at the death of their parents because that then they were delivered out of all their troubles O how full of anxiety are mindes of mortal men cares and crosses still set upon them they are encompassed with afflictions on every side Experto crede Magistro Job 19. Job spake it by experience in his nineteenth Chapter If I am ungodly then woe is me and if just I cannot lift up my head being fill'd with misery And from this no estate condition nor age is free all is vanity and vexation of spirit Our infancie is full of folly youth of disorder and toil elder years of infirmity each time hath its burthen and that which may justly work our weariness Art thou poor O man why then thou shalt be opprest with need hunger nakedness and with cold But art thou rich why hereby then thine abundance will prove to be thine overthrow this gives thee reins to run after thy impious lust and to rush upon all unlawfull Acts. Again art thou a servant why then either thy mind is terrified with threats or thy body afflicted with many stripes Or art thou a Master and hast others at command why then if thou art cruel fear will possess thee of rebellious servants and if kinde and affable they will soon neglect thee and wax insolent Either thy rigour will draw hatred on thy head or familiarity contempt So that there is no estate on earth can make a man compleatly happy Yea who ever lived one day in perfect joy wherein either the guilt of conscience the violence of wrath or the motions of concupiscence did not trouble him wherein neither the spite of envie the love of avarice or swelling pride did not touch him and wherein neither loss offence or passion did not move him Yea that very time the night which is granted us for our rest and quiet is not granted to be quiet for dreams do terrifie and visions do molest us and although those things are not truly terrible and sorrowfull which Dreamers dream yet they are truly terrified and are sorrowful insomuch that sometimes sleeping they do weep and waking are much disturb'd Yet above and besides all this there are divers sicknesses whereunto our nature is continually incident All the industry of Physitians have not hitherto found out so many names for diseases as our humane frailty do dayly suffer Suffer did I say unsufferablenesse of diseases or unsufferable did I say sufferance The sence will be best if we take both for it is unsufferable from the bitternesse of the passions and sufferable for the necessitie of it JESUS therefore when he saw Mary lamenting her late diseased Brother John 11.35 was troubled in the spirit and wept John 11. perhaps not because that Lazarus was dead but rather for that being dead and at rest he was about to recall him into the misery of this present life But the Lord again will deliver both him and us out of all our troubles Job 14.5 for our time is determined and he hath appointed our bounds which we cannot pass therefore we must die Death is the wages of sin therefore we all shall die and for to die is the law of nature therefore we cannot chuse but die which sheweth you my second part The necessity of death The act in mans departing He yieldeth up Homo moritur Man yieldeth up Second part Eccles. 3.2 There is a time to be born and a time to die saith the Preacher but this Preacher could not tell us what year The necessitie of Death or in what time of the year this time of Death should be And that she is most to be feared in March and in Autumn is no more then a popular perswasion Every moneth every day is fitted unto death The Church yard is alwayes open and every hour may be heard the dolefull sound of the passing Bell. sooner or later we must all shake hands with impartial death Gen. 5.24 Thom. Aquin. in Haebr c. 11. It is true that Enoch is not yet dead yet saith Aquinas he must sometime die for it is an irrevocable sentence laid on sin Morte moriemini ye shall surely die or dying you shall die Motthamoth as it is in the original Gen. 2.17 Gen. 2.17 Which kinde of speech we may not call a Pleonasm or a vain Grammatical repetition and doubling of the word moriendi for in the Hebrew Dialect by this is meant Certissimè mori the certainty and necessity of death and not only this but citissimè mori the suddenness of death and not only this but violentèr mori the violence of death For as often as the Scripture makes mention of death and doubleth it there is not meant a natural death but * Philo-Judaus violent and judicial Our first parents died against nature their death being an act only of Gods Justice towards them for their disobedience The Lord made a Covenant with Adam wherein Adam tyed himself his Heirs and Executors but he forfeited his Bond and we that succeed him in his sin are lyable to the debt Death is the debt that we must all pay though never so unwilling as the word moriendum sheweth it would be bootless to resist Do we not receive our life but upon condition why then should we grieve to pay it at the first asking A wise man will make a vertue of necessity and when his soul that was lent him is required he will be thankfull unto God for its use and is very ready to render it to him again he yieldeth it up By death we restore but what was borrowed Homo vitae commodatus * Publius Mimus saith one non donatus est But I may well alter the case and say non homo vitae sed vita homini commodata est non donata Doth God then lend us one another and do we grudge when he calls for his own So have I seen ill Debters that borrow with prayers keep with thanks and repay with enmity We much mistake our Tenure and account that for gift which God intends for loan We are no

passeth through the whole Heavens encompasseth the Earth and Seas this is invisible and cannot be perceived by sense For the operations of her Essence she hath Spirit Will and Judgement Sense Understanding Reason and for her Beauty Temperance Justice and other Vertues of the Minde in fine she is so divine that she can hardly be comprehended by Reason much less then be perceived by sense God hath given us a soul more to use it then to know it He only knows it perfectly that is above it we now know it only by the effects but shall come to a cleerer revelation in the eternal Heavens Neither do the Philosophers wrangle more concerning the Essence of our souls then they differ about the parts thereof Of the parts of the Soul Most and the latest writers would have them to be four Understanding Reason Anger and Desire but yet the best received opinion will allow no more then two under which they comprize the rest The one is spiritual intellectual and therein you have the discourse of Reason the other sensual brutish which is the Will wandering of it self disordered wherein all evil desires have their dwelling However the soul that is immortal cannot properly be said to be divided because what is divided dissolveth and what is dissolved perisheth yet it may be said to be compounded and made subject during the union with the body to these two principal parts the Will and Understanding The causes of Death The soul indeed may be said to be divided but in another sense to be separated from the body which may happen even in the best complexions Wherein Life consisteth if there be any excesse or defect in the Humors then it causeth Death in the Radical Humor I mean which is the root of Life for as the heat consumeth this Humidity so doth the party languish he dieth just like the flame which lesseneth her light and vigour as the oil wasteth in the Lamp till it be extinguished Again the life of man consisteth in his breath which is no more then winde or Air that refresh the Heart which if retained either in the Mouth or Artery the man is surely dead What then is death but the taking down of these sticks whereof this earthly Tent is built But the separation of two great Friends until they meet again but the Goal-delivery of a long Prisoner that rejoyces to be at liberty The sleep of the Body and the awaking of the Soul which hastneth to be gone flyeth away and where is she my last particular the Quere Man yieldeth up the Ghost and where is he Fourth part Vbi est Where is he Where the Body is Although it hath been a custom amongst some Heathenish people to burn the bodies of their dead and the more Barbarous for to eat them yet still the most civil nations had the humanity to bury the Corps of their deceased Friends for keep them we cannot because they corrupt they putrifie Their Bodies therefore are committed to the ground dust to dust and ashes to ashes as in THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER That the Bodies of the dead do return to the Earth from whence they were taken no man can deny But what is become of the soul Where the Soul there is the question Where is she Doth she vanish into nothing or wander in the Air doth she enter into beasts and so inform them is she idle and falls asleep or else doth she hasten into Purgatory or fly to Heaven There is the question Where is she Doth she vanish into nothing No. The Sadduces dare not die for fear of not being and do merrily sing with the Hogs of the Epicures Stye Ede bibe lude post mortem nulla voluptas But the Christian is assured that the soul is immortal otherwise he denyeth the hope of his resurrection and his faith is also vain he doth well know that his soul survives his body she cannot be annihilated nor vanish like a vapour why then where is she In the Air No. The spirits of the dead do not wander in the Earth nor Aia they frequent not Churchyards Sepulchers nor Tombs and what after death is seen is but the devil to deceive the people in their likeness she shall no more be beheld of men Why then where is she Doth she inform any other creature No. The transmigration of Souls was but a fable that the * Chrys hom 2. of Lazarus Egyptians had taught Pythagoras and Pythagoras the Platonists who * Herodian Lib. 2. Aug. Lib. 12. de civit Dei believed how that that in tract of time there should come a certain year wherein all causes and effects long past should return again and continue constant as for example that at Athens Plato himself who once had many Pupils there after a long appointed season 36000 thousand years the same Plato City and School should return again in which space Ptolomy the great Astronomer did conceive that the course and motion of the Sphere would be finished from West to East And in the mean time it is taught by these brutish men that when the soul doth depart the bodie she doth inform some Beast answerable to her former life that the soul of an hasty and an angry man should degenerate into a Serpent Thieves into Wolves and those that are delighted in swinish pleasure into Hogs Homer into a Peacock and Orpheus into a Swan Yea and Origen writeth * Origen lib. de proverb Solom that this Heresie of the souls departed hapned among some in his dayes that were seeming Christians occasioned by that they did not rightly understand the Scriptures as where it is said by Christ of John the Baptist He is Elias they refer that speech to the soul of John which was only meant to be in the Spirit or power of Elias to convert their souls unto God They did not know how a man doth become a Dog or an Asse Herod is a Fox it is by their resemblance in condition not that the soul doth depart into a Beast Why then where is she is she alwayes idle or asleep No. I saith the Lord am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob God is not the God of the dead but of the living Matth. 22. And if the soul departed live Matth. 22.32 she cannot be asleep nor idle for to live is to be in action and what action doth better agree unto a departed Soul then the love and contemplation of her God although Irenaeus and some others will not grant thus much before the resurrection day Whose opinion doth seem to be grounded on that in the sixth of the Apocalyps and the ninth verse Apoc. 6.9.10 where S. John saw lying under the Altar the souls of them that were slain but this is answered in the next verse That they cryed unto God and therefore were not asleep But where then doth this Altar stand when the soul is under it