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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53926	A sermon preached at the funeral of Sir Henry Johnson, Kt. who was interr'd in the chappel at Popler, November the 19th. 1683 / by Samuel Peck ...	Peck, Samuel.	1684 (1684)	Wing P1037; ESTC R33040	13,357	29

concerning the short continuance of these things that are seen and the stability or continuance of those things that are not seen affirming that he himself and others of the faithful did certainly know that after this short and transitory life was ended they should enjoy an estate Heavenly Glorious and Eternal And this Assertion and Article of Christian Faith he cloaths with variety of sweet and significant Metaphors helping the soul by the body the understanding by the sense saying We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God c. Where he compares this miserable body as it now is in this life to an earthly house and that not a Sumptuous Palace Impregnable Castle or other strong and well framed Building but to a Tabernacle a weak frail brittle Cottage of Earth or Clay We know if this earthly house wherein the soul d wells for a Time if this Tabernacle were dissolved Then He opposeth to this the state or condition of the body glorified in the life to come which he resembles to a building firm durable and lasting yea of Eternal continuance and duration the beginning of which is the blessed Estate of the Soul at Death and the perfection of it is the glorious Estate of Soul and Body reunited at the Resurrection We know we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens Where you have these Two Considerables recommended by the Holy Ghost to our Meditation seasonable to the sad occasion of this great Assembly 1. What our Body is in respect of the frailty of it in this Life an earthly house a brittle Tabernacle that must down must be dissolved 2. What house or building the souls of the faithful have after the dissolution of this earthly Tabernacle A building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens Both these together are a brief and full Metaphorical description of our Mortality and Immortality of our weak and frail Condition in this life and of our Eternally Blessed and Glorious Estate after Death 1. First What our body is in respect of its frailty in this life an earthly house a brittle Tabernacle that must be dissolved and go down to the dust These bodies wherein our souls take up their residency for a time are but earthly Tabernacles of short and uncertain Continuance The body is so called elsewhere 2 Pet. 2. 1 14. Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle and Job 4. 19. 't is termed an house of clay whose foundation is in the dust Eliphaz in the foregoing Verse speaks of Angels here of men and these Words are a description of Man opposed to Angels those Inhabitants of Heaven those Courtiers of the New Jerusalem called therefore the Angels of Heaven the place of their special residency being the Heavens in and with which they may seem to have been created Whereas men are said to be on the Earth on the surface only as a tabernacle ready to be shaken off as having no foundation Having here no abiding place no continuing city no setled abode till we come to Heaven where the Angels are Some Huts we have rather than houses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a clayie cottage an earthly tabernacle as St. Paul and Plato call the body of man which is made up of a little dust or clay somewhat sublimated and refined by art or nature What is man saith Gregory Nazianzen but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Soul and Soil Breath and Body the one a puff of wind the other a pile of dust no certainty no solidity in either Pulvis umbra sumus We are dust and a Shaddow no more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Greek Proverb Man is but an earthen pot no better The first man Adam was of the earth earthly and no more are the best of men Quas ex meliore forsan lato finxit Titan who are made of the first common Mold somewhat refined And the finer the Glass the slighter the Tabernacle the more subject to break and fall and so are we to dye Mans flesh will fail him saith David Psal. 73. 26. Those whose spirits are noble will find their bodies brittle The highest the holiest mans heart will not ever hold Princes and Peasants are of the same flesh which saith the Prophet Isaiah is but grass it soon withers and fades away they are alike dust and to dust they must return What man is he that liveth and shall not see death The Psalmist here challengeth all the World to find out one man that could procure a protection from dissolution Holy Hezekiah could beg his life and compound for his death for fifteen years but could not obtain an exemption for ever No this earthly house is subject to many storms that shake it to variety of Diseases the least of which is sufficient to overthrow it So that what St. Paul said of himself in a proper sense we may say every of us in a common I dye daily My earthly Tabernacle declines and wastes daily Such is the frailty and corruptibility of the body that tho some are more curiously painted than others and tho all are fearfully and wonderfully made full of accuracy and curiosity like a Spiders Web yet like that we have no stability And thanks be to mans Apostacy for this frailty his falling from God by neglecting his duty hath brought him to the dust so the Apostle Rom. 5. 12. By one man sin entred into the world and death by sin Sickness and Death had never touched our bodies had not sin first tainted our souls Man in his Innocency was immortal but now in his state of Apostacy he is determined to death Had he stood he should like Enoch have been translated and not seen death he should have entered into his Fathers house but not through the dark entry of the Grave but now I know thou wilt bring me through the grave the house of all the living Now the body must die before the soul can as it were begin to live Man must now put off his house of Earth before he can possess his house in Heaven When this earthly house of our Tabernacle is dissolved then not before we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the Heavens Thus you see by this Metaphorical Expression what a lively resemblance the Apostle gives of our frail Condition in this world or in respect to our bodies We dwell saith he in Tents or Tabernacles 1. And a Tabernacle or Pavilion is not made of any strong matter having only a few slight Poles for Timber and painted Cloths for Walls a weak Lodging quickly taken down easily removed or overthrown Such is the body of man a fair Fabrick but frail the bones are its Timber-work the flesh its walls all of Clay and Dust one blast mars it a little pain or grief shakes it an Ague Fever Dropsie or as the Prophet speaks