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A01837	Deliuerance from the graue A sermon preached at Saint Maries Spittle in London, on Wednesday in Easter weeke last, March 28. 1627. By Tho. Goffe, Batchelor of Diuinitie, lately student of Christ-Church in Oxford.	Goffe, Thomas, 1591-1629.	1627 (1627)	STC 11978; ESTC S103197	26,929	56

feare but to call vs to him with a Religious hope Flagellat omnem filium quem amat saith Saint Austin he chastens all the sonnes whom he loues yes we may truely say All for hee had one Son fine peccato non tamen sine flagello who neuer deseru'd a stripe and yet he felt many How was he faine to driue vs All to his Temple not long since How did a few strokes sinke vs vpon our knees Lift vp our wearied hands Exalt our tyr'd voyces Turne our heads into Fountaines our eyes into Streames And all our selues for a time into so many Saints How did we come to him with hearty groanes Deuout thoughts Sobbing Breasts Humble Knees Serious Cryes Charming Tongues Emphaticke Prayers and aboue all a full Resolution of Amendment All which hee listen'd to with such a pleas'd Attention that he caus'd the Minister of his Iustice to put vp the Sword of vengeance with a hand of Mercy shuts those Graues that he found open and so all we that stand here this day and many thousands more are as men brought vp out of our Graues and may know that he is the Lord and that wee his people ought for euer to praise him in the great Congregation who thus hath brought vs out of our Graues And brought you vp out of your Graues Neuer did the penne of the Almighty either from his owne mouth so truely speake himselfe when he seal'd Moses Commission with his name Iehouah I am that I am Nor by any powerfull Act so proue himselfe nor by any Hieroglyphicke so deliniate himselfe as by this last Particle by bringing vp out of our Graues The Sonne of Sirach imployes all the Rhetoricke he hath to set out the Omnipotency of this Lord from the Rainbow first which hee bids vs looke vpon and praise him that made it very beautifull it is in the brightnesse thereof it compasseth the heauens about with a Glorious Circle And the hands of the Most high hath bended it Then he directs vs to the Meteors Lightning Thunder then to his Treasures from whence the Cloudes flye forth as Fowles and the hoare Frost is powr'd as Salt vpon the earth which the North winde congealeth into yee and cloatheth the waters as with a Brestplate Can Diuinity assume more then that pen giues it Yes the Holy Ghost tels vs of a Creature in the Sea whom he calls Regem super omnes filios superbiae The King of all the children of pride The Leuiathan Lay thy hand vpon him remember the Battell doe no more who can discouer the face of his Garment Or who can can come to him with his double bridle Who can open the doores of his face his Teeth are terrible round about You shall neuer find Gods owne pen dropping vpon this Creature but euen the Creator as pleas'd with his owne worke is againe ready to cry out as at the first Valdè bonum letting it breathe forth his praise as it doth the Ocean out of his Nostrils Yet this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this wonder at which all other wonders may iustly wonder must not cannot shew him so maruellous in our eyes as by the promise that he here meanes to make himselfe known by to his people by bringing of them vp out of their Graues Downe with your Scepters all Monarkes vpon earth fall at his feet you heauenly powers that attend his Throne for you may all here vse Dauids words Non nobis Domine non nobis Not vnto vs O Lord not vnto vs but vnto thee onely belongs the power to bring vp out of the Graue This Prerogatiue vnshar'd to any doth God euer keep to himselfe I wound and I heal I kill and I make aliue for Quis Deus nisi Dominus who can bring frō the Graue but our God He neuer delegated his dearest seruant in this Ability his seruant Moses so often stil'd his seruant imploid to deliuer his people from Pharoahs Bondage and therefore was arm'd for a time with many miracles made able to turne his Rod into a Serpent and his Serpent againe into a Rod could at his pleasure call for Flyes Lice Frogs Darknesse yet he neuer brought any from the Graue Christ Iesus himselfe amongst all his world of Miracles which hee did whilest hee was in the world did not make this power of his too familiar he brought one from the Bed another from the Beere but neuer saue onely one from the Graue and that was he whom he lou'd Hee would not put the strength of his Godhead to deale with so weake an aduersarie as a Disease but Cui plus est mortem vincere quàm remouere languorem he prouided not to cure Lazarus in his sicknes but to honour himselfe in his raising and euen by that temporall Resurrection of him to proue the eternall Resurrection one day of vs he doth but speake to him Lazarus come forth and he came forth not to bring amazement but faith to the beholders who might then haue shouted with that voyce of triumph Death where is thy sting Graue where is thy victory But if we goe to no other Graue but this and only looke vpon the deliuerance of Lazarus from it we may sound a Conquest before the Field bee wonne and so our Enemie which lyes in Ambush may inuade vs with an vn-lookt for assault Lazarus rose indeed and for a time enioy'd some benefit of longer life Res quidem honorabilis dominatio potestatiua fuit saith Cyprian The power that our Sauiour shewed ouer the Graue euen there ought euer to be honour'd in our memories but he was to goe to the Graue againe The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Statute in Saint Paul that all men must dye will euer stand in full force strength and vertue and therefore the Psalmist makes it an angry question to any that shall doubt it Quis viuit Who is he that liues and shall not see Death All the comfort one of the best Heathen could euer giue in this case was Cogitare id sibi accidisse quod antè se passi sunt omnes omnesque passuros The community of all suffering alike may somewhat ease the seuerity of the punishment for when we goe to our Graues they are the most sure Possessions that euer our Fathers could leaue vs inherited by them that went before vs and shall successiuely be taken vp by all generations that shall come after vs. We must all say to Corruption Thou art my Father and to the Wormes You are my Mother and my Sisters And yet now euen this comfortlesse place the Graue can yeeld vs comfort the walls of that Prison being in a manner broken downe since Christ Iesus who was the Surety for our first Fathers Debt was lay'd for a time in it to redeeme vs from it The Deuill knew that he had giuen his word for the payment but did not vnderstand that

the Principall did not at all belong to him Non autem errabat in genere sed fallebatur in crimine 'T was we had forfeited the Bond and he must be arrested so a Heard of Tigers came to seize vpon the Lambe slaine from the beginning of the world for whom he being God became Man they being men to him became Deuils they apprehend him with their bloody hands whom their hearts could neuer apprehend all wickedly intending to confound him who onely intended to preserue them and thinking one death too little for him who esteem'd his owne life and eternitie it selfe a blessing too small for them The Element of Sinne which in one of our hearts weighes not at all because it is in its proper place and Elementum non ponderat in loco suo vpon him lay so heauie because he was no Center for it that it made him who was wont to bow the heauens bow himselfe vpon the earth in the Garden of Gethsemane knocking there at the doore of his Graue to be let in from thence hee was carried to the Theater of Death strew'd with Bones and dead Bodies where the vnwholsome sauors might haue brought him to his death without a Crosse. Thus both the liuing and the dead were equally prepar'd to bring him to his Graue who came to bring both the liuing and the dead vp out of their Graues How like a Coarse and nothing but a Coarse fit for a Graue must he needs looke when that Face at which the Angels so often wondred was scarrifi'de and cauteriz'd with Thornes those eyes from which the Lamps of Heauen the Sunne that wardeth by day and the Moone which watcheth by night might borrow a better cleerenes suncke into their Caues those eares wont to heare nothing but Anthem'd Alleluiahs deafn'ed with the scornes of insulting Sinners that mouth the Torrent from whence flow'd Eloquia Domini Eloquia munda words sweeter then Honey and the Honey Combe then stopt with Gall and Vineger hee that had giuen them Wine to cheere and make glad the heart of Man what a Potion did they giue him to comfort his dying heart Thus for his sufferings they would be sure to take what impious care they could and their busie malice was so wholly taken vp with them that they forgot when they had done to prouide him a Graue Hee that in his life time was worse prouided for then the wilde inhabitants of the Field or Ayre for himselfe complaines that the Foxes haue holes and the Birds of the Ayre haue nests but the Sonne of Man hath not where to lay his head liu'd and dy'de in the same case liu'd without a bed and dy'de without a Graue Because the liuing would not the dead came from their Graues to make him roome the Earth open'd her obedient armes to entertaine him the stones of the Temple leapt from their foundations disdaining the place where the hand of any Architect had laid them when those prophane builders refus'd Lapidem angularem him that was euer the head Stone of the corner He dy'de for the sinnes of strangers and therefore a stranger Ioseph of Arimathea must prouide him a Graue he beg'd him of Pilate and had so often laid him in his heart before that hee now esteemes himselfe happy if he may lay him in his Graue Would you now thinke this Man that could not saue himselfe as they blasphem'd could saue vs That he that could not procure himselfe a Graue should bring vs all vp out of our Graues Nullas habet spes Troja si tales habet How doe they yet deride our hopes in him who do not yet beleeue in him Durst he euer challenge Death vpon his owne Dunghill the Graue with such daring termes Ero mors tua ô mors O Death I will be thy death O Graue I will be thy destruction Will the Lord euer say to him Sit thou on my right hand vntill I haue made thine enemies thy footstoole Can he euer ascend on high and take captiuity captiue who was taken by two old men Ioseph and Nicodemus to bee laid in a new Monument in Iosephs Garden In horto erat Monumentum nonum A new Sepulcher wherein neuer man was yet layd A Stone hewne out of a Rocke and therefore most fit to lay the Rocke of our saluation in and into a Rocke his Disciples could hardly dig to get him out Therefore against that Rocke must they needs dash which would haue it said His Disciples came by night and stole him away They could say to Pilate Sir we haue heard the Deceiuer say and how wretchedly did they deceiue themselues by not beleeuing what he said His dixit euer was his fiat from the first saying Let there be light though afterwards when hee had made that light come to shine in the darknesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the darknesse comprehended it not They had seene him whom they so falsely term'd Deceiuer oftentimes making his word good without all deceit The Centurion askt no more at his hands but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Say but the word onely and my seruant shall be whole and his seruant was made whole the same houre He that was himselfe the Word needes neuer doe any thing but say the word hee said hee would rise againe the third day and as hee was Filius fortitudinis to the Lord himselfe the Sonne of his strength or the strength of his Sonne hee could finde or make a way to bring himselfe vp out of the Graue Let their laborious enuie heape hills of Earth vpon his Graue let their Grand Patron the Deuill himselfe send Legions from Hell to guard his Sepulcher as Pilate did a band of armed Souldiers they could not haue kept him in His very sleepe which they thought the sleepe of death was busie in a triumphant Conquest ouer Hell it selfe he was then gone to the house of the strong man which himselfe speakes of in the Gospell binding the strong man and spoiling him of his goods he enter'd as Conquerour bound him as the stronger spoild him as the right owner of that estate in vs which he by theft and violence had once carried away The drowsie weight of sleepe sate farre more heauie vpon the Souldiers eyes and bound them faster then the High Priests Seale then the Massie Stone then the walls of the Graue then Death with all his Cords were able to fetter him Were the Fogs call'd from the Lakes and Fennes for your sakes O you once his people Was darknesse call'd from the Center of the Earth to spread it selfe vpon the face of Egypt three dayes or rather three prodigious nights Didst thou O Sunne more then stand still in Gibeon and thou Moone in the valley of Aijalon that you his people should for euer since obtenerate your owne eyes with a darknes more palpable then that of Egypt and would neither then nor yet see this Sunne of righteousnesse comming