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A49700	Victory over death a sermon preached at Steeple-Ashton in the county of Wilts, upon the 17th day of April, 1676, at the funeral of Mr. Peter Adams, the late reverend, pious, and industrious minister of Gods word there, sometime fellow of University Colledge in Oxford / by Paul Latham ...	Lathom, Paul.	1676 (1676)	Wing L575; ESTC R7734	32,624	52

behave himself aright in it It is an hard matter in the day of prosperity to rejoice in the Lord and to carry that full Cup so evenly as not to spill it And it is as hard in the day of adversity to consider Eccl. 7.14 to be mindful that we ought thankfully to receive evil as well as good from the hand of God Job 2.10 To keep from despising the chastening of the Lord also from fainting when we are corrected by him Heb. 12.5 Now nothing will better teach us these hard lessons than a true victory over death This will moderate our joy in prosperity and make us rejoice with trembling and as though we rejoiced not because the time is short 1 Cor. 7.29 It will moderate our sorrow in the time of trouble as considering that these are light afflictions and endure but for a moment and that they work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory 2 Cor. 4.17 So every way happy is that couragious Christian that hath obtained victory over this last enemy The greatness of this priviledge hath in some sort been represented to oblige us to thankfullness That this is a priviledg attainable was shewed upon the former general head But there is something required in and from us that conduceth much to the gaining of this victory viz. Courage strength and Skil First Courage or Christian resolution faint-heartedness weakneth the hands disappointeth contrivance and frustrateth endeavours Let us therefore arm our selves with the same mind that was in Christ when he suffered in the flesh for us 1 Pet. 4.1 that same mind wherewith he endured the cross and despised the shame Heb. 12.2 Let us manfully resolve to leave the World with willingness and joy not lingring in it like Lot in Sodom nor looking back with his Wife as unwilling to leave it Gen. 19 16 26. But duly considering that in Heaven we have a better and a more enduring substance Heb 10.34 Let the spirit of a man help us to bear the infirmities and pains of our body Prov. 18.14 And as Christians let us consider that it is God's hand and that this is the passage he hath appointed to eternal joys Let us not be afraid of God's Tribunal as knowing that we have an Advocate with the Father 1 Joh. 2.1 Secondly Strength without which Courage doth bestow it self to little purpose Let us not go forth in our strength but in the strength of the Lord and encounter this Philistine in the name of the Lord of Hosts 1 Sam. 17.45 from him let us derive strength by prayer even the prayer of Faith For this is the victory that overcometh death as well as the world even our Faith 1 Joh. 5.4 even that Faith which is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen Heb. 11.1 Let us by Faith look unto Christ's death and resurrection as that whereby he hath overcome death for us and to the joys that are before us In this strength let us encounter death Thirdly Shill without which courage will make use of strength unhappily Let us acquaint our selves with death and be at peace so shall it be well with us Set not only God but Death also always before our eyes and in this sense die daily 1 Cor 15.31 Let us exercise our selves in velitations and skirmishes with the thoughts of death in the time of our health and strength Consider what death is in all its notions and then its approach will be familiar and no ways dreadful unto us Hereby we shall succesfully prelude to that last conflict and conquest To conclude this head let those that are so happy as to live in the comfortable sense of their having obtained this blessed victory over Death be careful to walk as children of the Kingdom First in holiness and righteousness before God Because thou hast delivered my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living Psal 116.8.19 Seeing that all these things must be dissolved and we know so much and are not affraid to know and consider it what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness And seeing we look for such things a great conflict and a glorious victory over a formidable enemy let us be diligent that we may be found of him in peace at that day without spot and blameless 2 Pet. 3.11.16 Those that fight or run for victory do diet themselves and are temperate in all things Now they do it to obtain a corruptible Crown but we observe rules that we may obtain that which is incorruptible 1 Cor. 9.25 Well may we then be content to deny our selves to keep under our bodies and bring them into subjection that the sensual appetite being subdued may not clog us in that great congress Secondly let our temper savour of Heaven If ye be risen with Christ and have a sense of the benefit of his death and resurrection in order to the overcoming of death seek those things that are above Set your affections on things above not on things out he earth Col. 3.1 2. Let those that believe death to be the end of all pleasure and comfort give themselves up wholly to enjoy the good things that are present but let us declare plainly that we seek a Countrey Heb. 11.14 Thirdly let us walk humbly with our God Mic. 6.8 Let us say Not unto us O Lord not unto us but to thy name be the glory of this victory Psal 115.1 Let us be duly sensible that it is the Lord that delivereth us from the paw of the Lion and of the Bear and from this great Goliah Let us not arrogantly peark up our heads like empty boughs or blasted ears of corn but like those that are loaden with good fruit let us stoop toward the earth in a thankful sense of the great obligations that God hath laid upon us Which leads me from this second general head of Discourse to the Third general in the Text the Author of this victory acknowledged and magnified 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thanks be to God that giveth us this victory The hand that reacheth out a favour doth many times add very much to that which is conferred upon us Now this is a princely favour bestowed by the royal hand of the King of glory it is Gods gift For First as all good things do come from God so in particular all spiritual gifts all the graces and comforts of a Christian are the products of his favour and bounty Every good gift and every perfect gift cometh down from above even from the Father of lights James 1.17 even from that supreme being and first cause of all things in whom we live and move and have our being Acts 17.28 Particularly he it is that blesseth us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things in Christ Eph. 1.3 He is called the God of all Grace that God who hath

Christ. Secondly to satisfie us on the contrary concerning the dejectedness and despondency wherewith some men do meet death from whom yet better things might have been expected Men of strong bodies athletick constitution happy education great parts much reading how fearful have they been to look death in the face yea a good man when God hides the light of his countenance from him doth tremble to think of death and judgment of this a reason is easily given from what hath been spoken the Author of so great a blessing with-holds it where it doth not seem good to his infinite wisdom to bestow it Thrirdly this directs us whether to apply our selves to obtain strength in the last encounter We must not trust to our selves to natural or acquired gifts but we must go forth in the strength of the Lord and make mention of his name even of his only Psal 71.16 On him let us call by prayer him let us sollicite by acting faith on him who giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he encreaseth strength Isa 40.29 Fourthly what thanks and obedien●e can be sufficient for a just acknowledgment to God from them to whom he hath vouchsafed this glorious triumph over death It is the greatest victory that can be imagined to conquer this king of terrors the greatest gift we can think of imploring the divine favour to bestow upon us in this world that he will furnish us with that strength and resolution that will make us not afraid to leave the world It is one of the blessed fruits of our Saviours meritorious sufferings and obedience And therefore what shall we return unto the Lord for this and all other his benefits What thanks offering can be of due value to present unto him what fruit of the lips what obedience of heart and life can be sufficient to express 〈◊〉 r●s●●ment of this favour O give thanks unto the Lord for he is God 〈◊〉 h●● me●●y ●●du●●eth for ever Let the redeemed of the L●●d 〈◊〉 whom he h●●h redeemed from the hand of the enemy O 〈◊〉 would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his w●nderful wor●s towards the sons of men Psal 107.1 2 8. But from the Author of this victory which was proposed as the third thing considerable let us advance to the Fourth General to be considered in the Text the procuring cause of this victory by whom it was acquired and purchased for us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 through our Lord Jesus Christ. The main argument whereby the Apostle had established that great Article of our Faith the resurrection of the body in the precedent part of this Chapter was grounded upon the resurrection of Christ from the dead Who not only shewed that it was neither impossible nor yet incredible that God should raise the dead Acts 26.8 because he himself overcome the sharpness of death and broke its bonds but also by rising as a publick person the second Adam the first-fruits from the dead hath made way for us also to follow him in the resurrection of our bodies And this expression in the Text seems to be the Epiphonema or close of that discourse and arguing It is in Christ that God blesseth us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things Eph. 1.3 And particularly this blessed victory over death is derived unto us through Christ several ways hath Christ overcome death and made way for our being victorious over it First he hath destroyed the sting of death even sin by his merits and sufferings The sting is the most formidable part in those animals that are arm'd therewith And sin which rendred us obnoxious to the wrath of God and curse of the Law was the chief thing that made death dreadful to mankind as arresting us in order to bringing us before the Judg of all the earth who will render to every man according to his works Rom. 2.6 But this sting hath Christ plucked out from death by his voluntary and meritorious obedience answering the exaction of the Law and by his unparallel'd and meritorious sufferings enduring the malediction thereof So that there is now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8.1 As a great High Priest he hath by one offering perfected for ever them that are sanctified Heb. 10.14 As our surety he hath paid our debts and cancelled the hand-writing that was against us As our God he hath redeemed us not with corruptible things as silver and gold but with his own most pretious blood 1 Pet. 1.19 And in each respect God is just and yet the justifier of the ungodly when he believeth in Jesus Rom. 3.26 In him mercy and truth are met together righteousness and peace have kissed each other Psal 85.10 Secondly he hath overcome the pains of death by his example and promises By his example who as the Captain of our Salvation was made perfect through sufferings Heb. 2.10 He suffered perfectly all that the Law of God could exact or the rage of his enemies inflict And he was perfect under his sufferings so as not to entrench the least upon the bounds of compleat patience Jam. 1.2 He was led as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before the shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth Isa 53.7 When he was reviled he reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not 1 Pet. 2.23 Further by his sufferings he perfected the work of our Redemption and fully satisfied Divine Justice And hereby he hath engaged and encouraged us to arm our selves likewise with the same mind because Christ hath suffered in the flesh for us 1 Pet. 4.1 And by his promises he hath encouraged us telling us that this strait way leadeth to life that in the mean time he will never fail us nor forsake us Heb. 13.5 But when we pass through the fire and water he will be with us Isa 43.1 2 and that these light afflictions that endure but for a season do work for us a far more excellent and eternal weight of glory 2 Cor. 4.17 Thirdly he hath wiped away the scandal of death by his leading the way in suffering death and lying in the grave It is a great affront to this stately piece of well-formed earth to own kindred with corruption and worms Job 17.14 But Christ the best of men yea the Son of God hath led us on the way to Golgotha and we need not be ashamed to follow him in the steps he hath troden He suffered before he was glorified he endured the cross and digested the shame of that scandalous death before he set down at the right hand of the Majesty on high Heb. 12.3 And therefore it is no disgrace to us to die and be laid in the grave Yea it was a far bitterer cup that he drank off for us than what God useth to put into the hands of his people and therefore we should not scruple at drinking our own portion He hath perfumed the grave by laying