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A04823	A sermon preached in Saint Maries Church in Oxford March 26. 1612. at the funerall of Thomas Holland, Doctor of the Chaire in Divinitie, and Rector of the Exceter College, by Richard Kilbie Doctor of Divinity, Rector of Lincolne College	Kilbye, Richard, 1560 or 61-1620.	1613 (1613)	STC 14957; ESTC S107985	13,669	24

them victorie over sinne and death through his sonne Christ Iesus Numb 21.9 Now is their death become like the brasen serpent in the wildernesse which had indeed the shape and forme of a Serpent but nothing else of a serpent nec motum nec morsum nec venenum neither life nor motiō nor tongue nor sting nor poyson of a serpent In like manner the death of the godly in the wildernesse of this world hath the likenesse and semblance of death but it hath no sting it hath no venome it hath no poyson But whereas it is to the wicked and vngodly the beginning of sorrow and everlasting torments it is to the godly and righteous the end of sorrowes but the beginning of everlasting ioyes to the wicked it is the gate of hell but to the godly the gate to heauen in a word to the wicked it is death indeed even death of body and soule but to the righteous rather a life then a death even the entrance and passage to everlasting life So that when they lie on their death-beds and are even at their last gaspe when they are ready to giue vp the ghost and death seemeth to haue gotten the vpper hand of them and brought them almost as low as the dust Theod. lib. 1. Eccl. Hist cap 20. yet even then as Iulian said to Christ Vicisti Galilaee O Galilean thou hast overcome me so may death say to them Vicisti Christiane O Christian thou hast overcome me No marvaile then if our blessed Apostle here in my Text in the person of all the godly burst forth into that ioyfull 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and triumphant song O death where is thy sting O graue where is thy victory which now followeth in the last place to be considered containing the ioyfull exultation and triumphant insultation of the godly over Death and Hell and the Graue The Heathens and Pagans saith St Origen were wont to celebrate the day of their birth and nativitie Orig. lib. 3. in Iob. as onely louing this and looking for none after this but Christians must not so much celebrate and solemnize the day of their birth as of their death because albeit they loose this life yet they must looke for and more loue another life And the dying out of this world is not a death but a life rather Quia non moriuntur siqui mori videntur Orig. vt supr because they saith the same St Origen who here seeme to die doe not die indeed for albeit they seeme to flesh and blood to die yet in truth and indeed they liue eternally And as Iacob after his wrestling with the Angel was sinew shrunke and had his thigh out of ioint and went halting but had his name changed and was no more called Iacob Gen. 32.28.31 but Israel because hee prevailed with God and did see God Semblably the godly after they haue wrestled with the Angell of death on their death-beds may haue the sinews of their bodies shrūk vp al the parts mēbers thereof out of ioint for death indeed disiointeth all so that they are not able to go vpright but are carried on mens shoulders vnto their graues yet the Angel of death in the end cānot but cōfesse that they haue power with God that God wil blesse thē giue thē a new name Revel 2.17 so that they shal no more be called Iacobs mortal mē supplanting one another here on earth but Israëls prevailers with God seers of God and blessed Saints of God in the kingdome of heaven The godly then haue great cause to reioice and insult over death saying O Death where is thy sting Thou maiest indeed sting our bodies vnto death but thou haste lost thy great string thou canst not now any more sting our soules to death O Tyrant thou mayst kill our bodies for a time but thou canst not kill our soules for ever So that they may say with S. Bernard O mors Bern. serm 26 sup Cantic stimulus tuus non est stimulus sed iubilus O Death thy sting is no sting vnto vs but our jubilee and crowne of reioicing 1. Thess 2.19 thou thinkest to send vs quicke vnto hell Greg. Nyssen but thou sendest vs quickly to heaven thou art as a midwife as Gregorie Nyssene speaketh to helpe to bring vs out of the womb of this world into a better world Psal 27.13 and into the land of the living thou art the ship wherein we saile vnto the haven of our happynesse whilst we are here almost drowned in the deluge of this miserable and wretched life Gen. 5.29 And therefore as Lamech called his sonne Noah because he should comfort him make all his labour and sorrow to cease and rest in like manner all iust and righteous men may call death their Noah the sonne of their rest and comfort from all their labours and sorrowes and sicknesses diseases paines for then all these things and all such like miseries shal bee done away and shall never be againe When Vrbicius Governour vnder the persecuting Emperour Aurelius Verus Euseb l 4 hist Eccles cap. 16 would needs put Lucius to death for the profession of Christianitie Lucius scorned him saying O wicked Tyrant wilt thou put me to death thou dost me a great favour and a great kindnesse for thou sendest me from the tyrannie of a cruell Lord and Governour ad bonum patrē clementem Regem Deum to a good Father a mercifull King even God my Christ and my Lord. So when death that Tyrant to whom every knee must bend and bow at his presence threatneth Christians they may iustly answer him as Lucius there did Vrbicius O Tyrant dost thou threaten to kill vs thou dost vs a great kindnesse thou freest vs from the tyrannie of wicked men here on earth and sendest vs to a loving father and a mercifull Lord in the heavens thou freest vs from the stinking prison of this world to send vs to sweet and pleasant palaces in the world to come And that they may likewise say as St Basil said to Modestus Governour vnder Valens the Emperour Greg. Naz. in orat 30 in laudem Basil whē he threatēd his death mors mihi beneficij loco erit quia cito me ad Deū mittit cui vivo ad quem propero Oh welcome Death thou art a great benefit a great advantage vnto me for thou sends me quickly to God to whome I liue and to whom I long to goe And therefore O Death where is thy sting O Graue where is thy victory And now Beloued lest the stream of discourse should carrie me beyond the compasse of the time Application and I should tire out both my weake spirits and your Christian patience I come briefly to some short application as the present occasion and your expectation requireth that as I haue hither to spoken of death so now I may say something also of this