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A89125	Deaths advantage: or A sermon preached at the funerall of that noble and valiant gentleman, Colonell William Gould, high sheriff of Devon: by order of Parliament, and late commander of the fort and island in Plymouth. By Stephen Midhope, Mr. of Arts.	Midhope, Stephen.	1644 (1644)	Wing M1996; Thomason E13_21; ESTC R7641	19,383	33

every life hath plinciples according to the nature of it leading it to things sutable Now where the life of Christ is that new nature hath new principles by which they are acted that carry them to Christ to set out his glory lift up his Name There is an excellent expression for this Phil. 2.20 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Germane godly men have their hearts so plincipled that they are carried by a natural instinct I mean of a new nature to Christ his Church to do al the service they can unto them So that as things that worke naturally worke necessarily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nyssen so there is a kind of necessity put upon them the love of Christ which is the life of the new nature constrains them they can do nothing against the truth but for the truth 2 Cor. 13.8 2. That this should be so justice requires it 1. Is it not Christ that hath made us and not we our selves Job he hath powred us out like milke by him we were curdled like cheefe and have we not our new being from him Ephes 2.10 We are Gods workmanship created in Christ Jesus and so he may challenge our hearts and lives as his own jure creationis by the right of creation as the Author of them Whither should the rivers run but into the sea from whence they come Eccles 1.7 Eccles 12.7 Hebr. 9. and shall not the spirit of man return unto God who gave it The naturall spirit by a statute law at death the gracious Spirit by the law of Love all along even unto death 2. He hath redeemed and bought us at a deare rate his own bloud and therefore we should glorify him with our lives for we are not our own c. 3. 1 Cor. 6.20 He hath rescued and delivered us as spoiles out of the hands of our enemies and therefore we are become his servants and owe our lives to him as our Patron and Deliverer Servus quiae in bello servatus Rom. 6.18.7.6 4. Besides in Baptisme we devoted our selves wholly to him and so by right of sale or covenant our lives are his 5. And lastly in point of gratitude and thankfulnesse we have the whole life of Christ first and last both here and in heaven laid out for us He had no businesse here on earth but for us To us a Child was borne 2 Cor. 5.14 15. He had not dyed but for us For us a Son is given When he rose 't was for our justification And now he is in heaven he lives for ever to intercede for us Now then we cannot but judge this to be most equall that we live spiritually in the fruition of his grace and participation of his Spirit that had our lives by his benefit that have the improvement of his whole time for us should not live hence-forth unto our selves but to him who dyed for us and rose again He lived wholly unto us therefore we are bound if we will not be unthankfull to live wholly to him In manners we would reciprocate with men how much more with God Hitherto of the first point Now of the second more briefly which was 2. Doct. A life truly Christian ever ends in a happy and gainfull death Quest. Is not death poena damni do we not lose by death all that the devill promised Christ the world and the glory of it body goods wife children dear companions pleasant friends that turnes to dust these all shake hands and leave us at the grave how then can it be gain Answ Yes For it is a change we lose none of our comforts but exchange them to our great advantage 1. The soule changes its rags reliques of corruption for white robes of spotlesse purity Heare Paul complaining in life of a body of death Rom. 7.24 ● Cor. 5.4 groning under his burden whilest in this tabernacle of clay The leprosie is so deepe wrought into the walls of this house that scrape off what we can 't will never quite out till the house of the body be broken down and dissolved And must not that needs be a gainfull change that brings us to an end of living here and sinning for ever 2. It changes all its guilts griefs for perfect holinesse and everlasting peace 2 The body its gaine is only privative for present it s freed from all miseries and calamities of life it gaines only rest for a time Isa 57.2 the full gain of the body is adjourned to the resurrection when it shall be made like unto Christs glorious body True the soule also till then sustaines some losse called the paines of death Acts 2.24 understand not paines of sense but losse 1. Of the company of the body its old and deare companion 2. It comes short of the glory that shall be revealed Yet as Evagrius bequeathed three hundred pound to the poore in his will but tooke bond of the Bishop for repayment in another life with an hundred-fold advantage and next night after his death appeared to him delivered in the bond cancelled as fully discharged So surely brethren one day in the presence of God will make amends abundantly abundantly for all the losses that come by death to soule or body For this we have not an uncertaine story but the truth of Christ mortality shall be swallowed up of life that is destroyed brought to nothing so swallowed up as there will be no more remembrance or thought of it he that drinkes of this new wine in Gods Kingdome will forget his losse of bodily comforts and remember his sorrow no more 3 It s a change of state also This life is a state of imperfection now we see as in a glasse darkely love coldly hope faintly but then this imperfection shall be exchanged for perfection cleare vision full comprehension everlasting fruition 4 Of campany Paul here lived among false brethren that sought to betray him beasts at Ephesus that sought to devour him death takes Paul from all these and puts him out of their reach into the armes of Christ But what may we think of the violent death of Saints by the sword of the persecutour such was Pauls condition at this time in chaines in the mouth of the Lyon that he seemes to poynt at such a death as this Certainly its true of such a death much more the Millinaries have a conceit of a previous glory a glory before glory that martyrs shal injoy with Christ here on earth groūded on that Rev. 20. Rev. 20.4 5. 4.5 to which I only say a day will declare it The Schoolemen talke of an Aure●la Martyrum a Coronet on the crowne of righteousnesse that the righteous judge shall give to them that suffer death for his name Matth. 5. Truth it selfe hath told us that great shall be their reward that suffer for righteousnesse sake and I doubt not but the greater the suffering the greater will be the glory Reason

easily depart from the simplicity of the words of the Holy-Ghost without manifest reason especially having the consent of all Antiquity I do therefore approve our English Translation so the sense is plaine and sweetly agrees with the precedent and following verses 1. With the fore-going words vers 20. According to my c. viz. this is that I ayme at heartily look and hope for that Ghrist be magnified if so 't is all one to me whether I live or die for this is my maine scope in living my very life to glorifie Christ by professing preaching loving his Gospell and suffering affliction for his Name and if I die now in my bonds besides that I shall seale his truth with my bloud this will turne to my great advantage in that being dissolved I shall be with Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non connectit sed insert Sicut in illo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heinsius in locum John 15.16 2. As sweetly doth this agree with the following verses which I reade thus But if to live in the flesh this be the fruit of my labour What then shall I choose I wot not For I am in a strait c. What fruit the conversion of soules that 's the only fruit of the ministry for that end were the Apostles sent So then if I live I shall have an occasion of bringing forth fruit to God by my ministry And what then shall I choose for to abide in the flesh is better for you Why because this is the fruit of my life to preach Christ and win soules to him and I have destined my whole life thereunto there 's his TO ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST but better for me to be dissolved Why because then I shall be with Christ There 's his AND TO DYE GAINE In these short words of the Text you have described the life and death of a true Christian in a double proposition his life by its object and end Christ. His death by its consequent and concomitant Gaine The necessary combination of these Christ with Life and Gaine with Death is intimated in the manner of enunciation which though it be not substantiall and formal but causall only and per concomitantiam as Logicians speake yet it is as like it as may be his life was so wholly devoted to Christ spent on Christ that Christ and nothing but Christ was to be found in his heart and wayes his gaine so inseparably conjoyned with his dissolution glory so sure to follow at the heeles of death as if there had been no difference betweene them but that Death had now put off with its sting its nature also and were now become not a privation but advancement of his being not a losse of life but a gainfull addition of glory Not to detaine you longer from that I principally intend from the propositions thus briefly explained arise two maine points of truth which I shall desire severally to open and then for a close joyntly to apply 1. Doctr. The maine object of a godly mans employment is Christ and his glory Or Christ is the life of a true Christian. 2. Doctr. A life truly Christian ever ends in a happy and gainfull death For explication of the former of these two termes must have some light here 1. Christ. What is carried in that 2. To live How Christ is life to a Christian 1. Christ is not here simply and absolutely considered in his person Act. 9.5 natures c. but Christ in his relations As Paul once lived against Christ so now he lives Christ in his Church Kingdome Gospell wayes ordinances Christ that is the magnifying of Christ by preaching his Gospell serving his Church building up his body obeying his will doing suffering for his Name So much is evident to an observant eye from the context as hath been already opened 2 How this is called his life For the fuller understanding whereof we must note 1. More generally Every thing is evidenced to live by its operation Sum. 1. q. 18.2 that is most proper to it As the life of a Plant consists in this that it receives nourishment and growth Of a beast in sense and motion Of men in reason and working according to reason So that the life of a man stands in that which he delights most in which he most intends Now there are not only naturall faculties in men inclining them to sutable operations but also superadded principles as habites vertuous or vicious inclining them to some kind of actions as it were naturally and making them delightfull to them Hence by way of similitude that operation that is delightfull to man in which he takes pleasure to walk to which he directs his course is called his life Hence some are said to live a voluptuous others a worldly life their thoughts and study are all on the world all their care is for it their delight wholly in it 2. But more particularly there is a life of the heart and of the hand 1. Love 1. Of the heart where the first weight and springing of the soule is love that so joyns the soule and its beloved that it lives as it were and enjoyes it self Non ubi animat sed ubi amat not in the body where it breathes but in that which it loves 2. 2. Care Hence for love is a commanding passion the mind the thoughts are imployed about that which the soule loves Lord saith David how I love thy Law Psal 119. al the day long is my study in it And this is set down as a characteristicall difference betwixt the life of a married and unmarried person by the Apostle 1 Cor. 7.32 Esay 32.6.8 the one careth for the things of the world the other for the things of the Lord And by the Prophet betwixt the life of the wicked and the godly the heart of the one works iniquity he devises wicked devices the other devises liberall things 3. 3. Desire Reinolds of Passions Hence also ariseth desire that is the wing of the soule whereby it moves and is carried to the thing which it loves as the Eagle to the carkasse to feed it self upon it and to be satisfied with it And this the Scripture holds forth as the very best character and truest lineament that can be drawn of the life of God and of the world Actions may be over-ruled by ends but desires are alwaies genuine and natural Pro. 11.23 The desire of the righteous is only good but the expectation of the wicked is wrath What-ever other defects may attend his actions this is an inseparable character of a pious soule that the maine streame of his desires the course and current of his heart is to God and goodnesse though he cannot shew himselfe in doing as he would yet hee desires good because it is Christ in whom is good and nothing but good Hag. 2.7 after whom are drawn all the affections and inward longings of his soul