and drinke thy fil spare him not whome thou hast spilt stop his breath couer his face tye his handes binde his feete imbalme his bodye bury his corpes lay on the stone and seale vp the sepulchre yet Christ is at Bithinia greeuing at the graue and me thinkes I heare him crie with a lowde voice to him and all the dead arise and come to iudgement Evomuit prophetam marina bestia quem deglucierat et tu Humbertum reddes quem videris in tuo vastisimo ventre conclusisse So said Barnard of his friend Humbertus and so may I of this our deere deceassed The Maritine beast pickt vp Ionas whome hee had deuoured And thou earth shalt redeliuer this flower of gentrie whome thou seemest to haue closed vp in thy vaste vault In the last day ô Death thou shalt stand like a foole beguild of the dead when the Saint here fallen shall euer liue and thou his destroyer shalt euer die And nowe to that which thou canst not spil which is the sweete perfume of his life past I will bee the more sparing to speake thereof for that loue can keepe neither meane nor method The rule is good say nothing but well of the dead it is better say nothing but truelye of the dead And the truth is hee hath bin true to this my text for he hath bin watchfull watchfull of his place to performe it with good conscience to God and loyalty to his Prince watchfull of his family to gouerne it withall descretion and godlinesse watchfull of his Golde that the canker thereof should not rust his soule watchfull of his ground that the furrowes should not complaine against him the vniust detaining of the laborers wages watchfull of his building that neither the stone out of the wall should cry or beame out of the tymber should answer it with oppression And for this place and charge where nowe I stand my selfe can witnesse how watchfull and carefull hee hath been of it good with whome hee often dealt to furnish him of an able man as an assistant to ayde and helpe the pastor heere which I know ere this had bin effected but that the Lord delt with him as hee did with Dauid in the Fabricke of the Temple Euen put it of to Salomon his Son by him to bee perfected which I doubt not but he will performe and that readilie in the feare of God according to the zeale of his heart and good conscience towards this great people for thou ô Lord hast put fire in his heart and what is thy desire but that it should burne Besides all these the sweete balme of his hospitalitie was an honour to God a reliefe to the poore a credit to his place calling wherof I may say he was watchfull watchful as Abraham who laye in his Tent doore vnder the oake at Mamre to gather in strangers and at the last God was his guest watchfull as Lot who sat in the gate of Sodome to call in pilgrimes and at last hee receaued Angells Rich Christ is in his poore members and hiâ— ioyfull message is tyed to his word and Ministrie he relieued the one and countenanceâ— the other A good aduertisement to al christians that they beware against whome they barre their doores least happily cui Domum clauseris cui huminitatem negaueris ipsâ— sit deus Least happilye as Augustin saith it be God himselfe against whome thou shuttest thy doore and denyest thy curiositie The rule is Apostolic be good to all but especiallye to those that are of the housholde of faith And nowe to winde vp all with the watch of his last farewell at what time with good Ezekias seauen yeares before to my knowledge he set his house in order and prepared to die recommeÌ„ding then as now his soule to God his bodye to the earth his Land to hiâ— heire his goods to the world with much kinde remembrance of his friendes and many prayers for his enemies if hee had any Not so wicked Alcimus of whome it is said that at the time of his death he was plagued so as hee could neither speake to God or giue order concearning his house And for his Funerals nowe next in place and last in action you see they are not without forme like Ioachims of whome the Lord said by the Prophet They shall not lament him saying ah my Brother or ah my Sister neither shall they mourne for him saying oh Lord or ah his glorie For this so great a concourse of Christian people honouring his buriall following his hearse and giuing him the last duetie of obsequi doth argue they loued him liuing whome they honour thus dead nor is it done without compassion for oh husband oh father oh maister oh friend is in the lamentatioÌ„ of all ye see their teares ye heare their groanings God knowes their griefe To whom I leaue them as to the alone comforter doe further pray that the Lord wold teach vs to nuber our daies that we might apply our hearts vnto wisdome so at his comming may bee found watchfull with our oyle readie and our Lampes light Amen Amen FINIS 1. Sam 4 21. c. Mark 5 2 3. 4 5. Eccles 7 4 Psa 126. 5 Exod. 31. 2 1. Co 4 1 Ge 18 2 Gal 6 â— 1. Th. 4. 13 Reuel 14. 13. Eccles. 3. 1 Sophocles The crie of death Ps. 89. 48. Gen. 2. 17. Heb. 9. 27 Dan. 6. 8. Wisd. 2. 24 The reward of sin is death Reu. 10. 6 Ch. 22. 29 Sermo 48. ad â—ratres in Eremo Amos. 6. 2 Isai. 13. 19 Iam. 2. 13 Psal. 49. 1â— Phil. 3. 8. The Herâ—enger of death Eccles. 12. â— 3. c. Old men must die and young men may die Isaiah 40â— 6 7. 8. Exod. 14. The plea of death 2. co 5. â—â— 2. Pe. 3. 14 Phil. 2. 15. â—â— Iohn 5. 2â— 29 Re. 20 13. c. 2. Pe. 3. 13 Isa. 30. 33. Isa. 22. 13 Old Atheisme New Atheisme D. Parie Heb. 9. 27 Lu. 16. 22 1 Ioh. 4. 17 â—â—â— 23. 30 â— Th. 5. 23 The plea of life 1. Cor. 15. that christ is risen Gen. 3. 15. Iudg. 16. 3 Ioh. 10. 17 18 Exo. 29. 24 Mar. 16. 6. 7. Luk 24 5 10 20 17 1 Cor 15. 4 c. That we shall rise 2. co 4 14 Iohn 6 3â— 40 Rom 1. 4. Heb. 2 1. â— Heb 6 1â— Ez 33 11 Ioh 5 25 2. â— 13 2â— Iohn 11. 43 44 Iud. 14 Iob 19. 26 27 Isa 26 19 〈…〉 â—7 4 Dan 12. 2 2 Macc. 7 11 1 Cor 15 42 Phil. 3 21 1 Ioh 1. 1 Iohn 20 24 c. Not sore but open Iohn 5. 28 29 Reu. 6 9 10. 11. Heb. 11 40. Ro. 8. 11 Math. 27 52. 53. Ioh. 14. 3. Ro. 8. 34 Hebr. 9. 24 Re. 21 21 Eph. 2 2 3 A dangerous sect of whome we reade few â—r none to haue been called ma 22. 23 29 2. Tim. 2. 17.
let vs chearefullie vse the creatures as in youth Let vs fill our selues with costly wine oyntments and let not the flower of youth passe by vs Let vs crowne our selues with rose buds before they be withered let al be partakers of our wantonnes let vs leaue some token of our pleasure in euerie greene field as for rigor rage tiranny what 's that to vs when we are dead come let vs oppresse the poore that is righteous let vs not spare the widdow nor reuerence the white haires of the aged but say they haue liued too lōg let our strength bee a law and let the thing that is feeble bee reprooued as vnprofitable Thus did the Atheist speake in the daies of old out of the error of their soules thus did they practise from a graceles resolution the Lord deliuer the land from such a burden his church from such pelfe our Prince from such a people to whome I may say if any there bee that so remaine yet vnreformed after so acceptable a time and free offer of all grace and Godlinesse I may say without repentāce they are a damned crew and depriued of glorie who for that they will not finde out the Lord in his mercies whilst they liue shal be sure to be found out in iudgement by him when they are dead for if a man die he shall liue againe O it shal not be then with the beastlie Epicure whose bellie is his God eate drinke dye and so an end it shall not bee with the wastfull wanton whose lust is his GOD spend sue pursue speede die and so an end it shall not bee with the greedy cormorant whose gold is his God greeue grate grind the poore oppresse the needy then die and so an end it shall not bee with the distemperate Spirits of bloody Tyrants whose reuenge is their God loath kill stabbe murder the Godlie massaker the Saintes then die and so an end it shall not bee with the idle minion whose pride is her God pricke pinne paint frisle the haire then die and so an end it it shall not be with the desperate ruffian whose villanie is his God sweare forsweare teare the heauens and tire the earth with bloodie oathes and blasphemies then die and so an end it shall not be with the grosse Idolater whose image is his God bow bend crosse creepe to the creatures then die and so an end finally it shal not be with the disloyal subiect whose treasons is his God plot complot practise at home and abroad on this side the seas and on that side the subuersion of a blessed state the deposing of a most gracious Prince as they did by their owne confession The best natured and moste heauenly qualified Queene that euer liued in England it shall not be Grieue her curse her depose her and depriue her of life crowne dignity thē die so an end for thē is but the beginning of sorrows after death commeth iudgement when to hide thy selfe with these sinnes it will bee vnpossible and to appeare it will bee vntollerable Lazarus to Heauen Diues to Hell both shal rise againe the one to death euerliuing the other to a life neuer dying for the Godlye shal haue boldenes in that day but the wicked shall crie vnto the mountaines fall vppon vs fall vppon vs. And so to leaue the wicked in their sins and with their brand to close with your religious hearts seeing you looke for better thinges be dilligent that yee may be found of him in peace without spot and blameles at the comming of our Lord Iesus christ to iudgemēt bee wel assured ye that are the elect of God christ his peculiar that though the wicked shal rise to their confusion yet shal ye liue againe as in soule so in bodie to your vnspeakeable ioy and consolation Which heauenlie Doctrine likewise of your liuing againe to beate out hath been the proper workeof all the Godlye from time to time in their succeeding ages Patriarches Prophets Apostles yea Christ himself as the fountaine whose streames if I should follow to the full it would bee tedious for you to passe ouer vnpossible for mee to keepe the current Onely Paules plea for life againe shall stand as a ground for all the rest whose seueral reasons to proue the resurrection layed downe to the Church of Corinth I referre you vnto resting vppon the first as a butteris or binding stone for all the rest which is this Christ is risen againe the first fruites of them that sleepe wherupon I inferre if he be first wee must second him if he be gone before we must follow after if he be risen we may not rest for where the head is of congruence must all the members follow And now that Christ is risen againe from the dead it is apparant by these seuerall proofes First it is promised in Paradice so to be when God said to Sathan hee shall breake thine head and thou shalt bruse his heele bruse he may by death but breake he may not Thine it is ô Christ to breake sathan sinne and death not in the heele but in the head neuer to rise vp in judgement against vs. 2 Secondly his resurection from the dead was prophecied in Iudah by old Iacob Gen. 49. 9. by a Lyon couchant vnder a painefull passion yet passant too by a glorious resurection so said Iacob as a Lyons whelpe shalt thou come vp from the spoile my Sonne Iudah meaning in a misterie from the spoile of Hell sinne and death to the glorie of Heauen life and immortalitie our english Iudah hath this honor in her armes and wee owe her homage our heauenly Iudah hath this honour in his person we owe him adoratiō al ye faithfull of Iudah take this honour to your soules blesse your christ in the scutchin of your hearts carrye him ô carrie him foorth in your Christian marche against all incounters and say terror hic est hominum quique hunc gerit est Agamemnon which I may english thus This Lyon heere of Iudah tribe a terror is to men and Diuils desperat debar'd of blis Who beares him as his Crest more puisant he then Graecian guide with all his chiualrie 3 Thirdly his resurection was figured by Sampson Iudg. 16 who at midnight rose conueyed away the gates of Azzah and bare them vp to Hebron The gates of Azzah are the bands of death which our true Sampson did breake in the night silence of his resurrection and in despite of death bore vp his blessed body to Heauen where now it abides a pledge of our inheritance Haue I not power to lay downe my life haue I not power to take it vp againe 4. Lastly it was signified in the heaue offering shaken vp shakend vne and shaken vp againe so was our Christ in body the substance of this shadow tost to and fro in
the hazard of this world vp to the crosse downe to the graue and yet vp againe to glorie What should I say more see the vaulte where they laide him saith the Angell all hollow emptie ther 's the graue where be the Corpes ther 's the Shrine whereis the Sainct Indeede hee is risen hee is not heere goe to Galilie there shall yee see him as he hath said why seeke ye the liuing among the dead Quem mortuum queris viuentem tangere non mereris Marie thou deseruest not to feele him aliue whom still thou seekest thus dead nor was this Sermon preached by the Angell to her alone but was afterward mightily confirmed by many seueral apparitions of our Sauiour Christ ere he left this world that if in the mouth of two or three witnesses euerie truth should be established this so acceptable a Doctrine of Christ his resurection from the dead might want no testimonye eyther of these women of Cephas of the twelue or of moe then fiue hundreth Bretheren at once whose witnesse is true our conscience bearing vs witnes therto in the holie Ghost And thus my deere bretheren beeing fully assured of the Lords resurrection we are well secured of our owne knowing as the Apostle saith that he which hath raised vp the Lord Iesus shall raise vs vp also by Iesus and set vs with the Saints in euerlasting tabernacles whereof yet lest any the weakest reedin this assemblie might faile in iudgement and so saint in hope I haue thought good without straine of Scripture to secure your religious hearts of your owne resurrection by these few grounds of Faith following First for that it is in the will of the Father so to haue it as also a worke of the Sonne so to effect it for this saith Christ is the will of him that sent me that euerie man which seeth the Sonne beleeueth in him shold haue euerlasting life I will raise him vp at the last day will the Father haue it who shall resist his wil will the Sonne worke it who can resist his power if in any work assuredly moste of all in this hath the Lord declared himselfe mightilie to be the Son of God touching the Spirit of sanctification by the resurrection from the dead his ours I say his and ours because hee that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are both one 2. A second ground of our resurrection to builde vppon is the Lords oathe that by two immutable thinges wherein it is vnpossible that God should lie we might haue strong consolation he that hath former he said it is his wil he hath likewise said it is his worke and the Lord his Say might be our assuraÌ„ce yet God willing more abouÌ„dantly to shew vnto the heires of promise the stablenes of his counsell hath bound himselfe by an oathe of old thus as I liue I will not the death of sinner c. Of new thus verily verily I say vnto you the houre shal come and now is when the dead shal heare the voice of the Sonne of God and they that heare it shall liue where God hauing no greater to sweare by swore by himselfe as he is life and by his Christ as he is truth wheruppon Tertullian infers this blessing O nos felices quorum causa deus iurauerit sed ô nos infelices si ne iuranti Deo credimus O happie wee for whose good God himselfe hath sworne But ô wee most vnhappye if vppon his oathe wee doe not beleeue him Tollit diuinitatem qui tollit veritatem wee greeue the deitie if wee checke the veritie 3. A third assurance is the instrument wee hold by euen our letters pattents from the King of heauen I meane the olde â—estament from Horeb sealed with the blood of Goates and the new testament from Syon sealed with the blood of christ both vnsealing the doore of the Sepulchre that as vppon the touch of Elisha his bones the dead body of the Moabit did rise and at Christ his dolorous crye Lazarus came foorth so both might be pregnant types truthes of our resurection to come and the bookes mentioning the same still remaine as instruments of our holde authentical good to conuey vnto vs an assurance of our immortalitie in which Saint Augustine is bolde to say Euangelium legimus instrumentum nostrum Wee haue read the Gospell which is our euidence wee hold by wherein I dare say there is nothing more current from leafe to line then the doctrine of death's deliuerie 4. A foorth ground of our future resurrection is taken from sufficient testee and clowd of witnesses compassing vs round on euery side Patriarches Prophets Apostles though in diuers ages of the worlde yet all making good this one truth from one God Spirit of our Lord Iesus Christ by which they spake Enoch as Iude saith the seauenth from Adam prophesied of it And Iob said I shall see God in my flesh I my selfe myne eyes and no other for me Isaiah said the dead men shal liue euen with my body shal they rise awake and sing ye that dwel in the dust for thy dewe is as the dewe of hearbes and the earth shall cast out the dead Ezekiell said O Sonne of man prophesie ouer these dead bones say heere ye the word of the Lord when I haue opened your graues ô my people and brought you vp out of your Sepulchres and shall put my Spirit in you yee shall liue then shall ye know that I am the Lord. Daniel said many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth shall awake some to euerlasting life some to shame and perpetuall contempt The distressed Martir said when vppon demaund hee yeelded his tongue and hands into the power oâ— the tormenter These haue I had from the heauen but now for the law of God I despise them and trust that I shall receiue thâ— from him againe What should I say more the new Testament is rather in the practise then proof of this Doctrine and Paul is peremptory that it is sowne in corruptioÌ„ but riseth in iâ— corruption sowen in dishonour but riseth againe in glorie sowen in weakenes riseth againe in power sowen a natural bodie riseth againe a spirituall body for there is a naturall bodie and that shall fall but there is a spirituall bodie and that shall rise and all is but one in the substance of beeing the difference is of well beeing as now being made more honorable vppon the fall by Christ who shall change our vile bodies that they may be fashioned like vnto his glorious bodie according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things vnto himselfe Yea and to make it a palpable and feeling Doctrine as to the heart so to the hand of each Christian all the Apostles in one Iohn and one Iohn for all the Apostles brings in the verdict thus That
which we haue heard which wee haue seene with our eyes which we haue looked vpon these handes of ours haue handled declare wee vnto you Hands haue handled what meaneth that Woe is mee to tell doubtfull Thomas demur'd vpon the Doctrine till his itching fingers had fetched it out of the prints of the nailes his sinful hand out of his sore side How bee it vpon the touch his heart resolu'd into sighes his eyes into teares when hee said with an holy resolution my GOD my Lord my God I am thy creature my Lord I am thy redeemed I finde thee risen and I feele I shal be raysed Thy woundes are deepe enough to pleade thy death sufficieÌ„t wide to purchase life for me and all the worlde For conclusion of all let Christ his witnesse bee instar omnium and stand for all who to take away the doubt forbids the wonder of our new repaire saying maruell not at this for the houre shall come in the which all that are in graues shall heare his voice and come forth 5. Fiftly we are well assured that we shal rise againe by double pledge or hostage 1. First of the soules of the Saints now lodgers in Heauen vnder the Altar killed for the word of GOD and testymonye which they maintained whose loud crye is after a deliuerance of their owne bodyes and of vs their long detayned bretheren to whome silence was inioyned for a while that they should rest vntill their fellowe-seruants and bretheren that should bee killed euen as they were were fulfilled 2. Secondly of their bodyes lodged in their graues there to remaine as lodgers for vs likewise vntill the time that all thinges bee restored God prouiding this good for vs that they without vs should not be made perfect 6 A sixt assurance is the pawne of the Spirit of God within vs for as the Apostle saith if the spirit of him that raised vp Iesus from the dead dwel in you he that raised vp Christ froÌ„ the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you And now my bretheren how this spirit hath entred wimbled into your soules to make passage for this Doctrine I know not reade the caracters of your own hearts you are spiritual I feele no spirit but mine own yet I hope well that the cheareful spirit of God mooueth within you lifteth vp your sad peÌ„siue spirits this day from the dead graue to the blessed hope of immortalitie 7. Seauenthly we are secured per Arram when the earnest is giuen it strikes the bargaine part of the debt is paied so was it wheÌ„ vpoÌ„ the resurectioÌ„ of Christ the graues yeelded part of their dead as an earnest of the generall resurrection and full payment to come then contracted betwixt Christ and the graue binding both alike the graue to deliuer the rest of her dead and Christ to receaue all to life and immortalitie 8. The eight and last yet not the least Anchor of our sure hope and hold is our possession of heauen already taken whither our head is gon before and there sits in potioribus Dei at the right hand of the Father in the best place of heauen that the head and the members might be togeather So then I say in the Man Christ we make our claime in the Man Christ hath euerie one flesh blood bone and portion I beleeue I shall liue where my flesh liueth I hope I shall reigne where my head reigneth and I knowe assuredly that I shall bee glorified where my portion is exalted These groundes of faith my bretheren are so many nailes of the sanctuary to fasten vs in hope to the hold where Christ our redeemer is they are so many Chrysolits Saphiers and Emeralds to support the wall of the holy Cittie where wee shall dwel and so many Pearls they are to garnish the gates of the holy Temple for the Saints entrance where the light of the Lambe is the people which are saued shall walke in the light of it and as Iohn saith the glorie and honor of the Gentils whereof you are shall bee brought into it Lord what is man that thou art so mindefull of him or the Sonne of man that thou shouldest thus visite him in mercie and prouide for him in glory And yet my beloued I know not howe but notwithstanding all these proofes and this my text yet hath not the tempter ceased from the beginning of the world vnto this day eyther like a roaring Lyon feircely to assault or like a Serpent by deceite craftily to impugne the same yea it is a woe and a wonder to see how mightily the Diuell hath preuailed in the Children of disobedience to worke their iust condemnation through mis-beleefe euen in this point of the resurrection of our liuing againe whereof I haue thought good to giue you a taste of their different errors the rather to season you in the knowne truth The Saducâ—s say there is no resurection at all erring as Christ tolde them in that they knew not the Scriptures nor the power of God Hymeneus Philetus say yâ— resurectioÌ„ is past alreadie the Heluetian Heretickes say It is dayly in there generation The ArchaÌ„tici that the soule liueth but not the bodye The Hirarchits that the flesh liueth againe but not this flesh The Maniches that we shall be turned into an other substance but into what they knowe not The Marcionits say wee shall bee turned into the nature of Angels and the Ualentinian Heretickes into the nature of Deuils the Appelleits thinke the flesh shal simbolize into the Spirit that the spirit shal vanish into the sostayre the Chiliaste w e are called the Millenarie Heretickes doe dreame of a ciuil gouernmeÌ„t for a thousand yeares heere on earth wherein they thinke the Godly shall liue with Christ in all delights delicacie then goe to heauen in the eight thousand yeare of the world But all these different errors and Heresies are mightily confounded by the alone spirit of God in these words of my text If a man die hee shall liue againe as and if the truth should say that graue that shutteth shall open againe that bodye which falleth shall rise againe that man which dyeth shall liue againe not in part but in whole not another from that it was but the verie same that now it is These my feete shall treade in his Courts these my handes shall bee lift vp to his praise these mine eyes shal behold his glory these mine eares shall be filled with that heauenly melodye yea and this my spirit shal reioyce in God my maker my sauiour my redeemer my glorifier I say this my bodye and this my soule once feuered on earth with a wofull farewell shall meete againe in heauen neuer to part but followe the Lambe whither euer he goeth And thus hauing cleered in some measure the necessitie of our liuing againe with an