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A72540	The dampe of death: beaten backe with the glorious light and life of Iesus Christ / In a sermon preached at Lancaster assises in Lent last, to the condemned prisoners there, and before the honourable iudges, and worshipfull of that countie. By William Leigh, bachelor in diuinitie, and pastor at Standish	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1613 (1613)	STC 15423; ESTC S125476	21,274	65

vult nihil vult male He is not blessed who enioyeth not all he will and yet willeth nothing but what is good 9 Yee shall heare Melodious Songes euen songes of Sion Psalmes Hymmes and praises more sweete then the harmonie of the heauens when all that Celestiall hoste shall fill that holy vault with an Halaluiah to the Almightie and say Honour Glorie Maiestie Power dominion and might be ascribed vnto him that sitteth vpon the throne both now and euer Thus shall all Angels cry aloude the heauens and all the powers therein Cherubin and Seraphin continually shall crye Holie holie holy Lord God of Sabaoth Beati ergo qui habitant in domo tua Blessed are they that dwell in thy house they shall alwaies praise thee and the praises of God shall be their daily practise 10 Lastly and to your endles comforts all this and all former ioyes shall be for euer and without interruption for of this kingdome shall be no end Nec quoad Regem nec quoad Legem nec quoad Subditos nec quoad fines Imperij The King is Christ the lawe is loue the subiects are Saints and the bondaries of this empire are endles all tyed to no returne either of tearme or time for time shall be no more And for your speedie passage out of this world into that endles glorie yee shall goe Nay yee shall flie Eadem facilitate qua faelicitate as S. Augustine saith with as great hast as happines This day saith Christ Amodo saith Iohn Euen now and in Ictu oculi in the twinkling of an eye saith blessed Paul all shall be chaunged at the day of doome And why not in this day of death For if Corpus erit vbi volet animus If the body shall be where the minde will when it is glorified why shall not the soule be where and when God will when it is deliuered I say deliuered out of the bondage wherein it is to the glorious libertie of the sonnes of God The sillie eye of flesh and blood may happily demurre vpon the distance and thinke how it is possible the soule should passe with such speede from this earthly house and house of clay to that high and heauenly habitation the eight sphere as some write being distant from the earth euery where 20000. Semidiamiters which calculated a right and numbred with our miles maketh a million of German miles which is one thousand thousand Surely I dare determine of no particular but in the general say as Balaam did of Israel Who can number the dust of Israel So who can tell the distance of the heauens Pro. 25.3 The heauens in height and the earth in deepenes and the Kings heart can no man search Howbeit be the distance neuer so great yet speedie may be the soules passage when it is done by the power of God which passeth all possibilitie of man to conceiue how And so to conclude and close with your saued soules who are now by death to make a speedie passage into all these ioyes and so for a while to preuent vs of that glorie Lift vp your herts aboue the height of all Sublimitie where true ioyes are to be found Heauines may endure for a night but ioy commeth in the morning Ioy Ioy Ioy such as neither eye hath seene nor tongue can tell Angels feele it they cannot speake it and therefore I leaue it as a Selah to my soule till I see in glorie what I feele in grace And when euen in an instant and lesse then a thought I shall passe from the bowels of this earth to the bosome of my Christ Whither God bring both you and vs for his sonnes sake To whom be glorie power and praises both now and euer Amen Amen FINIS Errata Fol. 1. For good read God in the second line of the Text. Fol. 18. Line 12. for Bonony read Benony

againe whosoeuer shall forsake houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother wife or children or lands for my name sake he shall receiue an hundreth fold and shall inherit euerlasting life Isay 55.1 it is the call of thy God and Christ yee that haue no money to buye come buye without penney or penneyworth Behold I set a kingdome on sale euen that of heauen where riches are bought with pouertie peace with persecution glorie with shame mirth with mone Sollace with sorrow life with death for yee must die once that yee may liue alwaies alwaies there where true Ioyes are to be found Fiftly though this treasure be purchased with paine yet it is kept with comfort Earthly riches we so greedily catcht at and gape after they are sharpe as a thorne they pricke to the bone for they pricke in getting they pricke in keeping and they pricke in parting from them Nay Acquirendo Retinendo Erogando in getting keeping and bestowing there is nothing but much sinne with little solace and great daunger with small delight But the treasure wherein our life is hid Ecclus. 15. v. 8. hath in it gladnes of heart as Siracides saith for men of truth haunt it and shall prosper euen to the beholding of God Waue therefore all wearines in the wealth of this wicked world and as the prouerbe is Ito sicut canis per Nilum drink by catches for feare of Crocadils taste of it pleasures but soake not into them least in the sweetnes thereof thou be supped vp Amatores suos nouit deuorare non portare it knoweth better how to crosse then crowne it riuals Lastly ex spiritualibus Componitur This treasurie stands vpon spiriturall store no orient pearle of Peru or Mexico no gold of Hauila no Carbunkle Topas or Chrisolit with are nothing else but Terrae maculae immunditiae Neither any of these or all these with an other world of greater wealth can store the treasurie we ayme at it is filled it is filled with the substance of a more heauenly beeing spiritualibus non mundanis gazis not with transitorie but with eternall store It is filled with righteousnes peace and ioy of the holy Ghost it is filled with mercie grace and glorie It is filled with long life length of dayes and all Aeternitie It is filled with Imperiall maiestie brightnes and immortalitie It is filled with the presēce of God with the sight of the Lambe and with the sweete breath and perfume of the holy Ghost proceeding from both It is filled with Songs of Sion Melodious Musicke and praises of all Saintes and Angells sweeter then the harmonie of the Heauens Finally It is filled with greater ioy thē man can thinke or Angell can speake therfore I leaue it with a Selah to my soule till I finde in glorie what I feele in grace And the Lord increase your Faith till you come to this perfection Pardon mee a while to followe this current till I hauee layde you a sleepe in the sweete Repose and Bosome of your CHRIST And therefore say yet further to the solace of your saued soules Christ in whom your life is secured is that hidden Mannah tendered to the Church at Pergamus and in them to you and so to the conquering Saints all the Worlde To him that ouercommeth Reuel 2. V. 17. I will giue to eate of the Mannah that is hidde Prou. 25. V. 1. It stands with the glorie of God to keepe a thing secret So saith Salomon But the Kings honour will finde it out Christ is a secret a mysterie and a Myne to be digged into our heauenly food our meate and hidden Mannah which we may not find in the barke and rinde which often times seemeth faire to the sillie Eye of flesh and blood but wee must search the Veynes and digge downe to the Roote where Christ his sappe and sweetnes is Reu. 10. V. 10. The little booke was sweete in the mouth but bitter in the belly The lower it went the more passionate it was It feeling was in it fall and till it came to the entrails it entred not So is this hidden Mannah swimming in the eare moulded in the mouth it relisheth not to thy saluation But when it searcheth the veynes of thy heart and soule then is thy life hidde in Christ then is the very soule of thy Soule incorporated into thy Sauiour which made the Prophet crye out in Rauishment of spirit Rasili Rasili My secret to my selfe Isai 24. V. 6. My secret to my selfe As if hee should say If none will feele yet am I filled with the abundance of this Angells foode yea and though all the world lye in darknes yet Christ my Loue my Life my Light and my Saluation shineth vnto my selfe and I shall walke in the brightnes thereof euen from grace to grace till I come to glorie Yea and in the meane time be fedde and filled with that Heauenly Mannah which in these respects I may paralell with my CHRIST and apply as a comfortiue to your pensiue soules who are to dye and now hunger and thirst after righteousnes grace and glorie 1. First as Mannah fell from Heauen So did Christ when hee bowed the Heauens and came downe and said I am the bread of life that came downe from Heauen whereof who Eateth shall neuer hunger any more Now your Eating of CHRIST Io. 6. V. 35. is but your stedfast Faith beleuing in CHRIST For so saith Saint Augustine Edere est Credere And therefore saith Christ Io. 6. V. 40. He that belieueth in mee hath euerlasting life and I will raise him vp at the last day Whervpon I may conclude Quid paras dentem ventrem Crede manducasti Why doest thou bring mee thy tooth and thy belly belieue in me and thou hast eaten me Secondly when the Mannah was fallen some gathered more and some gathered lesse and yet so As he that gathered little Exod. 16. V. 18. had no lacke and he that gathered much had nothing ouer So is CHRIST the foode of our soules hee filleth all that gather though not in like measure And therefore let none iudge of the quantitie of Faith and Sanctitie how much or how little will saue a soule Sithence we are heere taught that if it be any it is enough For he that gathered little had no lacke and he that gathered much had nothing ouer None may presume haue he neuer so much None may despaire haue hee neuer so little But he that hath none at all is remediles of all mercie You are here deiected at Christ his feet your teares prayers and kisses expresse your Faith and Feeling both of Christ his mercies and your owne miseries It may be you thinke you are feeble in Faith and wanting in workes and what of that Tantum velis Deus praeoccurrit Onely bee thou willing and God will supplie thy wants hee will meete thee in the way

life secure you in your sinnes there be different deaths for different sinnes which must be repented for otherwise yee shall die in your sinnes penitentiam dare possum securitatem non possum vpon your repentance I dare pronounce remission but vpon your rebellions I dare giue no securitie Nusquam est securitas there is no safetie where sinne seazeth if Angels sinne in heauen out they must if Adam sinne in Paradice away he must and if Iudas shrinke at the side of Christ he must be gon Malorum eiecto bonorum glorificatio then are the good and godly glorified when the wicked and wayward are mortified There be two sinnes sensible in this dissolute age wherein we liue and they are written in so great and capitall letters that a man may reade them running the first is the fawning sinne of presumption the other is the fearefull sinne of desperation In our presumption we soare too high and the fire vpon the mount doth scorch vs In our despaire wee houer too lowe and the furies of hell doe haunt vs In our presumption weare too much exaulted and we dare to sinne notwithstanding Gods iudgements In our despaire we are too much deiected and we doe not repent notwithstanding his mercies Medio Tutissimus ibis A meane is best and that is to goe by Christ in whome mercie and Trueth meete together righteousnes and peace kisse each other Surely wee can goe to no Pulpit but Paules passion dooth pearce our hearts to prouoke our speech against the outrage of both Many walke of whom I haue tolde you often and now tell you weeping they are enemies to the crosse of Christ their bellie is their God their glorie is their shame and they doe but minde Earthly things Nay you are well worse in your vnrepentant liues then these poore sinners are in their penitent deaths For they haue their conuersation in Heauen From whence they looke for the Sauiour Euen the Lorde Iesus Christ who shall change these our vile bodies that they may be fashioned like vnto his glorious bodie according to the working whereby he is able euen to subdue all things vnto himselfe Yea that I may cōclude with my Text These haue their liues so hidden in Christ as they are well assured that when Christ which is their life shal appeare then shall they appeare with him in glorie And so I passe to the last Wheele turning and tending to that glorie which shall be euen vpon your dissolution in soule and vpon the restauration of your bodies in the day of your Redemption when Christ who is your life shall appeare Now in this Apparition what shall I see I shall see the second comming of my CHRIST attended vpon Not with twelue poore Fishermen but with all the Powers of heauen I shall see him come Ad Sententiandum ad Seperandum when those that haue done good shall goe into euerlasting life whither God bring you and those that haue done euill into euerlasting Condemnation from which the Lord deliuer you But what shall ye see vpon Christ his Apparition Nay rather what shall yee not see vpon your dissolution Words spoken in season as Salomon saith are like apples of siluer in pictures of gold therefore flye out my voyce and be strong my spirit euermore to expresse the glorie of those vnspeakable Ioyes yee shall both see and feele within these fewe houres when dead in body but rauished in soule yee shall see the heauens open to giue you readie passage to eternall blessednes 1 Where yee shall see God as he is face to face I say God of so great Maiestie might bountie beautie and loue as if a man were filled with all other blessings both temporall and eternall and yet without that as Plotinus saith all were but miserie and accursednes 2 Yee shall see the comfortable face and countenance of Iesus Christ fairer then the sonnes of men and whom the very Angels desire to behold 3 Yee shall see the holy Ghost proceeding from both and breathing vpon your saued soules like a softe ayre vpon a garden and more sweete then all the trees of incense 4 Yee shall see the bright court of Angels Cherubines and Zeraphines attending the Deitie and euer pressing to doe his will faithfully speedily willingly and neuer wearie of watching because they are neuer wearie of well doing 5 Yee shall see the faire assemblie of the Saints of God Patriarkes Prophets and Apostles with Abraham Isaac and Iacob in that his glorious kingdome yee shall be tyed with them in the bundle of the liuing neuer to be loosed any more yee shall returne as they haue done into your rest as into a retyring campe after the day of battell there shall yee followe the lambe whither soeuer he goeth and there shall yee walke before the Lord in the land of the liuing for euermore 6 Yee shall see new Ierusalem come downe from heauē as a Bride prepared for her husband a Citie of solace whose portes are euer patent whose streetes are paued with gold garnished with all manner of pretious stones the Iasper the Saphir the Chalcedonie the Emarod the Sardonix the Sardius the Crisolite and the Berill the Topas the Crisoparus the Iacinth and the Amathist euer splendent shall this Citie be it shall neede no Sunne for the Lambe is the light of the place the people that are saued shall walke in the Light of it and the Kings of the Earth shall bring their glorie and honour vnto it The Gates of it shall not be shut by day August in Epistol Ioh. Tract 4. for there shall be no night there and the glorie both of Iewe and Gentill shall be brought vnto it What should I say more Quomodo potuit Lingua sonuit Caetera corde cogitentur As I could so haue I tolde let the heart conceiue the rest and yet so as Amoenissima Ciuitas Amantissima Societas Iucundissima Foelicitas A most pleasant place A most ioyfull presence And a most happie estate of blessednes shall be your portion in an endles glorie 7 I cannot speake as I would and yet my heart is full breake it will if it may not vent it Pardon mee therefore a while to beate backe these fearefull passions of your mortalitie with further impressions of your aeternitie yee shall haue Eyes without teares hearts without sorrowe soules without sinne greene youth without greeuance of olde age health without sicknes fulnes without sacietie freedome without bondage beautie without blemish glorie without shame and life without death your knowledge shall be without either doubting or discourse for ye shall see God and all goodnes all at once your loue shall leuell at the highest nor shall it faile to fall vpon the lowest of his Saints 8 Yee shall haue what yee can desire and yee shall desire nothing but what is good Aug. lib. 13. de triniti cap. 5. For as one hath truely said Beatus non est nisi qui habet omnia que