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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15471	A comfortable meditation of humane frailtie, and divine mercie in two sermons upon Psalme 146.4. and Psalme. 51.17. The one chiefly occasioned by the death of Katharine, youngest daughter of Mr. Thomas Harlakenden of Earles-Cone in Essex.	Williamson, Thomas, 1593-1639.	1630 (1630)	STC 25738; ESTC S106233	35,205	48

watch-word Nothing is able to kill the soule Mat. 10. And Martin Luther going to give up his account before the Emperour received this Eccho from the people feare not them that cannot kill the soule Mundus minetur aestuet Death by all its pyoning takes but a fort of clay Animus ad sedes suas cognata sydera recurrit the spirit as new hatched goeth forth to live still like as the light issuing from the Sunne dieth not at Suns●…ing but goeth some whither else with the Sunne so life that issues from the soule goes with its owne principle and abides with it so Saint Iohn the divine to be better enabled to his banishment he had a vision of this by speciall privilege a sight of the immortall safe subsistence of the soule after death under the altar the custody of Christ Jesus Rev. 6.9 And thence is Saint Pauls Ne contristemini sorrow not as hopelesse men 1 Thess 4. Yea bee we nured to a certaine faith and frequent thought of this and a fairer flower the booke of God yeeldeth not than the immortality of Saints in blisse Hence the great patience of the Saints hence the challenge of death Vbi mors victoria O death thou wilt take away our breath Alas how small a losse seeing no death can divide us from Christ Rom. 8.38 and spiritus exit seeing the spirit doth but migrare it goeth untouched in essence and inviolate The maine issue of this first point is that seeing our breath our spirit goeth forth that wee make sure provision therefore of some harbour or sanctuary that we get us into the Arke before the fl●ud that we gather our Manna and prepare to our eternall Sabbath now in the Even of this life Qui laborat in vesp●re Sabbati vesce ur in Sabbato say the Rabbines and what an exceeding strength will it be to us when we are weake in minde and body that our spirit is to passe safely and comfortably that we have a refuge a terminus ad quem for our spirit so let us forecast for it by a true apprehension and faith of the loves and promises of God in Christ Jesus O my Dove that art in the clefts of the rock saith our Saviour Cant. 2.14 The wounds of Christ are the clefts of the rocke therein let us cove r hide us over soule and body let us make sure of a rightfull hold in that rocke of our salvation through faith and repentance and so our spirits will grow acquainted with the peace of conscience and the joyes of the Holy Ghost and the sense and hopes of the promised recompence and so shall also we be well composed and fortified for our migration or passage even that our spirit goeth forth of an earthly vessell but into an eternall and blessed receptacle I come to the second branch of the text the second note of mans imbecillity from the matter that he is made of Et revertetur in terram suam and he returneth to his earth He returneth The body of man before his fall was beautifull and amiable in the eye of God and awfull in the eye of the creature and exacts in its owne temper and immortall by privilege sealed in the tree of life but since that sinne came into the world the body of man incloseth a death a selfe-ruining beside outward violence and perills of contagion none of which were incident to his pure estate so man returnes to his earth without contradiction hee hath no helpe for it The spirit which holdeth up the elements together in a body when that goeth forth each of them fall backe to their owne principles earth goeth to its earth according to God his ordinance dust thou art and to dust thou shalt returne Gen. 3. Nicodemus thought it strange but in this sense it is true we re-enter the bowels of our mother The sonne of Syrach calleth the earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the mother of us all Ecclus. 40. So Brutus wisely tooke the Oracle when being warned to kisse his mother kissed the earth His earth Earth we see goeth very nigh us it is our earth not onely the matter or rocke out of which wee are hewen but the matter whereof wee consist our ingredient and co-essentiall with us that I may say with the Prophet Ieremy O earth earth earth heare the word of the Lord. Trim wee never so nicely we are earth Lutea progenies an off-spring of earth yea pulvinaria as the Romans stiled their Temples vessels or beds made up or stuft with dust and shall we dote upon our earth Shall we suffer our immorta●… spirit to goe out like a starveling and over-care for what ●…cernes the bodie and over-decke the daughter of ro●…ennesse know we not that our very make is such that earth that the chambers of death stand like the houses of the Roman Tribunes wide open for us night and day and very usually man sleepeth and never riseth againe and walketh but never returneth againe unlesse it be into his earth The men of Anathoh said to the Prophet Ieremie Prophesie not in the name of the Lord that thou dye not Ier. 11. But to you my fellow-labourers I say prophesie in the feare of God for we shall die because we shall be dissolved and returne to our earth wee know not how soone and if this doth not quicken our account being so nigh at hand what will And of all Gods Officers we his especiall Embassadours how shall wee turne us on the bed of death if we have betrayed the immediate worke and businesse of our Soveraigne The Indian Priests or Brachmanes so verie separate were they from the body that they are said Interrâ esse non in terrâ esse To be and not to bee on the earth A Minister of Christ his Gospell much rather hee should bee unglued and abstracted from this earth the body like a starre already fixed in Heaven But wee care what wee can for our body and so tender it oft times that wee forget our God and yet neverthelesse wee shall returne to our earth and when our turne commeth what a crowne of rejoycing should it be to thinke that we have wasted in body by winning soules and have truly sought to turne men to God though it turne us into the earth stantem praedicantem mori But beside counsell the Lord hath comfort for this point in the issue namely that thus God ordaineth by his returne into earth to refine and turne our vile bodies to bee like the glorious bodie of Jesus Christ Hee that was wrapt up into the third Heavens and knew what he saith S. Paul speakes it Yea saith hee as the corne liveth not except it die and be cast into the earth so wee are not clarified not made blessed bodies but by a returne into the earth So then with an Eagles eye by faith pierce wee thorow and looke beyond the grave and wee shall discerne and see an incomparable light of grace to

goeth forth according to that as her soule was going forth or departing Gen. 35.18 Againe it is used effectually for breath or respiration Aufer spiritum Take away their breath and they die Psal 104.29 And the body without the spirit is dead that is without breath Iames 2. For compare breath to a massie body and such is the rarity of it or thinnesse that it seemes to bee a spirit or spirituall and consider it with the soule and such is the use of it that it seemes no lesse to informe the body than the spirit it selfe by which it is But the argument is good however the word be taken say our very essence and forme and soule is fleeting as a Pilgrim and ready to passe from its Inne to goe forth of the body therefore Hallelujah fasten mainly upon Jehovah because man is very soone out of being so soone done his soule goeth forth Againe what a brittlenesse is this if we say a breath an aiery substance so thinne and vanishing it is that it is scarce visible if we say a breath it is a tye which combines soule and body and props up even Princes from mouldring into ashes Beside the Heavens and the Elements God made man for his glory a creature able to conceive him and to speake and declare his excellencie and by those two rich donatives 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 understanding and speech the Lord put man in a state of perfection denied to all other creatures below namely to be admitted into the immediate presence of God and most especially to behold and publish his glory and so a soule understanding and reasonable animus aeterna mente delibatus as the Oratour speaketh a spirit breathed into man by the immediate act of God himselfe it is such a dowry wherein man is farre nobler and better than the very heavens and therefore man had need of somewhat to abate the rising thoughts of the soule and the Lord hath given us therefore Stimulum in carne a mortality in the body to buffet us His breath goeth forth Yea there is the deaths head the mortality of man indeed that a very breath is as much as his being is worth Our soule that spiraculum vitarum the Lord inspired it not into Adams eye or eare or mouth but into his nostrills which may shew to man his imbecillity Cujus anima in naribus whose soule is in his nostrills and dependeth upon a breath as it were for the very soule must away if but breath expires soule and breath goe forth both together Now heare yee this all ye People ponder it high and low your Castle is built upon a verie aire the subsistence is in flatu narium in a blast that is out in the twinckling of an eye Wherefore David maketh a question saying Domine quid est homo Lord what is man Hee answereth himselfe also Man is a vanishing shadow Psal 144. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A shadow of smoake or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the dreame of a shadow rather as the Poet speaketh And blessed therefore are the poore in spirit this advantage have all afflicted ones that they have checks enough to call them home to make them see they be but men The curtaine of honour profit or pleasure hard it is and rare to draw that aside when it is spread over us man in honour understandeth not Psal 49. To great ones therefore be it spoken the Psalme intendeth it to verie Princes His br●…th goeth forth And breathlesse man who before amazed the bruit creature by the majestie of his eye no better is hee to the eye now than the dust and gravell and chill clay under our shooe Iacet ingens littore truncus Avulsumque humeris caput sine nomine corpus The Poet speakes of King Priam. Now cease from the man whose breath is in his nostrils Isay 2. Ten thousand graves and wormes and passing-bels cannot give us a truer touch Waldus a rich Merchant of Lyons seeing a man on the sudden breathe his last in the streets So was hee taken with it that as suddenly he turned his old course fell to study the Scriptures and became in earnest a Preacher and Founder of the Christians called Waldenses Yee see what a point this is and of what use his breath goeth forth Our Saviour hid himselfe from the unsought honours of the Jewes and so should we had we learned but this we would withdraw sure from the perillous dignities and delights of the times But as Iulius Caesar the same morning hee went out to sue for the Priesthood saluting his mother said Domum nisi Pontificem se non reversurum That he would never come home but high Priest So my brethren in the Ministerie doe not some of us in pursuit of honour take leave of our charge which should be as our mother deare unto us but we goe out as resolved not to come to residence without an high Priesthood for we never thinke on it that our spirit hath but this to shew for its residence in the world a breath and if the Lord dash that we die if he take away his finger we fall away like water Now therefore that we may all grow to more sinceritie let us I pray you accustome our eares and eyes to man dying it would certainly loosen us much from this world to see and to feele and to handle this truth as it were his spirit his breath goeth ●orth And this for the substance of the act the going forth of the spirit yee see what it meaneth See we now the continuednesse Exit it goeth as if it were now presently in its passe to shew this that Homo vivens contin●… è moritur That by the verie act of living wee are dying that life is a continued death our candle lightens consumes and dies as in the passing of an houre-glasse everie minute some sand falleth and the glasse once turned no creature can intreat the sands to stay till they are drawen out So is our life it shortens and dies everie minute and we cannot beg a minute of time backe and that we call death is but the terme of it or consummation Vita ultimo die finitur omni perit saith Seneca Many be our partiall or pettie deaths sorrow sicknesse mishap but death is inclosed in the bowels of our life and is essentiall with it Spiritus exit His spirit goeth forth Lycurgus said that according to the threefold age of man a threefold salutation might bee used you are welcome or you come in a good houre God keepe you or stand in a good houre God speed you or goe in a good houre to shew that from the age of fiftie and forward we are taking our leave our spirit is going forth but so fraile and fluid is life that at all ages times we may be bid God speed we may have our Vale or goe in a good houre For once imbarqued we are going to the Port. The going