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A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable Julian Vicountess Camden at Camden Jan. 12, 1680/1
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Hicks, Henry, d. 1692.
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A SERMON Preached at the Funeral of the RIGHT HONOURABLE JULIAN VICOVNTESS CAMDEN At Camden Jan. 12. 1680 1 Honour is deceitfull and Beauty is vain but a woman that feareth the Lord shall be praised Prov. 31.3 Keep innocency and do the thing that is just for this will bring a man peace at the latter end Psal 37.38 OXFORD Printed by Leonard Lichfield Printer to the University Anno Domini 1681. TO The Right Honorable BAPTIST Viscount Camden BARON of ILMINGTON RIDLINGTON My Lord HAVING Preached this Sermon I had no thoughts of making it publick But having been since sollicited for Copies by some very honorable Persons whose commands I cannot withstand and whose judgments I cannot controle and considering that Translating of Exemplars would be wearisome if not endless I resolved to commit them to the Press yet so as the Philosopher answered Alexander his Books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 scripsi non scripsi I have Printed yet not Printed them Printed them that is but with no intent to publish them having confined the number of my Copies as near as I can conjecture to the number of the Persons that may probably desire them That so I might shew my zeal to the surviving branches of the Deceased Lady whose memory I adorn and subject my self to the Censures only of an Honorable Familie and not of a Censorious Nation I add no more but my hearty prayers to the Almighty that the Blessings of both hands and both worlds may be the portion of Your Lordship your Noble Lady and your Hopeful Off-spring My Lord Your Lordships Most Humble Obedient Servant Henry Hicks 3. Phil. 20 21. For our conversation is in heaven from whence also we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things to himself WHEN one of the Fathers was to Preach upon a subject of Mortality he read the text shut the book and spent the hour in groans and tears This present Text of Providence Our loss of so Honorable and Religious a Mother in Israel might justifie the action should we follow the example But being assured that death it self is but a passage to a better life and the Grave but an entry to glory therefore though our hearts are sad with sorrow for our loss yet our Text revives us into comfort in her and joy in our selves minding us of our Conversation in Heaven where while she is by Fruition let us be also by Contemplation remembring that Our Conversation c. The words read upon this solemn and very sad occasion offer more immediately these two Generals to our consideration 1. Something to be known as Doctrinal 2. Something to be done as Practical The things to be known are Three 1. That there is a Change to pass upon all 2. That this Change is for the better to advance our earthly natures even to the conformity with the glogrious body of Jesus 3. That the efficient Author of this Change is our Saviour Jesus Christ. 2. The things to be done by us in order to this Change are 1. To have our Conversation in heaven 2. To expect and wait for his comming The first is our duty the Second our constancy in it for which our Saviour has recorded a blessing in the 24. of St. Matthews Gospel Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing Blessed indeed he is for he shall be rewarded with eternal glories And that we may be so too let us consider the doctrinal part of my Text thereby to inform and engage us to the Practical 1. Then there is a change to pass on all Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God and this mortal must put on immortality before we can be admitted into the heavenly mansions and therefore doth the Apostle to encourage our hopes and excite our industry speak out and tell us That the Trumpet shall sound and the dead be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed The dead shall start at the shrill voice of the Trumpet from their beds of dust into the incorruptible conformity and likness of God They shall lay down their stench and corruption frailties and decayes the constant attendants of our mortal state and be cloathed with incorruption and a Robe of Glory And they who then shall live will not put off their bodies but their mortality and be made like unto Christ both in the truth and glory of his Resurrection so great is our Change So great indeed that all our imperfections will be done away The Blind shall have his Sight repaired to see and admire his glorious Redeemer We shall not only be restored to our bodies but to our youth and vigor also The walking staffe and the hoary head shall no longer be the support distinction of age and those limbs which the unmerciful Saw divorced or the fire consumed shall be restored with as much Miracle as Flesh and the Infant that left the world as soon as it saw the light shall in a trice be as big as its Parent and as glorious as its Redeemer And thus it is that we shall bear the image of the Heavenly as we have born that of the Earthly i.e. As we have with our Protoplast Adam been mortal sinful corruptible so shall we be like the second Adam pure immortal incorruptible But to know what this Change that is to pass upon us at the last will be we must discover what is meant in the Text by Our Saviours glorious body which we are not to collect from the dreams of Enthusiasts and the conceited raptures of some fanciful men but from the spirit of truth and those representations of his glory which are attested by the Sacred Oracles If therefore we look into the 17. of St. Matthew we shall find that one transient glimps of Christs glorious body in his Transfiguration upon the Mount did so engross all the desires and ardencies of three very eminent Apostles that they could not breath out any thing but Lord it is good for us to be here O happy place here let us fix and rear Tabernacles that we may joyfully continue in such a presence Here that we may have the influence of that face which doth out-shine the sun and the pleasure of that Raiment which is as white and comfortable as the light So glorious it seems was the representation that Moses thought God himself had buryed him and given him such a reward as belonged to him that was faithful in all his House yet will he for sometime quit his enjoyments to behold that glorious body to the likness of which our Text warrants ours to be one day fashioned That glorious body that transported its beholders with such unusual splendours that a voice from heaven was forced to settle and direct them to the Object by telling them This is