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A01837	Deliuerance from the graue A sermon preached at Saint Maries Spittle in London, on Wednesday in Easter weeke last, March 28. 1627. By Tho. Goffe, Batchelor of Diuinitie, lately student of Christ-Church in Oxford.	Goffe, Thomas, 1591-1629.	1627 (1627)	STC 11978; ESTC S103197	26,929	56

the Nations still in the third person as if they were Branches to be cut from the Stocke wherein they were ingrafted and henceforth to remaine Aliens to his fauour neuer to be acquainted with him or any thing of his but his Anger and punishments But his Anger endures but a while In his fauour is life so gracious a LORD hee had euer beene to them that hee could neuer forget that they were his people How like his owne people did he truely vse them when they were vnder Pharaohs bondage where euery lash that was giuen them seem'd to strike him and how did he double all those Stripes vpon Pharaohs backe How did he afterwards load them with Courtesies because they were his people How did hee feede them with foode from his Table such as they knew not neither did their Fathers know How did he bring them thorow the waters of the great Deepe and thorow the Red Sea as thorow a Wildernesse Yet was not Gratitude for all these fauours so truly planted in their deprau'd hearts but they made a Molten Calfe an Idolattrous Sharer in his honour If euer they were not to be accounted his people and their names neuer to bee registred more in his thoughts now was the time they should haue beene blotted out when such worms not worthy to crawle before his Throne should dare to vrge God himself with their vpbraiding murmurs yet euen then a word from his Seruant Moses mouth to put him in mind that they were his people easily reconciles him and hee shewes that hee had wrote them vpon the palmes of his hands and not forgot them when the Mother hath forgot her sucking Child Hee was euer wont to reioyce in the Title of being a Lord to his people for as if his Loue had shut vp all his Care for one Familie alone and onely they should partake of it hee calls himselfe the God of Abraham the God of Isaak and the God of Iacob as if hee meant onely to bee their Lord and they should onely be his people Some of his seruants haue desired to belong to him with the same singularity of dutie as hee hath own'd them with a singular affection The man after his owne heart expresses him in Attributes most pleasing to him Domine Deus meus O Lord my God The Disciple whose doubting faith hath made ours so strong that it ought not to doubt when the wounds in his side had assur'd him who hee was he cryes out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 My Lord and my God At the same time that happy sinner seekes this Lord with the same appropriating termes They haue taken away Dominum meum my Lord neither shame for his late reproachfull Death nor feare to belong to so contemn'd a Man as he was made her to let fall her Relation but still My Lord. Some of his then haue been willing to dwell vnder the shaddow of his wings as he was to entertaine them into his seruice and ready to acknowledge him for their Lord as he to call them his people His people we are all content to goe for whil'st he conferr's fauours vpon vs whil'st he opens vnto vs the windowes of Heauen and powres forth blessings that there is not roome inough to hold them But like peremptorie Minions who hauing long enioy'd the fauour of their Prince and finding themselues crost but in some one Suit they forget all the good turnes that were heap't vpon them before Antiquiora beneficia subuertit qui eadem posterioribus non cumulat none will any longer bee his people then his hand of bounty is open to them Not onely his people in generall but his chiefest Seruants haue vs'd him so his Psalmist his King whom he tooke from the Sheep-fold and preuenting him with all good things set vpon his head a Crowne of gold Then he would bee his seruant Then he awakes his Psaltery and Harpe and himselfe would awake right early Then hee summons the Heauens and the Heights the Angels and Hosts Dragons and Deepe all must helpe him to praise the Name of the Lord for himselfe was resolu'd to doe it for euer and euer Yet in another place hee sees but the wicked flourish he sees GOD as hee thinkes shew a little fauour to them that were not his owne people sees that they are not in trouble like other men nor plagu'd like other men forthwith all that God had done for him That he had so often heard him out of his Holy Hill that hee had beene his glorie and the lifter vp of his head yet hee tooke ill counsell in his soule daily and accuseth his carefull Lord of such peruerse forgetfulnesse as to be a continued Patron of Strangers who neuer acknowledg'd themselues his and to take no notice of his best and most obsequious seruants 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Though wee may euery where find this Lord yet if we looke vpon him with carnall eyes we shall hardly discern him to be the Lord of his people but rather of the vngodly who oftentimes in farre more plenty enioy his outward bounties then his owne people His people must not looke to spread themselues and flourish like a greene Bay tree to swimme alwayes vpon smooth streames When Christ himselfe had once in his company his Apostles all the poore Familie that he had all his people the Winds and the Waters set vpon the Ship where he and his people were for had there beene a continuall calme they could not so certainely haue knowne him for their Lord who both then and since reads to all his people many Lectures of himselfe his Glory his Omnipotency But alas they rather pose vs then instruct vs by all them we only know that we can neuer sufficiently know him not the least handy-worke of his One Schoole onely GOD hath where most perfectly wee shall learne what he is That Schoole is the Graue to which heere hee sets his people where they shall truely know him to be the Lord by those acts of his power by opening Graues and bringing vp out of Graues This is one of the vnlikeliest places that euer man went to learne any knowledge in especially the knowledge of the Lord. The Psalmist tels GOD That was no place for him to be knowne in quoniam non est in morte qui memor sit tui In death there is no remembrance of thee and in the Graue who shall giue thee thanks He seconds it in the 30. Psalme verse 9. Quae vtilitas in sanguine meo What profit is there in my blood O Lord When I goe downe into the Pit shall the Dust praise thee shall it declare thy Truth Yes sure A blessed Apostle could well thinke of no other Librarie to studie for his chiefe Lesson in to know Iesus Christ and him crucified but the Graue His Bookes must be meditations of the Carkases laid in their Graues his fellow-students Wormes his writing-tables

apace and how wilt thou scatter Kings when the chariots of the Lord shall be twenty thousand euen thousands of Angels In what furrow then will the Purchaser hide his couetous head In what dunghill will the Adulterer shrow'd his vncleane and rotten body Into what Ditch then will the Drunkard reele or in what Parchment will the Lawyer write his Euidences or with what waxe will he seale them when the Heauens shall be contracted like Parchment and the Hils shall melt away like Waxe and no Mountaine left to giue the Infidel so much hope of mercy as to call vpon the Mountaines to couer him Then wilt thou command the Sea not onely to stay her proud waues but to make one depth still call vpon another till they bring vp from the lowest bottome all that haue shipwrack't in her waters or dash't against her Rockes And vpon earth euery Angle Nooke and Chasme euery place though more desert then the ransackt Temple of Ierusalem now is shall be enquir'd into and not be able to keepe any garment of flesh that euer was worne by any whom Christ dyed for If dissected limbes lie torne assunder in places as distant as one end of the Pole is from the other yet will he soader them together and make them in euery seuerall indiuiduum a perfect entire numericall body againe Not the Beakes of Eagles nor the throates of Rauens not the Entrailes of the most deuouring Monsters of the Forrest not the Iawes of Tigers nor the teeth of Crocodiles Serpents or Hiena's for to these and worse then these doth sometimes this cocker'd flesh of ours become a prey not resolution to the first indeterminate matter not the dissolution if that could be to nothing can keep can hide these bodies of ours from him that first made them out of nothing But whether they crumble into Atomes of dust or be distill'd into water or with ashed from a Funerall Pile fill an vrne or be attenua 〈…〉 to Ayre euery one of these Rauens Eagles 〈◊〉 sters Beasts Tigers Sea Fire Earth Ayre 〈…〉 their priuate closets to be vnlock't and restore euery integrating part Arterie Sinew Muscle Veine Ioynt Limbe Nay those parts which Philosophy esteemes but Excrements Diuinity will then make Ornaments and therefore God hath a care that a haire of mans head shall not fall to ground without his prouidence Thus much Rubbish He will haue to worke vpon at the Resurrection who at the Creation did all ex nihilo of nothing and that was the greater taske What change soeuer these bodies suffer subducuntur nobis sed Deo Elementorum custodi reseruantur in no Element can they be lost which are committed to his keeping who keepes the Elements themselues But all these Graues which I haue yet nam'd are but like Peters chaines which fell easily from his hands there is a Graue yet more deepe more loathsome that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vtter darkenesse darkenesse of body darknesse of soule not Egypt in all its darknesse like to the darkenesse of that Graue There is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an vnpassable Gulfe betwixt life and death for euer fix't no Musicke but where their Instruments are gnashing teeth and their Hymnes howling All the sensible faculties of the soule taken vp with no thought but neuer-ending sense of neuer-ending misery No mention of ioy but Poena damni the vnrecouerable losse of ioy when they shall see others enioy the abundance of that Ioy which they shall neuer haue When all other Graues shall haue their Graue and the last Moyty of sand be runne out of the glasse of Time it selfe in this Graue shall they lie that are gone to it as dead to any thing but torment which shall neuer die to them nor they to it No Gregory no Falconella no Masse no Trentals No Beads no Penance no Pope no Iesuite no Deuill for those whom their owne pride hath ioyn'd together let no man put asunder I say none of these could euer redeeme from that Graue of mortall immortality Yet out of that Graue in one true and most Orthodoxe sense are we brought not by getting out if we euer had been actually in but because that wee know he is the Lord whose mercifull preuention hath bar'd vp the euerlasting doores of that Graue to vs that are out and to that purpose hee sent the Angell in the Reuelation from Heauen hauing the Key of the bottomelesse Pit and a great chaine in his hand and he tooke the Dragon that old Serpent which is the Deuil and bound him a thousand yeeres shut him vp and seal'd vpon him that he should deceiue the Nations no more If a Messenger one of our fellow seruants for so the Angell cals himselfe in the foregoing Chapter could doe this bind the Graue-maker shut him vp in his owne Graue how may we that are his people know that the Lord himselfe hath all the power of Hell chayn'd at his will all the Gates thereof shut to all but those that will needes enter by the Posternes of Heathenish Infidelity or Romish superstition the Keyes of euery Gate else are kept sauing those of our Sauiours wounds the infectious sting of Death being pluckt out of the mouth of the Serpent the Graue and Hell it selfe And by this you know I hope all you his people that he is the Lord Now he hath opened your Graues and brought you vp out of your Graues God for his part hath you see made euery word of the Text good let him not in such a generall Haruest of Heauen and Earth haue occasion to say to any of you as the Master of the Vineyard said to the Labourers Why stand yee heere all the day idle why doe not your selues doe your parts too and set your hands to bring your selues vp out of your Graues But the early charitie the vnconsum'd Bounty of this Citty preuents an Exhortation you bring and keepe from the Graue many a weake aged Christian who haue no other props but you and their staues their owne limbes sooner forsaking them then your bounty Infants brought into the world and left there as in a wildernesse hang vpon your paps and are fed from your Tables You deliuer the poore that cry and haue none to helpe them In your Hospitall lyes many a wounded Christian and in euery wound is plac't a tongue to speake and cry to God himselfe for mercy continu'd mercy and honour to this Citie Your Bethlem shewes how he that was borne at Bethlem is borne anew in your hearts and you againe regenerate and borne in him for whose sake if a Cup of cold water giuen shall neuer goe vnrewarded then surely Copiosa erit Merces vestra in Coelis great will your reward be in Heauen when you are brought vp out of your Graues Thus farre doe the armes of the Poore lift you their Benefactors and Patrons from your Graues Thus farre are these Liuories which attend you Angels and