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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

from the Chamber of his Graue fresh as a Bridegroome and reioycing as a Gyant to runne his race Would his Disciples a poore disconsolate wretched forsaken company Doues vnder the tallons of Vultures and Ravens would they venture vpon a guarded Sepulcher Would they offer violence to an armed Band Indeed habet pietas impetum suum Religious valour will doe much and it is well they will accuse his Disciples of so good a crime as to be more watchfull then their Hirelings were Innocencie is euer most commonly apt for rest when he tooke along with him three chosen witnesses of his sorrow in the Garden when he felt the soule of affliction in the affliction of his soule and many a groane was fetcht from the bowels of his humanity able to awaken a sullen Rocke they three not then able to watch with him one houre and now all of them to watch a whole night when he was dead and steale him away This saying is commonly reported among the Iewes to this day Credat Iudaeus Apella non ego A sottish stupid vnbeleeuing Iew may credit such a lying vanity And marke I beseech you euen in that one thing the prouident Iustice of the Almighty to punish them euer since with a generall lightnesse of beliefe to apprehend any thing but what they should haue faith in Dreames and Fables are Histories to them and which is their iust curse they haue yet no other Gospell Shall so supernaturall an Earthquake bee at his Passion when he breathed out his Spirit into the hands of his Father And shall neither Earth nor the Stone vpon his Graue stir to giue way to him to re-assume that Spirit to himselfe againe If Earth nor Stones will not moue Heauen will and from thence will come an Angell to rowle away the stone Angels euer haue had a charge of him and as they did not refuse to attend him when he tooke vp his first lodging vpon Earth in a Manger so did they waite vpon him in the last bed that euer he lay in heere the Graue Qui fuit vermiculorum locus est Angelorum Angels scorne not to keepe wormes company in any place where Christ was for as Princes denominate Courts so doth he Heauen euen in the Graue and the Graue was Heauen whil'st hee was there so Coelo tegitur qui non habet vrnam But speake thou Angell of the Lord was not he thy Angell and abler to helpe thee then thou wert him The Angell may still keepe the praise of his duty but Christ must haue the honour of his Omnipotency All that was done for him was done by him nor did the Angell rowle away the stone to make way for Christ to come out of the Graue but to prepare our hearts for Christ to come into them vt conseruis ad credendum daret fidem non vt ad resurgendum Domino praestaret auxilium Not to helpe our Sauiour but our faith to which the Angell would euer remaine an happy both Messenger and witnesse A witnesse ioyn'd to holy Iob who knew certainly that his Redeemer liued A witnesse with Dauid that his holy One should not see corruption A witnesse with Esay who call'd all that dwelt in the dust to awake and sing A witnesse with Ezekiel to this place That he hath open'd our Graues and brought vs vp out of our Graues Vteri noua forma saith a Father for the Tombe to become a womb to take in a dead man and bring him forth aliue for the Graue to swallow vp not a dead Corps but Death it selfe neuer did any thing deserue the lasting Characters which Iob meant to write with the Pen of a Diamond like this neuer did Spring bring forth such a flowre as the flowre of Iesse before But if he be but a flowre he may fade againe as flowres doe and so our flesh will last as long as his for the Psalmist tels vs that as for Man he flourisheth as the flower of the field But the wind passeth ouer it and it is gone the place thereof shall know it no more so man hath euer remain'd since Adams fall he was first made a Gardner till that Gardner prou'd the worst weed in the Garden and so as a weed was pluck't vp and throne away but the second Adam the Iewes esteem'd indeed a weed but contrary to expectation he sprung vp a Gardner for Mary tooke him for the Gardner and by the power of that Gardner Expectandum etiam nobis corporis ver est These Bodies of ours shal at that general Spring-time of the Resurrection grow vp againe a fresh in the Eden of Eternity This flesh of ours post totum ignobilitatis Elogium this ignoble flesh subiect to an Army of Diseases to Corruption Death Wormes Rottennesse and Dissolution with all the deprauing Adiuncts that Sadduce Heathen or Athiest can disgrace it with yet because it is the diligent Attendant of the Soule here by whose Organs she discourses contemplates and conueyes her thoughts as high as the Seat of God this flesh in which Saint Paul carried Stigmata Christi the markes of his Sauiour shall with its owne eyes one day see that Sauiour For shall darknesse follow light and light darknesse shall Autumne succeed Spring and Spring Autumne shall the Moone put off and renew her selfe by a monthly change shall trees vncloath themselues of their leafie garments and duely at their time re-inuest themselues with those greene Ornaments shall Sunnes each night set and each morning rise and must man take vp a lethargicke rest in a night long as eternity No Operibus praescripsit Deus antequam literis his workes are our books in which we may reade the plaine and vnderstood Stories of our being brought vp out of our Graues It is now and euer was since that first Easter a continu'd Feast of ioy solemniz'd with celestiall Iubiles by the Angels in Heauen because he brought himselfe vp out of the Graue Sed in hoc multiplicata sunt gaudia saith a Father This extends the degrees of their accidentall ioy to the height that we for whom he became so humble on earth shall by him be made so high in heauen That these bodies shall againe be made the glorified Tabernacles to their soules from which that Diuine part shall neuer againe be frighted with diseases neuer loaded with discontents neuer rackt by pashions neuer tortur'd by affections neuer vext by griefes nor expell'd by rebellious frailty but euery Christian shall bee in a heauen of peace and the peace of heauen in euery Christian that is brought vp out of his Graue O God when at that vnknowne day thou shalt goe forth about this vniuersall businesse to bring vs All vp out of our Graues and meanest to clothe this mortall with immortality how will the earth shake and the heauens drop at thy presence How will Kings of Armies flye