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heaven_n	holy_a	lord_n	praise_v	5,775	5	9.7846	5	true

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