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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67164	A sermon preached at the parish church of Solihull in Warwickshire, December 21. 1690 On occasion of the death of Anne, the wife of the reverend and worshipful Henry Greswold; precentor of the Cathedral of Lichfield, &c. and rector of Solihull aforesaid. By John Wright Master of Arts.	Wright, John, 1665 or 6-1719.	1691 (1691)	Wing W3701; ESTC R221256	21,352	34

us how we can be able to discern and distinguish Spirits or converse with 'em whither it is we are to go since no Place as such can affect a Soul wherein the happiness of that State consists The knowledge of which things while all our Intelligence is to come by Sense cannot be conveyed to us Hence then were it wise in us to comply with all our Saviour's Directions for the fashioning of our Minds and to practise all those Graces and Vertues he requires of us as easily supposing that such Habits and Dispositions of Mind are necessary for us to rellish the Happiness of that state For there are many degrees and instances of Vertue required from us which are not necessary to nay scarce consistent with the happy and prosperous Condition of this World or our living in it For we are not to love it we are to live above it to stifle and suppress not only the extravagant and irregular but even the natural Appetites of the Body and to despise the Pleasures of it subduing the Flesh to the Spirit to enjoy this World with that great indifferency as if we enjoy'd it not to have our conversation in Heaven all our joys and affections our treasure and hearts there to love our Enemies and those who hate us and despitefully use us to forgive Injuries not to retaliate Evil for Evil but the contrary Which things we cannot think why our Saviour should require from us were it not that that Temper of Mind which these Vertues form in us is necessary to prepare us for the happiness of the other Life and so far as we abate of them so far shall we fall short of our Felicity in that State As for the Miseries of it we may well believe that they also are more than any thing we have seen or felt or can conceive They are represented by Lakes of fire and brimstone and though Fire cannot hurt a Soul yet if such Expressions be Metaphorical what will those sufferings be that are real Thus to dye is to enter into the strange Regions and new state of the other Life 3. 'T is our leaving these earthly Tabernacles behind us to return to dust our Bodies to sleep in the Earth tho' our Souls have taken their flight from it With reference to these was it said Dust thou art and to dust shalt thou return Yet 't is but for a time and though it be sown a natural Body it shall be rais'd a Spiritual for Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God neither can corruption inherit incorruption These earthly Bodies which we live in cannot subsist in that pure Light and glorious Region where God dwells and therefore to be fit to inherit Glory they must at the last day be spiritualiz'd free from all sublunary Passions to rellish none of the Pleasures of Flesh and Blood and the more they are refin'd here from Fleshly Appetites and Earthly Inclinations the more glorious will they rise again 1. This again should wean our Minds from all sensual Pleasures and worldly Affections For if we can like nothing but these things what shall we do when we come to leave 'em when they cannot be had For whatever clothing our Souls may have yet Flesh and Blood they shall not And altho' when our Bodies fall from us into Dust the particular Desires and slighter Inclinations of 'em may possibly depart from us as we see in long and tedious sicknesses and austerities Men care not much for bodily Pleasures Yet when the Soul is sensualiz'd as it is in old Sinners tho' the Body be decay'd and can esteem no other 't is uncapable of any happiness among Spirits or in a Body that is Spiritualiz'd and Glorified By how much therefore our Inclinations are sunk into Flesh and Sense by so much are we indispos'd for the happiness of the next Life which doth not consist in 'em and the more Spiritual our Nature is the more is it prepared for the Glories that shall be revealed 2. We should not hence pride our selves too much about our Bodies Either as to their Descent since our Pedigree is all alike Antient and no one knows what sort of Persons his Ancestors may have been however we know what we all in a short time must be Or as to their Beauty which if it be not overvalued but real soon whithereth away like Grass whereas Grace and Goodness gives the most pleasing Air to our very Aspect such as no Beauty Natural or Artificial can come near However 't is but a little while till we shall not know the difference betwixt the Dust of one Person and another Or as to their Apparel which besides that it often but indifferently sets off the Person the plainest Dress according to Peoples Quality being most becoming can be of no use in the other Life to cover a Man's Soul Or that we have an Estate to provide more largely for them than others have or can pamper them more Yet for all this they will fall into Dust and the sooner ordinarily for our too much Indulging Lastly we should believe according to the Scriptures that our Bodies shall spring up again more glorious at the Resurrection and in the mean time they are said in Scripture to be asleep The Soul must all the while be in an imperfect State without the Body and is not compleatly happy till they meet each other again to live in perpetual Harmony and Pleasures to which glorified Bodies will be highly Instrumental But if we make our Bodies the Servants of Sin and they carry to their Graves fleshly Lusts and sensual Affections they will rise to shame and everlasting contempt Thus we have heard what it is to dye In what sense we are to understand Death that we do not then cease to be And methinks when we see the Body of a worthy Friend or Relation lie before us pale and without Sense or Motion who but few Hours since may be was our Support and Comfort we cannot conceive that this must be all of the Person but that the Soul is alive somewhere tho' we did not see it go nor what Company did attend it nor what a State or Place it pass'd into 2. I proceed to the next thing The assuredness of Death to us all It is appointed for us Of this all Mankind is a Proof by the succession of Generations And our selves see that those who live the oldest yet Death follows them close at the Heels and at last gives them the fatal stroke There have been two indeed excepted since the beginning of the World but no more will till the end of it and then saith St. Paul We that are alive shall be changed Sin is the Cause of this for Death came into the world by it and in Adam all dye Had we been made Spirits at first we had had no Principles of Mortality in us and it had been hard to have depriv'd us of our