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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52775	A sermon preached at the funerall of the Honourable Sir Francis Vincent, Knight and baronet at Stokedawbernon in the county of Surrey, the tenth day of Apill [sic], 1640 by Thomas Neesham. clerke and rector of the same church.	Neesham, Thomas.	1642 (1642)	Wing N413; ESTC R28714	23,075	35

even chide our soules out of our bodies And with Saint Paul desire to be dissolved that we may see the blessed companie of Patryarches of Prophets of Martyrs of Confessors of Apostles nay of Christ himselfe sitting at the right hand of God in the glory of his Majestie This is the societie of Gods chosen and to this estate death brings us And so I step from the former branch of the statute to the latter from that of death to this of judgment But after this the judgement After this that is anon presently immediatly after and therefore Aretias reads it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon that Take it which way you will the phrase implies an order of death before judgement but not a long distance of time betweene death and judgement Judgement followes in the neck of death either of weale or wo of salvation or damnation of It● or Venite go ye cursed or come ye ble●sed This judgement here after death is either private or publike particuler or generall of soules alone or of soules and bodies together Both these ju●●●ments may be here meant but specially the particular 〈◊〉 followes immediatly the other not til the end of the worlds It is enough that after death comes judgement one way or other be it particular or generall it matters not looke we to it If whilest we live we play not our game wisely repent of our sinnes and make our peace with God when death comes it will be too late to play an after-game of repentance for then there remaines no more sacrifice for sinne but a fearfull looking for of judgment and firie indignation which shall devour the adversaries as the Apostle speakes Heb. 10.27 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we perswade men perswade them to pietie to charitie to holinesse to righteousnesse In breife 2 Cor. 5.11 to a conscientious observation of both the Tables of the Law and all because of this the terror of the Lord the rigour of the last judgement If this will not perswade men and prevaile with them I know not what will He that shall hear of death and of judgement after death of a worme that never dies and of flames that never shall be quenched and shall not feele his soule within him shrinke for fear and shrivell it selfe together for astonishment I can say no more nay nor lesse of him then Simon Peter of Simon M●gus Act. 8.23 He is in the gall of bitternesse the bond of iniquitie the infinite anger of God is upon him Men Brethren and Fathers let the remembrance of judgment smite every soul amongst us with fear make us to rend and ransacke our hearts and purge these Augaean stables of our polluted consciences from all uncleannesse of flesh and spirit For the day will come and God Knowes how soone it may be this day before to Morrow In quo plus valebunt pura coda quam astura verba conscientia bona quam marsapia plena as Saint Bernard hath it in which pure hearts shall prevaile more then plausible words a good conscience then a full purle For the tender mercies then of the Lord your God and for the love that ye beare unto your own poor soules think of this judgement after d●●th and prepare that for it before death Cosen not your selv●● with the weaknesse the corruption the facility the merc●●●…nesse of the judge at that day for the judge is the Lord Jesus Christ the Sonne of God one that is infinite in power cannot be overborn with greatnes punctual in resolution will not be overcome with importunity powerfull in knowledge and cannot be deceived with cunning exact in justice and will not be corrupted with bribes impartiall in himself and will not be carried away with favour or affection either now or never must ye worke your owne salvation and sue the favour of the Judge now he is mercifull but then he will be severe With what face shall Palate and Iudas and the Iewes and all the route of the wicked looke upon him whom they have pierced Peirced in his owne body with thornes and speares and nailes peirced in his poore members with crueltie and oppression and uncharitablenesse and the like weapons of unrighteousnesse What troe ye will the judge say to such cruell tormentors of his innocent bodie but either afferte c. bring them hither and slay them before me or It● ame c. go from me ye cursed into everlasting fire A fearful doome able to astonish these that hear it but utterly to confound those that undergoe it What can possibly appale or amaze the soul of a poor Christian more then this to hear him that should be his Saviour to say unto him go from me what may it say from thee Lord the fountaine of life from thee the light of glory from thee the river of pleasure Oh God this is terrible intollerable and yet this is not all but from me into everlasting fire if but into fire it were enough but into everlasting fire is enough and enough This is the Apex the height of a wicked mans punishment that the fire is everlasting But I would be loath to trespasse too much upon your patience or the time and therefore for the matter of my Text I will conclude and conclude thus with Saint Pauls Phil. 2 ● ●●testation a little added If there be any consolation in Chri●t if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the Spirit if any bowels and mercies towards your owne soules thinke on these thing● and when that is done thinke on them againe thinke on death thinke on judgement thinke on both death and judgement because there is no remedy you must undergoe the stroke and hazard of both for saith my Text It is appointed unto men once to dye but after this the judgement And so I have done with my Text. And yet I have not done here is another Text or rather the same text in another Character in another Letter that will a little require your patience and my paines your eares and my tongue your attention and my illustration and I begin it thus When Abner was dead David good man tooke it to heart and said to his servants Know ye not that there is a 2 Sam. ● ●● Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel I may take up the like speech and say unto you as he to them Know ye not I need not aske the question there is none here but doth know that a worthy Gentleman a famous Knight a renowned Barone● a great man is fallen this day in our Israel in these parts and amongst us witnesse these persons this Pall these blacks these and all these accoutrements of honou● and ensignes of greatnesse I condemne not such pompous solemnities and portly Ceremonies where there is worth and estate to beare it out but rather condemne them and as Eusebius commends Actirius a noble Senatour for his care and cost of Mari●●s his

but after this the judgement FVnera'l Obsequies and solemnities of this nature they are to use the words of Saint Augustine Magis vivoruns solatia quam mortuorum subsidia more for the solace comfort of the living then any wise subsidiary or helpfull to the dead well may those that are alive reape some advantage and benefit by seeing such spectacles of mortality and by hearing commemorations of death but for those that are dead these Ceremonies are of little or no availe in the world for neither are the wicked any whit bettered by th●● nor the godly prejudiced in the want of them Sepelit natura relictos saith the Poet Nature makes a grave for those that have none Et coelo tegitur qut non habit vrnam and heaven covers that corps that hath no othercoff●● And yet I must tell you that Christian buriall is a great blessing for a man to come to the grave in peace is a singular happinesse This was promised to good King Josiah as a recompence 2 King 22 27 for his consternation and humiliation when the rest of the people of the Land committed Idolatry and provoked the Lord to wrath That he for his part should be gathered unto his Fathers and into his grave in peace this was both commended and blest of David that the men of Jabosh G●lead shewed kindnesse unto Saul and Jonathan his 2 〈…〉 Sonne and buried them It is no lesse then a part and point of piety to respect those bodies on earth and to let them have all the due rights of comely Buriall whose soules are glorious in heaven How justly doe we take care of the honourable interring of our friends when as God himselfe gives us a vive example he when the soule of Moses was expired and conveyed into glory caused his body to be conveyed into the valley of Moab Deut 34 6. to be buried Answerable hereunto was Sara buried in Hebron Gen. 23. Deborah in Bethel Gen. 35. Rachel in Bethleem Gen. 48. Christ in a new tombe hewen out of a rocke I might be infinite Mat. 27. in particulars but this is a most certain truth that though the dead body be insensible of any position yet Christian buriall is a blessing And the contrary hereunto is a curse at least a punishment which the Lord threatens to revolters and rebels Jehoakam that wicked King for his violence oppression and other his vicious courses had this message sent him and it was a cutting one that he should be buried with the buriall Ier. 22. 19. of an Asse drawn out and cast beyond the gates of Ierusalem Amongst those many judgements that God threatned to bring upon the Iewes this was one and a maine one too that they should not be lamented neither be buried but should be as dung upon the face of the earth their carcases should be meat for the fowles of the heaven and for the beasts of the Ier. 16.14 earth I could with ease inlarge my selfe upon this theame but I consider where I am to whom I speak and what I have to do and therefore without any further Prefacing I addresse my selfe to my Text. It is appointed unto men once to dy● but after this the ●udgment These words whether you take them Text. joyntly or separate in coherence with the Context or a part by themselves they are a Statute Law enacted by God himselfe in the grand Parliament of heaven touching mans death and his judgement after death So that in telling you what the words are I have told you withall in a manner what the parts be namely these three First a Statute enacted in the first word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that 's one part Appointed to whom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 to men that 's another part to men touching what touching their dying and their coming to judgement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 once to dye 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but after this to judgement that the last part these be the parts Of these in order A Statute enacted is our first point Statutum est It is appointed 1. A S●● enacted All Statutes are not of the same constitution and enactment for some are constituted and enacted by men as those in the Parliament of State concerning theft murther rape robbery with a thousand more of that nature Some againe are constituted and enacted by God as those in the high Court and Consistory of heaven concerning sinne death judgment and the like and such is this Statute here in my text a Statute of Death and that not of mans ordination or appointment but of Gods Statutum est it is appointed and appointed by God hence it is that holy Iob ascribes the day of his departure unto God I know saith he that he will bring Iob 30.23 me to death and to the house appointed for all the living and hence it is that the Lord in the rejection and extirpation of the Iews arrogates to himselfe both their death and the manner of it I will appoint over them foure kindes saith the Lord the Sword to slay the Dogges to tear●● and the Fowles of the Ier. 15.3 heaven and the Beasts of the earth to devoure and destroy the slaying sword the tearing Dog the devouring Fowles the destroying Beasts all from the Lord and of his appointment It s well observed that there be five keyes which the Lord keepes in his owne custody and reserves in his owne power the Key of Raine The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure Deut. 28.12 sure the heaven to give thee raine to thy land in its season that 's the first key the key of Food Thou openest thy hand and they are filled with good that 's the second key the key of the Psal 104.28 heart God opened the heart of Lydia that she attended unto the Acts 16. things that were spoken of Paul that 's the third key The key of the wombe God remembred Rachel and harkned unto her Gen 30. and opened her wombe that 's the fourth key The key of the Grave And ye shall know that I am the Lord when I have Ezech. 37.13 opened your graves that 's the fift and last key Now as none can forgive sinne but God onely so none can open the grave dissolve these tabernacles of our flesh bring to the dust of death but onely the Lord for man not armed with authority from above but meerly out of spleene or revenge or coller or a bravado or wearinesse of the world or the like to open the passage out of the world and to bring death either upon himselfe or others is to intrench upon Gods right snatch the key out of his hand and both peevishly and perilously to transgres that Law which he hath enacted which he hath appointed Now of things appointed by God some are absolute some occasionall some Lege naturae institutae by the law of nature in its perfection and integrity