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A88663	The king of terrors metamorphosis. Or, Death transform'd into sleep. A sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Nicoll, daughter to that worthy, eminently pious, and charitable citizen of London, Mr. John Walter deceased, and late wife of Mr. William Nicoll of London draper. By Thomas Lye rector of Alhal. Lumbard-street, London.	Lye, Thomas, 1621-1684.	1660 (1660)	Wing L3538; Thomason E1053_4; ESTC R207978	20,527	31

THE King of Terrors METAMORPHOSIS OR DEATH Transform'd into SLEEP A SERMON Preached at the Funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Nicoll Daughter to that Worthy eminently Pious and Charitable Citizen of London Mr. John Walter Deceased and late Wife of Mr. William Nicoll of London Draper By Thomas Lye Rector of Alhal Lumbard-street London Isai 26.19 Awake and sing ye that dwell in the dust Mark 5.39 The Damsell is not dead but sleepeth John 11.12 Lord if he sleep he shall do well Nox Exitus est sed Transitus Cypr. LONDON Printed by M. S. for Hen. Cripps and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes-head-Alley 1660. To his Dearly Respected Friend Mr. William Nicoll Dear Sir It hath pleased the Lord of late to do with you as of old with his eminent Servant Ezek viz To take away from you the [a] Ezek. 24.16 desire and delight of your eyes Your dear dearest Wife your self in another skin the t'other [b] Anime dividium med half of your soul is gone down to the Chambers of darkness When I consider the closeness of your Relation the dearness of your Affection I cannot but grant the deprivation of such a Wife to be a sharp dispensation a bitter cup indeed But yet it hath this to sweeten it that 't is handed out by a wise soveraign gracious Father a God that doth and will do what he pleases and none can stay his hand or say unto Him [c] Dan. 4.35 what dost Thou And Sir give me leave to tell you I do not dare not look on you as such a piece of presumptuous clay as dares give check to your great Potter You are none of those proud and impatient Worms that will turn again when a God treads either on you or yours No but rather you have learnt good old Eli's Epiphonema [d] 1 Sam. 3.38 It is the Lord or which is more with Job not only to submit unto but even to [e] Job 1.21 bless A taking as well as a giving God It were easie to expatiate But then the Gate would be too wide for the City As therefore the Voice to Austin Tolle Lege so I to you Read Consider and in Gods strength endeavour so to improve the Truths herein contained that it may appear to your Conscience that you have not so much lost as parted only for a time with the dearly beloved of your soul and that the time is coming yea hastning when you shall happily meet again and for ever repose your selves in that center of Bliss the bosom of Christ yea and so meet as never to part more Alh. Lumbard-street Octob. 29. 1660. Your Affectionate Friend and Pastor THO. LYE To His much Esteemed and Worthy Friend Mrs. ALICE WALTER Worthy and Christian Friend THis Sermon which was lately preacht to your Ear is now at the request and importunity of some Friends humbly presented to your Eye I hope by this time your prudence faith patience have well digested your late just sorrows and that the tender of these Notes will not cause your Wounds to bleed afresh They were first intended and are now offered as a Lenitive not Corrosive to allay not aggravate your Griefs 'T is true the All-wise Soveraign of Heaven and Earth has thought it fit to deprive you at least for a while of such eminent enjoyments as but few Mothers in our Israel are blest with A prudent faithful affectionate pious charitable Husband Another Enoch for of a truth he walkt with God One that was eyes to the blind feet to the lame whom not only the lips of the hungry but the loins of the naked did bless a man rich in faith rich in good works And two daughters the one credibly reported the other known to me to be so humble obedient modest discreet devout that she fully proved her self the genuine Issue of so precious a Father a Branch worthy such a Stock These are now taken from you whereof the one was your self divided the others your self multipli'd such strokes when they come single cannot but sharply afflict us but when double treble are apt deeply to astonish us And here methinks your condition bespeaks us as once Job his Friends Job 19.21 Have pitty upon me have pitty upon me Oye my Friends for the Hand of God hath touched me We do we cannot but pitty you and how freely could we sit down and mingle tears and sighs with you weep till we could weep no more but that my Text must be remembred which strictly forbids both you and us immoderate mourning for those that are fallen asleep in Jesus and certainly without the least strain of charity we may so conclude concerning your late Relations they are not dead but sleep in Jesus and if so why may not you reply with Austin concerning Monica what cause have I to over-grieve for a mother an husband daughters of whose happiness I am and justly may be so well assured I need not ask you whether you loved them And could you love them and not wish they might be perfectly happy And could they be perfectly happy and not die and are they dead and do you can you dare you think them less than perfectly happy True your loss is great but their gain is greater oh grieve not so much at your loss as rejoyce at their gain If you do and your tears exceed your joys you will by these bewray a love indeed but 't is of your self more than them Go then Christian Friend and since you cannot here enjoy their persons imitate their graces live more and more like them since you cannot as yet live with them and let this cause you to love and long for Heaven so much the more because so much of your self even more than half is there already Which that you may as it is the serious advice so it shall be the ardent prayer of The Servant of your Faith and Helper of your Joy THO. LYE THE King of Terrors METAMORPHOSIS 1 Thess 4.13 14. 13. But I would not have you to be ignorant Brethren concerning them which are asleep that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope 14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him OUR Apostles drift in these words is to prefs his Thessalonians to moder ation of sorrow for those of theirs Scopt that were dead in Christ. Grief like her sister Passions being too too apt to passe its bounds and overflow its chanel transports the Thessalonians into a great indecency Whilst they wept as Men they had almost forgot to act as Christians The floud of their tears had as it were drowned the anchor of their hopes For a stop and Bay to this uncomely unchristian Deluge our Apostle here lets down this holy Floud-gate in the words of the Text But I would not have you c. In which words we have a Christian duty gravely proposed

come Isai 57.1 A Believers grave is nothing else but one of Gods privy Chambers where he is hid from the indignation to come Isai 26 20. 2. Private and Personal No trouble no oppression no persecution no racks no strappado's in the Grave The voice of the oppressour is not heard there Job 3.18 This life indeed is a cloudy blustring passage to Gods Jonahs but death is that Whale which doth not so properly swallow them up as carry and convergh them 't is indeed both their Ship and Pilot to conduct them safe to shoar Poor Saints here they are usually the worlds Gally-slaves this lower Orbe is to them but a larger kind of Tunis of Argier but they are manumitted there Their death ransomes them Here they are at the foot of every bloody Bonner Gardiner Nero Trajan Dioclesian Julian but death sets them out of gun-shot The rod is taken off their backs and a palm put into their hands Rev. 7.9 14. There Peter no more feares the Crosse Paul the Axe James the Sword Isaiah the Saw Elijah Jezebel the noble Army of Martyrs the Cole-house Dungeon Halter Faggot Flames Hence Cyprian when dying God be thanked for this Goal-delivery And I. Buisson Now shall I have a double Goal-delivery one out of my sinful flesh another out of my loathsome dungeon 3. From all bod●ly [o] Hic quot venae tot morbi weakness infirmities pains griefs passions [p] Diu vivere nihil aliud est quàm diù torqueri Aug. miseries By reason of these Saints whilst here are subject to panting hearts moistned eyes blubber'd cheeks Here usually ashes are their bread and tears their drink Here the Saints life is usually so miserable that 't is an observation of Hierom and the resolution of an ancient [q] Christus non ploravit Lazarum mortuum sed ad hujus vitae arumnas ploraevit resuscitandum Concil Tolet. 3. Councel concerning Jesus his weeping over Lazarus John 11.31 That it was not so much a grief for Lazarus his death as the consideration of his [q] Christus non ploravit Lazarum mortuum sed ad hujus vitae arumnas ploraevit resuscitandum Concil Tolet. 3. raising again to a miserable life that drew those tears from our Saviours eyes But now Death wipes every tear from a Believers eye Rev. 7.17 sorrow and sighing do then fly away Rev. 21.4 Death is the great Catholicon panacea salve for all sores the reall and lasting cure of all the Saints diseases maladies infirmities So that good man Laverock comforted his fellow Martyr John ap Rice Come saith he be of good comfort Brother for my Lord of London is our good Physitian He will soon cure thee of thy blindness and me of my lameness this day 4. From sin He that is dead is freed from sin Rom. 6.7 From their own sin and from the sins of others 1. From their own sin and that both as to its guilt and silth 1. From the guilt I mean the sense and apprehension of guilt Poor Believers whilst here many times lie under the stabs and throws of a wounded Con●cience their souls stricken through with Gods venemous Arrowes and made as it were dizy with the wine of astonishment As they are forced to lye down in sorrow so they fear they shall rise up in Flames This was the case of Heman Asaph c. Many very many of the children of Light whil'st here walk in such darkness Isa 50.10 But now Death delivers them from this midnight darknesse brings them into the face and presence sets them under the beams of the Sun of righteousness which shall never more be clouded Not a wrinkle more now for ever to be seen on Gods face not the least frown on Gods forehead Every score quite blotted out every debt cancelled and they no lesse fully the freely acquitted and discharged Jeremiah 31.34 2. From the raging power yea from the polluting pestring presence of sin Poor Saints here labour under the intollerable burthen of a corrupt heart and sinfull life How was Paul prest opprest with that weight that mountain the law of his members warring against the law of his mind This makes him cry out likea forlorn Caitif 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O wretched man that I am Rom 7.24 Paul that could rejoyce in tribulation could not but mourn under corruption This was that made the good man cry out Libera me a malo hoc est a me ipso Domine This made holy Bradford bewail himselfe as the living Christians of old when tied to dead carkasses But now when once death comes it soon knocks off these shackles takes off these weights that so easily beset us As the Martyrs formerly cheered themselves against the rage of their bloody persecutors Oh brethren said they our persecuters are sending of us thither where we shall never offend God more Death spares not one Agag alive Every Canaanite slain Every Egyptian drown'd Those corruptions they have seen to day they shall see them no more for ever Death presents them without spot or wrinkles Eph. 5.27 Totally frees them not only from the power but presence of sin The end of their living is nothing less then the end and period of their sinning 2. From the sins and corruptions of others Here the sinfulness and pollution of the times and places wherein Saints live specially of persons neerly related to them makes their lives grievous and is as it were a Coloquintida in the pot of their sweetest comforts Lots righteous soul vext with the Sodomites 2 Pet. 2.8 Rebeccah weary of her life because of the daughters of Heth Gen. 27.46 Woe is me saith David that I must dwell in Mesech Psal 120.5 Oh that I could leave my people saith weeping Jeremy Jer. 9.2 But now 't is not the least part of our happinesse by death that it brings us there where there are no ill neighbours There shall enter in nothing that defiles into those holy Mansions Rev. 21.27 Corrupt flesh and blood shall not cannot enter into the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 15.50 5. From temptations Satans winnowings buffetings solicitations to sin Here ever and anon a messenger sent from Satan to buffet Saints 2 Cor. 12.7 Anakims to fight them Midianitish women to allure them Satan going about like a roaring Lion seeking whom and how he may devour 1 Pet. 5.8 Here Gods Adam's never without an Eve and a Serpent In this Egypt Christs Joseph's alwayes dogg'd with the suggestions of a Potiphars wife But now the death of Saints Brings them into that heavenly Paradice where there is no Serpent The great Dragon the Accuser and Tempter of the Brethren is cast down thence and never to be admitted more Rev. 12.9.16 Here the Saints alwayes wrestling not only with flesh and blood but principalities and powers and spiritual wickednesses in nigh places Eph. 6.12 Here though they ate never totally overcome yet are they stoutly charged and assaulted and though 't is the Saints honour to conquer