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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00426	A learned and godly sermon preached on the XIX. day of December, anno Dom. MDCXXXI. at the funerall of Mr. Robert Bolton Batchelour in Divinity and minister of Broughton in Northampton-Shire. By Mr. Nicolas Estvvick, Batchelour in Divinity, and sometimes fellow of Christs College in Cambridge, and now minister of Warkton in Northampton-Shire. Revised and somewhat enlarged by the author, and now at the importunity of some friends published	Estwick, Nicolas.	1639 (1639)	STC 10558; ESTC S122205	46,169	72

I see no profit to the Auditory by naming them the learned if they please may read many of their names in Sixtus Senensis But how then say I could Saint Paul be with CHRIST this opinion is an unworthy conceit condemned by the Church as robbing heaven for the present of its blessed inhabitants Fourthly hence also doth it follow that though CHRIST as touching his divinity is every where present for else he were not GOD yet to us in this world he is absent as touching his bodily presence For what is it to be with CHRIST but to be present where CHRIST is bodily present and againe whiles we are in the body wee are absent from the LORD the Apostle then was ignorant of that unhappy perplexed point which some seeme to defend the ubiquity of CHRISTS body for howsoever his humane nature especially in the state of glory is adorned with admirable gifts and advanced to the highest dignity honour and domination yet doe the natures of CHRIST personally united remaine distinct both in essence properties and operations Yea and the mselves confesse that the divine properties belong to the humane nature not by any physicall transfusion from one subject into another but it is only personall and communicated to the humane nature by the grace of personal union insomuch that the humane nature as they say is omnipresent not in being but in having not in it selfe but in the person of the word and thus do they in words at least deny what they seem to contend for From whence likewise it followeth that there is no Popish Purgatory the fault is clearely remitted and so there can be no satisfactory torments required GOD should me thinks but mock us if they say true as if he should say I pardon thee thy offence but I will punish thee for it I acquit thee of the debt thou owest me but not of the paiment but why should not the soules of the righteous dying in faith be caried instantly into heaven as well as the soule of a man newly baptized comming to that holy Sacrament in due manner and dying before he hath committed a new sin although he was full of sinne before there is no question of this latter and why should there be of the former And if they cannot go to Heaven because GODS justice must be satisfied what will becom of all those that die a little before the judgement much more is the difficulty increased in those which passe in a moment from mortalitie to immortalitie at the very comming of JESVS CHRIST But I marvel not if Papists do contend for this Purgatory as being indeed one of the best fires that ever the Pope and his Clergie have had for the heating of their kitchins For let this be granted that there is such a fire and that the torments there and in the place of the damned differ but in duration and there are no torments in this world comparable to those in Purgatory let their Preachers tell their people such a supposition as this is if a foule had beene tormented in Purgatory thirty yeares and had by an Angell a choise either to stay in Purgatory one day long or to returne into the body and do this penance a hundred yeares together to tread only on iron nailes which will pierce the feet to drinke gall mingled with vineger and to eat the coursest bread to be cloarhed with Camels haire to lie on the ground and instead of a bolster to have a hard store for a pillow the foule would rather do this penance a hundred yeares together then to endure in Purgatory one day faith their Preacher By this and such like doctrines the consciences of their disciples are stung as with Scorpions and it is like a gift whither soever it turneth it prospereth then may they work them like soft waxe by their charitable promises to apply the meanes for their ease and reliefe out of the place of torments What a wofull speech was that of our Richard 1. who committed his soule to Purgatory till Doomes day Sixthly this Doctrine overthroweth their Popish prayers for the dead directed unto GOD to ease them and free them from the paines of Purgatory yea and that kind of kindnes too which many that do professe the Orthodox doctrine doe unwarrantably use in words and further as a more durable monument of their mistake do write upon the grave stones of the dead GOD be mercifull to the soule of this dead man For are they with CHRIST then doe their prayers bring no profit to the dead but hurt to the living For to speake the fairest of them 1. Such prayers can be no better than an idle word for which we must give an account at that day 2. They are an injury to the dead and do vertually imply that such as pray for them are not perswaded they are in happinesse for whom they pray 3. This practise although it might be perhaps by some qualification justifiable in the intention of the speaker yet may it breed danger in the conceit of the hearer who may turne thy voluntary devotion to harden him in the dangerous error of that opinion if then no benefit redounds either to the dead thy selfe or the hearer its best to leave those formes of prayer which are made for the dead But ignorant persons being reproved are bold to reply in this foolish manner what would you have us say of the dead would you have us to revile or curse them Oh perverse minds as though necessitie lay upon you either to pray for them or to curse them Belike what displeaseth GOD pleaseth you passing well let us speake of the dead as GODS Word teacheth us to speake of them sure I am it no where enjoyneth us to pray for them nor furnisheth us with the example of any Saint to that purpose and yet were their affections to the dead as good as yours Cannot you use such formes of speech when you fall into mention of them they are with GOD they are at rest they are happy their memorie is blessed unlesse you pray for them But leaving now these Uses of confutation I come to those of instruction which are indeed more profitable for our edification and more sutable to this present occasion and the first is Feare not death O thou righteous soul overmuch it s one benefit we reape from the death of our blessed Saviour to be freed from the feare of our own death death is called indeed by Bildad in Iob the prince ofterrours by the Philosopher of all formidable things the most terrible so it is to the wicked or at least there is good cause it should be so for to such as live without CHRIST death is as a purseivant sent from hell to fetch them thither but they that live conscionably may thinke of death comfortably and they may sing that triumphant song O