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A20161	Another tombestone; or, A sermon preached at Laurance Pountneys-Church London, vpon the last day of August, in the yeere, 1626 At the celebration of the funerals of Master Iohn Iuxon, late citizen of the Honourable city of London. By Stephen Denison, preacher of Gods most holy Word in the same city.	Denison, Stephen, d. 1649 or 50.	1626 (1626)	STC 6598; ESTC S118655	22,186	84

grieued for but in that he doth lament and bewaile him he sheweth that whom God had made vitall the diuell by sinne hath made mortall We shall not need further to insist vpon the proofe of this point viz. that the body of man is mortall we see it prooued euery day when we see by experience good men wise men great men eminent men in Church or Common-Wealth Learned men and men of singular parts to be taken away by death as well as others this point needs not proofe but Vse Vse And this much aggrauateth the sinne of such as make it their especiall care to paint pranck and to pamper their bodies how many vaine women haue you in this City and else-where which spend a great part of the forenoone in trimming of their bodies hardly afford to spend one quarter of an houre in a whole day in prayer or reading of Gods Word or in repenting of their sinnes for the eternall good of their soules yea how many Epicures haue you both men and women whose care is to fare deliciously euery day to ride vp and downe from place to place to seeke delights for their flesh which will hardly goe to the dore to heare a Sermon doe these persons consider that their bodies are bodies of death their practise shews they doe not but let them remember that those bodies which they are so curious to prank vp in apparell farre aboue their callings must they know not how soone be clothed with dust and those karkeises which they doe so pamper 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 poena autem huic mors malorum minimum plat lib. 9. de legibus shall ere it bee long be very wormes-meate yea it were happie for them if no greater danger did hang ouer their heads then bodily death but alas after death comes iudgemēt Heb. 9.27 when they must answer for this misexpence of time and the rest of their sensuall and gracelesse courses I might make diuers other vses of this point for it should teach vs to liue in a continuall expectation of death and preparation for it it should teach vs to lay vp treasures for our selues in heauen by good workes to bee mortified to the world to beware of sinne and the like because we liue in bodies of death which may quickly faile vs but I studie breuitie Doct. 5 This body there is an Emphasis in these words and they are spoken Diacriticks by way of distinction for indeed the childe of God hath a this and a that body his this body is that which he possesseth in this life his that body is that which he shall enioy at the Resurrection indeed for substance it is one and the same body Iob 19.26 27. but for qualities and excellencies farre discrepant the former body is sowne in corruption the latter is raised in incorruption the former is sowne in dishonor the latter is raised in honor the former is sowne in weakenesse the latter is raised in power the former is sowne a naturall body the latter is raised a spirituall body as the former hath borne the image of the earthy so the latter shall beare the image of the heauenly 1 Cor. 15.42.43.44.49 Chrysost hom 41 in 1. Epist ad Corinth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vse Hence it is that one of the Fathers saith the bodies of the Saints are like corne sowne and growing vp that which riseth is the same that was sowen and not the same the same because it is the same substance not the same because that which groweth vp is better the same substance remaining but the goodlines or beauty made far greater And this may comfort vs concerning the Saints deceased they haue laid downe these infirme and corruptible bodies but they shall receiue bodies farre more glorious their vile body shall be made like vnto the glorious body of Christ himselfe howsoeuer not in Maiesty yet in some similitude of happinesse Philip. 3.2 yea they shall shine as the Sunne in the Kingdome of their Father Mat. 13.43 And as * Saint Chrysostome saith God would neuer take downe the house of the bodies of his Saints by death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but that hee meanes againe to build it vp far more glorious by the Resurrection then euer it was before let vs not therfore mourne immoderately for the Saints departed but let vs remember there will come a day wherein they shall lift vp their heads out of the graue in shining brightnesse Doct. 6 Who shall deliuer me that is O that the Lord would deliuer me hence note that its lawfull for a Christian to desire to bee dissolued Paul desires it ernestly in this place and certainely his desire was no rash desire yea the whole Church desires it in 2 Cor. 5.8 we are confident and willing rather to be absent from the body And there is iust cause wherefore wee may doe this First because whiles we are in the body wee are subiect to many temptations to much sinne and to much vexation both inwardly and outwardly Cyprian serm 4. de immortalitate Lucrū maximum computan●ium seculi laqueis non teneri iam nullis peccatis vitijs carnis obnoxium fieri exemptū pressuria angentibus venenatis diaboli fau cibus liberatum ad laetitiam salutis aeternae Christo vocante proficisci Note Secondly wee are absent from those vnspeakeable ioyes which God hath layd vp for vs in a better world To this purpose one of the Ancients speakes notably expounding that of Saint Paul in Philip. 1. Death to me is aduantage Paul saith hee esteemed it very great gaine now by vertue of death to be freed from many snares from all sinnes from all sorrowes from the venimous iawes of Sathan and to bee brought to the ioy of eternall saluation Christ calling him thereunto Indeede it is not lawfull for a Christian to lay violent hands vpon himselfe vpon any pretence whatsoeuer Apud Aug. lib. 1. de ciuit dei cap. 22. One Cleōbrotus reading Platoes booke de immortal animae Cast himselfe downe from a wall and so ended his daies onely because thereby hee hoped to come to that blessed estate which is prepared for good men after this life but this was preposterous haste and not to be imitated of vs wee may desire happines but we must stay Gods leasure for it the like may be said of Lucretia who is said to haue taken away her owne life to preuent rauishment all murther is to bee abhorred but there is no murther so vnnaturall as hemicide or selfe-murther which is the very reason why the diuel doth so violently tempt men thereunto The Heathen were so carefull to preuent this kinde of vnnaturall death Val. ● max. lib. 8. c. 9. that one Hegesias an eloquent Philosopher was forbidden by Ptolemeus the King to reason or speake much concerning mans infelicity lest his Auditors should bee moued by his speech to make away themselues shall the heathen be thus carefull to shunne this sinne and