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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

dormit itn etiam anima post mortem somnus sensus tantùm excteriores occupat non animam discourses then To say nothing of divine Raptures and Extasies when the body is as it were laid by as useless and uninstrumental to the soul as appears in paul 2 Cor. 12.2 3 4. when Paul's soul had an ear to hear such words as his body could not find a tongue to express And in John Rev. 1.16 In a word in sickness yea in death it self when the soul walks in the very valley and shadow of death in the very act and article of its dissolution what a fresh vigour does the soul many times put on How does this divine flame blaze in the very socket How does it crect and rouse it self and plainly tells us that it means not to fall with the body but only to leave it as an Inhabitant a ruinous house till it be repaired as a Musitian to lay aside his Lute whose strings are crackt till it be new strung 4. By the Light of Scripture The souls which were under the Altar were not asleep though their bodies were for they cryed with a loud voice c. Rev 6.9 10. In death the body that handsome Pile of dust returns to the carth as it was but the spirit the soul Ista Divinae aurae particula returns unto God who gave it Eccles 12.7 and to the spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12.23 Had the soul of the penitent Thief slept how could it have been truly said to have been with Christ in Paradice Luke 23.43 With Christ in Paradice i. e in the highest Empyrean Heavens Acts 3.21 beholding his face in light and glory John 17.24 Had Paul but dreamt of the souls sleep he would never have groaned so earnestly to be cloathed upon with his house from heaven 2 Cor. 5.1 4. Nor to have had the union of his soul and body dissolved and the communion with God which he then enjoy'd interrupted at least if not broken off had he not been sure that immediately on that dissolution he should be with Christ Phil. 1.21 23. Thus Negatively The soul sleeps not 2. Affirmatively The body sleeps Matth. 27.52 Or if you will the state of a Believers death much resembles that of sleep which leads me to the second thing I promised viz. 2. Confirmation Now I shall prove this point generally and particularly 1. More generally Sleep is the image of death and death is more then the image of sleep Lighten mine eyes least I sleep the sleep of death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Least I sleep Death i. e. least I die Psal 13.3 Our friend Lazarus sleepeth John 11.11 Our Saviour interprets his own words Lazarus is dead v. 14. Many are sickly among you and many sleep i. e. are dead 1 Cor. 11.30 An usual phrase among the Hebrews for being dead was this They slept with their Fathers 1 King 11.43 2 King 20.21 Luke retains the Hebrew form and tells us that Stephen and David gave up the ghost and fell asleep Acts 7.60 and 3.36 And hence it is that the Saints graves are call'd their beds They shall rest in their beds Isai 57.2 When a Believer dies he is but gone to bed gone down from a bed of ivory to a bed of earth from a pillow of down to a pillow of dust Hence also both the Greeks and Latines stile the places where the dead are laid up and buried [i] i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dormitoria sleeping places Thus more generally But 2. More particularly By spreading before you the Analogy proportion resemblance paralel that is between sleep and death A Believers death runs paralel to sleep in its Antecedent Concomitant Consequents 1. In its Antecedet or that which usually goes before sleep and that is Vestium Depositio When a man goes to sleep he usually [k] Somnum capiens vestes exuit 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 uncloaths dismantles disrobes himself In like manner Peter calls his death 1 a putting off of his tabernacle 2 Pet. 1.14 Paul stiles it a dissolution of our earthly house of this tabernacle 2 Cor. 5.1 An uncloathing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 4. When a Believer dies he laies aside not only the garment spotted with but even that which is made of flesh Thus Jubentius and Maximinus We are ready to lay off the last garment the flesh 2. In its Concomitant Or that which accompanies and attends on sleep and that is Quictis tranquilitas Sweet [m] 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orph. de somn Tuque O domitor somne malorun requies c● nimi Sen. Her sur Rest and Repose When a man goes to his sleep we say he goes to his rest So Job 3.13 Now should I have lien still and been quiet Now should I have slept I should have been at rest 'T is true rest is more then sleep Sometimes a man sleeps when he doth not rest but is troubled in his sleep But when rest is joyn'd with sleep this is perfect sleep In death a Believer enjoys a perfect rest A state wherein Believers lie quietly in their beds of earth and have not so much as one waking moment or distracting dream Here indeed those Doves find no rest for the soles of their feet but no sooner are they lodged in the Ark of death but they are at rest They shall [n] Isa 57.2 rest in their beds Now there is a five-fold rest which a Believer enjoyes in and by his temporal death From labour from trouble from infirmities from sin and from temptations 1. From labour and toil No working in the Grave There the servant is free from his master The poor Israelite from his Egyptian Task-master No tale of bricks demanded there There the weary with labour is at rest Job 3.17 19. This life is the day of the Saints working They as well as their Master must work while 't is day Death is the night of the Saints resting When the Sun of our Life ariseth we go forth to our labour until the evening of death Psal 104.23 and no longer for then they that die in the Lord rest from their labours Rev. 14.13 This life is a continual motion death a perpetual rest Our life is a stormy passage a tempestuous Sea-voyage death brings us to a peaceable Port. 2. From troubles miseries calamities And these either publick or private 1. Publick and National No warrs famine pestilence no bloody battels no garments rould in blood no sodding of the Babe to satisfie the hunger of the Mother in the Grave If a Cloud of blood hover over a Nation If an Angel on a red Horse be ready to mount and march through a Kingdome If commission be given to the Sword to eat flesh and to drink blood the death of a Believer houses him before the storm Josiah dies in peace and sees not all the evil which God will bring on Jerusalem 2 King 22.20 The Righteous man is taken from the evil to