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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57133	The churches triumph over death opend in a sermon preached Septemb. 11, 1660, at the funeral of the most religious and vertuous lady, the Lady Mary Langham / by Edward Reynolds ...	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1662 (1662)	Wing R1241; ESTC R11532	20,491	44

world which both useth us ill and passeth away 1 John 2. 15 17. John 15. 19. 4 To encrease our desires of glory that we may with good Jacob wait for the salvation of the Lord Gen. 49. 18. 5 To commend our love to Christ which makes us willing to be dissolved that we may go to him as a stone is contented to be broken in moving towards its center Phil. 1. 23. 6 To commend the power of Righteousness which is not afraid of the King of Terrours nor to go to Christ though there be a Lion in the way Act. 21. 13. Rom. 8. 35-37 7 To shew the sweetness and virtue of the Death of Christ which makes a Bed of a Grave an Antidote of a Serpent hath brought sweetness out of the strong and meat out of the Eater hath bound Death with her own Grave Cloaths and set a Guard of Angels over the bodies of the Saints hath rolled away the heavy st●ne from the graves of his people and made it a place of ease and refreshment hath made our Graves like a Garden that our bodies like herbs might spring out again hath slain Death as Benaiah did the Lion in its own pit and hath made it sick of the bodies of his people and travel in pain like a woman with-Child till at last it be delivered of them 2 We should by Faith and Hope in this Doctrine comfort our selves against all other calamities and incourage our selves against Death it self which is but a depositary and shall be an accomptant unto God for every member of his Church though it hath swallowed them as the Whale did Jonah it shall cast them up again though to the wicked it be a Trap-door which lets them down to Hell and so keeps them in the midst of laughter sorrowful in the midst of plenty and pleasures fearful in the midst of hope doubtful when they remember the dayes of darkness for they be many and the dayes of torment for they be more Yet to Believers it is a Bed a Rest a Sleep a Friend when it shuts the door between us and the world it opens a door between us and heaven Pardon of sin and peace with God makes us bold to play with the hole of the Asp and with the Cocatrice den Isai. 11. 8. We have thus far considered the Church as dead buried in the dust as quickned raised awakened delighted in God We are III. To take a view of the causes of this deliverance which are 1 Dispositive in regard of the Subject 2 Efficient in regard of the Author The dispositive causes qualifying the Subject for this deliverance are in the two Pronowns Tui and Meum thy dead men my dead body These mercies are not promised generally unto all dead men but unto the Lords dead men whom he hath chosen and formed for himself Psalm 4. 3. Isai. 43. 21. If he say thou art mine neither water nor fire nor East West North South Egypt Ethiopia nor any other Enemy shall keep us back from him Isai. 43. 1 2 6. 1. His we must be if we will not be lost in death 1 His by Consanguinity for Christ having taken upon him the Nature of Adam and the Seed of Abraham and so vouchsafing to call Believers Brethren Heb. 2. 11. by that means God is become our Father John 20. 17. and therefore in the deluge of desolation he will bring us into his Ark as Rahab when she was delivered her self called together her Kindred to share therein with her Josh. 6. 23. 2 His by purchase there was a dear and precious price paid for us we were bought with no less a price then the Blood of God Act. 20. 28. and therefore he will vindicate his Claim and Title unto us no man will lose what he hath paid for if he be able to rescue and recover it out of the hands of unjust possessors Christ having bought us Death shall not with-hold us from him the Redeemed of the Lord shall return Isai. 51. 11. 3 His by Covenant thy Maker is thy Husband Isai. 54. 5. and being married to her he will make her return Jer. 3. 14. Any loving Husband would fetch back his Wife from the Dead if he were able to do it 4 His by Dedication Inhabitation Consecration as a Temple 1 Cor. 6. 19. If Death destroy his Temple he will raise it up again John 2. 19. The Spirit that dwelleth in us will quicken our mortal bodies Rom. 8. 11. 2 His dead men we must be we must dye to sin because he died for it we must kill that which killed Christ we must be dead unto sin if we will live unto God Rom. 6. 11. His dead men his perseverantly until death Rev. 2. 10. His patiently even unto death Heb. 10. 36. Nothing must separate us from his love His ultimately whether we live we must live to the Lord or whether we die we must die unto the Lord Rom. 14. 8. that he may be glorified in our mortal bodies by life or by death Phil. 1. 20. And being thus His dead men 1 We are sure Death comes not but with a Commission from him his providence sendeth it his power restraineth it his love and wisdome guideth and ordereth it to our good it is his Officer it shall touch us no further then he gives it authority John 19. 11. He hath muzled and chained it he saith to Death as to Satan concerning Job He is in thine hand but touch not his Soul meddle not with his Conscience or with his Peace and for his Body thou shalt but keep it thou shalt not destroy it thou shalt be accomptable for every piece of it again 2. Being His dead men he hath alwayes an eye of compassion upon us our sorrows and sufferings he esteems his own Isai. 63. 9. Col. 1. 24. Act. 9. 4. and if they be his he will certainly save us from them and conquer them as well in us as in himself for unto him belong the issues from death Psalm 68 20. 3 As ever therefore we look for blessedness in death or deliverance from it we must labour both living and dying to be the Lords that he may own us when the world hath cast us out that we may be precious in his sight when we are loathsome to the world jewels to him when dung to men that our Graves may not only have worms in them to consume us but Angels to guard us If we die in our sins and be Satans dead men we shall never rise with comfort rottenness will feed not on our bodies only but on our names we shall have worms in our consciences as well as in our carcasses But when we can say Lord I am thine thou art mine we may thence infer we shall not dye Hab. 1. 12. We have a life which death cannot reach Col. 3. 3. this therefore must be our special care to be Mortui tui to dye to the Lord to fall asleep in Christ 1 Cor. 15. 18. that

holy men have complain'd of dying daily 1 Cor. 15. 31. of being in deaths often 2 Cor. 11. 23. of being compassed about with death Psal. 18. 4. The wicked have no bands in their death Psal. 73. 4. they are at an agreement with it have as it were hired it not to disquiet them Isa. 28. 15. they put it far from them Amos 6. 3. whereas good men have their souls often drawing nigh to the grave Psal. 88. 3. Dead then here they are 1. Quoad mortis praeludia all the fore-runners and harbingers of death common to them with all others sorrows sicknesses distresses and infirmities of all sorts 2. Quoad vitae exitum they end their days in the same manner as other men the wise man as the fool Eccles. 2. 16. Psalm 49. 10. thus in common good men and bad But godly men 3. Are dead quoad affectus Their affections and meditations are upon death Wicked men feed and fat their lusts fetch out all the sweetness that sin hath in it Whereas holy men mortifie their earthly members crucifie the flesh with affections and lusts are ever dying to sin and the world Rom. 6. 11. 4. They are dead quoad seculum crucified to the world Gal. 6. 14. and therefore hated by it John 15. 19. nothing to be looked for from it but persecution and tribulation John 16. 33. as men have done to the green tree so they will to the dry Luk. 23. 31. suffering belongs to the essence and calling of Christians 1 Pet. 2. 21. they are hereunto appointed 1 Thes. 3. 3. They are in his sense properly Mortui tui the Lords dead men for worldlings are not sufferers by calling and profession as true Christians are They are not in trouble as other men Psalme 73. 5. Job 21. 7 13. II. From Mortui tui it proceeds to Cadaver meum and such they are not onely by dissolution after death but by condition before it used like a dead carcasse exposed to contempt and dishonour as the refuse and off-scouring of men Lam. 31. 45. 1 Cor. 4. 13. troden under foot Isa. 63. 18. had in derision Jer. 20. 8. filled with contempt Psal. 123. 3. made as the ground and as the street for proud men to go over Isa. 51. 23. thus the righteous is an abomination to the wicked they loath him as a man would do a dead carcasse Prov. 29. 27. III. From dishonour they proceed to a kinde of despaire They are Habitatores pulveris they dwell in the dust they are not onely dust by constitution Gen. 3. 19. and by dissolution making the Grave their House and their bed in darknesse Job 17. 13. but further by estimation they judge so of themselves abhorring themselves and putting their mouths in the dust Job 42. 6. Lam. 3. 29. they are valued so by others Isa. 10. 6. as the mire of the streets This is the sad condition of the Church sometimes in this world under persecution and captivity so they were in Babylon as dead bones in a grave Ezek. 37. 11 12. By all which we learn what to look for in the world when we give our names to God The usage not onely of strangers and enemies but even of dead carcasses to be buried in contempt and dishonour The way to life lies through the countrey of death as the way to Canaan through a sea and a wilderness no scorns no graves must deter us from a godly life if ever we hope for a blessed resurrection Neither may we think it strange when we meet with troubles in the world which are but the preludes and prefaces unto death nor when one evil is over may we sing a requiem to our souls as if all were passed but look for vicissitudes and successions of sorrow for clouds after rain till we are landed in the Countrey of death And since our tenure in this world is so obnoxious both to encumbrance and uncertainty we should die to the world while we are in it as those who are very shortly to be translated from it and having no abiding station here be careful to look after that City which hath foundations and so to acquaint our selves before hand with death by meditation on it and preparation for it that it may not come as a messenger of wrath but as an Harbinger of glory that in our death we may be Mortui tui The Lords dead men and prisoners of Hope the Spirit of Christ in us being the earnest and seed of a Resurrection unto life We have considered the sad condition of the Church expressed by our Prophet in that Emphatical Climax Dead men a Carcasse Inhabiters of the dust Let us next take a view of the mercy of God in her deliverance a deliverance not onely commensurate to her troubles but victorious over them dead indeed but she shall live a carcasse but she shall arise asleep but she shall awake in the dust but she shall sing So there is mercy fully answerable to the misery no temptation without an issue no calamity without an escape 1. Vivent Mortui or as others read it Vivant True both They do live They shall live They have life in death and that life shall work them out of death 1. They do live in death Wicked men are dead while they live 1 Tim. 5. 6. dead in Law under the sentence of the curse as Adam was legally dead by guilt and obnoxiousness the same day that he did eat the forbidden fruit Dead in conscience under the pain of that sentence and under the bondage of deserved and denounced wrath Heb. 2. 15. Heb. 10. 27. dead in sin under the power of Lust Eph 2. 1. Psal. 14. 3. their throats Sepulchres full of rotten words Rom. 3. 13. their hearts Sepulchres full of unclean affections Matth. 23. 27 28. their lives Sepulchres full of dead works Heb. 6. 1. But mortui tui the Lords dead men live even in the Kingdome and Country of Death 1. They live in praeludiis mortis in all the forerunners of death in the greatest calamities they bear up their hearts in the favour of God which is better then life Psal. 63. 3. 2 Cor. 6. 9. In these things all these things we are Conquerours more then Conquerours Rom. 8. 37. 2. They live in Regno mortis in the Kingdome and Country of death when death hath possession of them they live still you are dead and your life is hid Col. 3. 3. The death of a Christian is not the taking away of life but the laying up of life as a Parent takes the Childs money and keeps it for him He that believeth shall live though he die John 11. 25. As Abel being dead yet speaketh Heb. 11. 4. Yea their very bodies though dead to them do live to God for he is the God of the living Mat. 22. 32. therefore the Jews call their burying places Domus Viventium 1. They live in the Promise and Power of God Mat. 22. 29. 2. They live