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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42079	Gregorii posthuma, or, Certain learned tracts written by John Gregorie. Together with a short account of the author's life and elegies on his much-lamented death published by J.G.	Gregory, John, 1607-1646.; Gurgany, John, 1606 or 7-1675.	1649 (1649)	Wing G1926; ESTC R2328	225,906	381

Saviour of Lazarus and the Maid Why trouble you your selvs they are not Dead but Sleep And when a Friend leaveth this world wee are to bid him but Good Night in sure and certain Hope to meet again in the great Morning of the World But now How long how long Lord Holie and True will som saie or as those in S. Peter Where is the promise of his Coming For since the Fathers fell asleep all things continue to bee as they were from the begining to the Creätion But these Men have not the knowledg and this is to bee spoken to their shame The Lord is not slack as concerning his Promise for Behold hee cometh quickly and his Reward is with him When wee awake out of our natural sleep bee the Night never so long to us it seemeth but a Moment And the Night is no longer in the Prophet David's account Psal 30.5 For his Anger endureth but a Moment that is weeping may endure for a Night but joie cometh in the Morning 'T is no otherwise in Death for when first wee awake out of this sleep wee shall think that wee did but then lie down and were it a thousand Years it would seem no more to us then it doth to God himself but as one daie It is Observable that the Holie Ghost which accounteth Natural Death as a Sleep yet calleth the Life of a Sinner by the name of Death To bee truly Dead is to bee Dead in Trespasses and Sins And therefore S. Paul not making mention of the Great Resurrection bid's his Corinthians awake to Righteousness and sin not For a Righteous man hath more Hope in his Death then a Sinner in his Life and no man can bee Dead to Nature that is Alive to God But if to Die bee but to fall Asleep wee should put off this Garment of Flesh with as good a will as wee do our Clothes And that wee may sleep well in the night wee should forbear sleeping in the Daie not Idleing in the Market as those in the Parable nor sitting down in the seat of the scornful but working out our salvation for the Sleep of a Laboring man is sweet And that wee may rest in these Beds in an undisturbed peace wee are to provide that no Innate Furies no Stings of Death like gross and restless Vapors do arise from a guiltie Conscience Such a man will bee scared with Dreams and terrified with Visions and bee full of tossings to and fro until the dawning of the the daie Job And becaus to the Conciliation of Rest and Sleep it is required that there bee a Moderate Repletion for Paulus Aegineta maketh this to bee of the Definition wee are by no means to go to bed till first of all wee have sate down to the Great Supper till wee have eaten of that Bread and drank of that Cup which shew the Lords Death but our Life till hee com and are therefore not unfitly termed by the Fathers of the Nicene Councel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sacraments and Emblems of the Resurrection This don wee may laie our selvs down in Peace and take our Rest for the Lord will make us to dwell in safetie And as the Disciples to our Saviour concerning Lazarus if thus wee sleep wee shall do well Of the first Consideration thus much Pass wee now from Death to Life from the end of our Daies to the end of our Hope Resurrection I Said that was twofold Frst of the first Fruits then of the whole Lump And first of the Resurrection of our Saviour but which I am not here to make Proof of for it is taken for granted in the Text. But if anie should bee so foolish and slow of heart as not to believ all that is written in the Prophets the Heathen Tacitus will tell you one Article in the 15 of his Annals That hee suffered under Pontius Pilate And the Jew Josephus addeth the other in the 18. of his Antiquities That hee rose again the third daie from the Dead That which most properly I am to make known to you is upon what Consideration our Saviour can bee called The First then by what Analogie The first Fruits The Patriarch Enoch was Translated and the Prophet Elias went up to Heaven in a fierie Chariot And the Assumption of Moses hath been disputed for by som though it should seem by the Contention betwix the Arch-Angel and the Divel about his bodie that there was no such matter Howsoever these all rather died not then rose again As for the Rising of Samuel to which the Cunning Woman of Endor pretended it was nothing less then a Resurrection 't was an Apparition And Saul should have said to the Woman as Hee to Her Why hast thou deceived mee for this is not Samuel Elisha indeed raised up the Shunamite's Son and our Saviour raised up his friend Lazarus after hee had been Dead four daies And yet still This was the first Resurrection The rest did not go before as the Scripture seemeth to saie but follow'd This. For as hee was a Lamb slain so was hee a Lamb Risen too from the begining of the World The rest were Raised Hee onely Rose from the Dead Elisha's dead Bones raised up Another Man's Our Saviour's dead Bones raised up themselvs They raised Others by His power Hee Himself by his own To saie therefore there was anie Resurrection before This is to saie that Abraham was before Christ The rest were all but second Brothers in the Resurrection Hee onely was Primogenitus Mortuorum the first begotten of the Dead Wee have seen in what sens our Saviour is to bee accounted the First I am now to tell you in what Proportion hee standeth to the First Fruits But then I am to lead you back to the Old Law of the Omer or Sheaf Levit. 23.9 Where the Children of Ifraël are commanded that at the reaping of their Harvest no Bread or Parched Corn or Green Ears bee eaten in their dwellings till a Sheaf of the Frst Fruits bee offered and Waved before the Lord together with a Lamb for a Burnt Offering The Traditions here and not unnecessarily supplie that those who lived far from the Holie Citie might eat of the New Corn when Mid-daie was past for that is was presumed the Sanhedrim would see the Sheaf offered up ere that time Thus the Letter and Cerimonie which how well it is answered in the Truth and Substance I shall briefly shew you The Typical Sheaf as the Doctors deliver in the Talmud was to bee cut down in the Night So was the True Codmenac Hee was cut down indeed in the Daie time but the Darkness was the greater for the verie Light of This Daie was Darkness and therefore how great was that A darkness that indeed might bee felt A darkness over the face of the whole Earth Such an one as in the Begining was over the face of the Deep before the Creator had said Let there bee Light And

c. The Raiment of a Man saith a Learned Rabbin is his Bodie And had our Father Adam stood wee had needed no other Thou hast Clothed mee saith holie Job with Skin and with Flesh when therefore wee die wee are said in S. Peter's language to put off this Tabernacle as in S. Paul when wee rise again to bee Clothed upon with our hous from Heaven O're night wee put off this weed of Mortalitie but the Morning cometh and wee shall bee covered again with our skin and put on Incorruption our Better Cloths as to go and see God in this Flesh The same flesh wee put off the night before but with this difference that this Fowl Garment which could not bee kept Unspotted of the world shall in the mean time bee washed clean in the Blood of the Lamb. Our Clothes put off wee laie our selvs down and take our rest And to Die In the Prophet Isaiah's Phrase Isa 43.17 57.1 is but to lie down in our Beds And when thy daies shall bee fulfilled saith Nathan to David and thou shalt sleep with thy Fathers so indeed wee read it as wee may but the Original is And thou shalt lie down with thy Fathers 2 Sam. 7.12 So Asa the King's Coffin is called a Bed 2 Chron 16.14 and our forefathers in their Saxon tongue style a Burying place legerstoƿ or place to lie down in as in the Laws of King Canute Numb 3. In the Case of Natural Rest 't is not the whole man onely the Earthlie part falleth asleep the Soul is then most awake The Bodie 's Night is the Soul's Daie our Better part saith Cardan is never it 's own man till now when exalted unto a State of Separation as it were in the bodie it spendeth the time in Contemplations free and congeniall to its own Extraction So in the sleep of Death 't is not the totus Homo the Bodie indeed is dead becaus of sin the Soul is then most Alive Here as a Servant it is still required to the Exigencies of the Bodie having no time of it's own to spend but what it can get by stealth when the Master is gon to bed But there like it's Redeemer free among the Dead and delivered from the Incumbrances of the Bodie it begineth to bee a Soul to it self minding that which is above and looking with a more piercing eie upon the Invisible things of God It is noted by the Naturalists and wee finde it true in observation that no nois awaketh Natural Sleep more suddenly then an Humane voice Nay though it bee that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that dead and dangerous sleep as the Aphorism noteth it in Hippocrates But especially the Experiment holdeth if the voice calleth upon him in his own name But that wee shall all bee awaked out of this other Sleep by the sound of our Proper Names is more then I can pretend to though S. Peter's call was Tabitha surge and our Saviour's to his Friend Lazare veni foras Lazarus com forth To saie nothing to Epiphanius his Tradition that when our Lord went down into Hell and there found our Father Adam fast hee took him by the hand and called him by his own Name in the words of S. Paul Surge Adam qui dormis so indeed som Antient Copies read it Arise Adam thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead Christ taketh thee by the hand But this I am sure of that wee shall all bee awaked by a voice the voice of an Archangel and the word shall bee as som think Surgite mortui c Nor shall it bee the voice of a God and not of a Man it shall bee an Humane voice for by the Archangel wee are to mean the Son of Man For the hour cometh in which all they that are in the Graves shall hear his voice and shall com forth Job 5.28 Which why it should bee strange of us I know not since it is true of the Swallows by a certain and confest Experience that when the Winter cometh they lie down in the hollow of a Tree and there falling asleep quietly resolv into their first Principles But at the Spring 's approach they are n t so though throughly dead but that they hear the stil nois of Returning Nature and awaking out of their Mass rise up everie one to their life again Ego novi hominem c. I know a man saith the Learned Prince of Concordia who in his soundest Sleep could walk talk write and dispatch anie business of the most required Vigilance They seem to have had som such conceit of Death who hold it no absurditie to write Letters to their dead Friends as the Emperor Theodosius to S. Chrysostom more then thirtie Years after his deceas as if Death were a kinde of live Sleep Such an one as that which Jupiter sent of an Errand to awake Atamemnon And may wee not as properly saie that to bee Dead is to bee Alive as to saie to Die is to bee Born And yet the Antients as if Corruption had been their Father and the Worms their Mother were wont to call the daies of their Death Natalia not Dying but Birth-daies Mos inolevit in sancta Ecclesia it hath been the custom in the holie Church saith Haymo when a Saint of God departed this life to call it not the daie of his Death but the daie of his Nativitie That which wee call Death's they call Life's door Seneca himself said as much Dies iste quem Tutanquam Supremum reformidas Aeterni Natalis est As if all this were so indeed the Jews to this daie stick not to call their Golgotha's Batte Caiim the Houses or places of the Living At the least they have an Effectual life in them for the Mummies are known to bee most soveraign and Magistral in Medicine and the Principal Ingredient of the weapon-Salv is the Moss of a dead Man's-skul as the Recipe delivered by Paracelsus to Maximilian the Emperor Once more and I leav the Parallel Sleep wee know is most natural to Animal-Creatures and for Men so Necessarie that Aristotle saith that the end of it in us is Bene Ratiocinari And yet hee himself is cited by Olympiodorus to have known a Man who never slept in all his Life And the strangeness hath been quitted by an Experience of later daies The Comparison hold th in the Sleep of Death 't is Omnibus communis common to all men as wee use to saie And yet som Jews believ that the last age of Men shall bee so long liv'd as to prevent the Resurrection But S. Paul himself hath promised 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that wee shall not all die som shall bee changed And therefore 't is no vain Article which wee so daily profess that our Saviour shall com to judg both the Quick and the Dead Wee are to saie then of all those that are departed this life as the Jews of their Father Jacob Non est Mortuus or as our