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A08482	Lifes brevitie and deaths debility Evidently declared in a sermon preached at the funerall of that hopeful and uertuous yong gentleman Edvvard Levvkenor esquire, &c. In whose death is ended the name of that renowned family of the Lewkenors in Suffolke. By Tymothy Oldmayne minister of the Word of God at Denham in Suffolke. Our dayes on earth are as a shaddow, and there is none abiding. Also an elegy and an epitaph on the death of that worthy gentleman, by I.G. Dr. of D.	Oldmayne, Timothy.; Garnons, John, fl. 1636.	1636 (1636)	STC 18806; ESTC S120802	49,291	128

I doubt not be the better spared especially considering it is an Article of our faith universally received of the whole Church of God at all times and ages Deu. 29.18 notwithstanding if there be any here in whose wicked heart there is yet the root of Gall and Wormewood so that when hee heareth this hee blesseth himselfe in his froward and wicked course as though there were no such resurrection or further reckoning to bee expected Let such a one if the booke of God will not give him satisfaction looke abroad into the large volumne of Nature where questionlesse if his eye bee not too much dimmed with the fog and mist of Athisme and prophaines he shall be sure to finde the infinite wisedome and power of Almighty God in ordering and disposing by the hand of providence many other things not unlike in nature but altogether is impossible to the judgement of man as this is to their severall ends which according to his eternall decree at the first he had determined For instance there shall he finde the glorious Lampe of the World the Sunne I meane in the evening going downe having his beautifull eye closed with the shaddow of the night and himselfe quite covered over with the thicke and black mantle of the same as with his winding sheete and shrowded in darkenesse continuing for a time untill his Creator mindfull of his covenant the morning approaching raiseth him up againe in such a glorious manner that loe he commeth forth Psal 19.15 Psal 19.15 Like a Bridgroome out of his chamber and reioyceth like a strong man to runne a race There likewise shall he see the Moone wasting and wayning away untill at length shee seemeth quite lost and gone but within a few dayes after he shall see her againe filling her hornes with light and the Heavens with brightnesse There shall hee behold the infant buried certaine moneths in the wombe of his Mother but in the end comming forth upon the stage of the World a glorious Creature Cor. 15 and richly adorned with the Image of the Creator There lastly shall hee see the Corne not quickned except it dye nor the trees and plants of the earth flourishing untill first they have endured a Winters death But if neither the Booke of God nor yet of Nature can give such a cavelling and Athiesticall wretch as this is satisfaction I for mine owne part shall give him over to the seate of Justice to bee answered as they were Nehem. 13.2 rather verbere quam verbo Neh. 13.2 with the fist of the Magistrate then with any dispute or force of argument And so I come to the persons that shall arise in these words Thy dead men shall live FOr the further cleering of which words two questions must of necessity be answered The first is whether these words doe not crosse those in the 14 ver before going For there it is said Thy dead men shall not live And here it is said That they shall live and that They shall arise Now betweene live and not live not rise and arise a man would thinke were a plaine contradiction The second question is why the Spirit of God termeth them the Prophets dead men and not dead men in generall in these words Thy dead men shall live To answere both in order First we are to know that there is no contradiction no saying nor unsaying betweene the words of my Text and those formerly delivered in the 14. verse For whereas our Prophet saith in the 14 verse Thy dead men shall live or as some will have it They are dead shal they not live c or as others Hi mortuj non vivent such dead men as these shall not live He poynteth out questionlesse wicked and ungodly persons formely mentioned in this Chapter Such as our Saviour Christ aimeth at Mat. 8.22 Mat. 8 22. when hee willeth that officious Disciple to suffer The dead to bury their dead And on the other side by the word Thy a plaine note of difference and distinction in these words of my Text our Prophet doubtlesse notes out a special and chosen company differing from the rest Rev. 20.6 over whom death hath no power but they shall live eternally In a word First by those in the 14 verse Not living Not arising Rom. 6.21 our Prophet understandeth persons dying in their sinnes Secondly those in my Text Living and Arising Rev. 14.13 hee understandeth persons dying in the Lord. And verily wicked men dying in their sinnes neither are partakers of the first Resurrection neither doth their Resurrection deserve at all so honourable a denomination For as the Death of the righteous cannot properly be said to bee a death it being as one saith wel Occasio vitae non deletio a further living not an utter quenching of the Lampe thereof so on the other side the resurrection of the wicked cannot as I have said properly be called a Resurrection it being a meere precipitation and casting headlong of an unbeleeving catiffe into the devouring jawes of the second death and fatall gulfe of eternall destruction Both in deed good and bad him that serveth God and him that serveth him not shall be raised up at the latter day and yet their resurrection shall much differ Whether we consider 1. Either the manner of the Resurrection 2. The end of the same And first for the manner The Childe of God is raised up by the hand of mercy the wicked man and reprobate by the hand of Justice the one by the vertue of the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ piercing into his grave even as you see the Sun and showers in the spring sweetly soaking and sinking downe into the roote of the plant causing in it immediately to bud and blossome forth The other by the arme and power of Almighty God who shall then judge both the quicke and the dead and who shall quoit him out of his grave like a raging and horrible tempest that casteth up both stones and dirt Secondly the one ariseth like a miserable Captive in the fetters of the second death the other like a Free-man in the garments of Glory the one commeth forth like a condemned person having the wrath of God like a cruell Goaler hanging on his arme and hayling him from his grave as from a stinking Dungeon unto the place of execution the other commeth forth like a Bridgroome richly apparelled to meete his beloved spouse or like a banished man who is now arrived upon his native soile Secondly as they differ in the manner so likewise doe they differ in the end of their resurrection the one to bee graciously rewarded the other to bee grievously tormented the one to receive the reward of the righteous the other to receive the doome of the wicked the one to be received into their Masters joy the other to bee clapt up in the prison of woe the one lastly to make good that dreadfull sentence passed upon

Adam Genesis 2.17 In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely Gen. 2.17 dye the death The other to fulfill that blessed promise made by Christ to the faithfull Ioh. 11.15 Iohn the eleventh verse fifteenth I am the Resurrection and the life For till then wee shall not cleerely see the fruite either of that undoing sinne of Adam or of that eternall sacrifice which Christ the righteous presented to the Father when hee was pleased in his infinite mercy to dye for our sinnes and rise againe for our justification then it plainely appeares First what the second death meaneth and who they are that are truely cursed Secondly what eternall life is and who they are that are truely blessed Thirdly what Christ did for us and that he dyed not in vaine where with these eyes of ours we shall see millions cloathed with glory and immortality and of poore men made rich of beggers Princes By all which it is most cleere and evident that godlesse persons sonnes of Belial have no reason at all to looke for the Resurrection day but with Faelix Acts twenty foure verse the second Acts 24.2 to tremble at it sith to them it will bee a day of Darknesse and not light yea very darknesse and no brightnesse in it For however they shall escape the pound of the Grave yet the second death shall like a cruell Wolfe eagerly pursue them overtake them and quite master them so that their freedome from death shall bee no other benefit to them then if a man fled from a Lyon and a Beare met him or entring the house and leaning his hand on the Wall and a Serpent bit him To the children of God onely it wil bee a joyfull day their marriage day a day of great solemnity A day wherein their redemption draweth neere A day wherein their vild bodies shal be made like the glorious body of the Sonne of God as wee shall see afterward more plainely The second question is why the spirit of God calleth these dead men the Prophets dead men in saying Thy dead men shall live To which I answere diversly As first for that these persons formerly were his proper and peculiar charge and he set over them not onely as a watchman to informe them Eze. 3.17 Isa 40.11 Jer. 33.5 Ioh. 21.15 but a shepheard to feed them And therefore his people his flocke for severall congregations are so many Ministers flockes and all the soules therein their speciall charge to them they are in trust committed and at their hands one day they will be certainely required Eze. 3.18.19 33.8 Hence was it that the Apostle Paul in his farewell Sermon so earnestly exhorteth the Elders of Ephesus Act. 26.28 Act. 26.28 to feede the flocke of Christ Over which saith he the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers And the Apostle Peter all ministers in generall 1. Pet. 5.13 assuring them withall that in doing so When the great shepheard doth appeare they shall receive a Crowne of Glory 1 Pet. 5.13 that fadeth not away Secondly they are said to be his dead for that he was formerly a principal instrument and meanes for the conversion of their soules freedome from their naturall bondage Act. 26.18 Rom 8.22 and bringing of them into that blessed liberty of the sonnes of God So that now they are his dead who formerly obtained life by his helpe For this is an high priviledge and prerogative which onely belongeth to the Ministers of the Word lawfully called as was Aaron not onely to be the Embassadors of the sonne of God Cor 3.9 but his fellow-workers also yea Saviours instrumentally of the soules of men the which doth plainely appeare not onely by that wee read in the Prophesie of Obadiah ver 21. where he fore-telleth Obad. v. 21 That in the latter dayes Saviours shall come up upon Mount Syon Tim. 14.16 But by the exhortation that Saint Paul giveth his beloved Timothy willing him to have a care both to himselfe and to his doctrine for in doing so saith hee thou shalt save thy selfe and those that heare thee The consideration whereof ought not onely to be as pretious Wine warming of our breasts but a spurre and goad in our sides that are the Ministers of the Word putting us on cheerefully to passe through the miery waies of scorne and contempt which we dayly meete withall as wee walke along carefully performing the duties of our calling remembring First though it bee heere in this World a calling much contemned yet is it in heaven highly honoured Secondly though it bee a calling full of paines yet it bringeth in the end unspeakable comfort Let us therefore not so much eye the labour as the wages the present worke as the future reward Lastly they are said to be his dead for that he had not yet given up a perfect account for them And no marvaile for the Audit day was not yet come when both hee and his people must appeare face to face before that glorious Tribunall of that dreadful Judge who with an unpartiall eare will heare all things passed betwixt them and give sentence accordingly For death sealeth not a Minister his Quietus est neither is he fully discharged of his flocke and cure untill that day wherein the Sonne of God holding his general Assizes shall require at his hands a particular account both for himselfe and also for all those who were formerly his flocke and people Heb. 13.19 Heb. 13.19 The due consideration whereof made the Apostle Paul and the rest of the Apostles to preach the Gospell with that assiduity and diligence as they did Col. 1.28 For that saith he Colos 1.28 our desire is to present every man perfect in Iesus Christ which being so first of all happy and blessed is that man whom when his Master commeth shall finde so doing yea happy and blessed is that minister Luk 12.36 and painefull labourer in the Lord who having worne out his Age and strength in the service of the Church and like a pretious lampe consumed himselfe to give light to others is now laid up in peace in the midst of a number of his neighbours and familiar acquaintance it may bee by his meanes brought to the true knowledge and understanding both of God and themselves what a blessed sight wil it be when that day is come and that dreadfull voyce Surgite mortui shall shake Heaven and earth to behold both him and al those ancient friends of his lively leaping out of their graves clothed all in pure robes shining and glistering as the light Oh who can expresse the joy that wil be then at this their meeting againe But above all the joyfullest sight will be to behold that welcome which the Son of God will then give him with that Enge serve bone fidelis Wel done good servant and faithfull When hee upon his bended knee and al his company kneeling round about him shall then

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Get thee to thine owne house and when thy feete enter into the City the childe shall dye and all Israel shall mourne for him and bury him for he onely of Ieroboam shall come to the grave because in him is found some good thing toward the Lord God in the house of Ieroboam Lastly who would not have thought but some one or other sinne committed by himselfe or some of his Ancestors had been the cause why Iosiah the mirrour of Kings fell in battaile in the flower of his dayes by the sword of Pharao Necho King of Egypt True it is that sin was one cause and a maine one for sin causeth every calamity as the distemper of humours every ordinary Ague but this was not the true cause 2 Chro. 35.25 and end that God aymed at in his suddaine death but that by this means he being the sooner freed from trouble and vexation of heart might enter his grave in peace Isay 57.1 and might not see the evill to come From all which examples two things by the way offer themselves unto us worthy of our due consideration The first is that men in censuring Gods heavy chastisements lightning on the backs of the righteous do usually misse the true and right end in inflicting of the same taking them as fiery Scorpions of his wrath when as they are indeede the fruites of his Fatherly affection toward them 2 That when Almighty God performeth not his promise to his children in regard of outward blessings then his usuall manner is to provide Heb. 11. Better things for them For instance when he denieth them this outward trash and transitory riches to give them Riches never fading but alwaies blossoming Hee denieth them outward comfort and filleth their soules with glee and mirth They weepe for a time and laugh eternally Lastly hence we may learne to be very wary how wee doe rashly passe our Verdicts in cases of this nature for feare least missing Gods ayme wee overshoot our selues and highly offend But above all that we take heed of playing the Cantharides or stinking flye where wee see the least skinne off there to bee sucking and opening agayne the skars and blemishes that were long since healed with the blood of Christ Crying out with those clamorous Iewes Men of Israel Act 21.28 these be the men so wee these are the sinnes that have procured wrath and undone this Family Nay brethren let us rather hearken to Davids blessing Psalm 41.1.2 Blessed is the man that considereth wisely of the poore the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble Colo. 3.14 And to that sweete counsell that the Apostle giveth Above all things my brethren sayth hee let us put on love which is the bond of perfectnesse So shall wee with her faire mantle not onely cover a multitude of sinnes but construe things in a better sense 1 Peter 4 drawing our conclusions not from hatred but from a far milder Roote namely From the loue of God 1. To this young Gentleman himselfe 2. In him to us all 1 1 To him 1 1. In taking this noble plant from the evil to come 1. Of sinne Isay 57.1 2 Of punishment 2 2. In providing for him a Richer and more noble inheritance even the sure mercies of David Isay 55.3 Isay 55.3 2 2. To us all if fairely we can draw honie out of the Eater and wholsome instruction out of the dead carkasse of this dead Lyon as God grant wee may Fourthly it must bee remembred that though the name of the Family in Suffolke bee quite extinguished yet that the Family it selfe is not blessed bee the name of God utterly destroyed It is falne here but it flourisheth elsewhere For amongst many other outward blessings wherewith Almighty God marvailously enriched the Grand-father of this young Gentleman he added that of Iosephs Gen 49 25 namely Vbertatem uberum vulvae the blessing of the breasts and of the wombe So that hee had Numerosam prolem plenty of children two Sonnes and seaven daughters a goodly off spring and which increaseth more the blessing not one of them but was the choisest shaft of a thousand Certainly Psal 126. he need not be a shamed For he might speak boldly with his Enemy in the gate Now in the younger sonne of that honourable Knight younger I meane then his Brother but deserving indeede the Elders place in any Family of his degree is the ancient and Worshipfull name of this Family still continued and beeing rich in Sonnes with the Favour of the Almighty is like for many ages so to bee And besides it is the masculine and manly blood of the Lukenors onely heere in Suffolke which by the untimely fall of this flourishing branch is thus perished as wee see and quite dryed up otherwise much of that honourable blood runneth yet along although in a milder straine through the pure veines of those three truely vertuous Sisters no waies inferiour to those daughters of Zelophehad yea Num. 27.1 besides these there is a little Ruth left a pledge of his love to his deare wife and now sorrowfull widow who although a daughter yet by the pious and religious education of that wise and vertuous Gentlewoman her mother wee are to hope will in Gods good time build up againe this decayed and shattered family of Elimelech Fiftly and lastly to close up all in a word we must not be ignorant how that most of the richest promises which our heavenly father hath in his great love and free mercy made to his dearest children are not usually and ordinarily fulfilled here in this life Sometimes they are but commonly they are not and if they be yet but in part for the full recompence is reserved till afterwards 1 Cor. 15. And if it were not so of all others saith the Apostle we are most miserable as the truth is they had bin Their holinesse and piety being accompted no better then madnesse and folly and their whole religion Exitiabilem superstitionem unde cuncta atrocia et pudenda confluunt A damnable superstition and the mother of all villany And that we may see this yet the better let us I pray you look a little into the lives of some few omitting multitudes of the choysest servants of God and see their reward heere in this world And first Iohn the Baptist a great Prophet and one of a most austere life and unspotted conversation the fore-runner and bright morning starre making way for the Sunne of righteousnesse arising in his full strength what was the reward he reaped for all his preaching and paines taking in the Church of God his thundring out of judgements against the wicked without all partiality and promising mercies to the true penitent and afflicted soule surely to have his head struck off from his shoulders at the command of an arrant strumpet and his body to be cast forth as dung upon the earth onely here was his