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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15471	A comfortable meditation of humane frailtie, and divine mercie in two sermons upon Psalme 146.4. and Psalme. 51.17. The one chiefly occasioned by the death of Katharine, youngest daughter of Mr. Thomas Harlakenden of Earles-Cone in Essex.	Williamson, Thomas, 1593-1639.	1630 (1630)	STC 25738; ESTC S106233	35,205	48

out of the Cradle is the entring into the grave to have a beginning and to be borne is to breed or be in travell yea to bee darted or put in a slight to an end Therefore Thales was wont to say that there is no difference betweene life and death and being thereupon demanded Tu ergo quid non moreris Why doest not thou dye then Because saith he there is no difference So that if we seeke the act of living our hearts if we be wise should be established against dying because life and death are essentiall to one another or include one another and it is as naturall to dye as to live and in themselves therefore to be regarded both alike Quid ergo novi si mortalis natus moriatur Let it not bee strange to us that we should die being borne dying or mortall His spirit goeth forth Exit And to us that bee Ministers in the Gospell of Jesus Christ let this word bee to us a remembrance like Bezaleel and Aholibah by the grace that is given us we are master-builders but of the Lords Tabernacles or Church militant on the earth and wee are gentle among you saith the Apostle even as a Nurse cherisheth her children affectionately desirous of you 1 Thess 3. even so with piteous heart● looke wee upon our charge for they be earthly tabernacles dying men and women their soule and spirit stand upon their lips as it were It goeth forth Spiritus exit O let us tender them therefore and apply our present speedy releefe lest they fall out of our hands before we have dispenced them the bread of life of which Christ hath made us overseers and stewards and as upon the bed of our languishing we would not have a loftie or profound but a gracious word come to us so seeing wee deale with such whose living is a continued dying let us seeke that our divinitie may be as profitable as may be to save Salus populi suprema lex esto Now I come to the libertie of the spirit that it recedes inviolate 1. In Act it goeth 2. In essence it goeth forth Our spirit is free in the Act it is not haled not snatched out as it were it goeth forth A soule in life sealed to eternitie by the first fruits of the spirit hath its good issue its free passing its hopes even in death for let this breath fade fidelis Deus God who cannot lye because he hath said it be we sure he will stand nigh us in that exigencie and begin to helpe where man leaveth not suffering his to be tempted above that they are able 1 Cor. 10. The holy Spirit whose name is the Comforter will not omit and leave off his owne act or office in the great needs of death Hence good Hilarion having served the Lord Christ seventie yeares checkes his soule that it was so loth at the last to part to goe forth saying Egredere ô anima mea egredere Goe forth my soule goe forth And devout Simeon sueth for a manumission Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word And this is the freedome of the act the Spirit goeth forth it yeelds yea it goes and passes freely that is it taketh up or embraceth the Crosse of Christ as he commandeth us to doe But is the act at our will and libertie not simply we may not projicore animam thrust or cast forth our breath or spirit Spiritus Exit it goeth forth strive wee must to cast the world out of us we may not cast our selves out of the world Saint Paul dareth not dissolve himselfe though he could wish to be dissolved God must part that which he joynes God giveth and God taketh away and if God say as he doth to Lazarus Exi foras come forth with faithfull Steven we must resigne our Spirit and all into his hands When God biddeth us yoke he is the wisest man that yeeldeth his necke most willingly when our grand Captaine recalls us we must take the retreit in good part but it is heathenish to force out the soule for when the misdeeming flesh amidst our disasters will not listen with patience for God his call but rather shake off the thought of divine providence quite then are wee ready to curse God and die and that is probably to leape e fumo in stammam out of the sinne of selfe-murder into hell no but God will have our spirits to passe forth upon good termes Spiritus exit the spirit goeth forth Secondly the spirit goeth free or inviolate in essence death is not the end but the out-going of the soule a transmigration or journey from one place to another It goeth forth so the character of our weaknesse we see in the issue it is an argument of our eternity for man indeed is perishing but so is not his spirit Non simul perit anima animal The Phaenix goes forth or out of his ashes the spirit returneth to God that gave it Eccles 12. that is it abides still and as in the body it pleased God to inclose the soule for a season so it may as well exist elsewhere without it if God will for it hath no rise at all from the clay yea it beares in it immortality an image of that brest whence it is breathed The separate and very abstract acts of the spirit even while it is in the body the wondrous visions of the Lord to his Prophets usually when their bodies were bound up in sleepe Saint Paul his rapture when he knew not whether he was in the bodie or out of it the admirable inventions and arts of men manifest the soules-selfe-consisting Not Socrates and Cato and the civilized heathen onely but the very savage beleeve this and so entertaine death Vt exitum non ut exitium as a dissolution not as a destruction Spiritus exit his spirit goeth forth But we know saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 5. we are sure God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost doth no create redeeme and regenerate man for the meere use of a wretched short life and who can imagine so monstrously that of all men the good and righteous and of all creatures man for whom the rest are made and who hath the use or soveraignty of all yet by farre that he should be the most vile and miserable of all but sure it were so if in this life onely we had hope seeing there be no lower creatures that are capable of sorrow and terrours of conscience and feares of death and conceit of future judgement yea not so subject to bodily disease But account mee not dead said the holy martyr for I shall certainely live and never die And the martyrs so vigorous as we see amidst the ruines and destructions of the body had something in them surely more than dust A Philosopher Hermes Trismegistus dying said Mourne not for me as if I were dead for I returne to the happiest City Above all Jesus Christ giveth us an expresse

watch-word Nothing is able to kill the soule Mat. 10. And Martin Luther going to give up his account before the Emperour received this Eccho from the people feare not them that cannot kill the soule Mundus minetur aestuet Death by all its pyoning takes but a fort of clay Animus ad sedes suas cognata sydera recurrit the spirit as new hatched goeth forth to live still like as the light issuing from the Sunne dieth not at Suns●…ing but goeth some whither else with the Sunne so life that issues from the soule goes with its owne principle and abides with it so Saint Iohn the divine to be better enabled to his banishment he had a vision of this by speciall privilege a sight of the immortall safe subsistence of the soule after death under the altar the custody of Christ Jesus Rev. 6.9 And thence is Saint Pauls Ne contristemini sorrow not as hopelesse men 1 Thess 4. Yea bee we nured to a certaine faith and frequent thought of this and a fairer flower the booke of God yeeldeth not than the immortality of Saints in blisse Hence the great patience of the Saints hence the challenge of death Vbi mors victoria O death thou wilt take away our breath Alas how small a losse seeing no death can divide us from Christ Rom. 8.38 and spiritus exit seeing the spirit doth but migrare it goeth untouched in essence and inviolate The maine issue of this first point is that seeing our breath our spirit goeth forth that wee make sure provision therefore of some harbour or sanctuary that we get us into the Arke before the fl●ud that we gather our Manna and prepare to our eternall Sabbath now in the Even of this life Qui laborat in vesp●re Sabbati vesce ur in Sabbato say the Rabbines and what an exceeding strength will it be to us when we are weake in minde and body that our spirit is to passe safely and comfortably that we have a refuge a terminus ad quem for our spirit so let us forecast for it by a true apprehension and faith of the loves and promises of God in Christ Jesus O my Dove that art in the clefts of the rock saith our Saviour Cant. 2.14 The wounds of Christ are the clefts of the rocke therein let us cove r hide us over soule and body let us make sure of a rightfull hold in that rocke of our salvation through faith and repentance and so our spirits will grow acquainted with the peace of conscience and the joyes of the Holy Ghost and the sense and hopes of the promised recompence and so shall also we be well composed and fortified for our migration or passage even that our spirit goeth forth of an earthly vessell but into an eternall and blessed receptacle I come to the second branch of the text the second note of mans imbecillity from the matter that he is made of Et revertetur in terram suam and he returneth to his earth He returneth The body of man before his fall was beautifull and amiable in the eye of God and awfull in the eye of the creature and exacts in its owne temper and immortall by privilege sealed in the tree of life but since that sinne came into the world the body of man incloseth a death a selfe-ruining beside outward violence and perills of contagion none of which were incident to his pure estate so man returnes to his earth without contradiction hee hath no helpe for it The spirit which holdeth up the elements together in a body when that goeth forth each of them fall backe to their owne principles earth goeth to its earth according to God his ordinance dust thou art and to dust thou shalt returne Gen. 3. Nicodemus thought it strange but in this sense it is true we re-enter the bowels of our mother The sonne of Syrach calleth the earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the mother of us all Ecclus. 40. So Brutus wisely tooke the Oracle when being warned to kisse his mother kissed the earth His earth Earth we see goeth very nigh us it is our earth not onely the matter or rocke out of which wee are hewen but the matter whereof wee consist our ingredient and co-essentiall with us that I may say with the Prophet Ieremy O earth earth earth heare the word of the Lord. Trim wee never so nicely we are earth Lutea progenies an off-spring of earth yea pulvinaria as the Romans stiled their Temples vessels or beds made up or stuft with dust and shall we dote upon our earth Shall we suffer our immorta●… spirit to goe out like a starveling and over-care for what ●…cernes the bodie and over-decke the daughter of ro●…ennesse know we not that our very make is such that earth that the chambers of death stand like the houses of the Roman Tribunes wide open for us night and day and very usually man sleepeth and never riseth againe and walketh but never returneth againe unlesse it be into his earth The men of Anathoh said to the Prophet Ieremie Prophesie not in the name of the Lord that thou dye not Ier. 11. But to you my fellow-labourers I say prophesie in the feare of God for we shall die because we shall be dissolved and returne to our earth wee know not how soone and if this doth not quicken our account being so nigh at hand what will And of all Gods Officers we his especiall Embassadours how shall wee turne us on the bed of death if we have betrayed the immediate worke and businesse of our Soveraigne The Indian Priests or Brachmanes so verie separate were they from the body that they are said Interrâ esse non in terrâ esse To be and not to bee on the earth A Minister of Christ his Gospell much rather hee should bee unglued and abstracted from this earth the body like a starre already fixed in Heaven But wee care what wee can for our body and so tender it oft times that wee forget our God and yet neverthelesse wee shall returne to our earth and when our turne commeth what a crowne of rejoycing should it be to thinke that we have wasted in body by winning soules and have truly sought to turne men to God though it turne us into the earth stantem praedicantem mori But beside counsell the Lord hath comfort for this point in the issue namely that thus God ordaineth by his returne into earth to refine and turne our vile bodies to bee like the glorious bodie of Jesus Christ Hee that was wrapt up into the third Heavens and knew what he saith S. Paul speakes it Yea saith hee as the corne liveth not except it die and be cast into the earth so wee are not clarified not made blessed bodies but by a returne into the earth So then with an Eagles eye by faith pierce wee thorow and looke beyond the grave and wee shall discerne and see an incomparable light of grace to