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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12706	A sermon preached at Whaddon in Buckinghamshyre the 22. of Nouember 1593. at the buriall of the Right Honorable, Arthur Lorde Grey of Wilton, Knight of the most Honorable order of the Garter, by Thomas Sparke pastor of Blechley	Sparke, Thomas, 1548-1616.	1593 (1593)	STC 23024; ESTC S102431	51,655	100

that though we lie down wearied and tired yet after conuenient sleepe though it bee but for a night we commonly rise mightily refreshed as full of interruptions and troublesome dreames as our sleepes are vsually How much more then after this long sound and quiet sleepe should we hope and bee perswaded that our bodies shall not onely rise againe but also be woonderfullie altered This the Apostle Paul 1. Cor. 15. most notably teacheth vs wher he telleth vs that at the last day the trumpe should blowe our bodies shall rise the which whē they were laid down were corruptible mortall and inglorious immortall incorruptible glorious yea which is more that then our bodies that slept in him shal be made like vnto the glorious body of our Lord and Sauiour by his mighty power whereby he is able to subdue al things vnto himselfe Phil. 3.2 And therefore when we fal a sleepe in these beds we may cōfidētly falling a sleepe yet say with Iob. cap. 19. v. 25. I am sure that my redeemer liueth and though after this skin wormes destroy this body yet shall I see God in my flesh euen with these same eies and no other To grow therefore towardes a conclusion this being the meaning of the Prophet as I haue plainly shewed it was by these his comfortes to teach vs thus much concerning the deaths of the righteous thereupon all these thinges necessarily followe that man consisteth of a body and a soule that the body is mortall and yet shall rise againe that the soule is immortall that there is no such Purgatorie for the soules of anie of the righteous that are taken hence walking before GOD as the Romanistes talke of for that they immediately enter vppon or into a most ioyfull peace that therefore they all goe streight to heauen and that they passe not their time betwixt this and the iudgement in a senseles sleepe or not feeling of anie woe as some haue phansied but in a present and continuall fruition of exceeding ioy and peace and lastly that neither the bodies and soules of such walke and wander vppe and downe here in this worlde nor are subiect to the malice of Sathan or witches to be fetcht againe to present themselues to be consulted withall by the living as fondly some superstitious people haue imagined for neither of these can stand either with the peace that the soule enters into as the Prophet hath taught immediately after death or with the rest that he saith their bodies enioy in their beds And therefore with the best learned both ancient and of late time we are to be resolued that all apparitions and visions to the contrary except such as before I excepted are either very illusions of Sathan himselfe so offring himselfe to be seene to breed erromous opiniōs touching the dead or else that they are but imagined onely as we doe many thinges in our dreames which yet then are nothing so as we phantasied All which points but that I haue wearied you already were worth the further standing vpon and I would indeed but that I feare I haue beene too tedious already open and confirme them further to the full confutation both of all Atheists and Papists But seeing they are such as I hope you are already rightly perswaded of and I haue my selfe already in a sermon which I haue preached at the funerall of the late Right Honorable Lord of Bedford which is in Print sufficiently further vrged them let it suffice nowe thus onely to haue shewed you howe this text confirmeth the same thus briefely as I haue And to make an end in full hope that this honorable man whome honorably to bury wee are here at this time both liuing dying and dead hath had hath and euer shall haue to his euerlasting comfort his part and portion in all these comfortes therewith because I see you much discomforted and many present I perceiue are full of sorrowe for the losse of so woorthy a man as I haue shewed you there is iust cause I beseech you cōfort your selues and comfort one an other And to ad one other comfort vnto these to comfort vs all withall the Lords name be blessed for it he hath left here behinde him as you see an honorable sonne and heire of whome we all haue iust cause to conceaue very good great hope that er long the very liuely image of his father in him to the comfort of all his fathers friends will be reviued which the Lorde grant euen for Iesus Christes sake Thus you haue heard right honorable and welbeloued both the Prophets complaint and comfort and by the former we haue beene taught that when in bad and vngodly times most worthy men drop away apace that it is a thing to be greeued at complained of if men yet continue and go on in security in sin and impiety For it is a iudgement of God of it selfe to be taken to heart of all sortes of men that they leaue behinde them and it threattens a further euil to come vpon them and therfore neither to take it to heart nor to vnderstande such a further iudgement to be threatned thereby are certaine tokens of grosse and intolerable security and a fearefull prognostication that some heauie iudgement hastens on a pace the consideration whereof I hope euen by the multitude of heauy countenāces that I now behold hath and will haue his due effect in many of vs to our good awakening and reformation in this respect And by the Prophets consolation we haue learned that his cōforts only appertaine to such as so walke before God in righteousnes and mercy as we haue heard and that to all such they doe and therefore to this honorable persō and lastly that such dying may comfort themselues that God alwaies taketh them away to a good end in his fauour and namely in such times as the Prophet spake of frō the euill to come vpon others and that death it selfe is no such loosing of them but that God streight findes them and takes them hence backe againe to himselfe gathering thē vp and together from amongst the vngodly which were not worthie of them to ioyne them to the blessed company of the rest of his Saintes in heauen so curing and healing them of all diseases both of bodie and soule And thus they once gone hence presentlie and immediately both in body and soule they enter into better estate then euer they were in here the soule into better peace and ioie and the body soundly to rest wheresoeuer it be bestowed vntill the generall resurrection in better maner then euer it did aliue Which day when it comes which we cānot tel how shortly it will be both body and soule shall bee ioyned together and so appearing before Christ the iudge of quicke and dead heare the comfortable sentence set downe Mat. 25.34 for such come ye blessed of my father receaue the kingdome prepared for you before the foundations of the worlde were laide Whereunto the Lorde happely bring vs all euen for sweete Iesus sake to whom with the father and the Holy Ghost three persons and one euerlasting God be al honour praise and dominion now and for euer Amen FINIS Faultes escaped Pag. 8. l. 18. for two read too 14. 27. for tyles read tytles 52. 2. for low r. loue 54. 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