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soul_n	alive_a	body_n	dead_a	4,124	5	6.9287	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15453	Great Britains Salomon A sermon preached at the magnificent funerall, of the most high and mighty king, Iames, the late King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. At the Collegiat Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, the seuenth of May 1625. By the Right Honorable, and Right Reuerend Father in God, Iohn, Lord Bishop of Lincolne, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England, &c.	Williams, John, 1582-1650.	1625 (1625)	STC 25723; ESTC S120058	36,498	80

a King I consider well his death and his Funerall Verily I haue done so both now and heretofore and that with more then ordinary diligence I haue read all that Peraldus Cognatus Vilalpanda Pineda Delrio Suarez and some others haue said of this Theme I know that Saint Basil saith in one place he died not so well and Prosper plainly that he died ill No doubt but he sinned against his God for hee was not Christ but his Type onely Yet I know on the other side the whole Armie of the Fathers Schoolemen and Commenters vpon the Scripture doe bring him with Faith and Repentance to his Graue moued principally with the end of my Text that his Soule departed as the Soules of the Saints are said to doe by a sweet sleeping that then it rested in the societie of his Fathers and that his Body was buried with the better Kings in the Citie of Dauid his deuout Father And Salomon slept with his Fathers and was buried in the Citie c. THe first happinesse of Salomons end is this that his Death is resembled to slumbring and sleeping And Salomon slept It is obser●'d by one Quod Hebraei Homines in stat●●perditionis mortuos Sanctos autem do●●ientes vocent that the Hebrues say of Wicked Men that they dye but of the Saints that they fall a sleepe I cannot tell whether the Rule be generall but Chrysastome saith directly that without Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 death is still death and Hell in the bargaine and they are onely said to sleepe that dye in him Surely it is the godly dying that most resembles slumbring and sleeping For first as wee praepare our selues vnto the one before it comes by setting aside the traffique of the World so are the godly disposed to the other Looke vpon Salomon at his deaths bed for then saith Hierome this Booke was penn'd Two things haue I prayed of thee denie mee not before I dye Take away from mee Vanitie and Lyes Prouerbs 30. 7. Verse Secondly as wee willingly yeeld to Nature in the one so doe the Saints to the God of Nature when he cals vpon them in the other Listen to Salomon in his Ecclesiastes written not long before his death The Righteous and his workes are in the hand of God Eccles 9. 1. vers Lastly as Men lay by their cloathes with an expectation to vse them againe in the one so doe the Saints their bodies with an expectation of Iudgement in the other So ends the Sermon of this Royall Preacher God shall bring euery worke vnto iudgement Eccles 12. and the last vers And therefore this praeparing and composing of our selues ouer-night with a full Resolution to awake in the morning is no bitter dying but a gentle sleeping Dormiuitque Salomon And Salomon slept And so much of this first happinesse THe second Happinesse is in regard of his Soule which is said here to remaine with his Fathers Dormi●●…tque Salomon cum Patribus suis And Salomon slept with his Fathers His Fathers Nonotiosè scriptum est hoc sed perpensè examinatè saith Saint Ambrose in his first Booke of Caine and Abel This is no phrase light on by chance but to be well weighed and considered It cannot be expounded of his dead Body for none of the kindred were entombed with Salomon but Dauid onely Vnde claret non ad Sepulturam corporis sed ad consortium vitae relatum as hee saith of Isaac and therefore we must conclude that Salomons sleeping in this place was not to rot with his Fathers in the graue but to liue with them in the Kingdome of Heauen And so Salomon slept with his Fathers Idem est apponi ad populum suum ac apponi ad Patres saith Burgensis To sleepe with his People Gen. 25. 8. is the same thing as to sleepe with his Fathers And to sleepe with his People is expounded by S. Augustin to rest in the society of the Angels with Abraham Isaac Iacob Dauid who praeceded Salomon in this Faith and Repentance as spirituall Fathers And Salomon slept with his Fathers And so much likewise of his second Happinesse THe last Happinesse at his End or rather after his End was this to be solemnly interred as a great Prince in the Citie of Dauid his Father And was buried in the Citie of Dauid his Father After his End I say For I will not straine this note as some haue done Bachiarius a Writer as auncient as Saint Augustin makes it an Argument of his very Saluation that he was buried inter Reges iustos in the Sepulchers of the better Kings in the Citie of Dauid It is true indeede that those wicked Princes Amon Ioram and Ioas were not and it is as true that Rhehoboam Amasias and Abiam as wicked as they were all buried in the same place Leauing therefore his Soule in blis●e with his Fathers these Funerals shall serue for a double vse first for an honor to this Body already dead and secondly for a Comfort to all Bodies as yet aliue For the first the Bodies of Saints must bee respected as Phidias his Images were wont to be not for the Stuffe but for the Makers sake Non contemnenda sunt spiritus sancti organa saith Saint Augustin This Body of his so glorified by God while hee was aliue must bee glorified in some proportion although hee bee dead Amongst other magnificencies of his owne hee built this Sepulchre of Dauid his Father and therefore was rightly interred in the Sepulchre of his Father In the Citie of Dauid his Father And as Funerals doe honor the Bodies that be dead so doe they comfort the Bodies that are aliue Sepultura Spiritualiter prodest viuentibus in quantum per hanc astruitur resurrectionis sides saith Aquinas writing vpon the fourth of the Sentences The Buriall of the Dead is a lesson to the Liuing to put them in minde of the Resurrection Indeede if I were of Heraclitus his Faith I should be iust of his opinion as Origen quotes it in his fift Booke against Celsus that dead Bodies are to be neglected as dissolued for euer to dust and ashes But we Christians must bee more carefull where we lay these cloathes being to weare them againe in the Resurrection I beseech you remember in Herodian and Xiphiline what costly beds the Emperors lay in when in their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they were to be burn't and changed to Gods With what cost doth the Phoenix consume her selfe because shee knowes she shall be reuiued Had not Salomon beene to rise with Dauid he had neuer prouided in this sort to be buried with Dauid In Ciuitate Dauid Patris eius In the Citie of Dauid his Father And so I haue done with the parts of my Text the Obit and the Funerals perform'd of old I come now to what I promis'd to adde to the same which is a liuely Statue