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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89505	A sermon preached at the funerall of M. Christopher Love, in St. Laurence church, August, 25. 1651. By Thomas Manton, minister of the gospell at Stoak-Newington near London.	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1651 (1651)	Wing M535; Thomason E641_7; ESTC R206708	6,559	16

but it is raised a Spiritual body here it is not capable of high enjoyments it is humbled by diseases it is sowed a Corruptable body but it shall be raised an Incorruptable body 1 Corinth 15. 54. The next degree is how far Christ hath conquered death the hurt of death is taken away Death may kill you but it cannot hurt you it cannot have any power over your better part Jesus Christ is your head in the grave ye are raised by the Spirit of holiness Rom. 8. 11. The Holy-ghost can never leave his Temple you belong to Christ in the grave 1. Oh consider what ground of comfort we have against the mortality of the body Christ hath united body and soul Christs mystical Body shall not want the least Member or Joynt 2. God is in Covenant with your body and soul God is the God of your flesh though it remain with the dust of the wicked 3. Christ hath purchased your body and soul 1 Corinth 6. 20. Yea are bought with a price Therefore glorifie Christ in your bodies Christ will not loose one whit of his purchase Therefore here is your comfort against the Mortality of the Body God will call the grave to an account What is become of my Abraham my Isaac and my Jacob The grave shall give up their dead when Christs commands it the grave is but a chest and with reference be it spoken Christ wares the Keys at his own Girdle God hath a special care of your dust when your friends and neighbours have left you in the grave yet Christ hath not left you there 4. We are eased from the terror and horror of death Now death is terrible as it is a natural evil a dissolution of the soul from the body Death is the King of terrors Morral Phylosophy could never finde any remedy against the fear of death But God by his holy Spirit he fills the soul with a hope of a better life by which it is strenthened against the fear of death nature may shrink when we see the pail horse approaching yet we way rejoyce in this it is but to carry us home to our Fathers house And who would be affraid to be happy Let them be affraid to dye which are loath to go to Christ St. Stephen saw the Heavens opened for him when he was stoned to death at the very hour of their departure they are exempted from fear and terror by reason of that comfortable perswasion which they have in their breast that their sins are pardoned through the blood of Jesus Christ that God is reconciled unto their souls that as soon as they go out of this miserable would they shall be received into eternal Glory The sting of death is sin the day of death is a black and glomy day to wicked men Wicked men they drop like rotten Apples into that Lake that burns with fire and brimstone for evermore Wicked men have many accusations laid to their charge many sins that fly in their face which most commonly perplex a dying soul but godly men are freed from all this This made Luther cry out Percule domine percule peccata remissa sunt strike Lord strike my sins are pardoned So may every true believer say Lord do what thou wilt with me my sins are forgiven 5. Christ hath utterly abolished death 1 Cor 5. 16. Then death shall be utterly abolished to the Elect the Dominion and Power of death is overcome but for the wicked they must be kept under a dying and yet under a living death death shall be no more unto Gods people they may then triumphantly say Oh death where is thy sting Thus much for the Doctrinal part of the Text There remains nothing but the useful Application unto our Souls Vse First let this serve for terror to wicked men Jesus Christ hath conquered death onely for his Elect for the present wicked mens condition is sad in Death it is worse and in Hell it is worst of all 1. For the present their condition must needs be sad they cannot so much as think of death or hell without a great deal of terror and fear It is like the hand writing against Belshazer upon the wall it will mar all their Jovial company but with the righteous death makes way for their eternal happiness Though I walk in the vale and shadow of death saith David yet will I fear none ill It is a sad walk to walk at Deaths right hand 2. In Death it will be worse the nearer you come to your everlasting estate the more your Conscience will be troubled and your sins will fly in your face Every man doth not dye thus sensible some there are that sacrifice their bodies with great courage but mark this in them all they oftentimes dye anxious of their spiritual condition A wicked man is like one that leaps over a great Gulph in the dark but usually their death is full of terror Oh consider what a sad case you will be in when your sins shall stare you in the face your conscience accuse you the law binde you over to hell hell open her mouth for you and heaven be shut up against you how will you be able to appear before the Judgement Seat what a hideous cry will it be to hear the sinner curse his body and his body to curse his soul because he did not make sure of heaven It is quite contrary when the godly man dyeth he takes fare leave of his flesh flesh farewell and rest in hope God will not suffer his holy One to see corruption 3. In Hell it will be worst of all Envy will be a part of your sorrow as well as dispare when you shall see the godly in heaven whom you have scorned dispised and thought not worthy to love among you when your selves shall be tormented in hell fire with the Devil and his Angels for ever there is a special conviction upon the damned soul in hell Here you would not live and their you shall not dye Oh miserable will be your condition when conscience that worm that never dyeth shall gnaw your soul to all eternity You are now fallen into the hands of a living God who liveth for ever to see vengeance executed upon his enemies The second Use is to labor to get an Interest 1. In Jesus Christ and first you must take care to get your sins pardoned all the power of the Devil and Death depends upon this particular you can never have any true or real solid comfort when you come to dye unless you are assured that your sins are pardoned unless that you are confidently assured by the spirit of God that when you go out of this Life you shall be received into a Better There are two pits which God hath digged that are deep enough to bury your sins in that they shall never beable to hint you vid. the Ocean of Divine mercy and the grave of Jesus Christ see your sins buried in one of those graves and