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A52775	A sermon preached at the funerall of the Honourable Sir Francis Vincent, Knight and baronet at Stokedawbernon in the county of Surrey, the tenth day of Apill [sic], 1640 by Thomas Neesham. clerke and rector of the same church.	Neesham, Thomas.	1642 (1642)	Wing N413; ESTC R28714	23,075	35

death Secondly Christ by dying did not take away the stroke but the sting of death not the being of it but the curse tollitur mors non est sit sed ne obsit men are still mortall but the tyranny of death which makes it penall is taken away Thirdly the nature of death is changed it is now in a manner no death of a curse it is become a blessing of a punishment a benefit of the gate of hell the portall of heaven thus the first doubt is resolved The second doubt is this Enoch was translated that he Dub. 2. should not see death Heb. 11.5 and Elias was carried up by 2 Kings 2. a whirlewinde into heaven therefore all men dye not I answer the translation of Enoch and the rapture of Eliah Solut. are two intrigate and subtile questions and such as have troubled I will not say pusled the heads of many Divines my meaning is not to trouble either you or my selfe with any exact discusment of these questions onely to satisfie for the present and to assoile the doubt proposed this I say That Enochs translation and Eliah his rapture and the change of all those that are alive at Christs second coming in the end of the world were and shall be a kinde of death loco mortis saith Aretius in the stead of death instar mortis saith Bosquter like death But because this change neither did nor shall seperate the soule from the body nor dissolve the compositum therefore it is not a true proper real death Againe let it be supposed that Enoch and Eliah did not dye it will not infring this common Statute that all shall dye It is enough that all the posterity of Adam be obnoxious to death though some be dispensed withall and dye not for as privilegia paucorum legem nor faciunt to use the words of the Canonist the priviledges of a few doe not constitute or make a law so neither anull or infringe a law What though some have been priviledged and exempted from death I say with Saint Augustine alia naturalitas al●a mirabiliter fiant some things are done naturally some miraculously an ordinary course is one thing an extraordinary another but take it ordinarily and according to the common course of nature and it is as true as truth it selfe that it is appointed unto all men once to dye And so I come to the third part of my Text touching what this Statute was enacted and appointed unto men and that 's exprest here in two branches Death and Iudgement 3. Touching what once to dye that 's one branch but af●er this the judgement The former branch of this Statute is touching Death it is appointed unto men saith the text once to dye semel once Death not twice quod casus in Diabolo id in homine mors that which the fall in the Divell the same is death in man he fell but once and we dye but once Men that are dead are phrased by the holy Ghost as waters spilt upon the ground 2 Sam. 14. 14. which cannot be gathered up againe waters once spilt sinke into the dust and are not gathered up againe nor cannot be spilt againe What is said of the death of Christ may be sa●d of the death of all other men in an ordinary regular way he died but once no more doe they one corporall death sufficeth If any now shall object unto me and say that some have Object died twice as the widdow of Sareptaes sonne the Shunamites son 2 Kings 4. the dead man that was cast into the grave of Elisha As also Jairus daughter and Tabitha and Eu●ichus and ● Kings 17. 2 King 13. Lazarus and some others these all were raised up to live and lived to die again I answer that all or the summe of all that can be said is Answer that it was an extraordinary act And beside● the common Road of Gods usuall way for ordinarily and without some speciall dispensation and priviledge all men die and die but once I am the more confident in because my text is cleare for it Statutum est c. It is appointed unto all men once to die 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to die that is the maine matter of the statute death There is a three fold death 1. A Naturall the death of the body 2. A Spirituall the death of the soule 3. An Eternall the death of the whole man both body and soule The first of these three seperates the soul from the flesh The second the spirit from grace The third the whole man from the Beatificall vision and presence of God and that for ever The first of these three kindes of death as I take it is only meant in this place not the spirituall death of the soule nor the eternall death of the whole man but the naturall death of the body that 's the death appointed unto men without discrimination to all men without exception The death of the body and the dissolution of nature is that the remembrance whereof is so bitter whereof the wiseman speakes Ecclesiasticus 41. 1. That which the heathen Philosopher called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the most terrible of all tetribles That which Job call the King of feares That Cup which Iob. 18. 14. our Saviour Christ himself was afraid to drink off Matthew 26. 39. Et fortior non est miles quam imperator and usual● the Souldier is not more valarous then his Leader then his Captaine If the apprehension and scentiment of death was so terrible to him that was more then a man how much more to us that are but men but meere men And yet death is of the nature of those things that are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bitter sweet Bitter in respect of it self or being the destroyer of nature but sweet in respect of the consequence as being a passage to a better life I dare say there is not a soule of discretion amongst you all but could wish the terrours of death taken away and the bitternesse of it abated and allayed Now that you may have that you wish for and be able to encounter with death as a friend not as a furie let me commend unto you these specialls First to meditate often upon death Secondly to make preparation for death Thirdly to consider the benifits that come by death These three well practised and put in use by a Christian will like that wood that Moses threw into the waters of Exod. 15. 25. Mara sweeten the bitternesse of death and make it more pleasing For first the frequent meditation of death and the often inculcating and commenting upon it will make it more familiar and lesse terrible Tela proevisa minus Loedunt he that sees or thinks upon a bullett or blow a coming 2 Kings 6. 22. starts not at it as he that is hitt upon a sudden and unawares It s wisdome for a man to acquaint himselfe with death before it come