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A45802	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend John Scott, D.D., late rector of S. Giles in the Fields, March 15, 1694/5 by Z. Isham ...	Isham, Z. (Zacheus), 1651-1705.	1695 (1695)	Wing I1068; ESTC R15920	13,714	32

and diseases nor troubled with daily repairs and with providing against the ruins of Mortality Luk xx 35 36 for they that shall be counted worthy to obtain the Resurrection of the dead cannot die any more as being equal to the Angels and the Children of God Again The body is sown in dishonour and raised in glory that is a brightness and lustre and Majesty will over spread those Bodies which are here of a despicable and mean aspect especially when they are committed to the ground with the pale and frightful Visage of Death which turns the fairest Countenance into a spectacle of blackness and horrour but in the Resurrection a fresh and unperishing Beauty shall dwell upon the exalted Body Mat. xiii 43. and then shall the righteous shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father they shall be surrounded with beams of perpetual Light resting upon them and such a Resulgency there was in the face of Moses when he came down from conversing with God in the Mount and in the Transfiguration of Christ when his face did shine as the Sun and his raiment was white as the light Matt. xvii 2. Again The body is sown in weakness and raised in power that is those Indispositions and Infirmities which beset the Flesh in our present Estate and make it a dull and sluggish and cumbersom lump shall then be removed and there shall be no clogs and fetters of the Soul to obstruct her operations Here we are too sensible how backward the Flesh is to obey the Spirit and even in our approaches to God we find a heaviness and deadness upon us from the reluctancy of it and we are soon tir'd even by the best performances but the glorify'd Body will be an equal Companion to the Soul and nimbly execute whatever is fitting for it and fly with the wings of an Angel upon any superiour call and joyn with unwearied delight in the never ceasing work of the Saints and in the adorations of God Lastly the body which is sown is natural that is invested with such Faculties and Appetites and Inclinations as are peculiarly fitted to this lower World but it is raised a spiritual body that is adorn'd with celestial Qualities and accommodated to that Divine Employment which is to entertain us everlastingly in the next Life Here the unruly headstrong Body is very difficult to be manag'd but when it shall be Spiritualiz'd and purified and adapted to the Joys of Heaven it will be at perfect amity with the Soul and tun'd for ever to the Hallelujahs of the Spirits above IX This is that blessedness which is to inspire us with vigour in all the exercises of a Christian Life and to prepare us with alacrity for a Christian Death but lest it should be objected that this is not an adequate encouragement in our fears and losses and calamities for if we must wait for happiness till the second coming of our Lord and the reassumption of our Bodies what is there to rebate the apprehensions of death why should we not be unwilling to quit our present satisfactions for those which are not to come till after a long and uncertain period and what ground is there of thanks to God for the departure of our friends for the preventing of such objections I shall subjoin this Consideration to what hath been said That Righteous Souls depart from hence into a State of Felicity We cannot trace the motions of the naked Soul nor see the Angels that conduct it but an intelligent and immortal Substance wherever it is must undoubtedly have a suitable Habitation and live and think and contemplate and probably with more freedom and vivacity than in these Cottages of Clay But to suppose it in a slumbering and unactive Estate and much more to suspect the vanishing of it is to degrade our selves below the conceptions of the Heathen World and to resist the natural Impressions of Conscience Natura ipsa de immortalitate animorum tacita judicat Cicero saith the Roman Orator Wherefore we justly believe that the Spirits of Righteous Men are in some active and joyful Repose sensible of their present bliss and expecting fuller degrees of it they know themselves to be deliver'd from the troubles and sorrows of mortality from the tossings of the World and the entanglements of Sin they enjoy God with more familiarity than they could here in the most exalted raptures of Devotion and looking beyond the circle of time they behold a brighter Eternity moving towards them and a triumph of Glory preparing for them and then how can we doubt of their having a present Reward how can we attend upon them and not congratulate their Joy What Communication they have with us God hath been pleased to hide from us and probably to prevent our Addresses to them but we may presume their Love towards us is equally enlarg'd with the rest of their Graces and possibly they * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orig. de Orat. §. 34. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Id. Ex. ad Mart. p. 192. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Basil Hom. 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nyss Orat. in XL Mart. Speramus quòd liberis suis apud Christum praeful a●●stat Ambros de obit Theodos Pro te Dominum rogat mihique veniam impetrat peccatorum Hieron Ep. 25. intercede for us though not in a sacerdotal way as Christ alone can doe yet in the way of Charity as Members of the same Body with us We acknowledge to God in our Publick Prayers that the spirits of just men made perfect do live with him after they are deliver'd from their earthly prisons and the souls of them that sleep in the Lord Jesus are receiv'd into the heavenly habitations and enjoy perpetual felicity and if Lazarus was carried to Abraham 's bosom Luk. xvi 22. if the penitent Thief went from the Cross with our Saviour into Paradise Luk. xxiii 43. Act. vii 59. if S. Stephen had reason to pray Phil. i. 23. Lord Jesus receive my spirit if the Apostle was willing to depart that he might immediately be with Christ and if the souls of the Martyrs are under the heavenly Altar Rev. vi 9 10 11. clothed in white robes and Communicating with God then we may be confident of the delightful rest of * Confecto itinere virtutis ac fidei ad complexum osculum Domini venerunt Cyprian Ep. 37. edit Oxon. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clem. Alex. 1. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Basil Ep. 188. Fruitur nunc Theodosius luce perpetuâ tranquillitate diuturnâ munerationis divinae fructibus gratulatur Ambros de obit Theod. Testor Jesum quem Blaesilla nunc sequitur testor sanctos angelos quorum consortio fruitur Hieron Ep. 25. Saints departed and follow them with acclamations to the seat of blessedness X. This is the proper Consolation for us upon parting with that excellent Man in whose place I now stand who