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A32062	A sermon preached by Mr. Edmund Calamy at Aldermanbury, London, Aug. 24, 1651 being a funeral sermon for Mr. Love on the Sabbath-day following after he was executed ... also four excellent doctrines and proposition to the Presbyterians and others to be by them practiced and meditated upon both morning and evening.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1651 (1651)	Wing C266; ESTC R23880	10,414	10

when the body dies and fals asleep the soul likewise continues in a dull Lethorgy veternoso s●mno correptus neither capable of joy nor sorrow untill the resurrection Beloved This is a very uncomfortable and a very false Doctrine They indeavour to prove it from my Text they say That Stephen when he died fell asleep It is true in regard of his body he fell asleep but his soul did not fall asleep that which was stoned fell asleep which was his body onely for when he was stoning he saw Jesus Christ standing ready to receive his soul into heaven Lord Jesu● saith he receive my Spirit Stephens soul could not be stoned though his body was stoned So when Jesus Christ was crucified his soul was not crucified I mean when his body was killed his soul was not killed indeed he did endure torments in his soul which made him cry out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me But yet his soul did not die So when Stephen died his soul went to Christ It is true when a child of God dies the soul goes to sleep How is that The soul goes to sleep in a Scripture-sense that is it goes to rest in Abrahams bosom O blessed sleep it goes ●o rest in the imbraces of God it goes into the arms of its Redeemer it goes to the heavenly Paradise it goes to be alwayes present with the Lord But take heed of that wicked opinion to say that the soul sleeps in an Anabaptistical sense that is That i● lies in a strange kind of Lethargy neither dead nor alive neither capable of ioy nor sorrow untill the resurrection Though Stephens body fell asleep yet his soul did not fall asleep but immediatly went unto Jesus Christ in Heaven Thus I have given the Explication of the words Now give me leave to make some Application of all unto our selves Vse 1 If the death of Gods children be nothing else but a falling asleep then let this comfort us against the deaths of our godly friends though they die unnatural and violent deaths though they be stoned to d●ath though they be burnt to ashes though they be sawn asunder c Here is a message of rich consolation which as a Minister of Christ I hold out unto you this day viz ●hat the death of a child of God let it be after what manner soever it will it is nothing else but a falling asleep he goes to his grave as to his bed and therefore our burying places are called 〈◊〉 dormitoria our sleeping-houses A child of God when he lies he lies down in peace and enter● into his rest And as a man when he is asleep is free from all the cares and troubles he hath in the day time So the people of God when they are fallen asleep they are free from all the miseries and calamities crosses losses and afflictions that we are troubled withall Therefore give me leave to say to you as Christ did to the women that followed him to the Cross bewailing and lamenting of him O daughters of Ierusalem weep not for me but weep for your selves and for your children So say I O weep not for those that are dead in the Lord that are fallen asleep in Jesus Christ they are at their rests they do not know the troubles that we are troubled withall Abraham remembers us not They are not sensible of our miseries and afflictions let us weep for our selves and for the miseries that are coming upon us and let us know that when Gods children die they do but lie in their beds untill the morning of the resurrection and then they shall put on stolam immortalitatis the garment of immortality and their bodies shall be made like unto the glorious body of Jesus Christ And know one thing more which is all in all viz. That when the body of a child of God fals asleep his soul immediatly goes into the arms of Christ and there lives for ever in the imbraces of Jesus Christ though the body fals asleep yet the soul is received into Abraham's bosom I beseech you comfort one another with these words Vse 2. Let me beseech the people of God that they would look upon death not as it is presented unto us in Nature's Looking-glass but as it is set down in a Scripture-dress Nature presents death in a very terrible manner and it is true death is very terrible to a man out of Christ but to you that are in Christ the sling of death is taken away death is nothing else but a quiet and placid sleep putting off our clothes and a going to bed till we awake in the morning of the resurrection Death to a child of God is nothing else but a putting off his earthly tabernacle A going from an earthly prison into an heavenly palace a hoising up sail for Heaven The letting of the soul out of prison as a bird out of the cage that it may flee to heaven A change from a temporary hell to an eternal heaven A going out of Egypt into Ganaan and therefore called exodos 2 Pet. 1. 15. is not mors hominis but mors peccati not the death of the man but the death of his sins It is Sepultura vitiorum It is the pilgrims journeys end the sea-mans haven an absence from the body and a presence with the Lord Let all Gods people look upon death through Scripture spectacles and consider it as it is sweetly represented in this Text Remember blessed Stephen stoned to death and yet falling asleep And remember also that excellent saying of Austin That a child of God should be as willing to die as to put off his cloaths because death is nothing else to him but a sleep and a departure from misery to everlasting happiness Vse 3. To beseech you all every night when ye go to bed to remember this text and especially to remember these four things First When you are putting off your cloaths remember that you must shortly put off your bodies And Secondly When you go into your beds remember that it will not be long before you must go down into your graves And Thirdly When you close your eyes to sleep remember that it will not be long before death must close your eyes And Fourthly When you awake in the morning remember that at the resurrection you must all arise out of the grave and that the just shal arise to everlasting happiness but the wicked to everlasting misery It is a saying of an Heathen man That the whole life of a man should be nothing else but Meditatio mortis but a meditation of death And it is the saying of Moses Deut. 3. 29. O that men were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end Beloved it is the greatest part of wisdom every day to remember out latter end That man is the onely wise man and happy man in life and death that is ever mindful of his death Quest But before I make an end I

never have died But in Illo die said God In that day thou eatest the forbidden fruit thou shalt die the death Sinne brings omnimodam mortem all kindes of death it brings death temporal death spiritual and death eternal Now because all men are poisoned with the poison of sine therefore all men must sleep the sleep of death It is sin that hath poisoned all mankind 3. As a man when he goeth to sleep puts off his clothes and goeth naked into bed So it is with us when we come to die vve came naked into the world and we must go naked out of the world As we brought nothing with us into the world so we must carry nothing with us out of the world And therefore death in Scripture is called nothing else but an uncloathing of our selves 2 Cor. 5. 4. Death to a child of God is nothing else but the putting off his cloaths The body of man is animae {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} vestiment●m It is the souls cloathing and death is nothing else but the uncloathing of the soul it is just like a man going to bed and putting off his cloths St. Peter cals it The putting off our earthly tabernacle 2 pet. ● 14. Our bodies are the souls tabernacle and death is the putting off of this tabernacle B●loved when we come to die we shall be stript naked of three things 1. We shall be stript naked of all our worldly honour riches and greatnesse 2. We shall be stript naked of our bodies And 3. Which is above all we shall be stript naked of our sins And that is the happines of a child of God he shall put off not only his mortal body but the body of sin 4. In the fourth place observe As no man knoweth the time when he fals asleep a man fals asleep before he is aware So no man can tell the certain time when he must die There is nothing so certain as that we must die nothing so uncertain as the time when we shall die Death comes suddenly even as sleep comes upon a man before he is aware 5. Observe As Children and infants because they do not know the benefit of sleep are very loth to go to sleep many times the mother is fain to whip the childe to bed even so it is with most of Gods people because they do not study the benefit of death That death puts an end to all our miseries and sins and opens a door to let us in unto everlasting happiness and that we shall never see God or Christ before we die I say because Gods people do not study the benefit of death therefore they are like to little children loth to die loth to go to bed And therefore death is called The King of terrors Death is terrible to many of Gods children because they are but infants in grace and because they do not know the benefit of death 6. Observe As when a man is fast asleep he is free from cares and troubles Let it thunder as it thundred not long since as you know yet a man that is fast asleep while he is asleep he hears it not Let the house be on fire while the man is asleep he sees it not neither is he troubled at it So it is with the death of Gods children when Gods children sleep the sleep of death they are free from the thunder of this world they are free from all cares from all troubles they go to their grave● as to their beds and rest in quietness and are not sensible of any troubles that are in the 〈◊〉 When a child of God sleeps the sleep of death he doth not feel nor is he sensible of any of the cal●mities or sad providences of God upon the earth 7. When a man goeth to sleep he goeth to sleep but for a certain time in the morning he awakes out of sleep So it is with the sleep of death and therefore death is called a sleep because we must all awake in the morning of the resurrection We are in the grave as in our beds and when the trumpet of God and the voice of the Archangel shall sound we shall all rise out of our grave as out of our beds Death is but a sleep for a certain time 8. Sleep is a great refreshing to those that are weary and sick and when the sick man awakes he is more lively and chearful then he was when he fell asleep and therefore sleep is called Medicus laborum redinte gratio virium recreator corporum The great Physician of the sick body the redintegration of mans spirits the reviver of the weary body And so it is with death when Gods people awake out of the sleep of death they shall be made active for God then ever they were before when you lie down in the grave you lie down with mortal bodies It it sown a mortal body but it shall rise up an immortal body it is sown in dishonour but it shall rise up in honour it is sown a natural body but it shall rise up a spiritual body 9. As in the morning when we arise out of our beds we then put on our Cloathes So in the morning of the resurrection we shall put on a a glorious body like to the glorious body of Jesus Christ we shall put on Stolam immortalitatis the garment of immortality 10. As no man when he layeth him down to sleep knoweth the direct time when he shall awake So no man can tell when the resurrection shall be They do but couzen you who say that the general resurrection shall be such or such a year for as no man can know the minute when he shall awake out of his natural sleep no more can any man know when we shall arise from the sleep of death 11. It is a very easie thing to awake a man out of sleep it is but jogging of him and you will quickly awake him 12 As when a man ariseth in the morning though he hath slept many hours may suppose he could sleep 20 years together yet notwithstanding when he awakes these 20 years will seem to be but as one hour unto him So it will be at the day of Judgment all those that are in their graves when they awake it will be tanquam somnus unius horae but as the sleep of an hour unto them Lastly and most especially As sleep seizeth onely upon the body and the outward senses but doth not seiz upon the soul the soul of man is many times most busie when the man is asleep And God hath heretofore revealed most glorious things to his children in dreams when they have bin asleep God appeared unto Abraham and many others in dreams the body sleeps but the soul awakes So it is with the sleep of death the body that dies but the soul doth not die There are some men that are not afraid to teach you That the soul sleeps as well as the body and that