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spirit_n	body_n	soul_n	union_n	7,019	5	9.6724	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50862	A sermon preached at the fvnerall of that reverend divine Mr. Robert Collard, batchlour in divinity and pastor of Chilton-Folliat in the county of Wilts fifty yeares, on the 9 of November 1648 by Iohn Millet ...	Millet, John.	1652 (1652)	Wing M2069; ESTC R32091	18,319	24

life and feare death Use 2 they prophecy to themselves a future bad estate the Sadduce is loath to die because he feares he shall not be the Epecure feares to die because he shall loose his pleasures the wicked feares to die because he knowes he shall worse be if it were a sleep who would feare to take his rest if it were an annihilation of the totum cumpositum as some thought or that it made men insēsible who would feare that which one cannot feele therefore this feare of death in the wicked doth presage some strange torment to those men whereof they have a taste already before they die like Saules spirit which vext him before his death To desire death but with these limitations 1 To resigne our will to Use 3 the Lords will 2 For the manner not to be out owne carvers but to embrace what Messenger the Lord will send for us 3 To be disburdened of the weight of sin 4 That we may enjoy the new Jerusalem Ob Is it not lawfull to desire death to avoide miseries here else why did Jonah desire to die and Moses to be razed out of Gods booke and Job and Eliah what availeth it me to live Sol. In Jonah it was a note of impatience yet I thinke these desires are not simply unlawfull if they submit themselves to the will of God thus I am troubled with a lingering disease or I am in prison I would be freed by death if the Lord saw it fit I suffer many troubles here I would faine go to heaven if the Lord would send his Embassador for me thus Job Elias others did Use 4 For comfort to them which have good consciences they may be willing to die he which knowes himselfe to have a grant of his life in the land of the living at his great Landlords hands I see no reason but he should desire death but he that hath no assurance by the Spirit of a better life hereafter he may leave the world grudgingly and feare this king of feares more then all the terrours of this life he had rather to be sicke and cold poore and hungry and beg then dy because he knowes what he suffers here but knowes not what he shall suffer hence he hath not learned Christ yet as Paul did for no man estemes this life when he relisheth the other to any purpose For then the love of this world fals from him as Elias mantle when he went up to heaven Paul indeed had seen many good things in his daies and was never satisfied being willing to dy he thirsted still but no water could quench his thirst but the water of life riches honors pleasures doe not make the elect willing to dy but their desires breed in them an unrest untill they be loosed which is my third part Part. 3 To be loosed Death hath among the ancients many descriptions it is called the privation of naturall life The Philosophers stiled it an eternall sleepe as they foolishly dreamed some o● them called it the feare of rich men the desire of poore men an inevitable event an uncertaine pilgrimage the robber of mankind a common fate the passage of life the departure of the living but Pa● here calls it a dissolution for as life is nothing but an union or combination of the soule to the body so death is a parting betweene them observe that death to the elect is nothing but a loosing Doct 3 So Solomon Eccles 12.7 the body returnes to the dust and the spirit to God th●● gave it thus Paul saith we know that if our earthly tabernacle be disolved we have a building made without hands eternall in the heaven 1 Because our bodies here are earthly houses whose foundation● 〈◊〉 Reas 1 not of marble whose walls are not of brasse whose gates are not 〈◊〉 iron but of clay which as they were quickly framed so are quickly disolved into their first principles Reas 2 2 Because then the godly is loosed from this life and hath no more society with them that are upon the earth he shall no more come to his house neither shall his place know him any more for the soule it 's loosed from the body till the day of resurrection then like old acquaintance they rejoyce together for ever yea death to the godly may be called a loosing or disolution in foure regards 1 Because the elect then are loosed from all their strong tempests and crosses and labours here they meet with blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord for then they rest from their labours Rev. 14.13 2 Because the day of their loosing is the day of receiving their wages Job 7.2 not of merit but of mercy then God will pay to every godly man his peny doth not the hirling long to receive his wages for his daies work 3 Because the day of their disolution is their birth day their day of freedome and coronation a birth day because it is the begining of their everlasting joy therefore it is miscalled when we say it is our last day besides it 's our day of coronation when we shall have Pauls incorruptible crowne and Peters crowne that never fades away put upon us it 's our day of freedome for then the soule is loosed out of a dungeon for the body in this life is but a lothsome prison of restraint wherein the soule cannot be free to the exercise of it selfe either in naturall or supernaturall things for the body so domineers by sences and so fiercely caries by appeties the same that the soule is compelled too often to satisfy bodily lusts yea the body is a darke prison shutting up the light of the soule as a darke cloud doth the light of the sun or as the interposition of the earth maketh it night which made Paul cry out Rom. 27. O wrethed man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of sin now death doth but as a strong wind dissolve this cloud that the Sun of Christs image in the Soule may shine clearly nay it pulls downe the walles of this stinking bodily prison that the soule may receive some fresh ayre in the open light of glory or else the liberty of the soule may appeare thus this world is a sea our lives are like so many galleys tost with continnuall stormes our bodies like Gally-slaves put to hard service by the great Turke the devill who tyrannically doth command hard things now the soule like the hart of some gally-slave may be free so as to loath that bondage inwardly to detest that tyrant but so long as it is fettered to the body it cannot get away now death comes like an unresistable Gyant and carries the gallies to the shore and disolves them and lets the soules the prisoners loose from their bodies Thirdly death as it is the dissolution of the body so it 's the absolution of the soule and in this respect it 's their solemne funerall day for death is the