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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42701	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Edward Reynolds, D.D. Arch-Deacon of Norfolk and Rector of Kings-Thorp near Northampton / by William Gibbs ...	Gibbs, William.	1699 (1699)	Wing G668; ESTC R34914	17,370	36

Persons find themselves made for higher Objects than what this World presents and have a Consciousness of their own Eternity nothing can effectually compose the tumultuary Rovings of that Mind but the Assurances of an Immortality and of such an Immortality only which the Christian hopes for Without this all the Notions of the Phylosophers and Sentences of the Moralists signifie little Death can never be vanquish'd by such weak Charms but would be still too hard for their Principles too strong for their Resolutions they must Sorrow even as those that have no Hope So that the best of them pass'd off the Stage rather in an obstinate vain-glorious Humour than in any true Satisfaction or Triumph But now the Christian has a far better Provision made him for besides the Helps and Considerations he has in common with the Phylosophers which he may serve himself of when he pleases his Religion offers him such Supports as are sufficient to repress all inordinate Passions and compose our Minds into a steady Frame It assures us of the reality of a Divine Providence in the Managery of things here below that whatever Affliction Loss or Calamity befalls us was so Ordered by an over-ruling Providence This was a Truth which the Gentile World either absolutely denyed or however was not so well satisfied in as to make any true Use of their Adversities or to be Patient under them But now we know that Affliction springs not out of the dust nor trouble out of the ground that nothing falls upon us without the Knowledge and Permission of our Heavenly Father who still designs our Welfare by all the severe Methods and Dispensations he exercises towards us and therefore the Thoughts of this must needs render us more Calm and Sedate at such times than those who can spy out nothing of Divine Wisdom and Goodness but look upon all their Crosses as the Effects either of an ill Chance or an inevitable Fate But more especially doth it relieve our Thoughts by giving us so great an Assurance of a happy State hereafter that not only the Soul but the Body too shall live for ever that the whole Man shall be perfectly and entirely raised and Death at last be swallowed up in Victory therefore those that were Dead are said in my Text only to be asleep and if we sleep we shall do well as the Disciples said of Lazarus It is only a resting for a while in our Dormitories but we shall as certainly awake in the Morning as ever we lay down And this we are ascertain'd of First By many full and clear Testimonies in the Scripture of whose Divine Authority we have so many undoubted Proofs Here we are plainly told that the Hour is coming in which all that are in the Graves shall bear and shall come forth they that have done good unto the Resurrection of life Hear it is said that when our earthly house of this tabernacle shall be dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the Heavens Here 't is promised that this Corruptible must put on Incorruption and this Mortal must put on Immortality Nay here in the Context we have a more particular Description of the Manner thereof and in what Order it shall be Secondly But more especially are we secur'd hereof by the Resurrection of our Blessed Saviour therefore St. Paul makes use of this Argument to excite in us these Hopes as in the Verse after my Text For if we believe that Jesus dyed and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him As if he had said If once your Faith will carry you so far as to believe your Lord's Resurrection you need never doubt your own this being a Matter of Fact surpasses all the Arguments that could be drawn from any other Topick whatsoever For our Saviour dying in a Humane Capacity and being raised again does clearly evince that we who are of the same Nature are capable of a like Restauration This indeed is a sensible Experiment of the possibity of a Resurrection but now that which was thus shewn to be possible is made also certain to us from the Relation that is between Christ and us as he is the Head and we are his Members and so shall be made Partakers of the like Condition with him So our Apostle elsewhere 2 Cor. 4. 14. Knowing this that he who raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise us up also by Jesus of which we have have an Earnest by the Spirit he hath given us So our Apostle again Rom. 8. 11. If the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by the spirit that dwelleth in you So that by this Triumphant Action chiefly it is that our Lord has brought Life and Immortality to light brought those Mysteries to a full View which before lay hid under Types and Figures or were only faintly apprehended by Natural Reason And to give us a further Assurance of the thing He manifested his Power before for at his Death the Graves were opened and many bodies of Saints which slept arose and came out of their Graves after his Resurrection and appear'd to many intimating by that Release of some few Prisoners made then what a general Goal-delivery there should be when he comes at last in his Glory And now upon a Review of all this shall the Christian sorrow like those that have no Hope Shall he not be able to part with a Pious Friend or Relation but must he lament him as if lost for ever How easily rather may he at such a time triumph over Death and cry out Where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Victory Where are all your Trophies the Body indeed you have seized on but that is only a Sacred Depositum committed to your Trust for a time you must make a faithful Restitution of it e're long the Victory truly is ours and God hath given it us through our Lord Jesus Christ By the help of this single Consideration how often hath Death been triumph'd over by the Primitive Christians who have been so transported with the thoughts hereof that they have been eager to quit this dull Mortality before they were call'd and to press upon those Eternal Mansions before they had compleated their Probation-ship here below and yet we have the same Arguments for the truth hereof as they and may have as strong Evidences for our Title However if our Faith cannot inspirit our Resolutions so high yet sure it will be sufficient to moderate our Grief to restrain the Inordinacy of our Passions for our deceased Friends especially when they are such as sleep in Jesus such who are not so much departed from us as gone before us have the Priviledge to go a little the sooner to take Possession of that Glorious Inheritance where they joyfully