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A57133	The churches triumph over death opend in a sermon preached Septemb. 11, 1660, at the funeral of the most religious and vertuous lady, the Lady Mary Langham / by Edward Reynolds ...	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1662 (1662)	Wing R1241; ESTC R11532	20,491	44

that shall be revealed Rom. 8. 18. 6. Proportioned to our need 1 Pet. 1. 6. and to our strength 1 Cor. 10. 13. If we will come to glory we must go the same way unto it as Christ did the way of holinesse and the way of sufferings Act. 14. 22. and surely if there be enough in a womans child to recompence the pains of her travel John 16. 21. There will certainly be enough in the glory to come to recompence all our pains either in our obedience or in our afflictions II. We might here note That even Gods own servants in time of trouble calamity are very apt to betake themselves to their own conceptions and contrivances for deliverance they are big oftentimes with their own counsels and in pain tobring forth and execute their own projections in order to the freeing of themselves from trouble Abraham when he was afraid of Pharaoh and Abimelech dissembled his relation unto Sarah David fearing Achish the King of Gath fained himself mad 1 Sam. 21. 11 12 13. when he feared the discovery of his adultery he gave order for the killing of Uriah 2 Sam. 11. 15. one sin is the womb of another When Asa was in danger from Baasha King of Israel he bought his peace with the spoils of the Temple 2 Chron. 16. 1 2. when Jonah was afraid of preaching destruction to Ninive he fled unto Tarshish from the presence and service of the Lord Jonah 1. 3. when Peter was afraid of suffering with Christ he flies to that woful Sanctuary of denying and forswearing him Mat. 26. 69 74. thus the fear of man causeth a snare Prov. 29. 25. This therefore is a necessary duty in time of fear and danger to look up as the Church here after disappointment by other refuges doth with a victorious and triumphant faith unto God and to make him onely our fear and our dread not to trust in fraud and perversenesse or to betake our selves unto a refuge of lies Isa. 30. 12. 28. 15. but to build our confidence upon that sure foundation on the which he that believeth shall not need make hast If we lean not upon our own understanding nor be wise in our own eyes but in all our ways acknowledge him and trust in him and fear him and depart from evil we have this gracious promise that he will direct our paths Prov. 3. 5 7. the more we deny our selves the more is he engaged to help us But when we travel with our own conceptions and will needs be the contrivers of our own deliverance it cannot be wondred if the Lord turn our devices into vanity and make our belly prepare wind and deceit Job 15. 35. as it here followeth We have brought forth wind we have not wrought any deliverance all our endeavours have been vain and succeslesse III. Carnal Counsels and humane contrivances are usually carried on with pain and end in disappointment and do obstruct the progress and execution of Gods promises unto us If we would go on in Gods way and use the means which he hath directed and build our faith and hope upon his promises we have then his Word to secure us his Spirit to strengthen us his Grace to assist us his Power and fidelity to comfort us we have him engaged to work our works for us and his Angels to bear us in our Wayes But when we seek out diverticles and inventions of our own when we will walk in the light of our fire and in the sparks which we have kindled Isa. 50. 11. and be wise in our own conceit Rom. 12. 16. and walk after our own thoughts Isa. 65. 2. no wonder if we be disappointed and made ashamed of our own counsels Hos. 10. 6. when we sow the wind it is not strange if we reap the whirle-winde Hos. 8. 7. And therefore it is our wisdom to cease from our own wisdom as the wise man exhorteth Prov. 23. 4. in as much as the Lord hath pronounced a curse upon those that are prudent in their own sight Isa. 5. 21. whom usually he disappointeth Job 5. 12. We have considered the Churches complaint her anguish her disappointment Now in her Triumph we are first to view her deliverance and then the causes of it In the deliverance is a Gradation both in the misery from which and in the condition unto which they are restored For the former 1. It extends unto dead men whom to quicken exceeds the power of nature But we do not use to give men over and lay them out for dead as soon as their breath fails them some diseases look like death therefore the deliverance goes further unto Cadaver meum my carkasse which the remainders of vital heat have forsaken laid out carried away severed from the living hastning to putrefaction But death makes yet a further progresse this carcasse must be had out of sight lodged in the bowels of the earth and there dissolved into dust his house must know him no more Job 7. 10. and yet even here when death hath carried a man to the end of his journey and landed him in its own dominion so far shall the deliverance extend The Damsel whom Christ raised was mortua though yet in the house amongst the living Mark 5. 35. The widows son gone a little further into the Region of death coffin'd up laid on the Biere carried out from the House a Carcasse Luke 7. 14. Lazarus in deaths den Inhabitator pulveris as far as death could carry him yet raised up John 11. 38 44. so there is a gradation in the Terminus à quo of this deliverance There is likewise a gradation in the Terminus ad quem the condition unto which they are restored 1. They shall Live and this is a favour though one stay in prison 2. They shall Rise their life shal be to an exaltation the wicked shall live again but it shall be to die again but these dead shall live and rise their life shall be an advancement to them 3. They shall Awake like a man out of sleep refreshed and comforted Psal. 17. 15. 4. They shall sing as victors over the grave never to return thither more So we have here 1. The sad condition of the Church 2. The great mercy and power of God to them in that condition Their sad condition in the former of these two gradations 1. They are dead men in a condition of death their whole life a conflict with mortality And though this be not a calamity peculiar to them for death feedeth equally upon all and though there be a great alleviation in their being Mortui tui The Lords dead men yet in some respects we finde the weight of mortality on the Churches side Wicked men meet many times with an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 live in pleasure and then die in ease spend their days in wealth and jollity in vanity and folly and go suddenly to the grave die onely once and together Job 21. 13. whereas