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The last sermon preached before his Maiesties funerals at Denmark house: on Tuesday the third of May. / By Phinees Hodson Dr of Diuinitie, one of his Maiesties chaplaines.
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Hodson, Phineas, d. 1646.
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interre or an act of faith and religion as thereby teaching others and leauing an impression in our own hearts of our faith in him that is our Resurrection our life whether any of these or all or others that I conceiue not moue Gods spirit sure it is he commends the Buriall of the dead as a godly and charitable worke reports the circumstances of persons place pompe care cost of embalming the bodies of the Patriarkes of their paines in transporting them to their owne Sepulchers yea the women in the Gospel are approued for their intended care to our Sauiours bodie It is a blessing promised to the godly that they shall goe to their graue in peace 2 Kings 22. It is a curse threatned to the wicked that they shall want buriall so of Iehoiakim They shall not lament for him nor say Ah my brother nor mourne for him saying Ah my Lord or Ah his glorie but they shall burie him as an Asse drawne and cast forth beyond the gates of Ierusalem Ier. 22. And though the place of Moses buriall bee conceal'd that the Devill might not haue his body yet the world shall haue his fame and if Moses die All Israel shall mourne for him an Angel shall burie him Ioshua shall commend him and if all this be not yet enough GOD himselfe shall giue him an honorable firname that all posterities may take notice of his loue to his Seruant Moses Thus much for the Author the LORD In the Matter I obserued foure things Servus Meus Moses Mortuus for they rise by degrees and make seuerall parts For first that Servus should be Mortuus it is no maruell but why Servus Meus should die may be enquired And not only Servus Meus but Servus Meus Moses will make a further Quare And it's Gods owne Rhetorique who makes Moses more than Servus Meus when he said to Aaron and Miriam Wherefore were yee not afraid to speake against my Seruant euen against Moses Numb 12. First then for Servus Servi are Captivi Emptitij or Nativi the last are such as descend of the other two and of all One said Primos servos bella fecerunt for when men were taken in warres and jure belli occidi possent quia servati Servi appellati And hence likewise were they called Mancipia quia manu capti And of this another saith Of all euils warre is the worst in warre seruitude whereby personae become res other mens Chattels which they doe as absolutely command and dispose of as any thing they else possesse We read of Vedius Pollio who had many seruants that caused one to be cast into a Fish-pond for breaking a glasse Hence were seruants said Habitare in mortalitate to dwell in the very gates and shadow of death because they were slaine vpon euery trifling occasion Then that Servus should be Mortuus is no maruell Saint Augustine giues it another pettigree Servum vel adversitas vel iniquitas fecit Aduersity made all the former Seruants Iniquity made Cham a seruant Now we commiserate those which are made seruants by aduersity wee abhorre Cham made a seruant by iniquitie and we our selues are in the same estate and yet are secure All our liues and liberties were made forfeit in Adam and by his transgression wee became slaues to sinne death and the Diuell Herein Servus and Mortuus so well agree that vnlesse wee had beene seruants to sinne Death had not beene Lord ouer vs for Mors non accessisset nisi culpa praecessisset Sinner and Slaue are now become Termini convertibiles To whomsoeuer you giue your selues seruants to obey his seruant you are to whom you obey Rom. 6. And the consequence of that seruice is death so it there followeth whether it be of sinne vnto death Yea the same Apostle more directly By one man sinne entred into the world and death by sinne and so sinne raigned ouer all Rom. 5. Then Servus must die and Servus and Mortuus doe so agree that they cannot bee parted But if Servus and Mortuus agree may not Servus Meus be priuiledged Let vs examine Meus so shall wee see how Mortuus doth challenge In a large sense Servi Dei or Servi mei are extranei Transfuga Domestici all these three he feeds as he doth the Ravens cloathes as he doth the Lillies showers downe his blessings vpon them with an indifferent or rather vnequall proportion Many times suffering the first two to swimme in abundance whilest his owne Domestici are busie in prouiding necessaries Where 's the priuiledge then of Servus Meus Much euery way for though iniquity and misery break in like Rivers to the ouerflowing of all man-kinde the first of Iniquitie preuailing by the Divell the second of Misery by the first of iniquitie whereby it 's true of all mankinde Servum vel iniquitas vel aduersitas fecit yet here 's the difference betweene Servus and Servus Meus we were all by the Woman made seruants but there 's another Seed that ouercame the Devill the Woman conquered lost vs all but the seed of the Woman by a new onset preuailed and jure belli freed vs from that slauerie wherein hee found vs and of vassals to sinne made vs seruants to himselfe And this he did by a mighty hand whereby we are now made Mancipia to our Redeemer The first two are servi but onely Potestatis and so are the Devills the last Domestici are Servi gratiae Now the question is not of the two former but what shall become of Domestici Shall Servi gratiae die too Yes Christs victorie freed vs from the second death the Curse of the Law not from the first the effects of sinne Nor is it therefore a small blessing to bee Servus Dei it was a part of that blessing as some Divines doe expound it which Isaac gaue to Esau Servies fratri Gen. 27.40 Then what a stay what an honour what a comfort hath Servus meus that is seruant to the most High Psal 119. If once we can come to this to get our selues booked in this Checke-roll such a man while hee liues shall want no manner of thing that is good Ps 34. that 's for this life and in the end he shall haue a reward yea an Exceeding great reward as GOD promised to Abraham for how should he forget his owne seruants It 's sayd that GOD loues Adverbes in men better than Adjectiues Man sure loues this Pronoune possessiue better than any other part of Speech there being no good thing in this world whereto hee would not haue Meum ioyn'd Oh that hee would bee as carefull to get possession of GOD that with confidence wee could say vnto him Deus meus For if this reciprocall bond were once past that wee could say to him Deus meus and hee to vs Servi mei it should neuer bee cancelled once His and alwayes His liuing and dead hee neuer forsakes vs My sheepe shall none plucke out of my hands Iohn 10.28 Here on