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A28823	The triumph of faith over death, or, The just man's memoriall compris'd in a panegyrick and sermon, at the funerall of the religious, most learned Dr. Combar, late master of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, and deane of Carlile / delivered in Trinity Colledge chappel, by R.B. ... the 29. of March, 1653.	R. B. (Robert Boreman), d. 1675.	1654 (1654)	Wing B3762; ESTC R17491	31,312	50

c. Sixthly Ipsam demum Charitatem omnium virtutum matrem inquirat Let him by a strict scrutiny and narrow search enquire into his breast and see whether that be the seat of Charity the mother of all Vertues and if he finds there the love of God and his Neighbour so rooted and settled that he could be willing to die and is ready to do any thing for God and stands in this frame and posture of mind toward man that he doth to others what he would have done to himself being of a mercifull disposition and bountifull Spirit Quisquis est hujusmodi Deum Rectorem Habitatorem esse non dubitet whosoever he be that is of this heavenly temper he may assure his Soule that it is the mansion or habitacle of God his Maker Orat. 44. I might adde to these three other markes out of Nazianzen in one of his orations where he ascribes three speciall operations to the spirit of grace 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A purifying An enflaming An elevating work or operation They whose soules are purified from fleshly lusts and worldly desires They who are zealous in Gods cause 1 Pet. 1.22 1 John 3.3 Tit. 2.4 and zealous of good works They whose soules are not only like unto fire but heat of zeal which enflames them and love to God but like fire too in that they are ever soaring and mounting upwards upon the wings of Prayer and Meditation upon the wing of contempt of things here below The Spirit of God Psal 143.5 6. Psal 119.48 Col. 3 2. that descended upon the Apostles in the likenesse of fire dwells in such Souls and at the great day the great God that rais'd up Jesus from the dead will raise up their bodies by virtue of that powerfull 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Holy Spirit of grace This is the position a comfortable Thesis the second generall part of my Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he shall quicken c. i. e. Resuscitabit ad vitam immortalem beatam exemplo Christi capitis primogeniti mortuorum Estius ad Generall part He shall raise them to life and glory that with Christ their head and Saviour in Heaven they may be for ever happy This is the fructus inhabitantis Spiritus the blessed fruit or effect of the spirits dwelling in us which is the first particular of the last generall part of my Text which is also seconded with another and that is per quem accrescit nobis fructus by whom this happinesse of being rais'd to life eternall is derived unto us This is effected by the H. Spirit by the spirit immediatly whose instrumentall action is used by the Father and Son who likewise co-operate and concur though mediatè in this great and glorious worke of the Resurrection as is evident by the Text John 5.28 and the 5. of St. Iohn where our Saviour speaking of himselfe sayes The houre is comming in the which all that are in the Graves shall heare his voyce c. To wave all other doubts and doctrines concerning the Resurrection wherein I might enlarge my meditations I shall close all with some few short Uses by way of Application Use 1 First this Text methinks speakes to every man as Dalilah did once to Sampson Iud. 16.9 Vp for the Philistines are upon thee c. Thou hast a mortall body death is at the doore O therefore thou mud-wall of frailty be not proud whilst the Sun-shine of prosperity reflects upon thee one blast of death by a sicknesse his harbenger may blow thee into thy first dust and tumble thee with thy unrepented sins into hell one glimpse whereof in the judgement of Bellarmine were enough to make a man from a dissolute one turn Monk or which I say is better a strict Christian Think of your houses of clay your 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 your mortall bodies and you cannot you will not be proud or covetous Use 2 Luke 2 10. Againe methinkes this Text sounds in my delighted eare that joyfull message of the Angel to the Shepheards Fear not death O mortalls for I bring you good tidings of great joy although your bodies be crumbled into dust yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that raisd up Christ from the dead shall quicken and restore them unto life Therefore grieve not much for a friend deceased that lived in the feare of God and died in the armes of his mercy as Moses and this our deceas'd friend a second Moses did Grieve not for him who is passed from a Sea of troubles to an Haven of everlasting rest 1 Cor. 6 17. But rejoyce in this that God is your Father and Christ your Saviour that you are made one with Him by his Spirit and that by meanes of this happy union you have a communion in his merit in all the benefits of his Death and Passion whereby you are made partakers of Grace here and shall be of Glory hereafter Use 3 Againe when we read mortall this should minde us of our fraile condition that we carry corruption in our bosomes and death in our bodies as well as in our names 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 methim in the Iewes language signifies men both living dead O therefore seeing death watches for us let us watch and waite for death as holy Job did All the dayes of my appointed time will I waite Job 14.14 till my change come Wait Jugiter orando Poenitendo Benefaciendo By being frequent in prayer Pray continually 1 Thess 5 17. By repenting daily of your sins it is Repentance that turnes death into life and drives out his venome which is sin makes it a drone that it cannot hurt Thirdly waite for it by being much in duty and in the works of Charity Then mayst thou say with greater security then that heathen Phylosopher did Epictetus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let death surprise me so speaking and so doing c. Fourthly if mortall then so because of sin which stings our bodies Use 4 unto death O then expell and hate this bosom enemy let our hatred be implacable without reconciliation constant without intermission and generall without permission of our selves to live in any the least unrepented sin † Non nisi corpus condignum habero potest caput Christum Aug. Mat. 9.11 How can a dead body accord with a living head Thou deceivest thy self O man who being a rotten nominall Christian yet pretendest to be in Christ who is a sound Physitian who came to heale sin not to harbour sinners We read that he went in to sinners conversed with Publicans but sinners shall not go in to Him never be admitted into his glorious Presence I meane such sinners that delight in uncleannesse and are unwash'd from their habituall actuall pollutions Oh therefore wash ye make you clean Is 1.16 for why will ye die venture upon damnation The

was snatched from his Domestick Contents and his meanes taken from him by the hand of violence through this storme he beheld a higher arme of Providence and kissed the Rod with meekenesse herein imitating holy Job of whom he was an exact Picture and concerning whom St. Austine sayes thus libro 1. de moribus Ecclesiae Catholicae Amisit ille omnes divitias factus repente pauperrimus tam inconcussum animum tenuit infixum Deo ut satis de monstraret non illas sibi fuisse magnas sed se illis sibi autem Deum It was his vigorous active Faith working by love that was the ground of this undaunted Patience Non murmurat Qui se filium Dei cogitat Vincentius He that believes himselfe to be in the number of Gods Sonnes will never murmur nor repine at providence He believed that Christ had provided for him in Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 10.34 an everlasting inheritance a better and an enduring substance Therefore he tooke joyfully the spoyling of his Goods and those things which others court with dazled Eyes he did not account worth a glance of his which like the Sunne-flower did not open to every blaze but onely to the light and heate of Christ the Sunne of Righteousnesse Whom he loved whom he served of whom his heart was full dwelling therein by his spirit which kept out all things else from comming in so that there was no roome for hatred no roome for malice no roome for desire of revenge for he was never heard to dart out of his mouth any passionate word from the time he first suffered against the persons of his enemies but onely these God forgive them This was the Language of the Sonne of God upon the Crosse and it is the voyce of Gods Sonnes and Servants It was ever His who was often like holy David and the melting Prophet Jeremy seene which hee desired not to weepe and being demanded why he did so He then replied it was out of griefe when he considered the miserable sad condition they were in who in these times even against the Word and against Conscience runne as it were in a gallop to Hell in the broade way of Sacriledge Wrong and Violence whilest they forget God our Lord Christ that bought them at a deare price not observing the will of him that died for them and would reward their service with Eternall joyes as he hath promised but serving the Devill who will requite them for their paines with paine and torments and that everlasting When the good Deane considered this woefull madnesse in worldlings and the miseries which attend their sinfull Soules he used to weepe which is an infallible signe of a good man and a sanctified Spirit to weepe for the sinnes of others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Good men are of a melting weeping temper and disposition It would require a larger time than these straites wherein I am bounded to relate unto you the severall actions of Piety which passed from him all the time of his lingring sicknesse He made good by his devoute practises that saying of Saint Austine Prov. Gall. Non potest malè mori qui vixit benè hee cannot die ill that liveth well It is never a bad day that hath a good night I could tell of his frequent ejaculations to God in prayer which was for the most in Latine and sometimes Greek I could likewise enlarge my discourse in a repetition of his frequent Almes his often remembring the poore knowing that Almes accepted upon the Altar of Christs Merits deliver from death and that God will not turne his face from him that turnes not away his face from the poore in their affliction c. In a word he walked as a friend with God as Enoch Gen. 5.22.6.9 Noah and Abraham did He was much in that great duty of Prayer he often spake to God in it and loved to hear God speake to him in his Word He delighted to reade it himselfe and heare it read which was constantly and frequently done by his deare Consort who one night above the rest reading to him that passage in the Gospell concerning Thomas his thrusting his hand into our Savours wounded side John 20.27 John 20.29 He upon this fell a weeping with that expression in his mouth which fell from our Saviours to Thomas Happy are they that believe and see not He believed though He saw not and therefore did he weepe He washed with the teares of Repentance those wounds of his Lord which did bleed upon the Cross for his sinnes and in a lively faith touched the print of his Nailes and thrust his Finger into the hole of his side Thereby taking a reall possession of his Crucified Saviour therefore presently as he wept he said with Thomas his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 My God and my Lord The Nailes and Speares The bloudy Crown of Thornes which printed his sacred Temples gored his Lords side pierced his Hands and Feete had so imprinted the love of Christ in the Soule of our deare Saint that he was ready with St. Paul and other holy Martyrs to die for the Lord Jesus on whom his heart was alwayes fixed by whom it was possessed in whom it was established to whom it was most sincere and truly devoted as appeares by the constancy of his Faith even to the houre of his Death which is a cleare evidence and demonstration that he was a true Divine a man of God one led by the spirit You know what S. Paul sayes Rom. 8.14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And as Chrysostome notes upon this Text they onely are said to be ledde by the spirit who are carried on to their lives end by it in a continued practice of holinesse and never fall from their holy profession by meanes of any secular Feare Crosse or Tribulation Filium Dei se prodit qui bonum quod cum laude inchoarit etiam perfecit cujus finis exordio respondet Novar Bona inceptio sine fine est instar corporis speciosi sine capite A good beginning without a good end is like a beautifull specious body without an head The saying of Henry the Fourth in an Epistle of his to Otho Bishop of Ramberg That consummatū est It is finished which Christ uttered dying might though not so fully become him who finished his course with patience and kept the Faith with a Martyr-like constancy and perseverance being one that was most constant to his friends and loving to his enemies as appeared by his promoting the servants and retinue of his Predecessour who had been uncivill to him who was civill to all and well reputed by all which stirred up Envy if not Malice in the brests of his Adversaries When he had almost runne his last stage and neere the end of his Race He was shot by one of Deaths black Arrowes with a Disease in his Feete which hindered not his progresse in godlinesse That begat another as it