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A44499	The life of faith in death, in expectation of the resurrection from the dead opened in a sermon at the funerall of the right worshipfull Mr. Thomas Slany late maior of the famous town and corporation of King-Lynn in the county of Norfolk : who deceased in the year of his maioralty, Jan. 10. 1649 / preached there by John Horn ...	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1649 (1649)	Wing H2804; ESTC R19330	35,460	36

then is nothing with them to trim up themselves and wear and eat and drink the best to play and game and perhaps do worse things these they will not deny the flesh they will please it what they can here because they think it shall have no pleasure or good hereafter But oh take heed to the Scriptures both Pharisees and Sadduces erre in not knowing and believing them Mat. 27.29 ye erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God they pretend to know them better then others while they can pervert them more then others and while they pretend a more spirituall understanding of them they contradict the spirit of understanding speaking in them and through fraud and subtlety seduce the simple seeming at first to speak as they till they winde them into their snares as Tertullian observed of them in his times De Res Car. they would say to the simple-hearted Vae qui in hâe carne non resurrexerint Wo to them that rise not in this flesh which the simple hearted hearing oftentimes were led to judge they meant honestly and according to the Scripture only whenas they meant saies he Dum in hâc carne sunt that rise not while they are in this flesh and so by one part of truth seemingly confessed the rising of our spirits here by faith with Christ they would by little and little undermine the faith of the simple-hearted and doctrinate them not to matter and then to deny the resurrection of the body running themselves and them that listened to them into the errour of Hymenaeus and Philetus 2 Tim. 2.17 that say the resurrection is already past in whose very footsteps many also now walk not knowing the Scriptures yea departing from the Scriptures and not acknowledging the power of God thence say they how should the bodies that are long since dead and divers waies dispersed and that have endured so many transmutations be possibly raised and how can the world it self contain them as if they did not believe God Almighty and that all things are possible to him beyond our thought to whom I might say with the Apostle Act. 26 8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead But I say again minde we the word of God and so minde and keep it that we may be kept by it in the faith from this dangerous errour of the wicked dream not with them of all our resurrection here no coming of Christ but what they meet with here no performance of promises but what they have here all enjoyments and fullnesse and perfection here sure if that was true Paul was very low and ignorant to them when he saies he had finished his course 2 Tim. 4 8. and kept the faith and yet adds henceforth is laid up for me the crown of righteousnesse which God the righteous Judge shall give me at that day he had done his work and yet he had not received his reward it was but laid up for him and laid up to be given him not in this but in that day in another day the day of Christs appearance sure then the Apostle was out here too when he said these all died in faith and yet had not received the promises Nay the Apostle ' Paul instructs us that we shall not one prevent another in the receit of them 1 Thes 4.15 They that live at the coming of Christ shall not prevent them that are asleep They that now live shall not have them till Abraham Isaac and Jacob have them nor they before we have them Heb. 11.40 the dead in Christ shall be first raised at his coming and the living changed and both be caught into the air up together to meet him certainly they say false then that say Christ is come to them in his glory and they are raised and have the promises all they look for or all that any shall have and yet many of their brethren died without them and are not yet raised and if we will believe them never shall be and many yet are uncalled to them But beloved regard we not their sayings but know them to be false and vain and look we to Christ that died for us and rose again and know that as he rose so shall we also and together with Abraham and the Patriarchs and Prophets and all the Saints shall be caught up at his appearance to meet him 1 Thes 4.18 as the Apostle exhorts us comfort we one another for our deceased brethren with these sayings And indeed what comfort could we have for one another in respect of them if we believed that all their portion they are to have they have had it already and when they and we die our spirits go to God and our bodies to the dust and ther 's an end of the matter we shall never enjoy them again there shall be no resurrection away with such unchristian and unsavours conceptions and let ns where we have believed hold fast the faith and not upon any pretence or by any Philosophy or vain deceit of man depart therefrom let us live in it that we may die in it or according to it And thus I have given you a view of the text I suppose you expect I should now return to our present occasion and say something about our deceased brother Truly the text is such a comment on him as that we might go over it again and apply it to him or you might understand that spoken of these Worthies here as if said of him he believed the Gospel and had insight in it and oftentimes rejoiced much in it was perswaded of it embraced it loved it counted himself a stranger and pilgrim in the earth walkt with that contempt and carelessenesse of it how it thought of him and esteemed him as if he judged it not his habitation but had his eye as indeed he had upon a better countrey an enduring city that hath foundations he lived in this world as if he had his heart in another world not regarding nor scarce suffering the honours of this world or of this place to be thrust upon him his name was nothing to him for the Gospels sake that he would approve whoever disproved him he would stop his ears against and not endure to hear of their sayings who deny Christs mediation and impugn the doctrine of the resurrection and professing his joy and comfort to be therein and in the hope he had therethrough of an enduring happy condition for justice uprightnesse and honesty it was his aim and endeavour and therein hath not left many to exceed I doubt I may say to equallize him we may say of him the righteous man is taken away and the mercifull man from amongst us In both which respects I fear many will misse him as the loins of the poor blessed him alive so I doubt they will finde cause of mourning for his death as he affected not honour with men so did he not long enjoy it God not judging us worthy the improvement of his abilities for the good of the Town perhaps because no better respected when more able by them he was more like the self-denying Olive then the aspiring bramble he looked upon earths honour as a burthen having his chief desire upon that which is from heaven therefore God hath taken him from his burthen to give him his desire in a word he was upright in his life faithful to the truth to his death patient under affliction though long in great pain and very desirous of his dissolution that he might be with Christ Let it be ourcare to imitate him in these good steps that with him and all those who through faith and patience have looked after the promises of God we may in due time be raised up and brought to inherit them I shall only adde an Epitaph upon him and I shall leave both you and him * ⁎ * FINIS AN EPITAPH QVi cum vixit erat Major major moriendo est Morte repurgatus quam fuit ipse prius Majestatis erat brevita cadaveris umbra Vix ea majestas illius umbra brevis Spe laetus multumque gemens mala publica corpus Mandat humo plenam numine caelo animam In English thus This man alive was May'r now dead is more Advanc't death bettring him then heretofore Short shade o' th corps of Royalty he was That Royalty scarce shadowed what he was Who joy'd in hope did publike woes condole Left earth his corps to heaven his gracefull soul FINIS

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or as the paraphrase hath it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the argument and demonstration of things not seen of invisible things that are not the objects of sense but that are declared in the word of God such is the vertue and power of faith that it gives as great a certainty of those unseen things to the soul or minde as can be made over by any scientificall demonstration for so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies a demonstration to the minde not a presentation to the bodily essence as the Greek Scholiast upon it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Faith presents invisible things as visible how to the minde and hope which hope also springeth from it and is upheld by it as it there follows it 's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 too the basis or subsistence of things hoped for It so presents divine things to the minde that it also draws in the soul to trust in God and hope for good from him and the good things it hopes for faith gives bottom to and enables the soul to act towards them as if they had a reall existence as was before noted Rom. 10.17 And for the way to come by this faith the Apostle tels us Fides ex auditu c. Faith is by hearing by that means God ●fi●ct●th it whence that in Isa 55.3 Hear and your souls shall live 〈◊〉 but it 's not every hearing that produces this faith but that which i● by the word of God the hearing of the Gospel or word of faith that 's both mother and nurse of it from that it springs and by that it 's nourished in listening to that God puts forth his mighty arm and enables the soul to believe as sometimes he did to the Israelites by the brazen Serpent and to Naaman in the waters of Jordan to heal them He that hears my Words and believes on him that sent me c. Joh. 5.24 Hearing the Word is the way to believe in God First God declareth the truth which is truth when declared by him not made truth by our believing this truth heard perswades the soul by the divine power and spirit which is therewith ministred to close with what it hears and closing with what it hears the same power and spirit doth therethrough further while therein are opened excellent things as the hatred and justice of God against sin and yet his love mercy and good will in Christ toward the sinfull soul● c. p●swade the soul to embrace and close with Christ himself of whom the truth witnesseth and unto whom as its proper body and fountain as God is in him and he is God it leadeth and so the soul is by th● Word heard and through the divine power of God therein brought unto Christ and in and through Christ unto God by the beam to the body of the Sun and in that to all that fountain fullnesse of glorious light that sils that body and makes it so glorious But indeed the nature of this saith in which these holy men of God died and which is of so glorious use in life and death is in the text it self by ●cts and operations notably laid forth and described I shall briesly and but briesly touch upon them These all died in faith not having received the promises faith stands not in mens having in possession o● actuall fruition the things promised for then faith and sense should be confounded but 1. they see them the promises afar off That 's the first act of this faith though alone of it self it is not faith for it 's said of some they have seen and hated Joh. 15.24 yet this is I say the first act of this faith or the first act tending to this faith through which the following acts are also generated where this is rightly seated and the abiding in this and of this is that in and through which the other acts are carried on too and perpetuated this act being the first product of the Word heard and that which most immediatly springeth from it for while God speaketh he presents in his speakings truth to the soul and the soul hearing and receiving in the word spoken findes therein and therewith a divine power illuminating and giving light to it and power of discerning that light as if the light of the Sun coming to a blinde man in a dungeon should both present light to him and in the same moment give him a faculty and power of seeing thus in Psa 119.130 the entrance of thy word giveth light and giveth understanding to the simple the soul receiving or looking upon divine word sees things set before it that it never so saw before as his own vilenesse and filthinesse and Gods goodnesse and compassions and the great and glorious things in his way his Son to be met with and enjoied But these are said to have seen them afarre of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isa 46.10 God shews the end from the beginning things to be done never so long time hence yet being revealed in the word and there presented are by faith seen indeed men not hearkning to the word misse of much light and knowledge therein held forth and see not many things which in wist viewing or diligent attention they might come to see things afar off the things promised which were not of a long time to be performed whence neither had they so full and clear a sight of them as those that see them in nearer times as things seen afar off at a great distance are not so fully and clearly seen as when they are seen nearer hand Now they are brought near to us these being the last times yea some of these promises that they saw through the word at a distance are already in part performed and are become Gospel declarations to us as the coming and resurrection of Christ of the former whereof Mary could in her time say much more may we now He hath holpen his servant Israel in remembrance of his mercy as he spake to our forefathers to Abraham and to his seed for ever Luk. 1.25 And the Apostle Paul declares the latter as another step of the performance of these promises saying we declare unto you good tidings how that the promise that was made unto the fathers God hath fullfilled the same unto us their children in that he hath raised up Jesus from the dead We believing see them by faith as things already done and they are the grounds of our believing in him for those further things contained in those promises which are yet unfullfilled and which we are to expect the performance of in his season but then there must be with this seeing a further act even that that follows in the next place of them viz. 2. They were perswaded That 's the second act in this divine faith it 's not a bare speculation of truths in the proposition without a perswasion that they are truths and worthy to be heeded