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A08482	Lifes brevitie and deaths debility Evidently declared in a sermon preached at the funerall of that hopeful and uertuous yong gentleman Edvvard Levvkenor esquire, &c. In whose death is ended the name of that renowned family of the Lewkenors in Suffolke. By Tymothy Oldmayne minister of the Word of God at Denham in Suffolke. Our dayes on earth are as a shaddow, and there is none abiding. Also an elegy and an epitaph on the death of that worthy gentleman, by I.G. Dr. of D.	Oldmayne, Timothy.; Garnons, John, fl. 1636.	1636 (1636)	STC 18806; ESTC S120802	49,291	128

comfort Mat. 10.40 that at the last he should not loose the reward of a Prophet Mat. 10.40 Againe what was the reward of them of whom we have such honourable mention a Heb. 11.38 whose names deserve golden letters persons of whom the world was not worthy surely after all their fruites of a lively faith their love their zeale their constant confession of the name of Christ was it not to be tryed with cruell mockings and scourgings to be tortured and horribly tormented to be sawne assunder slaine with the Sword Only here was their comfort that in the end they should obtaine a ioyfull resurrection What lastly was that reward of that good Emperour Hen. 7. after hee had with a deale of care and trouble not onely reformed many disorders and abuses in the Church and publicke state but also had mightily daunted and brought under the haughty courage of the Guelph's faction But at last to be poysoned at the receiving of the blessed Sacrament with an invenomed Host which a traiterous detestable monke of the order of St. Dominicke gave unto him the which Fact of this bloody Monster as it ought of every Loyall heart to bee abhorred and detested so ought the Patience and assured confidence of this most Christian Emperour to be highly Magnified and to the Heavens extolled who as the story saith finding the poyson immediately uppon the receite thereof working in his bowels and thereupon death approaching commanded instantly the Villaine to bee brought before him and thus without all passion spake unto him Tu calicem vitae invertisti mihi in mortem quare o Domine fuge celeriter nam si inimici c. O fayth hee thou hast turned to me the cup of Life into the cup of Death Wherefore flye for if our Friends lay hold on you you are sure to dye a most miserable death and repent you Ego enim moriar secundum voluntatem Domini tu vas ira fuisti c. It is the will of God that I should die this kinde of death but thou hast beene the Vessel of his wrath unto me c. By all which examples omitting thousands it appeareth plainely that the principall reward is reserved till afterward and hitherto serve these and the like comfortable promises Rev. 2.10 Be faithfull unto Death and I will give thee a Crowne of Life And againe To him that overcommeth will I grant to fit with mee in my throne even as I overcame and sit with my Father in his throne And Chap. 22.12 Behold I come shortly and my Reward is with me Rom. 2.6 And Who will render to every man according to his workes The trueth of all which apprehended by a lively Faith maketh the blessed Apostle Paul to cry out with that plerophory and full assurance that he doth 2 Tim. 4.7 2 Tim. 4.7.8 8 Certamen illud praeclarū decertavi cursum consūmavi fidem servavi Hactenus c. I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith Hence forth there is laid up for me a Crowne of righteousnesse which the Lord the righteous Iudge shall give mee at that day And not to mee onely but to them that love his appearance And to that end our blessed and gratious father dayly giveth to all those that are his chosen sonnes and servants not onely the eye and hand of faith whereby they both see and also apprehend the pretious promises of blisse and happinesse made to them but withall he giveth them the sure Anchor of hope by which it being fastned upon that mighty rocke the Lord Jesus Christ they stay themselves with an assured expectation of the fulfilling and fruition of them either heere or in heaven in this life or that to come And for the further clearing the truth of this I shal not offend I trust if I shew unto you how neare the Heathens come to us in this poynt by relating unto you a story which I have formerly read in one of their writers who though a Heathen Plutarch cōsolat ad Apolonium yet of honourable esteeme to this day amongst us The story then in a word is this Upon a time saith hee a complaint was sent from the Ilands of the Blessed to the judges of the Superiour Courts about certaine persons sent thither who formerly had lived impiously humbly intreating that this abuse thus offered to them might speedily be redressed whereupon these unpertiall judges taking the businesse into their serious considerations found not only the complaint to be true but withall the reason and cause thereof which was that judgment and sentence was passed upon men heere below in their life time Whereupon it oft fell out that many persons cloathed with honourable carkasses riches nobility and other like dignities and advancements brought many witnesses with them who solemnely swore in their behalfe that they deserved to bee sent into the Ilands of the Blessed when the trueth was they deserved the contrary to avoide which inconveniency it was decreed by an eternal doome that for time to come no judgement should bee passed untill after death and that by Spirits only who alone doe see and plainely perceive the spirits and naked soules of such upon whom their Sentence and Uerdict was to passe That so of what estate and condition soever they were they might receive according unto their workes By all which it plainely appeareth how farre the Divine eye of this naturall man led him surely unto the true finding out of a Divine and heavenly truth which is that neither definitive sentence is to bee passed upon any heere below nor that any whatsoever shall receive his full reward of that hee hath done whether it bee good or bad till after this Life And so much in way of answer to the Objection And now a word or two of his Life and Death Neither must it be imagined that intreating of the same I intend any large Discourse of him as of one going to his grave in a full age Iob. 5.26 as a ricke of corne comming in due season into the Barne and the glasse of his life being fully runne but I must measure my selfe by that short life of his a minute a shaddow yea the dreame of a shaddow quite vanished and gone before one can scarce tell twenty For if the holy Prophet David living the age of threescore yeares and ten compareth his life unto a shaddow Psal 108.28 Psalme one hundred and eight verse twenty eight I am gone like a shaddow sayth he that declineth and am tossed up and downe like a Grashopper Then surely the Life of this young Gentleman scarce attayning to one of the three cannot bee so much as a shaddow but must needs be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the meere dreame of a shaddow of no long continuance According to which my purpose is to abreviate and shorten my Discourse without multiplying many words or telling you wonders and strange miracles

and bondage from off their shoulders now for that this was a thing hard to be beleeved and altogether impossible in their weak conceits as may appeare by their words Behold Ezek. 37.11 say they Our bones are dry our hope is gone we are cleane cut off we find not only the Prophet Ezekel in the forenamed chapter but our Prophet Isay in the verse that I have read labouring from God to settle stablish their wavering and doubtfull hearts in the truth thereof both by a strange vision as also by an invincible argument taken from the Resurrection of the dead The which as it is a mayne principle in true Christian Religion beeing an Article of our Faith a Maxime in Divinity imbraced of all the whole Society of Gods faithfull servants so beeing certaynly beleeved and by the arme of Faith imbraced as an infallible and undoubted truth it will so strengthen and cheere up the heart of him that is the servant of God that hee shall neyther feare the most fierce and fiery tryals nor yet question any of the promises of Almighty God how difficult even impossible soever they appeare to a carnall eye For instance whence was it that Abraham that blessed Patriarcke with such constant Resolution expected that in time hee should imbrace a sonne how ever the course of nature cryed loud against it Rom. 4.17 was it not as it is playne Rom. 4.17 for that hee that promised was Hee that raised the dead and calleth things that are not as though they were Whence agayne was it that holy Iob that meeke and humble servant of Christ with such admired patience indured the stripping of all his goods the losse of his children and the remooving of his hope from him like a Tree was it not as hee himselfe acknowledgeth Chapter 19. Iob. 19.15.26 verse 15.26 For that hee was resolved that his Redeemer lived and that at the latter day hee should see God in his flesh Whence lastly was it that Moses esteemed the reproach of Christ greater then all the treasures of Aegypt was it not the fight hee had Heb. 11 Hebrewes the eleventh Chapter of him that was Invissible and assured hope of the recompence of reward after this life No marvaile then that our Prophet as I said laboured to settle the minds of this dejected people with an argument taken from the same It being full of comfort as also forcible to perswade drawne as you see a maiore ad minus from the greater to the lesse The nature of which that we may finde out the better wee will in this verse consider these two things 1. A Consolation 2. A Reason First the Consolation is no other then a joyfull conclusion taken and drawne as formerly was shewed from the resurrection of the dead in these words Thy dead men shall live even with my body shall they arise awake and sing yee inhabitants of the dust The reason is laid downe in way of Fortification or strengthning of the consolation in these words For thy dewe is as the dewe of hearbes and the earth shall give up her dead In the Consolation we finde 1. That there is a resurrection of the dead 2. The manner of the same In speaking of the first wee will observe two things 1. The truth of this Article that there is a Resurrection 2. The quality of the persons that are sayd to arise in these words Thy dead men shall live For the manner of the Resurrection we find it 1. Very beautifull 2. Very Joyfull The first in these words With my body shall they arise The second set foorth by a kinde of Rethoricall passage or Apostrophe or turning of his speech to the Dead willing them to awake and sing Secondly the reason is no other then a forceable argument taken and drawne from the vertue and power of the Resurrection of Christ which in the end wil be the same to the dead that the Dew is to the hearbes filling and inforcing the earth to cast up her dead Of all these things in order and very briefly And first of the consolation in generall that there is a Resurrection of the dead in these words Thy dead men shall live c. The which as it is a comfortable proposition so it is delivered by him not as Tully delivered his conclusions of the contempt of Death faintly and doubtfully but with great confidence fulnesse of assurance And iustly whether wee consider the universallity of this truth it being constantly imbraced of the whole Church of God throughout all ages but likewise the antiquity of the same it beeing infolded in that first and gracious promise made to Adam our Father in assuring him Gene. 3.15 That the seede of the woman should breake the Serpents head And hence it was that Heva the Mother of us Gen. 3.15 and all the living having brought forth Seth speaketh as she doth Gen. 4.25 Gen. 4.25 Reposuit mihi Deus Semen alterum c. Oh saith she God hath given me another Abel He hath kept him for a time and now at length hath restored him to me againe The like divine consolation possessed questionlesse the beleeving heart not onely of Abraham but of all the holy Patriarches besides as may appeare both by their servent and longing desire after the Messiah whom they knew was ordained by the Father to be the Resurrection and the life as also by the honourable testimony that the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrewes giveth of their faith herein Cap. 11.13 Heb. 11.13 when he saith that They all dyed in the Faith not having the promises but having seene them a farre off and were perswaded of them and imbraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrimes on the earth And therefore saith hee verse 16. God is not ashamed to be called their God for he hath prepared for them a City This was likewise the comfortable doctrine Exod 3.6 which Christ our blessed Saviour preached in the bush to Moses Exod 3.6 as himselfe averreth Mat 22.31.32 Mat. 22.31 32. when he thus spake unto him I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob This was that which the Apostle Paul in all his writings published affirming withall both before the governour Faelix and that honourable assembly Act. 24.15.16 Act. 24.15 16 That it was a maine principle which put him on to have a pure conscience towards God and towards men and to account as he telleth the Phillippians Chap. 3.7 8. Phil. 3.7.8 those things that were advantage to him but as losses so that hee might attaine the resurrection of the dead Yea the holy Scriptures are not onely plentifull in Testimonies proving the truth thereof but in examples likewise of persons dead and some of them rotting in their graves who have by the power of Almighty God beene perfectly restored to life again my labour therfore in further proving the truth therof may

speake unto him sitting upon his glorious Tribunall Thou Almighty King and supreame iudge of the whole World Loe here I am and the children that thou hast given unto me Isa 8.18 The which doubtlesse will be a sight so full of joy that my tongue is not able to expresse the same my desire onely is that into that or the like assembly my selfe may one day come Secondly as the estate of the faithfull labourer wil then be happy so on the other side Ezek. 11.16 17 the condition of him that is an unfaithfull labourer will questionlesse prove most miserable How carefull the Elders were in former times over the soules of such as were committed to their charge may appeare by one example which may serve in stead of many of St. Iohn Clemens Alexādrinus Sozomenus the blessed Evangelist standing upon record in Ecclesiasticall stories which I will as briefly as I can relate unto you St. Iohn saith the story after the death of the Tyrant meaning as I take it Domitian returning out of the I le of Pathmos and comming to the City of Ephesus where having ordayned Elders and dispatched much other busines cōcerning the Chrcuh he commeth at length to a certaine City not farre of whose name saith the Author many at this day doe well remember where amongst divers others there assembled he espyed a certaine young man mighty in body and of a beautifull and manly countenance whom after he had earnestly beheld the blessed Apostle turning himselfe to the Bishop of the place after this manner spake unto him I doe heere saith hee in the presence of Christ and his Church commit this man unto thee to be trained up and instructed with thy greatest diligence And so immediately after the Apostle returned againe to Ephesus The Bishop receiving the young man thus committed to his charge tooke him home with him and through his extraordinary care so wrought upon him that within a short time hee was thought fit not onely to bee Baptized but to have a certaine cure in the Lords behalfe committed to him But after this the young man having obtained his former liberty fel into company againe of certaine of his olde ompanions Idle and dissolute persons that first drew him to their riotous feasts and banquets and after that to the perpetrating and committing of far greater mischiefes and wickednesse So that now he is not onely an asociate of those wretches his companions in the committing of many Murthers Robberies and other horrible out-rages but by reason of the excellency of his wit manlinesse of heart and stoutnesse of courage he is made their head and Captaine In the meane time Saint Iohn comming againe into those parts and meeting by the way with the Bishop before specified required of him the pledge which said hee in the presence of Christ and his Congregation I left in thy hands to keepe The Bishop somewhat amazed supposing hee had some money committed to his custody which he had not as yet received knew not what answer he should make unto him The which Saint Iohn perceiving The young man saith he and soule of our brother committed to your custody is the pledge that I require The Bishop understanding his meaning with teares running downe his cheekes thus replyed He is dead saith he dead unto God being now become a most wicked person a companion of theeves and villaines and haunting these mountaines and desarts hard by At the hearing whereof the blessed Apostle rending his Garments with great lamentation said unto him I have left a good keeper of my brothers soule And thereupon desiring instantly a horse and a guide rod directly to the place where this damned crue haunted where being presently taken by some of that company hee earnestly requested of them to bee brought unto their Captaine who comming to him armed as he was at the first beganne to look fiercely on him but immediately comming to the knowledge who hee was as a man wholy confounded began to flye and run from him But the old man followed him as fast as he might forgetting his age and crying My Sonne why dost thou flye from thy Father an armed man from one without weapon a young man from an old man Have pitty on mee my sonne and feare not for there is yet hope of salvation I will make an answere for thee unto Christ I will dye for thee if neede be as Christ hath dyed I will give my life for thee Beleeve mee Christ hath sent mee The yong man as one amazed first stood still and then casting downe his weapons trembling and bitterly weeeping imbraced the old man being baptized afresh againe through aboundance of teares running downe his manly cheekes whom after the Apostle had upon his knees fervently prayed for he brought back unto the Congregation to which after some time of humiliation and dayly fastings he was happily at length restored The story is too long for me to comment upon let him that hath an eare harken what venerable antiquity speaketh I come now to the second thing to be considered in my Text namely the manner of their resurrection the which is described by the blessed Spirit as we heard to be 1. Very Beautifull 2. Exceeding joyfull And first beautifull in these words With my body shall they arise The which standing as they doe in the originall carrie with them a doubtfull construction which maketh Interpreters somwhat to vary in their translations For that which some translate With my dead body shall they arise others turne My dead bodies or my dead body shall arise The matter is not great in in which sence the words bee taken since they are so neere a kinne and carry with them severall conclusions full of Divine truth and sweete consolation First then if we take the word as the ordinary translation hath them and read them thus With my dead body shall they arise Then must we take the Son of God in the same comforting of his Church together with the severall members thereof with an assured hope of a most glorious resurrection So that however the brutish and ungodly as hee fell Num. 24.21 1 Cor. 10. so hee shall arise and having his bones full of the sinnes of his youth which Iob 20.11 Iob. 20.11 lay downe with him in the dust shall come forth under the Tyranicall command of the second death the resurrection of condemnation yet the servant of God Dan. 12.2 the true sonne of the resurrection Iohn the fift Iohn 5.2 verse the second However his body was sowne in weaknesse yet shall it rise againe in power and putting off the rotten ragges and patched mantle of corruption 1 Cor 15.47 shal be richly cloathed and apparelled with the pure and pretious garments of salvation Isa 61.7 In affirming therefore that those dead bodies shall arise with his glorious body he intimateth thus much That when that day of refreshing shal come from the presence of the