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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45343	A sermon preached at St. Botolphs Aldersgate, at the funeral of Robert Huntington, Esq., who died April 21 and was buried April 30, 1684 by Timothy Hall ...	Hall, Timothy, 1637?-1690.	1684 (1684)	Wing H443; ESTC R11203	24,130	48

made a man miserable before he was so Meer apprehensions of it to them whow wamed the Divine Oracles signified little to lighten their burden 2. Others supported themselves with the thoughts of necessity and inevitable fate and many such like considerations But alas tho Philosophy has been stiled animi medicina yet their Precepts in reference to comfort have been compared to the influence of the Moon which doth rather rotten then ripen in respect of the Suns influence They were ignorant of Christ the Prince of Peace of the holy Paraclete and Comforter and unacquainted with the Life of Faith They knew not how with Ignatius to invite the Cross and Fire Breaking on the Rack Quartering of Members and all the Torments that either Men or Devils could invent When the Emperor threatned St. Basil with Death O that it might come was his ready and chearful reply When Eudoxa the Empress threatned Chrysostome he sent her word Nihil praeter peccatum timeo he feared Gods wrath because of his Sins but not at all her These are the men that tread on the Lion the Asp and the Adder And that we may be enabled to do the like take these following Directions these comforts and consolations of Gods own Prescription in the Holy Scriptures which as far exceed all Philosophical Remedies as the Sun doth a Glow-worm I am constrained to be short in them and must leave it to you to blow every blossom into a Flower 1. Direct Rectify your Apprehensions and Opinions of Death Is not thy fear of it grounded upon a mistake Fears are apt to agravate evils Levis est dolor si nihil opinio adjecerit We fright our selves with Images and Idaeas of evils and dress up Bug bears and Mormoes to Torment our selves withal Christ himself walking upon the Waters was by the Disciples trembled at as a dreadful Apparition It may be thou lookest on Death as some utter Abolition and Extinction of thy Being Remember it is but a departing which thou callest a Death See how God himself stiles it to the Father of the faithful Gen. 15.15 Thou shalt go thy fathers in peace It is but a going away not a perishing and not a going to wo and misery but a comfortable going to our Fathers It is hence called the way of all the earth Josh 23.14 Christ intimates his Death under this Notion It is expedient for you that I go away John 16.7 Death is a journeying from one Region to another See in what familiar terms God conferred with Moses about his Death Deut. 32.49 50. Get thee up into this mountain and die in the mount whither thou goest up and be gathered unto thy people Death it self is so embalmed and cloathed in the Holy Scriptures that there is even a sweetness and beauty in it therefore called an uncloathing a putting off the flesh He that has wore his Cloathes long till they are foul and nasty will he not willingly strip himself to put on a fresh Suit Children fear their nearest Relations and best Friends when they appear under a disguise to them but when their Vizard is taken off they rejoice at their presence To sweeten our departure to us it is called a rest and sleep Is there any hurt in that Would not a man tired out with a long days work gladly go to bed Under these Notions we may bury all fearful thoughts of Death Our friend Lazarus sleepeth but I go that I may awake him out of sleep John 11.11 What more desirable and refreshing than a good nights rest Sleep is the Nurse of Nature the sweet Parenthesis of all our Griefs and Cares Cloathe thy Death therefore in a Scripture dress and this will help to allay the bitterness and beautifie the deformity of it Sleep is a short Death and Death is but a long Sleep The Babylonians are threatned with death under the name of a long sleep Jer. 51.57 They shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake saith the King whose name is the Lord of Hosts It is a Judgment to be cast into a sleep like death but a Mercy that Death is like a sleep Nay death is not a perpetual sleep A good man when he has done his work falls asleep and awakes in the great morning of the Resurrection to receive his wages Hence the Grave is call'd a Bed Isa 57.2 It is Gods Ark and Chest wherein he keeps the Bodies of his Saints and he will open this Cabinet in the great day of the Resurrection and take his Jewels out he will scowre and furbish them up again making their vile Bodies like unto the glorious body of Christ The Jews call the Grave Beth Chaiim i. e. The house of the living and when they return from the Burial of their Friends they pluck up the grass and cast it into the Air using those words of the Psalmist Psal 72.16 They shall flourish like the grass of the earth The Greeks call their Church yards Dormitories Sleeping places and the Germans say some call them God's-acre because their Bodies are sown there to be raised again Be not then daunted with the gloomy thoughts of a total dissolution no it is but a little intermission a disappearance for a while a short and sweet nap in their Beds which are warmed and perfumed for them by Christ's Body laid in the Grave with whom also they look to Rise to Eternal Life And this leads me forward to the 2. Dir. Be established in that weighty and great Doctrine of the Resurrection Soul and Body old Companions part but for a while Thou art not so sure to arise in the Morning when thou liest down at Night as thou art to awake at that day 1 Thes 4.14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him What an Antidote is this against the worst of Death That Christ who did arise from the Dead shall come again and bring all his with him in Glory These Scripture Consolations come home to the very heart which the Philosophical ones did not being in Tullies Phrase Medicine morbo imbecilliores well therefore might the Apostle call on them to chear up and comfort one another with such words of truth ver ult The Courage and Constancy of the Jewish Martyrs was such on this account that they would not accept of Deliverance in their Tortures that they might obtain a better Resurrection Heb. 11.35 The Resurrection they knew would recruit and recompence them Lucian called the Christians miserable Caitiffs for being stout to the Death in the belief of this Doctrine on the same account all wise and good people must pronounce them of all men then most happy Remember what God said to Jacob Gen. 46.3 Fear not to go down into Egypt for ver 4. I will go down with thee and I will also surely bring thee up again 3. Dir. Remember Death is the common condition and lot of all mankind Now