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A86694	The art of embalming dead saints, discovered in a sermon preached at the funerall of Master William Crompton, the late reverend and faithfull pastor of the church in Lanceston Cornwall. Ianuary the fifth, 1641. By G. Hughes. B.D. Pastor of the church in Tavistocke Devon.	Hughes, George, 1603-1667.	1642 (1642)	Wing H3307; Thomason E142_1; ESTC R8080	45,689	61

muttered much other phrase more inlargments are Printed than were spoken J confesse it J promise the same things to thee good Reader not the same words through out that I preached If J could do it yet J know a difference observable in phrase and style betweene writing and speaking Our people desire the lowest words wee can speak in hearing but our Readers of all sorts are not so pleased Life put 's a working lustre upon the me anest language being sooken when the best words will not move being dead onely in the letter I hope the phrase throughout is Gods if any thing different from the voice hanc veniam date I must beg this courtesie if ever J come to the Presse again As for inlargments they are no more but what by straits of time I was forced to conceale and jumble with the rest or else which were added for more perspicuity whereby J hope thou shalt be no loser 3. It may be said these many Authors alleaged were silenced in the Pulpit J acknowledge it J am never much in mentioning humane authorities in my Sermons not to obscure their worth nor to be unthankful to them for I am much beholden to them But these considerations make mee mute in this First Our people skill not of them Secondly One Word of Christ is worth a thousand for him who preacheth to save souls Thirdly Their names and words with lesse losse may fit a margin than fill a Sermon which being but for an houre should be full of God for the souls to whom it is sent These stops removed J shall stay thee no longer from the work Read in conscience read in love read to gather read to live The Lord Almighty the God Holinesse while thou art reading and looking deliver thee up unto his truth and change thee into the same Image from glory to glory to glory over sin here to glory over death and the grave hereafter Thus powreth he out his soule for thee that presents this Book unto thee Pray for him whom thou art sure to have Thine in Christ Jesus devoted for thy good G. H. יהוה THE EMBALMING OF DEAD SAINTS Psalme 16.10 For thou wilt not leave my Soule in Hell neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy one to see Corruption THe title of this golden Text may be The embalming of the dead Saints the force whereof is to free the Soules from dereliction in the state of death and to secure the bodies of Gods Saints from Corruption in the grave It is the art which I desire to learne and at this time teach upon this sad occasion even the preparing of this confection against our burialls after I have toucht some generall things about the Psalme 1. The Penman of it is undoubtedly David his name owne's it in the front 2. The excellency of it is set forth in a golden title it is Michtam of David or a Psalme worth Gold even the purest Gold of Ophir yea better than Gold 3. The parts of it generally are two 1. Prayer with the arguments of it from the 18. to 5.2 Praise with the reasons thereof to the end in which part the Text falls as a reason of his forenamed joy and exultation 4. The subject of whom all this is spoken which is the Master-vain running thorough the Psalme whereabout may we put that question of whom speakes the prophet of himselfe or of some other man and thereunto reply truly both of himselfe and others also for fuller satisfaction hereunto know we that a threefold subject is here spoken of in various respects 1. Typically the Psalmist speaketh here of himselfe it is David here as the figure of Christ who saith I will blesse the Lord and I have set the Lord alwayes before me and therefore my heart was glad c. for thou wilt not leave my soule in hell onely note here Types as in their nature they are weaker as men in respect of Christ so in the efficacy of events and priviledges attributed to them they fall fatre short of the verities and reall subjects which they Typifie unto us Take that instance for proofe Heb 9 13.14 in the Comparison which the Apostle makes betweene the blood of Bulls and Goates the blood of Christ so here the priviledge expressed must bee lesse and weaker in the Type than in the truth 2. Antitypically principally and in primary intention Christ the substance and truth of this figure speaketh of himselfe in all the forenamed expressions and throughout the Psalme an infallible interpreter by the mouthes of two Apostles hath warranted this The same spirit which indited this Psalme Acts 2.25.30.31 hath spoken expresly by Saint Peter that David being a Prophet and knowing that God had sworne with an oath to him that of the fruit c. Hee seeing this before spake of Christ in this Scripture Acts. 13.35 And no lesse by Saint Paul in his Sermon at Antioch is this verified that Christ speaketh in this Scripture David then concerning Christ especially and Christ in David as the Truth gives this reason of his hope and his rejoycing 3. Analogically and mystically every united member of Christ even every Saint 1 Cor. 12.12 whose head Christ is * Ac si dicat Ecclesia quae est caro mea modo requiescit in spe id est in spe resurrectionis ut ubi caput praecessit membra sequantur Hieron in Ps 16.9 his whole body the Church which in the Mystery is called Christ that is the subject also to whom these priviledges doe belong in their due measure and proportion being partners of all the communicable excellencies of Christ both in life and death living with him crucified with him dying with him buried with him incorrupted with him untill they arise with him never to dye againe and be perfected with him in his glory The Type is now resolved into the truth and perfected in it This truth is Christ 2 Neque sanctificatum corpus per qued alii sanctificandi sunt corrumpi patieris Aug. in text who extendeth the sweet influence of all his priviledges to every holy member This Text therefore as the reason of Christs hope and gladnesse as well as of his Saint-Church I shall now labour to hold out and so would blazon the glory in it to winne your hearts to Christ and to raise up prevailing resolutions in you to be Saints Now at the very entrance into the explication of this Scripture concerning Christ there is no little trouble moved to obscure the truth by the unhappy glosse of them who maintaine the Locall descent of Christs soule into Hell for the space of its separation from the body and therefore force this text against its owne minde to speake it for them I may not now fall upon the controversie it will not sute with the season and present duties yet this I will boldly say that if the Abettors of this opinion have no better proofe of it than this Text

5.2 To draw down all this good neerer towards our selves and shew that these comforts are not shut up in Christ but passeable from him to us I will only lay downe this rule Whatsoever good priviledge or communicable excellency is attributed to Christ in the flesh it is with respect to his body the Church for unto it the son was given and what is eminently true of him in the letter is really and in measure verified upon every one of his united members So is this sweet dignation of God to him Dub. and them in the state of death There is yet one Rub in the way that must be removed before we can carry this heavenly priviledge clearely for Christ and his members joyntly and it is raised from a speech of the Apostles which seemes to contradict this of David here the Psalmist saith thou wilt not give me thy holy one to see corruption then there must be a truth in this concerning himselfe Acts. 13.36 but Saint Paul urging this text to prove Christs resurrection saith expressely Sol. David saw corruption and therefore inferreth the truth of this text only to concerne Christ To solve which doubt and to cleare obscurities I shall premise some distinctions first of David the Subject he is to be considered two wayes first as a Type of Christ Secondly as a member of Christ Secondly of Corruption the state that is affirmed and denied of him which is two fold first supernaturall and divine such as respects mans being or relation to God which is a ceasing to be to God-ward what formerly and before death one was Secondly naturall which is onely in respect of mans being in nature a cessation of that or a change of it to no being which in a graduall consideration may be also two fold first Tot all secondly partiall these premised I answer 1. Consider David as the Type of Christ and resolved into Christ as is the true use of all figures to turne them into the substance represented so he may be said to see no Corruption at all as the Type usually in Scripture beares the name of the best priviledges and greatest effects of the truth it selfe the Antitype Exod. 12.11 1 Cor. 5.7 Hos 3.5 Psal 2.2 so the Lambe is called the passe-over as well as Christ himselfe so Christ beares Davids name and David Christs 2. Consider David as a member of Christ and Corruption as a cessation of being Gods so David and Christ and the Saints neither have seene nor shall see Corruption at all for they are all Gods Exod. 3.6 Matth. 22.32 Holy ones in the state of death as much as in the state of life He is the God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob though they be in their graves 3. Consider David as Christs member and Corruption for a cessation of naturall being and rottennesse Mouldring of the flesh to dust in the grave so David saw Corruption which is all the Apostle contends for And this corruption Christ did not see in the lest degree of alteration upon his flesh wherefore great reason had the spirit of God to shew that this Scripture was eminently fulfilled in Christ above any other creature yet further in this the same spirit denyeth not that the Saints in measure and by participation enjoy the same gracious priviledge though not in that transcendent way made good unto them Their flesh though crumbled into dust is Christs which he will purifie and make up againe to be conformed to his glorious body so that it neither come simply not to be nor to be miserable which properly may be stiled Corruption These doubts cleared now I shall proceed to weigh this Scripture more exactly The text by it selfe considered is a notable bold proposition of faith maintained against the sensible incroachments of the soules dereliction and the bodies corruption in the grave to keepe up hope in the darkest saddest times even under the shadow of death It is the faith of Christ eminently but of every Saint or Holy member really and truly wherein are very observable 1. The matter concluded and averred by faith in these two propositions 1. Of the effect which is expressed two wayes first the holy soule shall not be left in Hell Secondly nor the holy one or the body given to see corruption 2. Of the efficient or author God will not leave the soule in hell nor give his holy one to see corruption 2. The manner of propounding these not doubtfully or fearefully but peremptorily certainely and confidently as becommeth faith thou wilt not leave c. Not to stand upon any further curious Mincing of the Scripture there arise from all this these three maine points of truth which I shall desire further to prosecute and jointly to apply 1. Doct. 1. The proposition of the confection of Embalme it selfe together with its force or vertue Holinesse keepes the soule from dereliction in the state of death and the body from Corruption in the grave 2. Doct. 2. The proposition of the confectionary the onely author and efficient of this Embalme and its prevalency God will not leave his holy one in hell nor give him to see Corruption in the Grave 3. Doct. 3. From the divine assurance peremptorinesse and confidence wherewith faith speakes this the last proposition of the security of both the former comes forth Faith secures the holy one from dereliction in the State of death and from Corruption in the grave Of these I shall desire to treat for your profit 1. Holinesse the excellent preserving Embalme 2. God the efficient of it 3. Faith the security of all and then bring home the fruit unto your hearts if it may be that by the influence of Gods spirit I might fulfill the desire of my deceased Brother in this worke even for his sake to leave something with his flock that may stand them in stead in the day of darkenesse 1. I shall begin to hold out that Aphorisme or distinct position which containes the confection of Embalme it selfe and other appendent circumstances considerable with it Doct. 1. Holinesse preserves the soule from dereliction in the state of death and the body of the Saint from Corruption in the grave If it be desired by any that doubt of it to see the cleare issue of this from the text I shall guide them to read this text with a great accent upon that terme Thy Holy one that they may take speciall notice of it even the quality of that man exempted from these evills In this the spirit of God puts an emphasis upon Holinesse as counter-working and prevailing over death and the grave it is this and nothing but this that thus keepes the man dead and buried from desertion in death and corruption in the grave To looke a little more narrowly into the worth of this little wedge cut out of Davids Michtam or his golden hymme I shall propose and answer about it these three Queries 1. Quid