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A17866	A treatise upon death first publickly delivered in a funerall sermon, anno Dom. 1630. And since enlarged By N.C. Preacher of Gods word in Scotland at Kilmacolme in the baronie of Renfrew.	Campbell, Ninian, 1599-1657.	1635 (1635)	STC 4533; ESTC S118869	47,144	129

easie and precious death in the eyes of the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an happie death is immortalitie to soul and body for every manner of death how execrable soever shall be sanctified on the tree whereon Christ was crucified And thus farre of all the points of my text Now my Noble Honourable Reverent and well beloved Auditors least I should omit any circumstance of this action looked for by you I come to these two dead corps lying at the lippe of the grave from which yee have received six directions and if they could speak any more they would make up the seventh which is the most perfect number that is to say Learne of us to die for ye must follow after us and we cannot come backe unto you So their mouthes are stopped and we need not to speak unto them any more for they will not hear us therefore wee must speake something of them To pray God for them we should not for it will not availe them to praise them howbeit praise worthie I am assured that criticks and censurers would take to themselves larger matter then perhaps were given them all consenting with one voice and minde that I a friend were driven by the violent streame of affection and the tempestuous storme of passion either upon the Scylla of ostentation or the Charibdis of assentation But I hope the saile of my sinceritie shall carry the ship of my minde from these two rocks to the safe harbour of your favourable audience and sparing censures and that my mouth shall utter nothing but that which the carper himself a framed friend an impartiall judge a charitable christian ought to say to wit That this rare spectacle of one husband and spouse which cannot be severed in death would seeme in the eyes of a naturall man pitifull and deplorable but to us who see with spirituall eyes joyfull and comfortable for they are with God And this is remarkable Their joy was one their grief one their love one their life one their death one their buriall one their tombe one their grave one their glory one And great is our union with them howbeit we be separate for a while for charitie biddeth us say That our baptisme is one our faith one our hope one our love one our reward one our pilgrimage one our race one our warfare one our countrey one our common-wealth one our citie one our religion one our church one our spirit one our Christ one our God one the father of us all above us all in us all all in all These are strait bands betwixt them and us for that same golden chaine of mercie which hath pulled them unto heaven is fastned to our souls that we also in our own time may be drawne hither In the meane time we are banished and strangers they gone home and citizens we in Sodom they in Zoar wee in O Enon they in Salem wee in a terrestriall cottage they in a celestiall paradise we in clayie tabernacles they in glorious pavilions we are on this border of the sea they on the other wee drowned in the sea they in the ark wee in the desert they upon the top of mount Pisgah we in Egypt they in Canaan we tost to and fro they in the harbour mouth Againe we in a labyrinth they in the fortunate Isles and Elisian fields wee hunt after shadows they enjoy the substance wee amongst Bears and Wolves they with the Lambe we fighting they triumphing And what more we sick they whole we blinde they enlightned with that inaccessible light we see through a glasse they face to face wee know in part they fully we poore they rich wee naked they cloathed wee weare clouts and rags they bear crownes and scepters we hungrie they satisfied we feed upon the fruits of the earth they upon that quickning Manna the bread of Angels we imprisoned they set at libertie and that which the ignorant would thinke a wonder wee dead and they living Why go wee then with mourning apparell seeing they have white robes Why weep we any more seeing all teares are wiped from their eyes Why do wee lament seeing they sing songs of triumph upon golden harps and viols with the melodious harmonious sweet-singing-chorestrie of Angels Surely if it were possible that glorified souls were subject to grief they have greater occasion to mourn for us then wefor them whose bands amongst themselves are so unseparable that death cannot break them and greater love wee read not of any two then of these for it is stronger then death O happie couple above the eloquence of man and angel Many a loyall husband and chaste spouse would be glad of such an end And what an end Let the envious Momus and injurious backbiter hold their peace and let me who stand in the presence of God and in the face of his people and in the chaire of veritie tell the truth to wit That honourable Baron whose corps lyeth there in the flower of his yeares in the strength of his youth in the prime of his designes even when young men use to take up themselves is fallen and mowne downe from amongst us like a may flower in a green meadow His vertuous Lady who having languished a little after him howbeit tender in body yet strong in minde and full of courage took her dear husbands death in so good part that shee did not give the least token of hopelesse and helplesse sorrow Yet wearying to stay after her love she posted after him and slept peaceably in the Lord as her husband before her This Noblemen Gentlemen and men of account amongst us have assured mee So then as neither the husbands ancient house nor his honourable birth nor his noble allye nor his able and strong body nor his kinde stout liberall minde nor the rest of the ornaments which were in him alive and which recommend brave gentlemen to the view of this gazing world could keepe him from a preceding death So neither the spouses noble race of generous and religious progenitours nor a wise carriage in a well led life nor the rest of her womanish perfections could free her from a subsequent death both due to them and us for our sins God hath forgiven theirs God forgive ours also They have done in few all that can be done in many yeares They have died well God give us the like grace In the mean time their reliques and exuvies terrae depositum shall lye there amongst other dead corps of their forebears and aftercommers all attending a generall resurrection And their souls the best part of them coeli depositum have surpassed the bounds of this inferior world and are carried upon the wings of Cherubims and Seraphins to the bosome of Abraham for to change servitude with libertie earth with heaven miserie with felicitie and to bee made partakers of that beatifick vision reall union actuall fruition of our God in whose presence is fulnesse of joy and at whose right hand are

architectonick cause of these two former subordinat appointments for it is the cause of causes and without damnable curiositie we ought not to go further it is a precipice and wee must not cast our selves headlong off it it is a great gulfe too deep for our shallow wits let us admire adore it But to leave the infinite names which Lullists Rabbines Caballists Paganes Divines give to God he is tearmed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the best deviser 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 goodnesse it self 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of most free will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 him very self and so his appointment must bee holy righteous perfect irresistible whose appointment is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for whatsoever God ex voluntate beneplaciti hath first concluded within himself or acted in the parliament or secret counsell of himself before all time that ex voluntate signi must bee execute by nature and taught by experience in time seeing these two are his loyall and faithfull servants who must not nor cannot nor will not controll their masters uncontrollable will who even trystes with them for the reall and effectuall accomplishment of all actions Therefore because it is ratified from all eternitie in that supernall throne of Gods justice that for sinne all men must once die then for the execution and exhibition of the same on earth nature must play its part and experience its part for of necessitie the severe sentence of a soveraigne and inappellable judge must be reverently obeyed But so it is Job 14. 5. All the dayes of man are determined and the number of his moneths is with God and he hath set him bounds that he cannot passe And 7. 1. There is an appointed time to man upon earth The poet saith well Stat sua cuique dies Hence it is that Deut. 30. 20. God is called by Moses the length of the peoples dayes and David Ps 31. 15. saith that his time is in Gods hands who as he hath begun to spin the thredof mans life so he is onely able to spend it And this is it which the fabulous Poets forge of their three fatall sisters Clotho Lachesis Atropos the spinster twister and cutter of the small thred of mans life We acknowledge no Chaldaick fates no poetick sisters no blind fortune no coactive necessitie of destinie but the wise just good Almightie providence of God which not only extends it selfe ad vermiculos in coeno but also angelos in coelo and man who was made a little inferiour to the Angels and alas now by his default hee is lower then the wormes Indeed Naturalists may know that there is a God in nature forming reforming performing confirming perfecting all things without the which they could not stand one moment this is only a Theoretick knowledge and it may be without sanctification But we who are enlightned with the light of grace and the sunshine of the Gospel and taught and inspired by Gods Spirit have a practique and saving knowledge whereby we not only admire his power in the creation his wisedome in the administration his constancie in the conservation his beautie in the decoration his bountie in the augmentation of all things but also are particularly informed and fully perswaded Deum esse vitae necisque arbitrum Vtramque vero saith Tertullian disponendo praescivit praesciendo disposuit that God is the commander of life and death who in disposing foreknew and in foreknowing hath disposed of them both The Lord saith Deut. 32. 39. I kill and make alive God is not carelesse of us as the Epicures have dreamed but by his speciall providence he hath such an extreame fatherly regard to us that one hair cannot fall out of our head one cubit cannot be added to our stature with it without the which a little sparrow cannot fall to the ground So that ye may evidently perceive that nature experience and God himself prove the truth of this assertion It is appointed c. The uses of this generall doctrine are especially these two The first use is of instruction It is appointed c. Then let not us be so foolish as to fret against nature so stubborne as to grudge against experience so profane as to dispute against God Why hast thou made us thus for Esay 45. 9. Wo unto him that striveth with his Maker shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it What makest thou That threefold appointment is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the bottomelesse deep of the unsearchable waies of God It is a labyrinth we may well finde the entry but never get the outgate of it it is a steep rock we may well climbe up but the downfall is great it is an Ocean and our boat is too light and shallow for it not unlike the head of that great river Nilus which could never be found out So that seeing our dayes are short let us say with Moses Psal 90. Lord teach us so to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts unto wisedome And with that notable patterne of patience that excellent doctor upon this point Job 14. 14. All the dayes of my appointed time will I wait til my change come alwayes in much humiliation and reverence prostrating our souls before the sacred and dreadfull Majestie of our God who rideth upon the heavens and dwelleth in that inaccessible light cloathed with ravishing glory armed with innumerable legions of angels crowned with unspeakable blessednesse at whose presence the Cedars of Lebanon are throwne down the forrests denuded the earth trembleth the sea roareth the mountaines melte like waxe and all the inhabitants of the earth are as stubble before the fire the sun and moone obscured the stars darkned the powers of heaven weakened the Cherubims and Seraphims cover their faces not able to behold the brightnesse of him whom the angels adore the thrones worship the devils fear So that wee must confesse whether wee lie or stand wee run or walk we sleep or awake or whatsoever we do we can neither by force subtiltie or request recall his irrevocable decree by whose unsearchable wisedome and unchangeable providence and almighty power all befalleth us that doth befall us Is it then Gods ordinance to day to deprive our king of a valiant subject the nobles of a peere the countrey of a baron the house of a head the obedient son of a dear father and our selves of a welbeloved and worthie friend Let us be taught that the rarest and highest spirits live shortest and have the swiftest course and that these whom God tendereth most are earliest taken to himself and let us not be so ignorant as to lay the blame upon second causes such as the influence of heaven the aire the dyet the complexion untimely disease the company the mediciner but let us look higher to the cause of causes GOD who is as the first wheele of the horologe which leadeth the rest as the primum mobile which draweth about with it all the inferiour sphears