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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29118	Elijah's nunc dimittis, or, The authors own funerall sermons in his meditations upon I Kings 19:4 ... / by Thomas Bradley ...	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1669 (1669)	Wing B4132; ESTC R7187	60,180	133

confidence waite for it and when it comes bid it welcome as our friend that comes to free our soul out of the prison of the body the sole impediment of it's perfection and to open the doore to let us into a better world and into a better life Thus of the Person to whom he makes his suit The Lord. 2. Now we are to consider of the Act Take away my soule How doth the Lord take away souls Not by annihilation or reducing them to nothing as at the first Creation Nor by laying them a sleep together with their bodies till the Resurrection the Opinion of the Arabians Nor by a Metempsuchosis transmitting them into some other body to informe them Nor by fixing them as Starrs in the Firmament Nor by sending them into purgatory as the Papists teach But thou that gavest it me take it unto thy self either by thine own immediate power and grace who art a Spirit and the God of the spirits of all flesh or by the Ministery of thy good Angells let them be ready to receive it at the parting of it out of my body as they did the soul of Lazarus and to carry it up to rest and glory Thus Lord take away my soule From hence note first That our souls are immortall they dye not with the body but when the body at the dissolution returns to the earth from whence it was taken the soul returns to God that gave it All the expressions of holy men dying imports as much Lord Jesus receive my spirit saith St. Stephen Father into thy hands I commend my spirit saith our Saviour Lord take away soul saith our Prophet all expressing their faith in this truth That their souls were immortal Feare not them that can kill the body and are not able to kill the soul saith our Saviour So then the soul cannot be killed Our blessed Lord disputing with the Sadduces concerning the Resurrection Mat. 22. tells them out of the Scriptures That God was the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob who were dead and buried a thousand years before and from thence concludeth the immortality of the soul inasmuch as God was not the God of who dead but of the living ver 32. their spirits did never dye their souls were still alive and in being and he was their God Vses First It is of Use to quiet our spirits and to satisfie our minds sometimes troubled upon the consideration of the perplexities of Providence in the cross dispensation of evill and good to the good and the evill here in this world the unravelling of this Clue of the souls immortality from the beginning to the end will guide us through this Labyrinth so that in the end we shall say The wayes of the Lord are right when a day shall come when it shall be said to the Epicures of this world which have had their portion in this life as in Luke 16.25 Sonne Rentember you have had your pleasure in your life time and my servants received pain now they are comforted and you are tormented 2. This Meditation is of Use to comfort and to confirme us against the fear of death either our own or our friends inasmuch as beleeving in the Lord me shall live though we dye And he that liveth and beleeveth in him shall never dye eternally Indeed we shall not dye at all totally for though we lay down our bodies into the earth to sleep yet our spirits shall not dye at all but being delivered from the burden of the flesh shall live with the Lord and be translated into a state of joy and feli●ity Et meliore sui parte superstes● erit The better part is still living and therefore the Scripture will hardly call it a death but a Sleep a Change a Dissolution a Departure a Translation 3. It is of use for the contempt of this world in which we have no surer footing and of the best things of this world of which we have no better hold nor longer enjoyment but for this short uncertain life 4. This Meditation of the immortality of the soul is of speciall use to teach and to admonish to prepare and to provide for that our future condition to lay up for our selves treasure in Heaven that we may have something to take to when we come into the other world when we shall leave this and all that we have in it behind us to make us friends of the Mammon of iniquity that when time comes they may receive us into the everlasting habitations to lay here a good soundation against the time to come that seeing our fouls are immortall and shall have an eternall being it may be in well being that seeing they shall live eternally it may be in bliss and happiness now is the time to provide for it O how miscrable will be the condition of those souls which having lost their time here when this life is ended shall be swallowed up into eternity and all that while shall live in woe and misery in pain and torment easeless endless and remediless How much better had it been for such if they had never been born Or being born that their souls had dyed with their bodies or living after them there had been some period of time wherein they might have been extinguished But when they must so continue for ever That the worme shall never dye nor the fire never goe out that they shall continue in torment to all eternity Who can conceive the misery of it That word eternity into what a deep bottomeless gulfe doth it swallow up the mind that thinks upon it Great wonder it is and a miracle indeed that a point of such great importance and high concernment should be no more heeded and regarded Some live as if they had no souls at all or if they have any that they are but as the souls of bruits which perish with their bodies and well were it with them if they did so they live as if they never thought to dye and dye as if they never thought to rise again they have no hope in their death nor any care of their immortall soules ever after To these I say no more but this Lord have mercy upon their poor miserable soules they will have time enough hereafter when it is too late to see their error and to repent of this their stupidity and security Secondly Note here the holy and heavenly expressions of the Saints and Servants of the Lord at their departure out of this life O Lord I have waited for thy salvation saith the Patriarke Jacob upon his death bed Gen. 49.18 Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace said old Simeon Luke 2.29 for mine eyes have seen thy salvation Saint Stephen the holy Martyr with these words breath'd out his soule Lord Jesus receive my spirit Acts 7.59 Our Lord himselfe upon the Cross giving up the ghost with these words breath'd his last Father into thy hands I commend

are exercised under them 2. Think not strange of those fiery tryalls and that the best men are so often under them it were strange if it were not so Christianus Crucianus the Crosse is the Christians badge the Cognisance of a Disciple our Lord himself the Captain of our salvation was made perfect through sufferings he carried the Cross upon his own shoulders up Mount Calvary upon which himself was Crucified and we may not think much that come after him with Symon the Cyrenian to carry one end of it Shew me the man of any standing in the profession of Christianity that hath been constantly free from sufferings and I will say He is either a Miracle or a Monster in Religion 3. Think not the worse neither of your selves nor others in this case Crosses are not Curses nor the greatest Sufferers therefore the greatest Sinners The sufferings of the Saints are so farr from being Arguments of Gods displeasure towards them that clean contrary they are rather evidences of his love and favour So St. Paul Argues Heb. 12.6 Whom he loveth he chasteneth and correcteth every sonne whom he receiveth St. Jerom never feared his estate worse then when for three years together he lived in peace and was free from all trouble and adversity If thou faint in the time of adversity thy strength is small Remember all promises of blessings and good things made to Gods Children are made with exception of the Cross against which even grace and goodness piety and obedience holiness it self is no protection Sanctity and suffering may stand together They were holy ones of whom God spake Ps 89.32.33 Their iniquity will I visit with the rod and their sins with scourges but my loving kindness will I never take from them nor suffer my truth to faile 4. Beware of murmuring by no means suffer your hearts to break out in any evill thoughts against God and his Providence even in his most severe proceedings against you as if he dealt too hardly with you this were to charge God foolishly But let him be ever justified in his sayings and doings and clear when he is judged and to silence all clamour murmurings and mutinous thoughts In this case take with you these two considerations First See sin in all let the means by which you suffer be what it will and the Instruments of it what they can doe but look well into it and you shall finde Sinne lyes at the bottome David saw this Psal 25.18 Look upon my adversity and my trouble and forgive me all my Sinne. Jeremy saw it in his Lamentations cap. 3.39 Why doth living man complaine man suffering for his Sinnes as if he should say There is no reason for it let him consider well of it and he shall find his Sinnes are greater then his sufferings his sufferings less then his deservings Secondly See God in all though sin be the cause of all 't is God that is the Judge of all Is there any evill in the City and the Lord hath not done it And if it be the Lord let him doe what he will he neither can nor will doe unjustly When Moses told Aaron in a grievous Affliction that befell him Levit. 10. That it was from the Lord The Text sayes Aaron held his peace ver 3. he had no more to say If it be the Lords doing let him doe what is good in his eyes his will be done at well upon us as by us and as well in taking away as giving Ever say with holy Job in the like case Blessed be the Name of the Lord Job 1.22 5. In the sufferings of the Saints and servan●s of God here in this world let wicked and ungodly men reade their own doome and certainly conclude That they have a heavy reckoning to make to God in the day of account that great is the wrath of the Allmighty against them and fearefull the Judgements that doe await them Behold saith the Lord I visit the City upon which my name is called and doe you think to escape you shall not escape And if the righteous be scarely saved where shall the ungodly and the Sinner appeare Surely if he doe so severely scourge his own Children with Scourges he will torment them with Scorpions Solomon observed in his time Eccles 8.11 That because Judgement was not speedily executed upon evill doers therefore the hearts of the sonnes of men were wholly set upon wickedness But there is no reason for it if they knew all alas they see not that their day is comming they may make a Covenant with the Grave and with Hell be at agreement but that Covenant will not stand they may cry ●●ace peace unto themselves where there is no peace and so sleep a while in their security but their damnation sleepeth not they may sing Requiems to their souls Ede bibe lude Eat drink and be merry but they see not the hand-writing on the Wall Mene Mene c. Thou art weighed in the ballance and art found too light they heare not the dreadfull noyse Stulte hac nocte This night shall they fetch away thy soule With what derision doth the wisedom of God speak to such Eccles 11.9 Rejoyce O young man in thy youth and let thy heart cheere thee in the dayes of thy youth and walk in the sight of thine eyes and the wayes of thine heart but remember that for all these things God will bring thee into judgement But the Lord speaks terror to them by his royall Prophet David Psal 50.21 Thus and thus hast thou done and I held my tongue and thou thoughtest me such a one as thy selfe but I will reprove thee and set thy sinnes in order before thee Beloved take this for a most certaine observation 'T is the most dangerous state in the world for a man to goe on in sinne and prosper to live in sinne and to live at ease free from adversity and affliction Ephraim is given unto Idols let him alone saith the Lord by the Prophet Hosea c. 4.17 Nolo istam misericordiam saith St. Jerom Lord let me have none of that mercy to be let alone in my sinne Scinde ure seca ut in aeternum parcas Let me suffer any thing in this life that thou shalt please to lay upon me that I may be spared in the life to come and have nothing to suffer in the other world Let all secure sinners know There is a Pit digging up for them a very significant expression of the Prophet Psal 94.13 Vntill the Pit be digged for the ungodly Now the longer the Pit is in digging the deeper it will be and the deeper it is the greater will be the fall into it and the more impossible the recovery out of it and so deep it may be that it may let the sinner down into Hell it self I conclude this Point with that Advertisement of Saint Paul which he gives to all such secure sinners Rom. 2.4 Know ye not that the patience and long