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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60670	Life in death, or The living hope of a dying saint, handled in a sermon preached at the funeral of that eminently vertuous, and religious gentle-woman, Mris. Mary Morley, late wife to Colonel Harbert Morley, Esq; and daughter to Sr. John Trevor Knight. By Zachary Smith, minister of the Gospel, and pastor of the church at Glynde in Sussex, Sept. 18. 1656.	Smith, Zachary, b. 1604 or 5.	1656 (1656)	Wing S4351; ESTC R214782	29,879	40

after Christ M. Marshal It was an expression of that excellent Preacher holy mann ow with God Mr. Marshal The weakest Saint in articulo mortis hath more grace than Paul had in his life time 1 Cor. 13.10 And this consideration should make Christians willing to die that they may be rid of sin and be made perfectly holy Mr. Hildersam in the close of his 65 Lecture on Psal 51. hath a solemne Speech worth our serious consideration which is this Certainly he that desireth not that striveth not to be willing to die even upon this ground because death and nothing but death will perfect the work of mortification in him hath just cause to suspect that there is no truth of saving grace in him no sense of the vile corruption of his nature it is no bondage to him Another benefit which the Souls of believers partake of by death is this They do immediately passe into glory Phil. 1.23 For I am in a strait between two having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better In which words we have Pauls strait and his own inclination expressed rather to die than to live here and the ground of this his desire because it s far better for the Soul to be with Christ than to abide in the body where also he implies two things in the death of the Saints 1. There is a dissolution of the Soul from the body 2. That there is a conjunction of the Soul with Christ He expected not by death to be utterly extinguished but translated hence some other where not an annihilation but a dissolution and he makes no intermission of time or interposition of place between his dissolution and his being with his Saviour he speaks of his being with Christ as the immediater certain consequent of his dissolution Death should be to him but as a Portal opening to give him speedy admittance into the presence of the Lord in whose presence is fulnesse of joy and at whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore And this he speaks of as a Priviledge not onely peculiar to himself as an Apostle or a Martyr but common to all true believers 2 Cor. 5.1 4 6 8. Heb. 12.23 Luke 23.43 Act. 7.59 Luke 16.22.23 25. The Angels are ministring Spirits attending on them that are Heirs of salvation to receive their Souls at death and to carry them into Abrahams bosom i.e. a state of rest and happinesse where they are comforted where they behold the face of God and see him as he is and know him as they are known of him 1 Cor. 13.12 and where they behold Christs glory Joh. 17.24 so that you see that death is exceeding gainfull to believers and that the righteous have hope in their death that their Souls being made perfect in holinesse shall immediately passe into glory and enjoy rest and blisse in Communion with Christ Further the righteous hath hope in his death in the behalf of his body Psal 16.9 my flesh also shall rest in hope that is as Aynsworth renders and explains it shall dwell in confidence or abide with hope i.e. boldly safely and securely meaning that his body should abide or rest in the grave with sure hope of rising again from the dead The bodies of believers being still united to Christ do rest in their graves untill the Resurrection 1 Thes 4.14 them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him tanquam membra cum capite The grave is but a withdrawing room for the bodies of the Saints a sleeping room where they rest as in their beds Isa 57.2 Act. 7.60 Joh. 11.11 13 1. The bodies of believers after death remain still united to Christ though death cause a separation betwixt their Souls and bodies yet not betwixt Christ and their dead bodies The union wrought in effectual calling is betwixt Christ and the believers whole man and it is an inseparable indissoluble and eternal union they are joyned to Christ as their husband 1 Cor. 6.13 the body is not for fornication but for the Lord the Lord for the body vers 15. know ye not that your bodies are Members of Christ c. Yea temples of the holy Ghost which is in you vers 19.20 Yea the spirit of Christ dwells in believers Rom. 8.9 10 11. Ioh. 6.37 39 40. The Union betwixt Christ believers holds firm in and after death so that their dead ashes are part of the Members of Christ in the grave Gods Covenant is still of force with them in the dust Mat. 22.31 32 c. Mr. Consule Zanch. in 1 Thes 4.14 Perkins in his Cases of Conscience 1. Book 9. Chap. 3. Sect. expresseth himself thus There is a mystical union and conjunction between Christ and every believer and that not onely in regard of Soul but of body also which being once knit shall never be dissolved but is eternall whereupon the dying dead rotten and consumed body remaineth still a member of Christ abideth within the Covenant and is and shall be ever a Temple of the holy Ghost and by vertue of their Conjunction with Christ shall be raised to glory at the last day 2. As the Bodies of Beleivers after death remain still united to Christ so they rest in their Graves as in their Beds they rest from all labour and toyl from all trouble and paine yea from all the motions of sin and drudgery of Sathan Musculus in Psal 16.9 Observandum est mortem carnis interpretatur esse quietem non interitum ergo carni piorum sepulchrum non est fovea sed lectulus quieti destinatus The Bodies of the Saints at Death are only fallen asleep Act. 7.60 We know that naturall sleep is not perpetuall we sleep and awake again in the morning so it s but a certain time that their bodyes shall lie at rest in the Grave they shall be awakened and raised again in the morning of the Resurrection and again the body being asleep can easily be awakened and roused up by being jogged or called upon with a loud voice so the dead bodyes of saints shall be much more easily raised and awakened by the power of Christs voice Joh. 5.28 And as sleep is a great refreshing to sicke and weary bodies so that they are more vigorous and lively when they awake so when beleivers bodies shall be awakened out of the sleep of death and raised out of their Graves as from their Beds they shall be more active and nimble for God than ever they were before 1. Cor. 15.42 43. it is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption it is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory it is sown in weaknes it is raised in power So that the bodies of beleivers after death doe not only rest in their graves but they rest in Hope even in hope of a glorious resurrection which is a 3. priviledge of the righteous in their death in regard of their bodies The Righteous hath hope in his