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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02361	A combat betwixt man and death: or A discourse against the immoderate apprehension and feare of death. Written in French by I. Guillemard of Champdenier in Poictou. And translated into English by Edw. Grimeston Sargeant at Armes, attending the Commons House in Parliament; Duel de l'homme et de la mort. English	Guillemard, Jean.; Grimeston, Edward.	1621 (1621)	STC 12495; ESTC S103559	187,926	790

diuers course●… How can he in his soule get wisedome so necessary for the conduct of life seeing that vse engenders it and memory brings it forth as Afranius saith if by a number of yeeres hee gets not the vse and experience of so many affaires inuolued in this world Also how can hee preserue his bodily heath or restore it beeing decayed if he haue not the knowledge of Phisicke seeing it is a long arte and life is short saith Hippocrates Lastly he lightly passeth ouer the last and strongest reason of conscience for that I assure my selfe his conscience did bely his pen and therefore hee will entertaine vs with a certaine instinct of the vnreasonable creatures which he cōcludes in a manner to be Conscience Answer Creatures without reason and without teaching are skilfull from their first being in that which is profitable vnto them to affect it seeke it and finde it and to abhorre and flye from that which is hurtfull and in that they are so couragious to defend their young proceedes from the blood of the arteries mooued with the hearing or sight of their aduersaries which they do naturally apprehend for then the blood beeing mooued it runs luddainly to the heart and doth quicken the power of choler and thrust him on to resist and reuenge all which proceedes from the temper of the beast But conscience is a diuine vertue ingrauen in the soule which S. Paule calls the spirit of vnderstanding Ephes. 3. which applyes the knowledge of our spirit to the worke witnessing for vs or against vs of that which wee know wee haue done or not done wherof growes the prouerbe That a mans conscience serues for a thousand witnesses shee withholds vs or thrusts vs on we as shal think the thing fit to be done or not Finally she doth excuse vs or accuse vs as wee shall iudge to haue done well or ill This quality or rather act is not found but in a reasonable soule and is a true signe of her immortality and of an other life where shee is to giue an accoumpt of all her actions And although that in a wicked and depraued man this inward and immortall worme bo so deeply hidden as they must sometimes haue outward tortures to draw it out yet this doth not argue but he hath it inwardly and that in the end it will appeare in despight of him when the apprehension of an ighominious punishment shall cease a little Yea most men confesse before they come to the torture and therefore what the Obiector hath opposed doth nothing infringe our reason The 2. Argument taken from the goodly order of Nature It is not possible that goodly iustice should faile in the principall point If the soule of man were mortall this goodly iustice of nature should faile in the principall point It is not therefore possible the soule of man should bee mortall EVEN as in this world there is no Catbuncle more glistering not vertue more eminent then iustice and as man is the goodliest piece in the world and containes in himselfe the modell of all the perfections of other Creatures it is reasons will that this Iustice should adorne and beautifie this head of the world and yet it is in him if wee well obserue it that shee is most obscure and blemished in all other things man only excepted shee shines and glisters The heauens and their Starres obserue the law of the Eternall inuiolably in their motions in their influences and in their alterations the Elements change themselues one into another to preserue the sundry kinds of plants and Creatures in the world and obey their Creator religiously Plants and vnreasonable Creatures haue alwayes effects and vertues concurring with the it proper essence It is that which moued Dauid to say That the heauen the Sun and all the host of heauen did declare the power and wisedome of God Psal. 19. And in the 148 the water fire trees and vnreasonable Creatures are stirred vp to praise the Lord the which being faithfully performed by them man should die with shame that hee alone is defectiue in his duty being most bound vnto it And hereof God complaines by Esay Harken you heauens and thou earth giue care for the Eternall hath spoken saying I haue nourished children and haue bred them vp but they haue rebel led against me The Oxe knoweth his owner and the Asse his master crib c. And the Philosophers propound for an infallible Maxime That man is the most vniust of all Creatures and they searche out the causes the grossest precepts of iustice are to liue honestly to doe no man wrong to giue euery man his owne no man is ignorant hereof his naturall reason being more then sufficient to instruct him and yet who doth it Yea they are all made abominable and there is not any one that doth good sayeth the Oracle They are giuen ouer to the couetousnesse of their owne hearts to filthines to pollute their owne bodies sayth the Apostle If this complaint were true iust then it is a thousand times more at this present I call you to witnesse who trauelling haue past through Italy Spaine and France I say to witnes of the adulterie Incest Sodomie and filthynes you haue seene there or if your chast eyes could not endure the sight yet what you haue heard Then the robberies spoyles iniustice vnder the cloake of iustice which reigne now in this realme and their goodliest houses are built vpon these foundations But it is not at this time only but hath been in al ages for from the infancy of the Church there neuer wanted some swelling iniqui tie and a patient iustice saith S. Ierome As for murthers they were neuer so frequent to kill a man is but a sport great men make it their pastime But that which is worse they not only commit such iniustice but they also allow of it they fauour it they are aduanced to the highest dignities The mischiefe is cōmitted sometimes furiously when as blinde rage commands but the approbation proceeds slowly from a setled spirit and is much to be condemned so as S. Paul doth rightly make it the second degree of Iniustice But come and lift vp your eyes see and iudge who they be which hold the seate of iustice they are for the most most part the most disloyall the most impious the most vniust the most malicious among men It is not in this age alone that this Iniustice hath sprōg vp it hath beene in all seasons I haue seene sayth Salomon vnder the Sunne Impietie in the place of iudgement iniquitie in the feare of Iustice Offices be the reward of such as make straight things crooked sayth Terence Other Poets vsing the voyce of the people of their ages cry out that Pittie lyes desolate that the virgine Astraea that is iustice hath bin forced at the last to yeeld to Mas saores extortions vpon the earth This is not all

to heauen It is a constant opinion of the Stoickes sayth he that after all humor is consumed this world shall burne and Nature by whom this reuolution is made seemes to giue vs some notice in that the fields being burnt by the labourer or drowned by water as in Egypt as in pooles dried vp and when the sea is retired in that I say this earth remaining is found renewed fat and producing many Creatures yea great and perfect as they write namely of Nile after it is retired Now vnder the wings of these great personages I come to maintaine this combate and refell the reasons of the Obiector Wee haue in our Argument toucht two points simbolizing together although the one be Christian and the other Heathen the first is the Resurrection of the flesh which we extend to man only not of other Creatures And let vs say that he who of nothing could make all may easily ouerthrow the imagined difficulty and raise vp and restore to the same estate the bodies of dead men for he that can do more can do lesse without all controuersie and hee that could of nothing make that which was not may repaire that which was vndone But how shall this Resurrection bee made and what assurance shall wee haue Behold how In the presence of all the world of Angells of men and of diuells with vnspeakable ioy to the good and incomprehensible horror to the wicked the Lord shall come with a cry of exhortation and the voice of the Archangell and the Trumpet of God these are the very words of the text By the sound of this trumpet all the dead shall awake and rise out of their graues and they that shall liue and remaine at this comming shal be suddenly changed and of mortall shal be made immortall by his force and efficacy who can make all things subiect vnto him as the Apostle sayth The bodies of the children of God shall rise againe like the glorious bodie of Iesus Christ impassible spirituall and yet fleshly shining like stars subtil light transparent and full of all happines behold the letters of heauen We attend the Sauiour who will transforme our vile bodies and make them conformable to his glorious body We know sayeth Saint Iohn that after hee hath appeared wee shall bee like vnto him God will wipe away all teares from our eyes sayth hee death shall bee no more there shal bee no mourning cries nor labour The body sowne in corruption shall rise spirituall sayth S. Paul for that no sollide thing can hinder it it may without helpe or wings flye into remote places as Iesus Christ after his resurrection did manifest it more then sufficiently in his body finally hee shall bee spirituall for that hee shal be readily and willingly obedient to his glorified spirit In this flesh and not in any other shall I see my Sauiour sayth Iob c. 1. 9. For this mortal body must put on immortality sayth the Apostle Thirdly they which haue bin vnderstood sayth Daniel 12. shall shine like the heauens and they that bring many to Iustice shall glister like the starres for euer Also the glory of the Sunne is one the glory of the Moon another and the glory of the starres is also different euen so shall bee the resurrection of the dead whereby it followes that the bodyes raised again shal haue no grosse substance but shall be transparent like vnto glasse Fourthly beeing raised againe we shall bee taken vp into the clouds before the Lord and beeing ascended into heauen wee shall haue vnspeakeable ioy such as the eye hath not seene the eare not heard nor hath entred into the heart of man These are wonderfull things but what assurance the Spirit of God doth assure thee if thou beest of God for God doth seale vp an earnest penny of his holy Spirit in their hearts that are his as the Apostle teacheth Secondly If the soule be immortall the body must one day rise immortall to the end that this soule being created for the body may giue it life againe being reunited Moreouer as Saint Ambrose teacheth it is the order and cause of Iustice seeing that the work of man is common to the body and soule and what the soule doth fore-thinke the body effects and therefore it is reasonable that both should appeare in iudgement to receiue either punishment or glory Thirdly Iesus Christ is risen for vs and to assure vs that by the same diuine power that hath drawne him out of the graue we also shal be raised I proue the antecedent by aboue 500. witnesses which at one time haue seene Iesus Christ liuing after that he had beene crucified by the Iewes as the Apostle sheweth and Ioseph also who was a Iew doth witnesse it lib. 18. c. 2. 4. of his Antiquities He was seene precisely by women beleeued by the incredulous and for a ful assurance thereof hee would contrary to the nature of his body which aspired nothing but heauen conuerse forty dayes vpon earth Heere is reason sufficient in this matter of faith whereas reason should yeeld her selfe prisoner and yet to make it appeare visibly and to free all doubt God would both in the ancient and new alliance raise vp some that were seene and admired of the people So Lazarus being called out of his graue was beheld of all men and the malicious Pharisies tooke counsell to put him to death as well as Iesus Christ. The same God would manifest a plot of the future Resurrection to his Prophet Ezechiel when as he had transported him into a field full of drye bones which when hee had seene and prophesied ouer ●…em behold a motion the bones draw neere one vnto another and suddainely behold they had sinewes vppon them and flesh came and then the skinne couered it and in the end after a second d●…untiation of the word of God the spirit came and then appeared a great army of men As for this point which concernes an article of our faith the Resurrection of the flesh the Obiector dares not deny but there is matter sufficient in this world to furnish for the restoring of all the dead bodies not since an imaginary Eternity for we are now vpon tearmes of diuinity whereof wee must beleeue the principles and not question them but from the first man vnto the last that shall be Herein there is nothing that inuolues contradiction The other point was that suppose the eternity of the world after the reuolution of all things and the encounter of the same order in all points that is at this present there shall bee the same Superficies the same creatures and the same men that are at this present this also hath no implicity seeing we affirm not that all things the same creatures which haue bin shal be for euer shal be restor'd together at one instant but by degrees and euery one in his turne Behold how this first