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A17913	A casket of ievvells and precious pearles Set forth in a funerall sermon, preached in Heckfield Church, at the buriall of a religious young gentleman, Mr. Barnabas Creswell, sonne of Mr. Thomas Creswell Esquire, by Nathanael Cannon, Batchelar in diuinitie.	Cannon, Nathanael, 1581 or 2-1664.	1625 (1625)	STC 4575.7; ESTC S115891	12,655	78

very hieres of saluation amongst others Doct. 1 are subiect to dissolution though they be the lords Iewels and pretious in his sight yet euen they must lay downe their earthly Tabernacles thus saith the scriptures Proofes of the Doctrine There is a statute vpon the liues of all flesh statutum est omnibus mori saith the Apostle Heb. 9.27 it is appointed for all men to dye and after comes the iudgement Not onely Ahab who sells himselfe to commit wickednesse 1 Kin. 22.37 nor Ierobeam who makes Israel sin 2 Kin. 14.20 nor Demas who forsaketh God to follow the world 2 Tim. 4 10. but faithfull Abraham righteous Noah iust Iob Godly Dorcas yea Lazarus the friend of Christ shall fall asleepe We will looke somewhat particularly vpon some of these instances and begin with Dorcas of whom we reade Acts 9. verse 36. and 37. the holy Ghost reports the place where shee dwelt Ioppa this woman was by profession a Disciple that is a follower and scholler of Christ Iesus then looke into the fruits of her profession which is all in all the Text saith that shee was full of good workes she did abound in them yet this good godly Matron falles sicke and dyes Lazarus who is styled the friend of Christ fals asleepe a gentle and comfortable expression of our death Iohn 11.11 Abraham whom God will make a Secretary to his intentions because he is so carefull to bring vp his family in the feare of God Gen. 18.19 euen this Father of the faithfull shall fall asleepe and yeeld vp the spirit in manus Domini into the hands of that God that gaue it Gen. 25.8 What shall I say of old Isaac the Patriarches of Moses Aron Ioshua Samuel Daniel and the rest all which are gone downe into the graue notwithstanding their gifts and graces from aboue Let not this seeme strange whereby that any should take vpon them to dispute with God and to aske then what is the difference betwixt Saints and sonnes of Belial seeing all must dye Perchance the question will arise as sometimes the Spouse of Christ is put to it Cant. 5.9 who when shee had spoken at large concerning the royall dignities of her Bridegroome the question is askt What is thy beloued more then another beloued that thou dost so extol him So it may be said what priuiledge haue the Saints aboue others seeing they must dye as well as others The Solution of this proposition will rather shew it selfe in Reasons for the Saints dissolution then in any other kinde of disputations The first Reason why they should be dissolued as well as others is vt originalis corruptio destruatur namely that our sinfull nature and originall corruption might be destroyed which cannot be so long as we liue vpon earth wee shall haue those Reliquia peccati those remnants of sinne about vs doe what wee can velis nollis i●●●a fines habitabit Iebuseus doe what wee can this Iebusite of corruption will dwell within vs It is an Inmate which will not be remoued vntill the house of our earthly body bee pulled downe 2 Cor. 5.1.2 Yea all those Romish pennances of scourgings or superstitious inflictions giues no purgations for it no not the strict and restrictiue course of the faithfull who by abstinence endeuour to bring downe their bodies and by praier to raise vp their soules yet notwithstanding whilst life lasteth this sinfull nature of ours remaineth I denie not but with a magis and a minus these blessed meanes will take away through Gods blessing the exuberancy of it as a father wel obserues Subiugari potest exterminari non potest and in this case wee may content our selues with the answere that God giues Rebecca in the 25. of Genes she begs of God to know what is the reason of that extraordinary strugling and striuing in her body and God tels her she hath two manner of people within her for so she had Iacob and Esau so haue we the flesh and spirit striuing within vs Gala. 5.17 and will not giue ouer till we giue ouer and therefore it is expedient for the Saints to dye that so they might be rid of this sinfull nature which they shall neuer be whilst they liue A second Reason why they should dye as well as others is vt fides exerceatur that our faith might be exercised in the apprehension and application of those spirituall and precious promises made ouer to the righteous for the Definition of Faith tels vs of a great worke that faith hath to doe Faith saith the Apostle is the substance of things hoped for and the euidence of things not seene Heb. 11.1 Now then that our Faith may at length haue the fruition of those things that it hath beleued there shall be an end of the life of the beleeuer that so possession may bee had of all those tenents that Faith formerly held but shall wee alwaies beleeue and not inioy what we haue beleeued this then must be by the cessation of life that is of this life that so we may inherite life euerlasting and then our faith ceaseth and we possesse what hath beene hoped for A third Reason why the Saints should dye vt perfectio obtineatur wee are in via in the way to heauen but wee are not yet in patria wee looke for that house which is not made with hands but eternall in the heauens 2 Cor. 5.1 Now this we cannot haue on earth for this cause the Saints shall dye in the Lord which is a blessed thing for then they rest from their labours Reuel 14. and then comes our perfection Wee are now the Sons of God saith the Apostle but it appeares not what we shall be 1 Ioh. 3. our knowledge loue and other fruitions being here but in part 1 Cor. 13. but there we shall know perfectly and obtaine perfection when this corruption hath put on incorruption and not before 1 Cor. 15. Downe therefore must the earthly Tabernacles of the Saints before wee come to that hauen and heauen prepared for vs Math. 24. These things then thus contracted let the Doctrine be applied and inlarged in the Vses of it The 1. vse of this point is as a voyce to call vpon the faithfull that seeing they must bee dissolued and yet not when nor where nor how is known vnto vs let them be such in their conuersation that they may be ready for their dissolution thus Iob the iust waites for the day and houre All the dayes of my appointed time will I waite vntill my changing shall come Iob 14.14 and olde Iacob makes this his breathing-stoppe And the 49. of Genesis hee blesseth and blesseth his children and growes fainter and fainter and then like a swounding man who takes something still to reuiue him so doth hee O Lord saith hee I haue waited for thy saluation this fetcht life in him as it were and reuiued euen the remembrance of saluation thus the righteous liue as not afraid to