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A45343	A sermon preached at St. Botolphs Aldersgate, at the funeral of Robert Huntington, Esq., who died April 21 and was buried April 30, 1684 by Timothy Hall ...	Hall, Timothy, 1637?-1690.	1684 (1684)	Wing H443; ESTC R11203	24,130	48

Truth 1. Prop. Man in his first Creation was not made Mortal or Corruptible Adam fell into a dying condition in the day that he Rebelled against the Crown and Dignity of Heaven I know the Question is much controverted Whether Adam were made Immortal or no This were to make Death necessary before Sin which the Apostle contradicts when he writes Rom. 5. That by one mans sin death came into the World and Rom. 6.23 The wages of sin is death Death is the fruit and effect of our Disobedience and passes upon all inasmuch as all have sinned Rom. 5.12 2. Prop. All men are now subject unto death as it is poenal The first Sentence reaches all Mankind Gen. 2.17 Most men look on Death as the common lot and condition of Mankind resulting from their frail condition and the jarring and warring Principles of their composition which for want of poise destroy one another They think it belongs onely to our Natural and not at all to our Moral Capacity reckoning it to be the consequent of their Being and not the demerit and punishment of our Guilt It is very true though the principles of our Nature are subject to Dissolution yet if we had not declined from the Law of our Creation we had not inclined to the Grave or Corruption but God had made our Life commensurate with our Holiness and prolonged our Time with our Obedience But alas Death now is not more Natural than it is Poenal All Mankind is Condemned as soon as Born Life is a Reprieve and short suspension of the execution of that Sentence which in the day of Adam's Transgression was pronounced on him and his descendants And oh miserable we if we improve not this small scantling of time to sue out our Pardon and make our peace with this incensed Judge of Heaven and Earth who though he be a Serene yet withal is a dreadful Majesty and will infallibly Execute the severity of the Sentence on every Offender who doth not timely accept and comply with those Terms and Articles of Peace which in the Preaching of his Gospel are tendred to them 3. Prop. Fear and Bondage are inseparable attendants on such a sinful and poenal state It cannot be avoided but that the expectation of Death in such a condition must be very troublesome This is a strait Yoak and will pinch the Necks of all the Sons and Daughters of Adam though some wear it more easily than others This will perplex our minds raise storms within and sink us frequently into deep despondencies for we know not how to cast it off in vain are all attempts to slip the Neck out of this Collar we are unable to deliver ourselves no man can free his own Soul We are in God's Chain and it is impossible to break it all our strivings will contribute nothing to its Removal but onely gall and torment us more 4. Prop. Whatsover bitterness and gall there is in Death it is from Sin that makes it more terrible than otherwise it would be 1 Cor. 15.56 The sting of Death is sin So many Sins as thou committest so many stings thou puttest into thy Death to render it more dreadful to thee Could a man dye and have no Sin laid to his Charge though there might be some pain yet there could not be Terror in his departure out of this World Well may Death be called the Terrible of Terribles when there is not onely an apprehension of the dissolution and divorce between the Soul and Body but there interposes and starts up the guilt of many Sins which confront the Sinner and stare him in the face nay those sins that had a gaudy and tempting dress will then be strip'd of all their feigned Beauties and appear in all their dreadful Circumstances agitating and terrifying the Consciences of men with the expectation and dread of future Evils When the Sinner dare not die yet cannot live what Convulsions must there needs be in his Breast which must terrify him like the cracks of a falling House What a calm and well-natured Death might a man have far beyond that Euthanasia which Augustus wished for himself if Sin and Hell and approaching Judgment and a gnawing Worm within did not drive him into Agonies and Despair Alas when nothing is in view to him but these things and the conclusion of the whole matter will with him be nothing short of hideous Darkness and a tormenting Fire having Heat but no Light gnashing of Teeth late Remorse incurable Wounds Self-hatred and all imaginable distresses even to be hated of God and to hate him for ever He must needs turn away his Face in the anguish of his Soul from beholding such distracting Objects These things our Sins procure for us and fill our Souls with all the anticipations of Hell 5. Prop. The Death of Christ applyed by Faith is the onely Soveraign Remedy to deliver us out of this estate of Fear and Slavery Our Heavenly Elisha hath cast Salt into those bitter Waters and so healed them Death to a Believer is a Serpent without a sting He hath fortified us against these Fears two ways 1. By giving us the example of his Dying His tasting of Death before hand keeps it from being a Cup of Trembling and wonderfully will this animate our Spirits under all dejections That our Lord walked in this dark Valley before us 2. By affording us the merit and efficacy of his Death This is very operative to this purpose to consider That our Redeemer and the Captain of our Salvation undertook our Deliverance by his own Death so that now there is no Condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8.1 For being justified by Faith in the Death of Christ they have peace with God and in themselves Rom. 5.1 Thus has Christ changed the nature of Death that it should be more desirable than dreadful to a good Man being like Josephs Chariot sent for dying Jacob to carry us to the place of our hope and desire This made the Apostle ring that sharp and shrill Note in the ears of Death and send that bold and brave Challenge to the last eneny 1 Cor. 15.55 O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory Death is swallowed up in Victory It is not now so much an Outlet of Temporal as an Inlet of Eternal Life Well might the Apostle write insultingly as a man offering Sacrifice for Victory and singing a Triumphant Song while his Feet stood on the Neck of his Enemy We know now to whom to have Recourse when our Spirits droop at the apprehension of our Decease not to Saints or Angels not to the Blessed Virgin her self but to her Son who is the Lord of Life that Brazen Serpent we are to look upon when that Fiery one of Death puts out his Sting and we are sufficiently Antidoted against all the Poyson that is spit at us Thus we see the Children though they cannot escape the stroak yet they are freed from

what reason hast thou to be troubld when as Joshua expresses it thou goest the way of all the earth If all Travel this Road art thou so foolish as to think there should be a by-path for thee to go alone None can Redeem his Brothers no not his own Life from Death Monarchs Emperors Patriarchs Prophets Apostles have trod this Tract nay Christ himself why then dost thou fear to follow such a glorious Company Grudg if thou wilt that thou art a Man grudg not that being a Man thou must die Where are the Fathers of old Do the Prophets live for ever This is the Kings high-way and the Beggars also You tread no untrodden Tract You are not the first set out this way nor will be the last Thou dost not break the Ice first 4. Direct Familiarize Death in thy thoughts This familiarity with it will breed contempt of it Men little think of Dying therefore are the terrors of Death so stinging Plato perswading to the thoughts of Death defined true Philosophy to be a Meditation of Death Even Tygers and Lions which at their first sight affright by frequent viewing abate their terror Look it often in the Face and thou wilt sooner be reconciled to its hard Features and grim Countenance Bid Death to thy Board to thy Bed to thy Closet to thy Counting house and thy Shop walk with him in thy Garden as Joseph of Arimathea did Dye daily in your Thoughts and Meditations and when you come to it actually you will die more delightfully It is for want of these thoughts that mens Souls are chased out by Violence rather than yielded up to God in Obedience 5. Direct Ponder on the happy advantage of your dissolution This is a large Cluster and I cannot tarry to give it you Grape by Grape 1. Death will give thee a freedom from all evil Whether of Sin or Sorrow cure all your Diseases and Infirmities dry up all your tears When the stroke is once struck adieu then to the Temptaions of Satan the rage of Persecutors distempers of Mind deformities of Body disgrace of Name unfaithfulness of Friends undutifulness of Children loss of Estate and whatever else makes life bitter Didst never cry out who should deliver thee with the Apostle Rom. 7.24 and art troubled when a Liberate is sent Art afraid to Land after such Storms and Tempests How many have desired Death nay sinfullly destroyed their Lives to deliver themselves from Griefs Fears Wants and Pains 'T is true he Sins highly that goes away out of this World before God calls him yet who would refuse to go when once he is call'd 2. It will put thee into possession of thine Inheritance I desire to depart and to be with Christ Who would tarry so long from his dear Lord that might have passage to him When the Heathen Socrates was to dye for his Religion he was greatly comforted at his Death with this that he should go to the place where he should meet Orphous Homer Hesiod and many other Worthies of the former Ages Had he but known Christ the order of Cherubim and Seraphim Angels glorified Saints Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Martyrs Confessors our Fathers Mothers near Relations and dear Friends and the rest of the glorious Heirarchy of Heaven he would then doubtless have taken down his deadly draught of Hemlock with greater relish and satisfaction The Proto-Martyr Stephen triumphed over Death when he saw the Heavens opened and the Son of man standing on Gods right hand Faith will help to the same beatifical Vision and Prospect It is pleasant to the eyes to behold the Sun but the Sun is as darkness and altogether useless in that Kingdom of Glory Rev. 21.23 Rev. 22.3 4 5. If David in the Wilderness so impatiently thirsted to appear before the living God in an earthly Jerusalem how earnestly should we long to see his glory in the heavenly one Psal 42. The glimps of his back parts was as much as Moses might behold yet that put a shining glory on his Face what will it be then to see him face to face The glimps of Christ in his transfiguration ravished Three Apostles who beheld it St. Pauls Vision that did wrap him up in the third Heavens advanced him above the rest of mankind but the beatifical Vision of the Glory of the Great God far excels all This leads me to the next particular 6. Direct Renew your familiarity with the blessed ones above Remember that great Army of God The souls of the just from Adam till now are all got safe thorough this dead Sea and are triumphing in Heaven already and that there are but a few straglers in the end of the World left behind and then which part do you desire to be with But especially remember that Jesus your head is entred into the Heavens before you and is preparing a place for you not being willing to be there without your company He would have you there to behold his Glory and do not these considerations provoke you to covet to be united to that heavenly Quire above which incessantly Sing not resting either day or night that melodious Anthem to him that sits on the Throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever of blessing and honour and glory and power Rev. 5.13 Many more things might be added by way of Direction but I shall add but this one more tho the most considerable and important 7. Direct Act faith on the death of Christ Here is the main prop and pillar of comfort Who would have dared to dye had not our Lord dyed first he has taken away the Sting of Death what harm can there be in a stingless Snake He hath cut the lock of Sin where the strength of Death lay Hosea 13.14 O Death I will be thy plagues O grave I will be thy destruction Christ hath happily triumphed over it both for himself and thee his precious Blood has altered its Complexion and turn'd its pale Face into a beautiful Sanguine Our Redeemer having unstung it we may safely put it into our Bosomes It is an Enemy indeed but a Conquered and disarm'd one Dost dread an Enemy Vanquish'd to thy hand and sprawling at thy feet Hath David killed this great and formidable Goliah and shall not trembling Israel recover their Spirits and up and pursue the Philistines Shall a Conquered Enemy disanimate the Conquerors Remember and revive O Christian The Captain of thy Salvation has not onely destroyed but sanctified the Grave to thee and perfumed the dust thereof with his own body What comfortable words are those Because I live ye shall live also John 14.19 The Grave that otherwise affords but a noysom smell smells sweet ever since the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Vallies lay in it This dark hole is made lightsome ever since that true Light for a time Eclipsed shone out of it Thus our Sampson has found an honey-comb in the Carcase of this Lion Christ is the Lion of the