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A44491	A comfortable corroborative cordial: or, A sovereign antidote against, and preservative from, the horrours & harms of death affording a direction how to live and die, so as to be fortified and fenced against the greatest fears and sharpest sense of that king of terrours. Represented in some observations made upon Rev. 14. 13. Upon occasion of the late death and burial of Mrs. Rebeccah Jackler late wife of Mr. John Jackler of Kings-Lynn in Norfolk, woollen-draper; who deceased Octob. 5. and was buried Octob. 7. 1671. By John Horne, sometime preacher of Gods word in Lynn-Alhallows in the same town. Useful to be considered by all men living in this state of mortality: because there is no man living but must certainly die.	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1672 (1672)	Wing H2797; ESTC R218922	54,539	129

of men are the happiest men in the world their portion better than any other mens the Heritage of Jacob to be preferred before all the enjoyments of the great Princes of the Earth Isa 58.14 So as it may well be said the righteous they that are in Christ Jesus walking not after the Flesh but after the Spirit are more excellent then their neighbours Prov. 12.26 however Poor Meane Illiterate Afflicted and Despised the Righteous be And however Rich Learned Honoured or otherwise adorned and qualified their neighbours that be not righteous are Yea well it may be said Happy art thou O Israel a People saved by the Lord the shield of their help and sword of their Excellency thine enemies shall be found lyars to thee and thou shalt tread upon as despising their high place Deut. 33.29 O Lord of hosts blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee Psal 84.12 Blessed at all times blessed in Life more blessed in Death but most blessed in and after the Resurrection of the Dead 3. To commend Piety and Godliness and the exercise thereof to us which hath the Promise of all this great blessedness both of the life that now is and that that is to come 1 Tim. 4.8 6.6 4. To condemn the blind judgment and practice of the world that sleight hate and persecute these things accounting those that are and that dye in Christ especially in a way of persecution to be unhappy and their portion despicable which things I onely mention But besides 5. It directs us whither to flee for shelter and refuge against the fears and feelings horrours and harms of Death the King of Terrours namely to Christ Jesus our Lord who hath both abolished or destroyed its destructive power by his Death and destroyed him that had the power of it the Devil 2 Tim. 1.10 Heb. 2.14 and also hath the keys of Hell and Death Power and full Authority over it and over the dead having dyed rose and revived that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living Rom. 14.19 as he hath that sharp Sickle in his hand so he can cut off with it high or low rich or poor and he can keep it off or back during his pleasure and order the state of it and the persons in it as seems good in his sight And in him there is deliverance from the horrour and harms of it as he is the forgiver of the sins both that occasioned it and that might render it as an inlet into a worser state then it simply of it self containeth and hath both Authority and proclaims himself ready graciously to do it even both to raise out of it and in the interim to secure from harm and mischiefs by it yea and to make it greatly useful and advantagious to us to make the day of it better then the day wherein we were born Eccles 7.1 a Chamber of ease rest and safety to us from the evils either fore-afflicting us or further threatening and abiding the yet dwellers on the Earth or abiders in the land of the living Isa 26.20 57.2 an outlet to our cares fears labours and temptations to sin or toils by such temptations and an inlet safe Port or entrance into peace and security the end of our exile and banishment and beginning of our actual admission in our spirits into our Fathers presence and glorious fruition of our blessed Saviour that wonderful one the unparall'd lover of our Souls and Paragon and Pattern of all divine and heavenly vertue and excellency the Lamb that had mercy on us and dyed rose again and lives for ever for us the Lord Jesus He is that Sun that shining into our hearts the light of the knowledge of himself and of the glory of God in him and being believingly beheld by us will drive out and expel all that darkness of our ignorance and errour that in the night of our unbelief obscures our minds and fills us with frightful fears of Death and its consequents and chases away all those mists and vapours arising out of the muddines of our hearts to the sadding us at the thoughts of its approches and by his warming influences as streaming forth by his Holy Spirit in the Gospel the beams of his love and favour in the forgiveness of our sins and interesting us in his Righteousness and precious promises of blessing and everlasting Life and Happ●ness and so the lively hope of his Salvation and Glory to be injoyed by us he can and will so chear and comfort us as to make the grim visage of Death amiable to us and the passage through it very desirable Philip. 1.21 22 23. yea and give us hope and joy in Death as the best hour that ever came upon us And he is that and such a shield too that encompassing us about with his favour and defence interposing himself between us and our enemies even Death and all its train and power secures us against their fiercest assaults and sharpest darts being the Death of Death the Destruction of the Grave and Hell Hos 13.14 we being in him and incompassed about with his arms of love nothing shall be able to approch us to hurt or harm us He is such a Fountain of living waters that whosoever drinks of him receiving his Doctrine into his heart and retaining and keeping it there shall not die of thirst Such a Heavenly Medicine being Gods Salvation or saving health that whosoever takes him down and tastes the sweetness of his Love and Grace and keeps it or the relish of it upon his palace shall not taste Death Joh. 4.14 8.51 52. Yea those Waters he gives and the Medicine he affords will spring up and effect in the receiver and taker down thereof Life in Death even Eternal Life The Tree of Life that was in the first Paradise and which being eaten of would have preserved the life of Man for ever is lost and there is no recovering it again Gen. 3.22 23 24. Nor can all the Physicians in the world find out or compose a Medicine that can keep us from Dying But our Lord Jesus Christ and his heavenly Wisdome and Doctrine is that Tree of Life in the midst of the Paradise of God that Sovereign Antidote of Gods own finding out making and propounding which being eaten and taken down will secure us against all the Poison of the old Serpent the evil of this natural Death and carry us safely through it and bring us certainly out of it to immortality and eternal Life Prov. 3.18 Rev. 22.2 3 14. He will both make the Soul live and be happy in Death and raise up the Body to an immortal state of bliss Isa 55.3 Joh. 11.25 26. 2 Cor. 4.14 In vain do men weary themselves and spend their Estates to find out a Philosophers stone that may turn all things into Gold Here is that true Elixir that will turn all to Good and as he hath reconciled all things in himself that are in

accounted as our Lord was by the Pharisees Matth. 27.62 63 as Deceivers or as the Papists called divers of our English martyrs stinking martyrs mad men Hereticks c. Yet these latter they that dye in the Lord are far happier then the other We may compare those two mentioned in Luke 16.19 the Rich man and Lazarus they both dyed But oh how great a difference to appearance in their dying the one in a Rich state and therefore no doubt but had or might have Friends and Physicians about him and want no Attendance and after Death had a Burial which we find not said of the poor Lazarus he might dye of his Sores and in some ditch and his body might be exposed to the Birds or Beasts of prey as those Saints mentioned in Psal 79.2 3 4. But yet the differerce in the goodness of their state when dead was far more for the advantage on Lazarus side then the goodness of the way of their outward dying was on the Rich man's side For after Death the poor Lazarus was carried of Angels into Abraham's bosome and was comforted and refreshed with everlasting Consolations not to be lost again When the Rich man was in Hell tormented without ease or end not having either possibility of escape from thence or of enjoying there so much as one drop of Water to cool the tip of his tongue Who would choose to dye as the Rich man with such a state after death rather then as the poor man or any of the most cruelly Martyred good man having the poor man's after-state who would not rather go through any difficult and dirty way from a Prison to a Throne then to slide down from some stately Throne or off some pleasant Hill bestrawed with sweetest Flowers in his descent or attended also with the most melodious Musick into a dark Dungeon to lie and rot there in the midst of noisome stenches pinch'd and pin'd away with Famine or made a prey to venemous Snakes and Serpents The righteous hath hope his Death but the wicked is driven away in his wickedness Prov. 14.32 and the hope of the Hypocrite shall perish and be as the giving up of the ghost Job 18.13 14. and 11.20 but the hope of the righteous shall be gladness Prov. 10.28 2. Those that live in the greatest pomp and splendor in the world injoying the greatest fulness of Riches Honour and Glory or the most delightful continuing pleasures for these in the midst of their enjoyments are in a state of incertainty Their Riches are uncertain riches they may take them wings and fly away the Thief may steal them or the Moth and rust corrupt them Their Honours like Hamans may end upon a Gallows or as Ahithophels in a Halter and all their pleasures in a moment vanish and they may come with Craesus the Lydian King to learn the uncertainty of all things here by sad Experience falling into the hand and Power of their Enemies The pleasures of sin are but for a season and the reproches of Christ are far greater Riches than all the treasures of Egypt or of the World Heb. 11.25 26. The Wealthiest and most Honoured persons here must dye and then they shall carry nothing away with them nor their pomp and glory descend after them Psal 49.17 though while they live they bless their souls and men praise them as doing well for themselves yet when Death comes then all their felicity in these enjoyments vanish like pleasant dreams when one awaketh and ing out of Christ they go to the generation of their Fathers and shall never see light Psal 49.18 19. yea then how are they brought into desolation as in a moment and utterly consumed with terrours Psal 73.19 then begin their miseries never to end when the miseries of the others and all their griefs and sorrows are at an end never more to return and then end the worldlings Joys for ever when the dead in Christ have more increase of Joy or enter into those Joys that never shall end And though it 's true that the prosperous sinner living yet at ease and in fulness is in a possibility of Repentance and so in a far better state then he that dyes in his sins and is dead out of Christ Yet considering what snares there are in such injoyments and how hard it is for a Rich man to enter into Gods Kingdom and how usually the prosperity of fools that is evil men for all such are very fools in Gods reckoning whose judgment is according to truth destroy them that they are persons standing high but in slippery places and are in very great danger of being every hour cast from their heigth into destruction Psal 73.18 and considering on the other hand that the man dead in Christ is out of all danger of any miscarriage in present possession in their spirits of that presence of Christ where is that fulness of Joy which infinitely transcends all the injoyments of this world how great soever and that they are sure and certain of Eternal Happiness for ever their state must needs be concluded infinitely better then the others Yea on that account also Blessed 2. Comparatively to themselves while living in the world more blessed now than then as the Apostle implies when he saith that though living in the Flesh he had this fruit of his labour that he lived to Christ viz. to the magnifying of him Yet he had a desire to depart and to be with Christ as a thing to him far better Phil. 122 23. for now they are absolutely blessed and happy though not yet fully and superlatively in the highest and greatest possession of Happiness and Glory the Resurrection of the Body must be waited for for that when Body and Soul reunited shall be glorified and all the Saints compleatly brought together shall receive the full of the Glory promised and have to each ones particular injoyment the accession of the glory of all the rest with them And if Cicero an Heathen Orator could fancy a wonderful Happiness in the deceased Moralists enjoying the fellowship of each others Souls * O proeclarum illum diem c. so as to cry out O that gallant day When shall I go to the Council and Company of Souls c. What may the Christian judge of the revealed and assured Society of happy renewed and raised persons together with Christ for ever But now they are absolutely Blessed their happiness hangs no longer upon any Condition that may possibly fail in as before it did upon an If ye continue And though that If was of no great burthen so as to imply so much danger as to fill them with disquieting fears to hinder their rejoycing in assured hope having so many ingagements to abide and so great incouragements in Christ to trust in him for his delivering them from all evil preserving them to his heavenly kingdom Yet there is both a possibility yet remaining of their sailing and other Considerations also