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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72540	The dampe of death: beaten backe with the glorious light and life of Iesus Christ / In a sermon preached at Lancaster assises in Lent last, to the condemned prisoners there, and before the honourable iudges, and worshipfull of that countie. By William Leigh, bachelor in diuinitie, and pastor at Standish	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1613 (1613)	STC 15423; ESTC S125476	21,274	65

vse is good to make the burden of your death more tollerable in the comforts of a better life Oh beare it with patience and let your Earthly passions be moulded with heauenly patience Patientia vera ipsum amat quem portat True patience loues it burthen and let the visions of God thoughts of immortalitie Mortifie your members with your mindes let them kill your Earthly affections So shall you passe without grieuances and say Multi vident Punctiones sed non vident Vnctiones Many see our Afflictions what they are outward but they do not feele our consolations what they are inward Wee are dead and what of that Sith our life is hid with CHRIST in GOD who will Crowne vs euen vppon the Crosse with glorie and Immortalitie Neuer to die any more neuer to sinne any more neuer to sigh any more For Teares shall bee taken from our Eyes sorrow from our soules and sinne from our Hands wee shall now walke before the Lord in the land of the liuing Oh but life is sweet and death is fearfull how may I be prepared against that houre to vndergo it in a Christian patience without earthly passiōs I answer There bee three things that make Death tollerable to each Christian The first is the necessity of dying The second is the Fecilitie of dying And the third is the falicitie of dying For the first that which cannot be auoyded by any power it must be endured with all patience The first Age had it it may pleade Antiquitie The second Age felt it it may pleade continuance And this last Age hath it it will pleade propertie in all flesh till Sinne and Time shal be no more Call it then no newe thing that is so antient Call it no strange thing that is so vsuall and call it not an euill properly thine which is so common with all the world Wilt thou feare that done which is alwayes a dooing I meane thy dying and fearest thou to die in thy last day when by little and little thou dyest euery day Oh well said Saint Paule by our reioycing which I haue in Christ Iesus our Lord 1. Cor. 15. Vers 31. I die daylie Why then I may well say Yee are alwayes a dying and death is still a doing Death is the Ladie and Empresse of all the world it ceazeth vpon all Flesh without surrender of anie till the day of restauration No place no Time no presence can backe it There is no priuiledge against the graue there is no pittie in the graue there is no pleading with the graue And therefore Antiquitie neuer made Altar to Death or did deuotion to it because it was implacable Euer found to be cruell and neuer felt to be kinde But it may bee you will say I might yet liue longer for I am young and in my blood I answere there is no time now to consult with flesh and blood but readily to obey the Heauenly call and for your fewe yeares Seneca saith well He that dieth when hee is young is like one that hath lost a Dye wherewith hee might rather haue lost then wonne Moe yeares might haue insnared you with moe sinnes and haue hardned you in your impenitencie to the hazarde of your liues in this world and your soules in an other And for the flower of your youth if you compare it with Aeternity whither now you goe and long after Ephes. 4. Vers. 15. all are equally young and equally olde for the most extended Age of a man in this worlde is but as a pointe or a Minute the most contracted can be no lesse And here from the necessitie of dying come wee to the facilitie of dying which maketh it lesse fearfull and more tollerable For that the Sense of Death is of no continuance It is buryed in it birth it vanisheth in it thought and the paine is no sooner begunne but it is ended Though the Flesh bee fraile yet the spirit is strong to encounter the crueltie of death and to make it rather a kinde kisse then a cruell Crosse Christ said at his death Father Now the houre is come Io 17. V. 1. glorifie thy Sonne Is there glorie in Death And is it but an houre Non manet diu quòd in horam tantum manet It is of no long abode that abides but an houre And little doe I doubt but in that houre the soule is more rauished with the sight of GOD then the bodie is tormented with the sense of death Nay I am further perswaded in the very soule of my soule that in the houre of death the passion of mortalitie is so beaten backe with the Impression of Aeternitie as the flesh feeleth nothing but what the soule offereth and that is God from whom it came and whither it would as Saint Augustine saith Eadem facilitate qua foelicitate with as great haste as happines And so I passe from the facilitie of dying to the Felicitie and blessednes that commeth thereby Of which I may say as Sampson did of his riddle Out of the eater came meate and out of the strong came sweetnes Iudg. 14. V. 14. Now the meate that cōmeth out of this eater and sweetnes that proceedeth foorth of this strong one is a Sessation of all euill and an endowmēt of all good all euill both poenae culpae are swallowed vp of death and by that dore we haue ready passage to all blessednes wher all good God is Man that is borne of a Woman Iob. 7. V. 6.7 14. V. 1.2 hath but a short time to liue and is full of miserie Oh sweete Death that turneth time into Aeternitie and miserie into mercie This made Saint Paul to say I desire to be dissolued and to bee with Christ This made Dauid to daunce in the middest of his Affliction when he saide I should verily haue fainted but that I verily trust to see the goodnes of God in the land of the liuing This hath supported the soules of Gods Saints in the Seas of their sorrowes when they thought vpon the day of their dissolution wherin they should be made glorious by deliuerance And therefore whether you please to define or diuine of Death what it is if it be rightly broken into it parts and passages the Elect of God shall finde it A going out of prison a shaking off of Gyues an end of banishment a burster of Bands a destruction of toyle an Arriuing at the Hauen a Iourney finished the laying away of a heauy burthen the lighting from a mad and furious horse a deliuerance from a ruinous house and house of claye The end of all griefes the escape of all dangers the destroyer of all euils Natures due Countreys ioy Heauens blisse And all this for that by Death the doore is open and passage made to Blessednes Rest and Immortalitie Luk. 24. V. 26. According to that of him who died for all Ought not Christ to haue suffered and so to haue entered