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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87565	A shock of corn coming in in its season. A sermon preached at the funeral of that ancient and eminent servant of Christ VVilliam Gouge, Doctor of Divinity, and late pastor of Black-Fryars, London, December the 16th, 1653. With the ample and deserved testimony that then was given of his life, by William Jenkyn (now) pastor of Black-Fryars, London.	Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1654 (1654)	Wing J653; Thomason E735_22; ESTC R202634	33,219	57

people should be cast out into the streets and have none to bury them and that the bones of the kings priests and prophets Jer. 8.2 should be taken out of the grave and laid open to the sun and moon Nor a small complaint that the enemies of the Church had given the dead bodies of Gods saints to be meat to the fowls of the heaven and their flesh unto the beasts of the earth Want of burial is so hateful that some have been more restrained from sin by the fear of not being buried then of dying And David commends the burial of a dead Saul nay Jehu commands the burial of the remains of a cursed Jezabel The practise therefore of giving the body decent burial is very commendable Sutable it is that the body Vse 1 a piece of Gods workmanship so curiously wrought Psal 139. should not be carelesly thrown away Yea it hath been repair'd redeem'd as well as made by God It is partner in redemption with the soul and bought with the precious blood of Christ The body is also sanctified for the spirits temple The ointment of sanctification rests not onely on the head the soul but runs down alrests not onely on the head the soul but runs down also upon the skirts the body The chair where the King of glory hath sate should not be abused With the bodies of our deceased friends we lately had sweet commerce haply they were very beneficial to us The body of a faithful Minister was an earthen Conduit-pipe whereby God conveighed spiritual comforts to our souls The body was once a partner with the soul in all her actions it was the souls brother-twin what could the soul do without it whatever was in the understanding was conveighed by the sence The soul sees by its eyes hears by its ears works by its hands yea which is more there is an indissoluble union between the dust in the grave and the glorious soul Church-yards are but sleeping-places and as they were called among the Jews houses of the living A great Heir is regarded though he be for the present in rags and which is more our very bodies are the members of Christ and of that lump whereof he was the First-fruits Hence is discovered Vse 2 the more then heathenish Barbarousnesse of the Papists both in denying and recalling burial digging up the dead again as they dealt with the bodies of Paulus Fagius and Peter Martyrs wife Heathens themselves have shewen greater humanity witnesse that of Alexander in allowing enterment to the dead body of Darius Hanibal to Marcellus's Caesar to Pompey's The comfort of Saints is that God keeps every one of their bones and that as he left not one out of his book when he made them at first so that neither shall one be missing when he will remake them Nor is the superstitious folly of Papists about the bodies of the dead lesse reproveable then their inhumane cruelty I mean their religious reverencing of the reliques of the deceased Though the Devil could not obtain a license for this sin according to some from Michael yet hath he obtained a command for it from the Pope To name this practise is to confute it It s idolatry derogation from the merits of Christ ridiculousnesse for Popish Historians tell us that the bones of the worship'd have afterward proved to be the reliques of theeves and murderers to such a proportion are they increased that they are rather the objects of derision then adoration Yea lastly its injuriousnesse to the saints who in pretence are honoured whose bodies hereby have insepultam sepulturam are kept from their honour of rest and brought into a condition threatned as a curse are more then enough to procure our abhorrence of it To conclude this Vse 3 the care yet of a dead body should not be comparable to that of the living ever-living soul what profit is it for the body to be embalmed and entombed richly and the soul to be tormented eternally As great a folly is the respecting of the vile body joyn'd with the neglecting of the precious soul as for a frantick mother onely to lament the losse of the coat of her drowned childe never laying to heart the losse of the childe it self Chiefly look after thy soul and God will take care of thy body it shall be embalmed to eternity though it should be eaten up with the beasts of the earth This for the first the Saints Port or Place The second particular in the first part of the Text. the Grave But secondly what kinde of passage shall he have thither Eliphaz saith He shall come to the grave And this notes that his passage to the grave shall be willing and uninforced He shall get thither by coming he shall go as it were upon his own feet he shall not be hailed and dragged and pulled thither against his own minde Obs 3 It shall be his portion to be willing to dye his soul shall not be required of him taken from him by force against his wil as his was Luke 12.20 No he shall be one that is pleased with the thoughts of his departure and desires with Paul to be dissolved 1 Kings 19.4 One that may say as Elijah Lord take away my soul and with Simeon Lord Luke 2.29 now lettest thou thy servant depart He will open the door cheerfully when his master shall but send his Sergeant Death to knock he will meet Death as it were half way Death shall be his priviledge as well as his task with Peter and John he running to the sepulchre not being urged drag'd to it Necessitatis Vinculo by the bond of necessity but making toward it Voluntatis Obsequio with the holy forwardnesse of his will Thou shalt come By death Saints are freed from the reach of as well as hurt by Satans temptations From the evil company of the ungodly from divine desertion from the burden of sin and corruption from the painful and laborious employments of their places from all bodily infirmities and diseases death is the best physick from all Gods fatherlike chastisements Minus pie vivis si minus persecutionem pertuleris Gr. ep 27. l. 6. from an unkinde persecuting unquiet world that bed of thorns they love not the world and therefore they linger not in it They are in love with heaven where they shall have the consummation of grace and glory and enjoy the sweet soul-ravishing society of their Friend Husband Saviour Head and therefore as their better portion Christ so their better part their heart is there already He hath perfumed the grave for them and made that narrow noisome place a place of ease and sweetnesse Ever since Christ trod and walk'd upon the sea of death they may say as Peter to Christ Lord if it be thou bid me come unto thee on the water Christ by his death hath laboured and they when they dye do but enter into his labours In a word Sin the strength and