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A28823	The triumph of faith over death, or, The just man's memoriall compris'd in a panegyrick and sermon, at the funerall of the religious, most learned Dr. Combar, late master of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, and deane of Carlile / delivered in Trinity Colledge chappel, by R.B. ... the 29. of March, 1653.	R. B. (Robert Boreman), d. 1675.	1654 (1654)	Wing B3762; ESTC R17491	31,312	50

did in Calvin who had the Gowte a Feaver and Cholick all at one time But let us admire our Deare Friends invincible patience when he was as it were upon the Rack of torment my selfe then with others demanding by way of tryall how he did His constant reply was very well I thanke God Indeed he could not but be very well who had God for his Father Christ his Saviour and the Holy Ghost his Comforter whose Temple and house his soule and body was He had so resigned up his will to the Will of God which is the height of perfection that whatsoever God did and whatsoever He suffered he alwayes embraced as good Hee embraced his crosse and looked upon his troubles as the lot of Gods Children the Physick of the soule the Pledge of Divine love the badge of his Profession the Tryall of his Faith the exercise of his Patience the Testimony of his constancy the incentive of his Devotion and the Marke of his conformity with Christ his Head To whom that hee might by a closer Union be joyned now that his Soule was drawing towards Heaven he desired to receive his Viaticum that Heavenly Foode which might as it did strengthen his Spirit in its long journey to Eternity That which is a Sacrament as of thankfull Commemoration so of Confirmation for that it confirmes our Faith that Christ is and will be in all respects to our souls I had rather say to our persons what the Bread and Wine is to our Bodies Had you beene present and seene with what flaming devotion with what burning Affections and holy Reverence he received that holy Foode the Seale of his Pardon That 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ignatius when in a cold frosty morning being the Lords Day hee tooke off all his Caps and sat up in his Bed Bare-headed in honour to his dread Soveraigne the King of Heaven his Lord Jesus exhibited as Crucified in that Sacrament for our sinnes Had you but seene this and heard the Heavenly expressions that fell from his Lips you would have concluded that as he was a rare Saint so a most worthy Receiver and that they who contemne this Sacrament cannot be Saints Having thus got faster hold on Christ and grasping his Saviour in the Armes of his Faith and Thankefulnesse Luke 2.29 Hee ever after sang old Simeons Song Domine nunc Dimittis c. Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in peace He longed after his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hee desired to be released from his Prison the body is no more to the soule Hee often wished to be dissolved and to be admitted to a neerer familiarity with Christ And having sent from the Chamber where he lay sick many messages to his Wifes aged Parents wishing them and another almost as aged in this Towne to prepare themselves for their Death which was approaching having discharged this last great act of Charity declaring thereby that he was loth to goe to Heaven alone To be happy without company Hee suggested this more than once to his beloved Consort that when shee saw him close his Eyes shee should not be troubled but conceive that hee was asleepe Death was no more to him which was entertained with moving of his Lips and lifting up of his Hands to Heaven even when hee could not stirre nor speake His Body after many Toiles and Travells in Gods Service is now asleepe for a time but his Soule is awake in Heaven Wearing the Crowne of Perseverance and Singing with the Heavenly Chorus of Saints and Angells a Triumphant Hymne to the Lambe Christ Jesus Sitting upon a Golden Throne who will at the great Day raise up his Body from its long sleepe by vertue of that Spirit which Raised up Christ from the Dead and dwelled in a ful measure in the Soul of this our late Reverend Learned Master who me thinks does bespeake us on Earth from Heaven in the words of S. Paul Eph. 5.1 Be ye followers of me as I was of the Lord Jesus in Faith and Love in Humility and Patience Weep not for me but turn your Tears into practice of my Vertues Judg. 9.48 As yee have seen me do so do ye likewise Thus if we do in a strict and holy conformity we shall be happy as He is and partake with him of Glory Trin-unî Deo Laus Gloria Amen THE TRIUMPH OF FAITH over DEATH ROMANS 8.11 If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortall Bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you IT is a true saying of Athenagoras Lib. de Resurrect that Christian Philosopher 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There is no Truth though never so ancient and grounded upon the Word but hath a lie attending and cleaving fast unto it which must not be understood of the nature of Truth it selfe that Virgin Daughter of Almighty God but to the malice of the Devill and to the madnesse of Heretickes and others his instruments that do corrupt and blast it It is a Principle all the World over except among Atheists that omne verum est à Deo omne falsum à Diabolo omnis error ab homine All Truth is from God as the prime authour of it all falsity from the Devill all errour from man The last goes alwayes under the vizard of the first i.e. errour under the mask of Truth But the Second i. e. falshood confronts Truth to the face and stands in open defiance of it So bold and daring are Hereticks that they have in their audacious writings strook at the very Essence Power Mercy Truth and Justice of God of this latter sort are they who deny the Resurrection 1 Tim. 2.18 they strike at Gods Power and overthrow his other Attributes as Wisdome Truth and Justice Thus did Hymenaeus and Philetus Men given up to carnall delights as their Name imports The like did the Valentinians who asserted most falsly that Christ redeemed onely our Soules and not our Bodies and so contenting themselves with vaine Phantastike Speculations they slighted all good works as unprofitable and of no use living in the meane while in all lewd profanesse Crames A●b And no marvell Nam qui Resurrectionem carnis non credit quid ille boni credat aut faciat He that believes not the Resurrection of the Flesh after Death what good can be expected to be done by him in this Life To these we may adde the Manichees who rejected the Resurrection as fabulous and maintained that our Soules should be saved without our Bodies What will not Men dare say who reject the Scriptures A blushing shame would have stained their Consciences and a recantation of their errour seiz'd on their Tongues had they but read and believed that portion of Gods Word which I have now read unto you If the spirit c. He shall quicken or restore to Life your mortall and dead Bodies which now

in me Gal. 1.24 So S. Paul of himselfe Gal. 1. who though he styled himselfe out of the depth of humility the chiefest of sinners and the least of Saints 1 Tim. 1.15 yet in Gods esteem he was as great as the greatest of the latter and lesse then the least of the former Now to the glory of God which is the aime of my weake endeavours to the prayse of his eternall goodnesse which should be the object of yours I shall by his blessing and divine assistance discharge a duty which is patterned to us by the practice of Heathens Jewes and Christians in all ages It is to present to the view of your Meditations one of the fairest Flowers in the Garden of Gods Church one of the highest Stars in the lower Firmament whilest I embalme the memory of the late Reverend most learned and pious Saint Doctor Combar once Deane of Carlile and Master of Trinity Colledge with a just Encomium and Prayses due to his rare and transcendent perfections In the doing whereof I shall performe a double commendable worke First a duty of civility and Christianity to the dead Secondly a duty of Piety to the living whilst we stir up your devotions to an imitation of the vertues which shined in the life of the deceased 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To speake in the language of the Learned Nazianzen whose tongue the tongue that sored so high in the praise of Athanasius and St. Basil would suite well with this great worke better than mine who when I have said what I can being not able to speake enough may incurre that censure of going about or endeavouring to fit a Dwarfs shoe to a Giants foote But to hold your expectation no longer in suspence I shall lay the foundation of this structure in his Birth and Education and then lay upon it the weight of an holy Life and happy death This done refer all to your Godly imitation and so commend you to God First for his Birth We have here a Righteous Branch sprung from a righteous Stock his Father a Gentleman of an ancient extraction as appeares by a large Testimony under the hand of Clurentiaulx the King of Armes Anno 1571. In the 13. yeare of the Renouned Queene Elizabeth He lived at Shermanbury in Sussex a Southerne moderate Climate the nurse of many choyce mild tempers He was a Councellour at Law which he managed with that reputation for his justice and equity that for this together with his great Hospitality he was honoured in his generation Ecclus 44. and was one of the glories of his times He dispersed abroade and gave to the poore by which meanes he found in blessings attending him and his That pauperum fundus est faecundissimus that the seede of Almes sown in the poore mans field Aug. will be so watered with the dew of Gods Benediction that it shall spring upward even to Heaven for a reward and beare fruit downewards to bring downe a blessing upon ours here on Earth The Generation of the righteous shall be blessed Psal 12 2. Hee was indeed blessed with a numerous issue whereof this was the 12. All like so many Arrowes in the hand of a Giant which the good Gentleman their Father shot up to Heaven againe from whence they came by devoting and giving them up to God in a vertuous education to be his servants which they were as I am informed in a constant practise of Piety and Justice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They were all Gods servants This whom we now commemorate marked out to be his Chaplaine to weare the Ephod with Samuel This was the Jabez 1 Chro. 4.9 more honorable then his Brethren This the Joseph the youngest Sonne but one as Ioseph was This the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the fruitfull bough Gen. 49.22 23. The Covenanters even a fruitfull bough by a Well whose branches runne over the wall At whom too the Berethites the Archers shot to their shame and his griefe but his bow abode in strength and his Armes were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob. Although he were as yee have heard the youngest Son but one by birth yet he was the eldest in life and knowledge He surpassed all survived all by which meanes he had the blessing of the first-borne no great nor small inheritance which fell unto him by descent from his first progenitours Thus the rich jewell of his learning being set in Gold shined with a greater lustre in the eyes of the Worlds minions who either despise Learning the prop of Religion and speak against it which is the marke of a foole or a prophane Julian or looke on a learned man oppressed and obscured by poverty as on a Diamond in dung as a Rose set in a Dunghill they behold and looke upon his learning with pity and disdaine Truly said the Lyrick Poet Pindarus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This was verified in our most knowing Deane He was a starre that blazed in bounty to the poore at home and to the foreiners from abroade who found his heart an Inne to harbour strangers He was a starre that flamed even before and after he was torne out of his Sphere with a great lustre and glorious brightnesse He was borne 1575 on New years day the day on which our Lord Christ was circumcised He was as it were sent by God into the World for a New years gift to the Church his Spouses benefit His Life was an Epiphany his Death not without glory agreeable to the glory of that day on which he was baptized This was on the day of Epiphany in which the Magi were led to Christ by a starre The 12. Child of his Father borne and baptized on two Holydayes dedicated by the Church and observed in all ages to the honour of Christ This juncture of time This combination of days and actions did prefigure the holinesse of our deceased Saints person This glorious Starre of grace and knowledge who was both a Theopompus and an Ephorus one whose forward diligence needed a bridle as there was neede sometimes of a Spur to his meeknesse He tooke his first rise for learning in a publique Schoole at Horsham in Sussex where he met with a Master that was rather 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no Orbilius no Dionysius no Tyrannus but an Isocrates one of a gentle spirit not like those now a days who make their Scholars to hate the Muses by presenting them in the shapes of Fiends and Furies but one who as it seemes had as Shoolmasters should doe made a Grammar of his boyes natures and reduced them to generall rules and finding this Deodate's disposition to be ingenious and industrious He therefore applied himselfe to his milde yet agile temper with all activity and meeknesse knowing that a frowne to such a spirit would be as bad as a correction and a correction as bad as a gibbet And in all his life