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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43575	A sermon preached at the funeral of the right honourable William Lord Pagett, Baron of Beaudefert, &c. By John Heynes, A.M. and preacher of the New Church, Westminster	Heynes, John.	1679 (1679)	Wing H17646A; ESTC R216791	19,530	47

done unto you As Haman who in his heart despised and hated Mordecai and did what he could to bring him to a shameful end was made to lacquey it at his horse-side and to proclaim through the chief streets of the City Thus shall it be done to the man whom the King delighteth to honour so those very persons who now look upon you as the filth and off-scouring of all things and treat you accordingly shall one day admire your excellent glory and be forced not by arguments but by the evidence of the thing it self to cry out as they in the Book of Wisdom Wisd v. 3 4 5. These are they whom we had sometime in derision and a proverb of reproach we fools counted their life madness and their end without honour but how are they new numbred among the Children of God and their lot is among the Saints But though this sense be very applicable to the condition of those first Christians that were contemporary with the Apostles and their immediate Successors yet we conceive with submission that the words are to be taken in the more large and comprehensive sense as expressing that vileness of the body which is common to all which wherein it doth consist I am now to declare unto you I. In the meanness of the matter of which they are constituted and composed we are framed and made out of the Earth We dwell in houses of clay whose foundation is in the dust Job iv 19. as Eliphaz in Job speaks we are inclosed and compassed about with mud walls and this is a vile habitation for so quick and sprightly a being as the Soul of man is to dwell in II. In the qualities of them The body of man it is a gross and heavy a dull and stupid a dark and comfortless thing it depresses and bears down the Soul and Spirit that it cannot without great difficulty mount up above this dark atmosphere it pulls us down from our mounts of vision it clouds the serenity of our minds and stifles the joy and pleasure thereof by those clouds and vapours that are continually arising from its lower regions it obstructs and hinders the Soul in its most noble operations and will if great care be not taken to prevent it stupifie it into an utter forgetfulness of its Divine Original In a word as a learned Jew speaks it is instar veli vel parietis apprehensionem creatoris impedientis More Nevoch p. 3. c. 9. like a veil or rather a thick wall intercepting our sight of divine things And in this respect it was that the Apostle saith Whilst we are at home in the body 2 Cor. v. 6. we are absent from the Lord not as though we had no converse or communion at all with him 1 Ep. Job i. 3. for the experience of all holy men speaks the contrary 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plato Phaed. Our fellowship saith S. John is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ But so little are we capable of knowing God so little are we capable of enjoying him whilst here that we may well be said to be absent from the Lord in respect of those more full discoveries and manifestations he shall make unto us when we are released out of the body and disburthened of this cumbersome load of mortality If this be the natural state of the body by reason of its innate qualities how much worse is it with them who render their bodies every day more gross and vile whilst they make provision for them to fulfill the lusts thereof they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 altogether fleshly and carnal or as Simplicius speaks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they are meer lumps of flesh and blood and their Souls in such moist and dissolute bodies are in no better condition than a spark of fire in a clay lake which cannot long continue unextinguished III. The vileness of our bodies consists in this that they have so many necessities that must be satisfied if we would preserve them in any good plight the decays of Nature must be every day repayed with the constant supplies of meat and drink and the frequent returns of rest and sleep Fateor insitam esse nobis corporis nostri charitatem fateor nos hujus gerere tutelam nec nego indulgendum illi serviendum nego Sen. Ep. 14. Now though God not only allows but commands us to have a due regard to our bodies and he that neglects himself in this kind so far as to hazard his health and unfit him for the necessary offices of human life doth thereby contract no small guilt yet surely the Heaven-born Soul of man doth not without some reluctancy and trouble condescend to this mean service especially when it can hardly ever perform its duty without being intangled in some inconvenience or other in the very performance of it There 's none among us but hath had often experience of this whilst we think we are gratifying the lawful desires of Nature we are many times nourishing those lusts which war against our Souls Dum ad quietem satictatis ex indigentiae molestiâ transeo in ipso transitu mihi insidiatur laqueus concupiscentiae Cons lib. 10. c. 31. and for fear of starving a friend feed and maintain a deadly Enemy within us St. Austin speaks excellently well in his Confessions Whilst saith he we pass from the trouble of hunger to the quietness of satisfaction we are insnared in the Cords of our own Concupiscence necessity bids us pass but we have no way to pass from hunger to fulness but over the bridge of pleasure and although health and life be the first cause of our eating and drinking yet as that good man sadly complains Adjungit se tanquam pedissequa periculos a jucunditas dangerous pleasure thrusts her self into attendance and sometimes endeavors to be the principal O this is it that afflicts the Soul and Conscience of many a tender Christian and makes him to cry out not without some kind of impatience Lord why are the days of my Pilgrimage prolonged Wherefore dost thou continue me any longer in this vale of Sin and Misery Psal cxx 5. O wo is me that I dwell in Mesech and inhabit the Tents of Kedar IV. The vileness of the body consists in this that it is subject to so many miseries and calamities to aches and pains to wounds and bruises to diseases and divers kinds of maladies surely however some of us through the kind indulgence of Heaven may be in a great measure free from these things yet we are never secure from the fear of them whilst we have a nature liable to them and see the lives of others whom we have no reason to think worse than our selves so far imbittered by them that they spend their days in sighing and their years in sorrow and heaviness V. To conclude there needs no more be said to the making out the vileness of the body but