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A52287	The dying mans destiny, and the living mans duty, opened. And applyed in a sermon preached on board the Loyal-Eagle, upon the coast of Cormodell in the East-Indies. At the solemn obsequies of Mr. Richarde Bernard, Chyrurgeon, who, at the conclusion of it, was (with universal sorrow) thrown into the sea, Feb. 1. 1680. Together, with an elegy on his death. By C.N. Minister of the same ship.	Nicholets, Charles.	1682 (1682)	Wing N1087; ESTC R222287	39,747	53

Center or the touched Needle to the North-pole What place so mete what home so proper for the earthly Tabernacle of of Mans body as the earthly Apartments in the Grave Indeed the Grave is no proper Home for the Soul the better part of Man because it is immaterial incorporeal not subject to deaths Soveraignity aiming at a future being and capable of being crowned with the glorious Diadem of everlasting Honour according to the Sence of that famous Pagan Terra Domus non est animis accomoda nostris Alrius it nostrae conditionis honor The Grave is also a proper Home for the Body by reason of the great change Death makes in the Body which renders it wholly unfit to continue upon the Earth without intolerable and insupportable offence to the Living When Death hath served his Writ of Arrest and fixed the Impession of his cold hand Oh! how miserably is the fairest Face then disfigured how pittifully is the sweetest Countenance then changed how horridly is the compleatest Body then corrupted and become a noisom spectacle to its nearest Relations Insomuch that the fondest Husband then abominates the presence of his most amiable Wife the tenderest Father then loaths the sight of his most beloved Child the dearest and most intimate Friend then stands aloof off from him whose company was once truly precious and acceptable to him Therefore the Grave is the properest home for the breathless-body of Man for there it sleeps and rests without offence to any Secondly God hath appointed the Grave as Man 's fixed setled home a place of rest after his tossings and hurryings to and fro in the World We are born to Dye yea we begin to Dye as soon as we are delivered out of our Mothers Womb Nascentes Morimur finisque ab origine pendet And we must expect no quiet till Death concludes the play of our lives The Apostle tells us that here we have no continuing City but we seek one to come Indeed like Noah's Dove we scarce know where to rest the Sole of our Foot in peace Here we are often forc'd to be moving and removing from one habitation to another from one country to another yea from one end of the earth to the other we are never fixed nor throughly setled till we come to the Grave and then there will be an end for ever of all our Wandrings and weary some Pilgrimages Man whilst travelling in the Regions of Mortallity under the circumstances of being obnoxious to divers contingencies may not unfitly be compared to a Ship under sail in the wide Ocean for that he is always rowling and tumbling beaten up and down with Winds and Waves of various providencies and fatal accidentalities that do attend him and so continually upon the Surfe of Motion that he never drops Anchor never is at quiet till warped into the Harbour of the Grave And then Oh then he is fast and rides secure from all Storms and Tempests For there the wicked cease from troubling and there the wearied are at rest Thirdly God hath appointed the Grave as Man 's bounded confined home The place where all his desires after and all his endeavours for the enlargement of worldly possessions will have their termination Whilst Man is upon the Earth he is unsatiable in his coveting earth and thinks he hath never enough of it His heart is like the daughter of the Horse-leech still crying Give give and is never satisfied As Juvenal speaks of Alexander P●l●o juveni vix totus sufficit orbis The whole World was not enough to quench the thirst of his ambitious Humour yea some say he Wept because there were no more worlds to Conquer Oh! But when he comes to the Grave he is then confined to his breadth and length and uncapable of desiring any more he is then bounded in his dimentions without a thought of any enlargement When we see the most covetous or ambitious Man going to the Grave we may see in tanto a fulfilling of that Prophesy That the loftiness of Man shall be bowed down and the haughtiness of Man shall be brought low Though I know as to the full completion of it it hath another tendency for then his high Aspirations and all his vain Expectations are at a Ne plus ultra and he confined to a narrow scantling of room in this Long Home Oh! consider this you whose greedy minds are never satisfied with terrene fruitions but are always craving and grasping after more that are contriving how to add house to house and lay field to field till there be no place that are sweating and toyling journying and travelling and taking a world of pains to increase the Store of your so much adored earthly Treasure Remember I beseech you there is no buying or selling no trading or traffiquing in the Grave No bettering or making finer or larger your accomodations there The poorest Codrus hath as much room as much conveniency in this dark Region as the richest Cresus For this is the Home where every Man hath enough to serve him and is confined to the dimentions of it Fourthly God hath appointed the Grave as Man's common epidemical home The place where all the Sons and Daughters of Adam must lye down together of what nation or language of what degree or quality soever they are The small and the great the good and the bad are there There is no distinction of persons or conditions of men in that Climate The most glorious Saint hath no more priviledge or better entertainment in the Grave than the worst of Sinners Job though he was a good Man one that put his whole trust and confidence in God one that was beloved of his God and therefore ascertain'd of his Souls possessing the Mansion of eternal Glory yet as to his Body he knew that must fare as the rest of the world did Hence we find him claiming kindred with the natives of that Country below whither he was going I have said to corruption thou art my Father and to the worm thou art my Mother and my Sister And again Though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God Though he was so excellent a Saint and had so pure a Soul yet his Body was corruptible and must become food for worms We read of two and but two bodies of Adam's Line that were carried immediately from Earth to Heaven without stopping at the Grave with the rest of their Brethren The one was Encch of whom it is said He was not for God took him The other was Elijah who who in a Chariot of Fire with Fiery-horses was drawn up from beside the River Jordan to the New Jerusalem the holy Hill of Zion to be for ever with God and With the Spirits of just Men made perfect The very Body of our Lord Jesus for the absolute conquering of Death and full compleating the work of our Redemption was necessitated to go down into the Grave though not to corrupt

and perish there For David personating him thus prophetically spake Thou wilt not leave my Soul taken here figuratively for the outward Man in Hell that is the Grave for so Sheol signifieth Neither wilt Thou suffer thy holy One to see Corruption Implying that all other bodies must see corruption under whatever circumstances they may be considered when they come to this common home this general receptacle of the Grave For as all must lye down and take up their dwelling there together so all must perish and rot and be consumed there and that from the same cause and after the same manner The Grave is a common home for the wicked in Judgment it is their Jail where they are kept safe till the great and general Assizes of the Day of Judgment when the last Trumpet will sound and the Eccho of it will be heard from the one end of the Earth to the other with this doleful Summons Arise ye Dead and come to Judgment When the Vision of John will be made good to a tittle And I saw a great white Throne and him that sate on it from whose Face the Earth and Heaven fled away and there was found no place for them And I saw the Dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book was opened which is the Book of Life and the Dead were judged out of those things that were written in the Book according to their Works And the Sea gave up the Dead which were in it and Death and Hell that is the Grave delivered up the Dead which were in them and thy were Judged every Man according to their Works And the effect of this great Tryal and dreadful Appearance will be the Bodies of the wicked shall be sent to Hell as well as their Souls and be Tormented there for ever God can and for the glorifying of his Justice he will Condemn both Body and Soul to Hell-fire at last Those Ears that have been always open to let in the Air of obscenity and tickled with delight in the hellish musick of prophane Language shall then be terrified with the doleful Howlings and Cryings and Gnashing of Teeth that will there be in an horrible manner among the wreached Miscreants Those Eyes that have been as Windows to let in Lust and all manner of wantonness and filthiness into the Soul shall then be punished with beholding the ghastly Looks of affrightning Devils that will be continually staring the damned in the Face Those Tongues that have been the Bellows of the Devil blown into from Hell always imploy'd in belching forth horrid Oaths blaspheming their Creator or thundring out direful Execrations cursing the Creature and that without either shame or remorse shall then be miserably scorched in that inextinquishable Fire which there burneth Day and Night In a word those Bodies that here have been vessels of uncleaness members of an harlot recepticles of all prophaness shall then be rowling on fiery Pillars in those everlasting Burnings in those devouring Flames which the Breath of the Lord hath kindled when that amazing and soul-confounding Sentence is pronounced upon them by the Month of the righteous Judge himself Depart from me ye Cursed into everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels But now the Grave is a common home to the Saints and People of God in Mercy it is the place where their Bodies are clarify'd and refined from all dross and corruption and so made fit for Glory Oh! what a glorious Morning what a joyful blessed day will that of the Resurrection be to All that sleep in Christ For then with their bodily Eyes shall they behold their Saviour and in the re-union of their Bodies with their Souls shall they be for ever with him hearing him speaking in that soul-reviving soul-refreshing yea soul-ravishing Language to them Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the Foundation of the World Then the Body that is now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a body of meanness or a low abject vile Body by reason of its corruption shall in that day become 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Body of Glory for it will be changed and made like unto the glorious Body of the Lord Jesus and in conformity to that Glory put on Stolam immortalitatis the Garment of immortality The dead bodies of Saints shall live yea together with the dead Body of Christ shall they arise They shall awake and sing though now they dwell in the Dust for their Dew is as the Dew of Herbs and the Earth shall give them up as the Lord 's Dead Now then if the Grave be Man's proper home his seltled home his confined home and his common home Ah! How should all of us whether rich or poor high or low old or young be familiarizing this home to our selves as that which we must all come to Oh Sirs Methinks you should have serious and awful thoughts of your ghastly paleness your loathsome blackness and your habitations in the dark And so I pass from the Dying Mar's Destiny He goes to his Long Home To the Living Man's Duty He ought to be a Mourner in the Street I told you in the Doctrine there was a Mourning due from the Survivers to the Deceased I shall now labour to make it appear and that upon a four-fould account First Naturally There is a natural Obligation to Mourn when any Man goes to his Long Home and surely they are very unnatural that do not pay it First For that they that Live are of the same Mould with them that Dye All are made and composed of the same perishing Earth Hence David speaks not only of himself but of all Men when he inscribes Vanity on them Psalm 39. ver 5 6. Behold thou hast made my Days as an hand 's breath and my Age is as nothing before Thee verily every Man at his best estate is altogether Vanity Surely every Man walketh in a vain show surely they are disquieted in vain He heapeth up Riches and knoweth not who shall enjoy them Here is a general Rule without any exception that every Man be he never so great or high or rich or wise or learned in the world and that in his best estate take him under what circumstances you will is Vanity yea altogether Vanity a poor crazy empty evanid thing Now when Man that is so vain so perishing in his own Nature sees one of the same Mould with himself carrying to the Grave to be placed in his Long Home the Law of Nature exacts a tribute of Tears from him though he had no particular acquaintance with or obligation to the person deceased because he beholds a crumbling away and a fading of that Earth whereof himself is made at which Nature cannot but have a reluctancy and vent its sympathetical Passion But as the Apostle speaks of some Monsters in filthiness and uncleaness that they did that which is against Nature so we may see

when the Marriage-knot between the Soul and Body is dissolved when there is a Writ of Divorce issued from the Court of Heaven to separate them then the Body is laid up in the Grave and there it remains a long long time even till the day of the Resurrection The Apostle speaks of an Home in this World 2 Cor. 5. ver 6. Therefore we are always confident knowing that whilst we are at Home in the Body we are absent from the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here I conceive might be better rendred with than in and so the Sence will be supposing it as indeed we must the Breathings of the Spirit of Man we are here as strangers sojourning or dwelling with the Body as though we were at Home for a small time The Supersicies of the Earth is Man's Short Home the Bowels of it is his Long Home Now if we compare the time of the longest-lived-man that ever was upon the Earth which was Methuselah whose days amounted to Nine Hundred Sixty and Nine Years with the time that he hath since lived in the Grave we shall find the Grave to be his Long Home in comparison of the Earth notwithstanding his days were lengthened so exceedingly upon it Thus you see the Grave is a Long Home Comparatively But Secondly The Grave is a Long Home Really and Positivily The Time of Man's commoration in this dark Mansion is not for days or years but ages yea for many ages So that we may call it a small Branch of the vast Ocean of Eternity If we look at Abel the first Lord of this Mannor the first that took Possession of this retired Place how many Thousand Years hath he kept house in this gloomy Tabernacle of the Grave It hath been a long a very Long Home to him The Grave hath been an inhabited Tennament by Adam's posterity above Five Thousand Years And we that are yet alive waiting to go down into it how long our abode may be in it we are uncertain because We know not in what day or hour the Son of Man shall come to break open the Prison Doors of the Grave and to set us at liberty that are in the Prison-House Job speaks of the Grave as the House he was most certain to go unto and take up his dwelling in Chap. 30. vor 23. For I know that thou wilt bring me to Death and to the House appointed for all Living It is an House of a long standing and will be of long duration even as long as time it self it runs parallel with it The Creation of the World and the Resurrection of Man out of the Grave are the two Tropicks of time or the sacred boundaries that Heaven hath put to it A parte post a parte ante as the Philosopher speaks For as before the former it had no Existence so after the latter it shall have no longer continuance but be swallowed up in the fathomless Gulph of Eternity Time that now is always running Mob●li cursu with a swift pace will then be stopt in its motion and be no more But there are several things that must precede this Great and weighty Matters must be brought about by the hand of Divine Power before the End cometh as we may plainly see if we consult the sacred Oracles Anti-christ must be brought down with all his Usurpations and Idolatrys The Jews must be converted The number of the Gentiles must be brought in and the House of the Lord must be set upon the Mountains and exalted above the Hills that all Nations may flow unto it For out of Zion shall go forth the Law and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem But till this be done the Grave is the appointed house for all Living and therefore it is a Long Home Having thus considered the Grave as to its Duration It is a Long Home We will now speak a little of the Grave with respect to its Qualification what kind of Home it is In the general it is Man 's designed and appointed Home In the Text but now quoted out of Job it is said to be the House appointed for all Living God hath appointed by a decree like the Laws of the Medes Persians which never can be changed or revoked that the Grave shall be the one Repository for all the Carcasses of Adams Children to be laid up in and kept till the day of the Resurrection The Apostle speaks of the appointment of Death Heb. 9. ver 27 And as it is appointed unto Men once to Dye but after this the Judgment Men are appointed to Dye that they may go to their appointed home the Grave God hath appointed Mans being and the time of his being in this World as Job stedfastly believed All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come And he hath appointed Man a place of resting after he goes out of this World and that is the Grave Oh! How should this suppress Fears and banish Cowardise from the Hearts of all timorous Christians that are slavishly afraid of the Paleness of Death and tremble to think of going down into the darkness of the Grave Why Sirs though it be never so dark and gloomy though it be an house of Rotterness a place of Putrefaction it is the home prepared and appointed by our Heavenly Father for us And therefore Why should we scruple to lye down in it Or why should we have any fearful apprehensions about it Such persons and lose all the comfort of their lives as an Heathen well observed Qui metuit Mortem quod vivit perdit id ipsum Oh! We should be always remembring it and rest satisfied in it that the Wise the Righteous the Holy the blessed GOD hath appointed the Grave for our Long Home First God hath appointed die Grave as Man's proper suitable home the home that doth naturally suite with his Complexion and Constitution When Adam by his Rebellion had shaken off the glorious Theocrasy he was under which would assuredly have protected him from the power of Death however Homogeneal to his body by reason of the contrariety of qualities in it God left him and that justly to Fall to Dye according to the perishing nature of that matter of which his Body was composed Gen. 3. ver 19. In the sweat of thy Face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground for out of it wast thou taken for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return As if he had said Hadst thou continued in thy Obedience and hadst kept thy self in thy Innocency sitting under the shadow of my immediate Government I would by my Almighty Power have preserved thy Body notwithstanding its Materiality from ever seeing corruption or being in the least tainted with putrefaction But now I 'le leave thee to go down to the caverns of the Earth where thy Body being dust naturally inclines with as much propensity as the Stone to its