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A86694	The art of embalming dead saints, discovered in a sermon preached at the funerall of Master William Crompton, the late reverend and faithfull pastor of the church in Lanceston Cornwall. Ianuary the fifth, 1641. By G. Hughes. B.D. Pastor of the church in Tavistocke Devon.	Hughes, George, 1603-1667.	1642 (1642)	Wing H3307; Thomason E142_1; ESTC R8080	45,689	61

wilt not leave c. His meaning plainly is God will not forsake him in the house of darknesse nor cease to be to him either in body or soule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what formerly he had beene in the state of life The affirmative then is this that God will be to Christ and his holy members in the state of death to their soules to their bodyes what ever he had been more punctually God will not faile them in these 4. respects 1. Of union God was one essentially with his son before death and God the son one personally with our flesh in life Ioh. 10.30 and in neither doth God faile him now under the bonds of death He and the Father are one now as much as ever So God and man as much one Christ now as ever Though soule and body be for a while parted yet God is not gone from either This is transcendent for the Prince Saint yet every meaner saint may claime his priviledge in measure God in Christ is mystically one with these Joh. 17.23 having by his spirit knit them to Christ their head and thorough him to himselfe once one and ever one is God when hee doth reunite to man in Christ though spirit and flesh part and faile them yet God failes them in soule and body never rottennesse and stench in the grave cannot drive him away nor separate him from his dust Bodies and soules are parts united to Christ so that they are of his flesh and of his bone therefore never by death to be divided from him They are Gods owne what ever they be 2. Of Relation The Lord was Christs God and Father while he was alive his voyce from heaven proclaimes it This is my beloved son Luke 9.35 and as tender hearted a Father was he to him Ioh. 20.17 when he was dead he did not cease to bee what he was neither doth he to the Holy seed arising from him He is Christs Father and their Father Christs God and their God while they are in the Land of the living and though man dye God dyeth not nor his relation wherein he hath beene knowne to his he his the father of the Saints dust in the pit and of their soules in his hand as well as he was of both united Hee gloryeth to be knowne at this day Matth. 22.32 The God of Abraham The God of Isaac and the God of Iacob God of their soules God of their dust yet not the God of the dead but of the living as our Lord teacheth for as much as they are related to the fountaine of life and shall by him bee revived and raised They and the Saints are his therefore not truly dead if so then were they left 3. Of affection what love the Father bare to the Son in his life time Iohn 1.18 is fully expressed in that one passage he was in the bosome of the Father and no whit was it abated when he dyes nay for that cause rather more love is now discovered it is his own word Iohn 10.17 therefore doth my Father love me because I lay downe my life and when it was gone he could not be loved lesse God could not leave now to affect him It is no otherwise with his brethren-saints John 17.23 if God love them even as he hath loved him yeelding to Christs own request whom he loves he loveth to the end and death is no end of being unto them conforme therefore herein are they to their head also God cannot leave to love them in the grave Rom. 8.38 nor can death separate from Gods love in Christ 4. Of Operation God wrought in Christ and for Christ admirably in his life Isay 55.5 God glorified him in his combate with Satan in his conflicts with the world John 11.41.43 in healing sick and raising dead in curing bodies and saving soules John 5.17 he confesseth the Father workes and he workes in all And will he now leave working with him and for him in the grave Nay his glory is there also to keep him to command drive away corruption from him to make him laugh at death and scorne the frownes and terrors of the grave yea to raise him againe out of the pit and exalt him up to his victorious throne But was this for him only Is it not for his confederates also Yea the poorest Saint hath a portion here God will not leave to work for them in death Hath he rescued them from the power of Satan and from the hand of hell by his quickning and converting grace and shall he now leave them to be a prey to death Nay sure he that hath begun is faithfull and will not leave working untill he carry them through the shadow of death and house of darknesse and perfect salvation for them in the heavens you see the first work 2. Thou wilt not give c. or thou wilt not suffer c. Yet the former is more neer the letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a word of action more consoant in reason for the present purpose then of pernaission for an efficacious permission seemeth too little for God about this matter for as much as God doth not only permit these evils to be done upon his enemies but his owne hand doth them as a Judge dividing right So that in this confidence of Gods gracious will to him the Saint acknowledgeth these things concerning the Lord. 1. His soveraignty over the graves malignity as if hee had said thou mightest give me into the power of the grave but thou wilt not thou art the Lord of it and me and it cannot budge one jot beyond thy leave 2. His sentence so that to give to see corruption is to give sentence upon a soule and to adjudge it to the cruelty of the grave thus God doth to some 3. His execution also of this it is the Lord not only that hath power over these evils and giveth sentence but whose arme doth execute even corrupt and destroy the condemned and this makes it intollerable evill when the hand of God inflicts it upon sinners Now from all these the Saint confides to be exempted and he is not deceived God will be faithfull He therefore speaks very boldly Thou wilt not give thine holy one to see corruption That is thou wilt not use thy soveraignty over death to the disadvantage of thy Saint thou art Lord of all not against but for me not to destroy but save me in my bed Nor wilt thou command death to feed upon me nor th● grave to rot me away from thee but rather wilt thou give sentence for me to preserve thy darling in the house of death and require it back safely and with advantage from the place of my p Hinc Apostolus concepit seminari eam dicere cum redhibetur in terram quia seminibus sequest●atorium terra est illic deponendis inde repetendis Tertul. lib. de

that hee could remember unto his present sicknesse The birth of the body of sinne with him lively deciphered his education at home his life at the Universitie and his whole course in severall places where since he lived 3. A strict and severe marking of every sinne whereof he found himselfe guilty by nature or by Act from his Childhood to his very entrance into the grave described as they were committed against every Commandement 4. A very deep aggravation of all these sins upon his own soule from knowledge from mercies from rods that God had used as barres in the way to sin and yet he had leapt over them and that with the bitterest expressions that sin can bee stiled by he spared not sinne in himselfe 5. A bitter contestation against hatred of and sorrow for sin in the discovery whereof me thinkes hee wrote as if his pen had bin dipt in teares of blood O those impartiall selfe-judgements dismall tremblings of heart and grievous burdens of soule under which he groaned to the last 6. An unsatisfiable hunger and thirst after Christ and the manifestation of God in him to his poore soule His written pantings and breathings after God did imitate Davids the panting Hart did not more bray for waters nor the thirsty ground more gape for moisture than his soule did to receive some drops of mercy in Christ 7. A most gracious bent of heart in most earnest desires to be as much purged as pardoned and that sinne might be as much subdued as for given peace any way did not content him but peace with grace and that God would so speake peace that he might not turne againe to folly 8. Constant use of meanes ordinary and extraordinary for the mortification of sinne and growth in grace and amongst the rest monethly fasting and humiliation wherein he found no small advantage 9. An Holy indignation at himselfe and revenge upon himselfe for time unfruitfully spent wherein hee conceived he neither did nor received good Godly sorrow wrought much of this in him and hee lost not by it growing more watchfull and more skilfull to improve all seasons of Good and to redeeme time that was lost 10. Unwearied perseverance in this godly thriving course even to a few dayes before his death untill weaknesse laid him in his bed the forerunner of his grave See the man and judge severely are not these the Characters of a Christian Thus he continued a selfe abasing and a Christ exalting soule Thus he conversed within 2. Touching his Christian deportment to others I shall in short declare it in this threefold respect which hee had to others 1. To the Churches of Christ both at home and in forraigne parts an exact observation of all memorable occurrences both good and evill in them that he might bee sutably affected with them either praying or praising God for them Deepe thoughts of sorrow he expressed upon Germanies desolations and great feares of the powring out of Gods indignation upon our owne Land strong Cryes and Teares to turne away judgements joy and thankesgivings upon hopes of refreshing to the Churches of Christ among us and one thing among the rest I may not passe when he enters upon the Register of this yeares mercies hee begins it with this title in Capitall letters ANNVS MIRABILIS 1641. and so it is A wonderfull yeare of Gods mercies to England 2. To his fellow Christians that were of his flock or otherwise a strict notice of their weaknesses troubles in mind temptations or other afflictions in divers kindes that hee might have a fellow-seeling as a Christian and pastorall bowels as a Minister to them to bee weake with them that were weake and tempted with them that were tempted that he might helpe to beare their burdens with them and so fulfill the law of Christ 3. To his enemies it was his reach to bee like minded to Christ to doe them good for all their evill and to seek it for them with his whole heart O sweet petitions and strong cries have been registred for them that have despised his Ministry and reviled his person I hope God will remember them if they belong unto him if not their storming at his goodnesse and the relation of it will argue but the greater malignity of their sin and leave them in a more inexcusable condition If this be the Christians Cognizance to love them that hate him and pray for them that despitefully use him let him be well accounted among the assembly of the Holy 2. If we consider him as a Minister of Christ these things I have observed that may not be unfruitfull to us and were no blots in him 1. His humble and heart-afflicting confession that at his first entrance into the Ministry his aime was more to seeke himselfe and his own than to serve Christ and seeke his glory It may be no needlesse or unusefull Item to his brethren in the Ministery we that live may doe well to take an hint from hence for a search of our ends in undertaking this sacred function It is rare if we be not deepe in this transgression and if so it is no shame to be plaine in our confessions and deepe in our Humiliations for it our gaine it will be if we awake and in sincerity now begin to serve the Lord Christ 2. His selfe-condemning for the best of his performances in the worke of his Ministry looking upon himselfe as an unprofitable servant in all Such passages were usuall in his owne day-booke This day I preached weakly carnally with much corruption c. O how good is it to be a selfe denying Man a selfe-denying Master But Lord how hard is it to have any thing and deny himselfe in all yet must we strive 3. The good proofe which he made of his Ministry in the time allotted him I shall but touch the evidence of this in these particulars 1. In his abilities humane and divine His workes have shewn this and among others his worth approved by that famously learned King James who being called before his Majesty as a delinquent in delivering a false view of some of S. Augustines works was yet dismissed for his sufficiency with a Schollars reward This may silence detractors in that respect but his proficiency in the knowledge of the mysterie of Christ was eminent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nys in Orat. in laud Fra. Basil however he judged himselfe nothing in all in the sound judgement of truth a Mountain not a reede to be shaken as one said of Basil 2. In his diligent and indefatigable study to doe Christs worke carefully and faithfully as becomes the Worke of such a Master he feared the curse of doing Gods worke negligently it is good thus to feare 3. In his tender bowels and affection to those soules over whom God had set him How did he watch for them pray for them and carry them in his heart daily with desire to save them poore soules ye know not