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A05279	The Christians vvatch: or, An heauenly instruction to all Christians, to expect with patience the happy day of their change by death or doome Preached at Prestbury Church in Cheshire, at the funerals of the right worshipfull Thomas Leigh of Adlington Esquire, the 16. of February anno 1601. By William Leigh Bacheler of Diuinitye, and pastor of Standish in the countie of Lancaster.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1605 (1605)	STC 15422; ESTC S108412	42,071	96

THE Christians Watch OR An Heauenly Instruction to all Christians to expect with patience the happy day of their change by death or doome Preached at Prestbury Church in Cheshire at the Funerals of the right worshipfull Thomas Leigh of Adlington Esquire the 16. of February Anno 1601. By William Leigh Bacheler of Diuinitye and Pastor of Standish in the Countie of Lancaster Math 24. verse 42. Watch for you knowe not what hower your Master will come LONDON Printed for E. White dwelling neer the little north doore of S. Pauls Church at the Signe of the Gunne 1605. To the Right VVorshipfull Sr. Vrian Leigh Knight grace and peace bee multiplied with increase of all heauenly comforts heere and happines in the world to come IT is with me Right Worshipfull Sr. in this my labour as it was with Phineas wife at the birth of her Ichabod who when they said to comfort her thou hast borne a Sonne she answered not nor regarded it in respect she thought so small a gaine could neuer redeeme so great a losse This poore Posthumus borne at your Fathers funeralls I haue euer since regarded the lesse for that my losse was in it life nor should it euer haue seene more light had not your place ouer-awed me and much instance drawne it on vrging it often as a pledge of my loue towards him that gon is and a Christian kindenes to those that remaine In lieu of both I could not but bring it foorth and lay it in the lappe of your fauourable protection yet accounting it my hard happe I should with the poore Gadaren thus still haunt the graues of the dead and wound my selfe with the stones of their Sepulchres How be it if it be better to goe into the house of mourning then of mirth and that who sowe in teares shal reape in ioy I wil repose my selfe in this that since I could discerne what it was to loose a friend I haue had my part of such dolefull Musicke and therefore may expect a ioyfull croppe of that sowing But to leaue the dead and to come to the liuing your zeale to God good Sir with the loue of his truth in the Religion of his Sonne Christ for which neither your arme hath been wearie to fight abroade nor your tongue to pleade at home ouer and besides your vndelayed prouision of a skilfull Bezaleel to build vp your owne house and neighbors souls about you As these may be much to your comfort so are they greatly to my ioy for that in sorte I may say with the Apostle in Christ Iesus I haue begotten you These blessed buds of religion appearing in Oxford when first I knewe you and had the care of their groth committed vnto mee from your carefull Father that gone is now spreading as Ceders in the readie and ripe practise of pietie and Godlines doe make mee not onely thankefull to God therefore but right ioyfull I may vndergoe any duetie to answere your loue or further your faith and therefore haue made bolde sith so you will haue it to put into your Religious heart bosome this Christian Watch. The watch is Iobes onelie the winding vp is mine as God hath directed the finger so it goeth and as I trust truelie to all such of Gods Saints as expect with patience the blessed day of their change by death or doome And if I haue failed in the compasse of any wheele as it may bee I haue for what am I but dust and ashes to pleade with my God yee which are spiritual reforme it and restore mee with the Spirit of meekenes considering your selues least ye also bee tempted And the Lord of his mercie multiplie his blessings more and more vppon you keepe you euer vnder his holy and helping hand of prouidence and protection with my verie good Lady your Vine and all your O liue branches From Standish the 1. of Ianuarie 1602. Your Worships in all kindenes to commaund W. Leigh The Christians Watch. OR An heauenly Instruction to all Christians Iob. 14. 14. If a man die shal he liue againe then all the dayes of mine appointed time will I watch vntill my changing shall come WEe are heere assembled this day as I trust in the feare of GOD and loue of our CHRIST not to pray for the dead or sorowe euē as other that haue no hope being taught by the Spirit that who dye in the Lord rest from their labours and are fully blessed But we are assembled rather to gaine by the seueritie of death that which for the most parte we loose in the securitie of our life viz A true touch and feeling of our owne frailtye taken from the dailye doomes of this declining worlde whose flower as you heere see is fading beautie but a blossome For surely it is true in the steddie bole of all the worlde which is heere falne out in a tender branch There is an appointed time for all thinges vnder the Sunne a time to plante and a time to plucke vp a time to build and a time to pull downe a time to gather and a time to scatter a time to rent and a time to sowe a time to speake and a time to keep silence a time to laugh and a time to weepe a time to liue and a time to dye yea to dye there is no remedie Uni Deo nunquam senectus atra nec mors imminet sed alia miscet domitor aetas omnia Onelye God neither olde age nor blacke death can ouertake but for al other things deuouring time hath and will turne them topsie turuye In regard whereof holy pacient Iob after much debate many pleadings with the sinnes of his soule and sorowes of his heart doth at last as you may heere see demurre vpon the plea with death doome thereby bringing vnto him selfe in solace of his soule a state of inheritance indefeazible with a Crowne of glorye that withereth not And this is done by a thrreefolde necessitie laid vpon all flesh 1. The first of dying and that 's but once 2. The second of liuing againe and that 's for euer 3. The third and last of watchfulnes and that 's but for a time euen till the day of our changing shall come The necessitye of our dying is the doore of life the necessitye of our liuing againe is the doome of death the necessitye of our watchfulnes is the Calender of our daies to witte how we haue liued how we doe liue and how we purpose to liue vntil our changing shall come Or thus that of death we deeme it the day of miserye That of life againe we holde it the day of glorye That of watchfulnes we reckon it for the day of grace And so as one floud puts on an other these three hale and help vs on to happy dwelling whereof if you loose a linke you break the Chayne and silken thrid should winde you out of the laberinth of this

was translated that he shold not see death that though happily his departure out of this life was extraordinary without passion sickenes or greenance yet was it a dissolution and such as left a bodye behinde else why saith the Text that these whereof Enocke was one without vs should not bee made perfect had hee been taken vp and glorified in bodye as in soule hee had been perfect without vs but because the Scripture plainely saith that hee without vs should not bee perfected I holde as yet in bodie he is no more glorified then wee or the rest of that Calender It is recorded by Iude that Michaell th'a arch Angell stroue against the Deuill and dispu●ed about the bodye of Moses nor doe I doubt but the contention was anenst the funeralles The Deuil would haue them solemne Michael would haue them secret to auoide idolatrie and loue of religques least the succeeding age m●ght commit the sinne in adoring his dead bones of whome whilst hee liued they had so great a reputation of all pietye and holines So may I say of Henocke and Elias in that as the text saith they are gone not seene or found they are taken rom buriall and from all vsage of this world least succeeding ages might adore them dead whom they so honored aliue for not found not seene we say of mē rather lost on earth then gone to heauen Againe when Christ was transfigured vpon the Mount it is said that Moses and Elyas talked with him and tolde of his departure which hee should accomplish at Ierusalem and shall wee say that the one was more translated then the other more perfect or more glorified then the other pardon mee if I pleade a like perfection in both If Elias then Moses if not Moses then not Elias but it is plaine in the Scripture that Moses dyed and so it is of Enocke and Elias in the generall otherwise how should that sentence of Scripture bee veryfied Hebrues 9. 27. It is appointed to men that they shall once dye if wee shall then conclude and say from the premisses that by diuine dispensation and for the time Moses Elyas tooke vp their bodies to associat Christ in the glorification as did the Saintes who ryse with him to accompany him in the resurrection when hauing performed that which they were appointed to doe they were dissolued againe as before I holde it may well stand with the Anolagie of faith for that the Scripture saith concerning Christ. Act. 13. 34. God raised him vp from the dead no more to returne to corruption as and if others might twise returne where Christ should but once see the graue As for the Fathers doubtfull iudgement there anenst I say as I haue euer said I reuerence their gray haires but I blesse eternitie nor dare I subscribe to all the Fathers in the present point for that they are variable nor to any one of them further then hee hath good warrantie out of the word which is euer like it selfe and stable in al truth The Rhemistes would prooue in their annotations vpon the 11. of the Apocalips two speciall pointes of Doctrine against vs to make good their Antichriste yet to come 1. First that Enocke and Elias yet liue shall preach in the time of Antichrist and suffer martirdome the● that they now liue in Paradice and for denying of these two positions they say we● Protestants are too contentious and incredulous the matter being cleare as they auer in the opinion of all antiquitie and to that ende they presse vs with the sway o● the Fathers both Greeke and Latine T 〈…〉 whose quotations in that place I referr 〈…〉 you as also to the variable iudgement o 〈…〉 antiquitie there anenst whence I resolue and conclude To say with some of the fathers concurring with our aduersaries that Enocke and Elyas be yet in Paradice is idle to say they shall fight against Antichrist in the ende of the world and suffer Martirdome is more idle to say they be yet aliue is dangerous but to say they be dead as all others are is without all danger and whereupon neuer grew schisme in the Church of God neuer greefe to conscience or checke to the Royall dignitie of our Christ whose sole and soueraigne preheminence of being in heauen bodily I holde as an excellencie in him and a blessing to vs yet so as to beleeue or not to beleeue that Enocke Elyas be there may bee no barre to our saluation for that I doubt not but milions of soules shall bee saued who neuer heard or sought into that secret And now that I haue said God will witnesse with mee before whome I stand in the sight of men and Angels that I haue spoken nothing to the touch or preiudice of any contrarie iudgement or out of the pride or singularitie of my owne heart but in right and prerogatiue of my Christ whose peculiar yet I take it to bee alone to pardone our sinnes to pleade our cause and purchase our place whither first he is entred in body to make passage for all and as the Apostle saith Now to appeare in the sight of God for vs and so to conclude with Origen sicut ex mortuis primogenitus christus it a primus carnem euexit in caelum As Christ is the first borne of the dead so hee first caried his flesh into heauen 2. A second doubt encountering this Doctrine riseth from such as make question what became of the bodie of Lazarus after it was raised as also of the bodyes of those saints which at christ his resurection came out of their graues went into the holy citty and appeared vnto many To which I answere that all was done by myracle and diuine dispensation onely for that time to confirme and ascertaine vnto vs the resurection from the dead as in the head so in the members And well it might stand with faith and religion both that as by like dispensation Christ himselfe being yet mortall was transfigured vpon the holy Mount and glorified in body and beeing risen againe and gloryfied t●oke an impression of his mortalitie as the print of the Nailes in his hands and wound in his side to confirme the weake faith of Thomas So I say by the verie like dispensation hath he disposed of the bodies of those his Saints for that time to confirm the doctrine of the resurection who hauing performed that which they were appointed to doe by the iudgement of Augustine and diuers others settled in their graues as they did before for Christ being raised from the dead dyeth no more as and if the Apostle were resolued that manye raysed to life haue dyed againe of which sorte I take these to be 3. The third and last encounter is with our aduersaries who to aduance the bodye of the blessed virgin vp into heauen haue mightily abased the blessed bodye of Christ on earth pulling downe the one

the vngodly among thē of al their wicked deedes Daniel saith I beheld til the Thrones were set and the fierye streames issued out till the iudgement was prepared the bookes were opened with thousand thousands ministring vnto him and ten thousand thousands standing before him Ezekiel saith an end is come the end is come it watched for thee beholde it is come Paul saith we are they vpon ●home the ends of the world are come Iohn●aith ●aith Nouissima hora est wee know that it is 〈…〉 he last time And Peter saith for al Now the 〈…〉 nd of all thinges is at hand be sober therfore 〈…〉 nd watchfull in prayer whence I inferre the 〈…〉 ore to moue that all thinges haue an end may moue much that the end is at hand may moue more but that euen now the end is at hand and vpon vs may moue most of all Nor doe these scriptures onely presse vs with the certainty expedition and seueritye of the last day But with al y● dūme creatures groane trauaile in paine together vnto this presēt and to hasten the iudgement doe crye to bee deliuered from the bondage of corruption wherein they are into the glorious liberty of the sonnes of God yea certayne it is that heauen earth hell all Saintes and sinners hasten the day hale on the iudgement God hath set it our sinnes haue deserued it the graue 〈…〉 are pregnant and they desire to be deliuered hel gapeth to deuoure the reprobate and th 〈…〉 heauens open to take in the elect as for th 〈…〉 prophesies they are past the signes spoke 〈…〉 of by Christ himselfe they are neere accomplished for error seduction heresie are fa 〈…〉 spread in the worlde warres plagues pr 〈…〉 digies are all abroad the godly are grieued 〈…〉 persecuted the godlesse prosper and goe on Faith is geason vpon the earth iniquitye is 〈…〉 it growth the loue of many is key cold 〈…〉 And surely surely if the Gospell of the king dome be preached through the whole worl 〈…〉 for a witnes vnto al nations And if Israel 〈…〉 fully called to grace from which it is fallen I see no reason or rule in religion to crosse it but that the finall fire may flash in our faces ere we can depart the place Looke vpon the haruest and viewe the fieldes are they not as Barnard saith Albae ad messem siccae ad ignem white for the sickle and drye for the fire But if all these were silent and said nothing the great securitye of sinning wherein the world slepeth were enough to prognosticate the Lords neere aproach stirre vs vp to be watchfull for certaine it is whē we are moste secure the Lord is most seuere and his iudgements are neerest As it was in the daies of Noah so likewise shall the comming of the Son of man be Our dayes are as the dayes of Noah for the fierie floud is vpon vs we know nothing we eat wee drinke we marrye wee build all arguments of our securitye and though lawfull in those yet vnlawfull in the abuse then are they most abused whē they doe secure vs in our sinnes and make vs carelesse of our God And heere obserue an argument drawne frō the stronger that if these lawful thinges in 〈…〉 he abuse deserue a iust reproofe how much more our shamelesse sinning hand ouer head 〈…〉 n the sight of this Sonne like Absol 〈…〉 n is worthy condēnatiō I meane our excessiue belly-cheere idle drinkings endles drunkennes our foule adulteryes filthy fornications and gnawing vsuryes our great auarice garish pride and grynding oppression with a mightye prophanation of the Lords Sabaoth by neglect of his holy worde Sacraments and blessed worke of Ministery both in vs that Preach and in you that hear I say if in these sinnes wee solace secure our soules saying peace and safetye when nothing can be more expected then a dreadfull fire that shall deuoure the aduersarye what can we looke for but sodayne destruction where none shall escape And heere giue me leaue a little to plead the cause of the Innocēt who greeue God wots vnder a heauye burden and dare not speake yet will I goe in sith it is in a plea of deliuerance say with Ester I dye I dye I● greeueth mee to thinke of the teares o● the poore put into the bottle of God which one day hee will powre out in iudgement against many who craue a debt where none i● due and will needes reape where they did neuer sowe other mens sweate must be their sweet and the liuelyhood the Lord hath lent for the reliefe of the poore wife poore childe poore familye is so winnowed and boulted to the branne by endles fyning and needles refyning as nothing is left them but winde and water to feede vpon with sobs sighes teares the best companions of their broken harts Woe is me to tell the rich are mercylesse and the poore are not pittyed we can goe to no Pulpit but they peirce our hearts to prouoke our speach so ye haue it Now if any shall reply to vayle his sin say in the silence of his soule My land is my owne I answer nay thou art not thine owne euen thou art not thine owne but bought with a price euen with the deere bloud of Iesus Christ which thou tramplest vpon if thou treadest his poore members vnder thy feete and for that earth of thine Domine est ●erra plenitudo eius The earth is the Lords the abundāce thereof It is not thine otherwise then as thou art a steward to vse it till he ●ome and say giue account of thy stewardship thē shalt thou haue according to that thou hast done in this life be it good or euill In the meane time I aduise thee with the Prophet to breake off thy sins by repentance thine iniquity by mercy toward the poore ●et there bee an healing of thine error ô ●empt not the Lord because of his long exceeding great patience least he turne vppon you as he did vpon Israel and say Tacuinunquid semper tacebo must I alwaies beare I haue borne enough long haue I holden I can holde no more I haue been still and refraine my selfe but now will I crye like a trauelling woman I will destroy and deuoure at once But alas and woe therefore Babilon is wounded and will not be cur'd The world is desperatelie sicke and hath no feeling either of it sinne or of it iudgements for let noncreproue is the proud poesie of this sicke age wherein no treacle at Gilead no Phisitians there no hand of the magestrate no tongue of the Minister by Prayer or Preaching no remembrance of passed miseries no feare of future calamities no present blessing no deserued curse can cure the malady til y● great fire of Gods heauie wrath and indignation