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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

your lesse 4. In his constant labours and travailes to forme Christ in the hearts of his people by unwearied faithfull powerfull preaching of the Gospell In this way as hee was laborious so he was skilfull too (b) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys 10.5 in orat in Barl. Mart. As he said of one Barlaam a Martyr he was a good Archer he shot his arrowes in the ayre mighty words and broke the Divels ●ankes No lesse hath he wounded spoiled and scattered the devils forces by the effectuall preaching of Christ in the place where God hath set him 5. In his fervent desire for a good provision for his people after his departure that a Pastor after Gods heart might be sent to feed them In these wayes was his life since he began to live wherein he approved himselfe an holy Man and an holy Minister labouring to perfect Holinesse in himselfe and others He was no lesse a saint dying than living See his descent to the grave Perseverance crownes a Christian it was his glory to bee perfected in the spirit as to begin in it I shall but note these things toward his end 1. His patient submission unto and welcomming of Gods rod unto him It was his choyce Love and chasten me afflict and purge me my gracious God 2. Holy care to make good use of Gods corrections to consider his wayes to heare the rod and him that had appointed it and to learne obedience by the things he suffered 3. Great struglings under bitter temptations made something heavier by his disease yet Grace was sufficient in the midst of all and by saith he obtained victory in Christ glorying over his Tormentors 4. Constant profession of faith at his death sealing the saving truths of Christ which he had preached living and dying in the love of them and whilest sweet counsells and hearty prayers to and for them that were conversant about him as for the Church of God he spent his short breathing time untill his spirit returned to God that gave it Cast all up and the summe in Charity must be in life and death hee was Gods holy one therefore will not God leave his soule in hell nor suffer him to see corruption in the pit Let me but touch our duties toward him in three words and I have done 1. Let us lament him there is cause if we know our losse Psal 12 1. It is Davids cry Helpe Lord for the godly man ceaseth So many gaps are made for wrath to breake in as there are holy men taken from us Here is dead an holy man and an holy Minister It was Jerusalems trembling when good Prophets were cut off It should not be our rejoycing The buriall of a Nurse with Jacob hath a sad Monument her Sepulchre is called Allon Bachuth the oke of weeping Gen. 35.8.19 20. she dyed not unlamented A Pillar of sorrow is raised for Rachel his wife upon her grave Nay Iacob himselfe an old Saint dying among strangers wants no mourners at the floore of Arad the Egyptians made such a bitter lamentation that the place beares the name Abel Mitsraim Gen. 50.11 the mourning of the Egyptians Naturall affections become men gratious affections should be in Christians though not to mourne as without hope yet to mourne greatly at the fall of such a Saint such a Minister such a Pillar in the house of God 2. Let us Imbalme him Eccles 7.1 at least spread his owne confection on him his good name is a precious oyntment Holinesse hath made it so Give him his due then as David to that Worthy Dyed Abner as a foole dyeth So say wee 2 Sam 3.33 dyed this Holy one as a sinner as a sot no but as a Saint giving up his spirit in Faith into the hands of a faithfull Redeemer We may set it on his grave here lyes an Holy one 3. Let us imitate and follow him as he followed Christ as he said in his speech upon a dead martyr (c) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost ibid. we come not so much to commend him as to bee bettered by him in the imitation of his right wayes Heare Christians and Ministers there is a Copy for you both in this deceased Saint ye his flock and hearers write after him in selfe-examination search judgement and aggravation of sinnes no lesse in try all of Graces and of your conversion Walke after him in godly Sorrow Repentance Faith Holinesse and Times redemption Good fruit will then appeare in your lives and sweet comfort in perseverance to death Keepe ye a day-booke also for your soules that your accompts may be in readinesse when your Lord shall come And we his Brethren in the Ministry may not disdaine to be followers where we have not beene leaders let us now bethinke our selves that we are called to seeke Christs and not our own Digge we by study into the Mystery of Christ preach we the Gospell painfully faithfully constantly Love we the soules for which Christ hath dyed and account it our glory to be sacrificed upon the service of their faith so shall we dye peaceably in conscience of our innocency from the blood of soules 1 〈…〉 5 4 And when the chiefe shepheard shall appeare wee shall receive a crowne of glory that fadeth not away To all and for a close Be ye holy shall I say as hee was holy Nay I set you an higher Copy even as God is holy strive to reach it though ye come short in the truth in the beauties of holinesse Ye heare your honour Death and the Grave shall be your slaves and yee Lords over them while yee seeme to lye under their power There is no feare of dereliction by God nor corruption to betide you Nothing can separate betweene you and Christ nor betweene Christ and God After his sufferings hee is entred into glory and now is in the holiest of all appearing for you as your forerunner yee also his Member-Saints shall follow him in this path of life and when this darke vale shall be drawne aside then shall ye enter into the high and Holiest place to be perfected in the vision of the Thrice Holy God in whose presence you shall have fulnesse of joy and at whose right hand you shall have pleasures forevermore All which the good Lord grant unto us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen FINIS

there be of the soules dereliction in the state of death or of the bodyes Corruption in the house of darknesse 2. Reas 2. The necessary and inseparable connexion betweene Imputed and infused grace I meane the undivided fellowship of Christs Holinesse which is his properly and by inhabitation yet the Saints also by gracious imputation and the Holinesse created and abiding in the soule This alwayes carryeth that with it as its glory and perfection where this is that is where this workes that workes also to carry out to victory if this be upon the dust of Gods gracious one 's in the grave there will that be also to perfume it and preserve it and at last make it victorious over death and the pit there can be no feare of the deadly enemies prevailing over the Saints for as much as this Head-holinesse is a knowne conquerror and hath already made the grave to tremble and vanquisht the power of it This is the ground of that victorious song which the Saints take up from Christ Death is swallowed up in victory O death where is thy Sting O grave where is thy victory 1 Cor. 15.54.55.57 what is the matter I pray that poore buried men should so insult over their oppressors It followeth this victory is through our Lord Iesus Christ He had said before Hos 13.14 O death I will be thy plagues O grave I will be thy destruction And now what he by his excellent holinesse hath done redounds upon his beleeving members that though in themselves they bee weakly holy therefore may be assaulted by these proud enemies yet in him having perfect holinesse they must bee victorious and set up above the graves Corruption 3 The undoubted relation of the Saint to God and true interest in him how God and all his Attributes stand ingaged to Holinesse is already in some measure discovered Reas 3. What hee will certainely doe for his holy ones will bee more fully declared in the next point for present know we The Lord is the God and King of Saints The Lord doth go before them the God of Israel is their rereward Revel 15.3 therefore cannot death look them in the face to hurt them Esay 52.12 nor the grave pursue after to make a prey of them their owne God stands before them and behind he gathers them up blessed is the holy one for in his God he shall never see corruption But why then doth the head saint cry out as a man forsaken Dub. before he fell into the pit My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Matth. 27.46 if the chiefe of Saints find a dereliction before death the inferiour may feare to be left and corrupted when they are dead The answer in short may be Sol. this desertion may be considered 1. In the truth of the thing 2. In the sence of the patient Now it is certaine that in deed and truth God had not left him for the union was then continued and by his inabling and assisting presence was with him kept him in the grave and raised him to glory but in the feeling of this holy one God seemed to be with-drawne and that only in respect of his comforting presence that the redeemer might feele the burden of his peoples sins upon him while he suffered an Ecclyse of the light of his fathers countenance and that having felt he might pitty and helpe such as at any time might fall under that temptation otherwise Christ was not left for thus he saith thou wilt not leave c. 2. Having thus farre stated the vertue of this Holy Embalm it is in order requisit next to consider it's Author and maker God upon whose Arme only depends the being and force of it Doct. 2 The second proposition sets him out and his work God will not leave his Holy one in Hell nor give him to see corruption in the grave In this point God beares the Emphasis and his efficiency in the Saints priviledge Thou thou Jehovah wilt not leave c. In the consideration of which truth I shall onely inquire 1. Quid sit The meaning of some termes 2. Cur sit the grounds necessitating this truth 1. The termes I shall touch in explication are only two 1. The efficient 2. His work As touching the first 1 Efficient that we may see the saint trusteth not to the vanities of the Gentiles but layeth the worke upon good strong hands indeed even his who is the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ of him I shall shortly note these proper Characters 1. He is God life hee that saith I live that is truly eminently and of himselfe and so can none else say besides him Deut. 32.40 Esay 40.17 As the creature is not in comparison of his being so it lives not in comparison of his life nothing is or lives or can be but by dignation from him and participation of him O how is he like to match death and the grave 2. He is God love The great Saint and his companions scarcely remember him by any other name neither hee stiles them any thing 1 Ioh. 4.8 Matth. 17.5 but his beloved What will hee not then doe for them 3. Hee is God power so he speakes of himselfe I am God Almighty Gen. 17.5 by reason of this power he hath soveraignty over all creatures actions events in the world Alas poore Gods that can doe no good neither can they doe evill Esay 41.23.24 Esay 45.7 Deut. 32.39 I form light and create darknesse I make peace create evill I the Lord doe all these things This is God indeed He kills and he makes alive death and the grave are his slaves and should he let them domineere over his holy ones 4. He is God eternall the first and the last none was before him to prevent his purpose Deut. 33.27 Esay 44.6 and good will towards his chosen Saints neither can any come after him to supplant them death was not before he commanded neither shall it be after he gives forth the word 1 Cor. 15.26.54 Let it be swallowed up and destroyed If this God will then preserve his holy ones in spight of death and the grave who are they that they should resist him And thus God will doe as his worke will testifie 2. The worke of this God is set downe in two Negatives concerning his holy one in the stated of death 2 The worke 1. Thou wilt not leave 2. Thou wilt not give They are both referred to the same object the Saint in the state of death and so must be considered with this rule that wee apply to each part the privilege herein peculiar to it to the soule her property and to the body its peculiar freedome from desertion may concerne both but from corruption as here intended seemes only to respect the Holy flesh sowne in the dust Now to weigh these Acts of God 1. Thou

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