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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

and victory in death it salse 3. Let saith also have its perfect worke if you provide well for your selves against the evills of the dark habitation and shadow of death Ca●e in this matter I would commend mainely about two things 1. To pitch upon the true object the proper remedies and preservatives against these deadlyevills 2. That the Act of faith upon these be genuine and naturally to it such as may shew it to be Gods noble plant in the soule these are the realizing evidencing and appropriating these saving receits unto the soule 1. There be great and precious promises for salvation in the midst of the furious assaults of death and the pit which have admirable vertue if well applied such are these Esay 26.19 Hos 13 14. Ioh. 11.26 Dead men shall live death shall be plagued for killing and the grave destroyed for devouring and whosoever liveth and beleeveth in me shall neverdye These perhaps confidered in the letter may seeme either not to be or not to be evident or not to be a mans owne but thing remote or farre of Now let savign faith come and worke upon these it will make all the sweethesse of these to bee in present which seemeth either not to be or to be long hereafter to come it will make them evident which otherwise cannot be seene and it will give possession to a soule of all the goodnesse of them unto which otherwise it is but a stranger what a sweet security is this to a poore soule to live in death to vex and were out the grave and never truly dye or be corrupted this safe-guard will faith give out of Gods promises neither can law or curse prejudice or disannuall it beleeve O then beleeve the promises 2. God infinite invisible immortall all-powerfull and only wise Pro. 18.10 is the Rock the fortresse the Sanctuary of his Saints Esay 8.14 all his attributes shelter them in every storme fence them against fiery darts and hide them from the bloody pursuit of that mercilesse one that hath the power of death let faith worke mightily on him also to compasse the Almighty Heb. 11.27 to make him seene that is invisible to give propriety and interest in him that is immortall wrap thy selfe by faith in God put on his attributes as garments of salvation while thou livest and keepe them about thee for grave-clothes when thou dyest God will not disdaine to by they safety in the pit and then death must destroy his glory and corruption eat thorough it before they can come to de mischiefe unto thee Stagger not then but be strong in faith giving glory unto God 3. The son of God manifest in the flesh the Prince-Saint given to bee the head of his Church is deathes king and the Graves commander they are his conquered captive slaves he keepes them shut up under lock and key Revel 1.18 he hath they keyes of hell of death were wethen but his confederats and member-Saints how might we laugh at the from nes and spite of death and slight the venome of the grave Ioh 14.1 Faith will accomplish this for you unite you to him cause you to see him make you his and him yours ye therefore that beleeve in God beleeve also in him Hee carrieth God with him where he is God is He makes good all promises in him they are yea and Amen granted and performed Make sure of him and have all Faith hath by gracious dignation as it were a command over him hee will no where faile it Faith called him to his three companions in the fiery furnace and he brought them out in safety Dan. 3.25 not so much as the smell of fire was upon them and no lesse will it draw him to accompany his saints in the deadly habitations where he will keepe them and whence he will never leave untill hee raise them out and no smell of the grave shall be upon them obey these counsells exerise faith in these and live above death yee shall never see corruption but overcome death when yee dye and triumph over the grave while ye live in it and sing that triumphant son when ye awake O death where is thy Sting O grave where is thy victory c. Lastly the sweet comfort of these golden truthes may not be concealed from the Saints Use 3. the Lord hath given speciall charge O comfort comfort them especially his afflicted ones that are oppressed either with the sad thoughts of his absence or feares of the fury of these last enemies I dare not with-hold the Cordialls provided for these sick soules 1. To you is comfort sent that are sick of Love that lye commplaining of Gods absence from you or desertion of you that long for Cry for waite for his returne and presence saving O when will hee come and appeare to us why doth hee leave and forsake our soules Refraine from these complaints yee holy ones God hath not left you Then is a soule left indeed when it hath no desires after God but here is no feare of Gods forsaking you while your soules are restlesse in longing after him wipe away your teares and looke up God is it neerer to you than ye thinke It was M●●●es ca●e once shee weepes for Christ and all the while he stands by her and so is not unusuall with the Saints Joh. 20.15.16 that are selfe-susoicious to thinke upon every uneven step of theirs God to be gon It may be sometimes his comforting presence may bee hid and yet his sanctifiing presence continueth to inlarge your soules in desires after him this is then better for you than that Grace more needrull for you than Comfort know this deare soules God cannot God will not leave you when you are dead Heb. 13.5 and will hee forsake you while you are alive He desires to have more trust from you upon his promise I will never leave you nor forsake you and you shall certainly receive more manifestations of love from him quicken faith wher sence faileth and be assured as soone may hee forsake Christ the Head-Saint which is impossible as you the member-Saints whose soules delight in him These good and comfortable words God speakes to your hearts O receive them and be cheared for they are true and faithfull 2. For you that are sick with feare is fom fort here prepared ye that are of a trembling heart God faith unto you be strong ye that are fearefull andshake at the terrors of the enemies of your salvation be ye comforted ye that often expresse your feares one time or other we shall perish by the hand of sin and bee given up to death and hell O how terrible are the thoughts of death how gastly the visage of the grave woe unto us when wee must descend into the pit And why so fearefull poore Saints O that yee would make use of faith now and take in the consolations of God Can promises chear the heart

will give as is more than suspected they have not it was not worth their Labour so much to trouble the Church of God with it And for the Negative that this Text cannot favour any such opinion as this I shall lay downe these three reasons and afterward labour in the affirmative to give the naturall meaning of the words Salvo tamen fidei Articule not denying but earnestly affirming the Article of Christs discent into Hell in a right and sound sence 1 I argue from the end of Christs locall descent into hell which by confession is two fold 1 some say b Bishop Bilson it was for triumph over the great enemy of mans salvation 2 c Christus sicut cum summo dolore mortuus est it a videtur dolores post mortem in infer no sustimufle Luth. in text others maintaine it was for a further suffering of his soule in that place Now to the first if it were for triumph it is impossible that this Text can favour it for it speakes expressely of a state of humiliation and suffering and is therefore the reason of the gladnesse of Christs heart that hee should not be left in it My heart is glad and my glory rejoyceth for thou wilt not leave c. And had it beene a State of triumph honouring the Sonne of God in hell there could be no feare of dereliction in it nor joy for deliverance from it for it was a good condition To the second which seemes to have more favour from this Text I answer it cannot be the meaning of it consistent with the truth of other Scriptures for as touching all the Torments that Christ indured himselfe telleth us where they ended Joh. 19.30 when he said it is finished and that was before his soule could be in hell he could not then goe to be tormented there Act. 2.24 And whereas it is suggested that the paines of death which are said to be upon him seeme to note his sufferings in hell it is irrationall so to conceive for they were paines of death or as some read Cords of death and not of hell and these must bee those which hee suffered while his life was in him tending to death or deadly or onely the evill of the state of death in the separation of soule and body whereof I shall speake in another place Neither of these ends then can sute truth or this Scripture 2. This Scripture must bee so interpreted concerning Christ that it must have its truth in David and all the Saints but Davids soule was never Locally in hell the place of the damned neither is it possible for the soules of the Saints to be there Luk. 16.26 for then there could be no transplantation of them to heaven if therefore this bee a state incompatible with the Saints it cannot bee consistent with the glory of Christ for to triumph there is not one word of God that appoints him thither but notes his triumph in another place if therefore his soule went into that place it must be to suffer than which to say there can bee no greater blasphemy for as much as the suffring soules cannot come thence into the place of the blessed 3. The deepe silence which the best and most infallible interpreter maketh concerning this glosse of Christs Locall descent into hell in the true and full opening of this Scripture in the new Testament and the bearing of this Text another way puts it out of doubt that this is but mans conceite and not Gods meaning for that spirit of truth by the hand of two Apostles evinceth nothing out of this Text but the certaine prediction of Christs resurrection from the grave that God would not give over his soule to the state of death separation nor his body to see Corruption surely had there beene such a remarkable thing as a Locall being and triumph of his soule in the place of the damned it is incredible that such an interpreter Acts 2.31 that knew the mind of God should omit such a notable matter and mention onely the resurrection of Christ from the grave as the sole burden of this Text if then the spirit of God who interprets this Scripture declareth nothing from hence of a Locall descent of Christs soule to hell wee may well conclude it is the vaine phancy of mans owne braine and not Gods mind revealed to us Having thus laid sufficient ground for the Negative to turne off that forced sence from the text it will be convenient to touch a little upon the letter and consider now what it affirmes unto us the words being the reason of the gladnesse of Christs heart the rejoycing of his glory and the hope of his flesh in this deepe abasement thus must wee conceive the sonne speaking to his Father Thou wilt not leave that is thou wilt not cease to be what thou hast been to mee thou wilt not desert nor forsake me My soule that is either properly my soule n Gen. 37.35 Ezech. 32.21.27 my better part in hell or Scheol that is in the state of death and separation from my body or Metonymically o Gen. 1.20 my life in the depth and shadow of death for the life of any thing is frequently set forth by that word or Synecdochically my Soule that is my Carkasse or body in the grave as it also used undoubtedly one part for another Psal 1 18.18 neither wilt thou suffer or more neerely to the word thou wilt not give for the Soveraignty of life and death is in Gods hand the grave and corruption are at his command and it must be an efficacious permission if any in God which is a giving leave to Corruption to dominere over his creatures but thou wilt not so give thine holy one Acts. 13.37 Psal 49.9 Psal 89.48 that is as the Apostles punctually interpret Christs body that holy thing the whole being put for part to see Corruption that is d Videtur mihi spiritus in his verbis simpliciter loqui magis ad tempus respicere quā ad locum vel aliam circumstantiam ut sit sensus Non derelinques me tanto tempore quanto naturaliter solent corrumpi cadavera sed intra tempus quo solent incipere corrumpi me suscitabis Luth. in text Esay 9.6 to bee so long in the grave as to bee corrupted or lye under putrefaction and rottennesse which eminently was true of the body of Christ it saw not the least corruption in the grave Or if you please rather to unerstand it of whole Christ God will not give him his Holy one to see Corruption to cease to be in the state of death what he was before to God and to his Church This is the genuine voyce of the letter warranted by abundance of other Scriptures but for the other glosse rejected it is not usuall to the letter nor possible to stand with truth and right reason of interpretation * Num.