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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55642	A sermon preached at Rolesbye in Norfolk, on Wednesday the 12th of January 1680/81, at the funeral of Madam Anna Gleane, the late wife of Thomas Gleane, Esq., the only son of Sir Peter Gleane of Hardwick in Norfolk, Baronet by Robert Prattant ...	Prattant, Robert, 1654 or 5-1683.	1682 (1682)	Wing P3185A; ESTC R8944	9,315	17

early acquaintance with that he was taught to expect Death with Patience and Resolution and to welcome its approach not only with Courage but with Delight and Satisfaction of mind And alas How hopeless how far short of this true Wisdom and Philosophy comes all the sublimest discourses of the most refined Heathens Christ being raised from the dead d●eth no more and becomes the first fruits of them that slept gives us a clearer Evidence and account of the Resurrection and Future State of the Soul then ever any the most Labour'd Discourse of the most searching Philosopher was able to do They were so far from giving a satisfactory Account of the Future State of the Soul such as others might rely on and found their belief upon and be encourag'd to undergo the the worst of Evils and Disapointments here and with Content and Patience to sustain the unwelcome addresses of Death they were so far I say from satisfying others herein that they could not maintain themselves upon such aiery food or be induc'd to quit the Enjoyments of this Life for the hopes of a better Their utmost Essayes this way amounted no farther then to a bare or possibility seeming probability of the Resurrection of the Body and Immortality of the Soul And here too they were entangled and overcome with great Perplexities Sometimes they Contradicted themselves and at other times deliver'd themselves very suspenslly and doubting about it and that too even immediately before their deaths To instance in one or two of the most eminent of them Socrates the fam'd Introducer of Morality who was worthily follow'd and admir'd be the better part of the Gentile World and whose Case herein is very notorious had strange Misgivings as to what should be his State in another World and whether his Soul should Survive or no he durst not determine only tells those that were about him just as he was about to suffer Death that he should shortly experience the Certainty of it but was not if it did so kind that we read of to return back to inform them And Tully though in his Cato Major in his somnio Scipionis and in other places he speaks powerfully and well of the Immortality of the Soul and expresses a wounderful joyful Resentment of the day of Death feelingly Crying out O praeclarum diem cum ad illud Divinorum animorum Concilium Coetumque proficiscar c. Rejoycing above all that thereby he should be admitted into the Society and presence of his beloved and admir'd Cato besides those other excellent personages that he had before mention'd who had some time since expir'd yet after all I remember that in some other places of his Writings he propounds Annihilation with a great deal of Indifferency and seems to be Content to allow that as well as the post-existence of the Soul and leaves it in equal doubt and debate And we read in his Life that when the fatal Executioner came to apprehend him and that he found that he was discover'd that he presented himself as it were already half-ghosted with fear and by the last Circumstances we may guess that he tamely yielded himself more out of design and an hasty desire to get free of the troubles of this Life then out of any Confidence he had of entering into a better State hereafter And Cyrus in his famous Speech or Oration made immediately before his Death to his Sons and Persian Nobles if that were really his which we find at large in Zenophon and some part of it as to what Concerns the Immortality and Future State of the Soul translated by Cicero in the latter part of his Cato Major forequoted though there he largely and freely discourses the Future Subsistence of the Soul and the reasons he had to incline him to the belief of it and that after the most manly rate Yet I take notice that in the latter part of that his dying Speech he takes his leave of the by-Standers in expressions equally granting the Existence or Future Reduction and Annihilation of the Soul For these are his Words As Zenophon there makes him to speak Whether I shall be with the Divine Nature with the Pure and Eternal Essenses or vapour into Air and be reduc'd to nothing Yet upon either of those Accounts let those that accompany me to the Sepulcher congratulate my Excit and happy deliverance from the Body being not Capable any longer of suffering any Grief or Evil. Now all this that I have instanced in is only to show is how unable the Learnedst and Wisest of the Heathen Philosophers were only by the light of Nature without any higher revelation to demonstrate and make good the reasonableness of the post-existence of the Soul of Man and to make appear from what an higher discovery it was that the inspir'd Author of these Words was not only induc'd to wish for Death and that in some sudden Fit or Passion but likewise taught to expect it with the most strictness and resolution All the days of my c. He went upon far higher Principles than ever any the most Celebrated Pagan essay'd to do and it was not only from a Contempt of this World and the slighting Afflictions of it but also from the grounded Revelation he had of entering into an immortal State after this Life was ended and that to be attended with the most constant and uninterrupted Joy And this latter Consideration it was that put him upon his Constant Watch and Guard resolving not to omit for the least moment or interval of time All the days of my c. But we may very well suppose that it was the shortness of this Life that had a powerful influence over Job and dispos'd him to this Lesson of diligent Attendance and patiently to expect that happy Change that blessed moment that should give him his Quiet from all the Afflicting Discontents and from the throng of Sorrows of this Life and gain him an happy freedom into those Regions where no Storms can ruffle or disturb the Soul of Man And indeed my Brethren the sorrowful si Conderations of the dividing Cares and Troubles that are inseparable attendments even of the most happy and prosperous here in this World together with the undoubted Certainty and Experience of the shortness of Mans Life should be sufficient for every one of us to be upon our Guard that we may not through a drowzy and careless neglect be excluded from the mansions of Happiness hereafter Alas what is more Obvious and Evident to us than that the Tyrant Death dogs us and overtakes us every where in variety of Accidents and Circumstances We can flee no where from his diligent persuit He Commits daily rapes upon some or other of the Mortal off-spring and calls us oft-times home to be eye-witnesses of his Conquests gain'd over some or other of our near Accquaintance and Relations As at this time we are of his Conquest over this Lady who lays the silent Trophy of his