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A44499	The life of faith in death, in expectation of the resurrection from the dead opened in a sermon at the funerall of the right worshipfull Mr. Thomas Slany late maior of the famous town and corporation of King-Lynn in the county of Norfolk : who deceased in the year of his maioralty, Jan. 10. 1649 / preached there by John Horn ...	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1649 (1649)	Wing H2804; ESTC R19330	35,460	36

then others and thou tellest them that they must never rise more to receive a reward for them here they die and have not received the promises and if death swallow them up and they never rise they must never receive them Look to this you that deny the resurrection I know your evasion you say they have it already they are in Christ and risen with him and he is the resurrection and the life and so they have their reward but hearken thou vain man though they be risen with Christ in their spirits risen from earth to heaven yet this is not all their resurrection nor have they herein their reward their full reward for thus Abraham was raised in his spirit to look after the heavenly countrey even before he died as they that are raised with Christ in their spirits are exhorted to seek the things above Col. 3.1 2. but yet even after that he died in saith and had not received the promises he neither was raised above faith to live without any further exercise of faith as some vainly prate nor had he or any of them received all the reward of faith but they all died in faith not having received the promises and therefore must have yet another resurrection or a compleating of that resurrection in the redemption of their bodies that they may receive those promises according to that Rom. 8.23 We that have received the first-fruits of the spirit yet wait for the adoption the redemption of our bodies for indeed the promises are to the man the whole man now a man is not a man without his body too Hominem proprte carnem diet qu●a vocabulum bominis occupavit the soul is but part of the man nay as Tertullian hath well noted the body is rather called the man because it first had the denomination of man God formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into him the breath of life he was called man before the breath of life was breathed into him Gen. 2.7 therefore the resurrection is of that also that must be raised and united to the soul that so the man may inherite the promise made to him yea what is resurrection but a raising to life that that died but the spirits of just men die not with their bodies they were raised up and enlivened before and live by faith even when the body dies therefore it s the body must be raised He shall change our vile body and make it like his own glorious body Phil. 3.21 yea not the righteous only but the wicked too must rise Act 24.15 There shall be a resurrection of the dead both of the just and of the unjust Heark you Allegoriarum nimium amantes nimium amentes you that dote on All gories where will you finde ground of Allegory for this will ye say the unjust and wicked too have Christ and are risen with Christ perhaps you will say they shall rise from sinne to righteousnesse and so into and with Christ but beside that this crosseth the Scripture all shall not so rise you make that the resurrection of the just and if that shall be the unjusts resurrection then I pray what is that that 's further spoken of of the just seeing that they have already and yet speaking in the future tense he saith they shall arise but what need we many words when our Saviour is so expresse in Joh. 5 29. All that are in their graves shall hear the voice of the Son of man and come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of condemnation not from sinne to righteousnesse in this life but to condemnation for their unrighteousnesse acted in this life But we need not go so far from the text to prove that there shall be a resurrection of the body Seeing by that that here follows that God is not ashamed to be called their God ver 16. our Saviour hath to our hands confuted that opinion of the Sadduces and proved that there shall be a resurrection even of them that are dead in the body for that was the thing that the Sadduces oppugned and not the quickning up of mens spirits to God as we may see by their way of arguing Mar. 12.18 27. Then it is at that glorious resurrection that all things shall be made new when the bodies that are dead shall by the power of God be raised new heavens and new earth prepared and given unto the Saints in which dwels righteousnesse that is then shall they have and enjoy remainingly the righteousnesse of God in the full accomplishment of all his former promises in the faith of which they died but had not received Dear friends hold fast this doctrine of the resurrection Applic. for as Tertullian well begins his book upon this subject Fiducia Christianorum resurrectio mortuorum the resurrection of the dead is the hope and expectation of Christians there is no doctrine more properly Christian then it none more comfortable none now in greater danger to be let slip these being those shaking times of the most fundamentall doctrines of Christian truth which the Apostle Peter long since warned us of 2 Pet. 3.2 3 13. There shall saies he come mockers Walking after their own ungodly lusts that shall mock at the performance of Gods promises in the coming of Christ and restitution of all things saying where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers f●ll asleep all things continue in their state As if they should say they are like to receive no more then they had before they died but let not this doctrine be shaken from you for what then will follow but a rotall falling off from the faith a denying of the resurrection of Christ 1 Cor. 11.17 18. and of the kingdom of Christ yea then faith and preaching and all is vain yea then the reins are given to all licentiousnesse Let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die and when we are dead there is a sinall end with us and that 's indeed the issue of that wickednesse they that say Where is the promise of his coming Will not fear to walk after their own ungodly lusts It 's true one principle upon which they lean in denying it and way to insinuate the slieghting of it unto others as Tertullian hath long since observed and as experience of their words yet teacheth us is a disrespect they seem to bear to the flesh so our spirits enjoy God say they and go up to God what 's matter for this flesh it's but dust and to dust let it go and no matter whether ever it rise or not but as he also well observes Sunt tamen ●arnis amicessimi nemo enim tam carnaliter vivit quam qui resurrectionem mortuorum negat though they seem to slieght the flesh none love better to please the flesh none live more after the flesh praiers and ordinance and discipline

then is nothing with them to trim up themselves and wear and eat and drink the best to play and game and perhaps do worse things these they will not deny the flesh they will please it what they can here because they think it shall have no pleasure or good hereafter But oh take heed to the Scriptures both Pharisees and Sadduces erre in not knowing and believing them Mat. 27.29 ye erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God they pretend to know them better then others while they can pervert them more then others and while they pretend a more spirituall understanding of them they contradict the spirit of understanding speaking in them and through fraud and subtlety seduce the simple seeming at first to speak as they till they winde them into their snares as Tertullian observed of them in his times De Res Car. they would say to the simple-hearted Vae qui in hâe carne non resurrexerint Wo to them that rise not in this flesh which the simple hearted hearing oftentimes were led to judge they meant honestly and according to the Scripture only whenas they meant saies he Dum in hâc carne sunt that rise not while they are in this flesh and so by one part of truth seemingly confessed the rising of our spirits here by faith with Christ they would by little and little undermine the faith of the simple-hearted and doctrinate them not to matter and then to deny the resurrection of the body running themselves and them that listened to them into the errour of Hymenaeus and Philetus 2 Tim. 2.17 that say the resurrection is already past in whose very footsteps many also now walk not knowing the Scriptures yea departing from the Scriptures and not acknowledging the power of God thence say they how should the bodies that are long since dead and divers waies dispersed and that have endured so many transmutations be possibly raised and how can the world it self contain them as if they did not believe God Almighty and that all things are possible to him beyond our thought to whom I might say with the Apostle Act. 26 8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead But I say again minde we the word of God and so minde and keep it that we may be kept by it in the faith from this dangerous errour of the wicked dream not with them of all our resurrection here no coming of Christ but what they meet with here no performance of promises but what they have here all enjoyments and fullnesse and perfection here sure if that was true Paul was very low and ignorant to them when he saies he had finished his course 2 Tim. 4 8. and kept the faith and yet adds henceforth is laid up for me the crown of righteousnesse which God the righteous Judge shall give me at that day he had done his work and yet he had not received his reward it was but laid up for him and laid up to be given him not in this but in that day in another day the day of Christs appearance sure then the Apostle was out here too when he said these all died in faith and yet had not received the promises Nay the Apostle ' Paul instructs us that we shall not one prevent another in the receit of them 1 Thes 4.15 They that live at the coming of Christ shall not prevent them that are asleep They that now live shall not have them till Abraham Isaac and Jacob have them nor they before we have them Heb. 11.40 the dead in Christ shall be first raised at his coming and the living changed and both be caught into the air up together to meet him certainly they say false then that say Christ is come to them in his glory and they are raised and have the promises all they look for or all that any shall have and yet many of their brethren died without them and are not yet raised and if we will believe them never shall be and many yet are uncalled to them But beloved regard we not their sayings but know them to be false and vain and look we to Christ that died for us and rose again and know that as he rose so shall we also and together with Abraham and the Patriarchs and Prophets and all the Saints shall be caught up at his appearance to meet him 1 Thes 4.18 as the Apostle exhorts us comfort we one another for our deceased brethren with these sayings And indeed what comfort could we have for one another in respect of them if we believed that all their portion they are to have they have had it already and when they and we die our spirits go to God and our bodies to the dust and ther 's an end of the matter we shall never enjoy them again there shall be no resurrection away with such unchristian and unsavours conceptions and let ns where we have believed hold fast the faith and not upon any pretence or by any Philosophy or vain deceit of man depart therefrom let us live in it that we may die in it or according to it And thus I have given you a view of the text I suppose you expect I should now return to our present occasion and say something about our deceased brother Truly the text is such a comment on him as that we might go over it again and apply it to him or you might understand that spoken of these Worthies here as if said of him he believed the Gospel and had insight in it and oftentimes rejoiced much in it was perswaded of it embraced it loved it counted himself a stranger and pilgrim in the earth walkt with that contempt and carelessenesse of it how it thought of him and esteemed him as if he judged it not his habitation but had his eye as indeed he had upon a better countrey an enduring city that hath foundations he lived in this world as if he had his heart in another world not regarding nor scarce suffering the honours of this world or of this place to be thrust upon him his name was nothing to him for the Gospels sake that he would approve whoever disproved him he would stop his ears against and not endure to hear of their sayings who deny Christs mediation and impugn the doctrine of the resurrection and professing his joy and comfort to be therein and in the hope he had therethrough of an enduring happy condition for justice uprightnesse and honesty it was his aim and endeavour and therein hath not left many to exceed I doubt I may say to equallize him we may say of him the righteous man is taken away and the mercifull man from amongst us In both which respects I fear many will misse him as the loins of the poor blessed him alive so I doubt they will finde cause of mourning for his death as he affected not honour with men so did he not long enjoy it God not judging us worthy the improvement of his abilities for the good of the Town perhaps because no better respected when more able by them he was more like the self-denying Olive then the aspiring bramble he looked upon earths honour as a burthen having his chief desire upon that which is from heaven therefore God hath taken him from his burthen to give him his desire in a word he was upright in his life faithful to the truth to his death patient under affliction though long in great pain and very desirous of his dissolution that he might be with Christ Let it be ourcare to imitate him in these good steps that with him and all those who through faith and patience have looked after the promises of God we may in due time be raised up and brought to inherit them I shall only adde an Epitaph upon him and I shall leave both you and him * ⁎ * FINIS AN EPITAPH QVi cum vixit erat Major major moriendo est Morte repurgatus quam fuit ipse prius Majestatis erat brevita cadaveris umbra Vix ea majestas illius umbra brevis Spe laetus multumque gemens mala publica corpus Mandat humo plenam numine caelo animam In English thus This man alive was May'r now dead is more Advanc't death bettring him then heretofore Short shade o' th corps of Royalty he was That Royalty scarce shadowed what he was Who joy'd in hope did publike woes condole Left earth his corps to heaven his gracefull soul FINIS