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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

goest downe into the pit Vnholinesse ungodlinesse unbeliefe there must be also death rottennesse and everlasting perdition What is thy Epitaph Here lyeth an unholy and unbelieving man There also will God write A Childe of death of corruption and of hell I speak not these things as a Judge unto you O ye unholy soules The Lord awaken you and keepe you from this bitter portion but as a messenger from God to warne you that ye may yet consider the things that concerne your peace but if not as a friend to monrne over oou because you are going into everlasting captivity and to destruction never to be repaired but I would rather counsell than reprove or terrisie And thereunto I now descend Saving counsell will not hurt but helpe given rightly Use 2. and well taken from the truths precedent Brethren I exhort you in the name of the Lord O that ye would obey be wise for your selves and provide for soules and bodies against the day of parting that in the day of darknesse ye may have light and neither sting of death nor stench or Rottennesse of the grave may fester your soules or make your bodies an abomination unto God Earthy provisions of Embalme winding sheet and Coffin will not profit Q. but heavenly will fence against all corruption what then in to be done The advise which the text directs to give Soveraigne against the Malignity of death I shall dispatch in three words obey them and ye are above the grave A. 1. Make sure of being in Christ the Head-Saint Rom. 13.14 or in another phrase put ye on the Lord Jesus clad your selves with him before ye lye downe in the dust he is ornament and Muniment for comlinesse that ye be not naked and for desence that nothing can hurt you the grave cannot corrupt the body that he clothes Beleeve in him truly and ye have him for life and food and rayment wealth and strong ●●●…ity against the attempts of your most dreadfull enemies see a little more narrowly what a fence hee hath about him that abides in Christ The Father and the comforter are alwayes with the Son so that have him and have all The spirit the Comforter close at the heart the son thy Head and God the Father thy Rock thy strength thy glory round about thee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Joh. 14.26 Eph. 1.22 Psal 18.1 Can death terrifie or the grave Rot these and drive them away then Maiest thou feare too but hell and death tremble before the Lord It is enough Christian it is enough to see thy selfe in Christ he hath tryed the arme of death and power of the grave hath subdued them to himselfe and laid them under the feet of his beleeving members If thou be yet without him poore soule thou art naked and exposed to the fury of death and the pit be advised therefore and give no sleepe to thine eyes nor slumber to thine eye-lids untill thou canst say Christ is mine and I am his An humbled selfe-judging selfe-abasing and selfe-denying soule cannot come to him and be cast out and if received secured for ever Ioh. 6.37 As soone may that holy sonne be deserted of God and made a prey to the powers of darknesse as thy soule left in hell or thy body given to see corruption in the pit Onely be sure to immure thy selfe in Christ and thou art set about with walls of Salvation 2. Next to this state of incorruption in the head provided care must be taken to bee incorruptible in thy selfe then art thou safe against deathes destructions As in the last resurrection 1 Cor. 15.53 our corruptible must put on incorruption eminently that there shall not be a possibility of dying againe so to make a way to that in our first resurrection to the life of God there is an Incorruption by way of inchoation that must bee attained unto which makes us safe against the destructive power of the grave though wee doe now dye This is that holinesse so much commended concerning which This is my counsell take care mightily for the Being and perfection of Holinesse in thee 1. That it be in thee indeed not forme or shew of Holinesse will doe good in this matter Holinesse in truth is the onely sacred preserving thing the reallity where of must appeare in the rice nature and fruits of it 1. For its Rice 1 Ioh. 2.20 see it be truly from the Holy one from that Holy-son the head of the Church from the holy Father the head of Christ and from the holy spirit the ●●me of both all is but the thrice holy God no Holinesse reall but from him 2. For its nature that it beare conformity with his Holinesse that God may appeare to bee in thee of a truth in his Image and peculiar worke bee as like as may be to the Holy one Eph. 4.24 heart to his heart pure and heavenly 3. For its fruits that in thoughts word and wayes the power of holinesse may give out it selfe to bias and turne them all to the holy one This destroyes finne and brings forth fruits to none but to God O that this golden oyle might runne in all thy veines and seake thy bones and fill thy bowells and clad thy flesh about death durst not hurt thee nor Rottennesse spoyle thee 2. Let it not content onely to be holy but perfect holines in the feare of God to the most excellent beauties of it see to the reall concurrence of all graces in thy soule 2 Cor. 7.1 as to the sweet order and disposition of them Harmony is among graces let not sinne put them out of Ranke Bee it thy dayly study and excercise to hold out the splendor of all Shine in Imitation of thy God strive to reach his glory in thy wayes Be holy as he is holy even to sinnes utter destruction corruptibility dyeth with that Aime at this marke and follow after it let ambition runne to the highest to bee like to God the more holy the more incorruptible by fin and the more secure from the Malignity of death when the Apostle would demonstrate firmely the incorruptibility of Christ in the grave hee urgeth this authority God said on this wise I will give you the sure Mereies of David In the prophet it is the Amen mercies Esay 55.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 13.34 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the rendring of the Apostle the sacred or holy things of David nothing is mistaken in the matter The holy favours which God by Covenant gave to David the Type to Christ the true head of his confederates were a sure guard to him against corruption the same are the Saints indowments carried all in holinesse and will be their fence impenitrable by the curse of the grave O then bee Holy be holy brethren bee glorious in holinesse let it bee your garment now your winding sheet when you lye downe it will be glory in your life

sit what meaneth this golden truth 2. Quomodo how Holinesse doth effect all this 3. Cur sit why it is so effectuall To the first the true value of this precious truth will appeare in the explication of these particulars Quid sit 1. The preservative Holinesse 2. the vertue or force it keepeth from or it forbids or denyeth 3. The evill over which it prevaileth Dereliction and Corruption in state of death 4. the subject on whom it worketh so powerfully the Man the Saint My soule thy Holy one What Holinesse 1. What is this Holinesse all the helpe we have to find this out in the text is only in that expression thy holy one which is diversely rendred by some thy Mercifull one by others thy gratious Saint and by others him whom thou favourest or whom thou followest with mercy and goodnesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 At. M●●t Ainsw Vatabl Iunius Bez in Act. 2.27 or in short e Sanctus hoc loco Hasid est qui gratiá spiritus sanctisicatus est Luth. in text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts 2.27 Acts. 13.35 thy favourite The word indeed carrieth the voice of mercy and goodnesse but then they have done best that translate it passively and note by it the soule that hath received mercy and goodnesse from the Lord to be sanctified and become a Saint The seaventy render it plainly thy holy one which the spirit in the new Testament twice warranteth to be a sound translation and our translators doe well to keepe that expression which notes a man pure from iniquity and a Divine worshipper as Etymologists observe but to leave bare words and to search for the thing intended even Holinesse I shall labour to open it first in its nature secondly In its Rise thirdly In its relation 1. Touching the nature of this Holines that we may reach it Nature 1. need wil require that we should distinguish to select that whose nature we would know Now the Holinesse carried in the text is two fold 1. primitive wch is in the head Christ the cheife Subject here intended for above all eminently is he called the Holy one of God and his holinesse againe is two fold 1. Essentiall to him as God equall with the Father so is he the subject of that the Seraphims proclamation Esay 6.3 Holy Holy Holy is the Lord of Hosts even the Holy God 2. Additionall such as by the Fathers pleasure was poured out fully on him in the flesh and did concerne him as Mediator for as he had the fulnesse of the Godhead and that essentiall Holinesse Col. 2.9 which is incommunicable being one with the Father so no lesse did hee thinke it meet being in the flesh to become one with his Church to receive such a fulnesse of the spirit that might be communicable to his body Col. 1.19 Joh. 3.34 and from whence every true member might have grace for grace Joh. 1.16 which fulnesse how ever it was created to be fit for us yet in Christ it received such an influence from that God-holinesse by reason of the personall union that it was most glorious and not without this advantage doth he give it cut to beleevers In this respect he is called by way of eminency the f Christus proprie passim inscripturis aspellatur Sanctus Dei sicut Chris●us Domini Luth. in text Mark 1.14 Luk. 1.35 Acts. 3.14 Holy one of God 2. Derivative namely that which by participation every true member receiveth from the Holy Head or fountaine and this is also two fold according to the various wayes of Communication 1. 1 Cor. 1.30 Holinesse imputed which is Christs indeed in propriety and right but the Saints onely by his deed of gift and Gods gracious accompt 2. 1 Per. 2.9 Holinesse infused which hath a proper being in the Saints wrought by the spirit of Christ and left effected in them whence they are likewise called by God an holy people and that both these wayes they may be truly sanctified Joh. 17.19 Christ is said to sanctifie himselfe Now then if wee restraine this priviledge to Christ that Holinesse which he received not abstracted from but joyned with and glorified by that God-Holinesse did keepe him from dereliction and Corruption in the state of death But if we extend this benefit to every Member of his body Mysticall as is intended by him then the Holinesse created in them is their preservative also being of the same nature with that in their head yet neither this separated but accompanied with Christs owne Holinesse imputed that not stript of the abundant glory cast upon it of God so that though the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the matter whereof we desire knowledge be creature-Holinesse and that infused into every Saint yet by reason of its connexion with and dependance upon that in Christ and God-Holinesse it selfe whereunto it must beare conformity we cannot understand one without the other let us touch therefore upon the discovery of both 1. That Holinesse which is God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may well be conceived from the notation of his name Now this the Prophet publisheth Esay 57.15 his name is Holy which g ld proprié apud Hebraeos Kados dicitur quod a vulgari usu consuetudine propter singularem aliquam vel virtutis vel vitii notationem semotum sejunctum est Ar. Mon● in lib. Ios c. 2. Levit. 10.3 word with the Hebrewes sets forth that thing which for some singular note of goodnesse or of evill was set apart for common use but in this place it must be taken in the better part having respect to God so that when God is called Holy it notes him to be a Being wholy separate from all spots and imperfections most pure perfect good great and most incomparably excelling all other Beings in so much that he will not bee touched nor spoken of nor served by any low or polluted creature but will bee sanctified by all that draw nigh unto him and for those that have dealt too commonly with him his Holinesse hath beene as fire to consume them It is a Title therefore worthy of God which Moses doth give him Glorious in Holinesse as noting that to be the Top of glory Exod. 15.11 and if we would have a fuller description of this Holinesse it is the very excellency redundant out of the confluence of all Gods Attributes whereby he is set in the height of purity above the reach either of the services or words or thoughts of the most excellent creatures to be admired not comprehended 2. The Creature Holinesse which we are now to finde is called the Image of God Col. 3.10 Eph. 4.24 2 Cor. 3.18 by which expression wee are guided to thinke that the nature of it should stand in the likenesse and conformity to the Holinesse of God whence this discovery may be of it Holinesse is the excellency of the new creature framed by