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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42023	Two sermons the first preacht at Steeple-Aston in Oxfordshire at the funerall of Mr. Francis Croke of that place Aug. 2, 1672, the other at the funerall of Alexander Croke of Studley, Esq., buryed at Chilton in Buckinghamshire Octob. 24, 1672 / by Daniel Greenwood ...	Greenwood, Daniel, 1627 or 8-1679.	1680 (1680)	Wing G1865; ESTC R7515	25,935	40

Widdow in their affliction c. Ja. 1. 27. This righteous this mercifull Man is said to perish to be taken away which must not be understood of the perishing of his Soul or his being finally lost for God gave his Son to the end that who so ever believes should not perish Jo. 3. 16. and the Son hath layd downe his life to seek and save that which was lost and hath past his word that his sheep who heare his voyce and follow him shall not perish Jo. 10. 28. But the meaning is they are took away by a temporal Death and the Prophet finds fault with the carelesse and obstinate Jews for taking no notice of it The Death of all Men in generall although it be a common thing and meets us every day yet o●ght not to be past over with a transient and regardlesse eye Eccl. 7. 2. It is better to go to the house of Mourning then to the House of Rejoycing for that is the end of all Men and the Living will lay it to heart As if he should say in the House of mourning so the places are called where funeralls are celebrated or friends are departed a Man is minded of the common lot and end of all men Man sees his own end in the end of others and is thereby admonished of his own frailty and Mortality which it highly concerns him to remember and to be throughly affected with Here we see the greatness and power of God who takes away Mans Breath He dyes and returns to his dust Psa 104 29. We see our own vileness and vanity that dust we are and to dust we returne and at our best estate altogether vanity Ps 9. 5 But it much more concerns us to be deeply affected with the Death of good men Ps 116. 15. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the Death of all his Saints And surely what 's pretious in Gods eyes ought not to be common and contemptible in ours The reasons why the death of good Men ought more especially to be laid to heart are 1. Because of the paucity and scantness of such The Souldiers would not permit David to hazzard himselfe because hee was worth ten thousand of them 2 Sam. 18. 3. There were multitudes of common persons few Kings especially such as David was Wicked Men are as the common stones of the brooke and of the high-way but Righteous men are jewells Ma● 3. 17. The losse of Jewels is the more lamented because they are pretious and rare This made Ezekiel take on so much for the Death of Pelatiah because there were but few such as he and a few out of a remnant would be quickly mist Ezek 11. 13. It came to passe that when I prophecyed Pelatiah the Son of Benaiah dyed and I cryed with a lowde voyce and said O Lord God wilt thou make a full end of the Remnant of Israel The latter times are foretold to be perilous because the generality of men shall be lovers of their owne selves c. Christs flock a little flock and his people a remnant but then more especially too when iniquity abounds and love and piety grow cold When therefore God shall gleane out of this remnant and take away at the head of this flock it 's time to bethink our selves what God is doing and say with the Psalmist Ps 12. 1. Help Lord for the godly Man ceaseth c. 2. Because of that Heavenly relation that is between all Christians and that Spiritual sympathy and fellow-feeling that ought to be between them Such as is between the Members of the natural Body that when one Member suffers all suffer and if one be cut of the rest not that which is cut off retaine the sense and smart of the losse It is true death doth not cut of a Christian either from Christ the Head or from his mystical Body these relations hold when all natural and civil ones cease Death which untwists all others tyes this the faster Yet it cutts off from the society of the Militant Church the ranke is broken his place is void his presence missing and his service wanting till God fill it up by a new supply The visible Communion which we had with such an one in joint prayers both publick and private in mutual exhortations incouragements instructions and consolations is interrupted and they to whom such Communion of Saints such intercourse of Christian and brotherly love was pleasant and desierable cannot but lay to heart the want of it The cracking or failing of one string in an instrument disturbs the harmony so do's the losse of one member abate the wonted pleasure and solemnity of our Christian society and Communion 3. When we lay to heart the Death of good Men we testify to the world what love we bare to their Persons and what value and esteem we have of their Vertue and goodness When Jesus wept at the grave of Lezarus then said the Jewes behold how he Loved him Jo. 11. 36. This made the Saints and Widdowes to weep so vehemently at the Death of Tabitha hereby testifing to Peter the Church and all the world how high an esteeme they had of her goodness For shee was full of good workes and almes-deed which shee did Acts. 9. 36. These and the like reasons do especially perswade good Men to lay to heart the Death of good Men. But the following ones will shew cause to all Men good and bad to regard and lament over the fall of a Righteous Person 4. Because of the usefulnesse of such and the losse that all sustaine by the removal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Good Men are a generall a common good They are the props and supports of a place The Earth and the inhabitants thereof are dissolv'd I beare up the pillars of it Psa 75. 3. A Building stands by the strength of the pillars so the World stands by the support of the godly which else would fall downe upon the heads of wicked Men as the just punishment of their iniquity The frame of the world is kept up for the sake of the Church It had long ere this been Buryed in ' its owne Sins and ruines were it not that God waited for the conversion and coming in of some and the perfection and consummation of the rest that belong to the election of his grace Particular places had sunk under their owne guilt and their confusion cover'd them if good Men did not support them If the Lord had not left us a very small remnant we had been as Sodome and made like unto Gomorrah Is 1. 9. and CH. 6. 13. As Oakes whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves so the Holy seed shall be the substance thereof As if he should say look as in the winter the sap and vertue that is in the roote keeps the tree alive so is the Holy seed the substance of the remnant that preserves them from being wasted with a total and utter destruction Wicked and ungodly