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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29157	A sermon preached at the funeral of Thomas Shadwell, Esq. late Poet-Laureat, and Historiographer-Royal, who was interred at Chelsea, November 24, 1692 by Nicholas Brady ...	Brady, Nicholas, 1659-1726.	1693 (1693)	Wing B4176; ESTC R19587	9,404	30

gave me drink I was naked and ye cloathed me I was sick and in prison and ye visited me How pleasing and agreeable must the Surprize then be when they find every Instance of Charity and Compassion which they formerly extended to their distressed Brethren accepted and rewarded as fully and effectually as if it had been performed to Christ himself Verily I say unto you in as much as ye have done it to the least of these my Brethren ye have done it unto me Then every Action of Piety and Devotion every Advancement in Godliness and Holiness every Christian Combat and Struggling with Temptations every single Act of Faith and Resignation shall have its due Commendation and particular Regard How delightful and ravishing will the Prospect be when all their Virtues shall be thus ranked in order and attend them jointly to the Throne of Grace and there present themselves in their Favour and Behalf as so many Offerings of a sweet smelling savour Then shall their Redeemer know his own by these their Fruits and confess them before his Father which is in Heaven and they shall see face to face the Holiest of Holies in whose presence is fullness of joy The Scene is so glorious and so transcendently inviting that it needs no ●oil no Painter's Art of Shades and darker Colours to give these brighter ones more Splendor and Vivacity and therefore it needs not to be set off by comparing it with the miserable condition of such unhappy Wretches whose Works are said to go before them unto Judgment Sense cannot reach the Beauty of it nor Imagination figure any Resemblance to it for eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither hath it enter'd into the heart of man to conceive the things which God has prepared for them that love him Blessed therefore are the dead which die in the Lord if we look upon Death as the Entrance into another World For their Works do follow them Into this happy State and Condition I hope our deceased Brother is already enter'd with whom my Acquaintance was so intimate during my short Familiarity with him that it qualified me to know him as well as those who had conversed with him much longer and I cannot but do his Memory that Justice to declare that during the time of my Acquaintance with him I found in him a most zealous Affection to the present Government a great deal of Honesty and Integrity a real Love of Truth and Sincerity an inviolable Fidelity and Strictness to his Word an unalterable Friendship wheresoever he professed it and however the World may be mistaken in him a much deeper Sense of Religion than many others have who pretend to it more openly His natural and acquired Abilities made him sufficiently remarkable to all that he conversed with and cannot be unknown to any here present very few being equal to him in all the becoming Qualities and Accomplishments which adorn and set off a complete Gentleman His very Enemies if he have left any behind him will give him this Character at least if they knew him so throughly as I did and therefore it is but cold Justice in a Friend who received from him during his Life all the Marks of a true Affection which shall make his Memory dear to me when he is nothing else but Dust and Ashes His Doath seized him suddenly but could not unprepared since to my own certain knowledge he never took his Dose of Opium but he solemnly recommended himself to God by Prayer as if he were then about to resign up his Soul into the Hands of his faithful Creator These Considerations give me good Grounds to hope that this dead man is blessed because from thence I have reason to believe that he died in the Lord. I should enlarge farther upon his Character but that he always in his life time disapproved of that Custom upon these Occasions and most especially in relation to himself nor should I thus far have infringed his Will in this particular but that I was willing to inform the World how much some People have erred in their Opinion of him Let us then in the Name God so manage our selves during the Course of this Life that we may be qualified for the Enjoyment of a better that when we shall go hence and be no more seen we may rest from our labours not enter upon greater Miseries and that our works which shall follow us may recommend and not impeach us that so we may have a just Title to that Blessedness which is the portion of those dead which die in the Lord. To which God of his infinite Mercy bring us all through the Merits and Mediation of our Blessed Saviour to whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit be ascribed all Honour Power Might Majesty and Dominion henceforth and for evermore Amen FINIS Books newly Printed for James Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard THE Design of the Book of Ecclesiastes or the Unreasonableness of Mens Restless Contentions for the present Enjoyments Whereunto is added a Paraphrase with some Notes on part of the Book of Ecclesiastes In Octavo Directions to a Holy Life In Three Parts I. The Benefit of being truly Religious II. The Necessity of Good Works III. The Exercise of the Love of God By a Divine of the Church of England In Octavo A Guide to Eternity Extracted out of the Writings of the Holy Fathers and Ancient Philosophers Written originally in Latin by John Bona and now Done into English by Sir Roger L' Estrange The Third Edition In Twelves An Earnest Invitation to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper By Joseph Glanvill late Rector of Bath and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty