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A03302	The life and death of Dorcas VVherein, hee that pleaseth to reade, may finde both good direction for the ordering of his course: and a necessary warning to be prepared for his end. By Samuel Hieron.	Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.	1612 (1612)	STC 13417; ESTC S116028	17,230	28

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DORCAS VVHEREIN HEE that pleaseth to reade may finde both good direction for the ordering of his Course AND A necessary warning to be prepared for his End By SAMVEL HIERON Psalm 92. ver 12. The righteous shall flourish like a Palme tree and shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon LONDON Printed by MELCH BRADWOOD for SAMVEL MACHAM and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Bulhead 1612. TO MY MVCH HOnoured Lady the Ladie MARGARET HELE of Weuburie in Deuon MAdame many things which I haue obserued in you do euen assure me that this small present shall finde some fauour with you these two especially your reuerent estimation of the ordinance of God the word preached and your more particular respect vnto my ministrie Other things I could name but that I do abhorre the very smell and shadow of flatterie It hath pleased you some time to craue of me the notes of some things which I haue in your hearing taught in publique Being much desired by many to commit to printing that which God enabled mee very lately to deliuer at the funerals of a worthy gentle-woman of these parts I thought to inscribe it vnto your Ladie-ships name as a pledge of my true desire to further you all I may in your iourney towards Heauen The matter is of a woman in the Scripture well reported of both for her holy profession and for her gracious fruit to whom the more like your Ladie-ship shall become the better shall your assurance be of entring into rest I commend the Sermon to your reading the person treated of to your Imitation and your bodie and soule to the protection of the Almightie my selfe remaining Your Ladie-ships ready seruitor in any Christian office SAM HIERON Tabitha or Dorcas of Ioppa her life in which her Profession A Disciple Fruit Generall full of Good workes Almes Particular full of Good workes Almes death she was sicke died THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DORCAS ACTS 9.36 There was also at Ioppa a certaine woman a Disciple named Tabitha which by interpretation is called Dorcas shee was full of good workes and almes which shee did 37. And it came to passe in those daies that shee was sicke and died THis which I haue read is the entrance into a very memorable storie The generall state of the place touching a testimonie which God gaue to the word of his grace by enabling Peter to restore a dead woman vnto life I am now to treat of it as an entire parcell in itselfe and being so considered I may terme it A compendious or briefe report of the life and death of a certaine worthy Matron whose dwelling was in Ioppa whose name in the Syriacke tongue Tabitha as much in effect as that which in Greeke is called Dorcas a name very honourable now because it was hers though in it owne natiue signification not so gracefull it being as much to say as in English Roe or Goat no more preiudice to her who was a sheepe of Christs then it was behoouefull to traiterous Abshalom that by the purport of his name he was the father of peace I will not spend time about these circumstances of her name and dwelling though both might astoord vs good matter of instruction the one to shew how that ● God said to Moses a Ex. 33 17. the relig●ous finde that fauour in the sight of God that he knoweth them by name and that although it bee their portion heere to haue their names put out as euill b Luk 6 22. yet still they are written in heauen c Luk. 1● 20. in the Booke of life of the L●e d Deu. 13 ● out of which they shall neuer bee razed e Re● 3.5 whereas the wicked though they thinke to get them a name f Gen. 11.4 and lay plots to keepe their name in remembrance g 2. Sam. 18 1● and to that end doe call their Lands by their names h Ps 49 11. yet their name shall not i Pro. 10 7. and shall bee left by them as a curse vnto Gods chosen k Isa 65.15 the other of her dwelling might bee brought to minde vs that the Lord knoweth our dwelling l Isa 27.28 Reu. 2.13 and so by consequence is accustomed to all our wates m P● 139.3 If we walke in obedience before him no place can hinder our acceptance with him his ere is as well to Ioppa as to Ierusalem and if wee walke stubbornly against him n Leuit. 26.23 no place can throud vs from his hand For Whither shall wee flee from his presence o Ps 139 7. And The e●e of the Lord in euery place shall behold the euill and the good p Pro. 15.3 Those things I could vrge from these circumstances but because I am now like to a poore traueller that hath farre to goe and little to spend much matter before me in my text but not much time before me to deliuer it in I will therefore select such things as may sort with the purpose of our meeting which as it is to solemnize the funerall of a deceased Matrone so it should bee to take occasion thereby so to number our daies that we applie our hearts to wisedome Ps 90.12 and so to order our daies by passing the time of our dwelling heere in feare 1 P●t 1● that which is the reward of godlinesse God may doe vs good in our latter end D●u 8.16 I come therefore to those two generall points the Life and Death of Dorcas the one The diuision in the place into 2. parts vers 36. the other vers 37. Touching her life there are two things considerable 1. Her profession a Disciple 2. The fruits of her profession full of good workes c. The things considerable in the first part two things which ought to kisse each other in the life of a Christian A profession without fruit is groste hypocrisie A kind of fruit for so there may be without a right profession is boote lesse formalitie but both together knowledge to guide obedience and ob●dience to testifie the truth of the knowledge that is Christianity In whom I can finde these two of him I may sa● Behold indeed an Israelite in whom is no guile t Ioh. 1 4● This is the man of pure heart and innocent hands that shall ascend into the mountaine of the Lord u Psal 21. ● Let me speake of both a-part I may diuide them in my discourse but in●o ●r course neither you nor I may sunder them 1. Her profession a Disciple The 1. thing in the ● part Disciple was the customarie name by which those that professed the truth were called in the prime daies of the Gospell In the beginning it was a title more pe●uliar to those that gaue their ordinarie attendance vpon our Sauiour The twelue Apostles are called the twelue Disciples x