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A79887	An antidote against immoderate mourning for the dead. Being a funeral sermon preached at the burial of Mr. Thomas Bewley junior, December 17th. 1658. By Sa. Clarke, pastor in Bennet Fink, London.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1660 (1660)	Wing C4501; Thomason E1015_5; ESTC R208174	34,512	62

gold and an ornament of fine gold so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear And this is one good sign of a godly wise man Prov. 15. 5. He that regards reproof is prudent and vers. 31. the ear that heareth the reproof of life abides amongst the wise Hesiod tells us of three sorts of men First such as live so well that they need no reproof these are best of all Secondly such as do not so well but can be content to hear of it and these saith he are not bad Thirdly such as will neither do as they ought nor be advised to do better these are in a very dangerous condition such may read their doom and see their destiny Psal. 50. 21 22. Truth saith one is sharp but bitter though it be yet it is better and more savoury to sound sences then the hony-drops of a flattering tongue Seventhly He by Gods grace resisted tentations frome some of his familiars who would have drawn him to Taverns and mildly reproved them for it Concerning all these I shall present you with the attestation of his Tutor given me in writing and that in his own words He was saith he when I came to him which was about four years ago a Christian youth well principled in the grounds of Religion and I left him a little before he died which was about the eighteenth year of his age knowing what was in the Assemblies Confession of faith in Wollebius and what Altingius in his Didactica hath written Of late also he delighted much to read Calvins Institutions and B. Halls Meditations and of his knowledge of the things of God yea of the hardest of them I have found satisfaction after trial He not onely knew God but loved him and in his last sicknesse wept to think that he had and did love God no more He was a lover of the children and Ministers of God and amongst his acquaintance he valued them most in whom he saw most of vertue He heard the Word and could retain and judg of what he heard and did not so much affect flaunting and quaint preaching as that which spake most home to his heart In his Closet before he came out of his chamber he read a portion of Scripture from which he hath raised pertinent observations when put to the trial and what he knew not that he asked He read with judgment and hath said that all other books but the Bible did bring weariness to his reading he joyned prayer I have seen him displeased when disturbed and what at one time he omitted at another time he would repair and this he carried on with so little noise that I only was privy to it Thus you have heard of his piety manifested in his life vita qualis finis talis as was his life such was his death For In his last sicknesse which was the small Pox accompanied with a Feaver he bore it with great patience He inquired of his Tutor how he might know that he loved God and being answered he brake forth into tears and when his Tutor asked him why he wept he answered Because he had loved God no more nor made a better improvement of his former deliverances Yet he said that the word of God was his meditation the promises whereof did now comfort him He was sensible of his approaching Death and the night before told some about him that he should not live another night One of his last words was I must be gone The next thing that I propounded to speak of was his dutifulnesse to his parents which can be testified by many Indeed they were very tender of him and indulgent towards him yet did not he abuse their love to liberty nor through familiarity contemn their authority but was many times content to refrain from things lawfull and suitable to his desires to give them satisfaction Neirher was his charity to the poor lesse remarkable then the two former For from his childhood he would often go to the servants to fetch relief fot such poor as came to his Fathers door And being grown up to more maturity he frequently distributed money amongst them would many times say that if God ever brought him to the enjoyment of his estate he would as constantly make provision for such as were in want as for himself and Family He knew that Temporalia Dei servis impensa non pereunt sed parturiunt Almes given to the poor perish not but multiply that bounty is the most compendious way to plenty and that hereby he might lay up a good foundation for himself against the time to come 1 Tim. 6. 18. He knew that rich mens houses should be Gods Store-houses and that sowing oft of this fruitful seed we shall be sure to reap in our greatest need and God is not unrighteous to forget our labour of love in this kind Heb. 6. 10. Oh! how may this shame many rich men that keep no proportion between their increases for God and increases from God that though they are rich in this world yet they are poor in good works they lay not by for pious and charitable uses as God hath blessed them 1 Cor. 16. 2. But indeed are the richer the harder as children that have their mouths full and both hands full and yet will part with none but spill it rather Men when they grow fat have so much the lesse blood So the fatter men are in their estates the lesse blood life and spirits they have for God Or if they do give something yet they do not love mercy Micha 6. 8. they are not ready to distribute willing to communicate 1 Tim. 6. 18. their mercy doth not flow from them like water from the Fountain or light from the Sun naturally and freely but it must be wrung from them like verjuice from the crab or as distilled water that is forced out by the heat of the fire It s no marvel therefore that this charitable frame of heart contributed so much towards the comfortable end of this our deceased brother I remember what Hierom saith Non memini me legisse malâ morte mortuum qui libenter opera charitatis exercuit habet enim multos intercessores I do not remember saith he that I ever read of any one that died an ill death that was frequent in works of charity and no marvel for he hath many intercessors for him which agrees with that of David Psal. 112. 9. He hath dispersed he hath given to the poor his rightcousnesse indures for ever his horn shall be exalted with honour and Psal. 41. 3. the Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness Having thus dispatched those three things that I proposed to speak to I might adde much more by telling you of his humility in concealing himself and his own parts as the sweet violet that grows low neer unto the ground and withall hides it self under it's own leaves Of his sweet