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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17913	A casket of ievvells and precious pearles Set forth in a funerall sermon, preached in Heckfield Church, at the buriall of a religious young gentleman, Mr. Barnabas Creswell, sonne of Mr. Thomas Creswell Esquire, by Nathanael Cannon, Batchelar in diuinitie.	Cannon, Nathanael, 1581 or 2-1664.	1625 (1625)	STC 4575.7; ESTC S115891	12,655	78

A CASKET OF IEVVELS and precious PEARLES Set forth in a FVNERALL Sermon Preached in Heckfield Church at the Buriall of a Religious young Gentleman Mr. Barnabas Creswell Sonne of Mr. Thomas Creswell Esquire By NATHANAEL CANNON Batchelar in Diuinitie August de Temp. Ser. 49. Dies noster Dominus Christus non facit occasum LONDON Printed by T. S. for Nathanael Newbery at the Starre vnder St. Peters Church in Cornehill and in Popes-head Alley 1625. To the Worshipfull and Christian yoake-fellowes Mr. Iohn Stampe and M irs Iane Stampe his Wife Nathaniel Cannon wisheth true Comforts externall internall and eternall TO you Both as partners in losse and lamentation I tender this Treatise and yet I am to speake vnto you two who are but one apart concerning this businesse Sir he called you Father by a course of Law and yet with conscience declared himselfe a very childe For if obedience reuerence and daily diligence might beget loue then needs must he be a beloued Sonne who was all this to you for conscience sake To you his deare Mother hee was a right Barnabas which is by signification a Sonne of Consolation of which you had no small measure both from his life and death He honoured you you loued him he comforted you you tendered him and this was the mutuall intercourse betwixt you vntill GOD tooke him from you As for my selfe who at his Funerall read the Lecture of our mortality besides the many bands of Christianity wherewith all the faithfull are linked and conioyned together there are other especiall motiues to make you and yours neare and deare to me For first you were a good Instrument vnder GOD both to comfort and counsell mee in that calling whereunto the Lord hath appointed mee Secondly you and that worthy Gentleman my Brother Master Creswell who is falne asleepe were not wanting to mee and mine but made your house vnto vs as the house of Onesiphorus was vnto Paul a place of great refreshing 2 Tim. 1.16 Now as the Prophet saith vnto the Sunamyte who had prouided a Chamber a Table a Stoole and a Candlesticke for the man of God 2 Kings 4.13 thou hast been careful for vs but what may I do for thee so say I what shall be done for you by mee Surely vnlesse it be in the course of my calling to pray with you and for you and sometimes as God offers occasion to present some part of my poore labours vnto you loe this is all I can doe nothing else Wherefore let mee pay my debts vnto you after this manner and the rather for that you both with diuers others haue desired that this Sermon Preached at the Funerall of this faithfull seruant of God and deere Son of yours might see the light Yet let mee not robbe you louing Brother of your desires in making this your especiall request that hee whom you had imprinted in your heart might be put in Print at your instance which is done by way of Dedication to you and her who is a part of you my deere Sister Here shall you take a view of the Saints and of their condition who are the precious Iewels lockt vp in the Casket of this Scripture Doubtlesse your Childe was one of these a rich Diamond whose ground being Christ must needes haue the light both of grace and glory Remember therefore Iobs giuer and taker which Text hee quoteth in the case of Children God giueth saith he and God taketh blessed be the name of the Lord Iob 1.21 If you will blesse him he will blesse you our least submission brings great consolation Yeeld Sister yeeld and God grant you the true comfort of those branches yet in being God blesse them and make his face to shine vpon them that they may liue to doe worthily in Ephrata and be famous in Bethelem Ruth 4.11 Amen Amen Subscribed by your louing Brother in the Lord Iesus Christ Nathanael Cannon Text. PSAL. 116. Verse 15. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints THE whole world in her full age is but a Kalnder● of yeares and dayes as for Man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that little world he brings his yeares to an end as it were a tale that is told Nam vita nostra similes est Rotae saith Zanchius vpon the fourth to the Philippians our life saith he is like a wheele modo in suprema modo in infima parte versamur sometimes saith he we are rising sometimes falling now wee are at the very top and height of our comforts by and by downe againe in the depth of our sorrowes at length in the transition of this whirling wheele that life that earst was all aloft shall with one gaspe lay it selfe all along What shall we say to this the Heauens doe many times grow blacke and cloudy and yet cleere againe the earth moues not at all yet hath his being the Seas they ebbe flowe but haue returnes yea the very plants and trees let fall their lease but keepe their life for as Iob 14. obserues There is hope of a tree though it be cut downe yet by the scent of water it may bud and sprout forth againe but as for man the man of earth for so he is rightly called as Chrysostome obserues in his 12. Hom. in Gen. Homo rectè terra apellatur quia prorsus est terrenus he may well be called earth that is so earthly Alas this man as Iob notes falles sicke and dyes gone he is with a nunquam rediturus the eye that hath seene him shall see him no more Orimur morimur wee liue wee dye Sic transit gloria mundi Wee neede not turne our bookes to proue this point for in Gods standing Library which is the world there are two Lieger Bookes the one liber Creaturarum the booke of the Creatures the other liber Scripturarum the booke of the Scriptures in both these volumes it is written that Death hath a Habeas-Corpus for vs all As for that of the Creatures it speakes vnto vs in the matter of our mortality as the Prophet Dauid doth in the 19. Psalme touching Gods glory One day tels another and one night certifieth another and there is neither speech nor language vnder the heauens but the voyce of Gods glory is heard amongst them so verily one day tels another and one night certifies another there is neither speech nor language vnder the heauens but the voyce of death is heard amongst them As for that of the Scriptures we know that all Scripture is giuen by inspiration from God and is profitable to teach as the Apostle witnesseth 2 Tim. 3.16 Each leafe doth reade a lecture to our life teaching vs so to liue the life of the righteous that wee may die the death of the righteous yet notwithstanding wee may say of the Scriptures as the Apostle doth of the starres 1 Cor. 15. one starre saith hee differeth from another in glory so doubtlesse one Scripture may giue more light