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A45546	Faiths victory over natvre, or, The unparallel'd president of an unnaturally religious father delivered in a sermon preached at the funerals of the hopefull young gentleman Master John Rushout : son and heire to Master John Rushout merchant and citizen of London / by Nathanael Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1648 (1648)	Wing H721; ESTC R12956	17,414	32

FAITHS VICTORY over NATVRE OR The unparallel'd president of an unnaturally Religious Father Delivered in a SERMON Preached at the Funerals of the hopefull young Gentleman Master John Rushout Son and Heire to Master JOHN RUSHOUT Merchant and Citizen of LONDON By NATHANAEL HARDY Master of Arts and Preacher to the Parish of DIONIS Back-Church Was not Abraham our Father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the Altar Seest thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect JAM 2.21 22. Transgreditur fides rationis fidem humanae naturae usum experientiae terminos Bern. Verus obediens mandatum non procrastinat sed statim parat aures auditui linguam voci pedes itineri manus operi se totum intus colligit ut mandatum peragat imperantis Idem LONDON Printed for Nathanael Webb and William Grantham at the Grey-hound in Pauls Church-yard 1648. To my Right Worthy FRIEND Mr. JOHN RVSHOVT Of LONDON Merchant and Inhabitant in the Parish of Dionis Back-Church the blessings of the throne and footstool Honoured SIR IT was a sorrowfull losse occasioned the delivery of this Sermon in your eares and the seasonable comfort you then found caused those desires which being to me commands occasion the presenting of it to your eyes The tryall wherewith God hath been pleased to exercise you cannot but be grievous yet a patient sufferance and sanctified use will make it precious no better means of support under and benefit by this tryall then faith which is both a powerfull Antidote against the crosse and a skilfull Alchymist to extract spirituall advantage out of temporall losses It is true you have lost a hopefull son but faith will eye God as a wise and gracious Father Charity comforts you in the hope that he hath gained the enjoyment of glory by his dissolution Faith will instruct you in the Christian art how to gain increase of grace by this affliction It is the justice of God that hee never punisheth without a cause it is his mercy that he ordereth all to a good end let repentance find out and bewail sin deserving and faith will apprehend the benefit intended Oh divine grace of faith many daughters have done worthily but thou surmountest them all thou regulatest our actions and moderatest our passions thou teachest us how to enjoy and supplyest us in what wee want by thee wee finde the sweetnesse of a God in the creature-comforts we have and the sweetnesse of those comforts we lose in a God And now worthy Sir what bitter counsell could I prescribe you then this of Faith what fuller example of faiths energie could I set before you then that of Abraham who by faith gave up that Isaac to God whom God had conferr'd on him in love The picture of this believing Patriark offering up his obedient Isaac you have delineated in the following Sermon Let Abrahams steps be your walk and his bosome shall be your rest imitate him as a son in the grace of Faith and you shall be an heire together with him in the grace of life whech is the prayer of him who is Your devoted servant in all Christian and Ministeriall offices NATH. HARDY Errata Page 4. line 23 devoute the former l 28. for people r. people p. 6. l. 5.1 se transferre p. 13. in marg pone Chrysost. p. 14. in marg. pone Chrysost. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford On the death of Master John Rushout eldest Sonne of Master John Rushout of London Merchant WHo slew all these was Nimshi's sonne 's demand When 's will was done by false Samaria's hand When heads were heapt and Nobles by the rude Were made the many-headed multitude When slain Youth and Beauty were heap'd on high Virtue and Strength pil'd with Nobility Who slew all these each tear now seems to say The mourner drops by this sad heap of clay Nor doe they soloecise for in Rushout's sonne There 's a heap'd funerall though he be but one Logick is out it 's praecepts erre in this He is but one and yet a number is Arithmetick mistakes in him for we If not divide yet one may multiply Virtue and Beauty Strength and Youth are here Heap'd up and pil'd together on this Biere A summe of Graces are Hee 's a Totall than Not one of these but might compleat a man The tears that from his Fathers eyes doe run Fall for but one Sonne and yet not for One When he laments his Beauty so soon gone Doth he not Weep for his Dead Absolom He mourns and praises his obedient Will 'T is for his Isaac sure those tears distill When he recounts the Wisdome of his Sonne And Sighs sighs he not for his Solomon When how religious and a tear let fall Then sure he weeps at Joseph's funerall Absolon Isaac Joseph Solomon Are all deceas'd in this his onely JOHN Who slew all these then not the barbarous hand Of forreign stranger nor the dire command Of the Theeve's Captain where the riddle 's this Out laws obey and rape obedience is No death abroad strange ayre his breath supplies He travels and lives but returns and dies Thus have we seen the Pearl or Diamond stone Brought to the cooler from the hotter Zone Escape the threats of th' Rocks and th' Oceans fome And yet in th' Harbour have been lost at home Having past the Pyrats and the watry way Made or the Customers or the Thames his prey Is this the welcome thy return'd Natives have O England entertainment in a grave When to thy long'd for Soile thy Sonnes return Canst finde no lodging for them but their Urn● When from strange Climates to their own they come Has't no home for them but their longest Home Fame calls thee Eden if thou a Garden be 'T is such as Joseph's the Sepulchre 's in thee The terme 's too good since on thine none thou prey Wee 'l change thy name thou art Acel●●●a Since now thy Bowels are with Funerals full Thou 'rt or a field of bloud or place of Scull Death dwels within thee makes his Mansion here Hath ta'ne a Lease we dread for many years A Lease not made by Law but War yet good 'Cause seal'd with Swords and written in our bloud Thus cruell art thou and like to be yet He Hath cause to thank thee for thy crueltie In thee he dy'd but to thy Sins and fears Thy Crown 's of Cypresse he a Laurel weare He rests in Peace secured from thy harmes Hears glad Hallelujah's but thou Alarms The Grave and Heaven 's his Arke whilst that the floud Sweeps thee away he floats above thy Bloud The Grave and Heaven 's his House where he hid ly And the destroying-Angel passe him by Death leads to Life He dy'd young yet shall be A Youth as long-liv'd as Aeternitie J. THOMPSON FAITHS VICTORY over NATVRE OR The unparallel'd president of an unnaturally Religious Father HEBR. 11.17 By Faith ABRAHAM when hee was tryed offered up ISAAC THis Chapter after