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A75710	Living loves betwixt Christ and dying Christians A sermon preached at M. Magdalene Bermondsey in Southwark, near London, June 6. 1654. At the funeral of that faithful servant of Christ Mr. Jeremiah Whitaker, Minister of the Gospel, and pastor of the church there. With a narative of his exemplarily holy life and death. By Simeon Ashe, his much endeared friend and brother. Together with poems and elegies on his death, by divers ministers in the city of London.	Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing A3961A; ESTC R223578	67,742	92

that if Jesus Christ was here in his bodily presence among us he would not be unwilling to speak these words Our friend Whitaker sleepeth Before I begin my Narrative I crave leave to premise this viz. that though in some respects I know a more meet man might have been chosen for this work who could have done it more exactly and gracefully yet I acknowledge that my selfe am not the unmeetest considering my long and familiar acquaintance with him especially if this be added viz. that in Summer was twelve-moneth I riding with him unto Tunbridge Wells he was pleased to give me the History of his life from his youth till that time and since that time it is well known to many that no one hath had more frequent and familiar converse with him then my selfe Oh how often and with what meltings hath he poured forth his heart into my bosome in reference to all concernments personal relative private publick comfortable and uncomfortable which have deeply affected him My forgetfulnesse will necessitate the omission of many things and my faithfulnesse with prudence command me to conceal much of that which to my heart spake aloud his great goodnesse and high commendations I will suggest the sum of what I judge most convenient to discover in the report whereof my soul desireth I hope to honour God and to profit his people He was borne at Wakefield in Yorkshire in the yeare 1599. When he was sixteen years old he was sent to Cambridge and placed a Sizar in Sydney Colledge where he was much valued for his pregnant parts and Scholarship At twenty yeares of age having commenced Batchelor of Arts he was sent unto Okeham the chief Town in Rutlandshire to teach the free-School there About foure yeares after he married Chephtzibah the daughter of Master William Peachy Minister of Okeham an eminent linguist a godly man and as I am informed a painful Preacher of the Gospel who dearly loved and highly valued Master Whitaker from his first acquaintance to his end whose affections to him wrought on the marriage betwixt him and his daughter By whom God gave him foure sonnes and three daughters one sonne died at Cambridge two are ordained Ministers and the other is to be educated for the Ministery Having stayed about seven years at Okeham he was removed unto a Pastoral charge at Stretton in the same County where he continued thirteen yeares from whence he was called to Mary Magdalen Bermondsey with the approbation of many godly Ministers whom he consulted in the case where he after twelve yeares spent in his Ministerial charge finished his course upon the first day of June 1654. and fell asleep in Jesus He was betwixt fifty five and fifty six yeares old when the Lord was pleased to take him unto himself He was buried in Bermondsey Church June the sixth with expressions of much love from a very great multitude of godly persons both Ministers and others of several ranks and conditions who attended his corps to the grave By reason of much study and manifold imployments in his calling he was filled with various bodily distempers from his youth In the latter part of his time he was for sundry yeares exercised frequently with the painful diseases of the gowt and of the stone Notwithstanding the reiteration of these tormenting paines he attended upon his Ministery both at home and abroad while he was able to creep into the Pulpit or to crawle unto the Congregation But about the beginning of November last past the violent paine of the stone did in such measure and manner arrest him that from that time he continued Gods prisoner in his bed or chamber till he was set free by a long expected death Most Physicians in the City were consulted and were from time to time very ready to serve him with their advice who did unanimously conclude his sharp paines to proceed originally from an ulcer in the kidneys but immediately from an ulcer in the neck of the bladder caused by a continual flux of ulcerous matter dropping down upon that part And by reason of the acutenesse and quickness of the sense there his paines were almost altogether in that place though the fountaine of them was from the kidneys Towards his end about two moneths the paine grew more extreame yet divine indulgence vouchsafed some abatements and intermissions both in the night day As his death drew nigh his fits of pain were more frequent either every half hour or many times every quarter yea two or three times in a quarter of an hour wherby nature being quite spent he died in the Lord. After his death Master Holiard opend his body in the presence of Dr. Cox Dr. Micklethwaite and Dr. Bevoyr some other more ancient Doctors would have been there if either their being out of Town or present urgent occasions had not hindred who found both his kidneys full of ulcers and one was swelled to an extreame bignesse by the abundance of purulent matter in it Upon the neck of his bladder they found a stone which was about an inch and an half long and one inch broad weighing above two ownces when first taken out and withal an ulcer which was gangrened and this was judged the cause of his death All other parts of his body were found firme and sound Now that which I shall relate concerning him in all those places and changes of life wherein God disposed of him I will cast under the several heads upon which I did discourse in my Sermon And this method I do the rather resolve upon both because it best suits with mine own thoughts and may prove the most profitable unto them who shall be pleased to read the Sermon when they perceive the maine parts thereof applied and verefied in this providential Text Our friend Whitaker sleepeth The first Head He loved Christ. He loved Christ 1. Quickly 2. Strongly 3. Constantly The Lord did win his heart unto himselfe while he was a Scholar at Wakerfield where he had his education For then and there his affections did flow out towards those who were most religiously disposed with whom he went frequently eight or ten Miles to heare a wakening-soul-warming Sermon and he was wont to joyne with them in prayers and other holy exercises And being able to take Sermon-notes both understandingly and largely he was very helpful to Christians in the repeating of what they had publickly heard being from his childhood ful of affections in whatsoever businesse he undertook Thus this plant did both blossome and put forth fruit quickly which providence did afterwards make a very fruitful tree For the more cleare discovery of his abundant love to Jesus Christ I will give these demonstrations First from his early and constant vigorous workings of heart towards the calling and work of the Ministery because he alwayes conceived that therein a Christian might enjoy most fellowship with Christ and do him the best Joh. 21. 15 17. service And he considered Christs