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A12170	The brides longing for her bride-groomes second comming A sermon preached at the funerall of the right worshipfull, Sir Thomas Crevv, knight, sergeant at law to his maiestie. By the late learned and reverend divine, Rich. Sibs.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.; Hughes, George, 1603-1667, attributed name.	1638 (1638)	STC 22478B; ESTC S113744	32,385	162

a concentrating and joyning together of the parts of Nature and the parts of Industrie and likewise of the parts of Grace And that which did steere his conversation and rule all aright was indeed the true feare of God which caused him to set the stampe of Religion on all his courses in his whole conversation For the Lords day it may a little be discerned by that Hee had a wonderfull care to keepe it holy Hee was as eminent as any in his Profession for that Hee would not entermeddle with the businesses of his calling on that day Hee did not thinke it enough to heare the Sermon and Divine Service and then to goe to the workes of his calling And in this hee is to be commended For whose good hath God appointed the Lords day Is it not for our owne Should not wee grow base and earthly minded if one day in seven wee should not be heavenly minded and thinke upon our ever-lasting condition in another World Shall wee thinke much then of that which God appoints for us But to returne besides his care of the Lords day for hee did not limit his Religion to a day hee was carefull in his Family of having Morning and Evening prayers yea and private also twice in a day at the least And this as it did bring strength to his Soule and put a beautie upon it so it did also sanctifie his labours and prosper his businesses and bring them to a good issue Hee lost nothing by it And seeing it is almost impossible in these prophane times but that such courses as these are should meet with envie and scorne from some therefore hee had learned with Moses to beare the reproach of Christ. Hee did account nothing more glorious then the profession of Religion And truly Religion is a glorious thing it puts a glorie and beautie upon the Soule But there are many men in these dayes that will not owne Christ in his Cause How will such looke him in the face another day when hee hath said Whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinfull generation of him also shall the sonne of man be ashamed when he commeth in the glory of his Father with the holy Angels But this worthy man I say what hee judiciously undertooke hee constantly went through withall Hee would not be scorned or turned out of his course by any man hee was a Child of Wisedome able to justifie what hee did against the spirit of grosse and proud prophanenesse and against an emptie formall dead cold profession Hee had not onely the Word of God to backe him but his owne excellencies and the sweetnesse that hee felt and found in his Christian course to defend him And this should all wee labour for Hee was moreover a man exceeding conscionable Hee had a very tender Conscience being willing in all doubtfull things to be directed and resolved which was an excellent thing Hee knew and so should all you that the time would come ere long that a man would give a great deale to have a good Conscience and this was in him For his conversation in his Family hee was very milde and gentle at all times not as some who being sweetned with a Fee are wonderfull milde and calme to their Clients but are Lions in their owne Houses his carriage was not such For his conversation with other kind of men it was sweet and loving and very usefull Hee was full of goodnesse and offices of love Hee did not beare himselfe bigge upon his Offices or Place but was as David saith of himselfe as a weaned Childe Though his parts did raise him up and advance him above the ordinarie sort of men yet his grace levelled him that hee made himselfe equall to the lower sort and yet in such sort that hee had wisedome to understand and know himselfe in his place and so grace will teach a man to doe Hee was a marvellous great encourager of honest laborious religious Ministers for their Masters sake and for their workes sake and hee lost nothing by it hee had a Prophets reward the prayers of all good men that were acquainted with him And I hope that that commendations will not die with him but that it will live in those that hee lives in For his disposition toward the poore hee was very mercifull and compassionate Hee was the poore mans Lawyer insomuch that the last Cause that ever hee pleaded was sub formá pauperis for a poore man and a Minister as it was publikely showne to the greatest and most judicious Magistrates in the Kingdome Hee was a foot to the lame and eyes to the blinde as Iob saith hee was and hee made the Widowes to rejoyce Hee was a helpefull and fruitfull man a Tree of Righteousnesse full of good fruit Hee made the times and places better where hee lived H●e was a great lover of his Countrey even in some degree to the prejudice of himselfe It pleased King Iames of famous memorie to chuse him with some other Commissioners to goe into Ireland about publique Employment which hee performed with such care and Conscience that when hee returned home againe hee was made the Kings Serjeant and after that Speaker in the Parliament and the Mouth of the Commons Hee was fortie yeeres a Practitioner in his calling In which time God blessed him with a great encrease of his Estate God sometimes doth delight to make good his temporall Promises to a religious industrious and faithfull man and that in the eyes of the World Sometimes God carryes things in a Cloud and in a Mysterie wee cannot see how such and such men should goe backward in the World This will appeare to us another day in the Day of Revelation But because God would encourage Religion faithfulnesse and industrie hee makes good his temporall Promises to such faithfull men as hee was Such was his faithfulnesse such was his dexteritie and quicknesse in dispatching mens Causes and Businesses that men were willing to put their Causes and Estates into his hands Therefore it is no wonder if in so long a time as fortie yeeres practise God blessed him with so great an Estate But some may object his going to London of late times when his infirmities grew upon him But thus much I know That the exigencie and urgencie of other mens occasions did importune and in part draw him to it And then againe his staying at home was verie tedious to him It is death to an industrious man that hath beene in employment to be idle as it is death to an idle man to be employed Hee was a man of an active spirit and one that was not hindered by his Journeyes Neyther would it have holpen or eased him to have stayed at home Therefore you must judge charitably of that But I come in a word to the time of his sicknesse and so to the houre of his death For these later yeeres hee had two

Where the treasure is there will the heart be 51 Rea. 5. The members are carried to union with the head 52 Rea. 6. By comparing it with glory here in sundry particulars 56 Rea. 7. From the state of the Church at the best in this World in regard of troubles without 64. and corruptions within 68 Tryalls of our desires for the second comming of Christ. Tryall 1. By seeing what benefit we have by the first comming of Christ. 70 Tryall 2. By our preparing for it 73 Tryall 3. Whether our hearts be the Kingdome of Christ now 74 Tryall 4. By our holy exercises 77 Directions inabling us to utter this desire and prayer Direct 1. 1. Labour to be reconciled to God 81 2. Labour to grow in the new Creature 83 3. Be sure to do what you doe throughly and quickly 85 4. Take all advantages to helpe this desire and prayer from crosses and Satan 92 Two objections answered 1. Object I find I am not so desirous of the comming of Christ as I ought 9● 2. Object But I desire to live still 97 A pressing exhortation to long for the second comming of Christ and from thence also to quicken our selves in our Christian work 98 A conclusion Upon the particular occasion 111 THE BRIDEGROOMES PROMISE And The BRIDES Prayer REVEL 22. 20. Hee which testifieth these things saith Surely I come quickly Amen Even so come Lord Iesus AS the Church of God being the weakest and the most shiftlesse part of mankind is never without trouble in this world so God would never have it to be without comfort And therefore God reveales unto Christ in this Booke and Christ unto the Angel and the Angel unto Iohn things to come from the Ascension of Christ unto his second comming that so in all conditions of the Church the Church might have recourse unto this Booke to see what the issue of all would be This is their comfort that howsoever things may be carryed in this world in a seeming confusion in a cloud and in a Mysterie yet in conclusion all shall end well on the Churches side their trouble shall end in Peace their abasement in Glory and their conflict in a Crowne This we may see here verified This Revelation doth end in the description of the glorious condition of the Church In the two last Chapters as I take it the Evangelist Saint Iohn sets downe the glorious estate of the Church of God even in this world yet so as it shall end and be consummate in perfect glory in the world to come For the soule of a Christian like Noahs Dove cannot rest in any glory here till it returne to the Arke till it come to the enjoyment of perfect glory and have blissefull communion with Christ for ever and ever in Heaven And therefore Christ doth terminate and end the sweetnesse of his Promises in Heaven and at his last comming and the Church likewise stretcheth and rayseth up her desires to that Howsoever there shall be glorious times and things here yet these are but as the first fruits to the whole Harvest and as a drop unto the Ocean Therefore when you reade of a glorious estate of the Church to be here upon Earth your mindes must have recourse to the upshot and consummation of all in Heaven Ierusalem which is from above must lead us to Ierusalem which is above Now because that mans unbeleeving heart is too prone to thinke that these things are too good to be true and too great to be performed seeing such an immeasurable disproportion betweene his owne unworthinesse and the excellencie of the things promised hereupon the mercie of our blessed Saviour is such that he confirmes this his second glorious comming by all kind of Witnesses that may be Here is the Angel Verse 6. Christ himselfe Verse 7. The Spouse and the Spirit in the Spouse Verse 17. And Christ himselfe againe in the words before the Text Behold I come quickly then you have the Spouses answer Amen even so come Lord Iesus Beloved Faith is a supernaturall thing it hath no friend within us it hath no helpe no cause in the world except God himselfe therefore it hath need of all confirmation God knowes us and our needs better then we doe our selves and you see he useth confirmation to helpe our unbeleefe And besides the Witnesses the thing it selfe is repeated againe and againe three or foure times in this Chapter Vers. 7 12 20. Behold I come quickly And behold I come quickly and Surely I come quickly By every repetition Christ seekes to gaine upon our mis-giving soules Behold I come Now because our spirit is exceeding short and we are readie to crie out as it is in the fixt of this Booke How long Lord holy and true How long Why he answers Behold I come quickly You shall also finde in the Prophesies of the Old Testament the same Promises delivered and repeated againe and againe because of our unbeleefe which ariseth from an inward guilt that cleaves to our Consciences because we are subject to failings and are not so strict as we should be But such are the yerning bowels of our blessed Saviour that it grieves him to see his tender Church afflicted and troubled in mind therefore he helpes all that he can Observe then I beseech you in the words the sweet entercourse that is betweene Christ and his Spouse Christ promiseth againe and againe Behold I come quickly and the Church saith Come Amen Even so come Lord Iesus There is no entercourse in the world so sweet as is that betweene Christ and his Church But wee will come unto the wordes themselves Amen Even so come Lord Iesus In these wordes you have first the assent of the Church secondly the consent her assent to the Truth her consent to the goodnesse of the Truth Amen It is so Nay Amen It shall be so Nay Amen Be it so or Let it be so There is a wishing included in it All these are wrought by the Spirit The Spirit convinceth us both of the Truth and of the goodnesse of the Truth And besides that in the next wordes the same Spirit stirres up a desire and prayer Even so come Lord Iesus Holy desires are turned into fervent prayers Amen is a short word but marvelously pregnant full of sense full of spirit It is a word that seales all the Truths of God that seales every particular Promise of God And it is never likely to arise in the soule unlesse there be first an Almightie power from Heaven to seize on the powers of the soule to subdue them and make it say Amen There is such an inward rising of the heart and an innate rebellion against the blessed Truth of God that unlesse God by his strong Arme bring the heart downe it never will nor can say Amen But now the heart will not be pent in or restrayned the Spirit is an enlarging thing and therefore besides Amen though Amen includes that

severall fevere churlish Monitours that did put him in mind of his end namely the Stone and the Strangurie In these sore Diseases hee carryed himselfe with wonderfull great patience None did ever heare any words fall from him that witnessed any impatience Toward his end hee considered that hee was now for another and a better place Therefore when hee was invited to Dinner in the House of which hee was in Grayes Inne Saith hee I must Dine in another place When his Sicknesse did seize upon him more sharpely though the paine thereof tooke away a great part of the powers of his Soule yet hee did manifest a great deale of strength of Faith by divers words that fell from him As the Hart brayes after the Rivers of Water so panteth my Soule after thee O God And as the Church doth here Come Lord Iesus come quickly And Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word Hee was displeased with them about him that out of their love to him did recall him by Cordialls out of a Swoone and so protracted his life longer then hee would have had it You keepe me too long from Christ saith hee God is mercifull to me but you are not with many the like And when they heaved up his body his spirit was so strong in him as if hee desired to meet Christ before his time And thus at length this blessed man meekely yeelded up his blessed Soule into the hands of his blessed Saviour that had so dearely bought it sanctified it and sealed it by his holy and blessed Spirit Beloved I thinke there were but few men of later times of whom wee had more and a more generall losse then of this worthy man His Servants lost a kind and loving Master his Children lost a most tender and carefull Father his Friends a true cordiall and hearty friend the Professours of the Law a speciall Ornament of it the Ministers especially a sweet encourager the poore Clients a loving Patron the richer sort a grave wise and judicious Counsellour Religion and Justice a great Supporter the Countrey where hee lived a faithfull Magistrate So that here is the losse of many But what hath hee lost Hee hath attained to that which hee desired so earnestly hee hath joyned himselfe to Christ and left behind him a Monument of Mortalitie the sad remembrance and remainder of him his dead Body Hee hath made an happie change of Earth for Heaven of the companie of men for the companie of perfect Soules and Angels in Heaven of troublesome imployments here for glorious imployments for ever So that hee is no loser Hee hath left behind him likewise another sweet memoriall and remembrance of him as sweet as the Ointment of the Apothecarie unto the Church and people of God Hee lived to end all in the best times that have beene in the Church since the Apostles times all his dayes Hee was borne under the Gospel and lived under the Gospel Hee began to savour the best things even from his youth And God lengthened his dayes very long for the good of us Therefore God miraculously almost preserved his weake worne body It was much that such a spirit should endure in such a body so long under such Diseases But at length being full of dayes and full of honour with all good people God having blessed him in his Children for his Childrens Children inherite his Blessing in the comfort and assurance of an happie change hee yeelded up his blessed Soule and triumphant Spirit into the hands of God whom hee had loved whose Cause hee had owned here in the World in the midst of this sinfull generation and whom hee professed even unto death whose comming hee desired so earnestly where and with whom wee now leave him And for you Beloved that fully know as the Apostle Paul saith his purpose his manner of life his Faith his long suffering his Charitie Patience c. I beseech you let not his memorie die with him but let those Vertues that were in him live in you so long as you live If there be any thing prayse-worthie or of good report as indeed there was much in him thinke on these things If there were any infirmities in him as I thinke there were as few in him as in any man Love hath a Mantle to cover them Hee was a gracious man every way one that adorned the Doctrine and Gospel of Christ in everie thing Therefore I beseech you as the Apostle saith be followers of him as hee was of Christ. Wee must one day give an account to God not onely for what Sermons wee have heard but for the examples of those amongst whom wee have lived how wee have profited by the Lights that God hath set before us in the World whether wee have imitated their examples or no. Wee must give an account for all the good wee might have received not onely by the meanes of salvation but also by the Presidents of worthie persons set before us I beseech you in the bowels of the Lord Jesus thinke on these things and the Peace of God be with you FINIS Imprimatur THO. WYKES Feb. 13. 1637. Rev. 6. 10. Note Note Note Rev. 3. 14. 2 Cor. 1. 20. Doct. 1. Reas. 1. Reas. 2. Reas. 3. Reas. 4. Reas. 5. 1 Pet. 3. 21. Psal. 27. 8. Ier. 3. 22. Vse Note Mot. 1. Mot. 2. Vse 2. Reproofe of two sorts Deut. 29. 19. Deut. 32. 22. Matth. 25. 41. 2 Rom. 6. 17. Note 2 3 4 5 6 7 Obser. 1. Obser. 2. Obser. 3. 2 Pet. 1. 4. Obser. 4 Ioh. 11. 42. Psal. 2. 8. Obser. 5. Isa. 66. 22. Rom. 11. 15. 2 Thess. 2. 3. 1 Cor. 6. 2. 1 Thess 4. 17 18. Obser. 6 Reason 1. Reason 2. Reas. 3. 1 Cor. 12. 12 2 Cor. 8. 23. 2 Thes. 1. 10. Reas. 4. Mat. 6. 21 Reason 5. Phil. 1. 21. Cant. 1. 2. Cant. 8. 14. Luke 2. 25. 2 Tim. 4. 8. Reason 6. 1 Cor. 29. Rom. 8. 23 Eph. 1. 14. 2 Cor. 5. 5. 1 Pet. 1. 8. Phil 4. ● Psi. 16. 11. 2 Thes. 1. 10. Luke 2. 14. Ioh. 8. 59. Luke 1. 44. Math. 17. 4 Luk. 2. 29. 2 Cor. 3. 18. 1 Cor. 13. 12 Psal. 119. 1 Ioh. 1. 3. Rom. 8. 21. Heb. 4. 16. Reas. 7. 2 Cor. 5. 6 Mat. 18. 7. Isai. 11. 6. Rom. 7. 24 2 Cor. 127. Tryal 1. Heb. 9. 14. Rom. 8. 23. Tryal 2. Gon. 41. 14. 1 Ioh. 3. 3. Eph. 4. 22 24. Tryal 3. Ioel. 2. 2. Rev. 6. 16. Isa 33. 14. 1 Cor. 16. 22. 2 Thess. 1. Tryal 4 Direct 1. Iob. 5. 23. Hos. 2. 18. Phil. 3. 9. Direct 2. Eph. 3. 19. Direct 3. Rev. 12. 12. 1 Cor. 7. 29. Phil. 2. 12. 2 Pet. 1. 10. 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. 2 Pet. 3. 11. Direct 4. Obiect Answ. Rom. 8. 23. Matth 6. 11 12. Object Answ. Phil. 1. 23. Act. 13. 36. 2 Tim. 4. 8. Vers. 18. Iob. 17. 45. Heb. 12. 1 1 Tim. 6. 12. 1 Thess. 4. 18 Rev. 22. 12. 2 Tim 4. 1. 1 Pet. 1. 4. Act. 24. 25. Heb. 11. 26. Mar. 8. 38. Object Answ. Psal. 42. 1. 2 Tim. 3. 11 Phil. 4. 8.