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The life of Mr. John Hieron with the characters and memorials of ten other worthy ministers of Jesus Christ / written by Mr. Robert Porter ...
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Porter, Robert, d. 1690.
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death by the hand of his Brother At other times and in other cases his Carriage was commendable Psal 39. 9. I was dumb I opened not my mouth because thou didst it If you say this is not to the purpose this cometh not home to the point what comfort can you afford me touching my Sons Salvation or what ground of hope Here I confess I am at a loss and must say as the King of Israel to the poor Woman crying Help O King If the Lord do not help thee whence shall I help thee If the Word yield thee no hope or solid ground of Comfort I should but proffer flattery and visions of my own heart if I should offer to give Topicks of Comfort out of my own Invention You are not without hope that God might give him Repentance to recover himself out of the snare of the Devil if your intelligence be not to the contrary There is place left for hope Adversity often opens the eye that sin had shut as we see in Josephs Brethren who had lain in their sin above twenty years without remorse till Affliction awakened them The like we see in Manasses when he was in affliction he humbled himself and besought God who was intreated of him though he had been a prodigious sinner So the prodigal Son by straits and other awakening afflictions came to himself and returned to his Fathers house And the example of Rochesters Repentance is remarkable You cannot say you were sure his Repentance was true neither are you sure of the contrary So you are between hope and fear let that keep you from despair But suppose the worst to use the words of Bildad to Job If thy Children have sinned against him and he have cast them away for their transgressions by the way this was a harsh censure if it should be thus yet here is this Comfort that he dyed in his Youth not a sinner of an hundred years old but â— young vain ignorant seduced person to use your own words Anâ— so his punishment will be less than if he had lived to gray hairs and aâ—l his life had walked in the way of his own heart and so had served divers lusts and pleasures You have parted with some Children before now these you make no question but are in Heaven you have others living I know not how many they will strive to be a Comfort to you I hope by walking in the fear of God And it is a rare thâ—ng and not often seen that aâ—l a Mans Children where thâ—y be numerous do make good proof but one or more of them go astray I mean where Parents are Godly and careful Corruptions too often prevails above Education Imitate David not in his immoderate mourning for Absalom but in his moderation touching Ammon he was comforted concerning Ammon seeing he was dead And at the death of the Infant Now he is dead saith he wherefore should I fast Can I bring him back again I shall go to him but he shall not return to me Which of you by taking thought can add to his stature on cubit Put away excessive grief from your heart and rejoyce in hope of Glory to come Be thankful for the work of Grace in your own heart that God is yours Christ is yours all things are yours Life and Death things present and things to come Now the God of Peace fill you with all Joy and Peace in believing to whose Grace I commend you and rest Your unfeigned Lover SIR OUT of a deep sense of your Affliction and tender commiseration of your great loss in parting with your dearest Daughter I write these Lines to testifie our compassion and fellow feeling of your sorrow which to do is every Christians Duty much more the Duty of near Relations The same which Job calls for from his Friends Job 19. 21. Have pity upon me have pity upon me O ye my Friends â—or the hand of God hath touched me That you are full of heaviness â—nd have great sorrow of heart for the loss of so sweet a Child I make â—o doubt nor do I at all blame you for it so that you mourn modeâ—ately and after a right manner 1 Cor. 7. 30. Let them that weep be â—s though they wept not but I desire you may sorrow after a Godly sort â—ith Godly sorrow which worketh Repentance to Salvation not to be reâ—ented off but the sorrow of the world worketh death 2 Cor. 7. 10. That you may mourn aright you are to look up to God and see his and in this stroke Ezek. 24. 16. Son of man behold I take away â—he desire of thine eyes with a stroke And remember God is wise the â—nly wise God And wise Agents act for some end some wise and â—reat end God doth nothing in vain but the skill is to find out the â—nd of Gods chastisement He is a wise man that can do that can know the meaning and understand the Errand of Gods Rod and see his Name written upon it Mich. 6. 9. for this let us search the Scriptures which make known to us Gods mind and our Duty in such cases Let us consult the Word make it the men of our counsel as David did Psal 119. 24. and pray with Job Job 10. 2. Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me To understand Gods meaning in his correcting us and the chief end he aims at though some other ends God may have which for brevity sake I omit read Job 33. 17. where you may see Gods end is to open mens ears to instruction to with hold man from his purpose namely of sinning against God to hide pride from man Job 36. 8 9 10. If they be holden in cords of affliction he sheweth them their work their evil works their transgressions that they have exceeded i. e. gone beyond the bounds which God setteth in his Word He openeth their ear to discipline and commandeth that they turn from iniquity To the same purpose you find in Isa 27. 9. By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sin Agreeable hereunto hath been the practice of Gods people to humble themselves under Gods afflicting hand Lam. 3. 39 40. Wherefore doth a living man complain a man for the punishment of his sin Let us search and try our wayes and turn unto the Lord. Micah 7. 9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him Psal 38. 18. I will declare mine iniquity I will be sorry for my sin Where this Duty is neglected God complaineth of them Isa 9. 13. This people turneth not to him that smiteth them neither do they seek the Lord of Hosts Jer. 5. 3. Thou hast stricken them but they have not grieved i. e. for their sins they have refused to return Ch. 44. 10. They are not humbled to this day To the right performance of this Duty gracious Promises are made 2 Chron. 7. 14. If my people shall humble
the Court would please to dismiss them he like a Proctor of such a Court moved that the Court would appoint a Prosecutor so they were not dismissed They therefore applyed themselves to Dr. Bakâ—r the Bishops Chaplin but he did decline them but Mr. Hieron procured a Letter from Mr. Jackson before mentioned to Dr. Bray the Arch-Bishops Chaplin who courteously received them and went with them to Sir John Lamb and obtained their discharge Oh how good was God when he took away the High Commission And again how good is God when it was rising again in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners threw it down never I hope to rise more Amen The Lord say so Sect. 2. The next disturbance of this Worthy Man was in the beginning of the War Sir Francis Wortleys party coming to Ashborn one Captain Bard and Dennis in the dead time of the night broke into his House took him out of his Bed Captain Dennis said Gentlemen cannot drink the Kings health but you must reprove them for it Oh said Mr. Hieron Sir John Fitz-Herberts hand is in this They carried him to their Court of Guard and kept him there till morning where urging him to speak of many things lay at catch for matter to accuse him Sir Francis Wortley charged him for preaching against Episcopacy he answered never but against the exorbitances of it His Wives Father passed his word for him which was at present satisfying the next day he appeared Sir Francis inclined to release him but would have him call the Parliament a company of dissemblers but he would not In the upshot they discharged him he desired his Horse and Saddle to be restored Nay saith Sir Francis you may be glad you are at liberty your self During this Imprisonment one of the Captains viz Captain Bard had been with an Honourable Person then living in Ashborn Mrs. Cockâ—in half Sister to Philip Earl of Chesterfield a Royalist of highest elevation yet a Woman of Sense that knew Mr. Hierons worth bare a fair respect to Mr. Hieron and represents him in his true Character to the Captain which he credited and was so convinced that he came to excuse himself and told him they did not meddle with him until they had received some scores of Complaints against him through which looking at him they thought him to be one that had no fellow but now he perceived his mistake was sorry for what he had done promised if he came thither in peace he would see him did all he could to restore his Horse but not able to effect it without payment of Twenty Shillings for him Captain Bard was so ingenuous as that after his marching thence wrote to Mr. Hieron begging pardon of him and of his Wife Thus God brought forth this good Mans Righteousness to the shame of all his false Accusers Sect. 3. After this Storm he had some quiet till Tutbury became a Garrison for the King Whether some ill Neighbours going to create him trouble mistook the Party and told the errand to a very Friend of Mr. Hieron's who sent him Prisoner to Derby but the ill success of this first attempt did not deterr others But still others arose and a Party beset the House entred and searched but by Gods good providence he was not at home and so they returned without him affrighting his dear Wife and pilfering some few things This bred great uneasiness in Mr. Hieron and at length forced him to Derby which at present was a place of Retreat a Zoar to him secured him and his from fears in the Night and in a very little time after his coming thither God provided a Laboratory a Work-house for him Sect. 4. After this he had a serene time at Breadsall No alarm but once and then no danger followed Peaceable Sabbaths here he met with no War but did himself war against the Devils Kingdom Lusts of Men and Wickedness of Times contentfully seated and setled working hard had great measures of health though mixt with some Feavors which were mostly the effects of his extraordinary pains and went off without any very long deteinures from his Work Here he enjoyed a good Living conversed with a very precious Wife lived among his Children Here he and she shewed themselves Lovers of Hospitality Lovers of good Men Sober Just Holy Temperate wone much upon some that had prejudice against him Thus the Lords Candle shone upon his Head for many years But in the year 1657 his sprightly his lively Wife fell ill of an Ague and a perverse one which being a double Tertian and mixt with an high degree of the Scurvy No Physical Applications no Change of Air would prevail for whither she went for Air viz. to Sir John Gells of Hopton then John Gell Esq who with his Wife loved and honoured all good people and had a special Respect to this Matron and to her Husband there she expired and by her desire or her Friends was interred at Ashburne with a due Solemnity chargeable to her Husband but not begrudged for great was his Love to her and estimation of her which appears by his own record of her death July 10th 1657. Mortem obiit Vxor mihi carissima Nunquam satis dilecta quâ ego non fui dignus And adds that Scripture passage Many Daughters have done vertuously but thou excellest them all This Death of hers was something surprizing because her Distemper being an Ague most thought her bailable but it proved otherwise And it was very deeply resented by her Husband She brought him Two Children Samuel and Anne Taylor Samuel dyed young but Anne out-lived her Father of whom I shall speak hereafter She bore him Two Children Joseph who is alive the genuine Son of a Worthy Father He was alive when this was written is now translated to a better Life before this comes to be published And Rachell who dyed before her Father one that was glorious within of excellent Understanding Wit and Memory a Lover of every thing that was good Now though this affliction was very grievous yet was it to my observation wonderfully sanctified greatly sweetned and alienated In my thoughts that Rod blossomed it was a growing time with him in Grace from that time he was alwayes above his Fellows but then above himself made sensibly a partaker of Gods Holiness and received the peaceable Fruits of Righteousness by that his Exercise And it was greatly sweetned and alienated by his Daughter in Law Mrs. Anne Taylor the true Daughter of her Mother who was a Mary in her choice of the better part and bore that Affection to her Father in Law which few Natural Children equal and scarce any exceed she was as a Wife to him as a Mother to his Children a Governess to his House She took all the Family Burdens on her self that he might be void of care and serve God in his own business without distraction She lived single she cumbred herself would put her hand to every thing she was frugal