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A34575	The great necessity of preparation for death and judgment a sermon preached in the parochial chappel of Macclesfield, in the county palatine of Chester, at the funeral of Mr. John Corker, als Cor Cor, of Hurdesfield, on the eleventh day of November, 1693, and since revised and enlarg'd at the request of the relations of the deceased / by Samuel Corker, als Cor Cor ...	Corker, Samuel, 1645 or 6-1713.	1695 (1695)	Wing C6307; ESTC R9062	80,354	95

The Great Necessity of Preparation for Death and Iudgment A SERMON Preached in the Parochial Chappel OF MACCLESFIELD In the County Palatine of CHESTER AT THE FUNERAL OF Mr. John Corker al 's Cor Cor of HURDESFIELD on the Eleventh Day of November 1693 and since Revised and Enlarg'd at the Request of the Relations of the Deceased By Samuel Corker al 's Cor Cor M. A. Rector of Alderley in the County aforesaid and sometime a Student in Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Behold the Bridegroom cometh go ye out to meet him Mat. 26.5 Be ye therefore ready also for the Son of Man cometh c. Luke 12.40 Veniet fratres veniet sed vide quomodo te inveaiet Aug. Ser. 140. de Tempore DUBLIN Printed by Joseph Ray 1695. TO HIS TRULY HONOURED AND MUCH VALUED COUSIN Edward Corker al 's Cor Cor Esq The Authour wisheth Grace Mercy and Peace THE death of Friends who were loving and amiable in their Lives and Encouragers of Vertue is very piercing and grievous but most of all pensive and afflictive when they are taken away as your dear Brother and my truly loving Kinsman was by a sudden surreption without a foregoing Visitation and Sickness which severe and startling Providence made a very great breach in his Family and Neighbourhood and a deep impression upon my Thoughts But the Great and Wise God in whose Hands our Lives are hath a Sovereign Right to dispose of and put a period to them when and in what manner his Infinite Wisdom seeth meet without being accountable to his Creatures for his Actions Our Duty is humbly to submit to his Holy Will and with good Old Eli to say It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good When Your Affectionate Brother had paid that Debt which We yet owe to God and Nature His mournful Relict desired that I would perform the last Ministerial Office for him at his Interment I had not power to deny her Request altho at the same time I was sensible he deserved a better Orator to commemorate his Vertues The Discourse I then made and here present to You Revis'd and Enlarg'd is plain not cloathed with pomp of Words and tunable Expressions which in Sermons and Books of Divinity are like Paint laid upon Pearls which shine best in their native lustre Flourishes of Wit and fine Phrases may tickle Mens Ears and please their Fancies but rarely convince them of the important necessity of preparing for Death and Judgment or prevail with them to live holily that they may die happily The Text it self is very momentous and the subject matter of the Comment is salubrious and may claim attention and regard from all Orders and Degrees of Men who by the eternal and unchangeable Decree of God must once die and appear in Judgment But if it meet with unkind entertainment from some persons of corrupt Principles and profligate Lives who atheistically droll upon and ridicule every thing that is serious yet it may be beneficial to others who are really solicitous to know what they must do to obtain Salvation and to inherit Eternal Glory That the God of Mercy and Consolation would sanctifie and sweeten to you this sharp and afflictive Providence that he would work in your Soul a cheerful resignation to his Holy Will and enrich you with all the Blessings of Heaven and Earth is the dayly fervent Prayer of Your most affectionate Relation and very humble Servant Samuel Corker al 's Cor Cor. A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL of Mr. John Corker of Hurdesfield November the 11th 1693. Mathew 24.44 Therefore be ye also ready for in such an Hour as you think not the Son of Man cometh THese Words are part of a Sermon Preached by our Blessed Lord and Saviour to his Disciples the Occasion was this They were all met together at the Temple of Jerusalem admiring the Magnificence Firmness and Stateliness of it and highly commending the Beauty and Order of the Fabrick which was Adorned * Luke 21.5 with goodly Stones and sumptuous Mate rials set off with all the Advantages and Curiosity of Art Pains and Industry which Josephus calls a Work of all that we have ever seen or heard the most Admirable both for the greatness of the Pile the sumptuousness of the Edifice and the Riches of the inward Furniture in which respect Tacitus calls it a Temple of Immense Riches Immensae Opulentiae Templum suitable to the Majesty of God who was therein to be Adored and Worshipped Our Lord to take off his Disciples Eyes from beholding those Gay and Stately Things with so pleasing Admiration foretold the Destruction of it and the utter Ruin of the City that it should come to pass according to the Predictions of the Prophets Jer. 26.18 Zion for your sakes shall be Plowed as a Field and Jerusalem shall become Heaps and the Mountain of the House on which the Temple Micah 3.12 one of the Wonders of the World did stand as the high places of the Forrest i. e. shall be demolished and become so desolate that Trees shall grow there as in a Wilderness See ye not all these things Verily I say unto you there shall not be left one Stone upon another that shall not be thrown down Lib. 7. de Belle Jud. cap. 10. which was fulfilled as Josephus Reports by the Roman Army who burnt all of it that was of combustible Nature expresly contrary to the command of Titus Vespasian who would have saved it but could not restrain the fury of his Souldiers tho' he charged Liberalis the Centurion of his Guard to beat them that would not Obey him and to drive them away and the Foundation which the Fire consumed not was Ralsed by Turnus Rufus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the General of the Roman Army there who at his departure thence drew a Plow over it as God had said And after this when Julian the Apostate out of spight and opposition to the Christians gave all manner of Encouragement to the Jews to Rebuild their Temple Re-edifie their Altar and Restore their Sacrifices and the Solemnities of their Worship and appointed Alypius of Antioch to over-see and carry on the Work with all possible Briskness and Activity hoping by that means to evidence to the World that our Saviour was a false Prophet and an Impostor in pronouncing the final and irrevocable Dissolution of that Church and State Heaven was pleased on a sudden to baffle the whole Undertaking and by many Illustrious and Miraculous Instances of God's Displeasure Viz. Violent Hurricanes dreadful Earthquakes and Eruptions of Fire which brake as it were under the Foundation and seized upon the Work-men and Spectators burnt their Tools and Instruments and made the place inaccessible for any such Attempts for the future A more full Relation hereof is given by the Learned Dr. Cave from Socrates Philostorgus Rufinus Am. Life of St. Cyril of Jerusalem Sect. 9th Marcellinus and others where the