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A52387	The cross crowned: or, Short affliction making way for eternal glory Opened in a sermon preached at the funeral of Daniel Waldoe Esq; in the Parish-Church of Alhallows Honey-lane, May 9. 1661. By James Nalton, minister of the gospel, and pastor of Leonards Foster-lane London.	Nalton, James, 1600-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing N121A; ESTC R219314	34,657	97

The Cross Crowned OR SHORT AFFLICTION Making way for ETERNAL GLORY Opened in a SERMON Preached at the Funeral of DANIEL WALDOE Esq in the Parish-Church of Alhallows Honey-lane May 9. 1661. By JAMES NALTON Minister of the Gospel and Pastor of Leonards Foster-lane London 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 London Printed by D.M. for SA GELLIBRAND at the Golden Ball in St Pauls Churchyard 1661. To my Honoured Christian Friend Mris Anne Waldoe Relict of Mr Daniel Waldoe lately deceased IT was the desine of your dear Husband while yet living that I should perform the last Office of Love to a Deceased Friend in preaching his Funeral Sermon The honour that I bore to him not the ambitious humor of appearing in Print ha's made me willing against my own inclination to expose these poor worthless Meditations to publick view This I have done the rather that thereby I might be an Instrument to perpetuate the memorial of so worthy and mitable a Christian and to commend his practise to posterity And for so doing I look't on that passage of Solomon as a sufficient warrant Prov. 10.7 The memory of the just is blessed yea the righteous saith David shall be had in everlasting remembrance Psal 112.6 Wicked men though they be like Nimrod mighty hunters before the Lord Gen. 10.9 he great Oppressors and dare do this before the Lord as if they would provoke him to his face and though they have been the terror of the mighty in the land of the living as the Prophet speaks Ezek. 32.27 Yea though they use all means possible to perpetuate their memorial calling the lands after their own names Psal 49.11 as Absolom reared up a pillar and called it Absoloms place 2 Sam 18.18 and Cain built a Citie and called it after the name of his Son Enoch Gen. 4.17 and some men at this day can build Hospitalls with the money which they have got by force and fraud and crushing the needy Yet all this will not make their memory last the name of the wicked shall rot and their Remembrances shall be like ashes Job 13. 12. that is Those things by which they would be remembred and mentioned among the Sons of men as Wealth and Honour and Power and Greatness shall be but as ashes of no value but trodden under the foot of men but the remembrance of the godly even when they themselves are dead shall still be kept alive with men to be renowned and with God to be rewarded How precious is the memorial of Moses and Aaron though dead so many hundred years ago The Spirit of God sets a Star of Honour upon them Exod. 6.27 These are that Moses and that Aaron And certainly among all those Christian Vertues which do en balm the memorial of the dead there is none of a more sweet and fragrant savour then the Grace of Charity Witness the Speech of our Saviour concerning the woman that annointed his feet with precious ointment Matth. 26.13 Verily I say unto you Wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached in the whole world there shall also this that this woman hath done be told for a memorial of her Maries name now smells as sweet in all the Churches of Christ as her ointment did in the house where it was poured out such an honourable remembrance did blessed Paul leave as a Legacy to Onesiphorus and his family on the same account 2 Tim. 1.16 The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus for he oft refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain And Greg. Nazianzen speaking of Rahabs entertaining the Spies has this remarkable Passage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Her charitable hospitality conduced not only to her commendation but to her eternal salvatition I knew not to whom the Dedication of this Sermon so properly belonged as to your self who was so nearly related to that eminently charitable Citizen whose death occasioned the preaching of it Such as it is I here present unto you not that the view of this Monument should renew your sorrow but that the frequent Commemoration of those vertues wherewith God was pleased to enrich him and the pious fruitful and exemplary conversation wherin he walked before you might not only moderate your grief for the loss of so dear a Husband but also provoke you and all that knew him to tread in the same steps according to the counsel of the Holy Ghost Heb. 6.12 Be followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises The Lord Jesus reveal himself more fully and graciously to your soul fill your heart with joy and peace in believing sweeten your outward loss with those inward comforts of his Spirit which may enable you feelingly to say with the Psalmist In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul Psal 94.19 And this will be better to you then the comfort of all Relations yea it will be Marie's portion that shall never be taken from you And that it may be so is and shall be the hearty prayer of Your much obliged Friend and Servant in the Gospel James Nalton ●HORT AFFLICTION Making way for ETERNAL GLORY 2 COR. 4.17 ●●r our light affliction which is but for a moment The Text. worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory THe holy Apostle in the fore-going Verse layes down an excellent Lesson for us all to learn by his ●●ample though there be sew very 〈◊〉 that have learnt to write after 〈◊〉 Copie in these words For this cause ●…faint not as if he should say Though 〈◊〉 meet with sorrows and sufferings 〈◊〉 all sorts temptations afflictions persecutions reproaches fightings without and fears within yet we do not sit down in despondency and despair but we bear the burden that God hath laid upon us without fainting and without fretting It is true indeed our outward man doth perish that is our body together with our bodily health strength and welfare doth decay and decline but yet our inward man that is our soul together with the powers and faculties of it being renewed by the spirit of grace and strengthened by the graces of the spirit is in the midst of all these troubles and tryals more and more repaired and revived day by day this is strange may some say But would ye know how it comes to passe The Apostle answers in the words of the Text and renders a reason of his not fainting under all his sufferings For our light afflictin which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory The Text contains in it the twofold state or condition of a believer One in this life The other in the life to come And both these ballanced or compared one with the other in a threefold computation First The state of a Beleever in this life is a state of affliction his condition in the life to come is a condition of glory Secondly The afflictions of a beleever in this life are light and

The afflictions of this life are but light and easie the glory of the life to come is a weighty and superlative glory There are two Branches in this Doctrine which I must distinctly open and confirm Viz. 1. That the afflictions of this life are but light and easie 2. That the glory of the life to come is a weighty and superlative glory Branch 1 For the first of these That our afflictions are light and easie This ye will say seems very strange and incredible for it may be objected Object Do not we see Gods own children sometimes groaning under such heavy burdens as are ready to break their backs or sink them down into the dust doth not David say Psal 69.2 I sink in deep mire where there is no standing I am come into deep waters where the floods overflow me doth not Heman that godly wise man complain Psal 88.7.15 Thy wrath lies hard upon me and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves yea I am so sadly afflicted that I am ready to die and that which ●s yet sadder these afflictions have lasted not a few days or years but a long time Even from my youth up till this say And does not holy Paul speaking of the trouble which befell him in Asia say expresly 2 Cor. 1.8 That we were pressed out of measure above strength insomuch that we despaired even of life How then can the afflictions of the godly be said to be light and easie Answ To this I answer The afflictions of the godly are not light and easie in themselves but lye heavy upon them and make them sometimes cry out in the anguish and bitterness of their spirits as Job did chap. 6.12 Is my strength the strength of stones or is my flesh of brass Am I made of so hard mettal that I can endure any thing Am I a sea or a whale that thou settest a watch over me ch 7.12 How long wilt thou not depart from me nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle ver 19. But in two respects they may be said to be light and easie to be born 1. If ye consider them comparatively compared either with The torments of Hell which are prevented Or the joyes of heaven which are prepared for them For the first of these Compare the afflictions of this life with the Torments of hell and they are but a fleabiting in comparison of that worm that dieth not and that fire that shall never be quenched Oh who is there living upon earth that understands the power of Gods anger or that dreadful indignation the mountains and milstones of wrath that lie upon the damned in hell and will lye for evermore Psal 90.11 It was a devout Meditation of Austin Domine hic ure hic seca modò in aeternum parcas Lord cut me here on earth with the sharpest knife of affliction bruise me here nay burn me here to that thou spare me hereafter and keep me from everlasting fire For the second Compare the afflictions of this life with the joyes of heaven that are prepared for the godly and then they are exceeding light and inconsiderable what is a drop of Vinegar put into a hogshead of Wine it is nothing it is swallowed up and not discerned What is it for a Prince to travel in a rainie stormie day when he is riding to take possession of a Kingdom He esteems steems the rain not worth regarding Pericula non respicit Martyr coronam respicit saith Basil A Martyr looks not at the danger that is before him but at the Crown of glory that is beyond that danger If one of you should have a Jewel of five hundred pound thrown at you and in the throwing it gives you a blow upon the hand but you have the Jewel for the blows sake you would esteem the blow as nothing for the Jewels sake What one affliction crosse or calamity is there that can be named which is able to posze one smile of Gods face And if a smile an earth be able to sweeten the bitterest cup and to ease the heaviest burden that can lie upon us what will the full fruition of God in glory be If a woman in travel though she have torturing pain for a while yet as soon as she is delivered of the child remembers the anguish no more for joy that a man is born into the world as our Saviour tells us John 16.21 How much more may that unconceivable joy and happiness that is laid up in heaven when it is enjoyed but one day nay but one hour make the godly forget all their sorrows and sufferings which they endured here on earth for many yeers together 2. Afflictions are light and easie in regard of Gods gracious supportation that he affords his servants in bearing of them Here the Psalmist speaking out of his own experience Psal 94.17 19. Unless the Lord had been my helper my soul had almost dwelt in silence When I said my foot slippeth thy mercy o Lord held me up In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul Gods supporting hand made a heavy burden easily born And indeed it is worthy our Observation ☜ Obs When God does not support a man in the day of tryal the lightest affliction will be so heavy that he shall sink under it see it in Ahitophel when he saw that his counsel was not followed a man would have thought this had been a very small tryal for so wise a man and so great a Politician to grapple with but God leaving him to himself he sinks under it he goes home to his house and hanged himself 2 Sam. 17.23 On the contrary when God does support a man in a dark and cloudy day as the Prophet calls it Ezek. 36.12 the heaviest affliction that can befall him shall be so equally poized that he shall be able to stand under it see an instance in David 1 Sam. 30.1 6. His City Ziklag is burnt with fire his two wives Ahinoam and Abigail were taken captive David and the people that were with him wept till they could weep no longer and that which was yet worst of all the people spake of stoning him for very grief and anger that their sons and daughters were carried captive here was a sore affliction indeed such a doleful distress as might have broken a man to pieces but God supporting David he stands under it without fainting He encouraged himself in the Lord his God Thus I have made good the first Branch of the Doctrine That the afflictions of the Godly are light and easie Branch 2 The second Branch is this That the glory of the life to come is a weighty and superlative glory It is called here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A weight of glory alluding to the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies both weight and glory It is the weight of gold that adds much to the value of it The more weighty a Crown is the more it is

ever know a man more eminent in Grace than Blessed Paul And was there ever any man more humble I am saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 less than the least of all Saints Ephes 3.8 Thus was it with this dear Brother of ours he so hated Pride and that vain and sinfull excess in apparel so much affected in this luxurious wanton age that he chose rather his own Children should be cloathed beneath their rank than above it And though he kept not a penurious Table yet he professedly declined that delicacy and profuseness which many delight in that in both he might not onely avoid the scandal of the Gospel and offence the Godly but that the superfluity in dyet and apparrel might be improved to the better advantage of cloathing the naked and refreshing the bowels of the hungry 2. He was very Industrious in his Calling and doubtless that is very acceptable and well-pleasing unto God especially when this diligence ariseth not from a covetous desire of heaping up riches but from an obediential respect to Gods Command because he has enjoyned us that duty Prov. 27.23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks and look well to thy herds and again Prov. 10.4 The hand of the diligent maketh rich yea God has annexed a promise to it Prov. 22.29 Seest a man diligent in his business he shall stand before Kings he shall not stand before mean men And indeed God was pleased singularly to bless his endeavors and to enrich him with a Temporal estate For though a large estate was not his design yet was it part of his Reward and a pledg of future and far better hopes laid up for him in heaven 3. He was a Pious man He did not so mind his particular Calling as to neglect his General but he drove a Trade for heaven not onely in his holy and religious observation of the Sabbath but also in a carefull Attendance at the Posts of Wisdoms house on the week dayes as his occasions and bodily infirmities would permit Neither was he an idle and unprositable Hearer but like the Industrious Bee he gathered honey to carry home to his Hive for the feeding of his Family as well as the refreshing of his own Soul witness those heapes of Sermon Notes that are found in his Study 4. He was a Faithfull man one that filled his Relation faithfull a tender hearted Husband to his Wife a loving carefull Father to his Children one that knew how to love them without fondness and to rule them without rigour A prudent Governour towards his Servants minding the good of their Souls as well as the fruit of their Service 5. He was a Charitable man nay I may considently say Eminent and Exemplary in the Grace of Charity being a real Cordial faithful friend to a godly Ministry as appeared by his great bounty manifested on every occasion for to my knowledg he has given very considerabe Sums of Money towards the encouraging of those that were painfull Labourers in Gods Vineyard Never any Minister or Godly man came to propound any work of Piety or Charity publick or private that needed to do any more than to propund it For his heart was so dipt in Charity and so set upon works of mercy that he prevented Importunity by his Christian and Heroick Liberality I do not speak rashly but advisedly He made no more of giving 10 l. to a work of Charity than some of you and those of the richer sort make of giving 10 s. Yea there are divers here present that can witness this Truth Few did match him none that I knew did surpass him in works of Charity His Charity had two singular Concomitants which made it the more Remarkable and praise-worthy 1. He did good while he lived He carried his Lantern before him He made his own hands his Executors and his own eyes his Overseers Some will part with their riches when they can keep them no longer This is like a Cutpurse that being espied or pursued will drop a Purse or gold because he can keep it no longer But to be doing good in our life-time while we have opportunity this is an act of Faith and an evidence that we can trust God with our Estate and our Children that he will provide for them when out heads are laid in the grave according to that of the Psalmist A good man is mercifull and lendeth and his seed is blessed Psal 37.26 2. He dispensed his Charity so secretly without any self-seeking or pharisaical vain-glory that his left hand did not know what his right hand did In brief He did so much good while he lived as if he meant to have nothing to do when he died and yet he gave so largely when he came to die as if he had done no good when he lived Now wherefore is all this spoken Not as if this Funeral Elegy could be any advantage to him No no Funeral Sermons are vivorum solatia not ●●●tuorum subsidia saith Austin They are no helpfull advantages to the dead but wholesom Instructions to the living The dead praise not thee O Lord nor any that go down into silence Psal 115.17 Look as the dead return no praises to the Living God so neither do they regard any praises from Living men It is not therefore spoken so much by way of Commendation as to propound him a pattern of Imitation This deceased friend as it is said of Abel Heb. 11.4 Though he be dead he yet speaketh And what is the language that he useth Surely it is the same that Gideon used to his Souldiers Judg. 7.17 Look on me and do likwise If ye do as he did ye shall speed as he sped Remember you and I must answer for Examples as well as Precepts Ye know what is laid of Noah Heb. 11.7 By building an Ark he condemned the world His piety condemned their impiety His faith condemned their infidelity his uprightness their hypocrysie So this good mans Charity will condemn your want of Charity at the Great day If ye say You have many Children so had he He has left 9. Children alive but the providing for them was no obstruction to his Charity To conclude Blessed is that man that so lives as that he is desired and so dies as that he is missed This Nathaniel so I may call him for his Sincerity as well as a Job for his Charity He lived desired and will be exeedingly missed Missed I say in his family where he was a faithfull Governour In the City where he was a bountifull Benefactor In the Parish where he was a usefull Neighbour In the Company where he was an honoured Member Missed among the Poor especially Widows in necessity to whom he was a Father Oh that God would humble us for our stupidity That the righteous perisheth and no man layeth to heart and mercifull men are taken away and no man regards it Isa 57.1 Oh that God would make his example powerfull and influential on all the Rich men that hear me or shall read this Sermon and the testimony that is given to this Worthy man Oh that God would send us many such WALDOES FINIS