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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67488	Peace and rest for the upright being a sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Dr. John Bryan, sometime minister of Trinity in Coventry / by that worthy preacher of Gods Word, Mr. Nath. Wanley ...	Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.	1681 (1681)	Wing W707; ESTC R38419	9,395	24

there was power and they had no Comforter Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive As much as to say These have escaped these are sensible of no such matter but are Quiet they are at Peace and Rest. 5. At peace and rest from inward Troubles which a man is liable unto upon sundry occasions in this Life such as the death and departure of ones best Friends chiefest Relations Here you see a great King in the bitterness of his grief crying out O Absolon my Son my Son would God I had dyed for thee O Absolon my Son my Son In Ramah you hear a lamentation and voyce of weeping Rachel weeping for her Children and would not be comforted because they are not Here you have Mary bewailing Lazarus her Brother And the Sons of Iacob mourning over their Father But in Heaven there is Peace and Rest once there we shall lose them no more For then saith the Apostle we shall ever be with the Lord. Earth only and Hell is the Territory of death but Heaven is the Land of the Living and there we shall find them again And this is something of the nature of that Peace which Righteous men shall by death be instated in and made Possessors of I hasten to the improvement of this Point wherein I shall be short Use. If Peace and Rest is to be our Priviledg hereafter Then 1. It should be our desire here So the Apostle commandeth Follow peace with all men Such Salamanders as delight to live in the fire of Contention these of all other men are most unfit for Heaven for that is a Place of Peace 2. Let the Priviiedges of good men allure us to a resemblance of their Persons and their Graces All men like Balaam are ready to cry out Let me dye the death of the Righteous and let my latter end be like his Would fain dye like them with the same Hope Peace Serenity and Quiet of Conscience Let my latter end be like his as Balaam said But such as will dye as they must also live as they 3. If death is the time of Peace and Rest with Righteous men then it is to be understood that the time of Life is to be a time of Labour and Warfare If so be Death is our Night to repose in then sure Life should be our Day to work in The best of men have business enough to do before them head-strong Passions to quell Corruptions to mortifie grace to grow a race to run a battle to fight therefore let us up and be doing and set about that that is our work and that the rather because 1. They rest best that have laboured most When a man hath ordered his business and disposed of his affairs as he intended then he hath charmed and subdued his Care and hath no disquieting thoughts to disturb his repose The sleep of a labouring man is sweet saith Solomon So he that busied himself in the Work and Service of God while he was alive goes to his rest with the greatest calmness and serenity of Soul that may be 2. We know not how soon we may be called off the Stage For Man knowes not his time Eccles. 9. 12. I am old saith Isaac and know not the day of my death And as he said when he was old so may every one say that is youngest Though I am younger or middle-aged yet I know not the day of my death The reason is because it is Gods peculiar reservation My times saith David are in thy hand Then 3. Our Natures are brittle exceeding brittle the Word of God tells us we are shadows vapours and flowers that wither of a sudden Then considering the variety of accidents we are subject to Ioseph had his Tomb in his Garden to mind him that Death might possibly meet him in that place of Pleasure A Tile from the house a Worm a Hair a little Spittle hath been as fatal to some persons as if so be a Mountain had fallen on their heads Therefore considering these things it is but reason we set our selves to work to labour in the time of health in the time of life 4. If Rest and Peace be the Priviledg of a Righteous man at his death It shews us That the death of Righteous men they are not to be lamented by us upon their own account They may seem to call to us from Heaven as Christ Jesus once did to the Women of Iudea upon the Cross Ye Daughters of Ierusalem weep not for me but weep for your selves They are not to be lamented upon their own accounts They are gone to Salem the City of Peace and why should we mourn for them as they without hope Death is no Enemy of theirs but as Noah's Dove returned with an Olive branch the Emblem of Peace so Death brings a good man not an Olive branch but the reality it self which is far more desireable As the Ark carried the whole Church of God to the Mountain Ararat the name of which signifieth Take away fear so Death shall waft us to Heaven there where no fear is It is true in respect of our selves we ought to follow them with tears and to have our hearts deeply affected with their removal from us and God himself doth blame the stupidity of our hearts and insensibleness of this People and such men that can part with such Jewels as these with indifferency without Concern in the Verse before the Text The righteous man perisheth and no man layeth it to heart This is the great fault As if he had said For as to us they are dear losses For 1. We loose the benefit of their Example for our Guide When a good man is gone one of the Lights of Israel is Quenched As David's Soldiers reckoned of him Thou shalt go no more with us to Battel lest thou quench the Light of Israel Of these the Apostle saith Amongst whom you shine as lights in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation 2. We loose the benefit of their good Works for our Comfort A good man is a useful man where he liveth The Poor have the benefit of his Alms and all that converse with him have the benefit of his Counsel For he of all others will not suffer Sin to rest upon the Soul of his Brother if he know it so that we loose the benefit of their good works for our Comfort 3. And we loose the benefit of their presence too for our Safety which is not a thing inconsiderable neither When Elijab was ascended into Heaven in a Chariot of fire the Prophet below cryed My Father the Chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof As much as to say His Presence was as great a Security as an Army of Chariots and Horsemen These are they that stand in the breach when the Judgments of God like a mighty Torrent are ready to rush upon us These are they that like so many Aarons hasten with their

Incense when any Plague is begun with a People And that stand betwixt the living and the dead I have read of Philo Iudeus and St. Ambrose that coming to any Place and Town if they heard of the death of any able Minister or godly Person they would burst out into tears as considering that place to have lost a considerable part of its defence You know Sodom could not burn as long as Lot was in it nor Hippo be taken as long as St. Austin was in it But still they were a defence to the place where they were In all these respects we have a considerable Loss in the death of this great and good man whose Funeral we now Celebrate Of whom I will say this in short He was a Person of such Real Worth as is as hard almost to express as imitate Most of you knew him well but perhaps few of you better than my self And in Reverence to his Memory To provoke my self and you to an imitation of his Exemplary Vertue and Grace I shall give you this short account of it He was a man of uncessant Labours and indefatigable pains as God had lent him a strong and able body for many years So he spared it not at all but made it serve him in that insatiable thirst and desire he had after Humane and Divine Knowledg And this Diligence of his was Crowned with an answerable Blessing from above being arrived in point of Ability as another Saul higher than his Brethren by the head and shoulders Especially in Political and Polemical Divinity He was like Nehemiah upon the Wall a Sword to defend as well as a Trowel to build up So to this Eminency of Parts he adjoyned an equal Humility which set a lustre upon the former upon all occasions he would own what the Hand of Providence had raised him up unto This Humility made him even as a weaned Child a high valuer and applauder of the least good that was in others when he would own little that was worthy commendation in himself This Humility made him mindless of the place where he sate and made him willingly condescend to the meanest when they stood in need of his help And his Charity was such he denyed that help to none that sought it a liberal hand he had and yet a more liberal heart The Tenth part of his Estate for many years he gave to the Poor and had himself had more they had not wanted their share He was the Censurer the Condemner of no man If he saw a naked place there was no man more ready with the Skirt of his Garment to cast upon it He was a Censurer of no man for doing what he could not do but wherein he differed in Circumstantials in this his difference it was his manner and custome still to bewail his own want of light He was very circumspect and careful in the course of his life to manage it like a true Christian Therefore he was constant in Christian Duties For which he usually had his stated times and then he would admit by his good will of no interruption His discourse was a kind of continual Preaching neither was he less careful of his Thoughts than Words His manner was every day to run over a Catechisme in Greek Mr. Herbert's Poems or some other of the Liberal Sciences And the reason I remember why he did this was to keep his Thoughts from roving and stragling to worse matters His Patience was remarkable during the time of his Affliction no repining no murmuring words under his bodily pain or the restraint he was under He observed a particular hand of God in his Distemper which as he said mocked the Skill of the Physitian and he chearfully submitted to it desiring Patience might have its perfect work He was of a grateful spirit for the least office of Love or Kindness shewed to him whether in Health or Sickness So that few that came to visit him parted from him without a thankful acknowledgment of his Love to them and Prayers that God would reward them with Blessings upon their Bodies and Souls and not only so but the greatest and worst of his Enemies had a share in his Prayers As he was thus Eminent for Grace so as the Crown of all he wanted not his share of Peace His Conscience was Quiet and his Evidences for a better Life undisturbed He had that Hope which was as an Anchor of the Soul Sure and steadfast and enters within the vail And he doubted not but as he was in a state of Grace so he was within a step of Glory And that when Death had done his work he should yet for all that live for ever He said of Death That as to him the Sting of it was taken away And truly as it seems so were the Terrors of it too For Death came to him not as an armed man with Convulsions and bitter pangs as upon many but he parted from this World without a Sigh or Groan And as one that was falling into a long but sweet sleep This was the Comfortable End of this Reverend Person According to that of the Psalmist Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is Peace Peace in death yea and Peace after death too for so saith my Text He shall enter into Peace they shall rest in their beds each one walking in his Uprightness FINIS