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A50862	A sermon preached at the fvnerall of that reverend divine Mr. Robert Collard, batchlour in divinity and pastor of Chilton-Folliat in the county of Wilts fifty yeares, on the 9 of November 1648 by Iohn Millet ...	Millet, John.	1652 (1652)	Wing M2069; ESTC R32091	18,319	24

pure in heart Mat 5.8 for they shall see God and David was ravished with this meditation blessed are they that dwell in thy house Psal 84.6 Because this is absolutly the best good otherthings are good as they Reas 2 have reference to this onely good many things are good only in appearance because men in their deluded judgments imagine them good but his is best of all quia omne bonum terminatur in hoc bonum Bern. quod est amabile supra omnia bona other things are good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some respects but this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without any exception this is the one thing only necessary It 's best of all Because there is no intermixtion of dolorous effects Reas 3 or soule wounding temptations for there wisdome shines without ignorance memory without forgetfulnesse understanding without errour and reason without obscurity there the elect shall have certaine security without dispossession secure tranquillity without interruption happy eternity without the intervenience of dismall occurrents or crossing accidents to affright them Reas 4 Because the soule shall then shine most gloriously which here in the body is obscured the lustre whereof I will adumbrate by this comparison as a candle while it is in the Lanthorne it gives a good light and enlightneth the Lanterne it selfe and if it be taken out though the Lanthorne be left darke yet the candle shines more clearly then it did before so while the soule is in the body Lactantius it is the light and governer thereof and when by death it bids the body adiew although the body be left dead and insensible yet then the soule enjoyes her proper vigour and brightnesse then the Image of God shines perfectly in it for then the understanding is replenished with the knowledge of God which is immediatly revealed unto it then the will also perfectly obeyeth God and all the affections are so purified that there is a sweet melodious harmony betweene the faculties of the soule to praise the Lord for evermore It 's best of all in respect of the variety and perpetuity of the Reas 5 Elects joy which they shall have with Christ which neither eye hath Rea. 5 seen nor eare hath heard neither entred into the heart of man to conceive the good things that God hath layd up in store for them that love him the eye hath not seen it because it is noe colour the eare hath not heard it 1 Cor 2.9 for it is no sound the heart cannot comprehend it because it must comprehend the heart it cannot be fully apprehended by faith nor attain'd by charity because it transcendeth our desires To condemne us of foolishnesse which thinke here in this life to find contentment O noe this life is a wildernesse where be Serpents Use 1 that will sting us this life is a gaole where is a dungion and irons to excruciate us this life is a time whrein sin and Satan play their part here we are Mariners our haven is heaven here we are Souldiers our conquest is death To wait with Job all our appointed time till our change shall come O let 's sigh and long to be carried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome Use 2 to the coelestiall paradice to the company of enumerable Saints Patriarchs Job 14.14 and Prophets and Martyrs and to Jesus Christ the Mediator of the new Testament and to the bloud of sprinkling that speaks better things then that of Abell Heb. 12.24 you will say this is best of all when you enjoy your inheritance immortall and undefiled which fadeth not which is reserved for you when you rest from your labours and behold the glory of God all the Arithmeticians in the world are not able to number the joyes of the Elect all the Rhetoricians are not able in fitting termes to expresse them when you shall be arayed in white having Crownes on your heads and Palmes in your hands when all teares shall be wiped from your eyes and all sorrowes removed from your hearts when you shall serve him at his table and eate in his kingdome and with the foure and twenty Elders say blessing and glory and honour and power and might be given to him that sitteth upon the Throne for evermore I have done with the words now a few words of this sad occaon and then you shall be eased of me Touching now this Revered Genteleman even now interred before us he was borne in Somerset-shire and had his first education in the then famous Schoole of Taunton-deane whereby Gods blessing having made a commendable progresse in learning proportionable to his age to the best there he was by God's good providence translated to Lincolne Colledge in Oxford where being Master of Arts and being knowne to be exquisitly learned was chosen Greek Reader to the Uuniversity and not long after proceeded Batchelour in Divinity From Oxford by God's providence he was disposed to be Rector of this Church where he hath continued this fifty yeers how he hath lived here clouds of witnesses can testifie very painfull in his Ministry very pious in his family it being a little Church wherein he constantly called his people to prayer twice a day besides his owne private devotions besides his times which he observed duely in his study he had an excellent faculty which with great labour and delight he tooke in breeding up many young Gentelmen in his house in good literature all his time how many Scholers hath he of his owne cost first bred-them up in his house afterwards helpe to maintaine them in the University and incurrage them for and in the Ministry my selfe who have knowne his life and conversation for above forty yeers must thankefully acknowledge and blesse God for him besides many other Ministers borne not farre from this place that have reaped the fruits of his love in this kind it could have been wished that this last service to him might have been performed by some more able and eminent Person then my selfe But tennitatem ingenii mallem declarare quam officium percharissimo maecenati detrahere it being the last charge he gave me a little before his loosing What shall I say now to you of his charge as wee of the Ministry have lost a worthy Oracle for learning and piety so you have lost a loving Pastor his deare Wife a tender Husband his Children a provident Father the poore a great Benefactor the godly-disposed here have lost a good helper that way but certainly say praetiosissimum monite perdidimus yet he is not lost whom Christ hath found praemititur non amittitur while he lived all his desires was the Curch might thrive It 's true his judgment was for Bishops but yet before these times he would to his freinds bewaile their abuses and usurpations upon the Church and his frequent option was that the Church might thrive O that Sion might fl●urish a great lover of lectures he was by his presence while he was able and drawing his Neighbours along wtih him as well as his family and by his practise having borne a part in Marleborough lecture for above thirty yeeres a great peace-maker too not only in his owne parish but in the country yea he often payd money out of his owne purse to prevent suits in law and to make men be friends such an ingenious mildnesse he was indued with his gravity that he was honoured of the best and feared of the worst but loved of all For you my loving freinds of Chilton I hope and feare I hope though this body be dead his memory shall live with you yea his preaching shall live in you yea his example and good workes shall live in you But I feare you and the poore among you and the perplexed consciences among you will misse him more seven yerars hence then yet you doe But I see the floud-gates are open and the sight of your affecttionate teares moving my sluces too cause me to retrahere vela orationis to contract my speech though I can never speake enough of this subject of our imitation I shall therefore speake a few more words to whom this losse more spcially concernes Thes 4.13 and then I have done not to be sory as those that have noe hope for them that sleep in Christ I doe not forbid you to mourne for the dead for it s the signe of a reprobate to be without naturall affection but beseech you to afford your selves the comforts of faith and take heed of immoderate greiving which is forbidden in nature which teacheth all things in reason which teacheth all men in Religion which teacheth all Christians in nature for the eye is as Anatomist observe full of twice as many dry skins like sluces to damme up the course of teares as it hath moist chrystiline humorus like channels to let them forth for if all the eye were all a moist humour Prov. 27. there would be no seing Secondly in reason for every too much is a fault First it 's not good saith Salomon to eate too much hony sure then it 's not good to eate to much gall for what 's greife imoderate but gall Prov. 17.22 and wormwood Thirdly in Religion for trew sorrow drieth up the bones for why doth God give the holy spirit which is the onely comforter a good conscience which is a continuall feast the holy Scripture which is a second paradice a lively faith whereby we have peace with God but to inferre that they have no spirit no conscience no Scripture no faith in them that pierce their hearts with too much greife I must not forget neyther can you with what Job like pacience he indured his sicknesse nor what excellent counsels he gave to all that were about him how willing he was to resigne himselfe into his redeemers hand it s the unfayned desire of my heart when the Lord shall call me that I may dye the death of this righteous one and that my latter end may be like to his You have hard what I have said and the Lord give you understanding in all things LAVS DEO FINIS