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A09035	The end of the perfect man A sermon preached at the buriall of the right Honourable Sir Robert Spencer Knight Baron Spencer of Wormeleighton, Novemb. 6. 1627. in Braynton Church in Northamptonshire, by Richard Parre Bachelour in Divinity, and late fellow of Brasen-nose Colledge in Oxford, now rector of Ladbrook in Warwickshire.	Parr, Richard, 1591 or 2-1644.	1628 (1628)	STC 19323; ESTC S114075	28,531	44

not only to perswade imitatiō but also to enforce approbatiō frō the conuicted consciences of the gain-saiers No man is so badde but would conforme himselfe to good courses if they crossed not his priuate ends and though hee speake sometimes against the life yet would bee glad to die the death of the righteous Againe the very nature of man is more inclineable to be guided by a Longum iter per praecepta breue efficax per exempla Sence example then precept Though precepts and instructions be more reasonable yet exampies preuaile sooner because more obuious and familiar With what courage and life doe souldiers goe on if they behold a Commaunder ingag'd in some noble attempt his valour makes them couragious and his example is a powerfull argument to prouoke their emulation emulation puts them forwards to the imitation of excellent men as wee see in Themistocles b Vale Max l. 8. ca 15. in Plau. Apoth whom the trophees of Miltiades would not suffer to sleepe vntill by his like worthy acts he had purchased to himself a like glorious name as it is thus in meere naturall men and Heathens so should it bee amongst Christians in their Christian warfares Saint Paul takes this to be a most winning course and therefore hee cries Bee yee followers of mee as I am of Christ 1. Cor. 11.1 1. Cor. 11.1 Besides these motiues there are two weighty causes more why the liues and deaths of perfect and vpright men should bee exemplarie vnto vs the first is for the glory of God the second is for the iustice of God first the proposing of such mens liues as examples to our selues doth aduance the glorie of God because wee seeing or looking on their good workes do thereby learne to glorifie our Father which is in heauen Secondly the proposing of such mens deaths or ends makes for Gods iustice Ne Deus putetur iniquus it is the glosse vpon the place least God should be thought vniust whilest wee see the godly to suffer in paine and the wicked surfet in pleasure For which very cause Epicurus denieth Gods prouidence not dreaming of that great day of reckoning wherein the Lord shall come with 10000 Saintes to execute iudgement vpon all such men Iude. 15. or when the Lord Iesus shall bee reueal'd from heauen in flaming fire to execute vengeance on all men that would not know God d 2. Thes 1.7 nor obey the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ not dreaming that they who now surfet in pleasure shall one day suffer in paine and flames of hell fire if wee haue our heauen here wee must haue our hell hereafter Nemo potest in hâc vitâ in futurâ gaudere if our way in this world be pleasant and sweete wee shall not much care for our heauenly Hierusalem e Cui peregrinatio duleis est non amat patriam S. Aug. in Psal 93. which is aboue it is therefore the lot of the righteous to sow in teares here that they may reape in ioy hereafter they must weep in this vale of teares that they may sing and looke vp with joy vnto those hills from whence commeth saluation God in sacred writ is said to wipe away all teares and happie are they that canne shed them hee is said to gather and blessed are they that scatter them oh then let all the Epicures of the world wallow themselues in their sinfull pleasures for a season Let all inordinate persons put off the euill day and euen weary themselues in the wayes of wickednesse make a progresse in sinue adding thirst vnto drunkennesse but let all the Saintes and seruants of God runne in the wayes of vpright men and in patience waite vntill the day shall come wherein in they shall say verily there is a reward for the righteous doubtlesse there is a God that iudgeth the earth let them I say in patience waite the Lords leasure and in patience runne the race that is set before them runne the race of the Perfect and vpright man least their liues and deaths runne to rise vppe in iudgement against them Let them so runne that they may obtain a 1. Cor. 9.24 and what Coronam gloriae a crowne of glorie in one b 1. Pet. 5.4 place let them so runne that they may obtaine and what Coronam vitae a Crowne of life in another place c Reuel 2.10 let them so runne that they may obtaine and what Coronam iustitiae a Crown of righteousues in a third place d 2. Tim. 4.8 All these Crownes a Crowne of glorie a Crowne of life a Crowne of righteousnesse shall God for his trueth and promise sake as rewardes giue vnto them if they propose and proposing follow in all good conscience the liues and deaths of perfect and vpright men Yea but such mens liues and deaths are rare examples Ob. non cuiuis contingit euery man cannot attaine to such perfection what then Est aliquid prodire tenus Sol. especially towards God who accepts the will for the deede Nay who stands at the doore and knockes beeing more willing to come to vs then wee to him Yea Ob. but such mens liues are full of difficulties anxieties and dangers Sol. true but what 's the issue a gracious deliuerance the blessing of Peace at the last many are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord deliuers them out of all Who would haue thought that when Ioseph was in the dungeon hee should euer haue beene a Lord to his brethren or a prouident Father to a whole Nation Who would euer haue thought that when Iob was scraping his sores on the dung-hill hauing lost all his children al his cattel all his houses goods he should haue bin richer then euer he was Surely this is the Lords doing and it is marueilous in our eyes many were the troubles of good old Abraham but the Lord deliuer'd him out of all many were the troubles of good Dauid but the Lord deliuer'd him out of all What shall I say more many are the troubles of euery perfect and vpright man but the Lord deliuers him out of all all these troubles shall bring him peace at the last for the end of that man is peace our last querie or circumstance Marke the perfect man and behold the vpright for the end of that man is Peace The Schooles in their laborinths doe winde and turne peace by many distinctions Pars 3. Aquinas 22. q. 29. acric 1. and queries Aquinas in foure Articles makes 4 queries of Peace 1. Whether it be the self same thing with concord Secondly whether Peace bee an effect of charity Thirdly whether Peace bee desired of all And lastly whether Peace be a vertue For the first querie the verdict is brought in negatiue Peace is not the same with Concord for there may bee a concord amongst the wicked Simeon and Leui were fratres in malo brethren in euill Amongst

in some good measure did not liue answerably to their professiō that as he was in trueth and not in shew onely a perfect man so they likewise might indeauour to attaine that perfection recommended vnto vs by our Sauiour Mat. 5 48. Bee you pefect as your Father which is in heauen is perfect And soe I leaue the consideration of him as a perfect man and intreat you to cast your thoughts awhile vpon him in the consideration of an vpright man Behold the vpright Hee was an vpright or iust man many waies and yet not the first way 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to nature for soe no man was euer just since the fall of Adam but hee was an vpright and iust man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the judgement and opinion of men as was Samuel Againe he was an vpright and just man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Sam. 12. according to purpose and true endeuour for with Saint Paul he forgot the things which were behind and reacht forth to the things which are before and pressed hard toward the marke for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Iesus Lastly he was an vpright or iust man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the imputatiō of Christs righteousnes which gaue him an interest to that royall blood which is in the person of Christ and makes him both to be an heire of the earth to haue a title of inheritance vnto heauen Thus ye see wee haue found him to bee the vpright man many waies and discouer'd him to bee the perfect man in seuerall constructions according to which perfectnesse and vpright dealing God for his trueth sake blessed him with a goodly inheritance and pleasant paradize wherein in grew in abundance the Apples of Peace which now we are to gather in the last place The end of that man is peace And the end of this perfect and vpright man was soe crown'd euen with the blessing of peace of peace which God giues and of peace which the world giues This consisted in the quiet enjoying of temporall things together with the health of his body for many yeares That in the sweete tranquility of his minde and in the vnconceaueable joy which now he takes in the contemplation of Gods beatificall vision Againe his end was in peace in pace proximi in peace with his neighbour no outcries no accursed acclamations of crueltie and oppression follow his vrne and ashes Againe his end was in peace in pace sui in peace with himselfe free from distractions of minde free from conuulsions of body like a lambe he passeth through the gate of mortality into a house not made with hands immortall in the heauens Mors janu● vitae The pangs of death to him were so easie that he seemed to find death rather then to feele it a blessing which Augustus often wisht for Sibi suis Sueton in vita ejus that a glorious life might bee crown'd with a faire and easie death This blessing hee obtained in full measure because hee passed away in a premeditated kind of sleeping rather then dying which is to dye the death of the righteous for so the Hebrewes say of wicked men that they dye but of the righteous or Saints of God that they fall a sleepe as Lorinus obserues well on Leniticus And yet the honour and comfort of his death stood not only in this that hee went away in a sleepe gentlie but principally in this that as he liued in this presēt world so he died godlily for hauing set aside the trrafficke of this world which passeth away hee trades for an inheritance which fadeth not reserued for him in the heauens Insomuch that his gratious visitation towards the end seemed farre more comfortable then in the beginning Wormleighton vvhich vvas clouded vvith some more sadnesse and deiection of spirit not many daies before his end in peace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 macrob in Som. Scip. lib. 10. cap. 11. God put a resolution into his heart to visit the place vvhich gaue him the honourable title of a Baron that his soule might blesse the poore there also before it 's loosing out of the body Ergastulum animae the prison of the soule and as in fine it happily proued this journey vvas a setting forward towards the kingdome of heauen for vvithin the space of foure dayes after his arriuall there the earthly taberuacle of his body vvas b Octob. 2● 1627. dissolued and his soule translated from earth to heauen vvhere our pennes and tongues shall let him rest onely they craue leaue to make a short historie of his doings sayings in that short respite of life after his comming to that place His very first act his priuate acknowledgment of Gods great mercy for his safe arriuall there being made was to send for a neighbouring minister hauing left his houshold Chaplain at his mansion-house to waite on 's office with the most of his family whom hee earnestly desires to continue with him during his abode ther morning euening to pray with him to praise God for him that was indeed the behauiour methode guise of his deuotion throughout the whole course of his sickenes like good Hezekiah when hee was sicke to pray vnto God and when hee began to amend to praise God or giue thanke vnto him The next act of his which doth preach to the world his religious end was a gracious message hee sent to a neighbouring minister an auncient acquaintance of his whom notwithstanding his profession hee godlily exhorts to prepare himselfe as he did for heauen intreating him withall to remember him in his daily prayers promising to doe the same for him in his continuall deuotions And whilst his Catholicke charity and deuotion thus spread themselues on others was he vnmindfull of his own cause No he powres forth his complaints and supplications for his Gods assistance against such passions as took most aduantage on him in his greatest weakenesse disiring withall his friends and seruants to construe it not as an argument of displeasure against them but rather of his great weakenesse when hee spoke passionately to them in his sickenesse And as his zeale and faith in Christ did still increase and the inner man grew stronger and stronger so his earthly tabernacle or outward man did sensibly languish decrease for indeed as it appear'd by an ocular demonstration the stocke of Nature was quite spent his glasse was runne and beeing ripe for heauen hee was gathered like a ripe apple from the tree and as he was in his life Lucerna ardens lucens a burning and a shining candle so it burn'd to the snuffe Nec extincta est tamen sed submota which was not put out but set aside In vitâ Malachiae as Saint Bernard spake of his dead friend his life was a candle which burn'd to the snuffe a snuffe which needed not a socket to conceale the stench no at the