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A43843	A sermon preach'd at the funerals of that worthy personage George Purefoy the elder of Wadley in Berks, esq., who was buried by his ancestors at Drayton in Leicestershire, April 21, 1661 by Jo. Hinckley.	Hinckley, John, 1617?-1695.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2048; ESTC R13342	21,835	39

estate called Morgengab Dr. Hammond So Abraham gave gifts to his other Sons v. 6. A Learned man observes that the same custome is in Denmark to this day yet waving any further disquisition or search further into the context I shall come at last to those considerable circumstances which are in the Text it selfe concerning the death and burial of Abraham 1. The Person dying Abraham 2. The manner of his death He gave up the Ghost and dyed 3. The time when he dyed In a good Old Age an old Man and full of yeares 4. How he was disposed of after death and was gathered to his people These parts are plainly in the text without either straining it or obscuring them with any termes of art I must begin with 1. The Person dying Abraham And Abraham gave up the Ghost Abraham a great Prince a great Prophet a great man in estate the friend of God the Father of the faithful Titles enough one would have thought to have struck a we into death it self as * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 impudent or disrespecter of persons as it is yet notwithstanding all this pomp and grandeur Abraham gave up the Ghost and dyed No prerogative whatsoever will exempt us from death though we be the favorites of Heaven the Potentates of the Earth the darlings of the people yet our breath is still in our Nostrils we are as much obnoxious exposed to the arrowes of death as the poorest Mushroom or Shrub the meanest peasant that crawls on the surface of the Earth The Psalmist puts it to a negative question What man is he that liveth and shall not see death Shall he deliver his Soul from the hand of the Grave Psa 89.48 The word is not Adam or Enos but Geber What rich what mighty what great Man is there that liveth and shall not see death And that we might not passe from that text without serious considering the purport of it he arrests our spirits with that signal and emphatical note Selah First or last we must all travel this common road which hath been beaten by the feet of all our forefathers And indeed this is also a common beaten truth that I am upon none doubt of it in their understandings retired thoughts yet because there is a great difference betwixt a simple notional and speculative knowledge of a truth swimming upon the understanding and a practical sanctified experimental reduplicative knowledge when we know the truth as we ought to knowing by influencing our wills tempering our affections and steering all the courses and passages of the outward man which is called by the Apostle a knowledge according to godliness or Knowing of the truth as it is in Jesus I fear we do not know this truth in this sense as common as it is else what means the bleating of the Sheep and the lowing of the Oxon in our eares what is the reason that so many live as if they should never dye set their hearts upon their habitations as if their habitations should endure for ever As if they should dye in their Nests and multiply their daies as the Sand Job 29.18 They are ready to say with David in his prosperity that they shall never be moved or with the Whore of Babylon I shall sit as Queen for ever Had those Atheistical wreches learned this lesson who put far from them the evil day and said Come I will fetch wine and we will fill our selves with strong drink and to morrow shall be as this day and much more abundant Esa 56.12 David well knew the difficulty of taking forth this truth therefore about to make a Sermon of mans frailty he begins thus I will encline my ear to a parable I will open my dark sayings Ps 49.4 And the Prophet being about to proclaim All Flesh is grasse and all the goodlinesse thereof as the flower of the feild He brings it in with a solemnity of a dialogue betwixt a voice from Heaven and himself The voice said cry and he said what shall I cry Isa 40.6 That saying was so dark and our natures so averse to digest it that there is need of crying and crying again Hence it is that as it was in the daies of Noah and Lot So it is in our daies ther 's eating drinking building and beating by oppression of our fellow servants untill the Flood of death like the river Kison sweep us away Hannibal ad portas the great Philistin or last enemy is upon us yet we are not drawn forth into battalia mounted our battlements or have our weapons fixed The Bridegroom is coming a pace yet our lamps were neither trim'd nor furnished with oyle Did Abraham give up the Ghost though he was the friend of God then let us not only make a good use of good men whilst we have them by sucking and drawing from them the hony of advice and Counsel for there is no direction or knowledge in the grave though the lips of faithful and able Ministers whilst alive may drop as the hony-comb yet their Sepulchres cannot edifie or instruct us the living the living shall praise the Lord. But since Abraham Gods familiar and intimate friend gave up the Ghost and dyed sure death is not so terrible as most apprehend it to be otherwise his dearest servant should not have tasted of it The Apostle casts some spice into the cup of affliction and endeavours to sweeten chastisements by this argument because they fall upon the Sons and children of God Heb. 12.7 8. As the grave it self methink's is perfumed for us in that Christ himself was pleased to sleep in that Chamber Though Abraham was great in power estate yet he gave up the Ghost and dyed therefore let 's not make flesh our arm in relying upon any of the Sons of men though never so mighty They are but as so many dreams shadowes or puffes of wind cease from man whose breath is in his Nostrils for what excellency is there in him Isa 2.22 Trust not in Princes nor in any of the Sons of men Psa 146.3 And lest we should be left utterly destitute of any support to bare us up David adds v. 5. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help whose hope is in the Lord his God As if all staies were but as so many broken Reeds in comparison of this Rock of ages Alexander as great as he was once the Idol of his Court was content at last with a coffin And Diogines Sarcofago contentus erat Juv. is brought in by Lucian as jearing the Ghost of Alexander after death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what is Alexander dead as well as Diogenes Alexander had then learned that he was not immortal and could say T is ‖ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lucian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clem. Alex. p. 61. no wonder that I am dead seeing at best I was but a man Saladine also that great Commander who won Jerusalem gave order

to have no other solemnity at his funeral than to have a Cryer to goe before his herse to give notice to the people that there was Saladine the Conqueror of the East and how that of all his riches and glory he carryed nothing with him but his shirt And what help can they afford to others that have not been able to help themselves 2. 2 2. Part. The manner of his death He gave up the Ghost 1. Expiravit or as it is said of Christ himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he breath'd out his last breath to shew that we are but as so many bubbles or bladders touch or prick us and we are gone we presently shrivel together and as the heavens shal be at the last day are contracted and drawn together like a Scrowl if God blow upon us like so many untimely figs we fall and shatter our ruddy cheeks become pale and wan thou changest his countenance and sendest him away Job 14.20 2. He gave up the Ghost that is he wilingly surrendred his Soul into the hands of God So Christ bowed his head upon the Crosse as it were to salute and welcome death it self even as he expanded and streched out his armes to signifie how ready he was to imbrace penitent sinners Gods people hath some presentments of a better Countrey Some assurance of going to more glorious company They have an interest in Christ and so love his appearance as well at the day of death as of judgement they have fought a good fight and therefore are willing to receive that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Garland that crown of Glory which is reposited and laid up for them in the bands of a faithful Creator They have tasted that the Lord is gracious by the relish of those first fruits those bunches of Grapes which the holy spies the Ministers of the Lord have brought unto them from the Land of Canaan and therefore with the spouse Cant. 6.4 They long to goe to the vineyard it self to the beds of spices to feed in the Garden and to gather Lillies with Simeon they are ready to sing nunc dimittis now let thy servant depart in peace or with St. Paul to desire to be desolved 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 migrare revertere Scultetus to depart and to returne unto Christ This is to inform us concerning the great difference betwixt the death of Gods servants and the wicked The one resign up their lives and give up their ghosts willingly from the other they are wrested and hal'd The world sticks so close to them that they know not how to shake it off they are clogged and pressed down with so many weights they are pinion'd with so many sins that do easily beset them that they cannot mount upwards Their darling sins and bosome corruptions come about them as once St. Anstins lust did cling about him Non erimus tecum in aeternum What shall we never be drunk prophane and unchast any more Their Souls are fetcht from them violently as it were with a Pursevant this night shall thy Soul be taken from thee Luke 12.20 like rusty swords they are hardly drawn out of the Sheathes of their bodies to this Daniel alludes Cap. 7.15 Myspirit spirit was grieved within me the Chaldee reads it my spirit was grieved within my Sheath and good reason they have to hang back seeing they can discerne nothing before them but flames of ever-burning fire ready to devour them as 't is reported of the Infants of Saguntum many Plagues and Judgements threatning that place they started back into the wombs of their Mothers as it were abhorring to be born into so troublesome a world 3. 3. Part. The time when Abraham dyed In a good Old Age and old Man and full of Years In a good old age 1. Naturally being free from those Aches Fevers and noysome diseases which are incident to old age As 't is said of Moses His eye was not dim nor his natural force abated Deut. 34.7 2. Morally Not only an old Man but a good old man full fraught with so many vertuous excellencies as might denominate him good as his years did proclaim him old Full of years Annorum Satur even faciated and satisfied with years Having lived so long that he desired not to have his daies prolonged or else full of yeares that is having fulfilled that for which he came into the world finishing his course with joy and with David serving his generation before he fell asleep Acts 15 36 In opposition to whom are months of of vanity or empty months Job 7.3 when men die and leave no Testimony behind them that ever they were alive and so they are buried in death Job 27.15 Seeing it is here recorded of Abraham as a mercy that he died in good old age an old Man and full of years We may observe that old age is a blessing So 't was promised unto Abraham Gen. 15.15 Thou shalt goe to thy Fathers in peace and thou shalt be buried in a good old age Paul glories in it being such an one as Paul the aged Philem. 9. This is the promise which is annexed to the fifth Commandment That thy daies may be long in the land And it is part of that blessing which the Lord will give to them that fear him They shall see their childrens children Psa 128.1.6 Sure I am the contrary is threatned as a judgement to the house of Eli That an old man should not be of his house 1 Sa. 2.32 Bloody and cruel men are menac'd that they should not live out half their time He shall shake off his unripe grape as the Vine and shall cast of his flower as the Olive Job 15.33 It is observed that from the beginning of the world to some generations after the flood the Son never dyed before the Father Haran an Idolater is first noted to have died before his Father Terah in the Land of his nativity Gen. 11.28 The experience of many ages hath also confirmed an other observation viz. That God hath commonly Crown'd the reverend Bishops Fathers of the Church with this blessing of the Patriarch Abraham even a good old age It is a blessing in a special manner 1. Because 't is honorable the same word which signifies honour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be fetched from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an old man because of that veneration that is due to old age The hoary head is a Crown of glory Pro. 16.31 Gray hairs are the beauty of old men Pro. 20.29 Tertullian vehemently reproved those old men who were ashamed of their own haire and took Exuvias alieni capitis forsan immundi forsan gehennae destinati Grande nesas morte piandum cum vetulo juvenis non assurrexerit Juv. the excrements of other men those it may be who have been unclean or else malefactors The Lacedemonian Embassadors being in the Theatre at Athens rose in solemn reverence when an old man came