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A87802	Abraham's image in one of his sonnes: or, The picture of a good old man, represented in a sermon upon the third of November, anno Dom. 1657. in West-Newton, at the funeral of John Dethick Esquire, father to the late lord mayor that was of London in the year 1655. By William Knapp Master of Arts, of Katherine-Hall in Cambridge, now rector of VVest-Newton in Norfolk.	Knapp, William, d. 1688.	1658 (1658)	Wing K667; Thomason E937_2; ESTC R207740	24,523	44

Abrahams Image In one of his SONNES OR THE PICTURE OF A Good Old MAN Represented in a SERMON upon the Third of November anno Dom. 1657. in West-Newton at the Funeral of John Dethick Esquire Father to the late Lord Mayor that was of London in the Year 1655. By WILLIAM KNAPP Master of Arts of Katherine-Hall in Cambridge now Rector of VVest-Newton in Norfolk HEB. 11 10. For he looked for a city which hath foundations whose Builder and Maker is God Languet amore sponsa Christi prae magno faciei ejus videndi desiderio vitae taedium patitur vix praesentis exil●i moras sustinet Rupert in Cant. LONDON Printed by Peter Cole Printer and Bookseller and are to be sold at the Sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhill neer the Royal Exchange 1658. To the RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Sir JOHN DETHICK Knight all Grace and Happiness Sir YOUR friends which were present at the Sermon which I preached at your aged Fathers Funerall comparing what I had said of him of my owne particular knowledg with those expressions of your affection which they had formerly apprehended from you were verily perswaded that the Sermon would have made a very gracefull sound in your eares and Sir what with their incessant importunitie and the sence that I have of my obligation to you I am bold to present you with it that so I may represent him to your thoughts in whose precious memory you may so far delight your self that through his reverend antiquitie and goodness he was the Glory and Comfort of the Country round about him as for my part I took my acquaintance with him as a blessing from God and thus much I may say as in the sight of God that when ever I went to visit him as I was by a strange and extraordinary motion excited to doe it frequently what through the observation of his outward and inward forme I had the thoughts of faithfull Abraham renued upon my spirit so that to speak the truth I loved him in the truth and not I only 2 John 1. but also al they that have known the truth as St. John speakes of the Elect Lady I confess Sir the piece of work which I presume to tender to your acceptance is but leane and dry and unfit to abide the test of your Judicious Eye yet Sir give me leave to hope that as the reviving of his memorie from whose loynes you sprang was part of my aime in this so the very mention of his Worth may somewhat counterpoyze its imperfection and this hope I do also feed my self withal that I deserve not your displeasure in making hast to please you But this is that which I also feare that your candid disposition which knows not to give any other than a favorable interpretation will not let me understand my errors however Sir I beseech you where ever you do discry them know them to be rather the errors of love not any love of errors I blesse God whatever weakness of mine may appear to a criticall eye the sincerity of my desire is in this as in all others the indeavors of my profession that I may be instrumental to the glory of God in the building up of Men in the Faith and Fear of His Name and to this purpose I had rather be the meanest vessel in His Sanctuary than sit equall in glory to the greatest Potentate I had rather be of use to the adding though it be but a litle Goates hair to the building of the Temple than have al the affluence of the Earth added to my Estate for though the Calamities of this inferior world may Eclipse the external lustre of my profession Yet I question not but if the almighty shal deigne me the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or help of his holy spirit either towards the reducing of any of the lost Sons of Adam 2 Cor. 6.1 or towards the confirmation of any of the Saints in their most holy Faith I may shine as the Stars for ever and ever And as we in our profession Dan. 12 3. are consecrate to such spiritual and eternal purposes so I desire in this present work of mine to drive on such a design If therefore Sir by this slender oblation of mine together with the example of your worthy Father whom I have proposed to your imitation you shal so recount with your self the returne of the Body of Abraham that great Patriarch and friend of God to the dust of the Earth and the sweet and peaceable resignation of his Soul into the hands of his God and if you shal also so far recal to mind his being gathered to his People in Heaven as lightly to esteeme of the vanity of this transitory life and more and more to prize the Rock of your Salvation the Lord Jesus Christ who is the only new and living way to the new Jerusalem and Bosome of Abraham then shall I attaine my most ambitious aimes who am Sir Yours in all Humble Observance William Knapp Abraham's Image In one of his SONNES OR The PICTURE of a good Old MAN GEN. 25.8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost and dyed in a good old age an old man and full of years and was gathered to his people TO preach a Sermon of death in the presence of a dead corps is a kinde of Pleonasmus in our concionatorie office This sad spectacle here before us is Death's Emphasis of mortality to all flesh and by preaching J may augment its expression and truly this is one end of three of this so solemn a meeting in the house of God Whereof The First is to difference the bodies of Saints from those of beasts and such as are worse than beasts which without respect are drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of our Cities as was that of Jehoiakim Jer. 22.19 The blessed incarnation of Christ may be sufficient to re-minde us of some discriminative respect even to the bodies of his servants after their souls have made their retreat into the bosome of Abraham and for this so laudable a custome we have an authentick example in 1 Sam. 25.1 where we finde that Samuel dyed and all Israel were gathered together and lamented him and buried him The Second is to represent the Virtues of the deceas'd to the view of others for imitation 2 Sam. i 26 2 Chron 35 Thus David commended Jonathan for his more than foeminine affection The holy Ghost King Josiah for his integrity St. Paul in his Epistle to the Hebrewes the Patriarchs and Prophets and thus our Saviour himself commanded that where ever the gospel should be preached there that which the woman had done to him should be told for a memorial of her Matth. 26.13 And therefore Brethren if J speak in commendation of this our deceased brother according to his desert I do but my duty The soul of a just man after death lives with God and 't is pitie but the virtues of his mind should do

a very able and godly ministrie so their doctrine distill'd upon his heart as dew upon the grass as the soft showers of heaven upon the tender herb and brought forth the fruit of love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness and that which is the lustre of them all temperance As for his love he did first pitch it upon God and then upon man for Gods sake and upon such especially as did nearest communicate as he thought of the likeness of God He was tender in point of censuring others whose judgment differ'd in matters rather of the superstructure than the foundation of faith or in matters intricate and of controversie and not opposing an holy life Difference in judgement in such affairs should not with him make a breach of charity especially if the parties so erring were consciencious in their outward conversation seemed desirous to prove all things and hold fast that which was good according to the Apostles rule 2 Thes 5.21 And where hee found any going astray there he would seek to reduce them with the spirit of meekness b Eph. 4.15 speaking the truth in love and pitying rather than insulting over their infirmities And as touching his own faith 't was strongly built upon the Scriptures which were to him as c Gen. 24.65 Isaac to Rebecca velum oculorum the veyle of his eyes he desir'd to confine his sight within that blessed compass When between the Ministers of Lynn there was a difference about the extent of divine grace he carried himself with an amiable wisdome and circumspection for he became an Auditor to both parties accounting that whatsoever was propounded in the name of God and his Son Jesus Christ might well deserve audience and when he had well weighed their opinions hee concluded that God had a peculiar people whom he knew from the beginning of the world and into whose hearts he purposed by his determinate counsell so to put his fear that they should not depart from him as Ier. 32.40 yet so as not to lay any violent constraint upon the liberty of their wills but to make them willing in the day of his power in the beauties of holiness and to draw them with a certain omnipotent facilitie who otherwise through natural corruption would never become subject to the divine will When once he and I had discourse concerning the Universalists I told him that the sacred Trinitie of Persons the Father Son and Holy Ghost as they had a d Gen. 1.26 Psal 8.3 Luke 1.51 finger in the creation of man and of the whole fabrick of heaven and earth so they had an arm in the redemption of man and were all equally sharers therein 't was the Fathers good pleasure to send the Son into humane flesh and the Son 's good pleasure to take it upon him to work salvation for men and the Holy Ghost's pleasure to work that salvation in them which the Son works for them so that unless the sun of righteousness did arise upon the hearts of men by the healing power of his spirit neither could they discern nor would they imbrace the way of their eternal peace and because this gracious work of Gods spirit is found in some and not in others we therefore say God loves some more then he does others and though many bee call'd yet few are chosen that there should be any one I told him 't was the infinite free mercy of God in Christ Jesus and this he certainly did believe and was not this faith of his like that of Abraham yes verily in this hee was a true son of Abraham and therefore as God was to Abraham a shield and an exceeding great reward Gen. 15.1 so he was and is to him he was a shield to defend him from the fiery darts of Satan and to keep him safe from the dominion and condemnation of sin and he is now questionless his exceeding great reward giving him a crown of righteousness in his glorious and eternal kingdome where we will leave him to the reward of his working and betake our selves to the working out of our reward who are yet but labourers in the Vinyard here below or rather strangers in this wilderness of sin and sojourners as all our fathers were whereof to have a more firm and active remembrance is The third and last end of this our funeral concourse Hereunto therefore let me beseech you friends to receive with meekness and reverence that portion of divine Writ before rehearsed out of Gen. 25.8 which words do present themselves to ordinary view in three obser vables 1 Something before Abraham's death 2 Something at his death 3 Something after his death First Abraham before he dyed was an old man a good old man and full of yeers the words are a compendious but a full narrative of Abraham's life Abraham was a great man in yeers and he was as good as great and therefore was said to have dyed in a good old age they which liv'd before him liv'd much longer even above eight hundred yeers yet we read not that they dyed in a good old age and they which liv'd after him liv'd not so long so that Abraham was remarkable in yeers and as much in goodness God made him great in yeers and his grace crown'd his yeers with goodness From whence therefore we may draw a twofold observation 1. Observ 'T is a blessing from the Lord to live long God blessed Abraham with length of yeers length of yeers comes within the compass of Gods promises now all his promises are exceeding great and precious God promis'd Solomon that if he would walk in his ways and keep his statutes he would lengthen his days 1 King 3.14 And this the Lord annexed to the fourth Commandment as a reward of obedience to father and mother Exo. 20. and the contrary is the just doom of all blood-thirfty and deceitful men they shall not live out half their days Psa 55.23 Now as in other gifts of God so in this God has a further intendment of grace to all his people when the Lord reaches forth his hand in any gift of his he does it to draw a man to himself in the knowledge of and sweet communion with him The Lord * 2 Cor. 6.1 labours for the advantage of men both in his word and works and thus he does in the gift of a long life The Lord in his Sabbaths intends a peculiar sequestration of our selves unto his divine service not only that thereby we should symbolize or betoken the God of our creation or redemption but that we should benefit our selves in a fuller knowledge of God and the way of salvation for to that purpose the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath Mark 2.27 and as upon all such dayes of rest Use we ought to be moving to God-ward in a more speciall manner so likewise upon all other dayes when we have a vacancie from our secular