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A sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. James Houblon who was buried at St. Mary Wolnoth Church in Lombard-Street June 28, 1682 / by Gilbert Burnet.
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Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
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of which I have seen some and must say this of them that they express a most genuine and lively sense of Religion without any laboured Periods or Affectations of Words or Phrases but with a Simplicity which shews he writ as his Heart dictated of which I will give you an Essay taken out of the Letter he writ for them all in general The Lord bless you all and give you his Grace that you may love and fear him all your days O! labour with all your Might to be holy in all manner of Conversation eschewing all Evil and the Appearance thereof Be charitable to the Poor live in Unity and Love among your selves which if you do in Sincerity you may expect God's Blessings upon your Endeavours so far as they be lawful Forget not daily Prayers in your Families and walk humbly before him all your days if you do that which you ought as Christians you will find Mercy with the Lord and Respect with good Men. The Lord in Mercy bless you all my sweet Ones principally in Spiritual Blessings Amen It is I assure you my daily Prayer that you may so do Amen All my drift in all my Papers has been that you may live holily and righteously before the Lord in this your Pilgrimage that so you may be happy to Eternity when time shall be no more and that through his free Grace and Mercy in our Blessed Saviour and Precious Redeemer for without Holiness and Sanctification none shall see him with Comfort O love the Lord and all Men and live in Love one with another if you expect God's Blessing And in relation to the Government he left this Charge on them Fear the Lord and honour the King praying daily for all whom God hath set over you in Church and State that so you may under them live a godly and peaceable Life You see how fervently and seriously he recommends the Fear of God and mutual Love to his Children As he saw them to his great Joy live in this blessed Harmony during his own Life so he took all possible care to have it kept up after his Death for he charged them to enter into solemn Promises upon his removal to continue still to love one another which they are resolved religiously to perform and of which no doubt very happy Effects will appear As he was very sensible of the Blessing of Brethren dwelling together in Unity so his Love and Charity were more diffused than to be restrained only to his own Family He had an univesal Charity for all good and worthy Men against which let hot and angry Men say what they will it is and still wil be the Badg of a true Disciple of Christ. He never engaged in our unhappy Differences but without meddling in matters that did not belong to him he loved all that was good in all Men and extended his Charity to the Relief of proper Objects of all Perswasions both in City and Country Of which I need say the less because it was so eminent and so many did partake of it And he took particular care to manage this so secretly that often the Persons themselves knew not from whence their Relief came He did also industriously seek out such proper Objects for it without putting modest but necessitous Persons to the uneasines of asking it He himself while in the City did always joyn with the French Congregation but when he was in the Country he joyned in the Worship of the Church of England He looked on the Reformed Churches by reason of the unreformed Lives of the Members of them with great regret and did apprehend there was a severe Cup to go round them and was afraid England might drink the Dregs of it and might be again brought under the Tyranny of the Church of Rome and the inundation of a Forreign Power in which we have all reason to pray God that his Fears prove not too prophetical of this I have seen a full account in one of his Letters to one of his Children which was sealed up with his Will I need not enlarge upon other Particulars of his Justice and fairness in his Dealings of his gentle and affable Deportment to all Persons and of his readiness to do all the Good that was in his Power you all know so much of those things that I may well say the less for I find his Memory lives and is like to maintain it self long in this place the Witnesses of his Vertues being so many and the Instances of them having been so frequent and so signal Thus we see what a perfect and upright Man he was now let us a little consider what his latter end hath been This good Man had a great deal of that hundred-fold which our Saviour promised even in this Life to those who forsook their Houses Mat. 19. 29. Lands and Families for his sake This entail descended on him from his Father and he having taken care to secure and maintain his Title to so great a Blessing has had as visible and long a share of the good things of this Life as all things being put together any Man in this Age has had He lived 90 Years all to a few days and the last 35 years of his Life till a little before his Death he enjoyed a vigorous and perfect Health together with the greatest of all earthly Blessings the perfect use of his Senses his Memory and Judgment so that he continued to write many Letters weekly till his last Disease fell upon him About 47 years ago an unhappy Accident had almost cut him off when he was yet in the Strength of his Age he being at a Training near Morefields some Powder took fire by which he with several others were blown up but tho' some of the rest were struck dead outright yet God had a great deal of more Service for him in the World and so after an Illness of six or seven Weeks continuance of which it was long doubted whether he could ever recover he was again restored to his Family and lived to see his Childrens Children and some of their Children to so great an Increase that in his time a full hundred came into the World descended from him all born in full time and all baptized save one of these 67 are yet alive to which if eleven that are come into his Family by Marriages be joyned there wanted but two of fourscore that had right to his daily Blessing And so entirely did the first Blessing of Encrease and Multiply rest on him and his Children that there was never an Abortive nor a Child dead-born in all his numerous Family A rare and singular Happiness to which very few have ever been known to have attained I shall not add any thing of the Comfort he had in them tho' that is a necessary Ingredient to make such things Blessings indeed but that belongs too much to the Living to be insisted on by me Having thus lengthened out his Days