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A17913	A casket of ievvells and precious pearles Set forth in a funerall sermon, preached in Heckfield Church, at the buriall of a religious young gentleman, Mr. Barnabas Creswell, sonne of Mr. Thomas Creswell Esquire, by Nathanael Cannon, Batchelar in diuinitie.	Cannon, Nathanael, 1581 or 2-1664.	1625 (1625)	STC 4575.7; ESTC S115891	12,655	78

dye as olde Pollicarpus tels his tormentors according as Eusebius stories it vnto vs I am this day saith hee fourescore yeares old and I haue hitherto serued my God O blessed age and time well spent in the seruice of God for let vs not thinke to dye the death of the righteous vnlesse wee liue the life of the righteous our conuersation then must be in heauen Phil. 3. and we must liue here in this world euen as the Fishes doe in the Sea who though they liue in the salt and brackish water yet they are fresh So though we liue in the middest of a wicked world yet must wee be fresh and free from the common pollutions of this wicked world Then shall we not fulfill the lusts of the flesh as the vngodly doe for they put too their whole strength they draw sins together and pull them as it were with cart-ropes Esay 5.18 Let the Saints make ready for the comming of the Lord Iesus Christ and cry with them Lord Iesus come quickly Come quickly Lord Iesus The 2. vse belonging to this poynt limits our lamentations I would not haue you ignorant saith the Apostle concerning those that fall asleepe that the sorrow you take bee not like theirs that haue no hope 1. Thes 4.13 no this were to shew that we preferred earth before heauen and the comfort and ioyes of earth before heauen We can tell directly what our meanes and sollaces are here on earth but no eye hath seen nor eare hath heard nor tongue can tell the ioyes that God hath prepared for them that loue him 1. Cor. 2.9 Now this limitation for our mourning is not a prohibition to forbid all mourning for not to be moued at all is to shew a hard heart lesse tender then the bruitish creatures for they will bleate and mone after one another but it is the excesse of mourning that is condemned as Bernard obserues Non culpamus lachrymarum effectum sed excessum not the matter so much as the manner is sometimes to be reproued and surely when Passion settles then shall we see the euill of this violence and when religion sends arguments after the dead as Noah put forth the Doue vpon the abatement of the waters then doe wee or may wee find all that labour lost for they are not lost that are gone before Non sunt amissi sed praemissi and Iobs restaurations may confirme this vnto vs for of all that the Caldeans and Sabeans tooke from him he had it double restored but for his children iust so many as before and why not children two-fold because the children were not lost but at the resurrection should then appeare With this then I wil close vp this first point and so come to the second 2 Part of Diuision The Saints acceptation they are precious in the sight of God When Samael was perswaded that amongst Ishaies sonnes the goodliest should haue had acceptation and so bin King God tels him that he looks not as man doth on the countenance or person but on the heart 1 Sam. 16.7 thence comes our acceptation with God and for that God will regard vs and for nothing else with him there is no respect of persons Acts 10. vntill we come to feare him loue and obey him O then he loues vs dearely then are wee precious in the sight of God And hence may we gather towards a second point of Doctrine teaching vs that the Lords regard toward vs is as our hearts are towards him if we feare him loue him and delight in him then will he delight in vs we shall be precious and deere to him To this the Scriptures doe accord and to begin with that of the 37. Psal 37. Verse Marke the vpright man and behold the iust the latter end of that man shall be peace as who should say such men are worth the marking Againe when God will declare whom he will grace or worship Honorantes honorabo they that honour mee I will honour them 1 Sam. 2.30 and as for them that despise him hee regards them not or as the last translation hath it lightly esteemes them the Lord regards our lowlinesse and humility and will aduance the humble and meeke as the blessed Virgin in her Magnificat Luke 1.48 He regardeth the lowlinesse of his handmaid these are the precious people in the sight of God so precious that if any shall hurt or iniure them it is a battery against God himselfe for so saith the Prophet He that toucheth you or hurteth you toucheth the apple of Gods owne eye Zach. 2.8 Hath not Saul who afterwards is Paul the question to the same purpose Acts 9. Saul Saul why persecutest thou me as who should say I feele the stripes and beare the reproaches done against them O that men thought vpon this as often as they are thornes in the sides of Gods seruants as often as they play vpon them for their profession Now in all these places wee see what tender care God taketh how deere they are to the LORD but of all places that of the 25. of Mathew 40. where the vsage of his Saints is recited O come yee blessed of my Father c. when I was sicke you did visit mee naked clothe mee hungry feed me O Lord say they we neuer saw thee thus in as much as you haue done it to one of these little ones you haue done it to mee Wee will stay here my Brethren and make vse of this Shall these that are so precious in the sight of Vse 1 God be other wise in our eyes All my delight is in the Saints sayth Dauid and surely it is one of the markes of the man that shall haue place in the holy mount euen to make much of them that feare the Lord Psal 15. The contrary vnto this the Apostle reproues Iam. 2. when hee would not haue vs to haue the graces of God in respect of persons we honour riches and make an Idoll of earthly pompe but as for the Saints and Seruants of God we rather expose them to reproach then make them neere vnto vs but because the subiect in hand points vnto the graue I will returne vnto a Vse that shall speake the same language Are the righteous the onely men with God Vse 2 and so precious that their very graues are perfumed and their deaths so regarded O then this bids all the godly entertaine the consideration of a dissolution with good resolution and many motiues will be ready for vs. First we dye not totally it is but the body that is strooke downe the soule is immortall which like the Doue could find no rest for the soale of her foote vntill shee returned vnto the Arke againe Gen. 8. so verily there is no true rest for the soule of man vntill it returne to that God that infused it Secondly we dye not perpetually we shall be put into the darke house for a time but there is a day a blessed day euen the day of the

A CASKET OF IEVVELS and precious PEARLES Set forth in a FVNERALL Sermon Preached in Heckfield Church at the Buriall of a Religious young Gentleman Mr. Barnabas Creswell Sonne of Mr. Thomas Creswell Esquire By NATHANAEL CANNON Batchelar in Diuinitie August de Temp. Ser. 49. Dies noster Dominus Christus non facit occasum LONDON Printed by T. S. for Nathanael Newbery at the Starre vnder St. Peters Church in Cornehill and in Popes-head Alley 1625. To the Worshipfull and Christian yoake-fellowes Mr. Iohn Stampe and M irs Iane Stampe his Wife Nathaniel Cannon wisheth true Comforts externall internall and eternall TO you Both as partners in losse and lamentation I tender this Treatise and yet I am to speake vnto you two who are but one apart concerning this businesse Sir he called you Father by a course of Law and yet with conscience declared himselfe a very childe For if obedience reuerence and daily diligence might beget loue then needs must he be a beloued Sonne who was all this to you for conscience sake To you his deare Mother hee was a right Barnabas which is by signification a Sonne of Consolation of which you had no small measure both from his life and death He honoured you you loued him he comforted you you tendered him and this was the mutuall intercourse betwixt you vntill GOD tooke him from you As for my selfe who at his Funerall read the Lecture of our mortality besides the many bands of Christianity wherewith all the faithfull are linked and conioyned together there are other especiall motiues to make you and yours neare and deare to me For first you were a good Instrument vnder GOD both to comfort and counsell mee in that calling whereunto the Lord hath appointed mee Secondly you and that worthy Gentleman my Brother Master Creswell who is falne asleepe were not wanting to mee and mine but made your house vnto vs as the house of Onesiphorus was vnto Paul a place of great refreshing 2 Tim. 1.16 Now as the Prophet saith vnto the Sunamyte who had prouided a Chamber a Table a Stoole and a Candlesticke for the man of God 2 Kings 4.13 thou hast been careful for vs but what may I do for thee so say I what shall be done for you by mee Surely vnlesse it be in the course of my calling to pray with you and for you and sometimes as God offers occasion to present some part of my poore labours vnto you loe this is all I can doe nothing else Wherefore let mee pay my debts vnto you after this manner and the rather for that you both with diuers others haue desired that this Sermon Preached at the Funerall of this faithfull seruant of God and deere Son of yours might see the light Yet let mee not robbe you louing Brother of your desires in making this your especiall request that hee whom you had imprinted in your heart might be put in Print at your instance which is done by way of Dedication to you and her who is a part of you my deere Sister Here shall you take a view of the Saints and of their condition who are the precious Iewels lockt vp in the Casket of this Scripture Doubtlesse your Childe was one of these a rich Diamond whose ground being Christ must needes haue the light both of grace and glory Remember therefore Iobs giuer and taker which Text hee quoteth in the case of Children God giueth saith he and God taketh blessed be the name of the Lord Iob 1.21 If you will blesse him he will blesse you our least submission brings great consolation Yeeld Sister yeeld and God grant you the true comfort of those branches yet in being God blesse them and make his face to shine vpon them that they may liue to doe worthily in Ephrata and be famous in Bethelem Ruth 4.11 Amen Amen Subscribed by your louing Brother in the Lord Iesus Christ Nathanael Cannon Text. PSAL. 116. Verse 15. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints THE whole world in her full age is but a Kalnder● of yeares and dayes as for Man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that little world he brings his yeares to an end as it were a tale that is told Nam vita nostra similes est Rotae saith Zanchius vpon the fourth to the Philippians our life saith he is like a wheele modo in suprema modo in infima parte versamur sometimes saith he we are rising sometimes falling now wee are at the very top and height of our comforts by and by downe againe in the depth of our sorrowes at length in the transition of this whirling wheele that life that earst was all aloft shall with one gaspe lay it selfe all along What shall we say to this the Heauens doe many times grow blacke and cloudy and yet cleere againe the earth moues not at all yet hath his being the Seas they ebbe flowe but haue returnes yea the very plants and trees let fall their lease but keepe their life for as Iob 14. obserues There is hope of a tree though it be cut downe yet by the scent of water it may bud and sprout forth againe but as for man the man of earth for so he is rightly called as Chrysostome obserues in his 12. Hom. in Gen. Homo rectè terra apellatur quia prorsus est terrenus he may well be called earth that is so earthly Alas this man as Iob notes falles sicke and dyes gone he is with a nunquam rediturus the eye that hath seene him shall see him no more Orimur morimur wee liue wee dye Sic transit gloria mundi Wee neede not turne our bookes to proue this point for in Gods standing Library which is the world there are two Lieger Bookes the one liber Creaturarum the booke of the Creatures the other liber Scripturarum the booke of the Scriptures in both these volumes it is written that Death hath a Habeas-Corpus for vs all As for that of the Creatures it speakes vnto vs in the matter of our mortality as the Prophet Dauid doth in the 19. Psalme touching Gods glory One day tels another and one night certifieth another and there is neither speech nor language vnder the heauens but the voyce of Gods glory is heard amongst them so verily one day tels another and one night certifies another there is neither speech nor language vnder the heauens but the voyce of death is heard amongst them As for that of the Scriptures we know that all Scripture is giuen by inspiration from God and is profitable to teach as the Apostle witnesseth 2 Tim. 3.16 Each leafe doth reade a lecture to our life teaching vs so to liue the life of the righteous that wee may die the death of the righteous yet notwithstanding wee may say of the Scriptures as the Apostle doth of the starres 1 Cor. 15. one starre saith hee differeth from another in glory so doubtlesse one Scripture may giue more light