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A sermon preached at Cheanies the 14. of September, 1585, at the buriall of the right honorable the earle of Bedforde, By Thomas Sparke Doctor of Divinitie
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Sparke, Thomas, 1548-1616.
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Lorde speaketh of For he was no timeseruer or dissembler none that either in forehead or haÌd bare the marke of the beast but that hated theÌ least ragge relicke and clour of the Romish harlote euery day more and more vnto his death O you Nobles and others of what calling soeuer learne and seeke to bee like to him liuing that ye may bee like to him dying Assure your selues that hee loued Gods sincere trueth vnfeynedlye thet hee made not his religion a stepping stone to clime vp to promotion by nor his drudge to serue his turne to coÌpasse his worldly fetches and deuices by No no hee was no vaine and prophane politike that fauoured and countenanced religion for his own turne his vnfeyned loue appeared towardes it in that euen the feete yea the very feet of them that were messengers therof vnto him were alwaies beautifull in his eiââ insomuch yâ he tooke pleasure to reason coÌferre with them most familiarlye curteously taking it as great honour vnto himselfe to patronise theÌ in their good cause ââââmes and to further to his vtmost their honest sutes Truly when I consider of the one side how faithful acounseller her maiesty hath lost of him of how trusty âpatron the coÌmonwealâ is by this his departure froÌ vs hereaâed and of ãâã and teÌder a father this our Church is therby also depriued and when I haue done enter into a consideratioÌ on the other side of the blessed and happy change that hee hath made which followeth here in my text I cannot tel whether we haue grater cause to mourne in respect of this threefold losse to vs thaÌ to reioyce in respect of the blessed happy state hereby befallen to him Sure I am we may now wel conceiue yâ in this threefolde respect there is great cause why we sâââly mourn but I âeare we shal euery day more and more perceiue this threefold misse and losse of him and therfore our mourning is rather likely to bee increased than otherwyse Howbeit to moderate it let vs proceed in yeâeât that we may see thereby again what cause there is euen of loue towards him to make vs in his respect to be ioyful again In the handling whereof I wil be the briefer because I haue beene the longer in this Wherfore leauing him most certainly enrolled euen by Gods âwne hande within the number of those that be vndoubtedly deaââ in the Lord let vs see what is here saiâ concerning the state of such aâd therefore consequently of himsââ The secoÌd part of the general diuisioÌ wherein first is set down the method true sense of that part of the text with proofes thereof as followeth It followeth Blessed are they immediately thence forth Yea saith the spirite they rest froÌ their labours and their works accompany theÌ Wherin first their state is fer boââe by yâ he ââââly voice what it is and when they enter vpon it and then the same is iterated somwhat explaned by the approbartion assem of the holy Ghost in that forthwith they resto froÌ their labours and their works accoÌpany them Their state is blessed As for them entraÌce coÌtinuance in that state ãâã pressed in this word ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã which the etinâââlogy of the word the vse of the word in the best Greeke authours and the very circumstance of the tâââ considered cause me to traâââââââhâs Immediatly thenceforth Which to he the sense that it haâh in this place vnderstanding the place of maââyrs the Rheâists themselues in the notes vpon this place âilâingly confesse Yea they vnderstanding the place also generally of al diseased in âate of grace confesse it may theÌ also though they say it dothâââ properly so signifie in this place which they ãâã neuer proue âefo takeÌ here vndersaÌding it only of these that so deceased after Christs asceÌsioÌ vnles that impedimeÌt be in theÌselues Wherby it is euident that not the properly of the word but a desire to maintaine first their limbus patrum for those that departed in faith before Christs ascension and their purgatory for some that depart so since maketh theÌ vnwilling to yeeld that the natural sense of the word here is as I haue rendred it But who so coÌsidereth that the scope of the place is to coÌfort the godly and sincere seruants of god against the manifold assaults afflictions procured them in this life by Antichrist eueÌ with this that if these notwithstanding they perseuere vnto the end they shal presently so forth for euer be blessed shal therby perceiue that it must needs here haue that sense For to take it any otherwise would minister vnto them a colde comfort as for example say vnto them but in their sense which they would faine vtter for the sense if they durst for shame be of good cheare be constant vnto the end and then perhaps presently thou shalt go to blisse and perhaps to purgatory there to feele paines that exceede all the paines of this life at the least vntil thou hast satisfied vp for thy sinnes partely by thine owne bearing of those paines and partly by such other reliefe as good men shall prouide for thee when thou art gone and then thou shalt go to blisse and the comfort that it ministreth is as cold as lead Answereth this the circuÌstance of the text Nay tendeth it not rather to the plain contrary that is to their discomfort Well it seemeth they will not striue with vs for this sense of the word so we would be content to vnderstand it of al that die in grace since Christs ascension only and but of so many of those also as before their death haue fully satisfied for their sinnes but we may not graÌt them either of these limitations not the first because they that dyed in faith in Christ to come as well as those that dy since in faith in Christ come found their faith auailable to their saluation For Christ hath bin the selfe same slain lamb for euer in the sight of his heauenly father Reuel 13.8 and is one and the selfe same yesterday to day and for euer Heb. 13.8 And he himself to the plain confutatioÌ of this grosse opinion that the faithful that died before his ascension went not to ioy blisse placeth AbrahaÌ Lazarus with him in ioy blisse before his death Luk. 16.24 c. and promiseth the thiefe that day when he died that he should be with him in paradise Luk. 23.43 And as for the later the vainnes of the addition hath bin laid opeÌ already in that we haue learned that there is no other satisfaction for the sins of the faithfull but that which Christ made in his owne person once for al yet they are so loth that this place should be vnderstoode generally of all that depart in a right faith in Christ when where and howsoeuer that mistrusting belike that ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã would not serue their turns in the