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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

free from sin which is the Saints greatest freedom free from the motions infections seductions of sin and all those scourging scorpions of miseries which issue forth of the womb of sin as so much is intimated by the term which St. Mark gave the diseases which our Saviour cured in Mark 3.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as many as had scourges And now because of this freedom which the Saints know they shall then finde by giving up their souls they do give them up therefore willingly and freely but thus the wicked do not because they leap but out of the frying pan into the fire as we say they go from some glimps of comfort or rather but shadows of joy to an utter darkness of miserie they go from the Jayle to the Dungeon from a better to a worse prison and they having a * Heb. 10. fearfull expectation of this fiery wrath and indignation from God are very loth to die and therefore never die but a violent death even when they die quietest upon their beds Thirdly all the true sons of Abraham resign their souls freely in regard of that faithfull account that they know they can make before the tribunal of the heavenly Judge of all things done in the flesh Obj. Ah but what sayes the Apostle Rom. 3.20 there shall no flesh be justified in his sight Oh then what shall become of us who stand guilty before the Lord of infinite swarms of unclean thoughts vain and idle words wicked and rebellious actions such as hath often greived the good spirit of grace and re-crucified the Lord of life and put him to an open shame Oh blessed God can we for shame lift up our face to God 'T is true Vae laudabili hominum vitae si remotâ misericordiâ discutias eam sayes St. Aug. Answer VVoe were to man in their most laudable course of life if God should enter into judgement with them and lay aside his mercy in the Lord Jesus Christ certainly had not the precious blood of that immaculate Lamb of God quenched the consuming fire of his anger we had dwelt with everlasting burnings certainly had not that universal faithful High Priest offer'd up himself on our behalfe to his fathers justice and had he not been touched with our infirmities to become an earnest advocate with God we had been undone for ever but having such a powerful God-man to stand our friend and plead our cause we may * Job 22.26 lift up our face we may be as bold as a Lyon for through faith in his name our sins which are as crimson are made as white as wool Esa 1.18 God who spun out the curious web of mans salvation out of the tender bowels of his compassion clears us from all sin for Christs sake and through him we are presented faultless before the presence of divine glory so that though at the last day all our sins shall be examined and lay'd before us and we shall see them again and know how often we have by them peirc'd the precious sides of Christ yet we shall see them as once the Isrealites did their Aegyptian pursuers after their entry into the red sea Exo. 14.13.30 all slain with the blood of the Lamb Rev. 5.9 Obj. But did Christ bear the sins of the whole world upon the cross so as all sins shall be forgiven and consequenty all be able to make a good account to the Judge of all men Answer I answer There 's balme enough in Gilead I mean in the blood of Christ and if application be made thereof 't will most certainly cure all the most greivous wounds of the soul for God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever beleiveth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Iohn 3.16 so that 't is faith it seems that gives a saving interest in Christ Jesus 't is faith whereby 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God who is good to all becomes the Saints own and proper good as God promised to be to Abraham Gen. 17.7 And now this faith which is the life of the new creature must be as the spirits in the head and heart able to actuate the whole man unto royall and peculiar servics and then when a man of such a faith shall walk in Christ according as he hath received him Colos. 2.6 shall be sorrowful for his sins when ever he doth sin not onely as cursed things deserving the wrath of God but as unclean things against the spirit of holiness and shall also after such tripings mind his peace in the way of Gods law and walk more worthy of God then I say such a man shall be able to make a good account to God and appear with joy before the judgement seat of Christ for thus he may plead Oblessed Jesus I know if thou beest strict to mark what by me hath been done amiss there is matter enough to condemn me to utter darkness for my very righteousness is as filthy rags I acknowledge thine infinite free grace to bring me into thy knowledge and to make me to walk with some observation of thy law but yet I beseech thee look not upon what I have done for no clean thing can come out of an unclean rather pardon me that I have entertained thy holy spirit in so foul a room as my heart and look upon me as thou hast satisfied thy Fathers justice for all my sins and hast abundantly merited for me a seat with thy self in heavenly places And thus the Saints of God may plead before the Judge of the quick and the dead and they being comfortably perswaded and assured of this by the glorious obsignation of the spirit of adoption they are ready with the holy Prophet David in Psal 42.2 to say My soul thirsteth for God for the living God when shall I come and appear before God And hereunto when they dye they give up their souls with chearfulnesse and thus have I done with the third reason why all the true sonns of Abraham do as Abrabam did who gave up the Ghost freely I come to the Fourth Fourthly because they know they shall not onely be delivered out of the Prison of a corrupt body but into the glorious liberty of heaven they are assured that when they come to give up their souls they shall not only be able to look their Judge in the face with a fair account of what they have done in the flesh but shall be made to sit with him together in heavenly places Eph. 2.6 When a poor prisoner having sat a long while in darknesse and in the shadow of death being * Psalmes 107.10 bound in affliction and iron shall be made to understand that his pardon is sued out and not only so but that he is made worthy to sit upon the Bench with the Judge Oh how joyfull does he come forth of prison And thus do the sons of Abraham they know when they dye their souls shall lodge

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