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A77556	Gods statute for generall iudgement by the man Christ Iesus. Opened in a sermon at the funerall of the most religious lady, the Lady Lucie Iervoice, sometime wife to the right worshipfull Sir Thomas Iervoice at Herriot. Aug. 26. 1641. By John Brokett Minister of Elsfeild.	Brokett, John.	1642 (1642)	Wing B4845; Thomason E116_1; ESTC R5889	21,463	41

GODS STATUTE FOR GENERALL IVDGEMENT BY THE MAN CHRIST IESVS OPENED IN A SERMON AT THE Funerall of the most religious Lady the Lady LVCIE IERVOICE Sometime wife TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL SIR THOMAS IERVOICE AT Herriot Aug. 26. 1641. By JOHN BROKETT Minister of ELSFEILD ECCLESIASTES 12.14 God shall bring every work to Iudgement with every secret thing whether it be good or evill Expavesco multum Iudicis severi vultum Quem latebit nil occultum Qui relinquet nil inultum LONDON Printed by I. L. for Richard Thraule at the signe of the Crosse-Keyes at the entrance into Pauls Church-yard 1642. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL SIR THOMAS IERVOICE my much honoured friend SIR I Doe here present to you that Sermon which the Lord enabled me to deliver at the funerall of your gracious Lady now a glorified Saint in Heaven Of right it belongs to you for your desire which the receipt of many favours obliged me to satisfie brought it first to the Pulpit now to the Presse The consciousnesse of my insufficiencie in the Worke of the Ministerie and of the weaknesse and unworthinesse of this Sermon so suddenly conceived made me for a time most unwilling to expose it to the publike sight and censure of this queasie and distempered time But your importunitie hath now drawn it from me and you have it in the same forme wherein it was deliverd And though it be a plain discourse according to my countrey course of Preaching yet as it did affect the Hearts and Consciences of the Hearers so I hope it will not be unpleasing or unprofitable to the Readers And may it by the good blessing of God affoord any comfort to your self or any other truly fearing God I have that which I expect and pray for Sir I am bold to inscribe it to your name as a testimonie of my Gratitude for your undeserved respect to me and a pledge of my true desire to further you in your journey towards Heaven by commending this Sermon to your Meditation this Saint to your Imitation These with all other means of grace the Lord so blesse to you that you may be sanctified throughout and I pray God your whole spirit and soule and bodie be preserved blamelesse unto the coming of our Lord Iesus Christ And with this Prayer I end resting Your Worships to command in the best of my poor service JOHN BROKETT THE TESTIMONIE GIVEN TO THE WORSHIPFULL AND and most Religious Ladie THE LADY LVCIE IERVOICE AT HER FVNERALL Aug. 26. 1641. WE are here assembled by the good providence of Almightie God to celebrate the Funerall of the right Worshipfull and most religious Lady the Lady Lucie Iervoice A dutie which Affection Reason and Religion doe impose upon us These three Heraulds doe enjoyne us justa persolvere so to give the dead their due that the memoriall of the just may be blessed and their names may be had in everlasting remembrance Now to the right performance of Christian Funerals two things have ever beene thought requisite 1. That the bodies of the Saints be decently laid up in the darke chamber of the grave ut molliter essa cubent there to sleep in peace with their fathers and to rest in hope of a joyfull and glorious resurrection at the last day 2. That we tender to the deceased such honour as the qualitie of their persons deserved For the graces and vertues of the Saints must not be raked up with their bodies in dust and ashes but receive their deserved commendation to the due praise of the grace of God then especially when the lives of the deceased may be set forth as examples and patternes of vertue to the living And such I am sure was the life and death of this most gracious Ladie She lived like a Saint and she dyed like a Saint Her life was full of grace her latter end was full of peace We finde in Scripture many women much commended for some speciall vertues wherein they excelled Sarah is commended for obedience Abigail for wisdome Mary for faith Martha for hospitalitie Anna for devotion Dorcas for charitie Eunice for the pious education of her sonne Timothie but of this Ladie whose dead body lyeth here before us I may say without falshood or flatterie in the words of Lemuels mother Many daughters have done vertuously but thou excellest them all Prov. 31.39 Her vertues were many more by many then I am able to relate to you If I could the whole time allotted for this exercise would faile me And therefore like a man in hast I will run over the garden of her life and here and there crop a flowre to make a Garland of praise to set upon her Hearse and a spirituall pofie for every one of you And when you have it part not with it carry it away in your bosomes with you and it will perfume your words and actions and make you as she was a sweet smelling sacrifice to God 1. Observe and imitate her Pietie which shined forth amongst us in the constant practice of a godly life It may be said of Men as Saint Paul doth of the creatures for meat they are sanctified by the word and prayer These are the principall means the Lord hath sanctified to sanctifie us And to both these this most pious Ladie did give diligent attendance both privately and publikely For her Private Devotion she was a rare and most singular patterne for our imitation For it was her constant course both Winter and Summer to rise very early from her Bed immediatly she repaired to her Closet and there for a time she gave her self to devout prayer and divine meditation having offered up this sacrifice to God then like Salomons vertuous woman she gave meat to her houshold and a portion to her maidens Having ordered the affaires of her Familie then she returned to her Closet againe where for the most part she spent divers houres in praying and reading the Scriptures and other good bookes tending to godly instruction Having thus trimmed up her soul then she dressed her body which done she addressed her selfe to prayer againe with her whole Familie before dinner And if occasions did permit she spent much of the afternoone in prayer studie and meditation never neglecting to pray with her Family in the Evening and before she lay down to take her rest her manner was in private prayer to recommend her selfe and all belonging to her to Gods gracious protection Thus this pious Ladie did dresse up her soul like the lamp in the Tabernacle every morning and every evening with the sweet oyle Olive of pure Devotion Now touching her publike Devotion in this she was most exemplarie With David she rejoyced to goe to the house of the Lord. With Mary she delighted to sit at the feet of Christ to heare him preaching to her in the Ministery of the word Her behaviour in Gods house was so decent so comely and full of humble reverence her Amen to the prayers of the

my spirit that Christ Jesus is mine and that through him heaven shall be mine hereafter And hereupon like the blessed virgin Her soul did magnifie the Lord and her spirit rejoyced in God her Saviour One thing more I desire to acquaint you with which in my judgement was most remarkable an argument that her soul was Angelized in her body and emparifed there before it could get out to heaven It was this Upon the Sunday before her departure towards the Evening of the day her spirit fainted and she fell into a swound or it may be some heavenly rapture in which for some space she continued but breath being perceived to be in her they who were about her did strive to revive her and by Gods blessing upon the means used by her learned Physician she not onely came to her selfe but some reasonable strength and vigour was added to her And having first praised God as her accustomed manner was upon every receipt of comfort from him she desired that all her children might be brought to her which done like a most gracious Mother she blessed them all saying The God of Abraham the God of Isaac the God of Iacob blesse you and bestow upon you not greatnesse but goodnesse not riches but righteousnesse and the Graces of his holy Spirit that every one of you may live in the feare of God in the faith of Christ in all dutie and obedience to your father and true love to one another all the dayes of your life These and many other gracious Exhortations she uttered to her children And having given a holy and heavenly farewell to them she commanded that all her servants might come before her And to every one of them she uttered gracious words Exhorting them to live godly righteously and soberly and warning them particularly to beware of those sins which she had observed them to be most addicted to And having made an end of blessing her children and servants and taught them how to live she then in a most gracious manner prepared her selfe to die Spending the time that remained behind in fervent prayer to God to enable her to resist the assaults of the Divell and to endure the pangs of death and that would send her a blessed departure and a mercifull admission of her soul into his heavenly Kingdome At length feeling her self at the very gates of death she desired a reverend Minister then with her once againe to pray for her His prayer being ended and her life almost ended too she thus commended her selfe to God The Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ the love of God and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with me to the end and in the end Amen And this prayer she repeated againe and againe till her breath grew so short that she was not able to repeat it any longer and then she sealed up her prayer and her life too with Amen Ingeminating of it till her soul departed A heavenly Conclusion of a holy life Sic mihi contingat vivere sicque mori God grant my life and my and my latter end may be like to hers And he perswade all your hearts to a gracious Imitation of her And so leaving her in happinesse in Heaven I desire you with feare reverence and attention to hearken to those instructions which by Gods assistance I shall deliver to you from the words of Saint Paul written as you have heard Act 17.31 ACTS 17.31 Because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousnesse by the Man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead IT is most pious and profitable counsell which the sonne of Sirach gives Ecclesiasticus 7.36 Remember the last things and thou shalt never doe amisse These last thus commended to our remembrance and meditation are foure Death which is most certaine Iudgement which is most strict Hell which is most fearefull Heaven which is most delightfull The daily meditation of these foure last things the Wise man presumes will breed in every one of us a due care so to live that we may be blessed in Death and after death may escape the severitie of Judgement the torments of Hell and obtaine the unspeakable joyes and happinesse of Heaven Now this portion of Scripture which I have read unto you containes in it the second of these four last things namely the day of Judgement The serious meditation whereof is a powerfull means to provoke us to timely and true repentance Sure I am Saint Paul thought it so and therefore he useth no other argument to turne the superstitious Athenians from their Idolatry and to perswade them and all men every where to repent but onely this Because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousnesse by the Man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance to all men in that he hath raised him from the dead Which words being taken in the whole lump together may very fitly be called Gods Statute for generall judgement by Christ the righteous Iudge More particularly they offer to our consideration these sixe points 1. The certaintie of the day of Judgement Because God hath appointed it and what God hath decreed shall certainly be accomplished 2. Who shall judge he will Iudge which hath reference to God mentioned in the verse immediately fore-going 3. Who shall be judged the world which comprehends Angels in Heaven Divels in Hell Men and unreasonable and Inanimate Creatures on earth 4. How God will judge in righteousnesse rewarding every man according to his works 5. By whom God will judge by the man whom he hath ordained that is by Jesus Christ He is the Man ordained to be Judge of quick and dead Acts 10.42 6. The warrant to assure us that Christ shall judge the world whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead Thus within the narrow Compasse of this text we have a day for Judgement a God to judge a World to be judged a righteous Sentence to be pronounced Christ Jesus in Commission and his Resurrection for our assurance Of all which particulars in that order as I have ranked them and as the Text offers them to our consideration 1. The Certaintie of the Day of Judgement That there shall be a Day of Judgement is a truth of infallible certaintie 1. Scripture teacheth it 2. Conscience testifyeth it 3. Reason concludeth it 4. Particular judge ments premonstrate it 1. Scripture plainly and plentifully teaches it in which we often meet with these and the like sayings God will bring every worke to Iudgement with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evill Eccles 12.14 We must all appeare before the judgement seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in the body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad 2 Cor. 5.10 Adde to