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A18050	The wise King, and the learned iudge in a sermon, out of the 10. verse of the 2. psalme: lamenting the death, and proposing the example, of Sir Edvvard Levvenor, a religious gentleman. Preached vpon a lecture-day at Canham in Suffolke. By Bezalell Carter.	Carter, Bezaleel, d. 1629.	1618 (1618)	STC 4693; ESTC S118631	28,180	76

muse at many gentlemen yea and of some that would make a shew of the best things that yet entertaine roysters and riotous persons within their doors and when we preach against it reply for themselues that good seruants are not to be found in an whole country To which I answer againe that though godly seruants are as thin sowne as godly masters yet some there are to be found else God forbid And secondly let no man take offence against me for speaking truth for mine owne part I am of this opinion that it were better for gentlemen to doe any office themselues then to entertaine one leude seruant into their houses for one godlesse wretch in an house is like Ionah in the shippe and brings vengeance vpon all the rest Sixtly his holines appeared further by his almes-deeds so the spirit saith of His almes Cornelius that he was a deuout man and how doth he prooue it Hee gaue much almes and prayed much Acts. 10. vers 2. The like may I say of our kinde Lord and freind deceased he was a deuoute man and thus I prooue it hee prayed much and besides he was full of mercy Your selues can beare me record how many of your poor people he cloathed with the sleeces of his sheepe and what his custome was viz. for euery Last yeare beeing 32. yeares old he cloathed 32. poore people yeare of his life to cloath one of your poore and naked ones Some may happily wonder at so great expence from one man and it may be some haue said to him as Iudas did Ad quid perditio haec what needes all this this waste is it not enough to cloath the poore of your owne towne The money spent in apparelling so many poore would buy a great deale of soft raiment for your owne family Charity must beginne at home In time this course will sucke your coffers too much Though I accuse none no nor suspect any yet is it probable enough that some might open their mouths to this effect Christ neuer did good work but some or other were offended Yea but may some say the hungry must be fed as well as the naked cloathed our Sauiour saith not onely Hee that hath two coates let him giue to Luk. 3. 11. him that hath none but he addes moreouer and he that hath meat let him doe likewise did he therfore feed the hūgry Yes verily and gaue a portion to seauen and also to eight Eccles 11. 1. witnesse the great company of Orphans widdowes and fatherlesse children that weekely and dayly sought and found releife at his gates and which is worthy remembrance in these dayes when some like Absolom build Pyramides to keep their names from obliuion 2. Sam. 18. 18. and others like Nebuchadnezzar mount vp their turrets of Babell Dan. 4. 33. for vaine ostentation till they haue vtterly disabled themselues for all workes of charity This gentleman at the nameing of whom mine heart bleeds afresh within me his buildings were for better vses and it is well knowne to you which heare me this day that he reared vp one building neer his own hous furnished it with a large table to the onely vse and releefe of the poore that thrice a weeke resorted thither and were liberally prouided for to his great expences Insomuch that he might haue pleaded for himselfe as Iob did If I haue restrained the poore of his desire or haue caused the eyes of the widowe to faile if I haue eaten my morsells alone and the fatherlesse hath not eaten thereof if I haue seene any perish for want of cloathing if I haue lift vp mine hand against the fatherlesse then let mine arme fall from my shoulder yea let it be broken from the bone Iob. 31. 16. Seauenthly and lastly his holinesse appeared by his continuall progresse in grace For so saith God They which wait vpon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall lift vp their wings as the eagles they shall runne and not be wearie they shall walke and not faint Isa 40. ver 31. And whereas the vngodly may fitly be compared to the children of Ephraim that bent their bowes and made a shewe as though they would fight but turned back in the day of battell Psal 78. 9. or rather to men in a consumption that consume away by little and little vntill they are buried in the earth though hypocrites decline and grow worse and worse yet now I speake of one of whome I may say as it was said of the Church of Thyatira that his workes were more at the last then at the first Reu. 2. 19. or as it was said of Ruth the same also may be saide of him that he shewed more good at the latter end then at the beginning Ruth 3. 19. more heauenly minded more zealous for Gods honour more carefull to draw others to God more often in praier more cautelous in the choise of his houshold-seruants fuller of good works and almes-deeds and euery way more fruitfull though neuer barren at the last then at the first all his houshold-seruants perceiued as much and for mine owne part I neuer resorted to the house but me thoughts I saw a sensible growth in goodnesse And now beloued since a godly life in generall and the particulars named of zeale frequencie in praier c. be infallible notes of sanctification though I say nothing of his humilitie beeing as humble as the child newly weaned Psal 131. 2. of his care to hallow and sanctifie the Lords Sabbaths both he and his houshold of his care to teach and instruct his family yet haue I spoken sufficient for the probation of his holinesse I might now speake as largely of his 2. His righteousnesse righteousnesse but that time commands me to take my worke out of the loome Yet thus much I will be bold to speake and promise before this audience in the words of Samuel to the people 1. Sam. 12. 3. Whose oxe hath he taken or whose asse hath he taken to whom hath he done wrong or whom hath hee hurt or at whose hands hath hee taken a bribe and if he hath it shall be restored But I cannot stand to speake of these things neither of his godly death wherein also I might bee copious But dead hee is his bodie I meane is dead as for his spirit that liues in the city of the liuing God amongst millions and myrriads of heauenly Angels in the company and Chuch of those first begotten which are gathered into an heauenly with the Iudge of all flesh in the newe Ierusalem whose gates are pearle whose streetes gold whose wals are precious stones where quires of angels the Cherubims and the holy Seraphims sing Halaluiah Hosanna to God on high and there he shines and shall shine like the brightnesse of the firmament and glister like the starres for euer and euer while we remaine vpon the troublous sea of this world to lament his losse yea who can sufficiently lament it How can