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A72904	A sermon preached at the funerall of the worshipfull, Gilbert Davies Esquire at Christow in Deuon. By W. Miller, minister, and preacher of Gods word at Runington. April 15. Anno Dom. 1620.	Miller, William, b. 1592 or 3.	1621 (1621)	STC 17923.5; ESTC S103509	16,465	31

I will haue respect vnto you and I will walke among you and I will bee your God and you shall be my people And this it is to liue vnto the Lord. Now to die vnto the Lord saith the learned Pareus Pareus Idipsum est quod viuere it is the same as to liue vnto the Lord and consisteth in these three things Euen in death to acknowledge himselfe to bee the Lords and therefore euen in death to pray to blesse and to rehearse the gracious benefits of God towards him as Iacob did Gen. 48. Secondly to dye vnto the Lord is patiently to vndergoe the punishment of diseases yea and death it selfe from the hand of God vndergoing those crosses with comfort which the Lord shall lay vpon him which may be as Looking-glasses wherin God may behold our faith and dependance vpon his prouidence the world may see our patience and our constancy so that hereby God may bee glorified others edified and instructed and our selues humbled vnder those his crosses and so seeke with speed to couer the spots of our sinfull soules with vnfained repentance Thirdly and lastly to die vnto the Lord is euen in death it selfe not to cast aside the hope of life through sure trust in God but considering that God as the Scripture teacheth delighteth not in the death of his children rather to haue sure confidence in God that hee will restore such as are dead from death to life againe according to that of the Apostle 1. Thes 4.13 14. 1. Thes 4.13 14. Brethren I would not haue you ignorant concerning them which are asleepe that ye sorrow not as others which haue no hope for if we beleeue that Iesus dyed and rose againe euen so them also which sleepe in Iesus will God bring with him and this it is to liue and this it is to dye vnto the Lord. O terque quaterque beati nos si sic viuamus Domino vt eidem moriamur quoniam sic Domino morientes Domino solummodo viuent O three and foure-fold happy and blessed were we if wee could so liue vnto the Lord that we might dye vnto the Lord because those that so dye vnto the Lord shall liue alone vnto the Lord. And againe ter contrà miseri c. Of the contrary side they are three times miserable that liue not thus vnto the Lord. For as many as in their liues liue not vnto God they shall all passe away like a shadow as a Post that passeth by and tarryeth not or as a Ship that rideth vpon the waues of the waters which when it is gone by the trace thereof cannot be found nor his path on the flouds is to be seene or as a bird that flyeth in the ayre and no man can see any token of her passage but heare onely the noyse of her wings beating the winde and parting the aire where no token of her way can afterward be found But to come now to the obseruation of the doctrines contained in my Text consider that it containeth two principall poynts of Doctrine the first is that none of the faithfull doe liue or die vnto themselues but vnto God The second that all and euery one of vs both in our liues and in our deaths are euer and alwayes in the power of God First I say that none of the faithfull doe liue or die vnto themselues that is to their owne glory and praise but vnto the glory and praise of God For better illustration of which first point giue mee leaue to shew that as there are three kindes of life so there is a three-fold death Of life I say there are three kindes the first naturall the second spirituall the third eternall The first which is naturall is of the body in the vnion of the body and the soule which must first be borne of man before he can enioy the spirituall 1. Cor. 15.46 according to that of the Apostle 1. Cor. 15.46 That is not first which is spirituall but that which is naturall and then that which is spirituall for albeit man was made to liue through the benefit of the soule yet the soule is so bound as it were to the grosse body that it should doe nothing but by bodily instruments or at the least by some materiall meanes and this is called our naturall life which we here enioy while we here beare about vs our naturall bodies The second kinde of life is spirituall and hath respect vnto the soule in regard of the vnion of it with God and Christ whereby Christ is said to liue in vs Gal. 2.20 according to that of the Apostle Paul Gal. 2.20 I liue saith he yet not I but Christ liueth in mee and the life which I now liue in the flesh I liue by the faith of the Son of God who loued me and gaue himselfe for me which is as much as if hee should say I liue not grosly carnally as once I did subiect to all worldly desires or rather I liue not my selfe which of my selfe am nothing but carnall but Christ liueth in me who by his holy Spirit at his heauenly will and pleasure guideth and gouerneth all my actions The third kinde of life is eternall hauing respect both to the body and the soule which is that life euerlasting whereby the Elect of God doe liue and raigne for euermore in the Kingdome of heauen through the grace of God according to that of our Apostle Titus 3.7 Titus 3.7 Not by the workes of righteousnesse which we had done but according to his mercy he saued vs by the washing of Regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost which he shed on vs abundantly through Iesus Christ our Sauiour that being iustified by his grace we should be made heires according to the hope of eternall life Now of these three kindes of life the first that is the naturall life is common with the Elect vnto the very reprobates themselues the other two the one spirituall the other eternall are proper and peculiar vnto the Elect. And now as there is a three-fold life so there is also a three-fold death the one naturall the second spirituall and the third eternall The first which is called naturall is properly the death of the body when it is separated from the soule and it is called a naturall death not for that it properly proceedeth from nature in as much as we know that it is an effect of sinne but it is called naturall because by the iustice of God it is according to the nature of man corrupted for by one man sinne entred into the world and death by sin The second sort of death is called spirituall which is a separation of the soule from God sinne liuing and raigning still in the hearts of such wicked men who are hereof said to be dead in sinne The third sort of death is called eternall death which is an euerlasting separation from God and Christ to liue with the diuell in eternall torments which

need not to report seeing all the Countrey round cannot but with one consent confesse and acknowledge that he was a man worthy of great commendations and a rare patterne for men of his ranke and fashion to looke vpon Thirdly for his charity and loue toward the poore many of them being here present can testifie that in their necessities he was to them more like a father than a friend a man that was euer open-handed in any good cause especially to the reliefe of such whom he knew to be in necessity and want I speake but what I know hauing a long time had my being here where his Worship had his dwelling and besides my priuate testimony his Liberality at the last Feast of Christs Natiuity and his Legacy now at his death of twenty pound to the vse and benefit of the poore and this Parish are sufficient testimonies of the same Last of all as concerning his loue to those that were his as is said enemies and aduersaries of his state and fortunes hauing receiued especiall commandement from his owne mouth I cannot but say something Confesse I must that loth I am to speake too much and yet his owne request no lesse to me than a command compelleth me to speake a little because I heard him say so much There are saith hee that to my thinking by sinister courses vpon supposed grounds endeuour to arme themselues against me and my state but in the meane while God knowes my heart how willing I haue still been to liue with them in peace without reuenge and hereupon hee made this comparison in my vnderstanding most fitting to his former words My hart saith he resembleth the vpper part of the world which you know saith hee is alwayes cleere and bright of it selfe though the ayre below bee neuer so much distempered with stormes and thunders So I quoth he I thanke my God notwithstanding these things haue still a patient mind I am still contented and my heart remaining still ioyfull in the Lord I stand resolued in all things to yeeld vp my selfe in holy obedience to the will of God And thus sitting then with my selfe alone in the Porch of this Temple wherin we are I shall intreat you when you shall stand to preach my Funeral Sermō in this Church where I intend to lye when God shall call me saith he to deliuer and testifie these things vnto the world both of me and from mee By this that hath been said you may then plainly see that the life of this good man was not vnto himselfe but vnto to God If we liue wee liue vnto the Lord. Lastly to speake of his death I must begin with sicknesse which was to him is to al the messenger of death I must confesse that hee was but a young man for yeeres yet hauing been long visited with exceeding sicknesse he hath long waited as it were for his exchanging time and for that cause as I know and as others whom he loued can testifie hee did daily exercise himselfe in the meditation of mortality and in time of ease cared to set his house in order to the intent that if sicknesse should come suddenly he might bee free from worldly cares and so more cheerfully prepare himselfe to God for this cause for the space well-nye of two yeers past as I can remember he hath had his Testament alwayes ready So that being now at last suddenly arrested with the messenger of death all the whiles hee lay in the mercyes of God vpon his death-bed to the comfort of all those that saw and heard him hee alwayes called vpon the Name of Christ yea as often as hee receiued any Phisicall help for no meanes was neglected for his preseruation and life if God would he neuer receiued any ayde but he prayed vnto God to giue it a blessing and when he spake to none hee would yet lift vp his eyes in token of lifting his heart to God and the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ he receiued in his extremities most cheerfully most thankfully And at last in a great conflict he got a glorious victory and shortly after in peace and meeknesse resigned his spirit into the hands of God Thus he that was in his life religious in his sicknesse comfortable and in his death most blessed by dying to the Lord is gone to God and now enioyes the blessednesse of heauen in the fruition whereof let vs leaue him now to dwell for euer and striue and endeuour in our liues to imitate his vertues that we as he hath done may dye at last the death of the righteous and that our last ends may be like his and that we may be fellow-heires as hee was of the same inheritance with Iesus Christ To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost bee all honour and glory now and foreuer Amen FINIS