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B01727	The servant's audit: a sermon preached at the funerals of the right worshipful Sr. Edmund Anderson baronet, in the church of Broughton in the county of Lincoln, Febr. 15. 1660. / By Edward Boteler ... now rector of Wintringham in that county ...	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing B3803A; ESTC R212802	28,513	80

Of all the Providences of God his ordinary ones are least observed and among them this of turning man to destruction Psal 90.5 and calling again for the return of the sons of men is as much slighted as any though none being of equal concern to it as standing betwixt both worlds and influencing upon our everlasting and unchangeable Beings Dies mortis natalis Aeterni the day of Death is the birth-day of Eternity And therefore it is that I have chosen to speak to you out of a Parable that I may take faster hold on your hearts and give the present occasion an advantage to gain upon your affections Parables having the knack of insinuating themselves into the memories and lodging truths in the minds of the Hearers They are like plain cut Seals that leave a fair impression behind them They are like Threds to string the Jewels of heavenly Truths that they may not drop off and be lost They are a great help to the practice of that Apostolical Exhortation We ought to give earnest heed to the things which we have heard Hebr. 2.1 lest at any time we should let them slip The Parable you may read at your leasure and save me the labour The purport of it is under the plain and familiar Discourse of a Lord going far from home intrusting his servants with money returning reckoning with them and remunerating of them to set before us in a most lively and apposite Representation our lives and concredited mercies our deaths and following judgments our sutable retributions and final rewards I shall not trouble my self nor you with a disquisition whether this be the same Parable with that of Luk. 19. or not St. Chrysostom in his 79. Homily upon St. Matthew's Gospel gives us many differences among the rest these two which may serve the turn They differ both in the weight of the Trust and in the number of the Trustees In the weight of the Trust there a pound here a Talent which is one hundred twenty and five pounds In the number of the Trustees there ten here but three But I shall leave such discussions to them that have leasure enough and to spare Nor shall I meddle with the Allegory which does but spend time and sport with the Text. The plain English of the Parable is this The man travelling into a far Countrey ver 14. is the Son of Man the Lord Jesus Christ leaving the Earth Eph 4.10 and ascending far above all Heavens Psa 72.11 His servants ver 14. are the Inhabitants of the World men of all degrees and conditions Li. 2. ad simpl qu. 1 Pelarg. Quaest Evang 〈◊〉 238. All Kings shall fall down before him all Nations shall serve him The Goods given are called Talents ver 15. which are according to St. Augustine Munus aliquod divinum some divine kind of charge or employment Gratia sine merito Li. 2. de vnc Gent. cap. 8. in St Prosper's sense Grace and the gift by grace something freely derived to us to which no worth of ours could intitle us nor merit lay claim Quaelibet Dei dona In Regul brev Inter. 253. if you 'll have it from St. Basil Any the Gifts of God All the Goods we hold of him Goods of Nature Wit Memory Understanding Goods of Fortune give leave to the expression Honors Houses Riches Possessions Inheritance Goods of Grace Eph 1.3 spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Word Worship Sanctuary seasons of grace the dayes of the Son of man These all these and whatever is dispensed and concredited to us by the Lord are our Talents The diversity of these Gifts To one five To another two And to another one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to every ones capacity or ability De vita Christi P. ● cap. 49. ● 3. is Ne quem gravaret ne cuiquam deficeret sayes Ludolphus That none might have more than he could manage or less than he could imploy Or else Salm. in Par. Tract 39. n. 7. Ob pulchritudinem Ecclesiae quae ex variis gradibus resultat For the beauty of the Church which is a Symmetry or elegancy of proportion a comely Result of several parts each contributing his share to the whole The Trading with the Talents or the committing them to the Nummularii vers 16.27 is the expending and laying out of all receivings of all our betrusted and concredited mercies thriving by them and gathering in the use of them as if we were driving on a Trade for Heaven and immortality The long time after which the Lord cometh and reckoneth with his servants vers 19. is in general all the dayes of the Son of man the Time of his forbearance and long-suffering with the World from the day of his departure till the day of his last appearance when he shall come again in power and great glory Vers 31 and all his holy Angels with him In particular The dayes of Man of every man the time of natural life Dies Peregrinationis as Jacob calls them Gen. 47.9 the dayes of the years of our Pilgrimage Eccles 12.6 7. the space of our abode on this side the Grave till the silver Cord be loosed and the golden Bowl be broken and Dust return to Earth as it was Then He reckons reckons righteously reckons indispensibly with every soul and then he will bespeak every faithful servant in the language of the Text. His Lord said unto him Well done Thou good and faithful servant thou hast been faithful over a few things I will make thee Ruler over many things Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. So that the Text as you may see by this time is the Soul's Audit for another world Wherein is observable 1. The Auditor His Lord. 2. The Accomptant Him His Lord said unto him 3. The Acquittance or discharge which is made 1. By Applauding him Well done good and faithful servant 2. By Approving him Thou hast been faithful over a few things 3. By advancing him I will make thee Ruler over many things enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. The Particulars are many and the Time short I must post through them please to let your Attentions keep pace with me and I hope I shall not tire them The Auditor He 's first Col. 1.15.17 and well he deserves it it is his place He 's the first-born of every creature He is before all things and by him all things consist His Lord. Lord. That 's the Auditor's Greatness His Lord. There 's the Accomptant's Happiness Tolle meum Tolle Deum better for him there was no Lord than not be his His Lord. It will be the work of this Lord in the great day of his appearance all judgment being committed to him to summon the dead small and great Rev. 20.12 13. to stand before him to call to the Sea to give up her Dead and Death and Hell to deliver up the Dead which are in

God's servants shall be told for a memorial of them Let me raise it one step higher I am thy fellow-servant Rev. 22.9 sayes the Angel to St. John the service of God sets men above men makes them Peers with the Angels And that for the first Title of Applause Servant Well done Servant Good that 's next Well done Good servant Good by Divine Assimilation so is the creature good only so and no further For God is the Standard the Rule the Measure of Goodness Goodness in man is nothing else but a conformity to God And Man referres to God as his Exemplar in a double conformity 1. To his Nature so much is intimated in that phrase of the Apostle 2 Pet 1.4 that you might be partakers of the Divine Nature which is nothing else but Analogically to resemble God the greatest of Goods and best of Beings 2. To his Will this is the Rule as his Nature is the Pattern of Goodness for us to conform to His internal Will or voluntas Beneplaciti the good pleasure of his Will that 's the firstly first Rule and his external Will or Voluntas Signi His Will declared in his Word that 's the secondly first Rule of our goodness as the Schools speak So that all our services are either good or evil as they conform to or discord from the Will of God To do good and to do the Will of God are one and the same and there is so much of goodness as of conformity to the first Good in any of our services He is a good servant that eyes his Lord as his Standard and Rule in all his performances and comes up to him as near as mortality is capable of Good by Divine Assimilation let that be enough to have spoken of the second Title Well done Thou Good servant Faithful that 's the third A necessary qualification in a servant which as God will one day requite Be faithful unto death Rev. 2.10 and I will give thee a crown of life so he does now require it 1 Cor 4.2 It is required in Stewards that a man be found faithful It is required upon a twofold account Videt Dominus and Credit Dominus His Lord sees him and trusts him 1. Videt Dominus His Lord sees him and that will require the servants circumspection when he considers that He is a strict and exact Animadvertour upon the Actings and Expendings of his servants One that will note the least ill Husbandry and book every extravagancy One that keeps count of all his receivings and is by at all his disbursements this over-awes him into a gracious frugality This is a commendable eye-service to set the Lord alwayes before us Psal 16.8 and to act as being ever under the command of the all-seeing eye 1 King 5.26 Went not mine heart along with thee sayes Elisha to his cheating servant Gehezi If Elisha's eye was so near or could carry so far Ubi Dominus Deus Elisha Where is the Lord God of Elisha 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as St. Paul speaks Act. 17.27 He is not farre from every one of us he is very near us he is with us he is within us Cor Hominis fenestra Dei The heart of man is God's Window by which he looks into every room and sees what is doing in every corner of it He had need carry even then that 's thus look'd at and that is the servant's case here it concerns him to be faithful for Vidit Dominus His Master sees him 2. Credit Dominus His Master trusts him and He thinks it below the honour of a man more of a Christian to betray a trust He knows all he hath is concredited to him and deposited with him that his whole stock of mercies are upon Trust that whatever his Lord hath given him he hath not given from himself but reserves a soveraign right and interest and is Supreme Proprietor still He does not so farre mistake his Tenure as to call himself Lord of what he is but Steward A false Title makes men false to their Trust We misapply our mercies first and then we misimprove them Thus Nabal with his surly Possessives My bread 1 Sam. 25.11 and my water and my flesh did good with never an one of them Would we often recognize our Tenure that whatsoever we have is ours to use only and upon loane As the Prophet's Sons said of the Ax 2 King 6.5 Alas Master for it was borrowed it would make us more Husbandly with our Intrustments more true to our concredited mercies that by them we might carry on our everlasting Advantages My Time is not mine own it is my Master 's I will so spend it as to redeem it and whil'st this moment lasts make sure Eternity My House and Inheritance my Riches and Possessions are not mine own they are my Master 's I 'll make to my self such friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness Luk ●● 9 that when I fail they may receive me into everlasting habitations My very body of flesh is not mine own it is my Master 's I will so possess the earthly house of this Tabernacle 1 Cor. 5.2 that when it shall be dissolved I may have a building of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an house not made with hands eternal in the Heavens This is that which influenceth so vigorously upon a servant in all his tradings and transactions to make him faithful Credit Dominus His Master trusts him And be that enough for the first particular in the Acquittance or Discharge The servant Applauded from his Titles Servant Good Faithful Well done thou good and faithful servant Please now to hear him Approved for that 's next Thou hast been faithful over a few things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which in St. Novarinus Lection varietas in Mat. 25. Augustine's Latin is In paucis In modico in St. Prosper's In a few things in a small matter in a little Great faithfulness is often seen in a little matter Adam must not eat the fruit Lot's wife must not look behind her The matter small the trial great in both It is Gods method to proportion commands and deposite mercies sutable to the capacities of his servants All are not of Abrahams growth and bulk and so not fit for such encounters to wrestle with seeming impossibilities to sacrifice a son an only son and yet a son of promise too There are lesser measures and so to be exercised in lesser matters There is a Mole-hill as well as a Mountain faith graces the mustard-seed will fit them for a comparison and these must be matched with trials and Talents of their own pitch and size and even in these few these little things will appear great faithfulness Thou hast been faithful over a few things I shall not trouble you with many Expositions of these few things take some few of many Pauca bona quibus utimur pauca supplicia quae

for Scripture would scaffold and hold them up till they expunge and blot out the other But He was a second-Table man as well as a first and loved not to part God's conjunctions He knew that God spake Exod. 20.1 in the Preface went through both Tables and reached to the end of the Commandments He had respect with David Psa 119.6 to all Gods Commands and could not sin against That first Commandment with promise Eph. 6.2 And if he did contract any dirt and soil'd his name at the beginning of the late unhappy differences I hope he hath wiped it off in the close and his late actings have more than compounded for it when his Zeal for His most Excellent Majesty's restitution was such as transported him beyond his ordinary temper and he was like one of the men of Judah 2 Sam 19.43 whose words at the bringing back of King David are said to be fiercer than the words of the Men of Israel And let me tell you further As he was a Loyal Subject to His Majesty so he was a very observant and dutiful Son of the Church of England He durst and did own her for a Beauty even in her blackest dayes and gave a charitable ear to that Apologetical desire of the Spouse Cant. 1.6 Look not upon me because I am black because the Sun hath looked upon me The first time that ever I had the happiness to hear him speak it was in her defence and his Arguments were of that force that they did no little execution I have heard him an Assertor of her Rites and Ceremonies even then when to acknowledge her a Mother was the next way to be disinherited And to this let me add He had a singular and peculiar kindness for the Liturgy of this Church He looked on it with admiration and loved it as that which was indited by the Spirit of God Rev. 17 6. and written with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus This devout and rare composed piece as the judicious Doctor Hamond evinceth it to be in the whole frame Pract. Cate. and all the particulars of it rather gathered than lost in his esteem by all the decryings and deluding artifices of empty and pernicious men He was herein as fixed and immovable as St. Paul Act. 24.14 After the way which they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers But that we may look towards a Conclusion give me leave only to instance in some Graces some spiritual Talents which he had so improved as to serve and bestead him in his sickness and death and I ha' done 1. Humility and self-denial He humbled himself under the mighty hand of God 1 Pet. 5.6 And would often acknowledge himself less than the least of mercies and deserving the greatest of punishments He was much of that penitential temper with those in Ezra Thou Ezra 9.13 O Lord hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve He was frequently taking a comparative view of his sins and sufferings and still blessing God for the disproportion that he suffered so little who had sinn'd so much Job 42.6 He abhorred himself in dust and ashes subscribing to the equity of that penal Statute All must die for that all have sinned Rom. 5.12 and owning every thing out of hell for mercy 2. Contempt of the world which in its abundance and beauty could not court his affections to over-love it His thoughts were so abstracted from it as is rarely seen in a person of his condition O death how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions Eccl. 41.1 unto the man that hath nothing to vex him and that hath prosperity in all things He had many smiles from the world his estate was a very Oglio of outward happiness and yet his heart was much above them all knowing he was shortly to array himself Ch. 12.1 like the woman in the Revelation and put on the Sun he easily trod the Moon and all sublunary excellencies under his feet 3. Patience Invincible patience keeping in an even and equal temper of spirit in some extremities His sickness gave him a hot charge which he received with as much courage without the least ruffling of spirit or disorder of the inner man The assault was sharp yet not short neither it was of some continuance a dying life for some months together Hor. Car. l. 1. Od. 37. Deliberatâ morte ferocior Such a Trial would have borne down a hansome sort of Resolution and been an over-match for more than an ordinary patience He was in Hezekiah's condition Isa 38.12 Dum ad huc ordirer succîdit me He will cut me off with pining sickness from day even till night wilt thou make an end of me His patience and himself ended both together 4. Resignation of spirit In that he was very free not like the rich fool in the Gospel Luk. 12.20 that must have his soul taken from him otherwise he would never have parted with it Out of the depths he called unto God Psa 130.1 and in the depths of his sorrows when the waters were going over his soul He called with Peter Mat. 14.28 Lord bid me come unto thee on the water I was often with him and often saw him as it were with his Life in his hand ready to make a surrender of it into his hands that gave it He was a Good Servant and feared not to come to a reckoning his faithfulness made him willing to account which I doubt not but he hath now done with joy and is treated with the welcome of the Text. His Lord said unto him Well done thou good and faithful servant thou hast been faithful over a few things I will make thee Ruler over many things Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. FINIS Ecclesiastic Cap. 39. Vers 12. Collaudabunt multi Sapientiam ejus usque in seculum non delebitur 13. Non recedet Memoria ejus Nomen ejus requiretur à generatione in generationem In Luctum Broughtoniensem Concionemque funebrem ab ornatissimo mihique amicissimo Domino Edoardo Botelerio habitam in funere nunquam satis complorato praestantissimi viri Domini Edmundi Anderson Baronetti NEmpe nihil mirum est ex illo tempore longis Misceri terram fletibus atque polum Horrent Broughtonij pullâ caligine saltus Et Dryadum resonat planctibus omne nemus Nil nisi triste sonat lugubreque turba volucris Et geminis queritur jam Philomela malis Nec mihi fas sicco comitari lumine funus Quod meritò lacrymas undique poscit habet Heu quanto exemplo curtum traduxerat aevum Cujus non gratìs particula ulla perit Sine vacat studiis seu lenitèr otia captat Ingenuum studium est otium ingenuum Praeciperent Homini quaecunque Volumina sancta Quae vitae verae semita recta