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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47417	A sermon preached at the funeral of Sir Willoughby Chamberlain, Kt. who died at his house at Chelsey, Dec. 6 and was interred at the parish church of St. James Garlick Hith, London, Dec. 12, 1697 / by John King, rector of Chelsey.	King, John, D.D.	1697 (1697)	Wing K510; ESTC R29455	11,979	25

in a State of Sin whosoever conceives the contrary deceives himself and the truth is not in him Yea the best of Men have been grievous sinners so that the most upright of our kind can only pretend to a comparative goodness are only good in respect of those who are more wicked for in an absolute sense there is none that doth good no not one and none that can be called good but God only Now let us farther reflect that the wages of Sin is Death and that Good Men according to the common acceptation of the Word are obnoxious and we shall be fully convinced that crosses and sufferings in this Life are mild punishments even to the Righteous and the Best deserve the worst of Temporal Judgments This no less nor worse a Man than David owns who confesses his Sins and acknowledges if God pleases to punish him for them his Justice cannot be impeached or questioned Against thee have I sinned and done evil in thy sight that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest and clear when thou judgest And thus St. Paul vindicates the Divine Justice in this particular and silences such as murmur against it But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God what shall we say is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance I speak as a Man God forbid for how then shall God judge the World So that it is both Just and Merciful in God to afflict us here Just to punish us in this Life and Merciful in that he does it in order to acquit us in the next which we ought to own as an exceeding act of Grace and Kindness The Tenderest Father punishes the very beginnings of Sin nips the first buddings of Vice in his Son and after the Punishment is over is reconciled to him But if his Vices and Extravagancies become too great and prove above the corrections of a Father he is cast off and dis-inherited That our Heavenly Father deals so with us is a Truth most manifest The Apostles witnesses If ye endure chastening God dealeth with you as with Sons but if ye be without chastisement then are ye Bastards and no Sons So that when wicked Men pass with impunity here they are greater objects of our Pity than our Envy and we ought not to fret our selves because of evil doers neither be envious against the workers of Iniquity who are fattened and appointed as Sheep for the slaughter and treasure up wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of God's righteous Judgment who will then render to every Man acccording to his deeds For surely there is an end and thine expectation shall not be cut off Hence we may raise more comfortable hopes from their severe afflictions in this World than from their outward flourishing and prosperity Thus we see God's favours and frowns in temporal blessings and sufferings are no rule to measure the Happiness or Misery of Men in the next Life We must rest satisfied and suspend our Judgment here because Lastly The Tryal of all things is in the end The end crowns every Action and Work of Man and the last and finishing stroak is of mighty importance As the Tree falls so it lies A Sincere Repentance and a stedfast Faith to the last are necessary qualifications to make an happy Conclusion of this Life and fit us for that Judgment which after Death is appointed for all Men. Under their conduct we shall abide with comfort The great Tryal of things in the End at that last and general Judgment and coming of our Lord a day of joy and comfort to the Godly but of Terror to the Wicked Under them though ever so sharp bodily agonies and pangs conclude this frail Life of Man Charity will oblige us to Pronounce the end of that Man is Peace And I hope Christian Charity will thus judge of our Deceased Friend Concerning whom I must beg leave to speak a word or two and so conclude In which I shall use all the modesty and sincerity that becomes this Place and my Profession I need not acquaint you that He was a Gentleman born to an ample Fortune and Estate and became too early perhaps Master both of That and Himself For he had the Misfortune to lose his Father when young which affords oftentimes an occasion to young Gentlemen of lashing out into great Excesses Under such unhappy circumstances it must be an extraordinary pitch of Prudence and an uncommon tendency to Virtue and inclination to Goodness that can secure and keep Youth within just bounds in this licentious and vicious Age. But I shall confine my self in what I speak upon this subject to my own knowledge And if from thence it shall appear that the last and finishing Stroaks of his Life be in different Characters and made a distinct figure from the former part thereof known to some of you it will I hope be owned as an Argument of his Repentance and a reason for comfortable hopes to you and all his surviving Friends concerning him My knowledge of him has been but of late I cannot say I intimately knew him untill his Late affliction and last Sickness Upon the former which was occasioned by the Death of his Son though his grief was great and he seemed afflicted to the last degree yet I must own I scarce ever met with any one who expressed himself better on the Duty of Christian submission to God's will and what good uses we ought to make of such severe Afflictions And I hope he made a Good use of that for since that time his Excellent Lady and the whole Family can bear me Witness they discovered a great change in the choise of his Company the observing regular hours the avoiding excesses the keeping generally at home and exercising himself in reading and in all respects observed in him a far more Serious and Sober deportment And to his Last long Illness when I was frequently called and went to visit and assist him I found in him all the Notes and Temper of one truly penitent and who seriously applyed himself to make his Peace with God by an Humble Confession by an hearty sorrow for his Sins by a Professed Resolution of better obedience if God should restore him by a Devout receiving the Blessed Sacrament and by constant Prayers Now as to his sincerity in these Duties and devout performance of them it is best known to that Omniscient God who is the only Searcher of hearts to whom they were offered But his generous Oblation and Charity to the Poor when He receiv'd the Sacrament in his Sickness and the frequent opportunities he took of being Charitable at other times beyond most in the place where he lived a Duty which Hypocrites commonly fail in as being too chargeable will strongly plead for his sincerity will cover a multitude of his smaller sins of failure and infirmity where-ever that Charity prevails which is kind believeth all things hopeth all things Under this head I ought