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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

Vpon which place Bullinger giueth this comfortable Comment If the beginnings and progresse be good happy and blessed we may without wauering in absolute perseuerance build at last vpon a blessed end as namely that at the Day of Christ by which the Apostle meaneth the houre of death Christus fidelibus dexter propitius apparet saith learned Sarcerius in his Comment vpon the place that is Christ will then shew himselfe both mercifull and fauourable vnto his faithfull Ones and not onely so but by the Day of Christ is likewise vnderstood the generall Day of Iudgement vnto which Day also euen from the day of death the faithfull are in the power and gouernment of God Marl. in Phil. to whom hee vouchsafeth then also a progresse and increase vnto the Day of the resurrection of the flesh for though the faithfull Ones be by death deliuered from their bodies and warre not any more with the concupiscence of the flesh yet I hold it no absurdity to affirme that they yet increase and goe forward because they haue not yet attained to that height of felicity and excellency of glory to which they still hope to bee aduanced and therefore through hope doe stedfastly set their eyes toward the Day of the last Resurrection as to their onely marke wherein they shall receiue of God the fulnesse of their hoped glory and so raigne with him in blisse for euer And thus I say both in life and death the faithfull are alwayes in the power of God And what should the meditation and consideration of this great benefit and grace but moue vs all with one accord to cry with the Apostle Rom. 8. Who shall separate vs from the loue of Christ Shall tribulation distresse persecution and such like No but be perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come shall be able to separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. And thus be it spoken of the two generall poynts obserued in the Text first that none of the faithfull doth liue or dye vnto themselues but vnto God Secondly that all and euery one of them both in life and death are in the power of God Now let me passe to my application to shew according as I know it is expected at my hands of all you that are present how both the life and death of this my honored friend concerning whom I cannot but with griefe of heart confesse that I count it one of the greatest parts of my vnhappinesse to see the period and complement of his dayes expired to shew I say againe how both the life and death of this worshipfull worshipfully descended and religious Gentleman was still and alwayes not vnto himselfe but vnto God and how both in life and death he submitted himselfe vnto the power of God which may best be done by speaking somewhat vnto you concerning the sanctifyed life and blessed death of this worthy Saint whom because the world was vnworthy of God hath taken to his mercy and translated by death from a life of misery vnto a Kingdome as full of happinesse and glory as the Sunne is full of light and the Sea of waters where he is now sanctified in the presence of his God with the fulnesse of ioy and pleasures at his right hand for euermore O te felicem si tibi mortuo talis esset Praeco qualis Homerus Achilli O noble Wight happy should I deeme thee now to be if as Achilles had thou hast such a Trumpeter of thy praise as Homer was As for my selfe the meanest of ten thousand vpon whom this taske is layd at this time by thine owne command O how doe I desire that my sufficiency were answerable to my willingnes O how do I wish with the Prophet Dauid Psal 45 1. Psal 45.1 that I had a tongue as the penne of a ready writer that I might set out the prayses of thy vertues thy holy and thy honorable life that thy righteousnesse might be had in an euerlasting remembrance and so shine in the Church of God as a patterne to them that liue and an example for them to imitate But how insufficient doe I feele my selfe for this great businesse Vouchsafe therefore I beseech you all to accept and giue attention to this small ensuing testimony of my great desire And by Gods assistance I will proceed Happy life blessed death beginning with his happy birth and ending with his blessed death First concerning his Birth as I haue once already testified he was worshipfully borne the Son and heire of a right worthy and iudicious Counseller and the fruite of a vertuous Gentlewomans wombe who was as a fruitfull Vine vpon the walls of her husbands house by whom as blessings from God in token of his loue he hath had an houshold of many sweet and beautifull sons and daughters to fit round about his table amongst whom this right worthy Wight that now heere lyeth before our eyes ready to be interred was the first that God did send her as blessings of her wombe of full nineteene that were borne vnto her From his birth I will descend vnto his education he being a child indued by God with the best of natures gifts which are necessary to a progresse and proceeding on in vertue by instruction for as Plutarch testifieth without natures gifts vertue cannot but haue her manifold defects for doctrine and teaching without the gifts of nature is defectuous and nature without doctrine is altogether blind but this man indued as I sayd with the best of natures gifts as reason vnderstanding and such like being by the carefull industry and painfull diligence of his learned Master yet liuing taught and instructed in the rules and rudiments of the Latine and Greeke tongues by his owne diligent exercise and practice a vertue worthy of high commendation especially in yong Gentlemen to the comfort of his parents to the good of himselfe and the admiration of others hee soone attained vnto a large measure of vnderstanding in those beginnings of Arts and learning And being by the care of his tender and louing parents translated at length from the Country vnto the most famous of Englands Vniuersities Broad-gates Hall in Oxford placed in that ancient of houses from which haue sprung most famous members both of the Church and Commonwealth in many places now liuing in our Kingdome being entered there by the carefull diligence of his parents in whom there was as there ought to be in all an especiall care vnder whom they set their children to be trayned vp he was committed vnto the charge and gouernment of a learned a discreet and religious Tutor a man wel giuen and of right good nature who was held amongst them of that society to be as a second Phoenix that had the breeding and education of Achilles vnder whose gouernment and by whose instruction in the space of little more

kinde of life I call a death because it were better many thousand times not to liue at all in respect of themselues then to bee cast headlong into such endlesse and remedilesse miseries vnto which all the miseries and torments which we can any wayes deuise to be inflicted vpon man in this world being compared are nothing to those flames and torments which the damned dying this eternall death shall endure in hell world without end Now as of the three sorts of life the naturall is common vnto the godly and the reprobate but the spirituall and eternall life are onely proper and peculiar to the Elect of God So of the other side among those three sorts of death the two last come not to the faithfull ones but the first onely which is the naturall death is common to all both good and bad in so much that it is a true and noted lesson long since learned of euery man that It is appointed vnto all men that they shall once dye as well the iust as the vniust as well the beleeuer as the Infidell This the Apostle Paul doth plainly proue in Rom. 5.14 Rom. 5.14 Death raigned from Adam to Moses euen ouer them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression In which place the Apostle diuideth mankinde into two sorts that is into those that sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression and those that sinned not after his similitude affirming that death raigned not onely ouer those but also ouer them Heere let me stand and shew you this difference which will make the poynt most cleere Some there are that hold Adams transgression to be the violating of that expresse Commandement Thou shalt not eate of it and so affirme that they doe sinne after the similitude of Adams transgression that doe transgresse onely against the expresse Law of God and not those that sinne without the written Law which opinion answereth not to the meaning of the Apostle whose purpose in these words is to teach that euen before the Law death raigned not onely ouer those which by their proper actuall sinnes did voluntarily stirre vp against themselues the wrath of God as Adam did when he transgressed the Law of God by his actuall disobedience but that it raigned also ouer those which actually could commit no sinne which as the best expositors expound is to be vnderstood of Infants that haue no actuall sinnes in them Hence is that saying Ab Adamo mors est tyrannus omnibus ex aequo imperans Euen from the time of Adam which must not be vnderstood of Adam in his integrity but in the state of corruption for Ante peccatum solus regnabat Deus Before sinne was God did only raigne death is a tyrant that raigneth ouer all but now there are two principall raignes the one of life the other of death and yet in both these both in life and death we liue and dye not to our selues but vnto God who both can and will preserue them that liue and restore to life them that are dead he can I say because hee is God omnipotent the supremest Lord and generall Iudge to whom euery knee doth bow of things in heauen and things in earth he will also because he hath chosen vs and purchased vs with a price not of pure gold but of precious blood to be his owne Inheritance Hence is that of the holy Ghost Ioh. 1. He that beleeueth in me though he dye yet shall he liue and whosoeuer liueth and beleeueth in me shall neuer dye And thus much bee spoken of the first generall poynt of doctrine expressed in the first part of my Text where the Apostle saith Whether wee liue wee liue vnto the Lord and whether we die we die vnto the Lord. Now the second The second followeth which is this that all and euery one of vs both in our liues and in our deaths are euer and alwayes in the power of God 1. Sam. 2.9 It is the Lord saith the holy Ghost 1. Sam. 2.9 that keepeth the feet of his Saints the feet that is all their actions all their counsels all their studies and indeuours all which if God doe but once withdraw his fauour and his goodnesse from them they by and by faile and perish as we see it often commeth to passe by daily practice in naturall things for as long as God doth vouchsafe to communicate of his power vnto them so long they doe continue and liue but that being taken away they forthwith dye and perish True it is I must notwithstanding confesse that God sometimes suffereth euen those that are his Saints on earth to fall and slip into many sinnes teaching them thereby truly to vnderstand what their owne power is and what and how great is the corruption and deprauation of the humane nature to the intent that they should not attribute any thing vnto their owne power and strength Neither doth God alwayes preserue and defend euen those that are his from euery outward trouble and danger whereunto man is subiect but often hee is pleased to try them with many and sundry crosses and afflictions howbeit yet so that he still auerteth and turneth from those that are his all such noxious and hurtfull crosses as might abolish or destroy in them the hope of saluation and life euerlasting therefore is it that the Prophet Dauid cryeth saying Psal 66.8 9. Blessed be the Lord Psal 66.8 9. that holdeth our soules in life and suffereth not our feet to be moued Where the Prophet saith that God holdeth our soules in life the meaning is as if he had said It is God alone who by his power in all our life time keepeth vs safe as vnder the shadow of his wings that we might not faint and perish vnder the great burthen of affliction For many and great are the dangerous euils that hang ouer our heads continually whereby we may soone be brought to death and perish except the Lord defend vs from them Againe where he saith It is the Lord that suffereth not our feet to be moued it is as much as if he had said God so comforteth and confirmeth those that are his with his holy Spirit that while they liue they can with patience endure aduersities and are not so ouercome with sorrowes and impatience as once so much to murmurer against God or to forsake God and seeke for remedy in distresse by any other power or meanes than by the grace and power of God Thus I say the life of Gods Saints on earth is euer and alwayes in the power of God and not their liues onely but their deaths also for as my Text saith Whether we liue therefore or dye we are the Lords for God is and still will be Omega as well as Alpha Reuel 1.8 Reuel 1.8 And hauing once begun his good worke in those that are his Saints he will performe it saith the Apostle Philip. 1.6 Phil. 1.6 euen till the Day of Iesus Christ