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A45539 The saints gain by death, and their assurance thereof a sermon preached at the funerall of that worthy patriot Richard More, esquire, late one of the burgesses in this present Convention of Parliament for the town of Bishops-Castle in the countie of Salop / by Humphrey Hardwick ... Hardwick, Humphrey, b. 1601 or 2. 1644 (1644) Wing H705; ESTC R279 16,113 31

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Feb. 26. 1643. THis learned pithy and pertinent Sermon claims of it self more then a bare Imprimatur but the Author will not think much if it be said Materia superabat opus such was the Learning language exemplary piety and happy pains in promoting the Gospel of the worthily much honoured Gentleman whose Funerals it solemnized together with his constant faithfulnes and usefulnesse to his Countrey and Religion in despight of all dangers losses sufferings that he deserves a just Volume to transmit the beams of such a light to posterity wherein I dare say the highest wit and love met in one might sooner grow bankrupt then prodigall Charles Herle THE SAINTS GAIN BY DEATH And their Assurance thereof A SERMON PREACHED AT THE Funerall of that worthy Patriot Richard More Esquire late one of the Burgesses in this present Convention of Parliament for the Town of Bishops-Castle in the Countie of Salop. By Humphrey Hardwick Chaplain to his Excellencie the Earl of Essex L General c. The Text. 2 COR. 5.1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hand eternall in the heavens LONDON Printed by I. L. for Philemon Stephens at the sign of the Gilded Lion in Pauls Church-yard 1644. TO THE MVCH AND WORTHILY HONOVRED Sir ROBERT HARLEY Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath and Knight of the Honorable House of Commons for the County of Hereford Right Worthy Sir THis soul-weaning Funerall Sermon preached by my reverend brother at the Interring of my much honoured Vncle Richard More Esquire being through the importunity of some brought from him unto me to be put in Print and recommended to whom I shuld think fit I knew not who could better make attestation to this indefatigable Senators worth then your self his bosome friend What testimonie is here given him either by my faithfull brother or by me is but an Epitome of yours and his Countreyes larger knowledge of him He spent his last breath in prosecuting and promoting that Scripture-Church-Reformation whereunto his parents had been zealous Witnesses who were not more carefull of his education in religion and learning then he was apt to take it In so much that at ten yeers of age he was able to read the Old Testament in the originall Though the death of his father in his youth diverted him from going to the Vniversitie yet he grew so active for the publike that it is hard to tell whether he did more service to his Countrey before or after he was in Commission of the peace I should sorrow as a man without hope of repair of his Countreys losse but that he hath left a son as fit to succeed him in his place as in his estate In difficult businesses for his Countrey he was not wont to strain courtesy to follow others but was willing to lead the way and break the Ice He was a Sanctuary to conscientious men in their persecutions I could name some who falling into limbum patrum I mean the courts of Tyrannizing Prelates who found him ready by his travails friends counsell purse to helpe them out He would lose the greatest friend he had to stand for the right of his poorest neighbour He was a friend so throughly cordiall that in all his undertakings for any on any occasion with Boaz he could not rest till he had effected it He was a countenancer upholder and frequenter of Lectures Lecturers He hated vice in all but especially in Ministers whom yet he had rather reclaim then ruine and he was wont to let them know that he so loved their parts as he abhorred their exorbitancies As Christ descended to do his Fathers will so he was willing to stoop to any place below himself to do his neighborhood service He was no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no self-putting-forth man he sought rather to be then seem strict He much honoured the Lords day and his Ministers his opinion was to his death there was due to God a 7th part of our time and a 10th part of our estate Some of his last words were How are the Ministers provided for He lived much by faith especially in these sad and exhausting times as appeares not onely by his deeds his casting into the publike treasurie all his plate all that he could make or get but also by such as these his latter speeches Every man must rise fall with the publike We must give all for gone and wait what God will do for it And it makes no matter what becomes of me and mine so it go well with the publike as I am confident it will in a short time And when some told him it was like to go ill w th Shropshire He answered Shropshire wants faith as well as other places And when some of his family towards his end was speaking solicitously to him God said he that feeds the Ravens will not suffer you to want I do not love these distracting thoughts Thus his faith wrought with his works to the last And yet it no whit blunted his industry for the good of his family A carefull father he was of his children for whom being four sons and one daughter he had provided plentifully in his life and a tender husband over his dear and pious consort who had lived with him above 50. yeers and had done him much good and no hurt all the days of his life to whō he left by will made three yeers before his death 400. l. over above joynture but the Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away and which of his here can now say his bread is his own Such is the rapine of war From which he is now freed being absent from his body present with his Lord to which marke you also are pressing forward as a Taper daily spending your self to light others The Lord make you and your posterity to fare the better for your publick faithfulnesse so prayeth Your Worships to serve you in the Lord MATTHEVV CLARKE THE SAINTS GAIN BY DEATH And his assurance thereof Manifested and applied 2. COR. 5.1 For we know that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternall in the heavens THE yeeres of man are threescore and ten said David a great while compared to an houre but considered with eternity they seem scarce a minute The swift revolution of all-eating time soon rowls up the thread of mans life the day by houres the moneth by dayes the yeer by moneths our age by yeers soon steps away Our infancie is like yesterdayes evening we have slept and forgot it Our youth the morning past our manhood the mid-day present old age comes anone He who hath past these stages knowes best the truth of this For time past is a certainty found to be nothing time to come an uncertainty seeming to bee much time present is a fleeter the
Sun goes and the Sand runs quickly do we bring our seventy to an end as a tale that is told But alas who can promise himselfe that number not one of multitudes live thus long How many waies do miserie and death conspire to fetch us off in the severall ages of our life Poor mortalls we are incident to a dissolution every day Hence some of the wiser Heathen defining our life called it Mortis imago an image of death accessus decessus an entrance and an exit The Philosophers iudgement was optimum non nasci proximum citò abolert but we Christians are men of better hopes and can make more comfortable description of our pilgrimage We may call it the dawning of an eternall day the Eave of a glorious Festivall a way wherein we walke to blessednesse and whether this be long or short the matter is not great if we waite long the tediousnesse of expectance will be recompenced with encrease of welcome if we soon end the journey of this life the lesse will be our share of misery whether thus or thus long or short a good Christian should not care much For we know if our earthly house of this tabernacle c. These words stand in the book of God as an argument to confirme something which went before S. Paul in the precedent Chapter is in a holy contemplation as it were balancing his present afflictions with his future hopes Those he findes stinted measured bordered with timely freedome and deliverance but of the latter there is no end his hopes are things blessed Chap. 4 8. eternall tending to his own spirituall advantage and the Churches Emolument Whence he concludes that his affliction which was but a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 light for a moment did work an b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ver 17. With abundance upon abundance exceeding eternall weight of glory And lest this affirmation might seem strange the Apostle doth demonstrate how hee collects it not from the things which are seen being temporall from which no such weight of glory can spring but from the things which are not seen these are eternall these make up the weight of the forementioned glory to these St. Paul hath an eye of these invisibles he is ascertained For wee know saith hee that if our earthly house c. My Text thus placed in the book of God tenders to our view a double prospect here is an house and a building to be seen Now an house we know is nothing but an habitation for man to abide or dwell in the thing therefore which is Metaphorically so called is either these organized bodies which wee bear about or else it must be understood of that naturall life or state of being which we have in this world by three Items charactered out unto us in my Text. First this house is described ab origine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is from the earth so saith the same Author the first man is of the Earth Earthie No better metall then the Potter useth to frame his pitchers of to that the Apostle seems to allude and intimates the brickle frailty of our present state Secondly we have the house described a statu mutabili 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of a Tabernacle a moveable kinde of habitation every night almost it findes a new place Here wee have no abiding City wee continue not at one stay nec utì nec ubì statu nor gradu We run the changes passe from one condition to another so mutable is our earthly house Lastly it is pointed out ab interitu it is a house of a perishing dissolving frame 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this supposition is not so much to be understood de re periturâ as de modo sive tempore resolvendi it is past all paradventure that this house of tabernacle will be dissolved but the manner how the time when may be supposed the Apostle then gives all men leave to imagine that the present troubles and afflictions which he then sustained the great and imminent dangers wherein hee was plunged might happily burst the thread of his life before his naturall course were run or by some violent dissolution If thus or thus it is but a hastie injurious pulling down of a house which would otherwise dissolve it self after a little more time for it is but a perisht house The latter prospect in our view is a building not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an habitation of a more rare stately frame by this we must understand the state of an holy soul departed of a good Christian in another world This building is one of those Mansions of which our Saviour speakes of Iohn 14. And in the Text we have it described First from the builder and author 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of God We attain to our earthly Tabernacle by an order established of God in nature we have by means and second causes all the things of this life but the building which is above is given immediately by God Thou shalt bring me to glory saith the Psalmist It is our Fathers will to give the Kingdom himselfe sure it will make our future state the more excellent that we have it immediately from the blessed hand of God Secondly this building is set forth in the quality of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not made with hands it is not of a visible make or frame tooles and instruments were not imployed to compose it c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The pure eternall will of God framed this mansion according to his own counsell secret to us A building removed far beyond the reach of mans capacity which is Thirdly described in the Text from the stability and perpetuity of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 eternall not for dayes and for moneths for times and for seasons but for ever is this building framed Lastly it sets out the dignitie of place this building is in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in heaven that Empyreal Throne of the most High where dwells blessednesse for evermore Thus wee have seen the house and building in the severall passages of my Text. We may next consider whose these are to whom they doe belong and remarkable it is that the Apostle doth expresse no speciall interest in the former He calles it a house of Tabernacle the word this in English is more then is in the Originall The house of Tabernacle is a common habitation where all the sons of Adam dwell alike Gods Elect can claime no more interest in this then others well then may the Apostle passe this without an Item of proprietie whilst he claimes the latter in a speciall manner saying We have a building by which he literally and immediately points out his own interest and in his intimates the right of all the Saints like as in another place he saith A crowne is laid up for me and not for me onely but for all that love his appearing True and rightly beleeving