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A95722	The saints expectation and reward a sermon at the funerall of that learned and faithfull minister of Christ Mr. Tho: Wiborow June 10th 1652. / Preached at Enfeild in Staffordshire, by Michael Thomas minister of Gods word at Stockden in Shropshire.	Thomas, Michael, rector of Stockton.	1655 (1655)	Wing T969; Thomason E835_11; ESTC R207408	15,800	16

any time look a danger or death in the face No doubt the contemplation of his Celestiall inheritance those new heavens and new earth whereof he is now possessed did ravish his soul with an holy thirst and longing after them for the joy that was set before him he could endure the crosse and despise the shame and suffer the contradiction of sinners in high charitie commending them to the mercy of God in that prayer Father forgive them for they know not what they doe And lastly as if he had been of Beza's judgment in the reading of this Text that none but new creatures should be admited into these new heavens his heart was set upon righteousnesse endeavouring alwaies to keep a conscience void of offence towards God and also towards man Pietie and learning and modestie to meet in one man was hard and rare and these met in him his piety appeared in his care for Gods true worship and in a discreet zeal for his house he had a desire to bring all men into that way which in his conscience he thought would lead to heaven Nazianzen complained of some that did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fit their faith to the times and so make it as Saint Hilary censures it Fides temporum non Evangeliorum a Faith moulded to the humor of the times not according to the Doctrine of the Gospell He was none of those his care was to please Christ and to preach him so that to the last gasp ' he was constant to the worship of God and faithfull in it For his learning I must professe my selfe an incompetent censor of it so farre as I was able to judge he deserved the name of Tri-●or aswell as Quintus Ennius he understood those three languages Greek and Latin and Hebrew in a good measure In answer to Aarons Urim and Thummim there were written and combined in his breast Sci●ntia and Conscientia Learning and integritie he was able both by his learning and his life to confound the adversaries of the truth of Christ These were the evidences of his righteousnesse towards God and for his righteousnesse towards man I am confident he might have gasp'd out the Prophet Samuel's challenge Whose Ox or whose Asse have I taken Yea and added that of Saiu Paul I have wronged no man I have corrupted no man I have defrauded no man I have coveted no mans silver nor gold nor apparell he was contented with such things as he had remembring that promise of the Lord Let your conversation be without covetousnesse for I will never leave you nor for sake you It pleased the Lord to raise him friends and supplies even in his lowest state whose charitie and compassion no doubt the Lord will both remember and reward when they shall have most need of it And in great testimony of his love and care over him the Lord was his shield and buckler when both the Sword and the Sicknesse raged round about him and hath brought him to his grave in peace in a good old age where we are now to disposse the remains of him till the consummation of all things when it shall please God to say Come again ye children of men and collect the bones and dust of deer and divided friends and unite them together in a blessed and glorious resurrection The speech at the grave WElbeloved friends we are met here to pay those Christian respects which we owe to the corps of our deceased Friend the bodies of Christians are the members of Christ yea they are the temples of the holy Ghost and are therefore in a decent manner to be interred and laid up in their long home the grave This reverend brother of ours was a Preacher while he was living and now though dead is preaching to us his farewell sermon and his Text is Hodie mihi cras tibi this is my day of buriall to morrow may be yours The Lord in the death of every man performs the desire of Dives in the parable He sends one from the dead to admonish us that all flesh is grasse and the glory of man but as the flower of the grasse to remember us of that irreversable statute and the penalty of it that it is appointed for all men once to die and after death to come to judgment 'T is not the least of the Lords mercies when he will convey the consideration of serious matters to us in such obvious and familiar notions to remember us of our frailty and mortality and make the grasse of the field a looking-glasse wherein we may see our selves and learn that as every g●●sse of the field proves there is a God that made it So every grasse shewes what man is and that there is a God that will turn him to destruction Some Authors have told us that a swarm of bees fighting are no way sooner appeased then by throwing dust amongst them Mankind is a swarm of Bees that busie themselves and buzze about the World and are too often fighting and quarrelling and an handfull of dust taken into serious consideration would quiet them all dust is the embleme of mans originall and his end from whence he came and to what he must return Dust hath a medicinall quality to cure all the diseases of the soul especially the tympany of pride When hair is sweet through pride or lust the powder doth forget the dust we should not so far disparage the workmanship of God as to mend our faces by art if we did consider that ere long the dust of the Grave would spoil our complexion when Saint Augustine stood by the Temple of ●ulius Caesar He cries out Ubi nunc pulchritudo Caesaris what is become of Caesars goodly person he spake it not by way of triumph as insulting over the ashes of that mighty conqueror but to convey an instruction to all mankind that were every Son of man as comely in person and as great as he as high in armes and as glorious in honour yet his foundation is in the dust saies holy Job and must say to corruption thou art my Father and to the worm thou art my Mother and my ●ister Though our bodies are as I said the temples of the Holy Ghost yet they will come to delapidation and moulder into rubbidge and dust our bones will be scattered about the graves mouth like so many chiphs of a man that heweth wood and our dust may perchance be mingled with the dust of the high wa● the materialls of our bodies which we so love and pamper now will be troden down like the mire in the stre●t if we would every one say and say often to our selves in those words of Job The grave is ready for me I am now in the beauty and flower of my youth but know not how soon I may be cropt and wither certainly such meditations would make much for the advancement of piety in all our waies to remember our end and so to live every day as if it we●e our last day There passes a story of Ben Syra a Iew that when he was about twelve years old he requested his Tutor to teach him the law of Moses He answers Child you are to young to learn or understand that Law but the child replies Sir I have 〈◊〉 in down in the Church-yard among the graves and I find that many are dead who were not so tall nor old as I and I would be loath to die before I had learnt the law this Iewes child may teach us Christians a good lesson to take heed we do not die before we have learn'd the Law of God and that danger we can no other way avoid but by meditating in the law day and night and by making the statutes of the Lord our guide and counsellours I am so charitable as to think that the confluence of friende and neighbours to this funerall hath no other design but to honour the memory of our reverend friend and let me remember you of one point of honour ye may do him which perchance you think not of that is to become his converts that at the last day when he shall arise he may present himself and you before the Lord and say these are the children which I have begotten in my ministry these are those souls whom I have instructed and confirmed in the faith these are they that in life and death have held forth the testimony of Jesus Christ this were truly to honour him to make him shine like a star of the first magnitude in the firmament of glory And let this funerall solemnity give you occasion when you depart hence to say Mr. Wiborough did me much good while he lived but more when he was dead the sermons that I heard from his mouth wrought much upon me but his funerall sermon more when his breathlesse corps preached to me and bid me prepare for my dissolution when his dust spake to me and bid me bury all those sinnes whereof he reproved me in the grave with him so great are the respects and affection which this Gentleman did deserve of us all that I think you could be as well content to hear more of him as I to speak but I must conclude with that of Nazianzen the Sea saith he doth not need the rivers that yet run into it so neither doth he need mine or any others praise he hath fought the good fight of Faith and finished his course and is now gone to receive his Crown of righteousnesse as for his body we commend it to the grave beseeching the Lord to sanctifie this and all other spectacles of our mortality to us and by them to teach us so to number our daies that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom FINIS