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A67616	A sermon preached at St. Margarets in Westminster at the funeral of Mrs. Susanna Gray, daughter of Henry Gray, Esq., of Enfield in Staffordshire, who on the 29 of October 1654 began her eternal sabbath.	Waring, Robert, 1614-1658.	1657 (1657)	Wing W869; ESTC R27055	15,128	48

blessed by dying in the Lord Rev. 14.13 who hath exchang'd the company of helpless friends for the society of Angels the Valley of Tears for the Regions of Joy and in a word Earth for Heaven or do we mourn which is the truth if we would put off out mourning Veil our own loss of a friend a loss of a content of an Instrument of Gods Providence which still remains the same and retains the same power and goodness to supply as great contents as it hath taken away Whence will follow the last consideration in this point of moderating our grief 4. Having ordered aright out sorrows the better to moderate them we are to learn from David how to dry up our Tears How to comfort our selves in the death of friends 1. From their happy Fate and condition the hope of a better life whereof we receive any signs or assurances at their death This was Davids main comfort here I shall goe to him c. the Child had got the Goal before him David that wept so impatiently for Absolon wept not at all for this his dear infant begot indeed in sin but dying in innocence David parricidam Absolonem mortuum flevit non Innocentem fletur sceleratus non fletur Dilectus Ambros de f. Res c. 4. Now the hopes of salvation are the surest and infallible in baptized children They are undoubtedly sav'd saith our Church And the Scripture assures by infinite arguments of it that to little children belongeth the Kingdom of Heaven For by Baptism having put on Christ having past the laver of Regeneration having drown'd the old man in Christs blood and death and rais'd the new man wash'd and cleans'd out of water as it were to present Resurrection seeing God saves by water the new world as he destroyed the old and that none could perish in the Ark whereof Baptism is the Antitype so St. Peter how can we doubt but that Christ receives them into his Arms in Heaven as well as on Earth and that they must needs be admitted into Paradice who bring that innocence thither which Adam lost Next to Children our Hopes are most comfortable of those who have come nearest those little ones and pass'd their days in a Child-like Innocence and simplicity having no opinions no affections of their own but what their Heavenly Father directs These we part with upon the easiest Terms Ut praemissos non amissos as only gone before Profectio est quam putas mortem cur moderatè feras abiisse quent mox subsequeris Tert. de pat Brevis vitaeususnec illi multum videtur eripuisse nec tibi distulisse Amb. Res c. 3. not taken away from us as one absent and retired to a warmer Clime and happier Region not lost not dead And why dost thou so impatiently bear his departure whom thou art ere long to follow For he whom thou persecutest thus with sad thoughts is but divided from thee by a short Isthmas the breadth of the Grave a narrow scantling and space of Time some fews dayes or moneths or at most some few years which are either taken from him or reserv'd to thee Conceive then the blessed Spirits departed in the Lord crying out from heaven to you Weep not for us but weep for your selves who yet live in the Regions of Death in the Borders of Sin and misery Why do ye parents forbid the Children to come unto Christ Can ye believe the Mothers embraces softer than the Arms of their Saviour Are they not much happier in Abrams Bosom than in the Parents Lapp If you have lost a Child on earth you have brought forth a Saint now in Heaven Ubertim fluentes lachrimas reprime ne grandis pietas in nepotem apud incredulas mentes desperatio put etur in Deum Desiderandus est ●ibi quasi absens non quasi mortuus c. Illum expectare non amisisse videaris Her Ep. 24. ad Hebrid Why do ye ô Friends put on Blacks for them who have put on their white Robes Why shed ye tears for them whose tears are wip'd from their eyes VVhy such Groans and Lamentations for thē whose mouthes are filled with songs and praises to him that sitteth on the Throne to the Lamb for ever and ever This is not kindnesse but Envy or some misapprehension or misbelief of their present condition You grieve not thus for a Friend preferr'd to another Kingdom Jacob turn'd his Tears into Joy when he received his Son Joseph as from the dead testor'd not to life only but to a Throne Gen. 45.27 2. A secondary Comfort from the state irrevocable unalterable remediless whereby David rather chides and reproves violently stifling and suppressing his grief as vain and unprofitable than lenifieth or healeth it Wherefore should I now fast Can I bring him again Can the consuming of my flesh restore his Can my prayer lend breath to the deceased Can my howlings like the Lioness revive the young One And if I beat my breast is there any Hopes that as the Pelican by piercing her breast I may restore to life How can tears that cannot make the strewed flowers grow again revive the interr'd Carkass No hopes now the Spirit is returned to God that gave it and no wresting it out of his hands The Plant dies in the ground and yet through the scent of the water buds again but Man dyeth and wasteth away without hopes of springing again till the earth be no more Jeh 14 8 9 10 c. Hee 's gone hee 's gone past recall No remedy VVe came not altogether we must not go away together what cannot be help d must be endured These are the Common Cordials of vulgar Comforters But what if your grief in the same Impatience with Augustus shall reply as he did to his Daughter Julia thus comforting him Sir Your Complaints cannot recall cannot help but trouble you all is past remedy that is it which grieves chiefly That there is no remedy no cure of the wound no Recovery of the Losse Add then to these uncertain Comforts of Reason which are as easily confuted by a more peevish and sullen Reason that is apt to dispute for its passions 3. A third comfort from a Religious submission to God For as Reason commands us to yield to Necessity So Religion bows us perfectly to stoop with willingness to this Necessity as it proceeds from Gods Providence and Mercy ordering even out Losses to our good Here is that forcible Masterer of our sorrow to a necessary submission to the power of the Almighty which we foolishly provoke while we resist 2. A voluntary Resignation shall I say to the Providence and mercifull disposing or even to the holy will of God now manifestly declared by the event for as his other will is revealed in his Word to be the rule of our life and actions so this Ordering Governing Over-ruling Will revelata factis discovers Gods secret purposes by the visible effects and issues of things to be