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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45378	A burning and a shining light a sermon preached at the funeral of the late reverend Mr. James Wrexham, minister at Haversham in the county of Bucks / by John Hammat.	Hammat, John, b. 1657 or 8.	1685 (1685)	Wing H490; ESTC R9273	13,378	41

A Burning and a Shining Light A SERMON Preached at the Funeral OF The late Reverend Mr. James Wrexham Minister at Haversham in the County of Bucks By John Hammat M. A. and Vicar of Stanton-berry LONDON Printed for Nath. Ponder in the Poultrey and Thomas Watson Bookseller in Newport-Pagnell 1685. TO THE READER Reader THIS plain Sermon had not seen the Light had it not been for the Sake and Desire of that dear People to whom my Reverend Brother and my self had a joynt Relation and to preserve his Memory amongst those who had the Happiness to know him and the Grace to love him The Death of good Ministers who are our Chariots and Horse-men is a sad Omen and 't is a sadder they dye no more lamented It is reported of Philo the Jew that he wept when he heard of the Death of any good Man but there are but few Philo's now Good Men live unbeloved by the generality and dye unbewailed I speak not this with respect to my Brother it pleased the Lord to place him more happily than most are his Auditours rejoyced in his Light while he lived and when dead with great Lamentation carried him to his Grave May God bless these few Lines to do that good that is intended and I shall be satisfied and none will have Reason to be dissatisfied Upon the Death of that Pious and Profound Divine Mr. James Wrexham I. BLEST with the Sight of Artificial Men Rank'd in a Gallery thus did I deem Are these their own Survivors in this room Or are th'Graves Prisoners loose and hither come I mus'd upon the matter once agen And second Thoughts corrected my Esteem Then I confest These man are sprung from Brains and Heart The Progeny of Love and Art Then a new thought my mind possest This is a teeming and improving Age I 'll Paint a Soul A Soul as dear as fair O 't will be rare When 't is invested in its lively hue Our Conversation we 'll renew I hasted to my work rapt with a pleasant rage II. I got such Colours as I judg'd most fit The Flame colour I thought would do Together with the heavenly Blue My Knowledge was th' enlight'ned Air My Heart the Chair In which the Darling of my Thoughts did sit I took my Pensil and began to draw I scarce had drawn a Line But lo I saw An Heaven-born Muse the gravest of the Nine Said she What mean those Colours there I answer'd readily A Soul is in my Eye A splendid Soul I 'll paint it on this Table here The Flame will shew its quick Ascent The Blue will shew its Element O how I pleas'd my self that my account was fair III. But pleasant Errours are but Childrens Playes She with a gentle smile reply'd The blue and the bright-flowered Curtains hide What shines un-envy'd on the other side But these To Mortals do forbid the glorious Raies Moreover Thou 'lt draw a Shine but can'st thou paint the heat The Vitals of his Soul and how his Heart did beat Can'st thou discover His quick and mighty Zeal Pure Zeal that issu'd from above Compos'd of Prudence and of Love Can'st paint the Pleasures which into his Soul did steal Tow'ring Eagles winged Boyes Are but faint Emblems of Devotional Joyes A golden Mouth doth fall within thy bounds But can'st thou paint his heavenly sounds She further said His depths of Learning cannot be pourtray'd By your poor Pensil He has done it with his Quill IV. He was the Jonah of the Age Buried alive In horrors Gulf involv'd Yet undissolv'd The Artist was too wise t' engage To draw sad Agamemnon's Face When he his Iphigenia did bewail But overcast it with a Vail And left it to Spectators to spell out the Case Tremble weak Hand none of thy strokes can show How he did conflict with the Fiends below He went into the deeps to learn And O the pious Myst'ries he did there discern V. But lo our Jonah comes a shore And the Leviathan never touch'd him more Then chearfully he went Whither he was most wonderfully sent He preach'd unto his Ninevites Repent His Words were light'ning of an heavenly rise Which spar'd the Person but consum'd the Vice O how his Hearers were to him enchain'd Whilst he the Sacred Text explain'd He sick'ned there In Moses Chair And he with Moses on the Mount did dye With Canaan in his Eye But can your Colours tell The Glories of an heavenly Throne O whither whither is he gone This said she left me all alone I stood amaz'd And down my Pensil fell Upon the Death of that Faithful Servant of Christ Mr. James Wrexham COME Tears ye pearly dewes your Forces joyn To wash the Body of a great Divine Lament O England at a Prophets Tomb One Pillar 's fall doth sorely shake the Room Late monstrous Stars did look us into fear What think we when our kind Stars disappear Needs must a dreadful Darkness us surround When Lamps are Tapers watching under Ground Ha'rsham Lament Thy pleasant Sermon Bell Is turn'd into a doleful Funeral-Knell You were the Field where he bestow'd his Pains In hopes to reap your Graces for his Gains Your Chancels Northern part bedew with Tears In memory of your former golden Years Ah Loss on Loss What Heart can this abide The young one sleeping by th' old Prophet's side Children Lament Your Catechist is gone Your Morning 's over-cast which lately shone Both Young and Old Lament your mighty Loss Ye wore the Crown but now you bear the Cross But he whose Heart doth not Lament his fall Deserves to be lamented most of all A BURNING AND A Shining Light c. JOHN 5.35 He was a burning and a shining light and ye were willing for a season to rejoyce in his light OUR Saviour in the Context speaks of four Witnesses who attested that he was the Christ the Son of God his Father his Works the Scriptures and John the Baptist The Testimony of John Baptist which was argumentum ad hominem he produced ex abundanti q.d. The Testimony of a wise and good man weighs with men and such a one John Baptist was esteem'd to be by you the Jews we know had a great Veneration for him and many of them have at this day ye consulted him concerning the Messiah he denied that he was the Person and bore witness of me and ye rejoyced in his Light the light of his Life and the light of his Ministry This I might insist on and expect that ye should believe because of his witness who was a burning and a shining Light a Prophet that might be credited but I receive not Testimony from man I have greater Witnesses neither do I speak it out of Ambition but for your Edification and Salvation The Text contains first an Encomium which our Saviour gave of John Baptist either after his Imprisonment or Death Divines determine not which his evident 't was when he was taken off from his publick Ministry He was a burning