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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28856	No home but heaven A sermon, preached at the funerals of the right worshipful the Lady Sybilla Anderson, in the Church of Broughton, in the county of Lincoln. Octob. 30. 1661. By Edward Boteler, sometimes fellow of St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge, and now rector of Wintringham, in the county of Lincoln, and chaplain to His Majesty.	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1664 (1664)	Wing B3803; ESTC R217243	26,996	74

the end of that man and woman is peace When the dayes drew near that she must dye Gen. 47.29 she fell sick by proxy of the Small Pox Madam K. Egerton in a young Lady of her Relation such was her tendernesse of her And knowing how fatal that disease had been to many of her flesh and blood she entertains it as coming on the same errand with Hezekiahs messenger 2 K. 20.1 Set thine house in order for thou shalt dye and not live A little warning serves a Tenant that 's provided for a remove She 's now all upon flitting breaths after her change Psa 55.6 O that I had wings like a Dove for then would I flye away and be at rest Hereupon she makes her Will disposeth of her Estate that she might have no weights upon her soul ready to take its flight nothing to incumber her thoughts or stand betwixt her and her desired happiness but wholly and freely intend her expedition for another world Which done her hand will tell you where her heart was for thus she subscribes that Testament of hers Psa 116.7 And now return to thy rest O my soul God finding her thus prepared for himself sends another messenger for her not the Pox which she loved not and upon some account feared but a Quartane Ague a messenger not so ugly but as sharp as the other This after several assaults began to prevail upon her and insult over her insomuch that she saw with Peter I must shortly put off my Tabernacle 2 Pet. 1.14 and said with Hezekiah In the cutting off of my dayes Isa 38.10 I shall go to the gates of the grave I am deprived of the residue of my years Being now to go through the valley of the shadow of death she sought a staffe of comfort to support her in the way and some few dayes before received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and that with so much fervency and holy appetite so eating the flesh of the Son of man and so drinking his blood as gave good evidence she hath eternal life Joh. 6.54 and that he will raise her up at the last day And one thing I may not omit without injury to her that notwithstanding her weakness she would not receive it any wayes but kneeling in detestation of that slovenly Elephant Devotion of our dayes and in obedience to the Orders of the Church and chiefly in testimony of that great humility of soul with which she desired to worship and fall down before the Lord her Maker And this was the last Manna she ate on this side Jordan The day before she dyed I came to visit her and found the time of her departure was at hand She then desired me to pray with her and to absolve her according to the use of the Church of England which accordingly I did and however some living Sectaries set light by it yet I am sure she and other dying Saints have found no little comfort in it in the hour of their extremity This I am sure was the practice of the Church long enough before Presbytery as we now use the word was either made or thought on And Fanatick is no new word it was used as a term fitting men of contrary opinions many years since Apud Marlor p. 602. c. 2. by Musculus Fanaticos autem homines sciamus dum hanc legationem spernunt Calv. Instit l. 4. Cap. 4. Sect. 12. Christi sanguinem pedibus calcare And if Mr. Calvin be not worn out of credit with these men they may see him very earnest in asserting the expediency of this delegation to the Ministers of the Gospel Job 20.23 And undoubtedly that Commission Whose sins ye remit they are remitted unto them being the first words that our Saviour spoke to the Disciples all together after his resurrection and upon the very day of it coming from his breath as soon as it was immortal as the Fathers observe carries some notable import of power along with it was not to dye with the Apostles and terminate in their persons but derives this power of the Keys to infinite succession and is to be a standing Ordinance in the Church of God to the end of the world I beg pardon for this digression the petulancy of these times hath forced it from me Give me leave now to tell you of one passage very remarkable in her I have already spoke of it little thinking it would fall to my lot to tell it here when I had read the Versicle appointed in the visitation of the sick O Lord save thy Servant and some rehearsed the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which putteth her trust in thee She started up with much earnestness hands and eyes and heart and all lift up and added I and my whole confidence Lord as if she apprehended Trust too low to speak the height of her soul now sublimated and ready to go to the God of the spirits of all flesh In this height of well-grounded confidence I left her full of the comforts of God fit for the Convoy of Angels in the Confines of that glory she had so long breathed after in in the Suburbs of that City she had so earnestly sought and immediately entered Rev. 21.23 which the glory of God lightens and the Lamb is the light thereof God had given her her hearts desire to see what she had often begg'd to see though with a nunc dimittis in her mouth our rejected almost abjured King recalled with honour and without blood coming home in triumph upon the wings of his peoples prayers and votes our divided almost devoured Church restored to some hopeful degrees of peace and soundness our broken almost ruined Nation put into somerepairs and well on the way towards tranquility and plenty Psa 128.6 she saw his childrens children whom love made her own and peace upon Israel and there being nothing on Earth to be seen after these she 's gone to Heaven to see the complement of all sights the blessed face of God and take possession of that City we are still seeking after We seek one to come FINIS