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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59397	A sermon design'd for the funeral of Ed. Wiseman Esq late of East-Lockinge in the county of Berks. Who was buried at Stevinton near Abingdon November the ninth, 1694. By Will. Sevill, Master of Arts, and Fellow of C.C.C. Oxford. Published at the request of many gentlemen of Berks.	Sevill, William, b. 1667 or 8.	1694 (1694)	Wing S2818A; ESTC R221098	13,819	37

us therefore Phil. 3.14 press towards the mark for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus and set our affections on things above and not on things on the earth Col. 3.2 always remembring the Wise-man's Words Prov. 11.4 that Riches profit not in the day of wrath but Righteousness delivereth from death And whatever fair Offers or Enticing promises of this World's Treasures be made or given unto us upon our compliance with sinful terms As Moses refus'd to be call'd the son of Pharaoh's Daughter Heb. 11.24 because he had a respect unto the recompence of reward so let us contemn the like Proposals for the same reason choosing rather as he did to suffer affliction with the people of God Ver. 25. than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season And indeed as the pleasures of sin are but for a season or of a short continuance so are they base in themselves and end in bitterness Be they in appearance never so specious yet in the Wise-man's Language they bite like a serpent Prov. 23.32 and sling like an adder they lead down to the Chambers of Death and their way is the way to Hell Ch. 7.27 Wherefore let us consider the dignity of our Nature and the Excellency of our Religion and let not brutish Sence lead Us so basely captive to whom GOD has given Reason to be our Guide and of whom He now requires Faith as our Support against Temptations and our Glory in our Conquest of them And that it may not let us following these Exhortations mortify our members that are upon earth Col. 3.5 and as the Apostle himself infers having these promises 2 Cor. 7.1 let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of Flesh and Spirit perfecting Holiness in the fear of God For as all our future and everlasting Happiness proceedeth from the Vision of Him so are we certain that without Holiness no Man shall ever see Him And as thus we should be upon our guard lest either the Hopes of this World's profits and honours or the enticements of its pleasures should so far prevail as to seduce us out of those paths that lead to Blessedness so should we also lest the fears of affliction should drive us from them Wherefore rather than do any ill Action let us suffer every ill thing The Powers and the Rage of this World can lay upon us reckoning with the Apostle Rom. 8.18 That the sufferings of this present life are not worthy to be compar'd with the glory that shall be revealed in us So shall we be prepar'd for all conditions of Life and every thing that can beset us and thereby approve our selves as true Sons of our CHURCH as this our Deceased Brother was Whose Faith in JESUS and Whose stedfastness to our Religion I need not tell many Persons here to have been truly such as the changes of the World could never alter In the close of all Hold fast as He did the profession of your faith without wavering Heb. 10.23 for he is faithful that has promised and be ye stedfast 1 Cor. 15.58 unmoveable always abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as you know that your labour will not be in vain in the Lord. For since He who 't is impossible should act any thing in vain or be disappointed of His Ends did condescend to a most painful and shameful Death that all such as dye in the Lord might be advanc'd to an Everlasting Life of Pleasure and Glory Certainly when he had overcome the sharpness of that Death He opened the Kingdom of Heaven to all Believers And Now To God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost Three Persons and One God be ascribed all Dominion Power and Glory both now and for ever Amen

as long as we enjoy the Powers of Thinking by being Living Men let us not forget this great and weighty Truth that the Voice from Heaven for our Comfort and Salvation declared and confirmed by the Seal of GOD that so we may not faint in our Travels whilst we are labouring to abound in the work of the Lord to obtain that Blessedness that is the sure Reward prepared for those that dye in Him In a brief Application then of all The Persons that dye in the Lord are all those that depart this Life having sincerely endeavoured to the end to keep the Commandments of GOD upon their failure been truly Penitent and by a lively Faith in CHRIST committed themselves to his Mercy And that there are incomprehensible Degrees of Blessedness in the Mansions Above prepared for all such Persons I believe no well-disposed Reason of Man can after this remain unconvinced and if he has any Faith in JESUS must I am sure be fully satisfied since that is the Substance of this Blessedness hoped for in him and the evidence of Joyful things to come hereafter and as yet not seen Wherefore having this satisfaction by this Voice from Heaven as also by many other Declarations of our Saviour and his Apostles who all confirm'd the Truth of what they taught by frequent and unparallel'd Miracles Be the Labours the Cares the Crosses the Persecutions and Afflictions of this Life never so numerous or so grievous to Flesh and Blood let not the sence of such momentary Afflictions ever so far vex or depress our Souls as to make us either murmur at GOD's Providence or despair of his Mercy or be unmindful of the Eternal weight of Glory Act. 14. ver 22. whereinto through much Tribulation we are foretold we must expect to enter and where the Angel proclaim'd is the patience of the Saints Saints who tho' once were sailing in these troubled waters yet because they made not Shipwrack of a good Conscience but by Faith bore themselves up from sinking in the Waves are now arrived at their ever-quiet Haven whose Number my Hope yea Confidence is the Soul of this our Deceased Brother has encreased who in time of his Affliction yea amidst his greatest Pains submitted himself to God's Visitation with a wonderful Calmness and Serenity of Spirit much like unto His who said Not my Will O Father but thine be done Who having purged his Conscience from dead and sinful Works to serve the living God and thereby being filled with the well-grounded hopes of a blessed Immortality thro' Jesus Christ Faced his approaching Hour with that truly Christian Fortitude that he shew'd himself as Unconcern'd at the sence of its usual Terrours as the Apostle did when he sang Triumphantly this Epinichion O Death where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Victory But Secondly Since Labours and Afflictions by an unavoidable Necessity accompany all living and since inconceivable Pleasures in an infinitely blessed State are the everlasting Portion of those that Dye in the Lord Let us always remember the great Advantage they have by their Change who dye the Death of the Righteous and thence learn not over-much to lament our Loss by their Departure GOD for many wise Reasons more than the Wisest of us can discern takes the Righteous to himself from the Evil that is and is to come and 't is or at least it should be our Prayer that He would be pleas'd shortly to accomplish the Number of his Elect and hasten his Kingdome and therefore as well in submission to the unsearchable Methods of Divine Providence as in compliance with other Christian Duties we should check those Passions that are apt to exceed the Bounds allowable to natural Affection whenever they arise to an high Degree upon the sence of our Loss by the Departure of our Friends By Death they are freed from the Labours and Miseries of this World and if their last End were like his whose Funeral we are now attending they are Rejoycing in the Ease and Pleasures of the Other and therefore tho' Lamentation and Mourning may plead very strongly for themselves upon this Occasion when GOD has Deprived a most tenderly Affectionate Wife of an Husband who never in any thing Contended with her unless it were to exceed her in Kindness When he has been pleased to take from a Family a Father rather than a Brother from the Neighbourhood a Composer of their Differences and a Guardian of their Rights from the Poor a Reliever of their Necessities and from all his Acquaintance from the highest to the lowest an Affable Courteous and True-hearted Friend One who was always an Enemy to PAGEANTRY ☞ HYPOCRISY and PRIDE and tho' abounding with this World 's Good could never by any One be charged as the Prince of Tyre is by the Prophet that his Heart was lifted up because of his Riches Eze. 28. ver 5. Tho' I say the sence of these Losses by so Worthy a Gentleman's Death which I should more largely insist upon were it not my Design to allay your Sorrows may very strongly incline us over-much to Lament and Grieve yet when in one Minute we look upon our selves and his just Character and Sigh upon the sence of our Loss let us in the Next consider his happy State and Comfort our selves upon the Thoughts of his infinite Gain for should his Spirit return to us he Himself would Advise us not to Weep for him but t● Weep for our selves who now are in the midst of our labours whilst he rests from them who now are working whilst he is rewarded Thirdly and lastly Since all those that dye in the Lord are Blest with Eternal Joys that none can comprehend but that GREAT GOD that gives them and those Happy Souls that by His Favour do now possess them notwithstanding the wonderful and unspeakable Greatness of them and their Eternity Shall we ever be so seduc'd as by Apostacy from our Faith in CHRIST and Obedience to His Precepts to forfeit our Title to them either for the hope of Temporal Profits and Honours or the sake of sensual Pleasures or the Fear of worldly Afflictions Alas all Temporal Advantages even the greatest of all earthly Felicities had they a Sufficiency in themselves to satisfy our Desires and could we be secure of their Duration or Continuance with us yet at best can attend us no farther than this present Life which is as a vapour and a Shadow and passeth away like a tale that is told When we please our selves most in the Thoughts of enjoying them GOD many times is pleas'd to interpose Himself and cut us off And to say to our Souls Luke 12.19 take your ease eat drink and be merry because as we think there is much goods laid up for many years is so sandy a foundation to build upon that our Lord hath faid THOU FOOL Ver. 20. to him that doth it For this night our Souls may be required of us Let