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A40518	Yadidyah or, The beloved disciple A sermon preached at the funerall of the Honourable Sir Robert Harley, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath; at Brampton-Brian in Hereford-shire. December 10. 1656. By Thomas Froysell, minister of the Gospell at Clun in Shropshire.	Froysell, Thomas, d. ca. 1672.	1658 (1658)	Wing F2249; ESTC R202027	40,790	144

things He would repeat often saying He knew no such Cordialls Thirdly His Victory over Sathan It pleased God about two years since to permit Satan to buffet him severall times once he lay all night and slept not and he was heard to say often Lord rebuke the Tempter Lord give Victory Lord be Gracious with these Expressions he spent five or six hours in the morning he spake very chearfully and said he would be laid to sleep and having taken quiet Rest he awaked and said that all the sins of his life had been laid before him that night and those things he said that he had long forgotten he then Remembred He said the Tempter had been very busie but blessed be God I did not sleep untill I had made my peace with God through Jesus Christ Then he chearfully said a little while after God may let Satan buffet us for a time but he shall never prevaile after this his chearfulnesse continued without interruption Fourthly His willingnesse to die He was wont to say Many wish to live over their lives againe that they might mend what had been amisse I would not be to live over my life again least I should make it worse I would not for all the world be young again because I would not be so far from Heaven And he would say to his Children when he had them about him I have taught you how to live and I hope I shall teach you how to die Fifthly His patience under his sharp sufferings His disease was Stone and Palsie and they that know these must look for Tortures yet in his sharpest Pains and Torments he would mollifie them with this consideration That is Best which God cloth He would often say The will of the Lord be done above all and in all for that is best of all and he would support himselfe under his sharp pains with this Meditation Heaven will make amends for all and sometimes when asked how he did he would answer Poor but going to Heaven as fast as I can his lips like an honey combe would drop such sweet Expressions as these If the Lord see it best for me that the stone in the Bladder should be the way to bring me to Heaven his will be done It is better to die of the stone in the Bladder than of the stone in the heart Thus if you observe he fed his Patience under the divine hand with divine arguments That place of Scripture I Cor. 10. 13. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man but God is faithfull who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able He did often mention with joy saying it was the first place whereby God gave him Comfort and some few days before his death when he was in much pain he said Blessed be God who brings this place with comfort to me whereby I had received first joy and so repeated those words There is no Temptation c. adding further Blessed be God Blessed be what comes in the the name of the Lord Lord be gracious Thus you see his Admirable Patience Sixthly His love to the Glory of God and the Church of God To joy under great afflictions is a hard matter water quencheth fire yet his joy in that which concern'd God his affliction could not extinguish he was wont to pray constantly since the ruines and desolations of Brampton that God would restore the Gospel hither and two days before his death he rejoyced exceedingly when he was told that this Place of Publick worship was finished About three days before his Death when he arose and went to prayer as he constantly used to do though not able to Enlarge in Prayer because of weaknesse he Prayed for the Ruine of Antichrist for the Churcher of God beyond Sea naming Savoy Switzerland Germany Upon the Fifth of November though very weak and under great pains yet he blessed God for the Great mercy of that Day to the Church and the Nation and to himself who was of the Parliament when the Powder Plot was intended for the many Mercies God had vouchsafed him to see since that time in the Church and in his own Family for his Lady the mother of his children who he said was gon to Heaven before him and for his Childrens Children and for his Hearing which being lost God restored him perfectly Thus the day before he dyed he kept A day of Thanksgiving to God for all his former mercies oh what spiritual and Angelical Elevation of heart was this his soul was Musical like the Swan he sang before his death which leads me to another Branch Seventhly his faith assurance a godly Minister speaking to him concerning his dissolution he said what matter is it if my poor cottage be falling here below I am sure of a fair house upon the Top of yonder hill A day or two before his Death the 5 of Job being read to him in course he said he that hath been with me in six troubles will not leave me in the seventh And lastly having like good old Jacob given his blessing to all his Children that were then at home and to his Grandchildren desiring the Lord to blesse and sanctifie them particularly I say having don this about an hour before his death though under Extream Pain he said Blessed be God for this quiet Peace Thus his Peace with God shined like a Candle in his heart till his lamp of life went out with these last words I die Lord be Gracious In the flame of these words his soule like the Angell of God that appeared to Manoah ascended and went up to Heaven Thus this Glorious Saint went up to Glory In the best times there were few or none better in these declining times he hath left almost none like him among us I pray God to double the Spirit of deceased Elijah upon his surviving Elisha The Lord repair the Ruines of this Castle and build up this Great Family for the Glory of his Name in these Parts Before I leave I cannot but tell you how God hath taken Three brave men of late from us The First upon whom the lot fell was Mr. Richard More of Linley the next was Mr. Humphrey Walcot of ●alcot and now it hath fallen upon Renowned Sir Rubert Harley I mention them here together because these Three were the Triangles of our Country and whilst they lived were special friends and of one heart for God in the concernments of his Gopell And now I have done onely to put you in mind a little of your selves you see you are dying creatures oh then Consider your later End The consideration of our last End should be the Exercise of our First thoughts to consider our end would be the end of our sins and the Resurrection of our Repentance Ashes keep fire alive so this consideration that we are Dust and Ashes will keep our Graces alive FINIS

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR The Beloved Disciple A SERMON PREACHED At the Funerall of the Honourable Sir ROBERT HARLEY Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath at Brampton Brian in Hereford-shire December 10. 1656. By THOMAS FROYSELL Minister of the Gospell at Clun in Shropshire CANT 4. 9. Thou hast ravished my heart my Sister my Spouse Thou hast ravished mine Heart with One of thine Eyes with One chain of thy neck Chap. 7. 6. How Faire and how Pleasant art Thou O L●ve for Delights London Printed by M. S. for Thomas Pa●khurst at the three Crowns over against the Great Conduit at the lower end of Cheapside 1658. Imprimatur Edmond Calamy Academiae Cantabrigiensis Liber TO Colonell Edward Harley Eldest Son of the Famous Sir Robert Harley Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath SIR THough your Own Vertues Spring you Rivers of Honour in the Hearts of Gods people yet the Tyde of your Fathers Worth flowing in brim's the banks Much of your Honour lyeth in being the Son of Sir Robert Harley a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prov. 17. 6. 'T is your Honour to be the Son of such a Father and 't was his b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Menan apud Stob. Joy to be the Father of such a Son Truth is a good Father is Gods Gift to the Son and a good Son is Gods Gift to the Father § 2. Yet you must not think to lye so Fresh and Orient in the opnion of Many Christians of these Times They have changed their Opinion of Truth it selfe and therefore much more of Her Children c Ver●● a●mo● constantiâ probatur Ambros Epi. 40. Quos amor verus tenuit tenebit S●● in Thyes● They are not Now what they were before They forsake the Light and then say that Others are in the Dark They that change their Principles Stella c●dens non est stella Cometa fuit will change their Judgements of you and all that are like you I conceive the Death of Prophane men is Indigestion through a mortall Coldnesse in their stomack not turning the food of life at all into Nutriment The Death of these Men is over-digestion d Fit etiam assa●io a calore praeternaturali in epace cum nutrimentum aduritur Humidumque sine modo extrahitur c. unde lepra lichene● scabi●s c. Rod. Goden As immoderate Heat in the bodily digestion exhausting and burning up the humid moysture of the nourishing matter breeds Leprosies Ring-worms Tetters and Scabs So in Religion a preter-naturall Heat heightning the Concoction into adust Choller of Pride and zeal begets Leaprousies of Opinions Errours Separations Contentions and Scabs of Rayling against the Ordinances and Ministers of Jesus Christ e Vti neque qui● ex alimento fit sanguis ex sanguine spiritus eò hauriendus est sanguis nam quae jam eò perfectionis de●ênere ut sint sanguis vel humor roscidus u●●eriori concoctione siunt deteriora Ger. Joh. V●ssi●s When Religion is come to its Due Perfection or Digestion so as to become bloud and spirits in us by farther Concoction is made worse Every Degree beyond that tends destructive to the spirituall Estate These Men are as inflamed Enemies to the Growth of the Gospell as those that are Prophane and truly their Reproaches f A malis vituperari laud●●i●est Sen. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●ixit Anaxag are our Honours but I hope you will tread in your g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. N●z brave Fathers steps and stick close to the Good old way of Truth and Godlinesse § 3. Sir This Sermon such a one as it is You had ●●●●●ved it long ago as soon as You ●●lled for it had not God given me other worke Passive work to undergo The Cloud of God upon me and my Family which hung long upon us wrapt me up in sad Diversions I hope the h Heb. 1● 1● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost Result of it will be the Peaceable fruit of Righteousnesse § 4. Sir The Subject of the Sermon is the Gracious Saint as the Object of Gods Love Who the more lovely the more beloved because he hath the more of God in Him for God to love i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost Gods Love to man is the Wonder of the World and should be the Stupefaction and Ecstacy of the Saints What is Man that thou art mindfull of him Man laid himselfe so low that He was not worthy of one thought of God k A Deo Amari exuperat omnem mundi favorem a Deo Inhabitari exupera● omnem mundi Splendorem magnificentiam Salom Glassius The love of God is the Saints unvaluable Treasury Their Joy here their Heaven hereafter If the Early Glimmerings of Gods love upon a soul shroud so much Joy within their beams what will the Meridian Rayes of Glory be when they shall be revealed l Quomod● possemus illum diligere nisi prior ille diligeret si pigri eramus ad amandum non simus Pigri ad redamandum August 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarc If God love us so much How should we love God! Oh then how should Our End be his Honour which is All he hath from us for All we hold of him None know his Love till they feel their Love to him § 5. If it were Possible we should live above repentance so to Act that we need not to Repent Though Repentance be a great Grace yet t is greater Wisdome m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epicharm apud Stob. not to sin that we may not need the salve of Repentance a Medicine is very Precious yet not to wound our selves is far better that so we may not need the medicine Repentance is n 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dixit Pindar a Grace of After-wisdome oh let us be the Sons of Prometheus rather than of Epimetheus Not to sin is better than to Repent when we have sinned § 6. How Choyce should we be how we Act our life since we have but One life to Act We have not a o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epic. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eurip. brace of lives here that we might Correct in the other what we have done amisse in the first that we might Recover in the latter what we have lost in the former We have but One Arrow of life to hit the Mark with and if we shoot that at Random we loose All God will not put a second Arrow into our bow again we had need then be good Archers with One Arrow § 7. Yet alas how little of our time do we live Ourwhole Volume of Time is but a short Compendium a Moment to Eternity yet how little of this little do we live to God or to our souls The Heathens observed that p 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Sleep divides half our life with us and takes half from us Sleep is the dead part of our life q