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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00426	A learned and godly sermon preached on the XIX. day of December, anno Dom. MDCXXXI. at the funerall of Mr. Robert Bolton Batchelour in Divinity and minister of Broughton in Northampton-Shire. By Mr. Nicolas Estvvick, Batchelour in Divinity, and sometimes fellow of Christs College in Cambridge, and now minister of Warkton in Northampton-Shire. Revised and somewhat enlarged by the author, and now at the importunity of some friends published	Estwick, Nicolas.	1639 (1639)	STC 10558; ESTC S122205	46,169	72

lesse he is beloved of them and doe wish from their hearts that hee might not live amongst them but do labour to make him weary of his life by vexing him casting many times the very name of a Priest as a terme of reproach upon his face the abundance of this Manna and bread from Heaven makes them to loath it and the Messenger that brings it The reasons of both 1. Because such men feele not their sin nor their misery for sin 2. Nor tast the comfort sweetnesse and power of grace 3. Nor doe consider that Presbyters are GODS hands to conveigh graces to them hence do these fellowes scorne them in their hearts and so have as it were a brand set upon them to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Atheists irreligious persons and despisers of CHRIST as that ancient and holy Father Ignatius phraseth them Fourthly this consideration that the life of a good Pastour is more profitable then his death should put us in mind of a duty to mourne and grieve for the departure of an eminent member in the Church GOD is not like to the Persian Kings in whose presence no mourners were suffered to come but godly mourners are alwaies welcome to GOD. See the practise of this duty but in one example the devout men that buried Stephen made great lamentation over him though Stephen was a Martyr and which was his honour the first Martyr too and if I well remember a Martyr saith if there be any way to heaven on horsebacke it is by Martyrdome yet did devout men make great lamentation over Stephen See the bowels of men indued with GODS Spirit they are full of affection full of tendernesse so that the streames thereof do overflow the banks and good reason they have fewer friends remaining and fewer helpers fewer prayers are made unto GOD and fewer remaine to whom they may doe good and from whom they may receive good And according to this present occasion let us practise a duty which we owe in regard of our deceased brother even to mourne away with that Stoicall opinion which allowes not their wise man to sigh or change countenance at any crosse accident this neither sorts with religion nor reason No we have cause all of us to mourne not you only of this Towne but your neighbours round about you nay this whole Country and say as Elisha to Elija my father my father the Chariots and the horsemen of Israel he by his fastings often and extraordinary prayers often hath stood in the gap and mightily wrastled with the LORD to keep away judgements and like another Elijah hath left his mantle or Dorcas her garments for the poore some godly works the fruits of a sanctified heart and braine behind him and many no doubt are strangled in the wombe by his death which shall never see light Touching the beginning of his studies they were not so commendable as could have beene wished he was tainted by his Schoolemaster in his youth and continued a Papist in heart at Oxford certaine yeeres and resolved with one Anderton his schoole-fellow to have gone to the Seminaries beyond the sea but GOD happily crossed that designe and effectually calling him to the sight of his sins and the light of his truth drew good out of that evill and taught him so much the more to detest Popery and to discover hypocrisie and dissimulation in GODS worship and in ordinary conversation above the ordinarie straine of Writers How industrious a student he was in the University his many note bookes left behind him will beare witnesse and how well reputed he was for his learning as his other exercises so his publike disputations before King JAMES will testifie But Learning is nothing Industry is nothing to be praised before GOD without grace grace hath the preheminence and gives the luster to all the rest the LORD enriched his heart with a great measure of grace hence is it that his life was unstained and without reproofe though he was not freed from infirmities yet he was from crimes Hence it was that he was so laborious in his Ministery a true student he was all his daies as appeares by his library though great yet very few bookes in it which were not read over and noted in the margent and he attained that high straine of grave eloquence familiar to him scarce imitable by any others you were twise a weeke ordinarily fed with Sermons and Catechismes and with the Exposition of Scripture on Holy daies which would have beene acceptable wholesome foode I am sure to the most learned auditory of the Land And though he was so great a Clerke and so famous yet was not he ambitious nor sought great matters for himselfe and he doth beseech an honourable Knight to whom he dedicated his last booke and all others in him to doe him that favour nay that right nay that honour not to conceive that he had a thought that way His heart was set on the right object and the bent of his study was for matter of Sanctification both of himselfe and of his hearers for himselfe he could professe and O that all Priests and Pastors could do the like he did I say professe to his comfort on his death bed that he never taught any godly point but he first wrought it on his owne heart towards others he was a powerfull instrument to batter the kingdome of the divell he was a downe-right Preacher and spared no sins he made many an unconverted sinner to quake and to tremble at his discourses as Felix did at Pauls and cast them into a strong fit of legall humiliation he was an instrument to pull many captives out of Satans snares many of you can step forth and say he was my spirituall father he had a searching Ministery to discover the hidden abominations of sin to strengthen and increase the graces of those that did stand to quicken those that languished many have cause to blesse GOD for him and do owe even themselves unto him as Philemon did to Paul From this spectacle before our eyes all of us may learne something for our imitation doth any one prophane GODS ordinances by a dissembled religion let him forsake it and flie from it as from a serpent for I speake to the glory of GODS mercy turning his face from Babylon to Ierusalem so did our deceased brother doth any one walk before GOD with an upright heart let him hold out to the end run his race and finish his course both in health and sicknesse for so did our deceased brother A great man great in worth is fallen in our Israel there will be a great losse of him his wife shall find the losse of a gracious husband his children shall find the losse of a gracious father his sheep shall find the losse of a gracious shepheard we of the Ministery shall find the losse of a grave learned a gracious brother the devout