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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44826	The benefit of a well-ordered conversation as it was delivered in a sermon preached June 24th. 1682. On a day of publick humiliation. As also a funeral discourse upon the three first verses of the third chapter of Isaiah; occasioned by the death of the worshipful Major General Denison; who deceased at Ipswich, Sept. 20. 1682. By Mr. William Hubbard. To which is annexed an Irenicon or a salve for New-England's sore: penned by the said major general; and left behind him as his farewell and last advice to his friends of the Massachusets.	Hubbard, William, 1621 or 2-1704.; Denison, Daniel, 1613-1682. Irenicon.	1684 (1684)	Wing H3208; ESTC W9576	81,919	262

excellent spirit the Hebrew is of a Cool i. e. Sedate Composed temper not too much over heated with the fire of Anger Be not hasty saith he also to go out of the presence of him who hath power to do what he pleaseth David was too sudden in his determination about Mephibosheth case thou and Zibah divide the Land before he had taken so much time as to hear the allegations on either side Audi alteram partem i. e. hear the other side was a maxime of wisdom in antient time So was that also Secundoe cogitationes sunt meliores or second thoughts are better David had leisure enough afterward to repent of his sudden rash command to Joab to number the people The next or shortest way to the end is not always the best and safest It is better sometimes to march about to gain the wind than to fall directly upon the Enemy as David at Baal-Perazim So 't was said Charles sir-named the wise King of France overcame our Edward the third by Policy and Deliberation which his Father could not do by all his power 8. Wisdom teacheth men to govern their passions our passions both of love and hatred are violent and must be restrained else they may endanger the whole man Solomon calls them Fools who suffer anger to rest in their bosom He that lets the Sun go down upon his wrath may be like to have the Devil for his Bed-fellow saith one Samson's violence in his love makes him lose his life and his liberty in the issue many do by their Souls as the Mariners did by their Ship wherein Paul sailed for so losing Rudder bands of Reason they spread the Sail of all their power and endeavours and to commit themselves to the winds and waves of their passions which violently drive them upon the Rocks or Sands where they suffer Ship-wreck of all that is Embarqued Abigail who had been the prudent Wife of a rich Fool wisely reproves David for his passion who at other times was counted wise as an Angel of God 9. Wisdom makes men humble and lowly of heart in imitation of him in whom are hid all the Treasures of wisdom as well politically as spiritually for so our Saviour convinces the Pharisees of their folly as well as pride in taking the uppermost seats at the first hand as they come into the Feast whereas if they had wisely taken lower Seats at first they might with honour have been advanced whereas afterwards some of them were forced with shame to give place to their betters Wise men cannot but see great reason to be humble because a double promise is annexed thereunto both by being advanced by God himself and of being taught by him also Therefore seeing God himself hath made humility the way to honour he is not a wise man that shall refuse to walk therein A poor and wise Child is preferred before an old and foolish King that is too high to receive an Admonition A wise mans head will never be broken by a reproof Out of the Prison the wise Joseph and David cometh to Reign when he that may be is born Heir to a Kingdom becometh poor by his Pride as did Absalom and Amaziah 10 Wisdom makes men confident and bold as well as Righteousness because they trust in the Lord and build upon the sure Foundation of his Word who is the Rock of Ages Hence are they called wise Builders that build on this Foundation as they are also called wise Virgins that lay such foundation of their hopes as will bear them up in times of greatest dismaying for such shall not be afraid of evil tidings because they are fixed in the truth trusting in the Name of the Lord. If these be properties of a prudent Man the greater must their loss needs be who have lost a Commander Counsellor Companion Husband Father Friend or Benefactor so qualified which losses God sometimes brings upon an unthankful World to punish them for ingratitude and upon his people to teach them to live by Faith and not to lean upon broken Reeds of humane wisdom and power God doth not need the wisdom of a Solomon or counsel of an Achitophel or policy of a Machiavel to govern the World by although he doth sometimes diffuse here and there more radiant beams of that excellent quality to make others imitate their Examples and Virtues It still may be an enquiry a virtuous or prudent Man or Woman who shall find their price is about Rubies for wisdom is Gods special gift not an acquirement of our own endeavours therefore we must ask it of God VSE See what cause of lamentation is before us We have been sadly bereaved of Men of such Worth as is expressed in the Text many of excellent endowments in other respects are yet great strangers to Prudence which is a lamentation and should be for a lamentation There are but few men born into the World in any age in whom all these desirable qualities are eminently met together And none in these parts of the World if that be not too great a word to say in whom so many or more of such honourable endowments were joyned together in such a degree The greater is our sorrow who are now met together to solemnize the Funeral of a person of so great worth enriched with so many Excellencies which made him neither live undesired nor die unlamented nor go to his Grave unobserved Former Ages of the World knew not how to bestow Elogies high and large enough upon those whose wisdom transcended the reach of ordinary Mortals or whose Heroick and worthy Acts either in time of War or peace rendred them so useful and beneficial unto others Hence David call'd upon the Daughters of Israel to weep over Saul and Jonathan who clothed you in Scarlet with the like lamentation doth the same David lament over Abner the Captain of the Host Is there not a Prince and a great man faln this day in Israel so in a sense may it be said here A great man is fallen in our little Israel And David himself while he lived was honoured as the Angel of God for his wisdom although his exiquies were attended with a less degree of mourning because of the illustrious Wisdom of his Successour that began so early to appear to the dazling the eyes of all beholders before his Fathers Sun was quite set The Globe of the natural World made up of Heaven and Earth is a fit resemblance of the state of the Moral or Rational World and the transaction of Affairs therein where some men are as far exalted above others as the Heaven is above the Earth for what makes the visible Heavens so conspicuous and glorious above the opake dark body of the Earth beneath but the bright glittering Stars with which it is bespangled some of which are continually setting beneath as others are ascending above the Horizon yet may it safely be said that if all the Stars of the first magnitude were