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A17913	A casket of ievvells and precious pearles Set forth in a funerall sermon, preached in Heckfield Church, at the buriall of a religious young gentleman, Mr. Barnabas Creswell, sonne of Mr. Thomas Creswell Esquire, by Nathanael Cannon, Batchelar in diuinitie.	Cannon, Nathanael, 1581 or 2-1664.	1625 (1625)	STC 4575.7; ESTC S115891	12,655	78

dye as olde Pollicarpus tels his tormentors according as Eusebius stories it vnto vs I am this day saith hee fourescore yeares old and I haue hitherto serued my God O blessed age and time well spent in the seruice of God for let vs not thinke to dye the death of the righteous vnlesse wee liue the life of the righteous our conuersation then must be in heauen Phil. 3. and we must liue here in this world euen as the Fishes doe in the Sea who though they liue in the salt and brackish water yet they are fresh So though we liue in the middest of a wicked world yet must wee be fresh and free from the common pollutions of this wicked world Then shall we not fulfill the lusts of the flesh as the vngodly doe for they put too their whole strength they draw sins together and pull them as it were with cart-ropes Esay 5.18 Let the Saints make ready for the comming of the Lord Iesus Christ and cry with them Lord Iesus come quickly Come quickly Lord Iesus The 2. vse belonging to this poynt limits our lamentations I would not haue you ignorant saith the Apostle concerning those that fall asleepe that the sorrow you take bee not like theirs that haue no hope 1. Thes 4.13 no this were to shew that we preferred earth before heauen and the comfort and ioyes of earth before heauen We can tell directly what our meanes and sollaces are here on earth but no eye hath seen nor eare hath heard nor tongue can tell the ioyes that God hath prepared for them that loue him 1. Cor. 2.9 Now this limitation for our mourning is not a prohibition to forbid all mourning for not to be moued at all is to shew a hard heart lesse tender then the bruitish creatures for they will bleate and mone after one another but it is the excesse of mourning that is condemned as Bernard obserues Non culpamus lachrymarum effectum sed excessum not the matter so much as the manner is sometimes to be reproued and surely when Passion settles then shall we see the euill of this violence and when religion sends arguments after the dead as Noah put forth the Doue vpon the abatement of the waters then doe wee or may wee find all that labour lost for they are not lost that are gone before Non sunt amissi sed praemissi and Iobs restaurations may confirme this vnto vs for of all that the Caldeans and Sabeans tooke from him he had it double restored but for his children iust so many as before and why not children two-fold because the children were not lost but at the resurrection should then appeare With this then I wil close vp this first point and so come to the second 2 Part of Diuision The Saints acceptation they are precious in the sight of God When Samael was perswaded that amongst Ishaies sonnes the goodliest should haue had acceptation and so bin King God tels him that he looks not as man doth on the countenance or person but on the heart 1 Sam. 16.7 thence comes our acceptation with God and for that God will regard vs and for nothing else with him there is no respect of persons Acts 10. vntill we come to feare him loue and obey him O then he loues vs dearely then are wee precious in the sight of God And hence may we gather towards a second point of Doctrine teaching vs that the Lords regard toward vs is as our hearts are towards him if we feare him loue him and delight in him then will he delight in vs we shall be precious and deere to him To this the Scriptures doe accord and to begin with that of the 37. Psal 37. Verse Marke the vpright man and behold the iust the latter end of that man shall be peace as who should say such men are worth the marking Againe when God will declare whom he will grace or worship Honorantes honorabo they that honour mee I will honour them 1 Sam. 2.30 and as for them that despise him hee regards them not or as the last translation hath it lightly esteemes them the Lord regards our lowlinesse and humility and will aduance the humble and meeke as the blessed Virgin in her Magnificat Luke 1.48 He regardeth the lowlinesse of his handmaid these are the precious people in the sight of God so precious that if any shall hurt or iniure them it is a battery against God himselfe for so saith the Prophet He that toucheth you or hurteth you toucheth the apple of Gods owne eye Zach. 2.8 Hath not Saul who afterwards is Paul the question to the same purpose Acts 9. Saul Saul why persecutest thou me as who should say I feele the stripes and beare the reproaches done against them O that men thought vpon this as often as they are thornes in the sides of Gods seruants as often as they play vpon them for their profession Now in all these places wee see what tender care God taketh how deere they are to the LORD but of all places that of the 25. of Mathew 40. where the vsage of his Saints is recited O come yee blessed of my Father c. when I was sicke you did visit mee naked clothe mee hungry feed me O Lord say they we neuer saw thee thus in as much as you haue done it to one of these little ones you haue done it to mee Wee will stay here my Brethren and make vse of this Shall these that are so precious in the sight of Vse 1 God be other wise in our eyes All my delight is in the Saints sayth Dauid and surely it is one of the markes of the man that shall haue place in the holy mount euen to make much of them that feare the Lord Psal 15. The contrary vnto this the Apostle reproues Iam. 2. when hee would not haue vs to haue the graces of God in respect of persons we honour riches and make an Idoll of earthly pompe but as for the Saints and Seruants of God we rather expose them to reproach then make them neere vnto vs but because the subiect in hand points vnto the graue I will returne vnto a Vse that shall speake the same language Are the righteous the onely men with God Vse 2 and so precious that their very graues are perfumed and their deaths so regarded O then this bids all the godly entertaine the consideration of a dissolution with good resolution and many motiues will be ready for vs. First we dye not totally it is but the body that is strooke downe the soule is immortall which like the Doue could find no rest for the soale of her foote vntill shee returned vnto the Arke againe Gen. 8. so verily there is no true rest for the soule of man vntill it returne to that God that infused it Secondly we dye not perpetually we shall be put into the darke house for a time but there is a day a blessed day euen the day of the