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A49700	Victory over death a sermon preached at Steeple-Ashton in the county of Wilts, upon the 17th day of April, 1676, at the funeral of Mr. Peter Adams, the late reverend, pious, and industrious minister of Gods word there, sometime fellow of University Colledge in Oxford / by Paul Latham ...	Lathom, Paul.	1676 (1676)	Wing L575; ESTC R7734	32,624	52

as the God of love and peace Add to this his natural and unaffected gravity which as it prevented his years in the beginning so it favoured not of pride or furliness but was a very good ornament to ministerial Authority and left no man just reason to despise him Thirdly let us look upon him in a yet more enlarged capacity as a Christian or a member of the Church of God and thus he left matter of commendation to himself and of imitation to us by his singular sobriety and temperance Wherein possibly through his great self-denial he might have needed St. Paul's advice to Timothy to drink oftner a little Wine for his stomacks sake and his many infirmities 1 Tim. 5.23 Yet certainly his great abstemiousness gave a check to the unhappy fault in others in his presence And yet neither the retiredness and abstemiousness of St. John Baptist nor the sociableness and free conversation of our Saviour shall exempt them from scandal who are set to reprove the sins of a generation of vipers But wisdom is justified of all her children Matth. 11.19 He was also a peaceable man and a peacemaker and therefore answered his title of an Embassador of Peace who is entrusted to dispence that fruit of the lips which is peace peace He was faithful in adhering to the Church of England of which he was a member and a Son as I can witness from what he spake to me not long before his end and as was evident in his earnest desire to receive the Lord's Supper when he apprehended his end to draw nigh But his piety and devotion was so eminent that therein he exceeded most of his age which his private Books will testify Wherein he recorded God's eminent mercies especially spiritual vouchsafed to him and his and also contrary passages of providence in the series of his whole life with pious reflections and ejaculations attending each particular His exemplary diligence in religious duties both retiredly by himself privately with his Wife and also with his Family as also his seriousness in publick exercises will shew that Holiness was his temper Religion his business and Heaven his end and aim And thither let us follow him at least for the present let us attend him to the mount of corruption his sick-bed from whence he took his ascent thither And the relation of God's dealings with him there and of his behaviour under God's hand I must preface with the words of David Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace Psal 37.37 Or with this comparison As the Rivers when they draw near the Ocean into which they discharge themselves begin to receive more of its savour it meeting them upon the way with its brackish waves so this River that had so long made glad the City of God when it was about to disembogue it self into the Ocean of Eternity was vouchsafed to have Heaven to meet it upon the way in the blessed anticipation of an heavenly temper and fruition Witness First his singular patience which had its perfect work in him when exercised under the tediousness and faintness of a lingring distemper attended with failing and nauseousness of appetite interruption of sleep yea and great and exquisite pains which at sometimes he endured towards his later end All which he suffered with great perseverance of patience expressing some jealousie over himself left he should seem to discover the least of impatience in bearing the hand of God Secondly the strength of his Faith whereby he gave glory to God Rom. 4.10 Not staggering at those promises through unbelief of which he had endeavoured to beget a belief in others no not then when the hope of the hypocrite doth perish This vessel of grace was brimful of consolation to use his own expression not in an airy or enthusiastical sense but as the fruit of a stedfast Faith built upon a rock and the accomplishment of those gracious discoveries of his love which God had formerly vouchsafed him in the time of his health especially after great zeal expressed in religious exercises Thirdly His Devotion did not flag or languish in publick he was a burning and shining light even then when he was so far spent as to be advanced to a Prolonger He spent all his Oyl in giving light in the Church of God all his strength was laid out in his Masters work When restrained from Officiating in publick by a Super-sedeas from Heaven yet still in his own person or with the assistance of Christian Friends he continued instant in Prayer yea even then when he was not able to cry or speak till at last he wasted up his Soul to Heaven upon the wings of Prayer And this zealous Elijah was thither Translated as in a Fiery Chariot conducted by those Angels that rejoyce in one Member added either to the Militant or Triumphant Church And now to conclude First give me leave to speak a few words to you my Reverend Brethren of the Clergy and make bold to joyn my self also as an unworthy Brother Let us take my Brethren the Prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord for an example Jam. 5.10 We are taught by our Church devoutly to bless God for all his servants departed this life in his faith and fear and to beseech him to give us grace so to follow their good examples that at last we may inherit his heavenly kingdom We have in this our Reverend Brother an eminent example of piety industry zeal gravity love peaceableness gentleness and usefulness in his Family and amongst all his Relatives such as I will not say to you but to my self I must confess hath afforded matter of regret and shame to consider that in my attainments and the management of my self in my Office I have come far shorter of him then in years Certainly his zeal may help to provoke and kindle Zeal for God in all of us Secondly to you of his Family I would not have you I know you are not ignorant of him that is asleep that you sorrow not as others that have no hope for if ye believe that Jesus dyed and rose again even so him and all others that sleep in Jesus shall God bring with him wherefore comfort one another with these Words 1 Thes 4.13 14 18. Let his memory be always precious with you and his love warm in your hearts let his Example be still before your eyes and the good things that he hath left upon record for your satisfaction and encouragement as to his Eternal estate let them be as Nails and as Goads to you to settle you in goodness and to provoke you to go forward in the wayes of true Piety And though God hath in great mercy placed you above the necessity of a miraculous provision yet I dare boldly say that sooner would God work a Miracle then that the Family of such a Prophet living as becomes such a mans Family should come to want Thirdly Lastly to you of this Parish it is remarkable that God hath blessed you with Able and Worthy men to be Guides to your Souls at least as long as the Eldest of you can remember and which is another mercy that God hath lengthened out their lives among you so that though there have been Removes yet not one Minister of this Parish hath dyed here in above Seventy years last past Here stand still and consider what God could have done more to this his Vineyard which he hath not done But what Fruit hath it brought forth by way of Return I charge not nor censure you in the least but Examine I beseech you your own selves whether you be in the Faith prove your selves Whether Christ be formed in you Let every man prove his own Works Again Let the memory of Gods faithful Ministers be pretious among you especially of this Worthy Person now with God Be not of them that hate and malign them that reprove in the Gate Pray God to raise you up a Pastor after his own heart a Faithful and able man that may feed this people with the words of wholsom doctrine and lead them by the pattern of an holy and exemplary life Remember them that have spoken to you in the name of the Lord whose Faith follow knowing the end of their conversation Heb. 13.7 For your Fathers where are they and the Prophets do they live for ever but Gods Word and his Statutes which he commanded his servants the Prophets did they not take hold on your Fathers and will they not take hold on you Zech. 1.5 6. Be ye not therefore slothful but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the Promises that when the last Enemy that is to be destroyed shall assault you it may come disarmed of a Sting that ye may be able to say triumphantly O Death where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Victory thanks be to God that giveth us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ Which God of his Mercy grant through the Merits of him who through Death overcame him that had power of Death even the Devil Now to the Blessed Trinity be Glory and Dominion for ever and ever Amen FINIS