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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67488	Peace and rest for the upright being a sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Dr. John Bryan, sometime minister of Trinity in Coventry / by that worthy preacher of Gods Word, Mr. Nath. Wanley ...	Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.	1681 (1681)	Wing W707; ESTC R38419	9,395	24

PEACE and REST FOR The Upright BEING A SERMON PREACHED At the FUNERAL of the REVEREND D r. Iohn Bryan sometime Minister of Trinity in Coventry By that Worthy Preacher of Gods Word Mr. NATH WANLEY Master of Arts Deceased and Successor to the said Doctor in the aforesaid Parish LONDON Printed for Iohn Smith Bookseller in Coventry 1681. Peace and Rest for the Upright Esaiah 57. Verse 2. He shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds each one walking in his uprightness THE Life of Man is compared in Scripture unto sundry things upon different and various accounts in respect of the brevity and shortness of it St. Iames tells us it is a vapour that appears for a little while and soon vanisheth away And in this respect it may be said of every one of us as Virgil once did of his Marcellus God shews him to the World only and so recalls him God presents us here a while upon the Theatre of the World for to act our parts and then sends us into the retiring Room the Grave the place appointed for all that are living So short is Mans stay in the World that Iob allows him none at all Naked came I into the World and naked shall I return saith he Here is coming and returning out but not a word of tarrying here The time of life is so inconsiderable that Solomon the wisest of men would grant him none at all There is a time saith he for every thing under the Sun a time to be born and a time to dye As if he would have us to understand that the middle time betwixt our birth and our death that is the time of life was not to be reckoned upon at all So that you see not onely every mans life is a Vapour but less in respect of its shortness But the good and holy man hath his Life compared to other things upon other Considerations Upon the account of his hardship and perpetual fighting and watching his frequent encounter with enemies and his continual obligation to duty A good mans life is called a warfare 2 Cor. 10. 4. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds And upon the account of his toyl and trouble weariness and continual travel upon the account of his absence from the Lord and his daily tendency to Heaven which is his proper home So the Life of a good man is called a Pilgrimage saith the Patriarch Iacob Few and evil have been the dayes of the years of the life of my pilgrimage But as the Warriour fights not without a prospect of Peace Pax quaeritur bello Peace is the end of War And as the weary Pilgrim doth not Travel but in hopes of an after-rest So God almighty for the encouragement of his Soldiers in the Fight and his Pilgrim in the Journey he hath set before him as in the glass of the Promse these two most suitable things for him Peace and Rest for so saith the Text He shall enter into peace c. Where we have 1. A Promise or Priuiledg they shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds like Issachar the Son of Iacob here they do couch under the double burdens of Warr and Weariness of Want and Weakness but peace and rest these will ease them of all they suffer supply all they want recruit them with new additions of strengths They shall enter into peace c. And now I have but named that word Peace methinks I may say as Leah concerning her Son Gad Behold a Troop cometh For under this name are couched all those Favours and Blessings of God which have the Sweetest Significations All the Joyes and Beatitudes that are so numerous and full bloomed here but ripe in Heaven They shall enter into peace Some read it and so your margin Go in peace depart the World with Serenity and Satisfaction with inward Quiet and Repose But 2. Others read it He shall go into peace that is shall be received into Heaven where the God of Peace is the righteous man shall be there he shall enter into peace that is to note it is the priviledg of the Soul especially First for this is the man the He the Soul is the Jewel the Body is but the Caskinet the Soul the principal the other bnt the appurtenance and they shall rest in their beds that is the priviledg of the Body not Soul it shall be laid down to repose it self in the Grave which Jesus Christ hath perfumed as in a bed till such time the Morning of the Resurrection begin to dawn and the Trump of the Arch-Angel to sound then it shall rise from thence and enter into the Souls Peace 2. Here is a description of the Persons to whom these priviledges appertain We need not say as the Eunuch of Queen Candace when he read a passage out of this Prophet Of whom spake the Prophet this of himself or some other man For the Prophet hath told us Each one walking in his uprightness Whosoever he is that doth deal justly with Man and walks equally that is Conscientiously with God he shall have this priviledg of Rest and Peace He shall enter into peace and rest in his bed 3. When this Priviledg and Promise shall be imparted to them When shall they be instated and put into the actual possession and injoyment of this priviledge It is true that this is not expressed in the Text but strongly implyed and is fairly to be taken notice of as the words of the Text have relation to the words going before The righteous perishing that is dying and merciful men taken away that is by death out of the World Then it is told what Death takes them from They are taken from the Evil to come And here followes in the Text what death brings them to They shall enter into peace So the intent is this That as death comes to a good man with a Dart in one hand to kill him and a Spade in the other to bury him So he brings him Flowers that shall be able to keep him sweet Peace for his Soul and Rest for his Body and this is the time he shall be put in injoyment of it From all the Point is this That when a Righteous man dyes he enters upon the estate of Peace and Rest. I will only give you two Scriptures for this which two Scriptures may be instead of a Thousand Psalm 37. Verse 37. Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace His end is as his death is at that time he hath peace It may be not at the beginning not in the middle of his life but at the end It 's possible that his morning may be cloudy and over-cast his Sun may suffer an Eclipse at Noon-day a darkness may come upon his Meridian glory but his Night his End this shall be Clear and Fair Still and Quiet Pleasant and

Incense when any Plague is begun with a People And that stand betwixt the living and the dead I have read of Philo Iudeus and St. Ambrose that coming to any Place and Town if they heard of the death of any able Minister or godly Person they would burst out into tears as considering that place to have lost a considerable part of its defence You know Sodom could not burn as long as Lot was in it nor Hippo be taken as long as St. Austin was in it But still they were a defence to the place where they were In all these respects we have a considerable Loss in the death of this great and good man whose Funeral we now Celebrate Of whom I will say this in short He was a Person of such Real Worth as is as hard almost to express as imitate Most of you knew him well but perhaps few of you better than my self And in Reverence to his Memory To provoke my self and you to an imitation of his Exemplary Vertue and Grace I shall give you this short account of it He was a man of uncessant Labours and indefatigable pains as God had lent him a strong and able body for many years So he spared it not at all but made it serve him in that insatiable thirst and desire he had after Humane and Divine Knowledg And this Diligence of his was Crowned with an answerable Blessing from above being arrived in point of Ability as another Saul higher than his Brethren by the head and shoulders Especially in Political and Polemical Divinity He was like Nehemiah upon the Wall a Sword to defend as well as a Trowel to build up So to this Eminency of Parts he adjoyned an equal Humility which set a lustre upon the former upon all occasions he would own what the Hand of Providence had raised him up unto This Humility made him even as a weaned Child a high valuer and applauder of the least good that was in others when he would own little that was worthy commendation in himself This Humility made him mindless of the place where he sate and made him willingly condescend to the meanest when they stood in need of his help And his Charity was such he denyed that help to none that sought it a liberal hand he had and yet a more liberal heart The Tenth part of his Estate for many years he gave to the Poor and had himself had more they had not wanted their share He was the Censurer the Condemner of no man If he saw a naked place there was no man more ready with the Skirt of his Garment to cast upon it He was a Censurer of no man for doing what he could not do but wherein he differed in Circumstantials in this his difference it was his manner and custome still to bewail his own want of light He was very circumspect and careful in the course of his life to manage it like a true Christian Therefore he was constant in Christian Duties For which he usually had his stated times and then he would admit by his good will of no interruption His discourse was a kind of continual Preaching neither was he less careful of his Thoughts than Words His manner was every day to run over a Catechisme in Greek Mr. Herbert's Poems or some other of the Liberal Sciences And the reason I remember why he did this was to keep his Thoughts from roving and stragling to worse matters His Patience was remarkable during the time of his Affliction no repining no murmuring words under his bodily pain or the restraint he was under He observed a particular hand of God in his Distemper which as he said mocked the Skill of the Physitian and he chearfully submitted to it desiring Patience might have its perfect work He was of a grateful spirit for the least office of Love or Kindness shewed to him whether in Health or Sickness So that few that came to visit him parted from him without a thankful acknowledgment of his Love to them and Prayers that God would reward them with Blessings upon their Bodies and Souls and not only so but the greatest and worst of his Enemies had a share in his Prayers As he was thus Eminent for Grace so as the Crown of all he wanted not his share of Peace His Conscience was Quiet and his Evidences for a better Life undisturbed He had that Hope which was as an Anchor of the Soul Sure and steadfast and enters within the vail And he doubted not but as he was in a state of Grace so he was within a step of Glory And that when Death had done his work he should yet for all that live for ever He said of Death That as to him the Sting of it was taken away And truly as it seems so were the Terrors of it too For Death came to him not as an armed man with Convulsions and bitter pangs as upon many but he parted from this World without a Sigh or Groan And as one that was falling into a long but sweet sleep This was the Comfortable End of this Reverend Person According to that of the Psalmist Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is Peace Peace in death yea and Peace after death too for so saith my Text He shall enter into Peace they shall rest in their beds each one walking in his Uprightness FINIS