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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63137	A sermon preached at the funeral of the honourable Colonel Robert Rolle of Heanton Sachville in the county of Devon esq; by William Trevethick M.A. and pastor of Petrockslow in the same county	Trevethick, William, 1612 or 13-1693.	1661 (1661)	Wing T2133A; ESTC R219720	49,922	131

auditors to the rules last mentioned But blessed be God this eminent person of whom I am to speake was one whose tongue and pen were so ready to be employed in the behalf of others in their distresse that though I should be silent yet even they whose potent and successefull orator he hath often prov'd would stand forth and praise him in the gates The Scriptures which are to be our rule in all our undertakings are not sparing in giving an honourable memoriall to the dead We find three instances of men of different tempers David performs this office more then once In the 2 Sam. 1. We have him lamenting not only over Jonathan a good man and his faithfull friend but also over Saul a very bad man and his professed enemy that fought his life Yet in respect of his usefullness to the common-wealth of Jsrael he will not let him pass without a laudatory commemoration of whatsoever was praiseworthy in him with concealment of his vices And Abner though none of the best yet he hath an honorable interrement and a funerall oration and all the people are called in to mourn over him and the King himself followeth the bier lamenting and weeping over him And if any should ask the reason why so much ado for Abner What saith David know you not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel 2 Sam. 3. A man that was usefull and apt to be an instrument of much good to his people in such a time as that was for the making up and healing of the breach that was then between the tribes and was now ready to be employed in that work And such the Scriptures as it is conceived sometimes call good men As Micah 7.2 The good man is perished that is say some The usefull man that might be instrumentall for good is cut off and taken away perished as to his place and people and that in such a time wherein he might have done much good and wherein he could ill be spar'd In which sense also is that text probably to be understood Rom. 5.7 Scarcely for a righteous man will one die yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die By the righteous understanding one that is in himself a righteous and vertuous man By the good such as have deserved well of us from whom we have received good So that it is as if he had said though for an ordinary man though godly one would hardly die Willet in Rom. 7. Q. 11. parag 7. yet for a good man that is some eminent usefull man he would not only be ready with the Galathians to pluck out his eies but also to lay down his life And doubtlesse at least in this sense we may say a good man is fallen a usefull man that would have been instrumentall for much good and that in a time when there is most need of such and when he could but ill be spar'd But I shall not rest in this there are some things that deserve a remembrance in his severall relations In his relation unto God In respect of his faith he was no self-justiciary he trusted not to his own righteousnesse But professed his full assurance of the free pardon of his many and great sins through the only merits of Jesus Christ on whom he layed hold as his only Saviour and redeemer In respect of his repentance He was sensible of the burden of his sins complaining of indisposition and deadness of his heart unaptnesse unto good and of the thronging in of vain and unprofitable thoughts which were ever ready to trouble and distract him when he would willingly be doing of his duty And that he found the time of the sicknesse of the body an ill time for spirituall exercises And although in the time of his health he was carefull to attend the Lords work upon the Lords day constantly frequenting the publike worship of God both morning and evening most usually present with the first and was also carefull to have the worship of God kept up in his family as being desirous that both he and his house might serve the Lord Yet neither that which he performed in publike or private did satisfy him But that in the time of his sicknesse when it pleased God to put him upon the calling of himself to remembrance and to affect his heart with the thoughts of his spirituall estate He professed that there was nothing that troubled him but his sin And that sin which God most especially set home upon his spirit and for which in a day of solemn seeking unto God he made it his earnest desire that God might be sought unto in his behalf for the pardon of it was his neglect of duty It is that which most of us little think on in the time of our health when we slight or neglect an ordinance of God an opportunitie of worshiping God and of doing good to our souls that the remembrance of this will be bitterness in the end In the time of our sicknesse when the spirit of God instead of bringing to remembrance the consolations of God in his word shall only remember us of our slighting and neglects of of the word and then instead of giving us repentance God by death shall sweep us away in our sins and judgment shall find us as death leaves us and when we look for comfort we meet with nothing but rebukes How sad will our condition be The sluggard saith the wise man Prov. 20.4 will not plow by reason of the cold therefore shall he begge in harvest and have nothing As he that is slothfull in his particular calling may justly expect to be in wants when others are reaping the fruit of their Iabours So he who in his life time which is the time of spirituall plowing is negligent in the duties of his generall calling In the day of judgment which is the time of harvest with the foolish virgins and the rich Glutton shall begge in vaine Such as for fear of cold or love of ease do now carelessely neglect the publike assemblies and ordinances of God or heedlessly or unprofitably attend them shall begge at last for grace and comfort and be sent empty away Pro. 1.24.28 Only herein the riches of Gods grace is to be magnified if he give us to see the evil of it and to repent in time Think of this I beseech you who ever you are that at such times as when the ordinances of God are dispensing can content your selves either to lie sleeping in you beds or to be walking in the streetes or sitting in a Tavern or Alehouse or following the sevice of your lusts when you should be waiting on the service of God Looke to it God will make you sorry for this another day I am bold to commend the example of this servant of God to your consideration who thought it not below himselfe to professe his desires to be humbled before the Lord for neglects of