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A00426	A learned and godly sermon preached on the XIX. day of December, anno Dom. MDCXXXI. at the funerall of Mr. Robert Bolton Batchelour in Divinity and minister of Broughton in Northampton-Shire. By Mr. Nicolas Estvvick, Batchelour in Divinity, and sometimes fellow of Christs College in Cambridge, and now minister of Warkton in Northampton-Shire. Revised and somewhat enlarged by the author, and now at the importunity of some friends published	Estwick, Nicolas.	1639 (1639)	STC 10558; ESTC S122205	46,169	72

bread for CHRIST Martyrs went to their death with cheerefullnesse and songs and ran to the stake as to a garland and who would with Saul hide himselfe in the stuffe when he is called to be crowned a King If Abraham saw his day by faith when he was but promised and rejoyced what cause of joy must it needs be to see the Saviour of the world when he is exhibited If Saint Iohn Baptist did leape at his presence when he was in the wombe of his blessed mother What will his glorious presence effect in them who shall behold him in al his Royaltie if the Wife men of the East went a long journie and rejoyced to see the holy Babe CHRIST in the house what cause of joy will it be to see him sit in his glorie at the right hand of his Father far above all Principalities and powers If many Kings and Princes longed for that day to see their Saviour mortall what resemblance is fit to expresse the joy of those that behold him crowned with glory and immortalitie it is a passing glory to be admitted to the sight of CHRIST his face and to receive glory from the brightnesse of his Majestie and if we were to suffer torments every day yea the very torments of hell for a time therby to gaine the sight of CHRIST it were nothing in respect of the reward This Doctrine shewes us the extreame folly of all licentious livers and impenitent sinners when they looke upon their wicked courses what for sight can they have but of hell as their just reward they would be with CHRIST as they say hereafter and yet they will not have CHRIST to be wi●h them now and to rule over them they will sow unto the flesh and yet would reape unto the spirit they are stout and will have their sinne though they be damned for it we will say those rebels in Ieremy walke after our owne devices and we will every one doe the imaginations of his evill heart Experience sheweth us that you cannot crush oyle out of skins nor sweet wine out of sower grapes and if you be the seedesmen of darnell and cockle you shall have no harvest of wheat ●…or good graine you will not live conscionably and yet you would die peaceably and though you speake CHRIST faire yet you wil loose nothing for his sake the chaine will make your profession afraid and reproach will make it ashamed you love him well you say but you will be advised not to displease such and such friends for his love your fore-sight of Heaven hath no hands to do good works corporall and spirituall nor eyes to shed teares for your sins and the sins of others nor stomacke to abide a holy and a religious fast nor flesh to endure this mortification and zealous revenge nor tongue to speake the language of confession and zealous devout and faithfull prayer if then in your extremities and when your feares approach you send for us as Pharaoh did for Moses and never till then and cry unto us helpe us and comfort us as that starved woman did to the King of Israel Wee answer as hee did that distressed creature if the LORD doth not helpe you how should we And now by this time I suppose you are brought to that passe that GODS servants whom you have in your prosperity despised may say to you concerning all your daubers whom you then respected where are they now that will prophesie peace peace unto you your consciences which before were asleepe being now awakened to heare the crie of your sinnes and these glasses formerly covered with dust as it were being wiped cleare to represent unto you the disfigured and odious face of your sinnes when these evill daies shall come upon you as they will or that which is worse you must needs confesse to the terrour of your soules that we GODS Messengers have told you of these things and you would not heare us as Reuben said to his brethren Your sins which you tooke to be your friends as GOD himselfe hath threatned are suddenly turned to be your foes and now do appeare as a marshalled army comming in a terrible manner against you and when GOD speakes to your consciences as Iehu did to the Eunuchs who is on my side who even they will cast you downe and dash as it were your blood against the wals and make you to be trampled upon and then can you cast your eyes no-way without horrour if upwards unto heaven they will tell you that you are justly excluded out of that happy place if you think upon hell the mouth thereof as you feare is open every moment to receive you when these evill daies shall come c. Second Use of instruction is that we would study our selves and ransacke our soules and be of good grounds and to have certaine evidence that our change shall be for the better mans wisdome teacheth him in Summer to provide for Winter in youth for old age if GOD be better then the world and heaven better then earth and the soule better then the body shall we not labour while we live to get full assurance of being with CHRIST as S. Paul had when we are dead but here is the maine doubt how I should know and be assured thereof First if thou art assured hereof then hast thou faith the maine and fundamentall grace not fundamentum quod that is CHRIST but cui as a learned Schooleman doth distinguish immediatly laying us upon CHRIST and as a Captaine I say not making the graces as heavenly Souldiers but as bringing them forth to fight according to their severall operations thou hast I say a lively faith both in that direct act whereby it justifieth and also by a prudent observation of the worke of faith in thy soule thou dost by faith believe that thou art justified by faith thou hast also the attendant companion upon faith that Christian hope whereby thou waitest on GOD till he accomplish all his gratious promises if we come against the Divell as David did against the Philistine not with sword shield and speare but in the name of the LORD of Hosts we are sure to conquer If we have these graces and by the use of holy meanes do hold them fast how happy are we Blessed is he that beleeveth the Lords words to be all of them true and blessed is he that waiteth on him till he manifests the truth of his words that believeth by faith that GOD is his Father and expecteth by hope that he should shew a fatherly affection to him who believes that salvation belongs to him and waites by hope til he enters into possession of it if this then be the blessed frame of thy soule that thou resolvest and hopest to live and thou resolvest and hopest to die in the armes of thy sweet Saviour thou art in a happy case Secondly if thou hast this holy

lesse he is beloved of them and doe wish from their hearts that hee might not live amongst them but do labour to make him weary of his life by vexing him casting many times the very name of a Priest as a terme of reproach upon his face the abundance of this Manna and bread from Heaven makes them to loath it and the Messenger that brings it The reasons of both 1. Because such men feele not their sin nor their misery for sin 2. Nor tast the comfort sweetnesse and power of grace 3. Nor doe consider that Presbyters are GODS hands to conveigh graces to them hence do these fellowes scorne them in their hearts and so have as it were a brand set upon them to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Atheists irreligious persons and despisers of CHRIST as that ancient and holy Father Ignatius phraseth them Fourthly this consideration that the life of a good Pastour is more profitable then his death should put us in mind of a duty to mourne and grieve for the departure of an eminent member in the Church GOD is not like to the Persian Kings in whose presence no mourners were suffered to come but godly mourners are alwaies welcome to GOD. See the practise of this duty but in one example the devout men that buried Stephen made great lamentation over him though Stephen was a Martyr and which was his honour the first Martyr too and if I well remember a Martyr saith if there be any way to heaven on horsebacke it is by Martyrdome yet did devout men make great lamentation over Stephen See the bowels of men indued with GODS Spirit they are full of affection full of tendernesse so that the streames thereof do overflow the banks and good reason they have fewer friends remaining and fewer helpers fewer prayers are made unto GOD and fewer remaine to whom they may doe good and from whom they may receive good And according to this present occasion let us practise a duty which we owe in regard of our deceased brother even to mourne away with that Stoicall opinion which allowes not their wise man to sigh or change countenance at any crosse accident this neither sorts with religion nor reason No we have cause all of us to mourne not you only of this Towne but your neighbours round about you nay this whole Country and say as Elisha to Elija my father my father the Chariots and the horsemen of Israel he by his fastings often and extraordinary prayers often hath stood in the gap and mightily wrastled with the LORD to keep away judgements and like another Elijah hath left his mantle or Dorcas her garments for the poore some godly works the fruits of a sanctified heart and braine behind him and many no doubt are strangled in the wombe by his death which shall never see light Touching the beginning of his studies they were not so commendable as could have beene wished he was tainted by his Schoolemaster in his youth and continued a Papist in heart at Oxford certaine yeeres and resolved with one Anderton his schoole-fellow to have gone to the Seminaries beyond the sea but GOD happily crossed that designe and effectually calling him to the sight of his sins and the light of his truth drew good out of that evill and taught him so much the more to detest Popery and to discover hypocrisie and dissimulation in GODS worship and in ordinary conversation above the ordinarie straine of Writers How industrious a student he was in the University his many note bookes left behind him will beare witnesse and how well reputed he was for his learning as his other exercises so his publike disputations before King JAMES will testifie But Learning is nothing Industry is nothing to be praised before GOD without grace grace hath the preheminence and gives the luster to all the rest the LORD enriched his heart with a great measure of grace hence is it that his life was unstained and without reproofe though he was not freed from infirmities yet he was from crimes Hence it was that he was so laborious in his Ministery a true student he was all his daies as appeares by his library though great yet very few bookes in it which were not read over and noted in the margent and he attained that high straine of grave eloquence familiar to him scarce imitable by any others you were twise a weeke ordinarily fed with Sermons and Catechismes and with the Exposition of Scripture on Holy daies which would have beene acceptable wholesome foode I am sure to the most learned auditory of the Land And though he was so great a Clerke and so famous yet was not he ambitious nor sought great matters for himselfe and he doth beseech an honourable Knight to whom he dedicated his last booke and all others in him to doe him that favour nay that right nay that honour not to conceive that he had a thought that way His heart was set on the right object and the bent of his study was for matter of Sanctification both of himselfe and of his hearers for himselfe he could professe and O that all Priests and Pastors could do the like he did I say professe to his comfort on his death bed that he never taught any godly point but he first wrought it on his owne heart towards others he was a powerfull instrument to batter the kingdome of the divell he was a downe-right Preacher and spared no sins he made many an unconverted sinner to quake and to tremble at his discourses as Felix did at Pauls and cast them into a strong fit of legall humiliation he was an instrument to pull many captives out of Satans snares many of you can step forth and say he was my spirituall father he had a searching Ministery to discover the hidden abominations of sin to strengthen and increase the graces of those that did stand to quicken those that languished many have cause to blesse GOD for him and do owe even themselves unto him as Philemon did to Paul From this spectacle before our eyes all of us may learne something for our imitation doth any one prophane GODS ordinances by a dissembled religion let him forsake it and flie from it as from a serpent for I speake to the glory of GODS mercy turning his face from Babylon to Ierusalem so did our deceased brother doth any one walk before GOD with an upright heart let him hold out to the end run his race and finish his course both in health and sicknesse for so did our deceased brother A great man great in worth is fallen in our Israel there will be a great losse of him his wife shall find the losse of a gracious husband his children shall find the losse of a gracious father his sheep shall find the losse of a gracious shepheard we of the Ministery shall find the losse of a grave learned a gracious brother the devout