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A87090	A divine prospective: representing the just mans peacefull end. In a funerall sermon preached at Katharine Creechurch, Aug. 14. 1649. at the enterrement of the remaines of the Right Worshipfull and truly religious, Sir John Gayr, Knight: deceased July 20. 1649. / By Nathaniel Hardy, M.A. and preacher to the parish of Dionis Back-Church.	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1649 (1649)	Wing H715; Thomason E574_8; ESTC R206287	27,124	35

which he had cast on the Waters Considering all this which hath been said whereof not one tittle is more then what I either knew my selfe or have beene credibly informed of I think Envie it selfe cannot deny him in an Evangelicall sense the title of a Perfect or if that may be too much yet of an Vpright man There is yet one Character more which the Vulgar reading affords and I cannot omit it so fitly agrees with him and that is Vir Pacificus he was a Man of Peace he much desired unity in Affection where there was diversity of Opinion and therefore he was wont to say There should be more love amongst us If my Friend differ from me in Judgement let me shew love to his Person though I dislike his Opinion and let me pray that God would direct him in the right way Neither his Prayers nor Counsells were wanting to the peace of Church and State which peaceable disposition however in this our contention Age it be accounted a Crime yet I am sure in Gods esteeme 't is a Pearl of great Price and whilst Men look upon such as their Enemies God reckons them as his Children To shut up this it was a notable speech of Antigonus when Zeno died Quale theatrum amist Meaning that in his life he beheld a representation of many excellent Virtues with which he was inamour'd The like complaint may all who knew this worthy Knight take up concerning him What a Looking glasse of Virtues Theatre of Graces have we lost one in whom there was a rare combination of Severity and Meeknesse Gravity and Courtesie Charity and Frugality Zeale and Discretion I cannot better resemble him then to the stone Garamantides which though it cast no great lustre outwardly Tamen intus habet aureas guttas Yet hath golden drops within his delight being more in internall sincerity then in Externall showes To draw to an end his end must needs be comfortable whose life was so profitable and indeed so it was There were a paire of Virtues worthy our observation which he express'd in his sicknesse Patience and Confidence A quiet submission to Gods will and a sweet repose in Gods mercie Both which though opportunity favour'd not me to be a personall witnesse of yet I doubt not but my reverend Brother who officiates in this place and was often with him can sufficiently attest The pangs of his disease which could not but be grievous he under-went with a quiet cheerfulnesse And when his friends that stood by him minded him of making his peace with God He returned this Answer worthy to be written in Letters of Gold and fit to be engraven on all our hearts Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth old age and sicknesse are no fit times to make peace with heaven blessing God that his peace was not then to make So that now I may very well take up the latter part of the Text and assert it of him The end of this man was peace He dyed in that peace which was promised to Abraham before that utter ruine comes which seemes to hang over his native Countrey He dyed in peace in his owne house not in a prison after all his sufferings quietly breathing forth his last in his owne bed And which was best he dyed with a quiet mind in that comfortable sense he had of his reconciliation to God through faith in the merits of his Saviour Nor must I forget to apply the vulgar reading of this latter clause in my Text to him There are remainders to this peacefull man The relict of an hopefull posterity God lengthning his dayes so far as to see not onely his children but his childs children upon whose heads I doubt not but his graces through Gods mercy will procure a plentifull showre of blessings to be poured down And not onely so but to him likewise there was the remainder of a good name like a Taper of pure wax he burn'd clearly in his life and hath left a sweet savour behind him at his going out And as I hope his soule now partakes of that glory which is prepared for the Saints so to his body that must now be-laid in the Grave there is the remainder of a glorious resurrection to that immortall blisse which is reserv'd in heaven for all them that love the appearing of Christ Let not then his Children or Allies grieve beyond measure because not without hope let them not spend too many teares in vaine upon his grave but rather let them and all we who know him esteeme his Memory blessed and though we can now no longer marke him going before us or behold him conversing among us yet let us still remember him and that so as to resemble him let us so imitate those graces which here he practised that we may come at last to be with him in that glory whereof he is now possest for ever FINIS Plin. 2. Musc. in loc. Mol. in loc. Gen. 48. 12 Mat. 5. 45. 1. Bernard Rom. 3. 4. Gen. 6. 9. 1 Cor. 2. 6. 〈◊〉 23. 35. Heb. 10. 14. Collos. 2. 5. August ●● Heb. 12. 23. Mat. 5. 48. Aug. Job 42. 6. Psal. 143. 2. Ephes. 3. 8. Aquinas in 2 Cor. 13. 11. 〈…〉 Bernard Bernard Phil 3. 14. James 4. 16. 1 Thes. 5. 23. Isay 38. 1. 3. 1 Kings 15. 14 Christus non loquitur de infirmitatibus sanctorii communibus sed accusat singularem Episcopi hypocrisin Opera igitur plena non absolute perfecta sed siv●●ra negat in illo se in v●●●sse Par. in loc. Rev. 3. 2. Gen. 17. 1. Prov. 11. 18. Musc. Foelix simplex in unoquoque genere est perfectum Prior abstinentiam damni posterior collationem boni denotat Hug. Nulli 〈…〉 preximo agendo Lvr. Resp●●● inno●●●●… Deum aquit●● proximus Hug. James 1. 25. 2 King 2. 23 25. Psal. 119. 128. Arist. Auct de duplici Martyrio Job 1. 9. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Jer. 5. 1. Mat. 23. 27. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Sept Custodi innocentiam vide aquitatem Vulg. Psal. 51. 6. Levit. 32. 15. 33. 26. 1 Reg 7. 12. Greg. Prov. 10. 9. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Prov. 13. 10. Illud pro certo habemus esse reliquies homini pacifico hominem integrum qui cum omnibus pacifice versatur reliquias posteritatem successionem generis hab●●…rii Agell in loc. Dabit Deus homini pacifico ut relinquat silios post ●● Lor. in loc. Psal. 112. 2. Reliquit justus post mortem suā memoriam justitiae suae bo●am Deus fibi reliquit prami atcrna Aug. Eceles. 7. 1. Ovid Psal. 112. 6. Prov. 10. 7. Reservat reliquies paradis● gaudium aternum Hug. Praemia aterna Deus justis reliquit Lor. Moll Eccles. 9. 2. Judg. 4. 2. Deut. 21. 13. Xenoph. Chrysost. Dyonis Bern. Luk. 2 29. Gen. 15. 15. Pacis vocabulū apud Hebraos ●●●…ssime patet Drus Moll in loc. Rev. 19. 9. Ambros. Bern. Mat. 7. 16. Gal. 6. 7. Isay 48. 22. Rom 6. 22. Prov. 11. 18. Isay 28. 16. Luke 16. 6. Heb. 12. 1. Plaut. Asin Hes. Psal. 112. 4. Quod ego observavi longa experientia idem tu quoque videbis si diligenter attenderis Mol. in loc. Heb. 13. 8. Zephan 2. 1. Mat 5. 16. Isay 53. 2. Psal. 89. 3. Heb. 12. 1. Exod. 13. 21. 1 Cor. 4. 16. James 5. 11. Num. 16. 29. Noli pracipitare jadictum nec ferre sententiam ex proximo intuitu Mol. in locum Glos. Aug. 1 Cor. 15. 19. Eccles 2. 14. Exod. 14. 13. Apoc. 3. 7. Heb. 11. 25. 26. Bern. Greg. Naz. Psal. 69. 9. 1 Thes. 5. 13. Lam. 4. 16. Lact. Hier. de Nepoc

A Divine Prospective Representing THE JUST MANS PEACEFULL END In a Funerall SERMON Preached at Katherine Creechurch Aug. 14. 1649. At the Enterrement of the Remaines of the Right Worshipful and truly Religious Sir JOHN GAYR Knight deceased July 20. 1649. By NATHANIEL HARDY M.A. and Preacher to the Parish of Dionis Back-church PROV. 28. 18. Who so walketh uprightly shall be saved but he that is perverse in his wayes shall fall at once ESAY 32. 17. The Worke of righteousnesse shall be peace and the effect of righteousnesse quietnesse and assurance for ever LACTANT Sicut vita ipsa bonum est si cum virtute vivitur malum si cum scelere Ita mors ex preteritis vitae actibus ponderanda est AMBR. Pretiosum est videre virum justum ut videas eum secundum imaginem Dei quod foris est nihil prodest quo lintus est sanat LONDON Printed for JOHN CLARK and are to be sold at his Shop under S. Peters Church in Cornhill 1649. To the VVorshipfull ROBERT ABDY Esquire Son-in-law Together with his Vertuous Consort and the rest of the hopefull Sonnes and Daughters of the Right Worshipful Sir John Gayr Prosperity on Earth and felicity in Heaven TO preserve the precious names perpetuate the pious memories and publish the eminent graces of dead Saints is a due debt from the living The glory which from hence redounds to God the benefit which hereby accrueth to the Church the respect which herein we manifest to them are all severally much more joyntly strong obligations to this service No fitter instrument for such a work then the pen which surpasseth the voice in this double excellency that it both extendeth farther and continueth longer according to that knowne expression of the Poet Vox audita perit littera scripta manet These I doubt not worthy Sir were the impellent causes moving you to desire a publication of this imperfect piece in which if there appear any lustre it is no other then what it receiveth from the beames of his Virtues whom it represents Indeed what S. Bernard said of his friend Malachy I may justly apply to your deceased Father he was while he lived Lucerna ardens lucens a burning and a shining Lamp and by Death Non extincta sed admota not so much put out as removed to Glory The light of his good words is still left behinde him and now set on a Candlestick to enlighten with its splendour this declining Age of the World The Character here given to this faithfull Servant of God may by some who throughly knew him be justly accounted deficient by others through Envy or Ignorance at best be unjustly censured as exuberant To the former I shall Apologize in the words of the Oratour Pictoros pulchram absolutamque faciem rarò nisi in pejus effingunt an exact face is seldome drawne but with much disadvantage To the latter S. Bernards expression shall be my Answer Testimonium veritati praebeo non affectioni my Conscience witnesseth to me that my Testimony concerning him was not byass'd by Affection but measured by Verity To your Candid acceptance and Patronage Honoured Sir I present these unpolished Lines the truth whereof I know you can fully and will freely attest I have nothing more to adde but a gratefull acknowledgement of your many immerited favours and my incessant supplications at the throne of Grace That both your self who esteeme it an happinesse to have been grafted into the Stock of that Worthy Family and all the naturall Branches of that choice Root may be daily watered with the plentifull showers of Divine blessing continually grow up in a resemblance of these pretious Fruits which he brought forth and finally be transplanted into the Paradise of Blisse where together with him you shall be flourishing Trees of Righteousnesse for ever So prayeth he who is Yours in all Affection and Service Nathaniel Hardy PSAL. 37. v. 37. Mark the perfect man and behold the upright For the end of that man is peace THis Psalme is one of those seven which we finde to be composed according to the Hebrew Alphabet what was the reason of this order I am not curious to enquire since the Scripture is not pleased to expresse Some onely account it of Musical concernment others look upon it as an help to memory Ainsworth conceives it to be an indication of more then ordinary weight and worth in the matter this as in the rest is eminently observable in this Psalme which is both of singular use and value Indeed it may well be styled The good mans Cordiall in bad times A Soveraigne Plaister for the Plague of Discontent Or A choice Antidote against the Poyson of impatience It is a truth evident in experience That Gods dispensations towards the righteous and the wicked in this life are like Jacobs dealing with Josephs Sonnes crosse and strange For as he laid his right hand on the younger and his left on the Elder so doth God oft-times for the present distribute with his left hand crosses to the good and with his right hand favours to the bad not only in a litterall sense as our Saviour speakes He maketh the Sun to shine and the Raine to fall upon the just and the unjust but in a metaphoricall sense he causeth the Sun of prosperity to shine upon the unjust and the Raine of adversity to fall upon the just hence it is that both the Sanctity and the Equity the holinesse and justice of God hath by many been called in question it being a probable Argument to carnall reason that God in prospering the bad approves of their wayes and so is unholy and in afflicting the good renders not according to their deeds and so is unjust Hence it is that in such times the wicked swell with the timpany of pride and the weak pine away in a fretting consumption those are impostumated with selfe-conceit and these are inflamed with passion the cure of both especially the latter to wit envious fretting at the wickeds prospering our Prophet indeavours in this Psalme The medicine which he prescribes is made up of various ingredients amongst which none more operative then a due meditation of Gods finall retribution both to the godly and ungodly which as it is principally insisted on throughout the whole so is it elegantly recommended in the close and in particular the quiet end of the just both asserted and assured for our support and incouragement in the words of the Text Mark the perfect c. Which words may fitly be divided into two generalls and each of those sub-divided into two particulars here is officium motivum 1. A duty enjoyned Marke the perfect and behold the upright 2. A motive adjoyned For the end of that man is peace In the former of these we have considerable 1. Objectum propositum the object proposed to our view the perfect and upright man a choice and rare sight both amiable and