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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49830	A sermon preached at the funeral of the honourable Christopher Sherard, Esq., eldest son to the right honourable Bennet Lord Sherard, February the 28th, 1681 by T.L. ...	Laxton, Thomas.	1682 (1682)	Wing L744; ESTC R34511	18,144	36

end is more certain so the Assurance more full A full Assurance of Hope and so of far greater virtue to support the Soul It hath made the glorious Martyrs to suffer the loss of all things of Life it self not accepting deliverance that is upon base terms and with loss and prejudice of their Faith that they might obtain a better Resurrection The Natural Hope carries us but to our Lives end that 's the utmost Verge of it While I live I hope to live Dum spiro spero cnm expiro spero But the Grace of Hope carries us further When dead I hope to live and therefore let Health The Righteous hath hope in his death Prov. 14.32 Wealth Liberty Friends yea Life and Breath and all go yet I will hold fast the hope of Joy that is set before me Though therefore we dwell here as Lot in Sodom our Souls vexed tortured with the sinful Vanities of Men there is hope of a Day when every thing that offends shall be cast out Though our sincere endeavours to please God be derided by the Profane World there is hope of a Time coming when our Judgment shall break forth as the light and our Righteousness as the Noon day when we shall have Beauty for our Ashes and Glory for our Shame Do we groan under the burthen of Sin the rebellion of Nature against Grace of the Flesh against the Spirit there is hope of an exchange of Weakness for Power Imperfection for Perfection Necessity of sinning for a Confirmed state of obeying Thus Hope supports the Spirits and keeps us from Sowning It seems St. Paul was sometime a little dispirited and out of heart but revives presently and what was his Cordial Hope of the Resurrection and the consequent Glory That this light affliction which is but for a moment worketh to us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory If our Hopes were terminated within the narrow bounds of this Life Christianity were at a poor stay and Christians of all Men most miserable so cold entertainment doth it find in the World but being Anchored within the Vail we are of all Men most happy 3. To Conclude as I began This should moderate our Sorrow for them that are Dead in the Lord That they breathed out their Souls in hope that their flesh rests in hope and their Bodies in Graves are but Prisoners of Hope and their Re-union with us in a glorious and Triumphant Fellowship In quo non potest subesse fulsum is the matter also of our Hope And though a Fiducial and Infallible assurance of anothers final Happiness while they are yet in the state of Travellers none can have without special Revelation 'T is well if we can attain this Assurance to our selves with all diligence and much difficulty by many degrees working out our salvation with fear and trembling yet for them that have fought a good fight and finished their course in the true Faith and fear of God well may we have an erected Hope of a glorious and eternal Association and that together with them we shall for ever be with the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 7. wherefore comfort one another with these words Indeed a solid ground of Christian Consolation in this short Temporal privation of our dearest Friends and such as the Gentiles who were without Christ the ground of Hope without the Church the Sanctuary of Hope without the Covenant of Grace the Reason of our Hope could not afford Those Cordials that are fetch'd out of Natures Boxes That Death is the common end of All Mors exitus communis ea lege nascimus that it is the Law and Condition of our Birth are but cold Comforts in comparison of that which Christian Hope holds forth unto us And therefore Blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the Resurrection of Christ from the dead to an inheritance immortal incorruptible undefiled that fadeth not away reserved for us in Heaven Amen And now my Discourse like a Circle is return'd to the Point where I began viz. This truly Vertuous Noble Courteous Dearly beloved Gentleman A great Treasury though exhausted a shining Light quenched a burning glorious Lamp extinguished a sweet delicious comly fragrant Flower cropt and fading a bright Star of a distinguished magnitude removed from our Horizon and well may Darkness cover this Hemisphere Here I could willingly sit down a while in silence and only by the language of our Tears speak our sense of this heavy Loss but as I have newly Discours'd all Passions especially that of Grief need rather a Bridle than a Spur. Let therefore the Thoughts of his Superlative Merits while living and the Inexpressible Glories he is now in possession of bring down the Sluce a while and dam up the streaming Fountain of our Tears and Sorrow whilst to his most deservedly Worth and Memory and our abundant Delight and Comfort we pay that Tribute of Praise that is due to Gods Servants and Children advancing thereby his Glory and adding Spurs to the Pious Endeavours of those who Survive And that I may the more both suitably and succinctly delineate those Graces which though they are gone with him for his Comfort yet stay behind him for his Honour and our Imitation Be pleased to veiw him in the Method of these following Particulars First In his Birth There we may see great Excellencies descended to him by his Progenitors To be born of a good Family and to be well Descended is a Mercy not to be neglected Nec imbellem progenerant aquilae columbam saith Horace You have read of Mr. Philpots zealous Martyrdom V. 2. Examin of Mr. Philpot. Acts and Mon. Vol. 3. Dr. Wilk H. gl being a Knights Son told his Persecutors He was a Gentleman Anabaptistical parity and Levelling designs are ever to be abhord and look'd upon as the ready way to Rapine Confusion and Violence To be born of Noble Parents from a Family that is not stain'd nor sullied with the foul spots of Faction and Rebellion nor tainted with the Seeds of Error Schism and Division nor basely dirted with the black filth of Debauchery Atheism Prophaness and Irreligion all which is eminently true without Flattery in this Gentlemans Escutcheon questionless is one of Gods choice Blessings And to a Mind inclining to Vertue it availeth much to be born well Est aliquid clarus magnorum splendor avorum The glorious Deserts of Honourable Parents is no small Patrimony sed vix ea nostra a voco Secondly Therefore consider him in his own Person And in that first his Outward and then secondly his Inward Ornaments Grace and Perfections His Body of exact symmetry and proportion where we might behold a great share of Comliness and Beauty which God our Creator the Fountain of all Beauty had imparted to this lovely Creature and in such a measure as if Mother-Nature had called