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A56693 A sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. Thomas Grigg, B.D. and rector of St. Andrew-Undershaft, Septemb. 4, 1670 by Symon Patrick. Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707. 1670 (1670) Wing P838; ESTC R4850 30,751 63

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A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL OF Mr. THOMAS GRIGG B. D AND Rector of St. Andrew-Vndershaft Septemb. 4. 1670. By Symon Patrick D. D. HEB. 13. 14. Here we have no continuing City but we seek one to come LONDON Printed by Robert White for Francis Tyton at the Sign of the three Daggers in Fleet-street 1670. Imprimatur Rob. Grove R. P. Humfr. D no. Episc Lond. à sac Dom. Octob. 4. 1670. To the RELATIONS and FRIENDS of the DECEASED TO satisfie your desires I have transcribed this Discourse as soon as my other occasions would suffer and exposed it to the publick view The main Body of it is printed just as it was delivered but I have taken liberty to add the Preface and some part of the Application which then I was constrained to omit If it prove effectual to the furtherance and joy of any ones Faith I doubt not but that very thing will help to mitigate the sorrow which you have conceived for the loss of so worthy a Person A man of so amiable a temper such an unbiassed judgement prudent simplicity unfeigned charity and discreet zeal that it is not to be expected you should ever think of his departure from us without a sigh But the more useful he was to the world and delightful to you the greater will your vertue be in humbly submitting to the will of God by whose order he is removed to a better place We must not teach him how to dispose of us nor repine at his wise appointments no nor suffer the just grief which we feel on such sad occasions to extinguish quite our joy in him who would have us rejoyce in the Lord alwayes What cause we have to do so the ensuing Meditations will in some measure demonstrate Which are plain but solid truths able to support and satisfie our Spirits if we lay them up not only in our Memories to keep safe but in our Understandings to consider and our wills to love and imitate Let us but often ruminate on them and press them on our hearts and live by the faith of the Son of God and there is no disaster in the world so great but we shall be able at least to possess our souls in patience when it threatens to overwhelm us Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our Father which hath loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope through Grace comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work Covent-Garden Octob. 15. 1670. Yours to serve you S. P. A Funeral Sermon UPON II CORINTH V. I. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens THE Apostle being at the time of his writing this Epistle in great troubles and dangers for the Testimony of Jesus professes himself notwithstanding so abundantly satisfied with the Ministry he had undertaken that he did not faint at aIl nor grow weary of it as you read in the first Verse of the foregoing Chapter That which made him so courageous as to preach under so many discouragements which he mentions V. 8 9. was the same Spirit of Faith which had ever been in the people of God but was now more lively and strong in him through the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus from the dead as he tells us V. 13 14. For this cause saith he we faint not c. V. 16. It was no fool-hardiness that made them expose themselves to so many calamities but the belief of some better things which would reward their sufferings For our light affliction saith he V. 17 18. which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen c. And if any one should think that these sufferings might end at last in death and bring them down to their Graves he would have them think withal that it was no great matter Let these Miseries proceed so far as to take away our lives this is the worst of it the best is We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens These sufferings it is true may pull down our present habitation but that is all they can do there is a better building which they cannot touch Besides we shall be no great losers by the demolishing of this dwelling for it is but an Earthly House Nay we shall be great gainers for we shall the sooner enter into the coelestial and eternal mansions THis is the sense of the words In which we may consider these three Things 1. The description which the Apostle makes of the present state in which we now are it is in our earthly house of this tabernacle which must be dissolved 2. His description of the future state in which the faithful shall be hereafter they have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens 3. The Certainty of that happy state It is a thing as evident in its kind as the other is As we know that this house of ours is to be dissolved so we know there is a building of God when it is thrown down which stands for ever The one is certain as well as the other Of the two first I have discoursed elsewhere upon the like occasion with this that hath now brought us together Shewing how poor and mean the dwelling is in which our souls lodge while they remain in this world and what goodly preparations our Lord hath made for them in the next There seems to be an opposition here of the one state to the other in five respects 1. We are here only in an house but there is a building for us 2. This is an house of ours but that is a building of God 3. We are now but an house of a Tabernacle then we shall have an house not made with bands 4. And this is an earthly house whereas that is in the Heavens 5. This is to be dissolved but that is eternal in the Heavens As much as to say We are here confined to a very strait and narrow room in which the nobler thoughts and affections of our souls are apt to be choak't and stifled And no wonder considering the meaneness of its original and the poorness of its beginning Our body was once a very small pile so small that it could be inclosed in our Mothers Womb. Then and a long time after our souls were so pent up that they could not find themselves They were forc'd to stay many years before they could gain so much liberty as to turn about reflect on themselves and know that they had a Being Nay so pitifully were they cooped up that the rational Spirit could not breathe or give any sign at all of life And though now