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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10084	A verie godlie and learned sermon treating of mans mortalitie, and of the estate both of his bodie and soule after death. Preached at Denham in Suffolke. At the celebration of the solemne and mournfull funerals of the right orshipfull Sir Edward Lewkenor Knight, and of the vertuous Ladie Susan, his wife, both at once. By M. Robert Pricke their beloued and faithfull minister: now also since that time (to the encrease of our sorow for the losse of so excellent a light) departed this life.	Pricke, Robert, d. ca. 1608.; Allen, Robert, fl. 1596-1612.	1608 (1608)	STC 20338; ESTC S112476	28,846	49

A VERIE GODLIE and Learned Sermon treating of Mans mortalitie and of the estate both of his bodie and soule after death Preached at Denham in Suffolke AT The celebration of the solemne and mournfull funerals of the right worshipfull Sir Edward Lewkenor Knight and of the vertuous Ladie Susan his wife both at once By M. Robert Pricke their beloued and faithfull Minister now also since that time to the encrease of our sorow for the losse of so excellent a light departed this life Man goeth to the house of his age and the mourners goe about in the streete Eccles 12.5 Yet Christians must not mourne as other which haue no hope 1. Thess 4.13 For To be loosened and to bee with Christ is best of all Philip 1.23 LONDON Printed by Thomas Creede 1608. ¶ To my louing friend M. Timothie Pricke Minister of the word of God heartie Salutation in the Lord. MY welbeloued and verie deare friend in the Lord as God of his great goodnes and aboundant mercie hath vouchsafed you no small fauour in that you are not onely the naturall sonne of a good man but also the sonne of a verie faithfull Minister of his holy word thereby also a spirituall Father vnto you in the Gospell of Iesus Christ euen to you a sonne of his best desires and most comfortable hope an heire to manie his earnest prayers and supplications to God a behoulder witnes of his holie life a sheepe of his deare flocke and nowe a pastor of those who were lately his sheepe so I beseech you for the Lords sake to indeuour after no small and vulgar fruits of dutie and thankes to God your heauenly Father nor of imitation in respect of the excellent vertues of your both naturall and spirituall Father Lay sure and fast hold I pray you on the blessing of his holie feruent prayers wherein with great wrestlings he intreated God often that hee would make you an instrument of greater glorie to him in foyling the diuell and furthering the saluation of his people much more then hee thought himselfe to haue attained vnto though in truth hee quitted himselfe exceedinglie well and greatlie prospered in that spirituall fight and dangerous battell and in promoting the saluation of verie manie Thus comfort you vs deare friend the deare and louing friendes of your worthy Father thus reioice you the hearts of Gods people and thus tēder the good peace of your owne conscience I heartely intreat you Where much hath ben bestowed there much may iustly bee looked for and therefore as good ground hauing receiued the best seede yeeld you your best endeuor that you may bring foorth fruite after the fullest measure euen to an hundred fold Among other prouocations and incouragements let the present Sermon of your Father be as the lift of a strong shoulder to further you as longe as you shall liue in the care of a godly life as he cōstantly liued that growing to like perfection and ripenes of all holy ministery you may after māy yeares dy the like death of the righteous that he died In the meane season giue me leaue to commend it vnto you as a most artificiall picture better representing to the view of your inward sight the spiritual image of your Father then any the skilfullest Limmer could haue drawne his outward shape to the beholding of your bodilie eye Esteeme it deare friend as a verie worthy and memorable monument of that pure and pithie manner of preaching which he vsed and as a notable president set before you and before vs all let vs follow it with as prosperous a pursuite as we may And if we cannot attaine vnto it yet let vs presse toward it as neare as we can Wee all knowe what a blessing God gaue to his sincere and faithfull dealing that is so plentifull a blessing as is seldōe to be seene vpon the ministerie of any in a far greater congregation Now further that which remaineth ioine with me in request to the right worshipfull to whom your Father did both with hand and heart while yet hee was liuing dedicate this memorable gift a testimony of his speciall loue from a most parentlike and pastorall affection toward them that they will accept it as one little siluer streāe of pure and precious water deriued vnto them from that more full and liuing springe which was wont to flow dailie more plenteously to the sweete refreshing and comfortting of their soules And albeit his person be now gone and his pastorall care ouer them hath had an end which if they had continued to this day would surely haue procured their most ready and thankfull accepting of the same let vs be sutors that the thing it selfe being of great worth may be neuer the lesse regarded of them remembring still that they must giue an account vnto God how they haue profited by his holy ministery In which hope let vs for conclusion omitting all complements wanting beseech God the only full supplier of all defects to blesse the holy doctrine of this one blessed Sermon to as manie good endes and purposes both to them and to our selues and to many other as any one Sermon may be blessed and sanctified vnto And thus with my most hearty prayer I doe commend both your selfe and that right worshipfull familie and all of the families of the Church of God at your and their little Denham to all further and more full blessing of God Your louing friend and brother in the Lord. ROBERT ALLEN London this 2. of May. 1608. To the right vvorshipfull and Christian posteritie the Sonnes and Daughters of the right worshipfull Sir Edward Lewkenor Knight and of the vertuous Ladie Susan Lewkenor his wife Grace and peace in Christ Iesus THE Prophet Isaiah by the motion of Gods holie spirit did long since in great zeale vtter this holy saying The righteous perisheth Isa 57.1 and no man considereth it in heart and mercifull men are taken away and no man vnderstandeth that the righteous is taken away from the euill to come Which as it hath in former times bene true so is it prooued most true in these our miserable and desperate daies as may hereby appeare for that although the Lord withdraweth and taketh out of this world by death many of his principall and excellent seruants thereby setting vp as it were prodigious Comets to premonish all men not only of the vncertainty of this natural life but also that his iudgements are neare hand yet few doe so much as once turne their eyes toward this hand of God and fewer doe make vse thereof and applie it to their heart for the increase of true godlinesse and reformation of life Against which estate disposition gracelesse and more then brutish some what was vttered at the Funerall of your said worthie Parents which although it hath hetherto lyen in silence and beene whollie suppressed yet nowe by the grace of God it is come to light The discourse I confesse is homely