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A46825	A sermon preached at the funeral of the right honble the Lady Frances Paget, the religious consort of the right honble William Lord Paget, (eldest daughter to the right honourable Henry Earl of Holland, who was beheaded for his loyalty to this King) in the parish-church of West-Drayton in the county of Middlesex, on the 12th of Nevember, 1672. By Jehu Jenny, M.A. and Vicar of Harmondsworth.	Jenney, John, d. 1697.	1673 (1673)	Wing J673A; ESTC R220733	15,009	28

the darkness But though there be an appointed time for this great and last change of man yet when that time will come is very uncertain Those infinite diseases and ca●ualties to which the life of man is incident so easily cut the thread of it fully evince that there is nothing more certain then the uncertainty of the hour of death One dies in his nonage another in the strength and vigour of his years and another in a full age one in his bed and another in the field Hodie mihi cras tibi The Bell went for such a one last but who shall go next God knows To any of us that are here in health this hour that for all we know before the next it may be said as St. Peter to Sapphira Acts. 5. Behold the feet of them which brought this honorable Person to her grave are ready to bear thee to the same place And therfore t is a point of the greatest 〈◊〉 to consider our latter end and prepare for it since its 〈◊〉 is so uncertain And perhaps in this case that advice of 〈◊〉 was not amiss to him that desired to know when was the best time to repent and reform his life in to whom he gave this answer that it was safest to do that the day before he died which was that present day for any thing he was assured of the contrary 2. As his particular coming at the hour of death is certain so is his last coming at the end of the World The son of man shall come in his glory and all his holy Angels with him and shall sit upon the Throne of his glory Mat. 25.31 And then we must all appear before the Judgment-seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his Body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad 2 Cor. 5.10 And St. Peter hath described this day with its attendant circumstances 2. Pet. 3.10 The day of the Lord will come in the which the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up This is an Article of our faith that Christ will come to judge the quick and the dead and is a deduction in Divinity that the belief of a God and of his providence and government of the world doth necessarily infer But of that day and hour when this judgment shall pass on the whole world knoweth no man Our Lord hath told us that this his coming will be as a thief in the night to allarm us to stand upon our guard and watch that we be not guilty of the improvidence and so overtaken with the surprize of the foolish Virgins We have the Doctrine of Christs coming and the use we should make of it both laid down by our Blessed Saviour in the 42. v. of this cb Watch therefore for you know not what hour your Lord doth come And again vers 44. Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour you think not the son of man cometh There have indeed been some so bold as to adventure to define those times and seasons which the Father hath put in his own power and to pretend to a discovery of the Arcana Imperil of Heaven among the rest to determine when this day shall be but in that time hath overcome and outworn several their computations the presumption of their folly needs no other confutation To press you to that which is the natural result of this Doctrine diligence and faithfulness in doing your duty I shall only urge you with a double consideration about this coming of our Lord. I. It will be a severe and strict account our Lord will take of us when he comes He will bring every work into judgment with every secret thing Eccles. 12.14 All our irreligion and prophaness our injustice and oppression our intemperance and uncleanness There will be no imposing on him no prevaricating with him no palliating any fault cloaking it from him before whom all things are naked and open Heb. 4.13 Indeed if we be found faithful and that in the maine we are not tardy God will overlook I do not say he sees not but he will pass by our failings and infirmities our humane frailties But there be two things either of which if we be found guilty of it will go hard with us instead of an euge we shall have an apage Hypocrisie or Partiality 1. Hypocrisie and Insincerity in his Service whatsoever we do we must do it heartily as to the Lord. The heart is the chief part of the Sacrifice which if it be wanting God loaths the Oblation be it never so Costly To love the Lord our God with all the Heart with all the Soul and with all the Mind is the first and great Commandment of the Law Mat. 22.37 38. To bow and cringe in the Temple as the Syrian in the house of Rimmon and the heart to be at a distance is a Service f●…r for such a blind Idol than an all-seeing heart-searching God 2. Partiality A most unhappy error men are willing to deceive themselves with they think to do the will of God in a Figure will serve the turn and so give him a part for the whole If they are Zealous and forward in his Service and Worship he will wink at their Injustice and Oppression or if I am open-handed I may be wicked-hearted an Alms shall dispense for my Uncleanness my Loyalty atone for my Impiety and Debauchery if I have heapt up an Estate by indirect means and unrighteous practises to build a small Hospital or bequeath a petty Legacy to the Poor will sanctifie the whole lump of ill-gotten goods and effect my pardon for all my wickedness But God delivered to us the whole Decalogue and for the whole he will account with us I 'm sure we shall never enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with a maimed obedience If at the last day we shall plead any of this the good deeds we have done and think that they will expiate for whatsoever else we have omitted Christ will reply to us as to the Pharisees These ought ye to have done and not have left the other undone David's confidence was onely in a Catholick Obedience Psal 119.6 Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy Commandments 2. The Sentence that will be then past is final and decisive beyond any appeal or rehearing An error here is of most unhappy consequence there is no place for a second We shall then be adjudged either to an happy or a dismal Eternity to everlasting life or endless punishment Prayers and Tears Repentance and promises of amendment which if sincere are in this life effectual for Mercy and Pardon will then be unavailable so that indeed we have the Sentence of Life and Death within our selves 't is in our own choice whether we will be happy or miserable to

A SERMON PREACHED At the FUNERAL of the Right honble the Lady Frances Paget The religious Consort of the right honble William Lord PAGET Eldest Daughter to the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Holland who was beheaded for his Loyalty to his King In the Parish-Church of West-Drayton in the County of Middlesex on the 12th of November 1672. By JEHU JENNY M. A. and Vicar of Harmondsworth LONDON Printed by J. D. for Nevil Simmons at the Princes Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard 1673. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE William Lord PAGET Baron of Brandesert Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath c. My Lord NOthing but your Lordships Commands could have forced into the Light this Discourse of so hasty conception and they give some countenance to the confidence of this Dedication otherwise I am too conscious that nothing of mine can deserve the Patronage of so great a Name or Title nor do I hope for Acceptance of this Service further than it is a Testimony of my Obedience and bears some though faint Characters of your late dear Consort That the Piety and Virtue of that excellent Lady may still live in your Noble Family of which there are visible hopes largely promising and consequently the Blessing of it on your Posterity reach the utmost extent of the Promise to such Obedience shall be a considerable part of the constant Devotions of My Lord Your Lordships most Obsequious Chaplain Jehu Jenny MATTH 24.46 Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing FOR Man to know God and himself is the Comprehension of his whole Duty The Poet could tell us of the latter that it is that Wisdom which is from above from Heaven heavenly that which will trans-trans-element us have that happy influence to sublimate us into that which is coelestial make us partakers or the Divine Nature and at length when we shall be ripen'd and sufficiently refin'd translate us to the enjoyments of that Kingdom Thus for Man to understand himself to know what he is will make him new create him what he is not and render him happy in that degree to which without this knowledge he could never attain And upon this notice this discovery who thirsts not after so much Goodness followed with so great Reward who is not impatiently eager on the study of this Philosophers Stone who will not judge it thrifty prodigality to lay out all to purchase this Pearl of so great price to any considerate man this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 must needs be matter of his highest satisfaction this acquirement is a recompence infinitly beyond all his labour and severity in the search after which there is no befooling darkness no discouraging difficulty no climbing the Clouds or crossing the Sea for it but this word of Wisdom is nigh thee Deut. 30.12 13 14. 't is plain and easie that which God hath sent down to us nay which the Son of God when for us men and for our Salvation he came down from Heaven himself hath delivered to us that which in the Text he preach'd to his Disciples and in them to us all in which he hath satisfied the Psalmist's question What is man what is man but a Servant to the great Lord and in this given a further resolve to the inquiry of those Publicans and Souldiers Luke 3. and who else shall come with the like case Master what must we do if Servants what 's our work our imployment He informs them to be deligent in their Office and to whet them to this he lets them know that he himself will have an eye over them and take an account of them and to encourage them to all this that as he findes them to be faithful so shall they be looked by him enjoy his favour the fullest blessedness Blessed c. And in this short account of the words I have given you the Parts of my Text which are these I. In what capacity man stands here he is a Servant That Servant II. As such what is his employment exprest in these words so doing III. The account will be taken of him the Lord of the family will come to take it himself though it be intimated that the time when he will come is very uncertain IV. The reward of that Servant that shall be found faithful and deligent Blessed is that Servant Of each of these with as much brevity as the Subject will allow I. In what capacity man stands here he is a Servant That Servant God made man but made him not for nought but to the excellency of his endowments in the design of Heaven was proportion'd an employment for him The Schools maintained this Axiome Quicquid agit agit propter finem that whatsoever moves in the nature of an Agent designs something as the end of its acting And certainly this perfection must be eminently in the Author of Nature and no end can we define worthy his proposal but his own Glory in the manifestations of his Power Wisdom and Goodness the most learned Philosopher and the greatest Divine that ever was in the World affirms this of the great work of Creation Pro. 16.4 The Lord hath made all things for himself yea even the Wicked for the day of evil That disorderly improfitable part of the Creation Telluris inutile pondus as the Poet speaks the wicked though God made them not so he made man upright and left him in the hands of his own counsel as the Son of Sirach Ecclus. 15.14 yet his over-ruling Wisdom makes them serve the designs of his inflexible Justice because they will not pay that homage they owe to their Maker but refuse to be happy and so defeat the purposes of enthroning his Mercy therefore he obliges them to wait on the triumph● of his Vengance as the just demerit of their obstinacy and rebellion In the 1st of Genesis last verse when the Ahnighty surveys the workmanship of his fix dayes creation he gives his approbation God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good Good in this respect among others in regard of that the God of order had placed in this large family of the Creation allotting each part its station and assigning them operations according to what powers and faculties he had implanted in them so that from the Seraphim to the Pismire there is no creature but what in a larger or less capacity is a Servant of its Creator The Philosopher could say that all things do serve in his notion the first Being and Cause of all things which is one of the meditations of the Royal Psalmist which he hath left us Psal 119.89 90 91. where he enumerates particulars For ever O Lord thy Word is setled in Heaven Thy Faithfulness is unto all Generations thou hast established the Earth and it abideth They continue this day according to thine Ordinances And then he concludes For all are thy Servants And upon enquiry we shall find his assertion true