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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87802	Abraham's image in one of his sonnes: or, The picture of a good old man, represented in a sermon upon the third of November, anno Dom. 1657. in West-Newton, at the funeral of John Dethick Esquire, father to the late lord mayor that was of London in the year 1655. By William Knapp Master of Arts, of Katherine-Hall in Cambridge, now rector of VVest-Newton in Norfolk.	Knapp, William, d. 1688.	1658 (1658)	Wing K667; Thomason E937_2; ESTC R207740	24,523	44

so too in the memory of men Pingitur in tabulis formae peritura Venustas Owen Vivat ut in tabulis quod perit in facie sayes the Epigrammatist We oft take care that the beauty of the outward man when it decayes should live in pictures as this our dead friends picture was drawn to the life at London in the time of his sons Mayoralty and truly I think it as meet to delineate the beauty of his soul and show it to the world Virtus nihil erubescit praeter quam abscondi In the life of a man Virtue is asham'd of nothing but of being hid and godly men will show themselves in the exercise of goodness and after their death when they can no longer show themselves 't is but charity for us to continue their worth in a good report Concerning this Gentleman therefore I shall do both him and you this right as to speak a little and with the number of his Virtues I shall not rank his descent and parentage though I finde nobility of birth to be a special jewel in the diadem of a Prince in Eccles 10.17 Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the son of Nebles For though his Progenitors were Gentlemen Knights of great quality yet I am not making an Oration in a Hall but a Sermon in a Church where nothing but matters divine and of edification to the precious soul are seasonable and comely In order whereunto let me propose for example the sobriety righteousness and godliness of this deceased Gentleman those three Virtues which like so many stars of highest magnitude the grace of God fixeth in the firmament of the Saints conversation Tit. 2.12 First he lived soberly in this present world making no * Rom. 13 14. provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof but living temperately using the creatures to that end for which they were created to help not to overburden Nature and truly to this moderation of his which was known to all men we may next under the good pleasure of God whose soveraignty is over all events ascribe the length of his dayes The French say of the English and truly not undeservedly that we dig our graves with our own teeth God hath inriched our Nation with a plenty above others and commonly we turn it into luxury and riot 't is a sottishness of many men to think by a lautitious fare and over-high eating and drinking to plump their bodies into a proportion of beauty and raise the operations of Nature for so they usually destroy it as too much fuel puts out the fire Arist Li. Phy. according to a principle of natural Philosophie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 too much is Natures enemy 'T is reported of old Parr who was 152. yeers of age that using but mean and moderate dyet in the Countrey he kept himself in health but coming up to the Court at London the dainties which he was tempted to at the Kings table soon overthrew his body But this our deceased friend was once requested prevail'd with to go to London where his friends thought their eyes bless'd in so venerable a piece of antiquitie and to gratifie the favour of his society they tender'd to his acceptance all those varieties which that citie could afford But he being then as formerly temperate in all things so resisted the temptation of excess as he returned into the countrey in perfect health If ever therefore my Brethren you desire to see many days and that your bodies may be in a sweet subserviency to your souls and your souls to God live as this our departed friend did soberly Secondly he lived righteously or justly as to his dealings with men he dealt well with himself by living soberly and well with others by living righteously He paid those twofold debts which all men especially Christians are concern'd in 1. Debts of Justice according to the Apostles rule in Rom. 13.7 where he sayes Render to all their dues tribute to whom tribute custome to whom custome fear to whom fear honor to whom honor and thus did he and that not for † Rom. 13.5 wrath but for conscience sake 2. He paid his debts of charity and mercy which J call debts because J finde the Apostle does in Rom. 13.8 and therefore the discharging thereof is the true badge and cognizance of a Christian as Ioh. 13.35 Coloss 3.12 To satisfie debts of Justice men are taught as commonly the fear of God is by men Esa 29.13 and hereunto they may be constrained by the dint of the law of a Common-weal but to love one another men are taught of God 1 Thess 4.9 which being a duty not onely in deed and word but extending it self to a charitable heart is onely found in the spiritual law of Christ he therefore is the onely true Disciple of Christ who loves as in the sight of God who is the searcher of the heart and whose soul melts with a tender compassion towards all men especially towards the * Gal. 6. io houshold of faith and such as beare about them the marks of the Lord Jesus And thus did our friend who did not so much poure forth his charity out of his purse as out of the bowels of mercy not so much out of the hand as heart as much of this temper J am sure appeared by the distribution of his estate which he gave not to such as were already furnished with a plenty as commonly men do with purpose onely to transmit an airie name to posterity but to such as he thought might stand in some need and thus he alwayes desir'd that his estate might be rather supplemental than ornamental And now Brethren as in time of his life his hand was alwayes open to give to the poor so he lent the Lord and the Lord who is a debtor to no man return'd him what he gave in a manifold blessing God blessed him as he did Gen. 24.1 Abraham in all things he blessed him with a numerous issue of sons and daughters whereof the youngest of his sonns he liv'd to see advanc'd to a place of the greatest eminence in our Metropolitan city as good old † Gen. 46.6 Iacob saw his son Joseph in Aegypt God also blessed him with a considerable estate to supply both his and also the wants of others But above all God blessed him with a portion of divine grace whereby he was enabled to live not onely soberly and righteously but also in the third place godly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 alwayes offering up to God as a royal priest the holy sacrifices of prayer and praises and alwayes waiting with old Simeon to see the salvation of the Lord through his holy ordinances Of which gracious temper of his not onely I my self having sometimes discern'd him to weep at a Sermon but also the whole town of Kings-Lynn where he spent great part of his latter dayes can give sufficient testimony For there as he lived under