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A23806	A funeral handkerchief in two parts : I. Part. Containing arguments to comfort us at death of friends, II. Part. Containing several uses which we ought to make of such losses : to which is added, Three sermons preached at Coventry, in December last, 1670 / by Thomas Allestree ...	Allestree, Thomas, 1637 or 8-1715.	1671 (1671)	Wing A1197; ESTC R14326	214,765	404

Apostle makes mention of Love to all the Saints Ephes 1.15 Col. 1.4 Phil. 5. A true Believer loves a Saint in Rags as well as a Saint in Robes He loves God's Image as one saith though hung up in never so poor a frame To be partial in affection and to have the Faith of God in respect of persons is at large forbidden James 2.2 3 4. c. Well then consider though wicked men slight thee yet God the blessed Angels and Saints have thee in great esteem 6. And lastly Consider If you belong to God you shall shortly be invested with Heavenly glory Sometimes God's dear Children after great disrespect meet with much honour in this world as Joseph David Daniel and others did but if they miss of it here they shall be sure to have a Crown of Glory hereafter Rom. 2.6 7. God will render to every man according to his deeds to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality Eternal life So v. 10. Glory Honour and Peace to every one that worketh good They shall be as the Angels of God in Heaven Mat. 22.30 they shall shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father Mat. 13.43 What made St. Paul so patient under all indignities he met with but the thoughts of his future Glory for saith he Rom. 8.18 I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us therefore as it is Rom. 5.2 Rejoyce in hope of the glory of God You say You have many Children to provide for Answ Indeed it is a sad condition to have Children and little left to maintain them with It was one of the greatest outward curses David could ban the enemies of God withal Psal 109.9 10. Let his Children be Eatherless and his Wife a Widow let his Children be continually vagabonds and beg Let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places But consider for your comfort 1. Consider God feeds other creatures and their young God provides for all creatures they live upon his bounty Psal 104.27 28. All wait upon thee that thou maist give them their meat in due season that thou givest them they gather thou openest thy hand they are filled with good So Psal 145.15 16. Psal 147.9 he giveth to the beast his food and to the young Ravens which cry Job also takes notice of God's providing for the Ravens young ones Job 38.41 Some say that the Raven Mr Gore in his Serm. on Ps 37.25 when the young ones are new hatched flyes away and leaves them destitute of Food and there they lie in the nest croaking and crying ready to starve for want of sustenance but God takes pity upon them and creates a Worm out of their excrements which crawleth into their mouths and so feeds them and keeps them alive How true this is I know not I rather think otherwise that the old Ravens go abroad to seek food for their young who in the mean time cry for hunger in their nests and God gives food to the old ones to carry it to their young And when the old ones will no longer feed them being able to fly themselves they wander for lack of meat and God gives it to them It is one of our Saviour's Arguments to beat down distracting care for worldly things Mat. 6.26 Behold the Fowls of the Air he saith not those about the house that are fed by the hand at or about the barn-door but those of the Air which fly about and no man provides for they sow not neither do they reap nor gather into barns yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them Are ye not much better then they God feeds the Sparrows then fear not ye are of more value then many Sparrows Luke 12.7 Nay ye are better then Sheep Mat. 12.12 better then Oxen whom God takes care for 1 Cor. 9.9 10. Now if God take care of more contemptible creatures and their young surely he will provide for rational creatures and their Children whom he hath made but little lower then the Angels and put all other creatures under their feet Psal 8.5 6 7 8. We have an usual saying he that sends mouths will send meat Lect 30. on Jonah p. 629. Surely as Dr. Abbot saith God never made a belly but he made meat for that belly he never framed a back but he made cloaths to cover it 2. Consider God is said in Scripture to be an helper of the Fatherless poor and friendless God indeed is called the preserver of men Job 7.20 and he preserveth all men but for the comfort of the poor he is said to be their helper Psal 10.14 The poor committeth himself unto thee thou art the helper of the fatherless So Psal 107.9 he satisfieth the longing soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness So Luke 1.53 he filleth the hungry with good things So Psal 146.9 The Lord preserveth the Stranger he relieveth the Fatherless and Widow So Hos 14.3 In thee the Fatherless findeth mercy 3. Consider God hath promised to help such Psal 132.15 I will satisfie her poor with bread saith God So Isa 41.17 18. When the poor and needy seek water and there is none and their tongue faileth for thirst I the Lord will hear them I the God of Israel will not forsake them I will open Rivers in high places and Fountains in the midst of the Valleyes I will make the Wilderness a Pool of water and the dry-land Springs of water So Isa 49.15 66.13 so Jer. 49.11 Leave thy Fatherless Children I will preserve them alive and let thy Widows trust in me God in these and the like places engageth as it were under hand and seal for their necessary provision God hath as it were entered into bond for the better security of the poor And therefore the poor that belong to God should conclude with David Psal 27.10 When my Father and my Mother forsake me either through unnatural cruelty or unavoidable mortality then the Lord will take me up He 'l be my Guardian and take care of me for Tit. 1.2 he that cannot lye hath promised so to do 4. Consider God oft times raiseth up for his Children unexpected help God put it into the mind of Pharaohs Daughter to pitty poor drowning Moses and nurse him at her own charges as you read Exod. 2.5 6. c. Distressed Naomi met with a friendly Daughter-in-law whose name was Ruth Ruth 1.16 17. She loved her and was better to her then seven Sons Ruth 4.15 And Ruth met with Boaz whose kindness was great towards her When Esters Father and Mother were dead Mordecai bred her up as his own Daughter Ester 2.7 And in process of time she became a Queen God hath in his hand the hearts of all even the greatest and can turn them whithersoever he will Psal 106.46 Prov. 21.1 he can raise thee up friends to relieve thee

best for us to pay our Vows Deut. 23.21 Eccl. 5.4 5. we are perjur'd persons truce-breakers if we do not Defer not to put into action what God's Spirit in sickness put into intention Do as David did when he was brought low God helped him Psal 116.6 God delivered his soul from death v. 8. See his resolution v. 9. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living He devoted himself to God's Service v. 16. Truly O Lord I am thy Servant I am thy Servant And he likewise resolved to pay his Vows v. 14. so v. 18. so likewise Psal 66.13 14. I will go into thine house with burnt-offerings I will pay thee my Vows which my lips have uttered and my mouth hath spoken when I was in trouble Let health strength life soul and body the products of Gods mercy be presented to his service Rom. 12.1 I end this with that advice which Christ gave to one whom he cured John 5.14 Behold thou art made whole sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee 3. Apply your selves to God in future straits pray unto him trust in him Thus did David Psal 116.2 Because he hath enclined his ear unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live So v. 17. I will call upon the Name of the Lord. So Ps 56.3 What time I am afraid I will put my trust in thee for v. 13. Thou hast delivered my soul from death So Ps 63.7 Thou hast been my help therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoyce See 1 Sam. 17.37 so 2 Cor. 1.9 10. We had the sentence of death saith the Apostle in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in God which raised the dead who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us It is good Scripture-logick as * Mr. Reyners Praecepts p. 266. one saith to draw conclusions of confidence from premises of experience Such then whom God hath restored to health when God casts them again into the Prison of a sick-bed let them be still Prisoners of Hope as the expression is Zach. 9.12 Suffer not Faith to flag and Hope to hang wing Lam. 3.26 It is good that a man should both hope and patiently wait for the salvation of the Lord. 4. Sympathize with others that are in misery If God have had mercy on thee go thou and have mercy on others Be not straitned in your bowels as some in the Church of Corinth were 2 Cor. 6.12 Oh pity and pray for such as are in sickness and misery and do them all offices of love and kindness that may be Not only God calls for this but the Law of friendship calls for it Job 6.14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend But yet Job's friends dealt very unfriendly with him as you may see v. 15. whom he compares to a Brook which in open weather when people have least need of water promiseth refreshment but in cold weather is frozen up and in hot weather is become dry so that the weary Travellers fall short of their expectation So you may find him complaining how he was forsaken of all Relations Job 19.2 c. insomuch that he begs their pity upon the account of friendship v. 21. Have pity upon me have pity upon me O ye my Friends for the hand of God hath touched me here is another Argument for if you touch or strike upon the string of an Instrument other strings move too When God strikes another with sickness we our selves should be moved with compassion towards them the sicknesses and miseries of others call for your help Jos 10.6 Acts 16.9 As the Father said of Lazarus's sores Quot ulcera tot ora so many sores so many mouths calling for the rich mans help Yea though they be their enemies you should pity them as David did Psal 35.11 12 13 14. Though compassion begin at the heart yet it should proceed to the hand and mouth help them with your counsels and prayers and purses too Sic mens per compassionem doleat ut larga manus affectum doloris ostendat What the good Samaritan did Luk. 10.30 c. By which passage our Saviour would teach us to have pity on those whether friends or enemies acquaintance or strangers that stand in need of our help v. 37. Go thou and do likewise The Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that signifies Alms comes from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that signifies Pity Alms should be a fruit of pity 1 Joh. 3.17 If you who have known what it is to lie under sickness do not pity such folk who should if you do not who will 5. Lastly Give God the sole praise of all let him have the glory of the cure for to him it belongs and it is a piece of sacriledge to rob God of his due We should not give nor should any man take to himself the glory of a cure Neither Peter nor John Act. 3.12 Paul nor Barnabas Act. 14.11 c. durst take to themselves the glory of a cure Every Physitian should say as the King of Israel in another case said to the Woman crying out to him for help 2 King 6.26 27. If the Lord do not help thee whence shall I help thee The best Physitians can do nothing without Gods assistance Simples are but simple things without the blessing of God upon them Who put medicinal qualities into Drugs but the God of Nature Whence had the Physitian his skill to find out the quality of the Distemper and apply sutable means but from the God of Wisdom Jam. 1.5 Christ said Mat. 4.4 Man lives not by bread alone c. Nor is man recovered by Physick alone without Gods blessing Ps 107.18 19 20. Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat and they draw near to the gates of death then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble he saveth them out of their distress he sent his Word and healed them and delivered them from their destructions It follows v. 21. O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men Quest But may we not thank our Physitian Answ Yes and you are too blame if you do not Ingratitude is an odious sin Gen. 40.23 compared with Gen. 41.9 It is one of the sins that makes the last times so perillous 2 Tim. 3.2 The Heathen thought you could not give a man a more odious title then to call him ungrateful Ingratum si dixeris omnia as though it was a compendium of all vices and indeed it is a decompounded sin Ahasuerus was too blame to forget loyal-hearted Mordecai so long who had been a means to save his life till it was almost too late to remember him He was to be commended for conferring civil dignities upon him afterwards as you read he did Esth 6. Let such as are unthankful to Physitians and to such as are a means to save their lives from destruction go to School to those Barbarians Acts 28.8 9 10. from whom they may learn lessons of Civility They honoured Saint Paul who healed many amongst them of many Diseases with many honours and when he with the rest of his company departed they laded them with such things as were necessary Well then you may and ought to thank them as Instruments but remember that God is the supream efficient They are to be rewarded and respected for their pains and care with us but God alone is to be praised for the Cure wrought upon us God is the Fountain they are but as Pipes to convey God's mercies to us Let us then give God the praise of all as the Angels sung Gloria in Excelsis Glory be to God on high Luk. 2.14 And as Christ hath taught us Mat. 6.13 For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever Amen That Woman in the Gospel cured of the Distemper called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glorified God as you may read Luke 13.13 There were ten Lepers that lift up their voices and said Jesus Master have mercy on us Luk. 17.13 Yet being cleansed there was but one of them that turned back and with a loud voice glorified God vers 15. But Christ took notice of their ingratitude v. 17 18. There was but one of ten that returned to give thanks 'T is ten to one if God cure us but we prove ungrateful Oh let us not in sickness pray for mercy and in health forget to return thanks for the receit of mercy Non sonet illud tantum miserere Deus sed sonet etiam laus gratianum actio pro accepta illius misericordia Muscul in Phil. 2.27 David was much in praising God for delivering him from deadly dangers as the Psalms testifie Psal 30.1 3 4. 86.12 13. 103.3 104.33 116.6 12 17. 118.14 146. v. 1 2. So Hezekiah being recovered pens a Song of Thanksgiving Isa 38.9 c. Oh my beloved extraordinary mercies call for more then ordinary thanks Exod. 12.42 Communicate your experiences Psalm 66.16 Tell others of the cures God hath wrought Joh. 5.15 Mar. 5.19 The tongue is called our glory Psal 16.9 Let your glory sing praise to God and not be silent Psal 30.12 Wherein is your tongue a glory if not in setting forth the glory of God I end all with that Doxology of the Apostle 1 Tim. 1.17 Now unto the King Eternal Immortal Invisible the only wise God be honour and glory for ever and ever Amen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS