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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56449	A sermon preached at the funeral of that faithful servant of Christ, Robert Breton, D.D. Pastor of Deptford in the county of Kent, Febr. 20. 1671/2. By Richard Parr, D.D. of Camerwel in the county of Surrey.	Parr, Richard, 1617-1691.	1672 (1672)	Wing P549; ESTC R216956	13,679	43

wherein all our deeds are recorded and 't is but a very little time e're we must all appear at the Judgement seat of Christ that every one may be judged 2 Cor. 5.10 and receive according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad and then happy the man only that shall be found well doing Within a few dayes perhaps hours it will infallibly be every ones lot to exchange this Life for another a better or a worse as this our excellent Brother hath shewn us and 't will be our wisdom to prepare for it as he did that though it come in the day or in the night slowly or swiftly in our working or in our waiting we may be ready for it that our change may be for the better and not for the worse That the day of death may be better than the day wherein we were born Eccles 7.1 3. Thirdly To which Preparation I would in the last place invite and exhort you 1. And first If thou would●st be fit to dye and prepared for thy death and ready for the coming of our Lord and desirest to be blessed then be perswaded to a serious constant course and exercise of Religion as our Lord hath taught and commanded for let no man think to be Blessed that is not found in that state to which the Promise is made Let him therefore give up himself to an holy life according to the will of God And let him for ever cast off the works of darkness and cease from doing evil let him give over sinning wilfully Isa 1.16 Job 11.11 12. 34.32 and doing foolishly and do no more such things let him deny and renounce with great resolution all ungodliness and worldly lusts and resolve upon a Sober Righteous and Godly Life as we are taught Tit. 2.12 And let every man be careful Tit. 2.12 as much as he can so to order his Conversation that he be not found either over-charged with the cares of the World or with surfetting and drunkenness or wronging our fellow-servants as our Lord hath warned Luke 21.34 Luke 21.34 and so that Day come upon you unawares And think this with thy self Would I be found at any time doing that which is sinful in it self or that may prove of evil example to others when I am gone 2. And then secondly for Practicals that thou mayst be at all times prepared And let no man think that the business of Religion the service of our Lord can be acceptably done by the bye or when we have nothing else to do or to be put off to such a time when we can do nothing but groan under pains and dye But if we mean to be prepared let us do what we have in duty let us do it now in health and with our strength as we are counselled Ecclus. 9.10 That which thy hand findeth to do Ecclus. 9.10 do it with thy might for there is no work nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest and our Duty is told us Ecclus. 12.13 To fear God and to keep his Commandments this is the whole duty of man Now this Consideration invites us all to be doing such Duties which are necessary 1. First in respect of God To perform constantly those acts of true and devout Worship Obedience and Love to him freely willingly and with all chearfulness 2. Secondly in respect of our selves necessary for us to do To subdue our own evil dispositions to mortifie our own corruptions to Repent to amendment of life to rectifie the disorders and irregularities of our Passions and to be fruitful in Good works 3. Thirdly in respect of others To do good to as many as we can to their Souls by instructing them and perswading to Piety and a Religious conversation by Precept and Example and to their Bodies by relieving them in their necessities visiting them in their sickness by delivering them as we are able out of bondage and oppressions and praying to God for them in every condition And to conclude let every Christian be doing such things as are True Phil. 4.8 Whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely and whatsoever things are of good report let every one resolve upon such things and be doing accordingly all virtuous acts that when-ever Death comes either hastily or gradually it may find thee in such a frame and disposition or in some good action or soon after it And then how comfortably might Christians live in expectation of Christs speedy coming and how happy might they be in their End with such preparation and as Tertullian observed in the Primitive Christians that they were expeditum morti genus a people alwayes prepared for Death so is every Holy man Of which sort was this Excellent person deceased this once shining Light now extinguished who both as a Divine and a Christian hath given ample Testimony and left a good Example who faithfully served his Master and was found so doing Concerning whom you may justly expect very Excellent things might be spoken I may not therefore dismiss this great Convention in this House of great mourning without some Remarques about the subject of this Occasion and indeed when we have to speak of Doctor BRETON no man need rack his Invention for things Worthy to be said and if a Tongue like His once had this employment words would flow apt charming But we must do as we can 1. This Excellent person was Born in London the great and splendid Metropolis of England Anno Dom. 1628. and 't is no diminution to its Grandeur when it is said That this Man was Born there 2. The University of Cambridge had the good luck to nurse him to which he carried a prompt Wit and pregnant Parts improved with what inferiour Schools could furnish him From thence he came with a stock of Humane Learning and Sacred Knowledge an excellent Scholar and Learned to make an able Divine His Honorary Degrees were not above his Merits he was as much a grace to his Title as Doctor to him When he was called to the Sacred Function he engaged in this Ministry and the Duty too he had a Commission to Preach the Gospel and he laboured abundantly and instantly not of force but of Choice he did it willingly not so much by any other constraint as that of love to his Master Christ and the Souls of men and yet he remembred also Wo unto me if I preach not the Gospel He was rarely qualified for an excellent Divine Gifts from above good and perfect pure and peaceable sober just holy temperate and apt to Teach He alwayes held fast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the model and express form of Sound words in Faith and Charity 2 Tim. 1.3 in opposition to all growing Heresies and Arts of men of corrupt minds and evil manners and kept the Depositum as a faithful Steward and wise Master-Builder without wavering or shifting a Workman