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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

Man is renewed in knowledge after the Image of him that created him Col. 3.10 Gods Children are savingly enlightned 2. Cor. 4.6 Such as have their understandings darkned through the ignorance that is in them are alienated from the life of God Ephes 4.18 Yea and from the life of Christ too 2. There was in Christ meekness and patience Christ was a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief Isa 53.3 He was a Man of sorrows it is an Hebraism and signifies the manifold sorrows he met with as though he had been wholly made up of sorrow and he is said to be acquainted with grief Grief was his Acquaintance Tota vita Christi continuata passio his Familiar it lodged with him it was no stranger to him He was hurried from place to place posted from Judge to Judge put over from torment to torment from the Garden to Annas from Annas to Caiphas from Caiphas to Pilate from Pilate to Herod from Herod to Pilate again Cruelty as one faith walking the Circle and Impiety if ever now treading the Ring Yet under all indignities offered he opened not his mouth murmuringly or impatiently Isa 53.7 He was oppressed he was afflicted saith the * Non tam Propheta quam Evangelista dicendus Hieron ad Paul Eust Tom. 3. p. 26. Evangelical Prophet yet he opened not his mouth he is brought as a Lamb to the slaughter and as a Sheep before the shearers is dumb so he openeth not his mouth He died the painful shameful and accursed death of the Cross without the least bleating of impatience see Heb. 12.2 3. so 1 Pet. 2.21 22.23 This Lesson he would have us learn from him promising that thereby we shall find rest to our Souls Matth. 11.29 Considering the manifold afflictions we may meet with in our Christian course we have need of patience Heb. 10.36 Ye have need of patience that after ye have done the Will of God ye might receive the promise 3. There was in Christ humility and self-denyal Gal. 4.4 When the fulness of the time was come God sent forth his Son And this Son emptied himself of his glory * Bishop Andrews on Gal. 4.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that thought it no robbery to be equal with God made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a Servant and was made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a Man he humbled himself c. Phil. 2.5 6 7 8. He was born in Bethlem a mean City in a Stable a very mean Room the Manger was his Cradle the Cobwebs his Canopy He conversed with not as a Companion but as a Physitian the meanest of men Publicans and Sinners He sought not humane applause but suppres'd his own praises We read in the Gospel how he forbad his Patients to declare their Cure Mr. Abraham Wrights 3d Serm. Cant. 2.2 and desired his Miracles might be as invisible as his God-head He unlockt the mouth of the Dumb and then cryed See you tell no Man which was to tie up that Organ which he had before loosed so he drew the Curtain from the blind mans eyes and yet commanded him not to see and take notice of his Physician so he restored the withered hand and straight-way as it were dryed it up again in forbidding its use crying Point not at me What greater token of his humility and self-denyal than this Nay when some would have made him King he with-drew himself John 6.15 and elsewhere told them His Kingdom is not of this World He washed his Disciples Feet to teach us by his own Example a Lesson of loving condescention John 13.14 15. Let us resemble Christ in humility and self-denyal Mat. 11.29 Learn of me saith Christ for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest to your souls And Luke 9.23 Christ said Descende ut ascendas humiliare ut exalta is Aug. If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his Cross daily and follow me A proud man that will not stoop cannot enter into the narrow Wicket of Heaven The Kingdom of Heaven belongs to the poor in Spirit Mat. 5.3 and to such as are little in their own eyes Luke 12.32 4. There was in Christ harmlesness and inoffensiveness He is compared to a Lamb John 1.29 A Lamb he was for innocency as well as meekness The Spirit is said to descend upon him in the likeness of a Dove Mat. 3.16 What Creature more harmless then a Lamb among Beasts and a Dove among Birds They may suffer wrong from others but they do none to others Christ was very inoffensive some of his very enemies acquit him as you may read Luke 23.4 22. Judas who betray'd him said He had sin'd in betraying innocent blood Mat. 27.4 He walked very inoffensively both before God and Man 1 Pet. 2.22 Though he made his Grave with the World and suffered betwixt two Malefactors yet he did no violence neither was any deceit in his mouth Isa 53.9 He is such an High Priest as is holy harmless undefiled Heb. 7.26 Indeed many took offence at Christ at the meanness of his Person strictness of his Life purity of his Doctrine c. Mat. 15.12 Mar. 6.3 but he gave none offence Thus ought we to walk inoffensively with St. Paul endeavouring to keep a Conscience void of offence both towards God and towards Man Acts 24.16 so 1 Cor. 10.32 Give none offence saith the Apostle We should he blameless and harmless Phil. 2.15 so 1 Thes 2.10 Christ would have us to be harmless as Doves as well as wise as Serpents Mat. 10.16 Ut nulli nocuisse potes imitare columbam Serpentem ut possit nemo nocere tibi 5. There was in Christ usefulness and profitableness He did good both to the Souls and Bodies of all that came to him with a desire to profit by him He was anointed for this purpose Luke 4.18 19. And we read Acts 10.38 He went about doing good He did not confine himself to one place but as the Sun in its perambulation so this Sun of Righteousness for so he is called Mal. 4.2 went about that he might do the more good So let us do what good we can both to the Souls and Bodies of such as we converse with Let us be useful with our Purses Prayers and wholsome Instructions Believers are profitable Converted Onesimus was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to his * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vtilis fructuosus Name to which perhaps the Apostle alludeth he was profitable God bestows his Spirit upon them that they may be profitable 1 Cor. 12.7 The Apostle sought the profit of many that they might be saved Muscul in Gen. 1. p. 23. 1 Cor. 10.33 Mundo fideles utilitatem suae praesentiae non denegant 6. There was in Christ zeal for his Fathers Glory Christ though cool in his own yet was hot in the concerns of his

unclean Beasts No there enters in nothing that defileth Rev. 21.27 and Rev. 22.15 see 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11. and Gal. 5.19 20 21. There is a Catalogue of sins mentioned I pray you observe them and learn to avoid them if you expect to have a better life when this is ended He that dies to sin when he lives shall live when he dies and may say upon his death-bed as Myconius said to Luther his Friend that came to visit him Dr. Boreman's Sermon on Phil. 3.20 p. 47 48. This sickness is not unto Death but unto Life for when he dies to nature he shall live with God unto all eternity Let us therefore as the Author to the Hebrews exhorts Heb. 12.1 lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us As Racers lay aside things burthensome and troublesome so do you lay aside sin which is a burthen and hinders you in your spiritual Race * See Crit. sacra in vocem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Some say the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies a casting off as a man doth a long worn sute that begins to do him discredit to wear it or rather as a man coming out of Prison having filthy rags about him and full of Vermine hurls them away into a Dunghill or Ditch and never purposeth to touch them more It is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sin that doth beset us or wrap us about A Metaphor taken from a long Garment Deal with the old worn Garment of sin as Elijah did by his Mantle 2 Kings 2.13 lay it aside if ever you think to ascend to Heaven 4. Preparation for Death consists in doing good works 4. Dir. Benefaciendo Negative Holiness will not bring with it Positive Happiness Many build their hopes of future happiness upon this sandy Foundation That they are no Drunkards Whoremasters Swearers Lyars c. Because they are not guilty of open scandalous miscarrages therefore they bless themselves in their condition as the Pharisee did Luke 18.11 God I thank thee that I am not as other men are extortioners unjust adulterers or even as this Publican It is good indeed to keep our selves unspotted from the World but this is not sufficient we must do good works visit the Fatherless and Widows in their affliction This is pure Religion and undefiled before God as St. James tells us Jam. 1.27 It is not enough not to do evil but we must likewise do good Ps 34.14 Isa 1.16 17. Rom. 12.9 Sinful omissions are not to be looked upon as bare negations or privations but as breaches of a positive Law which commands the contrary so that omission of duty is as damnable as commission of sin God cursed Meroz not for fighting against the People of God but because they did not come out to their help against the Mighty Judg. 5.23 It was as true a fault in them Hag. 1.2 c. not to set up the House of God as in others to pull it down The Tree that bears not good fruit is fuel for the fire as well as the Tree that bears evil fruit Mat. 3.10 Mat. 7.19 The unprofitable Servant was cast into utter darkness not for spending but for not improving his Masters Talent Mat. 25.30 So the five foolish Virgins as you may read before vers 3. and 10. compared were shut out of doors not for abusing in wasting but for wanting of Oil So you may read afterwards in that Chapter many will be doomed to Hell because not active in works of charity vers 41 42 c. It is not said ye took away my Meat Drink and Cloaths from me but ye gave me no Meat Drink Cloathing c. therefore depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire c. So * Luk. 16.19 Dives was cast into the place of torment non quòd abstulit aliena sed quòd non donavit sua not for robbing Greg. Hom 40. but for not relieving poor Lazarus Good works are necessary Salvation is not ordinarily obtained without them as these places shew Mat. 25.34 c. Luk. 16.9 Rom. 2.6 7 8 9 10. Gal. 6.9 10. 1 Tim. 6.18 19. Heb. 6.10 10.24 Nemo malâ morte unquam moriebatur qui libentèr opera charitatis exercuit Jerom. Bona opera sunt praedestinationis occultae indicta futurae foelicitatis is praesagia via regni Bern. Tractat. de gratia non causa regnandi Bernard Actus boni Christianae fidei quasi testes quia Christianus nisi bona opera fecerit fidem suam penitus approbare non possit Salv. Salvian de gub Dei lib. 4. p. 99. Now when I speak of good Works I do not only mean works of Charity for works of Piety and of our particular Callings are also good works Be much then in praying reading hearing meditating alms-deeds and the like To shut up this Particular we read how Jacob when he went to his own Countrey sent his Droves before him Gen. 32.16 and he followed after them Heaven is a Christians Countrey send droves of duties thither afore-hand as Prayers Meditations Affections Longings Alms-deeds c. that so when you depart this Life you may follow after them 5. Preparation for Death consists in putting on the Vertues of Christ 5. Dir. Virtutes Christi induendo You set your Watch not by the Clock but by the Sun order your motion according to that of Christ the Sun of Righteousness Christ propounds himself an Example and commands us to learn of him Mat. 11.29 1 Pet. 1.21 22. He sets himself as a Pattern for us to work by or as a Copy for us to write after I 'll name some Vertues that shined forth with greatest lustre in the Life of Christ and should likewise be conspicuous in the lives of all such as expect Salvation by him 1. There was in Christ Spiritual Wisdom Christ when he was a Child was sitting among the Doctors and was able to pose them Luke 2.46 47. He was sitting among the Doctors both hearing them and asking them questions and all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers Orig. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They were out of themselves with admiration It was beyond their understanding what they heard from him in the praeludium of his Ministry And he is said to encrease in Wisdom Luk. 4.22 ver 52. In respect of his humane nature he did so but as God he was absolutely perfect in knowledge Solomon who was the Oracle of his Age 1 Kings 4.29 30 31. was a Type of Christ in whom are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge Col. 2.3 A Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding of Counsel and Knowledge did rest upon him Isa 11.2 Let us resemble him in Wisdom Labour to be filled with the knowledge of God's Will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding increasing in the knowledge of God Col. 1.9 10. The New