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B01727	The servant's audit: a sermon preached at the funerals of the right worshipful Sr. Edmund Anderson baronet, in the church of Broughton in the county of Lincoln, Febr. 15. 1660. / By Edward Boteler ... now rector of Wintringham in that county ...	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing B3803A; ESTC R212802	28,513	80

both sees not only things present and conceives of them when past but deals with past present and to come and by a kind of Divinity can make things that are not as though they were And yet this heart of man in its highest sublimest most reflex and abstracted conceptions is not able to frame a Notion which may entertain these joyes more unsuited to such an undertaking than his hand is to span the circumference of the world the convex and extimate superficies of Heaven and Earth Hence it is that the Fathers and those Divines who have dealt most in Meditation when they have screwed their souls to the highest have yet been infinitely below and drooping and left us still to ghess only not know what these joyes are However we are beholden to them for their adventures and they have in this obliged us that our souls being in this life of Zacheus's pitch low and dwarfish they have lent us their Sycamore-trees their boughs and branches upon which we may climb and see Jesus Sometimes we run to Negatives which express it by not expressing it The tears of Hell are not sufficient to bewail the loss of the joyes of Heaven And then I am sure our Positives must needs be scant And yet such as they are take a few of them They are Certa securitas secura tranquilitas tranquilla jucunditas jucunda faelicitas faelix eternitas so Saint Prosper A certain security a secure peace a peaceable pleasure a pleasant happiness a happy eternity Festicitas sine tabe Tranquilitas si●● labe serenitas sine nube A feast and no consuming a peace and no confounding a clearnesse and no over-clouding so Saint Bernard Perenne solstitium sayes the same Father ubi nec longitudo terminum nec claritas occasum nec satietas fastidium habebit An everlasting stay of the Sun of Righteousnesse where he cannot decline where the length hath no end the brightnesse no fall the fulnesse no loathing But to leave these descants of the Fathers the laudable essayes of their parts and piety Let me only tell you there shall be Nicol. de Gorran Elucid in Ep. ad Philip. p. 442. Expulsus omnis inquietudinis amplexus summae dulcedinis as I find an Author glossing upon this Subject Nothing to interrupt joy every thing to encrease joy and I shall then hasten to a conclusion Nothing to interrupt joy No sin no suffering 1. Luk. 15.7 No sin Joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth And if remission make joy what shall abolition do Hereafter shall be no time for sin as Heaven shall be no place for it Sin is that which now vails and skreens the joyful face of God from the soul It is that which now cramps a Believers comforts seizeth on and deads all his joyes Comprehendêrunt me iniquitates meae Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me Psa 40.12 so that I am not able to look up Sins do often now cloud the light of God's countenance and overcast the Heavens but then Delevi ut nubem Isa 44.22 I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions and as a cloud thy sins Then the time is determined to finish transgression Dan. 9.24 and to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness to cut off these sinful dayes and begin those joyful dayes in which men cannot sin No sin that 's first 2. No suffering Suffering puts joy out of tune Psa 137.4 How shall we sing the Lord's Song in a strange Land But a Saint in joy may say to sufferings as our Saviour to the Pharisees Joh. 7.34 Where I am thither you cannot come Piety is no protection here but Heaven gives indisputable security 1. Against all Losses David shall there no more lament Jonathan 2 Sam. 1.26 Jer. 31.15 a friend nor Rachel her children Jacob shall no more complain that Joseph is not Gen. 42.36 Joh. 11.21 Nor Martha that if Jesus had been there 2 Chron. 35.25 her brother had not died Israel shall no more lament the losse of Josiah a peaceable a pious a peerlesse Prince Mat. 9.15 for the dayes of mourning shall be over Nor shall the children of the Bridechamber fast and mourn because the Bridegroome is taken from them Rev. 19.7 9. for they shall rejoyce and be glad because they are called to the marriage-supper of the Lamb Ch. 14.4 and shall follow the Lamb whither-soever he goeth 2. Against all pain For when the vile bodies of the Saints shall be changed Phil. 3.21 and fashioned like unto Christ's glorious body they shall be impassible And as Philosophers ascribe the strength and vigor of the Heavens to their Quint-essence there being no Elementary quality strong enough to encounter them they are above the assaults of heat and cold and so incorruptible so shall the joyes of Heaven be above the reach of all contrarieties not to be troubled by any pains if any could get out of Hell where all shall be shut up 1 King 15.23 2 King 4. Now Asa is diseased in his feet And the Shunamite's child complains My head my head But then the bodies of the Saints shall be united to Christ their head and as soon may their head ake as they feele any pain 3. Against death Death shall be then out-dated The streets of the new Jerusalem are swept clean from all these evils Rev. 21.4 There shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain Thoughts of death take off from joy The great General was so farre from glorying in his puissant Army Xerxes that he is said to have wept to think that death in so few years should clear the field of so many thousands But here Corruptible shall put on incorruption 1 Cor. 15.53 54. and mortal shall put on immortality and then shall be brought to passe the saying that is written Death is swallowed up in victory Then shall that promise be made good Hos 13.14 I will ransome them from the power of the grave I will redeem them from death O death I will be thy plagues O grave I will be thy destruction And that for the first particular which advanceth this joy there shall be nothing to interrupt it It shall secure against Losse Pain Death 2. There shall be every thing that can increase this joy Externa societas Interna satietas Aeterna jucunditas them three And I am beholden to Saint Bernard for them 1. Externa societas good company no inconsiderable advantage Alcibiades when he sold an house in Athens set the greater rate upon it because it had good neighbours it will hugely inhance the price of heavenly joyes that those many Mansions are possessed by such desirable Inhabitants There are the Saints of all ages of whom such excellent things are spoken The ancient Patriarchs The goodly fellowship of

the Prophets The glorious company of the Apostles The noble Army of Martyrs The holy Church that ha's been throughout the world Heb. 12.23 The communion of Saints The general Assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven God the Judge of all men and the spirits of just men made perfect The pure loyal and unspotted Angels Who if they rejoyce at the conversion of a sinner what will they do at the consummation of a Saint Salm. in Loc. praedict Si de initio gaudium est quanto magis de termino If there be joy among them to see a soul brought in to God what will there be to see soul and body brought up to God and glorified with him to all eternity How great must that joy needs be which is made up of so many parts Rev. 21.24 where the Nations of them which are saved walk in light following the Lamb and having the harps of God being triumphant and singing the song of Moses the servant of God and the Song of the Lamb Saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints Society without that 's the first 2. Interna satietas inward satisfaction which is never to be found on this side God Caeterae hilaritates Senec Ep. 24. ad Lucil non implent pectus sed frontem remittunt All things else leave the Cantons and Corners of the Soul empty the joyes of Heaven are only a commensurate object to a capacious soul which made Saint Augustine cry out Fecisti me Domine pro te inquietum est Cor nostrum donec perveniat ad te Thou hast made this heart of mine for thee and it can never finde rest till it comes to thee This the ground of Philip's request Joh. 14.8 Shew us the Father and it sufficeth and of David's resolution Psa 17.15 As for me I will behold thy face in righteousnesse I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likenesse Here you may as the father speaks Videre ad voluntatem habere ad voluptatem See as much as you will and enjoy as much as you please Satiety within that 's the second particular to increase joy 3. Which is the last but not the least Aeterna jucunditas This joy shall be interminate as boundlesse as infinity as endlesse as Eternity Your joy no man taketh from you Job 16.22 sayes our Saviour It is the great abatement of Earthly joyes that they lye open to the hands of rapine the hands of men may take them from us And if they scape the hands of men the hand of Providence will one day seize them and though we may rejoyce in the dayes of our youth Eccl. 12.1 yet the years draw nigh and the evil dayes will come when we shall say we have no pleasure in them It is the excellency of Heavenly joyes that they shall ever continue at the same height and fulness And as it is the extremity of a damned condition to be out of hope of relief so it is the priviledge of a glorified estate to be above the fear of loss The joy of the servant here is the joy of his Lord made by the light of his Countenance and the display of the beams of his face and favour who is God and changeth not Mal. 3.6 If the Sun did alwayes look with the same face upon the Moon which it doth at the full the Moon would never change The Lord the brightness of whose Majesty does infinitely surpass that of the Sun who shall put out the Sun by his lustre at his appearance as the Sun now does a Candle which is not improbably Chrysost Hom. in Mat. thought to be the way of darkening the Sun at the great day will ever keep the same aspect to the Saints without variableness or shadow of change and therefore it is that the joy of the Saints shall ever be at the full and know no declension Shall be as interminate as the everlasting God the fountain and source of all joy In whose presence is fulness of joy Psa 16.11 and at whose right-hand there are pleasures for evermore His Lord said unto him Well done thou good and faithful Servant thou hast been faithful over a few things I will make thee Ruler over many things Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. I have now quit my hands of the Text and shall have recourse to it no further than to help us a little to revive some memorials of that eminent and meriting person whose Remains yet lie before us ere they be disposed of into darkness and the Land where all things are forgotten Psa 88.12 I have some flowers to strew on his Herse they are but few and I would hide them too if I thought there were any Spiders here that would suck poyson out of them He was that I may keep in with the Metaphor of the Text A Servant of great and singular intrustments His Lord had concredited many Talents to him and he was very provident and faithful in trading with them and discharge of them Not like those whom Parisiensis complains of Qui majores terras possident minores Census solvunt Holding most at the hands of God and paying him little or no Rent God's greatest are commonly his worst Tenants But as he received much so he returned not a little Take this brief account of him and his Talents 1. Natural Talents The Holy Ghost often comparing our bodies to buildings I may say of his it was an Elegant Structure a polite and well composed frame It is said of the crooked and ill-shaped Emperour Ingenium Galbae malè habitat Galba's wit ha's an unhansome dwelling His had a lovely seat His Wit and Art and Grace had terse and comely lodgings There was Lauta supellex laetum domicilium The furniture was rich and the rooms rare The Jewel in a fair Casket And which made it a mercy and was the rarity of it it was not abused to pride and vanity to wantonness riot and luxury which too frequently undermine batter and are the ruine of the fairest walls of earth I have heard him often speak of disorderly ●nd intemperate persons in that ph●●se of the Psalmist Non dimidiabunt dies they live not half their dayes Psa 55.23 And this comeliness of his diffused a complacentious and grateful kind of lustre and takingness through his whole demeanor his words and actions came from him with a grace Gratior est pulchro veniens è corpore virtus He had a quick Liv. and a ready wit Ingenium ad omnia versatile in the Historian's phrase And it was ever well set on work inventing and adding to his fair stock of knowledge so that it was hard to say whether he was Scientior or sitientior More knowing Crescit amor nonmi c. or more craving The riches of his soul as these