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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08481	Gods rebuke in taking from vs that worthy and honourable gentleman Sir Edward Lewkenor Knight, the first day of May this present yeere 1618, he being at that time high Sheriffe of Suffolke whose Christian life and comfortable end are here faithfully recorded. Together with diuers profitable and necessarie instructions; deliuered first in a discourse at his funerall, and now inlarged, and published, for the benefit of others not then present. By T.O. aliàs P. minister of the word of God at Denham in Suffolke.	Oldmayne, Timothy.	1619 (1619)	STC 18805; ESTC S113488	40,569	121

not preuented that those things which are more subtill and pure such as is the word of God together with the sweet motions of the spirit doe suddenly leake out and vanish away leauing behinde them concupiscence her selfe together with diuers other carnall and noisome lusts like a thicke and hellish aire to supplie their roome and fill vp the vacuum Now the onely thing to soader binde vp these crackes and flawes of the soule is Meditation and calling the word of God to our remembrance when we are departed from it Duties not only commanded vnto vs in the holy Scripture but commended vnto vs by the examples of the most excellent that euer liued And to take these two asunder First meditation commanded Deut. 11.18 Therefore shall you lay vp these words in your heart and in your soule and binde them as a signe vpon your hands and frontlets betweene your eyes And Ios 1.8 Let not this booke of the Law depart out of thy mouth but meditate therein day and night Secondly commended by the example of Dauid Ps 119.40 Mine hands will I lift vp to thy Commandements which I haue loued and will meditate in thy Statutes And Dauid commendeth that righteous man amongst other rare qualities of his that he is one that doth meditate in the Law of God night and day So Isaak Gen. 24. gaue himselfe to meditation Exijt in campum Etsi quidam putant actū potius fuisse corporis quàm animi seque exercuiffe currendo saltando vel domesticis suis confabulando Deut. 6. saith Ambrose vt abalienaret se à curis domesticis The more seriously to consider not onely of the workes of God but also of his gratious promises The second namely calling the word of God to remembrance is a thing commanded Deut. 6. beginning at the first verse and so on almost the whole chapter through where the spirit of God exhorteth to talke of the word of God in bed and at boord hîc vbique in all places and at all times suteable to the counsell of the Apostle Coloss 3.16 Let the word saith he dwell plentifully in you Commended likewise first by the example of the Disciples of our Sauiour Christ whose manner was after the Sermons of their Master to conferre of things heard as it is plaine in the 13. of Matthew and elsewhere Secondly by the practise of our Sauiour himselfe so willingly assoyling his Disciples doubts and satisfying them in things that were beyond their reach And lastly by the behauiour of them of Berrea who frequenting the Sermons of the Apostle Paul as it is plaine Act. 17. did at their returne home call ouer what they had heard with all diligence searching their bookes to see whether his preachings their Bibles did agree especially whether those authorities that he alleadged out of Moses and the Prophets touching doubtlesse the Messias were so or no. According to whose blessed example was this Worthies practise not only at other times but especially vpon the Lords day wherein his manner was besides his priuate meditation and conference of the word of God with some speciall friends of his to haue his familie assembled together immediately after dinner and then after a short praier by him conceiued to call ouer the princpall points of the forenoone Sermon as also before Supper to doe the like in egard of the Sermon in the afternoone both which exercises right commendable he was wont to conclude with praier likewise and singing of a Psalme Thus whilest others take their ease others as the fashion of the times now is deuote themselues to vaine and idle recreations and pastimes was this Noe as you see busie at his worke in framing of an Arke for the sauing of himselfe and his houshold Neither let me here forget one thing before I finish this Sacrifice it came late to my knowledge this morning and therefore you shall haue it in the last place something out of order you will say but it is no matter fall where it will I owe it to the honour of this Gentleman And it is his extraordinary care that he had this last Easter for the fitting and preparing of his seruants and familie for the right and orderly receiuing of the blessed Sacrament of the body and bloud of our Sauiour Christ all which hee did not only by praier and reading of the word of God his vsuall course at other such times but with the same he adioyned then a graue speech a zealous exhortation of an houre long wherein to the admiration of all that heard him he laboured as to informe their iudgements of the nature and end of the Sacrament so to quicken and stirre vp their affections to come with a more hungrie desire and appetite to these holy mysteries The which speech of his as it was Sacra concio so was it indeed Cygnea cantio his sweet and farewell Sermon where whilest he spake his soule was no question rauished with that whereof he hath now the full fruition That faire Riuer that he exhorted other to seeke for he doth now sit by shading himselfe vnder the tree of life and satisfying himselfe with the pleasures of both And this shall suffice to haue spoken of the two first Sacrifices now are wee come to the third and last Sacrifice of his namely his Almes and releeuing of the poore In treating whereof I purpose wholly to abridge my thoughts and whereas much might be spoken to speake little at the leastwise not so largely as I spake of the former a word or two shall serue only as a taste Arron by a cup of wine gaue the Gaules a taste of all Italie Plutarch in vita Camilli And the xij messengers that Iosua sent by a bunch of grapes the fruitfulnesse of the Land of Canaan for by a drop a man may easily gather the riches of the whole vintage Diuers things I know are required at the hands of euery Christian for the gracing of his sacrifice and making of it acceptable before God But for breuities sake we will consider onely of these two 1. That the Sacrifice be commanded 2. That it be cheerefully performed The first of these is most necessary that it be of Gods appointing else it falleth within the compasse of that Rom. 14.23 Quicquid ex fide non est peccatum est Whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne a meere Ethelothreschie or humane inuention a toy of a mans idle braine and therefore by no meanes to be endured in the seruice of God And as necessary likewise is the second the same Apostle shewing a like reason 2. Cor. 9.7 Nam hilarem datorem diligit Deus For God loueth a cheerefull Giuer Yea Cursed saith the Prophet Ier. 48.10 is that man that doeth the worke of God negligently Both which my desire is may be well obserued seeing that by the one a man shall easily discerne the worth of the sacrifice and by the other his worthinesse in offering the same And

is no one thing the whole Scripture through more commended vnto vs either by varietie of arguments or more noble consequence then the sacrifice it selfe neither any thing in my conceit whereof the most here in this so iudicious and Christian an assembly haue a more honourable esteeme then of it for mee to enter any commendations of the same were a meere lending of light to the Sunne a labour altogether needlesse and in the meane time a neglecting of that light which this glorious Starre doth offer vnto vs as a most necessary direction for the performance of this so Christian a dutie Now that we may looke the better into the same how he did it we will diuide the Sacrifice into two parts and will consider of either of them briefly and yet seuerally by it selfe And for the first of these it is his reading of the word of God priuately and alone A dutie indeed commendable in all but admirable in him considering that it is not the fashion for men now adayes especially of his place and greatnesse to take this course And yet a lasse amongst many hundreds of his ranke and order nay let mee offend none in giuing him his due scarse in an age is there not especially of his yeeres and time such another to be found so generall a scholler his vnderstanding so refined his braine so pure and in all kinde of learning so absolute All which hee promised from his cradle in the grasse shewing what the crop would be And whereof in my iudgement that faire Mother the Vniuersitie of Cambridge had a kinde of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He was chosen vpon a day of solemnitie to make an Oration in the Colledge being little aboue a yeers standing which hee did with great applause Midsommer Batcheler scarce three yeeres standing The death of his father and mother dying within little lesse then twelue houres one of another guessing happily by those signes hee then gaue whither his vertuous minde would at the length raise him which made her so willingly to throw some of her fauours vpon him and more she would haue done euen of her richest had not a sorrowfull accident so hastily drawne him away from her kinde embracings Now the Apostles rule is generally true Scientiam inflare that knowledge puffeth vp and so in truth doth any other outward preferment whatsoeuer either of nature or fortune especially those in whose heart grace is not the principall ingredient and because there are so few in whom it is therefore it is vsuall as I said before for the most in the world if aduanced though in a small degree aboue others as to haue an ouerweening of their owne worth so to haue a meane conceit of God but especially of his eternall word either contemning it altogether as vnworthy of their hands much lesse their hearts or vilifying the same in comparison of other writings 2. Kin. 5.12 esteeming with Naaman Abana and Pharphar though Riuers of Damascus more excellent then all the waters of Israel the Israel of God But it was not so with him for as hee honoured God from with his heart so had he most honourably thought of his most blessed word Alexander himselfe neuer thought more highly of Homers workes then he did of this sacred Booke Neither would Cyprian bee more traded in the writings of Tertullian Tertull. opera in tanta admiratione habuit Cyprian●● vt nullum sine eorum lectione diem prateriret c. then hee was in the holy Scriptures hitherto referring all his former and latter readings his knowledge in tongues and Arts causing them all not only as handmaids to grace and attend vpon this excellent Lady but also as necessary helpes to make her minde and counsell best knowne vnto himselfe As for the second part of this sacrifice of his namely His hearing the word of God read and expounded publikely therein likewise we will obserue briefly these three things 1. His Diligence 2. His Reuerence 3. His Remembrance For the first namely his Diligence therein we are to know that which few here can be possibly ignorant of namely his constant and continued course of hearing the word of God publikely taught both vpon the Lords dayes as also at all other times as occasion offered it selfe fit both at home and abroad and no maruell for he was the seruant of Wisdome which made him with such delight to wait at his Mistresse gates and to giue such attendance at the posts of her doores Prou. 18. No weather euer so tedious or businesse troublesome that could once stop or hinder him but if she called he was ready at her seruice I neuer in all my time can remember if he were at home that he missed vpon the Lords day comming to the Church both forenoone and afternoone but only the time of this his sicknesse then indeed he was two Sundayes away it being as it seemeth now the will of God that neither then nor neuer hereafter hee should keepe any more Sabboths with vs here below on earth and therefore hee hastened him away to keepe with himselfe and the soules of the righteous an eternall Sabboth in the new Ierusalem that is aboue As for the second His reuerend hearing of the same let that seat of his no more his but now the seat of sorrow couered to my thinking with a sad and dolefull cloud let it speake I say whether euer it shrouded or were in the least respect a Baud to any loose or vnreuerend behauiour of his rather if it could speake it would tell a faire tale though in sorrowfull tearmes of his Christian behauiour both in the time of diuine Seruice wherein hee alwayes behaued himselfe most deuoutly as also in the Sermon time whensoeuer there was any as seldome missed most religiously either with his eare obseruing or with his hand noting such things as he thought most necessary to be remembred The which behauiour of his made him to be both the more obserued as also honoured euen in the hearts of them that otherwise knew him but only by name I remember being vpon a time at Bury S. Edmond and meeting with one by chance knowne to me yet not knowing him he demanded of me whether Sir Edward Lewkenor were that day at Church or no I told him that he was so I thought quoth he for in all my life I neuer saw a man of his yeeres and place that gaue the like attention to the word that hee did The third and last is his Remembrance of things heard A dutie indeed necessarily depending vpon the other two and making through the neglect of the same the other altogether fruitlesse For you must take the heart of man as it is not only plenum rimarum full of chinkes and crannies but withall you must consider Sathan like a Vultur continually sitting by and with his noisome bill to the vttermost of his power opening of those passages whereby it oftentimes commeth to passe the danger being