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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45539	The saints gain by death, and their assurance thereof a sermon preached at the funerall of that worthy patriot Richard More, esquire, late one of the burgesses in this present Convention of Parliament for the town of Bishops-Castle in the countie of Salop / by Humphrey Hardwick ...	Hardwick, Humphrey, b. 1601 or 2.	1644 (1644)	Wing H705; ESTC R279	16,113	31

Feb. 26. 1643. THis learned pithy and pertinent Sermon claims of it self more then a bare Imprimatur but the Author will not think much if it be said Materia superabat opus such was the Learning language exemplary piety and happy pains in promoting the Gospel of the worthily much honoured Gentleman whose Funerals it solemnized together with his constant faithfulnes and usefulnesse to his Countrey and Religion in despight of all dangers losses sufferings that he deserves a just Volume to transmit the beams of such a light to posterity wherein I dare say the highest wit and love met in one might sooner grow bankrupt then prodigall Charles Herle THE SAINTS GAIN BY DEATH And their Assurance thereof A SERMON PREACHED AT THE Funerall of that worthy Patriot Richard More Esquire late one of the Burgesses in this present Convention of Parliament for the Town of Bishops-Castle in the Countie of Salop. By Humphrey Hardwick Chaplain to his Excellencie the Earl of Essex L General c. The Text. 2 COR. 5.1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hand eternall in the heavens LONDON Printed by I. L. for Philemon Stephens at the sign of the Gilded Lion in Pauls Church-yard 1644. TO THE MVCH AND WORTHILY HONOVRED Sir ROBERT HARLEY Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath and Knight of the Honorable House of Commons for the County of Hereford Right Worthy Sir THis soul-weaning Funerall Sermon preached by my reverend brother at the Interring of my much honoured Vncle Richard More Esquire being through the importunity of some brought from him unto me to be put in Print and recommended to whom I shuld think fit I knew not who could better make attestation to this indefatigable Senators worth then your self his bosome friend What testimonie is here given him either by my faithfull brother or by me is but an Epitome of yours and his Countreyes larger knowledge of him He spent his last breath in prosecuting and promoting that Scripture-Church-Reformation whereunto his parents had been zealous Witnesses who were not more carefull of his education in religion and learning then he was apt to take it In so much that at ten yeers of age he was able to read the Old Testament in the originall Though the death of his father in his youth diverted him from going to the Vniversitie yet he grew so active for the publike that it is hard to tell whether he did more service to his Countrey before or after he was in Commission of the peace I should sorrow as a man without hope of repair of his Countreys losse but that he hath left a son as fit to succeed him in his place as in his estate In difficult businesses for his Countrey he was not wont to strain courtesy to follow others but was willing to lead the way and break the Ice He was a Sanctuary to conscientious men in their persecutions I could name some who falling into limbum patrum I mean the courts of Tyrannizing Prelates who found him ready by his travails friends counsell purse to helpe them out He would lose the greatest friend he had to stand for the right of his poorest neighbour He was a friend so throughly cordiall that in all his undertakings for any on any occasion with Boaz he could not rest till he had effected it He was a countenancer upholder and frequenter of Lectures Lecturers He hated vice in all but especially in Ministers whom yet he had rather reclaim then ruine and he was wont to let them know that he so loved their parts as he abhorred their exorbitancies As Christ descended to do his Fathers will so he was willing to stoop to any place below himself to do his neighborhood service He was no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no self-putting-forth man he sought rather to be then seem strict He much honoured the Lords day and his Ministers his opinion was to his death there was due to God a 7th part of our time and a 10th part of our estate Some of his last words were How are the Ministers provided for He lived much by faith especially in these sad and exhausting times as appeares not onely by his deeds his casting into the publike treasurie all his plate all that he could make or get but also by such as these his latter speeches Every man must rise fall with the publike We must give all for gone and wait what God will do for it And it makes no matter what becomes of me and mine so it go well with the publike as I am confident it will in a short time And when some told him it was like to go ill w th Shropshire He answered Shropshire wants faith as well as other places And when some of his family towards his end was speaking solicitously to him God said he that feeds the Ravens will not suffer you to want I do not love these distracting thoughts Thus his faith wrought with his works to the last And yet it no whit blunted his industry for the good of his family A carefull father he was of his children for whom being four sons and one daughter he had provided plentifully in his life and a tender husband over his dear and pious consort who had lived with him above 50. yeers and had done him much good and no hurt all the days of his life to whō he left by will made three yeers before his death 400. l. over above joynture but the Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away and which of his here can now say his bread is his own Such is the rapine of war From which he is now freed being absent from his body present with his Lord to which marke you also are pressing forward as a Taper daily spending your self to light others The Lord make you and your posterity to fare the better for your publick faithfulnesse so prayeth Your Worships to serve you in the Lord MATTHEVV CLARKE THE SAINTS GAIN BY DEATH And his assurance thereof Manifested and applied 2. COR. 5.1 For we know that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternall in the heavens THE yeeres of man are threescore and ten said David a great while compared to an houre but considered with eternity they seem scarce a minute The swift revolution of all-eating time soon rowls up the thread of mans life the day by houres the moneth by dayes the yeer by moneths our age by yeers soon steps away Our infancie is like yesterdayes evening we have slept and forgot it Our youth the morning past our manhood the mid-day present old age comes anone He who hath past these stages knowes best the truth of this For time past is a certainty found to be nothing time to come an uncertainty seeming to bee much time present is a fleeter the