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A43843	A sermon preach'd at the funerals of that worthy personage George Purefoy the elder of Wadley in Berks, esq., who was buried by his ancestors at Drayton in Leicestershire, April 21, 1661 by Jo. Hinckley.	Hinckley, John, 1617?-1695.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2048; ESTC R13342	21,835	39

to have no other solemnity at his funeral than to have a Cryer to goe before his herse to give notice to the people that there was Saladine the Conqueror of the East and how that of all his riches and glory he carryed nothing with him but his shirt And what help can they afford to others that have not been able to help themselves 2. 2 2. Part. The manner of his death He gave up the Ghost 1. Expiravit or as it is said of Christ himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he breath'd out his last breath to shew that we are but as so many bubbles or bladders touch or prick us and we are gone we presently shrivel together and as the heavens shal be at the last day are contracted and drawn together like a Scrowl if God blow upon us like so many untimely figs we fall and shatter our ruddy cheeks become pale and wan thou changest his countenance and sendest him away Job 14.20 2. He gave up the Ghost that is he wilingly surrendred his Soul into the hands of God So Christ bowed his head upon the Crosse as it were to salute and welcome death it self even as he expanded and streched out his armes to signifie how ready he was to imbrace penitent sinners Gods people hath some presentments of a better Countrey Some assurance of going to more glorious company They have an interest in Christ and so love his appearance as well at the day of death as of judgement they have fought a good fight and therefore are willing to receive that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Garland that crown of Glory which is reposited and laid up for them in the bands of a faithful Creator They have tasted that the Lord is gracious by the relish of those first fruits those bunches of Grapes which the holy spies the Ministers of the Lord have brought unto them from the Land of Canaan and therefore with the spouse Cant. 6.4 They long to goe to the vineyard it self to the beds of spices to feed in the Garden and to gather Lillies with Simeon they are ready to sing nunc dimittis now let thy servant depart in peace or with St. Paul to desire to be desolved 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 migrare revertere Scultetus to depart and to returne unto Christ This is to inform us concerning the great difference betwixt the death of Gods servants and the wicked The one resign up their lives and give up their ghosts willingly from the other they are wrested and hal'd The world sticks so close to them that they know not how to shake it off they are clogged and pressed down with so many weights they are pinion'd with so many sins that do easily beset them that they cannot mount upwards Their darling sins and bosome corruptions come about them as once St. Anstins lust did cling about him Non erimus tecum in aeternum What shall we never be drunk prophane and unchast any more Their Souls are fetcht from them violently as it were with a Pursevant this night shall thy Soul be taken from thee Luke 12.20 like rusty swords they are hardly drawn out of the Sheathes of their bodies to this Daniel alludes Cap. 7.15 Myspirit spirit was grieved within me the Chaldee reads it my spirit was grieved within my Sheath and good reason they have to hang back seeing they can discerne nothing before them but flames of ever-burning fire ready to devour them as 't is reported of the Infants of Saguntum many Plagues and Judgements threatning that place they started back into the wombs of their Mothers as it were abhorring to be born into so troublesome a world 3. 3. Part. The time when Abraham dyed In a good Old Age and old Man and full of Years In a good old age 1. Naturally being free from those Aches Fevers and noysome diseases which are incident to old age As 't is said of Moses His eye was not dim nor his natural force abated Deut. 34.7 2. Morally Not only an old Man but a good old man full fraught with so many vertuous excellencies as might denominate him good as his years did proclaim him old Full of years Annorum Satur even faciated and satisfied with years Having lived so long that he desired not to have his daies prolonged or else full of yeares that is having fulfilled that for which he came into the world finishing his course with joy and with David serving his generation before he fell asleep Acts 15 36 In opposition to whom are months of of vanity or empty months Job 7.3 when men die and leave no Testimony behind them that ever they were alive and so they are buried in death Job 27.15 Seeing it is here recorded of Abraham as a mercy that he died in good old age an old Man and full of years We may observe that old age is a blessing So 't was promised unto Abraham Gen. 15.15 Thou shalt goe to thy Fathers in peace and thou shalt be buried in a good old age Paul glories in it being such an one as Paul the aged Philem. 9. This is the promise which is annexed to the fifth Commandment That thy daies may be long in the land And it is part of that blessing which the Lord will give to them that fear him They shall see their childrens children Psa 128.1.6 Sure I am the contrary is threatned as a judgement to the house of Eli That an old man should not be of his house 1 Sa. 2.32 Bloody and cruel men are menac'd that they should not live out half their time He shall shake off his unripe grape as the Vine and shall cast of his flower as the Olive Job 15.33 It is observed that from the beginning of the world to some generations after the flood the Son never dyed before the Father Haran an Idolater is first noted to have died before his Father Terah in the Land of his nativity Gen. 11.28 The experience of many ages hath also confirmed an other observation viz. That God hath commonly Crown'd the reverend Bishops Fathers of the Church with this blessing of the Patriarch Abraham even a good old age It is a blessing in a special manner 1. Because 't is honorable the same word which signifies honour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be fetched from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an old man because of that veneration that is due to old age The hoary head is a Crown of glory Pro. 16.31 Gray hairs are the beauty of old men Pro. 20.29 Tertullian vehemently reproved those old men who were ashamed of their own haire and took Exuvias alieni capitis forsan immundi forsan gehennae destinati Grande nesas morte piandum cum vetulo juvenis non assurrexerit Juv. the excrements of other men those it may be who have been unclean or else malefactors The Lacedemonian Embassadors being in the Theatre at Athens rose in solemn reverence when an old man came

divine providence He took his Bible in his hand and so his spirit was calmed as it were from Heaven in reading Psa 31. 1 2 3. In thee O Lord do I put my trust let me never be ashamed deliver me in thy righteousnesse Bow down thine eare to me speedily be thou my strong Rock for an house of defence to save me for thou art my Rock and my Fortresse therefore for thy names sake lead me and guide me And may not he justly be called the Son of Abraham who could thus live upon prayer and promises and by faith evaded and conquered the greatest difficulties We shall confront this Father and Son with their due distances in a closer parallel and draw to a conclusion Was Abraham an indulgent husband So was he * We look for the effect of those prayers in his surviveing off-spring Sure children of so many prayers canmiscarry● as is said of Austin in respect of his Mother Monica Was he a praying father for his children O that Ishmael might live before thee So was he Was Abraham tried and exercised with Crosses and afflictions So was he Was Abraham the Father of a numerous seed according to the spirit so was he according to the flesh A seed the branches whereof are transplanted into several Countries like a constellation of stars broken up and set in distinct orbs where they are the heads of their Tribes Did Abraham command his houshold after him So did he never did child resemble his father more in any bodily Symmetry and proportion than he did Abraham in this particular like another Antoninus he oft visited his family ejecting such persons as were prophane and scandalous as so much Froth and Scum with David a wicked person would he not know Ps 101. 6 7. Zim and O chim with Satyres and other unclean birds were not suffered to dance there Isa 13.21 22. This was a reddy way to bring a blessing upon his own affaires and to convince the vilest servants of their Errors to the intent they might repent and reform That so their spirits might be ‖ Quorum non zelas salutem subicetionem nimis ambitiose vendicas Ber. Ser. 23. in Cant. saved in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ Had Abraham his failings and infirmities witness his cowardise in Gerar Gen. 20.2 So that you may not say I have made an absolute Saint of him had he also yet I must do him so much right that when I laid before him his impatiency fretting to which he had been prone with humility he acknowledged his fault but withall ascribing the praise to the grace of God He told me that he bad much mortified wea kned and conquered that once domineering passion But to keep to the text Abraham was great and rich yet he gave up the Ghost willingly submitting himself to the stroke of death So had this his Son a very large estate a beautiful and pleasant * Wadley has a commodions site a wholsom and delicious aires it is a rich and pleasam Seat Burton p. 259. habitation All other comforts whereon wordlings set their hearts yet he had so far studied the nature of them all that he had found them to be only bracteata felicitas nothing but as a little gilded Copper and therefore set his Heart no more upon them than on so many fleeting empty and miserable comforters this he signified to me when I spake my feares unto him vizi That the great things of the world do clogg and retard our motions towards heaven and stake us down so fast unto the Earth that we are unwilling to dye ready to preser a palace in Paris before Paradice it self His resolution and answer was like that of ‖ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anton. Antoninus no more to be in love with any thing below than within sparrow flying over his head which perhaps he might never see again He had also studied the charter of heavenly joyes when he cry'd out of his paines I told him that in Heaven no malladies should attatch him there all tears should be wipt from his eyes True in deed said he there I shall have rest and not till I shall come thither And can he chuse but give up the Ghost willingly who meditates aright upon the vanity of this world and the blessings of that which is to come therefore he was observed towards his latter end to be as earnest to have his Coach and Horses to be prepared to bring him to this place of his burial as ever the was to goe a progresse of pleasure looking for the messenger of death as Jacob did for those Charriots which should carry him to his Son Joseph 2. He dyed in a good old Age. Caesar etsi gloria celum latissimus ideoque sibi satis vixerit non tamen satio Reip. quae praesidio carere non possit ipsius tutela Sleid. Wis 4.9 It was observed of him that he was an old man at twenty in respect of us his Allies the Church and whole Kingdome so his death was immature but in respect of himself so he was a good old man for wisdome is the gray hair to men and an unspotted life is old age In this sense it is that Abraham is called a good old man for his age was far inferiour to many that liv'd before him but an hundred threescore and fifteen yeares in the v. before the Text yet he is said first of any to be an old man and full of years because his many vertues did crown his age in making it the more awful and * Invida quem Lachesis raptum rtiete ride nova Dum numerat palmas credidit esse sevem Mart. li. 10. Epist 58. illustrious 3. He is brought hither to be gathered to his people and to sleep with his Fathers untill the day of resurrection that as he injoyed many of Abrahams mercies in his life so he might be like him in his death too that like Saul and Jonathan in death they might not be divided Heitherto I have been conversing with the dead and tracing the footsteps of two Heroick Ghosts Now a word or two at parting to you that are yet alive that so I may end as I began 1. To all in general give me leave to make such a dole amongst you as Nazianzen did amongst his auditors after he had made an oration upon the life of Athanasius Vertutes illius inter vos partiamini now fall a dividing his vertues amongst your selves But be sure that every one take some This will be a better badge of being at a funeral than either Rosemary or Ribbons when you are dismiss'd goe also musing with your selves who may be the subject of the next funeral and say with the Apostles Master is it I Master is it I Only let me prompt you to so much humanity as to take your leaves of this our Reverend Father before you goe speak to him in the words of Luther to his dying daughter