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A04261	Hierons last fare-vvell A sermon preached at Modbury in Devon, at the funerall of that reuerend and faithfull seruant of Iesus Christ, Master Samuel Hieron, sometimes Preacher there. By I. B.	Barlow, John, b. 1580 or 81.	1618 (1618)	STC 1438; ESTC S114789	24,463	42

assist him And a greater griefe must it needs be to him for company in suffering is comfortable And there is a woe pronounced to him that is thus left alone 7. And last of all his triall was so hot his foes so fierce that he resisted vnto bloud What should I more say For if wee would seriously ponder of these things we could not but gather life and spirit and like Iehu march on furiously or Deborah valiantly But wee many of vs haue the prize in our hands yet alas wee want hearts Well beloued I can tell you this that when death approcheth and iudgement through her as through a window lookes vs in the face then this fight will bee found to be of worth and a greater good then all the glorie and pompe of the world But if Pauls patterne the goodnesse of the fight and the priuiledges that we aboue many of our Brethren in time past and at this present partake of will not moue vs to fight and fight resolutely let vs then set before vs the fearefull wrath and dreadfull vengeance that is prepared for such as neuer began this fight or if they haue yet endure not to the end And let that also awake vs with Samson when the Philistims were vpon him and cause each of vs to flie for his life For necessitie sometimes makes the faint and fearefull-hearted Souldier valiant Consider therefore what I haue said and the Lord giue you vnderstanding in these things Amen Vse 4 And last of all here might Parents be moued to bring vp their children in the feare of the Lord. It were a blessed thing that we could trayne vp our seed vnder such a Generall to be Captaynes then should we haue comfort in them at our latter end But Parents for the most part busie not themselues with matters of that nature yet they will that their children receiue the presse-money weare weapons goe armed but neuer teach or trayne them vp vnder whom or how to fight the more is the pitty But now be yee better aduised make thy sonnes of Gods Family of Christs Campe of the number of the Faithfull so shalt thou bee a louing Father and tender Mother Otherwise thou hast but made him by nature the Slaue and Souldier of Satan child of perdition And what an honor will it be to Parents at that last Day of appearing when they can say to this great Captayne as he himselfe to his Lord Generall Here am I and the Souldiers that thou hast giuen me For know that yet a very little while and he that will come shall come and will not tarry Doct. 1 Againe where Paul saith Paul hath fought a good fight obserue That it is not a sinne simply to speake the best of ones selfe 2. That a Murtherer may dye a Martyr a Persecuter an Apostle in a word a great Sinner a rare Saint Here we see that a bloudy Persecuter dyed Christs resolute Souldier and the same may befall in our dayes Againe note 3. That Gods Saints on earth haue no abiding Citie Paul must depart his fight is fought his course is finished calling things that are not as though already they were 4. That a well-led life yeelds comfort at the day of death For Paul speaks this with reioycing 5. That a good man in his life wisheth the Church might flourish after his death This was the cause why Paul so prest Timothy to preach hee being ready to depart 6. That certaintie of perseuerance may be had being rightly sought for Besides others that I omit And now all that I haue to say seeing wee are fighters and one of our Worthies fallen is this Let vs be the more watchfull ouer our selues and the closer knit together Let vs goe vp as one man hauing our affections vnited like the Leuiathans skales that no sword can either pierce them or diuide them For a Kingdome diuided against it selfe cannot stand and the diuisions of Ruben will but make great thoughts of heart And because the eye that now seeth me in this place may see me no more and the eare that now heareth mee out of this place may heare me no more my last speech to you my Brethren shall be that charge Ioseph gaue to his brethren at their parting Fall not out neither be stirred one against another by the way Amen FINIS Ephes 6.12 Gen. 1. vlt. Mich. 6.8 Psal 73. vlt. Psal 37.37 Iohn 13.15 1. Pet. 2.21 1. Cor. 11.1 Phil. 3.17 Rom. 15.4 Heb. 12.1 1. Cor. 6.9 Titus 3.3 2. Chron. 33.11 12. Deut. 32.29 Psal 73.17 Iames 5.11 1. Cor. 6.11 Reuel 2.10 Rom. 2.4 Gen. 3.15 32.24 Pro. 8.31 1. Cor. 16.13 1. Tim. 6.12 1. Cor. 9.26 Phil. 1.29 Heb. 10.32 Heb. 2.10 Ephes 6.13 The first enemie 1. Pet. 5.8 Reuel 12.12 Iames 4.7 Matth. 4. The second enemie Rom. 3. Ierem. 20.10 Iohn 8.4 The third enemie 1. Pet. 2 11. 2. Cor. 12.7 Gal. 5.17 Rom. 7.23 The fourth enemie 1. Cor. 15.26 Reuel 2.10 Iob. 14.5 Acts 27. Rom. 8.30 2. Tim. 2.19 2. Kings 6.19 20 Iohn 16. vlt. Psal 116.7 2. Cor. 12.9 Reuel 17.14 Luke 14.31 Ephes 6.13 See Goutch on this place Ephes 5.15 Col. 1.9 Hebr. 12.1 2. Tim. 2.4 Deut. 20.8 Deut. 24.5 1. Tim. 1.18 1. Tim. 6.12 Hos 2.7 Psal 73. vlt. Reasons Gen. 3.15 Reuell 17.14 Matth. 4.1 Gal. 5.17 1. Iohn 3.9 2. Cor. 10.4 Luk. 12.32 Iudg. 11.24 Gal. 6.17 Pro. 10.7 Psal 112.6 1. Tim. 4.8 1. Pet. 1.4 Reuel 10.10 Exod. 18.25 1. Pet. 1.8 Psal 91.11 12. Rom. 8.28 1. Tim. 4.8 Eccles 7.3 1. Cor. 15.55 Luke 16.22 Hebr. 1. vlt. Reuel 14.17 1. Thes 4.6 1. Cor. 15. Phil. 3. vlt. 1. Iohn 3.1 2. Rom. 16.20 2. Thes 1.8 9. 1. Thes 4.17 Psal 16. vlt. Psal 4.6 1. Cor. 11. vlt. Gal 6. 2. Tim. 4.16 Heb. 2.13 Heb. 10.37 Gen. 45.24

vengeance of eternall fire for troubling them in their flight to Heauen That spirituall Pharaoh with his huge Hoste shall be swallowed vp by the Red Sea of endlesse destruction without all hope of recouery 6. Lastly they haue a promise that their Habitation shal be Heauen their Companions Christ his Angels all fellow-Souldiers their ioy full and for euer What a place is this where all haue fulnesse of ioy fulnesse with constancie and constancie with fulnesse for all eternitie If these things now were laid all together truely vnderstood seriously thought vpon and without doubting beleeued who would not or could not affirme the proposition for a truth that a Christians fight is a good fight good for act for euer for both The vses in their order now follow Vse 1 This then in the first place iustly reproueth such persons that thinke basely of Religion reputing it neyther honourable nor profitable How many cry out that gaine is godlinesse no profit had in fighting the Lords Battaile What is that Captaine that wee should serue him desiring to learne another good Haue wee not too many of these amongst vs that foame out their filthy froth fight against Christ and his Souldiers whose tongues walke against Heauen and Earth crying What get these with gadding to Sermons reading so much for they allow some Scripture being so precise and strict Why I haue told thee in part what they haue in possession and what in possibilitie for no tongue can speake or heart fully conceiue the riches of this spoile man or Angell Suppose that thou hast rich attire but it is infected daintie dyet but poysoned many things but all in the end shall worke for euill what a miserie is this Yet this is the estate of Satans Souldiers Besides this hee deales with his Followers as the Philistims by Samson takes away their strength puls out their eyes makes them draw in bonds and fetters and if hee reioyce in any thing it is in their bloud-shed and endlesse destruction But we will leaue them and pittie them hoping in time they may take the Lambes part and fight this good Combat Vse 2 This may serue to incourage all those Souldiers to go on with an vndaunted resolution and not to shrinke or shiuer though they be crusht and disgraced euery one cryeth out Who will shew vs any good as if then had they found it they would follow it Why this is that good thing so many haue groped after wherefore bee yee of good courage strike hard stand fast and bee strong If thou be out of heart thinke what an honour it is to be slaine in this field and that all thy wounds againe shall be cured yea the sooner thou art killed thou shalt bee crowned for by death we ouercome get the victorie When I consider how the children of Babel the Papists doe spill their bloud like water on the ground for their Antichrist Lord thinke I then what should wee doe that are the sonnes of Bethel for our Christ that hath bin slaine himselfe to deliuer vs from the sting of the first and wound of the second death But alas these Meditations come not but like Strangers to our minds and what cold and short entertainment haue they And this the reason that we are so loth to leape or lanch out shrinke at the sight of a Ship cry out at the cracke of a Cannon and tremble at the report of the narrow mouthed Peece We beloued haue not resisted vnto bloud God hath giuen vs better dayes fire and faggot haue beene kept afarre and what a shame is it then that wee are so weake faint halting and readie vpon the least assault to be turned out of the way And therefore if any be giddie-headed in this combat like a man running through a swift water or streame let him looke ouer to the shoare of Heauen see what a pleasant landing there is and thousands of Angels to giue him entertainment haue thou respect with Moses to the recompence of reward thinke of a better Resurrection and with thy forerunner set before the eye of thy Soule that glory prepared for thee What if thy bodie fall in the Wildernesse of this World The Lord hath it in his keeping Rise againe it shall therefore be stedfast immooueable abundant alway in the Worke of the Lord seeing that you know that your labor is not in vaine in the Lord. And when our fellow-souldiers fall by vs let vs thinke that our Captaine is also a Surgion a Physician and will one day cure all our wounds and then shall we for euer remaine together Paul would haue all his fellow-souldiers in this case to comfort one another with these words 1. Thess 4. vlt. Vse 3 And here may be a vse of instruction to such as haue not yet regarded to fight in this Field take knowledge of thy ignorance and carelessenesse and now beginne to change thy Captaine thou must bee vnder one of these Generals God or the Deuill the Lambe or the Dragon Christ or Belial Awake therefore thou that sleepest stand vp from the dead and Christ shall giue thee light all conuenient furniture Ephes 5.14 Obiect But some may obiect it was good for Paul who was an Apostle and excellent in the Church but not for mee Answ I answer as good for thee as for him in some respects and in others better 1. First thou hast the same Captaine 2. Secondly the same pay for the promises are not made to any person for his greatnesse and learning sake but as hee is a Christian and for his goodnesse Therefore Paul in the next verse following my Text to take away this doubt addeth that a Crowne of Righteousnesse is by the righteous Iudge layd vp not for himselfe only but for all them also that fight and loue his appearing 3. We escape many wounds that he had as Circumcision this made Zipora call her Husband Bloudie Husband Exodus 4.25 How often was hee whipped bare in his bodie the markes of the Lord Iesus which lashes and stripes we haue escaped And no doubt but they set it on for the hatred they bore him and as doth appeare by that impression and skarres that were to bee seene in him 4. He fought with beasts at Ephesus Some thinke after the custome of that Countrey hee was cast vnto them but howeuer the Fight was fierce and tart to flesh and bloud 5. We warre a shorter time for the most part then he did and this is some priuiledge though it were but rest for a day or houre and to the spoyle so much the sooner We care not how short a time we serue for our freedome how speedily we haue ended and dispatched our daily businesse And is not a fauour in a short time to winne the Field and possesse the Heauen 6. He oft fought alone and had many Aduersaries for he confessed that at his being at Rome where then was Peter all men forsooke him not one to