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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

the complete Armour of the Lord And pray all manner of prayer for prayer like oyle and exercise keepeth the furniture and weapons from rusting And take these rules for thy further direction 1. First know thou thy particular place and standing learne in what part of the battell thou art to war vnder thy Captayne nothing sooner loseth the field but when men presume aboue their place and abilitie Some will command that are to be cōmanded Others march in the Fore-front that should be in the Reareward A third runneth with a Musket that should only kindle the match and so brings confusion if not death and destruction That may truely be said of the people that sometimes the people themselues vttered You take too much vpon you you Moses and Aaron For almost all will either bee Captaynes or Coronels or they will none of the Crowne recoile like an ouercharged Cannon and not fight one stroke in the combat 2. Againe he that will so fight as he may not beate the ayre but winne the field must get strength and courage we must be strong in the Lord and the power of his might How often doth Dauid pray for the Spirit of life and power How doth he presse it vpon others Be strong c For to what end is it to haue weapons to know his standing if he want strength to wield them and wound the Aduersary Weakenesse must be remoued or willingnesse will bee to no purpose Wee must striue therefore for the Spirit of power as well as for a sound minde Knowledge may guide vs but strength must support our selues and wound others 3. Besides we must endeuour also for wisedome it was Christs charge Be wise c. Wisedome must not be forgotten Paul an old beaten Souldier cryes often out Walke wisely Be filled with all wisedome and spirituall vnderstanding Want of skill is a great want in a man of any calling and much to be desired in this for our Aduersaries are very politike and so must we be if wee would preuaile Put a sword into a mans hand that hath will without skill and he will either smite flat-way or wound his friend for his aduersary Therefore I say Get wisedome get vnderstanding for when these enter into thy heart they shall preserue thee Paul was admirable in this reade but the Acts and you shall see hee killed more by policy then prowesse yet like Simeon and Leui these must goe together to slay our Sychemites 4. Furthermore we are to cast off what will hinder as to put on what will helpe We must put off sinne that hangeth on so close and all other impediments Hee that warreth intangleth not himselfe with the things of this life that he may please his Master Loue of earthly things out of vs and corruption cherished within vs may not be suffred to a resolute spirituall Souldier As GOD would not haue faint-hearted persons to fight no more can he endure such whose affections are at home with wife goods c. when his person is in the field 5. These will faint and cause others by their cowardly examples to faint also And thus beloued when you know your owne Station keep it be not like Iudes Planets wandring Christian Souldiers should not neede like spirits to be coniured in their Circles Put on the right armour Dauid cannot walke in Sauls he must not ouer-come with such carnall weapons no no they must be spirituall that will wound and kill our Goliah the Philistim and when thou hast done this labour for skill striue for strength for the one would fight but without the other cannot the other can and will but if he be not guided hurt will follow Doct. 4 The next point to be noted is That a Christians fight is a good fight I may say of it as Salomon speaketh of wisedome The merchandize thereof is better then siluer and the gaine thereof greater then gold It is more precious then pearles and all things that thou canst desire are not to be compared vnto it Harken what testimony this old beaten Souldier still giueth of it It was prophesied of Timothy that he should fight a good fight And he like a grand Captayne or great Commander chargeth him to fight this good fight of faith in these his words the same thing is meant And what saith the Campe elsewhere I will goe and returne to my first Captayne for when I fought vnder his Banner it was better with me then now Dauid or some other worthy Warrior disputed the case it seemeth whether it was better to fight the battailes of the World or of the Lord But at the length he makes this resolute conclusion It s good for me to draw neere vnto God Truly Beloued it neuer goeth so well with a Christian Souldier as when he is taking of the Lambs part warring against the Dragon his followers and manfully fighting the battailes of his Lord. And it may be called good either in respect of the fight or the effects that follow the very act or the consequents that succeede and ensue the combat being ended For first Did not Elohim who created all things of nothing garnished the heauens framed the crooked Serpent gathereth the windes into his fist spanneth the great Globe with his hand and that saith to the proud waues Hither shalt thou come and no farther appoint the same And how can this God doe any thing that is not good If he appoint the field we need not to feare but it is a lawfull and good fight 2. Againe who is the Lord Generall and Leader of this Armie Is it not Christ Iesus God-Man Wee may say of him and more too as the people did of Dauid that he is worth a thousand thousand of vs all Who euer vnderstood this but with admiration Surely he neuer sinned yet fought this fight therefore it cannot but be good and very good 3. The Spirit also doth summon these Souldiers and conducteth them into the field hee leadeth into euery truth for he is Truth it selfe And what comfort may this yeeld euery Christian Souldier that he hath such a Guider and Conducter vnto the combat 4. The new man and first-borne the part regenerate is the Fighter These are all of the free-womans seede and haue the marke of Christ their Captayne in their fore-heads and these Souldiers cannot sinne 5. The weapons for this combat prepared and appointed they are not carnall but spirituall mightie from God and able to ouer-throw the strongest holds of Satan either within vs or without vs. These weapons are like the sword of Saul and bow of Ionathan that neuer returned emptie hee that strikes with these alwayes kils his foe and wins the field 6. And last of all is it not for their owne right that they thus warre I remember what Iphtah said to the King of the children of Ammon Wouldest not thou possesse that which