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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43464	A sermon preach'd at the funeral of the Honourable Col. Francis Collingwood, and of his lady who were both interr'd in St. John's Church, in the island of Nevis in America, May the 29th and May the 31st, 1699 / by Tho. Heskith ...	Heskith, Thomas.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1623; ESTC R12027	10,155	32

A SERMON Preach'd at the FUNERAL OF THE Honourable Col. Francis Collingwood And of his LADY Who were both Interr'd in St. John's Church in the Island of Nevis in America May the 29th and May the 31st 1699. By THO. HESKITH A. M. And Chaplain to the said Colonel's Regiment Durum sed laevius sit patientia Quicquid corrigere est nefas Hor. lib. 1. Ode 24. LONDON Printed for Richard Wilkin at the King's-Head in St. Paul's Church-yard 1700. A SERMON Preach'd at the Funeral of Col. Collingwood and his LADY ISA. lvii 1. The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to Heart and merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the Evil to come IT 's probable that the Prophet in his passionate but pious expression of these Words had a peculiar regard to rhe Babilonish Captivity and to those frightful Judgments and Destructions which were the Forerunners of it For these being general the Good and Bad had one common fate they were all involv'd in the same Calamities all harassed and oppressed by the same Enemy The Prophet was mightily concern'd to see the Good and Bad to be equal Sufferers to see those that were Worshipers and Obeyers of the true God to be treated at the same rate with those that contemn'd his Person and dispis'd his Laws This at the first sight one might suppose would reflect upon the Goodness and Wisdom of God's Providence which in Justice one might think could not be guilty of such unequal Distributions But if we look narrowly into the end of things we shall find that it was a wise contrivance of Providence who can never be surpriz'd nor do a foolish thing The Good indeed perish'd but it was only with respect to this World they were taken away but it was from the Evil to come The outward face of things was black and dismal but the end was Joy and Triumph It was to bring them to a more steady and perfect Happiness The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away The 70 translate it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and just men are taken away none considering that the just are taken from amongst the unjust For thus I find it render'd by the Septuagint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In speaking to these Words I will make this following Attempt First I will endeavour briefly to rescue from any Misinterpretation the sense and meaning of those Words The righteous perisheth Secandly I will shew you that God doth not always use the same method in taking away the Good and Vertuous for sometimes he sweeps them away with the common Herd i. e. permits them to fall in the common Judgment and sometimes he singles them out as it were and brings them to their Graves in Peace And in the Third Place I will go on to add some Reasons why God is pleas'd to take away good men from the evil to come Fourthly and Lastly I will consider the Character of that Honourable Gentleman and his Lady which are lately taken away and conclude with an Application of the whole to our present Circumstances First then I will endeavour briefly to rescue from any Misinterpretation the sense and meaning of these Words The righteous perisheth Now perish in a large Acceptation implies properly Destruction Ruine and Death and that not only temporal but eternal In this Sense the Psalmist is to be understood when he saith The way of the ungodly shall perish and again in the 37th Psalm at the 20th ver But the wicked shall perish and the Enemies of the Lord they shall consume like Smoak they shall consume away i. e. they shall be miserable in this and in the other World Again in a stricter Sense the Word perish is taken for temporal Judgments and Death And in this Sense is that threatning Expression of Joshua to be taken in the 23d Chapter of his Book and at the 13th Verse Know saith he for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these Nations from before you but they shall be Snares and Traps unto you and Scourges in your Sides and Thorns in your Eyes until you perish from off this good Land which the Lord your God hath given you And in this Sense David express'd himself when he said I shall perish one Day by the Hand of Saul i. e. I have reason to believe that one time or other God will suffer that Man to take away my Life Now it 's impossible that that Phrase The Righteous perisheth should be taken in that large and high Sense No this cannot be because this would quite overthrow Divine Revelation concerning a future Happiness and all the precious Promises of Christ's gracious Gospel made to Believers concerning a glorious Immortality So that it will be much easier for any considering man to admit that the Heavens and Earth shall be dissolv'd than to suppose that one Jot or Title of the Divine Promises should fall unaccomplish'd The First our Saviour hath told us is possible but it 's purely impossible that the other should ever be Let not therefore profane Persons flatter themselves with such unreasonable Thoughts that the Righteous perish as well as they Let not the Wicked think that when the Righteous die that they perish either as they or as the Brutes do for though the Wise-man intimates that Men according to outward appearance in the time of Death have no pre-eminence above that of a Beast that all go to one Place and are reduc'd to the same common Dust yet the Consequences of their dying are vastly different When Brutes die they go to the Earth and there 's an end of their Existence and Being of all their Pleasure and of all Pain but when good or bad Men die their Souls survive the Earthly Particles they ascend to the higher Regions For thus the Wise-man maketh the Distinction The Spirit of a Man goeth upward and the Spirit of a Beast to the Earth But yet we must distinguish between the Souls of Good and Bad Men for though they both ascend yet to different Places the Souls of Good Men to a Throne of Immortal Life and Glory but the Souls of Wicked Men ascend to Chains of everlasting Darkness it 's to the Prince of the Air to that wicked Power which reigns in the Hearts of the Children of Disobedience I must confess it would be well with wicked Men if when they die they might be like the Beasts that perish i. e. have no after-Sence or Suffering But alas they live that they may die for ever and they die eternally because they live But then Secondly I must shew you That God doth not always use the same method in taking away the Good and Vertuous for sometimes he sweeps them away with the common Herd i. e. he permits them to fall by common Judgments and at another time he singles them out as it were and brings them to their