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A23806	A funeral handkerchief in two parts : I. Part. Containing arguments to comfort us at death of friends, II. Part. Containing several uses which we ought to make of such losses : to which is added, Three sermons preached at Coventry, in December last, 1670 / by Thomas Allestree ...	Allestree, Thomas, 1637 or 8-1715.	1671 (1671)	Wing A1197; ESTC R14326	214,765	404

Father See his holy indignation against such as prophaned his Temple John 2.15 16 17. so John 4.34 He counted it his meat to do the Will of him that sent him and to finish his Work When his Mother and Brethren would have taken him off from Preaching he would not then own them for he said Who is my Mother or my Brethren Mark 3.33 Not that he did despise them but preferred the Service of God before them see Luke 2.48 49 50 51. so should we be zealous for God's Glory We should be fervent in Spirit serving the Lord or according to Orig. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we should be seething hot in Spirit Rom. 12.11 We should have a zeal for God and the duty that we are to perform This God calls for Rev. 3.19 And Christ died to redeem unto himself a peculiar People zealous of good Works Tit. 2.14 Moses was zealous Exod. 32.19 so was Phineas Numb 25.11 so was David Psal 69.9 so St. Paul Acts 17.16 and so are all true Christians in some measure zealous St. Cyprian speaks of Christians in his time that were Tanquam Leones ignem spirantes Like Lyons breathing forth the Heavenly fire of Zeal 7. There was in Christ compassion to his Enemies When his Enemies came to take him one would have thought he should have call'd for fire from Heaven as Elijah did 2 Kings 1.10 and thereby have consumed his Adversaries But this was against the loving Nature of Christ as well as against the * Omne leve sursum tendit Nature of Fire that it should descend to destroy them Luke 9.54 55 56. Nay Christ would not onely not destroy them but he useth means to reclaim them from sinful courses that he may save them This good Samaritan would gladly have healed their spiritual Wounds How passionately doth he complain John 5.40 Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life And again Mat. 23.37 O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killest the Prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee how oft would I have gathered thy Children together even as an Hen gathereth her Chickens under her Wings which would have been for your safety and yet ye would not When his Enemies hearts became like to Clay more hardned by the Sun-shine of those favours which should have melted them he then grieved for the hardness of their hearts Mark 3.5 and like a Judge passeth Sentence with tears in his eyes Luke 19.41 42. And when he was come near he beheld the City and wept over it saying If thou hadst known there he weeps even thou there he weeps again at least in this thy day he goes on still weeping the things that belong unto thy peace now he weeps a main and tears do so fast trickle down his cheeks that they hinder him from speaking and he breaks off abruptly as men do in a passion but now they are hid from thine eyes Our Saviour here shed tears for them who were about to shed his blood Yea we find him praying for his Enemies when they had given him the worst that malice could invent or cruelty impose Luke 23.34 Then said Jesus Father forgive them for they know not what they do Then said Jesus When said he this Why even then when he was suffering the painful shameful and accursed death upon the Cross Yea some think he prayed for his insulting Enemies before he provided for his weeping Mother John 19.26 27. Let us then pity and pray for our Enemies so did Stephen Acts 7.60 This Christ commands by Precept as well as commends by Pattern Matth. 5.44 c. Let us bless them that curse us Rom. 12.14 Nay we should mourn for them in affliction as David did Psal 35.13 14. In a word if thine Enemy hunger feed him if he thirst give him drink Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good Rom. 12.20 21. 8. There was in Christ love to the godly He loved them with a love of complacency and delight John 13.1 He bare a constant love towards them They were like golden Letters engraven indelibly upon his heart His love to them appeared by his accompanying with them by counselling reproving comforting clearing their innocency c. Matth. 9.14 Mat. 12.3 4. rejoycing in their welfare Luk. 10.21 taking what is done to them as done to himself be it good or bad Mat. 25.40 45. Acts 9.4 praying for them Luke 22.31 John 17.9 11 17 20 21. But his dying for them was above all an eminent instance of his love Gal. 2.20 He thought nothing too dear to part with for their sakes He shed his precious Blood in great plenty for them 1 Pet. 1.18 19. Acts 20.28 When our Saviour shed but a few tears for Lazarus the Jews collected thence his love towards him John 11.35 36. Surely Christ's shedding his precious Blood in great plenty for the Elect is a manifest token of extraordinary love towards them Let us imitate Christ in love to the godly Let us delight in them and accompany with them as David did Psal 16.3 119.63 Let us sympathize with them Rom. 12.15 Let us pray for them so did St. Paul for the Colossians Col. 1.9 10 11. and for the Thessalonians 1 Thes 5.23 In a word We should be ready to lay down our lives for them if need require 1 John 3.16 Hereby we perceive the love of God because he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the Brethren And this unfeigned love to the godly is as sure a note to know whether a man be in the way to Heaven as pronouncing the word * Judg. 12.6 Shibboleth was to know an Ephramite from a Gileadite Here what St. John the beloved Disciple saith 1 John 3.14 We know that we have passed from Death to Life because we love the Brethren Be ye therefore as St. Paul saith Ephes 5.1 2. followers of God as dear Children and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour 9. There was in Christ thanksgiving When Christ are Victuals he lift up his eyes and gave thanks John 6.11 23. He was thankful for Spiritual Blessings Mat. 11.25 At that time Jesus answered and said I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto Babes This is spoken by Christ after the seventy had returned and told him what good success they had as may be gathered from Luk. 10.17 21. He did thankfully acknowledge God's mercy in revealing Gospel-Mysteries to poor simple Creatures that knew no more in Gospel-Mysteries then Babes knew in Worldly-Businesses And John 11.41 Jesus lift up his eyes and said Father I thank thee that thou hast heard me Indeed Christ's whole life was a glorifying of God John 17.4 I have glorified thee on Earth Let us imitate Christ in thankfulness Let

whom thou thinkest not of fresh supplies are coming though thou seest not from whence 5 Consider When outward expectations fail then God usually helps God doth not help his People presently out of their straits because he would humble them wean them from the world make them prize his mercy the more when it comes and give him the sole praise of all to whom it is due Therefore do not think that God hath forgotten thee and utterly forsaken thee because things go cross to thine expectation and thou growest poorer and poorer Mans extremity is many times Gods opportunity God came to Isaac's relief in his greatest necessities Gen. 22.14 When the Israelites were much oppressed and cryed to the Lord Cum duplicantur Lateres venit Moses Exod. 5.9 by reason of their hard usage God raiseth up Moses to be their deliverer Exod. 3. When Sampson was ready to die for thirst God brings water out of a jaw bone for him Judg. 5.18 19. When Elijah was in great want God made the Ravens creatures likely to devour him Prov. 30.17 his caterers to provide food for him 1. ●in 17.6 When the Israelites were in great straits in the Wilderness he brought Manna out of the Clouds and Water out of the Rock Neh. 9.15 Psal 114.8 And David tells us when he was brought low God helped him Psal 116.6 130.1 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee O Lord. The Lord saw him sinking all the while and when at the bottom he helps him Sinking Peter cryed out Lord save me Mat. 14.30 31. And Christ gave him his helping hand Ubi humanum defuit ibi incipit Divinum auxilium When outward helps fail then God begins to work When the water was spent in the bottle God leads Hagar to a Well Gen. 21.15 19. compared And when Wine was spent at a Marriage-feast Christ turned Water into Wine as you may see John 2. beginning When all is spent God can relieve thee some way or other Though we see no way to get out of our straights yet God can break a bar of brass or bow of steel and give an happy issue as he caused Peters Chains to fall from his hands and the Iron-gate to open of its own accord Acts 12.7 10. Therefore be not discouraged under your greatest wants but rely upon God who can do more abundantly for us above what we can either ask or think Ephes 3.20 Christ in the dayes of his flesh had compassion on the multitude which had nothing to eat and would not send them away fasting lest they should faint by the way and therefore wrought a Miracle in their behalf Mark 8.1 2 3. c. Surely now he is ascended into the Heavens he is as compassionate as ever Heb. 4.15 16. and if you seek unto him you shall find mercy and grace to help in time of need You say What course to take for maintenance you know not Answ Our Saviour would not have you too solicitously careful for the things of this life as you may see Mat. 6.25 to the end of that chapter So St. Paul adviseth to be careful for nothing Phil. 4.6 he there forbids a distracting distrustful care Yet the same Apostle to Timothy saith 1 Tim. 5.8 If any man provide not for his own and specially for those of his own house he hath denyed the Faith and is worse then an Infidel q. d. such an one hath neither Religion nor Humanity in him I shall therefore with what brevity and plainness I can shew you what to do that you may have maintenance for your selves and such as belong to you Take these following Directions and put them into speedy practise 1. Direct Be much in prayer Pray to God that he would direct thee what course to take Prov. 3.6 In all thy wayes acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths Pray to God for his blessing upon thine endeavours It is God that giveth thee power to get wealth Deut. 8.18 so Psal 127.1 2. Except the Lord build the house they labour in vain that build it It is vain for you to rise up early to sit up late to eate the bread of sorrows You may toil and moil and fare hardly but except God bless your endeavours you shall not thrive in your estates Benè orâsse est benè laborâsse They that pray well are most likely to work well and to have greatest success in their business they go about A chet is no let saith the proverb Movers lose not any time which they spend in whetting or grinding of their sythes Our prayer in the morning saith * Mr. Fuller's Com. on Ruth 2.7 a worthy Divine sets an edg on our dull souls and makes our minds to undertake our labours with the greater alacrity and I may add with better success We read how Ruth going to glean in Boaz's field tarried a little in the house Ruth 2.7 Probably saith the former-quoted Divine to say her Mattins to do her Devotions commend her self with fervent prayer unto the Lord to bless her and her endeavours the day following as indeed God did So Abraham's Servant prayed for good speed in a weighty undertaking and how successively things fell out you read Gen. 24.12 c. Our Saviour hath taught us to pray dayly for our daily Bread i. e. outward maintenance Mat. 6.11 Moses in the behalf of himself and God's people prayed for a blessing upon their labours Psal 90.17 Establish thou the work of our hands upon us it is in the old translation Prosper thou the work of our hands upon us yea prosper thou our handy-work They that pray most are likely to prosper best See Ps 34.6 This poor man cryed and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles So v. 10. The young Lyons do lack and suffer hunger but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing So vers 17. The righteous cry and the Lord heareth and delivereth them out of all their troubles So Psal 107.4 5 6 9 compared Thus the Lord is good unto them that wait for him to the soul that seeketh him Lam. 3.25 2. Direct Labour diligently in some honest calling God would have men to get their livings this way Gen. 3.19 Prov. 6.6 7 8. Eph. 4.28 1 Thes 4.11 2 Thes 3.10 11. These places shew God expects we should labour in some honest calling and those that do so may expect to thrive in their estate Prov. 10.4 The hand of the diligent maketh rich Prov. 13.11 Wealth gotten by vanity i. e. by vain courses as by gaming cheating lying wantonness c. shall be diminished but he that gathereth by labour shall encrease So Prov. 22.29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business he shall stand before Kings he shall not stand before mean men This shews that such many times come to great preferment 3. Direct Trust and rely upon the Lord. God wonderfully provides for such as these places shew Psal 33.18 19. Psal 34.22

may read Heb. 11. that Chapter is a little Martyrology ver 35 36 37. how some were tortured scourged stoned sawn asunder slain with the sword c. Mr. Fox or Mr. Clark in his Martyrology will tell you that many Martyrs had their skins pulled off joynts racked bodies torn in pieces c. willing to endure for Christ's sake what the wit of man could invent or cruelty impose Now God might have called thy Friend to such a death which would have been far more sad cruel and painful as to outward appearance Well then consider God might have delivered thy Friend into the hands of cruel man which would have been very sad as appears by David's speech 2 Sam. 24.14 but God cast him on a soft Bed amongst Friends who did carefully attend him and minister unto him 3. Consid The greater thy Friends pain was the more fervent prayers were put up for him You find David in Psal 38. lying under God's afflicting hand what servent ejaculations he sent up towards the Throne of Grace So Asaph Ps 77.2 In the day of his trouble sought the Lord. So Jesus Christ in his Agony prayed more earnestly Luke 22.44 Great Miseries make the loudest Eccho's in the ears of Mercy And as the afflicted party himself so all that saw him or heard of his misery would be ready to pity and pray for him Methinks the sad groans of a dying Friend are sufficient to dissolve an heart of stone into prayers and tears especially godly Friends would pray fervently for him And these are most likely to prevail for Jam. 5.16 The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much That Ship saileth the surest to the haven of Heaven which is driven with the breath of godly mens prayers 4. Consid The greater the pain was the shorter was the continuance of it Dolor si gravis brevis si longus levis We reade how Aeneas kept his bed eight years and was sick of the Palsie Act. 9.33 We read of one that had an issue of blood twelve years Mat. 9.20 and had suffered many things of many Physicians and had spent all that she had and was nothing bettered but rather grew worse Mark 5.26 So John 5.5 there we read of one that had an infirmity thirty eight years Now if thy Friend's pain had not been so great he might have continued still a burden to thee and to himself but the greatness of his pain hastened death which put an end to all trouble and grief his great pangs and struglings as throes of a travelling woman made way for deliverance And therefore 5. And lastly Consider Thy Friend is now at rest Rev. 14.13 Let them die of never so cruel a death if they die in the favour of God they are blessed for they rest from their labours It may be thou grievedst but little whilest thy Friend laboured for rest and wilt thou grieve much when he rests from his labours Whilst thy Friend was ground with the Stone or burnt up with a Feaver and rouled upon his bed without sleep thou hadst cause to weep and it was thy duty to sympathize with him Rom. 12.15 but being dead he is at rest Isa 57.2 for death to a Child of God is but a sleep Joh. 11.11 12 13. so Act. 7.60 and being buried he hath laid his head upon the lap of his mother for so the Earth is called Job 1.21 to be awakened again at the last Trump to the everlasting comfort both of soul and body And shall we now weep Surely this sorrow is unseasonable We prayed or else we were to blame whilst our Friend was in pain that God would deliver him and therefore when God by death hath put an end to all his pain we should give thanks to God and rejoyce rather than weep The Church our careful Mother hath taught us as much in the Funerals of the Dead We give thee hearty thanks for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our Brother or Sister out of the miseries of this sinful world Another cryes out 10th Apology answerd This Eriend of mine dyed of a sad mischance he fell into the Fire or Water or was kill'd of Lightning fell off a Horse or Cart or was shot in War or otherwise or he was kill'd by Thieves or wicked men c. or he fell suddenly sick groan'd sigh'd dyed And this troubles me that he dyed such a sudden violent and untimely death Answ From sudden death i. e. from death not thought-of and so not provided-for good Lord deliver us not only for our own sakes but for our Friends sakes too they 'l take it the less sudden it is the more patiently See how sadly Jacob takes the supposed death of his son Joseph upon the sight of his bloudy coat he too rashly concluded his son was dead that he was devoured by some cruel beast Significans in●ternum animi dilacerationem seu moestitiaē And the Text tells you Gen. 37.33 34. He rent his cloaths in token as Pareus saith upon the place that his heart was rent through with sorrow and he put on sackcloth a coarse and sorry stuff which was the usual Mourning-Weed in those times And he refused to be comforted Thus his father wept for him for Joseph who dyed as he thought a sudden death David himself proclaimed a solemn and publick Funeral-Mourning for the death of Abner who was cowardly and suddenly slain when he did least suspect it by one that pretended peace and friendship And David himself laid aside his Royal Dignity and attended the Corps joyning with the People in that sad Consort as you may reade 2 Sam. 3. towards the latter end of the chapter So David weeps excessively for the space of three whole years because his son Amnon dyed so unnaturally untimely unexpectedly being kill'd by Absalom 2 Sam. 13.28 c. And we reade how the true Mother of the living Child had rather her Adversary should have the comfort of her Child than that it should dye a violent and untimely death 1 King 3.26 And in that appeared both the truth of her affection towards it and that she was the true Mother of it v. 27. Job hearing the heavy tydings of the sudden death of his Children could no longer contain but vents his grief in words being more affected with the sudden loss of his Children than all the rest of his Goods Job 1.18 19 20. But for your comfort 1. Consid It hath been the lot of some of Gods dear Servants to dye so Thus righteous Abel was suddenly butchered by his brother Cain Gen. 4.8 So old Eli though indeed he had his failings in not correcting and severely punishing his wicked Sons 1 Sam. 2.23 c. and 1 Sam. 3.13 as he should have done being chief-Magistrate as well as Parent yet questionless was a good man as may be gathered from sacred Story and the manner of his death was sudden he fell off from his seat backward and