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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40428	The Israelite indeed a sermon preached at the funeral of Mark Cottle, Esq., late register of the Prerogative-Office, on Thursday, Jan. 5, 1681 / by Sam. Freeman ...	Freeman, Samuel, 1643-1700.	1682 (1682)	Wing F2141; ESTC R65	12,038	36

The Israelite Indeed A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL OF MARK COTTLE Esq LATE Register of the Prerogative-Office on Thursday Jan. 5. 1681. By SAM FREEMAN M. A. and Rector of St. Ann's Aldersgate London LONDON Printed for Edward Gellibrand at the Golden Ball in St. Paul's Church-yard 1682. To the deservedly honour'd Mrs. Alice Cottle late Wife of Mark Cottle Esq deceased Madam BEing much importun'd by some Friends that were present at the Preaching of this Sermon to make it publick I have at last not without a great deal of reluctancy yielded to it I confess the Arguments they us'd were not inconsiderable viz. that 't was fit the memory of so excellent a Person should be transmitted to Posterity and that I ought to contribute what I could to the reformation of this loose and vitious Age by setting before them so rare an Example of Vertue and Goodness But being conscious of my own inability so lively to draw his Picture as to make it fully to represent him or in any tollerable degree be useful to others I had withstood their Arguments as well as their Request but that I was inform'd the thing would be acceptable to you also to whom I must acknowledge my Obligations to be so great that I am put beyond the possibility of declining any thing that may be grateful to you such therefore as it is I present it to you I know the hearty love you bear to the Subject will be inducement enough to you to excuse the meaness of the Dress it comes in and if it proves of any advantage to the Interest of Religion to promote Truth and Righteousness amongst men I shall not repent the Publication of it I am ever Madam Your most humble and most oblig'd Servant Sam. Freeman The Israelite Indeed St. JOHN I. 47. Behold an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile COncerning Nathanael the Subject of what is here said in the Text these Four things may be consider'd by us Who he was What was his Country and Profession What the manner of his Conversion And what 's the sense and meaning of this Character here given him by our Saviour 1. For his Person Several Learned men have concluded that this holy man and St. Bartholomew were one and the same Person it being usual with the Jews to be call'd by two Names their own and that of their Fathers So Peter is call'd Barjona Joseph Barsabas Joses Barnabas and Nathanael Bartholomew that is the Son of Tholmai And that which gives credit to this Opinion is first That Nathanael is reckon'd up with the other Apostles to whom our Lord appear'd at the Sea of Tiberias after his Resurrection There were together says the Text John 21. ver 2. Simon Peter and Thomas and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee and the Sons of Zebedee and two other of his Disciples 'T is also observ'd that as our Evangelist St. John never sets down Bartholomew in the number of the Apostles so the other three take as little notice of Nathanael and as in this Chapter Phillip and Nathanael are joyn'd together in coming to Christ so the rest of the Evangelists have Phillip and Bartholomew 2. For his Country And that we are told plainly in the fore-quoted place was Cana in Galilee What his Profession was is not so certain Tract 7. in Joan. St. Augustin tells us that he was a Civilian a learned Doctor of the Law But if we take him to be the same with Bartholomew that which Theodoret and some other of the Fathers affirm is the more likely viz. that not only he but all the Apostles in general were Fishermen God making choice of such mean Instruments to propagate the Gospel that so his power in carrying it on might be made the more conspicuous through their weakness 3. For the manner of his Conversion We have that in the 45th Verse of this Chapter he was first brought to Christ by Phillip who told him That they had found him of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets did write Jesus of Nazareth the Son of Joseph And when he alledg'd that no good thing could come out of Nazareth and consequently that the Messiah could not be born there as indeed he was not but at Bethlehem but only supposed to be of Nazareth because he was educated there Phillip bids him come and see the Person and satisfie himself At his first approach our Saviour welcomes him with this high Encomium in the Text Behold an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile Nathanael wondring at the Salutation asks our Saviour how he came to know him so well since he had had hitherto no acquaintance with him Our Saviour answer'd him Before that Phillip called thee when thou wast under the Fig-tree I saw thee Convinc't with this instance of our Lords Divinity forthwith he makes this Confession Rabbi thou art the Son of God thou art the King of Israel As if he had said I do now believe not because of Phillips saying but because I have heard thee my self and know that thou art indeed the promised Messiah the Person ordained by God to be the King and Governour of his Church 4. We are now come to consider the Character here given him by our Saviour An Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile that is he was a true honest hearted man a person of great simplicity and integrity An Israelite indeed like Jaacob the Father of them Gen. 25. 27. a plain man For the better and more useful understanding of this Particular I shall do these two things 1. Shew you what it is to be an Israelite indeed A person without guile 2. What are some of those Considerations that may engage us to be so For therefore does our Lord call upon us to behold Nathanael that so we might endeavour to be like him and to imitate his Example 1. To shew you what it is to be an Israelite indeed c. In general hee 's one whose Principles are right and whose Actions are conformable to his Principles who in every case does that which upon mature deliberation appears most just and fit to him who squares all his projects and practices by the sure rule of Gods Law and sound Reason and whom it is not in the power of temptation passion or prejudice to warp from truth or to bend into any sinful complyances In our Saviours words hee 's one Matth. 22. 37● 39. who loves God with all his heart and loves his Neighbour as himself In St. Paul's language one whose greatest care Acts 24. 16. and exercise it is to keep a Conscience void of offence towards God and towards Men. But that I may give you the more lively Portraiture of him and thereby propose him with the greater advantage to your imitation I shall be a little more particular and first give you an account of his Religious deportment towards God and secondly of his Civil conversation with men I. For his Religious