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A17913	A casket of ievvells and precious pearles Set forth in a funerall sermon, preached in Heckfield Church, at the buriall of a religious young gentleman, Mr. Barnabas Creswell, sonne of Mr. Thomas Creswell Esquire, by Nathanael Cannon, Batchelar in diuinitie.	Cannon, Nathanael, 1581 or 2-1664.	1625 (1625)	STC 4575.7; ESTC S115891	12,655	78

dye as olde Pollicarpus tels his tormentors according as Eusebius stories it vnto vs I am this day saith hee fourescore yeares old and I haue hitherto serued my God O blessed age and time well spent in the seruice of God for let vs not thinke to dye the death of the righteous vnlesse wee liue the life of the righteous our conuersation then must be in heauen Phil. 3. and we must liue here in this world euen as the Fishes doe in the Sea who though they liue in the salt and brackish water yet they are fresh So though we liue in the middest of a wicked world yet must wee be fresh and free from the common pollutions of this wicked world Then shall we not fulfill the lusts of the flesh as the vngodly doe for they put too their whole strength they draw sins together and pull them as it were with cart-ropes Esay 5.18 Let the Saints make ready for the comming of the Lord Iesus Christ and cry with them Lord Iesus come quickly Come quickly Lord Iesus The 2. vse belonging to this poynt limits our lamentations I would not haue you ignorant saith the Apostle concerning those that fall asleepe that the sorrow you take bee not like theirs that haue no hope 1. Thes 4.13 no this were to shew that we preferred earth before heauen and the comfort and ioyes of earth before heauen We can tell directly what our meanes and sollaces are here on earth but no eye hath seen nor eare hath heard nor tongue can tell the ioyes that God hath prepared for them that loue him 1. Cor. 2.9 Now this limitation for our mourning is not a prohibition to forbid all mourning for not to be moued at all is to shew a hard heart lesse tender then the bruitish creatures for they will bleate and mone after one another but it is the excesse of mourning that is condemned as Bernard obserues Non culpamus lachrymarum effectum sed excessum not the matter so much as the manner is sometimes to be reproued and surely when Passion settles then shall we see the euill of this violence and when religion sends arguments after the dead as Noah put forth the Doue vpon the abatement of the waters then doe wee or may wee find all that labour lost for they are not lost that are gone before Non sunt amissi sed praemissi and Iobs restaurations may confirme this vnto vs for of all that the Caldeans and Sabeans tooke from him he had it double restored but for his children iust so many as before and why not children two-fold because the children were not lost but at the resurrection should then appeare With this then I wil close vp this first point and so come to the second 2 Part of Diuision The Saints acceptation they are precious in the sight of God When Samael was perswaded that amongst Ishaies sonnes the goodliest should haue had acceptation and so bin King God tels him that he looks not as man doth on the countenance or person but on the heart 1 Sam. 16.7 thence comes our acceptation with God and for that God will regard vs and for nothing else with him there is no respect of persons Acts 10. vntill we come to feare him loue and obey him O then he loues vs dearely then are wee precious in the sight of God And hence may we gather towards a second point of Doctrine teaching vs that the Lords regard toward vs is as our hearts are towards him if we feare him loue him and delight in him then will he delight in vs we shall be precious and deere to him To this the Scriptures doe accord and to begin with that of the 37. Psal 37. Verse Marke the vpright man and behold the iust the latter end of that man shall be peace as who should say such men are worth the marking Againe when God will declare whom he will grace or worship Honorantes honorabo they that honour mee I will honour them 1 Sam. 2.30 and as for them that despise him hee regards them not or as the last translation hath it lightly esteemes them the Lord regards our lowlinesse and humility and will aduance the humble and meeke as the blessed Virgin in her Magnificat Luke 1.48 He regardeth the lowlinesse of his handmaid these are the precious people in the sight of God so precious that if any shall hurt or iniure them it is a battery against God himselfe for so saith the Prophet He that toucheth you or hurteth you toucheth the apple of Gods owne eye Zach. 2.8 Hath not Saul who afterwards is Paul the question to the same purpose Acts 9. Saul Saul why persecutest thou me as who should say I feele the stripes and beare the reproaches done against them O that men thought vpon this as often as they are thornes in the sides of Gods seruants as often as they play vpon them for their profession Now in all these places wee see what tender care God taketh how deere they are to the LORD but of all places that of the 25. of Mathew 40. where the vsage of his Saints is recited O come yee blessed of my Father c. when I was sicke you did visit mee naked clothe mee hungry feed me O Lord say they we neuer saw thee thus in as much as you haue done it to one of these little ones you haue done it to mee Wee will stay here my Brethren and make vse of this Shall these that are so precious in the sight of Vse 1 God be other wise in our eyes All my delight is in the Saints sayth Dauid and surely it is one of the markes of the man that shall haue place in the holy mount euen to make much of them that feare the Lord Psal 15. The contrary vnto this the Apostle reproues Iam. 2. when hee would not haue vs to haue the graces of God in respect of persons we honour riches and make an Idoll of earthly pompe but as for the Saints and Seruants of God we rather expose them to reproach then make them neere vnto vs but because the subiect in hand points vnto the graue I will returne vnto a Vse that shall speake the same language Are the righteous the onely men with God Vse 2 and so precious that their very graues are perfumed and their deaths so regarded O then this bids all the godly entertaine the consideration of a dissolution with good resolution and many motiues will be ready for vs. First we dye not totally it is but the body that is strooke downe the soule is immortall which like the Doue could find no rest for the soale of her foote vntill shee returned vnto the Arke againe Gen. 8. so verily there is no true rest for the soule of man vntill it returne to that God that infused it Secondly we dye not perpetually we shall be put into the darke house for a time but there is a day a blessed day euen the day of the

vnto a matter then another and one Scripture may yeeld more comfort against death then another which being granted then let me say for this Text that it doth so prepare or rather resolue the faithfull so perfume their graues which are their beds Esay 57.2 that they knowing themselues to bee the Saints and Seruants of God and the spirit of God bearing witnesse vnto theirs that they are his Rom. 8.16 Yea his deere darlings and precious Iewels they then feele that comfort wherof the Apostle speaketh Rom. 14.8 whether they liue or dye they are the Lords and they apprehend their aduantage in Christ Iesus who as the Apostle saith is aduantage to him both in life and death Phil. 1.21 This makes the Saints with old Simeon ready to cry Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace according to thy word for mine eyes haue seene thy saluation Now the Saints haue the same obiect to looke vpon and the same subiect to speake on and must not they then bee precious who shall bee heyres of saluation Such honour haue all the Saints of whose happy state and condition my Text here speakes Let mee therefore say thus much of this portion of Scripture that it is very seasonable for the occasion and very sutable to his person that here lyes before vs of whom I doubt not to pronounce him the faithfull St. seruant of Iesus Christ and therefore precious in the sight of God Now come wee to the worke wee haue in hand that so wee may see how this Text takes place in point of Coherence with tha rest of the Psalme The voyce of Thankesgiuing doth with a spirituall trumpet soundforth the praise of God in this Psalme wherein Dauid who was the sweet Singer of Israell hath many notes of thankful remembrance for the manifolde deliuerances that GOD had vouchsafed vnto him but more particularly hee instances in that mercy that the Lord shewed in keeping him from Saul who hunted after his life in the desart of Maon And in the 3. verse he tels vs that when the sorrowes of death had compassed him round about then hee began to lay hold on God assuring himselfe that neither Saul nor any of his argents should eyther catch or kill him without that diuine permission which did watch ouer him and there fore hee will put his life into the hands of God and vpon that very ground he will set vp his rest which hee doth in the 7. verse Returne O my soule vnto thy rest and because they are vnworthy of future blessings who are not thankfull for former hee therefore comes in the 12. 13. verses with his quid retribuam Domino what shal I render to the Lord for all his mercies then the cup of saluation must bee mentioned and the vowes must bee paide making my Text the reason of all this Because the Lord will take such care both of the bodies and soules of the liues and deaths of his Saints that whether hee preserue them from the hands of Tyrants or else suffer them to be euill intreated or persecuted that so God may be glorified this shall be surely imprinted in the hearts of the faithfull that they are right deere and precious in the sight of God And thus much shall suffice for the Analysis of the whole Psalme and the particular sense and meaning of the Text it selfe Now it remaines that wee take the Text asunder and note vnto you the diuident Branches thereof 1 Obserue the disp●sition of the Saints themselues that so their corruption may put on incorruption and that in their earthly peregrination they may passe from the Kingdome of Grace to the Kingdome of Glory 2 Obserue the Acceptation of the Saints with God to earthly men they are but meane base and contemptible in the sight of this world but in the sight of God right deere and precious and as they value Dauids life in the 2 of Sam. 18.3 thy life say they is worth tenne thousand of ours So indeed one faithfull Seruant of the Lord is worth tenne thousand others in the sight of God for they are precious in his sight 1 Ratione praetij by reason of the price that was paide to redeeme their soules withall and that was the precious bloud of Iesus Christ as the Apostle witnesseth 1 Pet. 1 Chap. Verse 19. Potens non perdet saith a Father quod pecunia emebat A great man will not loose that which hee purchaseth with his money Nec Christus perdet quod sanguine emebat then may wee bee sure that Christ will not loose that which hee purchased with his bloud that precious bloud 2 Ratione tituli they are precious by reason of their title that God hath giuen them they are called the Saynts of God What greater honor can there bee Crownes and Scepters comes short of this vnles they be within the compasse of this Herauldry hath no such scutchions Christianity hath the best Coate the Crest or helme it is saluation it selfe Ephes 6.17 therefore no meruaile though Theodosius the Emperour did preferre his Christianity before his Crowne Mallem me esse Christianum quàm Imperatorem 3 Ratione proemij precious they are by reason of the reward laide vp for them they haue precious promises made to them as Saint Peter saith 2 Pet. 1.4 They labour not in vaine as the men of this world doe Doubtlesse man saith Dauid disquieteth himselfe in vaine he heapeth vp riches and cannot tell who shall gather them But as for the Saints when they haue finished their course there is laide vp for them a crowne of glory yea for all them that loue the comming of the Lord Iesus Christ 2 Tim. 4.8 Loe thus haue wee lookt vpon the Tree and the Branches the Text and the parts now let vs gather the fruit thereof beginning first with our first Branch which is the Dissolution of the Saints There is a hedge made about Iob the iust which doth much trouble the Diuel insomuch that Sathan cannot come at him Iob 1.10 nor yet the gates of hell preuaile against him what is this but Gods prouidence which watcheth ouer the righteous and so protects that a hayre fals not from their heads without it Wherevpon it is that Chrisostome cheares vp the hearts of the faithfull thus Si sic custodiantur superflua tua in quanta securitate est anima tua If saith hee the haires of thy head and the least part of thy body be so kept in what safety is thy soule preserued And yet notwithstanding this keeping out of Sathan by the moundes of Gods mercy yet wee haue no quare impedit against death nothing keepes it out for the very Saints who are so deare in the sight of God euen they must dye the sentence is irreuocable all the children of Adam are within compasse of it for in him as the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 15. in Adam al men dye Here then let vs erect our first pillar from this first poynt The