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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44678	A funeral sermon for Mrs. Esther Sampson the late wife of Henry Sampson, Dr. of Physick, who died Nov. 24. 1689 / by John Howe ...	Howe, John, 1630-1705.	1690 (1690)	Wing H3026; ESTC R19694	24,476	33

A Funeral Sermon FOR M rs ESTHER SAMPSON The Late Wife of Henry Sampson D r. of Physick who Died Nov. 24. M.DCLxxxix By John Howe Minister of the Gospel Published principally for the use of such as languish under painful and Chronical Diseases LONDON Printed for Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheap-side near Mercers Chapel 1690. TO My Worthy Friend Dr. Henry Sampson SIR I Have perused the Papers which you sent me and find as far as I can recollect they contain in them the Substance of what was delivered With no more mistakes than is usual in writing from the mouth of one who is not of the slowest speakers Some things besides which the limits of the time allow'd not to be spoken having some short memorials of them by me I have added conceiving they might also contribute towards the good end you proposed to your self in so earnestly desiring this publication the assisting of their patience and their good and placid thoughts of God who are exercis'd under Long and Languishing Distempers The observations which your Profession hath occasion'd you to make in the cases of many others hath I doubt not let you see the need of somewhat to this purpose otherwise the example you have had so long before your eyes of so calm and compos'd a temper in this excellent relative of yours might have made you less apprehensive how great an addition a fretful unquiet spirit is both to the Sin and the Affliction of a Sickly State I am sensible your own affliction is great in the loss you now sustain The relief will be great and suitable which the forethoughts of that State will afford where they neither Marry nor are given in Marriage but are as the Angels of God in Heaven I am SIR In much sincerity and affection yours to serve you in the work and labour of the Gospel John Howe LUKE 13. 16. And ought not this woman being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan hath bound lo these eighteen years be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day YOU will soon see the occasion and connexion of these words by viewing over the whole Paragraph to which they belong verse 10. And he was teaching in one of the Synagogues on the Sabbath 11. And behold there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years and was bowed together and could in no wise lift up her self 12. When Jesus saw her he said to her Woman thou art loosed from thine infirmity 13. And he laid his hands on her and immediately she was made straight and glorified God 14. And the Ruler of the Synagogue answered with indignation because that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath day and said unto the people There are six days in which men ought to work in them therefore come and be healed and not on the Sabbath day 15. The Lord then answered him and said Thou hypocrite doth not each of you on the Sabbath loose his Ox and his Ass from the stall and lead him away to watering 16. And ought not this woman being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan hath bound lo these eighteen years be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day 17. And when he had said these things all his adversaries were ashamed and all the people rejoyced for all the glorious things that were done by him Inasmuch as our blessed Lord spake these words and did the thing which occasion'd them upon that which was with the Jews their Sabbath day it cannot be unfit for us to consider them upon ours they so fitly leading us to consider also another release wrought for a daughter of Abraham too on our Sabbath day It was formerly told you upon what occasion and I doubt not but you generally know upon whose account we were to divert from our usual course and Subject at this time Nor could any thing have been more suitable to the present occasion for not only was this Daughter of Abraham releas'd from her Infirmity upon the Sabbath day but the time wherein it remain'd upon Her in a great and manifold complication was as her surviving Consort hath acquainted me and who therefore recommended this Subject precisely about eighteen Years There are 't is true disagreements between our case and that case in the Text which do not therefore render both together less instructive to us but the more And to make way to what may be so you must here take notice that these Words are part of our Lords Defence of what he had done in performing this work of Mercy wherein what he says is justly severe and very clearly convictive It is very deserved and just severity that he call'd him who cavil'd in the case by his own true name thou hypocrite He under pretence of great sanctity discovers the highest enmity even against our blessed Lord himself who came being sent upon the holiest and kindest design into this World The zeal which he pretends for the observation of the Sabbath could not be the thing that he did really mean or that acted him in this case For it was not likely he could be ignorant of what was a known adjudg'd Case among the Jews as some of their own Rabbies inform us that all needful endeavours ought to be used for the cure of the sick upon the Sabbath day So as that he very well knew no rule could be broken in this case But this he reckons was somewhat plausible and he pleases himself in it that he could tell how to vent his spite against Christ and Christianity under a mock-shew of great Sanctimony And our Lord justly calls him what indeed he was when he would thus seem what he was not It was not that he cared for Religion or for any thing of real Sanctity of which a due and just observation of the Sabbath was a real part but that he had a mind as far as conveniently he could to express his displeasure at that evidence and lustre wherewith the glorious works our Lord wrought evinc'd him to be the Messiah while yet he was struck with that awe of him that he adventures not to direct his reproof to him but the people It is here by the way to be noted that they were not thus disaffected to our Lord and the Religion he was about to introduce No but this Ceremonious Bigot a Ruler of the Synagogue was the ill-pleased disaffected Person I shall not trouble you with the discussion what sort of power it was that belonged to that Office Some well acquainted with the Jewish writings say that the Ruler of the Synagogue was not wont himself to officiate as Minister in Sacris but his business was circa Sacra to regulate the Administration We consider not his Power but his ill-will and enmity against Christ and true Religion The people in the mean time throng'd after him in Multitudes and beheld the great works he wrought with joy and glorified God Only where was more