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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57197	The vanitie of man, in his best estate a sermon preached at St. Maries in Nottingham, March 18. 1657. at the funeral of the honourable Francis Pierepont, Esq; third son to the right honourable Robert late Earl of Kingston. By William Reynolds, M.A. minister of the Gospel at St. Maries in Nottingham.	Reynolds, William, 1625-1698.; Whitlock, John, 1625-1709.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1323A; ESTC R217985	20,473	35

Honoured by you We doubt not but these Sermons devoted thereunto will be very acceptable unto you The Lord bless the Reading of them to you both and grant that the great truths held forth in them may be so impressed upon your hearts as that being convinced of the former namely Mans Vanity even in his best Estate as to this world you may above all things labour after the later to wit Gospel-perfection and uprightness of heart by thus doing you will live most honourably dye most peaceably and to all eternity live most happily which is the hearty Prayer of Your Faithful Servants in the Work of the Lord. John Whitlock William Reynolds To the READER THe unusualness of having two Sermons Preached at the Funeral of one Person occasions us to Preface somewhat to give thee an account thereof That person of Honour at whose Funeral these Sermons were Preached having had his residence for some years and dying in the Town of Nottingham where he was much respected and honoured and a great part of the persons invited to his Funeral being inhabitants of the said Town many of which were unable to attend the Herse to the place where his body was interred which was at some considerable distance and the Church there too small to receive so great a number It was judged inexpedient to dismiss so great a Company as were met at his house at Nottingham with a meer civil treatment without some word of instruction suitable to so solemn an occasion which occasioned the Preaching of the former Sermon As for the later Sermon which was only at first intended we shall need to give no further account than this that it was Preached at the place where the Corps was interred We need no less to apologize for our appearing in Print in this age wherein the Press abounds with so many supernumerary Papers It was with much unwillingness that we were induced to it but the importunity of some friends nearly related to the Person deceased to whom we owe very much respect and our willingness to do any thing that might contribute to the keeping up the memory of him now dead whom we so much honoured whilst living hath at last prevailed with us thus to appear in publick You have the Sermons as they were Preached without any addition except that in the later Sermon divers inlargements which were prepared to be delivered but through streights of time were necessarily then omitted are now added Such as they are we recommend them to thy Reading and to Gods blessing upon them not doubting but if God shall teach thee those two main Lessons held forth in them viz. Mans-Vanity and Heart-Integrity they may much conduce to thy holy Life and happy Death Which that they may is the Prayer of Thy Souls Servants John Whitlock Willam Reynolds יהוה TEXT Psalm 39.5 Surely or verily every Man at his best Estate is altogether vanity Selah WE read the Prophet David in the second and third verses of this Psalm e're he breaks forth into that Speech of which our Text is a part saying that his sorrow was stirred and that his heart was hot within him In like manner before I speak to my Text I must needs crave leave to tell you that upon the sight of this great Assembly congregated to solemnize the Funeral Rites of that truly Honourable Person deceased I find my sorrow stirred and my heart to be greatly moved within me He dyed the 30th of January It is indeed some weeks since that divine providence made this sad breach amongst us but the wound yet is very green and the least tenting of it makes it to bleed afresh how much more such a violent raking into it as at this day and what are a few weeks moneths nay I may adde years to wear out those deep impressions which the loss of a Personage of so much honour and worth hath made upon the minds of many amongst us My beloved It is very well known to the most of you that it hath neither been mine The seveneth year is compleat the 25th March 1658. nor my fellow-labourers practice during those seven years which now within some very few dayes we have laboured in the word and doctrine among you either to Preface or add any Panegyricks to the Funeral Sermons we have been called to Preach and one great reason of our forbearance hath been the great abuse which we have observed formerly to have been hereof it having been too usual as one sadly complains ut eorum vitae laudentur in terris quorum animae cruciantur in inferno and we have also observed that there hath been but little of edification in the best and much of falshood and flattery in the most Funeral Commendations Yet though we have forborn the practice we have not judged it unlawful to give a due Testimony to the dead in mentioning such commendable virtues and practices as may be precedential to the Living The warrantableness of it 2 Chron. 32.33 might be clearly evinced both from what we read in Scripture * Acts 9.99 as also what we sind to be practised amongst the Antients who as a * Dr. Spurstow in his Sermon preached at the Funeral of the Lady Viner present Divine in our Nation hath observed did oft-times mingle the prayses of their dead friends with their sorrowful mournings over them It is not so much the lawfulness as the expediency of thus doing which is so much scrupled The great miscarriage as the same Author expresseth which hath brought this way and practice both under suspition and censure hath been the Golden commendations that some have bestowed upon worth-less Persons But I perswade my self that the eminency of worth and merit which was so resplendent in that Honourable Person whose Funeral rites we now solemnize will cause that I should rather incurre your Ceusure by my silencing the due Character that may be given of him than your suspition by an unfeigned and impartial expression of it I shall not take upon me to give you a Narrative of his whole life albeit I might having the warrant of a very good Testimony and the witness of some present to whom the whole of his conversation hath been very well known safely say this of him in reference to that part of his life which was unknown to me That his youth was no wayes beleapred with those foul spots of pride luxury prodigality and disobedience to Parents which are too too Common but that his humility modesty frugality and dutiful obsequiousness to his Noble Parents was such as is rarely parallel'd in a Person of his Birth and quality A worthy pattern for young Gentlemens imitation But I shall pass these things and divers others I might mention as the speaking to that Antient and Noble Family of which he was a Branch this being better known to many amongst you than it can be expressed by me And I have met with what Basil observed in the praise