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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39578	A love-token for mourners teaching spiritual dumbness and submission under Gods smarting rod : in two funeral sermons / by Samuel Fisher M.A., late preacher at Brides London, now at Thornton in Cheshire ; unto which is added, An antidote against the fear of death, being the meditations of the same author in a time and place of great mortality.	Fisher, Samuel, 1616 or 17-1681.	1655 (1655)	Wing F1059B; ESTC R42024	52,647	250

A LOVE-TOKEN FOR MOURNERS TEACHING Spiritual Dumbness and Submission under GODS Smarting ROD. In two Funeral SERMONS By SAMUEL FISHER M. A. late Preacher at Brides London now at Thornton in Cheshire Vnto which is added An ANTIDOTE against the Fear of DEATH being the Meditations of the same AUTHOR in a Time and Place of great Mortality LONDON Printed by A. M. for T. Underhill at the Anchor in Pauls Church-yard 16●● Spiritual Submission IN TWO SERMONS One at the Funeral of M rs HOLGATE the other at the Funeral of M rs BAKER By SAMUEL FISHER JOB 1. 21. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the Name of the Lord. LEVIT 10. 3. And Aaron held his Peace MICAH 7. 9. I will bear the Indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him LONDON TO MY VERY LOVING AND Much respected Friend M r William Holgate Citizen and Haberdasher of London S. F. wisheth humble Submission to and holy dependance upon God SIR IT pleased you upon the death of your dear Consort to make choice of me the most unworthy to preach at her Funerall My affections to you were strong obligations upon me I was willing to perform any Service within my compasse for her that was dead from whom I enjoyed so many real Respects when she was alive I was Debtor to you both for very much love and therefore willing to serve you both in doing this last Office for her which was no other according to Scripture language then your self When you engaged me to this work my hands were full of troublesome businesse about my removal into the Countrey which though it did not take me off yet did much indispose me for this Service But being engaged I laid aside as much as I could other thoughts that I might be in my measure provided to offer something which might be sutable to the present occasion and usefull to those that should be my Auditors in that Solemnity I intended no more then the service of my Master and the benefit of the hearers by the bare preaching of a Sermon Yet when it was done whiles my affections were stirring and before I cooled I was drawn contrary to my former inclinations to promise you the Notes of what I had preached And since my promise you have kept me warm with your letters that I might not recede I confess I judge my self of rashnes in that promise and I have smarted for it for my own thoughts have been a press to me before my Notes come under the Press for you I know mine own nakednes and have so much pride in me that I can hardly be willing that others should have occasion to take notice of that nakednes But it may be God may stirre up some faithfull friend to bestow some wholsome reproof upon me and that may repair my loss by some real advantage I am resolved to trust the Lord. Sir what they were when they were delivered I have sent them to you without any new clothes You have called for them earnestly I have only crouded for time to transcribe them And now you have them much good may do you with them They teach a very weighty lesson under the Cross viz. To be dumb and not open the mouth because of Gods doing A lesson for all that are trained up in the School of affliction but especially directed to you at this time that you may learn with humble silence to bear the smarting twigs of that Rod which lies upon your back in the loss of so great a Comfort by th● with-drawing of so sweet so good a Companion I hope you have learned this lesson Something I think I saw before I left you I shall be glad if yet they may contribute any thing further towards your help and the satisfaction of those dear Friends that were in near relation to he● that is with God who in regard of the manner of her death seemed more dis-satisfied and therefore as they have need so possibly they may gain some advantag● by the reading o● what they heard A part of these Notes were used at the Funeral of another Friend the good wife of a very good man that lives in the Parish of Brides I present the whole that neither of you may complain of loss My prayer shall be that you and all that read them may reap some good fruit by them that God may have the glory of an humble silent submission under the Crosse who hath so much dishonour by our sins that bring the Crosse And if this may be the issue of these poor weak unpolished lines he that praies shall have occasion to adde praises and Thanksgivings for so rich a blessing to the God of his Mercies To whom and to whose Mercies he commends you who is Your Friend that heartily desires to meet you and your dear Consort in Heaven S. F. TO THE READER Reader THOU hast me now in Print and it may be thou wonderest and so do I. I beleeve thou didst not expect it and I assure thee I did not intend it My Sunne is now drawing ●pace towards the West yet till this time I never durst venture into so open an air as now I must I have not wanted strong provocations from the 〈◊〉 fretting pens of other men who have endangered my liberty by traducing my Doctrine wresting my words and charging me beyond what I ever thought with that which their own wicked hearts had forged to appear before this in mine own vindication but believing a day of Judgement and knowing that God sits upon the Throne judging right I thought it as a more quiet so a safer way to interest God in the quarrel by committing my way to him then to take up the bucklers to defend my self And I found this advantage by my silence though I did yet God did not sit still he raised up others to appear for truth and for his poor servant who having more honour and greater abilities have done that for both which possibly through weaknesse might have suffered in my hands I tell thee this to beget thy favourable opinion that thou maist not think me over forward in this undertaking This poor thing which is under thine eye hath nothing of Art to commend it to thee The Father himself is poor But if thou be one exercised under affliction desirous to know and do thy duty canst imbrace Truth naked and love it for it self If thou wilt bring an holy and humble heart to the reading of these lines and wilt adde some fervent requests for Gods blessing possibly thou maist get some little g●od by the sober pains upon that which is here offered thee by a weak and worthless Instrument I take it for granted that thine is within the common lot amongst those that are subject to affliction And if thou be afflicted this duty is incumbent upon thee as well as me to be dumb and not open thy mouth under Gods hand Now if thou be

yet their Conflicts have been crowned with Conquests God hath made their light break forth of obscurity and put them into Heaven or rather Heaven into them whiles they have been yet upon earth However this is the comfort Though Satan may trouble the Saint yet he shall not conquer him And therefore trust in the Lord O my Soul It lies upon Jesus Christ the Captain of thy Salvation to keep all that which is committed to him of the Father He would neve● have sowed if he had meant that Satan should go away with the harvest It cost him his bloud to redeem thee Do not think he will part with that easily which he hath purchased at so dear a price He never yet left any of his Saints in death I trust he will not make me the first XVI Though death will make a separation betwixt soul and body yet death shall not separate from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus This Paul was perswaded of Rom. 8. And so am I upon the same grounds Gods love is not changable in it self nor conquerable by death He loved thee O my soul notwithstanding thy unworthinesse and therefore be assured he will not separate thee from his love because of thine unworthinesse And now I see what it cannot do● Lord keep me from being dismay'd at the utmost that it can do against me XVII If death take away some outward comforts from me or rather me from them viz. Wife Children Friends Possessions This is my Comfort God hath suffered me to enjoy them whiles I had need of them or could have benefit by them when I am taken from them I shall then have no more need of them And why then should I care for not having what I do not want It is a mercy to have them but speaks the imperfection of our state to need them It is better be in a state of perfection without them then still to have them and be imperfect XVIII It is true death will strip me of some outward accomplishments but it shall do me as good a turn to deliver me from all my troubles And I would have thee know O my Soul that the troubles of this life of sicknesse pain losse sorrow fear c. may very well lie in the balance against all earthly enjoyments It is a saving match at least to sell our outward contentments to be freed from our this lifes miseries XIX Though death take away some uselesse moveables which have served my turn whiles I had need yet as a friend it leaves me my best Jewels My Soul thou shalt still enjoy thy precious graces and glorious priviledges when death hath taken thee from thy cheaper and more troublesome luggage Death will not cannot meddle with thy best treasure And wilt thou not be content to part with those since it leaves thee these XX. What I leave of outward things when I die I leave to others that stay behinde There will still be use of them to those that live to use them They will not be lost because I leave them And when my turn is served why should I grudge that others should be served as well as I XXI I shall know no more sensible pleasure and contentment here but I am well content because I shall sinne no more in the enjoyment of such pleasure I have paid dear enough for all that I have had whiles I had it The sinne of my pleasure hath devoured all the sweetnesse of my pleasure that working me more smart after my pleasure then all my pleasure was worth whiles I was enjoying it My Soul be content to rejoyce no more amongst the living upon this account that death will free thee from sinning any more amongst them XXII In death there will be no more remembrance of me But it is no matter I hope when I am forgotten my sin and shame will be forgotten also I am content the rest should be forgotten so that my folly and weakness may be no more remembred And yet my Soul be not discouraged The Scripture saith The memory of the Just is blessed Psa. 10. 7. And the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance Psalm 11 2. 6. God hath provided that our Names should live when our flesh consumes The rotting of the Name is a curse entailed upon those that are rotten in their lives XXIII I shall lie in the pit and not know what is done under the Sunne Darknesse will cover me in the grave But if I lie in the pit I shall be safe No body will envy No body will hurt me there And though it be a dark place it is the better for a sleeping place I tell thee O my Soul the recompence of not knowing what is done under the Sunne Thou shalt not know the wickednesse the blasphemy the oppression and violence that is done there Since thou canst not know a little good without the knowledge of so much evil under the Sunne which is so great a burthen be contented to be eased of thy burthen by not knowing what is done XXIV Worms may perhaps consume my body but that is no great matter neither I shall not feel their gnawings of my flesh What though my body cannot escape those feeble creatures when it is dead yet blessed be God that hellish worme of an accusing Conscience shall not be suffered to disrest my Soul There is more mercy in being freed from one worm then from a thousand The wormes feed upon my body I remember David said He was a worm A King and yet a worm Sure I must be something below a worm But if a worm let the worms feed upon their fellows I am glad that worms may be better for me when I die It is my grief that men have been so little better for me while● I lived XXV My treasure is in Heaven my best goods are there they were not sent thither laid up there for me to ●arry long behinde I must go from hence before I can come thither And I must tell thee O my Soul I like not to lose my treasure by staying here XXVI When death puts an end to this life it will give an entrance into eternall life The ending of one is the beginning of the other Who would not be willing to be at the end of a worse to be at the beginning of a better of a blessed life Lord make thy servant not only willing but covetous of this XXVII When I die I go to rest to rest from my labours I shall be out of the reach of care trouble sorrow sicknesse temptations persecution Here I am as other of my brethren the But of Satans rage of the malice of wicked men I have not been free to speak or deliver my Masters Message without danger Men have laid wait to ensnare me in my own words to make my tongue my trap These shall follow me but to my grave There they will lose the Sent. O my Soul Thy grave is thy Burrow in death thou