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love_n	father_n	son_n	spirit_n	13,823	5	5.7978	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96863	The saints entrance into peace and rest by death: as it was held forth in a sermon / preached at the funerall of that honourable statesman, and ever to be valued father and lover of his country, Sir William Armyne baronet one of the members of the high court of Parliament: in the day when hee was buryed with his fathers, being honourably but mournfully attended from London where he dyed, to Lenton in Lincolnshire, where he was interred, in the ancient sepulchre of his ancestors, May 10. 1651. By Seth Wood preacher of the Gospel at Lenton.	Wood, Seth.	1651 (1651)	Wing W3406; Thomason E632_8; ESTC R206455	20,106	28

death and call it but sleep Thomas was content to dye also It is easily applied to our purpose that Saints should no more feare to dye then rest in beds and sleep for though death do but somewhat ruggedly rocke as to sleep yet if the rocking shake and be uneasie the rest is sweet and quiet as this our deare and noble friend finds who now sleeps with his fathers and enjoyes the precious things of the everlasting hills while poore we must walk in the valley of the shaddow of death for a season And now turne we from Death to the Dead And surely but that wee must perfectly submit to say every hard word after God it were a very hard word indeed to say that he is dead Methinks this honourable but mournfull company looks like that goodly traine which came up with old Jacob out of Egypt in the day when they brought his body from Goshen to Machpelah the Sepulchre of his Fathers to be buried and me thinkes this place lookes like the Floore of Arnon where they mourned with a very sore lamentation as you may read in the last Chapter of Genesis so that the Country people called it Abell Mizraim vers 11. which place as it properly suits with our posture so it justifies great mourning for persons signally usefull to their people and serviceable to God and it also showes that it is not besides the rule to set up memorialls of their worth and service a stepping-stone might serve at the head of such a meane grave as mine but sure a pillar would be built upon such a grave as his as Jacob did on his beloved Rachells and though all the book passe with blankes in the margine yet such a sentence as his life must needs have a marginall note And here if I should put off the Divine and take up the Orator alas his worth would be above my Oratory it were a taske fitter for some of those old hony-mouth'd Romans but yet hee would be super rostra above their standing stooles for he must be Christian as well as Orator who understands or tells his worth for his Christianity were his best parts which a Heathen Orator would leave behind If I should adventure to make a rough draught of him I should never doe it as the life yet seeing that Providence hath put the Pensill in my hand I le draw and though it be nothing so beautifull as the life yet you shall say 't was he and the limbner meant well I will here enter one caution that for the particular passages and speeches which I have observed to passe from him though I may not light upon so proper phrase as he did and could cloath them in yet I shall give you the substance of them as a draught of his spirit And now that I may put the stones of this pillar over his Grave into some forme and order I will observe this rule in speaking to four particulars viz. to show what he was 1. In his naturall capacity as a man 2. In his spirituall capacity as a Christian 3. In his civill capacity as a States-man 4. In his private capacity as Ruler of his Family First For his naturall capacity as a man I need say nothing to his Stirpe and Extraction though very ancient honourable for that were to enter into the province of another faculty of Herauldry which attends this service in the professor of it Neither need I say much to Natures workemanship in him you all know will long remember that his person was lovely his body being a goodly Mansion for a gallant soul he alwayes kept it as became a Temple of the Holy Ghost As for his Intellectualls they were above the ordinary size of men his apprehension quick and his judgement fixt it is the defect of many a great wit to have a better appetite then concoction but he was able with a sure judgement to digest all he tooke in he gave very great testimony of his abilitie this way both at home and abroad and they that knew him best will say that he had an able and a nimble soule being by his sollid wisedome the constant Master of a cleare and smooth Fancy As to his conversation amongst men as a man it was on every side and among all men desirable and delightfull It is said of Titus the Roman that for his excellency this way he was stiled deliciae humani generis the delight of mankind and it is no vaine boast to say of the goodly comportment of this noble gentleman that he was apleasancy to all that knew him his carriage was so justly contemper'd betwixt a kind of severe bravery and an humble courtesie that he was contentfull to all grievous to none in his very countenance and presence was both a checke to the presumptuous and an incouragement to the meanest of wisdomes children to draw near Thus I have said a little to his naturall capacity as a man and I am confident take him but thus far had he been a Roman and lived in those dayes when they knew how to value gallantry to its worth they would have counted him worth his weight in Gold But we will passe unto his better parts this is but chaulke and charcoale to the lively colours his Christianity laid upon this ground we come therefore Secondly To his spirituall capacity as a Christian And as a faire foundation for a notable structure in this kind he had a father eminently vertuous and religious as they that knew him very well report him whose study was to make his son good as well as great there was nothing wanting which so good a parents care and love could prompt to accomplish this end and the son quickly gave faire proofe that his soule was no barren ground to such good seed for what principles his parent taught him in the trade of his youth hee quickly grew master of and set up for himselfe that which made great part of the world know lesse of his worth then was really in him was that it was his principle rather to do three good deeds then talke of one hee was like a peece well and deeply charged you should have seene his fire before you had heard his report I have observed that there was no such peece of unhandsomenesse in eye as that of hearing himselfe praised as knowing the rule of our Saviour When thou prayest and givest almes shut thy doore and cover thy hand Supposing therefore that hee did more good duties then we can know of we will onely represent him in those thing wherein as a Christian he acted a large and standing part upon the Stage of the World and that under these two heads First In the good that appeared to be in himself Secondly In what it appeared he did good to others In the generall for both these he was very eminent his very presence was a Schoole of Vertue his Discourse a Lecture of Wisedome and his well-chosen silence

proportionably usefull he would give counsell like a Divine and take it like a Christian as he could not endure any vice should be master over him so he loved not that any vicious person should be servant under him I have heard him rebuke Vice with great gravitie and severitie but these are but generals That which will hold forth clearly the good that was in himselfe were four particular qualifications wherewith God enriched him 1. His Knowledge 2. His Faith 3. His Humility 4. His Constancy First For his Knowledge which was both great growing the first appeared by the faire choise of his principles in Religion and in the Worship of God which were alwayes to the most spirituall when all the world almost had swallowed downe those pretty bawbling fooleries wherewith the Bishops had baited Religion he counted them too poore a baite to nible at he ever thought a Cappe and a Congy a sorry thing to please Almighty God with and his house and countenance was ever a Sanctuary and protection to those on whom the foot of Pride would have trod if some who durst as well as desired had not succoured them Then his Knowledge was growing for as God made new discoveries of truth he still entertained those blessed s●rangers as knowing that so some have entertained Angells of light and therefore he did expressely disallow that ordinary frump of new light which men cast upon growing truth for saith he we need and we must all see more and though the light be old in it selfe yet it is new to us A man might very easily perceive that his spirit was much taken with the glory of these latter times for very many precious discoveries though he knew how to bewaile the disadvantage that the Devill hath cast in by many foule errors and sophistications The second peculiar gift of God wherewith hee was enriched was his Faith and that both of Adherence and Confidence For Faith of Adherence which advanceth Christ alone in point of Justification it is the fairest flower in a Christians Garden and truly of him who is now gone to receive the fruits of his Faith I must needs say that though he had as fair a stock of outward righteousnes as most to have made a cratch to leane on yet I never observed him to trust in the works of the Flesh or of the Law but in the alone mediation of Christ Jesus and on this account I have heard him to disallow of the Romish Profession because it obtrudes a thousand vanities into the Mediatorship of Christ and it is very ordinary to find too much of the mystery of this iniquity every where for men love naturally to set up their poenates petty Saviours and houshold Saviours which is the great stumbling-block to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ As for his faith of confidence and trust in Gods Providence Power and love it was very remarkable it was his ordinary answer to them who through weaknesse and dispondency of spirit would charge a good way sometimes with the fault of a bad successe What man be not affraid God will own his own cause in due time and bring it off with credit and in the mean time he would say let us do our duty and leave the rest to God So well doing wil thrive and have a reward when ill doing will speed thereafter or words to this purpose his confidence of this nature made him of a chearful spirit even when the ship he was both stears-man and passenger in was in very weake condition So that like a chearful Pilot he hath often revived a half dead Passenger when many an unbeleeving lumpish Christian puts downe a side The third excellent gift of God wherewith hee was accomplished was his humility None readier to give God the glory of those Victories and Successes which faith had obtained his spirit was very full of sweetnesse this way his thankful heart being a faithfull recorder to God of old and by-past mercies which others have left behind them for a nine days wonder and he was very modest and humble in judging of other mens spirits and apprehensions in things wherein they differed from a common establishment if he spied peace and godlinesse in the main He would ever say that a jostling spirit of domination was of Antichrist and on this account he alwayes disapproved of the power and pretences of the Prelates who would take the wall of every mans conscience and the lesse desire he found in any who administer the things of Christ to graspe after power and rule over mens faith and consciences the better he loved them and on this score also he was very indulgent to a real tender conscience though as great an enemy as any to those wilde exorbitancies too rife in the world at this day yet his expression was in writing to a friend that he so well loved a tender conscience that he would not incommodate it in the least 4 His constancy was eminent the principles he according to judgement received and entertained he stood by and tasted all waters and run all hazzards to stand by that which he apprehended to be nearest the rule of the word He was one of the Calebs and Joshuaes of our age who fulfilled after God and when some thought the Anakims and the sons of the mighty too heavy adversaries to be dealt withal thought rather politickly to compound for a quiet habitation on this side Jordan then to venture over for a perfect liberty and sought rather to part stakes with Prerogative then venture all he was not discouraged but ever trusted in that mighty and everlasting arme that had ever been too strong for all the powerfull children of violence The second generall we propounded to speake to him as a Christian was the good it appeared he did to others which argues that goodnesse was active and spiritfull in him and desired to walke abroad for the use of others and this was to be seen both to soule and bodies of others For the first an ample testimony is before the world in that where-ever he had power and interest he was very carefull to provide such helpes and guides for the soules as might be most usefull to the faith and salvation of the people it is very well known that in all those places in his dispose he planted men of very good reputation and abilities to preach the Gospell and gave proportionable encouragement both for countenance and maintenance and the assurance that the people had of his severity to any known evill was as good as an use of reproofe to them at least a very good advantage in the hand of the Minister to drive home such a naile of the Sanctuary he was to such good men as lived under his wing and protection a shadow from the heat and a refuge from the storme of that persecution which scorched others very sore for though the times knew he was not too great to crush yet he was too wel beloved to