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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46825	A sermon preached at the funeral of the right honble the Lady Frances Paget, the religious consort of the right honble William Lord Paget, (eldest daughter to the right honourable Henry Earl of Holland, who was beheaded for his loyalty to this King) in the parish-church of West-Drayton in the county of Middlesex, on the 12th of Nevember, 1672. By Jehu Jenny, M.A. and Vicar of Harmondsworth.	Jenney, John, d. 1697.	1673 (1673)	Wing J673A; ESTC R220733	15,009	28

Do but lift up your eyes to the Heavens and as the Prince of the Philosophers affirms them to be in perpetual motion so he that was a Prince as well as a Philosopher observes that they move in that Sphere which their all-wise Framer fixt them in Psal 19.1 The Heavens declare the Glory of God And if we behold the Sun it confutes Copernicus Rejoyceth as a strong man to run his race v. 5. Should I take you up into the third Heaven the Heaven of Heavens the Angels there are ministring Spirits Heh 1. ult Angels and Arch-Angels and all the company of Heaven all the Orders of that Celestial Hierarchy they do God's Commandments and execute his pleasure Psal 103.20 21. If we look upon the creatures here below they bear a part in this service the Sea hath the boundary of God's decree for its ebbing and flowing hitherto shalt thou extend thy proud waves and no further the most inconsiderable inferiour particles of the universe the Snow and Vapour and Stormy-Wind are said to fulfil his Word Psal 148.8 So that this relation of Servants the Angels those heavenly Courtiers disdain not and the lower parts of the World are not too mean for an Interest in then certainly Man the Lord of this sublimary World can upon no account plead exemption he is a servant But as the Apostle uses the comparison touching the Resurrection 1 Cor. 15.42 One Star differeth from another Star in glory or as the same Apostle expresses it In a great house thee are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and earth 2. Tim. 2.20 so t' is here in the large House-hold of the supernal and lower world each servant hath his province employment set him suitable to those capacities by which he is inabled to make a discharge of his duty which what Man 's is is a seasonable enquiry and II. The second part of the text As a Servant what is mans employment exprest in these words so doing Man hath a work to do but what it is you cannot imagine in that little scantling of time allotted for this exercise I should fully discourse to you the doing the particulars of which will take up our whole lives did they never so far exceed Davids summe of them It is to doe the work which God hath set us and sent us into the world to do briefly 't is doing the works of our general and particular calling 1. The works of our general calling as Christians And here the Christian is obliged to the observance of that divine precept Rom. 13.7 To render to all their dues And the duties of our general calling are reducible to these three heads which the Apostle gives us in charge Tit. 2.12 To live soberly righteously and godly in this present world 1. To begin with our duty to him who is the beginning of all things and Lord of the family And this we are early call'd upon by the wiseman to make a discharge of Eccles 12.1 Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth He that gave us our being provides for our well-being and hath contriv'd our being happy unless we our selves frustrate the design may upon all accounts challenge a gratefull service and homage there being nothing in the world more rational then Religion and the Worship of a Deity And here the Christian hath a large task of duty the performance of all internal and external acts of Piety and Devotion the maintaining alwaies a reverential dread and fear of the Divine Majesty to adore that incomprehensible Being to demean our selves so towards God as may best comport with those Divine attributes of his purity and power wisdome and goodness sincerely and conscientiously to perform all external acts of Religion all duties of divine worship and service to hear and pray meditate and receive and what else in the whole duty of man God requires of us as his immediate worship This is to live godly 2. Righteously towards our fellow-Servants To love my Neighbour as my self to observe that golden rule so much admired by the Heathen so little practised by the Christian so fully taught in the old and new Testament so frequently prest by Prophets and Apostles and inculcated by our Blessed Lord Whatsoever we would that men should do unto us we should do the same to them To do justice and to love mercy to make our selves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness to distribute to the necessities of the poor to do good to all men by good counsel and a suitable conversation to perswade as many as we can to be holy and religious and to save their souls to reprove our offending Brother to bear with the infirmities of those that are weak to comfort those that mourn to exhort one another to day while it is called to day to do as our Blessed Lord did when he was upon the earth whose business it was to go about and seek all opportunities of doing good Acts. 10.38 3. Soberly To have so much regard to our selves as to do nothing unworthy of that place in Gods family he hath set us in To observe all rules and precepts of sobriety temperance and chastity Some of the heathen Philosophers have disswaded from some debaucheries as indecencies affronts offer'd to humane Nature but the Christian hath higher motives for all sobriety of conversation to reverence our humane nature as united to the Divine in the person of Christ and so to preserve it from all spot and defilement as he did when he was vested with our flesh here below to look upon our bodies as Temples of the Holy Ghost and so not to allow them to be sinks of sin and nests of all uncleanness and lastly to think what they shall be in their glorified estate after the resurrection that so when Christ shall come to work that mighty change upon them he may not find them in the worst sense vile that is sinful bodies To do all this and so to do it as to be saluted with an Euge for our well-doing may well be thought no easy task but that which will require all Christian diligence and circumspection so to redeem the time as to fill up every part of it with the proper duties of it and yet after all this one thing is still wanting which is 2. To be diligent in our particular Callings that state and condition of life to which God hath call'd each of us as some to be Magistrates some Ministers some Merchants some Artificers c. The Command of God to earn our bread in the sweat of our brows the prevention of idleness the obligation of providing for our families God's distribution of several gifts the benefit of humane society and the Weal-publick bespeak the necessity of some Calling or other for every man to employ and busie himself in Here perhaps there may be some will censure my discourse to be ungentile and that I maintain a paradox to affirm as I