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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39584	Hagioi axioi, or, The saints worthinesse and the worlds worthlesnesse both opened and declared in a sermon preached at the funerall of that eminently religious and highly honoured Knight Sr. Nathaniel Barnardiston, Aug. 26, 1653 / by Samuel Faireclough ...	Faireclough, Samuel, 1625?-1691.	1653 (1653)	Wing F107; ESTC R16705	30,836	42

holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our lives or with Paul Acts 24.16 living alwayes with a clear conscience both toward God and man you shall find his life a copie or counterpane of them all As first In duties of piety for duties of piety to God whether you instance in secret or publick exercises of Religion he did so earnestly devote himself unto them that for my part amongst persons of his quality I think he hath left very few supersours therein behind him if any equalls I remember I have read it related to the everlasting praise of the Lord Harrington so famous for piety that it was his course to pray twise every day in secret twise with some choice friends and servants besides his Family duties But I am assured by those that seriously observed this gracious Knight 1 1 Private that it was his practise to humble his soul before the Lord in secret thrise every day and sometimes oftener if he could gain oportunity beside Family duties and other dayes of extraordinary humiliation which he greedily laid hold on when occasion was offered This I can testifie from mine own experience that for many yeares together when I was first acquainted with him I seldome visited him or he me but if any convenient place could be found we might not part except we had prayed together Nor was he more frequent in secret prayer then constant in secret reading the Scriptures but never without prayer before and after for the blessing of the Lord thereon afterward he read other choice Authours of which he had store but of late he took singular delight in reading Mr. Baxter his Treatise of the Saints everlasting rest and preparation thereunto which since his death I perceive was nothing else but the gracious event of divine providence sending it as a guide to bring him more speedily and directly to the possession of that rest For the sanctification of the Sabbath so was it his delight that for the most part he arose the first in the family that day 2 2 Publick and then would call his children and others up that they might have time to prepare themselves for a more reverent attendance upon the Lord in his publick ordinances and for himself he ordinarily spent much time upon his own heart every Sabbath morning before he came to the congregation And for his estimation of and constant attendance upon the ministration of the word publickly dispensed it was so eminent and reverent Ministry of the word that I verily believe whoever in the congregation have been loosers by his death we of the minislery have the greatest losse if the hearers put on blacks the preachers have cause to mourn in sackcloth for the godly ministers had not a more faithfull and cordiall friend and well-wisher of his quality in the land none so earnestly and frequently prayed for them none so highly prized their calling and labours as he did he was fully of his mind who openly professed he had rather fall with the Ministery of England then stand in greatest power with their enemies When some talked of mortall bloudy times and dark black dayes coming upon us he replied that those would be dark black dayes indeed when the lights of the ministry were extinguished then the shortest life would be accounted the best This made him so exceeding cautelous and serious when any place belonging to his presentation was vacant that he would spend many dayes in fasting and prayer to be directed therein professing many times solemnly unto me that his spirit did more tremble to set his hand and seal to a Presentation then to any other writing or deed whatsoever lest said he I should thereby bring the losse of the peoples souls to be required of me or my posterity through my negligence therein And therefore when by all his own care and advice of friends such an one could not be procured that for his sufficiency and abilities could give his own conscience satisfaction then he left it wholly to the better sort of the people in that place to choose their own Minister and Pastour In his personall attendance upon the word taught what the Apostle James requires in a blessed hearer was his punctuall practice for he was swift to hear he could never satisfie his own conscience if he were not present to joyn with the congregation before there was one word spoken or one petition sent up to the Lord his constancy in this course is notoriously known to you all After the congregation was dismissed the first thing which he did usually after he came within his own doors was immediately to betake himself to his closet to begge a blessed dew from heaven to water the seed sown in his heart that day And he that exceeded others in his diligence and reverence in other duties of piety Sacrament did exceed himself in his conscientious preparation unto and fruitfull improvement of the Lords Supper for the most part he would spend a fortnight never lesse than a week before the Sacrament in his closet in reading praying and examination of his spirituall estate with other duties of preparation tending thereunto and what he practised himself in this kind he constantly called upon others under him to do the like Neither did this his singular piety in the things of God Duties to man make him as it is in very many others the more remisse or regardlesse in the performance of the duties of equity or charity in his deportment to men but on the other side rendred him much more exact and accurate in them all for consider him in his carriage towards others in their severall relations to him and you shall have cause to conclude his life as gracious in performing the duties of righteousnesse unto all his relations as it was in the exercise of holinesse and the worship of God and all acts of immediate communion with God Consider him as pater-familias Relative graces Master of family the governour and master of a family and it may be truely affirmed of him whilest he was a house-keeper which the prophet David professeth of himself Psal 101.5 6. That he walked in his integrity in the midst of his house he permitted to known profane person to stand before him or wait upon him but his eyes were ever fixed upon those that were faithfull in the land that they might serve him He had at one time tenor more such servants of that eminency for piety and sincerity that I never yet saw their like at one time in any family in the nation whose obedience joyned to their governours care produced so rare an effect that truely they made his house a spirituall church and temple wherein were dayly offered up the spirituall sacrifices of reading the Word and prayer morning and evening of singing Psalmes constantly after every meal before any servant did rise from the table the chiefest of them did usually after every Sermon they heard call

the rest into that place of most disorder in other houses the Buttery and there repeated the Sermon unto them before they were called to the repetition of it in their masters presence In the relation of an husband Husband he seemed to me to imitate the practise of the Lord Jesus to his church in his conjugall love protection and full contentation and delight in her untill he became a pattern and mirrour of matrimoniall faithfulnesse and sweetnesse and as it was said by one of the Rabbins concerning Methusalah's wife that she had nine husbands in one for age and yeares so I may say of his Lady she had nine husbands in him alone for hus amtable carriage and graces What manner of parent he was let his children themselves Father in their hearts lives and filiall deportments declare or do you receive the relation from me as I have heard it from them namely that he performed not onely the part of an earthly father in the manifestation of all paternall bowels and tender affection to their bodies but also executed the office of an heavenly father to their souls by a continuall industry and serious study for their education in the most exact and strict way of pure and paternall Religion witnesse his dayly droppings in of most spirituall counsels and gracious instructions the grand scope and end whereof was to stirre up and incite them to a strict watchfulnesse over themselves and a close walking with God and many times after the giving of such directions unto them severalty he would take them into his closet and there pray over them and for them If at any time they had offended him so singular was his moderation and wisdome toward them that he would never reprove them much lesse correct them in his displeasure but still waited the most convenient time untill which time they seldome discerned that he was angry by any other effect but his silence And on the other side he was so ready to incourage them in any acts of wel-doing that usually all his extraordinary respects and savours to them were dispensed rather as rewards of their duty then the fruits of his bounty still professing before them as he hath many times of late to me upon our conference concerning the extraordinary blessings of God upon them in their travells abroad and returns home again that he took infinite more content in beholding one grain of grace and evidence of true regeneration in his children then if their estates and gains abroad had been multiplied an hundred fold if withall they had returned profane or no more then merely civilized without the power of godlinesse Again Pater patria consider him as a publick person as he was pater patria a father of his countrey which name he did deserve as well as Curtius Claudius or the Decii for although he did not in every particular what is said of them devoverunt se pro toto terrarum orbe they did devote themselves for the defence of the whole earth yet for his countrey and the defence of the just liberties thereof he did not refuse voluntarily to expose himself to a gulph of hazard and sufferings witnesse his suffering under the imposition of ship-money coat and conduct-money and the loan for refusing whereof he was long time imprisoned in the gate-house and afterward confined for a long time in Lincoln-shire above sixscore miles from the place of his own usuall abode Witnesse also his fidelity and integrity in the discharge of that greatest trust of all Parliament man I mean his service to his countrey as Knight of the shire and member of the Parliament unto which place he was constantly chosen on every occasion not that he had a patent for the place as some of his enemies in respect of his constant election thereunto out of envy at the peoples honouring him did cast out but out of the experience and confidence they had of his resolution and care to discharge the trust that was committed unto him whereby it came to passe that no sooner was one to be chosen who should be intrusted with the power over the lives and estates of his countrey but presently the thoughts eyes resolutions of all men were fixed upon him and all cried for a Barnardiston a Barnardiston Which trust he received upon him not out of any popular ambition to advance his own greatnesse nor out of any self-end to raise his own estate by exhausting the publick treasury or to inrich himself by other mens ruine nor out of loftie arrogancie that he might dominear and trample upon his neighbours in the countrey under pretence of the priviledge of a Parliament man much lesse to abuse that place to an impunity and sheltring of himself in riot excesse pride and lasciviousnesse but out of a mind and conscience devoted to the service of the church and common-wealth therein beyond which neither fear favour or flattery could draw him to act or vote at all absolutely refusing to be defiled with the Kings portion Absaloms sacrifices or Achitophels policies or treacheries 2. As all these graces and their exercises in his gracious life Personall graces had their tabernacle in the Sun were open and manifest in his course towards others so also his personall virtues and perfections which as so many rich jewells and mineralls in the earth lay couched in his heart as the cabinet of their habits could not in respect of their noble actings be so much hid but that like the beams of the Sun from under a cloud they brake forth and did shine out with so great splendour and lustre that the blindest eye could not but discover them as to give you an account of one or two 1. The graciousnesse of his speech so free from the least unsavourinesse beasting or passion that on the other side nothing but love sweetnesse and ●odesty as so many pure streams flowed from the pure fountain of his heart still ministring grace to the hearers so farre from the least appearance of lightnesse or excessive mirth that in thirty years together none ever heard one syllable tending to any wanton expression that might offend the chastest mind or ear to be breathed out of his mouth but as the Poet affirmed vernas eff●at ab ore rosas his tongue dropped honey and his breath was as sweet and savoury as in the spring 2. Unto this I may adde the gravity and reverend awfulnesse of his presence especially in execution of Justice of which I may say Greg. orat de laude Basilii as it was of Basils countenance whilest he was performing holy exercises namely that so much divine majesty and lustre appeared therein that it made the Emperour Valens tremble to behold it And in like manner his severe deportment was so effectuall that it banished from his presence all those scurrilous and sordid gestures and practices which the impudency of too many of his quality fear not to act in