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A29663	A sermon at the funeral of the Worshipful John Symonds, late of Great Yeldham in the county of Essex, Esq. preached in the parish-church of Great Yeldham aforesaid on the 24th of February, 1692, by John Brooke ... ; with a short account of his life.	Brooke, John, 1633 or 4-1716?	1693 (1693)	Wing B4906; ESTC R12467	25,737	32

been well informed to retire Morning and Evening notwithstanding that croud of business which he had Generally upon his Hands to his Closet or Study for his private Devotions as firmly believing what our Saviour saith that such as Pray in secret shall be rewarded openly And as he was thus careful and diligent in the first place to serve God in a Religious way So was he also 2. To serve his King and Country in a Civil way He was indeed a Gentleman that hated Idleness and loved Business and seemed to delight in nothing more than how he might be useful and serviceable to God in his Generation Look as God had well fitted him for publick imployment so he delighted in it And would Ordinarily Balk no pains nor charges to promote the publick good and to serve his Countrey Witness the great Expences the many tedious and dangerous Journeys which he made for many Years together to that end those especially which he made to Braintree to quiet the people and to provide for the Poor there When that Town was so sorely visited with the Sickness and when few or no other Justices durst venture themselves amongst them He was a Gentleman that it may be hath been as useful and as serviceable to this Hundred yea indeed to the whole County ever since he was Justice of the Peace Which is nigh now 30. Years ago as most in it and possâ—bly may be as much missed This Parish I am sure and the Neighbouring Parishes Yea the whole Division who always had free and easie access to him for Justice for advise in all dubious cases will much miss him As also will the Poor round about us for his daily Dole and Charity He was a sound Protestant and had more than an Ordinary Zeal against Popery and for the reformed Religion and did much pitty those that suffered for it Witness his Charity to and most kind reception of worthy Mr. Schamiere one of the French persecuted Ministers into his House Who I am confident too might have been with him to this very day had not God by Death took him to a better place He was a Gentleman that did much and often bewail the many differences and divisions that are amongst us especially in the Church and though he were himselfe a true Church-Man Yet he had a great deal of Candour and Christian Charity for all that differed from him so be they did but live well and carried themselves Honestly and Peaceably He was one too that had a great sense of the Worth of Learning and of the great necessity of the good Education of Youth and therefore was resolved as he told me often this Summer if God spared his life to repair our School and had lately purchased Lands to the value of 16 l. per Annum to which I believe he would have added more too if he had lived to endow it with for the incouragement of a Master which I hope his Worthy Executors and Relations will see performed And though the Poor not only of this place but of all places round about us did continually partake of his great Bounty and Charity whiles he lived yet was he not unmindful of them when he dyed but gave in his Will not only Legacies to the Poor of this Parish but also to the Poor of two other of the Neighbouring Parishes besides that considerable Dole which was given by his Executors to all the Poor that came to his Funeral In short he was I am very confident a very good Man as to the main a great Hater of all Vice and Immorality a true Lover of all Vertue and Goodness an Understanding Magistrate a Faithful Counsellor a Loyal Subject a True Friend a Loving Husband a Kind Master a Merciful Landlord and in a word all I hope a very Sound and Serious Christian It pleased God indeed for these two years last past to visit him with much sickness and weakness but he gave him withal much Patience and Submissiveness of Spirit I never heard that there fell any word from his lips that did bewray the least discontent or impatience but his mouth was full of submissive and Heavenly Expressions under his greatest Pains and Agonies yea when his Pains and Weaknesses were very great as they were lateward and his Strength small yet he seemed to bear all with such Patience and Courage with such Calmness and Evenness of Spirit as if he had not much wished to be in any other Condition than what he was in His usual Expression when his Pains or Sickness were greater than ordinary as sometimes they were That this was but one Chop more to the Tree that must down and that he never expected to be well again in this World but that he hoped he should be so in the next 'T is true indeed when he went off he went off suddenly but it was no more than what we in reason considering his great and long Weakness might well expect and what he I hope was for a long time as to the main well prepared for The only Thing which I shall further Remark upon and which I think is worthy our Observance is this That it pleased God to take him to himself and so to his rest upon the Sabbath or Lords-day which you know is a Type of our Rest in HEAVEN and ought to be a Day of Rest from all Worldly Labours to us here and this too God did I think within less than two hours after he had been publickly serving and worshipping God here in his House which was too the place and work he always seemed to take greatest Delight in and where we shall be sure much to miss him For we shall never Sirs have the happiness to keep another Sabbath or to worship God with him any more here on Earth I pray God we may in Heaven where I trust he is now gone to keep an everlasting Sabbath with God with his Saviour with the Holy Angels and with the Souls of all Just Men made perfect and where he will be at rest from all those painful Labours which he did with us and for us whilst on Earth and find his Works that is the good Fruits and blessed Reward of them eternally following him in Heaven The good Lord grant that we may be all so instructed by his Death as timely to lay to heart our own and seriously to prepare our selves for it that so when we come to dye as God only knows how soon and how sudden it may be we may dye in the Lord as I trust he did and rest from our Labours and be blessed and happy after we are dead as I believe he is For blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their Labours and their Works follow them FINIS Books Printed for and are to be sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chappel CONVIVIVM COELESTE A plain and familiar Discourse concerning the Lord's Supper Shewing at once the Nature of that Sacrament as also the right way of preparing our selves for the receiving of it In which are also considered those Exceptions which Men usually bring to excuse their not partaking of it Charity directed Or the way to give Alms to the greatest Advantage A Sermon Preached before the King and Queen at White-Hall the Fifth of November 1692. All three by Richard Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells A Treatise of Knowledge and Love compared In two Parâ—s First Of falsly pretended Knowledge Secondly Of true Saving Knowledge and Love 1. Against hasty Judging and False Conceits of Knowledge and for necessary Suspension 2. The Excellency of Divine Love and the Happiness of being Known and Loved of God Written as greatly needful to the Safety and Peace of every Christian and of the Church The only certain way to escape false Religions Heresies Sects and Malignant Prejudices Persecutions and Sinful Wars All caused by falsly pretended Knowledge and hasty Judging by Proud Ignorant Men who know not their Ignorance By Richard Baxter Who by God's Blessing on long and hard Studies hath learned to know that he knoweth but little and to suspend his Judgment of Uncertainties and to take great necessary certain things for the food of his Faith and Comforts and the Measure of his Church-Communion Advice to an only Child Or Excellent Councel to all young Persons Containing the Summ and Substance of Experimental and Practical Divinity Written by an Eminent and Judicious Divine for the Private Use of an only Child now made Publick for the Benefit of all The Confirming Work of Religion Or It s Great Things made plain by their Primary Evidences and Demonstrations Whereby the meanest in the Church may soon be made able to render a Solid and Rational Account of their Faith Written by R. Fleming Author of the Fulfilling of the Sciptures Now Published by Daniel Burgess

very harbinger and fore-runner of their glory a boat sent on purpose to fetch them off from the troublesome sea of this world and to land them safe at the pleasant harbour of eternal rest their Fathers Messenger sent to fetch them home to their Fathers House And should not such an Harbinger such a Boat such a Messenger be welcome when he comes Their dying day is their great resting day the day wherein they shall rest from all their labours as you have heard and was ever any wearied labourer unwilling to go to his rest 'T is their great pay-day the day wherein they shall receive their full wages their reward for all that they have done and suffered here in the flesh And what Servant is there that is not well-pleased when the pay-day comes The Servant earnestly desires the shadow as Job tells us and the Hireling longs for the wages of his work Job 7.2 good men have no reason to be troubled but indeed to rejoyce when the day of their death comes for then they will find that they shall not only rest from their labours but that their works will follow them that they shall then receive their wages wages infinitely beyond all their work beyond all that they can think or conceive For eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither ever yet did it enter into the heart of man to conceive what great things God hath prepared for them that love him as the Apostle assures us in that place so often quoted 1 Cor. 2 9. 3. And Lastly It may comfort us as against our own death if we be good men so against the death of our godly friends They are blessed they do rest from their labours and their works do follow them Their death is their great gain and if it be so much their gain why should it be so much our grief I know indeed and we read in thâ— Scriptures that great mournings sore lamentations have been made at the interment of many deceased Saints And if ever any People had reason to make them we of this place have so now and yet we must not over-do here neither as we soon may we must be careful that we do not sorrow as thâ—â—e that hâ—â—e no hopes as the Apostle adviseth us in this Case 1 Thes 4.13 weep we may that will speak us to be men but yet it must be with moderation and that will speak us to be Christians Our pious Friends have only left us for a little time we have not lost them but shall receive them again or rather be received to them at the last They are the Gainers though we are the Losers their death is but a departure to a better life and therefore it would be rather a piece of Envy in us than of real Piety excessively or over-much to bewail it especially since we are so well assured to meet them again in a better World where we shall never part more but shall be together with them forever with the Lord as the Apostle doth assure us we shall 1 Thes 4.17 And therefore we that survive may as well comfort one another with those Words as he in this Case also adviseth us there to do These things might have been some of them at least more enlarged upon but I have trespassed I fear too much already upon your patience and yet I must borrow a little time more from it if it be only to tell you in a few words what kind of Person he was which we have brought here now to be interred And now I have mentioned this worthy Gentleman I have started as it were another Text and might well give you another Sermon upon it if I had time and ability for it I never indeed took any great delight in making long Panegyricks or large Encomiums of the dead For not to mention the frequent abuse of them I have ever thought that silent tears are the best Oratours at Funerals and that the good works which the deceased have done whiles they were living and the good names which they have left behind them when dead are their best embalmings and do speak out their praises more effectually than the tongue of the Preacher could do And in this respect I should not have needed to have said any thing now for this worthy Gentleman hath obtained a good repent amongst us And his own works will praise him more in the â—â—teâ— than any of my words can do yet least I should seem to be injurious both to him and to you at once to Him in denying him his due and deserved praise and to You in concealing so Excellent a Pattern for youâ—â—â—â—â—ation I â—â—st say something of him and the Brief Character which I shall give of him shall be chiefly in such things as mine own knowledge â—â—d the great Honour that I do and shall ever bare to his Name do both warrant and prompt me to give And so 1 To begin with such things as relate to Gods Service and Worship a due regard to which doth be sure as much commend us as any thing we can shew regard unto he was a great lover of his Church of Gods House and publick Worship Did constantly attend when at home unless when he was hindred by great Sickness and that both Morning and Evening upon the Prayers and other Ordinances here dispensed And seemed always most aâ—tentive to reverent and devout in all Yea such was his zeal always to attend here upon Gods publick Worship as that he came very often to it when in the Judgment of others it had been fitter for him by reason of his great illness and weakness to have been at home in his Bed He seemed always to be greatly offended and angry with his Friends when they knowing his weakness did at any time but desire him to stay at home Neither was he only thus diligent to come himself but careful to bring his Family and Servants also along with him as resolving with good Joshua that what ever others did that he and his Houshould would serve the Lord. He was likewise a most diligent and devout receiver of the Lords Supper an Ordinate God knows is too much slighted and neglected by too too many I do not remember that for the space of â—0 years and more in which I have had the Happiness to be acquainted with him that ever he missed when at home above 2 or 3. Sacraments and them sore against his will being forced to it by reason of great Sickness or Weakness Neither was be only thus careful to Worship God thus publickly every week here in his House But likewise took care to have him Worshipped dayly in his own by keeping up a constant course of Family-Duties there ever since I knew him which is a thing I am afraid too too much neglected by too too many not only of the Vulgar buâ— of Men of his rank and quality Neither did he rest in this but it was his usual course as I have

that look out at the Windows are darkned in a fourth the Dâ—ughters â—f Musick are brought down Physâ—cians tell us of hundreds of diseases at leasâ— that are thus Incident to Mans Body and by reason of these he spends his Days many times in Pain and his Nights in Sorrow But here is the comfort of good Men death will be a remedy against them all It will deliver them or set them at rest from them all there shall be saith St. Joâ—n Speaking of the New Jerusalem no more Death nor any more Pain Râ—vel 21.4 As the Blind Martyr told the Lame when they met at the Stake yâ—â— may throw away your Crutches now if you please Dâ—â—th will â—uâ—e us both you of your Lameness and me of my Blindness The great Physician of Souls the Lord Jesus Christ will by Death cure all the Diseases and remove all pains from good Mens Bodies And consequentially they shall then be at rest from all sufferings with respect to the Body 2. They shall be at rest too then from all sufferings with respect to the Soul Many and Sore are the sorrows and troubles of a Christian in this Life in this respect also Sometimes the Afflictions of the good set him on weeping By the Rivers of Babylon we sate down and Wept when we remembred Zion Ps 137.1 viz. The Afflictions and Desolations of Zion and of Gods People that had once lived there Sometimes the Transgressions of the wicked fetch tears from his Eyes Rivers of Waters run down my Cheeks Saith David because wicked Men keep not thy Laws Ps 119.136 Sometimes the Sense of his own corruptions stabs him as it were at the very Heart When they heard this they were pricked in their Heart And said unto Peter and to the rest of the Apostles Men and Brâ—thâ—ren what shall we do Acts 2.37 And O Wrâ—tched Man that I am cries St. Paul who shall deliver me from the Body of this Death Rom. 7.24 Sometimes God hides his Face and he is troubled thou hidest thy face and I am troubled Ps 30.7 And Tears have been my Meat Day and Night whiles they continually say unto me where is thy God saith he Ps 42.3 Thus the Christians whole Life here many times is as it were a field of Sorrows but now Death will set him at rest from them all It will be the Funeral of all his sorrows and the resurrection of all his joys The Day of Death is the good Man's Marriage-day and at that Marriage day of his Christ will turn again as one Expresseth it all his Water into Wine all his Sighing into Singing all his Mourning into Mirth Then indeed shall the ransomed of the Lord return and come to the Heavenly Zion with Songs and Everlasting Joy upon their Heads They shall obtain Joy and Gladness and all Sorrow and Sighing-shall flee away that I may Allude to and Conclude this particular in the Prophets words Isa 35.6 But that is the first reason that is given in my Text why the dead that dye in the Lord are Blessed Because they dye that they may rest from their Labours And that both in respect of all further sinning and all further suffering I come now to the second that is here given us why they are Blessed and that is 2. Because their works shall follow them their works i. e. the good fruits and good eâ—fects of their works or rather the reward of them the great reward that God will then give them though not for yet according to their good works and this is and will be indeed very great so great as that no mortal can declare the greatness of it for Eye hath nâ—t seen nor ear heard neither did it ever yet enter into the heart of man to conceive what great thinâ—s God hath prepared for them that love him As the Apostle tells us 1 Cor. 2.9 The Eye of man hath seen wonderful things in nature and the Ear possiâ—ly hath heard of more and as for the heart or mind of man what almost can't that conceive And yet it can no way conceive the greatness of the glory which God hath prepared and laid up in the other world for those that love and fear him in this and yet that hath been and will be still done by all that have love shall die in the Lord therefore all that die in him are and shall be blessed 'T is true indeed this blessedness that I may prevent all mistakes will not 1. Be given out to all alike as there are different degrees of grace upon Earth so there will be different degrees of glory in Heaven There is oâ—e glory of the Sun another glory of the Mâ—on another glory of the Stars for one Star differs from anotâ—er in â—lâ—ry i. e. shines more gloriously than another so also shall it be saith he in the resurrection of the dead 1 Cor. 15.41 42. And they that be wise saith Daniel speaking of the same thing shall shine as the fiâ—mament and they that turn many unto righteâ—usnâ—ss as the Stars for ever and ev r Dan. 1â— 3 Now there are we know different degrees betwixt the light of the firmament and the light of the Stâ—rs and so there will be betwixt the glory of one Saint and the glory of another in the future life 'T is true indeed all good Men when once got to Heaven shall have glory enough He that hath the least glory there shall have enough to make him unspeakably and unconceivably happy every Vessel of glory shall be full but some shall have more of it thâ—n others as being more capacitated to receive it God will then and there reward every mâ—n accordâ—ng to his wâ—rks as the Scriptures do abundantly assure us Now look as there are diversities of gifts and graces amongst Gods people here upon Earth so there are of works some do and suffer more for God others less and therefore some shall have more glory others less because every mans glory shall be proportionâ—ted according to his works since mens labours are different in this world their reward and glory will be different also in the world to come This happiness therefore I say will not be given out for degrees alike to all 2. Nor secondly will it be consummated or compleated to any till the last day till the general day of Judgment when their bodies shall rise again be reunited to their Souls though good men such as die in the Lord are immediately admitted to happiness after their death yet not to all that happiness that God intends hath designed for them in the other world this is indeed reserved for that great and general day of Judgment so often mentiâ—ned in the Holy Scriptures when Christ to whom the Judgment of the world is committed shall come in the glory of his Father with his Holy Angels to render to every man fully according to his works as you have it Mat. 16 27. But in the interim and as soon as they

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