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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00669	A sermon preached at St. Mary Spittle on Easter Tuesday 1613. By Roger Fenton D. in Diuinitie	Fenton, Roger, 1565-1616.	1616 (1616)	STC 10804; ESTC S115028	43,251	226

It is threatned by Salomon that those who are disobedient to their parents the rauens of the valleyes shall picke out their eyes And those that are treacherous to the Ciuill Magistrates wee see they are made a spectacle to the world and depriued of buriall and set vp in the aire and made a prey to the foules of the aire as this is a iudgement on these so likewise the other is a blessing on them that goe vnto the graue in peace and it is an honour that is due vnto the very bodies of the Saints of God shewing they are the worke of Gods hands not as the bodies of beasts which God did make as it were with a word after a more sleight maner but for mans bodie hee formed it not onely with his word but it is the tabernacle of an heauenly substance that 's the soule which is the image of God because our bodily nature is also assumed into the diuine nature at the incarnation of the Sonne of GOD. Because the bodies of the Saints are the members of Christ and the temples of the HOLY GHOST Know you not saith the Apostle that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost And last of all because though they sleepe in the dust for a time yet here-after they shall rise in glory and shine as the Sunne in glory in the kingdome of heauen and therfore great reason that some honor and reuerence bee done euen vnto the very bodies of the Saints So was Abraham buried buried hy his two sonnes Isaack and Ismael as in the 25. chapter of this booke the ninth verse buried in the field of Ephron a selected groūd of purpose where his wife Sarah was buried long before Genes 23. 19. and his sonnes wife Rebecca in the 49. of this booke the 31. verse One blessing more let mee adde in my Text to Abraham and we will come to my purpose Abraham was buried in a good age for so God did promise and it was prophesied in this place and so performed in the 25. of this booke the 8. verse and there wee finde the place amplified in three phrases together for euermore the performance of God is with the largest The promise is like a seede sowne in the ground onely but the performance comes in like fruit that 's multiplied caried in in due season so it is said that Abraham was buried he died in a good age an olde man of great yeares here is three phrases to expresse one thing and it is no idle repetition he died in a good age so good as hee desired to liue no longer nor did he desire for to die any sooner he liued to settle his houshold in order to marrie his sonne Isaack to prepare his soule for God and to depart in peace A good age Secondly he dyed an old man If hee had liued any longer his daies would but haue beene troublesome and burdensome vnto himselfe An old man ye● not old before his time therefore a third phrase is added an old man of great yeares and so did Abraham die and was gathered to his people Dauid liued but threescore and ten yeares and yet Dauid was old before his time Secondly hee died in good yeares this God promised to Abraham and this God hath performed so as that was verified of him that is promised to the Saints in the 5. of Iob the 25. verse that they go vnto their graue as a ricke of come that goes into the barne when the Regions are white vnto the haruest as our Sauiour Christ speaketh so according to the Hebrew text it is here as we say in a good age When the Regions are white vnto the haruest then the sickle of death is put in in due season and they carried to the euer-lasting barnes What blessing was there then that Abraham did want hee was taken away before the affliction of his posteritie came yet not before the couenant was confirmed betweene GOD and him all this was granted him and hee dyed an ould man full of yeeres And thus beloued haue you heard of Abraham what he was and what is become of him May it please you now a little for to turne your thoughts vpon one of the sonnes of Abraham and briefely to remember with me first what he was and now what is become of him For as hee did tread in the steps of his Father Abraham so I will treade in the steps of my text concerning him and Abraham hee was the sonne of Abraham while he liued the blessing of Abraham was vpon him at his death and so I make no doubt but hee doth rest in Abrahams bosome Abraham the father of the faithfull a patterne of faith and religion vnto his sonnes and posteritie this was one of them It was his chiefe stay and comfort euer in his great heauinesse and in his sicknesse long before his death or before that deadly sicknes the couenant that passeth betweene GOD and his Saints in Christ Iesus there was his stay Abraham was a patterne of faith faith was imputed vnto him for righteousnes but it neuer went without righteousnesse no more did his I doe refer him for that to you that haue had so many yeres experience of him did this our brother do any man wrong willingly was hee not an vpright and a iust man in all his dealing with all whom hee had to doe withall Abraham was a patterne of humilitie of meeknes of mildnesse of patience and of a quiet and peaceable disposition and so was he witnes this Parish wherein he hath liued How deadly any contention or debate amongst vs was vnto his soule and spirit how diligent would he be and how troubled till the peace were made blessed are the peace-makers Araham was a patterne of loue and kindnesse of kinde affection vnto all men and so was he ready and prone to shew his kindnes according to his estate vpon any occasion Abraham was a patterne of charitie so was he for I haue obserued comming to this mans table at ordinarie occasions who were his guests commonly but such as were not able to bid him againe such as had most neede of refreshing like Lazarus in Abrahams bosome He was a patterne of fatherly prouidence in his familie and to his children I know saith God that Abraham will teach his sonnes and so did hee hee did continually admonish them and if any admonition at any time did not take that effect hee desired how grieuous it was to his soule and spirit let his Sonnes remember it now he is gone and if any affliction come vpō them as on Abrahams posteritie let them thank themselues it was not the Fathers fault they shall fare the better for his sake Abrahams posteritie were not afflicted in Egypt for his sake but deliuered out of Egypt for Abrahams sake but he is gone hee is taken away seasonablely from the euill that is to come the sinnes of these times do prophesie some euill to come vpon vs and it is a blessing vnto them that are taken away before it comes He is gone to enioy the effect of that couenant made betweene God and his Saints in Christ Iesus that was his comfort he is gone vnto his Fathers and if his Sons will tread in his steps they shall goe to their Fathers he is gone and hath left this companie this companie now present whereof hee was a good member and is gone vnto an other companie of the Saints and Angels of God in heauen hee is gone in peace in that manner that his death was a sleeping in death in peace of conscience In a peaceable manner did hee depart this life euen as if hee had stolne a nap wee that were then present with him could not tell when he went and now beloued are wee here assembled for to solemnize his Funerall in that decent manner you see and that is beseeming to follow and to remember the Saints of God that are taken away from amongst vs. Abraham hee was buried and hee was buried in the ground where hee had buried his beloued wife Sarai before and so is hee Innocent hee was in his life innocent as a doue hee hath continued this many yeeres solitarie as a turtle doue and now hee is gone yet so many yeeres after as I thinke one graue may well hold them both Last of all let me adde the conclusion of my text he is buried in a good age I may adde the three phrases before mentioned of Abraham A good age an old man of great yeeres if he had liued longer as I haue often heard him say vnto mee hee should haue beene burdensome and troublesome vnto himselfe a good age fourescore one a good age in these times but let me yet add one thing more as hee died in a good age so I may say truely that hee died vpon a good day also for it was vpon the Saboth day in the morning that hee commended his soule into the hands of God in the morning when we were about to assemble in this place to praise God then did hee sing Halleluiah with the saints and Angells in heauen No man did more duly obserue Gods saboths in this place them hee did and now his soule doth enioy that saboth of rest in the kingdome of heauen On the Sabboth day in the morning did he goe to solemnize the Sabboth in heauen a Sabboth without an euening that is an eternall rest into this rest is hee now entred and into this rest that we in due time may also enter that our spirits may enioy the blessed companie of all the Saints of God let vs desire of him who hath purchased the same Sabboth for vs IESVS CHRIST the righteous To whom with the Father blessed Spirit one euerliuing and only wise God be ascribed all praise power thanksgiuing this day and for euermore Amen FINIS