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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40518	Yadidyah or, The beloved disciple A sermon preached at the funerall of the Honourable Sir Robert Harley, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath; at Brampton-Brian in Hereford-shire. December 10. 1656. By Thomas Froysell, minister of the Gospell at Clun in Shropshire.	Froysell, Thomas, d. ca. 1672.	1658 (1658)	Wing F2249; ESTC R202027	40,790	144

groweth taller by far than the other so though thou art now but a child in grace to a greater Saint yet thou mayst be taller in grace one day than he is and then Gods love will be higher to thee than to him Fourthly Some Saints Excell in one grace and some in another Though some Saints over-match thee in this or that grace yet it may be thou dost out-bid them in some other graces Thus doe some reconcile those two Scriptures in 2 Kings 18. 5. there 't is said of Hezekiah that after him there was none like him among all the Kings of Judah and in 2 Kings 23. 25. there 't is said of Josiah that like unto him there was no King before him that turned to the Lord with all his heart It is said of Hezekiah that after him there was no King like him yet 't is said of Josiah that before him there was no King like him How can truth stand in both these When 't is said of Hezekiah that after him there was no King like him 't is to be understood of some particular Grace especially wherein he Excelled that is his trusting in the Lord as 't is said He trusted in the Lord so that after him there was none like him they explain it thus He brake in pieces the Brazen serpent that Moses had made and in this and other acts of Reformation he met with strong opposition his Princes and great ones some of them did not like what he did and 't is probable they discourage him and tell him if you doe those things if you change these things if you change these ancient customes you will bring a world of trouble upon your selfe and the Kingdome you will make your people mutiny the Brazen serpent which you go about to stamp to powder it was of God yet saith he I care not for all you say I will doe my duty and trust God with the Issue Thus of all the Kings that were after him there was none like him in trusting in the Lord. And as for Josiah of all the Kings that were before him there was none like him in another particular his zeale for the Lord. Thus some Saints Excell in one Grace and some in another Fisthly If thou canst not attain Greatnesse in Grace yet be sure to have uprightnesse in Grace An upright Saint loves God by himselfe abstracted from the world It is to be doubted that many of us love not God abstracted from the comforts liberties and enjoyments we have with him many of us I fear would count our profission our punishment were we to suffer reproach and poverty for our profession as one that loves a woman in her fine cloaths and apparell that sets her out so doe many love God whilst he is dressed up in Rich Roabs of liberality and bounty to them these set him out to their carnall Eye but an upright Saint loves God abstracted from the world when he is disrobed of all Gifts and Bounties to them And this leads me now into the Discourse of this great man and great Saint whose Funeralls we at this time Celebrate He was a Great Man by birth he was a Great Saint by Grace and therefore Greatly beloved I shall not speak the Greatnesse and Antiquity of his Honourable Family although these shining Adjuncts set him out in brightnesse and splendour to the Eye of the world yet because they make not a man Greatly beloved in the Eye of God I shall rather speak of those Titles of Honour that are not written in Dust those things that did Greaten his Greatnesse I know he had his Humanities for we are all but men till we are Glorisied Saints and then our infirmi Parts This Country lay under a Vaile of darknesse till he began to shine He set his first choyce upon that Transcendent Holy man Mr. Peacock in Oxford but God took him to Heaven which prevented his coming to Brampton Then Providence led him to the knowledge of that now-blessed servant of God Mr. Peirson whose Exemplary Graces and Ministery shed a rich Influence abroad the Country And as God removed godly Ministers by Death he continued still a succession of them to you not onely Brampton-Brian but Ye also of Wigmore and Ye of Leyntwardine owe your very souls to Sir Robert Harley who maintained your Ministers upon his own cost that they might seed you with the Gospell of Jesus Christ 3. He was the Pillar of Religion among Us How would he countenance Godlinesse his Greatnesse Professing Christ brought Profession into Credit and cast a lustre on it Profession began to grow and spread it selfe under his shade 4. His Planting of godly Ministers and then Backing them with his Authority made Religion famous in this little corner of the world Oh! what comfortable Times had we through Gods mercy before the wars how did our Publick meetings shine with his Exemplary Presence in the midst of them 5. He would feed heartily upon the Ordinances He came with hunger to them and did afterward digest them into reall Nutriment How would his heart melt under the word and dissolve into liquid Tears I have seen him thaw and distill as the weeping Trees under the winter-Sun beams 6. He did deal much in Prayer He would Embark no undertaking till he had fought God he would frait his Vessell hoyse up the mast and spread the sailes he would not neglect the means yet he would by Prayer beg the winds and wait the Gales of Providence to set his ship a going 7. His house was an house of Prayer 't was the Center where the Saints met to seek God 8. He was noble in his liberality to the Saints in their wants Their Necessity was his Opportunity 9. He was spirited with a keen hatred of sin and prophannesse He would not I may say he could not brook it in any under his Roof he would often say He cared not for the service of one that feared not God 10. He was a friend to Gods friends They that did love God had his love Gods people were his darlings they had the Cream of his affections if any poor Christian were Crush'd by malice or wrong whither would they fly but to Sir Robert Harley 11. Againe if at any time he had been Angry he would quickly desire to be Reconciled saying We must take heed least the Devill come between 12. He loved his Children most tenderly I think no man in the world carried more of a Fathers dearnesse in him than he did yet he would never bear with any Evill in any of his Children he would often say to them I desire nothing of you but your love and that you keep from Sin 13. The soule of his Religion was sincerity he knew no End but to serve God and to be saved I shall in this place bring in a notable speech of his about a year and halfe since when a most Eminent Minister of the Land came to visit him and ask't him what