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A42143	A sermon preached at Alderly in the country of Gloucester, January IV, 1676/7 at the funeral of Sir Matthew Hale, kt, late Chief Justice of His Majestie's court of the King's bench / by E.G. ...	Griffith, Evan, A.M., Minister of Alderly.	1677 (1677)	Wing G1995; ESTC R2788	11,865	34

nunc dicitur morer● ne pecces Then it was said to Man If thou sin thou shalt dye now it is said to the Righteous Man Dye that thou mayst not sin Sin is the Mother and Death is the Daughter and the Daughter shall become the destroyer of her own Mother Unto the Christian Death is a perfect mortification of all his earthly members and the destruction of the whole Body of Sin 2. The Good which Death brings to the Righteous Man is manifold 1. It brings him into the presence of God the Father Son and Holy Ghost our Father Redeemer and Comforter an immediate communion and fellowship with the Sacred Trinity 2. The Beatifical Vision of God To see his face Rev. 22.4 To see him as he is 1 Joh. 3.2 3. Union with God 4. Fruition of God and that for the manner immediately all means ceasing for the measure fully enjoy God in all and all in God for time eternally for ever with the Lord and reign for ever and ever Revelat. 22.5 for th● place in the third Heaven the Heaven of Heavens the Paradise of God where the Throne of God and of the Lamb is for the company joyned with us the innumerable company of glorious Angels and blessed Saints from this Fruition will arise endless and unspeakable Joy and Pleasure and Glory That far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory 2 Cor. 4.17 Usus 1. In that Death cannot be avoided we should learn to prepare and wait for it to have our Loins girded as the Israelites and our Staves in our Hands ready to take our Journey from Egypt to Canaan as Fowls desirous to fly stretch out their Wings so should we being desirous to be with the Lord stretch out our Affections towards Heaven As Abraham was in the Door of his Tent when the Angel appeared unto him and Elijah in the mouth of the Cave when the Lord appeared unto him so we should be ready to come out of the Cave and Tabernacle of our Body when the Lord appeareth unto us by his Messenger Death Let our Lamps be trimmed our Lights burning and always watching as our Lord commandeth Matth. 24.42 Watch therefore for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come And holy Job practised Job 14. All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come Look to your Faith that it be unfeigned the Faith of God's Elect to Conscience that it be pure undefiled void of offence towards God and Man to Conversation that it be such as becometh the Gospel that is holy and in Heaven a good Life will sit us for a comfortable Death and a comfortable Death will assure us of a joyful Resurrection Usus 2. Death to the Righteous is not hurtful therefore not to be feared but is beneficial therefore to be desired Unto the gracious Christian whose Conscience is purged from dead Works Death shall neither be fearful nor bitter Acerbitas non mortis sed culpae The bitterness is not in Death but in Sin as a Serpent wanting a Sting may hiss but cannot hurt a Man may take it in Hand and put it in his Bosom so the Righteous Man may welcome and embrace Death and be sure it will never hurt him it is not the death of the Man but of Sin in the Man it is not the destruction but the absolution of the Christian the dissolution of the Body is the absolution of the Soul So then not Death it self but the Opinion of Death is terrible for since it translates us from this present evil Wo●●d and Va●e of Misery and the shadow of Death into everlasting Life into the Land of the Living How can it be called Death said one of the Ancients being nomine magis quam re formidabilis formidable rather in name than indeed The separation of the Soul from God that is Death but the separation of the Soul from the Body is only the shadow of Death Therefore such as are dead not in Soul but in the Flesh are not said to be properly dead but to be covered with the shadow of Death The Righteous Man who is Evangelically Righteous hath no cause to fear Death but with St. Paul desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ Let him only fear Death who is unwilling to go to Christ It is true which Solomon saith that The day of a mans death that is a Righteous Man's death is better than the day of his birth Eccles 7.3 The day of a Godly Man's Birth is the beginning of his Misery but the day of his Death is the end of his Misery and an entrance into endless Glory and Bliss Usus 3. Consolation as to the Death of our Righteous Friends It cannot be denied but that we ought in a special manner to consider and lay to Heart the Death of our Righteous Friends that are near and dear unto us of whom we have good grounds to be perswaded that they sleep in Jesus and dye in the Lord for it may be they were taken from us because we were not worthy of them and the Mercies we received from God in and by them and were not thankful unto God for them or that we gloried were proud of them and trusted too much in them made Flesh our Arm. We must consider whether God hath deprived us of them as a punishment of our Sins and Unthankfulness as the Widow of Sarepta said unto the Prophet O man of God! art thou come to call my sins to remembrance 1 King 17.18 In this respect we have cause to mourn and lay to Heart the Death of our Righteous Friends We of this Place have cause indeed to mourn droop hang down our Heads like Bulrushes to weep yea to weep if it were possible Rivers of Tears till we can weep no more with David because our Honourable dearest Lord and best Friend to all of us is not But that this may be guided with Wisdom and that we be not swallowed up of Sorrow let us rightly understand where he is not He is not in a Prison but in a Palace of freedom and enlargement he is not in the Sea tossed with Waves exposed to Storms but arrived safely in the Haven he is not in Bondage of Corruption but in the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God he is not in the Way and upon his Journey travelling and toyling but in his Country and at home in his own Mansion in his Father's House he is not in the hope of Heaven but in the actual possession of it And look how far Heaven doth excel the Earth eternal Good things momentary and perishing Vanities the true Joys of the Saints of God the false Delights of the Sons of Men So much is his Condition better than ours is or his was when with us Oh then Pereat contristatio ubi est tanta consolatio Forget we our Sadness in the midst of such Joys and let these Consolations allay the bitterness of our Grief and dry up in

part the Fountain of our Tears Farther consider 1. His Gain Ballance that whereof you you have heard before with our Loss and then our Loss though exceeding great will hold no weight 2. Let that Argument which prevailed with the Ephesians in the like Case sway with us The will of the Lord be done Acts 21.13 Let us not make such Idols of our selves or our Friends as for their Death so comfortable and advantageous to them to be discontented with God's appointment 3. If the Heathen could say Non amittimus sed praemittimus why should not Christians much more be so perswaded and say We do not lose our Godly Friends but send them before us Usus 4. Yet take this Caution Beware of the Sin of this People reproved in the Text in not laying to Heart the Death of this our Honourable Dear Religious and Right Christian Lord but make we some Use of this sad dispensation of Divine Providence 1. Consider it as a plain Prognostication and Warning of some Evil to come as in the Text The Righteous is taken away from the evil to come a Trumpet sounded or a Beacon set on fire to alarm and awaken us out of the sleep of Sin to fright and fire Sinners out of their carnal security We may be assured he is freed from all Evils and Miseries present and it may be he prevented some extraordinary Judgments which remain for it Sin is rise and ripe hath all the Symptoms of Ripeness 1. It is great knows not how to be more sinful strikes immediately at the Glorious Face of God 2. Common from the highest to the lowest 3. It is impudent Sinners of this Generation cannot blush they declare their Sin as Sodom they hide it not 4. Incorrigible we have been stricken but we have not grieved we have been consumed but refused to receive Correction we have made our Faces harder than a Rock we have refused to return Jer. 5.3 We may therefore justly fear some strange future Evils when the Harvest is ripe the sharp Sickle will be thrust in and the Earth will be reaped and when the Grapes are fully ripe the Vine of the Earth shall be gathered and cast into the great Wine-press of the Wrath of God Rev. 14.14 Now God grant that as he hath prevented such Evils by his blessed Death so we may prevent them by our unfeigned and seasonable Repentance and by receiving that Exhortation Zeph. 2.1 2 3. The decree i● big and travelleth and will undoubtedly brin● forth therefore gather your selves O Nation see ye the Lord it may be ye shall be hid in the day 〈◊〉 the Lord's anger 2. Remember we his eminent Virtues and holy Graces for our imitation he hath no need of our Prayers or our Praises his Praise is not of Men but of God Though his God had honoured him highly in the sight of all wise learned good godly and great Men as unto his Servant David Made him a great name among the great men that are in the earth 2 Sam. 7. so that he will be eminently Famous to all Posterity as one of his Honourable Brethren a Learned Judge of the Land faith And let me add His Remembrance will be as The Remembrance of Josiah like the composition of the perfume made by the art of the Apothecary sweet as honey in all mouthes and Melodious in all Ears as musick at a banquet of wine Ecclus. 49.1 This is for our Comfort and Instruction but adds nothing to his Happiness which is in the highest perfection now in the clear sight and full fruition of the chiefest good If he desires any thing it is our Imitation that I am inclined to believe that the Saints in Glory desire the Salvation of their Brethren on Earth and consequently that they should be followers of them in the way of Salvation Rev. 6.10 Then remember we 1. His Humility Meekness and Gentleness and Self-denial in this Grace which indeed is the grace of every Grace he was another Moses 2. His Patience under all his Crosses and Tryals whereof he had no small portion and his long continued Affliction in this Excellent Virtue that he was another Mirror after holy Job 3. His Temperance and Sobriety in the midst of a sottish and swinish Generation 4. His Righteousness and Justice he was another Aristides to hinder him from administring of Justice impartially to high low Rich Poor without Fear or Favour was to stop the Sun in the Firmament and to divert its Course 5. His Piety and holy Devotion in publick in private in secret he kept close and constant communion with God 6. His Charity and Mercifulness to the Poor his bowels of Compassion were largely drawn out to them 7. His indefatigable Industry in all the Duties of his Calling general and particular it may be Engraven upon his Tomb Hic mortuus requiescit semel Qui vivus requievit nunquam Here being dead he resteth once Who being alive rested never These rare Virtues and precious Graces were deeply planted and habituated in his Gracious Soul even from his Youth for his God looked early upon him which was his own Expression to my self with great Humility and thankful Resignation of himself and all that he was and had to his good God from whom he acknowledged he received all These I say were acted and shined in the whole course of his Life Let us remember them carefully and conscionably follow him in these Holy Steps so shall we come to the Place and Estate wherein he is and meet again at the Right Hand of Jesus Christ at the Resurrection of the Just to our mutual Joy and rejoycing both his and ours and hear and have that joyful and blessed Doom Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom Which God of his infinite Mercy and rich Grace grant for Jesus Christ his dear Son's sake to whom be Glory and Majesty Dominion and Power and Blessing now and for ever Amen FINIS