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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43843	A sermon preach'd at the funerals of that worthy personage George Purefoy the elder of Wadley in Berks, esq., who was buried by his ancestors at Drayton in Leicestershire, April 21, 1661 by Jo. Hinckley.	Hinckley, John, 1617?-1695.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2048; ESTC R13342	21,835	39

in thither God himself commands this Lev. 19.32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head and honour the old man and fear thy God 2. Because it brings wisdome along with it together with prudence experience with the ancient is wisdom and in length of daies is understanding Job 12.12 This is one reason why the Devils are such Daemons such knowing spirits because they are of so many thousand years standing St. John supposeth that such as exceed in years should transcend others in divine understanding I write unto you Fathers because ye have known him that is from the begining 1 Joh. 2.13 This concerns not children and all younger people only in acquainting them what reverence they ought to pay unto their Fathers and such as are stricken in years despise not thy Mother when she is old Pro. 23.22 The young Stork is very observant of the old ones And the Ravens of the vallies shall pull out his eyes that is not so Their own Children shall plague them too as they have been irreverent to others Those in Aelian were more than barberous who instead of fostering dutifully observing their old friends they rid themselves of their company and by an untimely violence thrust their decreped relations out of the Land of the living But here 's something for old men themselves to ruminate upon All mercies bring obligations a long with them If old men would have that honour and Reverence which is due unto them from others they must reverence themselves and maintaine their own honour The High Priest might not defile himself because the Consecration of God was upon him Numb 6.7 So neither should old men do any thing that is black and ugly lest they should stain their white hairs which are the beauty of old Men. It being demanded of an old Lacedemonion why he wore such a long Beard that I might said he thereby be continually minded to do nothing that is dishonourable No spectacle me thinks is so monstrous and strikes so much horror into the heart of a religious spectator as to behold a drunken swearing obscene profane and ignorant old man Lucian hath hit right in stiling his body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a living Sepulchre or crawling Grave and I may as justly take the liberty to term his Soul in the language of Austin Coucha putredinis a bundle of rottenesse or Cage of unclean birds Like some old withered thicket or superannuated Forest which harbers nothing but Toads and Serpents The Gibeonites old shooes and mouldy bread some old Oake or old Raven may deserve as much as such old men such as are not only children in knowledge overgrown boy's as one calls them with gray beards like Rehoboam forty nay sixty yeares old yet very Children 2 Chron. 13.7 But are drenched in the sinck of all manner of corruptions and which is worst of all such persons are seldom observ'd to be * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 converted from their habituated enormities The wicked man though he live an hundred years shall be but an accursed wretch Isa 65.20 As Marriage is honourable in all but 't is when the bed is undefiled So old age is a Diadem of glory but 't is when it is found in the way of Righteousness Pro. 16.31 which leads me to another Corollary from this part of the Text. Old age is then a Compleat blessing when 't is joyned with goodness In a good old age when old men are like Malison old disciples Act. 21.16 or like Obadiah such as have feared the Lord from their youth 1 Kin. 18.12 Like the Almond-tree and the Vine which naturalists observe to bear the best fruit when they are old So if these blosom and bring forth more fruit in their age they may plead with God as David in his extremity Cast me not away in old age Ps 71.9 Such leave a sweet savour behind them when they are gone their memories are imbalmed they need no monuments to continue their names besides Epetaph's ingraven upon the hearts of good men Brasse and Marble are but cold remembrances to these The great Molossuses and Pyramids which are but as so many desolate place Job 3.14 will be eaten up with the teeth of time The perpetual Lamps made of molten gold the fond and comfortlesse Tapers which have been affected by heathens and Mahumetans to give light unto or else to drive away evil spirits from their Remaines shall sooner be extinguished then this Motto Of a good old Man shall be blotted out As Abraham being old and good was ripe for death and ready to goe to his Grave like a shock of corn coming in in his season Job 5.26 I must crave of you that last act of humanity to goe along with me to his funeral and that 's the last stage of my text 4. 4. Part. Abrahams burial He was gathered to his People Here 's no need of your Sobbs or lamentations such Funerals me thinks are as pleasant as weddings where the parties to be interred are not only old but good too T is ‖ Sedenti ad epulas lacrymas ingerere importunum est ne non tam amasse illum quam nostra quaesisse de illocommoda videamur Ber. Ser. 27. in Cant. unseasonable to mingle our cries with their Hosanna's unlesse we would seem either to envy their happinesse or to love our selves more than them 1. He was gathered to his people in his Soul that is unto the Saints As Gods servants rejoice in the solemn meetings and company of such as excel in vertue in this life so when they die they shall be gathered to the Congregation of the first born and set down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven The Souls of wicked men shall go to their people to blasphemers unclean persons Gorah and his company Judas went to his place and Ishmael was gathered to his people Gen. 25.17 So the Souls of holy men shal goe to the Souls of just men made perfect He was gathered to his people Though when we die we leave many of our acquaintance and sweet relations behind us yet we shall not goe among utter strangers but unto our fore-fathers brethren and friends who have here professed the Faith and departed in the fear of Gods Holy name Therefore as many heathens rejoyced that they were to goe to the Ghosts of Socrates and Plato So may the servants of God exult upon their death-beds that they are to be gathered unto Christ the Patriarches the goodly fellowship of the Prophets the glorious company of the Apostles and the noble Army of Martyrs If Abrahams soul was gathered to his people then it was not as so much water spilt upon the ground much less was it annihilated That Divinity sprang from Hell which tels us that the soul is Emanatio e crasi or Exhalatio e Sanguine and at last doth transire in mentem mundi velin Atomos dissipatur I tremble to English it for me let this