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spirit_n	apostle_n	church_n	holy_a	6,886	5	5.0568	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01727	The servant's audit: a sermon preached at the funerals of the right worshipful Sr. Edmund Anderson baronet, in the church of Broughton in the county of Lincoln, Febr. 15. 1660. / By Edward Boteler ... now rector of Wintringham in that county ...	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing B3803A; ESTC R212802	28,513	80

the Prophets The glorious company of the Apostles The noble Army of Martyrs The holy Church that ha's been throughout the world Heb. 12.23 The communion of Saints The general Assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven God the Judge of all men and the spirits of just men made perfect The pure loyal and unspotted Angels Who if they rejoyce at the conversion of a sinner what will they do at the consummation of a Saint Salm. in Loc. praedict Si de initio gaudium est quanto magis de termino If there be joy among them to see a soul brought in to God what will there be to see soul and body brought up to God and glorified with him to all eternity How great must that joy needs be which is made up of so many parts Rev. 21.24 where the Nations of them which are saved walk in light following the Lamb and having the harps of God being triumphant and singing the song of Moses the servant of God and the Song of the Lamb Saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints Society without that 's the first 2. Interna satietas inward satisfaction which is never to be found on this side God Caeterae hilaritates Senec Ep. 24. ad Lucil non implent pectus sed frontem remittunt All things else leave the Cantons and Corners of the Soul empty the joyes of Heaven are only a commensurate object to a capacious soul which made Saint Augustine cry out Fecisti me Domine pro te inquietum est Cor nostrum donec perveniat ad te Thou hast made this heart of mine for thee and it can never finde rest till it comes to thee This the ground of Philip's request Joh. 14.8 Shew us the Father and it sufficeth and of David's resolution Psa 17.15 As for me I will behold thy face in righteousnesse I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likenesse Here you may as the father speaks Videre ad voluntatem habere ad voluptatem See as much as you will and enjoy as much as you please Satiety within that 's the second particular to increase joy 3. Which is the last but not the least Aeterna jucunditas This joy shall be interminate as boundlesse as infinity as endlesse as Eternity Your joy no man taketh from you Job 16.22 sayes our Saviour It is the great abatement of Earthly joyes that they lye open to the hands of rapine the hands of men may take them from us And if they scape the hands of men the hand of Providence will one day seize them and though we may rejoyce in the dayes of our youth Eccl. 12.1 yet the years draw nigh and the evil dayes will come when we shall say we have no pleasure in them It is the excellency of Heavenly joyes that they shall ever continue at the same height and fulness And as it is the extremity of a damned condition to be out of hope of relief so it is the priviledge of a glorified estate to be above the fear of loss The joy of the servant here is the joy of his Lord made by the light of his Countenance and the display of the beams of his face and favour who is God and changeth not Mal. 3.6 If the Sun did alwayes look with the same face upon the Moon which it doth at the full the Moon would never change The Lord the brightness of whose Majesty does infinitely surpass that of the Sun who shall put out the Sun by his lustre at his appearance as the Sun now does a Candle which is not improbably Chrysost Hom. in Mat. thought to be the way of darkening the Sun at the great day will ever keep the same aspect to the Saints without variableness or shadow of change and therefore it is that the joy of the Saints shall ever be at the full and know no declension Shall be as interminate as the everlasting God the fountain and source of all joy In whose presence is fulness of joy Psa 16.11 and at whose right-hand there are pleasures for evermore His Lord said unto him Well done thou good and faithful Servant thou hast been faithful over a few things I will make thee Ruler over many things Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. I have now quit my hands of the Text and shall have recourse to it no further than to help us a little to revive some memorials of that eminent and meriting person whose Remains yet lie before us ere they be disposed of into darkness and the Land where all things are forgotten Psa 88.12 I have some flowers to strew on his Herse they are but few and I would hide them too if I thought there were any Spiders here that would suck poyson out of them He was that I may keep in with the Metaphor of the Text A Servant of great and singular intrustments His Lord had concredited many Talents to him and he was very provident and faithful in trading with them and discharge of them Not like those whom Parisiensis complains of Qui majores terras possident minores Census solvunt Holding most at the hands of God and paying him little or no Rent God's greatest are commonly his worst Tenants But as he received much so he returned not a little Take this brief account of him and his Talents 1. Natural Talents The Holy Ghost often comparing our bodies to buildings I may say of his it was an Elegant Structure a polite and well composed frame It is said of the crooked and ill-shaped Emperour Ingenium Galbae malè habitat Galba's wit ha's an unhansome dwelling His had a lovely seat His Wit and Art and Grace had terse and comely lodgings There was Lauta supellex laetum domicilium The furniture was rich and the rooms rare The Jewel in a fair Casket And which made it a mercy and was the rarity of it it was not abused to pride and vanity to wantonness riot and luxury which too frequently undermine batter and are the ruine of the fairest walls of earth I have heard him often speak of disorderly ●nd intemperate persons in that ph●●se of the Psalmist Non dimidiabunt dies they live not half their dayes Psa 55.23 And this comeliness of his diffused a complacentious and grateful kind of lustre and takingness through his whole demeanor his words and actions came from him with a grace Gratior est pulchro veniens è corpore virtus He had a quick Liv. and a ready wit Ingenium ad omnia versatile in the Historian's phrase And it was ever well set on work inventing and adding to his fair stock of knowledge so that it was hard to say whether he was Scientior or sitientior More knowing Crescit amor nonmi c. or more craving The riches of his soul as these