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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72904	A sermon preached at the funerall of the worshipfull, Gilbert Davies Esquire at Christow in Deuon. By W. Miller, minister, and preacher of Gods word at Runington. April 15. Anno Dom. 1620.	Miller, William, b. 1592 or 3.	1621 (1621)	STC 17923.5; ESTC S103509	16,465	31

need not to report seeing all the Countrey round cannot but with one consent confesse and acknowledge that he was a man worthy of great commendations and a rare patterne for men of his ranke and fashion to looke vpon Thirdly for his charity and loue toward the poore many of them being here present can testifie that in their necessities he was to them more like a father than a friend a man that was euer open-handed in any good cause especially to the reliefe of such whom he knew to be in necessity and want I speake but what I know hauing a long time had my being here where his Worship had his dwelling and besides my priuate testimony his Liberality at the last Feast of Christs Natiuity and his Legacy now at his death of twenty pound to the vse and benefit of the poore and this Parish are sufficient testimonies of the same Last of all as concerning his loue to those that were his as is said enemies and aduersaries of his state and fortunes hauing receiued especiall commandement from his owne mouth I cannot but say something Confesse I must that loth I am to speake too much and yet his owne request no lesse to me than a command compelleth me to speake a little because I heard him say so much There are saith hee that to my thinking by sinister courses vpon supposed grounds endeuour to arme themselues against me and my state but in the meane while God knowes my heart how willing I haue still been to liue with them in peace without reuenge and hereupon hee made this comparison in my vnderstanding most fitting to his former words My hart saith he resembleth the vpper part of the world which you know saith hee is alwayes cleere and bright of it selfe though the ayre below bee neuer so much distempered with stormes and thunders So I quoth he I thanke my God notwithstanding these things haue still a patient mind I am still contented and my heart remaining still ioyfull in the Lord I stand resolued in all things to yeeld vp my selfe in holy obedience to the will of God And thus sitting then with my selfe alone in the Porch of this Temple wherin we are I shall intreat you when you shall stand to preach my Funeral Sermō in this Church where I intend to lye when God shall call me saith he to deliuer and testifie these things vnto the world both of me and from mee By this that hath been said you may then plainly see that the life of this good man was not vnto himselfe but vnto to God If we liue wee liue vnto the Lord. Lastly to speake of his death I must begin with sicknesse which was to him is to al the messenger of death I must confesse that hee was but a young man for yeeres yet hauing been long visited with exceeding sicknesse he hath long waited as it were for his exchanging time and for that cause as I know and as others whom he loued can testifie hee did daily exercise himselfe in the meditation of mortality and in time of ease cared to set his house in order to the intent that if sicknesse should come suddenly he might bee free from worldly cares and so more cheerfully prepare himselfe to God for this cause for the space well-nye of two yeers past as I can remember he hath had his Testament alwayes ready So that being now at last suddenly arrested with the messenger of death all the whiles hee lay in the mercyes of God vpon his death-bed to the comfort of all those that saw and heard him hee alwayes called vpon the Name of Christ yea as often as hee receiued any Phisicall help for no meanes was neglected for his preseruation and life if God would he neuer receiued any ayde but he prayed vnto God to giue it a blessing and when he spake to none hee would yet lift vp his eyes in token of lifting his heart to God and the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ he receiued in his extremities most cheerfully most thankfully And at last in a great conflict he got a glorious victory and shortly after in peace and meeknesse resigned his spirit into the hands of God Thus he that was in his life religious in his sicknesse comfortable and in his death most blessed by dying to the Lord is gone to God and now enioyes the blessednesse of heauen in the fruition whereof let vs leaue him now to dwell for euer and striue and endeuour in our liues to imitate his vertues that we as he hath done may dye at last the death of the righteous and that our last ends may be like his and that we may be fellow-heires as hee was of the same inheritance with Iesus Christ To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost bee all honour and glory now and foreuer Amen FINIS