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A67488	Peace and rest for the upright being a sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Dr. John Bryan, sometime minister of Trinity in Coventry / by that worthy preacher of Gods Word, Mr. Nath. Wanley ...	Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.	1681 (1681)	Wing W707; ESTC R38419	9,395	24

Incense when any Plague is begun with a People And that stand betwixt the living and the dead I have read of Philo Iudeus and St. Ambrose that coming to any Place and Town if they heard of the death of any able Minister or godly Person they would burst out into tears as considering that place to have lost a considerable part of its defence You know Sodom could not burn as long as Lot was in it nor Hippo be taken as long as St. Austin was in it But still they were a defence to the place where they were In all these respects we have a considerable Loss in the death of this great and good man whose Funeral we now Celebrate Of whom I will say this in short He was a Person of such Real Worth as is as hard almost to express as imitate Most of you knew him well but perhaps few of you better than my self And in Reverence to his Memory To provoke my self and you to an imitation of his Exemplary Vertue and Grace I shall give you this short account of it He was a man of uncessant Labours and indefatigable pains as God had lent him a strong and able body for many years So he spared it not at all but made it serve him in that insatiable thirst and desire he had after Humane and Divine Knowledg And this Diligence of his was Crowned with an answerable Blessing from above being arrived in point of Ability as another Saul higher than his Brethren by the head and shoulders Especially in Political and Polemical Divinity He was like Nehemiah upon the Wall a Sword to defend as well as a Trowel to build up So to this Eminency of Parts he adjoyned an equal Humility which set a lustre upon the former upon all occasions he would own what the Hand of Providence had raised him up unto This Humility made him even as a weaned Child a high valuer and applauder of the least good that was in others when he would own little that was worthy commendation in himself This Humility made him mindless of the place where he sate and made him willingly condescend to the meanest when they stood in need of his help And his Charity was such he denyed that help to none that sought it a liberal hand he had and yet a more liberal heart The Tenth part of his Estate for many years he gave to the Poor and had himself had more they had not wanted their share He was the Censurer the Condemner of no man If he saw a naked place there was no man more ready with the Skirt of his Garment to cast upon it He was a Censurer of no man for doing what he could not do but wherein he differed in Circumstantials in this his difference it was his manner and custome still to bewail his own want of light He was very circumspect and careful in the course of his life to manage it like a true Christian Therefore he was constant in Christian Duties For which he usually had his stated times and then he would admit by his good will of no interruption His discourse was a kind of continual Preaching neither was he less careful of his Thoughts than Words His manner was every day to run over a Catechisme in Greek Mr. Herbert's Poems or some other of the Liberal Sciences And the reason I remember why he did this was to keep his Thoughts from roving and stragling to worse matters His Patience was remarkable during the time of his Affliction no repining no murmuring words under his bodily pain or the restraint he was under He observed a particular hand of God in his Distemper which as he said mocked the Skill of the Physitian and he chearfully submitted to it desiring Patience might have its perfect work He was of a grateful spirit for the least office of Love or Kindness shewed to him whether in Health or Sickness So that few that came to visit him parted from him without a thankful acknowledgment of his Love to them and Prayers that God would reward them with Blessings upon their Bodies and Souls and not only so but the greatest and worst of his Enemies had a share in his Prayers As he was thus Eminent for Grace so as the Crown of all he wanted not his share of Peace His Conscience was Quiet and his Evidences for a better Life undisturbed He had that Hope which was as an Anchor of the Soul Sure and steadfast and enters within the vail And he doubted not but as he was in a state of Grace so he was within a step of Glory And that when Death had done his work he should yet for all that live for ever He said of Death That as to him the Sting of it was taken away And truly as it seems so were the Terrors of it too For Death came to him not as an armed man with Convulsions and bitter pangs as upon many but he parted from this World without a Sigh or Groan And as one that was falling into a long but sweet sleep This was the Comfortable End of this Reverend Person According to that of the Psalmist Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is Peace Peace in death yea and Peace after death too for so saith my Text He shall enter into Peace they shall rest in their beds each one walking in his Uprightness FINIS

Delightful that 's the first place The other is in Revelat. 14. 13. And I heard a voyce from Heaven saying unto me Write Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them They have at death both Peace and Rest. And now this Point will require these things to be spoken to 1. Who or what the Righteous is 2. What Peace they shall have and be priviledged with at the time of their death First Who is the Righteous man The Text saith he that walks in uprightness Alas where is he to be found A man must have very good Eyes to find him out Especially if we consider what is said Psal. 53. 1 2. There is none that doth good God looked down from Heaven upon the Children of men and saw none righteous no not one Then farewell Priviledge for where is the Person To answer this There is indeed none that are strictly legally Righteous but there is in a larger Evangelical sence None that are righteous in themselves but in another We have the Righteousness of Justification from Christ and of Sanctification from Christ And they are the men that shall enter into peace and rest Those men I say that are men of Sincerity though not in Perfection Those men that are righteous in the aim and desire of their hearts And in comparison of others Righteous by Gods acceptation and by imputation of the Righteousness of Christ These are the Persons that shall partake of this priviledg He shall enter into Peace they shall rest in their beds c. But then 2. What Peace and Rest shall these men be priviledged with at the time of their death There are Singular Properties of this Peace For 1. It 's a Peace that is unconceiveable Man's Eye hath bored the Sphears and hath penetrated into the very depth of the Ocean it hath searched into the very Bowels of the Earth and into the wild Bellies of the Clouds above it hath travelled through all the expanded Firmament in all places of the World and hath rifled the Cabinet of Nature below but it could never grasp the nature of this true Peace and Rest here spoken of for as to this Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard nor hath it entred into the Heart of Man to conceive the Peace of God The Apostle tells us it passeth knowledg The Beatitudes of Heaven are only known to us as Solomon's Wisdome was to the Queen of Sheba of which she said Behold I have not heard the tenth part The glorious Inhabitants of Heaven the Angels and Souls of Just Men made perfect these indeed understand more the nature of it than we because they live in it Yet so as the Apostle discoursing of Gods Counsel was forced to cry out Rom. 11. 33. Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his Iudgments and his wayes past finding out So do these bright Spirits ravish and loose themselves in the depth of Contemplation The Provision he hath made for them in Heaven doth excell even their own admiration 2. It is a most Perfect and a most Compleat Peace Great peace have they that love thy Law and nothing shall offend them saith David And saith the Prophet Esay Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose Mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee Both these are in this Life that which the Psalmist and Prophet spake of Oh that great Peace and perfect Peace And if the gleanings of Abiezer be such what will be the Vintage of Ephraim If this is the Righteous man's Priviledge here upon Earth much more in Heaven For it must needs be a perfect Peace there seeing no enemy shall appear in the face of them all shall be conquered and subdued overcome escaped from for there there will be a Peace from Sin Whilst we are alive the best of men are pulled and pained by Sin they are under the continual Solicitations of the corruption of their own Nature There is a body of death that by the noysome stench of it we are miserably molested and disquieted and to that height that each of them is ready to cry out Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death While they are here there is a Law in the members rebells against the Law of the mind What willingness soever there is in the spirit they find the flesh is weak A treacherous Party dwells in their very bowels and is continually undermining those Fortifications they vour to raise and set open and to widen the Portals and to let in our worst enemies These Sons of Zerviah are too hard for us but when once a holy man cometh to dye no more shall Corruption sollicit no more have they depraved Natures to struggle with No weights of Sin to weigh us down no more shall they complain of the hardness of their hearts their indisposition to holy duties of the weakness of the flesh the power of Corruption No more complaining of the usurping power of sin upon the Soul Then 3. It is a peace and rest from the Temptations of Sathan Here it is that we are in Arena We wrestle not only with flesh and blood but with Principalities and Powers and spiritual wickednesses in high places Here it is that Satan doth desire to have us that he may sift us as Wheat as it was said of the Apostle Peter It is not David alone that Satan stands up to provoke to that that is evil but his fiery darts fly fast and thick his messengers are not only sent to buffet Paul but all the rest of Gods People but being once in this rest they are out of the reach of the roaring Lion And they may say of Heaven as Lamech of his Son Noah Gen. 5. 29. This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toyl of our hands because of the ground which the Lord hath Cursed So this Peace shall save us and keep us in freedom from the Temptations of Satan 4. Death giveth them peace and rest from the violence of men Read that of Heb. 11. 36 37. And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings yea moreover of bonds and imprisonment they were stoned they were sawn asunder and what not Here you find the footsteps of the world's usage of the Saints But as when Ionah was asleep and at rest in the bottom of the Ship the blustring storms and death-threatning Tempests were as nothing to him So it is with these Iob 3. 17. That holy man speaking of the Grave There the wicked saith he cease from troubling and there the weary be at rest In this Life it is as Solomon observeth Eccles. 4. 1 2. So I returned and considered all the oppressions under the Sun and behold the tears of such as were oppressed and they had no Comforter and on the side of their oppressors