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A sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. James Houblon who was buried at St. Mary Wolnoth Church in Lombard-Street June 28, 1682 / by Gilbert Burnet.
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Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
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Wing B5878; ESTC R25738
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with a great Increase both of Family and Fortune he at last for several Years withdrew himself from all wordly Affairs and so lived only to fear God and do Good He having so entire a Health so plentiful a Fortune and the Freedom of that Leisure which he gave himself added to his Crown of Gray-hairs and the Crown of his Children that of Good Works and at last exchanged them all for a Crown of Glory A few days before Christmass last he was taken ill and tho' it might have been imagined that in so ancient a Man Nature was so far spent that it could not have held out long yet the length of his Distemper the great Pains and Agonies he endured for about six Months and the Feaver in which his Life ended shewed that there was still a great stock of Vigor and Strength in him but tho' his Memory and Judgment were sometimes clouded during his Sickness yet it appeared that Goodness and true Piety were become by long Use and Practice so natural to him that when the Clearness of his Mind was much darkened yet the excellent Temper of his Soul remained with him to the last During his long Sickness and under all the returns of Pain which were sometimes very violent he was never heard speak one impatient word but was almost always either praying to God or praising him he caused the Scriptures to be read and Psalms to be sung often about him and heartily prayed for all that came to see him and amidst those his Agonies he did not forget the Churches of God both at home and abroad The last sensible Words he spake to his Children were the Night before he died upon his Sons coming to see him he prayed God to bless them and their Children with all Temporal Blessings and above all with Spiritual Blessings after this he spoke nothing perfect to any of them but was heard say in a Devotion to God My Soul doth magnify the Lord and my Spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour which he repeated several times and as these words were a very proper Conclusion to such a Life so they were the last he spake distinctly And tho' it was likely that so long a Sickness in so aged a Person had so shaken the whole Fabrick that the Separation of that Soul and Body that had dwelt so long together would have been easy and perhaps insensible yet it proved otherwise for he lay many Hours in his last Agonies but in Conclusion God took pity on and released him so that he entred into his Rest on the 20th of this Month. Thus was this Righteous and Merciful Man taken away he has now entred into Peace and we are to lay his Body in this his Bed the Grave I wish we may all lay it to heart and consider well whether this righteous Man is not taken away from the Evil to come which certainly must come on the sooner for the loss of those that stand in the breach while the measure of our Iniquities seems to be very near filled up for as it is in the words after my Text The Transgressors shall be destroyed together and the end of the wicked shall be cut off But the Salvation of the Righteous is of the Lord he is their Strength in the time of Trouble and the Lord shall keep them and deliver them he shall deliver them from the Wicked because they trust in him God of his infinite Mercy give us Grace so to mark and follow this and all other perfect and upright Men that have gone before us and entred into Peace that we may dy the Death of the Righteous and that our latter end may be like his that is that our end may be Peace To which let us earnestly pray to God that we may attain through Jesus Christ our Lord that came to make Peace who is over all blessed for evermore Amen FINIS