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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60957	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Mr. John Culem, vicar of Knowstone and Molland, in Devon December 2. 1691 / by Lewis Southcomb.	Southcomb, Lewis.	1692 (1692)	Wing S4752; ESTC R33847	20,626	36

A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL Of the Reverend Mr. John Culme Vicar of Knowstone and Molland in Devon December 2. 1691. By LEWIS SOVTHCOMB Rector of Rose-Ash Imprimatur Ra. Barker Dec. 28. 1691. LONDON Printed for H. Bonwicke at the Red Lyon in St. Pauls Church-yard 1692. To the Worshipful Philip Shapcote Esq of Shapcote one of Their Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Devon SIR I Have sometimes wondred how the Dedication of a Book or a Pamphlet to a worthy Person could be called or thought an Instance of paying Respect or doing Honour to the Patron where the Discourse has but little worth in 't Upon which Principle or Opinion Sir the prefixing your Name to this Discourse would rather look like an Affront than a Dedication and make me as much inclin'd to beg your Pardon as I should be to think I needed it did I not know that as you would have all you converse with to be truly Wise truly Happy and truly Good so you may Countenance the meanest Endeavours that with clear Intuition undisguised Sincerity and Purity of Intention have such Aims and Intendments which is all that can and I am afraid more than ought to be said for this Sermon 'T is usual to tell the World that the Publishing of a Sermon was desired by some of the Hearers Now tho I might say so too yet should I mention who they were it would derive as little Honour upon their Judgment for desiring it as can accrue to my own for consenting Sir if you find as you will two or three Pages more-here than what was delivered I am to assure you that 't is what was prepared to have been spoken if the shortness of the Day and some other Reasons had not made me think fit to wave it The great Respect Sir you have alway shewn to our whole Order and particularly to the Person whose Obsequies we lately celebrated your Countenancing and Encouraging your Excellent Lady's late pious Action of Building of a Tower not intentionally to her own but to the divine Glory for I am confident if it had been possible she would have conceal'd it till the Resurrection That Prudence and Zeal with which she began that Act of Piety and has conducted it all the way makes me among many others desirous to be thought by both and by all that know me to be SIR Your Faithful Affectionate Humble Servant Lewis Southcomb A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL Of the Reverend Mr. John Culme Vicar of Knowstone and Molland December 2. 1691. Deut. 32.29 O that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end THE great business of our present state in this lower VVorld is our Preparation for a better and by one short but holy Life to train up and discipline and trim the Soul for its safe and holy Passage to the state of Separation for its blest Admittance to the Spirits of Just Men made perfect to a new and unknown and glorious Society in a new and lovely world among the beatified Spirits of all the VVise and all the Good Men of all Ages That by such an Admittance there we may supply the Vacancies of fallen Angels enjoy the beatific Vision or the felicity of the presence of God the Holiness and Happiness and Peace and Joy and Clarity of understanding the upper world for all futurity Every man methinks that believes any thing of this and has these Hopes and Expectations beyond the Grave should easily be perswaded to be so wise as to understand this to be the most important business of our present state of probation here and consequently consider his latter end The words of the Text will need but little Opening or Explication Only I must observe this That I do not think the words consider their latter end 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are in this place primarily and directly meant of Death or our Dissolution nor does the Context at all seem to warrant it But they are a kind of Wish of God by Moses that the Jews would consider Gods dealings with them and compare them with what would befall them in the end for their Stubbornness and Rebellion So Menochius and Vatablus both say upon the place if the Synopsis have quoted them right Vtinam intellexissent quis finis eos maneat reputassent eadem sibi eventura propter peccata sua i. e. That they would understand and consider and observe how God would deal with them in the end for their Rebellion Disobedience and Ingratitude But I shall for the present follow the common Road and as most suitable to our present occasion suppose them to be meant of Death or the State of Separation and the parting of the two old Friends Soul and Body till their Re-union at the Resurrection I shall spend no one minute of my time in so fruitless a Thought as to shew the Certainty of our Removal or the uncertainty of the time when which every Body believes whatever they do as to the Consideration of it But I shall rather choose from the words to raise this Doctrinal Head That as a seasonable Provision for our change of Worlds our removal hence or our state of Separation is an Act of the highest Reason and the truest Wisdom so the contrary neglect is infinitely irrational and unaccountable This I shall a little further confirm and make evident from holy Scripture And then from eight rational Considerations endeavour to demonstrate its most infallible Truth and Certainty And then see what Uses are to be made of the whole or what Influence it ought to have upon our Thoughts and Actions 1. From Scripture a word or two Holy Job thought it so much the truest Wisdom that he tells us it should be the great business of all the days of this his Pilgrimage to wait for his Dissolution and accordingly lay up no doubt for his safe admittance to the beatified Spirits of the Patriarchs and other Just men made perfect who were gone before him Thus in that known place Job 14.14 He resolves that all the days of his appointed time he would wait till his change came 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All the days of my warfare will I wait or as the Verb there also signifies will I Hope or Trust till my Change come Till I change a tumultuous and uncertain World for a World of Happiness and Peace and Joy for all Ages In either of which Senses whether of Expectation Trusting or Hoping he sufficiently intimates and supposes not only a due Consideration of but a seasonable Provision and Laying up for his safe and holy Passage out of this World to a new Scene of things and for the dis-Dis-union of his Soul and Body and for his unknown State and Condition Thus the same Moses who is the Author of my Text has given it as the Character of the Truest Wisdom in the Psalm for this Occasion Psal 90.12 So teach us to number our days