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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29663	A sermon at the funeral of the Worshipful John Symonds, late of Great Yeldham in the county of Essex, Esq. preached in the parish-church of Great Yeldham aforesaid on the 24th of February, 1692, by John Brooke ... ; with a short account of his life.	Brooke, John, 1633 or 4-1716?	1693 (1693)	Wing B4906; ESTC R12467	25,737	32

A SERMON AT THE FUNERAL Of the Worshipful Iohn Symonds Late of Great Yeldham in the County of Essex Esq Preached in the Parish-Church of Great Yeldham aforesaid on the 24th of February 1692. By John Brooke A. M. and Rector there With a short Account of his Life Imprimatur Guil. Lancaster R. P. D. Hen. Ep. Lond. a Sacris Domest May 25. 1693. London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside 1693. To my Much Honoured very worthy Friend Mris JANE SYMONDS Widow OF THE Worshipful John Symonds late of Great Yeldham in the County of Essex Esq Good Madam WE live in an Age wherein the Belief of a future state and of the happy condition of Good Men in the other World is it s to be feared very weak and much decayed amongst many and wherein the good Examples of such as mind this Future Life and live in order to it are too rare and thin I hope therefore that it will not be thought Unseasonable by any at this time of day to set forth a short Discourse to establish us in the one and to help us to a view of the other and that is the principal designe of this SERMON Which for the Substance of it was first Preached and now upon Your Request comes Forth with some Enlargements which the straitness of the time then allotted would not permit me to insist on Such as it is it is wholly devoted to the Churches and to Your Service And that it may be of use to support You under your great Loss and to induce such as shall Read it to Believe what is here Asserted and to Live thereafter by Imitating the Good Example that is here given them is and shall be the hearty Prayer of MADAM Your very humble and most devoted Servant Jo. Brooke Text. REV. 14.13 And I heard a Voice from Heaven saying unto me Write Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their Labours and their Works follow them THIS Book is stiled the Revelation of John the Divine which hints to us both the Author and the Nature of the Book 1. The Author viz. The Apostle and Evangelist St. John that beloved disciple of our Lord who leaned on his bosome when he eat his last Supper as we read John 13.23 and he is stiled here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Divine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by way of special emphasis because like an Eagle the usual emblem that is given him which soars higher than other Birds and looks upon the rayes of the Sun with undazled eyes as the naturalist observes he soared aloft and writ more sublimely of the Son of Righteousness of the Divinity of Christ in this and in his other Books than any other of the Evangelists did Pareus tells us that he finds no less than 48 Arguments for the divinity of Christ in this very Book therefore well might he be stiled the Divine since he writ so divinely of his Lord and Master 2. The Nature of the Book is shewed also by the Title and so it is termed a Revelation so called because it reveals and makes known as many hidden mysteries so many future events which should happen to and befall the Churches of Christ in after Ages The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto John to shew unto his servants things that must shortly come to pass as you have it in Chap. 1. Ver. 1. 'T is true indeed this Revelation is not without a mixture of much intricacy and obscurity Tot habet Sacramenta quot verba saith St. Jerom It hath almost as many Mysteries as words The greatest part of it is Prophetical a prophesy of future events of what should happen in after Ages 'till the end of the world And all prophesies are difficult and hard to be understood 'till they are fulfilled till the time comes when the things foretold or prophesied of take effect Hence the wisest and most learned of Divines have been very much puzled and gravel'd in their Explanations and Expositions of it and after all their profoundest studies and most serious Enquiries have confessed That there are many knots here which they could never unty many depths which they could never yet dive into many mysteries which they could never unfold But as the greatest Rivers so the most mysterious Books of Scripture run not in the same continued depth though in some places they can scarce be sounded yet in other places they shew their bottoms And thus even thus it is with this mysterious book of the R●velations In some places as 't is usually observed of it an Elephant may swim in others a Lamb may wade some things are laid down so mystically in such dark prophesies and abstruse Visions as that the judgment of the Wisest may be much tried and exercised therein yea often over-power'd and nonpluss'd And some things are laid down so plainly and familiarly as that the infirmities of the weakest may be much succoured and assisted The one is done as one observes to prevent contempt the other to anticipate discouragement Of the latter sort is my Text in which we have Two things considerable 1. A positive and plain assertion touching the happy estate of such as die in the Lord Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord henceforth 2. A strong confirmation of this assertion in the remainder of the Text I heard a Voice from Heaven saying Write yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their Labours and their Works f●llow them I shall take these in their order and accordingly begin with the first of these generals viz. 1. The Assertion here laid down touching the happy estate of such as die in the Lord in these words of my Text Blessed are the Dead that die in the Lord henceforth In which we have Two things further considerable 1. The subjects of this Blessedness and they are said to be The Dead that die in the Lord. 2. The time whence this Blessedness doth in a more especial manner commence Henceforth 1. Then we have h●re the subjects of this Blessedness and they are said to be The Dead that die in the Lord. 1. The Dead to understand which we must know that there is a threefold Death A corporal or natural death which consisteth in the separation of the soul from the body for a time A spiritual death which consisteth in the separation of the soul from Gods gracious presence from his love and favour in this world An eternal death which consisteth in the separation of the soul and indeed of the whole man from Gods glorious presence for ever in the other world The first of these is here understood the Dead that is such as are corporally dead whose souls are separated from their bodies for a time not that all such are blessed in the other world more by far of such it 's to be feared are rather miserable there than