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A47311	A sermon preached at Coles-hill in Warwickshire, January 24, 1685, on occasion of the death of the Right Honourable Simon Lord Digby, Baron Digby of Geashil in Ireland, who deceased at Coles-Hall, Jan. 19, 1685, on Heb. 6. 12 by John Kettlewell ...	Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.	1686 (1686)	Wing K382; ESTC R658	21,305	40

Piety and the Peace of Troubled Consciences By John Kettlewell Vicar of Coles-Hill in Warwickshire the second Edition In Quarto Price bound 8 s. 2. A Journey into Greece by Sir George Wheeler in company of Dr. Spon of Lyons in six Books Containing 1. A Voyage from Venice to Constantinople 2. An Account of Constantinople and the adjacent Places 3. A Voyage through the Lesser Asia 4. A Voyage from Zant through several parts of Greece to Athens 5. An Account of Athens 6. Several Journeys from Athens into Attica Corinth Boeotia c. With Variety of Sculptures In Folio Price bound 15. s. 3. A Vindication of the Primitive Christians in Point of Obedience to their Prince against the Calumnies of a Book entituled The Life of Julian written by Ecebolius the Sophist As also The Doctrine of Passive Obedience cleared in Defence of Dr. Hicks Together with an Appendix being a more full and distinct Answer to Mr. Thomas Hunt's Preface and Postscript Unto all which is added The Life of Julian enlarged In Oct. price bound 2 s. 6 d. 4. A Sermon Preached at the Worcester-Feast by George Walls Master of Arts and Student of Christ-Church Oxon. Quarto price stitcht 6. d. 5. The Treasures of the Sea A Sermon preached to the Mariners by William Thompson In Quarto price stitcht 6. d. 6. An Help and Exhortation to worthy Communicating Or a Treatise describing the Meaning Worthy Reception Duty and Benefits of the Holy Sacrament and answering the Doubts of Conscience and other Reasons which most generally detain Men from it together with Suitable Devotions added By John Kettlewell Vicar of Coles-Hill in Warwickshire In Twelves price bound 3 s. 7. Two hundred Queries Moderately propounded concerning the Doctrine of the Revolution of Humane Souls and its Conformity to the Truths of Christianity In Octvo price bound 1 s. 6 d. 8. A Sermon preached at the Church of St. Bridget on Easter-Tuesday being the first of April 1684. Before the Right Honourable Sir Henry Tulse Mayor of London By George Hicks D. D. Dean of Worcester and Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty In Quarto price stitcht 6 d. 9. A Spelling Book for Children In twenty fours price bound 6. d. 10. A good Subject Or the right Test of Religion and Loyalty In a Sermon preached July the 17th at the last Summer Assizes held at Buckingham for the County of Buckingham Before the Lord Chief Baron Mountague and Sir Richard Holloway Knight John Culling Esq High Sheriff By Lewis Atterbury D. D. 11. A Dissertation concerning the Pre-existency of Souls Wherein the state of the Question is briefly ununfolded and divers Arguments and Objections on both sides alledged and answered and a free Judgment concerning the Sum of the Controversie allowed to every one Being Originally written in the Latine Tongue several years since by the Learned C. P. and now made English by D. F. D. P. upon the recommendation of F. M. H. their Friend In Twelves price 1 s. 12. The History of Isuf Bassa Captain General of the Ottoman Army at the Invasion of Candia In Octavo price bound 1 s. 6 d. 13. Animadversions on Dr. Burnet's History of the Rights of Princes in the Disposing of Ecclesiastical Benefices and Church Lands In a Letter to a Friend In Quarto price 3 d. 14. A Discourse Explaining the Nature of Edification Both of particular Persons in private Graces and of the Church in Unity and Peace And shewing that we must not break Unity and publick Peace for supposed Means of better Edifying in private Virtues In a Visitation Sermon at Coventry May 7. 1684. By John Kettlewell Vicar of Coles-Hill in Warwickshire In Quarto price 6 d. 15. A Funeral Sermon for the Right Honourable the Lady Frances Digby who deceased at Coles-Hall in Warwickshire on the 29 of Septemb. 1684. By John Kettlewell Vicar of Coles-Hill in Warwickshire In Quarto price 6. d. 16. The Paradoxical Discourses of F. M. Van Helmont concerning the Macrocosm and Microcosm of the Greater and Lesser World and their Union Set down in Writing by I. B. and now published In Octavo price bound 3 s. 6 d. 17. A Discourse on Persecution or Suffering for Christ's sake Clearing the Notion of it And making a Discrimination of Just from Vnjust Pretensions to it And passionately recommending True Christian Suffering to all those who shall be call'd thereto Occasionally Representing the Folly and Sinfulness of Illegal Arbitrary Courses for the Prevention of it and the Security of our Church By John Howel A. M. Rector of Radnor Nova in the County of Radnor The Religious Loyalist Or a good Christian taught how to be a Faithful Servant both to God and the King In a Visitation Sermon Preached at Coles-Hill in Warwickshire Aug. 28. 1685. At the Triennial Visitation of my Lord's Grace of Canterbury during the Suspension of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry By John Kettlewell Vicar of Coles-Hill † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 † Heb. 10. 25. * Mat. 4. 2. † Exod. 34. 28. † Joh. 2. 16 17. * Mat. 23. † Luk. 13. 32. † Exod. 11. 2 3. † Num. 25. 7 8. * 2 King 9. * Is. 1. 10 23. † Is. 56. 10 11. † Act. 16. 1● 3. † Act. 4. 34 35. * 2 Thess. 3. 6. 14. 1 Cor. 5. 11. † 2 King 1. 10 12. † Psal. 35 36 80. Psal. 109. * Ier. 18. 21. † Heb. 12. 3. † 1 Cor. 13. 3.

and to be meek and lowly as we saw he was But in taking Measures of our duty from it we must not conclude any thing a duty barely from his Pattern but only where his Laws say the same For not to be minute in all the particulars wherein our Blessed Saviour's example may instruct us the safest and easiest argument from his actions in this case is when they are instances and illustrations of his own Precepts It is not his practice but his command that makes any thing a duty and when he practises according to it that exemplifies the commandment in its lively forms and circumstances and is a more sensible manifestation of the duty injoyn'd by it The adding of his practice where he has given a Precept serves for a clearer illustration of it but if there be no precept his practice alone doth not bind nor make any thing become a duty which before was not one And accordingly those instances wherein the Scriptures recommend his example to us are things injoyn'd by his own Laws As when we are bid to be me●k and lowly as he was Matt. 11. 29 to inherit the virtue of Blessing our Persecutors and Slanderers from his practice 1 Pet. 3. 9 to follow his steps in a Patient Resign'd endurance of unjust sufferings without railing or wrathful returns 1 Pet. 2. 20 21 23. and the like And as this is true of the example of Christ so likewise of the Examples of other Holy Persons recorded in Scripture For even their unmixt Actions which were not blameable in them are sometimes unfit for our imitation being perform'd in pursuit of peculiar offices or authorized by such circumstances of things and other special inducements as they had at that time and which do not agree to us in common with them 1. Several of their Actions which the Scripture justif●es were by virtue of immediate divine warranty and commission which would have fallen under a just censure but for that reason Thus the Israelites borrowed of the Egyptians and pay'd not again because God the supreme Disposer of all mens Goods had given them that express Direction Phineas though a private Man did a Publick act of justice upon a Malefactor without expecting the forms of Law and the Magistrates order for it because he had a Particular Divine impulse a thing sometimes vouchsafed under the Jewish dispensation and the Spirit of Zele was upon him Jehu took Arms against the House of Ahab and slew his Master Joram by a particular command of God which would have been a most detestable Treason and Rebellion without it The Holy Prophets are most publick and plain in their reproofs both of Princes and Priests calling them Companions of Thieves Rulers of Sodom Blind Watchmen Dumb Dogs greedy Dogs and the like because there were such Profligate Powers then and though they were in Authority this was no criminal speaking evil of dignities because the Prophets spoke not of themselves but only delivered Gods Message which he had put into their Mouths These bold and open reprehensions of higher Powers were good in them because the Lord had bidden them But this is no justification at all to the black-mouth'd Quakers and other railing Rabshekah's of our time who have neither the like just occasion nor if they had can reasonably pretend to any such prophetical office and commission 2. Other of their Actions were commendable upon their suitableness to the present circumstances and particular state of things at that time which would have deserv'd no praise but rather reproof at another season Such was David's eating the Shew-bread in the pressing necessity of his Hunger and when he could have no other which had been unjustifiable and blame-worthy out of that circumstance and at any time when common Bread was to be had Such also was St. Pauls circumcising Timothy when he chose him out to gather Jewish Converts because that would help him to gain upon the Jews who at that time having a great devotion to the Law of Moses would not only be slow to receive instruction from but also to give access and converse freely with an uncircumcised person But because he did it in this advantageous circumstance we must not conclude it may be done indifferently in any others or to comply with their error who press the necessity of circumcision and the Law of Moses in which alteration of the case the Apostle himself was so far from doing the same again that he inflexibly refused to circumcise Titus when the necessity of it was urged upon him by the false Brethren and Judaizers Gal. 2. 3 4 5. Such again was the practice of having all things common at Jerusalem when the necessities of the poor Saints could not otherwise be supplyed and the confiscations coming upon the Church for Christ's sake would let no Christian there call any thing his own long And the Apostolical Rules of holding no acquaintance or commerce with stubborn contemners of Church-orders and notorious evil livers which whilst the Church was encompassed with Heathens so that its own members would seek shelter from it and the offenders were fewer in Number and so unable to protect themselves was like to reduce them These practices were good then because prudent in their circumstances and proper for that season but would not deserve the like approbation in those who should go to imitate them unseasonably at another time 3. Lastly Some Actions of good Men particularly under the Old Testament were justifiable whilst that Dispensation stood which would be criminal in us now who are under a Law more perfect Such was Elias's calling down Fire from Heaven upon his Adversaries which agreed well enough with that State But when the Disciples James and John went about to do the like and pleaded his Example in justification of it Jesus rebuked them and told them his Dispensation required another manner of Spirit Luk. 9. 54 55. Such also are the Liberties of having many Wives of putting away their Wives for every cause and dislike of cursing Enemies and praying down Judgments upon their Heads which no good Christian must presume to do because he finds it done often by holy David in the Psalms and by others of the holy Prophets since our Saviour has out-stripp'd Moses and rais'd our Duty higher in these Points As to this use then of good Mens Examples viz. taking the information and measures of our Duty from them their Examples are not sufficient to warrant our Consciences when they are alone but only when we see the Law and Rule too which they went upon It is not enough to justifie us in any Action that they did it unless it may appear that they did well in it and that it is according to Law which shews what they ought to do Their practice is not to give Laws but is it self to be ruled and judged by them as ours is If they act against any Law of God

Parish and restored two Impropriations one whereof is very considerable to the Church viz. the Impropriate Tythes of this Parish of Coles-Hill and of the Parish of Vpper-Whitacre to those two respective Churches The Bestowing of the two Impropriations was a thing he had fully design'd in the time of his Health For as for Vpper-Whitacre he had purchased it with a Design of annexing it the Summer before he died And as for Coles-Hill by a solemn Paper left Sign'd with his own Hand to provide against all Casualties lest he should die before he had accomplished what he intended he took care to tell his surviving Relations how upon mature Study and Deliberation he was also fully and Religiously resolved to restore it which as he words it belonging to the Church by several Titles ought not to be withheld These are noble instances of an extraordinary Piety towards God and Generous affection to the Church of England for whose encouragement he design'd them for which God I doubt not has rewarded him and all future Ages shall celebrate his memory and call him Blessed whilst this Church and State shall stand This was the Charity of his Purse And as for all the other instances of Charity in conversation as long-suffering civility in carriage mercifulness candor in passing interpretations Patience upon Indignities and the like without which as St. Paul says giving all our Goods to feed the Poor will signifie nothing he had an equal Regard and conscientious care of them too His Religion did not sowre into moroseness nor his severities to himself render him peevish and uneasie towards others To set him out to your imitation in all the virtues of Conversation I shall not describe his carriage in all the Particulars which would take up too much time but rather chuse to set down the Rules whereby he govern'd himself which will be as the more compendious so I hope as profitable a way for those who are disposed to follow him Those Rules as they appear in his own Papers were such as these viz. to cross himself in any eager desire and in things most to his own Humour to prefer others ease before his own not to neglect or over look the meanest Person to stoop to the meanest offices to do others kindnesses not to be high in his expectations from others one of the best Securities against being exceptious to own the least kindness he had receiv'd and be really inclined to return it to forget all injuries done to him and stifle all thoughts of resenting them not to speak at a venture without thinking whensoever he proposed any Reasons to do it with a modest deference not to mention any thing to his own Praise nor to discommend others nor to strive to out-do or vie in the least matters These and such like were the Maxims he proposed to live by in conversing with others and whereby he judg'd himself in his retirements and self examinations And the Effect of them was answerable in a truly humble courteous and obliging carriage He was careful not to pass unjust censures nor shew any unchristian violence which might cause just offence even to his enemies and to those he most opposed in interests and opinions making it his frequent Prayer to help it the better into his daily Practice that with just Zeal against their Errors he might still preserve all due Charity for their Persons and never use any sinful means and unlawful expedients in opposing the worst things or pursuing the most Pious Publick and generous ends in the World As he was thus careful to practise this excellent virtue of charity himself so was he very Studious to maintain it among others He sought to deserve the title of a Peace-maker and when he heard of differences ready to flame out would interpose himself a protector of the oppressed Parties and hear complaints and pleadings and compose and adjust differences and if the Authority of Reason and Religion would not do make use of the Power he had over his Tenants and Dependants not allowing them to commence Suits for Redress till they had first complained to him and seen what Redress he could make them In sum he was a well-studied and improved Christian able to plead for Virtue and Goodness with such Reason and Argument as might become a Preacher and careful to practise it with such exactness as might adorn a Cloyster He was a Person of very sincere and warm Devotion a most Religious Honourer of God and of the Clergy for God's and their Function's sake an affectionate admirer of true Virtue and Worth wheresoever he found it a sincere and zealous Son of the Church of England in whose Communion he lived and died desiring above all things in his last Extremities to receive the Holy Sacrament and Priestly Absolution according to its order and appointment and a faithful and serviceable Subject to the King He was strict in his Trusts faithful and active in his Friendships a dutiful Son a discreet and loving Husband a good and careful Master to his Servants and in the inclination of his Mind and according to the opportunities of his Life an universal Friend and Benefactor unto all This is such an Account as I thought fit to give you of this Place of this truly Pious and Exemplary Soul And I have chose to give it not so much from general Characters of his Person as particular Relations of his Practice both because this is most Honourable to him there being no way so advantageous of drawing out excellent Persons as by shewing the Draught they have made of themselves their own Praise-worthy Deeds making them more truly illustrious than all the Paint and Varnish of abstracted Eloquence and especially because this is of more use and a better help to imitation For however some Persons may hear general Characters with more approbation and applause as thinking they shew more of Fancy and Wit than plain Narratives of Fact yet the exposing of their particular Performances of the Rules they observ'd in governing themselves and of their wise and worthy Actions is that which is like to gain most Followers and turns most to Profit in all great Examples This goes before Men in the way and marks out the very steps they have troden and so plainly shews and assures the Path to all that have a Mind to follow after them God grant us all the Grace to imitate these and other his Virtues after his Death which we had so just Reason to admire and bless God for in his Life and then we need not fear at last to inherit those great Rewards and glorious Promises which we have reasonable Grounds to believe he is now an happy Sharer of FINIS Books lately Printed for Robert Kettlewell at the Hand and Scepter in Fleet-street 1. THe Measures of Christian Obedience Or A Discourse shewing what Obedience is indispensably necessary to a Regenerate State and what Defects are consistent with it for the Promotion of