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A96940 The servant doing, and the Lord blessing. A sermon preached at the funeral of the right honorable Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of the upper bench in Ireland. Who deceased 2. Ianuary anno 1658. By Edward Worth D.D. Worth, Edward. 1659 (1659) Wing W3619; Thomason E974_3; ESTC R207667 15,516 39

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The Servant doing AND THE Lord Blessing A SERMON preached at the Funeral of the Right honorable Richard Pepys Lord Chief Justice of the upper Bench in IRELAND Who deceased 2. Ianuary Anno 1658. By Edward Worth D. D. Psalm 82. 6 7. I have said Ye are Gods But ye shall dy like Men c. Dublin Printed by William Bladen Anno Dom. 1659. To the Right Honorable JOHN THVRLOE Esq Principal Secretary of State to his Highness the Lord Protector of England Scotland Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging May it please your Honor CVstom hath made it usual if not necessary on the new year to offer some signal of duty Nothing of mine is worthy acceptance but the engagement of Christ to reward wise and faithfull service is though transcrib'd by a hand not onely vveak but defective On this account as an acknovvledgment of many debts vvherein I stand bound to your Honor I presume on this Dedication or rather Oblation Sir This Sermon vvas a child of obedience to his Excellency's and the Council's Order at its first birth entertain'd like children vvith regard or not as love is borne or not borne to the parents and novv layd open to publick vievv because the face gives clearer evidence than the voice and the eye a faithfuller verdict than the ear Though its subject matter needs not to seek a Patron for Magna est Veritas vvho can do ought eventually against the Truth yet the author having tasted the bitterness of persecution by both the extreams and observing the same Spirit though in new cloaths attempting to act still presumes to publish it which is now charged as his great crime and to present it to your Honor whom the World knovvs too just to acquit the nocent and too charitable to condemn the innocent and whom the Author confesseth his no less good than great friend pardon the expression and therefore is glad of any occasion solemnly to profess himself Right Honorable Your Honors in the best duty as obliged so devoted servant Edw. Worth JVstitia manet in aeternum quidni Justitiae vindex Tanta etenim fuit Pepys probitas eaque apud bonos aestimatio ut vix opus erat acrioris eloquentiae myrrhâ famam ejus condire Worthius tamen alter Arimathaeus non solùm purioris eloquii sindone beatum Antistitem volvebat sed vel è suggesto detonans spirabat balsamum aromata Quae ut difflentur latiùs sciaturque quàm amabilis fuerat Pepys quàm amavit eum Worthius Imprimatur Funebris Oratio ad exequias Clarissimi defuncti habita utpote quae nihil Fidei Orthodoxae bonis moribus aut Imperio nunc florenti adversum teneat Guil. Petty Cler. Concilii Datum ex Camerâ Concilii Febr. 21. 1658. Matth. 24. 46. Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing CHAP. I. The Coherence THe Text and the Gloss the Word and the Work of God § 1 in this instance sounds a Parade v. 44 Be ye ready Calls to the Watch v. 42. VVatch. This Watch consists in the exercised act of Christian Wisdom over our selves to our work and for our end The first is the Main-Guard the other two By-Guards 1. we must watch over our selves First Look to our Cinque Ports at every sense set a Centinel Secondly Give the Allarm when the Enemy appears even at a distance Thirdly Open freely to our friends the motions of the good Spirit Fourthly Examine all comers whence they are from God or the Devil whether they go to Heaven or Hell and what is their business Sin or Grace 2. We must watch to our work take heed how we hear fast give alms watch unto prayer with all perseverance This duty like bloud should run through every vein 3. We must watch for our end for the day of the Lord 's coming In the Orders here given this last watch seems most especially concerned VVatch. But drowsie Man will not easily be brought § 2 to this watch or kept on it by sense of duty Christ therefore allarms us with expresses of danger That day of the Lord is like the Basilisk slain if prevented slaying if it unseen surprize us VVatch therefore watch This conclusive particle therefore referrs § 3 to the premisses wherein we find a large description of the VVorlds Funeral Those of the highest rank are first in Mourning v. 29. The Sun shall be darkened the Moon shall not give her light the stars shall fall and the powers of Heaven shall be shaken The Sun shall be darkened That eye of the world as one says shall as it were weep it self blind The Moon shall not give its light A new Moon and a strange Change not recovering but losing light The stars shall fall God shall as it were cast those spent candles out of their sockets In a word the Ecclipse shall be universal even sky-color dy'd sable and therefore all things covered with blacks The sadness of which covering will be so much the more sad and dreadfull by how much the day of that change and time of that day is more uncertain more sudden and less expected The uncertainty is declared v. 36. Of that day and hour knoweth no man no not the Angels of heaven but my Father onely The suddeness and inexpectancie v. 37 38 c. As it was in the days of Noah so shall the coming of the Son of Man be And those aggravations which thus lead the Van to this VVatch do in like manner bring up the Rear The day of the Lord and the time of that day is uncertain v. 42. Sudden and unexpected v. 44. First the time of that day is uncertain v. § 4 42. Ye know not the hour when your Lord cometh The Apostles were the Lord's Embassadours 2 Cor. 1. 20. extraordinary on Earth The Angels are the Lord's Officers of State in Heaven Christ is the Lord's Lievtenant in Heaven and Earth all power is committed to him yet the Apostles Matt. 28. 18. the Angels Christ himself as man knew not the time of that day And is it not the highest presumption to arrogate to our selves the knowledge of that which the Apostles the Angels Christ as man knew not is not this next to that of the old Serpent to our first Parents Ye shall be as Gods knowing God 3. Gen. 5. hath made us his Steward 's not his Secretaries he therefore that pries into his Cabinet will prove more bold then welcome What the good God hath not made known the wise God knows is not good for us to know So in this instance knew men that day afarr off 't would make them delay the work of Repentance knew they it nigh at hand 't would make them distrust the truth of Repentance least arising from fear not love Knew they it afar off 't would tempt to presumption knew they it nigh at hand 't would tempt to dejectedness both wayes tend to destroy Society and hinder