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A64967	The perfect man described in his life and end In a funeral discourse upon Psalm XXXVII. 37. Occasioned by the death of that pattern of uprightness Mr. Edward Lawrence. By Nathanael Vincent, M.A. minister of the Gospel. Whereunto are added some passages out of two letters, written by two excellent ministers concerning Mr. Lawrence; who were well acquainted with him, and with the worth of him.	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.	1696 (1696)	Wing V416; ESTC R218124	22,953	36

him When the world which lives in wickedness and grows more and more wicked is hastening its own Judgment and Condemnation for the sake of the Upright ones that are therein 't is spared Though there was such an abominable Crew of Wicked men in Sodom which were sinners before the Lord exceedingly yet Sodom had stood undestroyed by Fire and Brimstone if ten righteous persons had been found therein Gen. 18. 32. when Abraham said Oh let not my Lord be angry and I will speak but this once peradventure ten righteous ones shall be found there and he said I will not destroy it for ten sake Nay One Moses stood in the Breach when the Sins of Israel had opened a wide Gap for the Wrath of God to break in upon them Psalm 106. 23. Therefore he said he would destroy them had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach to turn away his wrath lest he should destroy them However Infidels and ungodl ones may prate maliciously the Puritans of a Nation are very much the security of it Job 22. 30. He shall deliver the Island of the innocent or it may be translated The Innocent shall deliver the Island and it is delivered by the pureness of thy hands 2. Behold the Grace of God in the upright Man which makes him thus useful Both the esse and the operati of the new Creature is from Divine Grace by Grace the upright man is what he is and by the same Grace he does what he does Who ever laboured so abundantly as the Apostle Paul Whose Labours were more succeeded to the Glory of God to the Church's and the World's benefit than his were Yet he ascribes nothing to himself but gives unto Grace all the Glory 1 Cor. 15. 10. I laboured more abundantly than they all yet not I but the grace of God which was with me When you behold the upright man you must see God in him and with him of a truth Men are not to glory or to be gloried in but he that glorieth let him glory in the Lord 1 Cor. 1. 31. 3. Behold the upright man so as to desire and hope that the same Grace which made him upright may make you so Upright ones were not such by their first Birth but by their second The Apostle readily makes this acknowledgment Eph. 2. 3. Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath even as others Therefore concerning sincere Saints it must be said That they are born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God John 1. 13. And that God who of his own will begat them with the word of truth can easily also regenerate you by the the same means and by his own powerful Grace make more vessels of honour all upright ones are such out of the Mass of corrupted Nature In the fourth place I am to shew What of this perfect and upright Man our eye in a special manner should be upon and that is his end To look to the end of Persons and Things and likewise those things that are endless is a great piece of Wisdom By the upright man's End we are to understand his Dissolution and Death whereby he ceases to be any longer in this World Not that Death does make an end of him the Soul is redeemed from the power of the grave for God doth receives it Psalm 49. 15. and the Body shall not always be the Graves prisoner but the Union between these two constituent parts by Death is dissolved Now there are several things of the perfect and upright man which Death does put an end unto 1. Death puts an end to the upright man's Labour Labour in the Lord and for the Lord is the upright man's business in this World He has no time to waste neither is he allowed to be idle Working hard and living must run parallel Nay with allusion to what Caesar once said we may affirm Necesse est laborare non est necesse vivere Labouring is more necessary than living While the upright man lives he must be stedfast unmoveable always abounding in the doing of good But when Death comes it signifies to him that his Work is at an end Rev. 14. 13. 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 do follow them 2. Death puts an end to the upright man's Sorrows here in this World he is in his Minority and is under the Discipline of the Rod after Death he will not need it His gracious Father in great faithfulness consults the upright man's necessity and if need be he is in heaviness through manifold temptations 1 Pet. 1. 6. and yet still there is a mixture of mercy with the greatest severity the Son of God is with the sincere Saint in every Furnace and his Presence makes the Furnace both tolerable and purifying Under the heaviest Burthens everlasting Arms shall sustain him and well may he be comforted with the thoughts of everlasting Love But the end of his days puts a full period to his Troubles and Sorrows his Heart shall ake his Tongue complain his Eyes shall weep no more Rev. 7. 17. The Lamb which is in the midst of the Throne shall feed them and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes 3. Death puts an end to the upright man's Conflicts His Life is a warfare he fights every step of his way to Heaven his Enemies are much stronger than he called Principalities and Powers whom he wrrstles with but he is furnished with the whole Armour of God and his strength lies in Christ the Captain of his Salvation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christ has encountred these Enemies in his own Person tried their force and triumphed over them and as he has his Followers at command so he can command Salvation for them Satan is a troublesome and unwearied Adversary and when the upright man is just going this Enemy may give him a blow at parting He usually endeavours to make a Saint's Death-bed uneasy and uncomfortable and sometimes he strives to lift up the perfect man with Spiritual Pride As the famous Knox of Scotland was tempted to an high Opinion of himself when he was near expiring because he had been so faithful in his ministry but he ascribed all that he was and did unto the Grace of God and Satan was quite soiled But when Death comes it removes the upright man out of Satan's reach He is made more than a conqueror through Christ who has loved him having overcome he sits down in that throne with his blessed Lord himself where he shall never be molested more with any of the Enemies of his Salvation 4. Death puts end to the upright man's natural

in peace for my eyes have seen thy salvation 4. When the perfect and upright man dies what a glorious and perfect Peace does he enter into in the other World In those blessed Regions unto which he goes there is Light without Darkness there is Love without the least Discord there is Joy without any Sorrow and secure Possession without any Disturbance or fear of Deprivation The gulph that is fixed Luke 16. 26. as it for ever banishes Hope out of Hell so it leaves not the least room for Fear in Heaven It is much to be lamented that Saints at this day discover no more of love and of a peaceable Temper but when they are all come to the same Heaven God who is Light and Love will be all in all 1 Cor. 15. 28. and they all will be perfectly One in Him I come now to the Application And here I shall speak First Concerning the perfect and upright Man who is lately taken from us Secondly A few words to you that survive him First Concerning the Person deceased And truly I speak not only my Affection but my Conscience when I say I do believe there was not a Man upon Earth that better deserved to be called a perfect Man than our Mr. Edward Lawrence A Man more free from all the tricks of fleshly Wisdom more free from petty Revenges and petty Designs against any Party I confess I knew not any Upright he was towards God downright in his Dealings with Men. An even and well-spun Thread of Truth and Honesty and Faithfulness ran through the whole Course of his Conversation in the World Several things more particularly worthy of our notice I shall mention concerning him 1. He had attained to a great strength and perfection of Faith As he saw the invisible God and his Faith was the substance of things hoped for and he mainly minded the invisible World so he could trust in God for the things of this World when Sense being judge there was no probability of supply He 〈…〉 had a numerous Family when he left his Living on the Black Bartholomew-day and being asked how he hoped to be provided for He answered That the Sixth of Matthew should maintain him By Faith he rested on that promise that all other things shall be added to them who first seek the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness He said His Heavenly Father knew he needed these things and he made no question but what he needed would be given him There is I am perswaded an extraordinary Relish in the Meat and Drink when Faith spreads the Table and fills the Cup every day and Sense cannot perceive a Day before-hand how this should be done 2. How perfect a Work had Patience in him He was conformed to his Head Christ in being a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with Grief He was exercised with Affliction in his own Person and with Domestick Troubles which went very near him yet he justified God in all he believed that Good would come out of the Evils he felt no Burthen tired his Patience for he knew how happy they are that endure In all Chastizements he perceived the Faithfulness and Love of his Chastizer and this made all strokes tolerable His sick Fits his Pains his wearisome and wakeful Nights 〈…〉 never made him that ever I could hear or hear of to break forth into Murmurings or Complaints unbecoming him whatever he wanted he still possessed his Soul in Patience 3. He was a Man of a most Publick Spirit and of a Catholick Charity He was troubled to see the Members of the Body of Christ divided so little consulting the honour of their Head or their own Interest He was stiffly for no Party very moderate towards all True Goodness he liked and loved where-ever he saw it and tho he had suffered very much from some bot Men of the Church of England yet he was not bitter in his Speeches against them where-ever he perceived usefulness an unblameable Conversation and a design for God carried on he did readily acknowledge it and rejoiced in it He was not in the Quarrels of this present Age he loved and followed after Peace as well as Holiness and shared in the Blessedness which is promised to the Peace-makers He was troubled to see roots of Bitterness bringing forth such bitter Fruits almost every where and in every Party And with such meekness of Wisdom with such calmness and sedateness of Spirit he carried it towards Men of all Perswasions and his Words and Ways were so inoffensive that I never heard any one speak ill of Mr. Edward Lawrence but all that knew him were ready to acknowledg that he was a Man of eminent Godliness of a most peaceable Temper and of a very great Integrity And as he loved all Saints as such by what Name soever distinguished so he vexed his righteous Soul from day to day because of the Vngodliness Infidelity and Debaucheries of this wicked Age. In his last Sermon which was upon that Text Isaiah 29. 6. When thy judgments are in the earth the inhabitants of the world-will learn righteousness with very great Zeal and warmth he pressed upon his Hearers the learning the loving the practice of Righteousness for the Nations sake and for their own Souls sake that it might be well with the one and with the other 4. He was a man of great Ministerial Accomplishments His worth was like the deep Rivers which run more silently whereas the shallow Brooks do make the greater Noise He was very able in Controversial Divinity his Judgment was sound his Arguments strong his Head and Notions very clear and having a clear Apprehension of Truths himself he could make them very plain to others understandings and in his arguings he was very free from Passion and when he saw he was likely only to stir up the Passion of others instead of rectifying their Judgments he would be silent In his Preaching he was very solid and substantial he had a great firmness in Memory which continued to the last He prayed and preached with such a Spirit as did evidence much of the presence of God with him How did he speak to God as one that saw him just before him And when he spake to man he spake as the Oracle of God with greatest seriousness and as about things of the highest and everlasting Concernment How firmly was he himself perswaded of those Truths he propounded to others He taught the Commands of Christ and himself obeyed them and was great useful in his Kingdom In the second place I shall speak a few Words to you that survive him And that both to his Relations And to Others To his Relations I shall say these three things 1. Take notice of his great Affection to you and how this Affection was spiritualized he loved you but especially your Souls the most precious part of you he was full of care that it might be well with you for ever and was faithful in reproving as the