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A25469
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The life and funeral sermon of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Brand Dr. Samuel Annesley.
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Annesley, Samuel, 1620?-1696.
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Wing A3230; ESTC R16341
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THE LIFE AND FUNERAL SERMON Of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Brand. BY Dr. SAMVEL ANNESLEY Phil. ii 20. I have no Man like minded who will naturally care for your State LONDON Printed for Iohn Dunton at the Raven in the Poultrey 1692. To the Honourable the Lady Bridget Roberts Grace be with you Mercy and Peace srom God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the Father in Truth and Love 2 John 3. MADAM THIS Eminent Saint now in Glory having been sixteen Years your Soul guide to the eternal Advantage of your self and dearest Relations and your House being as it were the Sanctuary for Divine Worship for the spreading of Religion through the Country This cannot but render his Memory to you precious and you may expect that as they had the Benefit of his Ministry from your House they should receive the Memoirs of it from your Hands I make no Apology at all for what 's In the Narrative but only for what 's left out I am perhaps so needlesly scrupulous of offending any that perhaps I may eventually please none Be it so 'T is Spiritual Profit I aim at if I can but hereby provoke and encourage to what is deservedly imitable I gain my point I shall say nothing particularly to your self should I speak any good of you though never so true 't would look like Flattery which I abhor and to speak ill of you with Truth is beyond the Power of your most captious Enemies if you have any such Go on therefore as you have begun practically to remember the sound Doctrine and Non-such Example set before you which is beyond any thing that can be said or done by me I shall always add my poor Prayers that in so doing you and yours may be blessed in both Worlds Though this may by some be accounted the least Yet this is really the most that can be done by Madam Your Ladiship 's most hearty tho' most worthless Servant Samuel Annesley To my deservedly honoured Friend Mr. John Brand the only Brother of Reverend Mr. Tho. Brand now sleeping in Jesus Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplied SIR MY delay of this ill drawn Portraiture is utterly inexcusable I 'll lie down therefore under the Censure of it to be so long in tacking together so short a Story which though it be true and that is all the good that can be said of it yet 't is pity such Truths should be exposed so despicably naked as to have no fashionable Ornament to render it acceptable some being first taken with the Dress and that insinuates the Matter To this I 'll say not a word for my self and but a few to the Subject I am more than a Witness how sollicitous you were in fitting your Brother for the Ministry he came first into the World but I think you were first in Christ Pardon me for giving a hint of your Soul travel for his New birth I cannot forget how restless you were till you had brought his troubled Soul to a well grounded Peace Jer. 2.2 I remember and Christ much more the Kindness of your Youth with what zeal you set out your Race Go on dear Sir go on with a growing Vigor It is not long since you thought to have been in Heaven before your Brother but he hath got the start of you and hath left you such an Example which is more to you than to any one else in the World follow him close thô I hope you will come late to Heaven in his Piety Charity and Usefulness all manner of ways That none may complain his Ministerial Labours only excepted that Mr. Thomas Brand is dead while Mr. John Brand lives And O that he may live in your Posterity that you and yours may be the Blessed of the Lord from one Generation to another So prays Dear Sir Your Soul-servant Samuel Annesley The LIFE Of the Reverend Mr. THOMAS BRAND WOuld to God you could bear with me a little in my folly and indeed bear with me 2 Cor. 11.1 for I have undertaken what I can no way perform so much as to my own much less to others satisfaction when the collecting of some Memorables of Mr. Brand's Life was desired of me I too suddainly consented not sufficiently considering what Difficulties beset me Namely some things of greatest moment must not be mention'd at all either some Persons or Times will not bear it in other things Places and Persons upon the same Reasons must not be named and of those things which may be spoken where they can't be mention'd without commending of him others of name will count themselves reproach'd and what scapes these difficulties is attended by another which tho' it be really better 't is in some respects worse 't is that which Christ charged the Jews with Joh. 8.45 because I tell you the truth you believe me not So when I shall mention somewhat done by him which perhaps was never done by any before those that have Faith enough to save their Souls may want Faith to credit such a Relation tho' attested by such evidence which is in its kind infallible What shall I do must I shall I yes I will venture out a crippled Discourse which will present you with somewhat worthy your acceptation and let that procure your pardon for the mangling the rest His Birth Mr. Thomas Brand was born at Leaden Roothing in the County of Essex in the Year 1635. his Father was Mr. Thomas Brand a Dignitary of the Church of England the mentioning of this unavoidably leads me to obviate the only plausible Objection against his being so zealous a Dissenter to which I need say but this His chief Zeal was neither for nor against any Party whatsoever but for the vigorous promoting of the sound Knowledge of those Doctrines wherein we are all agreed and of that Holiness which we all commend tho' too few practice And this right Christian Temper he exercised towards the Conforming Clergy He spake honourably of the Piety and Learning of some and never let fly indecent Reflections or bitter Invectives against any but maintained and encreased this commendable Moderation all his Life Those who were intimately acquainted with him could not perceive his leaning to any Party whatsoever but when any Discourse tended to partiality he did industriously divert it to downright Godliness or to somewhat useful to promote it He was never without some Project for doing good and could as soon cease to live as cease to be attempting the doing good to Souls More particularly His School He was sent to School to Bishop Starford where how soon I can't say he attain'd to such an accuracy of Grammar-Learning that he made good use of it to the great Benefit of others whom he would critically examin upon all occasions throughout the Course of his Life scarce any young Scholar whom he occasionally met with but hath felt it He well apprehending as other learn'd Men