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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29183	The life and death of the godly man exemplified in a sermon preached Nov. 12, 1676, at the funeral of that pious and faithful minister of Christ, Mr. Thomas Wadsworth / by R.B.	Bragge, Robert, 1627-1704.	1676 (1676)	Wing B4203; ESTC R20214	19,604	40

Oh my Brethren he is one that will be dearly mist by all His Family will miss him and his People will miss him the Countrey will miss him and the City will miss him too Saints will miss him to build them up in their Faith and Sinners will miss him to awaken and rouse them out of their sins the Poor will miss him to raise Collections for them to refresh their bowels and the rich will miss him to spur and quicken them up to be rich in good works The second thing I would say to you is this That you would live as those that have sate under the Ministry of so pious and worthy a Person how is that you will say first walk as Children of Purity Secondly as Children of Peace for he was a Friend to both First Walk as Children of Purity those pure heavenly and spiritual Exhortations that you have heard from him they do call for a pure and heavenly Conversation from you though he be dead and buried do not let his Sermons die and be buried with him the death of the Minister should indeed revive his Instructions and enliven and imprint the remembrance of them the more deeply upon the hearts of the people Secondly Walk as the Children of peace too and maintain Peace and Unity amongst your selves though the Shepherd be smitten yet let not the Sheep be scatter'd let not this breach that God hath made be the occasion of any more breaches amongst you Remember the words of David How sweet and lovely a thing it is for brethren to live together in unity Remember the words of Christ That blessed are the peace-makers And read over those words of Paul when you come home 1 Cor. 1.10 for I have not time to read them Take heed Brethren of walking so as to bring a dishonour and an evil report upon your Pastor and Teacher now he is gone O! think with your selves Did my Pastor teach me to be proud or to be covetous or to be unjust or to be censorious If he could return again upon the earth and see any of you such Would he not say to you Did you learn these things of me Lastly A word of Counsel in general and so I have done Do we desire to have peace in our end I that is it which we all desire Would we fain dye comfortably Who does not desire to do so Here is your way Two things I would leave with you 1. Mark the perfect and upright man to imitate his example 'T is the command of the Apostle Heb. 13.7 He would have them mark them that labour amongst them and follow their conversation O! it is a matter of great concernment whom you follow whom you imitate Alas if you live with the wicked if you follow vain persons you must dye with them do not think to live salsly and dissemblingly and yet to dye comfortably do not think to live with Pharoah and yet to dye with Moses to live with Judas to live with Demas and yet to dye with Paul No we must live with the pure with upright and perfect men we must make them to be our examples if we would dye with them we should make a good use of every good example that God hath given us A godly Man when he dyes bequeaths us this Legacy he leaves us the Picture of his Life to walk by 2. You must not only mark the perfect mans example and behold the upright man but you your selves must live so as you may give and leave a good example to others Brethren 't is not only the duty of those that teach you to give a good example as Paul exhorts Timothy and Titus to be examples to the believers in word in conversation in charity in faith in purity But it is the duty of hearers to give good examples one to another The Apostle exhorts aged Women Tit. 2.2 by their example to teach the younger Women and exhorts Wives to have their conversation so in fear 1 Pet. 1.3 that their Husbands beholding their good conversation may be won to the truth it may be thy Husband is not won by the hearing of the Word but thou shouldst labour to be so holy humble loving and obedient in thy conversation that hereby thou maist convince him What knowest thou O man whether thou shalt save thy wife and what knowest thou O woman whether thou shalt save thy husband Are there not many Husbands that have cause to bless God for their godly Wives Are there not many Wives that have cause to bless God for their godly Husbands Are there not many Children that have cause to bless God for their godly Parents There are many in Heaven who will be blessing God to all eternity that ever they saw the faces of such and such persons by whose holy conversations they were won to the love and liking of the ways of God Now then Labour to imitate the examples of the godly that have gone before you and to live so your selves that you may be an example to those that are round about you this is the way to have your end peace and then this Epitaph may be written upon your Graves Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace FINIS

abundantly in the work of the Lord so God prospered and blessed his labours abundantly He did not run in vain pray in vain preach in vain God made him a blessed Instrument of good of Eternal good to many Souls And he did as little mind the praise and glory of this World as he did the profits and gain of it He sought his honour in God only and was carry'd forth with pure aims and respects to his glory I have sometimes heard him profess that he scarcely knew what it was to lie under the temptation of desiring the praise and commendations of men in what he did He saw such an emptiness in all humane applause and had his eye so fixt upon his Masters glory that it put out all vain humane glory in his estimation I have often admir'd him for the good things of the Spirit of God that I saw in him for that spirit of Faith that dwelt in him he liv'd in as firm and lively belief of the Eternal and invisible things of the other World as any man that ever I knew For that Spirit of Adoption that rested upon him for he was as much above the spirit of Fear and Bondage as any man that ever I knew For that Spirit of Heavenly-mindedness that he liv'd in continually He had his heart and conversation in Heaven as much as any man that ever I knew For that Spirit of holy Courage he was fill'd withal for he was one that would stand for God in the worst of times and when he judg'd that the Cause and Truth of God required it he would not be daunted and driven from his Duty by the fear of men But above all his glory and Excellency lay in this the uprightness and integrity of his spirit that he serv'd his Lord and Master with such a single eye and such a single heart I have sometimes seen him rejoyce in spirit and speaking of the great comfort that he found in his Soul upon this account that his Conscience did bear him witness that he sought the glory of God in what he did above all the world and expected his reward from God only I have often thought that if ever I saw an Israelite indeed in whom was no guile he was one And as he was thus perfect and upright in his life so his end was peace and blessedness I saw him only the Evening before he died and asked him how he did He answered me That he had been under a very sharp rod But it was that which my heavenly Father said he hath laid upon me for as many as I love I rebuke and chasten that is a Paradox said he to the world but everlasting Arms are underneath me and I bless God he hath taken all the terror of Death quite away from me And when another asked him If he had not the restimony and witness of a good Conscience he would say Truly I have served God in sincerity and can truly 〈◊〉 I have believed and therefore have I spoken then those that were about him pitied him because of his great pains and Agonies You know not said he what my pains are and you know not what my Consolations are Oh how sweet will my glory and triumph be after these sharp pains And when his Relations wept about him he would be displeased with them saying What are you troubl'd that God is calling home his Children If you think I am afraid of Death you are mistaken for I have no fear of death upon me He had not the least Cloud upon his spirit in all his sickness that could be perceived by those about him And in the midst of the sharpest pains which could not but be very sharp by a large stone in his bladder and kidneys one of them being wasted and the other extreamly swoln under all his pains no other language came from him but Father pity thy Child But I see I must break off for the clouds return again after the rain the waters are ready to overflow the banks and I would not have you drown'd in tears What shall I say my Brethren precious in the sight of God is both the life and death of his Saints the memory of the righteous shall be blessed the name of holy men it is as a precious Ointment poured forth and so is the name of this holy man We need not bring any Spices to embalm him we need not raise him up any Tomb or Monument he hath a better Monument erected in the hearts of Gods people and of God himself than any we are able to erect unto him This I must say and this is all that I will say I verily believe there are few men that have been more belov'd whilest they lived or more bewail'd when they died Though the day of his Funeral was a clear Sunshine day without any Clouds yet I am sure there were many showrs of Tears that fell by the way as he was passing to his grave I should have spoken something to those that are left behind 1. To his Relations a word to them Do not you mourn as those that are without hope why should your eyes be pouring out tears for him when all tears are wip'd from his eyes he is with God and Christ and the innumerable company of Angels and Spirits of just men made perfect he is before the Throne triumphing and if you could hear him he would say to you Weep not for me shed not one tear for me but weep for your selves You have not one doubt not one fear concerning his everlasting happiness and Oh what a quieting consideration should that be to you 2. To you that were his Church and People I should have spoken a few words to you 1. Be you sensible of your loss lay to heart the breach that God hath made amongst you and such breaches as this should not be look'd upon with unbroken hearts You know how they lamented Samuel when he died and how they lamented Aaron and Stephen when they died and you have great cause of lamentation You will say We have wept again and again I but weep not only for your loss but for your sins we can many times pour out floods of tears upon our losses when we can look upon Sin that was the true cause of all with dry eyes all the while I tell you if your heads were Fountains of waters and your eyes Rivers of tears you could never enough bewail those sins by which you have sinned so many godly Ministers into their graves of late for when faithful and pious Ministers are going off so fast from us 't is a sad sign of some severe judgment that is coming on apace therefore lay this loss to heart To lose such a painful pious faithful Labourer as he was it is no little loss He had a large heart as the sand upon the Sea-shore for the doing of good he was one that did bestir himself to do good and did much work in a little time