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A40428	The Israelite indeed a sermon preached at the funeral of Mark Cottle, Esq., late register of the Prerogative-Office, on Thursday, Jan. 5, 1681 / by Sam. Freeman ...	Freeman, Samuel, 1643-1700.	1682 (1682)	Wing F2141; ESTC R65	12,038	36

afore time What a little measure of cunning and policy would many times have serv'd to have brought off the primitive Christians Euseb l. 8. c. 3. when they were apprehended and arraigned at the barr of their bloody Persecutors when with money they might either have been excus'd from sacrificing or suborn'd Witnesses that they had done it though they did it not when by making Friends or complying in any the least particular with their Idolatrous Worship they might have escap'd they chose rather to dye than to be guilty in any degree of dissembling their holy Religion The time would fail me should I speak of the unbended Constancy or as the Heathens stil'd it obstinacy of Ignatius Policarp Justine and those innumerable Armies of holy Martyrs who with one word Christiani sumus tired out the Cruelties and vanquisht the Tyrannies of their proudest Persecutors Having thus given you an Account of the true Israelite's religious Deportment towards God I proceed II. To represent to you his Civil conversation with men As he throughly understands his Relations Duties and Concernments in respect of men so hee 's careful to discharge them with no less uprightness and integrity But here that I may not be tedious I must croud up many Particulars in a little room He is one Who is immoveably Loyal to his Prince and thinks himself bound to be so by the same Principles as he is to be Religious namely of Conscience and the highest fear Wherefore ye must needs be subject Rom. 13. 2 5. not only for wrath but for conscience sake They that resist receive to themselves damnation Who is sincere in his words and whenever he speaks takes care that his words truly express the thoughts and intentions of his mind And though sometimes for good reasons he may conceal his mind and not at every turn shoot his Bolt and satisfie every impertinent Enquirer yet he never denies or minces the Truth when he ought and is called to declare it His mind and his tongue ever go together and without the help of an equivocation or mental reservation are always found at a perfect agreement with one another This is that simplicity of Conversation our Saviour requires when he says Matth. 5. 37. Let your Communication be Yea yea Nay nay Who is faithful in his Promises and never fails to make them good although it be to his own prejudice as he is careful not to run himself into Inconveniences by hasty Promises so he is as sollicitous to crown them with honest performance choosing rather to keep his word with loss than to break it for his advantage Remembring that Gods Promises are Yea and Amen hee 's never at ease till his are so too and it can be nothing but an utter disability in him if at any time he proves worse than his word This the Psalmist makes one chief ingredient in the true Israelite Psalm 15. 4. He that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not Who is upright in his Dealings whom no temptations of profit nor freedon from the fears of discovery can entice either by fraud or violence to do the least wrong or injury to his Neighbour He takes advantage of no mans ignorance or unskilfulness to outwit or over-reach him of no mans oversight or mistake to turn it to his own benefit of no mans easiness or confidence in him to beguile or betray him The more likely he is to be believ'd the more careful he is what he speaks the less liable to be suspected the closer he keeps to the Rules of Honesty So exact is he in his Trading and so afraid of the unclean portion of Injustice that he studiously declines all those ways of gaining that have but a bad name and are only suspected to be evil choosing rather to be poor Jer. 17. 11. than to get riches and not by right Who is above all flattery and dissimulation he never fawns upon any mans person to gain his favour nor complies with any mans humour by speaking or acting against the sense of his mind and although he be a man of great Candour and Ingenuity of great sweetness and obligingness in his Discourse and Conversation yet he never speaks only to please but to edifie and cares not much what offence his Discourse gives Eph. 4. 29. so it be useful and according to Truth Who perfectly hates all Slander and Calumny who is so far from inventing evil things and falsly imputing them to his Neighbour that he always thinks and speaks the best of men puts the most favourable construction on their words and actions and when an evil Report is brought to him chooses rather to let it dye in his hands than to add to it or make it worse in the telling of it Psalm 15. 3. He backbiteth not with his tongue nor doth evil to his Neighbour nor taketh up a reproach against his Neighbour Who is of a tender heart and open hand to the poor and needy whose Charity consists not in empty good will and good wishes in unprofitable good words and fair promises without performance like that mention'd in St. James James 2. 16. Depart in peace be warm'd be fill'd but giving nothing but in good Deeds in free and liberal Contributions in an active 1 Thess 1. 3. expensive indefatigable Beneficence call'd by the Apostle Heb. 6. 10. a work and labour of love To name no more Who is true to his trust and if by the Providence of God he comes to be rais'd to the Office of a Magistrate he considers more the duty of his place than the honour and dignity of it and laying aside all by-ends of popular applause and worldly advantages not regarding the smiles or the frowns of men their dislikes or their approbations sets himself to do that which in his Conscience he thinketh to be just and fit most conducive to the Glory of God and the publick Good Having thus shewn you what it is to be an Israelite indeed I come now to set before you those Considerations that may engage you to be so To this purpose 1. This is the best and most honourable Character that can be given of a man Therefore it is that our Saviour calls us to behold Nathanael as a rare and excellent Person Behold an Israelite indeed After the same manner does God speak of Job he brings him in if the expression may be pardon'd as it were in a boasting manner Job 1. 8. Hast thou consider'd my servant Job that there is none like him in the Earth a perfect and an upright man one that feareth God and escheweth evil This is the Character of a man that 's blessed and to whom God imputes no sin Psalm 32. 2. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth no sin and in whose spirit there is no guile The Character of a man that 's fit to approach the Glory and Presence of God Lord who shall dwell in thy

Tabernacle who shall rest upon thy holy Hill he that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness and speaketh the Truth in his heart This is the Character that 's given of Christ himself 1 Pet. 2. 22. who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth 2. The upright man is most likely to find safety and protection in this World He designing only that which is fair and reasonable he giving no just occasion of offence or provocation to any is not likely to meet with many Adversaries at least not with many such as will prove very mischievous and mortal to him No Wise man will trouble him all good men will love him and so prudently does he mannage himself and his Affairs that those that love him not cannot easily find an occasion to do him much hurt Who is he that will harm you says the Apostle if ye be followers of that which is good 1 Pet. 3. 13. To this we may add that his integrity entitles him to the promise of God and the care of his particular Providence Righteousness being the Glory of Gods own Nature and that for which he infinitely loves and esteems himself cannot wheresoever it resides but engage God for its protection There is a near resemblance and consequently a kind of friendship between God and all good men so that it is not in his power not to be good to the good Psalm 11. 7. The righteous Lord loveth righteousness his countenance beholds the upright God is the Governour of all men in general says Salvian but especially of those that deserve to be governed that is that deserve better than other men Great was that saying of Hermogenes in Plutarch The Gods that know all things and can do all things are so much my Friends and so highly concern'd for my welfare that I am never night nor day out of their watchful Providence whatever I do I have their assistance whatever I design I have their direction wherever I go I am under their wing and protection Now the protection God affords good men is usually by the Ministry of holy Angels The Platonists tell us That as men change their Natures and grow either better or worse they have the higher or lower Genij or Angels to attend upon them And so much is said of Socrates's Genius that it hath fill'd the Antients with matter of Discourse and Writing too This is certain that all good men are the particular charge of holy Angels for them do those morning Stars rise and set for them do those winged Messengers of Heaven go forth and return Psal 34. 7. The Angel of the Lord pitcheth his Tents about those that fear him and delivers them Heb. 1. 14. Are they not all Ministring Spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of Salvation 3. The Upright man is most certain to find comfort and support in the midst of all those Troubles and Calamities that befall him in this World Integrity indeed is the best Security that can be against them but so bad is the World that sometimes an Upright man suffers in it and that too for his uprightness but then his uprightness fills him with joy and peace unspeakable in the midst of them Psalm 119. 16 Great peace have they who love thy Law says the Psalmist and nothing shall offend them Not but that the Winds may blow as fiercely and the Storm fall as heavily upon them as upon others but then they have that within which others want a good Conscience and a sense of the Divine Favour to bear them up from fainting under them A strong high wind may shake his Branches and cause his Leaves to fall may strip him of all his outward Beauty and Glory but it can never pull him up by the Roots and make him fall A violent Storm and a raging Sea may tare his Tackling and rend his Mast but he shall escape with little or no damage whilest he sees others sink down and perish Isa. 43. 2. When thou passest through the Waters I will be with thee and through the Rivers they shall not overflow thee Well might the Apostle call it the Eph. 6. 14 Breast-plate of Righteousness So long as he is at peace with his own Mind he has such a Castle of Defence to fly to when he is beaten out of all other Holds which no Violence nor Malice can storm and batter what cares he for all the Threatnings of his Adversaries who knows that his heavenly Father holds their Malice in a Chain and how fiercely soever they may bark will not suffer them to bite him but when it is for his good for his Spiritual Improvement and Advantage 4. The Upright man is in the direct way to Eternal Happiness At that great and last Day of Reckoning when all the deceitful Works of Darkness shall be discover'd and all mysterious Wickedness shall have its Masks pull'd off when persons and things shall appear as they are without any Varnish or Paint to set them off when all perverse Intrigues shall be unravell'd and all practices of unjust and malitious Guile be expos'd to shame when no man shall deceive God as he did Men with a disguise of Piety nor no Wolf in Sheep's clothing steal on his right hand then shall the Righteous man stand forth in great boldness his Case shall be rightly stated his Person fully clear'd from all slanderous Aspersions what he hath done shall be approved what he hath lost shall be repay'd his Mistakes and Infirmities shall be overlook't and pardon'd his Alms and good Works shall be remembred and abundantly rewarded 1 Cor. 4. 5. God will judge the secrets of men and make manifest the hidden counsels of the heart and then shall every man have praise of God Psalm 37. 37. Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace What I have here said of the Upright man in general 't is most easie to Apply I believe it hath been done all this while by them that knew the Vertuous and Generous Mind that lately inhabited this Body They know the truth of all I shall say and much more that might be justly said in his Praise and Commendation To pass over the Quality of his Birth and Extraction although he had the Blessing to be descended from a Worthy and Antient Family whose Zeal for God and his Church as well as the Advantages of Birth and Estate made them eminent in their Country Not to mention likewise the Natural Endowments of his Mind though they were much above the rate of ordinary mens in whom was found so happy a Conjunction of a tenacious Memory and strong Judgment of a sharp Wit and piercing Understanding that it made him excellent in his Profession admirably accomplisht for a discreet dispatch of Business and a most useful Member to the Publick in his Generation Not to insist on these I choose to speak of his