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truth_n	holy_a	receive_v	spirit_n	3,955	5	5.1071	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60385	Ergon pseudous kai misthos alētheias, or, The wicked mans sad disappointment and the righteous mans sure recompence being a sermon preached the 17th day of October, 1661, at the solemn funerals of the Right Worshipful Sir Abraham Raynardson, Knight, late alderman of London / by George Smalwood.	Smalwood, George, 1604-1679.	1661 (1661)	Wing S4006; ESTC R10143	27,597	40

against the fear of death when all the wealth and greatness in the world will stand you in no stead For as the wise man saith Riches profit not in the day of wrath but righteousness delivereth from death Prov. 11. 4. It will deliver you from the evil of death temporal and from the power of death eternal That which is a terror to others shall be a rejoycing to you and when death approacheth you shall be able to lift your heads with comfort as knowing that your redemption draweth nigh You shall be able to say with good Hezekiah Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that which is good in thy sight Isa 38. 3. You shall be able to worship God and say with holy Jacob Lord I have waited for thy salvation You shall breath out your souls with Saint Stephens Prayer Lord Jesus receive my spirit You shall have life and light and joy and peace and blessedness and what not that is good to have As God hath given you grace to make you righteous so he will give you glory to make you blessed As you have sown the righteousness here so you shall be sure to reap the reward of righteousness hereafter For to him that soweth c. Amen And so I leave the Text. And now let me crave your patience a little longer to speak a few words of the occasion of our present meeting though it is not my custome to make large Panegyricks or commendatory Orations at the Funerals of the dead because I know the comfort of a sincere Christian is That his praise is not of men but of God Yet for example and encouragement to others I cannot but speak something of this worthy and Heroick Citizen Sir Abraham Raynardson Knight late Alderman and sometime Lord Mayor of this honorable City of London upon whom my Text is a fit Commentary and I am perswaded may be truly applied to his practice For as far as I was able to judge by the course of his conversation for those many years acquaintance which I had with him and the experience I had of him I think I may truly say of him he was one that sowed righteousness For as to his life and conversation he always appeared to me and I think to all others that knew him to be very innocent and inoffensive a man of a very strict life walking as it was said of Zachary and Elizabeth in all the Ordinances and Commandments of God though not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without sin for who walk so yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without blame No man as ever I heard could justly charge any thing upon him 1. As for his piety to God he was a man Orthodox and sound in the Faith not tainted with any Heretical opinion or drawn away from the truth established amongst us as too many have been in this time of Apostacy He was a diligent and constant attender upon the publick Ordinances upon the Lords dayes a carefull observer of holy Duties in his Family and as I have been informed his closet was conscious to his secret devotions He was a man of few word and affected not as many do 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to make a fair shew in the flesh and to say wirh Jehu come see my zeal for the Lord of hosts but I am perswaded by all probabilities he was constant in putting up his suits and supplications at the Throne of grace in secret remembring our Saviours counsel Matth. 6. 6. Thou when thou prayest enter into thy Closet and when thou hast shut thy door pray to thy Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly this I have reason to think was his practice 2. For his relations he was a loving Husband and a careful Father one that not onely made good provision for their outward estate by his industry in his Calling and Gods blessing upon it but was also carefull of the welfare of their souls witness the good admonitions and counsels to his Children upon his Death-bed which I hope will make such an impression upon their Spirits as shall not easily be forgotten viz. to be constant in calling upon the Name of God and to serve him faithfully to be dutifull and obedient to their Mother and to live in love and unity one with another The Lord grant them grace to remember and practice these things and follow their deceased Fathers advise as the Rechabites did the counsel of their father Jonadab that the blessing of God may rest upon them 3. For his dealing with men he was very carefull to sowe this seed of righteousness he was very exact and just in all his dealings oppressing no man defrauding no man as I hope all that he dealt with can bear witness I never heard the least blemish cast upon him in this re +spect and this is no mean commendation We finde nothing more pressed in Scripture then righteous dealing with men and nothing more condemned then the contrary God saith He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God Mi●h 6. 8. The wise man telleth us That a false ballance is abomination to the Lord but a just weight is his delight Prov. 11. 1. This is the voice of God throughout the Scriptures he had rather no sacrifices should be offered upon his altar then that they should be the fruits of wrong and violence he professeth plainly I the Lord love judgement I hate robbery for burnt-offering Isa 61. 8. Indeed it is no true piety that is separated from justice and honesty nor real honesty if it be divided from true piety he that seemeth to be zealous in the duties of Religion and yet makes no conscience of his dealings with men is but a glorious hypocrite and he that dealeth justly with men and hath no due care of the duties of piety to God is but an honest Infidel both joyned together make a sincere Christian and such a one I am perswaded was this worthy Knight 4. For his mercy and liberality to the poor he did not blow a Trumpet before his alms-deeds neither shall I onely thus much I can say his hands were opened to the necessities of the poor and those of the place where he lived are sensible that they have lost a good Benefactor The stream of his bounty did run chiefly in one Channel viz. in taking poor children and placing them in such Callings wherein they might get their own bread and provide things honest in the sight of men This was a very good work an odour of a sweet smell yet this was not all the beams of his charity did shine upon other objects while he lived and as the Sun after his setting casts some light above the Horizon so now his Sun is set some beames