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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30217	A sermon preached at Owburne in Buckinghamshire at the funerall of the right worshipfull, and truly religious gentlewoman, Mris Margaret Elmes On the twenty-seaventh of Iuly. 1641. By George Burches batchlour of divinity.	Burches, George, d. 1658.	1641 (1641)	Wing B5615; ESTC R215067	18,917	40

Doubling over his Orisons and no whit further he was at the yeares end then at the beginning but labour to goe forward in the wayes of obedience If here you faint your losse will prove great for you loose no lesse then a crown Which is not a voluptuous crown of Roses as wisdome speakes nor a crowne of pride to which a woe belongeth as Esay 28. Nor such a crowne which is set upon the heads of Dragons and beasts in the Revelation and so Corona vitiosa ruinosa as one speaks nor yet as the Poets crownes of Lawrell and Ivy litle better then weeds which wrapt about Ionah's head trash of no valew And as our Saviour said that his kingdom was not of this world so these crownes are none of his crowns but a crowne where death hath no claime a crowne where danger is not incident a crowne not encompassed with crosses but a crowne enriched with everlasting comforts O labour then to fight valiantly for it be not faint-hearted In Gideons army all faint-hearted souldiers were commanded to stay at home No cowards shall ever obtaine this crowne It is a strange thing to consider how inconstant christians are in seeking this crowne of righteousnesse some are of many minds many moods now forward then backward full of motions and commotions ebbing and flowing like Euripus seaven times a day Some are neither forward nor backward neither ebbe nor flow like Mare mortuum but are betwixt the religious and irreligious just standing water But these like cowards goe back fall off in the day of battaile I meane at the day of death when Satan doth double his forces As the king of Assyria charged his captaines to fight neither with small nor great save only with the King of Israel 1. Kings 22. So the Prince of darknesse commands the leader of his troupes and those that stand at the head of his company his master-temptations not so fight against any vertue small or great but continuance in goodnesse quam solùm novit coronari Vpon whose head he knowes the crowne must fall Then hee bestirres himselfe not only because he knowes his owne time is but short but because he perceives ours to bee so Therefore he doubles his forcss as if he still meanes to make the last conflict the sorest resolving to set all at the stake and either now to winne or sit downe with losse and despaire Oh how should we now labour then to procure a true faith and having got it to keep it that so our common enemy may not beat off our constancy in fighting under his colours who in the end will surely crowne us We know eternall life is not given to all for then we would all presume nor to none for then wee would despaire But vincenti dabitur to him that overcometh he that fighteth the good fight of faith as S. Paul did in the text and as our gracious sister this renowned Gentlewoman hath done whom you now see to have finished her course and whom as hereafter I shall declare hath kept the faith Let this then teach thee to be valiant unto the last minute The eye of the captaine the Lord Iesus is upon thee if thou faint to cheare thee if thou fight to second thee if thou conquer to crowne the as he did S. Paul in the text who being confident of the same did thus conclude with himselfe I haue fought c. And so I am come from the text to the occasion The death of man in generall is able to make our sorrowes runne what pitty is it that hee that even now was Monarch of the ayre to breath where he listed should suddenly have his lungs stopt with dust and bee lockt up well-nigh for ever in the breathlesse earth That he that kept the best cōpany with men should forthwith have no better companions then wormes Certainly if wee could blow up this powder into our heads it might awake our souls from sleeping in security especially if we take up this consideration withall that the same death that slew our worthy sister here may next tread upon our own heeles But above all things me thinks this should prevayle most with us the death of the faithfull Saints of God Which as it is precious in Gods eyes so the more pittyfull for us to behold Whē an ordinary persō breakes ranck and dyes there falls a vapour but when a godly person dyes there falls a stare When the Israelites shook of Aegypt and departed they rob'd the Aegyptians and when a good person shakes of the world she robbes the world Such was the death of this thrice worthy and ever renowned gentlewoman whom death too soone for us though too late for her selfe hath with an Habeas corpus removed into another world I know it is an usuall custome upon such solemne occafions as this to receive the worth of such persons as wee know both in life and death to bee truly commendable And to warrant our actions wee have Gods word to second us who as he would have the name of the wicked to rot so he would have that the memoriall of the righteous should remaine for ever On which ground I am the more bold to blaze her worth the commemoration whereof as it is profitable to posterity so is it likewise acceptable and pleasing to God who in the fame of his Saints is chiefly honoured as the sole Author of every good and perfect guift I●m 1.17 Their lives are as lines by which we may leade our owne Polyb. hist lib. 1. And as Polybius wisely observeth there is not a more expedite way to instruct us and to stir us up unto a good life then by observing the sincere piety of faithfull persons whom the Almighty hath been pleased to gather to himselfe Vt qui praeceptis non accendimur saltem exemplis incitemur Greg Mor. l. 9. cap. 3. We are not easily moved by precepts examples are more prevalent practise having proved that facile in performance which to our sluggish dispositions by precept only seemed very difficult therefore That God may have praise and we reap the profit of an excellent patterne I shall adventure as well as I can to shew forth Her honour whom I know to be every way truly honourable But before I make my words good let your beliefe goe along with me to remove all prejudiciall conceits For I doe sincerely confesse I shall not out of privat affection prejudice the truth For though Her memory be deare to me as the reliques of our loving friend are wont to be yet truth must still be dearer 1. Cor. 13.6 and love it selfe rejoyceth in the truth Let others if they please imitate bad lawyers who for their fees will plead and commend any cause For my owne part my conscience is not of so large a size neither will I extend it further then her worth and goodnesse shall bind me We will beginne therefore in the first place from whence she took