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A sermon preached Decemb. 16. 1654. At the funerall of Mr Andrevv Pern, preacher of the Word of God at Wilby in Northampton-shire. By Samuel Ainsworth rector of Kelmarsh.
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Ainsworth, Samuel.
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A SERMON Preached Decemb. 16. 1654. AT THE FVNERALL OF Mr ANDREVV PERN Preacher of the Word of God at Wilby in Northampton-shire BY SAMVEL AINSWORTH Rector of Kelmarsh LONDON Printed for William Gilbertson and are to be sold by Thomas Collins neare Alhallows Church in Northampton 1655. To the Religious and my much honoured Aunt Mrs Mary Pern Grace and peace be multiplied Deare Aunt WE read in the first Chapter of Ruth how Naomi a very gracious Matron lost first her Husband and not long after her two Sons Your condition is not much though somewhat unlike hers Your losse in respect of your Husband is not a jot inferiour to hers her losse in respect of her children was greater than yours she lost two Sons you a Daughter only what difference soever there hath been between your losses I suppose there is none between your griefes When you enjoyed both Husband and Child you might well be called Naomi pleasant but since the wise God hath deprived you of them both the name Marah bitter hath been more sutable to your condition for it hath been sad and bitter To tell you what a Husband you have lost were but to encrease your sorrow which I feare needs stopping rather than venting I shall therefore observe that course which was used by the Iews who when their deare friends or neighbours had lost either Husband or Wife Father or Child they brought them a cup of consolation for to comfort them Jer. 16.7 The Prophet David tels us Psal 119.50 That the word of God was his comfort in his affliction and the Apostle Paul labours to support the Thessalonians for the losse of their Christian friends by setting the word of God before them 1 Thes 4.18 These following Scriptures therefore are the cup of consolation with which I shall present you to mitigate your too much abounding sorrow Prov. 3.12 Whom the Lord loveth he correcteth even as a father the son in whom he delighteth Rom. 8.28 We know all things worke together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose Isa 27.9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Iacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sin Heb. 12.10 11. For they verily for a few daies chastened us after their own pleasure but he for our profit that we might be partakers of his holinesse Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous but grievous nevertheless afterwards it yeeldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby Isa 54.5 Thy maker is thy husband Psal 146.9 The Lord preserveth the strangers he releeveth the fatherless and widdow Now if God hath taken away your deare husband and child out of love to your soule if their naturall deaths shall promote your spirituall life if their taking up to heaven shall prepare and make you fitter for heaven if their losse shall be your gaine the purging away of your drosse and the making of you a more refined vessell for your Masters use the weakning of your corruptions and the strengthning of your graces if God will be a husband to you whose love is more pure strong ravishing satisfying and durable than the love of the best husband that ever breath'd upon earth if God will be present with you in whose presence is fulnesse of joy and take care of you to protect and counsell to help and releeve you be your enemies and dangers what they will Have you not more cause to rejoyce in these spirituall priviledges than to mourne for your temporall losses Take therefore the counsell of the Apostle 1 Thes 4.18 Comfort your selfe in the meditation of these Scriptures Do as David did when he had lost all at Ziglag encourage your selfe in the Lord your God 1 Sam. 30.6 Although Cisterns fail yet God is a fountaine that cannot be drawn dry when the Creature neither is nor can be the same to us yet God is the same yesterday and to day and for ever Heb. 13.8 Now that the God of all grace and consolation would make up your losses by the abundant supplies of his blessed Spirit sanctifie his correcting hand unto you support you under your heavy burden and fit you with all joy and peace in beleeving is the prayer of Your sympathizing and much obliged kinsman SAMUEL AINSVVORTH A SERMON 2 Kings 13.14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sicknesse whereof he died and Joash the King of Israel came down unto him and wept over his face and said O my father my father the Chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof IN these words we may take notice of these two generall parts First Elisha's sicknesse wherin we may consider 1. Who this Elisha was he was not only a holy man but a holy Prophet 2. The event of his sicknesse sick he was and that unto death and died of this his sicknesse Secondly Joash's visiting of him in this his sicknesse 1. Who this Joash was who came to visit him no mean person no plaine country man no poore neighbour but a man of eminent place and dignity he was no lesse than a King and King of Israel 2. The paines he took to visit him he did not take a step or two to see the Prophet Elisha was now no neere neighbour he was either at Jericho or at Bethel or in some other place remote from Samaria the usuall seat of the Kings of Israel and from whence Joash came down to visit him It had been no small favour for so great a Prince to have sent one of his choice favourites upon this errand and to have staied at home himselfe but he thought it not sufficient to dispatch his servant with a How do you but waits upon the poore Prophet in his own person he questions it not whether it would not be too great a condescension for his excellent Majesty to see how so meane a subject did he made no scruple whether his disease might not be noysome or infectious he waved these things stood not upon his magnificency but makes a journey himselfe 3. The motive that prevailed with him to visit this man of God which makes the action more commendable it was nothing else but that respect which he did beare unto him Elisha had been a great friend to the State secured it againe and againe against the incursions of the Syrians procured water for the Armies of Israel when they were in danger to perish for want of it assured them of the great victory that they should obtaine against the Ammonites helpt them also when they were at a dead lift by his prayers these worthy acts were remembred by this King who honoured the Prophet for them and exprest what high thoughts he had of him by giving of him such a friendly and honourable visit Ahab the Predecessor of Joash though not immediately would never have shewed such kindnesse to Elijah the predecessor of Elisha he would rather have been glad of then