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A02735	Deaths aduantage little regarded, and The soules solace against sorrow Preached in two funerall sermons at Childwal in Lancashire at the buriall of Mistris Katherin Brettergh the third of Iune. 1601. The one by William Harrison, one of the preachers appointed by her. Maiestie for the countie palatine of Lancaster, the other by William Leygh, Bachelor of Diuinitie, and pastor of Standish. Whereunto is annexed, the Christian life and godly death of the said gentlevvoman.	Harrison, William, d. 1625.; Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1602 (1602)	STC 12866; ESTC S117329	105,988	243

catched in a snare or grinne and held fast in it as well by one claw as by both legs or the whole body so the Diuell who layeth snares for our soules may catch and hold them as well by one sinne as by many I acknowledge there is imperfection in all Righteous Lot had a fault iust Noah had a fall Dauid shewed his infirmity and Peter his frailty yet the righteous either sinne of ignorance not knowing that they doe amisse or if they know it it is not often but seldome afterward they are grieued for it and made more carefull to auoyde it But he which without repentance continueth still in one grosse sinne and often practiseth it cannot be reputed a righteous man though he eschue many other sinnes A little leauen sowreth the whole lumpe As dead flyes putrefie a whole boxe of oyntment and a little folly him that is in estimation for wisdome so one sinne being continually practised spoileth all his righteousnes Secondly a righteous man may be known by the end whereunto his workes of righteousnes are directed and that is the glory of God Let your light so shine before men saith Christ that they may see your good workes and glorifie your father which is in heauen And Paul saith Whether ye eate or drinke or whatsoeuer else yee doe doe all to the glorie of God Though men practise neuer so many good workes yet if in doing of them they propound not this end they are not to be accounted righteous men no more then he is to be esteemed a good Archer which can draw a strong bow hath a faire loose and doth shoote farre and yet alwayes shootes a great way off from the marke In this respect the Pharisies were not to be reckoned in the number of righteous men for they did all to be seene of men they did fast and pray and giue almes to be seene of men The Papists also faile in this propertie for they doe all to merit thereby like to hired seruants and labourers which worke for their wages and would do little or nothing for their Masters vnlesse they might bee well paied for their paines But we must acknowledge our selues not to bee seruants but sonnes and not sonnes of the bond-woman but of the free-woman and that we ought of dutie to serue the Lord all the daies of our liues though we should receiue nothing for our labour In all our workes we must seeke his glorie if he bestow any reward vpon vs we may take it as an vndeserued gift of his bountifull goodnes I graunt indeede that righteous men haue some hypocrisie and vaineglorie mingled with sinceritie in their best actions and do some things as well for their owne prayse as Gods glorie yet if there be more synceritie in them then hypocrisie if they doe more good works for Gods glorie then for other sinister ends they lose not the name and dignitie of righteous men For as the Philosophers teach concerning elementary bodies that they are not made of one element onely but of all foure yet haue their names of the praedominant element as some are called earthly bodies not watery aeriall or fiery bodies because they haue more earth then water or ayre in them and as the Phisitians say of the humours in mans body that although they be not pure but mixed one with another yet euery one doth carry the name of that humour which doth most abound so may wee say of the generall conuersation and the particular actions of men that if in them they seeke more the glorie of God then their owne prayse or profit they are truely righteous Thirdly a righteous man may be knowne by his perseuerance in righteousnes for he which is truely made righteous by faith in Christ and sanctification of the spirit will continue righteous vnto the end True and sauing righteousnes is one of those gifts of God which are without repentance It can not be lost fully and finally Those which turne from their righteousnes and commit iniquitie shall not liue their former righteousnes shall be forgotten and they shall dye in the sinnes which they haue committed If the righteousnes of any bee like a morning cloud or as morning dew which is dryed vp and vanisheth away so soone as the sunne ascendeth on high it shall neuer be acceptable to God He onely which continueth righteous to the ende shall bee saued As God neuer ceaseth to bestow blessings vpon vs so should we neuer cease to serue him in holines and righteousnes all the dayes of our liues Though we hire seruants for a yeare and take apprentices for seuen yeares yet must wee serue the Lord for euer Yea the righteous do not only hold fast that which they haue receiued but their teeth are so set on edge with the sweete taste of righteou●●es that still they desire to increase it So many as are perfect will be thus minded with Paul not to count themselues as if they had already attained to it but they forget that which is behind and endeuour themselues vnto that which is before and follow hard toward the marke of the price of the high calling of God in Iesus Christ. Lastly a righteous man may be knowne by his affection to righteousnes in others He which loues righteousnes it selfe will loue it as well in others as in himselfe yea he will loue all others in whom he beholdeth any seeds of righteousnes his delight will be in the Saints that are in the earth and in them which excell in vertue He which loueth a child for his fathers sake as Dauid loued Mephibosheth for Ionathans sake loueth the father himselfe better so he which loueth righteous men for righteousnes sake declareth thereby that he loueth righteousnes it selfe farre better Moreouer a righteous man loueth righteousnes so wel that he wil labour to make others as righteous as himselfe Dauid promised that if the Lord would create in him a cleane heart and renue a right spirit within him and restore him to the ioy of his saluation then shall I teach thy wayes to the wicked and sinners shall be conuerted vnto thee And Peter when he is conuerted must strengthen his brethren As euery thing seeketh to beget his like so a righteous man seeketh to make another righteous As fire cannot be smoothered whē once it hath taken hold in any place and findeth matter to worke vpon but will burne further and further till it haue consumed all before it so true righteousnes wrought in the heart of one cannot there be suppressed but will spread it selfe abroade and worke vpon others for their conuersion He which would be esteemed righteous and yet keepeth all his righteousnes to himselfe and doth not impart vnto others may iustly be suspected to haue no sound righteousnes at all The second title giuen to them which dyed mercifull men Which may be taken two waies either passiuely or actiuely Passiuely that

Princes say Pesants say all corruption thou art my father rottennes thou art my mother wormes and vermine yee are my sisters yee are my brethren say graue thou art my bed sheet thou art my shrine earth thou art my couer greene grasle thou art my carpet death demaund thy due and thou gathering host Dan come last sweepe all away And now my brethren that all is gone where is the remaine of our religious hope spes in olla nay spes in vrna There is hope in the graue ●o saith Isaiah the sonne of Amos in this place of all the Prophets most Euangelical and of al the Euangelists most Propheticall In which Scripture for the better carrying away of the whole you may obserue these special points First gladsome tydings from heauen and what it is peace to the soule and rest to the bodie Secondly gladsome tidings from heauen and to whom it is to all such as walke before him Euerie word if you weigh well truely Euangelicall I meane good newes from a farre countrie gladsome tidings of heauenly things What more acceptable then the welles of sweete water to a thirstie soule what more pleasing then to heare of peace in the time of warre what so to be desired in this moyling world as after toyle to heare of rest And what so comfortable to check all miserie as to heare of mercie And fully to be assured that in the middest of death we are in life and that peace shall come This impression of immortalitie and assured hope of deliuerance from daunger death and miserie hath euer possessed the hearts of Gods Saints and beene as it were a naile of the sanctuarie to keepe them in life and fasten them to a further hope of future perfection Thus peace shall come Iob in the plea of all his miseries as hee thought endles easeles and remediles to the weake and sillie eye of flesh and blood yet vpon a better suruey with the single eye of faith helde by this verie hope and none other Peace shall come For when hee had grieuouslie complained that the Lord had hedged vp his waies that hee could not passe and set darkensse in his paths when hee had spoiled him of his honour and taken the Diadem from his head when he had destroyed him on euerie side and remooued his hope like a tree when his armies of afflictions came together made their way vpon him and camped about his tabernacle when his brethren were remoued farre from him and his acquaintance were strangers vnto him when his neighbours had forsaken him and his familiars had forgotten him when his houshold seruants both men maides tooke him for a straunger and would not answere him though hee prayed them with his mouth when his breath was straunge vnto his wife though he besought her too for the childrens sake of his owne bodie when the wicked despised him his secret friends abhorred him and those whom he loued were turned against him finallie when beside these great losses and most cruel vnkindnesses he was tucht in his own person so as his bone claue to his flesh and he onlie escaped with the skin of his teeth yet in all these dolours thus he demurred Peace shall come though in different words yet in equall sense hee made it the issue of all his maladies Scio quod redemptor meus viuit I know that my redeemer liueth and hee shall stand last on the earth and though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie yet shall I see God in my flesh peace shall ●ome Oh that these wordes were now written Oh that they were written euen in a booke grauen with an i●on pen in lead or in ●●one for euer to the ●●lace of al distressed Saints I know that my Redeemer liueth that peace shall come Dauid euen distressed Dauid anchored vpon this hold when tossed vpon the ●eas of worldlie woes he felt the froth and furie of Saules rage and Doegs despite the rebellion and incest of his owne children besides the horror of his proper sinnes which night by night caused him to water his couch with teares all these surges had sunke his soule had not his eyes been fixed vpon this pr●montorie bonae spei Peace shall come which vndoubtedly he felt in his heart when he spake with his mouth and said to the solace of his shrinking soule I should vtterly haue fainted but that I beleeued verely to see the goodnes of the Lord in the land of the liuing O tarrie then the Lords leasure be strong and he shall comfort thy heart Paul is powerfull in this kinde of pleading and if you marke it well in the course of all his Epistles you shall finde that euer as afflictions were multiplied his ioyes were increased Death was to him an aduantage dissolution was his desire and to be with Christ was best of all Peace shall come was his plea against all the issues of death and doome When in labours more abundant in stripes aboue measure in prison more plentiously in death often when of the Iewes fiue times he had receiued fortie stripes saue one when thrise beaten with roddes once stoned thrise hee had suffered shipwracke and beene in the deepe sea both night and day when in iourneyings often in perils of water in perils of robbers in perils of his owne nation in perils among the gentiles in perils in the citie in perils in the wildernes in perils in the sea in perils among false brethren in wearines and painefulnes in watchings often in hunger and thirst in fasting often in cold and nakednes and to conclude when beside the things that were outward hee was combred day lie and had the care of all the Churches yet here was his hold and to this hope was hee fastned I account that the afflictions of this present time are not worthie of the glorie which shall be shewed vnto vs. Therefore we faint not saith the blessed Apostle vpon the like plea but though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed daylie for our light afflictions which is but for a moment causeth vnto vs a farre more excellent and eternall waight of glorie while wee looke not on the things which are seene but on the things which are not scene for the things which are seene are temporall but the things which are not seene are eternall Peace shall come ●●ul Paul this issue of life and soule-solace his heauenlie hold and spirituall rauishment hath made thee to forget all that is behind and to hold hard vnto that marke which is before euen Iesus Christ the authour and finisher of thy faith Here in grace thy life was hid in Christ and for that now in glorie it doth appeare in Christ happie place happie Paul happie shrine happie Saint so to bee blessed both in life and death woe vnto vs vpon whom the ends of this world are come if being compassed with

way he hath trode the wine-presse alone and there was none is helpe The cup of bitter affliction whereof he tasted agonizing in the garden for no intreatie with his Father could passe from him to any other Oye Papists at last in the name of God be wise and warned leaue off your mixtures away with your medleys and if you desire either peace to your soules or rest to your bodies only walke before him Meddle with no merit of man pardon of Pope meede of Martyrs or pride of your owne workes vnwisely wrought Make no mixtures of the sacred water and bloud which flowed frō the side of Christ with the bloud of Hales and Becket or with the inchanted holy water of an vnhallowed Priest Neuer match your triple crowne of gold and diamonds glittering with the single crowne of thorne piercing And neuer thinke the puri●ie of the word will abide the mixtures of your traditions the text your glosses the Church your Idols the arke of God your Dagon nor the poore priesthood of Christ your papall pride and Popedome Looke for none other but that the bodie and soule of your religion like the image Nebuchadnezzar saw p●tcht together of gold siluer brasse iron and clay will and shall ●inner when the stone cut out without hands shall smite the same Your coate is of ●i●●ie wool●ie not for our wearing Your familie like Micha of mount Ephraim and not for our dwelling for as he had so haue you an house of gods an Ephod and a Teraphim he would serue both God and Idols and so doe you And as for vs who beleeue and looke after better things we say with the poore Paralyticke in disclaime of all others helpe it is Iesus that made vs whole And we say with Abraham when we go to sacrifice thou seruant stay here I and the childe will walke alone And now for conclusion by the Lords commaund that wee are for Bethel we haue with Iacobs familie put away the strange gods that were among vs we haue clensed our selues and chaunged our garmēts pluckt off our earings and put all into the hand of our Iacob our Elizabeth who faithfully for her God and graciously for her people hath buryed Pop●rie with it execrable things vnder an oke at Shechem neuer to be reuiued neuer to be found out Amen Amen Lastly for an end sith the time is past and I feare much I haue wearied your patience ouer-long From the proper obiect of our faith walking come we to the progresse and increase of both contayned in this word walketh Where you may see as in a glasse chrystaline that a christian life is not a standing still but a walking on and growth in the doctrine of faith and practice of godlines The first blessing that euer God gaue after the creation was increase and multiplie which tooke it effect not only in the creatures by propagation of kinde but also in his gifts graces by renouation of minds new birth growth in knowledge true faith and godlines All the trees in Paradise did grow and all the floods in Paradise did flow to teach vs that we must not stād still at a stay lest either wee be fruitles and so accursed or become puddle water and so vnprofitable The finest cloath will weare if it be not vsed the purest gold will rust if it be not handled the sweetest balme will corrupt if it be not broken and the cleerest fountaine will stincke if it runne not So are the graces of God and doctrines of the beginnings of Christ though of themselues pure as gold sweete as balme cleere as a fountaine yet in respect of vs vnprofitable if we proceed not further but there stand still Foundations they are I graunt for the scripture hath said it Hebr. 6. 1. But what of that and what is the foundation be it of Beryll Topaze or Chrisolite if you build not vpon it proceed no further in the work In the first of Ezechiel where the vision of gifts and graces are described it is said that the beasts winds and wheeles went as the spirit lead them and they returned not when they went foorth and if at any time they stood they let downe their wings as vnprofitable then vntill the Lord had put power in them of further proceeding And in the same Prophet againe where the like gifts are described by another vision you may finde that from vnder the threshold of Gods sanctuary the waters issue out and they runne East West North and South The●mā with the line measured a thousand ●ubi●s and the waters were to the anckles Againe he measured a thousand and they were to the kn●os he measured againe and they were to the loynes after he measured againe and it was a riuer impossible signifying that the graces of God should neuer decrease but euer abound in his Church The fishers should spread out their nets frō En-gedi to En-egl●um The trees shuld grow vpon the brinke of the riuer on this side and on that side with leaues not fading fruit not failing leaues for medicine fruite for meate and fruite euer new according to his moueths As for the miry places thereof saith the Prophet and the maris●ies which stand still they shall not be holesome but they shall be made ●alt pits You may remember when Aarons Priesthood should be confirmed all the tribes with their names cast their rods into the mercie-●eate and none blossomed but Aarons You are a kingly people and a royall Priesthood ò bud bloome blossome and bring foorth fruit worthy amendment and newnes of life Dauid said of his Saints Ibant de virtute in virtutem they went from strength to strength and from faith to faith as it is written from the faith of the promise to the faith of the performance from the faith of the letter that killeth to the faith of the spirit that giueth life from the faith of Christ his humiliation in misery to the faith of his exaltation in glorie from the faith of the first resurrection from sinne to the faith of the second resurrectiō from death from the faith of the law wounding to the faith of the Gospell curing from the faith of the Prophets ●owing to that faith of the Apostles reaping from the faith of the old sacrifice giuing to God to the faith of the new sacraments receiuing from God in a word from the faith of the old couenant wherein God speaketh to the faith of the new restament wherein Christ bleedeth Of al which I may conclude with Haymo Ex side qua cōcipitur corde profertur ore exhibetur opere iustus viuit By faith conceiued in the hart professed with the mouth practised with the hand the righteous man liueth Paul is plentifull in this doctrine and hauing once laid the ground of faith hee vrgeth nothing more then the increase of faith He tels the Romanes That by the Gospell