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A09035	The end of the perfect man A sermon preached at the buriall of the right Honourable Sir Robert Spencer Knight Baron Spencer of Wormeleighton, Novemb. 6. 1627. in Braynton Church in Northamptonshire, by Richard Parre Bachelour in Divinity, and late fellow of Brasen-nose Colledge in Oxford, now rector of Ladbrook in Warwickshire.	Parr, Richard, 1591 or 2-1644.	1628 (1628)	STC 19323; ESTC S114075	28,531	44

heart and inward affections is exdiametro oppos'd to hypocrisie dissimulation or double dealing with God God loues trueth in the inward affections and if God loue it wee must loue it and why because in a conformity with God stands mans felicitie In this integrity of heart and trueth in the inward affections are two things holinesse and sincerity opposite to sinne and hypocrine wee must write holinesse vnto the Lord or else wee shall neuer see God we must season all our actions with the grace of Sincerity else wee shall neuer please him but the speculation of these two graces holinesse and sincerity will be more cleare in the view of their opposites finne and hypocrisie Peccatum sinne in the Schoole of God is taught to be an exorbitancie a swaruing from the rule of trueth What sinne is a transgression of the law and sinne in the Schooles of men is taught to be mendacium a lye and to lye is to goe against the minde or for the tongue te giue to the heart the lye in shedding of blood the hand onely lyes or is false to the heart and in a common lye the tongue onely lyes against the heart but in hypocrisie is a generall lye of the whole man not the tongue onely lyes to the heart but the eye the hand the knee and the foote also the hand is lifted vppe to heauen the eyes looke vp to God the feete goe the knees bend and bowe in the Temple of GOD but where 's the heart doth that goe along with them no! The heart of the couetous man is where his treasure is the heart of the ambitious man is where his honour is and the heart of a voluptuous man is where his pleasure is Haec tria pro trino numine mundus habet this is the trynitie which these worldlings worship for although their feete goe and their knees bowe in the Temple of God though their eyes and handes be lifted vp to heauen yet their hearts are groueling heer on earth it is the pollicy of sin to imitate sincerity and the guise of hypocrisie to follow the fashions of integrity the heires of darkenesse transforme themselues into Angels of Light and Bastard Christians can counterfeit perfect mens behauiours yet those heires of darkenesse are not children of the light nor these counterfeit true Christians and why because they come short in this grace of sincetity or integrity of heart The painter can paint the colour of the fire the forme of the flame thereof but cannot paint the heate of it right so the counterfeit cā resēble the perfect Christian in outward colours formes fashions but not in his integrity of heart or truth in the inward affections Esau can weepe bitterly like Hezechia Achab can put on sack-cloth like Mordecay and Saul can confesse in word I haue sinned as well as Dauid yet neither Esau nor Achab nor Saul was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a perfect man and why because none of their hearts were perfect in the sight of the Lord such hypocrites are the greatest enemies to the Church and truth yet they will seeke protection both from truth and Church Soe Celsus and Antiphon writing against the truth entitle their treatise the booke of truth Soe Romes Proselites vnder the name of the Church a Origen contra Celsum ouerthrow the Church Leo tels them truly Bcclesiae nomine armamini b Leo ep 83. contra eam dimicatis Such men make conscience iustice the greatest martyrs in the world the greate man in doing mischiefe pretendes justice the meane man alwaies cōscience God a good cōscience are pretended on alsides thus making good Luthers Prouerbe c Luther in 3. ad Coll. In nomine Domini incipit omne malum In the name of God they Christen all their actions But God is the God of truth and loues trueth in the inward affections therefore such hypocrisie must needes bee an abomination vnto him it offends him it grieues his spirit and at last it shall grieue the soules of them who are the authors of it for it shall spoyle them of inward joy and peace of conscience here and of eternall joy and peace in the kingdome of heauen hereafter It is storied of Constantinus surnamed Copronymus that he was neque Christianus neque Iudaeus nec Paganus sed Colluuies quaedam impietatis that hee was neither Christian Iewe nor Pagan but a certaine masse or heape of impieties and so indeed are all hypocrites with the Iewes they salute Christ as their king yet buffet him they protect him with the Christian yet persecute him with the Pagan they are named Israelites but liue like Aethiopians they speake with the voyce of Iacob but worke with the hands of Esau and walke with the feete of Ioab that any man may perceiue not by their coate but their party-coloured conditions that they are bastards and no Christians But leaue we these Hypocrites to their bastard broode to their vtter condemnation to their vae vae vae woe woe woe in the Gospell come to our selues whilest condemnation falls on their pates would we haue the saluation of God shewed on vs then must we with our perfect man in the text order our conuersation aright and endeauour to serue God in the grace of integrity with cleane hands pure hearts for who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord a Psalm 24.4.5 euen he that hath cleane hands and a pure heart hee shall receiue the blessing from the Lord and righteousnesse from the God of his saluation And is there any way or meanes to know whether wee our selues or others are such men of cleane hands and pure hearts yes Ex fructibus cognoscetis by their fruites yee shall know them for good and godly men are like trees planted by the riuer side which bring forth their fruites in due season I demand then what are these seasonable fruits Psalm 1.3 doubtles they are good works those good worksare of 3. sorts of Piety towards God of equity towards our neighbour of sobriety towards our selues as the works so the fruites are of 3. sorts by the 1. God is glorified by the 2. our neighbour is edified by the 3. our cōsciences are cōforted cōfirm'd in the assurance of saluatiō For howsoeuer good work sare no meriting causes yet they are witnessing effects or assurances of saluatiō Make your calling election sure 't is S. Peters exhortation 2. Pet. 1.10 but how 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by good workes Beza confesseth he saw two greeke Manuscripts with those expresse words of the text good works haue no place in the act of iustificatiō for by good works causatiue shall not man liuing be iustified without good workes consequutiue shall no man liuing bee saued Oh that all disputing about good workes were turned into doing and that euery Christian would take it into his higher consideration that although he is not now justified by good

his owne table with his children And lastly by his building beautifying and adorning the Houses of God where he liued and his exemplar liberalitie towards the Houses of Learning being one of the first that gaue his free will offering towards the building of the New Schooles in his Mother Vniversitie Oxon His loue to his Neighbour appeared in reiceuing the poore He made his House an Hospitall giuing euery Monday morning bread drinke and money to 15 poore folkes of the neighbouring Townes besides his charitable Almes at good Times his continuall reliefe of them at his gate he was a good Land-Lord to his Tennants insomuch that when one told him hee knew not how to lett his Land setting it at so low a rate his answer was that hee had rather a hundred should gaine by him then that one should cry out that hee had vndone him Hee was a kinde Master to his seruants providing for those that serued him faithfully that they might liue plentifully in their old age when they were not so well able to serue In quieting ending of differences among the richer wherein he was happie that none desired to appeale from or went away discontented at his sentence Diuerse of his friends trusted him with their whole estates with the education of their children and he euer performed the trust reposed in him carefully and punctually In our second sense interpretation the perfect man was the innocent man that wrongs no man oppresseth no man defraudes no man and then whom hath our perfect man harmed whose asse hath he taken as Samuel's iustification runnes on nay how many oxen hath he giuen at his gates Consider Our perfect man in our third sense or interpretation for the simple and plaine dealing man and then with whom hath our perfect man dealt double His plainesse truth sought no corners vsed no aequivocation no mentall reservations as starting holes that 's a guise peculiar to Romane Proselites his plainesse feared no colours nor hid it selfe vnder the coppy of a fained countenance no his rule was the olde Proverbiall rule Qui vadit planè Prov. 28.18 vadit sanè he that walkes plainely walkes safely and in the end shall dye as our perfect man did Peaceably Lastly take our perfect man in our last sense or interpretation for that man who is Integer vitae scelerisque purus a man of integrity of heart vprightnesse of life and conversation then what shall we say of him who endear oured rather to be good in deed before God then to be taken onely or thought to bee good before men who iudged zeale by truth in 's inward affections desiring to approue himselfe to God in the witnesse of a good conscience Now wee may iudge of the Conscience of the truth of the trees by the fruites a good tree is a good man which brings forth good fruites these good fruits are good workes and then I dare be bold to proclaime to the world that our perfect man was a good man because he was fruitfull and rich in good workes And as hee was thus and all these waies a perfect man perfect in regard of innocencie perfect in regard of harmelesse simplicity perfect in regard of integrty and perfect in regard of the mistery of godlinesse and sauing points of diuinity So likewise was he a perfect man in regard of many arts sciences the hand-maides to that Queene and mistresse And for his skill in Antiquities armes alliances it was singular And for his perfection in Politicall and state affaires that appeared to the world as often as hee was called to the great Councell of the Kingdome wherein hee laboured for the publique imploying his best indeauours to aduance the good of the King and Kingdome which he euer thought to haue so strict a relation that the good of the one could not subsist without the good of the other and it pleased God so to blesse him that both the King and Kingdome had a good opinion of him Our late Soueraigne King Iames of happy memory thought soe well of him that he imployed him in an honourable Embassage to a forraine Prince wherein hee serued his M ● with a great deale of loyall affection and was well accepted on both sides And as he had a full measure of knowledge in these things so did hee abound in understanding and perfection of Oeconomicall businesse which first appeares vnto the world in the educations of his sonnes which was like themselues very honourable in the Vniuersities schooles of true learning and sound religion whose proficiencie there both honoured themselues and fitted them for imployment in higher places Secondly as his wisdome and vnderstanding appeared in their educations so it likewise was conspicuous in their honourable marriages for the son of his right hand which succeeds him in his chaire of honour and long may hee enioy it to Gods glory the honour of his house and country it was his wisdome to plant and ingraffe him into a familie which is second to none in true honour and nobility Earle of Southampton Sir George Fane Sir Richard Anderson Salust ep ● and for the rest of his honourable children hee matched them with families that are euery way very honourable in birth in blood in education in religion Quae omnibus semper ornatibus ornamento est which is an ornament to all the rest I cannot name these religious families without some deuotion and therefore my prayer for them all is that they may continue long in honour that they may liue in the seruice and feare of god and dye in his fauour But to returne to their honourable Father and our right noble Lord who as he wisely dispos'd of all things concerning their esse bene esse in this life so likewise in the same measure of wisdome hath he order'd all matters concerning them at his death bequeathing vnto them his Sauiours Legacie Peace my peace I giue vnto you my peace I leaue with you that yee may keepe the vnity of spirit in the bond of peace Thus he liued among them a faire a Aboue 60. yeares age of Peace Thus hee dyed left thē in peace Sic illi visum est viuere sicque mori Thirdly his vnderstanding perfections in Oeconomicall virtues appeares in the well managing of his great estate and menes wherein God blessed him aboue his fellowes It was his great wisdome to make a carefull frugality the fuell of his continuall hospitality which hath honoured Spensers familie and race in many generations successiuely it was a receiued rule in his Oeconomy that a man might better keepe a constant good house then an vnconstant vaine pleasure The last thing wherein his vnderstanding and perfection appeares in these matters is the well ordering and gouerning of his household and families hee kept a great house yet an orderly his seruāts were all of the same religion he was of neither would he keepe any that