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A00426	A learned and godly sermon preached on the XIX. day of December, anno Dom. MDCXXXI. at the funerall of Mr. Robert Bolton Batchelour in Divinity and minister of Broughton in Northampton-Shire. By Mr. Nicolas Estvvick, Batchelour in Divinity, and sometimes fellow of Christs College in Cambridge, and now minister of Warkton in Northampton-Shire. Revised and somewhat enlarged by the author, and now at the importunity of some friends published	Estwick, Nicolas.	1639 (1639)	STC 10558; ESTC S122205	46,169	72

sorrow and mingling his teares with his drink then to utter divine Proverbs with wise Salomon and what our Saviour spoke of watching the same doe I speake of repentance I say unto you all repent if you are in the field remember Abel if you are a feasting remember Iobs children when you goe to bed that you might holily compose your selves to rest that you may commit the keyes of your doores much more your lives into the hands of GOD remember the first-borne of Egypt which were slaine at midnight by the Angell of the LORD let Adulterers remember Zimri and Cozbi and drunkards King Ela slaine by another Zimri if you walk in the streets remember those on whom the tower of Silo fell if your hearts begin to turne to the love of the world remember Lots wife that which befell them may befall us it will be then our wisdome by GODS grace to prevent sin and if we fall into sin our next wisdome will be to repent of the sin we have fallen into Another duty which naturally doth arise from this Doctrine is to lose no time in doing and in receiving all the good we can this is the day appointed to worke and how short this day is the LORD alone doth know but this we know the night commeth wherin none can work Shall the Sun stand still for thee as it did for Ioshua or go back as it did five houres for Hezekiah doe we thinke we can doe good in another world when we do no good to speake of in this be not deceived with this dangerous errour and hurtfull pretention of doing good hereafter whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with all thy might and the reason is good for there is no device nor work nor knowledge nor wisdome in the grave whither thou goest Vaine hope of future performances hath undone many sow thy seed whiles the seed time lasteth if thou looke to have a crop and harvest We may learne this from the birds of the ayre the Turtle the Storke the Crane and Swallow know their appointed times the waifaring man he travels whiles it is light then he knowes he is under the protection of the Lawes the sea-faring man he observes the wind the Smith he strikes whiles his iron is hot nay we may learne this wisdome from the divell himself he rageth and doth all the mischief he can because his time is but short Thus of doing good and so likewise must we let no opportunity slip of receiving good lay hold of every season which may be an advantage to get heaven to strengthen and increase spirituall graces be glad if thou canst heare the Word preached on a working day Saint Basil he preached on a working day and tels his Auditors their thoughts desires that he would be short that they might go about their labour If such thoughts possesse our hearts at this or any other time let us repell them and remember what the holy Father there speaketh the time spent in GODS service is not lost for GOD to recompence them removes troublesome businesse gives promptitude of minde or strength of body sends customers to buy their wares and if he doth none of these yet are they no loosers by their paines for he gives them a rich treasure in heaven Lastly this point may teach GODS children patience in all distresses and afford them sound comfort in all estates they are nearer heaven now salvation now is nearer to them then when they began to believe sin and Satan do now disquiet them but they shall not do so for ever Many a one can be content to endure hardship a few yeares nay to be a galley slave under the Turke seven yeares if he had assurance of a great Lordship after that time was expired and choose rather to be a bondman upon those termes then to be a free man without them exercise long-suffering good Christian there may be but a day or moneth or yeare but a little time betwixt thee and the joyes of heaven Who would not admire the state of such a beggar who every houre was in possibility of a Kingdome but behold a greater reward by GODS promise is due to all his children then this earth can afford more glorious things shall be theirs then ever eye hath seene or eare hath heard or the heart of man can conceive which without all doubt by comparison at least are true of the joyes of heaven Why then shouldest thou O Christian soule be cast downe or why shouldest thou be in vaine disquieted surely if thou wouldest seriously consider that thy heavinesse shall be suddenly turned into unspeakeable joy that all thy teares shall be for ever wiped from thy eyes and that these momentany afflictions do proportionably work unto thee an exceeding weight of glory thou hast no reason to be much dejected for them Thus much of the first Doctrine the second followeth but that we may build upon a good foundation we must first declare the meaning of those words on which we must ground our ensuing Observation I desire to depart and to be with CHRIST To be with CHRIST Why was not Saint Paul with CHRIST was not his conversation now in heaven and was not the streame of his affection carried to CHRIST was not he with him in the spirit as with the Colossians rejoycing and beholding his happinesse doubtlesse he was But this being with CHRIST was not that presence which he desired it was a neerer presence to be where he was in the highest heavens and to behold the glory which GOD the Father had given him desire is the daughter of indigence and want some way and himselfe doth plainely tell us whilest we are in the body as now Saint Paul was we are absent from the LORD you may be pleased to observe a difference betwixt these phrases of CHRIST his being with us and our being with CHRIST it is one thing for CHRIST to be with us this benefit is enjoyed in this life he promised to be with the Apostles and his Successors and so by Analogy he is with all his mysticall members to the worlds end but it is another thing for us to be with CHRIST this honour is reserved for the world to come and it is a state of blessednesse as he spoke to the theefe on the Crosse this day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Whence I doe observe that The faithfull soule when it departeth out of this life is immediatly after death with CHRIST If the soule of Paul why not the soule of other faithfull ones Saint Paul I know whilest hee lived was a man indued with singular zeale for CHRIST and holinesse of life and exercised with more then ordinary miseries and persecutions himselfe reciteth a Catalogue of many of them but as it is not the degree of faith but faith that justifies nor the measure of graces but

the terme of his naturall life abideth in the flesh or body 4. More necessary This is not spoken simply but comparatively it was not absolutely necessary for the Church that S. Paul should live for GOD could even then as after his departure he did provide other Instructours to build his Church and House but yet it was more necessary for their profit that he should live then die 5. For you But why more necessary was it not because his appointed time to die was not yet come this is true but personall He mentioneth that which concernes the Philippians that they might take notice how carefull he was for them and how thankfull they ought to be to GOD for him My life is more needfull for you for the furtherance of your faith and piety Q. Did Saint Paul desire to live only for the good of the Philippians Sol. He neither saith it nor thinketh it He saith his life was more needfull for the Philippians so it was but he saith not only for them Q. Why then doth he only name them Answ Because he only writeth to them Behold a patterne of admirable love in a Shepheard to the sheep of CHRIST preferring their welfare to his own present glory What Merchant saith Saint Chrysostome having his vessell fraught with rich commodities if he could safely arrive at a haven would doubt to do so rather then be still tossed in the sea What Champion would-strive for the mastery when he might weare the corruptible crowne What Commander when he might rest at home in glory after a triumphant victory would rather still continue the fight to the hazard of his life and honour and yet this is S. Pauls choise wherein he resembles a woman that hath husband children her husband is in a far country she is with her children she may go to him whom her soule doth chiefely love and there she shall be abundantly provided for but then she must leave her children behind her and what then will become of you my poore children it would be better indeed for me to be with my husband but it would be worse with you then now it is for your sakes therefore it is that I neglect mine owne present honour to do you good Leaving this discourse the words do naturally yeeld us this Doctrine which I will handle being pertinent to our present purpose The life of a faithfull Minister doth more good and is more profitable for GODS people then his death This doth S. Paul witnesse of himselfe yet from this particular and worthy example the grounds and reasons of his assertion being common and the same in others that they were in him the doctrine is generally true of every faithfull Pastour that they doe more good to the living Saints while they themselves doe live then when they are dead The Word of GOD in the mouthes of the Ministers is not weake but mighty in operation able to cast downe strong holds and whatsoever opposeth it selfe to it though Satan be the strong man that keeps possession yet the LORD is stronger and can cast him out See the efficacy and wonderfull working of the Gospell that Saint Paul could say for his part only that from Ierusalem round about unto Illyricum he had fully preached the Gospell of CHRIST and as the lightening commeth out of the East and shineth to the West and as the Suns going forth is from the ends of the heaven and his circuit to the ends of it and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof so in Saint Pauls time the Gospell was come into all the knowne parts of the world and brought forth fruit as it did amongst the Colossians thus did the Gospell strangely spread it selfe by the preaching of GODS servants even while Saint Paul himselfe was alive and after the Apostles by their Successours as they were Pastours as the soule in the body so were Christians dispersed in the world even the Getulians Moores Spaniards Galls and the Britans the Sarmatians also Germanes and Scythians do believe in CHRIST before whom the gates of all Cities are throwne open and none are shut against him before whom also the iron locks are broken and the brazen gates are opened i. e. the hearts of very many that were holden fast locked by the divell are now unlocked by the faith of CHRIST saith Tertullian What instrument was ever too weake to effect GODS will if he tooke it in hand though the Apostles presence was but weak and their speech rude and their words distastfull and unwelcome to the world yet did they prevaile or if they had been to preach to Infants and children not seasoned with inveterate idolatry it had beene no great mastery to have brought them to the faith of CHRIST as it was no great glory to the Spaniard to vanquish the Indians when Benzo the Italian reported that he durst be one of the 25. that would fight with ten thousand nay with twenty thousand of that naked people but the case is altered now for 1. The Apostles were but few for number and of no great reckoning in the world 2. For the same men to teach a strange doctrine to believe on CHRIST crucified and to be ready to lay downe their lives for him if they looked to go to heaven 3. To preach to the world when many of them did seeke after wisdome and secular Philosophy as did the Grecians many after state policy and war as did the Romans and all of them trained up in a long continued will-worship and damnable idolatry of a deepe die yet the Gospell by the preaching of it as Aarons rod amongst the serpents of the Magicians devoured them all and brought them to acknowledge allegiance to it surely this should make us cry out as the people did upon the proofe that Elias made the LORD he is GOD the LORD he is GOD. Now the LORD doth this great worke by the Ministery of living men and sometimes by weake men that the excellency of the power may be ascribed to GOD and not to man and thus you see in generall the great profit which accompanies the work of the Preachers in the plantation and foundation of Churches let us consider some particular benefits which redound to them which are actuall members of a visible Church and they are either 1 in regard of the bad or 2 in regard of those that are good or 3 in regard of all sorts both good and bad First I say their life is more needfull in regard of those that are actually as yet in the state of unregeneration and that in a double respect First to be a powerfull meanes of converting the Elect and to bring them to all the degrees of salvation other professions do aime at the good of this life the Physician at the health of the body the Lawyer is for the right of his Client but the end of the Ministery alone is chiefely to