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<P><HI>Iob's A&s;&s;urance</HI> OF THE RESURRECTION.</P>
<P>A SERMON AT WINWICK IN THE County Palatine of <HI>Lanca&s;ter, June</HI> 25. 1689.</P>
<P>AT THE Funeral of the Reverend <HI>RICHARD SHERLOCK</HI> D. D. late Rector there.</P>
<P>By <HI>THO. CRANE</HI> M. A.</P>
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<P>Licens'd, <HI>June</HI> 2. 1690. <HI>Z. I&s;ham.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Philip Burton</HI> Book&s;eller in <HI>War|rington.</HI> 1690.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE READER.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Courteous Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>I</HI> Was much induc'd, or rather con&s;train'd, to expo&s;e my &s;elf upon this Occa&s;ion, for that I knew not how to decline, what this pious and good Man, the Reverend the decea&s;ed, was pleas'd to impo&s;e upon me: I indeed dreaded the Enter|prize, in regard I was &s;ufficiently convinc'd of mine own Ina|bilities, and of the Cen&s;oriou&s;ne&s;s of that Age wherein we live, which I wi&s;h were more Chri&s;tian, and le&s;s Critick.</P>
<P>I fore&s;aw that many of divers per&s;wa&s;ions and different Sentiments, would attend the Solemnity; for tho' he was, and that mo&s;t de&s;ervedly, of very great e&s;teem and veneration with &s;ome, yet he was as much traduc'd and malign'd by others; And woe be to that man of whom all men &s;hall &s;ay well: If they have called the Master of the Hou&s;e <HI>Beelzebub,</HI> how much more &s;hall they call tho&s;e of his Hou&s;hold? Wherefore the Con&s;equence was obvious, that &s;ome would carp and be offended at whatever &s;hould be &s;aid; for that the Preacher was not of their Com|plexion, nor the Doctrine, nor Religious Ob&s;ervations and Pra|ctices of the Decea&s;ed, altogether according to their Approbati|on, nor Calculated for their Meridian.</P>
<P>Albeit his great bu&s;ine&s;s was, to &s;hew the u&s;e of God's Word, to advance the Glory of his Name in doing his great Work, in promoting the Intere&s;t of Souls: yet, for that he did not re|li&s;h with their Palats, nor dige&s;t Meat with their Stomachs, nor behold Objects with their Eyes, nor frame his Manners (no more than I do or can) after their Education; they having adopted different Principles, and imbib'd contrary Notions, they mu&s;t needs be prejudic'd against him, and be forward, as
<PB REF="3"> indeed they were, to deprave his best Actions, to brand his &s;trict, pious, and regular Life, with Superstition; his Fidelity, with perver&s;ne&s;s: To term his Sanctity and Devotion, no bet|ter than Hypocri&s;ie; his Constancy, no other than Obsti|nacy and Singularity; and his Abstinence, Fasting, and Alms-deeds, as bad as Popery. With the&s;e, and &s;uch like odious and ignominious terms, malevolent Spirits, that call good evil, and evil good, have loaden him: Which, together with the rude, and too to immodest behaviour of &s;ome, the whi&s;perings hereupon of others, and that admiration which the&s;e created amongst the rest of the Auditory, at that time that I was engaged in the delivery hereof, was enough, if not more than that, to have struck me dumb; at lea&s;t to cau&s;e m<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter"> to praecipitate and di&s;order my Di&s;cour&s;e: But all the&s;e to|gether, no &s;mall Provocations &s;urely for committing this, &s;uch as it is, to the Pre&s;s.</P>
<P>However, God forbid that I &s;hould &s;eek to exa&s;perate, I had rather, far rather, if I were &s;o skilful, apply Lenetives than Exulcerate, or make u&s;e of Corro&s;ives: &s;o that if any, that meet with the&s;e Intimations, &s;hall take it to them&s;elves, by rea&s;on of their own Con&s;ciou&s;ne&s;s, I humbly pray that the &s;ame may prevent the like guilt, and turn to their amendment; I could ea&s;ily have waved the Scoffs and Cen&s;ures I then under|went, and lodged this Di&s;cour&s;e in everla&s;ting Silence, had it not been to vindicate this venerable Pa&s;tor from tho&s;e vile A|&s;per&s;ions that &s;ome ca&s;t upon him, and to make known to the World in &s;ome mea&s;ure, &s;uch a Pre&s;ident of holy Life and ex|emplary Piety. And tho' I can't erect co&s;tly Pyramids, as the <HI>Aegyptians</HI> did, nor expend Trea&s;ure as the <HI>Greeks</HI> and <HI>Ro|mans</HI> in Monuments, Statutes, and In&s;criptions, to perpetuate his Fame, to convey his Memory to Posterity; yet that it may live and &s;urvive his A&s;hes, and that this may contribute there|unto, is, and &s;hall be the hearty and unfeigned Devotion of,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your truly affectionate Brother</HI><LB> T. C.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>Iob's A&s;&s;urance</HI> OF THE RESURRECTION, &amp;c.</HEAD>
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<Q><BIBL>JOB XIX. Ver&s;. 25, 26, 27.</BIBL>
<BIBL>Ver&s;. 25.</BIBL>
<P><HI>For I know that my Redeemer li|veth, and that he &s;hall &s;tand at the later day upon the Earth.</HI></P>
<BIBL>Ver&s;. 26.</BIBL>
<P><HI>And tho' after my Skin, Worms de|&s;troy this Body, yet in my Fle&s;h &s;hall I &s;ee God:</HI></P>
<BIBL>Ver&s;. 27.</BIBL>
<P><HI>Whom I &s;hall &s;ee for my &s;elf, and mine Eyes &s;hall behold, and not another.</HI></P></Q>
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<P>REvolving, and for &s;ome time delibera|ting, with my &s;elf, what Subject to make u&s;e of upon this &s;ad and &s;olemn Occa&s;ion, I could not but thereupon conclude, That the Office of our Church &s;hould prevail in recommendation of one:
<PB N="2" REF="4"> And for this the more e&s;pecially, in that the Reve|rend, the Decea&s;ed, was &s;o intirely devoted to the Liturgy and Offices of Holy Church; in&s;omuch, that an In&s;tance thence mu&s;t needs revive his Memo|ry, and the more endear us to it.</P>
<P>The Text, you know, is out of the preliminary Sentences made u&s;e of at the Burial of the Dead: The Words, as we may imagine, were &s;poken by <HI>Job,</HI> when he did conclude him&s;elf to be a dying Per&s;on; no le&s;s is intimated to us from the words that go before, <HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 20. where he &s;aith, <NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ad tantam ariditatem Ca|ro ejus devene|rat, ut nihil humoris in eo reman&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">rit,</HI> &amp;c. Beda.</NOTE> <HI>My Bones cleaveth to my Skin, and to my Fle&s;h,</HI> &amp;c. whence he is &s;aid to have been &s;eized with, and la|bour'd then under an Hectick Feaver, which had al|ready &s;corch't and burnt up all the Moi&s;ture of his Body. Since then that he was thus &s;ore vi&s;ited, and &s;uppo&s;ed to be at the point of Death, he would not that all &s;hould dye with him, but was extreamly de|&s;irous to leave &s;omething upon Record for others to meditate upon, when he was dead and gone: And being that the words of a dying Man are apt to make the mo&s;t deep and la&s;ting Impre&s;&s;ions, there being good and great rea&s;on for it, for that then is the time, if ever, to be &s;erious: wherefore for the good of all that mu&s;t and &s;hould &s;ucceed, he prays, and that devoutly, with repeated In&s;tances, that his words might be imprinted for ever, that they might become an everla&s;ting Monument: for &s;uch are his mo&s;t pa&s;&s;ionate Breathings, and vehement De&s;ires, in the words that Preface and Introduce the Subject: <HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 23, 24. <HI>O that my words were now written, O that they were printed in a Book!</HI> O that they had yet a more durable and indelible Character! <HI>that they
<PB N="3" REF="4"> were graven with an Iron Pen</HI> (aere perrennius) <HI>in Bra&s;s or Stone for ever!</HI> O that the&s;e things were &s;o! to the end that men might know, and the Chil|dren which are yet unborn might worthily contem|plate their Redeemer! O that they might be as ful|ly a&s;&s;ured hereof, as I my &s;elf am. For, for this, I know enough, <HI>I know</HI> for certain <HI>that my Redeemer liveth, and that he &s;hall &s;tand at the later day upon the Earth: And tho' after my Skin, Worms de&s;troy this Body, yet in my Fle&s;h &s;hall I &s;ee God,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>By this we find, as you may well perceive, in the Apo&s;tles phra&s;e, <HI>Hebr.</HI> 13. <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 8. that Je&s;us Chri&s;t <HI>is the &s;ame ye&s;terday, to day, and for ever;</HI> that he was to them of old, to all the holy Patriarchs, righ|teous Judges, pious Men and Prophets, what he is to us at this very day; that they, even they of old believed as we now do, that he alone is our Saviour and mighty Redeemer. This <HI>Job</HI> knew full well, as well as we now do, that his Redeemer liv'd; that he that was dead, is now alive, and &s;hall live for ever|more, that Death hath no more Dominion over him; that he that was debas'd to Hell, was now ex|alted to Heaven; that he that was made a Worm, and no Man, the Out-ca&s;t of the People, was now e&s;teem'd, and advanc'd above all, was now made Lord and Chri&s;t: that he that was judg'd and con|demn'd of the World, &s;hould &s;tand at the later day upon the Earth, &s;hould come to judge both Quick and Dead: All this <HI>Job</HI> knew right-well, the Text is a Monument of, and bears Witne&s;s to it. We may well pre&s;ume that he &s;aw, and knew all this, ju&s;t as our Father <HI>Abraham</HI> did, who rejoyced greatly to &s;ee his day, his Advent into this World; to be|hold
<PB N="4" REF="5"> God incarnate, to &s;ee God in his Fle&s;h.</P>
<P>But hereupon &s;ome, methinks with wonder, are ready to reply, and make demand, How did our Father <HI>Abraham,</HI> or <HI>Job</HI> him&s;elf &s;ee and know the&s;e things, who were &s;o long before him? as many hun|dred years, for ought we learn, before the Son of God was born of a Woman, as we are &s;ince? <NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">Job <HI>ad miraculum u&s;|que &s;anctus &amp; doctus ante</HI> Mo&s;em <HI>vixit,</HI> &amp;c. Bellarm. de Scr. Eccl.</NOTE> How then can this thing be? Yes, &s;ee him for certain they did, yea and &s;alute him too, tho 'twas remote and at a di&s;tance; howbeit, by Faith they made him pre&s;ent with them. They &s;aw and knew the&s;e things, but how? not by the help of any cor|poreal Organ, or bodily Eye; No, but by virtue of the Inner Man, the Eyes of their Under&s;tanding be|ing enlighten'd: <HI>(Eph.</HI> 1. <HI>v.</HI> 18.) They &s;aw and knew full well, that God was in Chri&s;t reconciling the World unto him&s;elf, and that too from the begin|ning; that he was <HI>the Lamb &s;lain from the foundation of the World, according to the eternal purpo&s;e and determination of the Father:</HI> Wherefore they &s;aw and knew what would be, as if it had been a thing done, and tran&s;acted in their time; for even &s;o doth <HI>Job</HI> expre&s;s it in this very place.</P>
<P>Who knows, &s;ays one, <HI>(Eccle&s;.</HI> 3. 21.) whether men dye as bea&s;ts, or no? <NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ecce verba argumentantis ad vertendum in dubium im|mortalitatem animae! Lo|quitur &s;ecun|dum opinionem Epicureorum ut quidam inter|pretantur.</HI> Ca|jet. in Eccle&s;.</NOTE> who knoweth that the Spirit of the one goeth upward, and the Spirit of the other goeth downward, or no? who knows whether their Souls vani&s;h like tho&s;e of Brutes into the &s;oft Air? or whether their Bodies &s;hall for ever ingloriou&s;ly remain in their du&s;t and rubbi&s;h? whe|ther they &s;hall lodge everla&s;tingly in the Grave with|out any Re&s;u&s;citation or Re&s;urrection? who knows whether the&s;e things &s;hall be &s;o or no? Why, both I and you, <HI>Job</HI> and all the Faithful, know far better
<PB N="5" REF="5"> things, for, for this we re&s;t a&s;&s;ur'd, we know in ve|ry deed, that <HI>our Redeemer liveth,</HI> that God did <HI>not leave his Soul in Hell, nor &s;uffer his holy One to &s;ee Corruption</HI> in the Grave; no more mu&s;t we for ever lodge in our &s;ilent Dormitories: No, no, that mu&s;t not, that can't be; <HI>for tho' Worms,</HI> &s;ays <HI>Job, de&s;troy this Body,</HI> tho' they feed and prey upon it, till both it and they be converted into in&s;ipid Du&s;t and A&s;hes, yet for all this, <HI>I in my Fle&s;h &s;hall &s;ee God,</HI> and mine Eyes &s;hall be ble&s;&s;ed therewith: for that I &s;hall &s;ee him, who is now invi&s;ible, I &s;hall &s;ee him in my &s;elf, <HI>i. e.</HI> in my Fle&s;h, and for my &s;elf; when and where|upon my &s;ight will put me into admiration, and that into perpetual Adoration of him.</P>
<P>Can you think, or imagine, &s;aith <HI>Job</HI> (14. <HI>v.</HI> 14.) That one that is dead &s;hall ri&s;e again? There he puts the Que&s;tion; but in the Text he fully &s;olves it; for he puts it (<GAP DESC="foreign">) beyond all contradiction, and will admit of no Exception to the contrary, for, for this, &s;aith he, I am very confident, <HI>I know</HI> full well <HI>that my Redeemer liveth,</HI> that he that was dead is now alive, now lives and can dye no more, but lives, and that for evermore.</P>
<P>Doubtle&s;s <HI>Job</HI> had the &s;ame pro&s;pect, and lookt through the &s;ame Per&s;pective with our Father <HI>A|braham,</HI> that &s;aw his Per&s;on and his Day. Howbeit, ye know, that the Jews &s;torm'd, and were outragi|ous at our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour, when he &s;aid unto them, <HI>Your Father</HI> Abraham <HI>rejoyced to &s;ee my day,</HI> here|upon they were ready to pelt and overwhelm him with Stones. In all likelyhood they had had no more patience with <HI>Job</HI> him&s;elf, had he come be|fore them thus peremptorily, had he confidently maintain'd and affirm'd it to their faces, &s;aying, <HI>I
<PB N="6" REF="6"> know that my Redeemer liveth;</HI> that he, whom you &s;acrificed to death, is now re&s;tored to life; that he, whom you deba&s;ed to Hell, maugre all your Spleen and Malice, is now exalted unto Heaven; that that Per&s;on, whom you &s;o barbarou&s;ly treated, whom you pinn'd and nayled to the Tree, is now &s;ettled and e&s;tabli&s;hed on his Throne; that he, whom you Crucified, is the <HI>Re&s;urrection and the Life.</HI> All this admini&s;ters no little &s;atisfaction to us, to meet thus plainly with Chri&s;t's Re&s;urrection in the Old, as well as in the New Te&s;tament: To find that <HI>Job</HI>'s Creed and ours &s;hould be the very &s;ame, and our Redeemer one and the &s;ame; that the Holy Patriarchs, and <HI>Job,</HI> &s;hould have it &s;o many hundred years before at lea&s;t, as we are after Chri&s;t: which is, and ought to be the more welcom to us that are Gentiles, for that the words were &s;poken by one that was a Gentile, as <HI>Job</HI> was, and not of <HI>Jacob</HI>'s Line <NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg">Job <HI>enim non fuit de fi|liis I&s;rael, &s;ed Idumaeus, vel Arabs.</HI> Bellar. de Script. Ec|cl.</NOTE>, to the end that Jew and Gentile might have, and embrace the &s;ame Object of Faith: for he was <HI>a Light to lighten the Gentiles,</HI> as well as <HI>the Glory of his People</HI> I&s;rael.</P>
<P>I find that St. <HI>Hierom</HI> &s;aith of <HI>Job</HI> in this very place, <NOTE N="(e)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Quod nul|lus tam apert&egrave; po&s;t Chri&s;tum, quam i&s;te ant&egrave; Chri&s;tum, de Re&s;urrectione loquitur.</HI> Ad Damach. E|pi&s;t. Tom 2.</NOTE> That <HI>no one ever &s;ince Chri&s;t</HI>'s <HI>time, did &s;peak more fully and clearly of Chri&s;t's Re&s;urrection;</HI> as <HI>Job</HI> him&s;elf did in this &s;ame Text, and that &s;o long before Chri&s;t's time.</P>
<P>I &s;hall therefore proceed directly to the words, altho' the mo&s;t of what hath been already &s;aid re|lates unto the &s;ame. There is in them a direct Prophe&s;ie, or, if you will, a plain Creed of our Saviour's Re&s;urrection, <HI>the fir&s;t fruits of them that &s;lept,</HI> and of our own by him.</P>
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<P> Fir&s;t, There's his Redeemer's Ri&s;ing<HI>&mdash;I know that my Redeemer liveth,</HI> which is po&s;itive.</P>
<P>Secondly, His own Re&s;urrection, by way of Inference thence; which is illative: And this &s;et down in words as full, and expre&s;s, as may be; as clear, and full, as in the Epi&s;tle to the <HI>Corinthians,</HI> or in any other place of the New Te&s;tament what&s;oever, in that his <HI>Redeemer</HI> liveth; he thence in|fers and concludes, &s;aying, <HI>(&amp; in novi&s;&s;imo die de terr&acirc; &s;urrecturus &s;um) And that I &s;hall &s;tand at the later day upon the Earth;</HI> for thus &s;ome Tran&s;lations render it: The Con&s;equence whereof is good, in that he infallibly deduces his own from his Re|deemer's Re&s;urrection. The words fol|lowing do illu&s;trate and confirm us in this Con&s;truction; wherein he &s;aith, <HI>And tho' after my Skin Worms de&s;troy this Body, yet in my Fle&s;h &s;hall I &s;ee God:</HI> I &s;hall not|with&s;tanding ri&s;e again, and in this very Fle&s;h, with which I am now cloathed, come to contemplate my Redeemer.</P>
<P>Thirdly, Here's the happy Re&s;ult of the Re|&s;urrection, and the Benefits that redound to <HI>Job</HI> hereby: (yet not only to <HI>Job,</HI> but to all the Faithful with him;) &s;uch he a&s;|&s;ures him&s;elf will be the Event thereof&mdash;&s;aying hereupon, <HI>I in my Fle&s;h &s;hall &s;ee God, whom I &s;hall &s;ee for my &s;elf, and mine Eyes &s;hall behold, and not another.</HI></P>
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<P> According to this Method, the fir&s;t is his Re|deemer's Ri&s;ing, which is illative; for this he ab&s;o|lutely a&s;&s;erts, in that he &s;aith, <HI>I know</HI> <NOTE N="(f)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Scio enim,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>plena &s;unt a&s;&s;everationis &s;ingula &s;enten|tiae verba: in eodem &s;en&s;u, cert&egrave; &s;cio, cert&ograve; novi, tam cert&egrave; quam &s;i oculis haurirem aut ip&s;o experimen|to dedeci&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">m.</HI> Pineda.</NOTE>. Which implies the certainty of the thing known, or the Object of his Knowledge. Hence St. <HI>Hierom</HI>'s Re|mark is, <HI>(Tom.</HI> 2. <HI>Epi&s;t. ad Pam.)</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Nec-dum mortuus erat Dominus, &amp; Athleta Eccle|&s;iae Redempto|rem &s;uum vide|bat ab inferis Re&s;urgentem.</NOTE> That <HI>Job,</HI> the Church's Champion (who underwent his Cro&s;s with &s;o great Patience, as if he felt it not) &s;aw his Redeemer ri&s;ing from the dead, and this before the Son of God was crucified; nay, before he was born, or became incarnate of the Virgin. He did not con|ceive, or imagine, that &s;uch a thing might happen, or come to pa&s;s; as a thing po&s;&s;ible, or probable; but he knew it mo&s;t infallibly for many Ages before it came to pa&s;s: which redounds exceeding much to the honour and prai&s;e of <HI>Job</HI>'s Faith <NOTE N="(g)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Fidei qui|dem cognitio, &s;ola vi&s;ione be|at&acirc; inferior e&s;t claritate, ae|qualis certitu|dine; reliquis omnibus aliis &s;cientiis long&egrave; &s;uperior. atque certior.</HI> Pineda.</NOTE>. In&s;omuch, that he might ju&s;tly Challenge the Preheminence, and we adventure to &s;ay on his behalf&mdash;That <HI>&s;o great Faith was not to be found, no not in</HI> I&s;rael. We need not be &s;olicitous, nor after all this, give our &s;elves any further trouble, to know how he knew it; what hath been already deliver'd, may &s;uffice for that. Thus much of the Act, for his knowing of it.</P>
<P>Now of the Object thereof, What it was that he knew thus well, and that is, <HI>That his Redeemer li|veth. Job,</HI> for ought I learn, is the fir&s;t man in the Old Te&s;tament that &s;tiled him &s;o, &s;o that we owe the Title of Redeemer to him; for tho' there might be Promi&s;es before, that might import the &s;ame, yet he it was that fir&s;t be&s;tow'd that Term and Title up|on him.</P>
<P>We &s;hall therefore con&s;ider the Sum and Impor|tance of it, to the end that we may more fully and
<PB N="9" REF="7"> better Contemplate our Redeemer, that we may gain a more intimate and pre&s;ential Knowledge of him. Being that Redemption is taken in &s;everal &s;ences, 'twill do well to deliberate diver&s;ly upon the &s;ame, in order to fix upon a right Notion, that we may be better able to apprehend the great benefit thereof.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> Redemption may be by Manumi&s;&s;ion, as when the Lord, or Ma&s;ter doth voluntarily di&s;mi&s;s, or willingly &s;et at Liberty his Bond&s;lave or Captive: which Enfranchizing, or voluntary Di&s;charge, &s;eldom or very rarely happens.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> A &s;econd way of Redemption may be by way of Permutation; as when one Pri&s;oner, or Captive, is exchang'd for another.</P>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> A third way may be, and often hap|pens by force; as when by their Friends or Allies they are re&s;cued, or forcibly deliver'd out of the Hands of their Enemies, and by that means &s;et at Liberty.</P>
<P><HI>Fourthly,</HI> The fourth and la&s;t way is, by Ran&s;om; when a Price of equal e&s;timate, or of more worth, at lea&s;t in the Judgment of him that detains the Captive, is paid for his Deliverance, whereby the Pri&s;oner is deliver'd from Chains, and obtains his Freedom: And in this la&s;t Sen&s;e Chri&s;t is &s;aid to have Redeem'd us.</P>
<P>Now Captivity happens, either by being &s;old, or by being taken; by both which men are carried a|way into Slavery: Both which implies that we were mi&s;erable Captives, and &s;o &s;tood in need of a Re|deemer. That we were taken away by force, that I dare not adventure to &s;ay, but that we had &s;old our &s;elves, or rather given our &s;elves away; for
<PB N="10" REF="8"> that we did it for a thing of no moment, not for a|ny thing of that Value that could ju&s;tly merit the name of a Sale; which di&s;covers our wilfulne&s;s, and con&s;equently our wickedne&s;s to have been the greater. <HI>We were &s;old under &s;in,</HI> Rom. 7. v. 14. whereby we became Satan's Bond&s;laves. <HI>Redimere,</HI> as one ob&s;erves, <HI>e&s;t qua&s;i iterum emere;</HI> To Re|deem, is to buy back that which before was &s;old and alien'd; in&s;omuch that Captivity mu&s;t be pre&s;up|pos'd, before there can be any need of a Redemp|tion.</P>
<P>We had therefore alien'd our Nature in <HI>Adam,</HI> &s;old our &s;elves to Satan for a thing of no worth; as we are daily apt to do, for worldly Profits, &s;inful De|lights, and trifling Plea&s;ures: but tho' the Devil gain Souls &s;o cheaply, he will not manumit them &s;o freely; he knows they are better worth than &s;o: in&s;omuch that if Chri&s;t will Redeem us, he mu&s;t dearly pay for us. Our &s;tate was mo&s;t forlorn and de&s;titute, we having neither Force nor Friends to redeem us out of Slavery, or to re&s;tore us to our pri&s;tine Liberty: but in that we were thus helple&s;s, for that we became the more pitiable, and the Ob|ject of God's mercy. Sold we were, and bought we mu&s;t be again, or el&s;e undergo Eternal Bondage. 'Twas not a Matter of Intreaty, nor Supplication that could, or did deliver us from the Power of Satan, or the Wrath of God. Nor was the Price of our Ran|&s;om Gold or Silver, or any &s;uch corruptible thing, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1. 18. 'Twas not the Spoil of rich Provinces, nor the Booty of Kingdoms, nor the va&s;t Trea&s;ures of the <HI>Indies;</HI> 'twas not the Blood of Bulls, nor Goats, but the precious Blood of that Immaculate Lamb, <HI>that was &s;lain from the beginning of the
<PB N="11" REF="8"> World, according to the Eternal purpo&s;e and fore|knowledge of God the Father;</HI> &s;o that he was a true and perfect Redeemer to all tho&s;e that went before, as well as to tho&s;e that &s;ucceeded him in the Fle&s;h: Therefore doth <HI>Job</HI> with great Courage and Com|fort thus expre&s;s it,<HI>&mdash;I know that my Redeemer liveth,</HI> and Death I matter not, <HI>for tho' Worms de|&s;troy this Body,</HI> yet for all this, I &s;hall revive, <HI>and in my Fle&s;h I &s;hall &s;ee God;</HI> in&s;omuch that he doth with no le&s;s Exultation in&s;ult over Death and the Grave, than the very Apo&s;tle him&s;elf, who thus triumphant|ly &s;ings his <GAP DESC="foreign">, (1 <HI>Corinth.</HI> 15. <HI>v.</HI> 55.) <HI>O Death! where is thy &s;ting? O Grave! where is thy victory? O thanks be to God! who hath given us the victory through our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t;</HI> who did not give &s;omething to &s;ave him&s;elf, but gave his Life a Ran&s;om for us, Body for Body, and Soul for Soul.</P>
<P><HI>I know that my Redeemer liveth,</HI> that he is not a dead, but a living thing; that he is Life it &s;elf, and therefore mu&s;t needs be God. The <HI>P&s;almi&s;t</HI> deduceth this at large, and in effect affirms no le&s;s, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 49. <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 7, 8. That man cannot <HI>redeem his Brother, nor give to God a Ran&s;om for him;</HI> no, it co&s;t more to redeem man's Soul, Money was no (<GAP DESC="foreign">) Price for the Soul, &s;o that Man mu&s;t let its Ran&s;om alone for ever: <HI>(ver&s;.</HI> 15.) 'Tis <HI>God &s;hall redeem our Souls from Hell</HI> not <HI>from the Grave,</HI> for dye we mu&s;t; but from the power and dominion of Death. On the other hand, this Redeemer mu&s;t al&s;o be Man, for &s;o the flat Law of Redemption requir'd, <HI>(Lev.</HI> 25. 25.) he mu&s;t be near of Kin, Fle&s;h of our Fle&s;h, and bone of our Bone: Man alone can't become a Redeemer, and God alone may not, but God and
<PB N="12" REF="9"> Man both may and can. This may &s;uffice as to his Office, that of a Redeemer. And this would al&s;o put us upon the Meditation of his two Natures, Hu|mane and Divine, in one and the &s;ame Per&s;on; for which we need not &s;train, nor make any forc'd Con|&s;truction, &s;eeing that the words immediately follow|lowing are exegetical hereunto, and declare no le&s;s,<HI>&mdash;I &s;hall &s;ee God in my Fle&s;h,</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">i. e. <HI>Salva|torem meum advenientem in form&acirc; hu|manitatis.</HI> Hugo Card.</NOTE> that is, my Lord and Saviour at la&s;t coming to Judgment in Humane form, or likene&s;s, as he is the Son of Man: All this &s;hall I behold with the&s;e mine Eyes of Fle&s;h. I con|fe&s;s the words may be rendred otherwi&s;e, and &s;o I find by &s;ome that they are, yet both ways &s;eem to be proper enough, it being not much material, whe|ther I &s;ay, That I in my Fle&s;h &s;hall &s;ee God, or that I &s;hall &s;ee God incarnate, God inve&s;ted in my Nature, in the habit of my Fle&s;h: This is like two-faced <HI>Janus,</HI> for that it points and looks directly either way: Both the&s;e Interpretations are given of the words, and both I conceive are good. Hitherto of the fir&s;t general Head, that of a Redeemer, and his Per&s;on, Humane and Divine.</P>
<P>The &s;econd thing in General to be in&s;i&s;ted on, is what is illative, what <HI>Job</HI> hence infers for his and our un&s;peakable Con&s;olation: He hereupon concludes, &s;aying, <HI>And that I &s;hall &s;tand at the later day upon the Earth,</HI> or that he &s;hall ri&s;e again, and &s;tand at the la&s;t upon the Earth; It may be either in the fir&s;t or &s;econd Per&s;on, either I or He, whether you plea&s;e, for &s;o 'tis render'd; and the Con&s;equence is good without perverting the words, or doing violence to the Sen&s;e of them. If you take it as it is in our Office, or in the Engli&s;h Tran&s;lation, then 'tis, that <HI>he &s;hall &s;tand at the later day,</HI> that <HI>he &s;hall ri&s;e again
<PB N="13" REF="9"> from the Earth:</HI> Whence ob&s;erve, That altho' there were many antecedent Works, and concurring Acts to compleat the My&s;tery of Man's Redemption, however, <HI>Job</HI> makes choice of one among them all, that was even chief and principal of all, of one that crown'd and con&s;ummated all the re&s;t; for hereby he manife&s;ted him&s;elf to be a perfect Redeemer, thereof he gave us full A&s;&s;urance, in that he ro&s;e again from the Dead; wherefore the Septuagint hath it, not <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>he &s;hall &s;tand,</HI> but <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>he &s;hall &s;tand, or ri&s;e again;</HI> which pre&s;umes his death or fall, in that no one can be &s;aid to ri&s;e, or get up, that was not down before: which is no other but what was &s;aid before, That <HI>Job,</HI> the Church's warlike Comba|tant, and victorious Champion, &s;aw Chri&s;t ri&s;ing from the dead, before he was Crucified on the Cro&s;s, nay before he was born of his Mother. He then having conquer'd Death and Hell, <HI>Job</HI> hereby a&s;&s;ures him&s;elf and us, that we &s;hall have the benefit there|of: for what by his own Example he hath exhibited to us, he will undoubtedly make good by reward unto us <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Exemplo h&icirc;c mon&s;travit quod promi&s;it in praemio.</HI> Greg. ca. 27. as <HI>Lira</HI> notes.</NOTE>; for that the Members mu&s;t needs follow their Head, and be made partakers of its Glory.</P>
<P>Redeemer is but a Relative Term, which will be nothing without its Correllative or Corre&s;pondent. A Redeemer therefore is altogether upon the ac|count of others, for whom he undertakes; for he lives not, dyes not, ri&s;es not, to or for him&s;elf, but for the &s;ake of his Redeemed; they indeed reap the benefit, but he it is that pays the Ran&s;om. In&s;o|much that every faithful and truly penitent Chri|&s;tian, may, and ought with holy <HI>Job,</HI> to appropri|ate the Bu&s;ine&s;s unto him&s;elf, to &s;tile him, as he here doth, and call him his Redeemer, or <HI>my Redeemer;</HI>
<PB N="14" REF="10"> for he is not only <HI>Job</HI>'s Redeemer, but the Redeem|er of all Mankind <NOTE N="(h)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Non</HI> Jobi <HI>tant&ugrave;m, &s;ed &amp; univer&s;itatis hominum re|demptor e&s;t: vo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="2 letters">s autem ill<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">, meus, tuus &s;uus, amatoriae &s;unt, &amp; ad &s;in|gularem dile|ctionem refe|runtur.</HI> Pineda.</NOTE>, howbeit, the more endear|ing Term is, to &s;tyle <HI>my Redeemer,</HI> and <HI>thy Redeem|er;</HI> the&s;e Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ives entitles us to him, and denote in a more peculiar manner our &s;urpa&s;&s;ing love, and &s;ingular affection towards him: wherefore <HI>Job</HI> a&s;|&s;ures him&s;elf and us, That as he ro&s;e from the Dead, &s;o his Redeemed &s;hall ri&s;e again at the la&s;t day; ar|guing, as well he might, from his Redeemer to him|&s;elf, for that the Head and its Members cannot be compleat without each other. When and whil&s;t we behold the Head above the Waters, 'twould be ab&s;urd to think that the Body could be lo&s;t, or drown'd; a live Head and a dead Body, you know, are (<GAP DESC="foreign">) incon&s;i&s;tent one with the other: Therefore if the Head live, the Body cannot peri&s;h; if the Head ri&s;e, the Body and all its Members mu&s;t, and &s;hall in due time follow after. An&s;werable here|unto is that of the Father (St. <HI>Hierom ad Pam. Tom.</HI> 2. <HI>Ep.) He, the fir&s;t-born from the Dead, having ex|alted to Heaven in his own Per&s;on, the fir&s;t-fruits of the Ma&s;s of our Bodies, hath thereby given us &s;ure and certain hopes of the Re&s;urrection, by that of his own Bo|dy:</HI> whence he thus concludes,<HI>&mdash;That all we in like manner expect to ri&s;e again, even as he ro&s;e from the dead.</HI> In this &s;ort then is <HI>Job</HI>'s rea&s;oning in this place; he doth in effect &s;ay; <HI>If he ri&s;e I ri&s;e, if he live, I live; and that he lives, of that I make no doubt, for that he is the Re&s;urrection and the Life, in&s;omuch that who&s;oever liveth and believeth in him, &s;hall never dye, but live for evermore.</HI> Hitherto of the diffe|rent reading of the words, but more e&s;pecially of the Inference that <HI>Job</HI> draws from the Premi&s;&s;es, deducing from his Redeemer's Re&s;urrection his
<PB N="15" REF="10"> own infallibly. This, as to what is Illative.</P>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> Having &s;hew'd the Coherence hereof, how one follows from another, I &s;hall now pa&s;s on to treat of the Re&s;ult hereof, of the Benefits that accrue to <HI>Job</HI> hereby, and yet not only to him, but al&s;o to all the Faithful with him: The&s;e are &s;umm'd up in the <HI>26th</HI> and the <HI>27th ver&s;es,</HI> and are the third and la&s;t General Head; but for this I &s;hall contract my Di&s;cour&s;e. It follows, <HI>ver&s;</HI> 26, 27. <HI>And tho' after my Skin Worms de&s;troy this Body, yet in my Fle&s;h &s;hall I &s;ee God, ver&s;.</HI> 27. <HI>Whom I &s;hall &s;ee for my &s;elf, and mine Eyes &s;hall behold, and not ano|ther.</HI> This is &s;o fully expre&s;s'd, and &s;o often repeat|ed with one and the &s;ame Breath; as that we may very well a&s;&s;ure our &s;elves that he was extreamly af|fected herewith; as one ob&s;erves upon the like Oc|ca&s;ion, &s;aying, <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Quod extra|ordinarie di|lexit, &s;uperflu&egrave; nominavit.</NOTE> <HI>That, that which he was &s;o much and &s;o &s;urpa&s;&s;ingly in love with, he could not but mention &s;uper-abundantly.</HI> It would not &s;uffice to &s;ay, <HI>I &s;hall &s;ee him,</HI> except he further added,<HI>&mdash;I &s;hall &s;ee him in my Fle&s;h;</HI> nay moreover, <HI>I &s;hall &s;ee him with mine Eyes,</HI> with the &s;ame Eyes, and in the &s;ame Fle&s;h: And after all this, <HI>I &s;hall &s;ee him for my &s;elf, and not another;</HI> which frequent reiteration can de|note no le&s;s than his vehement de&s;ires, and hearty longings for the Beatifick Vi&s;ion; than the infinite Complacency he &s;hould find in the Contemplating his Redeemer. <HI>I in my Fle&s;h &s;hall &s;ee God,&mdash;</HI><NOTE N="(i)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Re&s;urrecti|onem quidem carnis &s;ine du|bio propheta|vit.</HI> S. Aug. de Civit. Dei, Lib. 22. ca. 29.</NOTE> <HI>No doubt,</HI> &s;aith the Father, Job <HI>hereby foretold the Re&s;urrection of the Fle&s;h, in that he &s;aith, Tho' after my Skin Worms de&s;troy this Body, yet in my Fle&s;h &s;hall I &s;ee God:</HI> which is the very &s;ame, as if he &s;hould have &s;aid, as indeed he doth, I &s;hall be re-inve&s;ted in my human Nature, and cloathed with this my Fle&s;h a|new,
<PB N="16" REF="11"> when I &s;hall come to behold my dear Redeemer. Altho' Worms de&s;troy this Body of mine, altho' they feed and prey upon it till they have devour'd it, and can live no longer; altho' both it and they at the la&s;t be converted into Du&s;t; altho' part of this Du&s;t be intermingled with my Forefathers; altho' it be &s;catter'd to and fro upon the face of the Earth; altho' part thereof be carried, or driven into the Seas, where 'tis to&s;&s;ed with perpetual Revolutions; in what lap or fould of the Earth my Du&s;t &s;hall lodge; or how it may be intermingled, or di&s;per&s;ed, 'tis hard for me to tell, that I know not; however, this I know, notwith&s;tanding this di&s;per&s;ion, this confu&s;ion and intermixture of it, altho' all this &s;hould happen, however I am fully per&s;waded, that all of it &s;hall be recollected, and recompacted, and my Bo|dy and Soul re-united, in a moment, in the twink|ling of an Eye, <HI>and that I in my Fle&s;h &s;hall &s;ee God,</HI> with the &s;ame Eyes and no other; in the &s;ame Body, and not in another; tho' otherwi&s;e then qualified.</P>
<P>This fully evinceth the Verity and Reality of the Re&s;urrection, and the Identity of the Body in the &s;ame <NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Caro eadem erit, &amp; diver&s;a po&s;t re&s;urrecti|onem, eadem per naturam, diver&s;a per gloriam.</HI> Pi|neda.</NOTE>. Hence I might proceed to let you under&s;tand,</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, That all Happine&s;s will con&s;i&s;t in &s;ee|ing God.</P>
<P>Secondly, That we &s;hall &s;ee him in the very &s;ame Bodies, with which our Souls are now inve&s;ted, tho' otherwi&s;e then quali|fied.</P>
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<P> Thirdly, That every Individual among&s;t us, who continues truly faithful and penitent, &s;hall enjoy the benefit hereof; &s;hall, with holy <HI>Job,</HI> &s;ee God for him&s;elf, to his own endle&s;s Bli&s;s and Eternal Comfort.</P>
<P>The&s;e &s;everally di&s;cu&s;s'd and dilated upon, toge|ther with what hath been already deliver'd, would exceed the Mea&s;ures of an Hours Di&s;cour&s;e; &s;o that I &s;hall be inforc'd, that I be not tedious, to abridge what remains. In fine, 'tis well known that all our Mi&s;ery commenced when we were driven out of Pa|radi&s;e, and bani&s;ht God's Pre&s;ence; well then, by the Rule of Contraries it mu&s;t needs follow, that all our Happine&s;s mu&s;t needs con&s;i&s;t in being re&s;tor'd to the light of his Countenance. This mu&s;t needs be &s;o, for that the Vi&s;ion of God is throughout the Holy Scriptures made our <HI>(ultimum bonum)</HI> chiefe&s;t Felici|ty. And the Schools have plac'd all that Bli&s;s that mu&s;t and &s;hall en&s;ue in the next World, in all tho&s;e &s;urpa&s;&s;ing Qualifications and Endowments that the Body and Soul &s;hall for ever enjoy: yet one as well as the other, will have it to be principally by &s;eeing God in his Glory, in beholding him <HI>face to face.</HI> An|&s;werable hereunto is that of the <HI>P&s;almi&s;t (P&s;al.</HI> 16. 12.) <HI>In thy Pre&s;ence is the fulne&s;s of joy, and at thy right hand are plea&s;ures for evermore.</HI> Wherefore as <HI>Philip</HI> &s;aid unto our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour; <HI>(St. John</HI> 14. <HI>v.</HI> 8.) <HI>Lord! &s;hew us the Father and it &s;ufficeth us;</HI> &s;o may we &s;ay, <HI>(P&s;alm</HI> 4.) <HI>Lord! lift up the light of thy Countenance upon us, and we &s;hall be whole.</HI> Shew us but him who is the Fountain of Light and Life, who is the expre&s;s Image of the Father, who is Beauty, Glory, and Immortality it &s;elf, and that &s;ufficeth:
<PB N="18" REF="12"> that's enough, for more than that, as we need not, &s;o we &s;hall never covet, nor de&s;ire to know: &s;o that we may come to behold him in the beauty of revealed Heaven, at the right Hand of his and our heavenly Father; in his Throne of Maje&s;ty, where he will ap|pear more glorious than ten thou&s;and Suns in their Summer Sol&s;tice and Meridional Splendor; when and whereupon we &s;hall become not only living Souls, but living Luminaries al&s;o; for then every Member of our Bodies &s;hall be transform'd into Lu&s;tre, and &s;hall &s;hine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father; <HI>(St. Matth.</HI> 13. 43.) Where we &s;hall have a continued and uninterrupted &s;ight of an infinite, glori|ous and everla&s;ting Object; where nothing &s;hall ever invidiou&s;ly interpo&s;e to rob us of it, for there we &s;hall enjoy him in his long and everla&s;ting day; in that with him are no Tropicks, no variablene&s;s, nor &s;ha|dow of turning; his Glory can never be ob&s;cur'd. O how &s;trong and quick! how bright and piercing mu&s;t our Eyes needs be! how &s;trongly and &s;trangely qualified, &s;ays one in precontemplation hereof, that &s;hall be able to behold and dwell upon &s;uch tran&s;cen|dent brightne&s;s? in re&s;pect whereof all the glittering Eminences of this inferiour World are but as dark &s;hades, as dull and gloomy Sub&s;tances, for the Heavens are not pure in his &s;ight.</P>
<P N="2">2. If St. <HI>Augustine,</HI> as 'tis affirm'd, made it one of his mo&s;t pa&s;&s;ionate Wi&s;hes to have &s;een Chri&s;t Je&s;us in the Fle&s;h, that he might have been his Contemporary and Di&s;ciple, when and whil&s;t in his cho&s;en Manhood he was conver&s;ant here on Earth: And if divers of our pious and religious Forefathers di&s;pens'd with te|dious Pilgrimages, re&s;orting from very remote Parts
<PB N="19" REF="12"> to behold the Holy City, to vi&s;it their Redeemers Se|pulcher, albeit they could not &s;ee their Je&s;us, yet that they might &s;ee, and wor&s;hip, where his Feet had &s;tood; where he had &s;hed for them both Blood, and Sweat, and Tears; where he prayed, and cried, and gave up the Gho&s;t: If &s;imply out of Devotion they travel'd to behold the&s;e things, that the &s;ame might influence and make impre&s;&s;ions on them: How much more grateful will it be to &s;ee our Redeemer out of his Ter|re&s;trial Weeds? to &s;ee him in his proper Orb and Sphear? in his glorified State with all his ble&s;&s;ed An|gels and redeemed Ones about him? Who would not in &s;erious con&s;ideration hereof, with good old <HI>Simeon,</HI> court a Di&s;&s;olution? Who would not beg a change, that Immortality might be &s;wallowed up of Life, and live, and that for ever? How doth the Apo&s;tle's heart pant, and implicitly breath after all this? It &s;eems to beat as re&s;tle&s;ly after it, as the Needle after the Load|&s;tone: For thus he &s;aith (2 <HI>Corinth.</HI> 5. 4.) we that are in this Tabernacle do groan, being burden'd, not for that we would finally part with our Bodies, or for e|ver be divorced from them, (tho' indeed in this Life they often may and do &s;ubject us to many pre&s;&s;ures, incline us to many &s;inful Lu&s;ts and Temptations) how|ever we would not be deprived of them for ever, but be cloathed upon, that Mortality might be &s;wallow'd up of Life. We would that this &s;ame Mortal &s;hould become Immortal, that this Corruption &s;hould put on Incorruption, that that which is &s;own a Natural &s;hould become a Spiritual Body: We would, and that mo&s;t earne&s;tly, that he would change our vile Bodies, that they may become like unto his glorious Body, eternal in the Heavens.</P>
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<P> Now if we be thus extreamly de&s;irous, and would &s;ee Je&s;us in our fle&s;h; if &s;o, then, as one ob&s;erves, the Life of Je&s;us mu&s;t al&s;o be &s;een, and made manife&s;t in our fle&s;h: We mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity imitate him in our Lives, tread in his &s;teps, walk in his ways, and keep his Commandments: We mu&s;t faithfully tran&s;cribe his Copy, be pure as he is pure, ju&s;t as he is ju&s;t, and mer|ciful as he is merciful: not rendring evil for evil, but endeavour to overcome it by doing good: We mu&s;t crucifie the Old Man, dye daily to &s;in, &s;ince he died for our &s;ins, and ari&s;e to newne&s;s of Life, &s;tudying to &s;erve him in righteou&s;ne&s;s and holine&s;s all the days of our lives: And if his Re&s;urrection, and Power of it, be thus exemplarily &s;een in our fle&s;h; the end of this will be to &s;ee him in our fle&s;h, and that not again&s;t, but for our &s;elves; not to our di&s;mal horrour and confu&s;ion, but to our endle&s;s joy and comfort; <HI>which God of his infi|nite goodne&s;s and mercy grant through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord.</HI> Amen.</P>
<P>I have yet a large Province behind, were I but a|ble to manage it: I mu&s;t, and do ingenuou&s;ly confe&s;s, that &s;ome unde&s;erved Favours to me, when and whil&s;t I was a Student in the Colledge, did always incline me to do him Service, who&s;e Exaequies we now cele|brate; however, being con&s;cious to my &s;elf of my own In&s;ufficiency to di&s;charge this Task as it ought to be, that he was pleas'd to lay upon me, made we wi&s;h, and unfeignedly de&s;ire that one more fit, and better accompli&s;h'd, had been employ'd upon this &s;olemn Oc|ca&s;ion.</P>
<P>One main Advantage that I have herein, before a Stranger, is, that I need not be inqui&s;itive, nor much &s;olicitous after the Memorable Pa&s;&s;ages of his Life;
<PB N="21" REF="13"> for tho&s;e I pre&s;ume are much-what known to me al|ready, having enjoy'd his Company, and obtain'd his Conver&s;e for many years together. Notwith&s;tanding at this pre&s;ent, I can't, without a more mature delibe|ration, and le&s;s di&s;turbance and di&s;traction of my thoughts, pre&s;ent you with any other than a rude, im|methodical, and imperfect Draught of his Life: And wherein you find the Repre&s;entative to fall &s;hort, as it needs mu&s;t, of that Idea, that may worthily be concei|ved of this venerable Per&s;on, I hope you'l have &s;o much Chri&s;tian Candour as to connive at the Defects of your Brother, and &s;o much Charity for me, and Re&s;pect for the Decea&s;ed, as to pity rather than de|ride my Weakne&s;s; and wi&s;h, as I my &s;elf have done, that one more Judicious and Rhetorical had been the pre&s;ent Undertaker.</P>
<P>I know the very naming of him is enough to all that knew him: And to read, and &s;eriou&s;ly to medi|tate upon his devout and practical Pieces, will be &s;uf|ficient for them that knew him not. Albeit Vertue hath no more than Merit when 'tis commended, yet Ju&s;tice will that it &s;hould have its due; for tho' it cannot be better'd thereby, yet in &s;o doing it is righted.</P>
<P>He was early Matriculated in the Univer&s;ity, too early I have heard him &s;ay with &s;ome regret <NOTE N="(k)" PLACE="marg">He was ad|mitted into the Colledge when he was about 14years of Age; for which, as he intimated, he was con&s;train'd to become the more &s;tudious and indu&s;trious. And how well he improved his time, and what Progre&s;s he made in Learning, will &s;ufficiently appear by what he writ, without any further Ob&s;ervation. That which I find recorded of S. <HI>Remigious,</HI> may well be attributed unto him;<HI>&mdash;&V;t primum Di&s;ciplinarum c<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">pax factus e&s;t, non mod&ograve; natu majores, &amp;c.</HI> That from the time of his fir&s;t capacity of Learning, he out&s;trip'd tho&s;e that were &s;uperiour to him in Age, as well in ex|cellency of Parts, as proficiency in Study, and maturity in Moral Vertues. I was enforc'd to make this Remark, for that it was reported; that I had derogated from his Worth and Parts by my late Expre&s;&s;ions, rendering him thereby as mean and de&s;picable. How de|&s;erving &s;uch Cen&s;ures are, let the Reader be judge, and tell, whether the &s;ame be not te|merarious, if not captious and perver&s;e.</NOTE>; for to &s;end raw and green youth thither, before the
<PB N="22" REF="14"> Tongues be learn'd and under&s;tood, is a great di&s;|kindne&s;s to it, proves often &s;uch a defect, that will hardly after be made good without double diligence and indu&s;try: in that &s;uch will be obliged to &s;tudy, before they can under&s;tand an Author; which falls out otherwi&s;e when well School'd before-hand, for that then they read with much ea&s;e and delight, as well as profit.</P>
<P>After, as I conceive, he had commenc'd Ma&s;ter of Arts in the Univer&s;ity of <HI>Dublin,</HI> he entred into Ho|ly Orders, and was pre&s;ented to a Cure, and undertook fir&s;t the Pa&s;toral Charge in that now di&s;tracted King|dom of <HI>Ireland:</HI> when in&s;tantly the Rebellion there breaking forth, he was forced thence, leaving and loo|&s;ing his Books, and what he had. Nor was <HI>England</HI> after that, for any long time more kind, or au&s;picious to him, for that the Torrent of Wars did quickly over|flow the Nations: However, he was always &s;tedfa&s;t to his Principles, &s;teddy in Allegiance, and faith|ful to his Soveraign; promoting his Intere&s;t with great Zeal and Courage, as much as lay within his Sphear. For his Loyalty he &s;u&s;tain'd and &s;uffer'd very much, Deprivation, and for &s;ometime Impri|&s;onment, as many Worthies did be&s;ides him. At the la&s;t, when driven out of <HI>Oxford,</HI> (where for &s;ome &s;pace he was re&s;ident, and one of the Chaplains in <HI>New Colledge,</HI> Officiating al&s;o at one of the Chur|ches in the Town) by good Providence he found &s;helter in a &s;mall Village near adjoyning, where he lived ob&s;curely, yet he &s;aid very happily, for that he was at re&s;t, and not envied there, becau&s;e the Place was of no great value; &s;ave that the People were very kind and re&s;pective to him, and had a difference for him; which made his Mini&s;try more
<PB N="23" REF="14"> effectual, as well as Life more comfortable; for tru|ly &s;o it is, that wherever the People are prejudiced, or di&s;affected, (tho' a Man had the Tongue of Men and Angels) he &s;hall, as one expre&s;&s;eth it, &s;ooner preach out his heart among&s;t them, than preach what is good into their hearts.</P>
<P>But what Corner of the Nations was then left long unran&s;ackt? here al&s;o they found him, and drove him out; in&s;omuch that he was &s;ore hurried and po&s;ted to and fro, being not able to fix his Sta|tion long in any one place; except in one Loyal Fa|mily in the North <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Berwick-Hall.</NOTE>.</P>
<P>Till at la&s;t, by a mo&s;t &s;trange and propitious Re|volution, the King and Royal I&s;&s;ue returning, and the Kingdoms &s;etling after &s;o much War and Blood|&s;hed, his Noble, and Right Honourable Patron, <HI>Charles</HI> Earl of <HI>Derby,</HI> who&s;e Chaplain he was, as he had been long before to his Grandfather, the Right Ho|nourable <HI>William</HI> Earl of <HI>Derby,</HI> pre&s;ented him to this Place: So that his Lot at the la&s;t fell unto him in a goodly Heritage <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Wenwick.</NOTE>, which might, as no doubt it did, in &s;ome mea&s;ure compen&s;ate for his former Lo&s;&s;es and great Sufferings. And for this I have heard him &s;ay, with much gladne&s;s of heart, for he thankt God when he &s;pake it, that never any Bene|fice was more frankly and freely be&s;tow'd than his was; which was much, very much to the honour of his Noble Patron; who&s;e Nece&s;&s;ities, notwith|&s;tanding, might be very great and urgent, becau&s;e of his, and the Earl his Father's late Troubles and Suf|ferings for Loyalties &s;ake, which are not here to be recounted.</P>
<PB N="24" REF="15">
<P> As for his Painfulne&s;s in his Cure, let his own words be heard, for he being dead yet &s;peaketh, and preacheth to us: Thus you may read him in his Dedicatory Epi&s;tle to his Pari&s;hioners in his <HI>Practi|cal Christian.&mdash;As for the Di&s;charge of my Du|ty, tho' I cannot &s;ay I have been &s;o prudent, and dili|gent, as the high and holy Nature of my Function re|quires, yet you know I have not omitted frequently to put you in mind of the whole Will of God, in the careful Ob&s;ervance whereof the Health of your Souls con&s;i&s;teth.</HI> And le&s;t any &s;hould be at a lo&s;s for the Contents of God's holy Will, he there further in|forms us, that the &s;ame is collected out of the whole Body of Holy Scriptures, and &s;um'd up into General Heads by the Church of Chri&s;t in her Catechi&s;m<HI>&mdash;The which,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>tho' by a &s;trange Fanatick Humour it be &s;leighted, and by &s;elf conceited Per&s;ons derided, yet con|tains all things, both of Faith and Fact, nece&s;&s;ary to Salva|tion, being rightly, clearly, and fully understood.</HI> For this end he hath Paraphras'd the &s;ame; which how much in vogue and e&s;teem throughout the Nation, the many Editions thereof do fully demon&s;trate.</P>
<P>He would often tell his Hearers of &s;uch that have itching Ears, who through the de&s;ire of much hear|ing, upon the pretence of going on to Perfection, were apt to run off the very Foundation. Alike to this, is that of a late Reverend Prelate (Bi&s;hop <HI>Ni|col&s;on)</HI> who thus expre&s;&s;eth him&s;elf<HI>&mdash;Ever &s;ince Sermonizing hath ju&s;tled out the nece&s;&s;ary In&s;truction of Catechizing, the People have been po&s;&s;e&s;s'd with &s;trange Errours in Religion, and hurried on by the Spirit of Giddine&s;s, of Faction, and of Rebellion.</HI></P>
<PB N="25" REF="15">
<P> He was evermore for what was Practical, much more for that, than what was Controver&s;ial in Divi|nity: He &s;eem'd rather to decline than encourage and countenance Di&s;putes; as if thereby he dreaded greater Differences: which often falls out, that more Strifes, are engendred and multiplied by hotly and &s;tifly arguing it, than are quelled thereby.</P>
<P>He was very &s;trict and regular in his Life and Con|ver&s;ation, no le&s;s ob&s;ervant of the Churches Orders and Con&s;titutions: He would not admit of Private Prayer in Publick, of no other there than what the Church enjoyn'd to be u&s;ed, as pre&s;cribed and e&s;ta|bli&s;h't by Authority <NOTE N="(l)" PLACE="marg">For this I may, and do refer all &s;uch that Require further &s;ati&s;|faction, and more particu|lar Information herein, to a brief Di&s;cour&s;e of his, Entituled, <HI>The Irregularity of a Pri|vate Prayer in a Publick Congregation.</HI> In a Letter to a Friend <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1674. And &s;ince then Reprinted and Enlarged. However, he thought it prudence to conceal his Name, for that Cu&s;tom had &s;o much prevail'd to the contrary. See al&s;o
<LIST>
<ITEM>Pulpit Conceptions,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Popular Deceptions.</ITEM>
</LIST> There's more of this in the <HI>Preacher</HI>'s <HI>Guard and Guide,</HI> ali&agrave;s <HI>Rex Theologus:</HI> wherein is rankt the u&s;e of long Prayers of our own conceiving before Sermon, among the Inno|vations the&s;e later times have made.</NOTE>. And pray! with what face can men pretend to be of the Church, and Guides to the People, when they will not be ruled nor regulated thereby, acting as &s;he enjoyns?</P>
<P>As for his Ho&s;pitality, and Acts of Charity, they have been de&s;ervedly much fam'd: He gave much Alms, and daily admini&s;tred to the Nece&s;&s;itous, to &s;uch that were in Pri&s;on and Di&s;tre&s;s: He cloathed the Naked, and provided Bread for the Hungry, con|tributed much towards the &s;etling of a &s;tock of Bread and Cloath, for the Poor for ever. His Charity was diffu&s;ive, for not only his own, but other Pari&s;hes were warm'd by its bountiful influence. He hath
<PB N="26" REF="16"> made &s;uch Provi&s;ion for the Indigent, that the Chil|dren which are yet unborn may gratefully Comme|morate him. He was much conver&s;ant in Watching, Fa&s;ting, and Praying, as well as Alms-deeds, with him they in&s;eparably accompanied each other. He &s;hew'd him&s;elf in all things a Patern of Good Works, the Mirrour of Holine&s;s, the Samplar of Chri&s;tian Pie|ty. His Zeal was &s;uch in providing for the Sick and Needy, as to deny him&s;elf tho&s;e things that were convenient for him, that he might be better able to &s;upply the Wants of the Nece&s;&s;itous. He had learn'd, that the Glory of One of his high and holy Function con&s;i&s;ted much in making Provi&s;ion for the Poor, as his &s;hame did in &s;tudying to enrich him&s;elf <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ignominia Sacerdotis e&s;t, propriis &s;tude|re,</HI> &amp;c.</NOTE>. Where|fore his principal Care for this was, to lay up his Trea&s;ure in Heaven by a faithful di&s;pen&s;ation (as a careful Steward) of that which God had given him upon Earth.</P>
<P>He was very &s;pare and &s;lender of Body; and 'twas thought he impair'd its &s;trength very much by his fre|quent Fa&s;ting and Ab&s;tinence. However, he would not endure to be told thereof; for upon any &s;uch a Sugge&s;tion, he was ready to reply, That he did eat and drink too much; and that many, if not mo&s;t, of men (u&s;ing the Proverb) did dig their Graves with their Teeth. Upon this account, for that he was &s;o much devoted to Au&s;terity of Life, and was &s;o &s;trict an Ob&s;erver of the holy time of <HI>Lent,</HI> and o|ther &s;tated Fa&s;ts of the Church; for this and the like, the ignorance of &s;ome, and that, and ill-will in others, would needs have been tainted with Popery.</P>
<P>He often for&s;ook his warm Bed in the cold &s;ea&s;on of the Night, that he might betake him&s;elf to his De|votions; &s;o that he &s;pent the time in watching, weep|ing,
<PB N="27" REF="16"> and praying, when others were at their Repo&s;e, and Sleeping. He e&s;teem'd Time mo&s;t precious, rec|koning of that as lo&s;t, more than what was nece&s;&s;ary for Re&s;t and Refre&s;hment to the Body, that was not imploy'd in Prayer, Study, Chri&s;tian Vi&s;its, and &s;uch like; in&s;omuch, that that very Character, which was given to St. <HI>Hierom</HI> by the Author of his Life, may very well be be&s;tow'd on this Reverend Per&s;on <NOTE N="(m)" PLACE="marg">Somnus non ad de<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ici|as, &s;ed ad na|turae capi|tur nece&s;&s;ita|tem: Canis jam totus a|&s;per&s;us, nihil ex &s;tudiorum alji|duitate remit|tit.&mdash;Mirum erat in corpore jejuniis &amp; aetate con|&s;umpto, tan|tum &s;pirit&ucirc;s, tantum vigere fortitudinis.</NOTE>:&mdash;That he would indulge Sleep no more (&s;carce that) than only to &s;atisfie the Nece&s;&s;ity of Nature; that he remitted nothing of Pains and Indu&s;try for Reading or Study; nor of his Alacrity in Prayer: &s;o that 'twas a wonder to &s;ee a Body, that had &s;u&s;tained &s;o much by Labour, Vigilance, and Fa&s;ting, to con|tinue &s;o full of Vigour and Activene&s;s. Moreover, as if he had (what can we imagine le&s;s?) &s;ome &s;ecret and invi&s;ible Monitour &s;till at hand to in&s;tigate him thereunto, he would frequently, and that in&s;tantly, depart the Company, retire into &s;ecret, to pour forth his Soul in pious and fervent Ejaculations <NOTE N="(n)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Saepe acci|dit, ut dum inter alios ver|&s;aretur, &amp; cum illis Sermonem mi&s;ceret, intus Deum &s;e allo|quentem &s;enti|ens, di&s;cederet in cubientum, ibi cor &s;uum coram Domino effundens,</HI> &amp;c. In vit. Th. a Kempis.</NOTE>; when and where his Zeal and Tran&s;ports have been &s;uch, that he hath been often over-heard; which in Charity we mu&s;t conclude was not de&s;ignedly, and out of vain affectation to be over-heard, that he might be taken notice of; no, but we mu&s;t impute the &s;ame to the meer Raptures of Devotion. That of venerable <HI>Bede</HI> which he a&s;cribed to his Predece&s;&s;or S. <HI>Cuthbert,</HI> is very applicable to this Reverend Pa&s;tor <NOTE N="(o)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Commi&s;|&s;am namque &s;i|bi plebem &amp; orationibus protegebat a&s;&s;iduis, &amp; admoni&s;&s;ionibus,</HI> &amp;c. Bed. Eccl. Hi&s;t. lib. 4. cap 28.</NOTE>,&mdash;That he fulfilled his Duty in daily Prayers in behalf of the People committed to his Charge, and he taught them nothing by his words, whereof he did not give them a good Example by his Deeds.</P>
<PB N="28" REF="17">
<P> He had <HI>David</HI>'s P&s;alms <HI>ad unguem,</HI> making Re&s;pon|&s;es all by heart; Evening and Morning as, the Church pre&s;cribes, he attended Publick Prayers: And upon the more &s;olemn Days of Fa&s;ting and Humiliation, as upon <HI>A&s;hwedne&s;day, Good-friday,</HI> &amp;c. after Divine Ser|vice had been celebrated in the Church; he would in his private Chappel read Prayers again, making then u&s;e of the <HI>P&s;alms</HI> and <HI>Le&s;&s;ons,</HI> as appointed by the <HI>Calendar</HI> in ordinary Cour&s;e for the day; when tho&s;e that were proper and peculiar to that day had been read before.</P>
<P>When ever the <HI>Ab&s;olution</HI> was pronounced, or the <HI>Benediction</HI> given, being upon his bended Knees, he bar'd his venerable gray Hairs, and lowly bowed his Head, as if he would have ki&s;&s;ed the Ground.</P>
<P>Very often in private he hath been &s;een and heard to weep, and pray, and beat his Brea&s;t; not only kneeling, but &s;ometimes throwing him&s;elf flat upon the Earth; lying pro&s;trate on the Ground, as if he had been licking up the du&s;t; thus profoundly hum|bling him&s;elf, even to the lowe&s;t. Since he has al|ready paid the la&s;t Debt to Nature, we may &s;afely &s;peak; for that 'tis impo&s;&s;ible to humour the Dead into danger, or in this ca&s;e to melt our &s;elves away into Flattery.</P>
<P>A good old man, like to this pious one, who is now become our pre&s;ent Subject, being much impor|tun'd to declare, what his Studies and Contemplations for the mo&s;t part were:&mdash;At la&s;t, breaking the Bounds of Mode&s;ty, he made this An&s;wer <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>St quotidie <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">er&s;ari,</HI> &amp;c.</NOTE>,&mdash;That he, for his part, was daily conver&s;ant in, and much meditating upon the four la&s;t things, Death and Judgment, Heaven and Hell. The&s;e we may well pre&s;ume po&s;&s;e&s;s'd much the thoughts of the De|cea&s;ed,
<PB N="29" REF="17"> for that in Writing he hath expatiated here|upon, and recommended the &s;ame to our &s;erious Meditations.</P>
<P>It were ea&s;ie to multiply In&s;tances of this Nature, for we have a very virtuous and copious Subject; The whole Narrative of his Life would take up much, and ju&s;tly Challenges a far better and more able Pen; but Brevity nece&s;&s;itates me, that I be not tedious, to pa&s;s by many memorable Pa&s;&s;ages. There's no|thing of untruth, as I conceive, that can de&s;ervedly be charg'd upon me for what I have already &s;aid; I fear there's more of Virtue and Piety, than hun|dreds will ever imitate or practice. However, let a man live or act never &s;o well, there will be &s;ome <HI>Momus</HI> or other to carp, &s;ome prejudic'd and di&s;af|fected to traduce and cen&s;ure him, and never under|&s;tand the worth, till they find the want of him; which great Numbers will be &s;ure to do, I mean the Poor that he fed and cloathed, who can be no feigning nor per&s;onating, but real Mourners for his Death.</P>
<P>Having led his Life in an Holy and Cha&s;t Celebacy, being never wedded to any &s;ave God, and the People that were committed to his Care and Tru&s;t, of who&s;e Spiritual welfare he was very tender; and having &s;pun out his days to the <HI>76th</HI> Year of his Age, he &s;eem'd to be weary of the World, and to wait for his Di&s;&s;olution; wherein his God hath gratified him, having brought him to his Fathers, and in a good old Age deliver'd him from the Mi&s;eries of this &s;in|ful World, it may be from much Evil to come.
<PB N="30" REF="18"> <HI>Which God in Mercy prevent, and of his infinite Goodne&s;s grant, that among the &s;undry and manifold Changes and chances of this Mortal Life, our Hearts may &s;urely there be fixed, where true Joys are to be found, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord.</HI></P>
<CLOSER>AMEN.</CLOSER>
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<PB N="31" REF="18">
<P> SOme Years before his Death he caus'd his Grave|&s;tone to be laid within the Chancel, at the fir&s;t Entrance into it out of the Body of the Church; there, in the very Pa&s;&s;age, to be trampled upon, and trodden under Foot. He was not only a publick, but al&s;o private Frequenter of God's Hou&s;e, (having a venerable re&s;pect for all Con&s;ecrated Places) where, upon his Retirement thither, he hath &s;ometimes been di&s;cover'd to make u&s;e of &s;everal devout and humble Ge&s;tures, continuing fervent in Prayer and Doxolo|gies; one while &s;tanding erect before the Commu|nion Table, with Hands and Eyes lift up to Hea|ven; another while prone, hanging down his Head with a pen&s;ive, drooping, and dejected Countenance, being much afflicted and ca&s;t down at the Remem|brance of his Sins; &s;ometimes kneeling, nay falling flat on his Face; and &s;ometimes he de&s;cended to &s;tretch and lay down him&s;elf upon his Grave, where lying with his Back upon the cold Stone, and his Face upwards, he earne&s;tly &s;upplicated God, breathing forth ardent Ejaculations.</P>
<P>All that he order'd for his Epitaph, to be Engra|ved in Bra&s;s, and fixt upon his Stone, is what fol|lows&mdash;</P>
<P>EXUVIAE<LB> RICHARDI SHERLOCK D. D.<LB> INDIGNISSIMI HUJUS<LB> ECCLESIAE RECTORIS;<LB> OBIJT XX^o DIE JUNIJ<LB> AN^o. AETAT. LXXVI. AN^o. DOM.<LB> 1689.<LB> SAL INFATUATUM CONCULCATE.</P>
<PB REF="19">
<P> One reflecting hereupon, and much honouring his pious Memory, hath &s;ubjoyn'd and added this further In&s;cription&mdash;</P>
<P>EN VIRI SANCTISSIMI<LB> MODESTIA! QUI EPI|TAPHIUM<LB> SE INDIGNUM<LB> INSCRIBI VOLEBAT;<LB> CUM VITA ET MERITA<LB> EJUS LAUDES OMNES<LB> LONGE SUPERARENT.</P>
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<P>IN the Epi&s;t. for too to, read <HI>too too.</HI> for Statutes. r. <HI>Statues.</HI> pag. 6. in the Marg. for ad Damach. r. <HI>ad Pammach.</HI> p. 8. l. 2. for illadve. r. <HI>Po&s;i|tive.</HI> p. 20. l. 24. for exaequles, r. <HI>exequies.</HI> p. 22. ult. for difference, r. <HI>de|ference.</HI> p: 26. l. 31. for been, r. him. p. 27. Marg, for in cubientem, r. <HI>in cubiculum.</HI> p. 28. l. 2. <HI>the Comma is to be at, Morning; and not at, as.</HI> p. 29. l. 22. for celebacy, r. <HI>calibate.</HI></P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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