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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67488	Peace and rest for the upright being a sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Dr. John Bryan, sometime minister of Trinity in Coventry / by that worthy preacher of Gods Word, Mr. Nath. Wanley ...	Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.	1681 (1681)	Wing W707; ESTC R38419	9,395	24

Incense when any Plague is begun with a People And that stand betwixt the living and the dead I have read of Philo Iudeus and St. Ambrose that coming to any Place and Town if they heard of the death of any able Minister or godly Person they would burst out into tears as considering that place to have lost a considerable part of its defence You know Sodom could not burn as long as Lot was in it nor Hippo be taken as long as St. Austin was in it But still they were a defence to the place where they were In all these respects we have a considerable Loss in the death of this great and good man whose Funeral we now Celebrate Of whom I will say this in short He was a Person of such Real Worth as is as hard almost to express as imitate Most of you knew him well but perhaps few of you better than my self And in Reverence to his Memory To provoke my self and you to an imitation of his Exemplary Vertue and Grace I shall give you this short account of it He was a man of uncessant Labours and indefatigable pains as God had lent him a strong and able body for many years So he spared it not at all but made it serve him in that insatiable thirst and desire he had after Humane and Divine Knowledg And this Diligence of his was Crowned with an answerable Blessing from above being arrived in point of Ability as another Saul higher than his Brethren by the head and shoulders Especially in Political and Polemical Divinity He was like Nehemiah upon the Wall a Sword to defend as well as a Trowel to build up So to this Eminency of Parts he adjoyned an equal Humility which set a lustre upon the former upon all occasions he would own what the Hand of Providence had raised him up unto This Humility made him even as a weaned Child a high valuer and applauder of the least good that was in others when he would own little that was worthy commendation in himself This Humility made him mindless of the place where he sate and made him willingly condescend to the meanest when they stood in need of his help And his Charity was such he denyed that help to none that sought it a liberal hand he had and yet a more liberal heart The Tenth part of his Estate for many years he gave to the Poor and had himself had more they had not wanted their share He was the Censurer the Condemner of no man If he saw a naked place there was no man more ready with the Skirt of his Garment to cast upon it He was a Censurer of no man for doing what he could not do but wherein he differed in Circumstantials in this his difference it was his manner and custome still to bewail his own want of light He was very circumspect and careful in the course of his life to manage it like a true Christian Therefore he was constant in Christian Duties For which he usually had his stated times and then he would admit by his good will of no interruption His discourse was a kind of continual Preaching neither was he less careful of his Thoughts than Words His manner was every day to run over a Catechisme in Greek Mr. Herbert's Poems or some other of the Liberal Sciences And the reason I remember why he did this was to keep his Thoughts from roving and stragling to worse matters His Patience was remarkable during the time of his Affliction no repining no murmuring words under his bodily pain or the restraint he was under He observed a particular hand of God in his Distemper which as he said mocked the Skill of the Physitian and he chearfully submitted to it desiring Patience might have its perfect work He was of a grateful spirit for the least office of Love or Kindness shewed to him whether in Health or Sickness So that few that came to visit him parted from him without a thankful acknowledgment of his Love to them and Prayers that God would reward them with Blessings upon their Bodies and Souls and not only so but the greatest and worst of his Enemies had a share in his Prayers As he was thus Eminent for Grace so as the Crown of all he wanted not his share of Peace His Conscience was Quiet and his Evidences for a better Life undisturbed He had that Hope which was as an Anchor of the Soul Sure and steadfast and enters within the vail And he doubted not but as he was in a state of Grace so he was within a step of Glory And that when Death had done his work he should yet for all that live for ever He said of Death That as to him the Sting of it was taken away And truly as it seems so were the Terrors of it too For Death came to him not as an armed man with Convulsions and bitter pangs as upon many but he parted from this World without a Sigh or Groan And as one that was falling into a long but sweet sleep This was the Comfortable End of this Reverend Person According to that of the Psalmist Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is Peace Peace in death yea and Peace after death too for so saith my Text He shall enter into Peace they shall rest in their beds each one walking in his Uprightness FINIS