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A63977	Canticum morientis cygni, or, The last dying note of Stephen the first gospel-martyr opened and improved in a sermon preached at Alhallows Barking, London, 17 Septemb. 1658, at the funeral of Mr. Andrew Bassano, gentleman, and since in some particulars enlarged by William Tutty ...	Tutty, William.	1659 (1659)	Wing T3389; ESTC R32882	24,422	34

they were worse than their parents for of the Messias himself that holy and just one they themselves had but lately been the betrayers and murderers 52 verse Last He lays at their dores the guilt of high treason against the Law of Moses in every part and parcel of it though they seemd so much to cry it up and wore broad Phylactories of it upon their Garments in their dayly Garb and he circumstantiates this guilt by their breaking of the Law * Theophilact Occumenius though received by the disposition of Angels Some refer this to Moses and Aron * Lorinus Calvin alii Some to the Angel that appeared to Moses in the burning bush * Lorinus Calvin alii Some to many Angels which were testes internuncii Witnesses and Messengers betwixt God and Moses in giving the Law 2. For the Jewes ill resentment of this close application it is expressed by divers cross and curst gestures 1. they were cut to the heart not savingly prickt but maliciously pierced and gall'd verse 54 2. They gnashed on him with their teeth this stridor dentium the action of damned Friends enraged against the Lord. 3. made a great outcry 57 verse with an unanimous tumultuous rage 4. They stopped their ears to hear no more either of his Counsel or complaints 5. They ran upon him with one accord in the same verse united in malice 6. They cast him out of the City not only out of the Synagogue but they look upon him as such an Anathema not fit for humane society 3. For their cruelty against the Preacher that is fully expressed in the 58 59 verses they stone him to death * Augustine ad dures duriores being more hard with cruelty than the Stones they cast at him a sad course they took and made most vile Application casting stones at the Preacher insteed of casting the first stone at their own hard and stony hearts Thus their rage brings Stephen to his Martyrdome his name in Greek signifies a * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Crown from hence * Lorinus one alluding tells us that he was at this time Crowned with pretious stones lapidibus ' preciosis coronatns est and * Arator another that he was joyned closer to Christ the corner stone Et per tot lapides petrae conjungitur uni But see now the sweet and gratious deportment of this blessed Deacon Saint and Martyr as before he had faithfully preached to them so now he as servently prayes before them and for them as he imitated the death of Christ so Christ in his death Calvia in locum turning himself to God and truly it was now high time satis verborum apud homines perdiderat meritò ad Deum convertit he had lost too much time in speaking to malicious man he therefore now directs himself to the mercifull God by prayer And in his dying supplications he imitates his dying Saviour those 2 petitions which he put up to his Father on the Cross he sends up to God now only inverting Christs Order Luke 23.34.46 Christ prayed first for his enemies then for himself but Stephen first for his own Soul and then for his enemies And surely there may be good reasons given for it 1. The Servant must be below the Master Christs love to enemies was the Copy his the transcript Mat. 5.44 48. In loving enemies and praying for them we must strive to be perfect as our heavenly Father it is honour enough for us to follow 2. Christ and Stephen so other Christians too in this walk by distinct rules we must love our Neighbours so our Enemies as our selves Christ loved them better than himself in this commended his love to us to imitate not equalize Rom. 5.8 3. Christ needed no prayer for himself but Stephen did and so do we as * Calvin one observes Christ prayed but for example sake as to himself but upon a real need for his crucifiers now needfull workes should allwaies be done first and therefore Christ observed this method but not Stephen for it was more needfull for him to secure his own Soul first by prayer and then to intercede for his Enemies These 2 prayers of his proclaimed him a right Christian in his death the first discovers fidei constantiam the constancy of his Faith in his petition for himself the second contains summam charitatis the substance of his love and charity even to enemies which 2 graces and duties contain the marrow of Christian Religion for which and in which he dyed The Text is Stephens first Prayer for himself in which we have part of the last words of the first Martyr after Christ and the holy gratious farewell-breathings of a dying Saint the words may be called morientis cygni cantilena the last sweet note of a milk-white innocent dying Swan his petition is short but sweet when totum pro vulnere Corpus the whole body was but one wound little leisure he hath to speak much and therefore he speaks fully and fervently much in a little as Homers Ileads in a nutshel There are two parts of the Text 1. parts of Text. The great person or Prince petitioned the Lord Jesus 2. The sum and substance of his petition Receive my Spirit * Calvin De corpore minime sollicitus animam in Christimanus deponit he minded not his Body his whole care was for his Soul I shall handle the words two wayes 1. In sensu divise every word by it self for there is a weight in every single word 2. In sensu composito taking the substance of the whole prayer together 1. In a divided sense here are 5 words in the prayer every one is praegnant with holy matter Note 1 1. Lord in death he turns himself to the Lord hence observe Good men should shut up their lives with prayer we should begin and end with it at all times and in all employments this duty should bring up the front lead up the rear in all the actions of our life which is a warfare he who is the Alpha and Omega in himself should be the beginning and the end of all our services but chiefly when we begin to draw to an end of our time and work we should be sure to clasp up the book with most serious calling upon God As the Arabian Phoenix makes her self a nest of spices and is burnt to death in it so should we dy in in the spyced bed of prayer an Emperor should dystanding in the Court of Judicature so Vespatian a Minister should dy Preaching in the pulpit so Doctor Jewel and a Christian should dye praying so holy Stephen in the Text and thus our dear Mediator Note 2 We should dy with prayer to the Lord who is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Master of our Souls and lives to fly to Saints and Angels at any time in this duty is very illegal we ow this homage and debt only to

CANTICUM MORIENTIS CYGNI OR The last Dying NOTE of STEPHEN the first Gospel-Martyr Opened and Improved in a SERMON PREACHED At ALHALLOWS BARKING London 17. Septemb. 1658. At the Funeral of Mr. ANDREW BASSANO Gentleman and since in some particulars enlarged By WILLIAM TUTTY M. A. Minister of Totteridge in the County of HERTFORD LONDON Printed for J. Rothwel at the Fountain in Goldsmiths-Row in Cheapside 1659. TO THE Truly Religious Gentlewoman AND His much endeared FRIEND Mistris ANNE BASSANO Much Honoured in Christ I Humbly here present you with the first-born of my Meditations which were ever yet published to the eye of the World I durst never till now adventure any thing out abroad and therefore this first piece cannot but go from me with a kind of Virgin blush I never yet judged any of my weak labours worthy of a curious eye to look upon Sensible I am that my parts are as low as my person and therefore hitherto it hath been mine only ambition to do good among mine own people in mine own sphere But truly the love and respects in my Ministerial work which I alwayes met with from your dear yoke-fellow now with Christ while he sojourned with us here below in this valley of tears forces me to this thankfull retaliation and makes me willing that the World should know how much I was indebted to him As I have lost a very loving Neighbour so have you a most dear and tender Husband But it is not my desire or design to renew or aggravate your sorrow under this sad stroke but rather contrarily to present you with something that through the strength of Christ might lighten your burden I know you are like Hannah a Woman of a troubled Spirit at all times but much more now that you have more than ordinary to do and suffer and your adversary is most busy now he finds you at the weakest And therefore the good Lord forbid that by this Sermon I should add to your Affliction in which already your cup runneth over I only beg of you that you would seriously read and remember this Sermon but strive to forget the sad occasion of it Oh do not with Rachel refuse to be comforted Confident I am you are dear to Chist though too too cruel to your self and that your Spirit is clean though very cloudy and that you are a child of light though you so often sit in darkness The dead never complain as you do I fear too much and darkness could never reveal so much darkness as you dayly mourn under Black thoughts which we continually resist and pray against are but the smoak of the bottomless Pitt they flow from Satans envy against us not our enmity against God We must with thankfulness take comfort in the grace of Christ in us as well as allways be poring on our own wants and weaknesses Our Father expects we should walk thankfully as well as humbly and that we should melt under his goodness as well as our own unworthiness Our dear Saviour a little before his death begins his last Sermon to his Disciples John 14.1 with this not only Counsel but Command Let not your hearts be troubled ye believe in God believe also in me intimating that we may be guilty of Gospel-disobedience and unbelief by being too much troubled as well as by being too much defective herein Our infinitely gracious God hath made large and strong provision in his Word as well for the consolation of his servants here as for their salvation hereafter he hath given us not only his Word but his Oath That by too immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lye we might have a * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 strong consolation Heb. 6.18 even a formidable giant-like consolation as the word signifyeth and indeed strong food calls for strong labour as we should be strong in the Lord in point of duty so in point of comfort seeing he hath given us such strong encouragement even the highest security in the World his own Word and Oath to feed upon Oh when shall I see you come up to a full assurance of faith unto which all believers should give all diligence I know you dare not allow your self in any one sin willingly do not do it in this in Fathering a spiritual untruth upon your self that you are an Hypocrite How angry was God with Jobs friends for this untrue and uncharitable censure concerning him nothing but a sacrifice from Job himself for them would appease him and it is worth the minding the nature of Gods enditement against them Job 42.7 Ye have not spoken of Me the thing that is right why their Doctrine was true though not Application the Premises they laid down were sound though the Conclusion were rotten concerning Jobs rottenness Now God interprets this as false doctrine as speaking an untruth concerning himself Paul while Saul persecuted Christ the head in the members so do we when we persecute our own graces the best part of Christ in us and father spiritual untruths upon our selves to gratify the Father of lies Stephens prayer immediately after the Text for his enemies shall be mine though in a different sense for you The Lord lay not this sin to your charge that you even stone to death your own graces not giving God the glory of them but sin against him by sinning against your own grace and peace I now leave this weak piece with you and leave you in the arms of Jesus Christ who loves you and hath dyed for you And in him remain Your unworthy Pastour W. Tutty From my study in Totteridge the 4th day of October 1658. ACTS 7.59 And they stoned Stephen calling upon God and saying Lord Jesus receive my spirit THe whole chapter contains the Tragical history of Stephen a primitive Deacon wherein we have 1. his large sermon 2. The Jewes ill resentment of it 3. Their cruelty to the Preacher insteed of love and honour 1. For the Sermon it consists of Doctrine and Application The Doctrinal part ends at the 50th verse and all this while the Auditors are still and quiet no noise at all The Application begins at the 51 verse and this enrages them and drives them into the worst kind of madness In the Applicative part 1. The holy Preacher upbraids them in general with the stoutness stubbornness and stiff-neckedness of their hearts verse 51. 2. Charges upon them their resisting the Holy Ghost and this too modo and more patrum after the manner of their Predecessors so lashing them and their Ancestors with the same whip in the same 51. verse 3. He charges upon their fore-Fathers their horrid cruelty to the prophets ye their cruelty to the very death against them which were the Propheciers of Christ his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the forerunners of him thus were they the stock of bloody parents 4. He charges upon them the cruel seed of cruel Butchers spiritually that