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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12995	A curse become a blessing: or, A sermon preached in the parish church of S. John the Baptist, in the Ile of Thannet, in the country of Kent, at the funerall of that vertuous and worthy gentleman Mr. Paul Cleybrooke Esquire. By William Stone preacher of Gods word: on Tuesday, September 17. 1622	Stone, William, preacher of Gods word.	1623 (1623)	STC 23288; ESTC S106188	46,107	88

his Saints Moreouer from this that the Saints death is here said so expresly affirmed to be precious in the sight of the Lord I gather this comfortable meditation that Doct. 6 Doct. The Saints are neuer neglected of their louing God neither doth death befall them without his speciall prouidence God regards his Saints both in life and death If in their life time they meet with calamities so that they mourne hee regards their teares which made Dauid pray saying Psal 56.8 Put thou my teares into thy bottle And at their death he looketh after them Yea both in life and death he hath a gracious respect of them His Angell in their life time encampeth round about them and when they die they are caried by the Angels Psal 34.7 as Lazarus was into Abrahams bosome that is to say Luke 16.22 into the place of blisse where Abraham now is with the rest of Gods elect which be departed this life This care hath God of euery one of his Saints So that nothing can befall them in life or death but as he disposeth it What time he will haue them to liue so long they shall liue as he will haue them to bee tried with sundry afflictions so are they euery one tried and when his time is come that he will haue them to die then and not before they shall depart this life And which is most comfortable when that day comes hee will draw neere vnto them and make them feele by experience that which they haue learned and beleeued long before that precious in his sight is the death of his Saints Vse 1 The Vse Now then beloued see what a gracious God the Saints haue in heauen It is most true Take notice of Gods goodnesse to his Saints and too too commonly seene that generally amongst men the Saints of all others are least regarded but with the Lord of heauen there is none regarded with any speciall fauour but onely the Saints and these hee respects after a speciall manner as the Psalmist faith Behold Psal 33.18 34.15 the eye of the Lord is vpon them that feare him vpon them that hope in his mercie Many parents are very carefull for the welfare of their children but no parents care can be compared with the care which God hath of his Saints For notwithstanding the greatest care of the best parents in the world yet some things they shall see to befall their children which they cannot doe to and which they were not able for their liues to preuent but in respect of the Lord there is no such thing can befall his Saints but whatsoeuer he pleaseth and whatsoeuer his hand and his counsell hath determined before to be done that only shall befall them both in life and death Vse 2 Secondly this serues to banish from the heart of euery good man To banish distractions all distracting thoughts whether concerning maintenance bodily safety protection from dangers or whatsoeuer thing else and to make vs cheere vp our selues learne that good lesson which Dauid giueth vs Psal 55.22 saying Cast thy burden vpon the Lord and he shall sustaine thee he shall neuer suffer the righteous to be moued Behold and know that the Lord careth for the righteous and sendeth foorth his holy Angels which are all ministring spirits Heb. 1.14 Ps 42.11 43.5 to minister for them who shall be heires of saluation Dost thou beleeue this then let not thy soule be disquieted within thee but hope in God Be doing good and fulfill thy duty in that place which God hath set thee He will surely blesse thee and keepe no good thing from thee and at the last thy death shall be precious For God himselfe will haue the whole ordering of it both for the time the manner the place and euery way else Vse 3 Thirdly this also is comfortable for them that mourne for the death of any that liued in the feare of God Comfort ouer the Saints death Consider this speech well Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints For this beeing true that the Saints death is precious in the sight of the Lord it must needs follow that whensoeuer they die bee it sooner or latter they die in the due time that is to say in that time which is best for them in respect of their good It is the portion of bloudy and deceitfull men not to liue out halfe their daies Psal 55.23 Iob 5.26 but it is otherwise with good men as Eliphaz saith Thou shalt come to thy graue in a full age like as a shocke of corne commeth in in his season Oh then thinke when thy Christian friend is taken from thee that he died not by chance he died not before his time but his time was come and God hath 1296 sent him to his graue in his season yea euen in that time when it was best for him and most for the comfort and saluation of his soule What couldest thou desire more Therefore mourne not excessiuely but comfort thy selfe and make ready for the time which God hath appointed for thee It will not be long ere thou shalt goe the way which thy louing friend thy guide and thy comfort is gone before thee For death is the way of all the earth Vse 4 Fourthly this meditation that the Saints are neuer neglected neither in life nor death of their louing God Encourâ—gement to serue God and trust 1 in him should both embolden vs come what will come to goe on in his seruice not being dismaied with any crosses or afflictions and also make vs to trust stedfastly in him yea euen then when we can discerne no tokens of his fauour vnto vs. For of this wee are certaine that if we walke in holinesse howsoeuer it bee with vs all our life long that God watcheth ouer vs and our death when it comes shall be precious in his sight And this we haue further for our comfort in this case that we shall not die when the vngodly would haue vs die but at that time which God hath set For as Dauid saith so we may euery one say My times are in thy hand Psal 31.15 and 41.5 The vngodly may say by vs as they did by him when shall hee die and his name perish But neuerthelesse wee shall runne out our race and come to that period which God hath appointed for vs. Thus farre of the Proposition Now remaineth the Proofe thereof in these words of the Text In the sight of the Lord. In the sight of the Lord. DAVID proues the death of the Saints to bee precious by an argument not fetched from the consideration of the thing it selfe but taken from without it to wit from the testimony and authority of God in these words In the sight of the Lord as if he should say can it chuse but bee precious which the Lord himselfe approueth and highly esteemeth of It is not possible

sanctified Heb. 10.29 Yet were they sanctified True But how were they sanctified By the bloud of the Couenant saith the Apostle that is not by the effectuall and gracious working of the Spirit creating in them as in the elect conuerted soules that new quality of holinesse whereby they can in some measure truly hate their owne sinnes with a firme purpose to leaue them and can loue Gods law with a resolution to performe it in some good measure not so but sacramentally only And so many a reprobate may bee sanctified that is to say he may be baptised Nay more he may be outwardly reformed and haue some inward good things as ioy in hearing of the word and he may be sanctified in the charitable opinion of others yea and in his owne conceit and perswasion and yet all the while want that peculiar worke of the spirit of God of which I spake euen now and so be destitute of the substance and truth of the grace of sanctification For this he can neuer haue make what shew he will It is the portion of Gods elect it is part of his childrens bread he will not take it and cast it vnto dogs It is a holy thing not fit for dogs and a pearle of more worth than to be cast before swine Vse 4 Fourthly considering that the Saints be the Lords after a peculiar manner It is a singular comfort to be truly sanctified what a comfort is it to bee truly sanctified He that is such a one may build vpon it that God will protect him and that he shall be saued For as Solomon saith Pro. 2.8 He preserueth the way of his Saints And Iude saith Iude 1. to them that are sanctified by God the Father and preserued in Iesus Christ to wit to life eternall and called Deut. 33.3 And Moses saith All his Saints are in thy hand Which is more for their safety than if they had all the castles and bulwarks of the world to defend and saue them For we know what Christ saith No man is able to plucke them out of my Fathers hand Iohn 10.29 So that it is a maruellous comfort to be truly sanctified Such may haue enemies both many and mighty by whom they may looke to be fiercely assaulted but no multitudes nor power can preuaile against them And albeit they seeme often to be ouerthrowne with the wrongs which they suffer as some are stript of their possessions others are imprisoned others are banished others are tormented others are killed yet they are still the Lords And this that they are so dealt with commeth not to passe through the might of their aduersaries but by the will of God neither doth he suffer it to satisfie their foes but to encrease their owne happinesse 2 Cor. 4.17 For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for vs a farre more exceeding and eternall waight of glory And besides in all their afflictions he careth for them and doth them good Question Six markes of sanctification But how shall I know that I am truly sanctified Answer First by a perfect that is to say a sincere and true hatred of euery sinne whatsoeuer gaine or pleasure it may seeme to bring with it and by the practise of all holy duties though our credit peace wealth and all that we haue must goe to wracke for it yea our life it selfe be endangered thereby For a man truly sanctified will forgoe life and all rather than obedience to Gods Commandements How can I doe this great wickednesse Gen. 39.9 and sinne against God said Ioseph Secondly by the ground of our hatred of sinne and practise of vertue if it be not our owne credit amongst good men nor any other by-respects but the will and Commandement of God Thirdly by the right end proposed we hating sinne euen in the secretest closet of our soule and purging it from the flesh and spirit and perfecting holinesse in the feare of God that now and alwaies Christ may be magnified and God be glorified in vs. Fourthly by the meanes by which sanctification was wrought That is to say if we haue attained to sanctification by the effectuall working of the Spirit and the doctrine of the word For these bee the meanes by which God doth sanctifie vs. And for this sanctification is called 2 Thess 2.13 Iohn 17.17 the sanctification of the Spirit And our Sauiour saith Sanctifie them through thy truth thy word is truth Fiftly by the extent of it For true sanctification spreads ouer the whole man 1 Thess 5.23 it is wrought in the whole spirit and soule and body Sixtly by the continuance and growth of it For true sanctification after it is once wrought continues for euer and growes more and more by the selfe-same meanes by which it was first wrought vntill it come to perfection The death of his Saints LAstly from these words in that the deare children of God whose dignity is great and farre beyond the highest dignitie that this world affoords in that these are expressed vnder this title of Saints I gather that Doct. 4 Doct. The very title of a Saint is full of honour and dignity The title of a Saint is honourable The Scripture yee see when it makes mention of the best and of such as the world is not worthy of expresseth them here and many times elsewhere by the title of Saints 2 Chron. 6.41 Let thy Saints reioyce in goodnesse said Solomon in his praier Vse 1 The Vse First the hearing of this must teach the Saints to walke in holinesse Walke in holinesse 1 Pet. 1.15 16. According to S. Peters exhortation But as he which hath called you is holy so bee ye holy in all mannâ—r of conuersation Because it is written Be ye holy Ephes 5.2 3. for I am holy And S. Paul saith thus walke in loue as Christ also hath loued vs and hath giuen himselfe for vs an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling sauour But fornication and all vncleannesse or couetousnesse let it not bee once named among you as becommeth Saints Here is the ground of his exhortation that hauing receiued so great mercy and grace as to bee made Saints wee are to walke as is fitting for the Saints of God And it should bee a shame that any professing themselues Saints should be found vnholy in their conuersation Vse 2 Secondly considering this is it not a strange thing that any liuing in the Church Against them that reproach others with thâ—â—â— holinesse and make a mocke at the title of a Saint hearing the Gospell and knowing their Creed should be so strangely blinded and so desperately wicked as to scoffe at the endeuour and practise of sanctitie and reproach others with their holinesse saying You are one of these holy folke nay so gracelesse and ignorant as to turne this very title into matter of reproach saying You are one of the Saints you

of all towards his latter end And this I dare auouch that the Saints of the Lord can be discerned by no one signe better than by a due respect to the Ministers of the Word For our Sauiour saith He that receiueth whomsoeuer I send John 13.20 Luke 10.16 receiueth me and hee that despiseth you despiseth me As he that despiseth a Minister in respect of his calling and faithfull paines in his Ministery doth euidently bewray himselfe neither to haue any grace nor yet to desire any because the grace which either he hath or can desire ordinarily is attained by the Ministery as I could shew at large so hee that loueth and reuerenceth a Minister for his workes sake as this worthy man did he doth shew that he hath found the ministery of the Word to be the power of God to his saluation 5. A louer of the Saints He honoured the Saints and made much of them that were truly religious but vile and naughtie persons in whom was no religion nor knowledge of God were odious in his sight and their fond delights and vaine mirth and pastime were a vexation to his heart Which is one good note of a childe of God as the Holy Ghost doth witnesse saying that he shall abide in Gods Tabernacle Psal 15.1 4. and shall dwell in his holy hill In whose eyes a vile person is contemned but he honoureth them that feare the Lord. 6. A man gracious in his talke He delighted much to conferre of points of Religion and of the present estate and duties of a true Christian And in his conferences hee would often complaine of the rifenesse of sinne of the negligence and bad doings of diuers in the Ministery of the omitting of the due execution of iustice for sundry ordinary offences of the corruption of his owne flesh and of his owne vntowardnesse and dulnesse in Gods seruice and inueigh seriously and to good purpose against excessiue drinking and other vices of the times 7. Patient vnder the Crosse He was patient vnder the crosse of which he hath had much and long experience more waies then one For it pleased the Lord to exercise him certain yeeres before his death with diuers temptations both inwardly and outwardly in all which hee abode constant submitting himselfe quietly to the will of God making vse of all to the glory of his name and being so farre from being discouraged that his zeale his loue of the truth his patience and other vertues encreased still to his dying day 8. Sober and graue He was a sober graue discreet frugall temperate and chaste man Hee contented himselfe with plaine apparrell and neither affected costlinesse nor new fashions therein He went alwaies plainer and a great deale more meane than many others which in estate were farre inferiour to himselfe 9. Without ambition He was not ambitious He coueted no titles of honour nor places of publike seruice but wondred at others what they saw therein to couet and desire the same and contented himselfe with his owne estate 10. Not high minded He was nothing high minded but made himselfe equall to them of the lower sort according to the Apostles rule Rom. 12.16 Be of the same minde one towards another Minde not high things but condescend to men of low estate 11. A louing husband He shewed alwaies great loue and fidelitie to his wife He was a very carefull father for the godly liuing and well-doing of his children 12. A carefull father 13. A vertuous master He banished from among his seruants many horrible vices which as they be vsuall now adaies in great Families so no doubt they will pull downe the fearefull iudgements of God vpon them I meane swearing and swaggering and such other enormities and he so gouerned admonished and ordered them that some haue departed out of his house more godly sober frugall and honester men than they were before they came vnto him 14. A perfâ—rmer â—â—nsel â—â—f good duties at home He performed himselfe the ordinary duties of Religion in his house at home if no Preacher were present 15. Prouident in his businâ—sses Hee was wise and prouident in managing his affaires and left none of his buâ—inesses at six and seuen but was a carefull ouerseer of all himselfe 16. Bountifull to the poore Hee was plentifull in releeuing his poore neighbours a peaceable liuer and one that put vp a great number of trespasses 17. Peaceable 18. Able and willing to giue good aduice He afforded his counsell willingly for their best direction that stood in need of it and especially for the good estate of the place and Parish in which he liued vnto the people whereof and to many others he bare good affection Neither did he manifest his affection in word and tongue onely but by shewing himselfe forward in any good cause for their instruction and profit any manner of way The truth whereof if we did not sufficiently see whilest wee enioyed him I doubâ— we shall too well feele by wanting of him now he is gone 19. No nouice in vertue Neither was hee a nouice in the practise of any of these things but a well experienced souldier of many yeeres standing 20. Constant to the end in well-doing And vnto all this was added constancie and perseuerance vnto the end His well-doing was not by fits nor for a while only as it hath proued by some but till the end of his daies Witnesse his bountie and liberall contribution to haue the Word often preached Neither was hee weary of that which hee did Nay he was so farre from being weary that notwithstanding both the death of one of them that ioyned with him and that the vnfaithfulnesse of some which haue fallen from their word had caused him to be at more charge than at the first he had thought of yet of his owne accord hee charged himselfe somewhat further than his owne compartners in that businesse did know of And being motioned to some course whereby to be discharged from all he spake no word to approue of it but all to the contrary Then it being signified vnto him that some further course must be taken and what was expected his answer was that it was as little as could be August 5.1622 And all this not long before his last sicknesse By which it appeares how his minde was setled not to faint in well doing but to continue to the end 21. Mindfull to set his house in order before his sicknesse Hee was taken in the night with a dead palsie in halfe his body on August 15. 1622. Before his last sicknesse he had made his will and set his house in order But in the time of that sicknesse which was about the space of nine daies hee had but little vse of his speech neither was he able to expresse himselfe in diuers things to the vnderstanding of his friends which appeared by certaine tokens

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