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A39584	Hagioi axioi, or, The saints worthinesse and the worlds worthlesnesse both opened and declared in a sermon preached at the funerall of that eminently religious and highly honoured Knight Sr. Nathaniel Barnardiston, Aug. 26, 1653 / by Samuel Faireclough ...	Faireclough, Samuel, 1625?-1691.	1653 (1653)	Wing F107; ESTC R16705	30,836	42

from this truth to you of his nearest relation Exhortation you have heard it proved that the Lord setteth a higher price upon the meanest believer then all the world besides you have the experience of it in the Lord his honouring your father in his life and death and I believe you esteem it none of your least honours that you are descended from also honourable a root and that upon very good ground for to be heirs of so many promises and prayers which he pa● up to the Lord for you is an invaluable treasure and portion Moses when it was put to his choice whether he would deny his Hebrew pedegree and he reputed an Egyptian even the son of Pharaoh's daughter and thereby have hopes of a kingdome or on the other side lose all the riches of Egypt by declaring himself of the posterity of Abraham saw cause enough to make choice of the latter rather then the former in like manner I am perswaded you see more ground to glory that you are descended from your fathers loins who was so gracious then if you had been born heirs to the greatest Potentate of the earth if he were gracelesse O therefore that now it might be your great care to see that your behaviour in the world may be worthy of so good a father Beware you do not degenerate from his practise or principles but le your conversation to God and mad be such that you may be a crown to his head that was so great a glory to yours Robora parentum referunt liberi as sickly children argue the parents weaknesse so a gracious posterity like pure streams demonstrate the purity of the fountain from whence they are derived Childrens grace and piety is not onely a comfort to parents whilest they live but also a glory unto them when they are dead so was Eliakim of whom you may reade Isa 22.22 where the Spirit of God affirm that he was a throne of glory to his fathers house I saw a letter which one of you since your fathers death wrote from London to your brother in the countrey wherein was this expression viz. that he ballancing his fathers gain and glory which now he injoyed in heaven against the greatness of his own losse by his death on earth he professed that if he might have him alive again with a wish he durst not desire it I liked the expression exceeding well because it preferred his fathers glory above his own content And therefore as you rejoyce in the increase of your fathers glory in heaven so labour the augmentation of it in earth in being with Eliakim a throne of glory to your fathers house Which you shall effect if with the Rechabites you shall strictly and punctually observe and follow all his holy commands and blessed examples after his departure in so doing both the Lord himself and all his people shall do to you as the Lord Isaiah 22. promiseth they should do to Eliakim viz. hang the glory of his fathers house upon him Abraham was a good father and the Jews did much glory in him but Abraham could not glory in the Jews as his children because they did no the works of Abraham their father In like manner you had an honourable father and you justly glory in him O let him also have cause to glory in you whilest the world may take notice that you both walk in the steps of his faith and do also his works Let me therefore exhort every one that hath any of his bloud in his veins and beareth his name before the world that you would become his representatives the world that he being dead in his own body yet he may live and walk in you Collect the jewells of his graces set them in rows on the breast-plate of your heart and so carry his image about the world in your lives that all spectatours that knew your father when they behold your conformity to him may say Surely this is that renowned Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston or one very like him All this I speak unto you in this day of the sad obsequies of your father that I may ingage you all who are the branches of this noble vine to become fruitfull boughs loaden with such clusters the fruit whereof may glad the heart of God and man And for that end I commend unto you next after the reading of the Bible above all other books the reading and remembrance of the history of your fathers life and graces the volume of his counsels and directions written in your hearts use all diligence in the daily observation of the solid principles and divine rules legible in his example and practise Boleslaus the fourth King of Poland used to hang his fathers picture in a plate of gold about his neck Cromerus lib. 5. and when he was to speak or act any thing or importance did usually pull it out view and kisse it wishing he might do nothing unworthy of his name The like do you in bearing his name for a remembrance before the world untill the reflection on his perfections as so many rich diamond casting forth their beauty upon your actions cause you to answer those great expectations of piety and sincerity which your birth education and profession have raised in the hearts and minds of all spectatours Conceive I beseech you that every one that looks upon you doth speak unto you as the people of Rome used to speak at the creation of their Consuls praesta nomen tuum make good your name By this course you shall in some measure make up the couatreys great losse in the death of your father and make way for your friends to comfort those sorrowfull hearts that mourn for his death Ambros in obit Theo. As Ambrose in his Funcrall oration for Theodosius thus cheared up his mourning subjects my friends said he let his comfort you in the death of Theodosius the father because he lives in his son Honorias so I may say Let this comfort thee O Suffolk in the losse of his worthy Patriot that his graces yet survive in his sonne Nay if you shall severally and joincly second your fathers piety integrity and zeal for the cause of God and your countrey I may then adde that consolation to your lamenting neighbours which Eusebius reports of Constantines children after their fathers departure they lived so holily that the people said they had now may Constantines for one before they had Constantine multiplied so we also hereby may say we have may Sir Nathaniels for one or Sir Nathaniel multiplied and inlarged whilest his children that inherit his lands and estate do also succeed him in his virtues and graces who account it he highest honour of their family that Religion be continued in a succession and multiplication therein And truely Gentlemen if it was esteemed the great honour of the Family of the Curii in Rome Aeliax lib. 3. that there arose out from that stock three excellent Oratours one succeeding

times against the Scripture-power of godlinesse shewing the danger of complying with man against God Fourthly he commended them unto the word of Gods grace and the word of grace unto them requiring them to be constant in reading the Scriptures and to joyn prayer thereto for a blessing before and after After these counsels one of his sonnes telling him how much he hoped the words of a dying parent would be regarded by them desired him to deal impartially with each of them and discover unto them what evils he had noted each of them most prone unto and what duties he had observed any of them most negligent in Which he did with so much plainnesse that one of his brothers standing by desired him to use the same fidelity to him which he did accordingly A piece of affection rarely found expressed with wisdome All that I shall therefore now adde further Peaceable and joyful departure is nothing else but the signification of that abundant ravishing peace and joy that he departed withall wherewith his heart was so filled that he could not hide it but declared it to all that inquired after it at severall times First to his second sonne who observing him to grow faint did desire him to chearfull to whom he answered Sonne I thank the Lord I am so chearfull in my heart that I could laugh whilest my sides ake Then to his brother then present and inquiring how he found himself he answered to the same effect saying O brother blessed be God I have abundance of ravishing joy within me The same answer he gave to his eldest sonne who being called unto his father and inquiring how it was with him his father fell into an earnest prayer That the Lord would be pleased to give him a happy deliverance out of this world and a glorious meeting with his Saviour Which prayers of his the Lord so graciously answered that as long as he had any use of speech he acknowledged the sense of this inward joy and after these words were uttered I have peace within I have peace within he spake no more but lying for a while as it were in a slumber at last he opened his eyes again and lifting up his hands to heaven fell a asleep in the Lord. Whereby it is manifest that this departure out of this life was as comfortable as his entrance into it was honourable or his adode in it gracious and acceptable both to God and all his people If any shall as some of you may object against this relation as partiall saying I have onely held out the flowers but hid the weeds declared all his graces and concealed his vices I shall return a threefold answer thereunto First it is not true to affirm that I have mentioned all his graces for I have omitted divers wherein he was as eminent as in any I have named I might instance in his charity to the poor wherein I have been altogether silent because the backs and bellies of so many whom he annually clothed who for so long a time have been refreshed by him will proclaim it aloud to your eyes and ears Yea so farre was his heart drawn out in this kinde to the relief of the poor that it hath extended his hand by his last testament as farre as the poor in new England unto whom he hath given a very considerable summe for the relief of their miseries and necessities Secondly If I had mentioned all his graces and concealed his vices yet my text yea also the whole chapter is both my pattern and warrant therein for throughout the chapter the faith and graces of the Saints are by the Spirit of God recorded to their praise without mentioning any of their infirmities Thirdly but in the third place although I must acknowledge he was a man and so weak and imperfect in every grace yea a finfull man and so subject to like passions and temptations that other men are yet so free and pure was his life from any scandalous sinne or any other actuall evil course that for thirty yeares together I remember nor he was soiled with any spot which might give occasion to any to suspect his eminent integrity and sincerity but his heart was yet upright before God a thing very rare in the world And now the application of the doctrine in relation to the dead being finished it remains that I next improve it upon the present Auditory and therein I shall direct my speech 1. To his Lady children and posterity 2. To the rest of the Gentry and those of chief quality present First Uses To his relation Comfort to his right worshipfull Lady and posterity his truth of the Lords valuation of the meanest Saint above the whole world speaks you a world of comfort in the depth of your present sorrow nay it expells all sorrow from your mourning hearts and tears from your eyes for how can ye grieve and mourn without hope for him whom the Lord values above the world he who mourns with this hope mourns with comfort yea with more comfort then this world contains I know where hearts have been knit together they cannot be rent asunder without pain I find no fault with naturall affection Christ wept for Lazarus David for Jonathan yet teas as one saith wittily should drop like precious water out of a limbeck not run like common water in a river let nature have its course when Religion hath set bounds to it When news was brought to Xenophon as he was offering sacrifice of his sonnes death Val. Max. lib. 5. c. 10. he put off his crown from his head and wept but after he understood how valiantly he died and worthy of such a father he put on his crown again and finished his begun sacrifice Upon the first notice of your fathers death you might put off your joy and melt in tears but now you have heard how graciously he lived how blessedly he died take comfort to your souls and offer sacrifices with joy and thanksgiving Bona mors quae vitam non perimit August Ser. 35. de Divers sed adimit restituendam The consideration of the losse of friends cuts us but our hope of receiving them again healeth us the Egyptians mourned 70 dayes for Jacob and Joseph his son mourned but 7. Gen. 50.3 the reason they mourned without hope but Joseph believed his fathers present glory and future resurrection and this gave him comfort The same glory he now enjoyes with Jacob who whilest he was alive lived in near neighbourhood to God his conversation was in heaven and now his soul is there also where it dwells in God and God in it Why should you mourn for his joy and wear blacks when he is clothed in white robes of glory he is singing there whilest we are weeping here he is triumphing whilest we are sighing If you weep with those that weep on earth rejoyce also with him that rejoyces in heaven I have also a word of exhortation

the rest into that place of most disorder in other houses the Buttery and there repeated the Sermon unto them before they were called to the repetition of it in their masters presence In the relation of an husband Husband he seemed to me to imitate the practise of the Lord Jesus to his church in his conjugall love protection and full contentation and delight in her untill he became a pattern and mirrour of matrimoniall faithfulnesse and sweetnesse and as it was said by one of the Rabbins concerning Methusalah's wife that she had nine husbands in one for age and yeares so I may say of his Lady she had nine husbands in him alone for hus amtable carriage and graces What manner of parent he was let his children themselves Father in their hearts lives and filiall deportments declare or do you receive the relation from me as I have heard it from them namely that he performed not onely the part of an earthly father in the manifestation of all paternall bowels and tender affection to their bodies but also executed the office of an heavenly father to their souls by a continuall industry and serious study for their education in the most exact and strict way of pure and paternall Religion witnesse his dayly droppings in of most spirituall counsels and gracious instructions the grand scope and end whereof was to stirre up and incite them to a strict watchfulnesse over themselves and a close walking with God and many times after the giving of such directions unto them severalty he would take them into his closet and there pray over them and for them If at any time they had offended him so singular was his moderation and wisdome toward them that he would never reprove them much lesse correct them in his displeasure but still waited the most convenient time untill which time they seldome discerned that he was angry by any other effect but his silence And on the other side he was so ready to incourage them in any acts of wel-doing that usually all his extraordinary respects and savours to them were dispensed rather as rewards of their duty then the fruits of his bounty still professing before them as he hath many times of late to me upon our conference concerning the extraordinary blessings of God upon them in their travells abroad and returns home again that he took infinite more content in beholding one grain of grace and evidence of true regeneration in his children then if their estates and gains abroad had been multiplied an hundred fold if withall they had returned profane or no more then merely civilized without the power of godlinesse Again Pater patria consider him as a publick person as he was pater patria a father of his countrey which name he did deserve as well as Curtius Claudius or the Decii for although he did not in every particular what is said of them devoverunt se pro toto terrarum orbe they did devote themselves for the defence of the whole earth yet for his countrey and the defence of the just liberties thereof he did not refuse voluntarily to expose himself to a gulph of hazard and sufferings witnesse his suffering under the imposition of ship-money coat and conduct-money and the loan for refusing whereof he was long time imprisoned in the gate-house and afterward confined for a long time in Lincoln-shire above sixscore miles from the place of his own usuall abode Witnesse also his fidelity and integrity in the discharge of that greatest trust of all Parliament man I mean his service to his countrey as Knight of the shire and member of the Parliament unto which place he was constantly chosen on every occasion not that he had a patent for the place as some of his enemies in respect of his constant election thereunto out of envy at the peoples honouring him did cast out but out of the experience and confidence they had of his resolution and care to discharge the trust that was committed unto him whereby it came to passe that no sooner was one to be chosen who should be intrusted with the power over the lives and estates of his countrey but presently the thoughts eyes resolutions of all men were fixed upon him and all cried for a Barnardiston a Barnardiston Which trust he received upon him not out of any popular ambition to advance his own greatnesse nor out of any self-end to raise his own estate by exhausting the publick treasury or to inrich himself by other mens ruine nor out of loftie arrogancie that he might dominear and trample upon his neighbours in the countrey under pretence of the priviledge of a Parliament man much lesse to abuse that place to an impunity and sheltring of himself in riot excesse pride and lasciviousnesse but out of a mind and conscience devoted to the service of the church and common-wealth therein beyond which neither fear favour or flattery could draw him to act or vote at all absolutely refusing to be defiled with the Kings portion Absaloms sacrifices or Achitophels policies or treacheries 2. As all these graces and their exercises in his gracious life Personall graces had their tabernacle in the Sun were open and manifest in his course towards others so also his personall virtues and perfections which as so many rich jewells and mineralls in the earth lay couched in his heart as the cabinet of their habits could not in respect of their noble actings be so much hid but that like the beams of the Sun from under a cloud they brake forth and did shine out with so great splendour and lustre that the blindest eye could not but discover them as to give you an account of one or two 1. The graciousnesse of his speech so free from the least unsavourinesse beasting or passion that on the other side nothing but love sweetnesse and ●odesty as so many pure streams flowed from the pure fountain of his heart still ministring grace to the hearers so farre from the least appearance of lightnesse or excessive mirth that in thirty years together none ever heard one syllable tending to any wanton expression that might offend the chastest mind or ear to be breathed out of his mouth but as the Poet affirmed vernas eff●at ab ore rosas his tongue dropped honey and his breath was as sweet and savoury as in the spring 2. Unto this I may adde the gravity and reverend awfulnesse of his presence especially in execution of Justice of which I may say Greg. orat de laude Basilii as it was of Basils countenance whilest he was performing holy exercises namely that so much divine majesty and lustre appeared therein that it made the Emperour Valens tremble to behold it And in like manner his severe deportment was so effectuall that it banished from his presence all those scurrilous and sordid gestures and practices which the impudency of too many of his quality fear not to act in