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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86131	A sermon prepared to be preached at the funerall of Walter Norbane, esq; by W. Haywood Dr. in divinity: one of the chaplains in ordinary to his late Majesty of glorious memory.	Haywood, William, 1599 or 1600-1663.	1663 (1663)	Wing H1239; Thomason E1027_16; ESTC R208879	23,782	34

end it proved I doubt not that he was so long a planting into the Death of Christ The Crosse of mortification from the time of his full maturity might seem to be his daily practice whereby he learned to die to the flesh The Crosse of Tribulation he had his share in too having tasted of persecution as far as imprisonment and loss of goods for his Conscience whereby he was taught to die to the world The Crosse of natural Death was his last tryal whereby he learned to dye to mortality it self and to all the temptations of Satan and long he was a planting on this manner into the similitude of Christ's death Near upon two years I have perceived him declining when as his outward man perished so his inward seemed to renew day by day During which time the Vertues before-mentioned as peculiar to the Crosse of Christ might seem more and more to encrease in him To say nothing of his Piety addicting himself to read Books of Religion as his time would permit And of his justice so true and upright in his dealing so exact in paying every one his own The four Vertues of the Crosse ye heard commended to wit Humility Charity Patience and Constancy appeared more and more to manifest themselves in him the nearer he drew to his end Humility for he was courteous to the meanest ready to put off and yield reverence to any as fast as any to him nay to prevent in Courtesie and to give place to some his inferiours Charity for he excelled in bounty to the poor witnesse his last charitable Gift to this Parish and divers pious Legacies in his Will to the value well nigh of a thousand pound witnesse his loving invitation of his poor Neighbours in his weaknesse at Christmass last even when himself could not eat yet it joyed him to walk by and see others eat and drink at his cost And for an eminent proof of his Charity but a little before he took his bed in his last sicknesse he lent freely to one that had dealt falsely enough with him and was like for so doing to be utterly ruined by the fraud of another he lent I say to him notwithstanding a considerable summe of money to preserve him from perishing So notable was his Charity in returning good for evil and so well he seemed to remember If thine enemy hunger feed him if he thirst give him drink c. It pleased God to enlarge his patience by the manner of his last sickness which seizing at length on his lungs deprived him of the use of his speech for any length or continuance of speaking during which time I never observed in him the least impatient carriage in word or deed or any repining at the heavy hand of God upon him but silently he submitted himself under the scourge like him that said I became dumb and opened not my mouth for it was thy doing Psalm 39. 10. And lastly For his Constancy as he approved it in the course of his life so to the death constant he was to the Religion he had been born and bred up in an obedient Son of the Church of England as he had ever professed himself to be and suffered for Heartily he answered to all questions that were asked him about the profession of his faith willingly and readily submitted himself to Gods will for leaving the world gladly forgave all that had offended him and wherein he had offended any professed himself willing to ask forgivenesse and to make restitution Being put in mind of the Sacrament he would not for reverence sake receive it in the evening but deferr'd it till the next morning and then most piously and devoutly like one that bowed the knees of his heart when those of his body failed him with eyes lifted up and hands bent to Heaven he received it and when he heard after both kinds taken Lord grant it may nourish you to eternal life chearfully and audibly he said Amen After which he dismissed us from longer praying by him being desirous to be left for the present to his own private devotions and requested us to pray by him again in the afternoon as if he had foreseen the certain time of his departure and in the afternoon according to his own appointment at prayer we continued by him till toward five in the evening at which time most meekly and silently and like a Lamb he departed and quietly slept in the Lord. And now being so rightly planted into the Death of Christ having thus sowed in teares we doubt not he shall be planted into the likenesse of his Resurrection one day in body as he is already in soul and reap in abundance of joy which God of his mercy grant unto us all for Jesus Christ his sake Amen FINIS