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A00426	A learned and godly sermon preached on the XIX. day of December, anno Dom. MDCXXXI. at the funerall of Mr. Robert Bolton Batchelour in Divinity and minister of Broughton in Northampton-Shire. By Mr. Nicolas Estvvick, Batchelour in Divinity, and sometimes fellow of Christs College in Cambridge, and now minister of Warkton in Northampton-Shire. Revised and somewhat enlarged by the author, and now at the importunity of some friends published	Estwick, Nicolas.	1639 (1639)	STC 10558; ESTC S122205	46,169	72

bread for CHRIST Martyrs went to their death with cheerefullnesse and songs and ran to the stake as to a garland and who would with Saul hide himselfe in the stuffe when he is called to be crowned a King If Abraham saw his day by faith when he was but promised and rejoyced what cause of joy must it needs be to see the Saviour of the world when he is exhibited If Saint Iohn Baptist did leape at his presence when he was in the wombe of his blessed mother What will his glorious presence effect in them who shall behold him in al his Royaltie if the Wife men of the East went a long journie and rejoyced to see the holy Babe CHRIST in the house what cause of joy will it be to see him sit in his glorie at the right hand of his Father far above all Principalities and powers If many Kings and Princes longed for that day to see their Saviour mortall what resemblance is fit to expresse the joy of those that behold him crowned with glory and immortalitie it is a passing glory to be admitted to the sight of CHRIST his face and to receive glory from the brightnesse of his Majestie and if we were to suffer torments every day yea the very torments of hell for a time therby to gaine the sight of CHRIST it were nothing in respect of the reward This Doctrine shewes us the extreame folly of all licentious livers and impenitent sinners when they looke upon their wicked courses what for sight can they have but of hell as their just reward they would be with CHRIST as they say hereafter and yet they will not have CHRIST to be wi●h them now and to rule over them they will sow unto the flesh and yet would reape unto the spirit they are stout and will have their sinne though they be damned for it we will say those rebels in Ieremy walke after our owne devices and we will every one doe the imaginations of his evill heart Experience sheweth us that you cannot crush oyle out of skins nor sweet wine out of sower grapes and if you be the seedesmen of darnell and cockle you shall have no harvest of wheat ●…or good graine you will not live conscionably and yet you would die peaceably and though you speake CHRIST faire yet you wil loose nothing for his sake the chaine will make your profession afraid and reproach will make it ashamed you love him well you say but you will be advised not to displease such and such friends for his love your fore-sight of Heaven hath no hands to do good works corporall and spirituall nor eyes to shed teares for your sins and the sins of others nor stomacke to abide a holy and a religious fast nor flesh to endure this mortification and zealous revenge nor tongue to speake the language of confession and zealous devout and faithfull prayer if then in your extremities and when your feares approach you send for us as Pharaoh did for Moses and never till then and cry unto us helpe us and comfort us as that starved woman did to the King of Israel Wee answer as hee did that distressed creature if the LORD doth not helpe you how should we And now by this time I suppose you are brought to that passe that GODS servants whom you have in your prosperity despised may say to you concerning all your daubers whom you then respected where are they now that will prophesie peace peace unto you your consciences which before were asleepe being now awakened to heare the crie of your sinnes and these glasses formerly covered with dust as it were being wiped cleare to represent unto you the disfigured and odious face of your sinnes when these evill daies shall come upon you as they will or that which is worse you must needs confesse to the terrour of your soules that we GODS Messengers have told you of these things and you would not heare us as Reuben said to his brethren Your sins which you tooke to be your friends as GOD himselfe hath threatned are suddenly turned to be your foes and now do appeare as a marshalled army comming in a terrible manner against you and when GOD speakes to your consciences as Iehu did to the Eunuchs who is on my side who even they will cast you downe and dash as it were your blood against the wals and make you to be trampled upon and then can you cast your eyes no-way without horrour if upwards unto heaven they will tell you that you are justly excluded out of that happy place if you think upon hell the mouth thereof as you feare is open every moment to receive you when these evill daies shall come c. Second Use of instruction is that we would study our selves and ransacke our soules and be of good grounds and to have certaine evidence that our change shall be for the better mans wisdome teacheth him in Summer to provide for Winter in youth for old age if GOD be better then the world and heaven better then earth and the soule better then the body shall we not labour while we live to get full assurance of being with CHRIST as S. Paul had when we are dead but here is the maine doubt how I should know and be assured thereof First if thou art assured hereof then hast thou faith the maine and fundamentall grace not fundamentum quod that is CHRIST but cui as a learned Schooleman doth distinguish immediatly laying us upon CHRIST and as a Captaine I say not making the graces as heavenly Souldiers but as bringing them forth to fight according to their severall operations thou hast I say a lively faith both in that direct act whereby it justifieth and also by a prudent observation of the worke of faith in thy soule thou dost by faith believe that thou art justified by faith thou hast also the attendant companion upon faith that Christian hope whereby thou waitest on GOD till he accomplish all his gratious promises if we come against the Divell as David did against the Philistine not with sword shield and speare but in the name of the LORD of Hosts we are sure to conquer If we have these graces and by the use of holy meanes do hold them fast how happy are we Blessed is he that beleeveth the Lords words to be all of them true and blessed is he that waiteth on him till he manifests the truth of his words that believeth by faith that GOD is his Father and expecteth by hope that he should shew a fatherly affection to him who believes that salvation belongs to him and waites by hope til he enters into possession of it if this then be the blessed frame of thy soule that thou resolvest and hopest to live and thou resolvest and hopest to die in the armes of thy sweet Saviour thou art in a happy case Secondly if thou hast this holy

A LEARNED AND GODLY SERMON Preached on the XIX day of December Anno Dom. MDCXXXI at the Funerall of Mr. ROBERT BOLTON Batchelour in Divinity and Minister of Broughton in Northampton-Shire By Mr. NICOLAS ESTVVICK Batchelour in Divinity and sometimes fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge and now Minister of Warkton in Northampton-Shire LONDON Printed by GEORGE MILLER dwelling in Black-Friers 1639. flock of sheep without a particular shepheard and if thou hadst leave to name his successour thou mightest seeke from one end of the land to another in thy choice and yet not find in all points a man matchable to him he was a bright and a shining lamp if any of thy inhabitants doe sit in darknesse their ignorance is altogether inexcusable hee lifted up his voice in this place many yeares together like a trumpet if any of thy inhabitants are not awakened out of the sleepe of sinne they may now goe on more securely in this dead sleep but wo to them it will be easier for Sodome and Gomorrah at the day of judgement than for them I pitie your case good friends and bewaile your losse but why do J name your losse It is my losse and a common losse we are all of us sharers though not all alike in this judgement LORD that thou shouldest suffer such a wretched sinner and an unprofitable servant of thine as I am yet to live and deprive the visible Church of so worthy an instrument of thy glorie as M. Bolton Holy Father we may think had it stood it with thy holy pleasure that it had been good for thy Church if his life had been spared with the losse of many of ours he was a deep channell in whose justly deserved commendations the streames of eloquence which in former ages flowed from those great and godly Orators the two Gregories both of Nazianzum and Nyssa from great Basil and golden-mouth'd Chrysostome from S. Ambrose and S. Austin might have emptied themselves and yet not over-flowed the banks and what do I then come hither with my distracted thoughts and trembling heart which if ever I had any gift in encomiasticall and laudative Orations have many years since willingly neglected it and so lost it As Gregory Nazianzen spoke of his Basil I have for my part as great reason to speake of our sometimes deare and now blessed M. Bolton J admired him while he lived and honoured him in my heart to speak of his excellencies wherwith the LORD had plentifully inriched him is a burden too heavy for my shoulders and a very hard task for those who doe nothing els but study Oratory all that I can speak in the praises of this godly man falls short by many degrees of his worth whose memory is precious and shall be kept greene and flourishing as the rod of Aaron laid up in the Tabernacle THE TEXT PHIL. 1. 23 24. I desire to be dissolved THe Apostle S. Paul was in a strait or divided betwixt two affections carried to different objects and they were in a sort contrary one way he was drawne with a desire to be with CHRIST farre from the Philippians even as farre as Heaven is from earth another way he was drawne with a desire to continue with his beloved brethren warring on earth and to bee for a time farre remooved from CHRIST the necessity of his brethren did move him to desire the latter his great love to CHRIST did incite him to long for the former betwixt these two affections the Apostle had a conflict and he was so perplexed that he knew not whither to turne him he knew not what to chuse He was as iron betwixt two load-stones drawne this way first and then that way We read that David was on a time in a great strait but apparent were the differences betwixt the present perplexity of this our Apostle and that of David Davids was in regard of evills proposed this was for the enjoying of good his necessity was touching evill which could not be avoided but the Apostles was free and voluntary his perplexity somwhat concerned himself the shunning of his own evill but the Apostles was for the good of others which was joyned with his own hurt Behold here as in a perspective a heart truly Apostolicall wherein he shewed at once both great love to CHRIST desiring to be with him and withall great love to his brethren desiring to abide with them for their profit I begin with the first of these Pauls desire in respect of himselfe wherein are observable three particulars 1. The desire it selfe and that was to depart or die 2. A reason implied of this his desire for then hee should be with CHRIST 3. His censure or judgement of that estate to bee with CHRIST it 's best of all Let us open the words first and then raise Observations out of them for our edification 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is word for word having a desire and this is somewhat more than simply to desire for it noteth a vehement earnest and continued desire a desire which is in action and working till wee have our desire accomplished wheras to desire simply may be a sudden motion or momentany passion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Some translate the word passively Tertullian renders it recipi l. de patientia pa. 8. others to be dissolved or loosed and it is done when things mixt and compounded are resolved into their parts and principles now because the soule is as it were included in the body and cannot enjoy CHRIST fully till that composition by the body be resolved by death therfore doth S. Paul earnestly desire this resolution 2. Or it may signifie to return as the word is taken elsewhere the LORD will returne from the wedding which sense is not dissonant from the scope of this place for the spirit being freed from the body returneth to GOD that gave it and what els doth the Apostle now desire but to returne unto CHRIST by whom he was sent to preach the Gospell 3. It signifieth to loose anchor or as Chrysostome renders it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to flit or to change our place and so it 's a metaphor from marriners importing a flitting or sailing from the state of this present life by the ship of death to another port to saile as it were from one bank to another It is not much materiall which reading we follow they all of them doe agree in the maine point and substance and doe affoord an observation which might be enlarged and set foorth with variety of colours and strengthened with long discourses but as they which have a long journey to goe and but a short time allowed them must make but a short stay in any one place and as Painters many times use only to draw out the heads and superiour parts of men leaving all the other parts lineaments to be proportionably supplied by the wise beholders even so must J at this time propound