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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87802	Abraham's image in one of his sonnes: or, The picture of a good old man, represented in a sermon upon the third of November, anno Dom. 1657. in West-Newton, at the funeral of John Dethick Esquire, father to the late lord mayor that was of London in the year 1655. By William Knapp Master of Arts, of Katherine-Hall in Cambridge, now rector of VVest-Newton in Norfolk.	Knapp, William, d. 1688.	1658 (1658)	Wing K667; Thomason E937_2; ESTC R207740	24,523	44

presse forward for the price of the high calling of God in Jesus Christ Phil. 3.14 Oh me thinks what should hinder the manifestation of our love to him in the oblation of all holy sacrifices to his name whom neither iniquity transgression nor sin could constrain to despise the workmanship of his hands but notwithstanding our enmitie against him by wicked works he should prepare an habitation for us eternal in the heavens and not onely so but prepare for us a way thither a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the vaile that is to say the flesh of Christ in whom whosoever whether young or old approacheth unto the living God God will in no wise cast out Heb. 10.21 Having therefore such an high-priest over the house of God let us draw neere with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evill conscience and our bodies washed with pure water let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as ye see the day approaching the day what day the day of Judegement which particularly is after the dissolution of soul and body but generally is at the end of all the world which though both dayes are certain yet because 't is as uncertain when will be the one or the other it concerns us to make use of the present time and whilest 't is called to day be a working out our salvation with fear and trembling that when the Lord shall be pleas'd to demand our souls we may freely and with alacrity resigne them up into his hands as into the hands of a most wise mercifull creator and redeemer And now what shall I say more as to the text unless I should 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 show you this diseased Gentlemans picture in the words Abraham before he dyed was 175. yeares of Age our friend was aboue 90. An age that did as kindly ripen him for the Grave as that of Abrahams in regard of which therefore that may be said of him which was said of holy Job chap. 5 26. That he came to the Grave as a Shocke of Corne cometh in his season Abraham before he dyed was a good old Man his goodness stands upon record in these four particulars First In his meek and peaceable disposition towards men as appeared in that he would rather remit of his right than stand to contend with his Cousen Lot Gen. 13.9 And this disposition was in our Friend I know it in one particular my selfe Secondly Abraham acknowledged that of whatsoever he possessed God was the Lord by paying into the hands of his Priest his tribute of Tythes Gen. 14.20 And this Reverence to God the Lord had taught this Son of Abraham here departed He never would dare to rob God of what he claimed as peculiar to himself He alwayes made a conscience of paying that to the Stewards of the mysteries of God which the Apostle cals 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Cor. 9.14 A reward for the glad tydings of the Gospel whether it were by Tythes or otherwise Thirdly Abraham when he saw three men at his door in the heat of the day most freindly invited them in and gave them entertainment and this was the fruit of his Hospitality that he entertained Angels unawares Heb. 13.2 And this disposition in our Father Abraham was drawn to the life in this his Deceased Son and 't was known to be in him wheresoever he was known and no question but by the entertaining the needy members of Christ as frequently he did he entertained those three persons which some interpret Abraham did Father Son and holy Ghost But then Fourthly Abraham by the eye of Faith saw the day of the Lord Jesus Christ at almost two thousand yeares distance and so did this his Son in whose soule so firm and lively a Faith was wrought in Christs blessed Incarnation Crucifixion Resurrection Ascension Session with and Intercession to the Father that certainly as in the time of his life he thus saw Christ in part so now he sees him Face to Face Now as it appears that Abraham before he dyed was a Good old Man so when he dyed he freely resigned his Ghost to God assuredly knowing that as God promised so he would be as good as his word to him in becoming his exceeding great reward and thus did this his Son whose willingness to depart this sinfull life and to be with God he delivered to me upon his Death-bed in many comfortable expressions And thus when Abraham had given up the Ghost he was gathered to his people even to the spirits of those just men who dyed before him as to his Soul and to his Wife in the Cave of Machpelah as to his Body and thus was his Son we trust as to his Soul he is beholding the face of God and Christ upon whose redundant merits he devolved himselfe and as to his body we see that he is here brought to his wives whom he buried here and to his eldest Son and Daughters whose Souls together with his we trust are joyned to the Quire of Angels in the glorious and eternall kingdom of God To which the Lord bring us all through the blood of sprinkling Amen Quid enim nisi vota supersunt FINIS Over-sights in the Printing PAge 12. l. 3. 5. for a friend r. a kin for beatifie r. beautifie p. 13. l. 15. 16. for erripere r. Arripere for superiore superior p. 15. l. 29. for actae r. actae p. 20. l. 26. for teares r. feares p 21. l. 26 27. for man r. men for enter r. enter p. 23. l. 6. 7. mind his peace r. mend his pace p. 27. l. 2. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p 28. l 20. for much graine of Grace r. such graine of p. 32 l. 32. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 diseased Gentleman r. deceased

a very able and godly ministrie so their doctrine distill'd upon his heart as dew upon the grass as the soft showers of heaven upon the tender herb and brought forth the fruit of love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness and that which is the lustre of them all temperance As for his love he did first pitch it upon God and then upon man for Gods sake and upon such especially as did nearest communicate as he thought of the likeness of God He was tender in point of censuring others whose judgment differ'd in matters rather of the superstructure than the foundation of faith or in matters intricate and of controversie and not opposing an holy life Difference in judgement in such affairs should not with him make a breach of charity especially if the parties so erring were consciencious in their outward conversation seemed desirous to prove all things and hold fast that which was good according to the Apostles rule 2 Thes 5.21 And where hee found any going astray there he would seek to reduce them with the spirit of meekness b Eph. 4.15 speaking the truth in love and pitying rather than insulting over their infirmities And as touching his own faith 't was strongly built upon the Scriptures which were to him as c Gen. 24.65 Isaac to Rebecca velum oculorum the veyle of his eyes he desir'd to confine his sight within that blessed compass When between the Ministers of Lynn there was a difference about the extent of divine grace he carried himself with an amiable wisdome and circumspection for he became an Auditor to both parties accounting that whatsoever was propounded in the name of God and his Son Jesus Christ might well deserve audience and when he had well weighed their opinions hee concluded that God had a peculiar people whom he knew from the beginning of the world and into whose hearts he purposed by his determinate counsell so to put his fear that they should not depart from him as Ier. 32.40 yet so as not to lay any violent constraint upon the liberty of their wills but to make them willing in the day of his power in the beauties of holiness and to draw them with a certain omnipotent facilitie who otherwise through natural corruption would never become subject to the divine will When once he and I had discourse concerning the Universalists I told him that the sacred Trinitie of Persons the Father Son and Holy Ghost as they had a d Gen. 1.26 Psal 8.3 Luke 1.51 finger in the creation of man and of the whole fabrick of heaven and earth so they had an arm in the redemption of man and were all equally sharers therein 't was the Fathers good pleasure to send the Son into humane flesh and the Son 's good pleasure to take it upon him to work salvation for men and the Holy Ghost's pleasure to work that salvation in them which the Son works for them so that unless the sun of righteousness did arise upon the hearts of men by the healing power of his spirit neither could they discern nor would they imbrace the way of their eternal peace and because this gracious work of Gods spirit is found in some and not in others we therefore say God loves some more then he does others and though many bee call'd yet few are chosen that there should be any one I told him 't was the infinite free mercy of God in Christ Jesus and this he certainly did believe and was not this faith of his like that of Abraham yes verily in this hee was a true son of Abraham and therefore as God was to Abraham a shield and an exceeding great reward Gen. 15.1 so he was and is to him he was a shield to defend him from the fiery darts of Satan and to keep him safe from the dominion and condemnation of sin and he is now questionless his exceeding great reward giving him a crown of righteousness in his glorious and eternal kingdome where we will leave him to the reward of his working and betake our selves to the working out of our reward who are yet but labourers in the Vinyard here below or rather strangers in this wilderness of sin and sojourners as all our fathers were whereof to have a more firm and active remembrance is The third and last end of this our funeral concourse Hereunto therefore let me beseech you friends to receive with meekness and reverence that portion of divine Writ before rehearsed out of Gen. 25.8 which words do present themselves to ordinary view in three obser vables 1 Something before Abraham's death 2 Something at his death 3 Something after his death First Abraham before he dyed was an old man a good old man and full of yeers the words are a compendious but a full narrative of Abraham's life Abraham was a great man in yeers and he was as good as great and therefore was said to have dyed in a good old age they which liv'd before him liv'd much longer even above eight hundred yeers yet we read not that they dyed in a good old age and they which liv'd after him liv'd not so long so that Abraham was remarkable in yeers and as much in goodness God made him great in yeers and his grace crown'd his yeers with goodness From whence therefore we may draw a twofold observation 1. Observ 'T is a blessing from the Lord to live long God blessed Abraham with length of yeers length of yeers comes within the compass of Gods promises now all his promises are exceeding great and precious God promis'd Solomon that if he would walk in his ways and keep his statutes he would lengthen his days 1 King 3.14 And this the Lord annexed to the fourth Commandment as a reward of obedience to father and mother Exo. 20. and the contrary is the just doom of all blood-thirfty and deceitful men they shall not live out half their days Psa 55.23 Now as in other gifts of God so in this God has a further intendment of grace to all his people when the Lord reaches forth his hand in any gift of his he does it to draw a man to himself in the knowledge of and sweet communion with him The Lord * 2 Cor. 6.1 labours for the advantage of men both in his word and works and thus he does in the gift of a long life The Lord in his Sabbaths intends a peculiar sequestration of our selves unto his divine service not only that thereby we should symbolize or betoken the God of our creation or redemption but that we should benefit our selves in a fuller knowledge of God and the way of salvation for to that purpose the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath Mark 2.27 and as upon all such dayes of rest Use we ought to be moving to God-ward in a more speciall manner so likewise upon all other dayes when we have a vacancie from our secular

free from sin which is the Saints greatest freedom free from the motions infections seductions of sin and all those scourging scorpions of miseries which issue forth of the womb of sin as so much is intimated by the term which St. Mark gave the diseases which our Saviour cured in Mark 3.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as many as had scourges And now because of this freedom which the Saints know they shall then finde by giving up their souls they do give them up therefore willingly and freely but thus the wicked do not because they leap but out of the frying pan into the fire as we say they go from some glimps of comfort or rather but shadows of joy to an utter darkness of miserie they go from the Jayle to the Dungeon from a better to a worse prison and they having a * Heb. 10. fearfull expectation of this fiery wrath and indignation from God are very loth to die and therefore never die but a violent death even when they die quietest upon their beds Thirdly all the true sons of Abraham resign their souls freely in regard of that faithfull account that they know they can make before the tribunal of the heavenly Judge of all things done in the flesh Obj. Ah but what sayes the Apostle Rom. 3.20 there shall no flesh be justified in his sight Oh then what shall become of us who stand guilty before the Lord of infinite swarms of unclean thoughts vain and idle words wicked and rebellious actions such as hath often greived the good spirit of grace and re-crucified the Lord of life and put him to an open shame Oh blessed God can we for shame lift up our face to God 'T is true Vae laudabili hominum vitae si remotâ misericordiâ discutias eam sayes St. Aug. Answer VVoe were to man in their most laudable course of life if God should enter into judgement with them and lay aside his mercy in the Lord Jesus Christ certainly had not the precious blood of that immaculate Lamb of God quenched the consuming fire of his anger we had dwelt with everlasting burnings certainly had not that universal faithful High Priest offer'd up himself on our behalfe to his fathers justice and had he not been touched with our infirmities to become an earnest advocate with God we had been undone for ever but having such a powerful God-man to stand our friend and plead our cause we may * Job 22.26 lift up our face we may be as bold as a Lyon for through faith in his name our sins which are as crimson are made as white as wool Esa 1.18 God who spun out the curious web of mans salvation out of the tender bowels of his compassion clears us from all sin for Christs sake and through him we are presented faultless before the presence of divine glory so that though at the last day all our sins shall be examined and lay'd before us and we shall see them again and know how often we have by them peirc'd the precious sides of Christ yet we shall see them as once the Isrealites did their Aegyptian pursuers after their entry into the red sea Exo. 14.13.30 all slain with the blood of the Lamb Rev. 5.9 Obj. But did Christ bear the sins of the whole world upon the cross so as all sins shall be forgiven and consequenty all be able to make a good account to the Judge of all men Answer I answer There 's balme enough in Gilead I mean in the blood of Christ and if application be made thereof 't will most certainly cure all the most greivous wounds of the soul for God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever beleiveth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Iohn 3.16 so that 't is faith it seems that gives a saving interest in Christ Jesus 't is faith whereby 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God who is good to all becomes the Saints own and proper good as God promised to be to Abraham Gen. 17.7 And now this faith which is the life of the new creature must be as the spirits in the head and heart able to actuate the whole man unto royall and peculiar servics and then when a man of such a faith shall walk in Christ according as he hath received him Colos. 2.6 shall be sorrowful for his sins when ever he doth sin not onely as cursed things deserving the wrath of God but as unclean things against the spirit of holiness and shall also after such tripings mind his peace in the way of Gods law and walk more worthy of God then I say such a man shall be able to make a good account to God and appear with joy before the judgement seat of Christ for thus he may plead Oblessed Jesus I know if thou beest strict to mark what by me hath been done amiss there is matter enough to condemn me to utter darkness for my very righteousness is as filthy rags I acknowledge thine infinite free grace to bring me into thy knowledge and to make me to walk with some observation of thy law but yet I beseech thee look not upon what I have done for no clean thing can come out of an unclean rather pardon me that I have entertained thy holy spirit in so foul a room as my heart and look upon me as thou hast satisfied thy Fathers justice for all my sins and hast abundantly merited for me a seat with thy self in heavenly places And thus the Saints of God may plead before the Judge of the quick and the dead and they being comfortably perswaded and assured of this by the glorious obsignation of the spirit of adoption they are ready with the holy Prophet David in Psal 42.2 to say My soul thirsteth for God for the living God when shall I come and appear before God And hereunto when they dye they give up their souls with chearfulnesse and thus have I done with the third reason why all the true sonns of Abraham do as Abrabam did who gave up the Ghost freely I come to the Fourth Fourthly because they know they shall not onely be delivered out of the Prison of a corrupt body but into the glorious liberty of heaven they are assured that when they come to give up their souls they shall not only be able to look their Judge in the face with a fair account of what they have done in the flesh but shall be made to sit with him together in heavenly places Eph. 2.6 When a poor prisoner having sat a long while in darknesse and in the shadow of death being * Psalmes 107.10 bound in affliction and iron shall be made to understand that his pardon is sued out and not only so but that he is made worthy to sit upon the Bench with the Judge Oh how joyfull does he come forth of prison And thus do the sons of Abraham they know when they dye their souls shall lodge