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The father of the faithfull tempted as was more concisely shewed August 31, 1674, at a solemne funeral in the church at Wotton under Edge in the countie of Gloucester / by Giles Oldisworth ...
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Oldisworth, Giles, 1619-1678.
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THE FATHER OF THE FAITHFULL TEMPTED As was more concisely shewed August 31. 1674 At a SOLEMNE FUNERAL in the CHVRCH AT WOTTON under EDGE in the Countie of Gloucester S. Aug. Tota vita humana est tentatio By GILES OLDISWORTH A. M. and Rector of Burton on the Hill in the same Countie OXFORD Printed by HENRY HALL 1676. Imprimatur HEN CLERKE Vice Cancel OXON Jan. 30. 1676. To the Lady Crofts the vertuous Consort of my very good Lord Herbert by Divine Providence Lord Bishop of Hereford Anno Regni 1 Edw. 16. Anno Domini 1288 SR Lancelot Oldisworth of Halifax in York-shire Kt. took to wife Bridget daughter of VVilliam Ramsey of the same Countie Esq Their son was Maurice Anno Regni 2 Edw. 13. Anno Domini 1320 Maurice Oldisworth Husband of VVinifred daughter to Steven the brother of VValter Stapleton L. Bp. of Excester had issue Lancelot Anno Regni 3 Edw. 18. Anno Domini 1344 Lancelot Oldisworth married Alice daughter of Thomas Frie of Devon-shire Gent. he begat Maurice Anno Regni 2 Rich 1. Anno Domini 1377 Maurice Oldisworth took to wife Gennet daughter of Iohn Philpot L. Mayor of London His son was Lancelot Anno Regni 4 Hen. 3. Anno Domini 1402 Lancelot Oldisworth was Husband to Margaret daughter of Andrew Foord of Cornwall Esq He begat VVilliam Anno Regni 4 Edw. 4. Anno Domini 1464 VVilliam Oldisworth married the daughter of Nicholas Read of Devon-shire Esq By whom he had Maurice Anno Regni 3 Rich. 1. Anno Domini 1483 Maurice Oldisworth his wife was Iane daughter and Heiress unto Iohn Sydenham of Somerset-shire Esq Their son was Thomas Anno Regni 8 Hen. 22. Anno Domini 1531 Thomas Oldisworth married a daughter of Morgan of Pennicoyd Castle in Monmouth-shire by whom he was Father of Nicholas Nicholas Oldisworth having married Marjorie daughter of Davis of the city of Glouc. had by her Edward Edward Oldisworth was in Q. Maries daies a Colonel in Flanders In Q. Elizabeths daies he married Tace daughter to Arthur Porter of Newark in the County of Glouc. Esq Their son was Arnold Arnold Oldisworth Clerk of the Hanniper married Lucie daughter and Co-heiress of Francis Baxtu Treasurer to Mary Quen of Scotland By Lucie he had Edward Edward Oldisworth of Bradley in the Parish of Wotten under Edge in the County of Glouc. Esq married Elizabeth the eldest daughter of George Masters of Ciren-Cester in the County afore said Esquire Their only son was Robert Robert Oldisworth of the said Bradley in the said Parish of VVotton under Edge Esq took to wife Elizabeth daughter of William Clotterbook of Kingsstanely in the County of Glouc. Gent. and had issue VVilliam William Oldisworth the only child that ever the said Robert Oldisworth or Elizabeth his wife had was buried Aug. 31. 1674 both before he was married and before he was full 21 yeares old Good Madam The more inferiour this slender Stemm is unto the generous Croft of Crofts Castle the more numerous those weeping eyes were which I then beheld when the last Branch of this Stock was untimely cutt off And above all this the more narrowly I search into the multitude of sorrows which I am apt to imagine Abraham the Friend of God wrestled with The greater Impression abideth engraven upon my heart while with true joy and much pleasure I frequently ruminate how tender a mercy the Preserver of men dayly vouchsafeth both unto my Lord Bishop of Hereford and unto your Ladiship in continuing the Life and in prospering the daies of Sr Herbert Crofts your Isaac To bury that Heir which is an only Son to mourn for such an only Son as is an only child is I see A two-edged Woe Nevertheless by Faith the Father of the Faithful duelled the Father of the Faithfull vanquished even this Triall Madam If either my conjectures concerning Abraham his temptations or any Descant of mine upon his exemplarie faith can assist your Ladiships growing in grace and in the knowledg of our Lord and Saviour IESVS CHRIST I shall willingly sacrifice this Sermon to censure yea I shall bless God for granting the request of Your Good Ladiships humbly devoted GILES OLDISWORTH To the Vertuous Mrs. BRDGET THORP VVidow BRing her forth that she may be burnt When What paper I now expose Gen. 38.24 I two years since rashly condemned unto the Presse such another unjust Judge sa Judah was was I. Dear Cousin I will not say that a Gift in your Bosom did corrupt my Judgment Sept. 2. 1674. for then your Purse would pay for it The truth is to have me at that time passe that sentence you were not to have me now execute that sentence you are the importunate widow Let me cease to honour such as are Widows indeede if I do not from my heart reverence and highly esteeme you for You glorifie God Whom I should dishonour should I conceal that it is for His sake and onely for His sake that you require this Sermon from Your most obliged Servant and ever thankful Kins-man GILES OLDISWORTH Gen. XXII a 1. ANd it came to passe after these things that God did tempt Abraham and said unto him Abraham And he said Behold here I am b 2 And he said Take now thy Son thine only Son Isaac whom thou lovest and get thee into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the Mountains which I will tell thee of c 3 And Abraham rose up early in the Morning and sadled his Asse and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his Son and clave the wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went unto the place of which God had told him d 4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afarr off e 5 And Abraham said unto his young men Abide you here with the Asse and I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again to you f 6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his Son and he took the fire in his hand and a Knife and they went both of them together g 7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father and said My father and he said Here am I my Son And he said Behold the fire and the wood but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering h 8 And Abraham said My Son God will provide himselfe a lamb for a burnt offering So they went both of them together i 9 And they came to the place which God had told him of and Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his Son and laid him on the altar upon the wood k 10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the Knife to slay his Son l 11 And the Angel of the Lord called unto him out of Heaven and said Abraham Abraham And he said Here am I. m 12 And he said Lay not thy hand
neck Joseph shall please himself in weeping the bowels of Abraham yern upon Isaac's neck he may not weep 4. Abraham was tempted in the No time b given The daughter of Jephthah so God will order it shall go childless among Women a joyful mother of children a happy mother in Israel she shall not be nevertheless this indulgence her tender father may grant he may safely give unto her fâ—ll two months space and therein to bewail and celebrate her Virgin life before she be finally consecrated a Nunn a Vestal a Votarie to her God But as for the Father of Isaac He must seize he must apprehend he must take his Isaac not two months hence but presently Where it is said unto him b Take thy son there it is said unto him b Take thy son now 5. Whither must he take Him 1. Answ Not unto the tent of his abode for there he might have rushed upon have gulped down and irrevocably have executed the unnatural Duty ere ever his more considerate heart had given place unto the recoilings of his fatherly compassions Loving-Kindnesses and affections 2. Answ Neither might that neighbouring grove be the shadow of his sons death for there he might have called in aid But 3. Answ He was to take his son unto a place d afarr off which place mount Moriah by name was above forty miles distant from Beersheba which forty miles were in this winterly season unto the feeble Knees and languishing Spirits of heavie hearted Abraham little less d then three daies journey During a great part of which three daies to speake was to betray his grief to be silent was to breed suspicion to stand still was disobedience to return back was rebellion and to go forward was death 4 Answ Get thee into the land of Moriah unto one of the mountains which b I will tell thee of How shall he get thither The same Vision which a disturbed his first nights rest will these next two nights hold his eyes wakeing or if slumber he doth his very shuntings will affright him How can a dejected crasie aged person travail if he wanteth both sleep and sustenance He can eat no food except bread of affliction and he more heartily feedeth upon his griefes then upon that I dare not say he mingleth his drink with teares for these he suppresseth In the stead of weeping openly he bleedeth inwardly and no marveil seeing every step between Beer-sheba and mount Moriah presseth so heavily upon his drooping Spirits Father said the g secure lad Where is a Lamb for the burnt offering Nigh at hand thought the Father but he durst not say so He was glad to pluck up his Spirits when with a sorrowful heart I wisse he happily replied h God will provide himself a lamb my son Hungry and thirsty his soul fainting in him upon naked mountains in bleak weather slowly and mournfully he laggeth on glad if he might be priviledged to sprinkle the ground with teares and his head with Ashes but he may not thus mitigate his afflictions When after many and many a wearisom step he long at the last d saw the place afarr off much more when he i came quite to it then more then ever he fixed his farewel eye upon his now short-liv'd Isaac And the more he now fixed his eye upon his Isaac the more did his eye now affect his heart But more by many degrees more was his sad and mournfull heart pittifully greived then when he k stretched forth his hand and took the Knife For 6 Abraham was tempted as in the place appropriated to this sacrifice so in the sacrifice to be offered up The sacrifice to be offered up was b a burnt offering and this ye know required f as well fire as a Knife This burnt offering was k first to be slain and then i to be consumed with fire I say again Isaac was 1 as first to be bound and then to be layed over the altar upon the wood so first to be slain with a Knife and then to be burnt A crueltie it will be to cutt the throat of Isaac but the inhumanitie ceaseth not here for when his throat is cutt then must his body his whole body be burned wholy burned to ashes Sirs if this be that death which Isaac is to suffer say I Let me not see the death of the Lad. But to make the catastrophe yet more tragical His Father must see it And yet is this sigh this prodigious Sight but the least of his trialls For 7. Abraham was tempted as in the sacrifice b assigned so in the sacrificer b ordained Isaac the Son He is to be the sacrifice Abraham the father He is to be the sacrificer 1. If Isaac must indeed be offered up for a burnt offering let some un-concerned stranger or other be hired to be the sacrificing Priest 2. If by a strange hand the Son of Abraham may not die Order some meane out Servant to give the deaths wound 3. If no inferiour Servant may let Eleazar the Steward undergoe this servitude 4. If Eleazar may not O let Ishmael be forced upon the Dutie 5 Let any hand whatsoever rather then the hand of Abraham himselfe binde and slay the Son of Abraham But Who may say unto God What doest thou Abraham must b apprehend Abraham must c conduct Abraham must f burden Abraham must i binde Abraham can not k refuse to slay Abraham can not refuse to burn to ashes his Son his onely Son his onely Isaac his onely Isaac whom he loveth Even so much that From v. 2. unto v. 11. of Gen. 22. Abraham was tempted IN the multitude of thoughts within Him 1. While he 1. ariseth so early 2. Sadleth the Asse 3. cleaveth the Wood 4. calleth aside two and but two young men and 5. with them draweth his Isaac out of doores 2. While he c consulteth hast and privacie for why else did he himselfe both Saddle the Asse and cleave the Wood 3. While indisposed and enfeebled as he was he c began and continued his Winterly that I may not say his fatal journey 4. When by some undoubted signall I mean by some cloud testifying Gods presence or rather by some pillar of fire or rather by some new appearing Starr he was c told of and therefore d saw the place afar off 5. While for reasons but too two well know unto himselfe he left his two young men e behind him 6. All the while that his Son was f carrying the Wood and that he himselfe was f carrying the Fire and the Knife 7. While he i 1. built the altar 2. upon it laied the Wood in order 3. bound his Son 4 laied his Son over the altar upon the Wood 5. When he took the Knife and 6. Sretched forth his hand his trembling hand to slay his Isaac his onely Isaac In all which trans-actions unto the unwillingly-willing Father of Isaac every new occurrence could be no lesse then a new conflict 2. Abraham was tempted