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A56449	A sermon preached at the funeral of that faithful servant of Christ, Robert Breton, D.D. Pastor of Deptford in the county of Kent, Febr. 20. 1671/2. By Richard Parr, D.D. of Camerwel in the county of Surrey.	Parr, Richard, 1617-1691.	1672 (1672)	Wing P549; ESTC R216956	13,679	43

A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL OF That Faithful Servant of Christ ROBERT BRETON D.D. Pastor of Deptford in the County of Kent Febr. 20. 1671 2. By RICHARD PARR D.D. of Camerwel in the County of Surrey LONDON Printed by W. Godbid for N Brook at the Angel in Cornhil M. DC.LXX.II To the Gentry and all other the Inhabitants of DEPTFORD Who love the Lord Jesus Christ and the Publick Ministery SIRS ' T IS not to revive your grief at the remembrance of your late deceased Pastor that I have offered to your Eye what lately I spake to the Ear but that you might have a Memorial with you of his Person of his Piety and of his Sayings while he was once yours in the Lord. I profess 't was not any opinion I had of the Discourse which as it was sudden so it is plain the things which may make it acceptable are that it was of honest design and wholesom admonition in such loose and careless times as we live in But that which will chiefly take with you it was grounded on the saying of our Lord Jesus and aimed to make men wise concerning their latter end and to shew their happiness that are preparing for it in well doing But if this should not find reception with you yet when any good thing and worthy is said of Doctor BRETON the people of Deptford cannot choose but make much of it I know of none that could give him a trivial Character his Enemies if he had any must confess that he was blameless in his life an able Minister apt to teach diligent and frequent and those that knew him well and loved him cordially can say many more good things of him And I have this advantage in my report of him that I had no occasion for an Apology or Excuse for him to answer any one Objection against him in all his Capacities as a Pastor as a Christian as a Friend only what I then said came short of what might have been said better and more fully which perhaps I could if his Funeral were again to be attended on But 't is enough that 't is sent to you who had so great value for him and so general affection to him that the meanest gift for his sake will be accepted It may be God hath regarded your many tears for your loss in so good a Man and sees how heartily you lov'd him because your Pastor and a faithful one And it may be God will provide another such Blessing for you because you will esteem him highly for his Work sake for which ye ought to pray and when you have such another Guide for your Souls to give God thanks and treat him kindly which if you be so happy to enjoy I doubt not you will do for I never yet saw so great a lamentation at once as at the Funerals of Dr. BRETON And when you have another like him I wish he may not by a speedy remove put you again to a second sorrow and my Prayers for you are That as he taught you how to live that you might dye happily so that you would observe Practically what I have offered in the Discourse that you would so order your affairs that you may be found of him in peace and well doing that you may be for ever Blessed as I make no question He did and is and I hope he will be found so doing who was his and is Your very affectionate friend in Christ R. PARR A SERMON Preached at the Funeral of Doctor ROBERT BRETON at Deptford Febr. 20. 1671 2 Text. Matth. XXIV 36. Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing OUR blessed Lord and Saviour a little before his departure out of the World by the gate of Death entertains his Disciples with a Sermon long full and weighty the Contents of that serious Discourse are comprehended in this and the next Chapter after Wherein he foretells them 1. What should happen to that renowned City Jerusalem and dwellers therein viz. That it should be layd in heaps utterly destroyed and its Inhabitants scattered which afterward came to pass as he said 2. He acquaints them also what would be the previous notices of that downfal There will be false Christs and false Prophets making great shews doing strange feats deceiving very many there will be Wars and there will be wickedness Charity among men will be very rare but Iniquity will abound and deep Security will possess men so that their misery will come as a furprize all at once and unavoidable And when he had told them of these things which would infallibly come to pass he warns them charging them to be watchful bidding them not to give heed or credit to delusions nor be tamely betrayed into their sinful security nor yield complyance either to false impostuers or corrupt morals but they should immoveably keep the Faith and do their duty as Christ had given and commanded And he is not careful to answer the curiosity of his Disciples about the time year day or hour these things should be thus finished this was not fit for them to know But he commands them to watch and always to be prepared for every change This was to them at that time Yet still as to us there are two Events of things and change of states which every one is concerned in which will without peradventure come upon us most certain 1. The one is the final dissolution and consumption of this material visible World and though this was then a great way off yet the Apostle Peter said 't was hastening stealing on and as it were at the door and he calls it the day of the Lord 2 Pet. 3.10 Coming to Judgment 1 Thess The day of the Lord will come in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat the earth also and the works that are therein and then see the Application he makes vers 11. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness And our Lord said to them much after this manner Matth. 24. vers 42. Watch therefore for you know not what hour your Lord doth come Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man cometh vers 44. 2. The other Event infallible is the death and dissolution of every Man living this is determined there is a Law which makes Death necessary Heb. 9.27 'T is appointed for all men once to dye and the universal slaughter death hath made by the appointment of God since the World began makes it most evident Psal 89.49 What man is he that liveth and shall not see death shall be deliver himself from the hand of the grave Eccles 8.8 no discharge in this But though this change by Death be ever certain yet the day and hour is concealed from us that we may wait

Son and you of so good a Pastor so good a Friend so good a Man If you enquire of his Death because it seemed to us to be somewhat hasty 't is true he had but one great Paroxysm of an hour which ended his Life a sigh a groan and an expiration yet let no man think this a surprize that fetch'd him away to Heaven without much ado They dye suddenly that live wickedly such dye all at once but he that dyes daily though he be not sick every day yet dyes by degrees and is every day in expectation of it perhaps a tedious Sickness may make a man more willing to dye but not more fit unless his former life hath been a virtuous holy preparation both for a bed of Sickness and the gate of Death Elijah was a man of God 2 King 2.1 and he was snatcht to Heaven in a whirlwind Enoch walked with God every day and in an hour was taken away to Heaven in a moment as it were Let no man think that Death to an Holy man come it when or where or how soever can be a disadvantage let it come by day or by night abroad or at home if a mans habitual frame intentions and designs be just holy heavenly good this man dyes well enough Unhappy we if a man could not be saved unless he dyed aged or wasted by a tedious sickness a Consumption or an Ague Surely if a good mans Translation be from perfect health and strength he hath no wrong done him a pang of an hour that begins and ends his pain is rather a mark of favour than displeasure Tell me Oh men of sowre Censure Is it not a desirable posture to be found in when a servant of Christ is found doing the work of his Master This Servant of Christ was all that day he dyed as he was many dayes in the like fasting and praying and preparing for Preaching the next day and the next to that and as though he had a sight of the approaching closure of his life with the day blessed his Children solemnly and gave them such directions as they were capable of charging them to serve God and be pious to be obedient to their Mother c. saying withal It may be I may see you no more after this and said I wish I were now in Heaven Who would not desire to be in such a frame as this if he thought his appointed time was at hand Thus he dyed and I am perswaded and I think all good people are so too That the day of this mans death was better than that wherein he was born and his Change happy and of infinite advantage to him for he is in peace and bliss and thousands might be well contented to dye as he did were they so well prepared as he was And now if you would shew respects to his Memory and kindness to your selves Then Stand fast in the Faith he taught you waver not shift it not Remember his pious and heavenly Exhortations and Counsels and reduce them to Practice for that and so much of Religion which you practise will do you good and no more nor else And let every one that would dye happily let him endeavour every day to be prepared for it and not deferr because of health for Death may come at Sun rising as well as at the setting thereof To the High and most Glorious GOD the lover of Souls and the rewarder of his faithful Servants be all Praise and Glory for ever Amen FINIS