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love_n	grace_n	great_a	soul_n	4,875	5	4.7291	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41120	Practicall divinitie: or, gospel-light shining forth in severall choyce sermons, on divers texts of scripture Viz. 1. The misery of earthly thoughts, on Isa. 55. 7. 2. A sermon of self-denial, on Luke 9. 23. 3. The efficacie of importunate prayer in two sermons on Collos. 1. 10. 5. A caveat against late repentance, on Luke 23. 24. 6. The soveraign vertue of the Gospel, on Psal. 147. 3 7 A funeral sermon, on Isa. 57. 1. Preached by that laborious and faithfull messenger of Christ, William Fenner, sometimes fellow of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, and late minister of Rochford in Essex.	Fenner, William, 1600-1640.	1647 (1647)	Wing F693; ESTC R222658	119,973	322

spirit of God who are so farre from lamenting that on the contrary they rejoyce at the death of the godly man because he stood in their way they could not follow their workes of darknesse as they would but hee hindered them he stood in their light they could not run on in sin and wickednesse but he would be reproving admonishing and telling them of their faults and this makes them long for the good mans end and to rejoyce in it when it doth come these doe not consider that when the righteous is taken from the earth then they lie open unto the judgemens of God But as the Sodomites thrust out just Lot out of their city that so Gods vengeance might fall the sooner upon them for till he was gone the Lord would not destroy them Gen. 19. 21. Even so doe these men desire to bee rid of the righteous and rejoyce when they are taken from them not considering that they are open to Gods vengeance which hangeth over their heads ready to devoure them We ought then to be most grieved for the death of the righteous when any of the Saints are taken away by death Oh what a comfort is a righteous man to the children of God what a feeling of grace is there in such a one what comfortable words come there from the mouth of such men how full of comfortable speeches was this poore man alwayes ministring comfort to those that came to visit him what a losse is this then unto us it is more then if thousands of the wicked had gone together and shall wee not mourne for the losse of such a one If one of our family or friends dye wee can mourne for them and good reason and shall wee not mourne for the losse of one of Gods Saints one of the spirituall family one of our fellow members In this then examine thy selfe how it is with thee when thou hearest of any of the faithfull that are taken away art thou greived for it dost thou lament and mourn for it if thou doest not surely thou art no true Christian for the children of God cannot choose but lay it to heart and lament when any of the righteous is taken from among them As Israel lamented the death of Samuel 1 Sam. 25. 1. Now concerning the sin of the people in not regarding nor laying it to heart this was a great sin of security in them in that they did as it were rest on their pillowes and cryed peace unto themselves notwithstanding Gods judgements upon them in taking away the righteous and freeing them from the evill to come wee note that Doctr. When God will bring any great judgement upon a People or Nation he will ordinarily take away his faithfull servants from among them that so they may be freed from the evill to come Thus good Josiah must perish in his young yeares that so he might not be taken with the evill to come I will gather thee unto thy fathers faith God and thou shalt goe to thy grave in peace and thy eyes shall not see all the evill that I will bring upon this place 2 King 22. 20. So when God told Abraham of the bondage and captivity whereunto he would bring his posterity he saith thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace Gen. 15. 13. And thus it was with the ancient Father Saint Augustine when the cruell Vandals besieged his city he prayed that the Lord would either take him away or cause them to leave the siege and the Lord heard him and tooke him away and presently after the Vandals destroyed the city So Luther writing upon this text saith that the Lord after his death would bring great affliction upon Germany and two yeares after it so fell out indeed Thus ordinarily God takes away his servants from the evill to come See here the mercy of God unto his children in that hee takes them away from among the wicked he calls them out of this world that they may not pertake of the evill to come shall any one then think it a curse to be taken away betimes in his young yeares nay happy is hee that is taken away from these miserable and fearfull times wherein the judgement of God for our sins hangeth over our heads and is ready every day to seize upon us Secondly seeing that God when he meanes to bring any heavy judgement upon a people doth ordinarily take away the righteous from the evill to come this shewes that when the righteous are taken from amongst us wee are certainly to expect some judgement of God upon us For these are they which stood in the gap and kept off the fire of Gods wrath from us that it should not consume us but now being gone wee lie open to the judgements of God and therefore when any righteous men are taken from us the losse of them ought to drive us to repentance least Gods judgements come presently upon us and consume us therefore we must forsake our sins and evill wayes and performe new obedience unto God so will he be mercifull unto us yea he will bee a shield of defence unto us and a wall of fire about us and hee will turne away his judgements from us Beloved in the Lord wee are here assembled to perform this last Christian duty of burial to the Saint of God now deceased whose soule I am as certainly perswaded is at rest with Christ in glory as I am sure his body is in this coffin When I consider those excellent graces that were in him his great knowledge in the word of God his love zeale patience and humility when I consider his excellent gifts in comforting exhorting admonishing with his heavenly gift of prayer c. and withall consider that he was unlettered hee could neither write nor read I cannot but call to mind that in the Acts. 4. 13. where it is said of the Priest and Pharisees that they seeing the boldnesse of the Apostles how they answered and spake perceiving them to be unlearned and ignorant men they knew that they had been with Iesus Even so may we know that this our brother had been with Iesus not in the flesh but in the spirit and that from him he received these things that book-learning could never have taught him for he was a good man and full of the holy Ghost as it is laid of Barnabas Truly verifying that of the Apostle that God hath chosen the poore of this world that they should be rich in faith he was a true follower of Christ of whom it is said hee went about doing good so this Disciple of Christ did good wheresoever he came how many by him have been stirred up comforted and admonished and quickened unto good duties feeding them with the lips of knowledge who fed him with bodily food how often have I my self through him been stirred up to good duties how often have I been refreshed and comforted in my heavinesse by this poore man so lively did he beare