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A43843	A sermon preach'd at the funerals of that worthy personage George Purefoy the elder of Wadley in Berks, esq., who was buried by his ancestors at Drayton in Leicestershire, April 21, 1661 by Jo. Hinckley.	Hinckley, John, 1617?-1695.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2048; ESTC R13342	21,835	39

Ingredere in cubile tuum cum pace good night dear friend farewell farewell goe to thy bed of rest draw thy curtains shut thy doors about thee Et nos mox aderimus It shall not be long ere we shall all come unto thee 2. In a special and peculiar manner to you that are the children and that both by way of Consolation and direction 1. By way of consolation vos chara capita vos chara pignora you that were the sweet pledges of his love The branches which once sate about his table and sprang out of this stem before * Finis vitae ejus nobis luctuofus amicis tristis Tacitus de Agric. I confess the thoughts of his death are very sad He is Commune ‖ Bernardus de Gerardo damnuns a common losse unto us all but especially unto you his nearest allies yet the * Majore hominum damno quam suo Suet de Tito losse is more yours and ours than his ne defleatis igitur Therefore weep not for him who shall never weep more What though you have lost a tender Father yet you have cause to ‖ Non dolendum quod patrem amiseritis sed laetandum potius quod talem habueritis Ambro. de fratre Satyro rejoyce that you had such an one to loose Lost did I say Nay he 's perfected in an advantagious change of his station Look beyond death and think with your selves as if you saw him cloathed with * Non tam mortem cogitate quam immortalitatem Cyp. Epist 82. immortality What though he be faln asleep into an Iron ‖ Ferreus urget somnus Virg. sleep nay a sleep of * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. Brasse yet he shall certainly wake again Cur impatienter feratis subductum in the words of Tertullian Why should you grieve that he is gon aside quem creditis reversurum who you believe to return again never to leave you never to die any more He shall get by the grave that shall be as fullers earth and Nitre to purg him from all corruptible qualities And ere long he shall break forth out of those clods as * Cum dormientem audivimus evigila tutum minime desperemus August as the Sun from some cloud that had eclipsed and obscured it or as the Phenix springs more vigorous and active out of her own ashes Vt phoenix ruptis pullulat exuviis By way of Direction I shall not betray my ignorance so far as to ask you this question did you love your Father For you may answer me in the words of Peter Thou knowest that we love him And me thinks I hear you say good reason we had to do so omnis in Ascanio all his love was upon us wel love him still love his memory follow his advice and counsel in fearing the God of your Fathers and loving each other remember the Rechabites Jer. 35.5 Having pots of wine set before them said We will drink no wine for Jonadab the son of Recab our Father commanded saying ye shall drink no wine goe ye and do likewise in respect of all that savory and fartherly counsel which he hath imparted unto you O let not that die with him 'T is said of Antoninus Hoc Solo patriae quod genuit nocuit Herein only he prejudic'd his Country in that he left seed a Commodus behind him But as 't is your honour to have had such a Father so let your carriage be an honour to his memory That as it is said of Rich. the first ‖ Sol occubuit nox nulia sequuta est succeeding his Father Henry the second so it may be said of you Though the * Sun be set in his western bed yet by reason of your lustre we may be free'd from the shadows of a darksom night So shine then in your several sphears here as members of the Church and State That you may shine as so many Stars in the Firmament of glory hereafter Amen Amen FINIS

divine providence He took his Bible in his hand and so his spirit was calmed as it were from Heaven in reading Psa 31. 1 2 3. In thee O Lord do I put my trust let me never be ashamed deliver me in thy righteousnesse Bow down thine eare to me speedily be thou my strong Rock for an house of defence to save me for thou art my Rock and my Fortresse therefore for thy names sake lead me and guide me And may not he justly be called the Son of Abraham who could thus live upon prayer and promises and by faith evaded and conquered the greatest difficulties We shall confront this Father and Son with their due distances in a closer parallel and draw to a conclusion Was Abraham an indulgent husband So was he * We look for the effect of those prayers in his surviveing off-spring Sure children of so many prayers canmiscarry● as is said of Austin in respect of his Mother Monica Was he a praying father for his children O that Ishmael might live before thee So was he Was Abraham tried and exercised with Crosses and afflictions So was he Was Abraham the Father of a numerous seed according to the spirit so was he according to the flesh A seed the branches whereof are transplanted into several Countries like a constellation of stars broken up and set in distinct orbs where they are the heads of their Tribes Did Abraham command his houshold after him So did he never did child resemble his father more in any bodily Symmetry and proportion than he did Abraham in this particular like another Antoninus he oft visited his family ejecting such persons as were prophane and scandalous as so much Froth and Scum with David a wicked person would he not know Ps 101. 6 7. Zim and O chim with Satyres and other unclean birds were not suffered to dance there Isa 13.21 22. This was a reddy way to bring a blessing upon his own affaires and to convince the vilest servants of their Errors to the intent they might repent and reform That so their spirits might be ‖ Quorum non zelas salutem subicetionem nimis ambitiose vendicas Ber. Ser. 23. in Cant. saved in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ Had Abraham his failings and infirmities witness his cowardise in Gerar Gen. 20.2 So that you may not say I have made an absolute Saint of him had he also yet I must do him so much right that when I laid before him his impatiency fretting to which he had been prone with humility he acknowledged his fault but withall ascribing the praise to the grace of God He told me that he bad much mortified wea kned and conquered that once domineering passion But to keep to the text Abraham was great and rich yet he gave up the Ghost willingly submitting himself to the stroke of death So had this his Son a very large estate a beautiful and pleasant * Wadley has a commodions site a wholsom and delicious aires it is a rich and pleasam Seat Burton p. 259. habitation All other comforts whereon wordlings set their hearts yet he had so far studied the nature of them all that he had found them to be only bracteata felicitas nothing but as a little gilded Copper and therefore set his Heart no more upon them than on so many fleeting empty and miserable comforters this he signified to me when I spake my feares unto him vizi That the great things of the world do clogg and retard our motions towards heaven and stake us down so fast unto the Earth that we are unwilling to dye ready to preser a palace in Paris before Paradice it self His resolution and answer was like that of ‖ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anton. Antoninus no more to be in love with any thing below than within sparrow flying over his head which perhaps he might never see again He had also studied the charter of heavenly joyes when he cry'd out of his paines I told him that in Heaven no malladies should attatch him there all tears should be wipt from his eyes True in deed said he there I shall have rest and not till I shall come thither And can he chuse but give up the Ghost willingly who meditates aright upon the vanity of this world and the blessings of that which is to come therefore he was observed towards his latter end to be as earnest to have his Coach and Horses to be prepared to bring him to this place of his burial as ever the was to goe a progresse of pleasure looking for the messenger of death as Jacob did for those Charriots which should carry him to his Son Joseph 2. He dyed in a good old Age. Caesar etsi gloria celum latissimus ideoque sibi satis vixerit non tamen satio Reip. quae praesidio carere non possit ipsius tutela Sleid. Wis 4.9 It was observed of him that he was an old man at twenty in respect of us his Allies the Church and whole Kingdome so his death was immature but in respect of himself so he was a good old man for wisdome is the gray hair to men and an unspotted life is old age In this sense it is that Abraham is called a good old man for his age was far inferiour to many that liv'd before him but an hundred threescore and fifteen yeares in the v. before the Text yet he is said first of any to be an old man and full of years because his many vertues did crown his age in making it the more awful and * Invida quem Lachesis raptum rtiete ride nova Dum numerat palmas credidit esse sevem Mart. li. 10. Epist 58. illustrious 3. He is brought hither to be gathered to his people and to sleep with his Fathers untill the day of resurrection that as he injoyed many of Abrahams mercies in his life so he might be like him in his death too that like Saul and Jonathan in death they might not be divided Heitherto I have been conversing with the dead and tracing the footsteps of two Heroick Ghosts Now a word or two at parting to you that are yet alive that so I may end as I began 1. To all in general give me leave to make such a dole amongst you as Nazianzen did amongst his auditors after he had made an oration upon the life of Athanasius Vertutes illius inter vos partiamini now fall a dividing his vertues amongst your selves But be sure that every one take some This will be a better badge of being at a funeral than either Rosemary or Ribbons when you are dismiss'd goe also musing with your selves who may be the subject of the next funeral and say with the Apostles Master is it I Master is it I Only let me prompt you to so much humanity as to take your leaves of this our Reverend Father before you goe speak to him in the words of Luther to his dying daughter