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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01727	The servant's audit: a sermon preached at the funerals of the right worshipful Sr. Edmund Anderson baronet, in the church of Broughton in the county of Lincoln, Febr. 15. 1660. / By Edward Boteler ... now rector of Wintringham in that county ...	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing B3803A; ESTC R212802	28,513	80

for Scripture would scaffold and hold them up till they expunge and blot out the other But He was a second-Table man as well as a first and loved not to part God's conjunctions He knew that God spake Exod. 20.1 in the Preface went through both Tables and reached to the end of the Commandments He had respect with David Psa 119.6 to all Gods Commands and could not sin against That first Commandment with promise Eph. 6.2 And if he did contract any dirt and soil'd his name at the beginning of the late unhappy differences I hope he hath wiped it off in the close and his late actings have more than compounded for it when his Zeal for His most Excellent Majesty's restitution was such as transported him beyond his ordinary temper and he was like one of the men of Judah 2 Sam 19.43 whose words at the bringing back of King David are said to be fiercer than the words of the Men of Israel And let me tell you further As he was a Loyal Subject to His Majesty so he was a very observant and dutiful Son of the Church of England He durst and did own her for a Beauty even in her blackest dayes and gave a charitable ear to that Apologetical desire of the Spouse Cant. 1.6 Look not upon me because I am black because the Sun hath looked upon me The first time that ever I had the happiness to hear him speak it was in her defence and his Arguments were of that force that they did no little execution I have heard him an Assertor of her Rites and Ceremonies even then when to acknowledge her a Mother was the next way to be disinherited And to this let me add He had a singular and peculiar kindness for the Liturgy of this Church He looked on it with admiration and loved it as that which was indited by the Spirit of God Rev. 17 6. and written with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus This devout and rare composed piece as the judicious Doctor Hamond evinceth it to be in the whole frame Pract. Cate. and all the particulars of it rather gathered than lost in his esteem by all the decryings and deluding artifices of empty and pernicious men He was herein as fixed and immovable as St. Paul Act. 24.14 After the way which they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers But that we may look towards a Conclusion give me leave only to instance in some Graces some spiritual Talents which he had so improved as to serve and bestead him in his sickness and death and I ha' done 1. Humility and self-denial He humbled himself under the mighty hand of God 1 Pet. 5.6 And would often acknowledge himself less than the least of mercies and deserving the greatest of punishments He was much of that penitential temper with those in Ezra Thou Ezra 9.13 O Lord hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve He was frequently taking a comparative view of his sins and sufferings and still blessing God for the disproportion that he suffered so little who had sinn'd so much Job 42.6 He abhorred himself in dust and ashes subscribing to the equity of that penal Statute All must die for that all have sinned Rom. 5.12 and owning every thing out of hell for mercy 2. Contempt of the world which in its abundance and beauty could not court his affections to over-love it His thoughts were so abstracted from it as is rarely seen in a person of his condition O death how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions Eccl. 41.1 unto the man that hath nothing to vex him and that hath prosperity in all things He had many smiles from the world his estate was a very Oglio of outward happiness and yet his heart was much above them all knowing he was shortly to array himself Ch. 12.1 like the woman in the Revelation and put on the Sun he easily trod the Moon and all sublunary excellencies under his feet 3. Patience Invincible patience keeping in an even and equal temper of spirit in some extremities His sickness gave him a hot charge which he received with as much courage without the least ruffling of spirit or disorder of the inner man The assault was sharp yet not short neither it was of some continuance a dying life for some months together Hor. Car. l. 1. Od. 37. DeliberatÃ¢ morte ferocior Such a Trial would have borne down a hansome sort of Resolution and been an over-match for more than an ordinary patience He was in Hezekiah's condition Isa 38.12 Dum ad huc ordirer succÃ®dit me He will cut me off with pining sickness from day even till night wilt thou make an end of me His patience and himself ended both together 4. Resignation of spirit In that he was very free not like the rich fool in the Gospel Luk. 12.20 that must have his soul taken from him otherwise he would never have parted with it Out of the depths he called unto God Psa 130.1 and in the depths of his sorrows when the waters were going over his soul He called with Peter Mat. 14.28 Lord bid me come unto thee on the water I was often with him and often saw him as it were with his Life in his hand ready to make a surrender of it into his hands that gave it He was a Good Servant and feared not to come to a reckoning his faithfulness made him willing to account which I doubt not but he hath now done with joy and is treated with the welcome of the Text. His Lord said unto him Well done thou good and faithful servant thou hast been faithful over a few things I will make thee Ruler over many things Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. FINIS Ecclesiastic Cap. 39. Vers 12. Collaudabunt multi Sapientiam ejus usque in seculum non delebitur 13. Non recedet Memoria ejus Nomen ejus requiretur Ã generatione in generationem In Luctum Broughtoniensem Concionemque funebrem ab ornatissimo mihique amicissimo Domino Edoardo Botelerio habitam in funere nunquam satis complorato praestantissimi viri Domini Edmundi Anderson Baronetti NEmpe nihil mirum est ex illo tempore longis Misceri terram fletibus atque polum Horrent Broughtonij pullÃ¢ caligine saltus Et Dryadum resonat planctibus omne nemus Nil nisi triste sonat lugubreque turba volucris Et geminis queritur jam Philomela malis Nec mihi fas sicco comitari lumine funus Quod meritÃ² lacrymas undique poscit habet Heu quanto exemplo curtum traduxerat aevum Cujus non gratÃ¬s particula ulla perit Sine vacat studiis seu lenitÃ¨r otia captat Ingenuum studium est otium ingenuum Praeciperent Homini quaecunque Volumina sancta Quae vitae verae semita recta

the Prophets The glorious company of the Apostles The noble Army of Martyrs The holy Church that ha's been throughout the world Heb. 12.23 The communion of Saints The general Assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven God the Judge of all men and the spirits of just men made perfect The pure loyal and unspotted Angels Who if they rejoyce at the conversion of a sinner what will they do at the consummation of a Saint Salm. in Loc. praedict Si de initio gaudium est quanto magis de termino If there be joy among them to see a soul brought in to God what will there be to see soul and body brought up to God and glorified with him to all eternity How great must that joy needs be which is made up of so many parts Rev. 21.24 where the Nations of them which are saved walk in light following the Lamb and having the harps of God being triumphant and singing the song of Moses the servant of God and the Song of the Lamb Saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints Society without that 's the first 2. Interna satietas inward satisfaction which is never to be found on this side God Caeterae hilaritates Senec Ep. 24. ad Lucil non implent pectus sed frontem remittunt All things else leave the Cantons and Corners of the Soul empty the joyes of Heaven are only a commensurate object to a capacious soul which made Saint Augustine cry out Fecisti me Domine pro te inquietum est Cor nostrum donec perveniat ad te Thou hast made this heart of mine for thee and it can never finde rest till it comes to thee This the ground of Philip's request Joh. 14.8 Shew us the Father and it sufficeth and of David's resolution Psa 17.15 As for me I will behold thy face in righteousnesse I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likenesse Here you may as the father speaks Videre ad voluntatem habere ad voluptatem See as much as you will and enjoy as much as you please Satiety within that 's the second particular to increase joy 3. Which is the last but not the least Aeterna jucunditas This joy shall be interminate as boundlesse as infinity as endlesse as Eternity Your joy no man taketh from you Job 16.22 sayes our Saviour It is the great abatement of Earthly joyes that they lye open to the hands of rapine the hands of men may take them from us And if they scape the hands of men the hand of Providence will one day seize them and though we may rejoyce in the dayes of our youth Eccl. 12.1 yet the years draw nigh and the evil dayes will come when we shall say we have no pleasure in them It is the excellency of Heavenly joyes that they shall ever continue at the same height and fulness And as it is the extremity of a damned condition to be out of hope of relief so it is the priviledge of a glorified estate to be above the fear of loss The joy of the servant here is the joy of his Lord made by the light of his Countenance and the display of the beams of his face and favour who is God and changeth not Mal. 3.6 If the Sun did alwayes look with the same face upon the Moon which it doth at the full the Moon would never change The Lord the brightness of whose Majesty does infinitely surpass that of the Sun who shall put out the Sun by his lustre at his appearance as the Sun now does a Candle which is not improbably Chrysost Hom. in Mat. thought to be the way of darkening the Sun at the great day will ever keep the same aspect to the Saints without variableness or shadow of change and therefore it is that the joy of the Saints shall ever be at the full and know no declension Shall be as interminate as the everlasting God the fountain and source of all joy In whose presence is fulness of joy Psa 16.11 and at whose right-hand there are pleasures for evermore His Lord said unto him Well done thou good and faithful Servant thou hast been faithful over a few things I will make thee Ruler over many things Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. I have now quit my hands of the Text and shall have recourse to it no further than to help us a little to revive some memorials of that eminent and meriting person whose Remains yet lie before us ere they be disposed of into darkness and the Land where all things are forgotten Psa 88.12 I have some flowers to strew on his Herse they are but few and I would hide them too if I thought there were any Spiders here that would suck poyson out of them He was that I may keep in with the Metaphor of the Text A Servant of great and singular intrustments His Lord had concredited many Talents to him and he was very provident and faithful in trading with them and discharge of them Not like those whom Parisiensis complains of Qui majores terras possident minores Census solvunt Holding most at the hands of God and paying him little or no Rent God's greatest are commonly his worst Tenants But as he received much so he returned not a little Take this brief account of him and his Talents 1. Natural Talents The Holy Ghost often comparing our bodies to buildings I may say of his it was an Elegant Structure a polite and well composed frame It is said of the crooked and ill-shaped Emperour Ingenium Galbae malÃ¨ habitat Galba's wit ha's an unhansome dwelling His had a lovely seat His Wit and Art and Grace had terse and comely lodgings There was Lauta supellex laetum domicilium The furniture was rich and the rooms rare The Jewel in a fair Casket And which made it a mercy and was the rarity of it it was not abused to pride and vanity to wantonness riot and luxury which too frequently undermine batter and are the ruine of the fairest walls of earth I have heard him often speak of disorderly â—nd intemperate persons in that phâ—â—se of the Psalmist Non dimidiabunt dies they live not half their dayes Psa 55.23 And this comeliness of his diffused a complacentious and grateful kind of lustre and takingness through his whole demeanor his words and actions came from him with a grace Gratior est pulchro veniens Ã¨ corpore virtus He had a quick Liv. and a ready wit Ingenium ad omnia versatile in the Historian's phrase And it was ever well set on work inventing and adding to his fair stock of knowledge so that it was hard to say whether he was Scientior or sitientior More knowing Crescit amor nonmi c. or more craving The riches of his soul as these

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