The Churchs Lamentation for the Good Mans Loss, Sermon – License
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THE CHURCHES LAMENTATION FOR THE Good Man his losse: Delivered in a Sermon To the Right honourable the two Houses of Parliament, and the Reverend Assembly of Divines, at the Funerall of that Excellent Man JOHN PYM, Esquire, late a Member of the Honourable House of Commons.
Preached in the Abbey-Church of Westminster, by Stephen Marshall, B. D. Minister of Gods Word at Finching-field in Essex.
Published by Order of the House of Commons.
Esa. 57. 1. The righteous perisheth, & no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
London, Printed for Stephen Bowtell, and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes head Alley. 1644.
To the Right honourable THE Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament:
Right Honourable,
THis plaine piece, which (were it worthy) should bee sacred to this excellent Man, memory, comes now also devoted to your service: It should have been his picture, but becomes your possession; and let it be inter foreign, and that by your fourfold interest.
1. In himselfe, whilest he lived, every one of you deservedly esteeming him as a Friend, a Brother, if not a Father.
2. In his losse, …or rather yours of him) which because I cannot describe, …vaile over with silence.
3. In the worke wherein hee lived, and by which he dyed; which was not so much his as yours; or, yours, as your Countries, your Gods: in which he laboured so much, that he died the sooner, that you might have his better helpe toward the finishing of it, who (through the mercy of God) live longer.
4. In this meane Sermon, which by your command comes to publike view, and therfore craves patronage in your favourable acceptance: The Lord make it yours by a greater right; even by making the commands delivered in it to be so ingrafted in your hearts, that you may all not onelyonly with him be cast into the same mold, but that his Spirit may be so doubled upon you all, that you chearfully and without fainting may beare whatever remaining heat and burden of the day; and at last come to the same blessed evenings-reckoning, rest, and reward in everlasting life. So prayeth daily
Your most unworthy Servant, in, and for Christ Iesus, Stephen Marshall.
Die Veneris, 15 Decembr. 1643.
IT is this day Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, That Master Sollicitor doe returne thankes to Master Marshall, for the great paines he tooke in his Sermon preached at the Funerall of Master Pym, a worthy Member of the House of Commons; and to desire him to print his Sermon. And it is Ordered, that no man presume to print this Sermon, but whom the said Master Marshall shall authorise under his hand-writing.
H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com.
I doe authorise Stephen Bowtell to print this Sermon.
Stephen Marshall