223 Mr. Ca/amy's SERMON at the Funeral ofMr. Afhe. /rajah 57. 1. The righteous perifheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and merciful men are taken away, none confidering that the righteous are taken away from the evilto come. WE are here met this evening to perform the laft office of Love for.aneminent and ancient ferva!it oflefusChrift, and excellent Min liter of theGolpel, Mr. Simeon Afhe,, onewho bath formerly performed this office for many other EV11- nifters, and nowwe are met to perform this office for him : and, it is not long beforeothers will meet to perform the, fame office for us, fo frail, Co brittle, and fo uncertain is the life of man. Now the Text that I have chofen, is fuitable for this occarion4 -for this ReverendMinitter was firfl a righteous man, he was righ- teous in an Evangelical fenfe, hewas one that was juftified and fanaified. Secondly, he was a merciful man, both in an ally: and paffive ten tie ; he was one that (hewed mercy to the diftretredMem- bers of JeCus Chrift, and he was one to whom God /hewed mer- cy ; this righteous and merciful man is now per jibed, as to his outward condition, not as tohis everlafting condition : but as to his outward bodily condition he is perifhed,and he is taken away: theword in the Hebrew is very emphatical, merciful men,Colligun-- tur, are gathered; it is the fame word that is tiled concerning yofiah, 2 King," 22. 10. Thou fhalt be gathered to thy Fathers, and goe to thygrave inpeace, andfhalt not fee the evil that I will bring upon thiJ,, Nation.This gAly and righteous man is nowgathered,a ripe Corn-, in the Barn ofHeaven ; he is taken away from the evil that is to come, from the beholding that evil that is' col-riming upon- this tinfiti worldhe is taken away in mercy, that he -may not be trou- bled with the troubles that are cornmingupon. many ; he is ta, ken away from theevil to come. And thus you fee how fuitable the Text is to theoccafion: there is only one praticular that I detiremay prove unsuitable-, for the righteous &merciful man is theText,perifbetb-,6-- no man confiders,nor ' lay it to heart:There words areverba commentantir & objurgantis,the ' wordsof theProphet bemoaning the fpiritual fecurity ofthepeo- pleof Ifi.ael chiding & reproving them for their fpirituallethar-- gy:Now 1:cleke that this part may not prove fuitable;butthat all. of
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