A funeral oration made the xiiij. day of JanuaryA funerall oratyon made the xiiij. day of Ianuary

So shall Christs spirit if he be in you by faith bear record with your spirit, that year for Christs sake only, the heirs of eternal life. This is the only way to quiet every ⟨image 9⟩trouble and afflicted conscience in the day of death. As Saint John sayeth, Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord. But seeing the devil can not bare this doctrine, A man to be saved in Christ, for the promise of God's sake: He goeth about to persuade this word of God to be false that sayeth: He that dyeth in the Lord is blessed. And so with the most part of men he subverteth this Godly consolation. Ether he maketh the sick to despair of his salvation for the greatness of his sin: Ether causeth him to seek unsufficiente and unlawful means to remove his since. And that you and I be subject unto this temptation: Read Matthew. .27. Luke. 23. And see what the devil adventured to ⟨image 9⟩persuade unto Christ himself. And would have borne him in hand he was not the Son of God: nether that God carried for him seeing he suffered his enemies thus to prevail against him. And the same temptation he burdened the holy prophet David with all, Psal. 3. If he could object and burden the Son of God with arguments that he could not be blessed that dyed in the lord: How much more doth he, ye or may he: not only swade & attempt, but also persuade & overcome our miserable and weak condition: Isle prepared God knoweth of a thousand sorts of temptation to sustain of them the lest. Wherefore learn by time, or time deceive you, how to live ⟨image 10⟩without time, of none ye may learn so well as by the life and death and also the doctrine of the Patriarchs, Prophets, Christ, & the Apostles. Whose example if ye follow not here: in case hereafter ye never come where they be, thank your selves. And that ye take upon you to use another remedies (yea and as many men sayeth better) to warrant & stand at the time of death against the tyranny of sine, hell, the devil and the wordle. If after your departure from hens it be worse with you then it is with them: blame none but your selves. And the better blame worthy be ye, so many times admonished, yet not a deal the better. Judge other men as they list, thus I believe. He