The life and funeral sermon of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Brand Dr. Samuel Annesley

III. Prop.

III. When God takes away his Eminent Ministers, there is more work devolves upon others, both Ministers and People, by it.

1. The Work they did must be done by others, that the Church of Christ may not be a looser by their death. And this you'll find to be hard work, for many to perform what some one hath done, whom God hath taken from us. One Moses did more then the seventy chief of them, who were to ease him of his burden; he did more with God and Man in Egypt, and in the Wilderness, by Sea, by Land, in Peace, in War more by lifting up in hands, in prayer, than the whole by lifting up their hands ⟨p. 97⟩in fighting. Exod. 17.11. When Moses held up his hand Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand Amalek prevailed. More for the quieting and satisfying of a murmuring People than any of them, than all of them could do. What is now therefore next to be done? and by whose hands? they might tremblingly enquire, for Moses is dead, and if the deliverance he begun, be not carried on, they must perish. Who dare now undertake it? But I'll speak of Moses as a Minister, and of such things wherein we are all concerned.

1. The Work they did must be done by others, that the Church of Christ may not be a looser by their death. And this you'll find to be hard work, for many to perform what some one hath done, whom God hath taken from us. One Moses did more then the seventy chief of them, who were to ease him of his burthen; he did more with God and Man in Egypt, and in the Wilderness, by Sea, by Land, in Peace, in War more by lifting up in hands, in prayer, than the whole by lifting up their hands