A sermon preached at the funeral of that faithful minister of Christ, Mr. John…

VI. Was that Church therein guided by the Spirit of Christ, which made the Canon which ipso facto excommunicateth such?

VII. If you had known as many of the (about) 2000 silenced, and as well as I have done, how much of the grace of God shined in them, Is it possible that any man that hath the true fear and love of God, and sense of everlasting things, could ever by any pretences of Church Government or Order, or upon any bias of interest, have consented to their silencing and sufferings?

VII. If you had known as many of the (about) 2000 silenced, and as well as I have done, how much of the grace of God shined in them, Is it possible that any man that hath the true fear and love of God, and sense of everlasting things, could ever by any pretences of Church Government or Order, or upon any byas of interest, have consented to their silencing and sufferings?

Some will think that in partiality I over-magnify men, because they were of my own mind and party: I have (besides some pious Women) written the Characters, and published the praises of divers; of Mr. Rich. Vines, Mr. John Janeway, Mr. Joseph Allen, Mr. Henry Stubs, Mr. Wadsworth, and now Mr. John Corbet, and ⟨p. 36⟩lately one Layman, Alderman Ashurst; and he that hath now received them, whom such as you cast out or vilified, knoweth that I have in knowledge of them, and love to Christ, whose grace shined in them, spoken simply the truth from my heart; and it is in a time and place where it is fully known, and feareth no confutation. And the History shall live to the shame of Church-dividing tearing principles, and all thorny hurtful dispositions, and to the encouragement of the faithful, and the imitation of those that in time to come, shall by saith, patience, and well-doing, seek for immortality and eternal life, by serving our Redeemer, and pleasing God.