A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…

Do we begin again to commend our selves? (saith the Apostle Paul, 2 Cor. 3.1.) Or need we Epistles of commendations to us? Ye are our Epistle in our hearts, &c. But this is applicable to the present sad occasion now before us.

This Reverend and blessed man of God, Mr. James Nalton, was a Person of great note and eminency among us, and well known in this City, and in this place, where he spent his labour and pains many years. I could give large accounts and testimonies of him (if need were) from my own knowledge of him, having been acquainted with him many years. He was not only a Minister, but the Son of a Minister, his birth and education suiting together. He looked upon it not only as an honour, but an engagement, to be careful to walk in those steps set before him, and to continue the work of the Ministry begun by his religious Father. Certainly the Children of godly and holy Parents, cannot come off so cheap in their carriages, as others; they have greater accounts to make, as having greater examples set before them, greater advantages of Prayer, Exhortation, &c. and so greater engagements; this was thought on, and observed by him. And as he was the Son of a Minister, so when he came to years, and was fitted, he ⟨image 154⟩took upon him the Ministry: as he was one of great abilities, so accordingly he discharged them faithfully and conscientiously. He was a spiritual, powerful, conscientious Preacher; he preached by his life: for as (Erasmus saith) we should not only love to speak truths, but we should digest truths on our own hearts, before we commend them to others, and so they will be the more effectual. He was a man of a very meek, sweet, and humble spirit; a man of a great humility, and of great meekness in the midst of great abilities, which was a great Ornament in him; a man full of tenderness and condescension to others; a man of a very yielding and melting frame of Spirit, soon dissolved into tears. It was the saying of one, that a good man is full of tears: so this good man was full of tears, not affected, but very real, and hearty, drawn from the fullness of his Spirit; as the Apostle Paul saith, he served the Lord in much humility, and many tears. This was remarkable, that in these times our Reverend Brother was full of tears in delivering his Doctrine, which was suitable to the age we live in, being full of sin and calamity; there is much need of a bewailing spirit to bewail the iniquities and miseries of the times; they that cannot bewail themselves, need the tears of others. He was a man of great integrity, and single-heartedness;