A34165:1245
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…
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.
London : s.n., 1663
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First their Love, expressed by kissing him, and accompanying him unto the Ship.
Secondly, Their Sorrow, expressed by their weeping, they could not part with such a Minister with dry eyes; but saith the Text, They all wept sorely, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. They wept, and they all wept, and they wept sorely; a sore weeping when this Minister and this People parted. From whence note this, That there is occasion and matter of great sorrow when people lose a godly Minister. Paul was not the first Minister that ever parted […] People, nor the Ephesians the first People that ever lamented at th• […] of a faithful Minister. See how the people lamented Samuel, 1 Sam. 25.1. And Samuel died, and all Israel were gathered together, and lamented Samuel; O that brave, that powerful preaching Samuel is gone! How did Elisha lament Elijah, catching hold of his garments, ⟨image 157⟩and cried out, My Father, my Father, the Chariots of Israel, and the Horsemen thereof. Christ himself, when he saw the children of Israel scattered abroad upon the Mountains, as Sheep without a Shepherd, how did his bowels yearn towards them? But to name no more, take St. Stephen (Acts 8.2.) when Stephen was departed, dead and gone, devout men carried Stephen to his grave, and made great lamentations over him; they could but lament to think that that noble, courageous, and heart-daunting Minister should never preach more before them. When Christ was put to death, how did his followers lament him! Is it not a lamentable sight to behold a poor weather-beaten rotten Ship, without mast or tackling, in a tempest? Good Lord, what will become of the Ship and Mariners? Is it not a sad sight to see a flock of Sheep environed with a band of Wolves, and no Shepherd to protect them? Thus it is with the people when their Minister is gone. Ministers themselves have wept and lamented, when they have thought of departing from their own people, and that for these two causes.