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A sermon on the much lamented death of that reverend and worthy Servant of…
A sermon on the much lamented death of that reverend and worthy Servant of Christ Mr. Richard Adams, M.A. sometime fellow of Brazen-Nose College in Oxford, afterwards, minister of St. Mildred Bread Street, London, more lately, pastor of a congregation in Southwark, who deceased Febr. 7th, 1697/8 preached, February the 20th, 1698 / by John Howe.A sermon on the much lamented death of that reverend and worthy Servant of Christ Mr. Richard Adams, M.A. sometime fellow of Brazen-Nose Colledge in Oxford, afterwards, minister of St. Mildred Breadstreet, London, more lately, pastor of a congregation in SOuthwark, who deceased Febr. 7th, 1697/8 preached, February the 20th, 1698 / by John Howe.
London: printed by S. Bridge for Tho. Parkhurst, 1698
A Funeral Sermon ON THE DEATH OF Mr. Richard Adams. › Section 1: 1. Of Lamentation.
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.
It is what such a one has about him of God on Earth, that makes him a desirable Thing to us here; it is not what Men have of the earthly Spirit, but what they have of the Divine Spirit, That makes them useful, both by their Labours and Examples, to this World of ours; as was this eminent Servant of Christ. It is a great Thing, to have one pass so long continued Course as his was, with so equal a temper. It is like I may have known him longer than many or most of you that were not related.
About Fifty Years I remember his Course, and our Conversation was not casual or at a distance, as that of mere Colleagues, chosen by others, but as Friends inward, and chosen by our selves, many a day we have Prayed together, conferred and taken sweet Counsel together; when he was at once an Example, and Ornament to his College, where he lived Respected and Beloved of all, but of them most, who most knew him; That constant serenity, and equality of mind, that seriousness, that humility, wherein he excelled, rendered him Amiable to Observers; And therewith that industry and diligence that he used in his younger days, by which he laid up that great Stock of Learning and Useful Knowledge, that ⟨p. 37⟩made him (when Providence called him to the City) a well-instructed Scribe, capable and apt to bring out of his Treasury Things New and Old, whereof there is, and will be a long extant Proof in his judicious and dilucid Expositions of the Epistles to the Philippians and the Colossians, which was the Part he bore in the Supplement to that most Useful Work, the English Annotations on the Bible by the Reverend Mr. Matthew Pool.
About Fifty Years I remember his Course, and our Conversation was not casual or at a distance, as that of meer Colleagues, chosen by others, but as Friends inward, and chosen by our selves, many a day we have Prayed together, conferr'd and taken sweet Counsel together; when he was at once an Example, and Ornament to his Colledge, where he lived Respected and Beloved of all, but of them most, who most knew him; That constant serenity, and equality of mind, that seriousness, that humility, wherein he excelled, rendered him Amiable to Observers; And therewith that industry and diligence that he used in his younger days, by which he laid up that great Stock of Learning and Vseful Knowledge, that