A44693:60
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.
In the great City he shone, a Bright and Burning Light, till many such Lights were in one day put under a Bushel, I need not tell you what, or how black, that day was. And then, though he was constrained to desert his Station, ⟨p. 38⟩he did not desert his Master's Work; but still he was with God, and God was with him; and you know it I doubt not, many of you, what it was to live under so truly Evangelical a Minister; to have Doctrine from time to time distilling as the Dew and dropping upon you, such, as from which you might perceive how great was his Acquaintance with the Mysteries of Christ: In reference to those, over whom he had opportunity to Watch, it was undoubtedly, if it were not their great Fault, their very great Advantage.
As to his Domestic Relations, knowing so much of him, I cannot, but so much the more Lament their loss, God vvill I doubt ⟨p. 39⟩not, be the bereaved Widows Portion; but it ought, with tenderness to be considered, What it was for one Person to lose successively Two such Helps, as This & her former Husband were, (who was also in another University my former and most inward Friend that Worthy Man Mr. Thomas Wadsworth) both Eminent Instruments in the Church of Christ.
As to his Domestick Relations, knowing so much of him, I cannot, but so much the more Lament their loss, God vvill I doubt ⟨p. 39⟩not, be the bereaved Widovvs Portion; but it ought, with tenderness to be consider'd, What it was for one Person to lose successively Two such Helps, as This & her former Husband were, (who was also in another Vniversity my former and most inward Friend that Worthy Man Mr. Thomas Wadsworth) both Eminent Instruments in the Church of Christ.