A64984:95
The death of ministers improved. Or, an exhortation to the inhabitants of Horsley on…
The death of ministers improved. Or, an exhortation to the inhabitants of Horsley on Gloucester-shire, and others, on the much lamented death of that reverend and faithful minister of the Gospel, Mr. Henry Stubs By Tho. Vincent, John Turner, Rob. Perrott, M. Pemberton. To which is added a sermon upon that occasion, by Richard Baxter.The death of ministers improved. Or, an exhortation to the inhabitants of Horsley on Glocester-shire, and others, on the much lamented death of that reverend and faithful minister of the Gospel, Mr. Henry Stubbs By Tho. Vincent, John Turner, Rob. Perrott, M. Pemberton. To which is added a sermon upon that occasion, by Richard Baxter.
London : s.n., Printed in the year 1678
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 expounding of these words of St. Paul, I have but given you the Image, or rather the Spirit of Mr. Stubs. Funeral praises by flatterers brought into disgrace, will be here blamed by no wise man that knew the person, no more than in Nazianzene for his Orations for Cyprian, Basil, and others; Unless it be for the defect, which is unavoidable.
IN the expounding of these words of St. Paul, I have but given you the Image, or rather the Spirit of Mr. Stubbs. Funeral praises by flatterers brought into disgrace, will be here blamed by no wise man that knew the person, no more than in Nazianzene for his Orations for Cyprian, Basil, and others; Unless it be for the defect, which is unavoidable.
First, This faithful servant of Christ hath run his race; what that was and how he performed it, the County of Gloucester knoweth, and the City of Wells in Somerset shire knoweth, and this City, and this Congregation partly know. And I will speak but little of him, but what I know my self, and have by unquestionable testimony. His birth, parentage, and youthful life I am not acquainted with. He was a ⟨p. 24⟩Minister of Christ about fifty years, dying at the age of seventy three. His studies, and parts, and labours lay not in the Critical or Controversial way: And as he was so happy as not to waste his time in contentious studies; so he was so humble and honest, as not to trouble his Auditory with such matters, nor to pretend to have studied what he had not; nor, like many proud ignorants, to boast or contend most where they know least. His Soul was taken up with the great things of Religion. His Preaching was most on the Baptismal Covenant, on the Articles of the Creed, the Lords Prayer and Decalogue, and such necessary things which essentially constitute a Christian. I never heard him meddle with controversies in public, or in his private talks; but all, how to know God in Christ, and how to seek and serve him, and how to resist temptations and sin, and what a life we shall live with Christ for ever: And how to live in love, righteousness, peace and profitableness to one another; especially how to serve God entirely, and in what state, we shall live with him for ever. He was the freest of most that ever I knew, from that deceit of the Serpent mentioned