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Paul's last farewell, or A sermon, preached at the funeral of that godly and…Paul's last farewel, or A sermon, preached at the funerall of that godly and…
Paul's last farewell, or A sermon, preached at the funeral of that godly and learned minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Thomas Blake. By Anthony Burgess, pastor of the church at Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire. With a funeral oration made at Mr. Blake's death by Samuel Shaw, then schoolmaster of the Free-School at Tamworth.Paul's last farewel, or A sermon, preached at the funerall of that godly and learned minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Thomas Blake. By Anthony Burgesse, pastor of the church at Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire. With a funeral oration made at Mr. Blakes death by Samuel Shaw, then schoolmaster of the Free-School at Tamworth.
London: printed for Abel Roper, 1658
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A SERMON At the FUNERAL of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Blake, Minister of the GOSPEL.
ACTS 20. 36, 37, 38. And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled on the ground, and prayed with them all: And they all wept sore, and fell on Pauls neck, and kissed him; Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
IN the latter part of this Chapter, we have Paul making his own Funeral Sermon; and the words of a dying Pastor, whose Face they shall never see more, are to be like goads and nails, yea, fiery nails, as the Septuagint render it, Eccles. 12. 11. And this ⟨p. 2⟩valedictory Sermon, we know not whether the matter, or the affection in the delivering of it, be more admirable: It's milk that cometh hot from the breast; excellent matter, without hearty aff•ctions, is like a Messenger without feet, and a Bird without wings. I shall not make a Sermon upon his Sermon, only in the general; by that discourse we have a description of a Pastor and Officer in the Church, in Idea and in subjecto: In Idea, or in the Thesi, there the Apostle describeth such by their name and titles, they are Overseers and Elders, v. 17. from the efficient cause the Holy Ghost hath made them so, from the relation they are in: The People are their Flock, and they are Gods Church. And lastly, from the dignity and high thoughts put upon them by Christ, they were purchased with his own blood, shall we think our labour, our pains our sweat, too much, when Christ thought not his blood too much?