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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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2. They must needs mourn, because they have just cause to fear, their sins have caused God to deprive them of such helps; your unthankfulness, your contempt, and low thoughts of the means of grace, your unprofitableness and negligence, may make you mourn, for if God upon the abuse of natural Creatures, will take away his Wine, his Bread, his flax, will he not much more remove the candlestick, for unfruitfulness under spiritual mercies; mourn then, lest thy sins, thy unfaithfulness, thy deadness and dullness of heart have provoked God to take such guides away; yea in the third place, may not some mourn, who by their Disobedience, and unwillingness to submit to Christs yoke, and opposition to his way, have so filled the Ministers heart with grief and sadness, as thereby to hasten his death, making ⟨p. 16⟩his life the more uncomfortable, and causing him to mourn in secret for your stubbornness and disobedience; Thus your sins, not only meritoriously, but efficiently may concur to the removing of him by death; Consider that place. Heb. 13. 17. Obey them that rule over you, &c. that they may give their account with joy, and not with grief; some make this particular to relate to the former, that they may watch over your souls with joy, and not with grief, for that is unprofitable for you. A grieved Minister, a discouraged Minister cannot do his duty, so powerfully, it will be unprofitable unto you, you will find it in his study, in his sermons; A dull people are apt to make a dull Minister.
2. They must needs mourn, because they have just cause to fear, their sinnes have caused God to deprive them of such helps; your unthankfulness, your contempt, and low thoughts of the means of grace, your unprofitableness and negligence, may make you mourn, for if God upon the abuse of naturall Creatures, will take away his Wine, his Bread, his flaxe, will he not much more remove the candlestick, for unfruitfulness under spiritual mercies; mourne then, lest thy sinnes, thy unfaithfulness, thy deadness and dulness of heart have provoked God to take such guides away; yea in the third place, may not some mourn, who by their Disobedience, and unwillingnesse to submit to Christs yoak, and opposition to his way, have so filled the Ministers heart with grief and sadness, as thereby to hasten his death, making ⟨p. 16⟩