Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

My Design this Day is, to preach over some Thousands of Sermons; and yet I design but one Short Sermon for you. My Design this Day is, to Preach over the Sermons of another Man; and yet the Sermon shall be honestly and entirely my own. My Design is, if it be possible, to give a little Pungency unto a Ministry, whereof our GOD has now deprived us; and apply over again the Goods, which the late Master of our Assemblies had used upon us, or to clench the Golden Nails, which he has for more than Threescore Years together been driving into us. I remember, the Ingenious Rosenbergius, in his Rhodologia, mentioning that Quality of the Rose, That it soon withers, and feels the Blast of Death upon it; and being thereby led unto Thoughts on that Epigram. [Humanum in Terris nihil est quod non sit humandum; Avolat hinc Animus, Coetera Sarbet bumus:] He cannot forbear a long Digression, by way of Parentation for his Deceased Father; On which he employs near Thirty Pages of Lamentation. As he Reverse of This, having in the Decease of mine, beheld, That all Flesh is Grass, and all the Glory of Man, as the Flower of the Field; I would no more insist on That; but fly away to think on, The Word of the Lord which endureth forever; and particularly endeavour, that the Word of the Gospel, as he Preached it unto you, may, endure for ever in your Affectionate Remembrance of it; yea, and be Remembered, yet further than so, by being in the Hands of your Children after ⟨p. 220⟩you. The Advice given to the Church of Sardis, may be a very proper Introduction to my Undertaking; Rev. III. 3. Remember, how thou hast received and heard. This Doctrine, That People ought to Remember What they have heard in the Gospel Preached unto them, and Remember How they have Received it; Having been then spoken to; the Conclusion of the Sermon was this. I hasten to transfer the Admonition into what the Congregation has Heard; and particularly call upon this Assembly of Zion, to Remember how they have Received and Heard, in the bright Ministry of the Gospel, which GOD has now brought unto a Period. It is a Memorable Passage, 1 Thes. II. 19. What is our Hope, or Joy, or Crown of Rejoicing? Are not even ye in the Presence of our Lord JESUS CHRIST at His Coming?

My Design this Day is, to preach over some Thousands of Sermons; and yet I design but one Short Sermon for you. My Design this Day is, to Preach over the Sermons of another Man; and yet the Sermon shall be honestly and entirely my own. My Design is, if it be possible, to give a little Pungency unto a Ministry, whereof our GOD has now deprived us; and apply over again the Goods, which the late Master of our Assemblies had used upon us, or to clench the Golden Nails, which he has for more than Threescore Years together been driving into us. I remember, the Ingenious Rosenbergius, in his Rhodologia, mentioning that Quality of the Rose, That it soon withers, and feels the Blast of Death upon it; and being thereby led unto Thoughts on that Epigram. [Humanum in Terris nihil est quod non sit humandum; Avolat hinc Animus, Coetera Sarbet bumus:] He cannot forbear a long Digression, by way of Parentation for his Deceased Father; On which he employs near Thirty Pages of Lamentation. As he Reverse of This, having in the Decease of mine, beheld, That all Flesh is Grass, and all the Glory of Man, as the Flower of the Field; I would no more insist on That; but fly away to think on, The Word of the Lord which endureth forever; and particularly endeavour, that the Word of the Gospel, as he Preached it unto you, may, endure for ever in your Affectionate Remembrance of it; yea, and be Remembred, yet further than so, by being in the Hands of your Children after