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

But at the same time you will allow me to do what I can, to Immortalize the Memory, and above all things, to Immortalize the Ministry of the Father, who is not suffered by reason of Death, to continue with me. In the Ministry of our Departed Pastor, there were some Articles of a more frequent and cogent inculcation, whereof you shall allow me to be this Day, a Remembrancer unto you. Though he Preached over the whole Body of Divinity, in the Amesian method among you; and went over the Epistles to the Seven Churches; The Ten Commandments; And the Lord's Prayer; The Parables of the Builders; And of the Sower; And of the Tares; The Second Chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians; The Eighth Chapter to the Romans; The Seventeenth Chapter of John; The whole Spiritual Armour; The Temptations of our SAVIOUR; The Chain of Graces in the Second Epistle of Peter; And other Portions of the Scriptures; And Occasional Subjects without Number; Yet there were all along some Articles, which in the Fulfilling of his Ministry, he ⟨p. 223⟩pressed with a Peculiar Flame; And I hope, you will apprehend him Speaking to you, in my short Recapitulation of them. It was mentioned as a Fault; Heb. XII. 5. Ye have forgotten the Exhortation. O Dear People, on whom his Doctrine dropped as the Rain, and his Speech distilled as the Dew as the small Rain on the Tender Herb, and as the Showers upon the Grass; Let not this Fault be what you shall be Charged withal. 1. Remember how you have Received and heard, That Sin is an Odious and a Dangerous Evil. Your Pastor began his Ministry here, (which, Does any Living Remember?) with several Sermons, on Lam. V. 16. Woe is unto us, that we have Sinned; wherein he Discoursed on, The Woeful Effects of Sin. Few now Alive Remember That! But This you may all of you Remember; That the unknown, and the too much Unregarded and Unlamented Evil of Sin, was what his Ministry did exceedingly mind you of. What Pains did he take, to Convince you, That none but Fools make a Mock of Sin; That it is a most Vile thing by Sin to Deny the GOD that is Above; That the Sinner cannot look to go Unpunished (How Vehemently did he, with the Hammer which breaks the Rocks to Vieces drive this home upon you, That no Sin is to be Indulged and Harboured, nor so much as a Sinful Thought with Allowance Lodged within you?