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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49461	The good and faithful servant set forth in a sermon preached at Hatfield Broad-Oake in Essex, August 2. the day before the funeral of Mr. John Warren, sometime minister of the gospel there. Now published with some small additions, and a brief account of his life and character. By Henry Lukin.	Lukin, H. (Henry), 1628-1719.	1696 (1696)	Wing L3474A; ESTC R218826	22,563	42

The Good and Faithful SERVANT Set forth in a SERMON Preached at Hatfield Broad-Oake in Essex August 2. the day before the Funeral of Mr. JOHN WARREN Sometime Minister of the Gospel there Now Published with some small Additions and a brief Account of his Life and Character By HENRY LUKIN LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns the lower End of Cheapside 1696. THE Good and Faithful Servant Matthew 25.21 His Lord said unto him Well done thou good and faithful Servant thou hast been faithful over a few things I will make thee Ruler over many things enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. AS it was said of the Woman that came with a Box of Ointment of Spikenard to pour on the head of Jesus before his Death She did what she could she came aforehand to anoint his Body to the Burying she took the best way that she could think of to express her affection and respect to him Mark 14. v. 8. So I am come aforehand anticipating a little the Funeral of our dear Friend to do what I can to improve so sad a Providence for the benefit of his surviving Friends and to spread abroad and preserve the sweet savour of his Name which is as a precious Ointment Eccles 7.1 when he is gathered to his Fathers As under the Old Testament God multiplied Visions and used similitudes by the Ministry of the Prophets Hos 12.10 So under the New Testament Christ spake very often to the Multitude in Parables Matth. 13.34 This being a very useful way of teaching Some call Images Laymens Books because they suppose they represent things so clearly and plainly to the meanest capacities but tho' God is a Spirit and requires Spiritual Worship yet he hath thought fit to represent spiritual things by natural so that as it is said The invisible things of him are seen clearly from the Creation of the World Rom. 1.20 And if we do undersland that of the time ever since the Creation yet the words following are to be understood of the Works of Creation But not only the things that are made represent to us God's Eternal Power and Godhead but all things that are done or transacted in the World serve to represent spiritual things to us And while we have such a Teacher as Christ to instruct us in the resemblance that is betwixt these things they may be of much use to us to help our understandings and memories to quicken our affections and to invite and draw our thoughts to heavenly things so as we can hardly be about any worldly business but we may take occasion from thence to raise up our minds to heavenly things which is a great advantage to us because we have so little command over our thoughts and because all our actions have their first rise from our thoughts out of the heart proceed first evil thoughts and thence murders adulteries fornications c. Matth. 15.19 Before I proceed further I will premise that in similitudes the Scripture is very brief and concise so that there is not only an omission sometimes of the note of similitude which doth frequently occur in Scripture but the Protasis and Apodosis as they are called are confounded together and not set exactly one against another or explained one by the other as Prov. 11.22 A fair Woman is not as a Jewel of Gold but Beauty in a foolish Woman as a Jewel of Gold in a Swines snout So John 3.8 He that is born of the Spirit is not like the Wind but in the business of Regeneration the Spirit works freely invisibly yet effectually as the Wind blows Sometimes that only which belongs to the Protasis or former part of the similitude is expressed without that in the latter part of the similitude which answers thereto as Luke 12.35 Let your loins be girded about and your lights burning We need not busie our selves to find out what are these loins that should be girt and those lights that should be burning for those expressions belong to the persons that we should be like to As those that wait for their Master 's coming from a Wedding should not only be up and have their Cloths on but should have those Garments girded about them which were much like Morning Gowns which they could not well either run in or do service in unless they were girt about them as you may see by 1 Kings 18.46 and Luke 17.8 So they should not only have their lights or lamps by them but have them ready lighted that they might not make their Masters stay when they knocked till they were prepared to wait on them but that they might open to them immediately So we should not only be in a Habitual preparation for Death by being in a state of Grace but in an Actual preparation for it having our Evidences for Heaven ready our hearts weaned from the World a clear prospect of suture Glory and being always so employed as Death may not surprize us idle or doing that which is evil I have spent so many words on this thing because it may be of use to us for the right understanding of this Parable out of which the words of the Text are taken wherein he instructs his Disciples how they thould carry themselves in his absence the time of his Departure from them being now at hand We have this Parable differently set down here and in Lu. 19.12 For it is here in the Evangelists as it is in the Books of Samuel Kings and Chronicles in the Old Testament what is omitted in one Book is set down in another so that put together they make the History more compleat therefore the Greek Translators of the Old Testament call the Books of Chronicles Paralipomena or praetermissions because many things are added in them which were omitted in the foregoing Books In Luke he plainiy foretells what he should meet with from the Jews and how he should be rejected of them But in both he is compared to one going from home and leaving his Servants Luke saith a Noble man going to receive a Kingdom He must indeed be a great Man that gave so many Talents to his Servants to Trade with till he came back again The Parable plainly shews that he gave to some more to some less according to their places and abilities Luke saith Pounds but the Evangelists have regard rather to the sense and meaning of Christ than to his words they both imply that he gave different summs of money or portions of goods Now when they come to give an account of the improvement of what he had committed to their trust the first had doubled his Stock or what he was trusted withal and here in the Text we have his Lords approbation of what he had done and his liberal rewarding of his diligence and faithfulness It was but little in comparison which he had trusted him with but he should be Ruler over much as he that had been faithful in the