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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

and Determinations which might well have become the Divinity-Schools or have entertained an Academical Auditory All these things required much study which he had need be a good Husband to find time for amidst so much business especially considering how much Acquaintance and Company he had all that knew him being so desirous of his Conversation which was so pleasing and profitable and so many having recourse to him for satisfying their doubts he having according to the Proverb an Eagle's Eye and a Lady's Hand in dealing with wounded Consciences that is a deep and piercing in sight into matters of that nature and much of tenderness and compassion towards such persons And further as was observed of Mr. Joseph Mede that profound Scholar that he seemed most delighted with those Studies which might strain the sinews of his Brain and therefore did set upon the most difficult places of Scripture so Mr. Warren did Preach long upon the Song of Solomon and the Revelation As that pious learned judicious Man Mr. Durham in Scotland likewise did though Mr. Warren did not undertake to determine any thing upon the Prophetical part of the Revelation I know those are charged with arrogance and over-weening that will attempt to explain such difficult places of Scripture yet there is a blessing promised to him that reads and to him that hears the words of the Revelation Chap. 1.3 There are many things therein that must be kept and therefore understood and certainly there are many things in both these Books that at first seem very obscure which by prayer study and comparing them with other places of Scripture may be made more plain than could at first be imagined As a learned Man saith of Mr. Durham's Lectures on the Revelation that divers of the most obscure Texts of that Book which he understood little of at the beginning of his Lecture before he closed his Exercise were made so clear to him that he thought he might well acquiesce in his Exposition without much more debate Though he was thus employed yet he redeemed so much time for Study that he was a General Scholar And when there was once a suspicion suggested where there were many persons of Quality together that some of the Non-Conformists might be Jesuits too great an honour to that Order as if though Learning do not die with them yet it brings Learned Men whom others are not on all accounts satisfied with under a suspicion that they belong to them one in the Company replied that the fittest person that he knew to make a Jesuit was Mr. Warren not that he had any such suspicion of him for I know he gave an high Character of him both for Piety and Learning But he accounted him a Person of such quickness and acumen which he gave an instance of in his so baffling a Doctor in his hearing which was known to some of the Company There are some living who can still remember that about fifty years agoe there was a person of competent Learning as appears by a Visitation Sermon long since printed but of greater confidence that Preached a Lecture at a place in this County wherein he took upon him to maintain Vniversal Redemption and still after his Sermon he made a general challenge as Goliah did to the Host of Israel Give me a man that we may fight together 1 Sam. 17.10 He was ready to dispute with any that should question what he had preached Now there was a weekly Lecture not far off where several Ministers met and upon consulting together they thought it fit for them to accept of his challenge lest by their silence they should seem to consent to his Doctrine or at least that as the Host of Israel was dismaid and greatly afraid at the words of Goliath so they were afraid to encounter him So it was agreed amongst them to go the next Lecture-day to hear him and to dispute with him and Mr. Warren was desired to be there with them So they went and he made his challenge as he used to do and tho' Mr. Warren was much younger than most of the other Ministers they put him upon accepting the challenge which he did and at the first on-set put him quite beside his play which did non plus him for a time but after a little while he recovered himself so far as to ask Mr. Warren a Question appealing to him Whether he thought in his Conscience that the interpretation which he gave of those places of Scripture which he had alledged for the proof of his Doctrine was the true sense of them to which Mr. Warren made him presently such a reply that he came down from the Pulpit as a man confounded and quitted the field came thither no more to make any further challenge Indeed Mr. Warren did in some sense acknowlede a general Redemption yet not that conditional Redemption which is contended for by so many Learned men but such a Redemption whereby Christ did obtain an Universal Dominion over all so as not only to be the head of his Christ but to be head over all things to his Church or for their good Eph. 1.22 and whereby he had power over all flesh that he might give eternal life to as many as the Father had given him Joh. 17.2 Amyrald who was a great Abbetor of this new Hypothesis of Redemption might I think say of it as he once did of the new Philosophy when two happened to come to visit him at the same time and fell into a very warm debate about the old and new Philosophy Amyrald after he had heard their several exceptions on one side and the other crys out difficulte pour difficulte le vicil vaut autant que le nouveau Difficulty for difficulty the old is as good as the new I doubt the new Aypothesis of Redemption will do no more to extricate us out of pretended difficulties than the old Some suppose that the four Beasts mentioned Rev. 4.7 are Emblems of the Ministers of the Church that Zeal and Courage that Patience and Industriousness that Prudence in managing the Affairs of the Church that insight into the Mysteries of the Gospel that should be in Ministers and which are in them in different degrees some excelling more in one some in another Mr. Warren did not want Courage and Patience under Affliction suffering joyfully the spoiling of his goods and of his industriousness I have already spoken but he was Eminent in prudence and insight into the Mysteries of the Gospel His prudence was such that he was of great use to his Friends in advising them in several Cases even about worldly things though he minded them so little that he might seem to some to be a meer Scholar But he was none of the Philosophers which the Greek Comaedian complains of that were wise in words only but in managing business very fools for managing affairs he was so fitted that a Considerable Congregation of Christians of a different persuasion from him