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A86601	Preces & Lachrymæ. A sermon on Act. chap. XX. vers. 36, 37, 38. Vers. 36. And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. 37. And they all wept sore, and fell on Pauls neck, and kissed him. 38. Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, thay they should see his face no more, and they accompanied him to the ship. / By William Houghton, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	Houghton, William, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2938; Thomason E602_3; ESTC R206405	33,827	37

Preces Lachrymae A SERMON ON Act. chap. XX. vers 36 37 38. Vers 36 And when he had thus spoken he kneeled down and prayed with them all Vers 37 And they all wept sore and fell on Pauls neck and kissed him Vers 38 Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake that they should see his face no more and they accompanied him to the Ship By WILLIAM HOUGHTON Preacher at Bicknor in Kent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost ad pop Antioch hom 3. edit Harm p. 53. De inhabitatione Dei in cordibus sanctorum est in ipsa facie eorum redundantia c. Paris de poenit 555. Quantò quisque est sanctior sancti defiderii plenior tantò est ejus in orando fletus uberior August de civit Dei lib. 20. c. 17. And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction yet shall not thy Teachers be removed into a corner any more but thine eyes shall see thy Teachers Isa 30. 20. LONDON Printed by Roger Daniel for Samuel Cartwright at the Signe of the Bible in Duck-lane 1650. TO The Right Honourable ELLENOR Countesse of VVarwick c. Right Honourable THe substance of this Sermon was delivered upon the death of a Reverend Minister in the City the Copy thereof hath been desired by some to whom by promise I became a debtour Before it passe to other hands Duty binds me first to present it to your Honours Such an occasionall Piece perhaps may not be so welcom as some other which if God give time and strength I shall hereafter provide Having nothing else for the present I offer this not as worthy your Honours Acceptance but as a testimony of the due observance of Your Honours old Chaplain and Servant HOUGHTON To the READER THe reasons of publishing these Meditations are First the miserable calamitie of the times wherein every one may take up Jeremy's wish Oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night Jer. 9.1 I will weep with the weeping of Jazer I will water thee O England with my tears because the spoiler is faln upon thee Isa 16.9 Jer. 48.32 A discourse of tears and weeping cannot be out of season in such weeping times Secondly the main scope of this Treatise is to shew what love hath been and should be between Minister and People Paul was willing to impart the Gospel to the people of God and to part with his life too because they were dear unto him 1 Thes 2.8 And they that found the comfort of his Ministery were ready to receive him as an Angel of God Galat. 4.14 Such love there hath been such should be still though it now seems to be gone out of the land The Priests sigh as Jeremy complains Lament 1.4 And they respected not the persons of the Priests they favoured not the Elders Lament 4.16 Perhaps the reading of these Meditations may move some to pray for the return of that antient love between Pastour and People that though the Lord give us the bread of adversity and the waters of affliction yet may not our Teachers be removed into corners but our eyes may see our Teachers Isa 30.20 Thirdly It is the saying of Chrysostome that The holy Scriptures are a fruitfull garden and pleasant paradise Would we find comfort in these sad times it must be in walking and breathing in this garden of God Some of my brethren have of late by their great pains and industry brought much light to many Chapters and Books of Scripture for which I blesse God beseeching him to stirre up others to do the like that the plain paths of the Lord may be made yet more plain and dark places of Scripture lesse dark and obscure For this that I have here opened not opened before to my knowledge in any Sermon or Treatise it is indeed a plain Scripture and easie to be understood yet it may be the method I have cast it into will make it be the better remembred If thou hast that love that is here discoursed of thou wilt passe by all my Errata's If it help to stirre up holy affections in thy heart thou shalt reap profit by it and I shall have my aim Commending thee and it to Gods blessing and praying help of thy prayers for me I rest Thine in the Lord Jesus William Houghton Acts 20. ver 36 37 38. And when he had thus spoken he kneeled down and prayed with them all And they all wept sore c. WHen our blessed Saviour was to be received up Luke 9.51 he set his face to Jerusalem S. Paul is now looking that way setting his face to Jerusalem And as our Saviour held on his way John 11.8 though the Jews not long before sought to stone him in like manner Paul though his friends prayed him to stay and strengthened their prayers with their tears yet they could not prevail When they desired him to tarry longer time with them Acts 18.20 he consented not but bad them farewel saying I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem To Jerusalem he must and if you ask what wind drive him thither He saith It was the wind of the spirit I go bound in the spirit Acts 20.22 What made he there his businesse He tells you in the next Chapter It was to die for Christ See here the stedfastnesse of holy resolutions 2 Cor. 1.17 When I determined to come to you did I use lightnesse The determinations of Gods children are not light and inconstant their resolves hold though there were a bear or lion in the way dangers they are not afraid of in this case Luther being determined to go to Worms his friends came to him told him of some that lay in the way for him and sought his life therefore desired him not to go Not go saith he Though there were as many devils in my way Fox pag. 84● as there are tiles upon their houses yet Luther shall go and by Gods grace enter into Worms So Paul here Agabus told him he should suffer bonds at Jerusalem the Jews would bind him hand and foot What tell you me of bonds Act 5 21.13 saith he What mean you to weep and to break my heart For I am ready not to be bound onely but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus As if he had said There Christ died for me and thither am I going if it be his will to die for my Christ But in his way he takes occasion to see and salute divers Churches amongst the rest the Church of Ephesus having called them together he preacheth to them his farewell Sermon set down at large from the 17. verse of this Chapter to the words of my Text and here after many offices of love and mutuall embraces the Evangelist shews the manner of their parting The words are very patheticall Quid

took pains to make themselves fit instruments for the Spirit to work by ●om 5. pag. 209. So did Paul as Chrysostome testifies of him he gave himself to labour and to the study of virtue that he might make himself a fit receptacle for the Holy Ghost to reside in how painfull then should we be in this high calling wherein God hath set us Did Paul take pains and are we idle Find we him at his study and shall we be ever from our Books He had many things by divine instinct and revelation but now-a-dayes knowledge and grace are not to be had without travell and pains the sweat of our brows tugging of our brains The pure oyle for the light of the Temple to cause the Lamp to burn it was to be beaten Exod. 27.20 so with much labour and pains the Light of Gods Word must be prepared Paul bids Timothy 2 Tim. 2.15 Study to shew himself approved unto God Timothy was a studied man so must we be Meditate saith he on these things give thy self wholly to them or according to the Originall be thou wholly in them our whole selves must be imployed in this work 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 4.15 Mathematica studia totum requirunt hominem Alsted It s said of the study of Mathematicks that it requires the whole man much more doth the study of Divinity it requires the whole man our whole strength our whole time It was a memorable speech of Master Calvin when being sickly and weak his friends perswaded him to give over reading and preaching What saith he will ye have the Lord to find me idle at his coming It were well therefore if in our secular affairs if we have any to look to in our journeys nay in our very walks with Paul here if we have any spare hours we would have them imployed and taken up with the thoughts of our callings what we shall speak and what we shall say when we come and stand in this place and this is the first thing observable in this Sermon His Painfulnesse Secondly consider his Faithfulnesse I kept back nothing that was profitable I have declared to you the whole counsell of God Faithfulnesse Vers 20.27.35 I have shewed you all things This must needs be an excellent thing in a Preacher the Apostle goes over it so oft 1 Cor. 4.2 Heb 3.2 It is repuired in Stewards that a man be found faithfull he that said it was such even a faithfull Steward as Moses faithfull in all Gods house Some there are who work not at all but are idle others work and take much pains but to little purpose because they deal not faithfully some beloved sin they can espy in their hearers but either through fear or flattery will not meddle with it much like the Persian Judges who when Cambyses askt them If there were any law for him to marry his sister made answer There was no such law they knew of for a man to marry his sister but they found another law That the Kings of Persia might do what they list Pet. Martyr in lib Judic p. 144. or as Camerarius writes of one Basilius Cameterus who having a desire to be Patriarch of Constantinople went to one Andronicus a great man and promised him if he would help him to it he would be his servant never say or do any thing that should displease him nay he would set himself against all that should be his enemies and gave him his hand upon it Such trencher-Chaplains I believe there are too many willing for preferment to accept of the like covenant to enter into such bonds But Pauls spirit was too high to stoop to such base conditions he had rather lye in bonds then enter into such bonds he could not flatter nor comply he could not daub nor dissemble but declared to them the whole will and pleasure of God Were there any point of salvation they were ignorant of he would unfold it unto them or were there any sin reigning amongst them they should be sure to hear of it Act. 26 25.24.25 If he come before Festus he must give him leave to tell him the truth if before Felix deal as roundly with him too leting him hear of his injustice and intemperance Paul would spare no man in his sinnes neither Festus nor Felix nor any of them all There 's the second his Faithfulnesse The third I calld his Prudence in preaching this Sermon at this time he knew and so he tels them he should never preach Sermon more to them after this Prudence therefore he will not loose his opportunity now now he will speak That his words might be the more fastened in their minds that they might say when he was gone Paul is out of sight now but his words shall never out of our minds The last words of our dying or departing friends Solemus morientium voces pro oraculis habere go for Oracles with us This therefore is a thing further required in Gods Steward That as he might be found Faithfull so likewise Prudent Our Saviour hath joyned them together Luk. 12.42 Who saith he is a Faithfull and Wise Steward or Prudent Now Prudence is a virtue that prescribes the right manner of our actions points out the due circumstances time and place when and where this or that is to be done Eccles 8.5 this we call prudence and it is an excellent virtue in Gods Steward Some desire to be Faithfull it were well if they would learn to be Prudent too Tempus rationem reigerendae ●ar●wright in Pro. p. 665 666. Gregor 3 part Pastor Item Hallus de conscientia 182. A wise-mans heart saith the Wiseman discerneth both time and judgement The saying of Gregory is good One manner of admonition is to be given to men another to women young-men are to be dealt withall one way old-men another we must addresse and apply our selves one way to the poore another way to the rich after one sort to the servant another to the Lord or Ruler one way to the plain and simple another way to the wise and understanding one way to our well-willers another way to our enemies one way to the modest and shame-faced another way to the perverse and obstinate A Minister therefore Chrys 10.5 p. 6. saith Chrysostome if that be his de sacerdotio stands in need of a great deal of wisedome had need have six hundred eyes in his head to look about him to see and observe the severall dispositions of mens minds that he may apply himself to them accordingly How wisely did the same Father dehort the people of Antioch from swearing When Theodosius by his Officers had put a number of them to death for defacing his statues and images Christ saith he is the Image of God yea the Son of God and if a mortall King hath thus punisht you for abusing his image how then will the King of Heaven