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A48777 The death of God's Moses's [sic] considered being the substance of a sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. Francis Johnson, minister of the gospel, sometimes fellow of All-Souls, and afterwards Master of University Colledge in Oxford, who died in London, October the 9th. 1677 / by J. Ll. J. Ll. 1678 (1678) Wing L2617A; ESTC R42135 17,380 24

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succeeding Ministers of the Gospel which is one of our proper concerns to consider at this time and therefore from the notice God takes of the Death of Moses we also have taken notice of the death of his Successors and have observed that his Moseses dye But 2. Further to explain the Text and the Doctrine I shall describe Moses and prove to you that he was God's Servant and I do both these 1. By some of his actions particularly as 1. The Series of Miracles which by the Authority and Command of God he wrought in Opposition to the Aegyptians and in Defence of the Israelites Exod. 4.16 to whom as well as to Aaron he was instead of God he had the command of Heaven and the Water and Earth and the Meteors of the Air and therein as well as in other things was a clear Type of our blessed Saviour The Wind and the Sea obeyed him and seemed to have succeeded or rather exceeded Adam in his Original Power The Animals come at his Call to infest the Egyptians march in Battalia to Pharaoh's Court conquer and force him to yield and surrender without any more words upon the Kings refusal he sends an army of Sensitives to subdue him as he after victualed the Israelites with a regiment of Quails and a shower of Manna Exo. 16. He had the disposal of the King of Terrors killed and saved alive whom and what he pleased and yet even he maugre this strange authority he had over must be subject to the Empire and feel the stroke of death This great Moses also died 2. He conquered Amalek for the Israelites and yet himself used no weapon nor no hostility Ex. 11. 13. when the lifting up of his hands did more injure the Amalekites and more befriend the Israelites than the lifting up of Joshua's and his armies and there was as much fear of the falling of Moses his hand as there was of the hosts of Israel and because his hands were steady therefore Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people 12 13 v. yet for all this great service he did God and his Church he was not exempted from mortality this so triumphant conqueror and so select a Servant of God is dead 3. He fasted fourty days and fourty nights and so typified our blessed Lord whose meat and drink was to receive and do his Fathers will and one would think having lived so long notwithstanding the decayableness of nature without continued sustenance he would prove for ever after as some Jewish Rabbies fancy he did death-proof and immortal but no it was appointed also for him to dye 4. He wrote by the inspiration of God the beginning the first five Books of the holy Scriptures if they hear not Moses Luk. 16.31 says our Saviour and the Apostle when Moses is read 2 Cor. 3.15 that is that part of the Scripture which was written by him One of the Fathers seems to understand by the five words of the Apostle in the 1 Cor. 14.19 the five Books of Moses as if he were preferring the preaching the necessary injunctions of the law before the miraculous gift of tongues Moses some think was born A. M. 2373. and wrote before Homer the first Grecian writer 540 years before Sanconiathan the first Phenician writer 200 years though in Phenicia some I suppose falsly conjecture letters were first found out He was the first man the Holy Ghost ever inspired in writing yet and though he ever lives in those writings he must die 2. The second way I proposed to describe Moses and prove him the servant of God was by the Characters the Scriptures give of him and we find in the Word of God that 1. He was a man of prayer an Israelite indeed that always conquered men and prevailed with God had even what he would of him and in some sense reversed the decrees of Heaven Numb 32.10 11 14. So powerful was he in prayer that when God absolutely and peremptorily designs the ruine of a people he makes it appear by this Argument that Moses Jer. 15.1 if he were praying for them should not be able to retrieve them q. d. he who once did strangely pray my mind toward this people should now fail to do it And what a strange spirit of prayer had this second Moses whose departure from us hath brought us here this day what an unheard of fluency of tears word and matter would he altogether pour upon his hearers how would the Rhetorick of his boyling affections and most serious earnestness disturb and yet greatly recommend the oratory of his words have you not seen rivers of tears running down his eyes when he hath been confessing and praying for you with what brokenness of spirit with what self-abhorrency and with what deep reverence would he speak to God 2. Moses was a man of learning which he imployed for God Acts 22. he was versed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians which it is likely was then couched in Hieroglyphicks if as some think they had not then the use of letters which were not then invented or at least they had them not though its possible they might have had them from the Phenicians as they from Abraham So was our Moses though he made no pompous shew of it Amongst other of his excellencies in learning he was well read in controversies particularly he was an able defender of the Truth against the growing and so much improved errors of Arminianism and his learning was the more lovely and valuable because richly enameled with modesty for as 3. Moses was a modest man who could by no means be perswaded to think himself fit for so worthy an employment as God designed him Exod. 4.10 13. so was our Moses his thoughts of himself were as little and as low as were his accomplishments great and high He was so far from blurting out his knowledge in all companies or waiting his opportunity to be guilty of ostentation as some do that with too great care he hid his eminent parts from the view of all and just like Moses as his modesty was if there was any unequalness in his graces one of his most resplendent vertues So the excess of it was his most apparent infirmity How hardly was he drawn and how difficultly tolled into that wortk which he was prompted too by his free and religious education and wherein he did far surpass and excel most of the most famed Preachers and what could be the reason of this his very injurious unwillingness to be publick what but a too modest sense I speak what I know I say a too modest sense of that unfitness which from him was always at remotest distance But to hasten we find in Scripture that 4. Lastly Moses was a very meek and patient man above all the men which were upon the face of the earth amongst the many close and unkind provocations of a stubborn and refractory people and very uncivil affronts that were put upon him by the obstinate