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A57577	Fall not out by the way, or, A perswasion to a friendly correspondence between the conformists & non-conformists in a funeral discourse on Gen. 45. 24. occasioned by the desire of Mr. Anthony Dunwell, in his last will / by Timothy Rogers ...	Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728.	1692 (1692)	Wing R1850; ESTC R11323	41,002	128

Friends a kind Acquaintance his Servants a good Master and we a liberal Benefactor and we may justly cry and say O Death thou dost indeed make great spoil and havock in the World thou dost visit every Family and every Person at one time or other thou art so cruel that thou sparest neither Young nor Old neither the Useless nor the Serviceable neither the Profitable nor Unprofitable Servant Our Sin has indeed given thee all thy Power and made thee look with a formidable Aspect to Flesh and Blood but because thou art so formidable we turn our Eyes from thee and look with more pleasure upon that Blessed Redeemer that has disarmed thee of all thy hurtful Power and that will give us Life when thou hast exercised all thy Rage and done the very worst he dyed that that such as believe might never die We cannot but somewhat fear thee O Death as thou dost dissolve our present Frame but we bid thee welcome as thou art the Messenger of the Lord of Glory to convey us thither To Conclude It is like that we who are in this Assembly upon this occasion shall never meet again Oh that We and all our Acquaintance might meet in Heaven above And let us be sure not to Fall out in our Way thither Let us while we live in a changeable and fading World prepare for one that will never fade Let us not be amazed at the Grave it now swallows us up and our Friends but it shall not keep us very long for our Lord will shortly come and make our Dust to live again and make those Bodies that were weakned by Sickness and destroyed by Death to be like his own glorious Body and what we now believe we shall then see and know to be true In the mean while let us make Conscience of Meditating at the least once a day upon that Comfortable and Reviving Place of our Apostle 1 Thes 4.14 and so to the end For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the Voice of the Archangel and with the Trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the Clouds to meet the Lord in the Air and so shall we be ever be with the Lord. Wherefore Comfort one another with these Words I conclude this Subject with the Prayer of the same Apostle 2 Thes 3.16 Now the Lord of Peace himself give you Peace always by all Means The Lord be with you all THE END Books lately Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in the Poultry viz. THE Mourners Companion Or Funeral Discourses on several Texts by John Shower p. 1 s. 6 d. The Life and Death of the Renowned John Eliot the first Preacher of the Gospel to the Heathens in America Written by Mr. Cotton Mather Mr. Barker's Book Intituled Flores Intellectuales or Select Notions Sentences and Observations Collected out of several Authors Mr. Lees Joy of Faith Casuistical Morning-Exercise the Fourth Volume By several Ministers in and about London preached in October 1689. Mr. Quick's Young Man's Claim to the Sacrament Mr. Crow's Vanity of Judicial Astrology A New Martyrology or the Bloody Assizes containing the Lives and Sufferings of those who died in the West The third Edition Early Piety Exemplified in the Life and Death of Mr. Nathaniel Mather With a Prefactory Epistle by Mr. Matthew Mead. Mr. Baxter's Poetical Fragments Mr. Oakes Funeral Sermon Mr. Kent's Funeral Sermon The Tragedies of Sin together with the Remarks on the Life of the great Abraham By Stephen Jay Rector of Chimer The Heads of Agreement assented to by the United Ministers There is now in the Press Mr. Brand's Funeral Sermon Preached by Dr. Annesley which will speedily be Publish'd Printed for John Dunton

Love as Brethren be Pitiful be Courteous not rendring Evil for Evil or Railing for Railing but contrary-wise Blessing knowing that ye are thereunto called that you should inherit a Blessing In the Primitive times they could forbear and forgive their Enemies much more their Brethren and were not like the Waspish Philosophers who as one says were ready to fall foul upon one another Dr. Cave's Primitive Christianity pt 3. ch 3. p. 317. for every petty and inconsiderable Difference that was among them Christians as he says were careful not to offend either God or Man but to keep and maintain Peace with both thence that excellent saying of Ephraem Syrus when he came to die In my whole Life said he I never reproached my Lord and Master nor suffered any foolish Talk to come out of my Lips nor did I ever Curse or Revile any Man or maintain the least Difference or Controversie with any Christian in all my Life Why may it not be among us as Sir William Temple says it is in the Netherlands where differences in Opinions make none in Affections little in Conversation where it serves but for Entertainment and Variety They argue without Interest or Anger they differ without Enmity or Scorn and they agree without Confederacy Men live together like Citizens of the World associated by the common tyes of Humanity and the Bonds of Peace under the Impartial Protection of indifferent Laws with equal encouragement of all Arts and Industry and equal freedom of Speculation and Enquiry According to our old saying Soft Words and hard Arguments are the best and if I may judge of others by my self harsh Expressions and a sowre Carriage will never make one regard what another says The Potion has too much Gall in it to be Medicinal whereas we cannot refuse to listen to a Man that comes to us in a mild and gentle manner It is the Spirit of Elias and not the Spirit of Jesus that is furious and violent It is an Human thing to be kind to those of the same nature with our selves but for one Professing Religion to be furious and eager and stormy is to let the Christian destroy the Man Mildness is an Offspring of Heaven the resemblance of Christ and has a strange constraining Power with it A calm and gentle Soul will govern and allay the disorder of the Tongue and keep us all quiet The very appearances as one observes of a calm Temper have a Charm in them but the effects of them in concurrence with other prudent Methods are almost irresistible And says he it is better to be over-run and ruined in the ways of Meekness than to conquer all the World by Cruelty in the one we bear the Cross and suffer for Righteousness sake in the other we Triumph in the Garments of Antichrist dyed red with the Blood of those who though in Errors yet may be good Men in the main for ought we know Sixthly Let us always Love our Brethren though we cannot he in all things of their Mind And this Love will produce all those acts of Kindness and good Will which I have newly mentioned in our different places of Worship and in the different manner of our Prayers there may be still an Union in our Hearts I can love many a good Man and wish him well with all my Soul to whose particular Persuasion I am not satisfied to joyn my self Let us love our Brethren for the Common Truths in which they and we both agree we have one Faith though we have two Names then let us commend all that we see in others that is truly good and commendable let us commend their Gifts and Graces their Learning and their Holy Lives let us pity their Faults and praise them for their good Deeds and this is the best way that I know of to keep us from falling out And if we must strive let us strive who shall be most serviceable to God and to one another Seventhly Take heed of loving needless Disputations Of all things beware of taking pleasure in them or of frivolous and curious Questions which tend to fill us with Rancour but promote not Edification Carnal Zeal as one says may put us on disputing but true Zeal will put us upon Prayer Some Men are of so strange a Palate that they love Niceties and Quelques chose rather than solid and substantial Food some love to splinter the plain Truths of the Gospel and to wrap them up in Clouds when if they left them to their native plainness they would be as bright as day For my part I had rather be a quiet Ploughman than a fiery Philosopher I had rather be a Son of Peace than the greatest Disputer in the World Disputes occasion abundance of ferment in the Minds of those who would otherwise be very quiet People and they also prove a Generation of Vipers Such as love them generally sting one another with many base and mean Reflections and which tast more of Billings-gate than of Jerusalem I thank God I have a peculiar Antipathy in my Temper to all hot and fiery Proceedings and I had rather Preach one Sermon of Vnity among Brethren than Write a thousand Follo's of Controversie We have all Reason to be thankful that our Age is pretty well delivered from a doting Admiration of the old School-men that spun Divinity into Cobwebs and made Depths and Mysteries where they found none it would pity a Man to see such excellent parts as many of them had to be so ill imployed But their Notions are now musty and antiquated and dead and I will never do any thing to revive or quicken them For as one very well observes our Fathers in the beginning of the Reformation were greatly scandalized at that School divinity which for a long time had filled the World not only with Questions vain and frivolous but pernicious also and leading Men to Wickedness What can any one think of such a manner of treating the Mysteries of Religion as they used and by Distinctions crude and sensless if it were not that all that was very likely to raise an abundance of Errors and excellently contrived for the maintaining of all such as Ignorance Passion Engagements or Interests would have produced One of the Effects of that Disorder of the Schools was the depraving of Christian Morality by the Introduction of divers destructive Maxims which tended only to corrupt Men's Minds and Hearts Instances of which see at large in Monsieur Claude 's Historical Defence of the Reformation part 1. p. 28. It would be a Comfortable Sight to see the Funeral of all needless Controversies We have seen indeed a Book lately writ by a Learned Man Mr. Baxter of The End of Controversies and I wish they were really ended that so we might Learn though not to Talk so logically yet to Live better Some Errors there are indeed that must be opposed and God leaves not his Ministers without Gifts for that very