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A51245	Ho thésauros en ostrakinois skeuesin. A pearl in an oyster-shel: or, pretious treasure put in perishing vessels. The sum or substance of two sermons preached at Withall-Chappel in Worcestershire. Wherein is set forth the mightiness of the Gospel, the meanness of its ministration. Together with a character of Mr. Thomas Hall, his holy life and death. By Richard Moore, a willing, though a most unworthy servant of God in the Gospel of his Son Jesus Christ.	Moore, Richard, 1619-1683.	1675 (1675)	Wing M2583; ESTC R222046	51,229	137

sate up late for he had this happiness above many other men as he said he found himself best when he was most strongly employed his Work was to him instead of Physick and he chose rather to spend himself in Labour than to consume with rust and sickness See more in his following Life ABEL REDIVIVVS OR THE DEAD SPEAKER The Substance of an Anniversary SERMON Preached at Withall April 26. 1674. Whereunto is annexed certain dying Speeches of many Modern DIVINES especially of Mr. THOMAS HALL late Pastor of Kings-Norton HEB. 11. 4. And by it he being Dead yet speaketh LONDON Printed by A. M. for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and three Crowns near Mercers-Chappel in Cheapside 1674. To my much esteemed Friend Mr. William Turton of Aulderways in Staffordshire Worthy Sir YOV may wonder at my boldness in presuming to prepose your Name to this popular Sermon and imperfect draught of the Life and Death of Mr. HALL who may seem a stranger to you and indeed I do not remember that I saw your Face since the time that the Lord who sets the bounds of our habitations had cast our Lot together in a pleasant place in a time of Jacob's troubles where we only heard the Voice of Christs Turtle-Dove and had not those dreadful Allarums of War under which other parts of the Kingdom trembled and the very pillars of it tottered That which now encourageth me to this Attempt is that I took notice of your constant attendance upon the Ordinances of Christ and your readiness to sympathize with the sufferings of Sion and the respect you had to the godly Pastors of the Church in particular to the person spoken of in the ensuing Narrative betwixt whom and your self it is said there was a near alliance but doubtless there was an intimate friendship and alose familiarity contracted the remembrance of which I hope still liveth in your heart happily no less than Jonathans did in the breast of Davids or Basils in Nazianzens As therefore Epaminondas defended the body of his fast Friend Plutarch Pelopidas whom he supposed was slain and saw lying upon a heap of dead men so I supposed you would be ready to defend this poor Piece written concerning your deceased Friend of whom though I have said somewhat yet not the one half that I might Tou would not think me to be partial should I say of him what Nazianzen did of Basil aforesaid Antiqua probitate simplicitateque praeditus eruditis pietate piis erudition is laude antecellens Some that were more eminent for Learning he excelled in Piety and some that were more See Mr. Leys Epistle to his Com. upon 2 Tim. as also Mr. Calamy 's Epistle famous for Piety he excelled in Learning And indeed he was held to be by such as well knew him and were able to judg of mens parts and piety both learned and religious I have no more to say concerning him in this place I only beg your pardon and Patronage together with a share in your prayers that what is said in the ensuing Leaves may find acceptance with God and favour in the eyes of his people And my earnest desire and prayer to God for you is that he who holdeth your soul in life and hath lined it out to or beyond David's span would give you much joy and peace in believing That whilst your Body is descending towards the Common Mother the Earth your Soul may ascend as towards the top of Pisgah to descry the Holy Land that the nearer you come to the pit of corruption the more prepared you may be for that place of perfection and like a Tree planted in the Courts of Gods House you may bring forth Fruit even in old Age This I say Sir shall be the prayer of Your Servant in our dearest Saviour and Redeemer Richard Moore SERMON III. HEB. 11. 4. And by it he being dead yet speaketh IN the former Chapter the Apostle presseth the Hebrews to perseverance in the Faith and here in this by a Digression he demonstrates the nature of this Grace from the Effects 1. You have the Mysteries that it contains 2. The Histories that hold it forth 1. The effects that declare the Properties of Faith are three 1. It begets a sure and certain Hope of the accomplishment of Gods Promises v. 1. 1. In the substance of them though the thing promised have no present existence or being yet Faith makes them obvious and evident to the Believer for it is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ground or confidence by putting that which is hoped for as if we had it in hand and things invisible for such as are conceived by sense 2. The Effect of Faith is drawn from a demonstration of the Elders that by it received an excellent Testimonial that they pleased God and were blessed partakers of the benefits of the v. 2. Messias only by believing 3. A third Fruit of Faith is that by it we understand things incredible to Reason as the Creation of the World which v. 3. was formed and fashioned by the Word of God without appearance of a pre-existing matter yet hereby having respect to Gods Omnipotency we believe it that so it was And this is instanced and exemplified in the following Cloud of Witnesses 1. Of such as lived before 2. In such as were after the Floud The first sort of Witnesses were Enoch Noah and Abel here in my Text v. 5.7 who was the Proto-Martyr of the world as Cain was the first Murtherer Adam indeed slew all his Posterity in a spiritual sense but Cain his Brother bodily and bloodily And as Adam the common Parent of mankind was deceived in the Fruit of Paradise So here he and especially Eve was in the Fruit of Gen. 4. 1. c. 3. 15. the Promise For though the name Cain signifieth a Possession and notwithstanding he built a City yet was he of the wicked One and was no Heir of that City whose Builder and Maker was God And his Mother sensible of the deception in Gen. 4. 2. the First-born when she brought forth the second Son gave him a name suitable hereunto for the Word Abel written with the Letter Aleph imports mourning but with He Vanity one Josephus Antiq. b. 1. c. 2. humbled in mind and holding such Possessions Vanity Here then you have two Men the only Heirs of the World offering Sacrifice to God with different Success For 1. Abel's Offering was more acceptable than Cain's 2. The Cause of this not in respect of Sacrifice it self or the matter of it for the Fruit of the ground might have pleased God as well as the Firstlings of the Flock but it was Faith that made the difference 1. God had respect to Abels person justified by Faith and so to his performance Gen. 4. 4. and to his Sacrifice as a Fruit of his Faith testifying of his Gifts by Levit. 9. 24. some token of his favour

tasted the bitterness of death No saith she nor never shall For Christ bath promised that they that keep his sayings shall never see death A Believer may feel the stroke but not the sting of death Ignatius going to suffer Martyrdom triumphed in this that his blood should be found among the mighty Worthies and that the Lord when he maketh inquisition for blood will recount from the blood of righteous Abel not only to the blood of Zacharias but also to the blood of mean Ignatius It was a sweet saying of holy Mr. Hall in time of his health That the sweet rescent of a well-spent life would be matter of singular comfort at a dying day He would have his Hearers learn to know and know to do do to die and die to live In his sickness he said I am now going where I shall have rest from Sin Satan and from all fear weariness watching and from all the evils and errours of a wicked world for I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at Job 19. 26. the last day upon the earth c. Oh let my life be nothing but prayer and praises since God had dealt bountifully with me and even whiles he was breathing out his last breath he spake thus All the joys of this life are nothing nothing to the joys that are in Jesus Christ Come Lord Jesus And though he be now dead yet he speaks to you not by his Words but by his Works by Precept and by President Oh labour to lead his life that you may die his death for if you tread in the footsteps of his Faith though death bring your body to Corruption yet shall it never bring your souls to Condemnation I am now closing up the second year of my Ministry among you And Lord what have I been doing here all this while that so few of this Congregation have been brought from death to life to embrace Christ by Faith and to lead a holy life and to live to him Shall I say with the Prophet I have spent my strength in vain and laboured for a thing of nought I hope better things of you and I am perswaded better of some of you and that I may the better prevail with you to live by Faith Remember who it is that speaketh to you viz. one that is esteemed as dead And will you not credit such a Witness It was the request of Dives to Abraham Luk. 16. 30 31. that dead Lazarus might be sent unto his five Brethren he thought that if one came to them from the dead they would believe and repent Such a sight or report indeed might work upon the fancy but it is the Gospel preached that must work upon the affections For my own part I do believe the Truth of the Gospel upon surer Grounds and upon better Authority than if I had received it from one raised from the dead For such a Testimony if it be only Humane can beget but a humane Faith and should it be more than this we might see cause to question whether it were Divine or Diabolical for even Satan can transform himself into an Angel of Light Therefore be building up your selves daily in your holy Faith by Arguments drawn from the Doctrine of your Salvation that more sure Word of Prophesie and so your Faith will stand not on the Wisdom of Men but on the Power of GOD. 1 Cor. 2. 5 The Life and Death of Mr. Thomas Hall who died April 13. Anno Dom. 1665. THomas Hall was born in St. Andrews in the City of Worcester about July 22. An. Dom. 1610. His Father was Mr. Richard Hall a Cloathier in that City of a competent Estate his Mother was Mrs. Elizabeth Bonner descended of an antient Family but that which truly ennobled her was with the Bereans she Acts 17. 11. diligently searched the Scriptures These two lived together many years God giving them a plentiful Progeny of Sons and Daughters three of which Sons were brought up Scholars and afterwards proved godly Preachers The Mother being to them as an Eunice to Timothy or Monica to Augustine 1 Tim. 2.5 a careful Instructer in their Youth and lived to reap the Fruit of her endeavours in her old age Magnum est Dei beneficium pios nancisci Parentes ac praesertim Matrem qua pene tota filiorum A lapide educatio dependet like another Bathsheba she did bathe them with her Tears and Instructions and with her Prov. 31. 2 warm and melting Supplications This Thomas was first set to the Grammar-School under Mr. Bright and thence sent to the University of Oxford and admitted into Bayliole Colledg whence through the neglect of his Tutor he removed to Pembroke and became Pupil to Dr. Lushington a good Scholar but whose Principles As Plato saith of him were so poysonous that he might have boasted with Protagoras that he had spent many years in corrupting of youth Having taken his Degrees he returned into the Country and for a while preached and taught a private School at the Chappels belonging to Kings-Norton But as yet he was a Foe and no Friend to Gods Truth and People whom he opposed under the notion o● Puritans But as it was with St. Augustine who before was vitious in manners and erronious in judgment going to hear the Eloquence of Ambrose was reduced from his Errours so it fared with him being about that time a diligent frequenter of the learned Lectures of sundry Orthodox Divines at Burmingham he had here a sure and safe foundation laid of the true Religion and from that time he favoured the sincere Milk of the Word of God and intirely loved those that were born and begotten unto God thereby Not long after he was called to supply the Cure at Kings-norton under his Brother Mr. John Hall who had it annexed to the Vicarage of Bromsgrove and a while after gave it franckly to him the Free-School was also added to it for his further encouragement for though it were a large Parish yet the great Tyths being impropriate he had but a small Sallary and could scarcely have subsisted had he not embraced a single life for this cause chiefly as he said Yet after God had set a seal to his Ministry this great people were much upon his heart who ever sought Work rather than Wages that he would never be perswaded to leave them though solicited with a promise of far greater preferment and was in the time of War often accused cursed threatned with death plundred many times and five times imprisoned at the least He was a very hard Student though of a cold rheumatick Constitution he would impallescere Chartis even hazard his life to get Learning and the choice Observations he met with in good Authors he inserted into his Common-place Book and by his great industry he acquired a good measure of knowledg in Arts and Sciences especially in Divinity of God and his Word and Works of