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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30273	Christian commemoration, and imitation of saints departed explicated, and pressed from Heb.13.7. Occasioned by the decease of the Reverend Mr. Henry Hurst, lately minister of the gospel in London. By Daniel Burgess.	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1691 (1691)	Wing B5698; ESTC R224015	41,115	135

To ISRAEL MAYO Esquire and ELIZABETH his Wife of the County of Hartford My Excellent Friends IN the days of old time Religious Men did set up Stone Monuments in the places where they received extraordinary Mercies That custom obtains not in Christian practice Otherwise I had hastned to Build one in your delicious Bayford place In your Bethel there and my Children's Bethlehem The House of their Bread for a long time Bread blessed to be the Staff of a very sinking and almost hopeless life in one of them A Paper Memorial I have thought better than none And do hereon inscribe my acknowledgments unto the Father of Mercies and to your selves his Instruments Blessed be God and blessed be you from God! Amen and Amen! Unto the divine Grace be Sacrifices of praise for ever Unto your selves be the Joy of a good Foundation against the time to come The Holy Ghost so names your works of Beneficence or as some Criticks construe it a Bill of Contract by vertue whereof you have your final Judge made your Debtor and the Day of Judgment ensured to be the Day of Payment The Hebrews do call Alms by the name of Salt for its preserving and sweetning power And the great Alphonsus used to say that he kept the very things he bestow'd Implying that by honouring God with his substance he did not Alienate it but Confirm his Propriety in it By your liberal things towards me devised I am made a witness of your sacred Unanimity May your reward be great pressed down shaken together and running over Of this Discourse whereto I have prefixt your Names I have many ways expressed my humble thoughts That great Man whose weighty ones follow in his Letter unto me here annexed is the only one from whom I have received much light in the Argument I never heard one Sermon hereof nor read many Lines except in a Chapter of his Life of Faith A Chapter worthy to be written in Cedar and to be read as long as Letters last And if I could have given to my Friends half the number of those Chapters that I can of these Sermons I should not have now sent them abroad after so many Months confinement in my Closet I think I should have let them pass through no more Honour and Dishonour good Report and evil Report than had fallen upon them in the Preaching Of your candid acceptation I have no doubt in my Breast and therefore make no needless intreaties for its welcome in your House My great Benefactors My daily Prayers ascend for your Persons and your numerous and lovely Branches Prayers that all the Treasures of Divine Love may be the reward of your Families Love unto mine That you may all be reaping to Eternity the Kindnesses you have vouchsafed to the Apples of my Eye And that all the days of your Lives your Treasures Hearts Companions and Conversations may verily be where this Discourse directs them That as your selves your Children may become all of them eminent instances of the possibility of Camels running through the Needles Eye of Rich Folks entering the Kingdom of Heaven That if your long Prosperity abide it may not slay or so much as wound you And if Adversity do overtake it may never overcome you Finally That the least of Christ's Ministers that have obtained Mercy to be Faithful may be made no unprofitable Servant to your holy Joy of Faith Even Your true Honourer and very thankful Servant in Christ Jesus Daniel Burgess From my Study in Bridges street in Covent-Garden Aug. 28. 1690. Mr. Baxter's Letter to the Author concerning this Discourse SIR THough you sent me your M. S. as if it were to know my thoughts of it I am ready to conjecture that you did it in Charity to be a help to a ●anguishing dying Man And I must ●ay that I have long found a great deal ●f benefit by the Exercise of the Duty which you press But you have ●one it so very well for matter and ●anner as I hope will much add to ●he pleasing ascent of my Affections 〈◊〉 have long supposed that God tho' ●very where equally in his Essence ●et not equally working every where and on all things doth first operate usually on the highest Creatures that are likest him in excellency and by them on the lower and so to the lowest And that accordingly to the ascent of the lowest there must be some advantage given by those next them Though we are unacquainted with the causality of most of the superior mediate Causes except those whose knowledge is necessary to our Duty As we know that there is one Mediator between God and Man whose Office and Honour no Creature must invade so we know that he useth variety of inferior means Angels and Men Apostles Embassadors Rulers Ordinances and many below these And they that will have nothing but God immediately will have none of God To set God against second Causes natural or gracious is to set him against his own Work his Wisdom and his Will and that is to set him against his own Glory and Himself I never believed that he that praiseth an excellent Fabrick doth thereby dishonour the Builder And he that said As my Father sent me so send I you and he that heareth you heareth me did not thereby set up so many Antichrists nor dishonour himself Far be it from us to ascribe any of Gods Prerogative to any Creature Justin Martyr saith He would not have believed Christ himself if he had Preached any but the true and only perfect God But infiniteness even of Perfection overwhelmeth us if our Thoughts approach him not by a Mediator of whom as in our nature we have more familiar thoughts And certainly Christ would not have us pretend to glorifie him as separated from his Church The Glory of the New Jerusalem was shewed John in its particulars for the exercise of his Faith and the raising of his Desire Hope and Joy Christ is not there solitary nor would so be thought of To sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob is part of the promised Felicity Some men think they dishonour Heaven and Saints if they describe not their Perfection too like to that of God himself and set not Man above Man yea above Angels yea some Deifie Souls on Earth it self feigning their Spirits as distinct from Soul and Body to be Specifically Essentiated by the Essence of God himself or as others of the second and third Persons in the Trinity which they say are the Prime Emanant Life and Matter and this not only as the Efficient but Constitutive Cause A Heaven of mens own feigning will be no Heaven Though you know who Mr. F. correcteth me for thinking that there is Repentance in Heaven I am so far from thinking otherwise that I dare not pray for to be freed from repenting there A Heaven consistent with an Everlasting penitent sense that I sinned and thereby needed a Saviour Mercy and Forgiveness exciting me to the