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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

children of Israel we find him but once guilty of any thing like a passionate word and that was when they did abundantly deserve it at least upon Gods account and sure it could not be a sinful though it were an angry expression to call them Rebels Num. 20.2 3 4 5 10. v. who were so indeed and so plainly and notoriously rebelled against their God when they repined and murmured not against Moses and Aaron only but against him too and against him most and therefore though I know some Commentators think this one of Moses his faults for which he was excluded Canaan yet with submission I cannot think so So patient was Moses thus was the Original and just like him was our Copy Fancy a man the best of meer men who formerly was followed with continual affluences of the things of this world through the whirl of Providence brought to a condition next to poor and indigent that was the desired company of the greater and more refined sort forced to converse with the poorer and more ordinary and who governed the highest rank of men in their advances in the superior liberal Arts and Sciences and chiefest Professions compelled more indeed to divert a greater noise than by want and necessity to sit amidst the cries and clamors of children and instruct them in the Rudiments of Reading and in a word not to enumerate for it would be much too tedious and too sorrowful fancy one once encompassed with all the afflictions of Job and amongst the rest that worst than all the dins of a foolish woman perfectly endued with Jobs patience too that bears all with as great an unmovedness of mind as if in the highest Apex of prosperity and then will you but begin to think equally of his patience In short none but Moses Job and Mr. Johnson would bear what he did And thus I have done with the description of Moses and of his second We now come to shew you 3. The Reasons why Gods Moseses his Ministers die and they are these 1. They have the same causes of death with others These spiritual men have bodies that contain humors fermentable into distempers as well as others and dwell in houses of clay that are tottering and decaying as others do They are not secured by their studies nor by their employment nor by their piety from the miseries of humane nature but rather the more exposed to them as I shall shew you under the next head These Angels of Churches assume lodge in and inform material vehicles compounded of divisible parts and easie separable Elements that lie open to the wind and weather sicknesses pains and casualities and often need repair and Physick which if they miss of or prove ineffectual they take their flight and leave us they are not yet immortal but must die to be so So these Stars that shine in our firmament will not always keep above our Horizon but will at length take time to set and disappear These men of God are men penetrable by the arrows of the King of terrours not priviledged nor exempted from the common fate of mortality neither their more elevated degrees of grace their more exemplary holiness nor their continued though still ripening preparedness for heaven can perpetuate their lives on earth Their zeal for holiness their warmest affections though the flames there kindled rise never so high towards God will not preserve them from colds those small introductions to all distempers nor the coolest of their spirits in opposition to the heats of passion from burning and malignant Fevers nor the most vigorous activeness for Religion from the Gout or Palsie and though their hard hearts are never so broken they may yet meet with the painful agonies of the Stone nor groans nor sighs for sin nor prayers nor praises are any Antidotes against an infectious Air though sometimes preternaturally through the Divine Goodness they correct its malignancy Though our graces are lively and though our corruptions are mortified yet we must die 2. They have more causes of dying than others they lye more in the road of diseases dangers and death their constant studies weary their flesh and tire their spirits out of their bodies their cares and fears which powerfully wast the life are greater and more consuming than those of other employments because terminated upon the souls of men and concerned about Heaven and Hell everlasting happiness and everlasting misery Their anxious cares are that all under their charge may reach the former and their continuall fears least they fall into the latter I doubt not but when we come into another world it will be found that more Ministers have dyed of their people than of diseases the unkind and undutifull carriages the irraclamable lives and the unchristian demeanors of their hearers of their communicants these are the things that kill and destroy them The single thought that some who constantly attend their ministry are like to be damned and all their pains and labours utterly lost upon them this this breaks their sleeps and their hearts too and sends them groaning against you into another world Besides they have ordinarily more enemies than others upon every little stir and disorder every fear and jealousy every ill news and disappointment in the state they are presently sought for harassed and sometimes murdered too Every storm blows at these lights and would sain extinguish them against them are mainly levelled the plots and contrivances of Earth and Hell The Divel and his agents his diligent and industrious substitutes cheifly desiring their ruine It is no wonder then that they whom all strike at whom every one wounds and whom every thing conspires to drive out of this world at length depart and leave us 3. God in great love calls them away from the miseries of this world to secure them from the evils to come Is 57.1 He will not always suffer his Ministers to be affronted his Embassadors to be abused nor his Representatives to be rudely treated by wicked and impenitent people but mercifully recall them and usually he send in their room some severe calamity to scourge the world this therefore is no wonder that God inflicts evils upon those who think the death of his Minister none and though it may be esteemed a fanaticall fancy yet it is very certain that there is no such sure prognostick of an approaching judgment as a considerable mortality of Preachers Possibly God bids them now dye in their beds that they may not hereafter be butchered and massacred by violent cruel hands However he gives them a quietus est sends death to sing requiems to their souls kindly removs them from their cares their fears and all their pains studies to receive the reward of their pious labours Ministers dye because death is better than life thereby God fixes an eternall period to all their griefs and sorrows and renders them for ever impassible And thus I have done with the doctrinal Part I