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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47565	The life and death of that old disciple of Jesus Christ and eminent minister of the Gospel Mr. Hanserd Knollys who dyed in the ninety third year of his age written with his own hand to the year 1672 ; and continued in general in an epistle by Mr. William Kiffin.	Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.	1692 (1692)	Wing K715; ESTC R25128	24,815	65

as his own must be done in general by letting the Christian Reader know That this holy Man's Life was all of a piece and that he maintained his Zeal Fidelity and Integrity in the latter part of it as well as in the former even to the end of it He was not very long sick not keeping his Chamber above five weeks nor his Bed above ten days All the time of his Sickness he behaved himself with extraordinary Patience and Resignation to the Divine Will longing to be dissolved and to be with Christ not so much to be freed from Pain and Trouble as from Sinning which he expressed to one with him with a more than ordinary Transport of Joy A little before his Death he wrote the following Epistle which he left as his last Legacy to the Church Mr. Knollys's last Legacy to the Church written a little before his Death To the Church whereof I am Pastor Grace Love and Peace by Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen HOly Brethren Partakers of the Heavenly Calling I not being able to Preach any more unto you do take liberty by writing to give you this as my last Counsel and I hope the whole Church will seriously consider what I have written as the last words of your very aged Pastor whose departure as I hope is at hand First of all I do humbly beseech my Reverend and Beloved Brother Steed for Christs sake that the fervent Love to the Church and the watchful Care over the particular Members of it Expressed and Published in his little Epistle touching Singing may be revived and also that the Brotherly Love of the Ministring Brethren and likewise of all my beloved Brethren who are helps in Government may be stirred up to Help to Assist to provoke the rest unto good Works Gal. 4.18 Now I do unfeignedly and without vain boasting commend many of you my beloved Brethren and Sisters for continuing in the Apostles Doctrine and Fellowship in breaking of Bread and in Prayer but as for the rest who forsake the assembling of themselves with rhe Church on the Lords Day I commend them not especially not only in this time of Liberty but when it was a time of violent Persecution when I was shut up a Year and four Months blessed be God for Prison Mercies in New-Prison And having mentioned that time of Persecution can I pass it by without commending the constant Assembling of our Brethren and Sisters all that time every Lords day to worship God And may I not with great Comfort commend the Labour of Love of our Ministring Brethren in the Work and Doctrine of the Gospel without ceasing as you well know and among whom they still labour and faint not And now some of our younger Brethren begin to improve their Gifts and Talents for the Glory of God and the Edification of the Church whom I desire may be encouraged Another thing very commendable in this Church is the Charity which they have added to their Brotherly kindness 2 Pet. 1.7 It was great Brotherly kindness which was manifested to the Church by those Brethren who lookt out our Meeting-House and prepared it for us as it now is And unto this many of our Brethren and Sisters have added their Charity in a free and very liberal Collection and Contribution given into the Trustees of the Fund And I hope they will be ready to do the like again when the like Necessities call for it Read I pray you the 8th and 9th Chapters of the second Epistle unto the Church of Corinth All this and much more are the Riches of Grace which God hath freely given by our Lord Jesus Christ unto this Church for his own Glory Nevertheless I must in Love and Faithfulness to your precious and gracious Souls holy and beloved tell you of some things not to shame you for I my self am found guilty as well as you and more than some of you but to warn you and to counsel you as a Father doth his Children and they are these First That several of us are fallen in some degree from our first Love cooled in our Spiritual Affections to Jesus Christ and to the Saints Must not you and I confess that it is not with us now as it was in the day of our first Espousals God the Father the Word and the Holy Spirit remembers it Jer. 2.1 2. And we should remember from whence we are fallen and should say I will go and return unto my first Husband for then was it better with me than now Hos 2.7 Rev. 2.4 5. Now the first part of my Counsel which I desire to take and receive from Christ and to give unto you my dearly beloved Brethren and Sisters who are convinced and have confessed it before the Lord on several days of Fasting and Prayer First I do Counsel you to Repent Rev. 2.5 And I must tell you Beloved that our assembling once in four Weeks and spending four hours from Eleven to Three in Praying and Preaching as we have often done is not such a Fast as will make our Voice be heard on High Isa 58.3 4. Several things are essentially necessary to Evangelical Repentance that it may be acceptable unto God by Jesus Christ Namely Godly Sorrow which worketh Repentance never to be repented of 2 Cor. 7.9 10. A broken Contrite Spirit Psal 51.17 James 4.9 10. Isa 66.2 3. Isa 57.15 Read these Scriptures Zech. 12.10 11. Alas where are our Tears of Godly Sorrow our broken Hearts and our afflicted Souls Reformation after Humiliation Repent and do thy first Works Rev. 2.5 O Holy Brethren let us do so let you and I beg Grace that we may both Mourn and turn from all our Sins to the Lord with all our Hearts We have cause to repent of our Formality and Laodicean Lukewarmness especially for want of zeal for the House of God Psal 69.9 Rev. 3.19 Col. 4.12 13. Joh. 2.17 Secondly I Counsel you to be zealous Zeal is a fervent and constant affection of a gracious Soul in a good thing managed with Discretion Gal. 4.18 If our zeal be not fixed upon a right Object and good Matter it may be hot and great but it cannot be good Compare the zeal of Paul Phil. 3.6 with the zeal of Epaphras Col. 4.12 13. To guide our zeal aright two things especially ought to accompany it First The light of Knowledge Rom. 10.1 2 3. Read the words again and again and as often as you read this Paper Many professours of the Law then were very zealous of Establishing their own Legal Righteousness and many professors of the Gospel now are as zealous to establish their own Legal Righteousness and not Christs O! say some If I could pray so mourn so as others do if I were so Holy and so Humble c. then I would believe O! say others if I could get power over my Corruptions and strength against Satans Temptations and Victory over the allurements of this present evil World then I