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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29182	A cry for labourers in Gods harvest being a sermon preached upon the sad occasion of the late funeral of that eminent servant of Christ, Mr. Ralph Venning, who departed this life, March 10, 1673/4 / by Robert Bragge ...	Bragge, Robert, 1627-1704.	1674 (1674)	Wing B4202; ESTC R20229	19,240	42

A CRY for LABOURERS IN Gods Harvest Being a SERMON Preached upon The sad Occasion of the late FUNERAL of that Eminent Servant of Christ Mr. RALPH VENNING Who departed this Life March 10. 1673 4. By Robert Bragge an unfeigned Lover of and Mourner for the deceased LONDON Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock Senior and Junior at the sign of the three Bibles in Popes-head Alley in Cornhill 1674. To the READERS and more especially to such as were the HEARERS of this SERMON THough I should readily welcome any occasion to testifie to the world that great respect and dear Affection which I had for the Person in whose remembrance this Sermon was Preached yet I thought I had reason enough to say you Nay again and again in your desires of Printing it and indeed I cannot well answer it to my own Reason that I do now subscribe my Placet to the publication of it For it seems volens nolens you will have it from me It had been excuse enough that in the preparing this Discourse for the Pulpit I had no thought at all of preferring it to the Press And this the intelligent Reader will easily believe me in when he sees how Home-spun and plain both Matter and Stile of it are Truly I am afraid lest some that knew what a popular and excellent Preacher Mr. Venning was will think him disparaged and not honoured by such a Discourse when they shall behold instead of a Velvet Pall but a piece of Freeze for his covering When I heard the sad tidings of the Death of this my dear Brother and fellow-helper The Text here treated on was the first Scripture that came into my mind and I judg'd it might be a word in season to that Congregation who had enjoyed his worthy labours and were more immediately concerned in his Death and loss To help them in the Improvement of this sad stroke was all that I intended For how could I think there would be need of a Funeral Oration of any Elegies or Encomiums to keep up the Name and Memory of such a one whose praise is in the Gospel throughout all the Churches and whose own works left behind will ever praise him in the Gates of this great City I do not question at all the acceptance of this work how mean and slender so ever it be because as the Picture of a dead Friend it may serve to put you in mind of him whom you so dearly loved and have so great cause to remember If the having of these Lines before your eyes may affect your hearts If it may be of use to you to stir up the Grace of God in you and to engage you in this great Duty which the Judgements of Gods Hand as well as of his Mouth do call aloud for I shall not think my labour lost I never Preached a Sermon with a sadder Heart nor to a sadder Auditory I did not much wonder to see so many weeping Eyes when I considered for whom you wept You have lost one that was an Interpreter a Preacher one of a thousand Oh how was he wont to lift up his Voice like a Trumpet what Musick was he wont to make in your Ears what Melody in your Hearts How spiritually and sweetly did he use to Pray How powerfully and profitably did he use to Preach What an holy Art had he of dividing the Word aright both to those that were without and those within Methinks I see you still flocking about him and hanging like a company of Bees upon his Lips What Milk and Honey did there use to drop thence He fed you not only with the Milk but with the Cream of the Word I doubt not but there are some yea many of you that have cause to bless God that ever you saw his Face and heard his Voice God having spoken not only to your Ears but to your Hearts by him He hath now Prayed and Preached his last with you he is at rest from his Labours and his works follow him Pray ye the Lord of the Harvest that he would continue the faithful Labourers that are yet among you that the Harvest may not be lost for want of Labourers that none of his Churches may be left as Sheep without a Shepherd And Pray ye that He would send forth more Labourers into the Harvest that the number of those that Love and Fear him in the Earth may be encreased and such added to the Church as shall be saved And let all that love the Lord say Amen and Amen So Prays An unworthy Servant R. BRAGGE MATTH IX 38. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the Harvest that he would send forth Labourers into his Harvest YOU are not ignorant of the Occasion of my choosing this Text. And the Text as you may perceive doth suit the Occasion God is calling his Labourers out of his Harvest apace he removes them by pairs yea by clusters what shall we do what is like to become of us That is the Question I know that you have great thoughts of heart about it There is like to be a great dearth and scarcity of faithful Labourers in Gods Harvest We have here the Counsel that our Lord Christ himself gives in this very case that we should Pray the great Lord of the Harvest that he would send forth Labourers into his Harvest You see what the duty of the Text is that is Prayer Who it is that we must pray unto to him that is the great Lord of the Harvest What it is that we must pray for that he would send forth Labourers into his Harvest Then Lastly You have the Therefore or the Reason why he presses this duty upon his Disciples The Harvest truly is great saith he in the former Verse but the Labourers are few The people did flock after Christs Ministry in great multitudes and he had compassion upon them because he saw them as Sheep without a Shepherd Pray you therefore saith he the Lord of the Harvest that he would send forth Labourers into his Harvest The Lesson or Observation that I would put you upon the learning and practice of is this DOCT. That it is the Duty of every good Christian Man or Woman to pray and cry mightily to God that ●e would send forth more Labourers into his Harvest especially when there is a great scarcity and want of Labourers in the Harvest In the prosecuting hereof we would do something by way of Explication something by way of Confirmation and something by way of Application For Explication there are only two things 1. What we are to understand here by the Harvest 2. Who are those Labourers in the Harvest 1. What are we to understand by the Harvest Thereby I take to be meant the People that were to be gathered in to Christ by the Preaching of the Gospel Christ you know did often speak in Parables and that People it seems delighted much in Similitudes and Parables And therefore the Scripture