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A30268	Christians earnest expectation and longing for the glorious appearing of the great God and our saviour Jesus Christ set forth in a discourse occasioned by the decease of that excellent Christian and minister of Christ Mr. Noah Webb ... / by Daniel Burgess.	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1675 (1675)	Wing B5693; ESTC R25737	17,416	57

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christians earnest Expectation an● Longing for the glorious Appearing o● the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Set forth in a DISCOURSE Occasioned by the Decease of that Excellent Christian and Minister of Christ Mr. NOAH WEBB Lately of Sandhurst in the County of Berks. By Daniel Burgess Minister of the Gospel The Prophets do they live for ever Zech. 1.5 I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the Faith Henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judg shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto them also that love his Appearing 2 Tim. 4.7 8. Printed for O.C. 1675. To the Lady Martha Merryn Wife of the right Worshipful Sr. Audley Merryn Mrs. Hester Whitfield Wife of my Honoured Uncle Henry Whitfield Esq and Mrs. Elizabeth Briscoe my justly Honoured Dear Mother-in-law My Excellent and very Dear Friends OTher Readers probably will mistake But I pray do not you Here 's no Epistle Dedicatory I prefix your Names here for nothing else but to make me place to shew you that I Forget you not nor my great Obligations to you I and mine do commemorate often in England your goodness to us in Ireland And being you see on what Occasion now prevail'd with to appear in publick it liked me thus to have our Gratitude appear too You will look on the following Pages for the Author's sake And you will prize them for the Subjects sake I beseech you set your selves to the Duty they commend for God and your Souls sake I believe I shall never see you more till Jesus comes Oh! may we then meet him and each other with joy And in the mean time all our Days keep providing for that great and if not provided for Terrible one T is Death in your Thoughts must put Life into your Actions said Blessed Vines And Mr. Baxter himself could say of Heaven in Vines his Elegy Sin doth not only keep me thence But makes me loth to go from hence Look well to your selves My Invaluable dear Friends You have sundry excelent Monitors by you Singularly my thrice dearest Dr. T. H. whose life and labours the Lord continue to Dub●in I commend you and all your dearest Ones to divine Tuition and Grace it 's most incorruptly that I profess my self Your most Affectionate Remembrancer to the Lord Dan. Burgess From my House in Bayden neer Malbrough Wilts Aug. 30. 1675. Vpon the much Lamented Decease of Mr. Noah Webb who Died Aug. 14. in the 42d. year of his Age A. D. 1675. Blest God! OH Turn the glorious lamp of Heaven the Sun To darkest Darkness Let his Course be done Nor let the Queen of Heav'n the Moon take 's Light And with it colour any future Night Black thou the Milkie way Blow out the Stars No more to twinkle signs of Peace of Wars Our Waters turn to Blood to Lice our Dust The World to Ashes if 't bee thy righteous Lust For Pitie's sake thus Curse us Righteous Lord Rather than Take the Teachers of thy Word From thy afflicted Church Church dare I say 'T is Hell not Church without such Lights as they Much rather had we Jesus strait should come Then let the World more Aggravate their Doom Did there ten thousand Worlds to ruin fall One God could Save one Christ Redeem them all Well sang Orinda Grace who doubts divine One Spirit could infufe and all Refine Thou could'st Oh Blessed Trinity without One of the Ministers thou sendest out Convert Build up Confirm and make t' Increase Thy Church in Faith in Purity and Peace But oh thy Will 's thy Law Teachers we know Must be Co-workers ' cause thy Will is so And seeing Faith by Hearing them must come The day of their Loss must b' a day of Doom Thrice direful Doom The World may better spar● The Elements Mat. 5.13 14. Rev. 2.1 Heb. 13.7 2 Cor. 5.20 1 Cor. 4.1 1 Cor. 3.9 1 Cor. 4.15 Joh. 21.15 1 Cor. 3.10 Heb. 13.17 and Isai 52.8 2 Kings 13 14. than the Church spare them that a● Her Lights Salt Angels Rulers Legates and Stewards of thy both Heav'nly house and land Husbandmen Fathers Shepheards Builders and The Watch which for thy Flocks Oh Jesu stand Horsemen and Chariots of thy Israel In whom her Safeties and her Glories dwell Oh then allow us Lord to Sigh and Groan Under the Loss of this Excelling One Smite smite the Rocks too that insensate be Of its portending great Calamity The stop of Noah's preaching did of yore Portend a Judgment th' in-dwelt World o're Thy snatching our deer No'h into thine Ark Affrights us all and chiefly such as mark How fast our Alleines Janeways and our Blakes Our Barrets and our Webbs thy Hand up takes And do observe what Sin and Strife be brewing For England's Europe's yea the World 's undoing Next unto Sin Oh God! that 's Strife with thee Our mutual Strifes speak imminent Misery They both in Gath and Ascalon are known One hath the bitter last thus sweetly shewn The Cross must now against the Cross be spread Beaumont in Psych Blush oh ye Heavens at this and they who are Under the King of Peace all Marshalled Be Barbarized by a mutual War Tearing the precious gentle Legacie Their Lord bequeathed to their Custodie They who by Mystick Union are knit Under one Head no other Foes do seek But their Fraternal members and forget That whilst on them their savage spight they wreak The tender Head feels every Wound and will Score up each drop which of his Blood they spill Weep all good eyes which see this dreadful Shame Os Christians digging Christian 's bowels up Sure streams of Blood deserve your briny stream Weep then and let your Bottels never stop Till you have wash'd away this purple stain ' Gainst which all Powers without your Tears are vain Had but the thousandth part of this dear blood Adventur'd to be broach'd in Palestine Quite overwhelm'd by its exuberant flood Had Mahomet's wide spred Contagion bin And woful Greece had not enslaved lain Under the bondage of a Pagan chain Or had that Power of Policy and Wrath Of Arms of Horse of Men of stronger Gold Which in our self-destroying Brittain hath Of late bin lavish'd out when England sold Her peace to misery with provident And pious Zeal in Syria been spent Our guilty Swords had not now Blushed in Fraternal blood nor had our Palms and Bays With any English curse deflowred bin But Salem her sad Head had 'gan to raise Fleeing from her long pressed Neck the yoke Of Ottamanick Barbarism broke Oh Thou who when thou didst ascend on High God in Christ hath committed to us the Word of Reconciliation 2 Cor. 5.19 Didst give thine own Peace-teaching Ministry A Gift whereof thy Church doth humbly Boast As greatest next the Gift of th' Holy Ghost Thy Church fill with those Teachers and