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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77157	A voyce from heaven, speaking good words and comfortable words, concerning saints departed. Which words are opened in a sermon preached at South-weal in Essex, 6. September, 1658. At the funeral of that worthy and eminent minister of the Gospel, Mr. Thomas Goodwin. Late pastor there. Hereunto is annexed a relation of many things observable in his life and death. By G.B. preacher of the word at Shenfield in Essex.	Bownd, George, d. 1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3888; Thomason E972_8; ESTC R207757	44,455	50

to see one of the dayes of the Son of Man and shall not see it To hear one Sermon of Heaven and glory but shall not hear it I have shewed Saints the blessedness which they shall have and also to Sinners the way how they may share in this Blessednesse I do again counsel Sinners to look after it yea in the Name of the Lord I charge you to close with it Now to provoke you to it I shall lay down five closing Conclusions very briefly and so leave them upon your hearts and thoughts 1. This Counsel is such as never any repented that took it It worketh repentance not to be repented of If any repent of Christ it is because he never truly knew Christ They who say it is in vain to serve God Malachi 3.4 Are such as never truly served him 2. 'T is such Counsel as if it be refused you will certainly repent of the refusal yea and that when it is too late Oh that I had known the things of my peace will be the doleful lamentation in the scorching flames of Hell 3. 'T is such Counsel as in your own Consciences when you are serious you think you ought to take Yea Sinners think to do it whereby they shew that they know they ought to do it Fertur equi Auriga The reason why it is not done is not because we do not know it ought to be done but we are hurried with our strong lusts and corruptions We are cumbred with our Farmes and our Trades we loose Heaven in the crowd of earthly businesses 4. 'T is such Counsel as if followed carries its reward with it though there were no Blessedness to ensue no glory afterwards holiness is happiness Gods work is wages 5. And lastly the contempt of it will not onely leave you short of Blessednesse but conclude you under inevitable misery and cursednesse it will bring an heavy shock of wrath and ruine upon Soul and Body Hear the Conclusion of the whole matter Get into Christ for this will free you from being cursed and also make you everlastingly Blessed FINIS CHRISTIAN READER THis Sermon presented to your view was preached at the Funeral of Mr. Thomas Goodwyn an eminent light and pillar of the Church in the place where he lived who after he had served his generation by the Will of God fell on sleep Sept. 4. 1658. He sleeps in Jesus he gave evident proof that he was one in Christ and therefore we may conclude from what hath been spoken he is now Blessed for blessed are the dead that die in the Lord or that are in the Lord when they die He was a good yea a precious Man Let him have the memorial of the righteous which is and shall be blessed He was well known to be a Minister of great worth every way qualified for the work of the Ministery It was his desire from a Youth to be a Minister as himself hath sometimes told me according to his hearts desire the Lord in due time disposed of him and drew him out to that service fitting him for it and blessing him in it How he was fitted for it the Brethen in the whole County and many others to whom he was known in more remote places will give ample Testimony How he was blessed in it the many weeping eyes at his Funeral with the sad complaints still under this great loss do speak these declare him to have been under God an instrument of much good Though success do not constitute a good Ministery for a good Man may fish all night and catch nothing yet it doth declare and evidence it These I remember were his own words long since in the time of his health at the Lecture in Brentwood and this evidence he abundantly had He was learned and godly Doctior an Sanctior which is a most blessed conjunction where ever they meet it is hard to say which of the two did bear the preeminence in him they seemed to keep pace and that no slow pace He was eminent in both He had much profited in humane Learning but especially in the studies of Divinity and in particular had gotten great acquaintance with the Scriptures He was like Ezra A ready Scribe in the Law of God he was an Ezr. 7.6 Acts 18.24 Apollos mighty in the Scriptures He was but young yet his attainments were very great God gave of his Spirit abundantly to him In Praying he was a sweet Soul full of the breathings of the Holy Ghost In Preaching he was very powerful speaking to his Hearers as if he had been within them In his walking he was an Exemplary Christian an Exemplary Minister he might say to his people as Gideon to his Souldiers Look on me and do likewise Jud. 7.17 His Preaching was such that the godly learned did admire him and yet the meanest capacities they of the Belfry as is Mr. Latimer's expression did understand him he had such a winning way that his Sermons were not tedious but his Hearers seemed to be chained to his lips He was a great Pains-taker in preaching so often and yet carried on with delight I am perswaded he might have said in the words of that holy Bishop My witness is in Heaven Cowper that the love of Christ and peoples Souls made frequent Preaching my recreation and pleasure His Words seemed to come from his very heart one that did eat the roll as the Prophet is bid Ezek. 3.1 before he gave it to his Hearers to digest An Argument that they came from the heart was his earnest driving on that they might go to the hearts of his people He thought he had done nothing till his Hearers hearts were more renewed and their Lives more reformed Till to use his own words he could read the Sabbath-dayes work in their Week-dayes conversation His Life was a looking-glass wherein the people might see to dresse and attire their Conversation I may say in the words of the Apostle 1 Thess 2.10 His people were Witnesses Ille solus praedicat vivâ voce qui praedicat vitâ voce and God also how holily and justly and unblamably he behaved himself among them being as a Minister of Christ ought to be a lover of good Men sober just holy temperate Tit. 1.8 He was very zealous in the work of Reformation The zeal of Gods House did even eat him up and in the cause of God he shewed undaunted Courage vigorously pursuing what might make for the glory of God in despite of all opposition one might stand upon his grave and say as a great person said over the grave of Mr. Knox Here lies one who never feared the Face of any Man I knew him well yet could I never perceive that he was sinfully and proudly puffed up though his large endowments might have tempted him thereunto but in his whole Conversation as far I could judge did behave himself holily humbly He lived free from worldly Encombrances