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A45687 A sermon on the decease of Mr. Hanserd Knollis, minister of the Gospel Preached at Pinners-Hall, Octob. 4. 1691. By Tho. Harrison. Harrison, Thomas, fl. 1700. 1694 (1694) Wing H911; ESTC R221275 16,595 74

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wherewith God had entrusted him yea when his flesh and his heart seemed to fail when his flesh was so weak that he could hardly bear to stand in a Pulpit and his Voice so low that he could scarcely be heard his affestions were so much engaged in his work that he was very unwilling to leave it 5. His couragious and chearful suffering for his Masters and the Gospels sake He chearfully went about suffering as well as preaching work He was not unwilling to take up his cross and follow his Lord and Master in the Thorny Road of Tribulation In these things let us imitate and follow the Example of this holy man who I question not is gone to the Assembly of the first born to that glorious Company of Prophets who having finished their work on Earth are wearing their Crowns in Heaven 6. When Ministers are taken away beg of God to raise up others in their stead When God calls any Labourers out of his Vineyard earnestly cry to the Lord of the Harvest that he would thrust out more Labourers into it That there may be a succession of Ministers who may rightly divide the Word and faithfully break the Bread of Life to you and to your Posterity when your places shall know you no more Thirdly By way of Consolation to the Saints First With respect to their own Death It may be you are ready to go all your life-time in Bondage for fear of Death the thoughts of your Dissolution are troublesome to you but consider that you go the same way that the most Eminent Servants of God who have been and are in the highest Place and Office in the Church either have gone or must go You are going to the Glorious Society of God's Prophets who are made Perfect in Holiness and in Happiness Death will Translate you from the Militant Church upon Earth to the Church Triumphant in Heaven Secondly With respect to the Death of your Ministers It is an Affliction but yet it admits of Consolation and that upon these three following Accounts First Tho it be your Loss yet it is their gain For me to live is Christ and to die is gain says great Minister of the Uncircumcision 1 Phil. 21. They are only gone to exchange mortality for a glorious Immortality a heavy Cross for a ponderous and never fading Crown a Pulpit wherein they Laboured for Christ for a Triumphant Throne whereon they shall Eternally Reign with him Could they who are Rejoycing above speak to you who are Mourning below they would say to you as our Lord did unto the Women who followed him to the Cross Luke 23.28 Weep not for me but for your selves Weep not for us who are come to our Journeys end but weep for your selves who are still Travelling thro' a waft and howling Wilderness Weep not for us who rest from our Labours but weep for your selves who are still Labouring and Toyling Weep not for us who are safely Arrived at the Haven of Rest and the Port of Blessedness but weep for your selves who are tost to and fro upon a Tempestuous Sea Weep not for us who stand upon a Mount of Triumph and have obtained a Compleat Victory over All Our Enemies but weep for your selves who are still in a Field of War Wrestling not only with Flesh and Blood but with Principalities and Powers Secondly God can supply their Places and make up your Loss by Raising up others When Moses Dyed the Lord sent Joshuah to Lead Israel into the Land of Canaan Is Elijah gone to Heaven The Residue of the Spirit is with God and he can cause a Double Portion of it to rest upon Elisha When God hath Work to do he will never want Instruments He can perfect Praise out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings and make even a persecuting Saul to become a preaching Paul Thirdly E're long you shall meet them never more to be separated from them 'T will be but a few Days e're you shall enjoy their Society in a more Glorious Place than this Oh! What Greetings will there be between you and your Faithful Ministers when you are entered into the Joy of your Lord Then shall you who Worshipped God together with them upon Earth Joyn with them in a Triumphant Song of Praise to him that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb for evermore in Heaven Ye shall then see the Great Prophet our Lord Jesus Christ sitting upon a Majestick Throne and all the other Prophets like so many bright Stars compassing about this Son of Righteousness for ever and ever AN HYMN Composed and sung on the same Occasion ALL Adam's Children once must die Deaths fatal stroke will sever Their bodies from their souls surely Prophets don't live for ever These bright illustrious Stars must fall into a bed of dust God will his Messengers re-call tho Prophets die they must Then shall they enter into Rest who here have labour'd hard They must die that they way be blest with a prophets reward Our sins do oft times God provoke to take these Lights away When prophets do fall by deaths stroke expect a gloomy day Oh Lord us unto Canaan bring that with thy prophets we May Joyful hallelujahs sing unto Eternity FINIS ERRATA PAge 9 line 12 dele and p. 33 l. 21 r. the p. 40 l. 13. f. stopt r. stop l. 15 f. slights r. slight Several small mistakes the reader is desired to correct with his Pen.