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A64984	The death of ministers improved. Or, an exhortation to the inhabitants of Horsley on Glocester-shire, and others, on the much lamented death of that reverend and faithful minister of the Gospel, Mr. Henry Stubbs By Tho. Vincent, John Turner, Rob. Perrott, M. Pemberton. To which is added a sermon upon that occasion, by Richard Baxter.	Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.; Turner, Robert, b. 1649 or 50, 4aut.; R. P. (Robert Perrot) aut.; Pemberton, Matthew, d. 1691. aut.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1678 (1678)	Wing V430; ESTC R221906	43,418	108

to succeed you who will watch over and feed them as you have done Indeed after so much toil and labour you may well long to be at rest after so much work you may well look and long for your reward but will not your rest be the sweeter if you ●abour a little more Will not your reward ●e the greater if you add further work to what you have done already If you long to be in Heaven O stay a little for us till we be more fitted for that place good Sir abide a little longer with us that you may gain more Souls for Christ who will add to your glory and joy at the day of Christs glorious appearance Thus we might have argued and pleaded with him to stay had we known that he was going from us not to London only but also unto Heaven But it was the will of God he should take this journey to London and that he should finish his course there his glass was run his work was done the bounds of his years and days were determined over which he could not pass had both he and we never so much desired it He is gone he is gone never to return to us again in this World We have lost a most dear tender hearted faithful laborious and painful Minister but our loss is his gain he is happy we do not envy his happiness but he hath left us behind forlorn and sorrowful in a World of sin and misery Such language as this we may suppose to have been amongst you in the Country and as you are most deeply concerned in the loss of Mr. Stubbs so that you have been greatly affected therewith beyond what we can set forth Two Funeral Sermons on Mr. Stubbs death have been Preached in the City one on the Lords day by Mr. Thomas Watson the other on the week day by Mr. Richard Baxter both which we suppose will come to your hands The Character which Mr. Baxter in his hath given the only Sermon of the two which we have seen of Mr. Stubbs his Spirit Doctrine manner of Life conversation his great diligence and unwearied pains in publick Preaching and private instruction when the Sermon doth come forth will sufficiently evidence to others as well as your selves what a loss above others you have sustained Should we employ our Pens in drawing further lineaments of this excellent person they might prove but shadows not to set off but obscure the picture of his spirit already drawn so lively by a far more skilful hand and therefore we forbear any further commendations of him who is above our commendation Our design and business is to mind you of your duty in reference to this sad providence which hath bereaved you of such a Pastor as Mr. Stubbs was unto you One great duty is to lament and lay to heart your Pastors death to affect you herewith what we have already written hath a tendency we know all of you have reason to grieve but are there not too many of you unsensible of this great loss And is not this loss the greatest to such When good old Iacob dyed his death was lamented sorely not only by his own Children but also by the Egyptians Gen. 50. 10 11. When Moses and Aaron dyed the Israelites mourned for each of them thirty days Numb 20.29 Deut. 34.8 When the good King Iosiah was slain there was a great mourning for him amongst the Iews called the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon When Elisha the Prophet lay on his death-bed Ioash although a wicked King did weep over him 2 Kings 13.14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he dyed and Joash the King came down to him and wept over his face and said O my Father my Father the Chariot of Israel and Horsemen thereof And we read Act. 8.2 when Stephen the Protomartyr was stoned by the Iews Devout men carryed Stephen to his burial and made great Lamentation over him Eccles. 12.5 Man goeth to his long home and the Mourners go about the streets But when such men go men of God Embassadours Ministers such eminent Ministers as yours was O what mourning should there be for him you have lost a Soul friend yea a Soul-Father an old Disciple a Soul-counsellor a true shepherd a Soul feeder a sincere Nathanael a Barnabas a Soul comforter you have lost an Angel a steward a labourer a watchman a builder one that studied for your Souls Preached prayed for your Souls watched for your Souls wept for your Souls spent himself for your Souls good and shall not such a loss be bewailed As Paul said to the Ephesians concerning himself we may say to you concerning Mr. Stubbs Act. 20.25 Behold all ye amongst whom he hath gone for some year● Preaching the Kingdom of God ye shall see hi● face no more and it is said Verse 37.38 And they all wept sore and fell on Pauls neck and kissed him Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake that they should see his face no more Mr. Stubbs hath several times come to the City and returned to you again but now he will return to you no more he hath done Preaching to you he hath done praying for you he will weep and wrestle for you no more he will never more instruct and counsel you never more warn and admonish you never more exhort and perswade you never more comfort and encourage you the doors are now shut the doors of your ears have been too often shut against his message and now the doors of his lips are shut up and never will they be open to you any more It would have been a just cause of great trouble if your Minister had been removed into a corner or had been thrust into a Prison although there you might have visited him sometimes and received a Spiritual benefit by his private converse and not have been without hopes of his deliverance and enjoying the fruit of his labours again but now he is gone from whence he will not return his Soul is fled beyond your reach and his body is gone down to the place of silence the Lord hath put him to silence men could not do it he would preach so long as he had a Tongue to speak but God hath silenced him in the grave so that now you must not look that he should pray more and put up further supplications for you or preach more and give further instructions unto you this is a Lamentation and should be for a Lamentation Especially you should lament your sins which have procured this loss this sad stroke have you not sinned away your Minister by your unteachableness under the word which hath been taught by his mouth your unfruitfulness under Gods showing upon you Gods dressing and manuring of you by his hands We have had our loss too here in the City not only of him but also of many other eminent and faithful Ministers our glory is in a great measure

most of all our honest English practical Divines to make me a Christian indeed before set my self to the artificial part I repent ●ot of this unusual method IV. Let your joyful part of Religion bemost of your Meditations The infinite goodness of God who is Love the wonder of mans Redemption the freeness and fulness of th● promise and the certainty and glory of ou● future state these are the chief part of ou● Religion and of chiefest use which must resolve us fix us quicken us and help us to live in thankfulness and joy V. Above all labour to strengthen faith in Christ his word and the life to come and to live in the constant exercise thereof Faith is it that sheweth us the matter and reason of our duty and our joy And if believing Meditation have too long intermissions our jo● will also intermit And if affliction or weakness make our present state to be grievous to u● and keep us from much present joy yet faith and hope can see that which is to come Man● of Gods faithful servants labour in peace ●● Conscience and in hope who through infimities of the flesh have no great joys and y●● may be well said to finish their course with joy because everlasting joy is the end which at t●● finishing of it they obtain VI. Stick not at labour or suffering Hearten not to the repining and seducing flesh Think nothing too much or too dear your work is good and much better wages in it self than fleshly pleasure Labour for God and ●ouls and keep out selfishness and carnal ends ●nd God will secure your reward Labour ●aithfully and trust God confidently fulfil his ●●mmanding will whoever countermand you ●nd then rest in his accepting disposing and re●arding will whatever befal you in the World His will is the only infallible rule ●nd his will is the only secure and felicitating ●●st They that conscionably do his will may ●●mfortably say The will of the Lord be done ●our brother in his sickness often did His will made us his will hath maintained ●●d preserved us and multiplied mercies to us 〈◊〉 his will we live and by his will we die ●●d in his will we hope to rest for ever Mr. ●●ubbs is gone before This Will hath guided 〈◊〉 and this Will hath received him In 〈◊〉 same good hand I am closely follow 〈◊〉 him Our separation is like to be very ●●rt And none of you will stay long behind ●●rewel vain vexatious World Farewel ●●lignant lying cruel World Welcome 〈◊〉 Light and Love delightful perfect and Eternal Let it be our care so to finish our course with joy that we may hear Well don● good and faithful servant enter thou into t●● joy of thy Lord. Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing Come Lord Jesus come quickly Amen VSE 2. BUt methinks I should not let you th●● have been the hearers of Mr. Stub●● and such as he go without some notice wh● it is that this Text and this providence of G●● do call you specially to consider Which 〈◊〉 1. Whether you have furthered the Joy 〈◊〉 your Teachers course 2. Whether you ta●● care that your own course may be finish with joy and why it must be done 〈◊〉 how I. Do not think that you are not m● concerned in the matter whether your T●●chers live and die in joy Neither say w●●● they are dead it is too late to mind that wh●● is past and gone As much as it is past yo● account is not past You may hear of 〈◊〉 again in another manner than now you do●● You are concerned in it 1. For your own interest 2. For their Relation to you and labours for you in gratitude and humanity 3. As you are obliged to the Church of Christ and regard its interest And 4. as you are men and lovers of mankind I. What is their Ministry but the seeking of your Salvation And what is their Joy but their success next Gods acceptance of their labours And if they miss of this is it not you that will be the greatest sufferers If you fall out with your Physician or cast ●way or cast up the only Physick that can cure ●ou is not death more to you than the loss of his labour and Physick to him Shall the Physician mourn over his dying patient and ●hall the patient think it nothing to him If ●he Child prosper not or die the Nurses sor●ow is a smaller matter than the Childs death ●s your unconverted unpardoned miserable ●ate and your danger of Damnation more ●o us than to you Will your Hell be no more ●ainful than our compassion And when your ●orm never dyeth and your fire will be un●uenchable our compassion will cease and we ●hall grieve for you no more The God that forbad Samuel to mourn any more for Saul will cause us to approve of hi● Righteous judgment and to rejoice in th● glorifying of his Justice on you Abraham did but upbraid Dives with his former sinfu● pleasures Your Teachers yea your own Parents will not mourn in Heaven for all th● torments that you undergo in Hell not consent to ease you by a drop of water Luk. ● 16. O what a pitiful sight it is now to see a Teacher or Parent mourning over the misery of ignorant careless wilful sinners and they themselves rejoycing and despising compassion and laughing at the brink of Hell I hea●● of a passionate Wife that cut her own throa● to anger her Husband And they tell us that the Circumcellian Donatists that separated from other Christians in a Prelatical ze●● for their own Bishop did murder themselve● to bring the odium upon their adversaries a● persecutors But that poor sinners should merrily run towards Hell to anger their Teachers yea tha● multitudes should do thus what an instance is it of the madness of corrupted minds On● saith I will never hear him more and another saith shall I be Catechized like a Boy and another saith These Preachers would make us mad if we should believe and lay to heart what they say and another saith Cannot one drink and be merry and please his flesh but he must be damned for it Are none saved but Puritans and Precisians And who is it that will have the worst of this at last God will not condemn us for your sins If you will needs be miserable for ever our desires and endeavours to have saved you shall not be lost at all to us O how dear will impenitent sinners pay for all the tears and groans which now they do constrain from their compassionate Teachers That God who is Love it self and putteth love into Parents for the education of their Children hath also put a tender love to Souls and especially to their own flocks into every faithful Minister of Christ. Which maketh all their study and labour and sufferings easie to them or tolerable at least for the comfortable hope which they have of mens Salvation