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A79459	The dead speaking, or, The living names of two deceased ministers of Christ (contemporary, and eminently usefull in the west of England) viz. Mr. Sam. Oliver, and Mr. Samuel Crook Containing the sermon at the funeralls of the one preached by John Chetwind, B.D. and two severall speeches delivered at the funeralls of them both by William Thomas, B.D. Joyned together at the desire, and for the use chiefly of those Christians who were often occasional partakers of their labours.	Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.; Thomas, William, 1593-1667. aut	1654 (1654)	Wing C3795; Thomason E726_6; ESTC R206780	57,363	84

15. 13. Captive Israelite was Manumissed the Master might not send him away empty but was to furnish him with a supply of necessaries and that liberally thus doth God with the souls of his elect when he frees them from the captivity of sin by grace in their conversion he adorns them So when he delivers them Ezech. 16. 7. out of the Prisons of their bodies by death He makes their Spirits fully perfect And therefore our grief for this our friend may be the less Yet when we Heb. 12. 23. consider his Orphan family we must needs grieve his death as their great loss for whom yet in outward things his provident care hath not been wanting He having left each of them so much that they will not be beholden to their enemies and yet so little that for their education and breeding up they will need the respect and kindness of their friends But this hath he left his children better than all outward portions the blessing of God and his ingagement to be their Father For though grace be personal and corruption be Natural Parents communicate their Natures God His grace Circumcised Parents beget uncircumcised Children and winnowed Corn brings forth Chaff though when Poetae nascuntur non fiunt Poets are born so not made Christiani fiunt non nascuntur Christians are made and not born Yet a great mercy it is to be the issue of a believing Parent Many prayers made for them Many promises made to them that though Father and Mother forsake Psal 68. 5. them yet God will not leave such friendless but will take them up Yea God is the God of the seed Acts 2. 39. of believers as well as of themselves To end all This our deceased Brother was a wise dealer whereas most men deal with the world and Satan for pleasures whose end proves painful and profits that have no true advantage Yet he was by God made wise to trade with and for God He hath bought the truth and not sold it He hath broke Christs bread and it hath multiplyed in his hands He hath cast out his Net and it hath prospered and souls by him have been turned to righteousness and therein hath traded for himself and gained full and lasting pleasures durable and real profits even Heaven it self where he now enjoys the reward of Gods promise and shines as a Star in the Firmament and truly I speak Dan. 12. 2. it without flattery or vanity for the general course of his life for the profitableness and success of his Preaching for the Comfort Peace and manifestation of Gods love and support which he had in his sick Bed and to his end every one of us may say and pray Sic mihi contingat vivere sicque mori O that our lives and ends might be such I shall close this discourse with this Observation A Gentleman took order before his death that this Epitaph should be engraven on his Tomb Here lyes the Friend of Sir Philip Sydney If now it were esteemed so great an honour to be and be reputed the friend of an earthly man How much greater Honour have all believers This our deceased friend in particular to be called as Abraham was the Friend of God so that on the Tomb of this our Reverend Brother whose Funeral we have now solemnized may be truly Ingraven Here lyeth the dutiful Servant the faithful Minister the choice friend of Jesus Christ Soli Deo Gloria FINIS AN EXHORTATION IMMEDIATLY FOLLOWING THE SERMON THAT Was Preached at the Funeral of Mr. SAMUEL OLIVER Pastor at WELLS Written upon request with some little alteration of and additions here and there unto what was at first hastily delivered Wherein the thing intended is in sum this to lay close to our hearts this truth That affliction and in special the loss of Friends more especially of Ministers is not to be undergone stoutly without sense nor to be born frowardly without patience nor to be pass'd over lightly without profit James 5. 11. Ye have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord. LONDON Printed by T. W. for John Place and are to be Sold at his Shop at Furnivals Inn-Gate in Holburn 1653. An Exhortation following the Sermon that was Preached at the Funeral of Mr. Samuel Oliver Pastor at Wels that in a great Congregation both of Ministers and people then met together there might be a more profitable use made of the present occasion THough you have been somewhat extraordinarily deteined already out of a willingness to set on good instruction upon so moving an occasion yet suffer me to be a Suter unto you Honoured Reverend and Beloved for the renewing of your patience while I adde a little more to what hath been already spoken concerning our deceased Brother who was for you of this place a faithful Minister of Christ (a) Col. 1. 7. And that the rather because it is very suitable that he that was so abundant an Instructor should have his Funeral solemnized with more abundant instruction which though now it may seem very tedious yet you may be pleased to remember that when a dear Friend is to take a long Journey all his Friends thinking that perhaps they shall never see him more are willing to allot a longer time to take their leave of him Our dear Friend is gone a long journey to his long home (b) Eccl. 12. 5. Let us crave pardon therefore if we be longer in parting with him and imparting to you what we desire should be profitable upon so observable a providence But to come to that which I intend to say wherein I humbly desire and desire to have desired that divine assistance whereof there is so great need and use that I may therein prescribe unto my self some bounds I shall entreat you to read with me Job 1. 20 21 22. Then Job arose and rent his mantle and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshipped And said Naked came I out of my mothers womb and naked shall I return thither the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job sinned not nor charged God foolishly The Exhortation in which I shall have respect all along unto these words I branch out into three Rules The first Rule Seriously take to heart I exhort you every special hand of God This the Scripture requires (a) Eccl. 7. 14. and complains much of the contrary (b) Isa 5. 12. 42. 25. Jer. 5. 3. And this is in the first place presented unto us in Jobes example who arose as being stirr'd and much mov'd by many most sad Messasages and by the last that brought him news of the loss of his children most and rent his mantle or robe as mourn●ng Thamar d●d hers (c) 2 Sam. 13. 18 19. and ●haved his head that being another custom that mourners used in those Countries (d) Jer. 7. 29.

and fell down upon the ground which is another sign of a grieved mind taking greatly to heart Gods hand 2 Sam. ●2 16 17. Nor is Job to be blamed for making so much adoe for it is said after this In all this Job sinned not v. 22. It is not a Sin but a thing suitable to Gods servants and their Rules to be affected with affliction that thereby all men may see they do not despise it Prov. 3. 11. In special we are to take to heart Gods hand in dying persons and to be mov'd with sorrow in houses of mourning where the (e) Eccl. 7. 2 3. heart by being made sadder is made better More especially the death of righteous persons and men merciful as their Father which is in Heaven is merciful is to lie close upon our Spirits God lays it to mens charge that they lay not this to their heart (a) Isa 57. 1. and that upon a spec●al reason to wit because the righteous are taken away from the evill to come as people catch up their children when there is an eminent and imminent danger now they be very inconsiderate who make nothing of that personal mortality which is a presage of publike misery But most especially the death of publike persons and to speak to the present purpose of faithful Ministers is to be lamented and laid to heart And that for these Reasons 1. In regard of themselves To shew our due estimation of them according to the Rule (b) Phil. 2. 29. 1 Thes 5. ●3 and that we looked upon them as persons in whom we enjoyed a kind of blessedness when we had them (c) Gal. 4. ●5 Now How can we say they are esteemed who depart without being desired as that wicked King Jehoram did (d) 2 Chro. 21. 20. or that they depart as persons desired who depart without being lamented See John 11. 35 36. 2 Chron. 35. 25. 2. In regard of the Church The same Church compassion which prays that labourers may be sent out (e) Mat. 9. 36 37. mourns when they be call'd in never to labour more 3. Out of love to the Land and the preservation of the State It may seem to some an unpleasing Paradox to say that the Church is the Guard of the Common-wealth yet was it not without just cause that the supreme power sometime said to a Prophet O my Father my Father the charet of Israel and the horsemen thereof (f) 2 Kings 2. 12. 2 Kings 13. 14. can any love the State and not be heartily sorry that the Militia of the State the Sacra Militia the Angelical Army or the Army of the Angels of the Churches at the head of which God is (g) Mat. ●8 20. should be especially more eminently or more immaturely diminished their Arms Beloved think it not fondness to speak as the Scripture speaks as they are mighty through God so they are mighty with God (a) Hos 12. 3. Gen. 20. 7. so mighty that we may say in a sober sense and with humble hearts that God cannot do what according to his revealed will he would do because they will not let him alone to do it Exod. 32. 20. 4. Out of Love to God himself For what are Ministers appointed for but to bear up the Name of God before the Sons of men And should it not Acts 9. 15. much grieve us to see any of them lye in the dust who are the appointed instruments to keep the name of God from lying in the dust Hence it is that we thus mou●n Indeed Priests and sometime Prophets are forbidden to mourn upon special accounts in the old Testament but in the new Testament we find Paul professing sorrow upon sorrow if Epaphroditus that faithful and life neglecting labourer for the work of Christ had not been recovered from his sickness (c) Phil. 2. 27 30. O that we could lay close to our hearts the want of laying close to our hearts the sad-presaging death of Gods servants what 's become of the sweet Spirit of those Primitive Christians who sorrowed most of all were extremely sorry for this that Paul had said they should See his face no more Acts 20. 38. And we are sure that when once a Minister of Christ is returned to his dust we shall see his face no more among the inhabitants of the world either therefore those melting Christians were much mistaken when their sorrow was so great or else we may blush while ours is so little To conclude this first Rule wheresoever there is any house of mourning we shall do well to remember that an advantage is put into our hands for the bettering of our hearts [a] Eccl. 7. 3. As therefore Physicians and Anatomists adde to their art by dissections and prying into all the parts of dead persons so let us labour to be gainers to adde to our Spiritual stock and the art of living and dying well by taking to heart distinctly pondering upon and even anatomising divine providences in the death of any but of those that be faithful and fear God above many much more Nehem. 7. 2. The second Rule Have reverent thoughts of every more heavy hand of God For we may not be so taken up with our mourning for men as to forget our worshipping of God This also Job doth here preach unto us by his practice who did not as they who curse their King and their God and look upward in that mood (a) Isa 8. 21. but fell down upon the ground and so fell-down as that he also worshipped Which worshipping contains two things in it 1. A submission to God such as was in Aaron when he held his peace even when his two Sons were slain both at once (b) Levit. 10. 3. Worshipping and wording reverence and impatience are two opposite things The third Captain that fell down upon his knees before Elijas shewed by that gesture that he meant not to fight (c) 2 Kings 1. 13. but submitted that he might have quarter 2. A celebration of him with his worshipping there is a saying v. 21. the close whereof is Blessed be the name of the Lord. O How the Devils expectation was cross'd in this blessing of God by an undone Job That Accuser and Lyar pronounced confidently that if God did touch him in all he had he would curse him to his face (d) Job 10. 11. but his holiness out-lasts his Hedge and his reverence of God survives the ruins of his State and Family When Satan took away all that Job had his meaning was not to make him a Beggar that was to him as it was to Haman to lay hands on Mordecai alone e the thing he aimed at was to make him a Blasphemer Hester 3. 6. to curse God but he deceived the Devil and when all 's gone Behold he blesseth him altogether (a) Num. 24. 11. Which commends unto us this instruction in our greatest affliction to wit not only to