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A67016	A sermon preached on the 18th of April, 1692 at the funeral of the reverend Dr. Anthony Walker, late rector of Fyfield in the county of Essex, deceased by Josiah Woodward ...	Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.	1692 (1692)	Wing W3519; ESTC R22706	13,496	28

Service shall have his Quietus very speedily The Watch-man shall not stand Centinel long some Disease or some other means will call him off his Watch and then every Act of his careful Industry and Zeal for God shall be infinitely Rewarded Of many a Faithful Pastor it may be said as Jacob express'd himself concerning the restless Fatigue he underwent in securing Laban's Flock Gen. 31. 40. Gen. 31. 40. Thus I was in the day the Drought consumed me and the Frost by night and my sleep departed from mine Eyes The difficulty of our Work will give us many laborious days and our too little success may well bring upon us many restless nights And indeed the utmost Application and Earnestness of our Head and Heart day and night is little enough in order to finish our course with Joy For when we consider the Immortality of the Souls under our care and that Christ purchased them with his own Blood And that we are plac'd by the Great God as Overseers of them And finally That the guilt of so deplorable a Ruine as the infinite Misery of an everlasting Soul will be imputable to us if through our negligence it miscarries I say when we are duly sensible of these tremendous things we cannot think any pains too great to save a Soul from Exquisite Eternal Torment nor to spend a few drops of sweat in labouring to pull Men out of the Claws of the Devil when for this very thing our Blessed Lord shed Showers of his Blood These Thoughts will make every tender Pastor put himself out to the utmost And the less rest we take here the sweeter will be our everlasting repose above The cool Evening of Death draws on when the Limbs of the weary shall be at rest and shall never be disturb'd more The same propitious Hand which wipes away the Tears from the Eyes of the disconsolate Christian will wipe away the Sweat from the Brows of the Painful And then there 's a full end of their Labours and Sorrows No more hard Hearts to grieve their tender Bowels no more filthy Conversations to vex their Righteous Souls But undisturbed Joys abound even to exultation for evermore This then is an Expression of God's infinite Goodness and Compassion to his Faithful Ministers in that the infliction of Death is a dismission from their Labours Which will surther appear 2. In that by Death they are secured from the Malice of their Enemies For 't is no new thing that the most inoffensive life should meet with Enmity from the World We must not think to fare better than our Master who was thus Treated all his life long and being brought to his Death by the same malicious Enmity of wicked Men he told his Followers what they must expect from this evil World John 15. 21. The Dispositions and Interests and John 15. 21. Ways of good and bad Men are diametrically opposite and when there 's such a Constitutional difference of Inclinations and thwarting of Roads there are like to be many differences and then 't is easie to say who will be greatest sufferers either the few harmless Pilgrims that are so far from doing an Injury that they would not return one to gain the whole World Or a numerous Company of Passionate Proud Envious and Violent Men who take pleasure in unrighteousness From some of these every one that will live Godly in Christ Jesus must expect at some time or other to suffer Tribulation in some measure as both our Saviour and his Apostles have fore-told and as their own Sufferings fore-shew'd Yet one would indeed have thought that the Almighty God had sufficiently secured his Prophets from Violence when he had given such a peculiar Charge that they should do his Prophets no harm Psal 105. 15. And when Jeroboam's Passion Psal 105. 15. had transported him so far beyond the measures of Equity as to stretch forth his hand against a Prophet of the Lord his injurious Arm was instantly wither'd so that he could not pull it in to him again 1 Kings 13. 4. So that God reprov'd even Kings for 1 Kings 13. 4. their sakes And on the other side who could have thought but that every Body would have been kind and obliging to the Prophets when God had promis'd That so small a kindness as a Cup of cold water given to a Prophet in the name of a Prophet should not be unrewarded Matth. 10. 42. Considering Matth. 10. 42. withall That this was a promise made by that infinite Remunerator who gives whole Cities for the improvement of some petty Pounds Luke 19. Luke 19. 17. 17. Yet alas notwithstanding the Great God had both promis'd and threatned so highly in the behalf of his Prophets through what Vollies of Reproaches and Defiles of Injuries did they usually run their Course And through what painful and bloody Deaths did the most of them make their entrance into Glory Isaiah is said to be sawn asunder Jeremiah to be stoned to Death Ezechiel is reported to be slain by the Captain of the Jews at Babylon Amos his Brains beaten out by Amasias the Idolatrous Priest of Bethel Micah's Neck broken by Joram the Son of Ahab And to name no more Zechariah the Pen-man of the words of the Text is suppos'd to be the Prophet of whom our Blessed Saviour says He was slain betwixt the Porch and the Altar Matth. 23. 35. There being no other Zecharias the Son of Matth. 23. 35. Barachias mentioned in the Scriptures save this Prophet whose Genealogy is thus Recorded Zech. 1. 1. In the Eighth Month came the Word of the Lord to Zechariah the Son of Barachiah c. Many more Instances of this Nature are Collected by Epiphanius in his Account of the Lives of the Prophets And if we look into that Sacred Book which ought to be in our Hands every day we shall there find that the Holy Apostle sped no better And the Histories of those times assure us That hardly any one of them died otherwise than by a violent Death some were Crucify'd some Ston'd some slain with the Sword others had their Brains beat out with Clubs In so much that one of them Writes 1 Cor. 1 Cor. 4. 9. 4. 9. God seems to have sent out us the Apostles last as Men appointed to be slain A sort of forlorn Squadrons who made the first Effort against the Powerful Patrons of Sin and Attact Wickedness seated in high places who soon shew'd their Powerful Wrath against such as durst disturb their haughty Lusts John Baptist's Faithful Reproof of Herod's Adultery cost him his Head the Jewish Sanhedrim being reproov'd by St. Stephen for their blood-guiltiness they gnash upon him with their Teeth as if they 'd worry him as indeed they soon did Acts 7. 54. Acts 7. 54. And some of St. Paul's Hearers became his Enemies because he told them the Truth Gal. 4. 16. Gal. 4. 16. But the Messengers of God find wellcome

Catechist May his Sage Counsels abide by you even to old age which will be much Adorned and Comforted by your early Piety Wherefore see that ye convince a dissolute Age that Youth is as capable of Serious Religion as the Hoary Head by which you will answer the end of your Worthy Pastors Erecting and endowing a School for your Instruction And as for such of his Parishioners as are Aged who have lived some Thirty some Forty years under so Beneficial a Ministry Oh! Think what vast Accounts you have to make to God who will soon require at your hands the improvement of your many Talents What Proficiency then and Profit have you made by the many awakening Sermons and Expostulations you have heard Has your Fruit been answerable to your Tillage Can you not remember the time when your Hearts have been sensibly touch'd and warm'd by his Doctrine and resolved for the ways of God Be ye then stedfast and resolute in all Christian Duty and Conscientious in the discharge of your Vows God lays it to the Charge of the incorrigible Jews that they remained rough and unpolisht notwithstanding he had hewen them by his Servants the Prophets Hos 6. 5. It seems they were so hardened that all the stroaks of their Ministers level'd at their Lusts could not separate them from ' em May no share of this fault ever be laid to your Charge If you have been such ill Husbands for your Souls as not to Record his edifying Sermons yet his Care has left a standing warning to you and to the World Not to deferr your Repentance and to hasten your Peace with God which essential part of Wisdom I pray God encline us all to pursue and practise I must now conclude my Mournful Subject in which my Affection would carry me on and my weighty Subject would bear me out But I should be injurious to such whose Affection to their Deceased Friend has brought them far from their Habitations Let us therefore Pray That as God calls home some of his Faithful Servants so he would be pleased to raise up others in their room particularly to the supply of this place which has now sustain'd such a Loss May the great Shepherd of the Sheep continue Faithful Pastors to such as enjoy so great a Blessing And vouchsafe such to all places that want ' em That the whole Church of God may flourish particularly in these Nations not only in our days but till the Consummation of all things Which God of his infinite Mercy grant through Jesus Christ our Blessed Lord and Saviour Amen FINIS Books Printed for NATHANAEL RANEW at the Kings-Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard PRactical Preparation for Death the Interest and Wisdom of Christians the Folly and Misery of those that are negligent therein The great benefits of a life spent in a daily preparation for our latter end with Motives and Directions for the Performance thereof Recommended as proper to be given at Funerals Twelves The Glory and Happiness of the Saints in Heaven Or a Discourse concerning the Blessed State of the Righteous after Death With Motives and Encouragements unto all Christians to secure to themselves an Interest therein Twelves The Virtuous Woman or the Life of Mary Countess of Warwick With some of her Ladiships Pious Reflections on several Scriptures and Meditations on several Subjects Twelves The Holy Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Walker late Wife of Dr. Anthony Walker Octavo The great Evil and Danger of Procrastination or delaying our Repentance in four Funeral Sermons by Anthony Walker Twelves An Exposition on the Lord's Prayer and Ten Commandments with several Sermons on divers Subjects By Ezekiel Hopkins late Lord Bishop of London-derry Quarto