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A31961	An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1662 (1662)	Wing C241; ESTC R1910	251,365	374

the people but leaves it to Davids liberty whether he would have seven years famine or three months to flee before his enemies or three dayes pestilence This was a posing Question and David had cause to be in a great strait for these objects are not amiable in their own nature they are objects to be avoided and declined in the first view of them they seem to be equally miserable therefore David had cause to say He was in a great strait 2. This perplexity was not only real but exceeding great I am in a great Strait and there are two things made it so great 1. The greatness of the punishments proposed Famine Sword and Plague these are the three beesoms with which God sweeps mankind from off the earth these are Gods three iron-whips by which he chastisetl●… sinful man these are the three arrows shot out of the quiver of Gods wrath for the punishment of man they are as one calleth them Tonsurae humani generis In R●… 6. you shall read of four Horses when the four first Seals were opened A white-horse a red-horse a black-horse and a pale horse after Christ had ridden on the white-horse propagating the Gospel then followes the red-horse a type of War then the black-horse an Hi●…roglyphick of Famine then the pale-horse the emblem of Pestilence Now God was resolved to ride on one of these horses and David must choose upon which God should ride this was a great Strait Let me present David lifting up his eyes to Heaven and speaking to God thus O my God what is this message thou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thou offerest me three things I am in a strait ●… 〈◊〉 which to refuse but which to choose I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Land of Cannan a Land flowing with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall this Land endure seven years famine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into a Wilderness and dis-peopled And shall I whose hands thou hast taught to fight and whose fingers to war shall I that have subdued all my enemies shall I in my old age and all my Captains flie three months before our enemies and be driven to caves and rocks to hide our selves O thou my God who art my refuge shall I and my people be a prey to the pestilence that walketh in darkness and destruction that walketh at noon day O my God I know not what to do I am in a great Strait 2. The second reason why this strait was so great was because of the guilt of sin that lay on Davids spirit for David knew that this severe message was the fruit of the sin he committed in numbring the people But you will say Why was it a sin in David to number the people Moses had often numbred the people three times and it was not counted sin Iosephus answereth The sin of David was because he did not require the half-shekel which he was to have had from all were numbred Ex. 30 12 13. Others say He sinned in numbring all ages whereas he was to number but from twenty years but these are but conjectural Reasons I conceive the ●…in of David was because he did it without a lawful Cal and for an unlawful End Sine causa legitima he sinned in the manner rather then in the matter for there was no cause for him to number the people but 〈◊〉 ●…nd no end but vain glory Go through all the tribes of Israel and number the people that I may know the number of my people ver 2. Davids heart was li●…red ●…p with p●…ide and creature-confidence he begins to boast of the multitude of his people and to trust in an arm of flesh therefore God sends the Prophet to David to p●…ick the bladder of his p●…ide as if God should say I will teach you to number the people by lessening the number of your people Now the burden of his sin did add much to the burden of this heavy message Ver. 13. After David had numbred the people his heart smote him the message smites him and his heart smites him and he said I have sinned greatly in that which I have done now I beseech thee take away the iniquity of thy servant for I have done very foolishly If David had been to suffer this great punishment out of love to God or for a good Conscience he would not have been so distressed There are two sorts of straits in Scripture some suffered for God and a good Conscience and there are straits suffered for sin 1. There are straits suffered for God and a good Conscience Heb. 11. 36 37. Those Martyrs there were driven to great straits but these were straits for God and a good Conscience and these straits were the Saints greatest enlargements they were so sweetned to them by the consolations and supportations of Gods Spirit a Prison was a Paradise to them Heb. 10. 34. they took joyfully the spoiling of their goods Act. 5. 41. they departed from the presence of the Council rejoycing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name Straits for a good Conscience are great Enlargements therefore Pul gloryeth in this strait Paul a prisoner c. 2. There are straits suffered for sin and these are envenomed by the guilt of sin sin puts poyson into all our distresses and perplexities Now such was the strait into which David was now driven it was a strait caused by sin and that made it so unwelcome and uncomfortable so that from hence I gather this Observation Doct. That sin and iniquity brings Persons and Nations into marvellous labyrinths and perplexities into true real and great molestations a man free from sin is free in the midst of straits a man guilty of sin is in a stra●…t in the midst of freedom After Adam had sinned in eating of the forbidden fruit the whole world was a prison to him Paradise it self was an Hell to him he knew not where to hide himself from the presence of God After that Cain had murdered his brother Abel he was brought into such a strait that he was afraid that every one that met him would slay him Alas poor Cain how many was there then in the world we read but of his father and mother yet such was his distress that he cryeth out every one that met him would slay him Gen. 4. 14. Into what a strait did sin bring the old world The deluge of sin brought a deluge of water to drown them Into what a strait did sin bring Sodom and Gomorrah The fire of lust raigning in Sodom and Gomorrah brought down fire from Heaven to destroy them Sin brings external internal and eternal straits upon persons and Nations 1. Sin brings external straits sin brings Famine Sword and Plague sin brings Agues and Feavours Gout and Stone and all manner of Diseases yea sin brings death it self which is the wages of sin Read Levit 26. and Deut. 28. and you will see a black role of curses which were the fruit of sin Sin brought Sion into Babilon and when the Jews

avoid danger ●…hall certainly meet with greater danger Balaam went out of God's way Numb 22. 22. and God sent an Angel with a drawn sword and he riding upon an Ass vers 26. the Angel stood in a narrow place where was no way to go from the right hand or from the left if his Ass had not fallen under him he had been run through by the sword of the Angel Ionah for fear of the King of Ni●…veh went out of God's way but he met with a mighty tempest he met with a Whale What do you do when you commit sin you make way to be cast into the eternal prison of hell you destroy your precious souls to save your perishing bodies Use. 2. If sin be the father and mother of all perplexity and distresses then I beseech you let us above all things in the world abhor sin all the curses of the Bible are all due only to a sinner and all the curses not named in the Bible for that is observable Deut. 28. 36. every plague that is not written in the book shall light upon him There are strange punishments to the workers of iniquity Iob 31. 3. Is not destruction to the wicked a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity sin it bringeth the sinner to little ease little ease at death little ease at the day of judgement and little ease in hell tribulation and anguish the word in the Greek is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 little ease to every soul that doth iniquity Oh my beloved will you promise me to look upon sin and consider it in all its woful consequents as the father mother and womb out of which come external eternal and internal straits more particularly there are twelve sins I especially command you to take heed of and avoid 1. Take heed of Covetousness the love of the world will pierce you through with many sorows the love of money is the root of all evil the love of the world drowns men in perdition 2. Take heed of the sin of Pride into what woful straits did pride bring Haman God crossed him in what he most desired God made him hold the stirrup while Mordecay rode in triumph and God hanged him on the Gallows which he had made for Mordecay 3. Take heed of Drunkenness look not on the wine when it gives its colour in the cup c. drunkenness will bring you into snares It will bite like a Serpent and sting like an Adder c. 4. Take heed of disobedience and rebellion against the Commandments of God it brought Ionah to his three nights and three dayes in the Whale's belly 5. Take heed of fornication and adultery and all uncleanness this brought Sampson to a woful strait this brought David and Solomon into great perplexity 6. Take heed of oppression and all acts of injustice this brought Ahab into a great strait insomuch that the dogs licked his blood Take heed of unnecessary familiarity with wicked men this brought Iehosaphat into a great strait 8. Take heed of misusing the Prophets of God this made God destroy the children of Israel without remedy 2 Chron. 36. 15 16. 9. Take heed of coming prophanely to the Lord's Table this brought the Church of Corinth into a great distress insomuch as the Apostle saith For this cause many among you are sick and many weak and many fallen asleep 10. Take heed of loathing the Manna of your souls this brought the people of Israel into woful misery that God destroyed all their carcasses in the wilderness save Ioshua and Cal●…b Take heed of slighting the Gospel this brought Queen Mary's persecution as many learned and godly men that fled for Religion's sake out of the Land have confessed Their unthankfulness for and unfruitfulness under the Gospel in King Edward the sixth's time brought the persecution in Queen Mary's time 11. Take heed of losing your first Love that makes God threaten to take away his Candlestick 12. Take heed of prophaning the Christian Sabbath which is much prophaned every where a day that Christ by his resurrection from the dead hath consecrated to be kept holy to God Certainly if the Jews were so severely punished for breaking the Sabbath which was set apart in memory of the Creation surely God will severely punish those that break the Sabbath set apart in memory of Christ's Resurrection May be some will say I have committed many of these sins but am not brought into any strait Remember it was nine months after David had n●…mbred the people before he was in this strait but as sure as God is in heaven sin will bring straits sooner or later though a sinner live au hundred years yet shall he be accursed May be thy prosperity makes way for thy damnation and this is thy greatest distress that thou goest on in sin and prosperest Use 3. If sin bringeth a Nation into marvellous labyrinths learn what great cause we have to fear that God should bring this Nation into great distress because of the great abominations are committed in the midst of it Our King and Soveraign was in great straits in the dayes of his banishment but God hath delivered him God hath delivered this Nation out of great straits but alas we requite God evil for good and instead of repenting of old sins we commit new sins I am told there are new oaths invented oaths not fit to be named in any place much less here Certainly the drunkenness and adultery the oppression and injustice the bribery and Sabbath-breaking the vain and wicked swearing and for-swearing this Nation is guilty of must of necessity provoke God to say of us as he did of them in Ieremiah 15. 29. Shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord Shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this God will not only punish us but be avenged on us There is no way to avoid a national desolation but by a national reformation Lastly learn what cause you of this Congregation and Parish what cause you have to expect that God should bring you into great straits because of your great unthankfulness and unfruitfulness under the means of Grace you that have so long enjoyed the Gospel you have had the Gospel in this place in great abundance Doctor Taylor he served one apprenticeship in this place Doctor Staughton served another apprenticeship and I through divine Mercy have served three apprenticeships and half another almost among you you have had the Spirit of God seven and thirty years in the faithful ministry of the Word knocking at the door of your hearts but many of you haue hardened your hearts Are there not some of you I only put the question that begin to loath the Manna of your souls and to look back towards Egypt again Are there not some of you have itching ears and would fain have Preachers that would feed you with dainty phrases and begin not to care for a Minister that unrips your Consciences speaks to your hearts

and souls and would force you into heaven by frighting you out of your sins Are there not some of you that by often hearing Sermons are become Sermon-proof that know how to sleep and scoff away Sermons I would be glad to say there are but few such but the Lord knoweth there are too ●…oo many that by long preaching get little good by preaching insomuch that I have often said it and say it now again There is hardly any way to raise the price of the Gospel-Ministry but by the want of it And that I may not ●…latter you you have not profited under the means you have enjoyed therefore you may justly expect God may bring you into a strait and take away the Gospel from you God may justly take away your Ministers by death or other wayes H●… you not lost your first love Why did God take away the Gospel from the Church of Ephesus but because they lost their first Love Are you not like the Church of Laodicea that are neither hot nor cold therefore God may justly spew you out of his mouth what God will do with you I know not a few weeks will determine God can make a great change in a little time we leave all to God but in the mean time let me commend one Text of Scripture to you Ierem. 13. 16. Give glory to the Lord your God before he cause darkness and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains and while you look for light he turn it into the shadow of death and make it gross darkness Verse 17. But if you will not hear my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride and mine eyes shall weep sore and run down with tears because the Lords flock is carried away captive Give glory to God by confessing and repenting of your fins by humbling your souls before the Lord before darkness come and Who knoweth but this may prevent darkness Mr. Calamy's Sermon Preached at Alderman-Bury Church Dec. 28. 1662. For which he was Imprisoned in Newgate 1 Sam. 4. 13. And when he came Lo Ely sate upon a seat by the way side waiting for his heart trembled for the Ark of God THat you may the better understand these words you must know that whatsoever God threatn'd against old Ely in the second and third Chapters because he did not restrain hi●… wicked So●… from their lewd Courses is here Executed in this Chapter therefore we read there were four thousand Israelites slain by the Philistines And the Elders of Israel met together to consult how to repair this great losse th●… confesse it was the Lord that had smitten them 〈◊〉 say they Wherefore hath the Lord smitten us to day before the Philistines And they conclude the way to repair this their loss it was to fetch the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord from Shiloh and carry it into the 〈◊〉 whereupon they appoint Hophni and Phinehas to 〈◊〉 it whereby they imagined that the presence of the A●…k would save them from ruin but herein they were miserably mistaken for this judgment befel them not because the Ark was not in the Camp but because th●… sin was in the Camp The Ark of the Covenant would not preserve those that had broken Covenant with God And therefore there was a great slaughter of the 〈◊〉 li●…es and were slain thirty thousand men and H●… and Ph●… were slain and the Ark it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But what was old Eli doing He was ninety and eight years old and was not able to go to the Battel but sits upon a seat by the way-side near the Battel and there he sits thinking what shall become of the Ark And lo Ely sate upon a seat by the way side watching for his heart trembled for the Ark of God for fear lest the Ark should be taken He was not troubled what should become of his two Sons or what should become of the people of Israel but what should become of the Ark of God In the words are three parts 1. Old Elies solicitousness for the Ark. 2. Old Elies heart-trembling for fear of the Ark. 3. Old Elies preferring the safety of the Ark before the safety of his two Sons Wife and Children He sate upon a Seat by the way-side watching for his heart trembled for the Ark of God But what was the Ark of God why should old Elies heart tremble for fear of the Ark I Answer This Ark was the holiest of all the things of God it was so holy that it made every place holy where it came 2 Chron. 8. 11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharoah out of the City of David into the House that he had built for her for he said My wife shall not dwell in the House of David King of Israel because the places are holy whereunto the Ark of the Lord hath come This Ark was the dwelling place of God it was the habitation of God Psal. 99. 1. The Lord Reigneth he sitteth between the Cherubims Now these Cherubims were placed over the Ark it was the speaking place of God he met his people there and there he gave an answer to them Exod. 25. 21 22. And thou shalt put the Mercy-seat above upon the Ark and in the Ark thou shalt put the Testimony that I shall give thee And there will I meet with thee and I will commune with thee from above ●…he Mercy-seat from between the two Cherubims which are ●…pon the Ark of the Testimony of all things I shall give thee ●…n commandement unto the children of Israel This Ark was Gods Foot-stool and all the people of God worshipt before the Foot-stool of God Psal. 99. 5. Exalt ye the Lord our God and worship at his footstool for he is holy The Ark it was the glory and the strength of Israel Psal. 78. 61. And he delivered his strength into captivity and his glory into his enemies hand And it was the terror of the enemies of God And therefore when the Ark came into the Battel the Philistines were afraid and said Wo unto us for God is come down into the Camp And indeed this Ark was called Iehovah Num. 10. 35. And it came to pass when the Ark set forward that Moses said Rise up Lord and let thine enemies be scattered And when it rested he said Return O Lord unto the many thousands of Israel In a word the Ark was a pledge and a visible symptom of Gods gracious presence with his people as long as the Ark was saved they were saved and when the Ark was with them Gods presence was with them but when the A●…k was gone God was gone his comfor●…ing presence his protecting presence and his preserving presence And therefore no wonder that this good old man sate watching here for fear of the Ark. I call him good old man Many are of opinion that he was not good because he suffered his Sons to be so wicked and indeed his fault was great but surely he was a good

When the Ark of God is taken then the souls of many are in danger when the Gospel is gone your souls are in hazzard There is cause of sadness 4. Then do the Enemies of God Blaspheme and are ready to say Where is your God then do the Enemies of God Triumph Psal. 42. 10. As with a Sword in my Bones mine Enemies reproach me while they say dayly unto me Where is thy God 5. Then is Iesus Christ trampled under foot and the Ordinances of God defiled and trampled on and then Blasphemy and Atheism comes in like an Armed man 4. The people of God must needs tremble when the Ark is in danger because of their accessariness to the losing of the Ark and this was that which made old Ely so much troubled because he knew it was for his sin that God suffered the Ark to be taken He knew that his not punishing his two Sons was one great cause of that great slaughter the people of Israel met withall and that made him tremble There is no person here in this Congregation but his heart will tell him he hath contributed something towards the loss of the Ark. None of us so holy but our consciences must accuse us we have done something that might cause God to take the Ark from us And therefore Mr. Bradford that blessed Martyr said in his Prayer Lord it was my unthankfulness for the Gospel that brought in Popery in Queen Maries dayes and my unfruitfulness under the Gospel that was the cause of the untimely death of King Edward the Sixth And those that fled in Queen Maries dayes sadly complained that they were the cause of Gods taking away the Gospel from England O Beloved it is for thy sin and my sin that the Ark of God is in danger and therefore the Lord give us trembling solicitous hearts what shall become of the Ark. I come now to Application Use 1. If this be the property of a true child of God to be solicitous when the Ark of God is in danger and to have such a trembling heart for fear of the Ark then this is a certain sign there are but few that are the children of God in truth O where is the man and where is the woman that like old Ely sits watching and trembling for fear of the Ark And that will appear by these Reasons First In reference to the many sins in this Nation for let me tell you there is not one sin for which God ever took away the Ark from any people but it is to be found in England Did the Church of Ephesus lose the Candlestick because they had lost their first love And have not we lost our first love to the Gospel and to the Ordinances And did the Church of Laodicea lose the Candlestick because of lukewarmness and are not we lukewarm Did the people of Israel as here in the Text lose the Ark because they abhorred the offering of God and do not we do so Are not the sins of Israel amongst us the sins of Germany and the sins of all other Nations about us And can any man here before God this day in this Congregation that considers the great unthankfulness of this Nation and the great prophanesse and wickednesse of this Nation but they may conclude the Ark is in danger and God may justly take the Ark from us I might tell you of the drunkennesse adultery covetousness injustice and uncharitableness c. that doth abound amongst us and I might tell you of Sanctuary sins prophanation of Sabbaths and Sacraments out unthankfulnesse and unfruitfulnesse and unworthy walking under the Gospel And you of this place God may very well take the Ark even from you And indeed it was the great interest I had in you the which while I live I shall ever own and that great affection and respect I had to you that I would not send you home this day without a Sermon and let you go without a blessing Now can any of you in this Parish and this Congregation can any of you say God may not justly take the Gospel from you Secondly Shall I adde the discontents and divisions in the Nation as Christ saith A Nation divided against it self cannot stand but I leave these things to your considerations I do believe there is none here but will confesse the Ark of God is in danger to be lost But now where are our old Elys to sit watching and trembling for fear of the Ark Where is Phinehas his Wife that would not be comforted because the Ark of God was taken Where are our Moses's our Elijah's our Uriah's Where are they that lay to heart the dangers of the Ark You complain of Taxes and decay of Trading of this civil burden and that civil burden but where is the man or the woman that complains of this misery the losse of the Ark Most of you are like Gallio he cared not for these things if it had been a civill m●…ter then he would have medled with it but for Religion he cared not for that every man is troubled about meum and tuum about civil concernments but who laies to heart who regards what shall become of Religion There is a strange kind of indifferency and lukewarmnesse upon most peoples spirits so they may have their Trading go on and their civill Burdens removed they care not what becomes of the Ark. There is a Text of Scripture I shall not spend much time in opening it but I would have you well consider it Hos. 7. 9. Strangers have devoured his strength and he knoweth it not yea gray hairs are here and there upon him yet 〈◊〉 knoweth not Shall I say gray hairs are upon the Gospel I come not hither to prophecy I say not the Gospel is dying but I say it hath gray hairs for you have had the Gospel a hundred years and above and therefore it is in its old age and I dare challenge any Schollar to shew me an example of any Nation that hath enjoyed the Gospel for a hundred years together Now that gray hairs is at a hundred years is no wonder well gray hairs are here and there and yet no man layeth it to heart Now shal I spend some time to shew you what a great sin it is not to be affected with the danger that the Ark of God is in Consider but three particulars First it is a sign you do not love the Gospel if you had any love to it you would be troubled more for the danger of the Ark then for any outward danger whatsoever Secondly it is a sign you have no interest in the Gospel for interest wil stir up your affections it is a sign you are not concerned in the Gospel for if you were concerned in it you would be affected with it as those that were interessed in those persons in that lamentable fire the last week it is impossible but they should be affected ●…nd so it is asign you have no interest in