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A58958	The Second and last collection of the late London ministers farewel sermons preached by Dr. Seaman, Dr. Bates, Mr. Caryll, [brace] Mr. Brooks, Mr. Venning, and Mr. Mead ; to which is added a farewell sermon preached at Dedham in Essex by Mr. Matthew Newcomen ; as also Mr. Lyes sermon at the conclusion of the last morning-exercise at All-hallows in Lumbard-street, being a summary rehearsal of the whole monthly-lectures.	Seaman, Lazarus, d. 1675.; Bates, William, 1625-1699.; Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.; Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.; Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.; Mead, Matthew, 1630?-1699.; Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.; Lye, Thomas, 1621-1684.	1663 (1663)	Wing S2257; ESTC R41075	195,536	326

wayes to ler loose the Devill on his owne Children Satan had a desire to afflict Job and God gave way to it c. The Church of God is Gods Spouse and there is a great deale of love between the Husband and Wife between Christ and the Church Yet Psal 4.5 this she is so solemnly charged with all God hath made Christ a head to his Church therefore his Church must be Ruled by Christ and t is not for the Church to say The inferiour shepherds would order me thus and thus we must in the mean while say but What doth Christ say in such cases It is not for the Church to go aside by the flocks of his Companions Cant. 1.7 The Companions of Christ pretend to be Shepherds of the sheep as well as he but have not that power Christ had They have their Societies and would have the ordering of them but the Church desires to know where she may hold Communion with Christ that she may not turne aside by the flocks of his compani●● 〈◊〉 There is many Disputations amorg inferiour shepherds but this is out of all dispute that Christ is the Great Shepherd of the sheep That great man at Rome never pretended higher than to be the Vicar of Christ and Successor of Peter now we know that the Principal is much more to be regarded than his Vicar therefore if Christ be the Great Shepherd surely the sheep of Christ must hear his voice before all other shepherds specially since Christ hath spoken so signally in the Case My sheep hear my voice and they follow me a stranger will they not follow for they know not the voice of strangers And God having so solemnly commanded Matth. 17.5 This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased hear ye him The Great Shepherd must be heard before all little shepherds The little shepherds have their division Act. 20.29 After my departure shall grivous Wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away discisples after them True shepherds are alwaies carefull to make Disciples for Christ and to bring all Disciples to Christ All John's work was to make Disciples to put them over to Christ not to make disciples to himself but to make over all his disciples unto Christ If any man will gather he must gather for Christ not himself others would draw men unto any matter or manner of Doctrine Government c. But our eye must be upon Christ and our ear open to his voice and our Hearts awed with his will and mind in Scripture made known to his Church And they love nor Christ as they ought that desire not to hear his voice before any others in the world for he is the Great Shepherd of the sheep 2. Though he be the Great Shepherd of the sheep yet he dye and though he dye yet because he is the Great Shepherd of the sheep he is raised again The great Shepherd Dyes the little Shepherds must not think much of it if they be called to dye We must be contented it be exemplified in us if occasion serve for if God spared not the Great Shepherd What have the little shepherds to plead for themselves they should be spared If the Case fall out while I labour to serve the Church as I can I come to suffer for the Church in the end I doe rejoyce and I will rejoyce And truly we had need to pray for such a spirit as this for if this was in the Great Shepherd of the sheep it will very well become the little shepherds But against the fear of death here 's the comfort The Great Shepherd of the sheep dyes yet is raised from the dead so shall the little ones not one member of the flock death can alwaies triumph over him In this respect Christ will have all his members to be raised in that he got the victory over death for Christ arose as the First fruits and ascended into Heaven as a fore-runner Though we may have deniall as to the advancing of Christs service c. Yet the Resurrection of the dead is that we must take into our thoughts and t is our solid comfort God will one day bring all the sheep together into one fold and David shall be their King and have the Ruling and ordering of them to all Eternity There is a Resurrection to little shepherds when we come to lay down our naturall lives we can look for no other recompence for it but our Resurrection and the thoughts of it must be our Comfort And oh how doth this incourage us to come unto God though sinne be heavie upon us Remember there is a God of peace that takes to himself this name for this very end that sinners may know for their incouragment that Reconciliation is wrought out between God and them through Jesus Christ and if they will but come and take hold of the bloud of the everlasting Covenant Christ hath said they shall have all the blessings and benefits promised in the Covenant of Grace and that the bloud of Christ can procure for them they shall have forgivness of sinnes and salvation of Soul Therefore when we consider Christ hath dyed to have a flock and for saving of the flock and to make himself the God of peace through his bloud this should comfort us It remains we come to consider of the matter of the Prayer this is very full Make you perfect in every good work to doe his will working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight c. Here we are to observe two things First The matter of the Apostle's desire Secondly The measure of it The matter of his desire is that the Hebrewes may be made perfect in every good work to doe the will of God i. e. that they may be fully and thoroughly regenerate sanctified throughout both in soul and body and that they may be furnished with all graces and inabled for every duty Take notice of every one of the expressions First Make you perfect T is the duty of Christians to perfect every good work to cleanse themselves from all the impurity of flesh and spirit and to perfect Holinesse in the fear of the Lord 2 Cor. 7.1 Secondly In every good work in matters of Piety Righteousnesse Charity Sobriety for within these head most of those things may be comprehended that belong to Christians they will goe a very great way to make a perfect Christian but that Christian cannot be perfect that is not sanctified in every one of these Thirdly To doe his will that you may be ready chearfully willing to do his will on all occasions But how is it possible flesh and bloud should attain to this that they should be perfect to every good work Why saith the Apostle working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ Working in you You see thereby All our works depend on God's

promote the Salvation of his Church in any eminent degree but it is in a way that is cross and contrary to the sense and expectation of flesh and bloud insomuch you know the darknesse of our condition has been the entrance upon deliverance as just before the day dawns it s the darkest of the night when God looked and there was none to help them saies he my arm brought salvation Thus it is with you that are effectually called you have received the sentence of death the entrance upon your deliverance is the darkest time of your condition 3. God can do great things Joel 2. Fear not thy God O Sion can do great things 'T is the disparagement that we offer to God we ascribe more to the Creature than we do to God when we give way to carnal fear● fear not what man can do because of the power of God which was his shield and buckler Is any thing too heavy for God and when God does great things he usually goes on to do greater though he may seem to suffer his work to be thrown back to confusion and his people may be ready to say we thought he had redeemed Israel that degree of Reformation shall not be lost You know in Luther's time take any special degree of Reformation in the Church and it seemed to be opposed by the gates of hell when it was brought upon the stage to any hopeful degree then it was taken as it were utterly out of sight for a while but it was never lost thus God is but making way for his own glory to appear in these great works O but you will say what shall become of my particular It is enough God hath promised that we shall not want any thing that is truly good and that nothing that is evil shall fall upon us and lie upon us though we do not see deliverance it shall be whatever our sad thoughts and tremblings of heart may be yet give God the glory of his Word Take these few Directions 1. Strive to strengthen thy Faith Faith is that which layes hold on Christ and Christ is your strength therefore Faith is said to do that which Christ does let every day drive thee to a renewed act of Faith Take heed be not shaken in the faith of the Cause be not shaken in the Faith of Christ fides Causae fides Christ● Be not shaken upon the Cause which upon utmost examination we find to be according to the word hold that Heaven and Earth shall passe away but not one jot and tittle of this Cause And then do not shake in the Faith of Christ that is in your laying hold in your applying your selves to him in your resting and setling upon him beg of God to strengthen your faith 2. Get more Self-denial we must forsake all we must not except any thing A man would part with his life as easily as with a pin off his sleeve if he had but some considerable growth in Self-denial 3. Get a great deal of love towards that Christ that loved us with a love stronger then death get love of that Christ that may be stronger then life Let nothing in the world be of any consideration with you so us Christ may be magnified in your bodies love will breed courage and cast out fear slavish fear before God carnal fear before men Get a true insight into an account of suffering and troubles whence they are they issue from the same love with redemption of your souls from Hell and your glorification God doth every thing in pursuance of the purpose of his love he doth every thing according to the platform and pattern of his thoughts towards us from eternity Consider what troubles are and to what end not to destroy but to try to wean from the world to fit for Heaven 5. Get an infight into the vanity of the creature you reckon the creature some great matter and that is the reason of your love and of your fear 6. Get the fear of God that may over-rule other sears Fear not him that can but kill the body but fear him that is able to cast body and soul into hell fire 7. Keep a clear conscience void of offence towards God and towards men by a heart abasing confession of what is past and the application of the blood of Christ and by mortification and watchfulnesse therein keep your selves from evil for the time to come 8. Get a better assurance of eternal life a glimpse and sight of this would make a man run through the very flames of hell How comfortable was Stephen when a shower of stones was about his ears to see Jesus standing at the right hand of God! I wonder how they dare to venter their life that have no ground of a better life but for those that have a well-grounded hope of the mercy of God they say We reckon these light affections which are but for a moment to work for us a 〈◊〉 more exceeding and eternal weight of glory Fear all any of these things which you shall suffer Pro. 7. Christ does limit Satan he hath him in a string him and all his Instruments The Devil shall cast some of you into prison c. Every word hath its weight Who shall do it The Devil What shall he do Cast you into prison How far Some of you How long Ten dayes For what use That you may be tryed Christ as he hath Satan in a chain of providence so he hath a chain of restraint it is Christ that puts a circle about him he cannot cause a hair of your head to fall he is in the hand of Christ and they are under him and his hand as they are against him If God lets alone his Enemies what shall they not do If God lets alone his People what shall they do 2. God has a special Providence about the things of his Church by way of eminencie by way of permission and ordination 3. You will not deny but there is power enough in God to destroy all that are against him and to limit all and all shall make to the praise of God and to his peoples good The Lord is exceeding merciful he cannot hold when the Enemy comes to insult to blaspheme and revile Now will I arise saith God and set him at liberty from him that puffeth at him There is not only a judging of their Enemies hereafter but a judging of them here the world shall say Verily there is a God that rewardeth righteousnesse verily there is a God that judgeth the earth 3. God has a special design in hand therefore just so far as he will carry on that design God hath towards his people which is alwayes a design of faithfulnesse just so far shall the Enemy go Isai 10 The Enemy means not so he means to cut off a people not a few but Gods end was otherwise and he will over-rule them this is the Comfort there is a set time there is an end

way of Justification before a God of Grace by way of Sanctification But to proceed First for the description of the Person wherein take notice of him 1 By one of his Attributes 2 By one of his special Works whereby he hath manifested that Attribute 1 The Attribute of God is imply'd under those wo●ds that he is called the God of Peace The gracious God that provides for Reconciliation between himself and sinners that finds out ways and means to win those who are by Nature Children of Wrath to be the Children of God There is no peace but God is Author of Whether natural peace or civil peace or political peace he is pleased to provide for them But there is a transcendent kind of Peace which doth with a peculiarity belong to God's People i. e. Spiritual Peace between God and Sinners and that inward peace that we enioy if our Conscience hath been troubled with terrors of sin wrath c. Peace belongs so to God as none of the Creatures c●n have any glory of it Psal 4.7 This Peace is God's Peace none can effect or devise it but God and with respect to this he is more especially called the God of Peace because he hath found out a way to make Reconciliation between God and his sinful perishing Creatures 2 Cor. 5.19 Ephes 2.14 c. Col. 1.13 2 There is a special Work of God attributed to him that the Apostle take into consideration i. e. That he brought again from the Dead our Lord Jesus that great Shepherd of the sheep through the bloud of the everlasting Covenant wherein we have many words and every word its weight and we shall scarce be able to weigh every one so as to take the ' ull sense and emphasis of them In the words there is 1 Something imply'd 2 Something express'd 1 Something imply'd namely That the Lord Jesus Christ was sometimes in the state of Death and that being in the state of the Dead it was not any ordinary power way or means could ransom him He was in the state and condition of the Dead he was for a while under the power and dominion of Death his Body for the space of three days lay in the Grave and in that sense was under the dominion of Death as all dead men are The great Shepherd of the sheep could not have his own life in some sense no interest he had in God by virtue of his Sonship or any of his Offices could save him from Death though the Son of God and Head of the Church and Christ looked upon it so far from being below him as he thought it necessary for him and it was his glory Joh. 10.11 12. I am the g●od Shepherd the good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep but he that is an Hireling and not the Shepherd whose own the sheep are not seeth the Wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and fleeth c. ●●elings they have no such spirit or principle in the● that they should lay down their lives for the Sheep b●● he so much respected his Father's glory and good of his Flock finding there was no way to bring them to Salvation As he deny'd himself in all other respects for their good so in this respect lays down his life for them And herein the Church of God seems to have a deadly kind of wound to be at a deadly loss Zach. 13.7 I will smite the Shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered But herein lye the wonderful goodness and wisdom of God he is pleased to improve as the life so the death of Christ for the good of his Church Luk. 24.16 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things It was very expedient that seeing the sheep could not otherwise be saved but by the Shepherd's dying that the Shepherd should lay down his life for the sheep and seeing no other way to make Reconciliation to God it was very expedient Christ should dye Therefore 't is to be taken notice of That it doth not misbecome the Head therefore not the Members of the Body they must be content to lay down their lives for their Flock for so did the great Shepherd 2 Something express'd Where take notice First of the Person spoken of Secondly of that which is given us to be taken notice of in particular 1 The Person to be taken notice of is Our Lord Jesus Christ That which we have considerable is First The Title that belongs to him in his Church in this regard called The great Shepherd of his sheep The Shepherd of the sheep yea the great Shepherd of the sheep Whatsoever glory was 〈◊〉 be communicated to any Member of the Church 〈◊〉 was first put into the Head before they were to be made partaker of it Some were to be made inferiour Ranks Ephes 4.11 But it was not fit any should have such glory to be called Shepherds before he had that honour on him Therefore 't is the great Shepherd he that is Shepherd not of a particular Congregation but of the whole Church of God he is the Saviour of all his Body he hath the full number of all the Elect both among the Jews and Gentiles committed to his charge to save 2 What betides this great Shepherd through God's grace towards him that is that he is brought again from the Dead i. e. that he doth attain to a state of Resurrection And here take notice of this by the way for Consolation The great Shepherd of the sheep doth dye but the great Shepherd of the sheep rises again Herein argues God's love that though he would suffer him to dye yet not to see Corruption Psal 16.10 Because he is the great Shepherd therefore he must dye but because he is the Great Shepherd therefore he cannot continue in the state of the Dead Death must not tryumph over the great Shepherd of the sheep no not by any means As it was necessary that he should dye much more that he should rise again We read Revelations the eleventh concerning two Prophets when they had finished their course they dye and their dead bodies are cast into the Streets c. but we read also of their Resurrection There is a two-fold state incident to those 〈◊〉 one estate of Dying another estate of Rising 〈…〉 it is not peculiar to Christ onely but to others with him The great Shepherd of the sheep dyes no wonder if the little Shepherds dye too But the great Shepherd is raised so shall the little ones in their order and in their time 1 Peter 5.6 When the chief Shepherd shall appear ye shall receive a Crown of Glory that fadeth not away Resurrection is that which Christ exemplifies first in his own Person in order to assure all his Members they shall attain to the same state with him and God is as easily able to provide when he sees expedient to raise them from the Dead as to suffer them to dye Christ he brought again by a high hand and in a

a spark in the Sea yet he keeps it alive till it shall break forth into a triumphant flame That life that is encompassed with so many enemies and liable to so many weaknesses the Lord Jesus will bring forth judgment to victory and will make them to be powerful over spiritual and eternal enemies The sum is this The Lord Christ is so perfect a Shepheard so compleat as to all the qualifications of that office that the Prophet David breaks forth into exaltation Psal 23. The Lord is my Shepherd c. and then afterwards expresses all those provisions which are made for him by God as a Shepheard He makes me to lie down in green Pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters So that you see Christ whether for diligence love tenderness for preserving us from danger for securing us to life eternal he is only the great Shepheard he is the God of shepheards as well as the God of sheep and all other shepheards are but inferior to him and must be accountable to him for the souls of his sheep which are more valuable than all the world It follows The great Shepheard of the sheep I shall not spend any time in making any resemblance between the people of God and ths sheep only 1 They are sheep in respect of their Innocency You know of all creatures the sheep are unarmed other creatures either they are armed with strength or skin or swiftness to guard themselves and offend others but the sheep hath neither the strength of the Lion the craft of the Fox swiftness of the Deer and of all creatures is most weak inoffensive and most liable to dangers and injuries Of all persons Gods people are most liable to danger and when out of Christs protection the weakest persons in the world 2 In respect of their Meekness A sheep is an emblem of meekness that 's their temper and therein they imitate Christ who hath propounded himself to be their pattern Learn of me for I am meek and lowly both these qualities are exprest by the Prophet Isa 11. where speaking concerning the times of the Gospel saith The Lamb shall lie down with the Wolf now where the Prophet expresses their safety there he expresses their innocency meekness This is the reason why the Prophet saith For thy sake we are killed all the day long we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter because of all Creatures most liable to injuries that which doth least resent them And where ever the Grace of Christ comes it sweetens the most cruel nature and polishes the most rough disposition and makes them to be like Christ meek and lowly 3 In regard of their profitableness for of all Creatures they are most profitable the food as to their flesh the cloth as to their fleece And the people of God however they are exposed to the contempts and injuries of the World they are the most profitable for were it not for them the whole frame of Nature would fall into pieces the Stars would fall like leaves in Autumn and all the Elements would fall into confusion we see it by one Lot who kept showers of fire and brimstone from falling on Sodom till he was got out of it And it is the people of God for whom this frame of Nature is continued and when they are brought into the Fold of Christ the Justice of God will have a solemn triumph over all the World 4 As they are liable to wandring Sheep are wandring Creatures and when strayed not able to reduce themselves And in this respect the people of God are sheep they have a thousand allurements to draw them from the ways of God and if God should not guide them by his eye 't is impossible they should go in the way that leads to Heaven Therefore David saith I have gone astray like a lost sheep seek thy servant Psal 119.176 This shall suffice to make the Parallel and Resemblance of the people of God and Sheep The second Argument is this That he hath design'd Christ to be the Shepherd of the Church The great Shepherd of the sheep this is another Argument and Evidence that he is reconciled to us and that he is the God of Peace For when God gave Christ to be our Sacrifice and raised him up to be our Shepherd these are the most clear testimonies of his love For although Christ now sits in Heaven and all the Angels of God worship him yer he doth not disdain to exercise the same care and to express the same love to his people that he did when he was upon Earth All the Offices of Christ express God's love to us for he feeds us as a Prophet dyed for us as a Priest governs and defends us as he is King and all these meet together in this Title feeding of us dying for us defending of us as he was God he loved us as he was Man he dyed for us This doth express the effects of his two Natures in this Title and therefore an admirable Evidence that God is at peace with us It follows Through the Bloud of the Everlasting Covenant The Bloud of Christ is that which cements God and us together For you must remember our original peace with God was broken that peace we have with him now is called Reconciliation it is as a broken bone which well set is stronger than before because Nature conveys most liberal supplies to the weakest part so now being reconciled to God through the Bloud of his Son we stand upon surer terms with him then we did in Innocency The Bloud of Christ speaks better things for us than all our sins speak against us it speaks peace to our souls and that in Heaven purchased by his Death Christ dyed as a Testator and bequeathed to the Church a Legacy of Peace he lives as the Executor of that Covenant and now in Heaven conveys to us that blessing of peace which he bequeath'd in his Death And as our peace was founded in his Bloud so it is conserv'd by his Intercession he appears in the Court of Heaven as out Embassador to make up all those differences which fall out between God and us for you know Amity and Friendship is kept between Foreign States bp their Residents and Agents that are kept in their several Courts so we have an Agent in the Court of Heaven the Lord Jesus Christ that was raised from the Dead And as a Believer falls into sin which is a breach of peace between God and us so that Peace is made up by the Exercise of Repentance on our part and by sprinkling of Christ's Bloud upon us on God's part The renewed Exercise of Repentance and Application of Christ's Bloud preserves that peace that is between God and Believers And to sum up the force of the Argument when we had fallen from God and it did not consist with the Majesty of God to make peace with us without satisfaction then was he pleased to pay out Ransom

There is a difference between the afflicting of Gods people and judging their enemies In the intention and extension one is for ruine the other in proportion one is a light affliction the other a load And then for extention one is for ever and the other is for time for ten dayes Then our afflictions shall have an end I and a comfortable end Are not these two ends comfortable the end of our sins and the end of our sorrow God will restore comfort to his mourners let us be mourners during the time of mourning God will quickly cloath us with garments of praise there shall be an end of our sufferings never an end of our joy and glory Pro. 8. To conclude in a word Be faithful to the death Be faithful in your promises in your vows and purposes your covenants of obedience and reformation persist in the doctrine of the Gospel and the worship of the Gospel and the Ministry of the Gospel and office Christ hath fixt in his Church be faithful by your most earnest zealous desires before the Lord Be faithful to the death He will never let you see death till all your fears are conquered He can presently take them away He will certainly be present with you in all your trouble And remember God in tender mercy and faisfulnesse for the present accepts the unfeigned purpose to be constant and saithful to him to the death Mr. Beerman's Farewell Sermon At St Thomases in Southwark August 17. 1662. BEloved I know you are not ignorant that I am called by Authority to depart from you which for Conscience sake we must obey and were it not for the breach of Conscience I think I could be content to undo my self to stay with you I shall now in love and tendernesse take my leave of you all with that large portion of Scripture in the twentieth of the Acts from the seventeenth verse to the end they were Paul's parting words to the Ephesians Ver. 17. And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the Elders of the Church and when they were come unto him he said unto them Ye know that from the first day that I came into Asia after what manner I have been with you serving the Lord with all humility of mind with many tears and temptations which befell me through the lying in wait of the Jews and how I kept back nothing that w●● profitable unto you but have shewed you and taught you publickly and from house to house testifying to the Jews and also to the Greeks repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ and now behold I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem not knowing the things th●● shall befall me there save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every City saying that bonds and afflictions abide ●e but none of these things moveth me neither count 〈…〉 life dear unto my self so that I might finish my 〈◊〉 with joy and the Ministry which I have received of 〈◊〉 Lord Jesus to testifie the Gospel of the grace of God and now behold I know that ye all among whom I have gone preaching the Kingdom of Heaven shall see my face no more Wherefore I take you to record this day that I am pure from the blood of all men for I have not shunned to declare unto you all the Counsel of God Take heed therefore unto your selves and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood for I know this that after my departure grievous wolves shall enter not sparing the flock also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away Disciples after them therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears And now Brethren I commend you to God and to the Word of his grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those that are sanctified I have coveted no mans silver or gold or apparel Yea your selves know these hands have ministred to my necessities and to those that were with me I have shewed you all things how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak remembring the words of our Lord Jesus how he said it is more blessed to give then to receive And when be had thus spoken he kneeled down and prayed with them all and they all wept sore and fell upon Paul's neck and kissed him sorrowing most of all for the words which be spake that they should see his face no more and they accompanied him unto the Ship BEloved I have read unto you the words of a departing Minister to his Hearers The case being my own I thought I could not pitch upon a more fitter place to take my farewel withall I shall not stand to open all these words only speak a word or two at parting as Paul did to the Ephesians and I shall only hold forth something to you by way of Analysis to it and thereby you may judge of the Analogy of it In this parting speech of Pauls you have two parts First Pauls theirs carriage to them Secondly Pauls theirs carriage to him First Pauls behaviour towards them that was very pious as you may read from v. 17. to v. 37. Secondly the peoples behaviour towards their departing Minister which you have in the two last verses Wherein is observable First their love Secondly their sorrow First their love expressed by kissing him and accompanying him unto the ship Secondly their sorrow expressed by their weeping they could not part with such a Minister with dry eyes but saith the Text They all wept sorely sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake that they should see his face no more They wept and they all wept and they all wept sorely a sore weeping when this Minister and this people parted From whence I note this That there is occasion and matter of great sorrow when people loose a godly Minister Paul was not the first Minister that ever parted with a people nor the Ephesians the first people that ever lamented the losse of a faithful Minister See how the people lamented Samuel 1 Sam. 25.1 And Samuel died and all Israel was gathered together and lamented Samuel O that brave that powerful preaching Samuel is gone How did Elisha lament Elius catching hold of his garments and crying out My father my father the Chariots of Israel and the Horsemen thereof Christ himself when he saw the Children of Israel scattered abroad upon the mountains as sheep without a shepheard how did his bowels yern towards them but to name no more take St. Stepen Acts 8.2 when Stephen was departed dead and gone devout m●● carried Stephen to his grave and made great lamentations over him they could not but lament to think that that noble couragious and heart-daunting Minister should never preach more before them