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The comforts of divine love Preach'd upon the occasion of the much lamented death of the reverend Mr. Timothy Manlove. With his character, done by another hand.
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Gilpin, Richard, 1625-1700.
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more than Conquerors It 's a glorious Victory to stand in an Evil Day when Satan hath drawn up all his Forces against us 'T is a glorious Victory not only to escape without Loss but to gain by his Opposition thus we out-shoot him in his own Bow And all this sine Labore Sudore easily through Divine Assistance 5. All these Troubles do not so much as render us less Lovely in Gods Eyes God is not as Man Men judge often by outward Appearance Gods Children are often blackened with false Accusations and Reproaches but God will not judge them according to Men's Misrepresentations You have a clear instance of it in that Scripture which hath been so much abused He hath not beheld Iniquity in Jacob neither hath be seen perversness in Israel The meaning is not that the Omniscient God doth not see or that an Holy God cannot be angry at the Transgressions of his People But thus we are to understand it Balaam was upon a Design of cursing Israel Balak would have represented them as a Company of Robbers that came to destroy and invade a Country that was not their own but being not able to prevail he gives this for a Reason That God would not judge of them as they had represented them nor deal with them according to their Desires and Condemnation 6. The Consideration of Gods Love hath a Power in it to sweeten our greatest Afflictions and to take out the sting and venom out of the worst of out Troubles If we have Gods Love we have more than all the World can give us it will counter-ballance all Troubles and make up all Losses of outward Comforts Having explained these three Thing I shall conclude with some Applicatory Inferences suitable to the present mournful Occasion As 1. If the Love of God be such a Cordial and Guard let it be our great endeavour to get an Interest in this Love This is the one thing necessary If any ask How must this be done I shall only tell them they must seek to be in Christ The first Application of this Love is made in Conversion though Gods Purpose of loving was before Yet we were Children of Wrath till God by Conversion and the new Birth translate us from the Power of Darkness to the Kingdom of his Dear Son then and not till then is Gods gracious Purpose brought into Act. 2. Let us adore admire and meditate upon Gods Infinite Unchangeable Love And this not only in General but in a Particular Application of it to our selves as the Apostle Gal. 2.20 Who loved me and gave himself for me 3. 'T is most natural to infer from Gods great Love to us That it is our Duty and should be our Care To walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing Col. 1.10 4. If the Love of God be so great a Cordial and Guard against our Fears we should make use of it as such and oppose our Fears by the Consideration of it This was David's Shield and Buckler on all such Occasions Psalm 23.4 He resolves against his greatest Fears in a confident Reliance on Gods Love and Presence Though I walk through the Valley of the shadow of Death I will fear no Evil for thou art with me Yea in Troubles that carry the appearance of Gods Chastisements he is relieved by the Apprehension of Gods Love Psalm 49.5 15. Wherefore should I fear in the Days of Evil when the Iniquity of my heels shall compass me about For God will redeem my Soul from the Power of the Grave 5. Let us not mourn as those that have no Hope for the Death of Godly Persons They Die in Gods Love and Death is so far from separating them from the Love of God that it 〈◊〉 Gods Porter to open the Door of Eternity to them and so to give them a◠immediate entrance into the full Enjoyment of his Love When Death hath done its worst they that enter into Rest go off with Triumph O Death where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Victory 6. This may be a Caution against the usual Presumptions of Men who are apt to be too bold in interpreting Gods Providences in the Death of his Servants They are too sawcy and bold with God when they take upon them to assign a Reason why God takes any of his Servants out of the World and so determine what Gods Design is in so doing It hath pleased God Almighty and the All-wise Disposer of all things to make another Breach upon us 'T is not long since he took Mr. Pell from us and now he hath called home Mr. Manlove both of them excellent Men worthy Ministers of the Gospel singularly both of them fitted with Abilities for their Work They were successively my Dear Brethren and Fellow-Labourers in this Part of Gods Vineyard It must be acknowledged that it is a stroke to be lamented and if we look upon the present Providence we may have some Cause to fear that when God is discharging his Servants from his Work and paying them their Wages That he may shortly break up his House with us Let none rejoyce at it nor say Aha so would we have it Neither should others Despond Who knows the end of the Lord 'T is easie for him to make up our loss if we submissively wait for him If his Love be unchangeable to single Persons we may conclude it will be so to faithful Churches There are I hope many of you that hear me that can stand forth and Witness that you have seen his Power and Glory in his Sanctuary You have felt and tasted the Power and Goodness of God in your Conversion quickning and Comforting in his Ordinances in this Place And I hope that Christ who delights to walk among his Golden Candlesticks will not now separate us from his Love nor remove the Candlestick out of its Place SERMON II. ROM VIII 35 36 37 38 39. Who shall separate us from the Love of Christ Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword As it is written For thy sake we are killed all the Day long we are accounted as Sheep for the slaughter Nay in all things we are more than Conquerors through him that loved us For I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come Nor heighth nor depth nor any other Creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. THIS Scripture I opened to you the Last Day upon a special Occasion which I then acquainted you withal That Discourse had the better Part of that Entertainment which the Apostle Paul's had at Athens Acts 17.32 I have not heard nor believe that any here had such slight Thoughts of Gods Love to Man as to mock at the Discourse yet I have met with some that desire to hear again of that Matter I need not repeat what hath been spoken But
TIMOTHEUS MANLOVE Med licentiatus Divini animi nuncius et interpres non ineligans Imortalitatis animae non ita pridem vindex Iam conscius August 3 Anno DomÌ„ 1699. Aetat vero 37 Proematuro fato cessit THE COMFORTS OF Divine Love Preach'd upon the Occasion of the much Lamented DEATH Of the Reverend Mr. Timothy Manlove With His Character Done by another Hand LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers-Chapel And Sarah Button Bookseller at New-Castle upon Tyne 1700. A Short Character of Mr. Timothy Manlove HE was a Man of a fine Complection and comely Aspect Of pregnant Parts and a ready Wit which made his Conversation very pleasant and ingaging He had a clear Head and an admirable Capacity and Skill to digest things in their proper exactest Order His Judgment was correct and solid his Memory strong and tenacious his Invention so fruitful and ready as always to furnish him with a copiousness of Words to express himself by and his Expressions were full and well Chosen He was considerable in his Learning which he was improving in daily Being designed for a Physician before he studied Divinity he had attained to a great Skill in the Niceties of that Art and practised it with Ease as well as Success He was every way qualified as a Divine He had all the Accomplishments of a Preacher and the Graces of Pulpit-Oratory An excellent Mien a free Elocution an unaffected Gravity and a becoming Seriousness all which set off what he delivered with very great Ornament His Voice was clear and regular strong and lively and exactly modell'd into a sweet harmonious Pronunciation And as he had the Voice of a Divine Charmer so he charmed wisely He did not amuse his Hearers with a Train of Pompous Words but edify'd them with plain practical Discourses most suitable to the Noble Simplicity of the Gospel He had a great Sense of Religion upon his Mind and especially a composed reverent and heavenly Deportment in Prayer in which his very Look as well as Expressions did excite to the most serious Devotion There never seemed to be a cloud either upon his Thoughts or Affections in his Publick Exercises He had flame and vigour to bear him out to the Last and he rather chose to leave off with Affection than to proceed with Flatness The Last Day he appeared in Publick he was observed in Prayer to have the most profound Thoughts and exalted Expressions of the Divine Attributes and in his Last Sermon with the most affectionate sacred Eloquence he displayed the Happiness of Heaven Preaching from Heb. 2.3 upon the Doctrine of the Great Salvation that Christ came to declare to the World which within a few Days after he left his mournful Hearers to apply TO THE READER THE following Discourse was Preached without the least Thought of offering it to Publick View And yet I was perswaded to yield to the Publication of it to prevent the Printing of more imperfect Notes The Excellency of the Subject sets it above all the supposed Ornaments of the Finery of Words or Rhetorick The great thing that I minded in the Preaching it was only to Represent it in plain Intelligible Words To have attempted any thing more would have been a wrong to the Matter which hath so great a Lustre in it self that it needs to borrow nothing from Art And if any thing of that had been offered it would have had no better Success then the laying the Dawbery of Paint upon a Resplendent Diamond which would cloud and darken its Refulgent Brightness Now Reader since thou hast it in thy Hand do not seek for that which was never intended Thee but consider seriously the Matter and work it upon thy Heart till thou be rooted and grounded in a deep Sense of Gods Love that so thou maâ—st be filled with Love to Him This is a Subject worthy of thy Study and hath in it such admirable Variety as will make it always Pleasant without Weariness and will also furnish Thee with a Cordial in thy deepest Spiritual Distresses That this little Discourse may be thus useful to Thee is the Earnest Prayer of The unfeigned Desirer of thy Spiritual Happiness R. Gilpin SERMON I. ROM VIII 35 36 37 38 39. Who shall separate us from the Love of Christ Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword As it is written For thy sake we are killed all the Day long we are accounted as Sheep for the slaughter Nay in all things we are more than Conquerors through him that loved us For I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come Nor heighth nor depth nor any other Creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. MY last Discourses to you were an Explication of that great Command and Counsel of our Blessed Lord Jesus Of striving to enter in at the strait Gate In my Directions to you for your regular pursuit of this important Charge among other things I recommended to you the Apostle Paul's Prescription Gal. 5.16 Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the Lust of the Flesh It was my Purpose at this Time to have made a further Progress in that Matter but having received an Intimation that my dear Brother and Fellow Labourer now Deceased had found such Comfort in his Meditations on this Scripture in his Prospect of Death that he expressed his Desires that his Funeral Sermon might be upon this Text His pious Desire that others might â—e comforted with the Comfort where with he was comforted of God prevailed with me though upon a short Warning to turn my Thoughts to this Scripture and the rather because your Hearts being softned by this mournful Providence the Truth contained iâ— this Text might possibly make the deeâ—er Impression upon you I cannot let you into the full Understanding of the Apostles Triumphant Conclusion except I lead you to the first Rise and Head of it In ver 1. He give us the Consequence of his former Doctrine he had largely asserted and proved in the foregoing Chapters That we are justified by Grace and freed from the Law From these Truths he lays down this comfortable Conclusion as most evident and certain There is therefore now no Condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus This Conclusion is full No Condemnation neither by God nor Law nor Conscience and it is universally true to all that are in Christ But because this Conclusion is the Corner-stone and must sustain the weight of all the superstructure he first limits it to those that are in Christ and explains what he means by giving them their true Character They walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Next he proves his Assertion by its Parts 1. That there is no Condemnation to such This he argues in the