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A77845	Paul's last farewel, or A sermon, preached at the funerall of that godly and learned minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Thomas Blake. By Anthony Burgesse, pastor of the church at Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire. With a funeral oration made at Mr. Blakes death by Samuel Shaw, then schoolmaster of the Free-School at Tamworth.	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.; Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1658 (1658)	Wing B5652; Thomason E937_1; ESTC R207730	14,890	34

in thy trading it may be thou mayest have comfort in thy Children and friends but thy death hath no may be Oh! let not the world let not your Shops let not trading take off your hearts from this Meditation but think you hear God speaking to you set not your house but your souls in order for thou must die And secondly here is some comfort though there be cause of much sorrow that though your Faithfull Pastor he dead yet the chief Pastor of your souls is not He that setteth Pastors and Teachers in the Church he that sendeth forth labourers into his harvest he liveth for ever as one in the Ecclesiasticall History when newes was brought him that his father was dead Desine blasphemias loqui saith he pater enim meus immortalis est cease to speak blasphemy for my Father is immortall Thus let this honey fall into your gall this Wine into your water The great and Chief Shepheard of your souls is not dead Lastly now the will of God is done concerning our deceased Brother your duty is to be much in Prayer to God that there may be a Joshua after Moses That God would joyne your hearts together as one man to seek out a Pastor for you which shall feed you according to his holy will The Lord hath made a great breach upon you be sensible of it and seriously consider how all your soul-comforts and advantages are bound up in this matter Ministers are compared to the Sun and Salt nihilsole sale utilius can you be without the Sun in the heavens without bread for your body so neither without this bread of life for your souls or without this light to guide you in the wildernesse of this World to eternall happinesse FINIS A Funerall Oration at the Death of the most desired Mr. Blake By Mr. Samuel Shaw then School-master of the Free-School at Tamworth WIth a face sadder then usuall with an heart sadder then my face but upon an occasion sadder then them both I who was deputed to this work by him to whom I now perform it am here rather to receive the expressions of your sorrow then tell you the resentments of mine own Being sensible of my stupefaction caused not through the want of my affections but the want of their object I desire out of a pious pollicy to supply my drynesse by taking your Tears and putting them into my pump so hoping to revive mine own which yet I judge are rather drowned then dryed up And yet when I have done this I know that all my expressions will fall short of the greatness of my grief as much as my grief does of the greatness of its cause This numerous Company of Pious groaners these so many blacks not made but occasioned to be Mourners badges of profession becomming badges of that grief which for its greatness can be equal'd by nothing but their former happiness which they once enjoyed the universall gloominess of this day represents to me rather the funerall of a Town then a man and the fall of a Church rather then a single pillar and rather induces me to think that ye are come to quench the unmercifull heat of a feaver then only to bedew that which was the subject of one But if it may be hold a little and suffer your eyes a while to a new employment even to see where you are what you are doing whose Obsequies you are solemnizing with so great devotion and take the dimensions of your losse if it be capable of any which indeed is so great that they only can know it who knew not him and they onely can feel who never enjoy'd him I speak not to aggravate your loss but the sense of it as for the cause of it it admits of no addition Whilst he lived it was as impossible for him not to love you as it was for you adequately to return his love His care answered his love and if his successe had answered his care we might happily have this day wanted an object of so great sorrow in enjoying him His writings were not read without satisfaction His Sermons were never heard without an approving silence seldom without a following advantage His kindness towards you could not be considered without love his awfull gravity and secretly-commanding presence without reverence Nor his conversation without imitation To see him live was a provocation to a godly life to see him dying might have made any one aweary of living When God restrains him from this place which was alwayes happy in his company but now he made his chamber a Church and his bed a Pulpit in which in my hearing he offered many a hearty prayer for you And his death made him mindfull of you whose life made you unmindfull of him And I did not see that any thing made him so backward to resign up his pure soul to God as his unparalell'd care for you and your proficiency in godliness which seemed as little to him in comparison of what he desired as it does great to others in comparison of what they finde so that I sate by him and I only when with as great affluency of Tears as words he prayed Lord with some ingeminations charge not on me the ignorance of this people And indeed your ignorance had not been so remarkable had not his Knowledge and desire still to communicate it been so With what a grace and majesty have you heard him Preaching who is now alas confin'd to a worser wood Could you ever resist the power by which he spake or find in your hearts to contradict any thing that ever he said but when on his sick-bed he said I am a dying man Ah! who would not there have contradicted him if they should not have contradicted Gods Decree His Wisedome Justice and Tenderness were such predominant Graces in him that it is as much my inability to describe them as my unhappinesse not to im●tate them And truly to think to expresse them were infinitely to in●ure their greatness It is a sad thing that so many resplendent graces should never be so truly nor so fully discovered as by the loss of him that had them and that we should not so justly consider that he had them till we have not them But yet your losse might be the better borne if ye were sure it had nothing of a Judgement in it But I fear that within a short time it will appear as truly that God hath taken him away in anger as now it appears sadly that he hath taken him away And that it is not only a misery that must be repayred by a change of Pastors but also a sin which must be redrest by the change of your lives For if your unworthinesse have driven your teacher into a corner and you sinn'd him into his grave your Repentance and Humiliation must raise another out of his ashes So great so sad so generall is this losse that I am ready to excuse my self and think it more reason then passion if in my solitary mournings and retired complaints I cry out My Father my Father the horsemen of England and the Charriot thereof To tell you of his worth in a measure proportionate to my experience would require too long a discourse from your Infant-Orator And to tell you of your losse I have said too much already which although it do not answer many of your expectations yet I hope may conduce to the affecting of you to an attention to him whose eloquence can represent your losse and whose wisedome can teach you how to make the best use of it ERRATA Pag. 1. line ult for And read In. p. 2. l. 24. a Ruler r. the Rule p. 5. l. 16. for This r. Thus. l. 17. for This r. Thus. p. 12. l. 11. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l 13. for Artr. out p. 20. l. 28. dele and wise

25. The Camelion for fear saith Aristotle turneth into the likeness of every object it meeteth with These are the special qualifications of a Godly Minister whereby he will be able to say with Paul I have fought a good fight 1 Tim. 4. 7. Yea with CHRIST I have finished the worke thou gavest me to do John 17. 3. To all which must be added diligence and labour all the names they have denote labour more then glory office more then dignitie now in all these things there is one particular which doth much quicken and that is temptation one of those three things Luther said made a Divine we are not to desire temptations but God for the most part doth prepare those Ministers whom he intends to be serviceable by such exercises This is the sawing and the polishing of the stone by this he is brought into the deep waters and seeth the wonderfull works of God by this he is able to understand the depths of Satan and by this he is adapted to be a most speciall Instrument to comfort and refresh others when they shall see theirs is not a singular condition they must not think none are tempted like them for they shall find that even Pauls have had the buffetings of Satan and that by these foule temptations they have learned more then all Books or authors could teach them And thus I leave the first Doctrine and proceed to the second which is Doct. 2 That a Godly People cannot but affectionately mourn under the losse of their faithfull Ministers You see here what these Ephesians did with what affection they were moved because they should never see Pauls face more Grace doth not lie in extinguishing but regulating affections Christ wept and they argued from thence behold how he loved him Joh 11. 35 26. So that Nazianzens commendation of his Mother Nonna that she never wept under the many troubles she underwent submitting all to Gods hand was rather Stoicisme then Christianitie It is said of Ambrose when he heard of the death of any good Minister he could not forbeare weeping how then can a people forbeare when their own Minister their own Pastor is taken away should not the Congregation be a valley of tears or a place of mourners now there are these grounds for it 1. Because of that experimentall soul-good and spirituall advantage the Godly have reapt thereby Oh! when thou shalt remember what quicknings what meltings what warming of heart thou hast had this will cause grief to think they are gone Carnall naturall men never are affected with the losse of a Minister they never got any good by their Preaching it was no converting Ministry no inlightning no comforting Ministry to them and therefore the loss is no more troublesome 2. They must needs mourn because they have just cause to fear their sinnes have caused God to deprive them of such helps your unthankfulness your contempt and low thoughts of the means of grace your unprofitableness and negligence may make you mourn for if God upon the abuse of naturall Creatures will take away his Wine his Bread his flaxe will he not much more remove the candlestick for unfruitfulness under spiritual mercies mourne then lest thy sinnes thy unfaithfulness thy deadness and dulness of heart have provoked God to take such guides away yea in the third place may not some mourn who by their Disobedience and unwillingnesse to submit to Christs yoak and opposition to his way have so filled the Ministers heart with grief and sadness as thereby to hasten his death making his life the more uncomfortable and causing him to mourn in secret for your stubbornness and disobedience Thus your sinnes not only meritoriously but efficiently may concurre to the removing of him by death Consider that place Heb. 13. 17. Obey them that rule over you c. that they may give their account with joy and not with grief some make this particular to relate to the former that they may watch over your souls with joy and not with grief for that is unprofitable for you A grieved Minister a discouraged Minister cannot do his duty so powerfully it will be unprofitable unto you you will find it in his study in his sermons A dull people are apt to make a dull Minister 4. There is cause to mourn because of the excellencie of the relation between a Pastor and a People in some respects it is above all naturall relations They are spirituall Fathers your souls receive good by them They are Instrumentall to bring you unto eternal glory and therefore there is more cause of Mourning in this respect then when God breaketh naturall relations no Father or Mother or friend happily hath done that for thee which his Ministery hath done 5. There is cause to mourn because it is a sign of Gods anger and displeasure to a people you are not so much to look upon it as the losse of a man as a token of Gods anger to the congregation The righteous man perisheth and none layeth it to heart Isaiah 57. 1. Who knoweth what soul-Judgments what bodily Judgements may hereafter come vpon you and therefore it is for a people to be sensible and mourn when the desire of your eies so I may call the Minister as well as the Wife is taken away The desire of your eies you long to see him in the Pulpit again and the desire of your eares you long to heare him again 6. There is cause to Mourn because of the sad consequents that many times falls upon the death of a faithfull Pastor sometimes the learning and soundness of a Minister keepeth a People from licentious errors and corrupt opinions His Gravitie and Pietie hath a speciall influence upon many but upon his removall then the weeds of a mans heart growes up After my departure saith Paul Wolves will arise from among your selves Acts 20. 29. Pauls presence was a great means to hinder them 2. What good Foundation is laid in Faith what Godly Order may be begun there is danger that all these will die when a Faithfull Minister dieth I wonder that you are so soon removed saith Paul Gal. 1. Alas that which the Ministers of God have with many years diligence many Prayers and much opposition brought about when the Minister is dead may quickly be destroyed so that we may wonder how such a Town such a place should be over-run with Bryars and Thornes immediately 3. Another sad consequent is sometimes divisions and breaches among the People while a Godly Minister is alive he is like a Corner Stone that uniteth both sides of the Wall together but when that falls then the wall falls with it Then one is for this Minister and another for that then one liketh this and another the contrary and thus seeds of contention and division are sowen which may come up too fast hence the presence of a Godly Grave Wise Pastor is very necessary it is the Spirituall defence of a People which made him cry

out when the Prophet was taken My father my Father the Chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof 2 Kings 13. 14. And now we come from the Doctrinal part to the practicall And although my custome in such Sermons is not to discourse about the Dead they being like Anatomy Lectures for the good of the living yet because we are celebrating the Funeralls of a Learned and Godly Brother who by his Office was in publick station in the Church of God I shall briefly speak to some few of those Ministeriall qualifications that were in him mentioned in the Doctrine not imitating Nazianzen who in his Funerall Orations of his Father as also Athanasius Basilius and others industriously gathereth up every thing that may make to their praise if not hyperbolically exceeding sometimes but I shall rather come short of what might be spoken And first his Doctrinall abilities and parts in controvsrsall points are sufficiently known by the Books he hath written those Children will resemble the Father though he left no bodily ones It is true there were some particular opinions and contests he was fallen into with other Learned men on whose side the truth did stand you will not judge it meet for me to interpose onely because of the difference that is sometimes in Judgement between Godly men we see some by profaneness gladly have it in their mouthes saying what heed is to be given to these Ministers there are not two of a minde They write against one another they have Book against Book and then some good people they are offended what shall we do say they we look upon both as Godly and yet they cannot agree because I say of this offence I shall speak a little to it First that this difference amongst our selves is an old objection The Pagans and the Jewes urged it against Christianity whose Arguments Clemens Alexandrinus answered retorting upon them the same divisions the Philosophers likewise objected this to the Christians when that Synod was gathered together at Nice as the Centuriators inform us Though Augustine lib. de vera religione brandeth them for this that the Heathens though they had divers schools yet they had Commune Templum a Common temple which argued they worshipped their Gods more out of Custome then because of their opinion 2. We are to know that all the Godly do know onely in part perfection in knowledge and unity is reserved for heaven there will be no parties no dividing opinions there will be no different Forms and wayes of worshipping of God in that place so that although this difference amongst the Godly be as Calvin said to Melancthon pessimi exempli of a very bad example yet if we consider that the measure of Light grace in this world is imperfect then we may not wonder at such breaches had not Paul and Barnabas a Paroxisme a sharp fitt for to understand the Word in a good sense as some would because the Word is used so Heb. 10. 24. is very improbable Austin and Hierome Chrysostome and Epiphanius had great contests 3. The differences of Godly Ministers are not in fundamentals They all build gold and precious stones though some may adde hay and stubble Lastly a brotherly and amicable disquisition into truths controversed not fundamentall but between Godly men though different in Judgements is very lawfull and usefull indeed if this be done with pride passion scornfull and disdainfull words despising the gifts of others This is not a dead fly but a dead toad in the box of ointment that maketh the wise Reader think men do regard opinions not so much as they are Gods Truths but as they are their opinions wherein they must have glory But return we to our Learned Brother as God had given him such Doctrinall Abilities so also was he Prudent and Wise and wise to direct such as were troubled in their minde and perplexed about what they were to doe It is true it pleased God before his sickness to exercise him with some sad and black thoughts sometimes tending to the great dejection and discouragement of his soul but by this we see that comfort is not a flower growing in our Garden that we can pluck up when we will God is the God of Comfort only he giveth it when he pleaseth and he taketh it away again as he pleaseth Christ had an Angel to comfort him in his Agonies so that all both Ministers and People are to take Gospel-Consolations as mercies from heaven not as the work of our hands In the next place the diligence constancy and faithfull Preaching of your Godly Pastor is not unknown These walls these seats can sufficiently beare witness thereunto Though you a great People and he declining in age yet a laborious Preacher to you and a great Student in private The Catechizing also of the younger sort of people discovered his vigilancy and it was the earnest desire as he would have you informed and request of your dying Pastor that the younger Persons of this place would readily and willingly submit to that order Besides all this his writing for the publick good of the Church still demonstrated his faithfulness and zeal herein when the Persecutor had cut out Cyprians tongue and then banished him yet he made a supply by his Pen but our Learned Brother was willing both by Tongue and Pen to edifie the Church of God so that both his opuscula and his opera will praise him in the gates His tenderness of Spirit likewise was exceeding much and as in soft wood wormes sometimes breed to weaken it so did as you heard discouragements sometimes lie upon his soul but the Lord did quickly blow over the clouds and as I am informed his expression was That he dyed with full satisfaction of Spirit and communion with God Lastly you are not ignorant of the way he took about the Sacrament that he was not for the promiscuous Admission of all thereunto and therefore when a late Writer Mr. Humphreys would have gathered such conclusions from his principles he was willing publickly to vindicate himself and to shew his dissent herein All this though comparatively little I have spoken not to exalt man for what have we that we have not received but to bless God and magnifie him who giveth such gifts to men he that praiseth the gifts and graces of any thereby extolleth God as he that commendeth a Picture magnifieth the Artificer that made it and thus we take our dear and last farewell of him and come to you sheep left without a shepheard to you on the Sea without a Pilate To you Orphans without a Spirituall Father and first you see what cause there is for our constant expectation and preparation for death Gods own Ministers and servants must dye God needeth no mans labours or parts Moses Joshua Paul Peter must die sola mors non habet fortasse said Austin only Death hath no may be It may be thou mayest be rich it may be thou mayest thrive