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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64984	The death of ministers improved. Or, an exhortation to the inhabitants of Horsley on Glocester-shire, and others, on the much lamented death of that reverend and faithful minister of the Gospel, Mr. Henry Stubbs By Tho. Vincent, John Turner, Rob. Perrott, M. Pemberton. To which is added a sermon upon that occasion, by Richard Baxter.	Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.; Turner, Robert, b. 1649 or 50, 4aut.; R. P. (Robert Perrot) aut.; Pemberton, Matthew, d. 1691. aut.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1678 (1678)	Wing V430; ESTC R221906	43,418	108

departed our strength is decayed our Moses's our Iacobs our praying our wrestling Ministers are many of them gone lately to God and have we not reason to fear that God is about to remove his Gospel when he calls home his Embassadours so fast that a great storm is near when he houseth so many of his servants Is not our hedg in danger of falling when so many stakes are pluckt up and our houses of tumbling when so many pillars are thrown down When the righteous perish not only righteous men but Preachers of righteousness doth it not presage some great evil at hand which they are taken from to a place of rest and safety The times did look with a bad face before but do not they look worse and worse when so many Ministers are removed who by their prayers and ministerial labours might have been helpful to prevent those judgments which we are in such danger of The clouds do now gather blackness faster and faster and dreadful thunder storms do seem to be in their bowels and the Lord knows how soon all faces may gather paleness the most serious Christians and the most understanding and considering persons do look with trembling expectations when this Island will crack and break with a ter●ible voice over us and beat down with a fierce Tempest it may be in showers of blood upon us The loss of our dear brethren in the Ministry doth weaken our hands that are Ministers who have lost the advantage of their company and help but the loss is most near most sore to them who were under their charge and the loss of this our lately deceased Brother and Fellow-labourer should be bewailed especially and laid to heart by you who were under his care and Ministry There are two sorts of persons amongst you whom Mr. Stubbs hath left behind Unconverted and Converted persons we will speak to both First Are there not many unconverted persons whom your Minister after all his Soul-travel and pains in Preaching hath left unconverted Are there not many grosly ignorant persons with you notwithstanding all his Catechizing and instructions Are there not many openly vicious persons notwithstanding all his reproofs and admonitions Are there no profane persons among you no swearers Are there no unclean persons no adulterers Are there no intemperate persons no drunkards Are there no unrighteous persons none that are fraudulent in their dealings And amongst those who are civilized and outwardly reformed are there none among you who are secretly wicked none who are covetous under the reigning power of that sin which is inconsistent with the power of godliness Are there no hypocrites among you painted Sepulchres rotten at heart whatever your outward show and profession of Religion is Are there not too many among you who mind your Bodies but neglect your Souls who make provision for your flesh but neglect your Salvation Alas Alas What is like to become of you who are still unconverted and have not been wrought upon effectually by such Preaching such a Ministry now this Minister is removed If you were not converted whilst you had such powerful means are you now like to be converted when the means are gone and you are never like to have such powerful means of grace again Did not your Minister whilst alive call upon you frequently and that with earnestness and importunity that you would repent and turn from your evil ways presently and that you would not delay lest God should leave off calling you and take away the means of your conversion from you And hath not God left off calling you now by his mouth And if you should not be effectually called at all if you should not be converted whilst you live which now seems very unlikely to be better had it been for you that you had never been born better you had been Dogs or Swine or Worms or Toads rather than Men and Women with immortal Souls because of the dreadful miseries coming upon you which inferiour Creatures will escape Without Conversion there is no Salvation without Repentance and Faith in Jesus Christ and love to God and a holy life there is no escaping the Damnation of Hell Our design is not to drive you to despair only to awaken you who have been so long and so fast asleep under such an awakening Ministry if you sleep still and are not startled by the loss of your Minister we much fear the next thing will be the loss of your Souls Awake Awake Ye drowsy secure sleepy sinners God calls upon you once more by us he calls you to awake to repent and turn from sin before it be too late and the door of mercy be shut and death hath unexpectedly surprised you in your sins God by us doth command the vilest of you to repent Act. 17.30 And he threatneth death if you disobey him should an earthly King command you to come out of a dirty way into a clean path and that upon pain of temporal death would not you obey And when God who is the King of Kings doth command you to repent to come out of the dirty ways of sin into the clean ways of holiness and that upon pain of eternal death of everlasting torment and punishment in Hell will you not obey will you not repent Will you chuse to dishonour God and damn your own Souls rather than to repent of your sins Shall the threatnings of a weak man have more force with you than the threatnings of the great and glorious Iehovah who made Heaven and Earth Shall the threatnings of lesser evils which are but for a moment have more place with you than the threatnings of the most dreadful evils and eternal plagues shall have Moreover God doth invite you to repent and useth arguments to prevail with you Ezek. 33.11 Say unto them Thus saith the Lord God I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live Turn ye turn ye from your evil ways for why will ye die O house of Israel God doth encourage you to repent by his promises all the promises which you will find in the Scripture of Remission of Adoption of Salvation of Spiritual priviledges here and eternal happiness hereafter are made to those that repent and believe both which are always in conjunction See Prov. 28.13 Isa. 55.17 Chap. 1.16 17 18. And will not Gods invitations Gods promises and none of the rich Gospel priveledges move you to repent Will you slight pardoning mercy and chuse rather to abide under guilt Is it good to keep wounds in your consciences when you may have them healed Is it good to have God your enemy when you may be reconciled Is it desirable to continue Children of the Devil when you may be made the Children of God Will you prefer raggs before robes to cover you And chuse poverty when you may have Jewels to enrich you And eternal misery when by repentance you may attain everlasting happiness There

are three sorts of unconverted and impenitent persons among you some of you are young some in your middle age and some of you are arived unto old age we would apply this Call to every one First You that are young men and young women repent of your sins and turn from your evil ways whilst you are young as you ought to remember your Creator so as to turn to him in the days of your youth so you ought to remember your sins so as to turn from them in the days of your youth Had any of you been born without sin and lived without sin there would have been no occasion for your repentance But who among you can say he is innocent Have you not original sin and actual sin to repent of Will not your consciences witness the corruption of your natures how averse naturally you are to good how prone to evil Is there not a Register in your bosomes of sins committed in your childhood together with your more late and more aggiavated youthful transgressions And do you not then need to repent Are you too young to repent when you are not too young to sin You have heard of Iosiah who had a tender heart in his tender years and of Timothy who when a Child did know the holy Scriptures which taught him the lesson of Repentance and if others have attained repentance in their Childhood and youth why may not you attain it The Devil will perswade you it is too soon and the flesh will perswade you it is too soon to repent and your companions in sin will perswade you to hold on with them still in your sinfull practices many carnal arguments you may find out to move and plead for indulgence of your selves still in your sensual and sinful delights and you may be prone to think graver years will be most sutable for the serious and severe work of Repentance and you may presumingly hope when you are grown up to years of more maturity then you will mourn for your iniquity then you will turn over a new leaf return unto God and lead a new life But doth God allow you to procrastinate your Repentance Doth God give you a dispensation to sin so long as you are so young If it be a duty to repent hereafter is it not now as much your duty If it be good to repent at all is it not good to repent whilst you are young Are you sure to live till you are grown men and grown women Did you never see or hear that others have died as young as your selves and as likely to live and that notwithstanding their hopes and presumptions of long life Indeed you may live to be old but think also that you may die whilst you are young you may die suddenly before you have time to call upon God for mercy and if you die in your impenitency you will most certainly be thrown for your sins into Hell that place of most horrible and unspeakable misery and will you venture your everlasting damnation on presumption of long life and future Repentance Besides are you sure to repent should your life be continued Is Repentance in your own power If you have not hearkned unto former calls of your deceased Minister and if you will not hearken to the call of divers Ministers now together are you sure God will call you any more that he will send any other Minister to you Or if he should may not he withhold his blessing and swear in his wrath that his Spirit which hath been striving with you so long shall strive with you no more Moreover can there be a more fit a more reasonable time for your Repentance than whilst you are young Will not your Repentance now be with the less difficulty If it be difficult to repent when your sins are fewer will not the difficulty encrease when your sins are encreased and grown more numerous If it be difficult to repent when your sins are lesser will not the difficulty greaten when your sins are greatned and grown more heinous Is not a twig more easily bended than a grown Tree Will not long custom in sin added to your natural propensity add to the difficulty of your repentance Is it not easier to repent when you have less sin and more time than when you shall have less time and more sin Will not sin be more easily mortified whilst it is more weak than when by long continuance it hath gathered more strength Will it not be very hard to remove long contracted hardness Do you think the Devil will be easily cast out when he hath had long possession Or can your last Repentance if it were easily attainable be so pleasing and acceptable unto God as Repentance in your youth Doth not God call for your first fruits Shall the Devil and the flesh and the World ravish your Virgin-affections and then will you repent Hath not God work enough for you to do although you begin never so young And will you chuse rather to serve the Devil and your own lusts in the spring the prime and vigour of your years than to serve the glorious Iehovah when the service of the former is such slavery such drudgery and the ways will be eternal death and the service of the latter is so honourable so beneficial and its reward eternal life May this Call these arguments prevail with all of you that are young without any further delay to repent of your sins and to day whilst it is called to day to hearken unto Gods voice and no longer to harden your hearts through the deceitfullness of sin Secondly You that have continued in your sinful ways and practices to your middle age it is high time that you should repent If your Spring be over and your Summer be come and hitherto you have neglected your Souls and allowed your selves in your sins O delay no longer time repent of your sins and repent that you have repented no sooner God stretcheth sorth his hand all the day long to a stubborn and gainsaying people if you have been stubborn hitherto If you have deafned your ear to former calls don't deafen your ear to this call which may be your last call God hath been very patient with you he might have cut you off in your sins long ago and think where your Souls would have been now Have not some of you been visited with sickness and brought down to the sides of the pit and been raised again beyond your own and others expectations Have not others of you escaped great perils and dangers and been wonderfully preserved when your lives were in great jeopardy And shall your restoration or your preservation be but a reservation unto more dreadful destruction Or rather shall not Gods patience and goodness lead you to Repentance Will you return evil for good Because God doth not speedily execute his vengeance upon you shall your hearts be fully set in you to do evil If your youth hath been given