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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65312	A sermon preached July 2, at the funeral of Mr. John Wells late pastor of Olave-Jury, London by Thomas Watson ...	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1676 (1676)	Wing W1143; ESTC R9175	13,834	40

But the time is shortly coming when all his mirth shall cease Rev. 18 22 The voice of the Harpers and Musicians and Trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee The Grave buries all a sinners joy When a wicked man dies the Devil gets a windfal Satan in Samuel's shape said to Saul 2 Sam. 28. 19 Thou shalt be with meto morrow The Sinner is to day with his Lusts and may be tomorrow with the Devil Who would envy the wicked their honour or pleasure they must pay dear for it They have a short Feast but a long Reckoning for a drop of mirth they must drink a Sea of wrath and Who knows the power of that wrath It was a saying of Cardinal Bellarmine If a man had but a sight of Hell it were enough to make an intemperate person sober Hell is the emphasis of Torment The Sacrifice of Jealousy was to have no Oyl nor Frankincense put to it Numb 5. 15. In Hell is no Oyl of Mercy put to the Torments of the wicked to lenify them nor is there any Incense of Prayer to appease Gods wrath Oh that sinners would in time break off their iniquities What is become of their Intellectuals have they sinned away Reason as well as Conscience The time of life is short but the torments of Hell are lengthened out Rev. 14. 11 The smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever 4. Vse Here is a light side of the Text to the Godly they may be glad that their time here is short they cannot live but by dying Behold honey at the end of the rod. 1. The time being short their sinning-time cannot be long Sin is a troublesome inmate Rom. 7. 24 Paul that Bird of Paradise sighed and groan'd under corruption a child of God mingles sin with his duties he cannot write a copy of holiness without blotting there 's a party in a regenerate heart sides with Satan but be of good comfort the time is short it is but a while Christians that the dead man shall be tyed to the living that you shall be combating with a proud unbelieving heart The year of release is coming Death doth to the Godly as the Angel did to Peter it smites them and makes their chains of sin fall off quite 2. The time being short their working-time cannot be long in this life much work is cut out There is 1. The work of the hand as the Artificer works in his Trade Prove 10. 4. 2. The work of the head notions are the children of the brain and there is labour in bringing them forth 3. The work of the heart which is the hardest work to search cleanse watch the heart as a clock sometimes goes faster sometimes flower so the heart sometimes goes faster in sin sometimes flower in duty But here is the Saints comfort their working-time is but short Rev. 19. 13 They rest from their labours When their bodies return to dust their souls return to rest 3. Time being short their suffering-time cannot be long Life is inter-larded with trouble Job 14. 1. You may as well separate weight from lead as trouble from mans life We come into the world with a Cry and go out with a Groan Every one hath his yoke and 't is well if there be not a nail in it but Time is short Though the Cross be heavy we have but a little way to carry it death will give the godly a writ of ease Job 3. 17 There i.e. in the Grave the wicked cease from troubling 4. The Time being short their waiting-time cannot be long the Godly shall not be long out of Heaven While the blessed Angels see the orient beauties that shine in Gods face Believers live far from Court being imprisoned in the body Here they do rather desire God than enjoy him But the Time is short it is but a few days perhaps hours and the Saints shall be ever solacing themselves in the light of Gods Countenance They shall leave their pillow of thorns and lay their head on Christs bosom Faith gives a propriety in God death gives a possession The Wagons and Chariots came ratling to old Jacob but they were to carry him to his Son Joseph Deaths Chariot-wheels may come ratling to a Believer but it is to carry him home to his Fathers house In that Paradise of God a Christian shall have more than he can think Eph. 3. 20. He can think What if every mountain were a Pearl every flower a Ruby every sand in the Sea a Diamond the whole Globe a shining Chrysolite but all his thoughts are too low and dwarfish to reach the glory of the Coelestial Pyramides The reward Heavenly as St. Austin saith exceeds Faith and the Time being short a Christian shall be in Heaven before he is aware then shall he bathe his Soul in those perfum'd pleasures of Paradise which run at Gods right hand for evermore I have done with the Text let me speak next to the Occasion We are met to commemorate the Death of an Eminent Minister in this City Mr. JOHN WELLS Sorry I am to be an Actor in this Mournful Scene But being requested by Him in his life in case I survived I was willing to do this last Office of love There hath been of late a great mortality of Ministers The men of the World need not be so fierce against Gods Ministers they will not trouble them long Gods taking away his Ministers so fast two in a day boads much evil It presageth the fall of an House when the Pillars are removed Concerning this Reverend Brother deceased it is not my purpose to use any hyperbolical Encomiums or Panegyricks only give me leave to strow a few Flowers upon his Hearse This our worthy Friend was endued with Learning and volubleness of speech He could 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 divide the word rightly as a workman that need not be ashamed Seals he had to his Ministry Some of his hearers might call him as Cyprian did Caecilius novae vitae parentem their Spiritual Father For his Piety he was not only a Follower of that which was good but a leader he said not long before his death That he had brought this to an issue That he loved God He was fixed to his Principles Though he be now by Death a Fallen-Star yet he was not a Wandring-Star His disposition was not Morose but Affable a man of that Candor and Curtesy as did oblige and win the affections of many to him When Grace and sweetness of Nature meet it is like a Pearl in a Gold-Ring For his Preaching 1. He did frame himself ad captum populi he Preached intelligibly to the capacity of his Auditory Sure that Minister will never hit the hearts of his hearers who shoots over their heads Ministers should be Stars to give light not Clouds to darken the Truth Clearness is the grace of Speech Gregory Nazianzen Preached plain to the ignorant yet was admired by the learned 2. He was elaborate and painful in his work Sloath in a Minister is as bad as Sleep in a Sentinel He would not offer that to God which cost him nothing Christ bled for Souls well may we sweat This good man like a Taper wasted himself while he gave light to others He was a man of a forgiving-Spirit he was not troubled with the overflowing of the Gall Kindnesses he wrote in Marble Injuries he forgot He was very Charitable The Backs and Bellies of the Poor were the furrows where he sowed the Seeds of his liberality But though his Charity did shine he did not care it should blaze He is now taken from the evil to come For you that did sit under his Ministry let me tell You you have lost a Friend and a Guide you have cause to be Close-mourners Let me request only this of you That you would remember the many good Instructions given you though he is dead let not his Sermons dye too but labour to Copy them out fair in your Lives FINIS * August * 1 Pet. 3. 8. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Quantillum sit tempus meum Gejer. * Punctum est quod vivimus puncto minus Sen. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Vita adeò parum a morte distat ut ipsa mors sit Musc. * Horat * Diu suit in mundo non vixit Sen. * Una dies continua occajum non habens Gerh. * Cogita centum millia annorum cogita decies Centena millia annorum Cogita mille milliones annorum immò saeculorum nondum in choasti aeternum Corn. à Lap. * Animantis cujusque vita in fuga est * ut Vir Crescit Vita decrescit Senec. * Bern. Use 2. Exhort Br. 1. * Vive memor Lethi Pers. * Nemo putat se citò moriturum Aug. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys. * Theodoret. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Parùm viae quid multum viati●i * Agnoscat homo se esse mortalem franget elationem Aug. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys. Hom. 22. de Simult * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * In licitis perimus omnes * 1 Sam. 14. 27. * Plut. * Joh. 4. 19. * Turpe est difficiles habere nugas Mart. * Sen. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Claud. * Prov. 9. 12. * Isa. 26. 9. * Animula vagula blandula quae nunc abibis in loca Hadr. * Gen. 6. 8. * Nil in hac vita dulcius sentitur nil ita mortem ab amore mundi s●parat nil sic animam contra tentationes roborat nil hominem ita ad omne bonum opus excitat quam gratia contemplationis Bern. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clem. Alex. * Dio servire est regnare * Incipe erogaere si non vis errare Aug. de Verb. Dom. * Act. 12. 7. Quid est diù vivere nisi diu Torqutri Aug. Praemium quod side non attingetur