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A53259	The last sermon and sayings of that most pious and reverend divine, Mr. John Oakes, minister of the gospel in the City of London who was struck with death in his pulpit, in the afternoon after he had preached this sermon; to the admiration of all his hearers. A subject of great account, worthy to be written in letters of gold. Being a thanksgiving sermon, for God's great goodness in delivering this nation from popery, slavery, and destruction, by that eminent instrument of God's glory, King William King of England. Discoursed of from these words, Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. Luk. 10. 20. And having preached upon the first part of the text in the forenoon, of God's great deliverance of this kingdom from popery, &c. and coming to treat more fully in the afternoon, what it is to have our names written in heaven, God took him to himself, and gave him a full enjoyment thereof. With a brief sum of his funeral sermon preached the next Sunday after, by the reverend divine Mr. Williams. To which is added two Godly	Oakes, John, d. 1689?	1689 (1689)	Wing O19A; ESTC R218540	11,358	25

Estate we were restored to of Life and Salvation which God of infinite wisdom found out and proposed unto faln Man and you know how you may be delivered from that woful and miserable condition you were exposed unto FINIS The Substance of a SERMON preached the next Lords Day after the death of the Reverend Mr. John Oakes by Mr. W. Williams Minister of the Gospel Psal 39. 4. Lord make me to know my end and the measure of my days what it is that I may know how frail I am THe meaning of the words of David is this Tho' I am convinced I 'm a dying man and am perswaded that I shall not abide long here here is no abiding place yet do I not féel this on my heart and mind do not answer and comply with these convictions I do not understand this truth aright therefore Lord teach me let it come with such light and power on my mind to influence light into my mind heart and life make me to know my end clear up this truth to me that I may know how frail I am Doct. That Man is frail and that every Man ought to intreat GOD to make him to know how frail he is Man is frail as appears by the shortness of his daies Man's daies are short though he should live to his full Age Man lives by Divine support he lives not by his own strength 2ly It is evident Man is a poor frail Creature subject to be cut off in his full strength so saies Job ch 23. one dieth in his full strength being at ease and quiet very many do so without saying I am sick they suddenly drop away as many of you were spectators of an instance in this very Pulpit Our breath is soon stopt and we drop the Thread is very short that holds every man he steps into his grave in the midst of his walk therefore mans life is compared to a vapour which soon empties and is gone Lord teach me as a dying man that I may be earnest and diligent after the things by which I may honour and glorifie thée therefore he that would obtain the honouring and glorifying of God and enjoying of him must d● these things by which he will be glorified First we must believe in God and we must repent of our sins we must be examining our selves know our selves we must live above the world we must converse with God and be sanctified and made pure before we can glorifie or enjoy God therefore we should pray Lord help me as a poor dying Creature to sée my néed of believing ●o●k of repenting and sanctifying work Lord teach me so to number my daies as to apply them to true wisdom Lord help me so to live that I may be alwaies ready for death Watch ye therefore for ye know not when the master of the house cometh at evening or at midnight or at the cock-crowing or in the morning lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping for men are very backward to know their frailty there is no season plainer and yet how backward are men to learn it Use of Reproof to those that are ignorant of their Frailty Hast thou a thorough Conviction of this but oh how little do we live in the consideration of this Death is far off the thoughts of young ones they have made a Covenant with Death and Hell but their Covenant shall not stand Yt young ones how many are dead younger than you and some of the same age and might not that have been you doth not every distemper tell you how frail you are and may be soon snatched away How many distempers might have béen your death had not God sealed your Deliverance and yet you know not how soon you may be called away to give an account of your stewardship O how attentive would carry one of us be unto this Sermon did we believe it would be our last Sermon The next sort of persons this reproves is Worldlings who lay out their strength and time only in present things which are not worth the looking after Oh let me urge this upon you First Consider how soon your breath is gone and you come to nothing you who please your selves in vain f●ncies and think if you may be rich your Riches may last oh consider all you have or desire can do no good wh●n Death comes Consider Heaven will be worth all you can do for it in so little a time as this Life is none can say their labour is lost that they laid out for Heavens Glory Again You who were careless Christians even you will repent that you were no wiser when you come to die you careless negligent Christians when you come to die you will cry out Oh that I had béen more circumspect in my waies and walking Oh that I had made Religion my business oh that such and such a day had been better spent oh that such and such a season had been better improved Such wishes you will have at death And Why will you not be as wise now as at death Consider that the estate of your Souls will afflict you when you come to die under your neglect 2. Vse by way of Exhortation And I beséech every one of you to beg of God to make you know how frail you are be earnest with God that he would make you know it let every one go home under a thorough Conviction of it I am a poor fading Flower perishing Dust yea a Bubble And reason thus with thy self Have I imployed my time to its proper sence for to learn this Lesson and to live it I may die soon therefore live alwaies on your watch do and do what you would be contented to do and be when you come to die if Death should seize on you suddenly Now think how few your daies may be and how soon they may be gone and that I may never have time to receive or do good Oh labour to know your own frailty Sirs I am willing to take the advantage of the awful Providence which was on this Congregation very lately on the sudden departure of your Minister Mr. John Oakes Certainly this I may say of him That few were fitter to die suddenly than he was and no man could desire to die in a better Work no Minister who died suddenly could die in a better Imployment than he did no Minister could die fitter than he all who was seeing him so suddenly stricken by death in the Pulpit could not but perceive him in the view of Eternity and that very Text he was at his departure upon tells you of the great Rejoicing he was under the words are these rejoice rather because your Names are written in Heaven This ought to have refreshed your minds he was pressing you to labour after this subject of Ioy He was of an acute temper not of a moross spirit but of an even meek spirit He could not I say desire to die a better pasture he in his Work with his