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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

THE DEATH OF MINISTERS Improved Or an Exhortation to the Inhabitants of Horsley in Glocester-shire and others on the much Lamented Death of that Reverend and Faithful Minister of the Gospel Mr. Henry Stubbs BY Tho. Vincent Iohn Turner Rob. Perrott M. Pemberton To which is added A SERMON upon that Occasion by RICHARD BAXTER Printed in the Year 1678. To the Inhabitants of Horsley in Glocestershire and other places of the Country who did ordinarily attend upon the Ministry of Mr. Henry Stubbs late Deceased Beloved Friends ALthough you whose Habitation is so remote are unknown by face unto us as we whose work and Ministry is in London are unto you yet because of the great Love which Mr. Henry Stubbs your most worthy and laborious Pastor and our most dear Friend and Reverend Brother ●id bear towards you whilst he had the oversight of you we are willing to give some Testimony of our great respects to the party deceased whose memory will always be pre●ious to us by shewing our respects to you in sending you some lines to further your im●rovement of this sad Providence which hath ●aken away your Minister looking upon our ●elves as under a particular Obligation to pay ●ur mite by endeavouring to promote the spiritual benefit of Mr. Stubbs's hearers in the Countrey after he hath taken such indefatigable pains for the advantage and Soul-welfare of our Hearers in the City We want words to express this so great and publick loss of this so great and excellent Minister who as he was generally known by the best of people in the City and adjacent parts and as his Ministry was highly prised although but sometimes tasted when he came occasionally to London so his death both by Ministers and People here hath been greatly Lamented But what Tongue can utter your loss who were more especially under his Pastoral charge and inspection his care and instruction We suppose it was grievous to you to part with him for a while when he came last to the City although it were with hopes of receiving him again But when you heard from London that your ●astor was fallen sick taken sick in Preaching so sick that he could not Preach and then he was sick indeed when you heard of his Feaver the violence of it and his danger O what thoughts of heart had you What fears di● there then arise in your hearts Wha● wr●stlings at the Throne of grace Lord spare him Lord restore him to us again Lord try us again a ●●●tle longer with this mercy What care was there among you and solicitude abou● his health and recovery Not without some hopes that the Lord might be entreated and ●end a gracious ear to the many prayers both ●n City and Country put up in his behalf so as to raise him and rescue him from the Jaws of death in order to his further serviceableness in the land of the living But when the doleful tidings came to you that Mr. Stubbs was departed that your Pastor was dead that he had finished his course and resigned up his spirit what were your looks your thoughts your speeches then What ●ighs what sorrows what tears what bitter mournings and lamentations were there generally then to be found amongst his acquaintance and hearers in the Country And is he gone ●ndeed Shall we no more see his face No more hear his voice Will he pray amongst us and pray for us no more Will he appear in the Pulpit and Preach to us no more Did we think that the last Sermon which he Preached before his last ●ourney would be the last Sermon which we should have and hear from him He lately Preached to us of praying without ceasing and did we think he would so soon cease to pray himself He called upon us with great importunity that we would pray fervently and he lived in the practice of his own Sermons we have heard of his constant secret Devotions his dayly prayers with his Wife and in his Family and he did bear us upon his heart in his private addresses unto God But O how did this good man waste and spend his spirits in his fervent prayers with us and upon our account when he prayed amongst us on ordinary and extraordinary occasions We have often known him to continue five or six hours together in Preaching chiefly in prayer on fasting-days being in the Country destitute of the help of any other Minister and that without impertinencies tautologies tedious repetitions or any crude raw rude and nauseating expressions but with a great and delightful variety of holy pleas and arguments and if our base hearts have been tyred sometimes with the length of his administrations yet he himself hath seemed to be little tyred at least his spirit hath been unwearied with all his pains and labour We remember how affectionately be used to make acknowledgment of sin of our sins which he was more grieved for than our selves we remember his sighs and groans which from an oppressed heart brake forth at his mouth signifying an inward sense beyond the utterance of words we remember how the tears did often steal from his eyes and run dow● his old cheeks how he hath often wept for us when our eyes have been dry our hearts stupi● and hard like a stone within us We remember his humble Petitions his fervent supplications a● the throne of grace for us how he would wrestl● with God like Jacob and when we thought he ha● been quite spent how he hath recovered his strength and renewed his hold as one resolved to take no denyal and not to let the Lord go without his blessing for us as well as for himself And did we think that these extraordinary motions and affections in one so ancient did presage his near approaching death that he was come now very nigh to the end of his race That being so ripe for Heaven he would not be long out of Heaven in the Suburbs of which he seem'd to be when he was in his Devotions Did we think that the Lord would so soon gather him and receive him to himself and say to him pray no more for this people We remember his introductions to his work when he first entred his Pulpit beyond the ordinary custome of other Ministers and indeed there were many things extraordinary in him how before his Sermon and Prayer too he used to be speak our attention and endeavoured to incite and stir up our affection with various arguments sometimes minding us of Gods Omnipre●ence and his all-seeing eye sometimes of the Divine Authority of the word which he was to Preach that it was indeed the word of God by which we should be judged at the last day sometimes minding us of the worth of time especially of such seasons of grace sometimes of the worth of our Souls which the gain of all the world could not compensate the loss of sometimes of the worth of grace beyond all the treasures of the Earth which we were

capable of gaining by our diligent hearing sometimes minding us of our death and the eternity which we should enter upon immediately after the separation of our Soul from our Body but did we think his own death was so near and that he would enter into eternity so soon himself We remember with what gravity seriousness and sincerity he used to Preach unto us with what plainness he did accommodate the word to our capacity with what zeal and fervency he did make application to us of the great truths of Religion how he pressed sins upon our consciences by a clear close and powerful conviction adding the most moving considerations to awaken us vnto a sense of them a hearty grief and repentance for them We remember how feelingly he made known to us the glad tidings of Salvation by faith in Iesus Christ how earnestly he urged upon us our duty towards God and one towards another backing his exhortations with the most cogent arguments and how notably he did insinuate what he spake hereby into our affections we remember how he taught us not only by his Doctrine but also by his example going before us in the way of duty and the way to Heaven but did we think however in Heaven he would be above us that he would be also in Heaven before us He came to my house not long before he went to London it may be one may say and another may say and possibly many of you may say ●lthough I were unworthy to receive such a one under my roof and methought his face did look ●ike the face of an Angel I remember his ●umble grave look his image is still upon my ●ind as if his person were still before mine eye ● remember his kind pleasing countenance his ●weet and obliging speeches he came not to eat of my bread but to feed me with the bread of life ●nd how did he entertain me with holy and ●eavenly discourse he spake to my self and he ●pake to my Wife about our Souls I hope I shall ●ever forget his last words so long as I have breath and a memory to retain any thing he spake to my Children and my Servants he would needs ●ave them all called that he might give them some words of instruction that he might speak something to awaken and quicken them to mind ●heir Souls and Salvation He told us all of ●eath and judgment how near we were to Eter●ity but did I think his own glass was so near ●un out and that he would so quickly be himself ●n that Eternity which he spake of so frequently ●nd affectionately to others When he went forth ●f my doors did I think he would never set foot ●ithin them again And that when he went ●way he was going and was so near unto his long ●ome The last Lords day of his Preaching to us ●e gave us notice of his journey that he intended on the Monday and desired to see us the nex● morning not at his house but in the Church that there he might take leave of us and ther● several of us came together to see him and ther● we heard his last Sermon to us his Text was Prov 3.6 In all thy ways acknowledg him and he shall direct thy paths We well remembe● the words that dropped then from his mouth bu● did we think they wou●d be his last words to us Did we think when God was directing his path t● London that he was thereby directing his way so soon to Heaven Did we think that when he took his Farewell of us that it was his last Farewel and that we should meet him no more until the Heavens shall be no more O that we ha● perswaded him for he was a man easy to be entreated that he would have stayed in the Countrey with us some weeks longer and have forborn such frequent Preaching until the hea● of the season were over which his old body and wasted spirits could not so well brook although he thought himself able to bear it well enough and that he should go thorow it as he had done in former times Had we foreseen the issue and ven● of this journey to London rather than fail we would have raised the whole Countrey of his acquaintance and come about him with earnest desires and requests to stay him here we would have hung about his arms and neck we would have ta●en hold of his hands and his feet and forcibly if we could not otherwise have detained him among us that he might have escaped that arrow and stroke of death which was prepared for him in London If he had been resolved to go that he might hasten home to his Fathers house we would have used our endeavour to alter his resolutions we would have wept and cry'd and prayed with importunity Good Sir don't leave us yet good Sir stay with us a little longer pity such and such ignorant Families which when you are gone are like to perish for want of instruction pity such and such unconverted persons who are hastning and rushing forward in ways of sin to their own damnation and although they have not hearkened to former calls it may be some further calls from your mouth may through Gods blessing prevail with them and be effectual to convert and save them Pity your Wise who is like to be left a Widow and what a sorrowful Widow is she like to be Pity your Children which will be Fatherless and if some of them be provided for yet you know who of them are low and shiftless and quickly will feel your loss and all of them will greatly miss your company and your help of them in Heavens way Pity your Spiritual Children some of whom are but new born Babes in Christ who are not like to thrive should they be so soon wean'd from the breast who have need that you should give them more of the sincere Milk of the word which they have tasted and so well relish in order to their Spiritual growth and nourishment pity your poor flock which you are leaving think what grievous Wolves when you are gone may enter amongst them to rend and tear them some of them are sorrowful and they have need of you to comfort them and how will their sadness and sorrow be encreased when they hear of your decease Some of them are weak and they have need of you to strengthen them some of them are staggering they have need of you to establish them yea some have lost their way already and are wandring and they have need of you to reduce them some of them are bruised and they have need of you to bind them up and the most of them are exceedingly diseased all have their Spiritual maladies and they have need of you to administer Soul-Physick to them in order to their cure and healing and will you leave your flock in such a condition when there is so much need of such a Pastor and they are not like in hast to get another

to succeed you who will watch over and feed them as you have done Indeed after so much toil and labour you may well long to be at rest after so much work you may well look and long for your reward but will not your rest be the sweeter if you ●abour a little more Will not your reward ●e the greater if you add further work to what you have done already If you long to be in Heaven O stay a little for us till we be more fitted for that place good Sir abide a little longer with us that you may gain more Souls for Christ who will add to your glory and joy at the day of Christs glorious appearance Thus we might have argued and pleaded with him to stay had we known that he was going from us not to London only but also unto Heaven But it was the will of God he should take this journey to London and that he should finish his course there his glass was run his work was done the bounds of his years and days were determined over which he could not pass had both he and we never so much desired it He is gone he is gone never to return to us again in this World We have lost a most dear tender hearted faithful laborious and painful Minister but our loss is his gain he is happy we do not envy his happiness but he hath left us behind forlorn and sorrowful in a World of sin and misery Such language as this we may suppose to have been amongst you in the Country and as you are most deeply concerned in the loss of Mr. Stubbs so that you have been greatly affected therewith beyond what we can set forth Two Funeral Sermons on Mr. Stubbs death have been Preached in the City one on the Lords day by Mr. Thomas Watson the other on the week day by Mr. Richard Baxter both which we suppose will come to your hands The Character which Mr. Baxter in his hath given the only Sermon of the two which we have seen of Mr. Stubbs his Spirit Doctrine manner of Life conversation his great diligence and unwearied pains in publick Preaching and private instruction when the Sermon doth come forth will sufficiently evidence to others as well as your selves what a loss above others you have sustained Should we employ our Pens in drawing further lineaments of this excellent person they might prove but shadows not to set off but obscure the picture of his spirit already drawn so lively by a far more skilful hand and therefore we forbear any further commendations of him who is above our commendation Our design and business is to mind you of your duty in reference to this sad providence which hath bereaved you of such a Pastor as Mr. Stubbs was unto you One great duty is to lament and lay to heart your Pastors death to affect you herewith what we have already written hath a tendency we know all of you have reason to grieve but are there not too many of you unsensible of this great loss And is not this loss the greatest to such When good old Iacob dyed his death was lamented sorely not only by his own Children but also by the Egyptians Gen. 50. 10 11. When Moses and Aaron dyed the Israelites mourned for each of them thirty days Numb 20.29 Deut. 34.8 When the good King Iosiah was slain there was a great mourning for him amongst the Iews called the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon When Elisha the Prophet lay on his death-bed Ioash although a wicked King did weep over him 2 Kings 13.14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he dyed and Joash the King came down to him and wept over his face and said O my Father my Father the Chariot of Israel and Horsemen thereof And we read Act. 8.2 when Stephen the Protomartyr was stoned by the Iews Devout men carryed Stephen to his burial and made great Lamentation over him Eccles. 12.5 Man goeth to his long home and the Mourners go about the streets But when such men go men of God Embassadours Ministers such eminent Ministers as yours was O what mourning should there be for him you have lost a Soul friend yea a Soul-Father an old Disciple a Soul-counsellor a true shepherd a Soul feeder a sincere Nathanael a Barnabas a Soul comforter you have lost an Angel a steward a labourer a watchman a builder one that studied for your Souls Preached prayed for your Souls watched for your Souls wept for your Souls spent himself for your Souls good and shall not such a loss be bewailed As Paul said to the Ephesians concerning himself we may say to you concerning Mr. Stubbs Act. 20.25 Behold all ye amongst whom he hath gone for some year● Preaching the Kingdom of God ye shall see hi● face no more and it is said Verse 37.38 And they all wept sore and fell on Pauls neck and kissed him Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake that they should see his face no more Mr. Stubbs hath several times come to the City and returned to you again but now he will return to you no more he hath done Preaching to you he hath done praying for you he will weep and wrestle for you no more he will never more instruct and counsel you never more warn and admonish you never more exhort and perswade you never more comfort and encourage you the doors are now shut the doors of your ears have been too often shut against his message and now the doors of his lips are shut up and never will they be open to you any more It would have been a just cause of great trouble if your Minister had been removed into a corner or had been thrust into a Prison although there you might have visited him sometimes and received a Spiritual benefit by his private converse and not have been without hopes of his deliverance and enjoying the fruit of his labours again but now he is gone from whence he will not return his Soul is fled beyond your reach and his body is gone down to the place of silence the Lord hath put him to silence men could not do it he would preach so long as he had a Tongue to speak but God hath silenced him in the grave so that now you must not look that he should pray more and put up further supplications for you or preach more and give further instructions unto you this is a Lamentation and should be for a Lamentation Especially you should lament your sins which have procured this loss this sad stroke have you not sinned away your Minister by your unteachableness under the word which hath been taught by his mouth your unfruitfulness under Gods showing upon you Gods dressing and manuring of you by his hands We have had our loss too here in the City not only of him but also of many other eminent and faithful Ministers our glory is in a great measure

most of all our honest English practical Divines to make me a Christian indeed before set my self to the artificial part I repent ●ot of this unusual method IV. Let your joyful part of Religion bemost of your Meditations The infinite goodness of God who is Love the wonder of mans Redemption the freeness and fulness of th● promise and the certainty and glory of ou● future state these are the chief part of ou● Religion and of chiefest use which must resolve us fix us quicken us and help us to live in thankfulness and joy V. Above all labour to strengthen faith in Christ his word and the life to come and to live in the constant exercise thereof Faith is it that sheweth us the matter and reason of our duty and our joy And if believing Meditation have too long intermissions our jo● will also intermit And if affliction or weakness make our present state to be grievous to u● and keep us from much present joy yet faith and hope can see that which is to come Man● of Gods faithful servants labour in peace ●● Conscience and in hope who through infimities of the flesh have no great joys and y●● may be well said to finish their course with joy because everlasting joy is the end which at t●● finishing of it they obtain VI. Stick not at labour or suffering Hearten not to the repining and seducing flesh Think nothing too much or too dear your work is good and much better wages in it self than fleshly pleasure Labour for God and ●ouls and keep out selfishness and carnal ends ●nd God will secure your reward Labour ●aithfully and trust God confidently fulfil his ●●mmanding will whoever countermand you ●nd then rest in his accepting disposing and re●arding will whatever befal you in the World His will is the only infallible rule ●nd his will is the only secure and felicitating ●●st They that conscionably do his will may ●●mfortably say The will of the Lord be done ●our brother in his sickness often did His will made us his will hath maintained ●●d preserved us and multiplied mercies to us 〈◊〉 his will we live and by his will we die ●●d in his will we hope to rest for ever Mr. ●●ubbs is gone before This Will hath guided 〈◊〉 and this Will hath received him In 〈◊〉 same good hand I am closely follow 〈◊〉 him Our separation is like to be very ●●rt And none of you will stay long behind ●●rewel vain vexatious World Farewel ●●lignant lying cruel World Welcome 〈◊〉 Light and Love delightful perfect and Eternal Let it be our care so to finish our course with joy that we may hear Well don● good and faithful servant enter thou into t●● joy of thy Lord. Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing Come Lord Jesus come quickly Amen VSE 2. BUt methinks I should not let you th●● have been the hearers of Mr. Stub●● and such as he go without some notice wh● it is that this Text and this providence of G●● do call you specially to consider Which 〈◊〉 1. Whether you have furthered the Joy 〈◊〉 your Teachers course 2. Whether you ta●● care that your own course may be finish with joy and why it must be done 〈◊〉 how I. Do not think that you are not m● concerned in the matter whether your T●●chers live and die in joy Neither say w●●● they are dead it is too late to mind that wh●● is past and gone As much as it is past yo● account is not past You may hear of 〈◊〉 again in another manner than now you do●● You are concerned in it 1. For your own interest 2. For their Relation to you and labours for you in gratitude and humanity 3. As you are obliged to the Church of Christ and regard its interest And 4. as you are men and lovers of mankind I. What is their Ministry but the seeking of your Salvation And what is their Joy but their success next Gods acceptance of their labours And if they miss of this is it not you that will be the greatest sufferers If you fall out with your Physician or cast ●way or cast up the only Physick that can cure ●ou is not death more to you than the loss of his labour and Physick to him Shall the Physician mourn over his dying patient and ●hall the patient think it nothing to him If ●he Child prosper not or die the Nurses sor●ow is a smaller matter than the Childs death ●s your unconverted unpardoned miserable ●ate and your danger of Damnation more ●o us than to you Will your Hell be no more ●ainful than our compassion And when your ●orm never dyeth and your fire will be un●uenchable our compassion will cease and we ●hall grieve for you no more The God that forbad Samuel to mourn any more for Saul will cause us to approve of hi● Righteous judgment and to rejoice in th● glorifying of his Justice on you Abraham did but upbraid Dives with his former sinfu● pleasures Your Teachers yea your own Parents will not mourn in Heaven for all th● torments that you undergo in Hell not consent to ease you by a drop of water Luk. ● 16. O what a pitiful sight it is now to see a Teacher or Parent mourning over the misery of ignorant careless wilful sinners and they themselves rejoycing and despising compassion and laughing at the brink of Hell I hea●● of a passionate Wife that cut her own throa● to anger her Husband And they tell us that the Circumcellian Donatists that separated from other Christians in a Prelatical ze●● for their own Bishop did murder themselve● to bring the odium upon their adversaries a● persecutors But that poor sinners should merrily run towards Hell to anger their Teachers yea tha● multitudes should do thus what an instance is it of the madness of corrupted minds On● saith I will never hear him more and another saith shall I be Catechized like a Boy and another saith These Preachers would make us mad if we should believe and lay to heart what they say and another saith Cannot one drink and be merry and please his flesh but he must be damned for it Are none saved but Puritans and Precisians And who is it that will have the worst of this at last God will not condemn us for your sins If you will needs be miserable for ever our desires and endeavours to have saved you shall not be lost at all to us O how dear will impenitent sinners pay for all the tears and groans which now they do constrain from their compassionate Teachers That God who is Love it self and putteth love into Parents for the education of their Children hath also put a tender love to Souls and especially to their own flocks into every faithful Minister of Christ. Which maketh all their study and labour and sufferings easie to them or tolerable at least for the comfortable hope which they have of mens Salvation