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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

Though it be an errour to be oft Baptized it is a hundred times worse errour never truly to understand consent and practice after so solemn a Vow and Covenant IV. When you have given up your selves to God as your God and Father your Saviour and your Sanctifier remember that your great relations have engaged you in the greatest business and the highest hopes in all the World And therefore now live as fellow Citizens of the Saints and the Houshold of God that have nobler converse work and hope than worldly unbelievers Remember now with whom and what you have to do and that it is not a by and trifling business but the best and greatest that you have undertaken V. Joyn with those that are for Heaven whose Counsel and Company may be your help separate from no Christians by way of division further than God commandeth you and do not easily forsake the judgment of the generality of godly men But make few your familiar friends and those such as are most wise and humble and sincere and cheerful in the belief and hopes of glory and suitable to your use and converse VI. In all doubts and difficulties of Religion judg not hastily before you have throughly heard and tryed Prefer a suspended judgment that stayeth till it have tryed before a rash and hasty judgment of what you know not and may repent of VII Carefully govern your fleshly appetites and sense and avoid needless temptations especially to sinful ●leasure For lust will conceive else and bring forth sin and sin being finished will bring forth death You will find sin and comfort contrary VIII Especially fear the flatteries of the world and hopes of a pleasant life to the flesh on earth and an itch after riches plenty or preferment and designs for the attaining them love not the World nor the things that are in the World the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and pride of life the portion of the wicked for if any man love the World for the flesh and it self so far the love of the Father is not in him 1 Ioh. 2.15 16. IX Value precious Time and live not in idleness spend time as you would hear of it at last and as those that know what it is to have but one short life to determine where they shall live for ever Hear and abhor all pastimes and triflings that would rob you of your time X. Converse daily in Heaven while you are on earth let Faith still see it Let Hope still make after it and let Love desire it and delightfully remember it There is our Father our Saviour our Comforter our friends with whom we must live for ever There let our hearts be as the place of all our hopes And let the strain of your Religion be as Heavenly as you can Let it consist in love in unity and concord in the joyful praises of Iehovah and in a pure holy life This will raise you above the sinful love of this transitory life and the fear of death and give you the soretasts of Heaven on Earth while you do Gods will on earth as it is done in Heaven But it is the Spirit and grace of Christ which you must beg and seek and on which you must obediently depend for the performance of all this and not upon your unconstant wills Without Christ we can do nothing but by his strengthening us we can do all things necessary to our Salvation and we are more than Conquerors even in our patient sufferings through the Captain of our Salvation who hath Conquered for us Thus we may finish our Course with Joy FINIS

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

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