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A56407	The redeemer's friend, or, A sermon on John II, part of the 11th verse ... preached at the funeral of ... Mr. Samuel Fairclough, who departed this life, December 31, 1691 by Nath. Parkhurst ...	Parkhurst, Nathaniel, 1643-1707.	1692 (1692)	Wing P490; ESTC R479	10,970	32

be that find it If we substract the Numbers of the Ignorant Prophane Worldly-minded and Formal the Remainder is comparatively small And thus it hath been in all former Ages Evermore the Number of the Faithful hath been little compared with the Ungodly In the Days of Noah all Flesh had corrupted their Way Very few in the World had then any serious regard to God He only and his Family escaped the Deluge In David's time Psal 13.3 all i. e. the most were gone aside Psal 13.3 In the times of Elias seven thousand only in Israel kept themselves from the Pollution of Idolatry Rom. 11.4 In the times of Jeremiah the common People were generally poor and foolish and knew not the Way of the Lord and the Great Men had broken the Yoak and burst the Bonds in sunder In our blessed Saviour's time upon Earth the Magistrates and Ministers of the Jewish Church and the People were generally corrupt and wicked In the Apostles time notwithstanding the great Success of the Gospel yet the Faithful remain'd in comparison few so that there were not Friends enough to preserve the Apostles from violent Death And this Age surely is not much better than the former Ages of Christianity or those under the Mosaical Dispensation The Number of good Men is still small I should be glad to find an Error in the Computation but am much afraid it is too true that neither in our own or any other Reformed Church can be shewed a Community of the quantity of a Village wherein the Majority are sincere in the Profession of Christianity Wherefore to use the solemn Words of the great Apostle Eph. 4.17 I say and testify in the Lord Ephes 4.17 that they are in a perishing Condition in Paths leading to the Chambers of everlasting Death who follow the Generality of this present Generation 2. Sincere Christians are in the Family of the World generally of the younger House inferiour in worldly Respects Not many wise Men after the Flesh not many mighty 1 Cor. 1.26 not many noble are called 1 Cor. 1.26 Some Princes some Nobles some Persons of Quality some Men of Parts and Learning are among the effectually called But the Instances are rave And this was mystically represented in the Advancement of Judah Ephraim David and Solomon who were all younger Brothers in their several Families Commonly Men great in Place and Power in Wealth and Honour in Wit and Parts take the wrong Way despise Religion and neglect Godliness Thus it was in our Saviour's time the Jewish Sanhedrim and almost all Persons of Name and Authority in that Church opposed the believing Jesus was the Christ And accordingly it was laid as an Objection against receiving him and his Doctrine that the Men of Reputation did not acknowledg him John 7.48 Have any of the Rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him John 7.48 3. Sincere Christians as they are few and commonly inferiour in the World so likewise they are a scattered and dispersed Generation not in a Body together but as it were one of a City and two of a Tribe mix'd with others till Death makes the Separation As our Lord in respect of the kind of his Death was numbred with Transgressors so in all Civil Respects these are mix'd with the Wicked as Subjects of the same Prince Natives of the same Country Dwellers in the same City Members of the same Family and it may be sitting at the same Table The Divine Wisdom permits them not to be separated in this Life The Tares must grow with the Wheat till the consummation of all Things 4. Sincere Christians tho thus mixed with the Ungodly are yet very differing from them They have another Father another Birth another Country another Spirit another Practice and live another Life They are born of God Citizens of Heaven refined in their Spirits holy in Practice and live a Life of Faith They are in the World but are not of it having their Conversation in Heaven They have differing Employments Affairs that other Men neglect other Joys and Sorrows Complaints and Fears and Hopes than the Men of the World have and Meat to eat the World knows not of They are new Creatures very differing from the Men of this World and from what themselves once were 5. To proceed to their distinctive Character Sincere Christians are Persons of some considerable knowledg of God Christ and the Holy Spirit of the Fall of Man and the depravation of Humane Nature of the Covenant of Grace of God in Christ as a Sacrifice and Mediator reconciling Sinners to himself of the Doctrines Precepts Promises and Threatnings in the Scriptures They are also Penitents weary and heavy-laden under the Burden of their Sins sick of their Offences and Transgressions of the Divine Laws poor and contrite in Spirit And they live by Faith in Christ with entire dependance upon him as a Prophet Priest and King as a Propitiation for Sin and as an Advocate with the Father And they give themselves to Prayer pouring out not only Words but their Hearts to God And in the assistance of the Spirit of God they live soberly righteously and godly crucifying the Flesh striving against Sin resisting Temptations delighting in the Law of God after the inner Man opposing the Law in their Members that rebels against the Law of their Mind endeavouring to have respect to all God's Commands and that none of them may be grievous studying to walk worthy of God unto all pleasing and to adorn the Doctrine of God their Saviour in all things and humbling themselves for their Infirmities and coming short of any Duty Secondly I shall shew what are the Tokens and Instances of the Redeemer's Friendship toward sincere Christians And 1. He converses with them meets them in sacred Ordinances and where-ever two or three are gathered together in his Name he is in the midst of them and in secret Places in Prayer and Meditation manifests himself to them encouraging strengthening them and sometimes assuring them of his Love And hereby he accomplishes that Promise in Revel 3.20 If any Man hear my Voice Revel 3.20 and open the Door I will come in to him and will sup with him and he with me 2. Christ doth great things for them He washes them from their Sins in his own Blood clothes them with the Robes of his unspotted Righteousness appears in the Presence of God for them carries their Names upon his Breast in the true Holy of Holies justifies their Persons presents their Prayers to his and their Father perfumes all their weak Services and imperfect Offerings by his prevailing perpetual Intercession and so makes them grateful to God and a sweet-smelling Savour 3. Christ invests them with glorious Priviledges John 1.12 he gives them Power to become the Children of God Revel 1.6 makes them Kings and Priests to God and his Father renders all things subservient to them even the holy Angels who are

THE Redeemer's Friend OR A SERMON On John 11. part of the 11th Verse With some Additions Preached at the Funeral of the Reverend Learned and Faithful Minister of the Gospel Mr. SAMVEL FAIRCLOVGH Who departed this Life December 31 1691. By NATH PARKHURST M. A. and Vicar of Yoxford Suff. ACTS 8.2 Devout Men carried Stephen to his Burial and made great Lamentation Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit Paucis flebilior quam mihi Horat. Carm. lib. 1. Ode 24. At post nubile Phoebus Qui occidit solummodo dormit Et qui dum vixit Christum dilexit Dormit Redemptoris Amicus London Printed by J. D. for Nathanael Ranew at the King's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1692. To the Reverend Mr. JOHN FAIRCLOUGH AND Mr. GEORGE JONES With their Religious Consorts AND TO Mrs. MARTHA SHUTE The Brethren and Sisters of the Deceased Mr. SAMVEL FAIRCLOVGH My much Honoured Friends IF the Printing of this Sermon needs an Apology you must favour me with a Defence at whose Request I have preached and published it The Design of the Discourse is partly to awaken careless Sinners if any such vouchsafe it a reading by endeavouring to ruine their Hopes of Favour with the Redeemer while they persist in Ways of Vngodliness refusing the Terms of the Gospel And there being another sort of Men among us not far from the Kingdom of God almost Christians of fair Morals seeking to enter Heaven but not apprehending the right way of attaining it I earnestly desire this Sermon may be Eye-salve to these Laodiceans who court Sobriety and Forms and decline Zeal that their Vnderstandings may be cleared for the Light in them is Darkness May these perceive that the Morals of Heathens philosophiz'd and the Profession of the Christian Doctrine put together do both come short of Godliness and that renewing of Mind that qualifies Men for everlasting Salvation And as for Persons of real Godliness I hope what I have said may encourage their Progress in Holiness and minister to their Consolation And that these may be the Successes of what you have drawn into publick View let your Prayers attend its going forth that it may prosper the Lord wording with it But whatever may be the Fruit of this Instruction the Occasion of it hath induced no little Sadness upon your Hearts being deprived of the Conversation of an endeared Brother And you must be allowed to deplore so great and sensible a Loss For he that was dear to his Friends and Acquaintance must have been much more so to his Relations and Relations that knew what value to put upon the Grace and Learning Religion and Breeding Piety and Temper conspicuous in him To me the sight of Him was a Pleasure and his Conversion always an Entertainment And therefore I cannot wonder if you are in danger of grieving over-much But beware you pass not the Bounds God sets to your Resentments and that your Mournings may not overflow the Banks of Patience Submission and Resignation to the Divine Will Remember what Job said in a very mournful Case Shall we receive Good at the Hand of the Lord and not Evil You have received much Good from his Hand your Family hath had a great Portion of Divine Favours God hath made it an eminent Nursery of accomplished Preachers who have led the Way to Heaven and been instrumental for much Good in the Church of God And many Temporal Blessings hath he also heaped upon you And therefore you must the more sofily lament your Loss And as a mighty Mitigation of your Grievance consider where your absent Brother is and in what Company and how employed He is in Paradise in the Heaven of Heavens in the Company of the Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Martyrs and Spirits of just Men made perfect with Angels and with Christ praising loving enjoying and delighting in God Let these Things qualify your Griefs and imitating him in his Pattern rejoice in hope of meeting him in the glorious Mansions above And if this short Monition may contribute through Divine Blessing to your Consolation under this Cloud it will he no small Satisfaction to him who is Your faithful Friend and Servant NATH PARKHURST A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL OF Mr. SAMVEL FAIRCLOVGH John 11. part of the 11th Verse Our Friend Lazarus sleepeth THese Words were spoken by our Blessed Lord and Saviour to his Disciples and at first not understood until he had explain'd them in ver 14. where he said plainly Lazarus is dead And this was no new way of expressing Death for it very ordinarily occurs in the Stile of the holy Scriptures When the Kings of Judah died they are said to sleep with their Fathers And they that die in the Lord are said to sleep in Jesus And even in Heathen Authors Sleep is put frequently for Death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies the Dead and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Dor●●●orium are used not only for a Sleeping but also for a Burying-Place And concerning the Person here spoken of besides his Name we have in this Chapter his Relations he was the Brother of Mary and Martha and an Intimation of the Esteem and Affection our Lord had for him ver 5. Now Jesus loved Martha and her Sister and Lazarus Whereupon we may fully conclude him a true Disciple of Christ And accordingly may from the Words observe I. That true Disciples of Christ or sincere Christians are honoured with the Title of Christ's Friends II. That sincere Christians tho honoured with the Title of Christ's Friends yet are not priviledged from dying III. That tho they are not priviledged from dying yet Death is qualified and softned to them to them Death is a Sleep or as a Sleep I. Observe That sincere Christians are honoured with the Title of Christ's Friends So Lazarus is called in the Text and all the Disciples together and all his mystical Members are thus dignified in John 15.13 14 15. John 15.13 14 15. Greater Love hath no Man than this that a Man lay down his Life for his Friends Ye are my Friends if ye do whatever I command you Henceforth I call you not Servants but I have called you Friends Thus Abraham also was honoured being called the Friend of God And all his spiritual Children i. e. sincere Believers are Partakers of the like Honour and Priviledg And here it will be requisite 1st To give some account of sincere Christians that each of us may make a Judgment of our selves And 2dly To shew what are the Tokens and Instances of Christ's Friendship towards sincere Christians that it may appear not a Rhetorical Sound of Words but a Reality that they are the Friends of Christ And First That the Discourse may not walk in Darkness I shall give some account of sincere Christians in these following things 1. Sincere Christians are few in Number comparatively few Christ's Flock is a little Flock Strait is the Gate and narrow the Way that leads to Life and few there

not And now having discoursed the Observations from the Text and directed the Improvement of them that which remains is to accommodate the Words of the Text more particularly to our solemn Occasion and to our deceased Brother and Friend And 1. Our Friend and our Lord's Friend sleeps or plainly speaking is dead but it is qualified and softned to him and his Friends his Death is but as a Sleep he sleeps in Jesus and will awake again and put on Immortality 2. Our Friend sleeps he was not priviledg'd from dying Neither his Parts nor Graces nor his Knowledg and Learning nor his Usefulness and Endearedness to his Relations and Acquaintance nor yet the Love and Prayers of his Friends could exempt him from the Stroke of Death God had set him his Bounds of being active and patient He hath served his Generation by the Will of God and is fallen asleep 3. Our Friend and a Friend of no ordinary Character sleeps in the Arms of Death and better in the Bosom of Christ A Citizen of no mean City the Heavenly Jerusalem a Man of no common Qualifications eminent in Parts in Learning and in Piety not of the Laodicean Temper nor of the Sardian Complexion but strictly holy and having a Zeal for God and Religion the despighted thing in this crooked Generation great in Wisdom Prudential of much Moderation abounding in Charity a Lover of God and Men full of Faith and of the Holy Ghost full of Alms-deeds filled with great Measures of Grace from the Fulness of Christ one that had a clear Head and a warm Heart who understood and lived the Gospel a Pattern of Goodness a Blessing to his Acquaintance and an Ornament to his Family All this he was in his Life and Health and in his Sickness these things were very considerable in him God made him exemplary in Patience filled him with Peace and rendred him a mighty Pattern of the most eminent and most desirable things under Heaven i. e. a longing for Death not merely to be delivered from an Unease but upon the hope of passing into everlasting Rest and Joy He waited for Death as Sisera's Mother for him Judg. 5.28 saying Why is his Chariot so long incoming Judg. 5.28 Why tarry the Wheels of his Chariots 4. Our Friend sleeps a Friend in no ordinary Station a Minister of the Everlasting Gospel of the Blessed God a Steward of the sacred Mysteries one of Heaven's Heraulds an Ambassador for Christ a careful Shepherd a faithful Watchman a Preacher of Righteousness and in preaching clear judicious fervent driving the blessed Design of promoting both Faith and Godliness and able Minister of the New Testament And in this Province he shined very openly while Laws permitted him and when that Protection failed this Light was unhappily obscured from publick View I say unhappily for it had been alone worth an Act of Comprehension to have included this one so valuable a Man What shall I more say He was worthy God made him so of his Name and Family a Family that hath had an eminent Share of Piety Learning and Ingenuity worthy of the Friendship of all that knew him and knew the Value of Goodness mixed with Parts and Erudition And may there be now an Elisha for the Spirit of this Prophet to rest upon among the Sons of the Prophets Such was our Friend that sleeps whose Faith Holiness and Patience Love and Zeal let us follow that as he did we may live and die in the Lord and may with him living and dying be found among the Friends of Christ our blessed glorious and merciful Redeemer FINIS