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A53093	A sermon preached at the funerals of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ in the work of the Gospel, Mr. Samuel Collins, Pastor of the Church of Christ at Braintree in Essex, who exchanged this life for immortality in the 77th year of his age, in the 46 year of his ministry there, in the year of our Lord, 1657 preached by Matthew Newcomen ...	Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing N912; ESTC R3229	24,615	65

Saul and Jonathan David you know wrote a Poem in the praise of them you have it in 2 Sam. 1. The Beauty of Israel is fallen upon the high places how are the mighty fallen c What shall we say of that Poem of David was it a flash of wit a Pang of natural affection God forbid that we should so think was he not rather guided by the same blessed and holy Spirit that inspired him in his other Poems surely yes or this would never have been Legitimated and Canonized in Scripture amongst the rest From whence I infer That it is lawful and agreeable to the will of God and the wisdom of his Spirit to make an honourable mention of such when they are dead who have done things worthy of praise when they lived So much for the Justifying of our solemn meeting and action upon this occasion I come now to the Text. In this Chapter from the 16 verse to the 41 Introductio Textualis you have an excellent Sermon preached by Paul not the first Sermon that ever Paul preached but the first Sermon of Pauls that ever the Holy Ghost put upon Record Preached at Antioch in Pisidia so called to distinguish it from that other Antioch which was in Syria where the Name of Christian was first minted and the Disciples were first Baptized into the Christian Name Acts 11.26 from which Antioch it was that Paul was separated chap. 13.1 and sent forth to this journey in which journey coming first to Seleucia v. 4. and from thence sailing to Cyprus v. 4. after some time there spent in preaching the Gospel they came to Perga in Pamphilia Built by Seleucus Nicanor v. 13. from thence to Antioch in Pisidia v-14 To this City Paul and Barnabas guided by the Spirit of God came and went saith the Text into the Synagogue upon the Sabbath day and sate down The Synagogue was the place where the people of the Jews did ordinarily meet together every Sabbath day for the reading of Moses and the Prophets and the performing of other duties of worship unto God Hither Paul and Barnabas resort and here they sate them down as quietly and composedly as any other that were present in the Assembly offering no interruption nor disturbance all the while the Scriptures were in reading And after the reading of the Law and of the Prophets the Rulers of the Synagogue sent unto them saying Ye men and brethren if you have any word of Exhortation for the people say on v. 13. The Evangelist Luke here shows saith Calvin Non omnibus permissum fuisse loqui Calvin ad loc It was not free for any one that would to speak in that Assembly But that the work of Exhorting did lye upon certain men even those whom the Evangelist cals the Rulers of the Synagogue it did belong to them after the reading of Moses and the Prophets to instruct exhort the people out of that which had been read Therefore Paul and Barnabas do not presently as soon as the exercise of Reading was finished fall a speaking least by their over much hastiness they should cause disturbance sed modestè expectant but modestly expect till they have leave given them to speak and that by those penes quos publico consensu Autoritas erat to whom authority in the Synagogue did belong by publick consent the Rulers of the Synagogue and they supposing Paul and Barnabas even by their countenance and garb Non esse vulgares homines as one speaks to be no ordinary men Gualter ad loc sent to them saying Men and brethren if you have any word of Exhortation for the people say on Calvin ad loc We know saith Calvin how corrupt the state of the people of the Jews was at this time and the Evangelist tells us afterwards in the process of this History how proud and refractory these very Jews of Antioch were in rejecting the grace of Christ Yet thus much good saith he remained still among them that there was Decency and Order in their Assemblies Quo magis pudenda est deformis confusio quae hodie inter eos qui Christiani haberi volunt conspicitur By so much the more shameful saith he is that deformed confusion that is seen at this time among those that would be counted Christians Gualter also takes notice of several things commendable and imitable in this Jewish Assembly as their coming together on the Sabbath day their demeaning themselves decently and modestly in their Assembly their reading of Moses and the Prophets and in conclusion Et illud quoque Laudem meretur c. And this also is praise-worthy saith he that no man among them takes liberty to speak unlesse he be lawfully required therefore Paul and Barnabas though sent by the Holy Ghost would not speak till called to it Minimè itaque ferenda est Anabaptistarum intemperies c. Being thus invited Paul stood up v. 16. and beckning with his hand as men use to do that would bespeak silence and attention in those to whom they speak he said as followeth to v. 41. In which speech of Pauls we have considerable first The Introduction that Paul useth to his speech v. 13. secondly The Narration or body of the speech in the following verses First The Introduction in these words Men of Israel and ye that fear God give audience Where marke the loving and respective Compellations that Paul useth Men of Israel and ye that fear God! How doth Paul being a stranger know that there were any among them that feared God The event shewed afterwards that they were so far from fearing God as they blasphemed him v. 45. But that was more then Paul knew At the present Paul found them met together in the worship of God as men should do that fear God and therefore he hoped and judged the best of them Men and brethren saith he and all ye that fear God hearken Having thus Prefaced he proceeds to his discourse which discourse or Sermon of Pauls may as one saith be well called Pelargus ad loc A short sum or Epitome of the whole Scripture But especially it is a History of the manifold grace and mercy of God towards his Church and people First In their Election The God of this people of Israel chose our Fathers v. 17. Secondly In his Magnifying them in Egypt by the wonders which he there wrought for them And exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt Thirdly In his bringing of them out thence And brought them out of it with an high hand v. 17. Fourthly In his Indulgence and patience towards them in the wilderness v. 18. And above the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness Fiftly In putting them into Possession of the Land of Canaan v. 19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan he divided their land to them by lot Sixthly In Establishing a Civil