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A33725	The old apostolical way of preaching, or, Peters last legacy to all his true successors in the ministry and faith of the Gospel being an awakening word from a dying-preacher to his dying-hearers in a sermon preached on the death of Mr. Edward West, late minister of the gospel in London / by Thomas Cole ...	Cole, Thomas, 1627?-1697.	1676 (1676)	Wing C5032; ESTC R43106	10,675	23

Decease of your Minister keep those Truths fresh in your Memories and warm upon your Hearts which he Delivered to you in his Life-time Let me urge this upon you from these following Considerations 1. You lie under a very great Obligation to God and Conscience to live up to what you have heard the Word heard neglected and forgotten hath a dreadful Influence upon us many times Prov. 1.24 to the end of that Chapter so Rom. 10.18 21. Have they not heard Yes verily which was a great Aggravation of their Disobedience If it should be so with any of you Let me tell you there is a Witness now gone to Heaven against you to testifie at the last Day before God Angels and Men what Truths he Preached unto you and earnestly pressed upon you God takes notice what Means what Ministers what Messengers have been sent to every Congregation How early how often how many All my Servants the Prophets Jer. 7.25 26 27 28. rising up early and sending them q. d. I did nothing else for a long time from Morning to Evening but send unto this People What could I have done more that I have not done let them speak let any judg between me and my Vineyard I appeal to Heaven and Earth I 'le refer my self to the whole World therefore God stiles them the Generation of his Wrath rejected and forsaken of the Lord Ver. 29. 'T is a dangerous thing to have Sermons by you that are not to be found in your Hearts and Lives it signifies little to have them in your Books How inexcusable will they be who go to Hell with Directions to Heaven in their Hands and will not vouchsafe to Read them May not God say I told you which was the Way you took it from the Mouth of your Minister and noted it down I have it under your hands to shew 2. The oftner you draw any Gospel-Truth through your Hearts by calling it into your Remembrance the deeper impression it makes it seeds in the Heart and leaves a fresh fructifying Vertue behind it upon the Soul you 'l find something new in every old Truth you take up into your Thoughts if not in Notion yet in Power which is the best of all fresh mixtures of Faith make the same words exceeding profitable to us every day Faith is never cloy'd with the Word but finds it sweeter and sweeter still Faith comes at one time to a Promise that it might know the way the better the next time Faith has never done with the Word in this World but has more and more business every day with the same Promise with the same Word 'T is hid in the Heart Psal. 119.11 It dwells there 't is never out a constant In-mate 3. The Word is eternal all Flesh is Grass the Fathers where are they and Prophets do they live for ever Zach. 1.5 The Prophets may die but their Prophesies live The Word of our God shall stand for ever Isa. 40.8 'T is still in force 't is of eternal concernment 4. 'T is the greatest Honour you can do to the name and memory of your worthy deceased Minister to keep his Sermons alive upon your Hearts 〈◊〉 you keep life in them and they will keep life in you as the Word quickneth Faith so Faith quickens the Word joyning the Spirit and the Letter together God hath taken him away you have all of him and from him that ever you are like to have in this World make much of those precious Remains he is now silent in the Grave never to be seen or heard more in the Land of the living till he stand in his Lot at the end of days but if you keep in mind the Instructions he formerly gave you though he be dead he yet speaketh and you may yet hear him The Sermons you so remember and think upon you are as it were continually hearing they are well pleasing to God very profitable to your own Souls and the greatest Argument imaginable of your high esteem of and sincere love to that Faithful Shepherd of this Flock whom God hath now smitten and taken from you This is more than to build Sepulchers and adorn the Tombs of the Prophets you will erect for him an everlasting Monument in your Hearts by holding forth the Seal of his effectual Ministry among you When you can say the Word of God that came by the Mouth of such a one now in his Grave was to me a Saving Word a Sanctifying Word a Healing Strengthning Word What Spices what Perfume's so Sweet an Embalming as this Me thinks I smell these Spiritual Odours already and I hope the Sent will be stronger and stronger every day Let me add a Word of Advice to you of this Congregation God hath made a great Change among you and a Change there must be and you will find it more and more every day 't is one end that God aim's at in such dispensations to vary his Course towards you even in the means of Grace he doth all things wisely he hath variety of Work and variety of Workmen the Word reaches from top to bottom in the Soul and works here and there as God appoints it who knows best where our weakness lies what though he lay down a sharper and take up a blunter Tool be not discouraged the nature of the Work may require this sometimes as God hath Top-Stones to lay so he hath Foundations to examine he hath variety of Instruments diversly qualified for such and such special Services in the Church he knows when to set on and when to take off his Workmen he changes Hands sometimes by Death and sometimes by a providential Removal I am not against a fixed Ministry yet I think a more interchangeable Course in our Ministry sometimes would tend much to the encrease of Love and Union among Professors and to the mutual Edification of all we should have a taste of the Spirits of Men and of the variety of Gifts that may not be exactly the same in any Two in the World Some are Suns of Thunder some of Consolation you may and ought to covet the best Gifts in your choice now But still know your Faith consists not in the Wisdom of Man but in the Power of God therefore leave it by an Act of Faith to the great Shepheard of the Sheep to provide for you to direct you in all your endeavours that way and submit after all to the Lords Disposition of this Lot wherever it shall fall though you do as I told you but now you would find a difference between former and future means yet suffer the Lord which doth all the work to make Choice of the Workman and then whether Paul Apollo or Cephas all things are yours and shall be blest to you while you live in such a dependance upon the God of all Grace You may expect I should say something of your worthy Minister and my most beloved Brother and Fellow-Labourer in the Gospel who very lately step'd out of this Pulpit into the Grave this is not a day nor a place to speak of Man no not of the best of Men further then we may gather Arguments from any eminency in Gifts and Grace in them to stir up our selves and others to our duty and upon this Account only I shall say something that may add some further Weight and Strength to the Obligation that lyes upon you to keep those Truths always in Remembrance that have been delivered to you by so skilful a hand I shall not suffer his name to slip into Oblivion without some memorable remark upon it I confess what I have to say might better come from another Mouth than mine considering my Relation to him in his younger years But I am not ashamed to own that I had some hand in Planting Fruit that was ripe before me and is now gathered though this forward Increase is under God to be ascribed rather to the goodness and fertility of the Soil than to the skill of the Husbandman he was one for Endowments of Mind both as a Man and a Christian far beyond his Years he Died young but Lived long He was a Man betimes and which is more an early Christian He came into the Vineyard the first hour of the Day did his days-work by Noon and God hath given him the Preference over us all in taking him to Heaven before us Therefore I say again see that now after his Decease you have those things always in Remembrance which you have been taught by so able a Misnister of the New Testament that it may never be said you Buried your Preacher and his Sermons too in the same Grave I Had thoughts of taking more liberty in the Press than was fit for the Pulpit in giving the World a further Character of this Worthy person deceased but Considering that what I might say in his just Praise and Commendation is no news to them that knew him and may seem altogether incredible to those who knew him not I shall spare my pains leaving his Friends to their own Knowledg of him and Strangers to what enquiries they please to make concerning him being confident they will meet with that good report of him from the Mouths of many that will go beyond the testimony of my single Pen and greatly endear his name to Posterity FINIS Eccles. 9.5 Psal. 199.129 Mat. 28.19 20. 2 Cor. 10.4