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A26929 Richard Baxter's farewel sermon prepared to have been preached to his hearers at Kidderminster at his departure, but forbidden.; Farewel sermon prepared to have been preached to his hearers at Kidderminster at his departure but forbidden Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 1683 (1683) Wing B1266; ESTC R4900 39,816 48

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to lament immoderately when we lay the bodies of our friends in the grave because we see not whither the Soul is gone nor in what triumph and joy it is received unto Christ Which if we saw it would moderate our griefs And even so we over-pity our selves our friends in our temporal sufferings because we see not whither they tend and what will follow them We see Job on the dunghil but look not so far as his restoration Jam. 5.11 Behold we count them happy which endure Ye have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy There is no judging by the present but either by staying the end or believing Gods predictions of it Use It is allowable in Christs disciples to grieve in faith and moderately for any of his departure from them They that have had the comfort of communion with him in a life of faith and grace must needs lament any loss of that communion It is sad with such a Soul when Christ seemeth strange or when they pray and seek and seem not to be heard It is sad with a believer when he must say I had once access to the Father by the Son I had helps in prayer and I had the lively operations of the Spirit of grace and some of the joy of the holy Ghost but now alas it is not so And they that have had experience of the fruit and comfort of his Word and Ordinances and Discipline and the Communion of saints may be allowed to lament the loss of this if he take it from them It was no unseemly thing in David when he was driven from the Tabernacle of God to make that lamentation Psal 42 and 43. As the hart panteth after the Water brooks so panteth my Soul after thee O God My Soul thirsteth for God for the living God When shall I come and appear before God My tears have been my meat day and night while they continually say unto me where is thy God O my God my Soul is cast down within me c. And Psal 84.2 3 4. My Soul longeth yea even fainteth for the Courts of the Lord My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God yea the Sparrow hath found an house and the Swallow a nest c. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house They will be still praising thee For a day in thy Courts is better than a thousand I had rather be a Door-keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness It signifieth ill when men can easily let Christ go or lose his word or helps and ordinances When sin provoketh him to hide his face and withdraw his mercies if we can senslesly let them go it is a contempt which provoketh him much more If we are indifferent what he giveth us it is just with him to be indifferent too and to set as little by our helps and happiness as we set by them our selves But we little know the misery which such contempt prepareth for Jer. 6.8 Be thou instructed O Jerusalem lest my Soul depart from thee lest I make thee desolate a Land not Inhabited Hos 9.12 Yea Wo also unto them when I depart from them When God goeth all goeth Grace and Peace Help and Hope and all that is good and comfortable is gone when God is gone wonder not therefore if Holy Souls cry after God and fear the loss of his Grace and Ordinances and if they lament the loss of that which dead-hearted Sensualists are a weary of and would drive away it will be the damning sentence Depart from me all ye workers of iniquity And therefore all that is but like it is terrible to them that have any regard of God or their Salvation Doct. 3. The sorrows of Christs Disciples are but short It is but NOW that they have sorrow And how quickly will this NOW doctrine 3 be gone Reas 1. Life it self is but short and therefore the sorrows of this Life are but short Man that is born of a Woman is of few days and full of trouble He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not Job 14.1 2. Though our days are evil they are but few Gen. 47.9 As our time maketh haste and posteth away so also do our sorrows which will attain their period together with our Lives As the pleasure of sin so the sufferings of the godly are but for a season Heb. 11.26 Now for a season if need be ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations 1 Pet. 1.6 The pleasures and the pains of so short a life are but like a pleasant or a frightful Dream How quickly shall we awake and all is vanished If we lived as long as they did before the Flood then worldly interest prosperity and adversity would be of greater signification to us and yet they should seem Nothing in comparison of Eternity For where now are all the fleshly pains or pleasures of Adam or Methuselah Much more are they inconsiderable in so short a life as one of ours Happy is the Man whose sorrows are of no longer continuance than this short and transitory life Reas 2. Gods displeasure with his Servants is but short and therefore his corrections are but short Psal 30.5 His anger endureth but for a moment but in his favour is life Isa 54.7 8. For a small moment have I forsaken thee but with great mercies will I gather thee In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer Isa 26.20 Come my People enter into thy Chambers and shut thy doors about thee hide thy self as it were for a little moment until the indignation be overpast Thus even in Judgment doth he remember mercy and consumeth us not because his compassions fail not Lam. 3. He will not always chide nor will he keep his anger for ever For he knoweth our frame he remembreth that we are dust Psal 103.9.14 His short corrections are purposely fitted to prepare us for endless consolations Reas 3. Our trial also must be but short and therefore so must be our sorrows Though God will not have us receive the Crown without the preparation of a Conflict and a Conquest yet will he not have our Fight and Race too long lest it overmatch our strength and his Grace and we should be overcome Though our Faith and we must be tried in the fire yet God will see that the Furnace be not over hot and that we stay no longer but till our Dross be separated from us God putteth us not into the fire to consume us but to refine us That when we come out we may say It is good for us that we were afflicted Psal 119.71 and then he will save the afflicted People Reas 4. The power of those that afflict Gods
is not speedily executed therefore the hearts of the Sons of M●n are fully set in them to do evil Eccl. 8.11 But behold the Judge is at the door Jam. 5.9 He that cometh will not tarry And for all these things you must come to Judgment Eccl. 11.9 and 12.14 5. Be not discouraged by your Lords delay but wait his coming in faith and patience Can you not wait for him so short a time O how quickly will it be accomplished sink not into despondency of mind be not dismayed in the duties or sufferings to which you are called Lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees and make straight paths for your feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way but let it rather be healed Heb. 12.12 13. Be stedfast unmoveable always abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord 1 Cor. 15.58 Be sober and hope unto the end 1 Pet. 1.13 Ye are the House of Christ if ye hold fast the confidence and the rejoycing of the hope firm unto the end Heb. 3.6.14 and 6.11 Ye have need of patience that having done the Will of God ye may inherit the promise Heb. 10.36.11 Doct. 5. When Christ shall again appear to his Disciples their sorrows shall be turned into joy When Christ returneth Joy returneth saith David Psal 30.7 Thou hidest thy face and I was troubled But v. 11 12. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing Thou hast put off my Sackcloth and girded me with gladness to the end that my glory may sing praise to thee and not be silent O Lord my God I will give thanks unto thee for ever When the Sun ariseth it is day and its approach dispelleth the Winter Frosts and reviveth the almost dying Creatures and calleth up the Life which was hidden in the seed or retired unto the root after a sharp and spending Winter how quickly doth the Suns return recover the verdour and beauty of the Earth and cloth it in green and spangle it with the ornaments of odoriferous Flowers and enrich it with sweet and plenteous fruits The Birds that were either hid or silent appear and sing and the face of all things is changed into joy So is it with the poor deserted Soul upon the return of Christ unbelieving doubts and fears then vanish The Garments of sadness are laid aside and those of gladness are put on The language of distrust and despairing lamentations are first turned into words of hope and then into words of peace and then into joyful thankfulness and praise The Soul that was skilled in no spiritual discourse but complaining of a dead and frozen heart of dull and cold and lifeless duties is now taken up in the rehearsals of the works of infinite love and searching into the mysteries of redemption and reciting the great and precious promises and magnifying the name and grace of its Redeemer and expatiating in the praises of the everlasting Kingdom the heavenly glory the blessed Society and especially of the Lamb and of the eternal God You would not think that this is the same Person that lately could scarce think well of God or that dwelt in tears and dust and darkness and could think of nothing but Sin and Hell and from every text and every Providence concluded nothing but undone or damned Would you think this joyful thankful Soul were the same that lately was crying on the Cross My God my God why hast thou forsaken me that could find nothing written on the tables of his heart but forsaken miserable and undone that daily cried out It is too late there is no hope I had a day of grace but it is past and gone When Christ returneth and causeth his face to shine upon them all this is turned into Praise and honour and glory unto the Lamb and to the Almighty and most Holy God that liveth for ever and is the everlasting Joy and Portion of his Saints And sooner or later thus will it be with all the upright that wait on God in the day of trial and deal not falsly in his Covenant The Son who was brought up with the Father and was daily his delight rejoycing always before him rejoycing also in the habitable parts of the Earth whose delights were with the Sons of Men doth bless the Children of Wisdom with a participation of his delights For blessed are they that keep his ways Blessed is the Man that heareth him watching daily at his Gates waiting at the Posts of his Doors For he that findeth him findeth life and shall obtain favour of the Lord Prov. 8.30 to the 36. Though Christ had left his Disciples so lately under fears and trouble guilty of deserting him and seemingly now deserted by him yet early on the third day he ariseth for their consolation and presently sendeth them these joyful words in the first speech he uttereth and that by a Woman that had been sorrowful and a sinner Go to my Brethren and say unto them I ascend to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God Joh. 20.17 Those that his Ministers have long been comforting in vain when Christ returneth he will revive and comfort them in a moment and with a word The Soul that now Crieth O it is impossible it will never be doth little know how easie it is with Christ It is but saying Lazarus arise Or Let there be Light and there will be Life and Light immediately at his command 2. And so when he restoreth his Ordinances and Order to a forsaken Church and restoreth their holy opportunities and advantages of grace what gladness and praising their Redeemer will there be As it was with the Churches upon the death of Julian and after the Heathen and the Arrian persecutions in the happy Reign of Constantine Theodosius Marcian c. How joyfully did the English Exiles return to Worship God in their Native Land upon the death of Queen Mary and see the fall of Bonner and Gardiner that had sacrificed so many holy Christians in the Flames How gladly did they grow in the Soil that was manured with the Blood and Ashes of their faithful Brethren and reap the fruit of their fortitude and sufferings When Christ whipt the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple and would not let them make the House of Prayer a place of Merchandize what Hosanna's were sounded in Jerusalem Math. 21.15 16. When the Salvation of Israel cometh out of Zion and the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people Jacob shall rejoyce and Israel shall be glad Psal 14 7. Blessed are they that dwell in his house for they will be still praising him For a day in his Courts is better than a thousand Psal 84.4.10 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound they shall walk O Lord in the Light of thy countenance in thy name shall they rejoyce all the day and in thy righteousness