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A66346	The excellency of a publick spirit set forth in a sermon preach'd (since much enlarged) at the funeral of that late reverend divine Dr. Samuel Annesley, who departed this life Dec. 31, 1696 in the 77th year of his age : with a brief account of his life and death / by Daniel Williams.	Williams, Daniel, 1643?-1716.	1697 (1697)	Wing W2648; ESTC R26373	66,824	154

my hands and the time of my Vengeance is come I pronounce thee guilty of persidiousness to my Name and Interests and unprofitable to others and thy self in not rightly employing my Talents for common benefit as well as thine own for this I now effectually and irrevocably adjudge thee to the Loss of all Felicity Glory Grace and Joy which my presence doth afford and this without any future Hopes from any further strivings with thee or offers to thee and be thou now sealed and separated to the height of Misery that is Depart from me you cursed a Misery in its nature and degree so great as what 's fitted to torment those capital Enemies of mine the Devil and his Angels who shall be thy Companions because they were thy Rulers so painful to thy Body as the hottest fire and not less to thy Soul else it were not fitted to torment the Devils who are Spirits so full of horrour as Darkness is yea a Darkness as remote and free from Light as can be that is outer Darkness and all so resented felt and afflictive as to cause the extremest sorrow anguish and fretting against God thy Companions and thy self there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth And as for Duration it 's everlasting fire it 's for ever that this Sentence shall take hold of and be executed upon thee which is confirmed by another place that declareth the continuance of the Misery of unuseful Men under the Emblem of Chaff as opposed to useful Wheat the Chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire Luke 3. 17. which is the same with those words their Worm dieth not and their Fire is not quenched Mark 9. v. 46. There 's no hopes of an alteration of their Estate unless words cannot express the Eternity of Hell Torments yea unless Sinners may be reclaimed when expelled from all the gracious Influences of the Divine Presence implied in depart from me Yea unless there be a more Valuable Sacrifice for Sinners than the Son of God was for this will not relieve them Heb. 9. 26. Yea if there be not an Administration for reducing Sinners after and fitter than the Kingdom of Christ for this will be delivered up upon that time that this Sentence passeth the first time on Sinners found then alive solemnly upon the departed and living and executed upon Devils who till then are Prisoners 1 Cor. 15. 23 24 26 28. 2 Pet. 2. 4. compared with Matth. 8. 29. Ought not you to tremble at this prospect of Eternal Misery Yet if you are these unfaithful and unprofitable Sinners during Life you will be thus found guilty and sentenced when you Die Consider again and again what thou must hear feel and endure for thy unprofitableness add this to the great things thou losest by it and also that what now thou seemest to get or save through unusefulness cannot at present be kept with a Blessing when thou hast done thus in a serious manner I will appeal to thy self whether thy folly is not gross enough to make thee ashamed and thy Misery great enough to fill thee with terrour that unusefulness in thy Age hath been allowed by thee Yea I dare give you leave to put all the loss charge labour and danger of Publick Service with all the ease safety and benefit of unserviceableness and set them all against the fore-mentioned Mischiefs which attend the unprofitable and if thou believest the certainty of these be then affected at thy barrenness as the cause appears to thy self nay were there but a probability nay but a possibility that these fruits of unprofitableness were true it were sufficient to make thee ashamed and grieved for it Obj. Tho' I must agree that it's folly to become liable to these Mischiefs yet are all who are unuseful subject to endure them for if so who shall escape Supposing a capacity to service I shall briefly answer Ans. There is 1. A degree of unusefulness which through weakness and temptation may oft befal a godly Man which indeed shall not bring Eternal Misery upon him tho' God usually testifies his displeasure against it in this Life 2. There is an unusefulness which will infallibly bring Eternal Misery upon whoever is guilty of it If it be not so you must question the plainest discoveries of the Gospel of Truth Obj. 2. How shall I know the kind and degree of that unusefulness that will certainly bring Eternal Misery from that which a godly Man may be guilty of thro' weakness and temptation Ans. A full Answer to this and the other Objections may be gathered from what is largely insisted on in the former heads But because some may not so easily apply that to such particular cases I shall therefore give you these short hints 1. The Unusefulness of any good Man is such as doth consist with an unfeigned dedication and habitual devotedness of himself and all he hath to God in Christ and this is persevered in He is no Believer or good Christian that is not thus devoted to God and such unusefulness as is consistent with this is not a Mark of Hell But that unusefulness which is not consistent with unfeigned dedication and habitual devotedness to God in Christ is an infallible Mark of Eternal Misery if persisted in 2. He that shall escape Eternal Misery is not unuseful in the prevailing scope of his life but every Son of Perdition is so the course of his life is unprofitable and thence he is denominated unfruitful in his best State the stated bent of his Soul is to do more hurt than good 3. What good he doth who shall escape Hell he usually doth it in uprightness from love and obedience to God with a believing respect to God in Christ but the Child of Wrath in whatever seeming good he doth hath a greater regard to carnal considerations and acteth not from Faith Love and obediential regard to God 4. The good Man repents of and bewails his unusefulness when convinced of it and heartily desires to know wherein he is culpably unuseful that he may reform as well as by Faith in Christ sue out his Pardon upon repenting of it But the ungodly is hardened in his unusefulness unwilling to know it set against reforming if not insensible of his need of Pardon yea oft justifies himself in his selfish unprofitable course 5. The true Christian is truly glad and thankful when God doth most encline and enlarge his heart to overcome his selfishness and to act in the most useful serviceable manner tho' no carnal respects of his own be served thereby yea tho' loss reproach and suffering attend it so God be but honoured and a common good subserved But the carnal Man if he hath been over-ruled to any thing which proves useful yet if his own Credit or wordly Benefit be not advantaged and much more if he comes to suffer by it he is grieved and repenteth of what he hath done whatever honour God receives or benefit others get thereby By

Judgment abate your Delight aggravate your Difficulties frame Excuses find Diversions enervate Motives and many other ways lessen your Service and as they grow they tend to still further Abatements in the opposite Graces Oh! where will these declensions stop if you allow them And every Day you will be less able and disposed to recover your former strength and consequently be less sure and fit to serve your Generation 2 Obs. The usefullest persons die David fell asleep Shall I represent this as a Warning or as an Encouragement to Service It hath something of both and in each respect it 's a strong Motive to serve our Generation 1. It 's a Warning to be useful whiles you live for Work or Loyter you Death is daily making its Approaches and when it seizeth it will be in vain to wish to be spared for greater use or resolve to do what you hitherto neglected Death sets a period to our Endeavours to benefit the Church or Nation our Friends or Relations they can expect no further advantage by us Therefore in a sence of your own frailty and the certainty of dying within a short while resolve with our blessed Saviour Ioh. 9.4 I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day the night cometh when no Man can work It 's a Mercy to have nothing undone which God gave us Life for and to be finishing it when the Arrest of Death is felt 2. It 's an Encouragement to such as faithfully serve their Generation The usefullest fall asleep not indeed if it were such a sleep as rendred the separated Soul unactive for continued Service here would be more pleasing and profitable to them than such a sleep as that but it 's a rest from Labour tho' not from Work from Pain but not from Pleasure to the departed Soul which will be with Christ and tho' separated for a while is sure to be re-united to the Body at the Resurrection It 's a Woe to the unprofited World that eminently useful Men are Dead for you can hope for no further help nor expect any benefit by them they left you barren and miserable after all their Labours and must be terrible Witnesses against you It 's a loss to the Church and Nation that such eminently useful Men must die the Defence Glory and Blessing of a People are removed what an open breach is made The Earth's endangered by removal of such Pillars These are the Chariots of Israel and the Horse-men thereof 2 King 13. 14. There be but few such among the multitude of Christians and their loss is not easily made up but to the faithful eminently useful Saint it 's a privilege he shall die being all such are not to be translated he would not live always Job 7.16 for by Death he goes into better company he 'll be freed from a weight that clogg'd him tho' he moved so fast the Sin and Sorrow he felt he is to feel no more he shall enjoy Christ in another manner relish Pleasures in a higher way and possess what he hoped and waited for Death must be his great Advantage to whom faithful and publick Service is his very Business and Trade whiles he liveth To me to live is Christ and to die is Gain Phil. 1.21 22. Instead of the Application of this Doctrine I shall turn my Discourse to the Occasion of our present Meeting the Death of your Pastor Dr. Samuel Annesley in whom we have the whole Text exemplified he served his Generation and he is fallen asleep In the last part a just cause of Mourning is presented with respect to many more than our selves in the former a lively Example is proposed for our imitation as to both here 's a convincing instance We see it 's possible for Men in our Age to serve their Generation and yet the greatest Usefulness prevents not Death for he who was so eminently Useful lies now Dead He began early he continued long and never ceas'd to serve his Generation until by Death he was allowed to rest from his Labours He was born of very godly Parents at Kellingworth near Warwick Anno 1620. and their only Child The Name Samuel was appointed for him by his eminently Pious Grand-mother who died before his Birth and gave this reason for her desire that he should be so called I can say I have asked him of God His Infancy was as strangely impressed with the thoughts of being a Minister to which his Parents dedicated him from the Womb which so transported him from 5 or 6 years old as to engage him to unusual Industry in what improv'd him in order to it then it was he took up a custom which he always observed viz. Reading 20 Chapters in the Bible every Day Our God to whom the end is known from the beginning was as provident in forming him for great Service as he was forward in those indications that he should be employed therein this appeared in the hale and hardy constitution of his Body which was such as to endure the coldest Weather without Hat Gloves or Fire For many years he seldom drank any thing besides Water his Sight so strong that to his Death he read the smallest Print without Spectacles and in a Life lengthened to his 77th Year He was rarely sick his Natural capacity was good and his temper vigorous and warm which his Grace over-ruled mostly to undertake those excessive Labours and sustain the Difficulties which without a Body and Mind so fashioned had been impossible in so long a course of Service And this vigour he so retained to his very Death as if God would give an instance That the servour of some Mens Souls in his Work were either independent on the Body or their Bodies with Moses were still repaired even to Old Age when he designeth extraordinary Services by them But which was more he was not only thus separated but also sanctified from the Womb oft since declaring He never knew the time he was not Converted About 15 Years of Age he went to Oxford where he gave such Instances of his Piety and Diligence as would engage a Recital if I resolved not to omit these with all other things tho' very laudable except his Usefulness his ripe Fruits which fed so many my regard is to A Heart so naturally bent for God's Glory and the good of Souls cou'd admit no longer delays from Work than what a due fitness for it and a regular call unto it made necessary yet so long Conscience obliged him to desist he well knowing that the strongest desires of Ministerial Work in the unqualified and uncalled will not justifie their usurpation of the Office nor prevent Disorders and Damage to the Church and themselves by their publick performances He began to cast his Net as Chaplain to the Earl of Warwick then Admiral and thence removed to Cliff in Kent where he met with a Storm more tempestuous than at Sea for the people of that Place being fond of