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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93322	A sermon preached Feb. 19. 1692. upon the funeral of that late excelllent [sic] servant of our Lord Jesus, Mr. Richard Fincher who finished his course, Feb. 10. 1692. By Samuel Slater, M.A. minister of the gospel.	Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.	1693 (1693)	Wing S3973; ESTC R230442	33,383	36

Covenant they are free from Condemnation yet they may expect Probations whensoever God please and Correction when they deserve and need it As we before intimated God hath reserved unto himself a Liberty and Power of Visiting his Children's Iniquities with the Rod and their Transgressions with Stripes But not running Cross to the Covenant is not all it is too little for in afflictive Providences upon good Men God acts in pursuance of his Covenant for by that he stands Obliged to be not only a Sun to them for refreshing and a Shield for defence not only to give them Grace in the way and Glory in the Country but also to withhold no good thing from them that walk uprightly Now Reason and Experience tell us that Physick is good wholsome and necessary sometimes as well as Food and Purges tho' strong and make Heart-sick are good as well as Cordials and bitter things are good as well as sweet Psal 119.71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted Many an holy and gracious Person cannot say It is good for me that I am afflicted Poor Creature his Spirit is so disorder'd by the bitterness of the Affliction that he cannot at present taste the sweetness of that good it doth him but sooner or later every such an one shall say It is good for me that I have been afflicted While God is Plowing upon their Backs and making long his Furrows they conclude it is very strange Work but when they once come to reap the Harvest they shall most freely and with thankfulness acknowledge to his Glory that it was very good Work Secondly In afflictive Providences God is most true and faithful to his Peoples Interest Though they be and often are Sufferers yet it is to be Charged upon themselves and not upon God if they be losers It is his gracious Will that they should not lose but gain by their Sufferings and that their Gains should not only compensate and equal their Losses but likewise much exceed them From the Thorns that prick and wound them and let out some of their Blood they shall gather the peaceable Fruit of Righteousness Heb. 12.11 When the Lord leads his People into a Waste and howling Wilderness he makes for them a right way though there was none before possibly it is steep ruggid and troublesome however it is right and walking in it undefiled they shall be brought to a pleasaut Place a good Land a City of Habitations When God is stripping you of this and that and the other Delight He is thereby fitting you for a more Noble Enjoyment a more Valuable Good yea for those Blessings which run parallel with the Line of Eternity This is all the Fruit to take away your sin and to prepare you for a more intimate Communion with him here and a plenary endless Fruition of him in the other World 1 Cor. 3.22 All things are yours whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the World or Life or Death or things present or things to come all are yours O the Riches of a Believer all his Ministers Ordinances Providences those that look pleasantly upon you and those too that have a terrible Aspect all are yours your Friends your Servants all imployed for the promoting of your Holiness and thereby your Happiness the good Man in the 73d Psalm was pained grieved and pricked in his reins but upon his going into the Sanctuary and Consulting with the Divine Oracles his Pains abated and went off so that He quickly sound all well 23 24. Nevertheless I am continnally with thee and though evil be with me I will not fear it so long as I am with thee thou holdest me by my right hand whereby I am safe from sinking into utter ruine thou shalt guide me with thy Counsel and so whatever I may lose by the way I shall not be quite lost my self and afterward receive me unto glory and if thou receive me it s no matter who rejects me and however things go with me at the present I am sure they will be perfectly well at last For the sufferings of this present life are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed Rom. 8.18 No not to be mentioned the same day because these are but light Afflictions and short but for a moment and yet they work for real Saints a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory Thus you have seen that all God's Judgments are right wherefore he deserves to be justified and that he is Faithful in Afflicting his Children therefore it becomes them to be satisfied He will Correct them that he may not Lose them He will Judge them that he may not Condemn them with the World We have finished the Doctrinal part and shall now proceed to the Use which will be by way of Exhortation dividing it self into two Branches VSE Exhortation first I do Counsel and beseech you all to rest satisfied with and subscribe to the Righteousness of God in his Judgments that are upon you and his Faithfulness in those Afflictions which which he hath been pleased to exercise you Let him be justified when he Chides and Frowns let him be Clear'd when he Judgeth Do this now with reference to that smarting Stroak which was lately given you and proved the sad Occasion of the present Discourse and do the same too with reference to any other Rebuke and Blast of Providence which is upon you And it is according to the Will of God and the Practice of his People for you to make your satisfaction known Let it appear and that by such things as these First By Ceasing and putting an end to all Disputes Stop the Mouth of Contradiction and let your Souls keep Silence unto God let there be no rising of Heart against God no Objecting against any thing that He hath done no finding of Fault Know O Man who and whatsoever thou art however distinguished from thy Neighbours and dignified above them the great God is above thy Match and by no means to be Contended with He gives no Account of his Matters and therefore not to be summoned to the Creatures-Bar He himself is the Supream Judge by whom all are to be Sentenced as to their Eternal State and from whom there lieth no Appeal and therefore be not you so bold as to sit Judges upon him or any of his Providences Remember David's Carriage when almost Consumed by the Blow of God's Hand Psal 39.9 I was dumb I opened not my mouth because thou didst it And look upon the Man bearing the Yoke in his Youth and Consider how he is described in the 3 Lament 28 29. He sits alone and keeps silence and puts his Mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope and giveth his Cheek to him that smites him Certainly An humble Submission and patient Silence do best become the greatest and most Holy Persons under the most severe Chastenings Think with your selves what Colour of Reason you can possibly

Judgments or Afflictions which God Orders out to his People in all the Circumstances of them and we shall find they are right throughout Here I might be very large but will Contract His Judgments are right as to the Principle from which God acts in the Ordering them out and as to the End at which he aims and as to the Means of which he makes Use and as to the Measure of their Sufferings how much they shall bear and as to the Time how long they shall continue God is so exact in these and all other things that can possibly be named that there is not the smallest Failure That which they said of our dear Lord Jesus while he was here on Earth we may most truly affirm of God He hath done all things well Were the World to begin again all his Providences should be as they have been because nothing in them can be mended I will give some light touches and short hints upon those things which I have named and so pass on There are Judgments and dark Providences which God Orders out to Churches and particular Saints but the Principle from which in them God acts is a Principle of Love and that is not only right but sweet He Loves them while he afflicts them and he afflicts them because he Loves them Revel 3.19 As many as I love I rebuke and chasten Possibly his Love is not plainly impress'd upon the Rod so that thou canst run and read it at present it is conceal'd but it will break out and shew it seif in due time Ephraim was as a Bullock unaccustomed to the Yoke impatient and unruly and as such he was Chastised the Whip smarted and the Goad pricked him yet he was God's dear Son and pleasant Child and his Father resolved to have Mercy upon him God hath taken this and that from you Moderate your Grief for He will not take his loving kindness from you The Rod may smart and put you to Pain but it is the Hand of Divine Love which lays it on As God is right in the Principle from which he acts so He is in the End at which he aims for that is exceeding gracious Heb. 12.10 He chastens us not for his own pleasure but for our profit that we may be partakers of his holiness He aims not at the Weakening of our Bodies and Estates but the Mending of our Souls not that we might be made the poorer by it but the better And as this is his End so it shall be attained Rom. 8.28 We know that all things shall work together for good to them that love God They have done it hitherto and so they shall for the future It is clear from constant Experience We know it Good is in the Heart and Purpose of God and all things shall be subservient to it all shall make their Contributions This late Providence the Death of your Worthy Pastor was for good for certain it was good for him to him to live was Christ and therefore to him to dye must needs be gain unless Paul were mistaken Philip. 1.21 That you will easily grant viz. He is no loser by leaving of the World and of You because he is gone to Heaven He is where He would be where He knows more and enjoys more and is better than he could here had he lived Methuselah's Age and this shall work for good to you also But you do not see how that should be It is very likely you are dim-sighted and see but a little way and let this be enough for you as indeed it is at present that though you do not see God doth who is Wiser than you And then God is right as to the Means which he useth Those that he makes Choice of and employs are the best that could be in the Case Or if they be not so in themselves he both can and will make them so if they be too Weak he will Impower them and if they have no Virtue of their own he will Infuse some into them as in the Sound of Rams-Horns before which the Walls of Jericho fell or if they be contrary he will reconcile them One would think Clay and Spittle are enough to put out seeing Eyes but when he pleaseth he can temper them into so Sovereign a Remedy as shall give Sight to one that was born Blind Further God is right as to the Degree and Height of the Suffering When angry with his Children He stirs not up all his Wrath No No He Contends with them in measure He never maketh too great a Rod nor gives his Patient too large a Dose but weighs out every thing so that there shall not be one Drop of Gall too much in the Cup He is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able Full out as much but no more If need be you are in heaviness no more than need no longer than need And so God is right as to the Time when Trouble shall come and when it shall go when it shall begin and when cease He doth every thing in Season In the Fulness of Time He sent his Son into the World and so He sends Affliction Death comes to reap his Corn when it is White to the Harvest and He puts every one of his Children to Bed at their Hour When his Faithful Servants have Finished their Work then he takes them to their Rest and lays them at perfect Ease in the Bosom of Abraham or rather his own They shall not out-live it nor shall they dye before it is done I hope I have said enough to satisfie you about the Perfect Righteousness of God in his Judgments and that may well silence you There is another thing in the Text which this Holy Man saith He did know and that is the Faithfulness of God in afflicting him And if the other doth silence this may well quiet and delight the Afflicted Saint And truly we have all of us reason to be satisfied about this that though God often is an Afflicting God yet He always is a Faithful God and it is in his Faithfulness that he doth Order out Afflictions to them Now this will appear if you Consider these two things God is Faithful to his Covenant and to his Peoples Interest First In afflictive Providences God is Faithful to his own Covenant Instead of running Cross to it he acts in a Wise Pursuance of it He never runs Cross to it for while the Saints are here the Covenant doth not put any of them out of the reach of Afflictions Galat. 4.1 The Heir as long as he is a Child differs nothing from a Servant though he be Lord of all but may have as course Fare and as hard Usage so may one of those that are Heirs of God and Glory Indeed we are assured there is no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus And that Security is matter of great Joy but tho' by laying hold upon Christ and the