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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43584	A narrative of the holy life, and happy death of that reverend, faithful and zealous man of God, and minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Angier, many years Pastor of the Church of Christ at Denton, near Manchester in Lancashire wherein are related many passages that concern his birth, education, his entrance into the ministry, discharge of his trust therein, and his death.	Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.	1683 (1683)	Wing H1772; ESTC R177987	61,863	136

Horrocks and Mr. Root preaching the marriage S●rmons providence directing their thoughts to pitch both on one Text which was Gen. ●2 18 I will make him on help meet for him both presaging what indeed she proved an excellent suitable Wife to him a tender mother to his three Children and an useful mother in Isra●l for though God denyed her a fruitful Womb yet she was very fruitful in good Works of excellent parts and well-ordered activity of a publick spirit of rare accomplishments for piety charity sobriety whom he injoyed with abundant mutual content above 30 years she died of a Tympany and was buried in Denton Chappel Octob. 31. 1675. after whose death he lived mournfully till God translated him to her Nor was this solemnity in his Mariage any fruit of vain glory or ostentation but upon consideration it was his settled judgment and advice that Marriage should be publickly solmenized yea his apprehension was that a regular approach should be mad● to Marriage by mutual contract this rule h● followed when his Daughter Elizabeth wa● to be Married to a Yorkshire Minister they were contracted in the close of a solemn day of fasting and prayer in his Study by Mr. Nathaniel Rathband who did excellently discourse on that subject from Mat. 1 18● When as his Mother Mary was espoused t● Joseph And about a month after that they were solemnly Married before a numerous Congregation in the Chappel Mr. Harrion preaching on Eph. 5.31 And the two shall be one flesh and then feaste● above an Hundred persons of several Ranks Ages and Sexes he usually said he love● to have a Marriage like a Marriage he wa● far from voluptuousness or prodigality an● therefore took care to prevent sinful excess or vanity and with all shewed a meet distance from moroseness or for did baseness grounding his apprehensions on our Sav●our favouring and honouring with his presence yea and miracle for liberal provisi on that Marriage in Cana of Galilee John 2. It s true Mr. Angier himself could not be present at that his daughters Marriage being indisposed by a Goutish humour in his foot that he was not able to stir out of his Chamber and that raised in him a holy meditation which he hath left upon reccord in his Diary The Lord stayed my heart with John 2. Christ was at the Marriage yet there was a defect in comfort there wanted Wine which our Lord made advantage of to his own Glory and the help of the faith of his Disciples He saith further the week after my Daughter was ill so that God began with them betimes to take off their hearts from earthly things He stayed in that little Chappel at Denton ●n those free times wherein he had opportunity and some calls to greater places for getting worldly perferment but that was not ●uch considerable in his account Some of his brethren can yet restify how much he was ●ourted to greater and more publick places but his frequent refusal was an instance of ●is great self-denial few men in his circumstances did stop the mouths of malignant ●ensurers in that case so as he did and old Mr. Langley of Middle-Wych in Cheshire who being Minister there before the Wars tho 〈◊〉 years together silenced yet when he was restored to his liberty returned to them 〈◊〉 great place but of very pitiful maintenance and continued there to his dying day And it was observed before one of the Bishops of Chester since the Deprivation of Ministers by the Act of Uniformity that it was a signal favour to Mr. Angier that he should be permitted to live with that people still as a reward for his tarrying with them when he might have removed to his greater advantage and indeed all his actings spoke very much self-denial how much worldly wealth might he have hoarded up if he had taken what was offered him and retained what he had take an instance or two Mr. L. sent a man and horses for him before the Wars into Craven 30 or 40 miles to baptize his child Mr. Angier went preach'd in Gisborn Church which some remember to this day by some observable tokens that I have heard of and God did marvellously work upon his Wives heart● by that Sermon when he returned Mr. L. gave him five broad pieces of Gold into his hand desiring him to accept them but he● only took one and gave him four back again● another urging him with a broad piece he absolutely denyed it begging an excuse with much modesty Another time preaching a Lecture at Braintree a Gentleman came to him a stranger desiring him to accept of a 20 s. peice of Gold which he thanked him for but refused But I forbear more instances About this time the good people of R●ngley bestirred themselves to obtain Mr. Angier again to be their Minister because he was first theirs and forcibly driven from them they thought they had the best right to him therefore they writ a large and pathetical Letter to Mr. Angier which I have by me begging of him to return addressing themselves to Denton people with loving terms persuading them to release him if it were but one year to settle things amongst them and again affectionally urging Ministers that were called on to give their advice to order him that way The Letter is full of Christian bowels and deserves recording to manifest the endeared love of a people to their qu●ndam Pastor and their high respects to him Take a few expressions Reverend and much Honoured Sir WE whose Names are here under written being few in number and long and not a little afflicted in condition of that unworthy Congregation to whom God first lent you in this County having for a long time lyen under the sad sence of the heaviest affliction that this life can bear viz. not the bare fear but the plain feeling of the Almighties displeasure and hot indignation gone out against us to the throwing down of that hopeful beginning of his house which we thought he would have builded us into whenas he was pleased to cause his Glory to shine in our publick and private assemblies and for a short time to set up his standard in our house of Worship giving many of us and others about us our first effectual call and coming near to all his People laying great restraint upon those without but Oh how soon began our black night nay age to approach our loving Father by our Enemies hand teared you away from us turned his back or hid his face from us and hath in anger by his all-disposing Providence thus spoken and been speaking to this sad place this 20 years and upward Let very few or none more of this People be converted let this People have little of my presence in their house of publick meeting let none of my Embassadours be set over them for their profit let them be decreased by death by schisms and by scandals yea let their publick Assemblies be broken up and let help and

bless thee for what good thou hast done by my Ministry among them and for those Souls thou hast already brought into Heaven And now Lord I commit them into thy hands who art the chief shepherd they are thy flock help them to live in love and peace Oh that strifes and contentions might cease And thou who hast kept an open door for thy people in this place when it hath been shut elsewhere for a long space Lord keep it open still until thou shalt open the rest Oh remember thy Ministers Take care of them provide for this congregation and if thou shalt incline the heart of my Kinsman to stay amongst them who hath been trained up in my Family for these ten years and they have known his manner of life his Doctrine his parts and abilities for the Ministry if thou see it good make way in the heart of thy servan● H. And those that have power in this place to use their endeavour that he may continue here This is my desire Lord remember thy People in these nations Papists are striving and some of the meer formalists care not what becomes of the Protestant interest If Popery comes in like a flood Lord put a stop to it Yea put an end to it Stir up the heart of our King and the King of the Swedes against the Whore of Rome that thinks she sits as a queen and is no widow Oh stir up the ten Kings against her Then he added a request for accommodation of a difference betwixt two persons whom he names in his congregation that he might see it healed before he die And for some others that had made detection in practice and were sallen off to looseness and vain company-keeping who were children of Godly Parents that at last God would bring them home by sound repentance Concluding he begs that the Lord will bring down ill houses of iniquity meaning Alehouses He added that night Whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord but when we are absent from the body then we shall be present with the Lord therefore we labour The just shall live by his faith Read we the 20th of Acts where Paul fent for the elders of the Church of Eph●su● and gave them charge and took his leave of them Read the 1. Thes 4.12 to the end adding It is a great priviledg● that the dead in Christ shall rise first and be with him before they that are alive at his coming shall be changed Thus his Holy Soul mounting upwards by gradual ascents breathes out its self into the bosom of God being mellowed and ripened for Glory In all these we may take notice of 1. His publick-spiritedness still his heart was carryed out for the Church No man like-minded Phil. 2.20 who naturally cared for the spiritual state of souls and of Sion 2 His hatred of sin Love to Holiness Righteousness Peace and earnest desires to promote the interest of Christ living and dying at home abroad 3. His sweet serenity and composedness of Spirit looking this grim serjeant of Death the King of Terrors full in the face without amazement meeting it is his friend giving him possession of his Fathers house 4 His endeared love to the word of God delighting to have it read sounding in his ears and tipping his tongue with Scripture-Language because his heart was throughly drencht therein Thus this Holy man lived and thus he dyed thus he believed thus he Preached professed his hopes of a life to come and thus he entred into his rest and possesseth that purchased and perfect inheritance who would not thus live what Atheist would not thus dye however a carnal heart may possibly say as that wicked Roister who with his companion visited dying Ambrose and hearing his Holy discourses and confident welcoming approaching death with comfort he turns him to that swaggering Russian saying Oh that I might live with thee and dye with Ambrose and thus could Balaam Num● 23.10 that devillish Wizzard and covetou● conjurer say let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his Heb. Let my Soul or my life be with the Righteous but they that would follow this blessed Saint into the upper region must enter in at the right door by sound conversion and go forth and go on in the foot-steps of the flock travelling gradually in the paths of sanctity till we advance to the mount of God and tho it be a rare thing to follow these Worthies passubus aequis with such long strides and quick motion yet sincerity in our setting out diligence in pursuit and perseverance in holding on to the end may by the blessing of God bring us to the goal and garland of Glory and tho we cannot attain the exploits and honour of the first three of King Davids worthies yet may we be faithful souldiers in this noble Army of the followers of the Lamb at last the Crown of Glory may be by the grace of God set upon our triumphant heads and if there be degrees of Glory yet the least vessel shall be filled and the meanest Saint shall be sully loaden with that exceeding and eternal weight of Glory for such and so great is that joy that it cannot enter into the most extensive and capacious receivers but they must enter into their Masters joy as if ten thousand millions of Bottles of different sizes were cast into the vast ocean they would all be abundantly filled so every Saint shall say with David Psal 17.15 As for me I will behold thy face in righteousness I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness Nor is it difficult for an Angelified Soul set at liberty from the prison of the flesh to soar aloft with speed into these celestial regions especially having such a royal guard of Angels to attend it tho it is said that from Earth to Heaven it is an hundred and sixty millions of miles yet how quickly and safely can that blessed Convoy convey it into the presence-chamber of that Glorious King Oh how well did this gracious Soul know the way thither where he had been dayly visiting the great God by faith and prayer he was not a stranger to the laws of that Country nor unacquainted with the manner of that Court above but as he walked with his God and was joyned to that heavenly soicety so doubtless he kept up some communion with those blessed spirits above as they have an ineffable way of intercourse and correspondence amongst themselves yet have we no Scripture ground to pray to or expect answers from them happy they that have faithfully improved their gifts and graces whilest conversant below remember their dying speeches and imitate their lovely lively examples IT might now be expected that I should further unfold Elijahs Mantle by recording those pithy and pertinent Speeches that dropped from him But as that hath been occasionally rehearsed already in the preceding Narrative so I fear those that