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A77845	Paul's last farewel, or A sermon, preached at the funerall of that godly and learned minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Thomas Blake. By Anthony Burgesse, pastor of the church at Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire. With a funeral oration made at Mr. Blakes death by Samuel Shaw, then schoolmaster of the Free-School at Tamworth.	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.; Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1658 (1658)	Wing B5652; Thomason E937_1; ESTC R207730	14,890	34

in thy trading it may be thou mayest have comfort in thy Children and friends but thy death hath no may be Oh! let not the world let not your Shops let not trading take off your hearts from this Meditation but think you hear God speaking to you set not your house but your souls in order for thou must die And secondly here is some comfort though there be cause of much sorrow that though your Faithfull Pastor he dead yet the chief Pastor of your souls is not He that setteth Pastors and Teachers in the Church he that sendeth forth labourers into his harvest he liveth for ever as one in the Ecclesiasticall History when newes was brought him that his father was dead Desine blasphemias loqui saith he pater enim meus immortalis est cease to speak blasphemy for my Father is immortall Thus let this honey fall into your gall this Wine into your water The great and Chief Shepheard of your souls is not dead Lastly now the will of God is done concerning our deceased Brother your duty is to be much in Prayer to God that there may be a Joshua after Moses That God would joyne your hearts together as one man to seek out a Pastor for you which shall feed you according to his holy will The Lord hath made a great breach upon you be sensible of it and seriously consider how all your soul-comforts and advantages are bound up in this matter Ministers are compared to the Sun and Salt nihilsole sale utilius can you be without the Sun in the heavens without bread for your body so neither without this bread of life for your souls or without this light to guide you in the wildernesse of this World to eternall happinesse FINIS A Funerall Oration at the Death of the most desired Mr. Blake By Mr. Samuel Shaw then School-master of the Free-School at Tamworth WIth a face sadder then usuall with an heart sadder then my face but upon an occasion sadder then them both I who was deputed to this work by him to whom I now perform it am here rather to receive the expressions of your sorrow then tell you the resentments of mine own Being sensible of my stupefaction caused not through the want of my affections but the want of their object I desire out of a pious pollicy to supply my drynesse by taking your Tears and putting them into my pump so hoping to revive mine own which yet I judge are rather drowned then dryed up And yet when I have done this I know that all my expressions will fall short of the greatness of my grief as much as my grief does of the greatness of its cause This numerous Company of Pious groaners these so many blacks not made but occasioned to be Mourners badges of profession becomming badges of that grief which for its greatness can be equal'd by nothing but their former happiness which they once enjoyed the universall gloominess of this day represents to me rather the funerall of a Town then a man and the fall of a Church rather then a single pillar and rather induces me to think that ye are come to quench the unmercifull heat of a feaver then only to bedew that which was the subject of one But if it may be hold a little and suffer your eyes a while to a new employment even to see where you are what you are doing whose Obsequies you are solemnizing with so great devotion and take the dimensions of your losse if it be capable of any which indeed is so great that they only can know it who knew not him and they onely can feel who never enjoy'd him I speak not to aggravate your loss but the sense of it as for the cause of it it admits of no addition Whilst he lived it was as impossible for him not to love you as it was for you adequately to return his love His care answered his love and if his successe had answered his care we might happily have this day wanted an object of so great sorrow in enjoying him His writings were not read without satisfaction His Sermons were never heard without an approving silence seldom without a following advantage His kindness towards you could not be considered without love his awfull gravity and secretly-commanding presence without reverence Nor his conversation without imitation To see him live was a provocation to a godly life to see him dying might have made any one aweary of living When God restrains him from this place which was alwayes happy in his company but now he made his chamber a Church and his bed a Pulpit in which in my hearing he offered many a hearty prayer for you And his death made him mindfull of you whose life made you unmindfull of him And I did not see that any thing made him so backward to resign up his pure soul to God as his unparalell'd care for you and your proficiency in godliness which seemed as little to him in comparison of what he desired as it does great to others in comparison of what they finde so that I sate by him and I only when with as great affluency of Tears as words he prayed Lord with some ingeminations charge not on me the ignorance of this people And indeed your ignorance had not been so remarkable had not his Knowledge and desire still to communicate it been so With what a grace and majesty have you heard him Preaching who is now alas confin'd to a worser wood Could you ever resist the power by which he spake or find in your hearts to contradict any thing that ever he said but when on his sick-bed he said I am a dying man Ah! who would not there have contradicted him if they should not have contradicted Gods Decree His Wisedome Justice and Tenderness were such predominant Graces in him that it is as much my inability to describe them as my unhappinesse not to im●tate them And truly to think to expresse them were infinitely to in●ure their greatness It is a sad thing that so many resplendent graces should never be so truly nor so fully discovered as by the loss of him that had them and that we should not so justly consider that he had them till we have not them But yet your losse might be the better borne if ye were sure it had nothing of a Judgement in it But I fear that within a short time it will appear as truly that God hath taken him away in anger as now it appears sadly that he hath taken him away And that it is not only a misery that must be repayred by a change of Pastors but also a sin which must be redrest by the change of your lives For if your unworthinesse have driven your teacher into a corner and you sinn'd him into his grave your Repentance and Humiliation must raise another out of his ashes So great so sad so generall is this losse that I am ready to excuse my self and think it more reason then passion if in my solitary mournings and retired complaints I cry out My Father my Father the horsemen of England and the Charriot thereof To tell you of his worth in a measure proportionate to my experience would require too long a discourse from your Infant-Orator And to tell you of your losse I have said too much already which although it do not answer many of your expectations yet I hope may conduce to the affecting of you to an attention to him whose eloquence can represent your losse and whose wisedome can teach you how to make the best use of it ERRATA Pag. 1. line ult for And read In. p. 2. l. 24. a Ruler r. the Rule p. 5. l. 16. for This r. Thus. l. 17. for This r. Thus. p. 12. l. 11. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l 13. for Artr. out p. 20. l. 28. dele and wise

Flood-gates it was because they should see his face no more they should for ever lose him enjoy no more of his Ministerial Labors and diligence now this is recorded by the Evangelist as a commendation It was a spirituall not a naturall weeping It was not like weeping for a dead Father or a dead Wife but for a dead Pastor by whose spirituall labours their souls had made great proficiency I shall from these words observe two doctrines suitable to the two considerable parts of this auditory the one seasonable for the Ministers of the Gospel here present The other opportune for the Congregation of Tamworth now bereaved of a faithful Pastor whom I may see mourning and weeping and that most of all because you shall see his face no more you shall not behold him in this place again you shall not hear his voice from hence again The first Observation is grounded upon these words when he had thus spoken This about the duty of a Minister This about his Holy Godly and exemplary conversation From whence observe That a faithful discharge of the ministeriall Office doth bring unspeakable comfort to such as can upon just grounds assume this to themselves From this faithfulness we see often Paul receiving a great deal of comfort 2 Tim. 4. 6 7 8. The time of his departure was at hand doth not this then make him afraid how shall he give an account concerning the improvement of his talents No I have fought a good fight I have finished my course c. We have the like glorious profession made by this holy Apostle Thess 2 3 4 5 6. which is an excellent Copy for every Minister to write after to live and breathe from thence and in this he is so cleare that he saith Ye are witnesses and God also how holily justly and unblameably we have behaved our selves amongst those that beleeve But yet let none think that Paul doth thus magnifie inherent grace to exclude imputed grace for 1 Cor. 4. 4. Though he saith he knoweth nothing by himself yet he concludeth I am not thereby justified but he that judgeth me is the Lord he knew more evill in Paul then Paul him self could do and certainly so great is this ministerial work that Paul himself cryed out Who is sufficient for these things Chrysostome hath very discouraging passages as if few Ministers could be saved but his meaning must be because few are carefull zealous and diligent Otherwise such as Chrysostome himself that is said to fear nothing but sin and those that by their Doctrin and life turn many from iniquities shall have more then ordinary glory in heaven To amplifie this I shall in some particulars or Characters describe how or when the Ministery is faithfully discharged what is ingredient thereunto or constituent thereof And first there is required an inward experimental savory work of grace upon the Ministers own heart that thereby he may more affectionately and cordially deal with others when we know the terror of the Lord and the love of Christ experimentally this maketh us able in the work of the Ministery 2 Cor. 5. 1● I doe not say that the Office of a Minister is null if he be not a regenerate man or as if he were no Minister or might not be usefull in the Church of God but as to himself he cannot faithfully discharge this Office so as to obtaine a crown of glory hereafter unless he be thus qualified There is Theologia ratiocinativa and experimentalis as Gerson speaketh A man may know things as Aquinas saith per modum cognitionis or per modum inclinationis now it is this experimental Divinitie that worketh besides Knowledge an inclination and propensitie to the thing known that maketh us able to discharge this duty To Preach of Regeneration of Faith when a man hath no savory understanding of these things is to talk of the sweetness of honey when we never tasted it or of the excellency of such a Countrey which we never were in but know it by Mapps only If thou knowest the truths of God but by Books by Authors onely and thy own heart feeleth not the power of these things Thou art but as the Conduit that letteth out wine or refreshing water to others but thou thy self tastest not of it or like the hand that directeth the Passenger but thou thy self standest still 2. To a faithfull discharge there is required a sound knowledge judgement and skill in divine things hence they are called lights guides and Shepherds they are required to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 3. 2. apt to teach to reprove in all Doctrine 2 Tim. 4. 2. It is not enough to cry out of Heresies or of sinnes unless we rebuke with doctrine The least Knowledge that Casuists condescend unto in a Minister is that he must be learned supra vulgus fidelium Is he a fit Minister that can onely Preach and pray by a prescript or form from another He is not a fit Physitian or a fit Lawyer that should doe so in his way Ministers therefore should take that exhortation which we see Paul gave even to Timothy though so well accomplished 1 Tim. 4. 15. Meditate upon these things give thy self wholly to them that thy profiting may appear yea vers 13. Till I come give attendance to reading The circumstance of time is to be observed for though Paul was to come shortly to him yet that little time he was absent from Paul must be improved in reading Gods Word Be thou a scribe instructed for the Kingdome of heaven that can bring out of thy treasure old and new be a Fountain not a Cestern that will quickly be dry Cajetan Summula Tit. Doctoratus maketh it a mortall sinne to approve any for a Doctor in Divinitie who is notably insufficient because hereby he is testified to be a Physitian of souls when yet through his ignorance may be the ruine of many I dare not avouch that of Luther who said it is a German Proverb that young Divines fill Hell onely it is a good warning that such be diligent in studying that God may blesse them with all knowledge and understanding first in the Scripture and then in all other parts of Divinitie whether controversall positive or practicall especially adde to thy Ministeriall knowledge these two things First a firm faith for to read and to know much but not to digest it maketh us scepticall Have faith not reason or opinion in religious things Calvin saith in Comment 2. Epist ad Corin. that the Ministers of of God who go up into the Pulpit in the name of Christ to preach his Word ought to have such firmness of Faith in them that they are assured that their Doctrine can no more be overthrowne then God himself now truely this faith is much to be commended to us we may have much learning much reading but little Faith be very scepticall and deale in Divinitie as we use to do in Philosophy videtur quod