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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64984	The death of ministers improved. Or, an exhortation to the inhabitants of Horsley on Glocester-shire, and others, on the much lamented death of that reverend and faithful minister of the Gospel, Mr. Henry Stubbs By Tho. Vincent, John Turner, Rob. Perrott, M. Pemberton. To which is added a sermon upon that occasion, by Richard Baxter.	Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.; Turner, Robert, b. 1649 or 50, 4aut.; R. P. (Robert Perrot) aut.; Pemberton, Matthew, d. 1691. aut.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1678 (1678)	Wing V430; ESTC R221906	43,418	108

spirit of meekness don't use opprobrious terms railing angry accusations remembring that the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God and anger in your reproof is apt to beget anger in the parties reproved the effect of which is like to be excuse and extenuation of their faults a hardning of them in their sins recriminations and retorts on your selves whereas if you reprove them mildly in a spirit of meekness and they perceive your love therein and design of their good you may the more probably reach their Consciences and through Gods blessing imprint a conviction upon them and be instrumental for their restoring a soft Tongue breaketh a bone and a mild reproof may mollify a heart that is like a bone or like a stone in hardness And as you ought to watch over one another in reference to sin so also in reference to duty as you occasionally or purposely meet together watch to advise and counsel one another to quicken and encourage one another in your duties both to God and man read Mal. 3.16 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkned and heard it and a Book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his name Here you have 1. Your duty to speak often one to another and what it is you should speak The wicked speak often one to another but they speak vanity and sin as if their Tongues were their own and they had no Lord over them their discourse is froth and filth they have a Treasure of evil things in their hearts and thence they bring forth that which is evil but you who fear the Lord have a Treasure of good things in your hearts and thence you should bring forth that which is good your words should be like choice Silver to enrich one another your lips like a Tree of righteousness to feed one another your discourse should be alway with grace unto your mutual edification that you may excite one another in the ways and service of the Lord. 2. Here 's a motive to quicken unto the duty the Lord hearkneth taketh especial notice hereof records this on his Book in order to the reward he intends and hath prepared for such in the other World Look into another Scripture Heb. 10.24 25. Let us consider one another to provoke not to anger but unto love and good works not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching We have not room in this Letter to enlarge in exposition of this Scripture but must leave it with your selves to do it in your Meditations must also contract in the other particulars Secondly The second duty which God calleth you unto on the loss of your Minister is fruitfulness Your Minister was a spiritual sower and we hardly know any who hath sown so much seed of the word as he used to do in all places where he came none more frequent in Preaching on the Sabbath days on the week days on ordinary on extraordinary occasions publickly and from house to house he ceased not whilst he had a Tongue and Breath to Preach the word We need not tell you how much seed he hath sown amongst you and what it is that God doth look for after such a seed-time as you have had But that the harvest of your fruitfulness should be in some measure answerable hereunto that as you have had more seed scattered among you than others so you should bring sorth more fruit than others Take heed now your Minister is dead that his Sermons don't die with him and be forgotten by you as if they had never been Preached never been heard Take heed you be not found barren after such sowings that you be not found dry after such droppings that you be not like Pharaohs kine lean after such plenty of spiritual food and such abundant means of Spiritual nourishment as you have enjoyed The fruits which God doth look for are the fruits of Repentance humility meekness self-denyal patience contentment diligence righteousness filial fear of God faith in Christ love to God and one to another zeal for Gods honour lively hope of Heaven thankfulness for mercies God looks that you should be fruitful in good words and in good works let the seed your Minister hath sown spring up after his death in such fruits as these such things he hath often taught you and exhorted you unto in his Sermons and he hath gone before you in the practice of them in his life ye are witnesses and God also how holily and justly and unblamably he behaved himself among you and how he exhorted and charged you as a Father doth his Children and be ye followers of him who through faith and patience doth now inherit the promises Thirdly The third duty which God doth now call you especially unto is Prayer Your Minister whilst alive did pray much with you and he pray'd more for you he was one of the most Prayerful Ministers in England he gave himself as to the Ministry of the word so also unto Prayer but now his praying work on Earth is changed into praising work in Heaven you have lost a praying friend you have therefore now so much the more need to pray for your selves pray secretly pray frequently pray fervently Pray against sin and pray for larger effusions of the Spirit upon you Pray against sin do as Hos. 14.2 Take with you words and turn to the Lord say unto him take away all iniquity and receive us graciously God hath taken away your Minister O beg of him that he would take away your iniquity the cause of this so great a loss Say Lord thou hast taken away him who was our glory O take away our sins which are our ignominy and shame thou hast taken away him who endeavoured to save us O take away our sins which if not taken away will destroy us Shall our Ministers go and our sins stay Shall our glory depart and our shame abide Our blessings go and our curse continue Our builders go and our destroyers remain God forbid Pray earnestly that God would take away the guilt of sin and deliver you from the power of sin not only the reign but also from the rage of it not only from its dominion but also from its Tyranny And pray also for larger effusions of the Spirit upon you for the teachings of the Spirit the witness of the Spirit more of the graces more of the comforts of the Spirit forget not Zion in your Prayers and the land of your nativity bear also your particular friends on your hearts when you are before God on your knees Fourthly The fourth duty we would mind you of is Family Instruction the Catechizing of Children and Servants and bringing them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord And here we must not enlarge in motives and

are three sorts of unconverted and impenitent persons among you some of you are young some in your middle age and some of you are arived unto old age we would apply this Call to every one First You that are young men and young women repent of your sins and turn from your evil ways whilst you are young as you ought to remember your Creator so as to turn to him in the days of your youth so you ought to remember your sins so as to turn from them in the days of your youth Had any of you been born without sin and lived without sin there would have been no occasion for your repentance But who among you can say he is innocent Have you not original sin and actual sin to repent of Will not your consciences witness the corruption of your natures how averse naturally you are to good how prone to evil Is there not a Register in your bosomes of sins committed in your childhood together with your more late and more aggiavated youthful transgressions And do you not then need to repent Are you too young to repent when you are not too young to sin You have heard of Iosiah who had a tender heart in his tender years and of Timothy who when a Child did know the holy Scriptures which taught him the lesson of Repentance and if others have attained repentance in their Childhood and youth why may not you attain it The Devil will perswade you it is too soon and the flesh will perswade you it is too soon to repent and your companions in sin will perswade you to hold on with them still in your sinfull practices many carnal arguments you may find out to move and plead for indulgence of your selves still in your sensual and sinful delights and you may be prone to think graver years will be most sutable for the serious and severe work of Repentance and you may presumingly hope when you are grown up to years of more maturity then you will mourn for your iniquity then you will turn over a new leaf return unto God and lead a new life But doth God allow you to procrastinate your Repentance Doth God give you a dispensation to sin so long as you are so young If it be a duty to repent hereafter is it not now as much your duty If it be good to repent at all is it not good to repent whilst you are young Are you sure to live till you are grown men and grown women Did you never see or hear that others have died as young as your selves and as likely to live and that notwithstanding their hopes and presumptions of long life Indeed you may live to be old but think also that you may die whilst you are young you may die suddenly before you have time to call upon God for mercy and if you die in your impenitency you will most certainly be thrown for your sins into Hell that place of most horrible and unspeakable misery and will you venture your everlasting damnation on presumption of long life and future Repentance Besides are you sure to repent should your life be continued Is Repentance in your own power If you have not hearkned unto former calls of your deceased Minister and if you will not hearken to the call of divers Ministers now together are you sure God will call you any more that he will send any other Minister to you Or if he should may not he withhold his blessing and swear in his wrath that his Spirit which hath been striving with you so long shall strive with you no more Moreover can there be a more fit a more reasonable time for your Repentance than whilst you are young Will not your Repentance now be with the less difficulty If it be difficult to repent when your sins are fewer will not the difficulty encrease when your sins are encreased and grown more numerous If it be difficult to repent when your sins are lesser will not the difficulty greaten when your sins are greatned and grown more heinous Is not a twig more easily bended than a grown Tree Will not long custom in sin added to your natural propensity add to the difficulty of your repentance Is it not easier to repent when you have less sin and more time than when you shall have less time and more sin Will not sin be more easily mortified whilst it is more weak than when by long continuance it hath gathered more strength Will it not be very hard to remove long contracted hardness Do you think the Devil will be easily cast out when he hath had long possession Or can your last Repentance if it were easily attainable be so pleasing and acceptable unto God as Repentance in your youth Doth not God call for your first fruits Shall the Devil and the flesh and the World ravish your Virgin-affections and then will you repent Hath not God work enough for you to do although you begin never so young And will you chuse rather to serve the Devil and your own lusts in the spring the prime and vigour of your years than to serve the glorious Iehovah when the service of the former is such slavery such drudgery and the ways will be eternal death and the service of the latter is so honourable so beneficial and its reward eternal life May this Call these arguments prevail with all of you that are young without any further delay to repent of your sins and to day whilst it is called to day to hearken unto Gods voice and no longer to harden your hearts through the deceitfullness of sin Secondly You that have continued in your sinful ways and practices to your middle age it is high time that you should repent If your Spring be over and your Summer be come and hitherto you have neglected your Souls and allowed your selves in your sins O delay no longer time repent of your sins and repent that you have repented no sooner God stretcheth sorth his hand all the day long to a stubborn and gainsaying people if you have been stubborn hitherto If you have deafned your ear to former calls don't deafen your ear to this call which may be your last call God hath been very patient with you he might have cut you off in your sins long ago and think where your Souls would have been now Have not some of you been visited with sickness and brought down to the sides of the pit and been raised again beyond your own and others expectations Have not others of you escaped great perils and dangers and been wonderfully preserved when your lives were in great jeopardy And shall your restoration or your preservation be but a reservation unto more dreadful destruction Or rather shall not Gods patience and goodness lead you to Repentance Will you return evil for good Because God doth not speedily execute his vengeance upon you shall your hearts be fully set in you to do evil If your youth hath been given