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A87565	A shock of corn coming in in its season. A sermon preached at the funeral of that ancient and eminent servant of Christ VVilliam Gouge, Doctor of Divinity, and late pastor of Black-Fryars, London, December the 16th, 1653. With the ample and deserved testimony that then was given of his life, by William Jenkyn (now) pastor of Black-Fryars, London.	Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1654 (1654)	Wing J653; Thomason E735_22; ESTC R202634	33,219	57

part as a * His own expression sacred sto●k a portion for the poor proportionable to all his receipts which he faithfully distributed He preached for many years together thrice constantly every week and how pithy clear Judicious his Sermons were not onely the confluence and applause of his Auditors but especially the benefit which they reaped from them will abundantly testifie For five and forty years together he did once every moneth administer the Sacrament of the Lords Supper not so much as once interrupting that course and if upon some urgent occasion he was necessitated to be from his charge he would not fail to be present at it upon the Sacrament-day though his other employments never so loudly called him off In a great part of the fore-mentioned long space of yeers during the time of Prelatical Innovations he was a sweet refreshing shade and shelter and even as streams in a dry scorching wildernesse to the old godly Puritanes now accounted to be a name of honour though heretofore a nickname of disgrace by admitting them to the Lords Supper at his Congregation who could not either at all or at least purely in regard of Superstitious gestures genuflexions c. enjoy that ordinance at home He preached to his people by his life as well as by his lip he was as one speaks of John Baptist all voice and such in his practice as well as his Pulpit How unblameable temperate holy was his deportment in all places how exemplary was he to the flock He was not like some of whom I have heard that they preach so well that its pity they should ever be out of the Pulpit but they live so ill that its pity they should ever be in the Pulpit He was as of a most sweet even and peaceable temper himself so of much forvvardnesse to compose and vvhich is not every peaceable mans happinesse much prudence in composing all differences among his people among vvhom he was as some of them have told me as it were a Justice of Peace as well as a Minister of Peace If he could not as what man can hinder dissentions from being born he would not suffer them to be long-lived As it was his contentment and crown laboriously during his healthfull years to Preach so notwithstanding his forementioned pains and infirmities he did Preach as long as he was able to get up into the Pulpit and this I question whither it can be a paraleld Commendation I shall adde He Preached so long as that it was a greater difficulty for him to go up into the Pulpit then either to make or Preach a Sermon and that both because of the growing weaknesse of his body and the constant if not increasing ability of his parts and judgement even to his last In snort he would have accounted it a mercy if he who Preacht so much in his life might also have dyed Preaching To all this I might adjoyn his great industry in and usefulnesse by publishing in Print many excellent and pithy discourses Here I might mention his Printed Catechisme his clear and judicious Annotations upon that part of the Bible contained from the first of Samuel to Job His book called the whole Armour of God another called Domestical duties his Comment on the 116. Psa * A Treatise Gods three arrows and his Exquisite and I question whether to be paraleld exposition of the Lords Prayer and that Elaborate Comment of his upon the Epistle to the Hebrewes which after many yeers preaching he went through in his Sermons at Black-Fryars and which he fully prepared for the Presse before his death excepting one half Chapter a work of excellent worth both considering the Subject noble and difficult and the great paines and dexterity of the Commentator and which being now in the Presse shall I trust shortly see the light though in regard of its bignesse the coming forth thereof cannot be so speedy as is desired and as the book will I am confident when publisht be useful To conclude this head of his spiritual fulnesse of age he was one who may be fitly called both one of a thousand and also a thousand men in one for his excellent endowments for his usefulnesse in his employments 3. Thirdly and lastly His natural fulnesse for his natural fulnesse and ripenesse of age he was one to whom my Text is applicable in that particular also He was aged seventy nine when he died so that he had the full age which as I said before was senectus sera a late Senectus sera long age But then I confesse he runs not fully parallel with my Text in respect of that branch of naturall fulnesse of age which I told you was Senectus sana a strong hayl vigorous diseaselesse old age No his forementioned diseases and bodily infirmities of the Stone and Asthma here would make me halt were it not for this double consideration in regard of which I cannot onely excuse his crazinesse in old age but even highly commend him under it 1. His diseases came not upon him in much lesse by any sinful or unwarrantable courses envie it self dares not tax him of intemperance in eating drinking pastimes hee hath been oft heard to say hee never took a journey meerly for pleasure in all his life No his diseases came either by his laboriousnesse in studying preaching watching or attending in all weathers and seasons upon his work at the Assembly He received his wounds in his Masters service they were all scars of honour he was not worn with rust but whetting 2. This I shall adde as his honour under his crazinesse of body that when he was most decrepit and feeble he had the blessing of a Senectus sana Senectus sana an hayl strong old age in regard of his parts of minde his intellectuals which were as vivid quick and vigorous in reasoning and disputing as when he was fourty yeers of age in the greatest of his bodily strength And this few can more fully know then my self by reason of my frequent occasions of conversing with him especially upon the Lords dayes when often after the evening Sermon propounded those Theological doubts to him concerning which I desired to draw forth his apprehensions yea of this which I now say the whole Ministry of London will attest the truth from their own experience by calling to their mindes that learned cleer and polite Sermon of his lately preached in Latin at Sion Colledge before them all And the truth is this continuance of the use of his reason and abilities of minde was the reason why he adventured so long as he did to frequent the publick Assembly yea and to preach notwithstanding the crazinesse and weaknesses of his body I can study my Sermon said he I can preach my Sermon and shall I forbear preaching because I am so weak as not to be able to go I will be carryed rather and carryed he oft was So that indeed the blade of his minde was too sharp for the sheath of his body the wine too strong for the cask and his abilities of minde too vigorous for his weak diseased carkass I now draw to a conclusion some will say I have not commended him enough I confesse it nor can I. Others that I have in his commendation said too much I confesse it too but my meaning is too much perhaps for their liking too much I sear for their imitation But since he who thought that seventy nine yeers on earth were not nay that eternity in heaven is not too much to serve and praise his and our Lord let not us think that half an hour is too much to scatter a few flowers on his Herse they being such as were planted by his own labour or such rather which grew out of his own worth Errata FOr the marg note pag. 8. r. the second point of the first branch p. 14. marg r. accedant non adhaereant p. 15. l. 17. r. comprehended l. 22. r. meetnesse p. 17. marg r. vulgatam p. 38. l. 26 r. fifth FINIS These books are lately printed and are sold at the Ball in Pauls Church-yard Mr. Jenkyns second part of his Exposition of the whole Epistle of Jude Mr. Kendal of the Perseverance of the Saints in answer to Mr. John Goodwin Mr. Sheffeild of Christ under that clear and glorious resemblance of the Sun Mal 4 2. Jus Divinum Ministerii by the Provincial Assembly of London A Sermon preached at the Funeral of Dr. Hill Master of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge by Dr. Tuckney

stand long the truth is their falling begins as Isidore of Pelusium speaks with their very building and being men they are subject also to the same accidents and casualties with others 2. Sinfull men T is true sin is in them and not in them in them not as their love but their load and vexation And death doth befall them and doth not befall Doth befall them as afflictive to sense as a cure of their woes as a consequent of sin but not as a curse or a wrathfull punishment but yet this repeated addition and he dyed subjoyned to the relation of the long lives of the ancient Patriarchs shewed the immoveable certainty of that threatning of death against Adams sin notwithstanding the deceitfull promise of the devil 3. They are holy men And to the grave they must come First For a resiing place Here is not their rest Rom. 7.24 Rom. 6.7 2 Cor. 5.6.8 1 Thes 4.16 their works at length follow them and they shall not follow their work any more Secondly They must be perfectly freed from sin which till death they cannot be Thirdly They must have their Crown of life and Fourthly Shall for ever be with the Lord who loves his children so well that he will not alwayes suffer them to be abroad and absent from him 2. In regard of others they must come to the grave First Some are unkind and cruel to them and haply they hurry them to the Port of the grave with a blustering storm and tempest of persecution The Saints especially Ministers of Christ are set in the forlorn hope and commonly the bullet soonest hits them Secondly Some idolize them deifie them how many when adored hath God grownde to pouder as Moses did the Israelites Calf and removed them from men when we have made them equall with God It s the great sin of the times either to deifie or nullifie men God loves neither Thirdly The living must prize them and get much good by them in a little time He who hath a book lent him but for a little while makes the more hast to read it over the Prophets and Saints of God live not ever nor are given us to use as long as we please they are but lent us and we must improve them speedily God hath held the candle of a Saints Life and a Ministers Doctrine to many idle professors many a year and he oft puts out this light to punish them for their negligence Since then even the best must come to the grave let them study to do much for God while they live The grave is a place of silence and rest Use 1 The living the living they praise and are employed for God Short seasons require speedy services The nearnesse of death should put us upon holy serviceablenesse during life as for the preserving of a sweet and precious remembrance of our selves in that generation which follows so especially for the transmitting by our examples holiness to Posterity that so a seed of Saints may be continued in the World when we are dead and gone And truely as otherwise we shall die while we live so hereby we shall live when we are dead and be like civet which when t is taken out of the box leaves a sweet savour behind it 2. Let not any settle themselves securely in this World he is a mad man that will go about to build a house upon a quaking quag-mire upon a rotten foundation The longest lived of those long-lived Patriarchs lived not a thousand years God hereby shewing that the longest life of any of the sons of men is not able to reach to that space which in respect of Gods Eternity is not a day Expect not Eternity in this life Vid Rivet in Gen. Let us live as if we were alwayes dying and yet as such as are ever to live Set not up your hopes your expectations here the grave will rub off all our worldly grandeur as a narrow hole sweepes off all the apples that the foolish hedge-hog loads her prickles withall Labour to be taken off from the world before you are taken out of it 3. Thirdly if Saints must come to the grave 3. Joh. 9.4 12.35 get good by them while they live Walk and work by the light while you have it with you Neglect not to get good by the godly in hope to enjoy them longer with you Thou mayst bewail thy over-slipt opportunities when t is too late I will not let thee go except thou blesse me you know it was the speech of Jacob to God O Lord say thou let not not such a Saint go such a Minister die till thou hast blessed me by his meanes let not his light be put out till he hath shewed me the way to heaven better 4. Fourthly if Saints must die you that live stand up in their stead if God take away pillars be not you as reeds Supply their departure by your piety and usefulnesse 5. Lastly must Saints die here is comfort in many respects they shall come to the grave they shall die but their souls shall never die the second death hath no power over them they shall die but secondly the Church shall never die they shall die but thirdly their works shall never die these shall follow them they shall die but fourthly their God shall never die the Prophets of God Do they live for ever but the God of the Prophets lives for ever Lastly they dye and therefore why should not we be willing to dye to fare as they fare Not onely the wicked but Saints dye A godly man was the first who dyed If death were not advantagious it should never be the lot of Gods beloved 2. 2. Branch of the first part This Port or place of the Saints the Grave affords us somewhat more for meditation It is a mercy not only to have a house to hide the head of the living in but to have a sepulchre in which to hide the head of the dead Obs 2 It is a mercy to have a grave Great was Abrahams provident care to purchase a burying-place for his dead God himself buried Moses his dear servant nor was the contention of the Angel about the body of Moses to hinder its burial but onely to forbid the Devil to be present at it When the Kings of Judah are recorded their burials are also frequently mentioned and those of the highest merit were buried in the upper part of the sepulchres of the sons of David 2 Chron. 32.33 Nor was it a small judgement of God inflicted upon Baasha and Jezabel to be buried in the bellies of Dogs Ier. 22 19. Or upon Jehoiakim that he should be buried with the burial of an Asse contemptibly cast into a ditch Or upon the king of Babylon Isai 14.20 that he should not be joyned with the kings in burial Neither was that a slight imprecation Psal 63.11 Let them be a portion for Foxes Nor a small threatning Jer. 14.16 That the

under a self-debasing tongue And I have heard of some who put their prayses to usury they dispraising themselves for a while Robinsons Observations that so they may receive their praise again with advantage Touching my self therefore I shall onely say that the dear respect which I owe and bear to the memory of this excellent man Saint Minister Doctor William Gouge hath made me break through the deep resentment of my own insufficiency to go through this work and yet withal that against this inability of mine I have these three things which relieve me and these I should not mention to the inlarging of a Preface which is best when least did they not tend to the honouring of this servant of Christ which is one end of our meeting this day 1. First I look upon that as my and not my least encouragement to this service which most may think my greatest discouragement from undertaking it and that is the eminent worth of this Excellent Man whose Funeral this day we celebrate were I either to commend some prophane person or some professor whose worth and unworthinesse did hang in aequilibrio and appear so evenly ballanc'd that none could tell which of them outweigh'd the other I might wound my conscience blast my reputation or at least torture my invention either to finde out matter of commendation or a fit manner of expressing thereof But Brethren I think I have as little cause as ever had any who preached in this place upon the like occasion either to fear reproofs from my own heart or my many hearers for giving a large testimony to the worth of this Excellent Man or to study solicitously for matter of praise which is as it were Myrrha Libera Myrrhe which drops freely of its own accord without any squeezing or constraint 2. Lachrymae auditorum laudes ministrorum It is likewise my encouragement that you my Auditors bear a share with me in this Funeral and following commendation As the tears of a people are a Ministers praise when he himself preacheth in his life-time so is their sorrow for him no small commendation to him when another is preaching of him after his death I doubt not but very many in this great Assembly come hither not to gaze to see and be seen but to mourn for the death of this eminent servant of Christ and to sprinkle some tears upon his Funeral Herse Confident I am that could you turn your sorrowful insides outward like that people who were wont to shew their funeral mourning onely by turning the inside of their apparel outward that mournfullest expressions would be as common among you as true mourning is suitable to you and that Sable would as well cover the People as it doth the Pulpit If the Angels were so forward to attend upon a Lazarus when he dyed as to carry him to his place of rest what readinesse should there be among Lazarusses full of the sores of sin and misery to respect the Funeral of this dead Angel I call him Angel for so he was in his life time in regard of his Office 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and as an Angel now after his death I doubt not but he is in Heaven 3. My third encouragement is this I am call'd this day to perform a greater Work then to praise him I am to preach the Word to you God who hath called me unto the greater to speak from himself to you I trust will enable me to perform the lesser I mean the speaking concerning this Reverend Man to you I know you long to hear what I shall say of him and haply some do so because they would give vent to their sorrows though by their Eyes I shall gratifie your desire when I have first delivered my Errand from God to you the sum whereof you shall finde written in The 5th Chapter of Job Vers 26. In these words Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age like as a shock of Corn cometh in in his season THe words were spoken by Eliphaz to inforce that dehortation given to Job Vers 17. Despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty that is Cast it not off with a wearisome aversness and loathing nor reject it either as unprofitable and unuseful or as disgraceful and dishonourable to thee nor slight it as a thing of which no notice is taken c. This counsel he backs with an argument drawn from the benefit that should accrue unto him by a submissivenesse under the afflicting hand of God Eliphaz shews that at length the mercy of God shall appear for his good and that both First by preservation from evils Vers 19. He shall deliver thee from six troubles yea in seven there shall no evil touch thee and also Secondly by the bestowing of blessings Vers 23 24 25. Thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace c. Yea he declares that Job shall not onely be happy in his life-time but also even at and after his death in the words of my Text Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season In which words you have this two parts considerable 1. A godly mans arival at his Port or terme Thou shalt come to thy grave 2. The seasonablenesse of this arival in a full age like as c. In the former I take notice of two particulars 1. What that place or Port is the grave 2. What that kind of passage to it is which here is promised Thou shalt come to it The Later the seasonablenesse of the arival is set out two wayes 1. Properly in a full age 2. Metaphorically or by way of resemblance like as a shock of corn cometh in his season 1. I begin with the former part and therein with the first particular the Port or place it self to which even the godly must arive The grave This hath been the place where the holiest men have met Obser and to which the dearest Saints the Jobs of God have come The grave I say is their term their Center Gen. 25.8 1 Kings 2.1 Zech. 1.5 The holy Patriarchs of old Abraham the friend of God The godly Kings David went the way of all flesh The Prophets live not for ever The Apostles died and thus it is In regard of 1. Themselves 2. Others 1. Themselves as they are 1. Men. 2. Sinfull men 3. Good men 1. They are men Their bodies consist of corruptible principles and are earthen vessels and Cottage Every day they daub them over as it were with food and labour to keep them in reparations and to make them tenantable for the soul but alas all will not do they cannot long be shord up down they will at last and crumble to dust Even the props wherewith they are kept up are but rotten meats are corruptible 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isid Pelus l. 1. ep 65. bread is cald that which perisheth How can such structures then