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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46315	Abraham's death, the manner, time, and consequent of it opened and applied in a funeral sermon preached upon the death of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Case ... June 14th, 1682 : with a narrative of his life and death / by Thomas Jacomb ...	Jacombe, Thomas, 1622-1687.	1682 (1682)	Wing J111; ESTC R11297	37,227	59

Ministry in Publick and in Private about forty Years as that it will be superfluous for me to say much about it In short therefore he was an excellent Minister of Christ who if he be not to be rank'd amongst the first three 2 Sam. 23.23 the most famous and eminent of our Preachers in England yet he may well be look'd upon as more honourable than the Thirty His Ministerial Abilities were very considerable He was another Apollos an eloquent Man and mighty in the Scriptures a Scribe instructed unto the Kingdom of Heaven in whom the Word of God dwelt richly out of which Treasure he ever brought things new and old He was as Scriptural Preacher had a singular Happiness in citing of Texts pertinent to the Matter he was upon and then in the opening and applying of them And as his Preaching was solid and judicious so it was acute too fill'd up with quick and nimble Invention He would sharpen plain practical Doctrines with considerable mixtures of Ingenuity and Fancy His great design in his Ministry was not to perplex his Hearers but to edify them not to fill them with quaint Notions and Speculations but with serious and important Truths not to please their Ears but to better their Hearts and awaken their Consciences not to advance his own Reputation but the eternal Salvation of them who heard him So long as God spared him Strength none more constant and frequent in Preaching than he and when God laid him aside that he could preach no more what an Affliction was that to him And his Frequency in it did not lessen his Pains in due preparing for it his Sermons were well weighed and studied he not daring to offer to the Lord that which cost him nothing What a great Man he was in Prayer all they can testify who ever joyned with him therein Indeed God had endowed him with an admirable Gift as to this I firmly hope it was something more than a bare Gift He was severely Orthodox sound in the Faith to a degree of Rigor a thorough pac'd Calvinist a firm Adherer to and Assertor of the Doctrine of our Church though he differed as to some Rites and Ceremonies imposed in it And herein he stood stedfast and unmovable to his last Breath God blessed his Labours where-ever he came with considerable Success In all Places whither the Providence of God carried him he had the Seals of his Ministry in the Conversion of many Souls There are many now in Heaven many yet remaining here on Earth who with Comfort can call him their Spiritual Father He has not published much of his Labours but what he has * His Pisgah Corrections Instructions Sermons upon particular Occasions published shows him to be an able Practical Divine 4. I come to the fourth and last thing to consider him in his Relative Capacity In which he was as praise-worthy and does as much deserve Imitation as in any of the foregoing Considerations of him God blest him with a pious and prudent Consort I must say no more of her because she is yet living And what an high degree of Love was there betwixt them Indeed they may be Patterns and Examples of Conjugal Affection and Concord to all who knew them They lived together near 45 Years and how often have I heard him say In all that time there had been no Contention betwixt them except in this who should love one another most He had no Children of his own but his Wives Children he was as tender over and as affectionate unto as if they had been his own His Love to them and Care of them was scarce to be parallell'd sure not to be exceeded And how he pray'd for them instructed them us'd all means for their Spiritual Good I hope they will never forget He had other Relations of his own some of which by Providence were cast upon him for his Care and Relief And he was a Father to them at once caring for their Bodies and Souls too And as to his whole Family he was ever careful of the Souls of all that came under his Roof in instructing them in the Principles of Religion in helping them to understand the Scriptures which were read in his Family Morning and Evening And his Method was to cause every Child and Servant to remember something that had been read which he would then in a plain and familiar way open to them and so proceed to Prayer He had many Servants who lived with him that bless God that ever they came into his House I have parallell'd him with Abraham in his Death I might with a salvâ distantiâ also parallel him with Abraham in his Life as they died alike so they lived alike I 'll go no further than the thing last mentioned Abraham is famous for his Zeal about his Family God himself has put an high Character upon him for this Gen. 18.19 For I know him that he will command his Children and his Houshold after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do Justice and Judgment that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him And just thus it was with our Reverend Father allowing the Disparity betwixt Person and Person Well I have shewn you what a Man he was who died in a good old Age an old Man full of Years and is now gathered to his People Nothing now remains but a word of Exhortation 1. To Christians to you who move in a private Orb. Many things might be suggested to you upon the death of this aged and faithful Servant of God but I shall commend this only to you Prize good Ministers while you have them and be afflicted when you lose them How many Mercies do you deprive your selves of by your undervaluing them And particularly how many good Ministers are removed from you because you do not put such a value upon them as you ought When God takes them away then you see the worth of them but not till then Did not some of you sit under the Minstry of him who is now dead and gone Pray was his Person Ministry Labours prized and estimated according to what they deserved True he lived to a great Age but I fear the Lives of many others are shortened by that slighting of them which they meet with from their People Wherefore I beseech you to know them which labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you and to esteem them highly in Love for their Work 's sake And further so prize them as to improve them so as to thrive and profit by them Do the Prophets live for ever your faithful Guides and Teachers do they not die Now you have them in a few days they are taken from you does it not then concern you to make the best of their Labours whilst you partake of them How many Ministers have you worn out and spent and are you not at all the better for them The better the Minister is under whom you are placed the worser it will be with you if you be barren and unprofitable under him And then Be afflicted for bewail and lament the loss of good Ministers Indeed this is a great loss whether ye consider the Benefits ye percieve by them or the Evils that this does presage and boad and therefore should it not be laid to Heart Indeed as to our deceased Brother his great Age and Circumstances being considered you have more reason to rejoyce for that he lived so long than to mourn that he died at last Ah! but how many eminent Instruments are cut off when they are young in their * Mr. Charnock Mr. Stockton c. best State or when they are but just † As lately that useful Minister and faithful Servant of God Mr. Richard Fairclough entred upon a considerable Age Oh when such die with what grief of Soul should that be resented by all serious Christians 2. To Ministers My Brethren you see how your number is lessened day by day the ancient Oaks and Cedars are almost all cut down and what is the Duty now of you who survive Surely to double and treble your Diligence in your Lord's Work the fewer Hands are left the more laborious those must be that are left when other Pillars are removed the more Weight does lie upon those which stand the fewer there are to preach the everlasting Gospel the more industrious they must be in this who are yet spared The Antient die where are the Young Ones to succeed them to stand in their stead and to fill up the Vacancies made by their Death Blessed be God for it some such there are and they too Persons of excellent Accomplishments for the Work of the Ministry God increase their Number and double the Spirit of his old Elijah's upon them that still there may be a Succession of faithful Labourers in the Lord's Harvest 3. To Relations the near and dear Relations of the Deceased What shall I say to you shall I press Patience and Submission upon you under this loss Certainly his Condition being considered even his nearest Relation though she has the greatest share in it needs no Excitation to Patience Had he been taken away when he was in the Prime of his Days then the Affliction would have been very great then all Motives to quiet Submission to God's Will had been little enough but when it was otherwise I hope there 's not the least rising of Impatience in you Your Duty is Thankfulness and Imitation Thankfulness that ever you had him and that you enjoyed him so long Imitation so as to tread in his Steps and to write after that excellent Copy that he has set you And you that are Young pray remember the Tears he shed for you the holy Counsel and Admonition he gave you that great Love that he expressed to you and let all prevail with you to love God the People of God and to engage with your whole Heart in serious and universal Godliness And then if you be Followers of him as he is gathered to his People to his God and Saviour so whenever your Dying time shall come as God alone knows how soon it will come you shall be made Partakers with him of the fame Felicity FINIS