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A31961	An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1662 (1662)	Wing C241; ESTC R1910	251,365	374

them at last Though things seem to be well with the wicked they have more then heart can wish yet it shall be ill with them at last Vae improbo Wo to the wicked it shall be ill with them In Eccles. 8. 11. It shall not be well with the wicked nor shall he prolong his days that are as a shadow because he feareth not God The God of Truth hath pronounced it this is as true as God is true It shall not be well with the wicked Now that I may a little clear this to you I shall demonstrate it to you in these following Particulars 1. It is ill with the wicked in this life 2. It is ill with him at his death 3. It is ill with him at the day of Judgement 4. It is ill with him after the day of Judgement First It is ill with the Wicked in this life There 's hardly a wicked man that hears me that thinks so when he hath the affluence and confluence of outward comforts when he eats of the fat and drinks of the sweet he will hardly believe that Minister that tells him it shall be ill with him yea but it is ill with the wicked even in this life foris it not ill with that man that hath a curse yea the curse of God entailed upon him My Text pronounceth a curse against the sinner Vae improbo Wo to the wicked And can that man thrive that lives under a curse Clouds of blood wrath hang over the head of a wicked man he is heir to all the plagues that are written in the Book of God all God's curses are the Sinners portion and if he dies in his sins he is sure to have the portion paid him Woe to the Wicked every bit of Bread he eateth he hath it with a curse like poysoned Bread given to a Dog every drop of Wine he drinks he swallows down a curse with it Wo to the wicked there is a Curse in his cup there is a curse on his table God hath said Wo to him We read of Belshazzar Dan. 5. 4 5. that when he tasted the wine he commanded to bring the gold and silver vessels taken out of the Temple then they brought the gold and silver vessels and drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver He was very jovial but in the midst of his cups and joyallity wo to the Wicked for in the same hour there came forth the fingers of a Mans hand and wrote over against the Candlestick on the wall a curse and wo. Wo to the wicked let a sinner live till he be a hundred years old yet still he is accursed Esay 23. 20. Though a sinner live a hundred years old yet shall he die accursed his gray hairs have a curse upon them Secondly It shall be ill with the wicked at the hour of death that in two respects Death puts an end to all his comforts and death is a beginning of all his miseries First Death puts an end to a Sinner's comforts There shall be no more indulging of the Flesh and pampering of it no more cups of Wine and no more Musick to be seen or heard then In Rev. 18. 14. 22. The things that thy soul lusteth after are departed from thee the voyce of the Harpers Musicians and Trumpeters shall be no more at all in thee it is spoken of the destruction of Rome Thus may it be said of a wicked man at death All joy and pleasure is now departed from thee no more shalt thou hear the voyce of the Harp Organ or Trumpet no more shall the Sinner be cloathed in Scarlet robes or adorned with sparkling Diamonds Now all oyl and balsome all joy and gladness at death shall cease and depart from the Sinner Secondly As death puts a period to a Sinners mirth so it layes a foundation for all his sorrows Usually before death doth close the eye of the Sinners body the eye of his Conscience is first opened Every sin at the hour of death stands with a drawn sword in his hand Those sins that delighted the sinner formerly now terrifie and affright him All his joy and mirth is turned into sadness As sometimes you have seen Sugar lying in a damp place dissolve and turn to Water Thus all the sugarly Joyes of wicked men at the hour of death turn to water even the water of tears and sorrow Thirdly It shall be ill with a wicked man at the day of Judgement when he is cited before Gods Tribunal when he shall leave courting his wickedness and stand at Gods Barr to answer for it You read of Foelix that when he heard Paul speak of Judgement Foelix trembled Iosephus observes that Foelix was a wicked man and she that then lived with him her name was Drusilla whom he had enticed away from her Husband and lived in sin with her Now when Foelix heard Paul speak of Judgement he trembled his conscience that check'd him for his sin Now if Foelix trembled at the hearing of Judgment what will sinners do when the day of Judgment shall come when all mens secret sins shall be made manifest when all their midnight wickedness shall be written upon their Foreheads as with the point of a Diamond At the day of Judgment my Beloved there will be two things 1. The Legal Tryal 2. The Sentence 1. The Legal Tryal God will call forth sinners by Name and say Stand forth Hear thy charge Let me see what thou canst answer to it What canst thou say for all thy Sabbath-breaking for all thy Drunkenness and Perjury for all thy Revenge and Malice for all thy persecuting of my Members what canst thou say for all these Guilty or not guilty Thou Wretch darest not say Not Guilty for have not I been an eye-witness of all thy wickedness Do not the Books agree the Book of thy Conscience and the Book of my Omniscience and canst thou plead Not Guilty Here the Sinner will be amazed with horror and run into desperation 2. After this Legal Tryal follows the Sentence Ite Maledicti Go ye cursed What ●…o from the presence of Christ in whose presence there is fulness of joy and go from Christ with a curse That word Depart said St. Chrysostome is worse than the torments themselves And Beloved remember this ye that go on in a sin when once the Sentence is past it can never be reversed This is the most Supreme Court of Judicature from whence there is no Appeal Here on earth men can remove their Cause from one Court to another from the Common-law to the Chancery but if once the Sentence be past at this Judgment-barr there is no removing your Cause This is the highest Court there is no appealing any where else And thus you see it is ill with the Wicked at the day of Judgement Fourthly It shall be ill with the wicked after the day of Judgement Oh! then there is but one way and they would be glad if they

slight of men and cunning craftiness that can cog the Die notable Gamesters there are in the World but you must stand steady in judgement you must be firm to your principles I would have you Stars not Meteors for Meteors are carried about with every blast of Wind. I hope better things of you I shall pray God would make you steadfast in Iudgement 1. Be sure to get good principles and secondly Be sure to stand in those good principles that you have got And though I cannot say but some Tares are sown among this Parish ye●… I bless the Lord for the generality I hope I may say I have an Orthodox Ministry 2. 'T is not enough to stand i●…●…udgement but we must be steadfast to our 〈◊〉 1 〈◊〉 15. 58. Be steadfast immoveable such as stand firm on some Basis and foundation that doth not totter and stagger if they find you staggering to be sure the next moment they look upon you as falling Be as they say of one or both of the Poles of the Heavens though all the world turns the Poles are immoveable If I mistake not you may see a great turn in the World ●…nd behold at this day the greatest turn that ever was in England but yet you must not move you must not stir be true to your Resolutions be just to your first love go on in the Lords Work let nothing take you off If I have preached any false Doctrine among you witness against me at the day of judgement but if the things I have preached be true stand to the truths if you do not witness against my Doctrine mine 't is not but rather witnesse for it remember if you leave it that very Doctrine will witnesse against you at the day of Judgement Oh! that excellent Heroe Queen Hester thus and thus I will do and if I perish I perish You cannot imagine against how many thousand temptations a stadfast resolution will guard you 3. There 's a steadfastnesse of Faith too when we so believe as that we do not waver or do not hesitate Will you give me leave to propose to you my dear Friends though my Congregation I cannot call you that question which our Saviour did unto the Jews whom he hated though I love you The Baptism of Iohn whence was it from heaven or of men The doctrines you have heard have they been from Heaven or from men Answer me if from men abhor them man is a false creature man would make merchandize of your faith and souls but if from Heaven why then should you not believe them I blesse the Lord my conscience bears me witnesse I never did so far propose a doctrine to you I would have you believe without Scripture If the doctrines have been from God believe them if not abhor them and any of those that shall dare to bring a doctrine but dare not bring the authority of the Scripture to warrant them You may not be like those in Iam. 1. 6. that mavereth like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed The most godly man may stumble in his way i. e. tread awry but a wavering minded man is never settled concerning his way Blessed be God I am not now on this day that looks as like my dying day as can be in the world to begin to fix upon a Religion to fix upon my way I know my way If God will but keep 〈◊〉 steps and guide me in that way If God be 〈◊〉 I appeal to your consciences worship him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God worship him do not stand disputing and doubting do not say shall I shall I if the ways you have found be the ways of God follow them God hath but one way to heaven there is but one truth if Baal be God follow Baal do not stand wavering do not consult with flesh and bloud 't is an infinite mercie that God will give any of us to leave Relations Estates Congregations any thing for Christ 't is an infinite mercy we do not split upon a rock Be sure to be either for God or Baal a godly man many time halts in his way but never halts between two opinions 4. Steadfastness of Conscience Indeed the genius of my ministry hath lyen this way and here I could easily launch out but I must be short I would speak a word in season to those that are weak it becomes you to be steadfast in conscience then have a God decreeing a Christ redeeming a spirit quickning a gospel promising a heaven prepared a God infinitely more ready to save him then he can possibly be desirous to be saved by him Be steadfast in conscience against the guilt the filth of sin against the temptations of Satan c. Let us draw near with full assurance of faith you can never believe Gods love so much as Gods love doth engage you to believe c. I might adde 5. You must be steadfast in conversation 't is not the Running well but the Running out 't is not the sighing but the conquering that gives you title to the Reward for you to give a great deal of milk and to throw it down all at length with your foot may argue you to have a good dug but a bad foot Never give those be●…sts of Babylon occasion to say that a man may be a child of God in the morning and a child of the devil at night that we contradict that Doctrine by our conversation that we assert in our profession But why must we be stedfast Alas why would you have me marshal up all the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 me count the stars or number the sands on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There is no●… an attribute in God not a precept 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 in the word not an ordinance 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 there is nothing in God or 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or ourselves but all would give a con●…ribution of 〈◊〉 to prove the Saints 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I must but h●…nt at a few things First I would argue from Iesu Christ. Believers you love Christ and therefore you love the honour of Christ now the honour of Christ is highly engaged in your stedfastness We never cast a deeper blot on the honour of Christ then when we grow unstedfast I need not tell you so the Jesuits those me●…k Papists will tell you so those that delight in nothing more then in the milk of the Virgin Mary and in the bloud of Saints they have enough if you be unsteady 1. You dishonour Christ in his sufferings Pray tell me Believers why did Christ swear bloud why did he dye why did he undergo what the wrath of Devils could inflict but for this end to make you steady to give you the conquest of all spiritual Enemies and to make you stand in that conquest triumphing Thus I remember as Ioshuah Jos. 10. 24. Come put your feet upon the necks of these k●…ngs and they came near and put their feet upon the necks of them So Christ hath dy'd that you might live