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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45488	The pastors last legacy and counsel delivered in a farewel sermon, preached at St. Philips in Bristol, August 24th, 1662 / Mr. Edward Hancock ...	Hancock, Edward.	1663 (1663)	Wing H640; ESTC R40546	20,130	40

sorry for the affliction of Joseph should go into captivity with the first that went into captivity The Church hath a flood of persecution and mouths full of the venom of the old Serpent is spit out after them yet the Church is kept safe In the 25. of Matthew you have three famous parables of the ten Virgins of the Talents of the Sheep and Goats there you may see that the trial of the last day is according to the simpathizing with the Church Do but consider it seriously it is according as thou hast sympathized with the Church that thy tryal will then be You saw me in my Members in my poor afflicted Members you never looked after them and inasmuch as you did it not to one of the least of these you did it not to me Then shall they go into everlasting pains but the righteous into life eternal Pray remember this there will be a day of judgement and the Scripture is the rule by which all must be tryed that lives under it The love of the Brethren is the mark by which we shall be judged at the last day 1 John 3.14 We know that we are passed from death to life because we love the Brethren Those that are spiritual Brethren that have God for their Father Jesus Christ for their elder Brother new Jerusalem that is above for their Mother ought so to love one another as the Apostle saith in that 1 John 3.16 That they ought to lay down their lives for each other If God doth call for thy Estate thy Life thy Hearts Blood to be sacrificed for him thou oughtest to do it Brethren amongst other Arguments to sway with a true Son of the Church this should be one what shall I turn upon the Church of God now in affliction what a stumbling-block and cause of offence will it be to my weak Brother Brethren when God seems to call upon you saying Who is on the Lords side and who is not you are to love the Church so as if your lives did lie at stake to part with it every member should endeavour the preservation of the whole Fourthly wouldst thou behave thy self well in the day of Jacobs troubles give God no rest day nor night till he have mercy on his people until he take his rod from the back of the righteous until he make his Church a triumph and rejoycing over the whole earth Prayers and tears are the Churches weapons use no other for those are the weapons that will fell tall and stately Cedars those be the weapons that will scatter Kingdoms It is said of a Queen of the Scots that she was more afraid of John Knox then of an Army of twenty thousand men such was his prevalency in Prayer Are you living men or not do you breath or not if you are spiritually alive and living Members of the Church of Christ you cannot but lay close siege at the Throne of Grace in its behalf Dost thou pray to God and canst thou pray and forget the Israel of God Hast thou a mercenary care that thy own soul shall be saved and forgets the Church of God in misery never putting up a serious petition for Gods Israel nor mindest the afflictions of Joseph Oh! give God no rest day nor night until he hath mercy on Sion This is a successful war that you are commanded and encouraged unto in Isa 62. ver 6 7. I have set watch-men upon thy walls O Jerusalem that shall never hold their peace day nor night until he establish Jerusalem and make it the praise of the whole earth Ye that make mention of the Lord keep not silence Oh the Lord increase the number of such persons Oh! that you that are real Members of the Church would stand upon the walls and give God no rest day nor night until he hath established Sion and made Jerusalem the praise of the earth Oh! bless God for the success of Prayer when poor weak impotent crasie prayers engageth All-sufficiency and Omnipotency to do this Read Psalm 137. and the 6. first verses By the Rivers of Babylon we sate down yea we wept when we remembred thee O Zion we hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof it was no time to hear the sound of them we were not so merry They that wasted us required of us mirth saying Sing us one of the Songs of Zion Come let us have some of your zealous mirth Come let us hear you now pray in the Spirit and preach ex tempore then it becomes us to hang our harps on the willows and say How shall we sing the Lords Song in a strange Land Now we have lost our Ordinances and are given up to the hands of Heathens that reigns over us If I forget thee O Jerusalem let my right hand forget her cunning If I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy Oh pathetical expression he did not shrink from the Church of God but see with what affection he speaks If I forget thee c. I must forget that which I am used to do If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy Oh Brethren get this spirit of affection towards the Church Really Brethren I am afraid few of you are real Members of the Church were you you would be more importunate at the Throne of Grace for the Churches establishment see what you may do by importunity in that 18. Chapter of Luke from the first verse to the 8. Brethren you must pardon me because it is my last and although I am so long a taking leave of you yet will it be no obstruction unto you in your journey but a furtherance See what an encouragement there is in that 18. of Luke And he spake a parable unto them to this end that men ought alwayes to pray and not to faint Oh! faint not in your prayers for if the unjust judge that feared not God nor regarded man yet was wrought upon to avenge the poor widow because of her importunity and shall not God avenge his own Elect that cries day and night to him although he bear long I tell you he will avenge them speedily The cloud over the Church may be so thick and the estate of the Church so desperate that when the Son of Man comes he shall hardly finde faith on the earth Do you think that God will not hear his own Elect but suffer their enemies to make such deep furrows over them although he do seem long to thy carnal sense yet when his time is come he will come and not tarry therefore bear a sense upon thy spirit of the Churches misery for he that can be quiet in the Churches misery hath removed himself from the Churches light and society he hath cashier'd himself out of the mystical Body however he may seem to be in outward society Oh! therefore feel and simpathize with the Church in her misery I