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A60357	Vincentius redivivus, a funeral sermon preached Octob. 27, 1678 upon the occasion of the much bewailed death of that reverend and eminent servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Vincent ... / by Samuel Slater.	Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.	1679 (1679)	Wing S3979; ESTC R23647	37,199	50

VINCENTIUS REDIVIVUS A Funeral Sermon Preached Octob. 27. 1678. Upon Occasion of the much bewailed Death of that Reverend and Eminent Servant of CHRIST Mr. THOMAS VINCENT Formerly Preacher at Ma●dlins Milk-street London By SAMUEL SLATER an unworthy Servant of Christ in the Gospel Psal. 112. 6. The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance Quae caecitas animi quaeve dementia est amare pressuras poenas lachrymas mundi non festinare potius ad gaudium quod nunquam possit auferri Arnob. LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst and T. Cockerill at the Bible and three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chappel and at the three Legs in the Poultrey over-against the Stocks Market 1679. To my Honoured Friends Mrs. Mary Vincent and that Flock of Christ over which th● Holy Ghost had made dear Mr. Thoma● Vincent Overseer AT your request this Sermon was Preached and is now published Such as it is you ar● welcome to it and much good may it do you 〈◊〉 the Lord grant all those may meet with 〈◊〉 blessing in it who shall read it out of a real desire to ge●● good for their souls other Readers we care for none 〈◊〉 take your invitation of me to this work as an eviden● token of that love and esteem you have for me howeve● unworthy Therefore I did not draw back but humbl●● bless God for the assistance he hath afforded me in it 〈◊〉 all you find here according to his Will came from hi● Spirit I would be very very low in mine own eyes yet I do neither dread the censures of men nor am I 〈◊〉 vain as to court their applause by making Apologies What I have here presented you with are the Truths o● God which deserve your acceptance I desire you to tr●● them and having seen their Fathers name in their fore● head give them a ready admission a most friendl● and honourable entertainment I shall speak nothing 〈◊〉 you here by way of advice having said so much in th● Sermon but only signifie to you that you are much upo● 〈◊〉 heart and in my prayers I will not be unmindful you at the Throne of Grace but speak many a good ●●rd for you the Lord comfort your hearts and san●●ifie to you his hand that out of the eater may come ●eat out of this Providence which hath removed your ●everend Pastor special● advantage may come to your ●●ls the Lord send you another und●r whose shadow 〈◊〉 may sit with delight finding his fruit sweet to your ●●ste the Lord supply all your need according to his ●●ches in glory by Iesus Christ. My dear Friends wisely ●●d graciously improve this dispensation submit to the ●●od pleasure of a taking God be much in the study of ●ur hearts and ways be you sincere and thriving Chri●●ians And the Father of mercies bind you up in the ●●ndle of life and grant you a glorious Inheritance a●●ong them that are sanctified by faith in Christ so ●●ayes Your Friend and Servant in our dear Lord Jesus Samuel Slater ●ctob 29. ●1678 Hebr. XIII 7. Remember them which have the rule over you who have spoken to you the Word of God whose saith follow considering the end of their conversation THIS excellent Epistle is not without good reason reckoned to Paul as its Author the great Apostle of the Gentiles who having obtained mercy burned with zeal for God and had such yearning bowels over the blind unbelieving obstinate Iews his brethren and kinsmen according to the flesh that for their sakes he could have found in his heart to wish himself accursed from Christ Rom 9. 3. which was a rapture of love a pang of affection highly becoming him who was a brand plucked out of the burning and of a chief sinner made an eminent Saint of a cruel furious persecutor a blessed and most successful Apostle unto these Iews he wrote this Epistle and for weighty reasons without doubt concealed his Name Herein he made it his business so to set forth the Lord Jesus and commend him to them as that they might receive him with all acceptation as the promised Messiah and High-Priest over the house of God and persevere in faith and obedience to him and likewise to lay down such rules for their lives and carriages in the world as that by an holy and exemplary conversation they might honour his Name and adorn his Gospel The Union between Faith and Holiness is so strict that they never were nor can be separated and it is pity they should being most amiable in conjunction Faith giving encouragement unto holiness and holiness reflecting a glory upon faith Several precious Commands or Exhortations you meet with in this Chapter which though primarily ordered out to the Hebrews do remain a burden upon all persons in all Ages who profess themselves Christians unto them it is our duty to attend and according to them to walk The Text is a fruitful Bough consisting of three Branches 1. Remember them which have the rule over you who have spoken to you the word of God 2. Follow their faith 3. Consider the end of their conversation Or if you please you have here a double duty enjoyned Remember them that have spoken to you the word of God and follow their faith and you have a choice means prescribed for the commending those duties to you and encouraging you in their performance Consider the end of their conversation Of all these I shall God willing speak in the prosecution of this Doctrine Doct. There is much duty incumbent upon people upon the account of their deceased Pastors When Ministers dye their work is done they have finished their course and dispatched the business given them to do they did shine among you in Purity of Doctrine and Holiness of Conversation as long as the Lamp of life lasted when the oyl of that was spent they were taken up to Heaven there to out-shine the Sun in his greatest strength and glory But your work is not then at an end being of equal extent and duration with your lives As you have time enough for your work so have you work enough for your time none can say he sate idle one hour because he had nothing to do put forth all your strength use your utmost diligence husband your days and minutes to the best advantage you will be happy men and women you will have cause eternally to bless the hand above that help't you if you can do your work by that time death shall come to take you off I am not now to speak concerning the whole duty of man but those particular duties mentioned in the Text relating to those servants of Christ who have laboured among you one of which is remembrance Remember them who have the rule over yo●r In which word two things must be considered 1. The Act Remember 2. The Object about which that act is to be exercised Them which have the rule over you I shall begin with the Object those which have

of the burning lake They do not consider the pearl of price how orient it is how excellent and inestimable and therefore they do not sell all and buy it They do not consider the worth of their souls that they are immortal and their ransom precious and therefore they barter them away for a filthy lust and transient pleasure Men do not consider how sordid and odious a thing it is how ill-becoming them how hateful to God and how exceedingly it inflámes their reckoning and will one day add to their torments 〈◊〉 swill like a Swine to be filthy like a Goat to curse like a Devil and to swear like a Cutter to profane Sabbaths and 〈…〉 to hate the power of Godliness and 〈◊〉 ●hose that are peaceable in a Land Due and serious 〈…〉 my Brethren would correct all these things 〈◊〉 ●ould reform a thousand disorders and we should have another world And until this be the world will be the old world still we shall find it as bad as ever a wicked malicious and troublesome world Cain will kill Abel still And they that are born after the flesh will persecute them that are born after the spirit I shall not at all wonder to see men carry like Bedlams to see them raging-mad in sin so long as they live like fools without consideration Well my Friends if any will be vain and foolish still let them be so As for you reckon upon it as your wisdom and interest to do nothing rashly not to pass over things lightly not to run on headily look before you leap ponder your path try all things Consider those things which we deliver to you in the course of our Ministry and require of you in the Name of our God whether they be not most holy and just and good Consider those things we propound to you the great and gracious offers we make whether you can any where else better your selves and get a more gainful bargain see if we do not out-bid all the world and offer you such a match for your souls as is the chiefest of ten thousands altogether lovely without compare O ye fools be ye of an understanding heart We would not have you embrace our counsels and follow our directions blindfold We can say this We counsel you as we do our selves and we lay no other burden upon you than upon our selves and your souls are precious to us as our own and it sorely troubles us to think of your eternal miscarrying and our hearts would greatly rejoyce even ours if that danger were over and that we did but see you in that tender and mighty hand out of which none can pluck you yet we would not have you take all upon trust from us an implicit faith and a blind obedience do not please us No weigh things in right balances compare the service of Christ with the drudgery of a Devil and the service of sin peace of conscience with roaring in a Tavern the kisses of a Saviours lips with the caresses of a Minion the favour of Christ with the smiles of a Man a being filled with the spirit with a being drunk with wine in which is a brutifying excess Compare contrivances for God with plots for Rome and conspiracies against Princes an heavenly mind with earthly affections an interest in promises and an inheritance in Heaven with an ill-gotten estate in the world that hath a curse in it Compare I say these things together and consider and then chuse Let some men say what they will their tongues are their own only let them remember they must at last be accountable for their words as for us we would have you rational in your Religion rational in your believing and living use your reason in all things within its reach only to call that to determine in matters too high for it in points of faith that could never have been known by us but by Divine Revelation hath much more absurdity in it than to call a Countrey-clown from following t●e Plough to sit down at the Helm and determine in the Arcana Imperii mysteries and riddles of State Use all the reason you have only be not unreasonable in you reasonings and believe it we are not afraid of having things brought to a tryal the cause of Godliness is too good to be cast when it hath its hearing before a prudent impartial and righteous Judg. Consider then and that not only once but often so the Original word signifies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 considering again and again frequently repeat this act think of it now and think of it anon to day and to morrow every day The things of God the matters of Religion the product and issue of an holy life do deserve greatest seriousness and most frequent thoughts there is nothing in the world so considerable in it self as these things are and therefore nothing in the world is so worthy of your consideration Besides the merit of the things the dulness of the hearts calls for it Ahlas I we are not easily wrought upon our minds are blockish our wills stubborn our hearts obdurate our judgments do not readily assent to truth nor our wills close with goodness We are as the Disciples were slow of heart to believe and submit and embrace the things of God There must be precept upon precept and line upon line and there had need be consideration upon consideration and prayer upon prayer and all this is little enough nay all this and more than this would be too little were not God pleased to bare his Omnipotent Arm and to make it a day of power upon the obdurate and refractory sinner Slight thoughts and transient glances will make no impression will kill no sin nor kindle any holy heat it is the fixed eye that doth affect the heart as the Burning-glass must be for some time held with a steddy hand in the beams of the Sun before it will fire combustible matter Be much then in the work let not vain thoughts lodg but let holy thoughts abide and dwell within you So much for the Act. I now come to the Object What is it that we are to consider What truly you need never be at a loss for matter of consideration most choice and excellent matter viz. God himself and the operations of his hands in Creation-work and acts of Providence specially that admirable Master-piece sinners Redemption and Salvation Consider your selves your hearts and ways and latter end together with that infinite Ocean of Eternity into which you must lanch and those two places Heaven and Hell into which all Intellectual and Rational beings shall be gathered Consider the Sermons you hear and search the Scriptures daily bring all that is said in the Pulpit to the Law and to the testimony and see whether those things be so or not In Prayer consider in what a presence you are and with what a glorious Majesty you have to do what great Mercies and Blessings you have to seek