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A86601	Preces & Lachrymæ. A sermon on Act. chap. XX. vers. 36, 37, 38. Vers. 36. And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. 37. And they all wept sore, and fell on Pauls neck, and kissed him. 38. Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, thay they should see his face no more, and they accompanied him to the ship. / By William Houghton, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	Houghton, William, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2938; Thomason E602_3; ESTC R206405	33,827	37

they cannot indure to hear of his bodily absence Inference 1 First then take notice here what a grief it is for friends to leave one another it s almost death to them to part asunder a man sorrows for nothing more Omnes dolores leves praeterquam Joh. 16.6 Malvezzi David perfec 132. then to have his friend taken from him When Christ began but to speak of going away how sad were his Disciples Because I have said these things sorrow hath filled your hearts Friendship saith Malvezzi is an union of two souls in one body which in a sort inform it if not truly yet virtually and as the soul is grieved to depart out of an earthly body which it informed so likewise to depart from another soul which she loved Hence it was that Augustine tells us August confess that when his friend Alipius was dead he thought one half of himself gone So Paul here and his Ephesians It grieved them as ye heard that he was going from them and we must think it grieved him too to tell them that he must leave them and therefore if you mark you shall see how mournfully as it were he utters those words I go bound and now behold ye shall see my face no more he brings it out with a kind of sigh And now behold c. as it grieved them to hear it so himself no lesse to speak it Nothing then more grievous to friends then parting Secondly did they sorrow thus for Pauls departure see then here the losse of Gods Ministers what a losse it is we are to sorrow most of all for that Losse of houses lands goods is not so great as this Ministers though they be a burden to some and many ungratefull wretches cry a faire riddance yet Gods children know what a losse they sustain when they are taken away When Eudoxia the Empresse took a spleen against Chrysostome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Joh. exuli Cyriaco Epise to 5. ep 3. p. 287. History of the Church of Scotland 214. and banish him the people gathered to him weeping and saying It were better the Sun left shining then the golden mouth of Chrysostome be stopt from preaching When John Knox was calld into Scotland being to leave his flock at Geneva This saith he to worldly-wise-men may appear a small matter but to me it was and is such that more wordly substance then I will expresse could not have caused me willingly to behold the eyes of so many grave men weeping at once for my cause as I did in taking my last good night from them Acts and Monuments 1387. And Doctour Taylor when he went through Hadley to be burnt the people stood weeping in the streets pointing to him and saying There goes our good Shepheard what shall we poore scattered lambs do this therefore is a heavie case Thirdly before I passe from this point give me leave to raise up your minds by a spirituall meditation Is the absence of a friend of a Minister so grievous what then is the absence of Christ when he shall say Ye shall see my face no more we should think that the heaviest saying that ever was heard and we should be most earnest in our * Hoe unum perdere metuamus aeternum Dei aspectum illudque assidue quisque pro se roget ne projicias me à facie tua Psal 51.13 faciem tuam domine requiram Psal 27.8 Ostende mihi faciem tuam demine Exod. 33.13 Piè domine modicum illud vocas ob modicum immodicum prayers that this may never be that he would never cast us out of his presence or hide his face from us for then what a sad and desolate condition are we in for if one Minister die or go away we can get another or if we lose one friend we can take delight and comfort in another but what comfort can a man have when the Comforter himself is gone Hence it is that when Christ shall withdraw himself a little from the soul of a Christian he thinks every day seven years till he return as Bernard upon those words Yet a little while and ye shall not see me Oh Lord callest thou that a little while Christ indeed calls it so but a Christian thinks it long as David Return O Lord how long and How long wilt thou forget me O Lord for ever Psa 6.3.13.1 Psal 30.5 In another place he could tell us his anger indures but a moment now that moment seems eternity How long for ever Thus the Church in the Lamentations complains and bewails her sad condition For this I weep mine eye runneth down with water Lameux 1.16 because the Comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me Wherefore if you have the presence of Christ and of his Holy Spirit the counsell I give is this that ye would labour to keep it Mane nobiscum Domine Luk. 24.29 say as the Disciples at Emmaus Lord stay with us but if he have absented himself up and seek him with tears Tears indeed could not bring back Paul but 't is possible for a penitent by his prayers and tears to regain the presence of Christ And so much for the second act of their love Their weeping enlarged by four remarkable circumstances out of my Text the Generality of it all wept the Excesse wept sore the Place Pauls neck and the Cause why because they should see his face no more that filld their hearts with grief and made them cry Loth to depart As one friend holds another by the hand being sorry that he must forsake him or as she said to her husband going into exile Husband we will go together we will live together Simul hine fimul ibimus ambo se sequar conjux exulis exulero Ovid. de trist and we will die together an exiled man and an exiled wife together So do these here haerent in amplexibus they cling to Paul they are long in taking their leaves they know not how to bid him adieu But friends we say must part Come we therefore to the last act of their love testified by their feet Their lips their eyes have done their part now let us see what their feet do they walk with him they conduct and bring him on his way and how far as far as they could till they came to the Ship They accompanied him to the ship They accompanied him to the ship This Chrysostome will have to be another act of their love So greatly saith he did they love him and so diversly were they affected towards him that they will on their way with him Chrys in locum and see him Shipt before they part It was a frequent custome among the Primitive Christians when their friends were going from them to conduct them and bring them forward on their way Secundum indicatos locorum situs intervallum fuit illud inter Ephesum atque Miletum ad stadia circiter 400 quae

punish you if you offer disgrace to the Lord Christ who is the image of God and the engraved form of his person If you tear his blessed body in pieces by your oaths and blasphemies he will never hold you guiltlesse if you continue to do thus Words spoken in season Prov. 25.11 are like apples of gold in pictures of silver we should therefore desire the Lord to give us the tongue of the learned Isa 50.4 that we may know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary as when we see a man cast down through any sad accident le ts labour then if we can to make him sorry for his sinnes when joyfull or merry through any good befalln him make his joy spirituall if we can we are Fisher-men and must bait our hooks with such baits as may catch Seed-men our greatest skill therefore is to fit every ground with seed fit for the soile and to sowe it also at such a season as it may take root and grow for seed though never so good cast into the ground out of season doth not fructifie To end this We are to endeavour to speak seasonably both in publick and in private we must take our fit opportunities of doing good for opportunities are like water in a runing stream come to a river with a rod in your hand Aquin. you cannot touch the same water twice for it runs away So is it with opportunities we must lay hold of them when they are offered or they are gone Paul was never to preach more to the Ephesians therefore he will by no means hold his peace now And this is the third thing I noted to you his Wisedome and Prudence Zeal There is a fourth yet remaining which is his Zeal and affection he tells the Thessalonians that he was affectionately desirous of them 1 Thes 2.8 so he was very affectionate when he preacht this Sermon he warns he exhorts desires them to look backward how faithfully he had dealt with them forward to consider what impostors were like to come in amongst them now he speaks to them that they would have a care of themselves Act. 20. ●● .28.31.32 and beware of seducers then he turns to God and craves help from heaven Thus you see abundance of affection is shewed in this Sermon his spirit is now upon the wing the fire is kindled within and his heart inflamed with a holy zeal Spiritus Pauli exemplar Ministri he should be a pattern to us in this also The sonne of Syrach saith Ecclus 48.1 Joh. 5.35 that Elias was like fire and his word like a burning lamp John Baptist was a burning and shining light and Chrysostome saith that Peter was like a man made all of fire walking amongst stubble This holy fire of zeal will make us like them Zeal is a greater converter of souls to God then Learning Bellarmine tells us that with them in Lent-season there are thirty or fourty Preachers in some great Cities Scal. ascens p. 100.102 daily preaching against sinne yet no change afterwards appears in their lives the same vices remain the same coldnesse as great dissolutenesse I can give no other reason of it saith he but this Their Sermons are Learned and very Elegant adorned with flowers of Rhetorick but the Soul the Life the Fire is wanting the Fire of Divine Love which onely is able to animate the words of the speaker and inflame the hearts of the hearers This is not to be understood so as if strength of lungs contention and loudnesse of a mans voice or the motion of his body carried it many lay about them lustily make a mighty noise but that 's not the thing Guns having no Bullets or Shot onely Powder in them yet make a great noise when discharged but without doing any thing This therefore is the thing required that we be affectionately desirous of Gods glory and of the salvation of mens souls and that this affection be true and unfeigned not extorted but flowing naturally from the fountain of the heart Let us labour therefore for this endeavouring in our preaching to get affections suitable to the matter we have in hand that our words coming from our hearts may go to the hearts of our hearers A corde ad cor for all the former are in vain if this be wanting for admit a Minister take great pains at his study admit he be faithfull say he be prudent too in taking fit occasions when and what to speak yet if he be not zealous withall his hearers will be little moved with his words for how should he move them that is not first moved himself with that he delivers Tacent plurimi eorum aut similes sunt tacentibus etiamsi loquantur Salv. 160. Oxon. Coronidis loco as Salvian writes Many Ministers saith he are silent never open their mouths to preach Gods word and others are little better then silent even when they are speaking they do it so faintly and coldly Let this therefore be added as the upshot and perfection of all that we be zealous Thus you have heard what manner of Sermon this was that Paul preached to the Ephesians what labour and pains what plain-dealing and faithfulnesse what wisdome and discretion what zeal and affection there was in it Paul was a painfull faithfull wise and zealous preacher Shall I tell you one thus qualified stood not long since in this place But I know your thoughts are quick and have prevented me onely this short application let me make of it If preaching be an act of love then Preachers are to be loved if you ask which especially I answer such as I have spoken of when God gives you Ministers thus qualified think no blessing under heaven comparable to it should the Lord give you riches as great plenty as Croesus heap upon you as many titles of honour as the great Turk hath filling almost half a sheet of a paper Phil. 2.29 1 Tim. 5.17 1 Cor. 9.7 denying this you wanted still the best means of your spirituall and everlasting good Count therefore such highly in reputation count them worthy of double honour consider the equity of it if they feed the flock should not the flock feed them If they spend their strength for you is it a great matter if you spend part of your means on them If they break their sleep for you should not you watch all oportunities to do them good If they for their faithfull and impartiall dealing be evil spoken of should not you stand up and defend them where ever you come If their zeal and affection in delivering Gods truth consume their strength waste their spirits causing them to end their lives in a kind of martyrdome Magnes amoris amor Amor est motivum amoris Aqun do they not deserve your love Love they say is loves load-stone let their love then being such draw you to love and honour them And thus much

tongue saying They have taken away my Lord and how can we think we love Christ or our brethren if neither our feet eyes nor tongues expresse it Object Oh but we have it we say in our hearts what and never let it come forth nor walk abroad Answ It cannot be It s against the nature of love No affection sends us more abroad puts us more upon action then this of love Let us then as these Ephesians and Mary make both our tongues our eyes our feet and our hands also witnesses of our love our tongues in warning reproving comforting our eyes in weeping in secret for the sins of others and for the miseries of Gods people if this heavenly fire of love be once kindled in our hearts our eyes as Limbecks will be sometimes dropping and distilling tears Again our feet in carrying us to the house of God Our feet saith David shall stand there Psal 122.2 and in carrying us to the beds of the sick to visit them and lastly our hands in giving to the necessities of the Saints This love of the hand I would especially commend to you that are rich and have wherewithall to do good God loved the world and gave his son think of that Joh. 3.16 his love was a giving love so should yours be remember the words of the Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give then to receive they are the words immediately preceding my Text for the former binds others to us by the latter we become bound and obliged Vid. Combis compend theo p. 444. the former is a mans own virtuous act and the former goes away with a reward from God therefore more blessed I beseech you therefore suffer this word of exhortation be ready to distribute willing to communicate so shall you make to your selves a glorious way to heaven He that hath so oft stood and spoken to you out of this place were he now here to speak and take his leave what duty would he rather commend to you then this Cranmer a Martyr in Queen Maries dayes as he stood upon a Scaffold in Pauls immediately before he went to the stake to be burnt commended three sentences of Gods word to the rich Citizens that were about him the first was this Luk. 18.24 How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the Kingdome of God! a hard saying saith he but he that spake it is the God of truth The second Who so hath this worlds good and seeth his brother in want 1 Joh. 3.17 and shutteth his bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him And the third sentence was Jam. 5.1 Go to now ye rich men weep and howle for the miseries that shall come upon you This was all his farwell-Sermon to desire them to think of these Textes when he was gone So the Apostle Paul here parting with the Ephesians leaves this memento behind him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers 33. support the weake remember the poore and mark how he brings it in I have shewed you all things how that ye ought to do thus that is to remember the poore and to support or shore up the weak He tells them he had shewed them all things yet mentions but one thing charity to the poore for that indeed is instar omnium the end of all our preaching and the end of all your hearing too charity is the summe and perfection of all I have stayed the longer upon this being so necessary a duty and the Text I have opened gave just occasion to mind you of it I will be briefer in the rest My second request therefore is you would carefully retain and keep in memory whatsoever good instructions and lessons have been delivered by your late Pastour as John to the Church of Thyatira That which yee have already hold fast Rev. 2.25 great pains hath been taked amongst you let it not be like water spilt on the ground Blessed saith Christ are such as hear the word and keep it Luc. 11.28 not they that onely hear but they that hear and keep you have oft heard the word from his mouth now therefore hold it fast keep it The seed hath been sown amongst you now the Lord water it with the dew of his grace that it may grow and be fruitfull Thirdly you have heard how full of changes this life is we must part and leave one another the Ephesians Paul and Paul his Ephesians and after a short time all of us leave this world Oh therefore let our hearts be where our treasure is where no change of weather shall alter us Ego ipse dum loquor mutari ista mutatus sum c. Senec epist 330. here are changes without and changes within we are not the same in our age that we were in our youth nor to day what we were two or three dayes agoe Joh. 14.2 Heb. 12.28 here we remove from place to place above are mansions A kingdome that cannot be shaken Fourthly and finally lest any that now hears me should be too much affected with grief by reason of this weeping discourse I will add one meditation that may help to sweeten these bitter waters Our friends are taken away from us never shall we see them more in this world in heaven it s to be hoped we shall these faces which disappear and vanish from us now we shall recover the sight of them hereafter Ministers and people shall then exult and rejoyce together Paul saith of the Thessalonians whom he had won to God and who were a comfort to him in his life 1 Thes 2.19 that at the presence of Christ at his coming they should be his glory and joy and crown of rejoycing that is he should take far more comfort in them then ever he had done in this world The like he saith of the Corinthians We are your rejoycing 1 Cor. 1.4 and ye ours in the day of the Lord Jesus Think of it beloved think what a happy meeting and what a happy greeting it will be when Ministers and people shall come together and greet one another in this manner we are your rejoycing and yee ours Isa 8.18 When Ministers shall say Here am I Lord and the people whom thou hast given me and they shall answer Here are we Lord and he to whom thou hast given us by whom thou hast converted us When Ministers shall turn and speak thus to their converts Ye are our glory and our joy and they shall reply and say and ye have been our faithfull guides that have brought us into these joyes Then there shall be no taking ship or horse to part any more but we shall continue together enjoying a heavenly communion one with another and following the Lamb wheresoever he goeth FINIS

you come together be exhorted to use that reverence that becomes the presence of the Divine Majesty abstract your thoughts from all earthly things When you sing Psalmes and set forth Gods praise together do it as if you were bearing a part with the blessed Angels and when you pray joyn spirits together sending up the Ministers prayer with all your strength to heaven He prayed with them It follows with them all see how generall his love was as he preacht to all great and * Act. 26 22. 2 Cor 9.19.22 Coloss 1.28 small so he likewise prayed for all This great Doctour of the Gentiles condescends to the meanest man in this company and prayes with him It s no disparagement to greatnesse to be imployed in offices of love to the meanest Saint a Ladies hands are not too fair to wash a Disciples feet nor her eyes too beautifull to behold the diseases of those that lie in the Spittle nor her feet too good to carry her to the sick-mans bed to pray with him but it is the fault of too many to have the faith of Christ with respect of persons If an equall or Superiour be sick they may chance to lend him a visit but an Inferiour though he have ten times more grace in his heart may languish and perish ere he be visited or have any comfort sent him for body or soul it was otherwise here with Paul he preacht to all and he prayed for all Rom. 12.16 Psal 119. compared with 63.74 condescend therefore to men of low estate be your selves never so high King David did it They that fear thee will be glad when they see me that might well be they glad to see him but the question is Whether or no David would be glad to see them for many are ready to hide their heads will not be seen when men of low degree come to present themselves before them It was not so with him but saith he I am a companion of all that fear God not onely willing to see or to be seen of them but to keep company with them and not onely with some of the highest rank but all such I am a companion of all them He would descend as it were from his throne forget state become a companion of every one that feared God With them all Doct. Again It was a parting prayer this He prayed with them and so left them where you may further learn from hence That it is a laudable custome that Christian friends use at parting to pray one for another and to desire the prayers one of another T is true we are to pray for our friends when absent and God can hear our prayers for them though they be in the remotest corners of the world even as the exhalations that rise out of the valleys with us in this place being carried up into the air fall down in showres and refresh those places that are further off so those pious exhalations and prayers which we send up to heaven may bring down a blessing with them upon our friends wheresoever they be our prayers may find them out We should therefore pray for them when out of sight and absent from us for God sees them and can showr down his blessings upon them howsoever this be true yet the presence of a friend we wish well to How doth it stirre up to this duty when as Christ prayed to his Father in behalf of his Disciples I pray for these whom thou hast given me Joh. 17.11 these as if he had pointed to them with his finger so when a man shall say I pray for these these now in presence these here before me these whose faces I now behold but it may be shall never behold more how forcible will our prayers be as such a time When a man parts from his friend if his presence any whit moves him he hath it he is not yet gone if his absence his thoughts now give him absent being thus presens-absens having him in his armes yet seeing him vanishing out of his sight how are his affections then kindled and inflamed and then are our prayers most prevalent when affections as wings are ready to waft and carry them up to heaven This therefore is a commendable and religious custome to have God present at our parting from our friends when we leave God with them we leave them well Thus you see here Paul and the Ephesians commending one another to God in their prayers so the Disciples at Tyre in the next Chapter they kneeled down and prayed Act. 21.5 6. and so took leave one of another He prayed with them But what may we think this prayer was That God would strengthen them by his spirit in the inner man Ephes 3.14 was once his prayer for this Church Such it may be was his prayer for them now That they might be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might that being left as so many poore orphans Ephes 6.10 the Lord would take care of them and build them up by the word of his grace Such in all probability was the effect of his prayer It was our Saviours prayer for his Disciples I am now no more in the world holy Father keep throught thine own name those whom thou hast given me Joh. 17.11 Such its likely was Pauls prayer for these Ephesians that seeing he was to be no longer amongst them the Lord would keep them by his power and might And a hint hereof he gives us in his Sermon when he saith And now brethren I commend you to God and to the word of his grace Vers 32. he was then secretly lifting up his heart to God and beginning his prayer which afterward he prest and offered up with more earnestnesse to the Throne of grace if he commended them to God in his Sermon how much more in his prayer Caeterum obortae impediunt lachrymae Transitio ad secundam partem But Paul can now be no longer heard for tears sighs and tears shed on every side drown his voice and carry away the sound of his prayers from us Come we therefore from the first generall part of my Text Pauls love to them to the second their love to him For it was not here as it was with the Corinthians of whom he complains that he loved them but not they him Nay 2 Cor. 12.15 the more saith he I love you the lesse am I loved But here was love returned love for love Paul hath done his part exprest much love to them now they come upon the stage and endeavour to shew as much love to him But how Poor souls their words were few As Chrysostome observes of Peters weeping for the denyall of his Master He wept bitterly saith he but we hear him say nothing so these Ephesians wept sore but said little It may be they were in the Psalmists case so troubled that they could not speak Psal 77.4 yet their