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A53259	The last sermon and sayings of that most pious and reverend divine, Mr. John Oakes, minister of the gospel in the City of London who was struck with death in his pulpit, in the afternoon after he had preached this sermon; to the admiration of all his hearers. A subject of great account, worthy to be written in letters of gold. Being a thanksgiving sermon, for God's great goodness in delivering this nation from popery, slavery, and destruction, by that eminent instrument of God's glory, King William King of England. Discoursed of from these words, Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. Luk. 10. 20. And having preached upon the first part of the text in the forenoon, of God's great deliverance of this kingdom from popery, &c. and coming to treat more fully in the afternoon, what it is to have our names written in heaven, God took him to himself, and gave him a full enjoyment thereof. With a brief sum of his funeral sermon preached the next Sunday after, by the reverend divine Mr. Williams. To which is added two Godly	Oakes, John, d. 1689?	1689 (1689)	Wing O19A; ESTC R218540	11,358	25

it hath delivered this Nation from Popery and Slavery if God had not delivered us from Popery and Slavery both which coming in upon us like a Corent if God had not prevented it we could not have escaped 1. God hath hereby delivered us from Popery Oh what a dreadful dangerous thing is Popery It is that Religion which doth teach men to keep no Faith it is a Religion which teacheth men to worship Stocks and Stones and that on penalties too Oh what a dreadful damning thing is Popery that they may be Converts they will cut your throats so that it is not your Estates will serve them but they would have your Lives too 2. God hath hereby delivered us from Slavery too even from serving an Idol If God had not delivered us thus then what would have become of us and our Children Could you be content to have your Children brought up to fall down to a Crucifix and to worship a Breaden God to the ruine of their own souls certainly if any persons were ever under such a Character as in 2 Thess 2. 11 12. it must be Papists And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a Lye That they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness Oh the tyranny we are in part delivered from we are delivered from their infringing upon those Immu●ities and Priviledges of our Forefathers which was from our Forefathers care and to their great Cost that we might not be brought up into Popish Slavery 2. Another foundation of joy and rejoicing for this begun Deliverance is the time when God thus interposed between us and our danger it was at the time when we were e'en ripe for our destruction Indeed we do not know yet what our danger was Oh had not God just at that very time interposed so seasonably when the Knife was just at our Throats in what a sad condition had we béen in at this day but the Lord was seen in the Mount. 3. Consider the means God did make use of this is a Foundation of our joy and rejoicing that God should put it into the Heart of a stranger even of a Foreign Prince and that God should Spirit him for such a Work and put resolutions and courage into him to run the hazard of his life and should make him of such a publick spirit which many English-men have lost that he should come from that plenty that splendour he was in to bring about this our begun Deliverance 4. This should raise our hearts to rejoice from the manner of this begun Deliverance that it was so suddenly speedily in so short a time Indeed God hath said As the Birds flying so will I save Jerusalem That such a work should be done without the Effusion of blood whereas he might have answered the Prayers of his People in terrible things as might make our hearts to quake our streets might been running with blood our garments might been rowling in blood when the Sword was drawn it might have eaten up much flesh and drank up much blood but it pleased God to interpose all this This might cause us to rejoice I might suggest one thing more to raise our hearts up to this frame For whom was this wrought what were we Protestants Ay But are we a reformed People if not we are for all this an undone People 2. I now come to the second part of the Text But rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven This is a precept or direction what we should chiefly rejoice in But rather Rather is a Note sometimes signifies the difference or inequality of the thing by a Figure But rather rejoice that is rejoice more let your joy be raised higher let your hearts be enlarged wider unto an higher acknowledgment of such a thing It should be taken uppermost in all our thoughts rejoice in nothing else absolutely If thou béest one who art assured thy name is written in Heaven whether this temporal Salvation came or no you have grounds of rejoicing Here are two things before us 1. The Object 1. What is that we are oblig'd so much to have in our thoughts and to have so much on our hearts It is expressed to have our names written in heaven 2. The act or duty with respect or relation unto the Object it is in that one word Rejoice Doct. That a Christian having evidence of his Name being written in the book of God in heaven this affords him sufficient matter for his continued joy and rejoicing here on Earth I say if a Christian have good satisfaction in this point it abundantly affords him just and sufficient matter for his constant joy and rejoicing on Earth let matters go how they will. Sirs whatever circumstances you may live to be under here in this world if you have a satisfactory Evidence of your Names being written above you may not only be reconciled unto but may smile on every dispensation of Providence There are three things lieth before me to be considered 1. What it is to have our Names written in Heaven that is one great thing wants to be explained 2. What those Evidences are which a Christian may have that he is in that blessed number of such whose Names are written in Heaven 3. On what account this affords such matter of Ioy as continually to rejoice 1. What it is to have our Names written in Heaven It is a Metaphorical Expression which alludes unto the custom of City or Corporation Communities where persons who are Members of that City or Corporation are invested with some peculiar priviledge or immunity that are not common to all persons but only unto those peculiar Corporations where they are related unto these Corporations particular Laws are proper unto them and Frée persons thereof have a propriety unto those priviledges Now these priviledges are recorded and registred where these persons may find out their Names Thus Names are written 1. There is God's opened Look which is the revealed Will of God in the written word of God wherein God reveals and discovers unto us his will in order unto our Salvation Oh! this is a Book God hath put into our hands to be our daily study and blessed be God who hath delivered us from a Generation of men who would have taken this book out of our hands such who will not enter into the Kingdom themselves and would shut you out and hinder you also from coming there Let me tell you Sirs that a Bible wou'd been a precious thing in your hands however now you slight it if God had suffered them to go on but seeing God hath so priviledg'd us as yet to continue this Book among us let us study this Book often There you have a discovery of the sinful and miserable condition we exposed our selves to which we have plung'd our selves into by our causeless Apostacy and there we have a discovery blessed be God of that

Estate we were restored to of Life and Salvation which God of infinite wisdom found out and proposed unto faln Man and you know how you may be delivered from that woful and miserable condition you were exposed unto FINIS The Substance of a SERMON preached the next Lords Day after the death of the Reverend Mr. John Oakes by Mr. W. Williams Minister of the Gospel Psal 39. 4. Lord make me to know my end and the measure of my days what it is that I may know how frail I am THe meaning of the words of David is this Tho' I am convinced I 'm a dying man and am perswaded that I shall not abide long here here is no abiding place yet do I not féel this on my heart and mind do not answer and comply with these convictions I do not understand this truth aright therefore Lord teach me let it come with such light and power on my mind to influence light into my mind heart and life make me to know my end clear up this truth to me that I may know how frail I am Doct. That Man is frail and that every Man ought to intreat GOD to make him to know how frail he is Man is frail as appears by the shortness of his daies Man's daies are short though he should live to his full Age Man lives by Divine support he lives not by his own strength 2ly It is evident Man is a poor frail Creature subject to be cut off in his full strength so saies Job ch 23. one dieth in his full strength being at ease and quiet very many do so without saying I am sick they suddenly drop away as many of you were spectators of an instance in this very Pulpit Our breath is soon stopt and we drop the Thread is very short that holds every man he steps into his grave in the midst of his walk therefore mans life is compared to a vapour which soon empties and is gone Lord teach me as a dying man that I may be earnest and diligent after the things by which I may honour and glorifie thée therefore he that would obtain the honouring and glorifying of God and enjoying of him must d● these things by which he will be glorified First we must believe in God and we must repent of our sins we must be examining our selves know our selves we must live above the world we must converse with God and be sanctified and made pure before we can glorifie or enjoy God therefore we should pray Lord help me as a poor dying Creature to sée my néed of believing ●o●k of repenting and sanctifying work Lord teach me so to number my daies as to apply them to true wisdom Lord help me so to live that I may be alwaies ready for death Watch ye therefore for ye know not when the master of the house cometh at evening or at midnight or at the cock-crowing or in the morning lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping for men are very backward to know their frailty there is no season plainer and yet how backward are men to learn it Use of Reproof to those that are ignorant of their Frailty Hast thou a thorough Conviction of this but oh how little do we live in the consideration of this Death is far off the thoughts of young ones they have made a Covenant with Death and Hell but their Covenant shall not stand Yt young ones how many are dead younger than you and some of the same age and might not that have been you doth not every distemper tell you how frail you are and may be soon snatched away How many distempers might have béen your death had not God sealed your Deliverance and yet you know not how soon you may be called away to give an account of your stewardship O how attentive would carry one of us be unto this Sermon did we believe it would be our last Sermon The next sort of persons this reproves is Worldlings who lay out their strength and time only in present things which are not worth the looking after Oh let me urge this upon you First Consider how soon your breath is gone and you come to nothing you who please your selves in vain f●ncies and think if you may be rich your Riches may last oh consider all you have or desire can do no good wh●n Death comes Consider Heaven will be worth all you can do for it in so little a time as this Life is none can say their labour is lost that they laid out for Heavens Glory Again You who were careless Christians even you will repent that you were no wiser when you come to die you careless negligent Christians when you come to die you will cry out Oh that I had béen more circumspect in my waies and walking Oh that I had made Religion my business oh that such and such a day had been better spent oh that such and such a season had been better improved Such wishes you will have at death And Why will you not be as wise now as at death Consider that the estate of your Souls will afflict you when you come to die under your neglect 2. Vse by way of Exhortation And I beséech every one of you to beg of God to make you know how frail you are be earnest with God that he would make you know it let every one go home under a thorough Conviction of it I am a poor fading Flower perishing Dust yea a Bubble And reason thus with thy self Have I imployed my time to its proper sence for to learn this Lesson and to live it I may die soon therefore live alwaies on your watch do and do what you would be contented to do and be when you come to die if Death should seize on you suddenly Now think how few your daies may be and how soon they may be gone and that I may never have time to receive or do good Oh labour to know your own frailty Sirs I am willing to take the advantage of the awful Providence which was on this Congregation very lately on the sudden departure of your Minister Mr. John Oakes Certainly this I may say of him That few were fitter to die suddenly than he was and no man could desire to die in a better Work no Minister who died suddenly could die in a better Imployment than he did no Minister could die fitter than he all who was seeing him so suddenly stricken by death in the Pulpit could not but perceive him in the view of Eternity and that very Text he was at his departure upon tells you of the great Rejoicing he was under the words are these rejoice rather because your Names are written in Heaven This ought to have refreshed your minds he was pressing you to labour after this subject of Ioy He was of an acute temper not of a moross spirit but of an even meek spirit He could not I say desire to die a better pasture he in his Work with his

God and indeed many Divines desire to die in such a pasture to be found in their Lord's Work when he calls for them He was struck with death in his work in this place in this very Pulpit and you who often and usually heard him calling on you to close with Christ to leave your sins and to turn unto God and be converted but as to this day all of you have not hearkened to your Ministers calls and entreaties in the Name of his Lord but you are still in an unconverted estate Will you believe now these words to be his last and dying words unto you You cannot hear me any more you will hear me to declare the Truths of God no more you can hear me no more to urge you to do your duty you are as like to die and may die suddenly as I you may provoke God to cut you off as suddenly as I am you may provoke God by your Sins to cut you off as I am by your provocations of and rebellions against God. Sirs your Minister is gone have you gotten all the good you should have gotten God hath cut him off without his taking his leave of you Oh therefore labour to reflect on what ye have done ye were often under his Ministry and yet are unconverted and were spectacles of this sad and sudden stroke consider with your selves what ye have done Oh what have I done to contribute to my Minister's death was he not thus stricken speechless for your Rebellion against his calls O Lord what have I done Hast thou no hand in thy Ministers death by your unfruitfulness under his Ministry the thoughts of your Ministers death is matter of bewailing sspeciasly to you that do know the estate of your Souls are concerned in it Howe●er I beg this of you who stood and beheld this sad spectacle of the sudden departure of your Pastor never to let the sight go out of your minds Oh how ought I to die and be in a readiness to be dissolved and how ought I to pray and never to set the thoughts of death out of my mind how ought I to pray and to be earnest with God that I may die in my Work as this Minister did The Dying Ministers last Prayer O Most Gracious and everlasting Lord God whose mercy endures for ever whose blessings have cherished me even from my cradle to this very moment of death that now am lauching forth into the ocean of eternity be pleased to assist me in my dark passage through which I must go before I can come to enjoy the blessedness of thy presence Into thy hands O Lord I recommend my dear and immortal Soul ransomed by the blood of thy Son from the lake of bitterness in and through whom I expect to be made eternally happy a coheir with the Saints and Angels For his sake I humbly beg the pardon of all my transgressions hoping to live with thee for ever in thine everlasting Kingdom of Glory Lord hear my Prayers and grant my Petition for his sake in whom thou art well pleased to whom with thee and thine ever blessed Spirit Be all honour glory and praise Amen A Prayer for his Most excellent Majesty King WILLIAM ALmighty God who in times of Trouble and Danger dost raise up Deliverers of thy people and sillest their hearts with zeal for thy Service We beseech Thee to bless His Majesty King William whom thou hast sent to be the Defender of our Laws and Religion Protect his Person strengthen his Hands let thy holy Fear evermore Rule in his Heart that having Thee only before his Eyes he may in all things seek thy Honour and Glory and study to Unite this divided Nation and establish it upon the sure Foundations of Mercy and Truth Righteousness and Peace This we beg for Jesus Christ his sake our only Lord and Saviour Amen With Allowance FINIS

The Last Sermon and Sayings Of that most Pious and Reverend Divine Mr. John Oakes Minister of the Gospel in the City of London who was struck with Death in his Pulpit in the Afternoon after he had preached this Sermon to the admiration of all his Hearers A Subject of great Account worthy to be Written in Letters of Gold. Being a Thanksgiving Sermon for God's great Goodness in delivering this Nation from Popery Slavery and Destruction by that Eminent Instrument of God's Glory King William King of England Discoursed of from these words Notwithstanding in this rejoice not that the Spirits are subject unto you but rather rejoice because your Names are written in Heaven Luk. 10. 20. And having preached upon the first part of the Text in the Forenoon of God's great deliverance of this Kingdom from Popery c. and coming to treat more fully in the Afternoon What it is to have our Names written in Heaven God took him to himself and gave him a full Enjoyment thereof With a brief sum of his Funeral Sermon preached the next Sunday after by the Reverend Divine Mr. Williams To which is added two Godly prayers Printed for J. Conyers in Holbourn 1689. M R. Oakes His Last Sermon c. Luk. 10. 20. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not that the spirits are subject unto you but rather Rejoice because your Names are written in Heaven THis Text read unto you may at the first view seem to be like Rain in the Harvest or Snow in Summer very unseasonable and may seem to contradict the loud Calls of the present Providence which God's Providence at this day seems to call on us for when we are called to Rejoice for that signal Mercy and unparallel'd Deliverance which God hath wrought for us and this poor Nation at this time when God hath in so short a time and by such unlooked for means and by such an unexpected way so suddenly altered the Scene of our Affairs when God hath broken the Snare the Wicked had prepared for us and suffered them to be taken by the works of their own hands and found out a way for the accomplishing of such a Delivrance as this is which you will every day be more and more convinced of Surely the Lord calls for People at this day to rejoice and yet my Text séems to put a check on this rejoicing Rejoice not in this that the Lord hath thus delivered us Why The various Circumstances as attends this marvellous Deliverance calls for Joy a●d Singing of Praises unto the Lord Psal 126. 1 2. When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion we were like them that dream So suddenly and by such unexpected means God turned about the Captivity of England and turned away from us that bondage we were like to be in we were like them that dream And what were the Consequences of Ziors great Deliverance Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with singing then said they among the Heather the Lord hath done great things for them The very wicked Atheists may take notice of this and may say the Lord is God and he hath done great things for us and shall not we say so the Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad and have reason to be so This is that God calls for But let the righteous be glad let them rejoice before God yea let them exceedingly rejoice s●ng unto God sing praises to his Name Psal 68. 3 4 And this is that which the generality of Protestants are disposed for now you cannot but expect every one you meet withal will have a smile in his or her face except it be in the face of a Papist who have cause for sorrow But whence is it God's People have cause to rejoice It is a necessary duty to rejoice praise is comely for the Saints when God delivers Zion we should rejoice and be glad yet says my Text Rejoice not Now how shall we reconcile these séeming contradictions to put our hearts into a right frame we must look into the Context and see how these words are brought in and what is the drift of them In the foregoing Chapter you find our Saviour giveth commission unto his Apostles to go forth and work Miracles and to preach the Gospel and to encourage them he promises to protect them and to give them success in it And in this Chapter ●e sends forth other seventy and they go forth and afterwards they return to their Master to give him an account of their success ay in the 17th verse And the seventy returned again with joy and said Lord even the Devils are subject unto us through thy name They returned to their Master with joy By the way let me tell you We are Ambassadors sent forth by our Lord and Master Christ and in a little time we know not how soon we must return unto our Master and give an account unto our Lord and Master of our success what it hath been And Sirs by the Call of God I have been among you nigh Ten years What success shall I give account of unto my Master as to you what account shall I give of you to my Lord and Master at my return shall my return be with joy or shall I say to my Lord and Master Lord I went and stretched forth my hand to a gain-saying people they would not be prevailed with they would not hear they would not hearken This would be a sad account as to you Well but these Apostles return with joy and had good success and amongst the rest they tell their Master that the very Devils were subject unto them whereever Gospel-Ministers are sent forth the Devil raises all the force he can if possible he will raise all the power of Hell that if he can help it one Sinner shall not be gained to Christ The Devils are subject unto us This was the power the Devils then had it was to torment the members of the body but now it is very rare the Devils power is lengthened out so far if he had power to torment our bodies he would make sad havock of mens bodies but blessed be God all the power of Devils is limitted they are chained up now they cannot go no further than God permits them But then it was a common trade for Devils to possess mens bodies and to to ment them The Proverb is he will play at any Game Now for wise ends God permitted the Devil to have such encursions upon mens bodies so he had upon Job's body he filled it with Diseases noisome Diseases to try Job but his aim is to possess the heart mostly there he doth the greatest mischief but now God lets not loose the Devil on mens bodies O dreadful and sad would it be if God should let go the Devil to possess peoples bodies he then would make them mad and it would be a sad judgment of God but sadder it is for the Devil to possess the