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A47026 A farewel-sermon preached to the united parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth & St. Mary Woolchurch-Haw in Lombard-Street by David Jones Jones, David, 1663-1724? 1692 (1692) Wing J934G; ESTC R32368 28,884 45

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Destruction is at hand For says Solomon Prov. 15. 10. He that hateth reproof shall die For while Uzziah the King was wroth with the Priests the Leprosie rose up in his Forehead before the Priests in his House of the Lord 2 Chron. 26. 19. And the Sons of Ely hearkned not unto the voice of their Father the Priest because the Lord would slay them 1 Sam. 2. 25. Their Disobedience to the Priest was the cause that God would slay them was the cause of their Destruction And at the very same time that the Men of Sodom contended with Lot the Preacher of Righteousness the destroying Angels were at hand for his Assistance and their Destruction Gen. 19. throughout the Chapter And two she Bears came forth out of the Wood and tare to pieces two and forty Children that mocked Elisha by saying unto him Go up thou bald Head go up thou bald Head 2 Kings 2. 24. And the Destruction that attends those who hate God's Ministers is no ordinary Destruction I do assure you For it is so great and terrible that Sodom and Gomorrah will fare much better than they at the Day of Judgment Matth. 11. 24. And therefore certainly that Man must needs be a very Bruit indeed that provokes God to destroy him with an utter Destruction rather than he will for bear to hate his Ministers for telling him the Truth Fourthly Every Minister shall be damned for not telling the Truth to his People And God will require the Soul of every man at his hand if he does not give him timely warning against every Sin Ezek. 3. 18. And can you be angry with your Minister for telling you the Truth that he may prevent his own Damnation and yours too If he does not tell you the Truth you will get nothing by it you will die in your Iniquity notwithstanding Your Ignorance of what what you ought to know will never excuse you at the Day of Judgment If you follow a blind Guide that will not or cannot or dare not tell you the Truth you as well as he shall both fall into the Ditch together Matth. 15. 14. You are worthy of such a Guide and he is worthy of such a People to guide So then If we tell you the Truth we prevent our own Damnation and as far as in us lies we prevent yours too But if we do not tell you the Truth we do not prevent our own Damnation nor yours neither And which is most reasonable that we should tell you the Truth and so save both our selves and you too Or that we should not tell you the Truth and so damn both our selves and you too If our concealing the Truth did us no harm and could possibly do you any good then indeed you might have some reason to hate us because we tell it But when our concealing the Truth is matter of Damnation to us and cannot possibly do you any good then certainly you have no imaginable Pretence to hate us for telling it Be content then to neglect your own Duty and do not desire us to neglect ours Be content to be damn'd alone and do not desire us to be damn'd with you for Companies sake Your Company is not so good that we should purchase it at so dear a rate 'T is true indeed Moses desired to be blotted out of God's Book and St. Paul desired to be accursed from Christ for the Salvation of their Brethren the Jews But neither the one nor the other did ever desire to be damn'd for their Damnation And I do here assure you all in the Presence of Almighty God that if I know any thing of my own Heart I would willingly suffer any temporal Evil in this World for the Salvation of the greatest Enemy that I have But I will never be damned in the other World for the Damnation of my greatest Enemy by concealing the Truth from him I will willingly suffer any Harm in the World to do you good but I will never do you the least Harm for a thousand Worlds if I can help it Although I must needs own at the same time that if you do not practise those plain Discourses that I have preach'd to you from this place they will do you the greatest harm imaginable They will rise up in Judgment against you and condemn you at the last Day They will be unto you the Savor of Death unto Death and not the Savor of Life unto Life For Christ is set for the Fall as well as the rising of many in Israel And his Word does never return void it does never return without accomplishing that whereto it is sent Isa 55. 11. It always does either Good or Evil it always softens or hardens a Mans Heart it always convinces a Man or leaves him inexcusable Do not imagin that we take any pleasure in telling you of your Faults Do not imagin that we delight to rake up the Filth of your deceitful Hearts and to speak of such uncomely things as Nature blusheth but to name We are Men of like Passions with your selves We are as loath to tell you of your Faults as you can possibly be to be told of them We are more concerned for you than you are for your selves We see the Terrors of the Lord and we know what it is to be damned and we feel that you are our Members tho you have no fellow-feeling for us and what-ever befalls you grieves us and makes our very Hearts to bleed again And we denounce the Judgments of the Lord against you after the same manner and with the same aking and trembling Hearts that a Man suffers an infected Member to be cut off for the preservation of his whole Body Our very Flesh trembles again and our Eyes gush out with Tears and our Souls are vexed when we see and hear some of your ungodly Actions I speak the truth in Christ I lie not my Conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost It is a greater trouble to us to tell you of your Faults than it is to you to hear them told For you see how concern'd we are in speaking to you and how unconcern'd you sit down and hear us speak Yea and perhaps you do not so much as hear us neither But if your Conscience misgives you that such or such a Sin of yours will be preach'd against you either come not here at all or if you do come you but sleep or talk or censure or sit you down in the Seat of the Scornful and set your Mouth against the Heavens Fifthly If the Minister tells you the Truth and that Truth pricks your Hearts and wounds your Consciences then those Woands are the Wounds of a Friend they are in order to your recovery And the same Minister that makes you sore will bind you up if you will let him He woundeth and his Hands make whole He breaks your Hearts and makes them contrite but it is only that the Seed of the Word may
thing God is Judge I did not I love a good Clergy-man too well for that I love the very ground he goes upon I know his great VVorth He is worthy of double Honour He is no precarious dependent Creature He is worthy of and deserves and may challenge a double Honour when Men are so base as to deny him an ordinary Respect Oh how beautiful upon the Mountains are the Feet of him that bringeth good Tidings that publisheth peace that bringeth good tidings of Good that publisheth Salvation that saith unto Zion Thy God reigneth Isa 52. 7. God is judge All my Design was First To do as God himself does to begin with God's own House For till that be first reformed no considerable Reformation can ever be made Till the Spring be sweetned the Streams will be bitter And it was Secondly That no Men might take it amiss when I told them of their Faults having told the Clergy of theirs in the first place Paul withstood Peter to the Face and told him of his Fault before all the People And it was Thirdly That I might gain my Doctrin the freer Passage into the Hearts of all my Hearers by shewing them openly that I did nothing by Prejudice or Partiality but that I taught the way of God in Truth without regarding any Man's Person God is Judge If all Men would but as diligently endeavour to live strict Lives to avoid all Publick Houses those Haunts of Idleness and Debauchery and to preach affectionately and by heart If all Men would but as diligently endeavour to do this and to observe the Rubrick the Canons the Articles the Homilies and the Liturgy of the Church of England If all Men I say would but as diligently endeavour to do all this as I my self have hitherto always done in my Station Then All its Professors would endeavour to be like its incomparable Constitutions the best in the whole World Amen Lord Jesus Amen Amen The Sum of the whole matter is this This is the Charge that God gave me when I first came to this Place Son of Man I have made thee a Watchman unto the House of Israel Therefore hear the Word from my mouth and give them warning from me When I say unto the wicked Thou shalt surely die and thou givest him not warning nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way to save his life the same wicked man shall die in his Iniquity but his Blood will I require at thine hand Ezek. 3. 17 18. And what I am to tell you from God at my going away from this place is this Into whatsoever City or Town ye shall enter enquire who in it is worthy and there abide till ye go thence And when ye come into an House salute it And if the House be worthy let your peace come upon it but if it be not worthy let your peace return to you And whoseever shall not receive you nor hear your words when ye depart out of that House or City shake off the dust of your Feet Verily I say unto you it shall be more tolerable for the Land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgment than for that City Matth. 10. 11 12 13 14 15. From which dreadful Judgment Good Lord deliver this Place for Christ's sake FINIS ADVERTISEMENT MOre Sermons of the same Author will be shortly Printed Prop. I. Prop. II. Quest Answ Prop. III. Reason 1. Reason 2. Reason 3. Reason 4. Prop. IV. Reason 1. Reason 2. Reason 3. Prop. V. * The Words of a Parishioner's Letter sent to me April 30. 1691. Vnless you do in All respects behave your self as in My Judgment you ought to do I will forbear my farther Contribution and also perswade all others to do the like c. Obj. 1. Answ 1. Answ 2. Obj. 2. Answ 1. Answ 2. Obi. 3. Answ Obj. 4. Answ Obj. 5 Answ Obj. 6. Answ Obj. 7. Answ 1. Answ 2. Answ 3. Answ 4. Answ 5. Obj. 8. Answ 1. Answ 2. Obj. 9. Answ ● Answ 2. Obj. 10. Answ 1. Answ 2.