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A51245	Ho thésauros en ostrakinois skeuesin. A pearl in an oyster-shel: or, pretious treasure put in perishing vessels. The sum or substance of two sermons preached at Withall-Chappel in Worcestershire. Wherein is set forth the mightiness of the Gospel, the meanness of its ministration. Together with a character of Mr. Thomas Hall, his holy life and death. By Richard Moore, a willing, though a most unworthy servant of God in the Gospel of his Son Jesus Christ.	Moore, Richard, 1619-1683.	1675 (1675)	Wing M2583; ESTC R222046	51,229	137

weak yet he was strong in the Lord and in the power of his might and did mightily admire the free Grace of God in Christ in separating him from his Mothers womb calling him by his grace and setting him apart for the work of the Ministry though unworthy of that high and holy Calling so many that walked worthy of their profession and received with the heart the form of Doctrine delivered to them And in his Sickness though sometimes he might be heard to groan yet never to grumble but would always justifie God and condemn himself and soon silence any mutinous and murmuring thoughts that might seem to arise in his heart upon their first sallying forth In the words of the Prophet Shall a man receive good from the hands of the Lord and not evil He counted his sickness and his sufferings light and momentany the glory to come weighty great and so joyous as too big to enter into the soul that the soul must enter into it often mentioning that passage of the Apostle For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh 2 Cor. 4. 17. unto us a far more exceeding weight of glory March 22. 1665 his dear sister Mrs. Eleanor Smith came to visit him and attended upon him to the very day of his death and wrote down in her Book the most remarkable passages that she heard from him Many of which you will have wound up in the ensuing Discourse He said he had done his work meaning that he had run the course of his Ministry and accomplished that last Work of his upon the seventy-first Psalm and now longed for his Dissolution Psal 71. and to rest with his dear Lord Jesus And though he rejoiced much that he had compleated his former Works yet this was the quintessence of all that he was going to receive his Reward and counted not his life dear unto him since he should shortly see the lovely face of his dear Saviour And as St. Augustine when he meditated of that passage of God to Moses Thou shalt not see my face and live Lord saith he then Tunc moriar ut te videam let me die that I may see thy face So this serious and sincere Servant of Jesus Christ having seen him by the eye of Faith was now ready to sing old Simeons Nunc Dimittis Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in peace Nothing troubled him so much as that he was going to a place where he was to have so great Wages for so little Work And he not only at the last as it was said to be the Speech of Bellarmine upon his Death-bed Tutissimam est iter ad Coelum per merita Christi but he wholly in his health and sickness relied on Christ for Justification Life and Salvation freely by Faith in his Blood Rom. 3.24 He told Mrs. Smith he much rejoiced at her kind coming to him especially at the hopes he had of her continuance with him to the last which might be a means to free him from all scandals that might be cast upon him by the Papists or Quakers who he knew would spare him no less at his Death than they had done in his life he thought they would not stick to say he died raging an Atheist or a Papist or cast the like Calumnies upon him as they did upon Luther or Calvin But said he being now in perfect memory I do declare I die a sincere Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ and do detest from the bottom of my heart all their erroneous Opinions and Practices He said he thought he had been under as much contest with Satan the World and the Flesh as ever any man for his time of which he had left a particular testimony to be printed with his other works This was I conceive his Life written by his own hand which I never had the happiness to see though I much sought after it for the compleating of this his Narrative He often did reflect upon the evil of the times the reigning sins whereby God was dishonoured viz. Profaneness Atheism Idolatry c. were very grievous to him and he took it as a choice Mercy that God would take him out of the world in such a time as this Lord said he what am I that thou shouldst think on me and give me rest in such an evil day He much desi●ed to wait upon the Lord without distraction and diffidence knowing that his time was the best but rather if it were the Lords will and pleasure he desired to be out of the body that mortality might be swallowed up of life he would say O Lord how long holy and just why drive the Chariot-wheels on so heavily I long Lord to come unto thee And as he was comfortable in his Sickness so he gave much sweet counsel and encouragement to Ministers and private Christians that came to visit him especially to such as he had begotten to God by his Ministry or had fitted for the service of God in his Church A reverend Doctor coming to see him and speaking comfortable words to him he told him he was going to his rest and hoped the Church of God would have rest and that God would raise up and refresh his faithful Servants in the Ministry and though there might be a sharp storm coming he conceived that it would be but short He advised his Visitants to stand fast in the Faith and not to shrink though a trying time should come he would have them to continue constant to their Christian calling and not to be carried away with the errour of the wicked to forsake their stedfastness but to grow in grace c. prepare for death and judgment A young Minister coming to see him he exhorted him to adorn his Ministry with a holy life which if he did not he might do more harm by his Example than by all the Sermons he should preach He called for the four Youths in the Family under his inspection and gave them wholsome instruction viz. to remember their Creatour in the days of their Eccl. 12.1 youth he warned them to keep Gods watch to abstain from youthful lusts to observe the Lords Day strictly and to be obedient to their Parents which if they did it would be well with them and they should be a blessing to Posterity and bid them remember these were the words of their dying Master and so he blessed them particularly in the Name of the Lord. Ordinarily such of his Parish that came to see him he would caution them not to procrastinate their repentance but to be serious in the matters of God and his Service to break off all delays and to embrace the tenders of grace the motions of the Holy Spirit and set upon the practice of good works and to do nothing that might interrupt the peace of a good conscience which would witness for them or against them testifying that what he had taught them was the Truth of Christ

sate up late for he had this happiness above many other men as he said he found himself best when he was most strongly employed his Work was to him instead of Physick and he chose rather to spend himself in Labour than to consume with rust and sickness See more in his following Life ABEL REDIVIVVS OR THE DEAD SPEAKER The Substance of an Anniversary SERMON Preached at Withall April 26. 1674. Whereunto is annexed certain dying Speeches of many Modern DIVINES especially of Mr. THOMAS HALL late Pastor of Kings-Norton HEB. 11. 4. And by it he being Dead yet speaketh LONDON Printed by A. M. for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and three Crowns near Mercers-Chappel in Cheapside 1674. To my much esteemed Friend Mr. William Turton of Aulderways in Staffordshire Worthy Sir YOV may wonder at my boldness in presuming to prepose your Name to this popular Sermon and imperfect draught of the Life and Death of Mr. HALL who may seem a stranger to you and indeed I do not remember that I saw your Face since the time that the Lord who sets the bounds of our habitations had cast our Lot together in a pleasant place in a time of Jacob's troubles where we only heard the Voice of Christs Turtle-Dove and had not those dreadful Allarums of War under which other parts of the Kingdom trembled and the very pillars of it tottered That which now encourageth me to this Attempt is that I took notice of your constant attendance upon the Ordinances of Christ and your readiness to sympathize with the sufferings of Sion and the respect you had to the godly Pastors of the Church in particular to the person spoken of in the ensuing Narrative betwixt whom and your self it is said there was a near alliance but doubtless there was an intimate friendship and alose familiarity contracted the remembrance of which I hope still liveth in your heart happily no less than Jonathans did in the breast of Davids or Basils in Nazianzens As therefore Epaminondas defended the body of his fast Friend Plutarch Pelopidas whom he supposed was slain and saw lying upon a heap of dead men so I supposed you would be ready to defend this poor Piece written concerning your deceased Friend of whom though I have said somewhat yet not the one half that I might Tou would not think me to be partial should I say of him what Nazianzen did of Basil aforesaid Antiqua probitate simplicitateque praeditus eruditis pietate piis erudition is laude antecellens Some that were more eminent for Learning he excelled in Piety and some that were more See Mr. Leys Epistle to his Com. upon 2 Tim. as also Mr. Calamy 's Epistle famous for Piety he excelled in Learning And indeed he was held to be by such as well knew him and were able to judg of mens parts and piety both learned and religious I have no more to say concerning him in this place I only beg your pardon and Patronage together with a share in your prayers that what is said in the ensuing Leaves may find acceptance with God and favour in the eyes of his people And my earnest desire and prayer to God for you is that he who holdeth your soul in life and hath lined it out to or beyond David's span would give you much joy and peace in believing That whilst your Body is descending towards the Common Mother the Earth your Soul may ascend as towards the top of Pisgah to descry the Holy Land that the nearer you come to the pit of corruption the more prepared you may be for that place of perfection and like a Tree planted in the Courts of Gods House you may bring forth Fruit even in old Age This I say Sir shall be the prayer of Your Servant in our dearest Saviour and Redeemer Richard Moore SERMON III. HEB. 11. 4. And by it he being dead yet speaketh IN the former Chapter the Apostle presseth the Hebrews to perseverance in the Faith and here in this by a Digression he demonstrates the nature of this Grace from the Effects 1. You have the Mysteries that it contains 2. The Histories that hold it forth 1. The effects that declare the Properties of Faith are three 1. It begets a sure and certain Hope of the accomplishment of Gods Promises v. 1. 1. In the substance of them though the thing promised have no present existence or being yet Faith makes them obvious and evident to the Believer for it is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ground or confidence by putting that which is hoped for as if we had it in hand and things invisible for such as are conceived by sense 2. The Effect of Faith is drawn from a demonstration of the Elders that by it received an excellent Testimonial that they pleased God and were blessed partakers of the benefits of the v. 2. Messias only by believing 3. A third Fruit of Faith is that by it we understand things incredible to Reason as the Creation of the World which v. 3. was formed and fashioned by the Word of God without appearance of a pre-existing matter yet hereby having respect to Gods Omnipotency we believe it that so it was And this is instanced and exemplified in the following Cloud of Witnesses 1. Of such as lived before 2. In such as were after the Floud The first sort of Witnesses were Enoch Noah and Abel here in my Text v. 5.7 who was the Proto-Martyr of the world as Cain was the first Murtherer Adam indeed slew all his Posterity in a spiritual sense but Cain his Brother bodily and bloodily And as Adam the common Parent of mankind was deceived in the Fruit of Paradise So here he and especially Eve was in the Fruit of Gen. 4. 1. c. 3. 15. the Promise For though the name Cain signifieth a Possession and notwithstanding he built a City yet was he of the wicked One and was no Heir of that City whose Builder and Maker was God And his Mother sensible of the deception in Gen. 4. 2. the First-born when she brought forth the second Son gave him a name suitable hereunto for the Word Abel written with the Letter Aleph imports mourning but with He Vanity one Josephus Antiq. b. 1. c. 2. humbled in mind and holding such Possessions Vanity Here then you have two Men the only Heirs of the World offering Sacrifice to God with different Success For 1. Abel's Offering was more acceptable than Cain's 2. The Cause of this not in respect of Sacrifice it self or the matter of it for the Fruit of the ground might have pleased God as well as the Firstlings of the Flock but it was Faith that made the difference 1. God had respect to Abels person justified by Faith and so to his performance Gen. 4. 4. and to his Sacrifice as a Fruit of his Faith testifying of his Gifts by Levit. 9. 24. some token of his favour