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A32083	A funeral sermon preach'd at the internment of Mr. Samuel Stephens for some time employ'd in the work of the ministry, in this city : who departed life the fifth of January, 1693/4 in the twenty eighth year of his age / by Edmund Calamy.	Calamy, Edmund, 1671-1732.	1694 (1694)	Wing C271; ESTC R10147	15,357	38

A Funeral Sermon Preach'd at the Interment of Mr. SAMVEL STEPHENS For some time Employ'd in the Work of the Ministry in this CITY Who departed this Life the Fifth of January 1693 4. in the Twenty eighth Year of his Age. By EDMVND CALAMY 1 Pet. 1.24 All flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of grass the grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth away Psal. 103.16 For the wind passeth over it and it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more LONDON Printed for Abraham Chandler at the Chyrurgeons-Arms in Aldersgate-street MDCXCIV TO THE READER THou hast here an awful Providence to draw forth and exercize thy solemn Thoughts A Person Young Strong Healthful and of no ordinary Hopefulness and Proficiency in what might render him a Light and Blessing to and in his Generation but soon cut down by a malignant Fever I knew him intimately and greatly valu'd him and by my free and frequent Conversation with him I found him Apprehensive Inquisitive Receptive of things in their Evidences Attentive to what was said Calm and Modest but Pertinent in his Replies and prone to consider Seriously of Matters But yet the Concernedness of his Soul for Holiness and Heaven drench'd in a Scrupulous Temper did too exorbitantly agitate his Imagination or Fancy the strength whereof was his bewail'd Vnhappiness For though his Conscience was tender and his Life blameless and his Industry evidently great in the pursuit of Things Eternal yet was he rarely if ever free from urgent Doubts and Fears yet not discernible to any until related by himself unto some few and among these to me to whom his Resorts were very frequent free and grateful for his ordinary Conversation was not morose but pleasant and profitable though through Self-diffidence and Suspicion he both kept guard and much reflected on himself rather to Censure than to Exalt himself in his own Conceit or to extort Self-Commendation from Others He is Dead Neither was Providence long about this fatal and awakening Work Through Providential Conduct the Author of this Sermon thus entertain'd a great and attentive Auditory at the Funeral Solemnity of the Deceased The Composer of this Sermon my Dear and Worthy Fellow-Labourer in the Gospel I could copiously Commend but will not He is well known to be more prest by me and others than forward of himself to make this serious and useful Sermon publick The First-Fruits of an hopeful Harvest are not the worse for being early but the better Young Timothy when deserving it was Commended even by St. Paul that great Apostle And Grace I hope will keep him safe and humble and I beg it may do so But Manum de Tabula God's Word and Providence have their loud Call and solemn Errand to us all Oh! Hear Prepare Fulfil Dispatch Pray Wait and Hope The Iudge is at the Door the End of all Things is at hand we little know when how near or how A Fever such as made this Spectacle of Mortality may quickly send us after him who is lately gone unto the Grave And what comes next Pardon me Reader if I vent my very Heart and Wishes in these borrow'd Strains O Deus aut nullo caleat mihi Pectus ab igne Aut solo caleat pectus abigne tui Languet ut illa Deo mihi mens simul aemula languet Coelitus ut rapitur me violenta rapit Ut Paveam scelus omne petam super omnia Coelum Da mihi Fraena Timor Da mihi Calcar Amor. Luctibus Caetera Suspiriis LONDON Jan. 15. 1693 4. Thine in and for the Lord Whilst Matt. Sylvester A Funeral Sermon c. A Funeral Solemnity my Friends is an awful Thing apt to dispose the Minds of those who are in any wise Thoughtful for Serious Impressions and therefore affords an Opportunity for pursuing an Exhortation to Piety and Religion with good Advantage Though Funeral Orations had their Rise from Heathenish Vanity yet may they provided all unjust Commendation of the Dead and servile Flattery of the Living be avoided be exceeding useful even among Christians in helping to make the Survivers better there being nothing that more promotes the Amendment of our Lives than the serious Consideration and Improvement of the Departure of Others who are snatch'd away by Death both on our Right-hand and Left leaving us behind who Our Selves also must shortly follow We have now before us the Corps of one who a Fortnight ago might rationally have hop'd to have liv'd as long as most here present One that a few Days ago was Hale and Strong Healthful and Vigorous Aimable and Pleasant Well-Accomplish'd and Useful But a mortal Distemper seiz'd him his Strength was on a sudden baffled and all his Plenty of Spirits exhausted he is crush'd like a Moth his Serviceableness is at an end and we are now going to commit his desented Carcass to the Earth the grand Principle of its Composition Who that will give way to Consideration but must hereupon be provok'd to take up some such Resolution as this By the help of God henceforward whatever I neglect I 'll mind my main Concern I 'll do what I have to do in this World without Delay since I know not how soon Death may surprize me and summon me to Judgment 'T is the engaging us to make and keep such a Resolution as this which humbly imploring Divine Assistance I at present aim at And in order thereto I have pitch'd for the Subject of my Discourse on that Passage of Holy Writ which we meet with in JOHN ix 4 I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day the night cometh when no man can work WHich are the Words of our Blessed Saviour ordinarily taken as spoken by him with reference to Himself discovering his steady Purpose of managing that great Concern for which he came into the World with the utmost Speed and Diligence and more particularly his Resolvedness to do as many beneficial Miracles as the short time of his stay here below would allow him But waving this Sence I shall consider them as having a general Aspect setting before us all that which is our plain Duty and should be our resolved Purpose For which Acceptation besides the Obligation we are under to a Resemblance of our Blessed Lord in this as well as in other Respects I think I have sufficient Ground in that according to one of the most valuable Copies of the New Testament this day in the World this Passage should be thus render'd We must work the Works of him that sent us And indeed a transient Animadversion of the Circumstances of this Verse will suffice to satisfie us that it hath nothing in it peculiar to our Saviour but that he took a convenient Occasion to make his Followers sensible how much they were concern'd according to their different Capacities to do the Work that God had set them in the Time that he had