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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60134	A funeral sermon preached upon the death of Mr. Nathaniel Oldfield who deceased Decemb. 31, 1696, ætat. 32 : with some account of his exemplary character / by John Shower.	Shower, John, 1657-1715.	1697 (1697)	Wing S3669; ESTC R37551	32,128	104

Graces and for all the Flelp and Assistance you had by their Doctrioe and Example while they lived and for all the Goodness and Grace of God towards them in enabling them to do or suffer his Will with their Supports Perseverance Assistances Encouragements and Victory Remember them so as to bewail your Loss and lay to Heart their Removal Remember how much more you ought to have valued their Ministry and how much better you might have improved it the very thoughts of what you would do if God would again have tryed you in that kind might herein be your Help Remember what Counsels what Warnings and Reproofs what Encouragements and Consolations you have ever had by their means Remember with what an Awe of god they were wont to Pray with what a Zeal for Christ and Love to Souls they did use to Preach with what humble Condescension Meekness and Charity and unblameable Conversation they lived in this World REMEMBER them in your Thoughts and Affections and in your Words and Actions so as on all fit Occasions to express your Love to their Memory Be ready to shew that you do not forget them by your continued Respects and Kindness to the Living for the sake of the Dead I mean the many despised Widows and Fatherless Children of Worthy Ministers Think often of them how God honoured them to bring many Souls to Christ and to build up Others How successfully they managed and comfortably finished their Work Think what and where they now are what they are delivered from what they enjoy how they are employed c. Don't be afraid to think often of your Deceased Ministers and Friends 'T is a plain Duty and a help to many Duties to have our Conversation in Heaven with Christ and the Spirits of Just Men made perfect To think of our Holy Relations and Acquaintance and especially Ministers who are got safe to Heaven It may assist and animate us in our Spiritual Warfare And much of the Comfort of the Life of Faith depends upon it They are part of the Family of Christ to which we are adjoined if by Faith we are united to him Heb. XII 22 23. We have no reason to believe that they Forget us whom they have left behind and certainly there is none why we should Forget them Let us remember them with Pleasure Honour and Love and speak of them with Respect and Gratitude CAN we think with Pleasure of such a Friend or Minister of such an Acquaintance or Relation whom we tenderly love that is many Miles distant from us here upon Earth and shall we be unmindful of those who are in Heaven It should be a Complacential Thought to consider that such a Father or Grand-father such a Husband or Wife such a Child or Brother of yours or mine are now with Christ in the Bosom of his Love in glory That such a Minister of Christ who was my Spiritual Father or by whom I was edified strengthened or comforted for many Years hath overcome and is at Rest has fought the good Fight and finished his Course While we are following after they have attained While we are in Tears and Conflicts they are in Joy and Glory While we are waiting at the door they are entered within the Vail 'T is our Duty to Remember them And 2. TO Follow their Faith that is the Doctrine they preached believed professed and obeyed or their found Doctrine and Practical Godliness Or their Faith may be considered as regarding Doctrines to be believed and professed Promises to be embraced and depended on and Precepts to be obeyed Such a Faith as realized the other World to them and help'd to crucifie them unto this Such a Faith as was the Evidence of things unseen whereby they were enabled to walk in Self-denyal Patience and stedfast Obedience 'till they came to the End of their Faith and Hope In short we must follow them as holding the Mystery of Faith in a pure Conscience and expressing the Power of it in a fruitful Conversation YOU see in what it is your Deceased and Holy Friends and Ministers are to be followed it is in their Faith and in the Principal Actings and Fruits of it so far as they kept The Example of Christ in their Eye and followed him for no farther does the Apostle require it 1 Cor. XI 1. the Pattern of Christ is propos'd for Imitation in all Ages of the Church We are no less obliged to it than the Apostle who prays for the Philippians that the same Mind might be in them that was in Christ Phil. 11.5 And therefore have we boldness in the day of Judgment says another Apostle because We are in the World as he was in it 1 John IV. 17. OUR Lord is the only Infallible and Supream Pattern whom tho' we cannot follow in his Miracles and Merits and what was peculiar to him as Mediator yet hath he set us an Example that we should tread in his steps in Obedience to his Father in Zeal for his Glory in Submission to his Will in Patience under Suffering c. He gave us an Example of Subjection to Parents Obedience to Magistrates Painfulness in Preaching Frequency in praying and in going up and down the World doing good in Forgiving Enemies in Charity to all Men c. AS to all other Examples tho' there may be some things Imitable there are others wherein we should be cautioned not to do the like as in Noah and Lot David and Solomon c. Even St. Peter was a Rock and an Excellent Apostle but we should split upon that Rock if we should follow him in all his ways If we follow him into the High Priests Hall if we imitate him in making bold with Temptation instead of following Christ we may be brought to deny him Therefore St. Paul expresly cautions us how far we are to follow his Example Phil. IV. 8. Finally my Brethren whatsoever things are honest just pure lovely of good report if they have any vertue any praise think of these things which you have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do these things and the God of peace shall be with you HOWEVER granting the Life of Christ only be a perfect Copy yet the good Examples of our Brethren and Fellow-Christians are a merciful Help and Assistance to us in the way to Heaven We see by their Faith and Patience that our Duty is practicable That they who dwelt in such Bodies as we and were surrounded with the like Temptations and had as many Hindrances and Difficulties and no more or better Assistance or Encouragement than we have yet been enabled to please and glorifie God and are got safe to Glory We are not the Forelorn Hope not the first Assailors in the Spiritual Warfare we are not set in the Front of the Battle many of our Fellow Christians have lived and dyed in the Faith have overcome the World the Flesh and the Devil in that very way that we are

this World and what there Business here is and Whether they are going and how it will go with them at their latter End But we could never get the most of them to spend one hour in serious thoughts of these weighty Matters Many a time did we entreat them to try whether they were Regenerate or not whether Christ and his Spirit were in them or not whether their Souls were brought back to God by Sanctification but they would not try We did beseech them to make sure Work and not leave such a Matter as Everlasting Joy or Torment to a bold and mad Adventure but we could not prevail We entreated them to lay all other Businesses aside a little while in the World and to enquire by the Direction of the Word of God what would become of them in the World to come and to judge themselves before God came to judge them seeing they had the Law and Rule of Judgment before them But their Minds were blinded and their Hearts were hardned and the Profit and Pleasure and Honour of this World did either stop their Ears or quickly steal away their Hearts so that we could never get them to a sober Consideration nor ever win their Hearts to God This will be the Witness that many hundred Ministers of the Gospel must give in against the Souls of their People at that day But to draw to a Close Let us all be affected with his Death so as wisely to improve it The Removal of such an one at his Age is a Publick Loss not only to his Family and to the Congregation but to the Poor to the City to the Nation to the Church of Christ One of a clear Head and warm Heart who understood believ'd and obey'd the Gospel One of a Peaceable and Publick Spirit Abundant in Prayer and of an Exemplary Life and of Extraordinary Diligence to do Good Being fitted for it as he was filled with Love to Christ and the Souls of Men to carry on the great Design of Faith and Holiness to the utmost of his Power in the Station God had put him And full of Thoughts and Care therein to abide with God But mourn not for Him Some sorrowful Concern 't is true is unavoidable if you are sensible of your Loss and 't is also fit and becoming For 't is a Judgment upon any and a Reproach upon a Minister to dye unlamented As if his Life were of no Use and the World were weary of him But you need not mourn for Him when you Consider Who he was and Where he Now is being exalted to a higher Sphere of Action and Enjoyment for which through Grace and Holy Diligence he was prepared And so for ever delivered from all Pain and Sickness from Sin and Sorrow Corruption and Temptation If you follow his Faith and Patience you shall meet him again in Unutterable and Endless Joy HEREUPON you will do well to admit the Thought that all your other Ministers are mortal and dying and that you your Selves are so And therefore should improve their Lives and and Labours as you shall wish you had done when They are Dead or when You your selves are ready to dye TO Conclude Because He alone who made this Breach hath the Residue of the Spirit and can supply it let me advise you tho' the Shepherd be smitten yet that the Sheep do not scatter Let not this Breach occasion Others but Agree together and take the best Advice you can in looking out speedily for a Suitable Supply And the Lord direct you to a Man after his own Heart that may be like-minded with my Deceased Brother And whatever you have received and heard and learnt and seen in Him as a Follower of Christ that do and The God of Grace and Peace be with you Amen FINIS BOOKS Printed for John Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultrey MR. Baxter's Life published by Mr. Sylvester Folio Mr. Lorimers Apology for the Ministers that subscribed to the stating the Truths and Errors in Mr. Williams's Book in Answer to Mr. Trails Letter to a Minister in the Country In 4 o. Mr. Lorimers Remarks on Mr. T. Goodwins Discourse of the Gospel proving that the Gospel-Covenant is a Law of Grace answering his Objections to the contrary In 4 to Mr. Stephens's Sermon before the Lord-Mayor Jan. 30. 1693. 4 to his Thanksgiving Sermon April 16. 1696. before the Lord Mayor 4 to Mr. Gibbons Sermon of Justification 4 to Mr. Slaters Thanksgiving Sermon Octob. 27. 1692. 4 to his Sermons at the Funerals of Mr. John Reynolds and Mr. Fincher Ministers of the Gospel 4 to Dr. Burtons Discourses of Purity Charity Repentance and seeking first the Kingdom of God Pubished with a Preface by Dr. John Tillotson late Arch-bishop of Canterbury 8vo Bishop Wilkins's Discourses of the Gift of Prayer and Preaching the latter much Enlarged by the Bishops of Norwich and Chichester Mr. Samuel Slaters Earnest Call to Family Religion in Eighteen Sermons 8 vo A Help to true Spelling and Reading or a very easie Method for Teaching Children or elder Persons rightly to Spell and exactly to Read English in much less time then usual By William Scoffin 8vo Mr. Addy's Stenographia or the Art of Short-writing compleated in a far more compendious way than any extant 8 vo Mr. Addy's Short-hand Bible in the same Character Sir Robert Howards Free Discourse Wherein the Doctrines which make for Tyranny are Displayed The Title of our Rightful and Lawful King William vindicated and the Unreasonableness and Mischievous Tendency of the Odious Distinction of a King de Facto and de Jure Discovered 8 vo Robinsons Cambridge Phrases being a General Phrase-Book for the Use of Schools In 8 vo The London-Dispensatory reduced to the Practice of the London Physitians wherein are contained the Medicines Gallenical and Chymical that are now in Use those out of use omitted and those in use not in the latter Copy here added By John Peachey of the Colledge of Physitians London In 12 o. The Dying Mans Assistant or short Instructions for those who are concerned in the preparing of sick Persons for Death Being also no less worthy the Consideration of all good Christians in Time of Health As shewing the importance of an Early Preparation for their latter End with Regard as well to their Temporal as Eternal State 12 o. Mr. Alkins English Grammar or the English Tongue reduced to Grammatical Rules Composed for the use of Schools 8 vo