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A53500	The living, dead pastor yet speaking in two sermons, preached on Bartholomews Day, Aug. 24, 1662, in Bewdly Chappel / by Henry Osland then minister there, and now published by some friends of truth.	Osland, Henry.	1663 (1663)	Wing O531; ESTC R17697	23,412	72

damn you and shame you before God and the world and be a torment to think of it to all eternity Oh that I might be so happy with Sampson to kill more of these Philistines at the day of my death then in all my life 8. Let not the world and the things of the world be too precious in your eyes Believe that there is not that worth in it that its pleasures and profits tempt you to think there is It is a portion that the Reprobate hath and sometime that the Elect do want You have many more precious things to look after love and delight in a precious God a precious Christ and a holy Spirit precious Truth and a precious Soul and Heaven The world weighs nothing when it is laid in the ballance with any with either of these Oh lose not either of these for the gaining of this base world having food and rayment be content wit● things convenient if God give you more use them for his glory and your neighbours wealth 9. Obey your King not for wrath but for Conscience sake If he impose Taxes murmur not at them Tribute saith Paul must be paid to whom Tribute is due Fear to whom Fear Honour to whom Honour Protection is a greater mercy then we can value How much would many people give for such a defence as we have ●et upon all our glory and such quiet habitations our lives and goods are not prostituted to the envious but confirmed by Acts of Parliament Fear God and the King and foll●w not them that are given to change And so obey all in their places that are under him in their places I say and in the things wherein they have power The meanest Officer must not be contemned nor resisted doing his Office He that resists resists an Ordinance of God Rom. 13. But still know that none have power against God to set up an Altar against Gods Altar The Church hath power to declare Christs Laws already made and see them executed and that the things of Christ be managed decently and in order i. e orderly without confusion in Modes and things Circumstantial they may determine as to time place c. and we must obey But say the Leyden Divines Syn. Pur. Theol. Disp 35. Ab omni traditionum humanarum jugo liberas habemus Conscientias cum solius Dei sit res ad Religionem pertinentes praescribere If any thing be enjoyned that you cannot yield to submit your selves to suffer patiently what shall be laid upon you When you see it is your duty non obedire not to act and practise there you must not nolle obedire or superbe repugnare there 's a great deal of difference between a man 's not being able to obey actively and his being unwilling to obey or proudly to resist or disobey Let the world know that you are willing to yield as far as you can All this I add as to obedience in matters Ecclesiastical and Spiritual 10. Conform to things established in the Church as far as you can this follows on the last There are many things good that you may safely own and practise and joyn in without sin Do not think that because I and others do refuse to subscribe and Conform that therefore we could not yield to some or that we judge all bad no we should have gone far rather then leave our Ministry as far as any shoe of the preparation of the Gospel would bear us Your Case and ours are not the same you are not put to declare your unfeigned Assent and Consent to all and every point in the Liturgy as we are nor to subscribe to other things I can saith Mr. Z. C. keep communion under that form of Worship wherein I cannot administer and heartily say Amen to the Petitions which are put up in an order so confused preposterous and indigested that it seemeth to me so much below the gravity of the Church whose mouth I must be the seriousness of the Office whereby I must minister the sanctity of the duty I am to perform and the Jealous and Sacred nature of the object to whom they are presented that I dare not stand between God and his people in the same In things that are unlawfull absolutely the actor and the looker on he that prayes and he that holds up his hands sinneth But in things that are inconvenient or in an imperfect mode of Worship where thete is a liberty of closing or refusing the Joyners are not guilty of the sin especially if there is a secret protest entered against every desiling thing In our extempore prayers there were failings imperfections we were men words might fall that were not so apposite as was desired by us for such a duty Our soul abhorred them as they were sinfull so did yours Will God impute these to you surely no. There is a local presence and a moral absence in one and the same duty the body is before the Minister or Officiating Priests ready to hear what God saith or to offer up to God what he saith but if he utter falshood the soul is absent A Minister preacheth a manifest error the hearer abhors it keeps it far enough from the belief of his heart shall this man be guilty of it Surely it is his sin that is the Actor it lyeth at his own door thou hast delivered thy Soul The Application is easie 11. Do not be drawn by the examples of men only nor feared by their threats be not Conformists I mean because such and such are and be not Non-conformists because others are so I desire that my bare practice may not lead you possibly I may be deceived and mistaken We all know but in part as I ever said Follow me no further then I follow Christ And though Christ refused to wash his hands though it was a tradition of their forefathers and a command of Superiors yet into their Synagogues Christ went Search the Scriptures see with your own eyes and let the command and will of God weigh more with you then the example of men And be not feared from following God through the fear of man He hath assured you that no man shall harm you whilest you follow the thing that is good The fear of man hath been a great snare to the godly How uprightly had Peter stood had it not been for this Daniel was fearless and so would not omitt a small thing of opening his window but prayes in the sight of all though the King had forbidden it Christian Courage doth excellently become a Souldier of Christ get much of the fear of God in your hearts Timor timore ut clavus clavo pellitur fear drives out and expells fear 12. Have a great care of Schim I speak of sinfull schism There is a schism that is lawfull and commanded and there is a schism unlawfull and condemned Separate from sin and things in themselves unlawfull and the Scripture will bear you out 2 Cor. 6. ult but to

the pure Gospel of Christ yet he will keep them alive in famine and save their souls from dearth It is all one with this great Shepheard to feed with means or without means with or without Gods people shall be fed and nourished 3. In giving life to the sheep John 10. 28. 10. I am come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly Inferiour Shepherds can give you but meat and food but the great Shepherd gives life also Use LEt then the first Use be of Comfort to the Lords people I know it is matter of trouble to many Congregations of faithful believing Christians that their Guides are gone and that they shall hear the voice of their profitable and beloved Pastors no more Well these are driven from you and a wofull breach is gone through the land yet the great Shepherd abides with you Precious believers be not cast down at your losses Are you scattered in the gloomy day as the sheep upon the mountains this Shepherd will gather you again Are you pursued with Dogs and Wolves do they bite you and devour you this Shepherd will defend and save you Do not you know where to go to find pasture this Shepherd will find a pasture for you Do at not any time say that you are as sheep without a Shepherd when you put forth the first act of saving faith you were assuredly put into Christs fold and you shall be kept there by his wisdom and care and no one shall ever pull you out of his pasture again 2. Here is matter of Exhortation If Christ be the great Shepherd then follow Christ hear his voice obey and follow him Beloved brethren you are like to hear my voice but in few words more All you that have given your names to me and have ever followed me I command you to follow the great Shepherd and follow none any further then they follow him his voice is the Gospel that he inspired that his Disciples penn'd and that he himself sealed with his own blood all are strangers that speak not according to this DOCTRINE 2. That the great Shepherd was dead for a time This is the second Doctrine To prove the death of Christ by many Scriptures and Arguments is needless it being an Article of our faith yet consult with these few texts Zac 13. 7. Awake my sword against my Shepherd Matth. 26. 31. Rev. 1. 18. I am he that liveth and was dead That Christ was dead but for a time is an Article of our faith also The third day he rose again from the dead it was no long time that the grave did hold him You may ask me What became of the sheep when the Shepherd was dead You may see in John 17. 11. I am no more in the world but these are in the world holy Father keep them through thy own name those whom thou hast given me He delivers them up to his Father and God undertakes the keeping of them and the sheep were safe continually till the Lord brought back from the dead the great Shepherd Christ left them in safe hands he had more regard to his sheep then to himself he suffered himself to fall into the hands of bloody and malitious men but he preserved his sheep he promised them that he would not leave them comfortless but he would come to them Use BE informed hence that if the great Shepherd were dead for a time then it is no Marvail my Brethren if the lesser Shepherds are dead for a time time also For as Christ was so must we be in this present world 1 John 3. This is one part of our conformity to Christ to be conformable to him in his death Phil. 3. 10. The Prophets saith Zechary do they live alwayes or for ever Zech. 1. 5. As for your Fathers where are they and for the Prophets do they live for ever They must dye as the great Shepherd did Now Ministers dye either a Natural or a Civil death A Natural death which is the separation of their souls from their bodies their Civil death is when they are dead in Law when the Law of the Land where they live silenceth them and makes them as if they were naturally dead And on this account there are many dead Shepherds this day in England this day of the moneth this day of the year this twenty fourth of August is the Shepherds killing-day and whilest England stood there was never so many faithfull Ministers dead whilest they lived There are many thousand Sheep bewailing their dead Shepherds and Pastors this day and many a child bewailing his dead Father Such Fathers which have begotten them to God as Elisha did Elijah My Father my Father the Chariots of England and the ●orsmen thereof This is the killing d●y O think it not strange though it be so It is said in the eleventh of the Revelations that the Witnesses must be slain and their dead bodies must lye in the streets so many dayes The Witnesses some take for the two Testaments but they have no bodies it is most probable that these are men and such as shall not be naturally slain but Civilly slain and it is very probable that they set out the faithfull Ministers and Magistrates that have been Christs Witnesses and born a testimony to his truth and wayes and such as stand to their testimony and will not deny his name these must be slain yet not naturally dead they must lye in the streets as dead men unserviceable disabled to do their own or the usual work of Christ that they have done they cannot act as Magistrates and Ministers These things are now doing The witnesses are at this time slain how long they shall lye we know not Whether three dayes and an half or longer but as Christ was dead so must they And beloved hearers this is the day that I shall be in this sense a dead man a dead Shepherd a dead Witness after twelve years labours and witnessing to the truth of Christ in this place It is your duty to remember the great Shepherd who is alive again who will seek you and provide for you and let you want no good thing but lead you forth in the green pastures two supporting things I would have you to observe 1. That the death of the great Shepherd was no loss but a gain both for himself and you First It did procure him a name above all names that is a power above all powers Every knee shall bow to him and to him every tongue shall confess so that he shall be admired in all that believe 2 Thes 1. All the earth shall admire him he is by his death become the Author of Eternal salvation he is an Advocate King Priest Prophet and shall be Judge at the last All power is committed to him in heaven and in earth Matth. 28. And Secondly His death was gain to us we had like sheep gone astray and had never returned had he