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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53093	A sermon preached at the funerals of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ in the work of the Gospel, Mr. Samuel Collins, Pastor of the Church of Christ at Braintree in Essex, who exchanged this life for immortality in the 77th year of his age, in the 46 year of his ministry there, in the year of our Lord, 1657 preached by Matthew Newcomen ...	Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing N912; ESTC R3229	24,615	65

by way of Praise and Commendation He served his own generation Fiftly It is a good mans honour to be serviceable to his generation his whole time David served his geneeation not an Apprentiship only or three Apprentiships as Jacob served Laban but his whole Life time he served his generation till he fell on sleep His serving his generation was not like Tiberius his Quinquennium Sixtly The Rule of our serving our generation must not be our own will nor the will of men but the will of God For David served his own generation by the will of God 7ly There is a time when all our serving of our generation shall cease and we shall fall asleep For David after he had served his own generation by the will of God fell on sleep Eightly The death especially of the righteous and godly it is a sleep Hoc ex variā Lectione Ninthly The time of mens sleeping the sleep of death it is determined and appointed by God David fell on sleep by the will of God Tenthly God will have his children serve out their generation before they dye It was not the will or counsel of God that David should die till he had served his generation Eleventhly Men by death are laid to their Fathers Eunt ad plures was the Heathens phrase of death Eunt ad patres is the Scripture phrase David fell on sleep and was laid to his fathers Twelfthly and lastly All that ever dyed or shall dye except the Lord Jesus Christ all else even the greatest and holiest must and shall see Corruption David a King yea which is more a Saint and which is yet more a Prophet yet he saw Corruption Only the Lord Jesus Christ because he saw no Corruption in the womb he saw no Corruption in the grave because there followed no Corruption of sin upon the union of Christs Soul and Body in his Conception there followed no Corruption of body upon the dissolution of that union But David after that he had served his own generation by the will of God fell on sleep and was laid to his Fathers and saw Corruption So that you see my Text like Iacob out of whose loins issued twelve sons or like Elim where the people of Israel met with twelve wells Or the five particulars of this Text are like those five leaves of which you read in the Gospel which being broken multiplyed into twelve baskets full I shall empty but one of these Baskets for your entertainment at this time and lead you but to one of these twelve wells for your refreshing and that is the Doctrine which is the fourth in order and was laid down in these words Doctrina elaboranda That it is a great honour to the greatest upon earth to be serviceable to and in his own generation David though a King though a Saint though in some sense a King of Saints yet this is spoken of him in his praise He served his or in his own generation Explicatio Doctrine In the Original it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word signifies not a verbal superficiall complemental service such as our Times abounds with the profession of your servant Sir is in every mans mouth but a Real Painful Laborious service The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 most properly signifying one that takes pains and tugs at the Oar. David found the Church and Commonwealth of Israel in a Crasie Leaky condition and he laboured hard and took pains to serve his generation and to bring that weather-beaten bottom the generation was imbarked in into safe Harbor The words is used Act. 20.34 to signifie to serve by way of relief These hands saith the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 have ministred to my Necessities and the necessities of them that were with me So David served his own generation that is he ministred to the Necessities of his generation In Acts 24.23 it signifies Courtesies and Offices of Love where it is said Felix commanded the Centurion to keep Paul and let him have his liberty and to forbid none of his friends 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to minister to him to do any office of Love to him So David 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 did many offices of Love to his generation and this was his praise and honour This is as it were Engraven by the Holy Ghost upon his Tomb-stone in stead of all other Encomiums he served his own generation And this every man how great soever should look upon as his greatest honour saying with Maximinius the Emperor Quo major sum eò magis laborare cupio The greater I am the more work I desire to do And make that his Motto which was once the Motto of the Prince of Wales Ich Dien You may consider David in a three-fold capacity first in a Private Capacity as a Member of the Jewish Commonwealth secondly in his Politick Capacity as a King in Israel thirdly in his Ecclesiastical Capacity as a Member of the Church of the Jews and in all these you shall find David doing eminent service and Offices of Love for his generation First In his Private Capacity David served his own generation several wayes I will instance only in three which are imitable and attainable by other private persons First David as a Private person did serve his generation by bewailing the sins and provocations of the Time and Age wherein he lived So Psalm 119.136 Rivers of tears run down mine eyes because men keep not thy Laws David doth not only now and then drop a Tear but mourns constantly mourns impetuously until his tears like the waters in Ezekiel swell into a River and that not only for his own sins but for the sins of others for the sins of the Times and that was one special service and office of love done for his generation Thus Lot was serviceable to his generation when he lived in Sodome 2 Pet. 2.8 Thus Ezra was serviceable to his generation Ezra 9.6 Thus Jeremiah Jer. 4.6 Thus the godly in Ezekiels dayes Ezek. 9.6 It is Eminent Service done in and to our generation to bewail the sins of it Secondly David as a Private Person did serve his generation by making intercession and supplication for them by thrusting himself into the gap and interposing himself between the wrath of God and the poor people So 2 Sam. 24.17 Lo I have sinned and I have done wickedly let thy hand I pray thee be upon me and upon my fathers house David here offers his own neck to the Sword of Divine Justice to save the people This was a powerful Intercession an excellent Service done to his generation upon which the Plague was stayed David here did by the Angel as the Angel did by Abraham when Abraham had stretched out his drawn sword over Isaac to slay him the Angel catcheth hold upon his sword and stayeth his hand So here the Angel had stretched out his drawn sword over Ierusalem to destroy it and David comes and catches hold