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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

pleasure of God that this imployment that is now cast upon me had fallen upon the hand of some one of them to whom this Reverend Father might have said as aged Paul doth to his beloved Son and Scholar Timothy 2 Tim. 3.10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine manner of life purpose faith long-suffering charity patience persecution which came to me at Iconium at Antioch at Lystra what persecutions I endured but out of them all the Lord delivered me I would this work had fallen upon the hand of some of these who might have been Testes Domestici quotidiani daily and Domestick Witnesses of his Conversation among you For my part I was but a child when he was in the strength and glory of his Ministry But thus much I remember that when I was a child Mr. Collins of Braintrie was among those men those Ministers whose Names God had made precious among his Saints Since I came to mans estate it hath been my unhappiness that I have been almost a stranger to him having opportunity only to give him seldome and short visits But what I have learned either by my own observation or by the observation of others that I shall not spare to speak not so much to his praise as to the praise of God from whom comes every good gift and every perfect giving And I know not better what particulars to instance in then those concerning which the Paul appeals to Timothy Thou hast fully known my doctrine manner of life c. The first thing I shall instance in is his Doctrine As Demosthenes said Pronunciation was the first and principal thing in an Orator so Doctrine is the first and principle thing in a Minister I shal therefore first begin to speak of that I had the happinesse sometimes to be his hearer once I remember some twenty years ago drawn by the fame of the man I came a Journey of many miles to sanctifie a Sabbath here and to injoy his Ministry when I neither knew him nor any in this Town nor he nor any here knew me either by face or name and I received a great deal of satisfaction in the Doctrine I heard from him then and so I have done as often as I have had opportunity to hear him since And I appeal to you who have been his hearers as I think some of you have been all the time of his going out and coming in among you was not his Doctrine alwayes sound did he in all the forty and six years of his Ministry among you did he ever broach any Error or vent any one Heterodox or private Opinion Nay was he not alwayes a strong and zealous opposer of them You that were his gravest and most Judicious Auditors speak and I know you will say his Doctrine was alwayes Sound yea and not only sound but Profitable Powerful Successeful Witnesse those many souls that God gave in to his Ministry and by his Ministry in to Christ some whereof are now in heaven blessing God with him and for him others are yet living in New England and some I hope are yet living in Braintree who must if they will not be unjust and unthankful say That though they had many iustructers yet in Christ Jesus this was the man that begate them to God through the Gospel His Doctrine was Powerful Successeful And in this Doctrine he was Diligent Painful Laborious Constant For forty years together and above he preached ordinarily thrice every week besides his Sermons preached abroad and occasional Sermons at home And even to this last winter till it pleased God to give him a Supersedeas by that sore sicknesse which at length served him with a Quietus est in death till then I say he continued to preach constantly ordinarily twice every Sabbath day I professe I have wondred that he had strength of body to do it being almost fourscore years old and that he had liberty of Spirit to do it his Ministry even His meeting with the same disrespect and discouragement that the labours of the rest of Gods Ministers generally meet with in these sinful slighting unthankful dayes But God had vouchsafed him a singular blessing that even in his old age he was fat and flourishing Psalm 92.14 His Understanding Invention Memory Utterance and other Ministerial parts they were as lively as fresh and nimble now in his old age as in the prime of his years at least I may say they were more fresh and lively in him then in many of us who are far younger men That as it is said of Joseph His bow abode in strength It is recorded of Moses as a singular and memorable thing That when he was one hundred and twenty years old his eye waxed not dim and his natural strength was not abated Deut. 34.7 And is it not as rare and memorable concerning this faithful servant of God that when he was almost one hundred years old lack twenty the eye of his understanding waxed not dim nor his spiritual strength abated But I see I must not bestow thus much time in Engraving every piece of this good mans Character I proceed therefore to the next mentioned by Paul and that is his Life Thou hast fully known my Doctrine Life c. 2. The Life and Conversation was not only Unblameable and without Rebuke but Holy Exemplary Edifying He was none of those that did with the Stoicks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 speak well but do ill Having Jacobs voice but Esau's hands He was none of those Statuae Mercuriales that serve only to point others the way to heaven but never move one foot in that way themselves But as he preached so he lived His Doctrine was the Rule of his Life and his Life was the Example of that Doctrine I may say of him as Bernard doth of his Humbertus Factitium vobis Sermonem in omni famâ sanctitatis servus Dei exhibuit This servant of God gave you a Practical Sermon continually in his whole Conversation 3. And this his Life and Conversation declares what his Purpose his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was which is the third thing there mentioned by Paul in his entring into the Ministry his purpose was not to seek great things to himself No no you cannot but know that time was when the Staires of preferment were of as easie and open accesse unto him as they are now to some others And though he never sought preferment yet preferment sought him And if places of greater Eminency and greater Profit could have tempted him Braintree had never enjoyed his Labours so long nor been to bewaile his losse now But as Gregory NaZianZene preferred his little Village where he was Pastor before populous and eminent Cities so he this Town of Braintree He was resolved Hanc spartum Ornarc He had purposed resolved devoted himself a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ and your servant for Christs sake you were in his heart to live and to dye with you were his first