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A30304	The peoples zeal provok't to an holy emulation by the pious and instructive example of their dead minister, or, A seasonable memento to the parishioners of Lavenham in Suffolk being a sermon preached to that people, soon after the solemn enterrment of their Reverand and pious minister, Mr. William Gurnall, who aged 63, died October 12, 1679 : and now at their request made publick / by William Burkitt ...	Burkitt, William, 1650-1703.	1680 (1680)	Wing B5737; ESTC R36338	16,492	38

condemnation To conclude this the Throne and the Pulpit above all places call for holiness the Prince and the Preacher above all persons are most accountable to God for their Example 3. Inference I infer from hence in the last place how signal your obligations are to Almighty God for the long enjoyment of that exemplary pattern of all true piety and vertue your deceased Minister I mean whom for your sins I fear he hath lately taken from you Shew now your obedience to God your respects to him your kindness and charity to your own souls by a zealous and faithful care to transcribe impartially in your own lives whatever was truly imitable in your Ministers And not to carry you beyond the confines of the Text let me earnestly bespeak your Christian compliance with a double duty here injoyned 1. To follow his faith 2. To imitate his exemplary conversation 1. Follow his faith and that in a double respect in the soundness of his faith and in the stedfastness of his faith 1. Follow him in the soundness of his faith The faith which he perseveringly profest and taught was that Doctrine which is according to Godliness that faith which owns God for its immediate Author and the Scripture for its infallible Rule the faith that was once delivered to the Saints which is not the result of phansie and imagination but the product of an eternal Counsel which was confirmed by the miracles and sealed with the blood of a Saviour In a word that faith which he so zealously taught had sure footing in the holy Scriptures When-ever he propounded any truth which required not only the assent of your understandings but also the obedience and adoration of your faith he constantly shewed you the Canon of the Scriptures for its confirmation If any then which God forbid should appear after him in this place and attempt the proselyting of you to another Gospel or to any new doctrine of faith foreign to the Scriptures should he pretend to the authority of a commissioned Angel from Heaven let him be held accursed 2. Follow him in the stedfastness of his faith The same rule of faith which he laid before you at his first coming amongst you he lived and preached by to the day of his death and this I take the greater liberty to assert because some persons have not blusht to tell the world publickly that since his conformity to the discipline of the Church he had apostatized and revolted from that faith which he had formerly profest and taught but be ye all assured that as to the great fundamentals of Faith and Religion he was ever the same and what he taught you to his last breath I doubt not but he stood ready to confirm and seal with his blood even in the fiercest flames of martyrdom if God had called him to that fiery trial 2. Imitate his Christian Conversation My meaning is exemplisie those Evangelical Graces and Christian Vertues in your lives which did so oriently shine forth in his To propound a few 1. His Eminent Humility This was the garment which covered all his excellent accomplishments although indeed their beauty was rendred more conspicuous and amiable by casting this veil over it Oh what mean thoughts had he of himselfe and was not only content but desirous also that others should have so too no man ever expressed so low a value of his worth and merits as himself did Every thing in others that was good he admired as excellent whilst the same or better in himself he thought not unworthily contemned his Eyes were full of his own deficiencies and others perfections In a word he was a lowly Valley sweetly planted well watered richly fruitful imitate him then herein and by a holy emulation study to excel him in this adorning Grace and for your help herein recollect what you heard from him in his elaborate Discourses among you upon Phil. 2.5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus this humble mind 2. His extensive Love this grace did variously exert it self 1. His love to God he loved him exceedingly whom he could not love excessively having such high and raised apprehensions of his Makers excellencies as caused him to judge his prime and best affections unworthy to be placed upon so Divine an Object 2. His Love to the holy Jesus this was such a Seraphick and Divine fire in his soul as did marvellously consume his love to the world and all sublunary comforts You are witnesses and all that knew him in how eminent a measure and degree the world was crucified unto him and he unto the world by the Cross of Christ 3. His love to souls this was it no doubt that made him so indefatigable both in his Study and the Pulpit from hence it was that the Throne of Grace his Study the Pulpit and his sick Neighbours had the whole of his time divided amongst them and devoted to them 4. His unbounded love to all Christians though they differed in their sentiments from him he loved Christians for their Christianity and did adore the Image of his Saviour where-ever he saw it in any of his members unhappily persecuting one another with hard names and characters of reproach How often did he publickly deplore and bewail that the greatest measure of love that is found at this day amongst the professors of the Cross was not true Christian love but only love of a party Follow him then in the impartial exercise of this grace and for your help therein remember what he taught you from Eph. 5.2 And walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and as you have any regard for the Author of your profession take heed that a spirit of Division now crowd not in among you your unity is your strength as well as your beauty persist therefore I beseech you in that Christian Order amongst your selves in which it was his great ambition all his days to preserve and keep you Timely oppose the crafty design of the subtile Adversary of souls who will take this occasion if possible now the Spiritual Parents is out of the way to set the Children together by the ears 3. His diffusive Charity his Alms were as exuberant as his Love misery and want where-ever he met them did sufficiently endear their objects to him he was none of those that hide their faces from the Poor nor of the number of them who satisfie their Consciences with a single exercise of their Charity once a year but daily were the emanations of his Bounty Yet although he cast the seeds of his Charity upon all sorts of ground he sowed them thickest upon Gods enclosure my meaning is he did good unto all but especially to those that were of the Houshold of Faith Make him herein and his example the pattern of your daily imitation for the world which is chained together by intermingled love will soon shatter and fall in pieces if Charity shall once fail and dye and