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sense_n	eye_n	faith_n	see_v	6,503	5	4.7888	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65767	The reward of Christian patience as it was discover'd in a sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Badland, a nonconforming minister at Kedderminster / by R. White ...	White, Richard, b. 1636.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1803; ESTC R38599	12,178	32

and keeping them in a great measure to himself and when he had any lucid Intervals and Intermissions from Pain he was apt presently to shew a readiness for profitable Discourse and Conversation as if what was past had been quite forgotten and he had not been under any expectations of more to ensue and this not out of a Principle of Stocal Apathy or unsensibleness for he fet his pains and sometimes groaned under them as others do but out of a Principle of Faith and Heavenly mindedness he endured as seeing him by an Eye of Faith who is Invisible to an Eye of Sense he had cast Anchor within the Vail and hereby came to enjoy that great measure of fixedness of Spirit which was not easily overcome even by his greatest pains and dolours this eminency of Patience and Submission to the Divine Will as it appeared in other former Instances so especially in his last dolours and sickness particularly two days before his Death how did he before several Witnesses lay out that little strength that remained in speaking of God and Christ and Heaven and Heavenly things and this with a kind of Transport and more than ordinary Earnestness and Vigour of Spirit and when he was put in mind to favour himself because of the great weakness of his Body his Answer hereunto was quick and smart Can I saith he speak too much for God And even the Night before his Death when his Speech had before failed him for some Hours and when by some signs he declared his sence and feeling of great pains that he laboured under yet even then when he could utter nothing else he was perceiv'd twice to repeat the word Heaven 2. As for his Behaviour for that long time wherein he was withheld from the publick exercise of his Ministry because he could not with clearness of Judgment comply in every thing which the demands of the Government which was no doubt a great Affliction to him it was for the good temper and moderation of it every whit as exemplary as the former instances of his Patience under his pains and dolours were He was no Friend to that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that running into extreams which is so common amongst us But though he had as good Ministerial Abilities as most others yet he contented himself with that narrow scene of Action wherein he was placed and therein endeavoured rather to be an healer of breaches then to cause them to grow wider by exasperation that this was really true I shall make out unto you by some few Instances 1. From that temper and moderation of Judgment which he exprest in matters that are under Controversy one instance of which was that in the matter of Reordination which I apprehend did prove as much a Remora and hindrance to his own Conformity as any one thing did yet he did in my hearing urge something that was very considerable by way of Apology for those that did submit unto it 2. Another instance was his constant owning and savouring of the publick Ministry and that not only by his own constant presence at it when in a capacity by means of health but especially by incouraging and ingaging others to a constant attendance upon it by his frequent words to that purpose in private and by recommending what had been spoken in publick to the Consideration of his hearers as many of you that are here present are able to testify which I the rather mention that it may serve as a standing and grateful acknowledgment of that incouragement which he gave from time to time to my Ministry 3. and lastly Another instance was a passage which he uttered to some that watched with him not many days before his Death That in the choice of a Successor to him in his Ministry they should labour to fix upon one of a quiet temper and moderate Principles upon one that would rather be an healer than an enlarger of our breaches Which Advice suitably it will become you to take care to observe as you value that easiness of Conversation which hath been hitherto preserved amongst us here in this place And for the further enforcing of this Advice of his give me leave to add a passage that he imparted to me concerning the sense of that Reverend Person under whose conduct he was when he came first to be an Inhabitant of this Town to wit That that Reverend Person judged that those who were serious and sober amongst the Conformists were much wiser and more to be valued than those forward Professors that were so ready upon account of little matters to break the Vnion and to Separate from the Communion of the Church established by Law And let me add this farther that tho' that Reverend Person were himself a Nonconformist yet he did help to make men Conformists by his Writings some of which to my Knowledge are now fixt in eminent Stations in the Church And indeed he hath said so much by way of Apology for the Conformists in the compass of one Page which you will find in the 46 Chap. of his Houshold Catechism in the beginning of the Answer to the 11 Question as gave occasion to a Person of Eminency to say in my hearing that he wondred how that reverend Person mist being a Conformist These particulars I mention the rather in order to the confirming you against the thoughts of any such Person in your choice whose Principles may lead him to go up into the breach to no other purpose but to keep it open and to make it wider to be sure this will not be suitable to the temper of our Reverend Friend now deceased nay which is more will not be suitable to the design of Christ in his last Prayer Jo. 17.21 when he prayed for his Disciples that they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us that the World may believe that thou hast sent me where 't is plain that our Saviour placeth much of the Evidence and Demonstration of the Truth of the Gospel upon the Unity of Believers And this may serve to evidence the Second Particular to be very applicable to our deceased Friend that he was one that endured and acquitted himself well under the Temptations with which he was tried and exercised and therefore what follows in the 3d. Place But that we should conclude that he in particulars is interessed in that Blessedness which in my Text by the Spirit of God is intailed upon such Persons when 't is said Blessed is the man that endureth Temptations for when he is tried he shall receive the Crown of Life which the Lord hath promised to them that love him Comfort your selves therefore and one another with these words FINIS