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A86601	Preces & Lachrymæ. A sermon on Act. chap. XX. vers. 36, 37, 38. Vers. 36. And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. 37. And they all wept sore, and fell on Pauls neck, and kissed him. 38. Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, thay they should see his face no more, and they accompanied him to the ship. / By William Houghton, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	Houghton, William, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2938; Thomason E602_3; ESTC R206405	33,827	37

quaetis artem ubivides dominari affectum and when passion is up sorrow stirring method is then commonly laid aside As one saith of Jeremy's book of Lamentations Do you seek for art or method amongst sighs and lamentations So art might well be excused here where affection is so strong yet because method is the mother of memory you may if you please help your memories with this division There are presented to us out of this Text two things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e The love of Paul to the Ephesians and the love of the Ephesians to Paul his to them theirs to him 1. His love to them is set forth in two acts 1. Preaching Having so said 2. Praying He kneeled down and prayed 2. Their love to him you have it exprest in three acts 1. Kissing They kissed him 2. Weeping They all wept sore 3. Conducting him They accompanied him to the ship Other particulars there are which I shall handle in their place these propounded are the chief of which in their order so as may be most pertinent to the occasion drew me hither at this time to wit the decease of my worthy friend your good Pastour who having set his face to Jerusalem I mean that which is above hath now finished his course Scaligeriqu od reliquum est Scal. Epitaph his soul is at rest with God The remains of him his Corpse having wept over it and sprinkled it with your tears you have accompanied to the grave Considering this accident I knew not what I should discourse of more seasonably at this time then of these two generall Points my Text presents you withall under the persons of Paul and the Ephesians namely the love of a faithfull Pastour to the people and of their love to him I begin with the first which as was said hath two acts Preaching and Praying First Preaching in these words When he had thus spoken that is when he had preached this Sermon unto them Doct. Preaching is an act of love in Gods Ministers it was you see the first act of Pauls love to the Ephesians 1 Thes 2.8 Rom. 1.11 We were willing to impart the Gospel unto you because ye were dear to us And I long to see you that I may impart to you some spirituall gift What makes men give gifts send tokens to their friends is it not their love So it was his love that made Paul so free of his spirituall gifts Tom. 5. pag. 110. because they were dear to him Thus Chysostome to the people of Antioch I am your Father saith he and must needs instruct my children and give them good counsel If the nature of the flesh or naturall love move earthly parents how much more shall the grace of the Spirit move us to do this Preaching then is an act of love a testimony of that affection and good will Ministers bear to the souls of Gods people Simon Jona lovest thou me John 21.26 feed my sheep We herein shew our love to Christ our love to his sheep when we feed them with the word of Life It is an act of love to feed mens bodies an act of love to cloathe their bodies how much more to feed their souls with this heavenly Manna of Gods Word As workers together with him 2 Cor. 6.2 to cloathe their souls with the rich robe of Christs righteousnesse We help to do these things therefore the acts we perform are acts of the highest love Inference 1 This shews then first what depraved judgements men have in this matter if the Minister will eat and drink hawk and hunt with them they account him a kind companion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 9.18 especially the most loving a cheap Gospel if he be moderate in requiring the dues belonging to him or let them go upon easie terms Oh then they cry him up for a wonderfull quiet loving man though Preaching be a thing he seldome useth they see no such love in that whith is the highest of all When Ministers labour hard in the Word and Doctrine and when Christs stewards endeavour to break the bread of Life to his houshold herein they show their greatest love and if they minister to you in spirituall things 1 Cor. 9 11. is it a great matter if they reap your carnall things But secondly what shall we say to those that account Preaching a sign of enmity and Preachers enemies as Ahab did Eliah 1 Kings 21.20 Hast thou found me 1 Kings 21.8 O my enemy And Micaiah I hate the man said he he never prophecied good to me he is an enemy Many are ready to say of us Wisd 2.13 14. as they in Wisdome These Preachers were made to reprove our thoughts they upbraid us with our offending the Law they object to our infamy the transgression of our education they are enemies So we are we professe our selves enemies to your lusts but friends to your souls 1 Pet. 2.11 your lusts they fight against your souls therefore they are your best friends that are ever at war with and ever fighting against your lusts he is his own enemy that thinks otherwise Thirdly if this be an act of love it shews then the little love that many bear to Christs sheep in that they have so little care to minister to them this spirituall food to see them wandering in by-paths and not to endeavour to leade them out of those wayes that leade to destruction to be dumb when they see them living in ignorance and profanesse and not to warn them of the danger hereof this certainly is not love but cruelty and that in the highest degree O yee Corinthians saith Paul our mouth is opened to you 2 Cor. 6.11 our heart is enlarged these two will go together an enlarged heart and an open mouth Pauls heart was enlarged and that opened his mouth If love as a heavenly fire hath given us a dilatation or enlargement of heart it will be as a key also opening our mouths to declare Gods truth unto men Preaching then is an act of love Paul out of his love came and preached this Sermon to the Ephesians and it was an excellent Se●mon Oratio praeclara eximia singularis Camerar in vita Pauli we have not time now to look into the contents or matter of it but if you cast your eyes back and take onely a generall survey of it you shall observe four remarkable particulars touching the manner of Pauls preaching His 1. Painfulnesse 2. Faithfulnesse 3. Prudence 4. Affectionatenesse All which set forth the excellency of this sermon First his Painfulnesse 1. Painfulnesse two or three dayes before he preached this Sermon travelling to Miletus he sent away his company before and went himself afoot it may be Paul was then studying this elaborate piece however it smells as we say of the lamp we see a great deal of pains in it The Apostles though Divinely inspired yet we may think they

be at the grave too for when she rose up hastily and went out they said it was to weep at the Sepulcher they comforted her in the house now they thought she was gone to comfort her self at the grave Vers 19.31 as if it had done her good to lay her tears near her brother Lazarus I will draw one spirituall meditation from this point Inference If it be so comfortable weeping in the presence of a friend Oh what is it then think you to weep for our sinnes before God! nature oft teacheth the former oh that grace might teach us to do the later to weep in the presence of Christ with Mary to wash his feet with our tears shee came into the house Luc. 7 37. and stood at his feet weeping and washing his feet with tears her heart was full and she found no comfort till she came to Christ to weep in his presence then she heard that joyfull sentence thy sinnes are forgiven thee so that her tears as they washt the dust from Christs feet so through the mercy of God they washt away sin from her soul so if we go to Christ and wash his feet with our tears of Repentance he will wash both us and our repentance in his own blood and so cleanse us from all our sinnes When we offer up our prayers if we then let fall a shower of tears at his feet this rain being fallen there will be faire weather in our souls Therefore we see what a comfort it was to the Prophet David that he could powre out his tears before God and that God should take notice of his weeping Psal 6.8 Lachrymae pondera vocis habent The Lord saith he hath heard the voice of my weeping But to return where I was They wept upon Pauls neck that was the place Consider withall the manner of it falling upon his neck so saith the Text They all wept sore and fell upon his neck But was that good manners all to fall upon him thus Indeed love loves sometimes to be unmannerly When Christ after he was risen appeared to Mary she would fain have been falling upon him and touching him but hands off saith Christ Touch me not Love made her forget duty So the Shunamite coming to the Prophet Elisha caught him by the feet insomuch that Gehezi thought it a saucy part of her 2 King 4.27 to hold his Master in that manner therefore went and shoved her away Oh saith Elisha let her alone for her soul is vexed within her that which shee did she did it out of the abundance of her affection therefore the Prophet knew how to bear with her Love you see made her likewise forget manners Object But how then doth the Apostle say 1 Cor. 13.5 That love doth not behave it self unseemly or unmannerly T is true Answ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Therefore I answer It is a very seemely unseemlinesse and if I may so speak mannerly unmannerlinesse that comes from love love puts a grace upon gestures otherwise undecent speeches otherwise rude When a Pagan offered water to King Artaxerxes in the hollow of his hand it was so well accepted because he did it out of love Drexel recta intent epist Nemo succenset amanti Pro. 23.26 that he put it into a viall of Gold We know not how to be angry with him that doth any thing to us out of love if a man doth truly love me I regard not his tongue but his heart God saith Give me thy heart That 's accepted with him though something be wanting in the outward man but the outward man cannot please without the heart So here If I have a mans heart whatsoever failing there may be outwardly I construe it but as an errour of love Neque salsum neque suave esse potest quicquam ubi amor non admiseetur but without the heart all shews and formalities are nothing worth If a man love me and that from his heart it being with me and for me what if his carriage be not so courtly nor his words so starcht and set out as other mens I can see no indecorum in that gesture no soloecisme in that speech that comes from love You have now seen the place of their weeping Pauls neck and the manner of it ruentes in collum Pauli they fell upon his neck and wept there Because they should see his face no more Vers 25. As Job speaks the ey of him that hath seen me shall see me no more Job 7.8 The fourth thing propounded concerning this weeping was The cause of it Paul had told them that they should see his face no more Behold I go bound to Jerusalem and I know not what afflictions I may live to see there but this I know that these eyes shall never see you more nor your eyes see me any more Hinc ille lachrymae this was the cause of their weeping Paul had said grievous wolves shall come in among you and he had said I am pure from the blood of all men Vers 29.26 A worull change instead of the face of an Apostle to see the face of a wolf terrible sayings these enough to make sad their hearts but that which grieved them most and put them into the greatest agony was this saying of his Ye shall see my face no more as if they had replyed and said Oh blessed Paul who can refrain tears that hears such words as these shall wee see thy face no more give us leave then to weep 1 Sam 30.4 till we can weep no more thou hast oft bedewed thy cheeks with tears for us suffer us now to shed tears for thee They wept most of all for the words which he spake that they should see his face no more that saying was like a Bucket let down into the bottom of their hearts which drew up such adundance of tears They wept sore Their sorrow was great as you have heard and no marvell you see here they had great cause had there been hopes of seeing him again the weather would soon have cleard and their tears dryed up but no seeing of him after this and that went to their hearts When our Saviour left his Disciples Be not sorrowfull Joh. 16.22 saith he for I will see you again but Paul here tels them flatly they should see him no more and how could their eyes chuse but water in beholding him now whom they should never behold more It was one of Augustines three wishes that he might hear Paul in a Pulpit no marvell then if these wept that heard him so oft but now should never see nor hear him more how are their eyes now fixt upon that face that was never to be seen more after this In some sense indeed they would see him the ofter for that face that now began to disappear being withdrawn from the sight of their bodies would questionlesse be the ofter presented to the eyes of their mindes yet

they cannot indure to hear of his bodily absence Inference 1 First then take notice here what a grief it is for friends to leave one another it s almost death to them to part asunder a man sorrows for nothing more Omnes dolores leves praeterquam Joh. 16.6 Malvezzi David perfec 132. then to have his friend taken from him When Christ began but to speak of going away how sad were his Disciples Because I have said these things sorrow hath filled your hearts Friendship saith Malvezzi is an union of two souls in one body which in a sort inform it if not truly yet virtually and as the soul is grieved to depart out of an earthly body which it informed so likewise to depart from another soul which she loved Hence it was that Augustine tells us August confess that when his friend Alipius was dead he thought one half of himself gone So Paul here and his Ephesians It grieved them as ye heard that he was going from them and we must think it grieved him too to tell them that he must leave them and therefore if you mark you shall see how mournfully as it were he utters those words I go bound and now behold ye shall see my face no more he brings it out with a kind of sigh And now behold c. as it grieved them to hear it so himself no lesse to speak it Nothing then more grievous to friends then parting Secondly did they sorrow thus for Pauls departure see then here the losse of Gods Ministers what a losse it is we are to sorrow most of all for that Losse of houses lands goods is not so great as this Ministers though they be a burden to some and many ungratefull wretches cry a faire riddance yet Gods children know what a losse they sustain when they are taken away When Eudoxia the Empresse took a spleen against Chrysostome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Joh. exuli Cyriaco Epise to 5. ep 3. p. 287. History of the Church of Scotland 214. and banish him the people gathered to him weeping and saying It were better the Sun left shining then the golden mouth of Chrysostome be stopt from preaching When John Knox was calld into Scotland being to leave his flock at Geneva This saith he to worldly-wise-men may appear a small matter but to me it was and is such that more wordly substance then I will expresse could not have caused me willingly to behold the eyes of so many grave men weeping at once for my cause as I did in taking my last good night from them Acts and Monuments 1387. And Doctour Taylor when he went through Hadley to be burnt the people stood weeping in the streets pointing to him and saying There goes our good Shepheard what shall we poore scattered lambs do this therefore is a heavie case Thirdly before I passe from this point give me leave to raise up your minds by a spirituall meditation Is the absence of a friend of a Minister so grievous what then is the absence of Christ when he shall say Ye shall see my face no more we should think that the heaviest saying that ever was heard and we should be most earnest in our * Hoe unum perdere metuamus aeternum Dei aspectum illudque assidue quisque pro se roget ne projicias me à facie tua Psal 51.13 faciem tuam domine requiram Psal 27.8 Ostende mihi faciem tuam demine Exod. 33.13 Piè domine modicum illud vocas ob modicum immodicum prayers that this may never be that he would never cast us out of his presence or hide his face from us for then what a sad and desolate condition are we in for if one Minister die or go away we can get another or if we lose one friend we can take delight and comfort in another but what comfort can a man have when the Comforter himself is gone Hence it is that when Christ shall withdraw himself a little from the soul of a Christian he thinks every day seven years till he return as Bernard upon those words Yet a little while and ye shall not see me Oh Lord callest thou that a little while Christ indeed calls it so but a Christian thinks it long as David Return O Lord how long and How long wilt thou forget me O Lord for ever Psa 6.3.13.1 Psal 30.5 In another place he could tell us his anger indures but a moment now that moment seems eternity How long for ever Thus the Church in the Lamentations complains and bewails her sad condition For this I weep mine eye runneth down with water Lameux 1.16 because the Comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me Wherefore if you have the presence of Christ and of his Holy Spirit the counsell I give is this that ye would labour to keep it Mane nobiscum Domine Luk. 24.29 say as the Disciples at Emmaus Lord stay with us but if he have absented himself up and seek him with tears Tears indeed could not bring back Paul but 't is possible for a penitent by his prayers and tears to regain the presence of Christ And so much for the second act of their love Their weeping enlarged by four remarkable circumstances out of my Text the Generality of it all wept the Excesse wept sore the Place Pauls neck and the Cause why because they should see his face no more that filld their hearts with grief and made them cry Loth to depart As one friend holds another by the hand being sorry that he must forsake him or as she said to her husband going into exile Husband we will go together we will live together Simul hine fimul ibimus ambo se sequar conjux exulis exulero Ovid. de trist and we will die together an exiled man and an exiled wife together So do these here haerent in amplexibus they cling to Paul they are long in taking their leaves they know not how to bid him adieu But friends we say must part Come we therefore to the last act of their love testified by their feet Their lips their eyes have done their part now let us see what their feet do they walk with him they conduct and bring him on his way and how far as far as they could till they came to the Ship They accompanied him to the ship They accompanied him to the ship This Chrysostome will have to be another act of their love So greatly saith he did they love him and so diversly were they affected towards him that they will on their way with him Chrys in locum and see him Shipt before they part It was a frequent custome among the Primitive Christians when their friends were going from them to conduct them and bring them forward on their way Secundum indicatos locorum situs intervallum fuit illud inter Ephesum atque Miletum ad stadia circiter 400 quae

efficiunt prope 50 millia passuum Camer in locum Mat. 5.41 as you may see by these texts Rom. 15.24 1 Cor. 16.6 1 Joh. ver 6. So here the Ephesians do it to S. Paul he sends for them from Ephesus to Miletus and there was love in that in coming so far at his request a matter of fiftie miles from their own houses but they do not leave him here they will on further yet till they come to the Ship They observe that of our Saviour If a man desire thee to go amile go with him twain When Elisha had notice that his master was to be taken from him he went with him all the way from Gilgal to Bethel from Bethel to Jericho 2 King 2.1 and from Jericho to Jordan and beyond Jordan and then Eliah was suddenly taken from him and he saw him no more but yee see he went with him as far as he could so do the Ephesians here with Paul they went with him as farre as they could from Ephesus they come and meet him at Miletus from Miletus they go along with him to the ship and when they could accompany him no longer by land they accompanied him by water so far as their eyes could reach Inference 1 Let me here then in the first place present you with a picture of true love you heard before how their love broke out of their lips how at their eyes and here you see their very feet expresse it where true love is it will have command over the outward members of our bodies 2 Tim. 1.17 Onesiphorus loved Paul and this made him traverse the streets of Rome and never give over till he had found him and ministred to his necessities The Apostle calls it 1 Thes 1.3 Diligere The labour of love and in the Latine-tongue Love and Diligence come both from the same root to shew that love is diligent But alas it s key-cold very remisse and I may say negligent in these dayes our eyes cannot drop nor shed one tear for the miseries of the Saints our hands like Jeroboams are shrunk and dryed up we cannot stretch them forth to shew mercy to the poore our feet lame and cannot walk to do a poore man good onely we wagg our tongues saying alack poore man God help thee and I am sorry I can do thee no good c. call you this love no it deserves not the name love is a stirring affection Dost thou indeed love a good man it will both move thy lips water thy eyes and set feet also a walking to do him good Secondly See here again the love people ought to bear to those that are the dispensers of the mysteries of God they that wept so abundantly before we must think they did it much more now The word as I noted signifies the pain of a woman in her travell they had all this while been in travell with Paul and are now come to send him forth and to be delivered of him with sorrow now therefore their pangs were greatest They follow him to the ship as men follow the bere when they bury their friends Paul was now as a dead man never to be seen more of them therefore now sure their tears flowed they wept and as Christ said of Maries anointing his feet they did it for his buriall they wept before Mat. 26.12 Quae verba cum audiisset multo quam antea magis illachrymans c. Chrys de sacerd Act. 21.1 2 Cor. 11.26 they did not give over now at the ship now they begin afresh one sea runs into another a sea of tears into a sea of waters as the Israelites mingled their tears with the waters of Babylon so here a river of tears gliding through their eyes takes its course and runs into the sea of Miletus they bring him to the ship and there testifie their love with new embraces so that well doth the Evangelist say in the next verse When we were gotten from them much ado it seems he had to get from them they would have kept him still had he not broken from them by a kind of violence * Psal 56.9 Migrationes meas vel fugas meas c. quasi dicat Tu scis domine quod multis annis sum vagus homo profugus nec usquam datur mihi quies vid. Vatabl. in locum When we were gotten from them we lanched forth So that by all this you see what affection people ought to bear to those whome God hath set over them Love to Gods Ministers when it takes in the hearts of a people is without bounds without limits Thirdly you may hence likewise take occasion to consider the mutable estate of the Saints in this life they bring him to the sea set him a ship-board and there leave him he lanches into the deep and they return home with sorrow to their houses Psal 102.6.109.23 he is now entring into his perils by sea and they are as much distrest at land Such is the estate of Gods children here full of miseries full of changes sometimes their estates sink sometimes friends somtimes their teachers are taken from them thus like waves of the him-sea one affliction comes upon the neck of another David saith Thou tellest my flittings * David cum subinde mutaret latebras comparat se aviculae hinc inde volitanti oberranti cui nusquam nidulari conceditur Bucol chron 425. 1 Cor. 4.11 or wandrings and compares himself to a Pelican of the wildernesse to the Locust or Grashopper the Grashopper wanders and hops from grasse to grasse from flower to flower so do we in this world shift and remove from place to place and have here no certain dwelling place we never continue in one stay nor find any rest here till we arrive at the haven of happinesse They accompanied him to the ship We have now set Paul to Ship and our selves a shore I am come to the end of my Text I have done with that Onely give me leave by way of generall Application to commend to you two or three duties such as I conceive are both proper to the matter that hath been delivered and the present occasion The title of the 45. Psalme is A Song of loves so might the title of this Text be which I have opened a Text of love for therein you have seen Pauls love to his Ephesians and the return of their love to him The first duty therefore I would commend to you is this of Love but such a love as my Text commends that is operative When you look upon the Ephesians you see that their lips eyes feet spake nothing but love So that devout Mary Magdalen our Saviour saith of her That she loved much but how did it appear if it were the same Mary spoken of afterwards every member almost of her body shewed it her eyes in weeping feet in carrying her so early to the Sepulchre to seek him whom her soul loved her