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A42780 The comforts of divine love Preach'd upon the occasion of the much lamented death of the reverend Mr. Timothy Manlove. With his character, done by another hand. Gilpin, Richard, 1625-1700. 1700 (1700) Wing G776; ESTC R216432 17,903 57

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TIMOTHEUS MANLOVE Med licentiatus Divini animi nuncius et interpres non ineligans Imortalitatis animae non ita pridem vindex Iam conscius August 3 Anno Dom̄ 1699. Aetat vero 37 Proematuro fato cessit THE COMFORTS OF Divine Love Preach'd upon the Occasion of the much Lamented DEATH Of the Reverend Mr. Timothy Manlove With His Character Done by another Hand LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers-Chapel And Sarah Button Bookseller at New-Castle upon Tyne 1700. A Short Character of Mr. Timothy Manlove HE was a Man of a fine Complection and comely Aspect Of pregnant Parts and a ready Wit which made his Conversation very pleasant and ingaging He had a clear Head and an admirable Capacity and Skill to digest things in their proper exactest Order His Judgment was correct and solid his Memory strong and tenacious his Invention so fruitful and ready as always to furnish him with a copiousness of Words to express himself by and his Expressions were full and well Chosen He was considerable in his Learning which he was improving in daily Being designed for a Physician before he studied Divinity he had attained to a great Skill in the Niceties of that Art and practised it with Ease as well as Success He was every way qualified as a Divine He had all the Accomplishments of a Preacher and the Graces of Pulpit-Oratory An excellent Mien a free Elocution an unaffected Gravity and a becoming Seriousness all which set off what he delivered with very great Ornament His Voice was clear and regular strong and lively and exactly modell'd into a sweet harmonious Pronunciation And as he had the Voice of a Divine Charmer so he charmed wisely He did not amuse his Hearers with a Train of Pompous Words but edify'd them with plain practical Discourses most suitable to the Noble Simplicity of the Gospel He had a great Sense of Religion upon his Mind and especially a composed reverent and heavenly Deportment in Prayer in which his very Look as well as Expressions did excite to the most serious Devotion There never seemed to be a cloud either upon his Thoughts or Affections in his Publick Exercises He had flame and vigour to bear him out to the Last and he rather chose to leave off with Affection than to proceed with Flatness The Last Day he appeared in Publick he was observed in Prayer to have the most profound Thoughts and exalted Expressions of the Divine Attributes and in his Last Sermon with the most affectionate sacred Eloquence he displayed the Happiness of Heaven Preaching from Heb. 2.3 upon the Doctrine of the Great Salvation that Christ came to declare to the World which within a few Days after he left his mournful Hearers to apply TO THE READER THE following Discourse was Preached without the least Thought of offering it to Publick View And yet I was perswaded to yield to the Publication of it to prevent the Printing of more imperfect Notes The Excellency of the Subject sets it above all the supposed Ornaments of the Finery of Words or Rhetorick The great thing that I minded in the Preaching it was only to Represent it in plain Intelligible Words To have attempted any thing more would have been a wrong to the Matter which hath so great a Lustre in it self that it needs to borrow nothing from Art And if any thing of that had been offered it would have had no better Success then the laying the Dawbery of Paint upon a Resplendent Diamond which would cloud and darken its Refulgent Brightness Now Reader since thou hast it in thy Hand do not seek for that which was never intended Thee but consider seriously the Matter and work it upon thy Heart till thou be rooted and grounded in a deep Sense of Gods Love that so thou ma●st be filled with Love to Him This is a Subject worthy of thy Study and hath in it such admirable Variety as will make it always Pleasant without Weariness and will also furnish Thee with a Cordial in thy deepest Spiritual Distresses That this little Discourse may be thus useful to Thee is the Earnest Prayer of The unfeigned Desirer of thy Spiritual Happiness R. Gilpin SERMON I. ROM VIII 35 36 37 38 39. Who shall separate us from the Love of Christ Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword As it is written For thy sake we are killed all the Day long we are accounted as Sheep for the slaughter Nay in all things we are more than Conquerors through him that loved us For I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come Nor heighth nor depth nor any other Creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. MY last Discourses to you were an Explication of that great Command and Counsel of our Blessed Lord Jesus Of striving to enter in at the strait Gate In my Directions to you for your regular pursuit of this important Charge among other things I recommended to you the Apostle Paul's Prescription Gal. 5.16 Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the Lust of the Flesh It was my Purpose at this Time to have made a further Progress in that Matter but having received an Intimation that my dear Brother and Fellow Labourer now Deceased had found such Comfort in his Meditations on this Scripture in his Prospect of Death that he expressed his Desires that his Funeral Sermon might be upon this Text His pious Desire that others might ●e comforted with the Comfort where with he was comforted of God prevailed with me though upon a short Warning to turn my Thoughts to this Scripture and the rather because your Hearts being softned by this mournful Providence the Truth contained i● this Text might possibly make the dee●er Impression upon you I cannot let you into the full Understanding of the Apostles Triumphant Conclusion except I lead you to the first Rise and Head of it In ver 1. He give us the Consequence of his former Doctrine he had largely asserted and proved in the foregoing Chapters That we are justified by Grace and freed from the Law From these Truths he lays down this comfortable Conclusion as most evident and certain There is therefore now no Condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus This Conclusion is full No Condemnation neither by God nor Law nor Conscience and it is universally true to all that are in Christ But because this Conclusion is the Corner-stone and must sustain the weight of all the superstructure he first limits it to those that are in Christ and explains what he means by giving them their true Character They walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Next he proves his Assertion by its Parts 1. That there is no Condemnation to such This he argues in the