A Funeral Sermon PREACHED Upon the DEATH of The Reverend Mr. Nathaniel Oldfield Who Deceased Decemb. 31. 1696. Aetat 32. With some Account of his Exemplary Character By JOHN SHOWER LONDON Printed by J. Astwood for John Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultrey 1697. TO His Worthy Friend and Brother Mr. Joshua Oldfield SIR THE Honour which it pleased God to bestow on Your Deceased Brother to be so much a Blessing and Beloved while Living ought to qualifie your Sorrow for his Death and make you the more softly to lament your Loss therein If the reading of this Sermon do any way renew your Grief you must thank your self and those who join'd with you in desiring to have it published 'T WAS his Serious Godliness that made him so valuable and in some respects You and I are more obliged than others to Follow his Faith or Christian Piety in * 2 Tim. I. 5. Chap. IV. 6. that sense you know the word is sometimes used The Integrity of his Heart towards God joyn'd with a true Zeal for his Glory qualified him for great Service as a Minister WILL you suffer me to mind my Self and You who I am perswaded need it less than I do that it was his solicitous Care and Concern about the Salvation of his own Soul that made him so Diligent and Successfull for the Souls of others He had very much Help herein by the frequent and Attentive Perusal of the close Warnings and Directions given Ministers in * Mr. B's Gildas Selvianus The Reformed Pastor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chap. 1. §. 9. Chap. V. §. 5 6 7 c. The Reformed Pastor To take heed lest we be Preachers and no Christians dedicated to the Altar as God's Priests and not sanctified by dedication to Christ as his Disciples and so worship an unknown God and preach an unknown Saviour an unknown Spirit an unknown state of Holiness and Communion with God and a Glory that is unknown and like to he unknown for ever If we soundly believe and are affected with the Truth we study and preach we shall preach it more heartily Experience will direct us to the fittest Subjects and furnish us with Matter and quicken us to set it home Whereas he is like to be but an Heartless Preacher who is a Stranger to that Christ and Grace he preacheth of to others And so if he do not first preach to himself what he teacheth them for if our own Hearts be cold our Preaching will be so And if we have but an affected Fervency we cann't expect a Blessing should attend it THERE are many Passages in that Book of the like Tendency which we can hardly read without Fear and Trembling some of 'em as I remember he own'd did most deeply affect his Soul and I have sometimes thought they had some good impression on mine I desire to be more under the Awe and Influence of such Considerations It may be the Recital of a few more of 'em may be of use to some of the Younger Ministers tho' I know your Character so well that I do not add them for your sake but my own and others As Face answers to Face in a Glass so doth the Heart of Man one to another What was of use to him and me may reach more HOW many have preach'd Christ and perisht for want of a saving Interest in him Many may be now in Hell who have told their Hearers of the Torments of Hell and warn'd them to avoid it Who have preach'd of the Wrath of God against sinners and are now feeling of it O what sadder Case can there be in the World than for a Man whose Business and Calling it was to proclaim Salvation and help others to obtain it yet after all himself to be shut out That we should have so many Books in our Libraries that tell us the way to Heaven that we should spend so much time in reading those Books and studying the Doctrine of Eternal Life and after all to miss of it That we should preach so many Sermons of Eternal Salvation and yet fall short of it And this because we preached of Christ but neglected him of the Spirit but resisted him of Faith but did not heartily believe of Repentance and Conversion but continued in a state of Sin of an Heavenly Heart and Life but remained Carnal and Earthly our selves Do we not know that God is no Respecter of Persons and that an Holy Calling will never save an Unholy Man That the Preachers of the Gospel must be judged by the Gospel stand at the same Bar be sentenc'd on the same Terms and dealt with as severely as other Men It is a fearful thing to be an unsanctified Professor but much more so to be an Unholy Preacher When we open our Bibles should we not tremble lest we read our own Condemnation When we pen our Sermons little do we think we are drawing up Indictments against our own Souls When we are arguing against sin that we are but aggravating our own When we magnifie the Riches of Christ and his Grace and declare it to others we publish our own Iniquity in rejecting him and our own Misery in being Strangers to him O Miserable Life that a Man should study and preach from year to year against himself and spend his dayes in a Course of Self-condemning What aggravated Misery will it be to perish in the midst of Plenty to famish with the Bread of Life in our Hands while we offer it to others and urge them to receive it but we our selves will not NEXT to His Piety or as a part of it his Peaceableness and Charity in opposition to Bitterness and Dividing Zeal and a Narrow Spirit was very Commendable and Exemplary He could unite with all Christians in Things Necessary and was not for making more Fundamentals and Necessaries than Christ hath made or for other Terms of Church-Communion than the Terms of our Common Christianity And therefore was ready to receive All whom he believ'd Christ would receive He was of one Church with All those whom he hop'd to meet in Heaven Endeavouring to hold the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace because he acknowledged that there is but One Body one Spirit one Lord Jesus Christ one Hope one Faith one Baptism and consequently but one Holy Table one God and Father of all from whom and by whom and for whom are all Things 'T IS from this Principle as esteeming the Piety Learning and Usefulness of Men of all Perswasions that I cannot be unaffected at the Death of the Reverend Dr. Horneck of the Savoy this Week His Devotion Zeal and Diligence in Preaching Writing and otherways endeavouring to do good to the Souls of Men makes him to be deservedly and generally lamented tho' I had no particular Acquaintance with him I reckon my self bound to value and love every Man who endeavours to promote Reformation and Practical Religion and spends his Time as he did
speaks 2 Cor. 〈…〉 We are unto God a sweet Savour of Christ in them that are saved and in them that perish 'T is certain he bare you much upon his Heart in daily Prayer in order to the Success of his Ministry among you And gave Thanks to God for any such Fruit for any Service he had been enabled to do for your Souls And was affected with your grateful Sense of it testified by your Kindness to him in his last Sickness which he thankfully acknowledged SOME of you will never forget the Last Sermon he preached in Publick when with much Difficulty he was brought into the Pulpit how he spake as in the View and Sense of another World with what serious Affection he prov'd and press'd the Obligation we are under Whether we live that we live to the Lord or whether we dye that we dye to the Lord so that Whether we live or dye we are the Lords Rom. XIV 8. and that if we be thought besides our selves or sober it is for your sakes 2 Cor. V. 13. How agreeable to the Sense of his Heart was it for him from such a passage to say Let me be esteemed a Fool or a Mad-man and besides my self if I may but gain One Soul let the Devil roar against me if I can but snatch the Prey out of his Jaws let him calumniate and revile me if I can but weaken his Kingdom But when by such an Essay he was made sensible of his own Weakness and found himself really disabled for publick Service he then declared he was satisfied Now says he I know my Work is done IF any of you are ready to Object that his Work might not have been done so soon if he had prudently managed his Health and Strength and not shortned his Days by Over-doing I grant that his Zeal and Fervour and unwearied Diligence tho' from a good Principle might as to Humane Prospect have been managed so as to continue his Usefulness longer But let us take heed not to blame him too much for Imprudence in this matter unless we are certain that we know what it is to long for the Salvation of Souls to be filled with Love to Christ and to live above the Love of Life at the rate he did However * Dr. Gilpin of Temptation 4 to Part. III. Chap. 15. it may be reckoned as one of Satan's Temptations to the most diligent and useful Ministers by over-doing to lay a Snare for their Lives lavishing their Strength in a Prodigality of Pains for the good of Souls which like a Thief in a Candle immediately wasts them whereas a better husbanded Strength might be more advantagious by continuing the Light longer And yet their Ends are so sincere their Work so pleasant and their Hearts so enflamed with Zeal that they seldom observe as they might that the Devil is glad of the Opportunity to destroy them with their own Weapon THIS many of his Freinds took Notice of among others that Great and Good Man Mr. Baxter who very much esteemed and loved him not long before he left this World he sent him this kind Message That he should take heed lest he spent too fast That Mr. Baxter loved him I reckon to his Honour He was one of many who thank'd God for the Assistance he received as a Christian and as a Minister from the useful Books Preaching and Conversation of that Excellent Man I freely concur with him therein having reason to thank God upon the like Account HE was Fervent in Spirit serving the Lord His own Soul was fill'd with Zeal to kindle Holy Fire in the Souls of others He was willing to spend and to be spent And hereby he wasted and at last consumed himself He ran fast and was the sooner at his Journies-End But if we judge of our Days and Time on Earth by the good we do in this World and the Progress we make in preparing for another that is if we judge by weight and not by measure He lived long he dyed old and full of days Many a Man with a grey Head had not lived so much tho' he might have been longer in the World For he lived more in a Year than many do in seven He did more Service in less than Thirty three Years than many do in Threescore Tho' we reckon God took him off in the midst of his Days and in the midst of his Ministry it was not too soon for Him tho' it may be for you He was ripe and ready And considering his long languishing Pains and Weakness under all the Attempts and Endeavours for his Recovery which Humane Art Skill and Care with the Earnest Prayers of many for Success could contribute We may say that God was kind and Gracious to call him home He did not so properly take away his Life as * Non tam ereptam ei vitam a Dijs Immortalibus sed Donatam Mertem Cicero concerning Crassus bestow Death Or to use the Words of †Dr. Sam. Annesly concerning Dr. Drake an Eminent Elder Prophet who went to Heaven the same day Elijah and Elisha an Aged Paul and a Young Timothy within few hours who speaking of Another on the like Occasion saith That he went out like one of the Lamps of the Sanctuary with a sweet perfume So hath my Dear Brother left this World and left a Good Name as of a pretious sweet smelling Odour behind him AND now He is gone should I say any thing further to Surviving Relations and to you that sate under his Ministry I shall but open another Sluice of Sorrow If I should consider him as a Husband I might speak to Her who so carefully and diligently assisted him in his long Sickness and beseech her to Remember how he was the Guide of her Youth to Remember his Love to her Person and his Love to her Soul and beg of God that she may experience the promised Blessing Isa LIV. 5. Thy Maker is thine Husband the Lord of Hosts is his Name and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel the God of the Whole Earth shall he be called FOR his Children who may yet be more profited by our Prayers than Counsel let us pray to God that as their Father's Memory is Blessed his Posterity after him may be so And we may do this with the more Hope because there is the Entail of Covenant Mercy to be pleaded from Generation to Generation both on the Father's Side and on the Mother's as being both descended from Excellent Christians and Eminent Ministers Upon which Accounts you are encouraged to trust God as to the Children Hoping that their Father's God and their Grand Fathers God will be their God and Guide SHOULD I consider him as a Son as a Brother as a Kinsman as a Friend c. and how he carried it in each Relation I must be very large You are sensible of your Loss be thankful to God for him Remember his Example follow his Faith think of
a Guard did he keep upon the Door of his Lips how watchful was he over his Words how shie of ordinary and common Conversation upon this Account because he could meet with so little serious and profitable Discourse even amongst Those of whom it might have been expected With what Prudence and Faithfulness would he often begin such Discourse as became a Minister and a Chtistian suitable to the Circumstances and Conditions of those he conversed with And where there was Occasion for it with like Wisdom and Fidelity would he admonish and reprove to the hazard sometimes of losing their Friendship whom otherwise he had reason to value But he knew how to be severe against the Sin and not discredit and expose the Sinner he knew how to search the Conscience and yet so far spare the person as not to exasperate and provoke the Spirit WHEN some time since I visited and prayed with him which I lament I did no oftner enquiring concerning the State of his Soul with Relation to God and the other World Whether all were well and calm within he told me that through the Grace of God he could appeal to Him concerning his Integrity that he hoped He had found mercy to be Faithful Thro' the whole of his long Sickness he had no Discouraging Fears but a serious steady Trust and a well-grounded Hope in God through the Merits of his Saviour without high and full Assurance which he said was not ordinarily to be expected here where Grace is so Imperfect And yet sometimes he hath experienc'd Extraordinary Consolations He hath been sound alone all in Tears when upon Inquiry what it was that troubled him and made him sad he answered he was very far from Grief It was not Sorrow that made him weep it was from Abundance of Inward Joy HE often prayed for more Faith and Patience desiring that Patience might continue and have its perfect Work And God granted it For he had a calm composed Spirit under very long languishing and some painful Operations He submitted to the hand of God in all without murmuring And when every Body about him seemed greatly concerned he himself was not Consider his Patience you that were Eye-witnesses of it and Take my Brethren the Prophets who have spoken to you in the Name of the Lord for an Example of suffering Affliction and of Patience HIS serious Piety was crowned with an Extensive Charity Besides his Charity in Relieving the Poor in order to which he made Conscience to lay aside a fit Proportion of whatever the Providence of God allowed him and that as soon as he received it which he never after looked upon as his own Besides that sort of Charity he was in Principle and Practice very Charitable to those from whom he differed in Opinion He loved All Men in whom he could discern any thing of real Goodness He did not confine the Church of Christ to a Party or endeavour to make Proselytes to Any For he was of none but that with all Christians for Christ against the Devil HE did not think it the Excellency of Zeal to go further than needs from those he did not fully agree with He used the Lord's Prayer in Publick and once a day in his Family and thought he did his Duty therein He had a Zeal for Truth but likewise for Piety and Peace for Love and Good Works He remember'd that his Master was the Prince of Peace and his Message the Gospel of Peace that his Office was to be a Messenger of Peace and that we are to follow after Peace as well as Holiness and that Blessed are the Peace-makers He was sensible how much the Interest of Real Religion is weakened when the Bond of Peace is broken and that when we bite and devour one another we are in danger to be consumed one of another He was therefore an Enemy to Censorious Heats and Bitterness and all such Narrow Principles as destroy Love He was of a truly Healing and Catholick Spirit I wish he may be Imitated in these things by all who knew him I MENTION these Particulars the rather concerning his Personal Piety to confute the Cavils of those who would run down all the younger Ministers in gross as more loose than their Predecessors This is an Artifice of the Devil to hinder their Usefulness but the Foundation of it I am perswaded is either Mistake or Calumny For what if one or two Candidates for the Ministry be now and then heard of who are taken in the Snare of the Devil and fall from Hopeful Beginnings so as to dishonour their Profession or quit it shall the rest who are Humble Sober Diligent and Serious be less esteemed Was there ever in any Age any sort of Calling or Profession of Men in the World whereof there may not be Some found who are a Reproach and Blemish to the rest Would it not be very unjust that Elder Ministers who are Wise and Learned Upright and Exemplary should lose the Reverence and Honour that is due to them if there should happen to be some Few of their Age and Standing who come short of such Qualifications I do here most heartily thank God and Rejoice in Hope as to the rising Generation that I know many and hear of more of the younger Ministers who are well qualified for their Work by improving growing Parts and Learning and resolved Industry after more with deep Seriousness and Integrity towards God And therefore will deserve the Esteem and Encouragement of all that know them 2. LET me now Consider him as a Minister of Christ He was apt and ready to Teach fit for Publick Service and Successful in it How much did he answer the Apostle's Character To be Blameless as a Steward of God not self-will'd not soon angry not given to Wine not Contentious not given to filthy Luce a lover of Hospitality a lover of good men sober just holy temperate holding fast the faithful Word as he had been taught able by sound Doctrine to exhort and to convince Gain sayers making it his business to save himself and them that heard him 1 Tit. VII 8 9. His Heart was in his Work and he wholly gave himself to it He did not seek great things to himself The Honour of Christ and the Salvation of Souls was what he aimed at and longed for and laboured for AND such was his unwearied Diligence in the well Improvement of his Time that he quickly grew Rich in all Spiritual Gists by the Blessing of God on the diligent hand And from time to time he increased considerably He found it true That to him that hath and useth well what he hath to him shall be given and he shall have more abundantly He knew the Weight of the Ministerial Work to watch for the Flock to strengthen the Weak to confirm the Strong to satisfie the Doubtful to resolve the Scrupulous to answer Cases of Conscience c. And who is sufficient for these things without a
great deal of Industry in hope of Divine Assistance He knew the Difficulty of his Work to evidence Truth to the Conscience to awaken Sinners to Repentance and then to manifest Christ the Redeemer and Saviour of Sinners to Reprove some with Meekness and others with Sharpness to pour Balm into Wounded Spirits and to speak a Word in season to the Wearied Soul to difference the Sheep from the Goats the Precious from the Vile c. And to manage all this with a deep sense of the Worth of Souls and the inestimable Price wherewith they were purchased and the Aweful Account that he must hereafter give to the Great Shepherd The Consideration of these things made him Diligent and resolved and unwearied in what he undertook so long as he was Able THO' he were as well able as most with very little Preparation to speak pertinently and usefully upon any Subject yet he made Conscience not to give to God that which cost him nothing He would not utter that in publick which he had not considered and digested and prayed over He durst not presume in the Name of Christ to vent raw and indigested Notions which he had not well thought of or to entertain his Hearers with any loose and rambling Thoughts that came next into his Head AS to his Style he was not for an affected Strain of Words yet far from taking any such Liberty as argued Indiscretion or exposed to Contempt He hath given sufficient Proof upon several Occasions that he was Master of the best Language whenever he pleased to make use of it but had the Wisdom to suit his Words as well as Matter so as might best answer the End of doing Good to those to whom he Preached YOU know very well that Preaching was that part of his Work wherein his Heart was more especially engaged And that he durst not speak to secure drowsie Sinners concerning God and Christ Heaven and Hell in a cold and careless manner He knew the weightiest Matter without lively Application to enforce it is but like Bullet without Powder With what tender Affection would he invite Sinners to Christ With what moving Expostulations would he address himself to all sorts In fuitable Expressions to Young and Old With Clearness he would Open and Apply the Doctrinal Articles of Religion and by Catechising instruct the Ignorant With Strength and variety of Arguments he enforced the Duties of Christian Practice And how readily did he embrace all Opportunities of doing good in this kind to the utmost of his Strength and beyond it HE would often use the Expression of the Apostle I am not sent to baptize comparatively but to preach the Gospel which is the Power of God to the Salvation of the Soul Not that he neglected the Administration of the Sacraments For besides the Lord's Supper which he administred every Month he had great Success in bringing many Adult Persons to be Baptized in the publick Congregation sometimes several in one day HE was careful to follow his Publick Teaching with Private Instruction and Visits especially of the Sick so far as his Relation to so many and bodily weakness would permit With Tenderness would he apply Comfort to the Mourners in Sion He was skilful in binding up the Broken in Heart Many resorted to him upon that Account And with Compassion and Gentleness he would deal with Offenders in order to their Recovery How earnestly did he desire and seek the Peace and Holiness of his People His very Soul was grieved if he heard of any of them walking disorderly He could say with the Apostle I have you in my heart and God is witness how greatly I long after you all in the Bowels of Jesus Christ 1 Phil. 7.8 YOU Remember concerning his Preaching how practically both for Matter and Manner he insisted on the Great Things of Religion He did not amuse his Hearers whom he considered as near the Grave and the Eternal World with Controversies which they need not understand and concerning which Wise and Good Men may have different Sentiments and yet be Wise and Good be accepted of God and bear with one another He carefully avoided Extrems in opening and applying the Truths of the Gospel He was wont to exhort Men to work out their Salvation with all Diligence and to strive to the utmost to enter into Heaven and yet after all to trust and relye only on the Mediation and Righteousness of Christ He preach'd and prov'd the Necessity of an Imputed Righteousness and yet urg'd the necessity of an Inherent One. That the Priestly Office of Christ and his Sacrifice for Sin might be honoured and yet the Holy Ghost in his sanctifying Influence may be honoured too He did not make Morality the whole Duty of Man nor yet deceive the People by saying that Christ repented for them and Believed for them He magnified the Special Grace of God in the Conversion of a Sinner and yet preached Repentance towards God as necessary to Forgiveness with Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ Without curiously determining which is first when both are needful and never parted He laid the whole stress of our Salvation on Jesus Christ He ascribed the Beginning Progress and Finishing of all Spiritual Good entirely to the Free-grace of God And yet the Impenitence Unbelief and Damnation of Sinners he justly charged on their own Wilfulness in hearkening to the Devil And if this be Legal Preaching what is it to preach the Gospel of Christ ACCORDINGLY we find that God honoured him with great Success He had Eminent Seals of his Ministry at his first Beginning and many more afterwards He was a good Man and full of the Holy Ghost and Faith and much People were added to the Lord. There are many of you who bless God that you ever saw or heard him You are his Witnesses that he did not run in vain nor labour in vain His Preaching was made effectual to the Conversion of many His Tongâ—â— was a Tree of Life unto many You will be his Crown of Rejoycing in the day of the Lord. And if they that be wise shall â—â—ine as the brightness of the Firmament and They that turn many to Righteousness shall shine as the Stars for ever Dan. XII 3. We may believe he will have a proportionable Reward HIS extraordinary Application to his Work and Diligence in it which hastened his Death may increase his Glory Tho' some make a Question whether a Minister who Converts many Souls here or another that is as faithful and diligent and yet hath not such Success Which of these shall have the most Glory in Heaven Some think the Second because the one had much Encouragement and Comfort here which the other had not for want of Success and yet might say Tho' I have laboured in vain and spent my strength for nought yet surely my Judgment is with the Lord and my Work with my God I shall not lose my Labour Isa XLIX 4. And as the Apostle
this World and what there Business here is and Whether they are going and how it will go with them at their latter End But we could never get the most of them to spend one hour in serious thoughts of these weighty Matters Many a time did we entreat them to try whether they were Regenerate or not whether Christ and his Spirit were in them or not whether their Souls were brought back to God by Sanctification but they would not try We did beseech them to make sure Work and not leave such a Matter as Everlasting Joy or Torment to a bold and mad Adventure but we could not prevail We entreated them to lay all other Businesses aside a little while in the World and to enquire by the Direction of the Word of God what would become of them in the World to come and to judge themselves before God came to judge them seeing they had the Law and Rule of Judgment before them But their Minds were blinded and their Hearts were hardned and the Profit and Pleasure and Honour of this World did either stop their Ears or quickly steal away their Hearts so that we could never get them to a sober Consideration nor ever win their Hearts to God This will be the Witness that many hundred Ministers of the Gospel must give in against the Souls of their People at that day But to draw to a Close Let us all be affected with his Death so as wisely to improve it The Removal of such an one at his Age is a Publick Loss not only to his Family and to the Congregation but to the Poor to the City to the Nation to the Church of Christ One of a clear Head and warm Heart who understood believ'd and obey'd the Gospel One of a Peaceable and Publick Spirit Abundant in Prayer and of an Exemplary Life and of Extraordinary Diligence to do Good Being fitted for it as he was filled with Love to Christ and the Souls of Men to carry on the great Design of Faith and Holiness to the utmost of his Power in the Station God had put him And full of Thoughts and Care therein to abide with God But mourn not for Him Some sorrowful Concern 't is true is unavoidable if you are sensible of your Loss and 't is also fit and becoming For 't is a Judgment upon any and a Reproach upon a Minister to dye unlamented As if his Life were of no Use and the World were weary of him But you need not mourn for Him when you Consider Who he was and Where he Now is being exalted to a higher Sphere of Action and Enjoyment for which through Grace and Holy Diligence he was prepared And so for ever delivered from all Pain and Sickness from Sin and Sorrow Corruption and Temptation If you follow his Faith and Patience you shall meet him again in Unutterable and Endless Joy HEREUPON you will do well to admit the Thought that all your other Ministers are mortal and dying and that you your Selves are so And therefore should improve their Lives and and Labours as you shall wish you had done when They are Dead or when You your selves are ready to dye TO Conclude Because He alone who made this Breach hath the Residue of the Spirit and can supply it let me advise you tho' the Shepherd be smitten yet that the Sheep do not scatter Let not this Breach occasion Others but Agree together and take the best Advice you can in looking out speedily for a Suitable Supply And the Lord direct you to a Man after his own Heart that may be like-minded with my Deceased Brother And whatever you have received and heard and learnt and seen in Him as a Follower of Christ that do and The God of Grace and Peace be with you Amen FINIS BOOKS Printed for John Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultrey MR. 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