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A79459	The dead speaking, or, The living names of two deceased ministers of Christ (contemporary, and eminently usefull in the west of England) viz. Mr. Sam. Oliver, and Mr. Samuel Crook Containing the sermon at the funeralls of the one preached by John Chetwind, B.D. and two severall speeches delivered at the funeralls of them both by William Thomas, B.D. Joyned together at the desire, and for the use chiefly of those Christians who were often occasional partakers of their labours.	Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.; Thomas, William, 1593-1667. aut	1654 (1654)	Wing C3795; Thomason E726_6; ESTC R206780	57,363	84

15. 13. Captive Israelite was Manumissed the Master might not send him away empty but was to furnish him with a supply of necessaries and that liberally thus doth God with the souls of his elect when he frees them from the captivity of sin by grace in their conversion he adorns them So when he delivers them Ezech. 16. 7. out of the Prisons of their bodies by death He makes their Spirits fully perfect And therefore our grief for this our friend may be the less Yet when we Heb. 12. 23. consider his Orphan family we must needs grieve his death as their great loss for whom yet in outward things his provident care hath not been wanting He having left each of them so much that they will not be beholden to their enemies and yet so little that for their education and breeding up they will need the respect and kindness of their friends But this hath he left his children better than all outward portions the blessing of God and his ingagement to be their Father For though grace be personal and corruption be Natural Parents communicate their Natures God His grace Circumcised Parents beget uncircumcised Children and winnowed Corn brings forth Chaff though when Poetae nascuntur non fiunt Poets are born so not made Christiani fiunt non nascuntur Christians are made and not born Yet a great mercy it is to be the issue of a believing Parent Many prayers made for them Many promises made to them that though Father and Mother forsake Psal 68. 5. them yet God will not leave such friendless but will take them up Yea God is the God of the seed Acts 2. 39. of believers as well as of themselves To end all This our deceased Brother was a wise dealer whereas most men deal with the world and Satan for pleasures whose end proves painful and profits that have no true advantage Yet he was by God made wise to trade with and for God He hath bought the truth and not sold it He hath broke Christs bread and it hath multiplyed in his hands He hath cast out his Net and it hath prospered and souls by him have been turned to righteousness and therein hath traded for himself and gained full and lasting pleasures durable and real profits even Heaven it self where he now enjoys the reward of Gods promise and shines as a Star in the Firmament and truly I speak Dan. 12. 2. it without flattery or vanity for the general course of his life for the profitableness and success of his Preaching for the Comfort Peace and manifestation of Gods love and support which he had in his sick Bed and to his end every one of us may say and pray Sic mihi contingat vivere sicque mori O that our lives and ends might be such I shall close this discourse with this Observation A Gentleman took order before his death that this Epitaph should be engraven on his Tomb Here lyes the Friend of Sir Philip Sydney If now it were esteemed so great an honour to be and be reputed the friend of an earthly man How much greater Honour have all believers This our deceased friend in particular to be called as Abraham was the Friend of God so that on the Tomb of this our Reverend Brother whose Funeral we have now solemnized may be truly Ingraven Here lyeth the dutiful Servant the faithful Minister the choice friend of Jesus Christ Soli Deo Gloria FINIS AN EXHORTATION IMMEDIATLY FOLLOWING THE SERMON THAT Was Preached at the Funeral of Mr. SAMUEL OLIVER Pastor at WELLS Written upon request with some little alteration of and additions here and there unto what was at first hastily delivered Wherein the thing intended is in sum this to lay close to our hearts this truth That affliction and in special the loss of Friends more especially of Ministers is not to be undergone stoutly without sense nor to be born frowardly without patience nor to be pass'd over lightly without profit James 5. 11. Ye have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord. LONDON Printed by T. W. for John Place and are to be Sold at his Shop at Furnivals Inn-Gate in Holburn 1653. An Exhortation following the Sermon that was Preached at the Funeral of Mr. Samuel Oliver Pastor at Wels that in a great Congregation both of Ministers and people then met together there might be a more profitable use made of the present occasion THough you have been somewhat extraordinarily deteined already out of a willingness to set on good instruction upon so moving an occasion yet suffer me to be a Suter unto you Honoured Reverend and Beloved for the renewing of your patience while I adde a little more to what hath been already spoken concerning our deceased Brother who was for you of this place a faithful Minister of Christ (a) Col. 1. 7. And that the rather because it is very suitable that he that was so abundant an Instructor should have his Funeral solemnized with more abundant instruction which though now it may seem very tedious yet you may be pleased to remember that when a dear Friend is to take a long Journey all his Friends thinking that perhaps they shall never see him more are willing to allot a longer time to take their leave of him Our dear Friend is gone a long journey to his long home (b) Eccl. 12. 5. Let us crave pardon therefore if we be longer in parting with him and imparting to you what we desire should be profitable upon so observable a providence But to come to that which I intend to say wherein I humbly desire and desire to have desired that divine assistance whereof there is so great need and use that I may therein prescribe unto my self some bounds I shall entreat you to read with me Job 1. 20 21 22. Then Job arose and rent his mantle and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshipped And said Naked came I out of my mothers womb and naked shall I return thither the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job sinned not nor charged God foolishly The Exhortation in which I shall have respect all along unto these words I branch out into three Rules The first Rule Seriously take to heart I exhort you every special hand of God This the Scripture requires (a) Eccl. 7. 14. and complains much of the contrary (b) Isa 5. 12. 42. 25. Jer. 5. 3. And this is in the first place presented unto us in Jobes example who arose as being stirr'd and much mov'd by many most sad Messasages and by the last that brought him news of the loss of his children most and rent his mantle or robe as mourn●ng Thamar d●d hers (c) 2 Sam. 13. 18 19. and ●haved his head that being another custom that mourners used in those Countries (d) Jer. 7. 29.

a little more to insist upon and to draw down to particular use what is there wound up in a more general way yet with some difference for the former things are of common concernment and for the use of all men especially of Ministers unto whom it cannot but be profitable seriously to contemplate and to propose unto themselves so imitable a patterne But the later part is more especially directed to your use who were the daily Hearers of his sound doctrine and observers of his suitable conversation and who are to be in special manner accountable for both Think that He that hath been divers years dead yet speaks and that in the Apostles language (i) Act. 20. 31. Remember that by the space of fourty seven years I ceased not to warne every one of you with teares And let these applications to your consciences which when I had resolv'd to have laid them aside Providence hath by reiterated requests a● length produced be an effectual meanes to rub up your memories and continually to assist and arme you against that fruit-hindring forgetfulness which is apt to seize even upon better people after their quickning Pastors decease that so though you could not always have him (k) Ma● 26. 11. yet you may after his decease have those things alwayes in remembrance that you heard from him (l) 2 Pet. 1. 15. This will be an help to that which I would yet further exhort you to as that which much concerns you I mean your profiting by your present Pastor whom God hath in much mercy sent to you to confirme you by his diligent and dexterous preaching and answerable living in that word and way which you have formerly heard and seene from and in his pretious Predecessor The benefit of all will redound to your selves and be best seene in the day of Christ when they both and all other Instructers that have truly desired and sought your spiritual good amongst whom reckon him if you please that now writes unto you shall rejoyce that they have not run in vaine neither laboured in vain (m) Phil. 2. 16. which that it may be your security comfort and honour at that great day shall be the prayer of Your truly welwishing Neighbour and servant in Christ Jesus W. T. AN EXHORTATION DELIVERED AT THE INTERRING OF Mr. SAMUEL CROOK Late Pastor of Wrington in Sommersetshire YOu have heard honoured and beloved so many good and grateful words already concerning this faithful servant of God (a) In the story of the life and death of Mr. Samuel Crook printed An. 1641. you shall find them pag. 42. c. now interred that I shall need to say the less yet something give me leave to add at the Funeral of so great an Instructer and in so great a convention for our further instruction wherein that I intend is the edification of the living though for that reason I shall be enforced to speak divers things that will tend to the commendation of the dead but what concerns him I shall endeavour to contract and enlarge in that which may be useful to others In this our dear and reverend Brother and Father all generally was good I speak not without consideration and acknowledgement of human infirmity and many things excellent but four things exceeding rare and remarkable 1. First that being of so excellent and acute parts and wit he should yet preach so plainly popularly and profitably and that from the beginning of his Ministry when such abilities commonly fall either into obscurity or vanity In former times the Church was troubled with learned obscurity much learning in many pulpits but little light strong lines but weak Sermons In these later times the Church is troubled againe with unlearned curiosity appearing in new and affected words uncouth and far-fetched notions witty and versatile passages and dictates like the Oracles of Heathens (b) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that may be taken several wayes but which way they should be taken who can say By this means it comes to pass that it is hard for ordinary people to know the meaning of the words and when that 's done as hard to find the truth and soundness of the matter Those old Sermons stuft and puft up with human wisedom and Authors were much for ostentation and admiration These now a dayes for recreation and their better content that have itching eares but neither for edification unto which obscurity is a great enemy and in a Preacher inconsistent with the Rule of Scripture 1 Cor. 2. 4. as it is in an Orator with the rules of art † In caeteris artibus id maximè excellit quod longissimè sit ab imperitorum intelligentia sensuque disjunctum in dicendo autem vitium vel maximum est à vulgari genere Orationis atque à consuetudine communis sensus abhorrere Tul. l. 1. de Orat. Happy they that can speak as Paul did as a Father in the evidence and demonstration of the Spirit of God and not as the Corinthian Teachers that were instructors pedagogs not Fathers (a) 1 Cor. 4. 2. using the intising words of mans wisdom to gain disciples unto themselves when their duty was in a way of plain and powerful preaching to win souls to Jesus Christ These Instructors and Schoolmasters had many Scholars therefore but it was Paul that had the children and was the happy instrument of regeneration and salvation Our deceased Brother was such a Father plain and yet full of power in Gods House unto which I add profitable also in his own House and other mens And that I observe in him 2. Secondly That being in so much company yet he was very free from any unworthy words from empty and impertinent discourses Many light things seem to weigh well enough in the ballances of Society but his words in society would hold weight in the ballance of the Sanctuary Not that he was ever speaking religiously yet often he spake of things religious and of them very observably but still he spake usefully he had together with his piety too much worth and sufficiency to indure in himself tongue-vanity So that what he spake was though not still good for every thing yet good for something O our idle words How many houres spent in cōpany in those houres how much spoken and yet when all comes to be summed up we may pronounce sadly of our words as Solomon did of the world Vanity of Vanities all 's Vanity But this our deceased pattern was willing divers times rather to speak nothing than nothing to purpose And his words were the better tempered because his heart and inner man was so little distempered For I cannot but speak this in him 3. Thirdly That on all occasions and in all occurrences some whereof must needs give distast bring in affliction provoke to perturbation yet he was ever observed to walk and beare up with much calmnes and excepting the publique troubles of the Church of God