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A48777	The death of God's Moses's [sic] considered being the substance of a sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. Francis Johnson, minister of the gospel, sometimes fellow of All-Souls, and afterwards Master of University Colledge in Oxford, who died in London, October the 9th. 1677 / by J. Ll.	J. Ll.	1678 (1678)	Wing L2617A; ESTC R42135	17,380	24

children of Israel we find him but once guilty of any thing like a passionate word and that was when they did abundantly deserve it at least upon Gods account and sure it could not be a sinful though it were an angry expression to call them Rebels Num. 20.2 3 4 5 10. v. who were so indeed and so plainly and notoriously rebelled against their God when they repined and murmured not against Moses and Aaron only but against him too and against him most and therefore though I know some Commentators think this one of Moses his faults for which he was excluded Canaan yet with submission I cannot think so So patient was Moses thus was the Original and just like him was our Copy Fancy a man the best of meer men who formerly was followed with continual affluences of the things of this world through the whirl of Providence brought to a condition next to poor and indigent that was the desired company of the greater and more refined sort forced to converse with the poorer and more ordinary and who governed the highest rank of men in their advances in the superior liberal Arts and Sciences and chiefest Professions compelled more indeed to divert a greater noise than by want and necessity to sit amidst the cries and clamors of children and instruct them in the Rudiments of Reading and in a word not to enumerate for it would be much too tedious and too sorrowful fancy one once encompassed with all the afflictions of Job and amongst the rest that worst than all the dins of a foolish woman perfectly endued with Jobs patience too that bears all with as great an unmovedness of mind as if in the highest Apex of prosperity and then will you but begin to think equally of his patience In short none but Moses Job and Mr. Johnson would bear what he did And thus I have done with the description of Moses and of his second We now come to shew you 3. The Reasons why Gods Moseses his Ministers die and they are these 1. They have the same causes of death with others These spiritual men have bodies that contain humors fermentable into distempers as well as others and dwell in houses of clay that are tottering and decaying as others do They are not secured by their studies nor by their employment nor by their piety from the miseries of humane nature but rather the more exposed to them as I shall shew you under the next head These Angels of Churches assume lodge in and inform material vehicles compounded of divisible parts and easie separable Elements that lie open to the wind and weather sicknesses pains and casualities and often need repair and Physick which if they miss of or prove ineffectual they take their flight and leave us they are not yet immortal but must die to be so So these Stars that shine in our firmament will not always keep above our Horizon but will at length take time to set and disappear These men of God are men penetrable by the arrows of the King of terrours not priviledged nor exempted from the common fate of mortality neither their more elevated degrees of grace their more exemplary holiness nor their continued though still ripening preparedness for heaven can perpetuate their lives on earth Their zeal for holiness their warmest affections though the flames there kindled rise never so high towards God will not preserve them from colds those small introductions to all distempers nor the coolest of their spirits in opposition to the heats of passion from burning and malignant Fevers nor the most vigorous activeness for Religion from the Gout or Palsie and though their hard hearts are never so broken they may yet meet with the painful agonies of the Stone nor groans nor sighs for sin nor prayers nor praises are any Antidotes against an infectious Air though sometimes preternaturally through the Divine Goodness they correct its malignancy Though our graces are lively and though our corruptions are mortified yet we must die 2. They have more causes of dying than others they lye more in the road of diseases dangers and death their constant studies weary their flesh and tire their spirits out of their bodies their cares and fears which powerfully wast the life are greater and more consuming than those of other employments because terminated upon the souls of men and concerned about Heaven and Hell everlasting happiness and everlasting misery Their anxious cares are that all under their charge may reach the former and their continuall fears least they fall into the latter I doubt not but when we come into another world it will be found that more Ministers have dyed of their people than of diseases the unkind and undutifull carriages the irraclamable lives and the unchristian demeanors of their hearers of their communicants these are the things that kill and destroy them The single thought that some who constantly attend their ministry are like to be damned and all their pains and labours utterly lost upon them this this breaks their sleeps and their hearts too and sends them groaning against you into another world Besides they have ordinarily more enemies than others upon every little stir and disorder every fear and jealousy every ill news and disappointment in the state they are presently sought for harassed and sometimes murdered too Every storm blows at these lights and would sain extinguish them against them are mainly levelled the plots and contrivances of Earth and Hell The Divel and his agents his diligent and industrious substitutes cheifly desiring their ruine It is no wonder then that they whom all strike at whom every one wounds and whom every thing conspires to drive out of this world at length depart and leave us 3. God in great love calls them away from the miseries of this world to secure them from the evils to come Is 57.1 He will not always suffer his Ministers to be affronted his Embassadors to be abused nor his Representatives to be rudely treated by wicked and impenitent people but mercifully recall them and usually he send in their room some severe calamity to scourge the world this therefore is no wonder that God inflicts evils upon those who think the death of his Minister none and though it may be esteemed a fanaticall fancy yet it is very certain that there is no such sure prognostick of an approaching judgment as a considerable mortality of Preachers Possibly God bids them now dye in their beds that they may not hereafter be butchered and massacred by violent cruel hands However he gives them a quietus est sends death to sing requiems to their souls kindly removs them from their cares their fears and all their pains studies to receive the reward of their pious labours Ministers dye because death is better than life thereby God fixes an eternall period to all their griefs and sorrows and renders them for ever impassible And thus I have done with the doctrinal Part I

impartial leveller and O that we all did so as we ought that we might not as we ought not as we would not as we should not When thou art ill and weak in body and far worse and weaker in thy soul when thy breaths are short and few and thy vices great and many thy life een done and thou not born again when the Doctor hath given thee up and the Divine too when there is no hopes of thy body and as little of thy soul O how dreadful will the sight of Millions of unpardoned sins be as easily and freely as thou now committest them How grievous and burdensome the remembrance of a Crucified and so often rejected Saviour And how intolerable the thoughts of those Sermons which now thou wretchedly neglectest when thou shalt by thy een extinguished light of the Lord within and almost out of thee most sadly see all the sins thou hast committed and the mercies thou hast abused in an eager and a close pursuit of thy expiring soul crying with most dreadful and undeniable importunity Justice Justice Vengeance Vengeance above thee nothing but an unreconciled frowning God and blackest clouds of fluid flaming Brmstone een ready to pour upon thee nothing before thee but an open Hell its flames furiously catching at thy trembling soul where there is no retreating but as thy breath grows shorter thou still approachest nearer Conscience violently pushing thee forward and on each hand and round about thee thy weeping friends that now can yield thee no relief at all and the Divel and his Angels belching out Sulphureous Flames waiting for Orders to tear thee in pieces or carry thee away into endless miseries O the horrors that will then fill thy now unconcerned and careless soul O that a man could but see into it what dreadful sights would there appear And is it not worth the while to prepare for so terrible anenemy as death will be when cloathed with all these dreadfull circumstances that he may be thy friend and stript of every thing frightfull Is it not requisite to make some provision for so serious an hour And to hint a Direction how you should prepare Be prevailed with to come to Christ I doubt not but all out of Christ are bound by all ways they can to make timely provision for their great Change But I cannot think any can be sufficiently provided to receive the King of Terrors that hath not first received the King of Heaven the Lord Jesus as he is offered in the Gospel And to move you towards him I will onely remembring death is our present subject peremptorily prophesie and presage to you that when you come to die you will you must come to Christ to be for ever disposed of by him and therefore the rather do it now that he may place you in the mansions of bliss above Wilt thou refuse when the Doctor turns Divine having dreined thy purse and to no purpose tried all the Apothecaries shop feels thy weak but hasty pulse in full speed to death shakes his posed his pusled head and his last prescription is Take Jesus Christ make your peace with God and prepare for another world put your house and your soul in order for you cannot live and you must die when thy friends take the by thy clammy claiy hand as cold as are those of great mens statues upon their tombstones to take their leaves of thee and it falls again like a log when thou hast done breathing short and art fetching a long groan to Eternity wilt thou then refuse to come to Christ wilt thou when thou art passing to God thy Spirit is going to him that gave it when death comes with positive and peremptory orders to bring thee to the Judgement seat when forced out of thy bed secured by a guard of Divels and haled before the inexorable Justice to answer for all thy misdemeanours here when thy soul is wrested out of thy body God knows very unwilling to part and cruelly pulled along for all thy weakness for all thy wickedness to the great tribunal of that God whose mercy thou now slightest whose grace thou rejectest and whose tenderest bowels thou wickedly spurnest against when the news is gone that thou art dead and there remains nothing but an empty body when thy friends anxiously feel for breath and with great fear apply the looking glass to see a little but can find none Wilt thou then refuse to go to Christ If not O be perswaded to go now that thou maist obtain his pardoning grace and mercy Vse Do Gods Moseses dye then pray for Joshua's to succeed them Pray that they may fill their rooms and pray that they may lead you and that you may cheerfully and constantly follow them into the heavenly Canaan and to that purpose conscienciously take their advice and obey their command from God always remembring that your Joshua's will also dye and that you know not how soon Some of you its likely remember an expression of this man of God when he last preached here to this purpose I Know not whether I may ever preach again to you such kind of expressions do we somtimes drop you esteem them malancholy fancies hut when neither you nor we are aware we become prophets indeed and read our own destinies Be it fanaticall or no I cannot but take notice of the hand of God in your neighbourhood that hath taken away his Ministers two in one week and left you but one and when his mouth also shall be stopt with earth and worms he only that knows all things knows O that you would now hear and be reformed as sure you would if he who now speaks to you were to go at this time from this pulpit to his grave and judgment Well remember this hereafter when you are at the funeral of this body be it sooner be it later 6. The last Vse If there be any Joshua's any sons of the Prophets pardon me being it lyes so dirctly in my way if I let fall one applicatory word for you with my self Do Gods Moseses dye and are his ancient servants successively and indeed by clusters dropping and wearing away succeed them then and may you have their success and greater too Jos 1.2 N. now therefore arise go over this Jordan the remainder of the wilderness and by your painfull ardent preaching your holy exemplary living conduct the people into the holy land And to this purpose if I were worthy to advise it should be that we would take a right level of our reformation begin it early and high enough propose to our carefull imitation the commands and example of our Blessed Saviour his Apostles and the purest primitive Churches without taking any great notice of the usages and practices of any since and yet bear due regard a becoming charitable reverence for the whole Christian world that we would love and honor all whatever is truly commendable in all parties but espouse none that we