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A50838 A farewel sermon preached at the Tabernacle in Spittle-Fields by Luke Milbourn ... Milbourne, Luke, 1649-1720. 1699 (1699) Wing M2032; ESTC R15533 20,084 33

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have kept back nothing that was profitable to you but have shew'd you and have taught you publickly and as any have desired it from House to House I have sown good Seed God grant the Ground may be but fruitful 2. Consider what my Life and Practice has been among you I don't pretend to Sinlesness I know my self and my own Frailties too well Forgive them all O blessed Father for thy dear Son's sake Wash them all out for ever O holy Jesus in thy most precious blood Change me in the renewal of my mind O Divine Almighty Spirit Cleanse me O my God from my secret sins and grant that presumptuous sins may have no dominion over me I know my Sins are great and many but I have not made you the Witnesses of them nor can I accuse my self of having lead you into any by my Example I 'm sure I have defended no Heretical no dangerous Opinions among you to subvert your Faith but I have endeavoured to keep out all such Notions from among you and to watch over you as one who must give an account of your Souls If I have served any other God in my Heart that 's beyond your discovery but whom have I ever taught to take God's Name in vain to Swear to Curse to Blaspheme or to speak any thing unbecoming their Profession Whom have I lead into Perjury or instructed to break their solemn Vows or common humane Obligations If I have taught any to spend the Lord's Day lazily wickedly in Fields in Taverns in lewd Company or to despise or undervalue that sacred Time If I have taught them to Dishonour their Parents Natural Civil or Temporal to entertain rebellious or murmuring Thoughts or to speak scandalously or ignorantly of our Superiors If I have Prosecuted any with Revenge or Malice upon the most notorious Provocations have belyed defamed or injured any Man knowingly either in their Life Body or Estate If have knowingly convers'd unless on their sick and death Beds with any of ill Fame or have connived at or fear'd to reprove the Guilty of what Rank or Quality soever If I have cheated over-reached defrauded any whatever usage I have met with from Ingrateful Brutes or senseless Villains If I have opprest or wrong'd the Poor or acted unjustly by the Rich If I have born false Witness against any or traduc'd or slandered the Innocent or have shewn any griping or covetous Humour If I set any pattern of Drunkenness or Intemperance of any sort If I have knowingly been Guilty of Breach of Promise Lying Falshood or Treachery If I have been Contentious or Quarrelsom with any Man or have not rather suffered Wrong in abundance of which I carry the terrible Scars about me to this day rather than Sue or Prosecute the Injurious If I have been guilty of any of these things let all who know it witness against me I stand here before God and you this day and challenge the best mettal'd Brow and the most impudent Tongue to prove any of these things against me And if they cannot look you to it if you be Guilty of any of these Sins which I have always preached against from hence and in my Life and Conversation 3. Consider what my Love has been and how expressed to you I may have preach'd the Truth and have practised agreeably and both for my own sake but it could not be for my own sake that I quitted my Pretences to a Certainty to come among you from whom upon my Acquaintance or Provision made to that purpose I could promise my self nothing The Success was wonderful and encouraging till Hell and wicked Men enrag'd at it sow'd Divisions among us and ruin'd one of the most promising Designs that this Age had known I could not but be a looser by it yet you always found me the same Man and however my Livelihood fell short you never heard any Murmuring or Repining from me I was not quite deprived yet of opportunity to Instruct you and that I might do good to you I took upon me a task above common strength I served others that I might more comfortably serve you and not be a burthen to you If in any thing I have failed of my Duty I heartily beg Pardon both of God and you I might have served you farther but was forbidden and I hope have not any thing on that account to answer for But my Hearts desire since I first knew you has been and still is for you all Brethren that you might be saved I have loved my private Friends I have loved my Family I have loved my Life but I call God to witness I have loved the House of God and you the Inhabitants of it more than all and for your good can as freely lay down all my worldly Comforts as I could ever take them up I have coveted no Man's Silver nor Gold nor Apparel but have by indefatigable Toils in some measures administred to the Necessities of my self and those about me I cannot indeed complain that all my Affections have been sown on barren Ground you have been kind to me according to your Abilities and had Trading and Business flourish'd more I make no doubt but that I among the rest should have been sensible of it May that God whose Servant I am requite all your Kindnesses to me in your own Bosoms May he Prosper the Works of your hands to you and may he pour upon your Heads Blessings Temporal Spiritual and Eternal And now I am suddenly going into another Country not knowing the things which may befal me there you have my Prayers let me have yours I hope our God will hear us both I doubt not but on my departure ravening Wolves will endeavour to make a Prey of you I see too unhappy presages of it already may God in mercy divert my Fear and may he of his Goodness if you maintain this send a sober pious and exemplary Preacher to take care of you and to live among you I know of no Interests I can serve by these Wishes but yours and I must be the most treacherous Enemy of your Souls if I should not so pray and so endeavour When you have one whose Doctrine you may learn and receive whose Life you may hear of and see and imitate and yet be holy and underfiled before God He the God of Peace will be with you but if unhappily you should go otherwise to work God cannot bless you nor can Love or Peace or Charity have any long residence among you For my Family which for a few days I must leave among you I recommend them to your Love Some I 'm sure will have a just respect to them and me in them I know their Tempers and their I●●●inations so that I can entertain no Jealousies of them and God I 'm sure is not unrighteous that he should forget their Works and Labours that proceed of Love which Love they have shew'd to me and mine for his Name 's sake I would not have any think I ask your Alms but I desire your Justice and I 'm sure neither I nor mine have given any just reason for any to deny it But enough of this enough of every thing tenderness may be apt to overflow its bounds but it must be confin'd If I have offended any really I seriously beg their Pardons If any have offended me they have mine and may the God of Heaven forgive us all And now Brethren I commend you to God and the Word of his Grace which is able to build you up and to give you an Inheritance among all those who are sanctified I beseech you by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that in those things which are truly good you would all speak the same thing and that their be no Divisions among you but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same Mind and in the same Judgment I pray God that ye do no Evil not that I should appear approved but that ye should do that which is excellent though I should be as a Reprobate Finally Brethren farewel be perfect be of good comfort be of one mind live in peace and the God of Love and Peace shall be with you Amen! Amen!