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A44864	David's labour and rest, or, A discourse on Acts XIII, v. 36 preached at the funeral of Mr. Richard Shute, the late Most Reverend Pastor of the congregation of Stow-Market in Suffolk : together with some memorable remarques upon the deceased, for the benefit and use of that parish / by Samuel Hudson ...	Hudson, Samuel, 17th cent.	1689 (1689)	Wing H3264; ESTC R4246	15,092	32

God's Laws And Lastly consider him in his carriage between God and his own Soul He was a good Man and after God's own Heart He preserved a holy aw and regard upon his Spirit Psal 4. so as not presumptuously to sin and offend his Glorious Majesty Id. He lived not at random but communed with his own heart living under a daily sence of his Duty and obligations to God. Psal 90. And so numbering his dayes as to apply his heart to true wisdom These I pass over with all brevity that in the next place I may evidence to you Reasonable The reasonableness of this his Agency for God in his Generation and that upon a twofold account First Upon the Account that serviceableness to God is the end and design of God's bestowing upon us those Talents Abilities and Opportunities we enjoy Doubtless God did never intend them to be laid out in Riot or laid up in a Napkin Neither to wast them or to rust 1 Cor. 12.7 The Candle is not to be put under a Bushel The manifestation of the Spirit so all other good gifts of Health Riches Honour c. are given to every man to profit withal to be useful in our places to God's Glory our own and others good He frustrates God's aim that doth not employ them whatsoever we receive from God we are not to take as Proprietors but as Stewards or as Executors not to embezzle as we please but to employ the bequests according to the will of the Donor Secondly Considering the Account we must expect to give to our great Lord of our Stewardship when he shall summon us to appear which will be a just and strict account Rom. 2.7 who will render to every man according to his works As there is a reward to them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek honour glory and immortal life so there 's indignation and wrath to every Soul who commits evil If we acknowledge our selves Creatures that receive all from God we must expect an appearance If we be more let us shew it in warding off that account if we can But certain it is 2 Cor. 5. We must all appear at the judgment Seat of Christ Therefore it is reasonable we should serve God in our Generation What hath hitherto been insisted upon may be matter of Admonition to us all First Applyed To you my Reverend Brethren of the Clergy to whom God hath committed Curam animarum The charge of Souls that we study this of serviceableness in our places may we be careful to employ our Talents for the designs of God's Glory and others good in our several Stations not sparing our pains for fear of hastening our end Our Lamps can never be better spent or burnt out than in lighting others to Heaven 2 Tim. 4.2 Be we then instant in season and out of season both in Prayers and Preaching rebuking and exhorting with all long-suffering and doctrine If God peradventure will give Grace not only to the acknowledgment but also to the Love of the Truth May we be willing to spend and be spent in the service of so dear a Lord Not forgetting the injunction given us at our Ordination when we had the Holy Bible put into our hands with charge to preach the Gospel And indeed can we be negligent when besides the Precepts to industry we have also the excellent Patterns set before us The holy Angels who are ministring Spirits for the good of the Elect. Such a Cloud of Witnesses before us for the good of others God himself who doth good continually and excerciseth a watchful eye of Providence over his Church Christ who whilst on Earth went up and down doing good and now in Heaven maketh continual intercession for us Or can we give up a better account of our Time and Talents to God What we do for his Glory and the Churches good we may expect God will put upon the file Nor can we serve a better Lord and Master who hath an observant Eye to regard us and hath assured us 1 Cor. 15. ult That if we be stedfast unmoveable and aboanding in the work of the Lord our labour shall not be in vain in the Lord. Secondly Nor are you in your more private Spheres and Capacities to be negligent of this but to be serviceable to God in your Relations In your Families by prudent management of those under your charge preventing as much as in you lies those extravagancies times and places too much abound withal by private admonitions by a holy peaceable and obedient behaviour Walking worthy of the Lord unto all well pleasing And hereby you may give great encouragement and assistance to God's Faithful Ministers not discouraging those who watch for your Souls This is the way to leave our Countrey better to Posterity as the Orator speaks We have all but a little time to work in The time is short John 9.4 we shall soon be at our Journeys end The night approacheth c. And hereby we shall bring comfort to our selves in the way and have hopes in our Death But may we not take up a bitter Lamentation for so great a neglect of this Duty Lament How many prove unserviceable in their Generation or disserviceable either by fomenting needless divisions or a disorderly Conversation who regard more their private Cabins than the publick good who are as Wenns upon the Natural Body draw away the nourishment and cumbersome to be born or like corrupt Stomachs turn all to putrefaction I might here take occasion to rebuke and lament such who serve not God but their own bellies Or serve God no further than will serve their own turns who live as if the great God had sent them hither upon no other Errand than to pamper the Carkass and feed the Brute But I hope better things of many of you and that you are careful not only to be serviceable to God in your Generation but withal to take the true best Canon for your Agency The Will of God which is my next thing to consider The Second General is the Canon of Davids activity The Will of God. I am not unsensible there are who prefix this and make it an Antecedent to what follows reading them thus By the Will of God he fell asleep Beza But besides that this pointing of them is said not to be found in the Ancient Copies It may be considered that thô it be true that all who fall asleep do so by the Will of God yet all do not serve out their Generation by the Will of God which is by way of Eminency recommended to us in Davids Pattern that he eyed his Rule Note the Will of God So that all our serviceableness to God in our generation must be regulated by the Will of God. The Will of God is the only and highest Rule for created Beings to act by But not the Will of God as concealed but as

DAVID'S Labour and Rest OR A DISCOURSE On ACTS XIII v. 36. Preached at the FUNERAL OF Mr. RICHARD SHVTE THE LATE Most Reverend Pastor of the Congregation of Stow-Market in Suffolk TOGETHER With some memorable Remarques upon the Deceased for the Benefit and Use of that Parish By SAMVEL HVDSON Rector of Earles Stonham LONDON Printed by James Astwood for Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside near Mercers-Chappel 1689. TO THE Truly Pious and my much Honoured Sister Mrs. MARTHA SHVTE Dear Sister WHEN it pleased our Infinitely Wise and Holy God to translate my most Reverend and Worthy Brother into those blessed Mansions of Glory where he now dwells for ever I was my self prevented by so sharp a Sickness as that I could neither accompany that very numerous and extraordinary Train of Mourners that follow'd him to his Grave nor could I then be an Auditor of this excellent Discourse preach'd at his Funeral my Sorrows were much augmented upon both these Considerations For in that dark hour of Providence when the Crown was taken from thy Head and a deep wound was made in my own Heart it would have been some relief to me to have seen multitudes both of Ministers and People of different Perswasions about little things so unanimously united as they were in their Sorrows for the loss of such an Eminent Instrument of Gods Glory and of so great an Example of practical Piety conjoin'd with such prudent managent of his Labour as that he had effectually obtain'd much of his great End viz. Of establishing a profound Love to God and to one another in the Hearts of very many of his Auditors and had also diffused the same Spirit into all his Brethren in that Corner where God had plac'd him it would have been a further Comfort me to have heard the Duty of Imitation so Pathetically urged as it then was in that Sermon which is now made publick The report of which was then sent me but the Copy thereof came but lately into my Hands with liberty of Printing it and the restraint which the Reverend Author had first laid upon you being in greatest part removed My Dear Sister Although I could have wished that the Impression had been more early yet it now comes time enough I hope not only to be communicated to his whole Flock but to add some new Fuel to their former great Zeal whilst every one of them seemed very ardently bent to pay a most just Veneration to his Memory which in Truth will be now best done if that they hold this Glass frequently before them and while they are beholding so beautifull a Picture drawn but in brief yet truly representing him and without all flattery they shall every one endeavour to dress and adorn themselves according to so rare a pattern Dear Sister I am informed that the time is almost come when you will discharge part of that Legacy of 100 l. which my Excellent Brother bequeathed to some Trustees named in his Will for the purchasing of Lands for the benefit of the Poor of that Burrough of Stow-Market and that for ever Now Dear Sister let me earnestly beseech you that whenever you pay any part thereof you would deposite it in such hands as that a most sacred Promise may be given you and us who are Overseers of his Will that such Lands may be purchas'd and also settled so as that the annual Rent may be employed as the yearly reward of a School-master for his Teaching of the Children of the poorest sort to read the English Bible in such number as the Trustees shall think fit This will be the erecting of a perpetual Monument to his memory more lasting than any of Marble which his Parishioners have Thought and Discoursed of to set over his Grave May the good Will of him that dwelt in the Bush still for ever dwell in that Town and may the Holy Spirit of God so influence all their Minds that that most precious Seed which hath been sown in their Hearts by our now glorifi'd Relation may take deep root and bring forth abundant Fruit which will be I am sure the inexpressible Joy of thy Soul and is the most earnest Prayer of Dear SISTER Your most Affectionately Sympathizing Brother Sam. Fairclough To my Worthy and highly Honoured Cousin Samuel Blackerby Esq and to my much esteemed Friends Mr. Charles Blosse Mr. Joseph Crane Mr. John Keeble Mr. John Carter Mr. Benjamin Cutlove Mr. John Peake Mr. Jonathan Peake Mr. Charles Booth Mr. William Gerrard Mr. Thomas Hayward Trustees for the Legacy bequeathed to the Burrough of Stow-Market by their late Reverend Pastor Mr. Richard Shute GENTLEMEN AT the Desire of my Sister who is now in my House and not capable of doing it her self I do very Earnesty and Passionately request that the Annual Revenue of the Lgacy that her dear Husband and your late Reverend Pastor bequeathed to your Burrough may be employed for the benefit of the Poor and not for the ease of the Rich. And I do believe it cannot be more avantageously laid out than in procuring a Person fit for such a Work who shall be obliged to Teach a certain number of poor Children to read the English Bible whose Parents are not well able to be at that Charge for them 'T is true my Brother hath not prescribed any particular way for the expending of it but I do not question but this will be grateful to him if he hath any knowledge of what 's done here below I hope the Confidence he put in you will prompt you to use it in that way which you cannot doubt would be most acceptable to him could he now speak to you from Heaven as he formerly did on Earth You are Trustees for God as well as for him I pray Dispose of it as Men that must give an Account thereof I have no more to say but that I am your Friend and Servant George Jones DAVID's Labour and Rest ACTS XIII v. 36. For David after he had served his own Generation by the Will of God fell on sleep IF there be any Force either in Precept Prohibition Promise or President to engage to Holiness of Conversation doubtless the Christian is under the greatest Obligation No Religion so strictly commands Holiness Be ye holy in all manner of conversation Nor more prohibits unholiness without which no man shall see the Lord. Heb. 12.14 Where do we meet with the like encouraging Promises having the promise both of the life that now is 1 Tim. 4.8 and of that which is to come Or where so strict and obliging Patterns and Examples not only the President of the holy Jesus who went up and down doing good but also a Cloud of Witnesses whereof we have one in the Text holy David who served out his Generation In the projecting Age wherein we live he is a very inconsiderable person that hath not some Design or other on foot but there