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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53500	The living, dead pastor yet speaking in two sermons, preached on Bartholomews Day, Aug. 24, 1662, in Bewdly Chappel / by Henry Osland then minister there, and now published by some friends of truth.	Osland, Henry.	1663 (1663)	Wing O531; ESTC R17697	23,412	72

day Lastly Above all make God your chiefest good let Christ be your way to enjoy him through the help of the Spirit Word and Ordinances let God be thy Father and thy all and he will be ever thine and with thee for thy good who cannot dye When one told a Christian that his Father was dead Desine blasphemias loqui cease to speak blasphemy my Father is still alive When thou hast done all thou canst in working out thy salvation yet let the stress of all lie upon Jesus Christ Christ is all and in all value the world and all things but as dust dross and dung in comparison of this invisible glory Lord God Father Son and Holy Ghost live to him and dye in him and you shall raign with him world without end I have now twenty more requests or petitions to you which will be my dying words my last requests if God bring me not from death again 1. I beseech you all my Brethren and Fathers examine your selves throughly to know the state of your souls and how you stand in the sight of God think how near the day of Assise is to us all you are in an estate good or bad of life or death know so far as is attainable the case you are in you are apt to say when I have put this question to you We trust it is well with us Oh my Brethren it is not good to trust in this case before you try have you not heard and read that many a mans faith and hope is vain Jam. 1. and 2. chap. Job in many places try your own case know your own selves 2. See in your tryal especially that the work of conversion is soundly wrought see to that Circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth nothing but a new creature All your shews are but as a tympany all your duties huskes shels are unavailable without the new creature Beloved my spirit stirreth in me through fear lest you have not past yet through the new birth the Scripture hath concluded you under wrath and wo if you are not born again Oh see to it 3. My next request is that you would not sit down short of Jesus Christ you may go far and do much and yet fall short of Jesus Christ there is a running in vain because men sit down before they come to Christ they sit down with the Name of Christ and with a few notions of Christ in their heads and with some underling affections to him and on a few formal performances to him when they have not the life of Christ in them nor the Laws of Christ nor his Spirit ruling in their souls nor his Word dwelling in them richly to teach them his fear Oh beloved this is not your rest if you sit down without the nature life laws Spirit and power of Christ in you to qu●cken you enliven enlighten impower and enable you to live love obey and glorifie Christ you will sit down short of Jesus Christ and then it had been better you had never set a foot towards Christ in his holy wayes never rest till you are in his arms and your abode is in his bosome you in him and he in you the hope of glory 4. My next request is That you would mind above all things your eternal condition you are this day sitting on these seats now by fires in your families with your relations anon but to morrow you may be in eternity and know no more what wives and children sun and moon earth and sky clocks and time how they pass by you and bring you reports from friends and various experiences as now they do do all for eternity Remember when you are praying you pray for eternity and eternal mercies and things think when you feel your breath departing that eternity is coming upon you 5. Set up and if you have begun keep up serious and servent prayer in your families and other family duties of admonition instruction and reproof Let your houses be little Churches and that which is denied you in other families let it be had at home I know the society of believers of one heart is quickening in close and private chambers and our hearts are much enlarged then before God Yet so long as you pray to the same God for the same Church and people especially when your own flesh and blood your dear wives and children are at your elbows Oh how should this quicken you to be earnest for the life of their souls Let not the Lord when he looks down from heaven to see if there be any that seek after him let not then your families be found prayerless families as if you owed no obedience to God or stood in no need of him and lest he clap a curse on your dores Cursed be this family that calls not upon the name of the Lord. 6. Have a special care of bringing up your children in the fear of God instruct correct and give them a good example you have little of the world to leave them perhaps if you leave them in the possession of God and in the hopes of heaven you have been good Parents to them but to leave them nothing of the world and without God and hope it is so sad a thing that you will not give a good account of it before God And you that are children do not break your Parents heart by your sinful disobedient waies you have tender Parents who love you and would not bring you up for the devil nor see you everlastingly confounded and burned in the lake of hell Oh return to God and his holy waies remember your Creatour God longs for you and desires the first ripe fruit the sooner you come in to him the more you shall have of his love and the more will your godly Parents delight in you 7. Never be ashamed of a serious holy godly life though you are reproached vilified and suffer much in the world for it be not dismayed but rejoyce and be exceeding glad that you are sufferers for holiness and not persecutors of it but be ashamed of a filthy conversation of the Image of Satan of the sins that make you odious and loathsome in the sight of God I admire to pass by the Ale-house-dores to hear so many singing drinking roaring and they are not ashamed at it but there are many that are ashamed to worship God in their own houses or reprove sin if this be not to be ashamed of Christ what is 8. My next request is That you would never think that you are holy enough or have grace enough but be still pressing after more No worldly man thinks he hath riches enough but will be thirsting after more and shall not the Christian be as covetous after God is not one dram of grace more then all the world one smile of Gods countenance more then a hundred rivers of oil why do you think you have enough of this labour to grow in grace and to abound in it 9. If you do not grow so fast in grace as you should be sure you do not decline and decay in grace Whither hath Apostacy carried a backsliding soul Apostates stop not frequently till they are in hell there they rest because they can fall no lower be sensible of thy declinings Christian lest they end in this and thy latter end be worse then thy beginning 10. My next request is That you would look to your worship a little thing in worship is more offensive to God then you think of Consider Nadab and Abihu small faults in worship provoke highly there we deal immediately with God and his glory is immediately concerned he is therefore nowhere so jealous as in the things of his worship take heed of a lasie frothy formal superstitious worship lest God cast it as dung in your faces and say Who requires these things at your hands 11. Have a special regard to the Lords day let it not be prophaned by unlawful recreations and games nor by those that may be lawful at other times lose not an hour of it in vain delights or pleasures of the flesh let the soul be attending on God even when your hands are about the works of necessity and mercy do not think all your work is done when the publick worship is done say not then Flesh take thy pleasure I have served God enough this day it is a day for meditation rejoycing thankfulness and prayer and to visit the sick instruct your families and not to be spent in the service of the world or flesh 12. Though this be a day of scattering yet let brotherly love continue those that have walked in fellowship in publick and private Ordinances let not your love be cold but continue love and affection and exhort one another and pray one for another and serve one another in love and be kind courteous faithful and zealous for the good of every poor sheep that belongs to this fold 13. That you would be more then ordinary diligent in working out your salvation What means God will afford you we cannot tell if any make use of it to work by if small or none labour so much the more your selves How comfortably might you live and die if you knew that your calling and your election were made sure however diligence will bring comfort sloathfulness shame it is no small comfort now at my suspension that I worked while I had time 14. I request you that whatever you do you do all in the strength of Christ not in your own do nothing for your own glory but for his keep down self and let it not be exalted against the Lord in any thing take heed of self-sufficiency self-aims self-ends learn not only to trust in Christ but to use Christ here is the wisdom of the Saints to do all in Christ and for Christ 15. I beseech you pitty and look to your poor they grow great and numerous and many are poor inwardly and outwardly both let some course be