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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53093	A sermon preached at the funerals of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ in the work of the Gospel, Mr. Samuel Collins, Pastor of the Church of Christ at Braintree in Essex, who exchanged this life for immortality in the 77th year of his age, in the 46 year of his ministry there, in the year of our Lord, 1657 preached by Matthew Newcomen ...	Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing N912; ESTC R3229	24,615	65

his only Love O that none of you had ever given him cause to complain with the Apostle The more abundantly I love the lesse I am beloved In reference to this holy man and what befel him in this Congregation I have often thought upon that in Exodus where it is said There rose up another generation which knew not Joseph O Sirs if you had all known as some of you did what service he had done for this poor Town what a state when he came first hither he found Braintree in and what a state and degree of eminency in profession and outward prosperity he or rather God by his means and Ministry had advanced it to I am confident you would all have pai'd him the just Tribute of Love and Reverence in his Life and Honour at his Death which many of you did and do I go unto the next particular and that is Faith Thou hast fully known my Doctrine manner of Life Purpose Faith He was none of those Qui frigide Jejune de fide disserant that do discourse of Faith unto others coldly and overly Tanquam de terrâ incognitâ But as Tertullian speaks of the Prayers of the Primitive Christians so it is true of his Preachings They were tanquam de Pectore His Sermons came from the Heart he was a Preacher that could say with the Apostle John 1 Epist 1.1 That which we have seen with our eyes and have lookt upon and our hands have handled of the Word of Life declare we unto you The next thing the Apostle instanceth in is Long-suffering Now the Long-suffering of this Holy man if it were not sufficiently tryed in the time of his Health if the forty six years time of his Ministry in this place and the variety of tryals he met with in that time from men of several tempers and spirits if that were not tryal enough of his Long-suffering yet the many weeks of his sore and tedious affliction was For many weeks was the hand of God heavy upon him in a sore Quartane Ague And in all that time he never uttered one unbecoming word but lay quiet contented chearful in the frame of his Spirit all the time of his sickness till it pleased God to put an end to his dayes Here was Long-suffering For his Charity though I say nothing I am sure there are enough who will proclaim it I believe there is scarce a poor man or woman in all your Town but will acknowledg that in him they have lost one of their best Friends one of their most ready chearful tenderhearted Relievers of their necessities that they had in all the world There is one thing more in these Ministerial Perfections summed up by the Apostle and I know that some of you watch to hear what I will say of that and that is Patience And may I speak the truth I never heard any thing laid to the charge of this holy man in all my dayes but some defect in this particular some want of Patience Now suppose that this charge were true why may not the want of this one particular Grace be over-lookt where there is such a full confluence of other Graces What Man what Saint is there living upon the face of this earth that wants nothing This Holy man of God say some wanted patience and are there not other men that want the wisdom he had the gravity that he had the sobriety that he had in the use of meats and drinks and apparrel the charity that he had the modesty and humility that he had And yet all these can be over-lookt in them only this one want of patience must be objected against him But I beseech you tell me some of you what was this want of patience and in what cases For there are cases wherein to want patience is not a fault but a duty there are cases in which good men holy men may not be patient cannot be patient ought not to be patient Even Moses himself the pattern of patience the miracle of patience having to do with a froward and gainsaying people hath much ado sometimes to keep the bounds of patience yea meets with some occasions in which he dares not but shew some impatience If the people in his absence set up a golden calf and worship it patience can hold no longer then how impatient would Moses have been if this had been done in his presence and before his face If the people despise and loath the Manna of the Lord if Cora Dathan and Abiram will rebel against the Lord by taking to themselves an Office about the Holy things to which the Lord hath not called them and so make a Schism a Sedition among the people Moses cannot must not be patient in these cases Now I beseech you what were the cases in which this servant of the Lord shewed any Impatience at any time were they properly his own concernments when people withheld his Maintenance from him was he impatient then Did he molest any Did he hale them before the Judge When people despised him opened their mouths in scornful reproachful manner against him as many delight to do against all the Ministers of Christ Jesus was his impatience then Being reviled did he revile again Surely no but if when he saw people slighting the precious Manna of the Word setting up the Idols of their own brain in stead of Gods Ordinances sowing Schism and division among the people committed to his charge if upon such occasions as these his Spirit was stirred in him shall this be imputed as a fault to him Nam quis Iniqua Tam Patient Gentis tam ferreus ut teneat se This leads me to the last thing Persecutions and Afflictions which he suffered Not from the hand of Publick Power from that his own Integrity and Prudence and principally that hand which upholds the Stars in his Church preserved him all his dayes under all that variety of changes that hath passed over us But I mean Persecutions and Afflictions from private hands Not at Listra Iconium and Antioch not among Heathens and Jews but at But I will draw a Curtain here The Lord hath now delivered him out of them all and I will not make these wounds recrudescere The Lord look upon this poor Town in Mercy and overlook all the failings and miscarriages of his people in it and send a man among you if it be his good pleasure that may continue as long with you as this holy man did And may do as much good among you as he in his Generation that though he find you divided may unite you and may restore you to your pristine state of Beauty and Unity wherewith God had sometimes dignified you Amen Amen FINIS