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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44693	A sermon on the much lamented death of that reverend and worthy Servant of Christ Mr. Richard Adams, M.A. sometime fellow of Brazen-Nose Colledge in Oxford, afterwards, minister of St. Mildred Breadstreet, London, more lately, pastor of a congregation in SOuthwark, who deceased Febr. 7th, 1697/8 preached, February the 20th, 1698 / by John Howe.	Howe, John, 1630-1705.	1698 (1698)	Wing H3039; ESTC R15457	15,888	56

Mr. HOWE 's SRERMON On the DEATH of Mr. RICH. ADAMS A SERMON On the much Lamented DEATH OF THAT Reverend and Worthy Servant of CHRIST Mr. Richard Adams M. A. SOMETIME Fellow of Brazen-Nose Colledge in Oxford Afterwards Minister of St. Mildred Breadstreet London More lately Pastor of a Congregation in Southwark Who Deceased Febr. 7 th 1697 8. Preached February the 20 th 1698. By JOHN HOWE Minister of the GOSPEL LONDON Printed by S. Bridge for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers-Chappel 1698. To Mrs. Anna Adams Widow and Coll. John Adams Brother to the Deceased Mr. Richard Adams My Honour'd Friends DEath is too common a Theam and too obvious to our Sense to be thought strange any more than that we live But that the Course of our Life as to the Rise Progress and Period of it is at the dispose of one common Lord of all because it belongs to a Sphere above Sense is little considered by the most To you I doubt not it s far from being a new or unfamiliar Thought And thereupon that the Precious Life you have lately seen Finished was measured by Him who could not therein be unkind to him who is gone or to you who stay behind We do indeed Tempt our selves if we expect from his kindness unreasonable Things As that he should to Gratify us alter the Course of Nature or recal the Vniversal Commission of Death or only let it stand in force with an Exception as to our selves our Relatives and Friends or that he should tear his own most inviolable Constitutions by which the present State is to be but Transitory and the future the only fixed State which were to subvert the whole frame of Religion to nullify the design of Redemption to take down his Tribunal to abolish and lay aside all thoughts of a Judgment to come and finally to make the Kingdom of His dear Son to terminate in a Dunghil While no such wish hath place with you your Reconciliation is easie to the Providence that hath for the present bereaved you of so delectable a Relation And the Love of God which prevailing in you will prompt you to compliance with his will must be the evidence of your title to the best Blessings of both Worlds For both the things in the other State the Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard c. And the Concurrent Operation of all things for good in this present State do all belong to Persons of the same Character The Lovers of God 1 Cor. 2.9 Rom. 8.28 Which that you may constantly and fully experience to the end and in the end is the serious Prayer for you of Your very Respectful and Affectionate Servant in Christ JOHN HOWE A Funeral Sermon ON THE DEATH OF Mr. Richard Adams PHILIPIANS I. latter part of v. 23. Having a desire to Depart and to be with Christ which is far better The foregoing Words are I am in a straight betwixt two And then it follows Having a desire to depart c. IF you should have no other Subject for your present Consideration than only That one in your Neighbourhood is Lately Dead Even that it self would deserve your very serious Thoughts The Translation of Humane Souls from World to World and out of this Present into their Eternal State is no light Matter and does claim and challenge more serious Thoughts than it is commonly wont to find and meet with Nor does the commonness of such an occasion at all excuse the slightness of Mens Thoughts upon it but rather aggravate it unspeakably more That which we find to be so common and universal a Case we may be sure will shortly be our own And as it is now matter of Discourse with us that such a one is Dead we shall ere it be long according as we have been more or less regarded in the World be a like Subject of Discourse to others But it is a greater Thing when it can be said a Good Man is gone there is a more special Remark to be put upon the Decease of such a one Mark the perfect Man and behold the Vpright the 〈◊〉 of that Man is Peace as Psalm 37.37 There is that Agreement between his Way and his End they are so much of a Piece and do so exactly Correspond a course transacted in a constant Serenity and Peace meeting at length with Peace as the End of it An even course still uniform self-agreeable ever equal to and like it self ending at last in Peace Mark this how he goes off mark such a Life so ending But it yet Challenges more intense Consideration when such a one is taken away from amongst us and the Progress and Period of his Course come to be viewed together whose Life was a continued Series of Labours in the Lords Vineyard from the earlier to the later Hours of his Day when such a one has finished his Course and fought out the good Fight of Faith and is entered into his Rest by the vouchsafement of his indulgent Lord and Master is made to rest from his Labours and receive the Reward of them the Reward of Grace with a Well done good and faithful Servant enter into the Joy of thy Lord And sure it cannot be ungrateful to you to be desired here to stay a little to make a stand and pause and entertain your selves a while with the Consideration of such a Theam and Subject as this Especially it cannot be an ungrateful Contemplation to such as have known the Doctrine and Purpose and Faith and Charity and manner of Life of such a one as the Apostle speaks so as to be told of nothing but what you knew before And so they are not dubious and uncertain Thoughts that you are to employ upon such a Theam you are well assured of the Truth of the Fact and when you know it to be true you cannot but discern it to be very considerable and important Truth and of very great Concernment to you What the Spirit of such a one has been through his whole Course you have a very high Example of in this Blessed Apostle And a Copy has been written out fair after such a Pattern by this lately Deceased worthy Servant of Christ. Besides the many Straights and Difficulties that great Apostle met with in the Course and Current of his Time he meets with this towards the end of it to be in a straight between two and he does not know what to chuse viz. between these two Things The Consideration of what would be the best and most valuable good to himself and the Consideration of what would be the more valuable Good unto the Christian Church and particularly unto these Christian Philippians to whom he now writes He had no doubt at all in the Case but that to depart and to be with Christ would be the best and most valuable Good to himself And it was as little to be doubted of but that his continued abode and stay