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truth_n	believe_v	strong_a	unrighteousness_n	1,917	5	11.2143	5	false

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A53259	The last sermon and sayings of that most pious and reverend divine, Mr. John Oakes, minister of the gospel in the City of London who was struck with death in his pulpit, in the afternoon after he had preached this sermon; to the admiration of all his hearers. A subject of great account, worthy to be written in letters of gold. Being a thanksgiving sermon, for God's great goodness in delivering this nation from popery, slavery, and destruction, by that eminent instrument of God's glory, King William King of England. Discoursed of from these words, Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. Luk. 10. 20. And having preached upon the first part of the text in the forenoon, of God's great deliverance of this kingdom from popery, &c. and coming to treat more fully in the afternoon, what it is to have our names written in heaven, God took him to himself, and gave him a full enjoyment thereof. With a brief sum of his funeral sermon preached the next Sunday after, by the reverend divine Mr. Williams. To which is added two Godly	Oakes, John, d. 1689?	1689 (1689)	Wing O19A; ESTC R218540	11,358	25

it hath delivered this Nation from Popery and Slavery if God had not delivered us from Popery and Slavery both which coming in upon us like a Corent if God had not prevented it we could not have escaped 1. God hath hereby delivered us from Popery Oh what a dreadful dangerous thing is Popery It is that Religion which doth teach men to keep no Faith it is a Religion which teacheth men to worship Stocks and Stones and that on penalties too Oh what a dreadful damning thing is Popery that they may be Converts they will cut your throats so that it is not your Estates will serve them but they would have your Lives too 2. God hath hereby delivered us from Slavery too even from serving an Idol If God had not delivered us thus then what would have become of us and our Children Could you be content to have your Children brought up to fall down to a Crucifix and to worship a Breaden God to the ruine of their own souls certainly if any persons were ever under such a Character as in 2 Thess 2. 11 12. it must be Papists And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a Lye That they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness Oh the tyranny we are in part delivered from we are delivered from their infringing upon those Immu●ities and Priviledges of our Forefathers which was from our Forefathers care and to their great Cost that we might not be brought up into Popish Slavery 2. Another foundation of joy and rejoicing for this begun Deliverance is the time when God thus interposed between us and our danger it was at the time when we were e'en ripe for our destruction Indeed we do not know yet what our danger was Oh had not God just at that very time interposed so seasonably when the Knife was just at our Throats in what a sad condition had we béen in at this day but the Lord was seen in the Mount. 3. Consider the means God did make use of this is a Foundation of our joy and rejoicing that God should put it into the Heart of a stranger even of a Foreign Prince and that God should Spirit him for such a Work and put resolutions and courage into him to run the hazard of his life and should make him of such a publick spirit which many English-men have lost that he should come from that plenty that splendour he was in to bring about this our begun Deliverance 4. This should raise our hearts to rejoice from the manner of this begun Deliverance that it was so suddenly speedily in so short a time Indeed God hath said As the Birds flying so will I save Jerusalem That such a work should be done without the Effusion of blood whereas he might have answered the Prayers of his People in terrible things as might make our hearts to quake our streets might been running with blood our garments might been rowling in blood when the Sword was drawn it might have eaten up much flesh and drank up much blood but it pleased God to interpose all this This might cause us to rejoice I might suggest one thing more to raise our hearts up to this frame For whom was this wrought what were we Protestants Ay But are we a reformed People if not we are for all this an undone People 2. I now come to the second part of the Text But rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven This is a precept or direction what we should chiefly rejoice in But rather Rather is a Note sometimes signifies the difference or inequality of the thing by a Figure But rather rejoice that is rejoice more let your joy be raised higher let your hearts be enlarged wider unto an higher acknowledgment of such a thing It should be taken uppermost in all our thoughts rejoice in nothing else absolutely If thou béest one who art assured thy name is written in Heaven whether this temporal Salvation came or no you have grounds of rejoicing Here are two things before us 1. The Object 1. What is that we are oblig'd so much to have in our thoughts and to have so much on our hearts It is expressed to have our names written in heaven 2. The act or duty with respect or relation unto the Object it is in that one word Rejoice Doct. That a Christian having evidence of his Name being written in the book of God in heaven this affords him sufficient matter for his continued joy and rejoicing here on Earth I say if a Christian have good satisfaction in this point it abundantly affords him just and sufficient matter for his constant joy and rejoicing on Earth let matters go how they will. Sirs whatever circumstances you may live to be under here in this world if you have a satisfactory Evidence of your Names being written above you may not only be reconciled unto but may smile on every dispensation of Providence There are three things lieth before me to be considered 1. What it is to have our Names written in Heaven that is one great thing wants to be explained 2. What those Evidences are which a Christian may have that he is in that blessed number of such whose Names are written in Heaven 3. On what account this affords such matter of Ioy as continually to rejoice 1. What it is to have our Names written in Heaven It is a Metaphorical Expression which alludes unto the custom of City or Corporation Communities where persons who are Members of that City or Corporation are invested with some peculiar priviledge or immunity that are not common to all persons but only unto those peculiar Corporations where they are related unto these Corporations particular Laws are proper unto them and Frée persons thereof have a propriety unto those priviledges Now these priviledges are recorded and registred where these persons may find out their Names Thus Names are written 1. There is God's opened Look which is the revealed Will of God in the written word of God wherein God reveals and discovers unto us his will in order unto our Salvation Oh! this is a Book God hath put into our hands to be our daily study and blessed be God who hath delivered us from a Generation of men who would have taken this book out of our hands such who will not enter into the Kingdom themselves and would shut you out and hinder you also from coming there Let me tell you Sirs that a Bible wou'd been a precious thing in your hands however now you slight it if God had suffered them to go on but seeing God hath so priviledg'd us as yet to continue this Book among us let us study this Book often There you have a discovery of the sinful and miserable condition we exposed our selves to which we have plung'd our selves into by our causeless Apostacy and there we have a discovery blessed be God of that

God and indeed many Divines desire to die in such a pasture to be found in their Lord's Work when he calls for them He was struck with death in his work in this place in this very Pulpit and you who often and usually heard him calling on you to close with Christ to leave your sins and to turn unto God and be converted but as to this day all of you have not hearkened to your Ministers calls and entreaties in the Name of his Lord but you are still in an unconverted estate Will you believe now these words to be his last and dying words unto you You cannot hear me any more you will hear me to declare the Truths of God no more you can hear me no more to urge you to do your duty you are as like to die and may die suddenly as I you may provoke God to cut you off as suddenly as I am you may provoke God by your Sins to cut you off as I am by your provocations of and rebellions against God. Sirs your Minister is gone have you gotten all the good you should have gotten God hath cut him off without his taking his leave of you Oh therefore labour to reflect on what ye have done ye were often under his Ministry and yet are unconverted and were spectacles of this sad and sudden stroke consider with your selves what ye have done Oh what have I done to contribute to my Minister's death was he not thus stricken speechless for your Rebellion against his calls O Lord what have I done Hast thou no hand in thy Ministers death by your unfruitfulness under his Ministry the thoughts of your Ministers death is matter of bewailing sspeciasly to you that do know the estate of your Souls are concerned in it Howe●er I beg this of you who stood and beheld this sad spectacle of the sudden departure of your Pastor never to let the sight go out of your minds Oh how ought I to die and be in a readiness to be dissolved and how ought I to pray and never to set the thoughts of death out of my mind how ought I to pray and to be earnest with God that I may die in my Work as this Minister did The Dying Ministers last Prayer O Most Gracious and everlasting Lord God whose mercy endures for ever whose blessings have cherished me even from my cradle to this very moment of death that now am lauching forth into the ocean of eternity be pleased to assist me in my dark passage through which I must go before I can come to enjoy the blessedness of thy presence Into thy hands O Lord I recommend my dear and immortal Soul ransomed by the blood of thy Son from the lake of bitterness in and through whom I expect to be made eternally happy a coheir with the Saints and Angels For his sake I humbly beg the pardon of all my transgressions hoping to live with thee for ever in thine everlasting Kingdom of Glory Lord hear my Prayers and grant my Petition for his sake in whom thou art well pleased to whom with thee and thine ever blessed Spirit Be all honour glory and praise Amen A Prayer for his Most excellent Majesty King WILLIAM ALmighty God who in times of Trouble and Danger dost raise up Deliverers of thy people and sillest their hearts with zeal for thy Service We beseech Thee to bless His Majesty King William whom thou hast sent to be the Defender of our Laws and Religion Protect his Person strengthen his Hands let thy holy Fear evermore Rule in his Heart that having Thee only before his Eyes he may in all things seek thy Honour and Glory and study to Unite this divided Nation and establish it upon the sure Foundations of Mercy and Truth Righteousness and Peace This we beg for Jesus Christ his sake our only Lord and Saviour Amen With Allowance FINIS