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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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