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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30304	The peoples zeal provok't to an holy emulation by the pious and instructive example of their dead minister, or, A seasonable memento to the parishioners of Lavenham in Suffolk being a sermon preached to that people, soon after the solemn enterrment of their Reverand and pious minister, Mr. William Gurnall, who aged 63, died October 12, 1679 : and now at their request made publick / by William Burkitt ...	Burkitt, William, 1650-1703.	1680 (1680)	Wing B5737; ESTC R36338	16,492	38

for your better help herein call over those potent Arguments for the exercise of this Evangelical Duty which he urged upon you from that Apostolical injunction Heb. 13.16 But to do good and to communicate forget not for with such Sacrifices God is well pleased 4. His persevering diligence and faithfulness in his place and station You could not but observe that his whole disposal of himself was to perpetual industry and service he not only avoided idleness but seemed to have a forcible antipathy against it and was often recommending it to you with great concern and vigour in his publick advices to be always furnisht with somewhat to do ut te inveniat semper Diabolus occupatum that the Devil may never find thee at leisure to listen to his temptations as St. Hierom adviseth The idle mans brain being in truth not only the Devils Shop but his Kingdom too a Model of and an Appendage unto Hell a place like that given up to torture and mischief As to himself his chiefest recreation was variety of work for beside those portions of time which the necessities of nature and of civil life extorted from him there was not a minute of the day which he left vacant Now to extimulate your zeal to a pious imitation of him herein also let me admonish you to ruminate upon those accurate Sermons you heard from him upon St. Mat. 20.6 Why stand ye here all the day idle 5. His tender sympathie with the afflicted Church of Christ Like a true son of Zion he could not rejoyce when his Mother mourned he daily felt as much by sympathy as he did by sense and no wonder for he that hath a stock going in the Churches Ship cannot but lament and quake at every storm Oh how frequent were his enquiries after her how fervent were his prayers for her how bowelly and compassionate were his mournings over her The deplorable condition of the Church and Nation lay exceeding near his heart both living and dying he preferring their happiness and welfare above his chief joy Now in order to your attaining the same Christ-like temper with him frequently meditate upon what you heard from him upon Nehemiah 1.4 where the sympathizing Prophet refuseth to drink wine when the afflicted Church drank water 6. And lastly to sum up all imitate him in his daily care and endeavour to live Religion in all his capacities As a Minister ye are Witnesses and God also how faithfully how conscientiously he discharged his duty towards you In the exercise of his Ministerial Function if censure it self be able to tax him for any neglect it must be in no more frequent visiting his Flock from which nothing but a weak body kept him not a proud or unwilling mind the obstruction he met with in this part of his Duty from his tender habit of body which would not suffer him so frequently to perform it as he desired was his great sorrow both living and dying yet having this to comfort him that the frailty of his body was his affliction but not his sin Consider him in his next relative Capacity as a Child how dutiful and obsequious O how great was that tribute of veneration and respect which he constantly paid to the hoary hairs of his aged Parents As a Husband how tender and compassionate as a Parent how indulgent and affectionate as a Minister how kind and munificent Thus was he universally good in all stations and liv'd Religion in very capacity And if you desire to imitate him herein also as becomes you dress then your souls by that Glass daily which his dying hand last held up before your Eyes I mean by Heavenly meditation make those useful truths your own which you last heard from him upon Titus 2.12 That denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Which Christian Lesson if it shall be as practically learnt by you as it was faithfully taught by him I will be bold to say thus much in the singular commendation of you his People that you will thereby give the world a convictive instance that this age hath Vertues as stupendious as its Vices The Conclusion Thus I have given my self the satisfaction of doing my Duty in propounding your Ministers example to your Christian view Let none censoriously say I have been all this while painting the Prophets Sepulchre No but describing the Prophet himself and with this single and sincere intention that you may timely know you have had a Prophet of the Lord among you a person that had omnia in se sempiterna praeter corpusculum all things living and lasting to eternity except his body which was the only thing he had subject to mortality and besides which nothing of him doth see corruption 'T will be below the merit of his person as well as the greatness of our loss to celebrate his death in womanish complaints or indeed by any verbal lamentations nor can any thing beseem his memory but what is Sacred and Divine as his Writings are May his just fame from them and from his vertues be precious to all succeeding ages and when Elegies committed to the trust of Marble shall be as illegible as if they had been writ in Water when all stately Pyramids shall be dissolved in dust and all the venerable Monuments of Antiquity be devoured by the corroding Teeth of Time then let this short Character describing him in his best and fullest Portraicture remain of him viz. that he was A CHRISTIAN IN COMPLEAT ARMOUR FINIS