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A36889 The great efficacy and necessity of good example especially in the clergy recommended in a visitation sermon preached at Guilford / by Tho. Duncumb ... Duncumb, Thomas, d. 1714? 1671 (1671) Wing D2610; ESTC R22681 23,511 37

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the priviledges of the living but because Ah lass you 'l scarce allow them that of the Dead I mean of resting from all their labours Such are the scandalous ruins of some Churches and Chancels and such are the intolerable neglects of the consecrated ground belonging to them That the Dead can scarce lie dry or safe from either Oh Sirs give the Dead their due your Churches their just repairs and your Church-yards their decent Fences Such as may be a better guard to the Dead a better credit to the Living and a greater comfort to your selves when dying Remember you all expect e're long the Church or it's Ground must hide your nakedness when you are dead be then so just and good to them as to hide their's whilst you are living I shall now conclude with a short and humble address to all my Reverend Brethren of the Clergie and oh that my words might live when I am laid in my grave You have all now given me the honour and undeserved patience of hearing me plead and display before your more knowing selves the great influence and efficacy together with the great obligation and necessity of a religious exemplariness on our parts especially And now methinks I see it in all your faces a thing resolv'd upon viz. That this Auditory and those you are going to shall all see an happy and more particular enlargement upon the rest of the Text in the rest of your lives Methinks I say I now see you all going out of this sanctuary as so many flaming Lamps to your own a fresh blown up and kindled by my weaker breath Such as may by heavens benediction and assistance fire and inflame your peoples hearts with a greater zeal for God and Religion in the life and efficacy of it Such as may make your people say after your preaching as they after Christ speaking Did not our hearts burn within us whilst he spake to us Such I say as may convince all your unreasonable and bitter adversaries That God is in and with you of a truth and then such too as may make the world otherwise prone enough to despise you now really to love and honour you all for your being not only learned Preachers but living Paterns too and examples of Believers in Word in Conversation in Charity in Spirit in Faith and in Purity which God in his mercy grant that you may all be from this day of your Visitation to the day of your approaching death and Dissolution Amen FINIS ERRATA PAge 2 in marg read contemplatione p. 7. Lucelius Line 27. for quis r. qui p. 9. l. Antepenult for this r. his p. 14. l 28. for form r. for me Epist Ded. l. 2. for in r. into the world p. 6. l. 11. dele in p. 9. l. 36. for This r. his people p. 10. l. 8. dele Them p. 17. l. 1. sor heard r. read somewhere p. 18. l. 10. put in I come now to the fifth voice put in the word fifth p. 18. last line for Honesty read Honey pag. 20. line 9. dele l●ss page 21 l. 2. put in it professing it pag. 22. line 15. for Sirengers read Syringes p. 22. l. 21. for knew read know p. 22. l. 36. read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 23 l. 13 for John 10.28 read John 5.36 And read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 25. first line dele Of the. page 25. line 17. read Mark 1 14. pag. 25. line 19 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 25. line 22. read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 25. line 29. read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 27. line 1. read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 27. line 26. for the eyes read your eyes pag. 29. line 25. read Timorous for Timerous pag. 29. line 33. read lop for top the luxuriant branches p. 30. read in for from either