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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49700	Victory over death a sermon preached at Steeple-Ashton in the county of Wilts, upon the 17th day of April, 1676, at the funeral of Mr. Peter Adams, the late reverend, pious, and industrious minister of Gods word there, sometime fellow of University Colledge in Oxford / by Paul Latham ...	Lathom, Paul.	1676 (1676)	Wing L575; ESTC R7734	32,624	52

tears flowing from his eyes ver 35. to shew us that we may so now and ought to do it even for them that sleep in Jesus but not as they that have no hope this Sorrow I encourage and yet that it may not swell beyond its just banks this Hope I am about to establish concerning this our worthy Brother In speaking of whom though a passionate Friend and true Lover I shall speak nothing but the words of truth and soberness either known to be true by my own personal acquaintance with him or attested by them that will not be ashamed to own their own testimony And if we begin in digging to the rock whence he was hewen he was a Prophet the Son and Grand-son and Nephew of a Prophet a Priestly Family from which the former Generation sent two and this last Generation four to serve at Gods Altar a sign of worthy and truly Christian bloud running in their veins when they could value the Gospel of Christ and that Office that employs us in the dispensation of it though attended God knows with great troubles above those riches that might have flow'n into them in greater plenty and with more ease in other Employments a true token that they were not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ which they found to be the power of God unto Salvation to those that believe Rom. 1.16 A● c●●●ain conviction of that vulgar Error that boads ill success to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Clergy men when in two Generations the Posterity of such men was blessed Nor need others despair of the like happiness if they be not wanting to themselves in drawing down Gods blessing upon their Families An happy and graceful Ornament to the Church when Coals kindled in the Sanctuary it self produce burning and shining Lights John 5.35 and Bezaleel and Aholiab train up workmen that need not to be ashamed of their work 2 Tim. 2.15 Though Nature doth not alwayes send forth boughes answering the qualities of the root and of the Seed that was sown yet that Cultivation which in the productions of the Earth doth either advance the natural Fruit by melioration or alter the Tree by grafting more generous Off-springs upon the root doth also in Spiritual productions conduce much to make the Branches as well as the Root holy His promoting to the Schools of the Prophets was owing to the care of good Parents The happy proficiency he shewed in his studies there to God's blessing upon his own great industry in tilling that rich soil that fell to his lot Which when it had brought to perfection that plentiful crop that betimes began to groan for the hook invited hungry souls to desire to be fed therewith and brought him to be an early Shepherd in feeding Christ's sheep and lambs Which will lead me on to consider him First in his Preaching and so we find him feeding the flock of God amongst which he was taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind not as lording it over God's heritage but as being an example to the flock 1 Pet. 5.2.3 Preaching the word being instant in season out of season reproving rebuking exhorting with all long-suffering and doctrin 2 Tim. 4.2 And though I am far from being so bold or presumptuous as to censure my brethren who do not think it their duty bis venire ad mulctram yet give me leave to pay due honour to the labours of such who in so doing cannot be suspected to seek any thing else than the benefit of the souls committed to their care For his own part he did willingly spend and was spent for his Flock 2 Cor. 12.15 and burnt our his taper the sooner in humane probability by lighting it as we say at both ends Pertinaciously continuing in his Lord's work even then when himself did by his providence call him off as thinking that Imperatorem decet stentem mori concionatorem concionantem And endeavouring to emulate the industry of some worthy men before him whom death found employed in the ministerial work He had prepared what he was not able to communicate in the Pulpit such instructions as should have helped you in keeping this last Passover so soon after which he went to keep the Feast in Heaven Secondly let us consider him in his life and in this sense whether a Clergy-man Preach more or less in the Church he ought to preach every day to the people by being an example to the Flock 1 Pet. 5.3 and to the Believers a pattern in Word in Conversation in Charity in Faith in Purity Here let us consider him First as the Master of a Family and as the Apostle saith He that knoweth not how to rule his own house how shall he take care of the Church of God 1 Tim. 3.3 In this he was an example to the flock and to other shepherds also In his singular love and tenderness to his Wife manifested as all along so chiefly at last in his fervent prayers for her and her children and his earnest recommending of them to the love and care of surviving friends In his fatherly love and care for his children As to their bodies and the concerns of this life manifest in his denying himself in several respects that he might make a comfortable provision for them As to their souls both in their moral concerns shewed in the good education he afforded them to the qualifying of them in some respects beyond most of their neighbours And in their spiritual concerns manifest in the diligence he used in instructing them by word when they were with him by letters when they were removed from him to remember their Creator to make conscience of their ways and to take care of their souls in the first place and finally by the fervent prayers whereby he recommended them to God at last And I hope I may truly say it as to what hath appeared already and that they will still give me occasion to speak it by what shall appear for the future that his labours of this nature have not been in vain in the Lord. And that herein he hath not only afforded an example to others in doing his duty but also hath left them encouragement to expect that the doing of it shall not want good success in their Families Secondly let us look upon him in a little larger capacity as a neighbour and friend And here we cannot mention without great commendation the perfect concord and tender love that continued between him and his near relations though placed under the disadvantage of some circumstances that might have interrupted that union had not grace and well-tempered spirits continued the cement Beside this his loving and friendly carriage toward all men but especially those of the houshold of Faith did commend him both as a desirable member of Society and as a man adoring that Ministerial Function which employs us in preaching the Gospel of Peace and commending God unto the World