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A65307 A pastors love expressed to a loving people in a farwel sermon preached at Stephens VValbrook, London, August 17, 1662 / by Mr. Tho. VVatson. Watson, Thomas, d. 1686. 1662 (1662) Wing W1136; ESTC R38520 11,039 24

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wine so he was forbid to eat of the grape wherewith the wine was made Numb 16. to teach us that evil company is the Devils draw net by which he hath drawn millions to hell How many in this City has been ruinated in soul and body by evil company many go from a Play-house to a whorehouse and from a Tavern to Tyburn Direct 4. Have a care who you hear t is our Saviours caution Matth. 7. 15. Beware of false Prophets Let me tell you the Devil hath his Ministers as well as Christ we read in Rev. 12. 15. of a Scrpent casting waters out of his mouth as a flood that is as the learned expound it Satan by his Ministers and Emissaries cast out floods of Arian Doctrine to drown the Church There are some of that subtilty and wit that have learned the art to mix error and truth together and to give poyson in a golden cup Take heed whom you hear and how you hear Be like those noble Bereans Act. 17. that searcht the Scriptures your ears must not be like Spunges that sucks in the pudle water with the purest Wine But like the Fan that fans out the Chaff whilst the sollid grain abideth you must do like those in Mat. 13. 48. they gathered the good fish into vessels and threw way the other Saints are called Virgins for their wisdom they will not let every one defile their souls with errour they have a judicious ear and a critical pallate they can distinguish between truth and errour they can put a difference between meat of Gods sending and meat of the Devils cooking Direct 5. Study sincerity Psal. 51. 6. thou desirest truth in the inward parts be what you seem to be be not like the Waterman that looks one way and Rows another do not look Heaven-wards by a profession and Hell-wards by your conversation do not pretend God and love sin counterfeit piety is double iniquity O let the heart be upright with God the playner the Diamond is the more richer and the more plainer the heart is the more doth God valule this Jewel A little rusty Gold is far better then a great deal of bright Brass so a little true grace though rusted with many infirmities is better then all the glitterings of hypocrisie a sincere heart is Gods Coyn and hee l give graynes of allowance Direct 6. As you love your souls be not strangers to your selves be much and often in the work of self examination among all the books you read turn over the book of your own heart look into the book of Conscience and see what is written there Psal. 77. 6. I commune with my own heart set up a judgement seat in your own souls examine whether you have grace or no prove whither you are in the faith be as much affraid of painted holiness as you would be of going to a painted Heaven Do not think your selves good because others think so let the Word be the touch-stone by which you try your hearts let the Word be the looking glass by which you judge the complexion Of your souls for want of sincerity many that have lived known to others have dyed unknown to themselves Direct 7. Keep your spiritual watch Mark 13. 37. I say unto all watch If it were the last word I were to speak it should be this Watch O what need have Christians to be upon their watch the heart is subtle it will be stealing out unto vanity and if we be not careful it will decoy us into sin we have a special eye on such persons as we do suspect thy heart is a very suspicious peice have thy eye still upon it watch it continually for it is a bosome Traytor Iob set a watch before his eyes Iob. 31. 1. we must every day keep Sentinel do not sleep upon thy guard our sleeping time is Satans tempting time therefore let not thy watch Candle go out Direct 8. Do you often who are the people of God associate together Mal. 3. 16. Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another Christs Doves should flock together one Christian will help to heat another One single Coal of Juniper will soon dye but many put together will keep them burning conferrence sometimes may do as much good as Preaching one Christian by good discourse drops the holy Oyl into another and makes the lamp of grace to shine the brighter It is great wisdom to keep up the trade in a Corporation Christians by meeting often together and setting good discourse on foot keeps up the trade of godliness which else will decay and soon be lost Is not the Communion of Saints an Article of our Creed and yet do not many live as if this Article were blotted out Natura lists have observed the sumpathy of Plants they say some Plants will grow better when they grow together as the Vine and the Elme the Olive and the mirtle this is true in Religion Saints who are trees of righteousness thrive best in godliness when they grow together Direct 9 Get your hearts screwed above the World set your affections on things above Col. 3. 3. we may see the face of the moon in the Water but the Moon is fixt above in the firmament so though a Christian walkes here below yet his heart should be fixed above in Heaven their is our best kindred our purest joy our Mansion house to have our hearts above is the best and sweetest kind of life the higher the Birde flyes the sweeter it sings and the higher the heart is raised above the sweeter are its joys The Eagle that flyes in the Ayr is not stung with the Serpent Those who have hearts elevated above this lower region of the World they are not stung with the vexing vanities of the World but are full of joy and contentment Direction 10. Trade much in promises the promises are great supports to faith faith lives on a promise as the fish lives in the Water promises are both comforting and quickning they are the very breasts of the Gospel As a childe by sucking at the breast gets strength so faith by sucking at the brest of a promise will get strength as the Eagl Promises are the bladders to keep us from sinking when we come into the Waters of affliction They are a sweet cluster of Grapes that grow upon Christ the true Vine there is no condition we can be in but there is a promise to it the promises like manna sutes themselves to every Christians pallat Direct 11. Live in a calling Ierom gave this advice to his friend that he should be always imployed that when the Devil came he might not find him idle sure I am the same God that saith remember the seventh day to keep it holy saith six days shalt thou labour the great God never sealed any warrant to idleness an Idle person is a shame to his profession 2 Thes. 4. 11. Some we hear work not at all Solan made a Law that Idleness
Father provide carefully for his child can a Father see the bread taken from his child and will not his heart be affected Is it not a grief to a parent to see his child put to suck to a dry Nurse Secondly There should be this ardent love in every Minister for this reason Because this is the most likelyest way to do most good knotty and stubborn hearts will soonest be wrote on by kindness fire doth melt the hardest mettle and the fire of love by Gods blessing is able to melt the obdurate sinner a Barnabas or son of consolation who comes in a spirit of meekness is fittest to do a piece of Gospel Chyrurgery to restore and put such a one in joynt again that is overtaken with a fault Gal. 6. 1. so much for the Doctrinal part Application in several Inferences First See here the right character of a Gospel Minister he is full of love he exhorts he comforts he reproves and all in love he is never angry with his people but because they will not be saved O how loth is a Minister of Christ to see precious souls like so many jewels cast over board into the dead Sea of Hell A consciencious Minister would account it an unhappy day if he should gain the world and lose the souls of his people He saith as the King of Sodom to Abraham Gen. 14. 21. Give me the persons and take you the goods Secondly How sad then is it to have such put upon people as have no love to souls The work of a Minister is a labour of love O how sad is it to have such in the Ministry who can neither labour nor love they look more at Tythes then at souls It must needs be sad with any people in any part of the world who have such Ministers set over them who do either poyson them with error or destroy them by wicked example How can the Devil reprove sin How can that Minister cry out against Drunkenness in his pulpit who will himself be drunk Rom. 2. 22. We read that the snuffers of the Tabernacle were to be made of pure gold Exod. 37. 23. Those that by their calling are to reprove and snuff off the sins of others should be of pure gold that is holy and spiritual In the Law God did appoint that the lips of the Leper should be covered he should not be permitted to speak the o acles of God who though he be by office an Angel yet by life a Leper Thirdly See here the happy condition of that Minister who is setled among such a people as gives him abundant cause to love them happy is he that can say to his people in the words of the Apostle My dearly beloved And here let me speak by way of encouragement to you of this parish I find St. Paul commending the good he saw in his people 2 Thes. 1. 3. We are bound to thank God always for you brethren because your faith grows exceedingly In imitation of this Apostle let me at this time speak a commendatory word to you I have exercised my Ministry among you now almost this sixteen years and I rejoyce and bless God that I cannot say the more I have loved you the less I am beloved I have received many signal demonstrations of love from you though other Parishes exceeded you for number of houses yet I think not for strength of affection I have with much comfort observed your reverend attention to the Word preached you have rejoyced in this light not for a season but to this day I have observed your zeal against error and as much as could be expected in critical times your unity and amity this is your honour and if for the future there should be an interruption made of my Ministry among you though I should not be permitted to preach to you yet I shall not cease to love you and to pray for you But why should there be an interruption made where is the crime Some indeed say we are disloyal we are seditious Beloved what my actions and sufferings for his Majesty hath been is not unknown to a few of you but how ever we must go to heaven through good report and bad report t is well if we can get to glory though we pass through the pikes I shall endeavour that I may still improve the sincerity of my love I will not promise that I shall still preach among you nor will I say that I shall not I desire to be guided by the guidance of Gods Word and his providence my heart is towards you you know that expression then we shall be laid down shortly as if we were natural●y dead and if it must be so let me leave some Legacies before I go hence I cannot but give some counsel to your souls and I hope there is no hurt in this There are Twenty Directions I would leave with you and I desire you would take notice of them Direction 1. Keep your constant hours every day with God the godly man is a man set apart Psa. 4. 3. not onely because God hath set him apart by election but because he sets himself apart by devotion Give God his hours every day visit God in the morning before you make any other visit wind up your hearts to heaven in the morning and they will go the better all day after O turn your Closets into Temples read the Scriptures the two Testaments of the two lips by which God hath spoken to us these will make us wise to salvation The Scripture is both a glass to shew your spots and a laver to wash them away besiege Heaven every day with prayer thus perfume your houses and keep a constant intercourse with heaven Direct 2. Get good Books into your house when you have not the spring near you you will get water into your Cisterns when you have not that wholsom preaching that you were wont to have good books are the Cisterns to hold the water of life to refresh you When Davids natural heat was taken away they applied warm cloaths to him 1 King 1. when you find a chilness upon your soul and that your former heat begins to abate ply your selves with warm cloaths get these good Books that may furnish you with such truth as may warm and affect your hearts Direct 3. Have a care of your company take heed of having any unnecessary familiarity with sinners We cannot catch health from one another but may soon catch a disease the disease of sin is very catching Psal. 106. 35. I would be as much afraid to come among wicked men as I would be to come among them that have the plague If we cannot make others better let us have a care they do not make us worse Lot was a miracle that kept fresh in Sodoms salt waters Take heed of the occasions of sin evil company they are an occasion to sin T is observable that the Nazeri●e in the old Law as he might drink no