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A48777	The death of God's Moses's [sic] considered being the substance of a sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. Francis Johnson, minister of the gospel, sometimes fellow of All-Souls, and afterwards Master of University Colledge in Oxford, who died in London, October the 9th. 1677 / by J. Ll.	J. Ll.	1678 (1678)	Wing L2617A; ESTC R42135	17,380	24

would profoundly venerate and highly respect our superiors predecessors and seniors in the Church but not think ourselves obliged to be in all things of their opinion to be their seconds or abettors in all controversies some of which perhaps were ingaged in at least fomented by state or secular interests nevertheless far be it from us to slight under value their persons or scoff and jear at their Sermons if they suit not our palates and do not so well accommodate with our juvenile fancies le ts leave that to the Ishmaels of another Church that we would not meddle with state quarrels affairs nor embroyl our selves in needless Divinity duels nor like Church Barretors run our selves into every Ecclesiastical squabble that we would endeavour to maintain the scriptuaall authority and the rightfull power of pastors and yet willingly concede their just rights and liberties to the people That we would cheerfully submit to the church or Magistrates prudent determinations of necessary circumstances and yet carefully see what ever pretends to religious decency well proved so before we practise That we would eagerly emulate the gifts and graces of our departed and our dying Moseses that we would carefully beware of those faults that stateliness confidence conceitedness or what ever els we are apt to blame them for when we come to their age and circumstances and also studiously labour with deepest humility to exceed to excell to outvye them 1. In our Studies 2. In our Pulpits and 3. In our necessary Converses with the world 1. In our Studies Let us study peace love unity and concord to find out healing and not dividing principles Let us make no more differences than indeed there are and by no means magnifie those that really are by the glasses of prejudice or partiality but leave them to wrangle about the no or lesser differences that have nothing else to do and no greater matters to mind Let us hope for Justification upon the sole account of the merits of the Son of God and yet without scolding about conditions and instrumentalities assert the absolute and indispensible necessity of holiness to the beatifical vision Let us hold free-will and not justle out free grace and our necessary concurrence to our own salvation and not depress nor depreciate the assistances of God by advancing too high the natural abilities of man Let us believe that man can do nothing savingly without supernatural infused grace and yet that all men can do somthing and are bound as it is very reasonable to do all they can Let us sit up later and rise up earlier and suffer our selves to be diverted seldomer from our Studies than they 2. In our publick approaches to God let our deportment be grave and reverent without too much or too little action let us not move on all four as if the actions of a Thresher and of a Preacher were to be much alike and we had been used to the former as a preparatory for the latter nor yet let us be fixed like Statues least we teach our Auditors to be no more moved than Images Let us wear and possess in Prayer the lowest humility in Preaching the highestawfulness and most serious but unforced Majesty and let us do both with that fervor and ardency in our affections as well as that cleanness masculiness in our expressions that men may see that we intend their souls good and not our own applause not with too formal a setness an over finess of words and Rhetorick like those who all week long anxiously hunt after Plays and Romances wherewith to treat their hearers on the Sabbath as if they designed the tickling of their fancies and the gratifying their curiosities and not the reforming of their lives and the saving of their souls nor yet to make work for jearing debate-makers Hereafter cloath the great things of God with rude and clownish speech like those that Santer up and down that Chat and Coffe-house away their time and then entertain their Auditors with their sudden effusions and idle impertinences slovenly metaphors and numberless tautologies as if to invoke God and represent him were the easiest province in the world Let us remember both to enflame the affections and lighten the understanding and not belabour the one with out regarding the other let us offer the promises and fire the theatningst to draw or to drive men from their sins not valueing their jears who scoff at the preaching of grace nor their censure of legal preachers who fancy Christ menaces no part of his Gospel In a word let us in this as in all things make the Apostles our Presidents since it is very likely their way of preaching will do most good 3. In our needfull converses with this world let us make it appear we are of another and in providing the necessaries of our pilgrimage that we seek another country When employed about the urgent businesses the little other things of our selves as men let us first seek the Kingdom of God Mat. 6.33 and not loose our selves and forget our spiritual concerns by too long parentheses in our secular Let our flames of love our beams of knowledge so burn so shine as theirs should who are the burning shining light of the world that others may find by us the way to happiness that they may see our good works and glorifie our father which is in Heaven Mat. 5.16 Let there be no discord but the sweetest harmony between our instructions and our conversations Let us not forget what we spoke for God when we come to deal with men like those I hope otherwise good Ministers who will make a heavy ado about love and unity in the pulpit and then look shy upon one another when they come down and talk loudly against divisions and animosiities amongst different perswasions and yet deny communion to any but those of their own that in their prayers confess they are very sorry for the distances amongst good people of divers judgments and yet will not give the Lords supper to any that are not of their own sise and that come not full up to themselves Away Hyprocrisies Let us my brethren do that which hath been long vainly talked of let us whether our opinions jump or no love converse and communicate together Be we strong and of good Courage be we not afraid nor at all dismayed Josh 1.6 Come what can come between this and Heaven Observe we carefully the laws of God turn we neither to the right hand of Popery Will Worship and Idolotry nor to the left of Heresy Error and Anarchy run we not to the Church of Rome nor any superstitious one for fear of Schism nor into no Churches to avoid Superstition and formality Meditate we upon the word of God day and night v. 8. and do we accordingly so shall we prosper where-ever we go so shall we have good success and so will the Lord be with us as be was with Moses He will not fail us nor forsake us Joshua 1.5 FINIS Reader THat thou mayst not wrong either thy self or the Authour be perswaded before thou readest to correct as thou art here instructed Pag. 2 lin 17. r. Monios l. 18. r. be l. 24. dele a. p. 3. l. 20. r. force or compulsion l. 36. r. velliety p. 7. l. 21. r. words p. 8. l. 31. r. whirls p. 9. l. 17 r. easily l. 20. r. or they prove l. 21. blot so before these l. 31. r. coolness 32. r. nor their p. 11. l. 8. r. expire not expend p. 12. l. 10. r. steep not sleep Some other lessor errors there are which thy own discretion will correct without giving thee any further trouble here