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A53093	A sermon preached at the funerals of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ in the work of the Gospel, Mr. Samuel Collins, Pastor of the Church of Christ at Braintree in Essex, who exchanged this life for immortality in the 77th year of his age, in the 46 year of his ministry there, in the year of our Lord, 1657 preached by Matthew Newcomen ...	Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing N912; ESTC R3229	24,615	65

by way of Praise and Commendation He served his own generation Fiftly It is a good mans honour to be serviceable to his generation his whole time David served his geneeation not an Apprentiship only or three Apprentiships as Jacob served Laban but his whole Life time he served his generation till he fell on sleep His serving his generation was not like Tiberius his Quinquennium Sixtly The Rule of our serving our generation must not be our own will nor the will of men but the will of God For David served his own generation by the will of God 7ly There is a time when all our serving of our generation shall cease and we shall fall asleep For David after he had served his own generation by the will of God fell on sleep Eightly The death especially of the righteous and godly it is a sleep Hoc ex variā Lectione Ninthly The time of mens sleeping the sleep of death it is determined and appointed by God David fell on sleep by the will of God Tenthly God will have his children serve out their generation before they dye It was not the will or counsel of God that David should die till he had served his generation Eleventhly Men by death are laid to their Fathers Eunt ad plures was the Heathens phrase of death Eunt ad patres is the Scripture phrase David fell on sleep and was laid to his fathers Twelfthly and lastly All that ever dyed or shall dye except the Lord Jesus Christ all else even the greatest and holiest must and shall see Corruption David a King yea which is more a Saint and which is yet more a Prophet yet he saw Corruption Only the Lord Jesus Christ because he saw no Corruption in the womb he saw no Corruption in the grave because there followed no Corruption of sin upon the union of Christs Soul and Body in his Conception there followed no Corruption of body upon the dissolution of that union But David after that he had served his own generation by the will of God fell on sleep and was laid to his Fathers and saw Corruption So that you see my Text like Iacob out of whose loins issued twelve sons or like Elim where the people of Israel met with twelve wells Or the five particulars of this Text are like those five leaves of which you read in the Gospel which being broken multiplyed into twelve baskets full I shall empty but one of these Baskets for your entertainment at this time and lead you but to one of these twelve wells for your refreshing and that is the Doctrine which is the fourth in order and was laid down in these words Doctrina elaboranda That it is a great honour to the greatest upon earth to be serviceable to and in his own generation David though a King though a Saint though in some sense a King of Saints yet this is spoken of him in his praise He served his or in his own generation Explicatio Doctrine In the Original it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word signifies not a verbal superficiall complemental service such as our Times abounds with the profession of your servant Sir is in every mans mouth but a Real Painful Laborious service The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 most properly signifying one that takes pains and tugs at the Oar. David found the Church and Commonwealth of Israel in a Crasie Leaky condition and he laboured hard and took pains to serve his generation and to bring that weather-beaten bottom the generation was imbarked in into safe Harbor The words is used Act. 20.34 to signifie to serve by way of relief These hands saith the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 have ministred to my Necessities and the necessities of them that were with me So David served his own generation that is he ministred to the Necessities of his generation In Acts 24.23 it signifies Courtesies and Offices of Love where it is said Felix commanded the Centurion to keep Paul and let him have his liberty and to forbid none of his friends 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to minister to him to do any office of Love to him So David 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 did many offices of Love to his generation and this was his praise and honour This is as it were Engraven by the Holy Ghost upon his Tomb-stone in stead of all other Encomiums he served his own generation And this every man how great soever should look upon as his greatest honour saying with Maximinius the Emperor Quo major sum eò magis laborare cupio The greater I am the more work I desire to do And make that his Motto which was once the Motto of the Prince of Wales Ich Dien You may consider David in a three-fold capacity first in a Private Capacity as a Member of the Jewish Commonwealth secondly in his Politick Capacity as a King in Israel thirdly in his Ecclesiastical Capacity as a Member of the Church of the Jews and in all these you shall find David doing eminent service and Offices of Love for his generation First In his Private Capacity David served his own generation several wayes I will instance only in three which are imitable and attainable by other private persons First David as a Private person did serve his generation by bewailing the sins and provocations of the Time and Age wherein he lived So Psalm 119.136 Rivers of tears run down mine eyes because men keep not thy Laws David doth not only now and then drop a Tear but mourns constantly mourns impetuously until his tears like the waters in Ezekiel swell into a River and that not only for his own sins but for the sins of others for the sins of the Times and that was one special service and office of love done for his generation Thus Lot was serviceable to his generation when he lived in Sodome 2 Pet. 2.8 Thus Ezra was serviceable to his generation Ezra 9.6 Thus Jeremiah Jer. 4.6 Thus the godly in Ezekiels dayes Ezek. 9.6 It is Eminent Service done in and to our generation to bewail the sins of it Secondly David as a Private Person did serve his generation by making intercession and supplication for them by thrusting himself into the gap and interposing himself between the wrath of God and the poor people So 2 Sam. 24.17 Lo I have sinned and I have done wickedly let thy hand I pray thee be upon me and upon my fathers house David here offers his own neck to the Sword of Divine Justice to save the people This was a powerful Intercession an excellent Service done to his generation upon which the Plague was stayed David here did by the Angel as the Angel did by Abraham when Abraham had stretched out his drawn sword over Isaac to slay him the Angel catcheth hold upon his sword and stayeth his hand So here the Angel had stretched out his drawn sword over Ierusalem to destroy it and David comes and catches hold

A SERMON Preached at the FUNERALS OF The Reverend and Faithful Servant Of Jesus Christ in the Work of the Gospel Mr. SAMVEL COLLINS Pastor of the Church of Christ at BRAINTREE in ESSEX Who Exchanged this Life for Immortality In the 77th year of his Age. In the 46 year of his Ministry there In the year of our Lord 1657. Preached By MATTHEW NEWCOMEN Minister of the Gospel in the Church of Dedham LONDON Printed by D. Maxwell for W. Weekley at Ipswich and are to be sold by J. Rothwel at the Fountain in Cheapside and Rich. Tomlins at the Sun and Bible in Pye-corner 1658. A SERMON Preached at the FUNERALS OF That Reverend and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ in the Work of the Gospel Mr. SAMUEL COLLINS ACT. 13.36 For David after he had served his own Generation by the will of God fell on steep and was laid to his Fathers and saw Corruption FUneral Sermons are much condemned by some in these Times and Funeral Speeches Speeches in Commendation of the Deceased much more yet certainly there is a warrantable use of Both though the latter of these hath suffered much abuse Might the Practice of Antiquity Introductio Realis In quibus Scriptura nihil certi definit mos populi Dei instituta majorum pro lege habenda August 1 Cor. 11.19 and the Custome of the Church which in things not precisely determined in Scripture with the Apostle Paul are no contemptible Arguments might these I say be heard the Controversie would soon be ended For it hath been the Practise of the Church of Christ ab antiquo to solemnize the Funerals especially of such as have been eminent in their Lives with such kind of Speeches or Sermons as appears in the Writings of many the most Illustrious Lights especially of the Eastern Churches And for Warrant from Scripture we have thus much to say First For the People of God when one of their Brethren or Sisters is taken from them by the stroak of death to assemble themselves together to give him a Solemn and honourable Interment This is undoubtedly and beyond all question warranted from the frequent I might say almost constant practise of the Saints in the Old Testament and in the New Instances in the Old Testament you have in the Burial of Jacob and Aaron and Samuel and others whom I spare to mention they are so numerous I shall only mention one in the New Testament in the Gospel Church and that is the Instance of Steven Acts 8.2 Devout men carried Steven to his Burial and made great Lamentation over him Though then it were a dangerous time flagrante persecutione the fire of persecution being newly broke forth upon the Christian Church and Steven being the Man that had beene sacrificed in those flames as the first fruits of the Gospel yet they were not they would not be discouraged from this work of humanity and Christian Charity but Devout men carried Steven to his Burial Devout men It is likely there were more of them then would just serve to carry his corps to the Grave If there were some that had so much zeal and charitie and courage in them as to carry him questionlesse there were others that had so much zeal charity courage as to attend him Devout men carried Steven to the grave and made great lamentation over him It is not then unbecoming Devout men Godlymen to accompany the corps of a deceased friend brother fellow Christian to the grave nor to take up a Lamentation over him and say as the Prophet of Bethel over his fellow Prophet Alas my Brother 1 Kings 13.30 or Ah Brother ah Sister ah Lord or Ah his Glory Jerem. 22.18 This is clearly warranted you see by presidents from Scripture This being warranted by president from Scripture I assume in the second place it cannot be unwarrantable for a Minister of the Gospel when a company of Christians are thus met together to attend a Burial to take that opportunity of speaking to them from God and from his Word something that may be seasonable and suiting to the present providence something that may put them in remembrance of their own mortality and quicken them to prepare for death to improve the time of present life or to lay hold upon eternal Life c. Some or all of which are the ordinary Subjects and the proper scopes of our Funeral Sermons for a Minister thus to do cannot justly be thought unwarrantable certainely that charge that solemne charge which the Apostle gives Timothy and in him all the Ministers of the Gospel 2 Tim. 4.2 To preach the Word to be instant in season and out of season doth more then warrant this When is a Sermon of Mortality in season if not at a Funeral when an example of Mortality doth ocules ferire lye before our eyes When is an Exhortation to prepare our selves for death seasonable if not at a Funeral when a real spectacle of the spoil and triumph of death is before our eyes When is a Sermon to excite us to make sure of Eternal life more in season then at a Funeral where we see by occular and evident experience how short how vanishing how uncertain this present life is But what should I stand discoursing any longer about this particular when God himself hath witnessed from from heaven his Approbation of Funeral Sermons by blessing them to the good of souls as some of you I hope can witness from your own experience And not many daies have passed since I heard a Reverend very successful * My Revere●… Friend and Neighbour 〈◊〉 John Wall ●… M. sometim●… preacher at M●…chaels Cornhi●… Late at Brom●…ly Magna in Esex Minister of the Gospel say That he had seen the greatest fruit of Funeral Sermons of all the Sermons that every he preached And for Funeral Speeches 3ly though I have not used them much nor shall yet I neither do nor dare condemn those that do use them so it be done with moderation and with caution and where there is indeed just cause of commendation For why may not I make a Speech in the praise of one deceased as well as another write a Poem in the praise of one deceased Why may not I by mentioning the virtues graces the usefulness serviceablenesse of a deceased Christian labour to affect my own heart and the hearts of others either with thankfulness to God for the graces bestowed on him or with grief for our losse in the withdrawing of him 2. With holy Emulation to imitate and follow his example and pattern Why may not I do this in a Speech as well as another in a Poem and I am sure this latter hath president in Scripture thus Jeremy lamented for Josiah and made Poems Verses in memorial of him for the people to sing as you may read 2 Chron. 35.25 Object But you will say Josiah was a man none like him Well be it so what do you say then of

another so in the first of Matthew there are reckoned from Abraham to Christ two and forty Generations that is Successions of children standing up in their fathers rooms Secondly Sometimes it signifies All the men that live together at the same time so Gen. 6.9 it is said of Noah That he was a Just man and perfect in his Generations that is among the men of that Age wherein he lived Thirdly It signifies men of a like quality and disposition though they live in several ages and periods of time as Psal 14.5 God is in the Generation of the righteous And Psal 24.6 This is the Generation of them that seek thee Fourthly Sometimes it signifies a family or nation so Mat. 24.34 Verily I say unto you this Generation shall not passe till all these things be fulfilled Which words cannot be understood of that particular Race of the Jews which were living upon the earth in our Saviours dayes for they are passed away long agoe but must be understood of the people and nation of the Jews in all their decurrent successions And the meaning of the words must be this That whatever devastations and desolations should come upon Jerusalem according to the Predictions of that Chapter the Jews should yet remain a People a Nation distinct from all other Nations though scattered among them all the world over even to the coming of Christ in Judgment That whereas other Nations living among strangers become incorporate with them in a few Generations only the Jews wherever they live still remain a Nation distinct from all other Nations And this is the sense of the word Generation in that place So Matth. Flacius Clavis Script part 1. ad verbum De sensu buj●… Loci qui plur●… velit Consulat Commentario●… in primi Gerhardi continu●…tion em Harm●…niae In this place it is to be taken in the second sense David served his own Generation that is that company of men with whom he was Contemporaneous who lived all the same time that he himself lived Unlesse you will adde a Fifth sense of the word whereby it signifies the age or terme of life which sense some contend for in that forementioned place Matth. 24.34 and so the meaning is David served his own Generati that is David was an useful serviceable man all the dayes of his life even to his dying day for David after he had served his own Generation by the will of God fell on sleep By the will of God or by the counsel of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Incisum or branch of the Verse is variously pointed in several Coppies some cut it off from the foregoing words and affix it to the word following and making a Comma at the foregoing word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they read it thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By the will of God he fell on sleep So Arias Montauus in his Interlineary And so some other Coppies and this Punctation Erasmus followed in his Latine Translation But Beza rejects this pointing wholy and saith Haec distinctio neque in vetustis codicibus reperitur neque ullâ ratione nititur Neither doth Stephanus take any notice of it in his Variae Lectiones upon the New Testament Therefore the more true and right reading of the Text seems to be that which our Translation follows wherein that Phrase By the will of God is annexed to the words foregoing and the Text thus read For David after he had served his own Generation by the will of God fell on sleep And yet even so read the words as Camerarius hath observed have ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quandam a kind of Ambiguity although so far from being hurtful that it is profitable for that phrase by the will of God may be referred either to the Generation and so the meaning is David served that Generation which it was the will and counsel of God to cast him upon Or else it may be referred to the service that David did to his Generation and so the meaning is David served his own Generation not after his own will or fancy or humor or the humours fancies or wils of other men but after the will of God For David after he had served his generation by the will of God fell on sleep Fell on sleep That 's a Phrase often used in Scripture to signifie death especially of the Righteous it 's usually said of them as of David here he fell on sleep And was laid to his Fathers That phrase is often also used in Scripture of the Burial and Interment of the Saints he was laid to his Fathers And saw Corruption That is his body rotted in the grave Videre significat sentire aut experiri aliquid The words like Joseph are a fruitfull Branch Deductio Doctrinarum from whence mïght be gathered many comfortable and profitable doctrines as namely 1. First In the general from the mention which the Holy Ghost here makes of David which you see here as in other places of Scripture is altogether honourable here is no mention of any dis-service David did his generation Not one word of his being the occasion of the death of 85 of the Lords Priests in one day they their wives and their children Not a word of his defiling Bathsheba or murthering Uriah or Numbring the people which cost the lives of seventy thousand in three dayes Not a word of any of this but only what an useful serviceable man he was Thence observe in the first place That God values those that are in Christ and have repented of their sins not according to the evil but the good that hath been in them Secondly and more particularly That several particular persons have their several particular generations to serve in David here in the Text served his generation so Noah his so Moses his so Paul his The service that Noah did would not have been proper nor suitable in Moses his generation nor Moses in Davids nor any of them in Pauls Several persons have their several particular generations to serve in Thirdly That particular generation which every person is to serve in is allotted him by the counsel and will of God For David after he had served his own generation by the will of God it is not by chance that men are cast upon the generation they live in men are not thrown into the world by God as we cast Counters out of a bag neither knowing nor regarding which comes first which last No God who doth all things in number weight and measure he from Eternity hath appointed and allotted unto every man the Age and Generation he shall serve in Act. 17.26 He hath made of One blood all Nations to dwell upon the face of the earth and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitations Fourthly It is a great honour to the greatest man upon earth to be serviceable to and in his own generation David though a King yet this is spoken of him