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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47026	A farewel-sermon preached to the united parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth & St. Mary Woolchurch-Haw in Lombard-Street by David Jones	Jones, David, 1663-1724?	1692 (1692)	Wing J934G; ESTC R32368	28,884	45

the better enter into and take root in them There is no Sowing without Plowing And there is no grafting without Cutting Nathan's Ministry wounded David and cured him Esay's Ministry humbled Hezekiah and raised him up And St. Peter's Sermon pricked the Hearts of Three thousand Men and healed them at the same time So then If the Minister tells you the Truth and that Truth wounds your Hearts and terrifies your Consciences with the odious sight of your past Sins then all is for your Good But if the Minister does not tell you the Truth yet the Truth will find you out God himself will tell it you with Thunder and Lightning For says he Psal 50. 21. I will reprove thee and set thy Sins in order before thine Eyes And therefore if thou wilt not be told the Truth by the Minister thou shalt be told it by another hand If thou wilt not be wounded by a Friend thou shalt be wounded by an Enemy And thy Wounds shall be unto Death and not unto Life They shall not be like Jonathan's Arrows shot at David for thy Safety but for thy Destruction And therefore certainly one way or other thou shalt be sure to be told the Truth whether thou wilt or no. And is it not better to have it told thee by a Friend than by a Foe Is it not better to have it told thee for thy Salvation than for thy Damnation Oh for Christ his sake do not take us for your Enemies who are your best and your only Friends Is he thine Enemy that cures thee of an ulcerous Leg or a sore Arm or a cankered Breast Is he thine Enemy that saveth thee from hanging or drowning or burning or stabing thy self And yet is the Minister thine Enemy for telling thee the Truth which is to save thee from greater Dangers the Bottomless Pit and the Gulph impassable and the perpetual gnawings of the never-dying Worm Is he that doth good to thy Body thine only Friend And is he that doth good to thy Soul thine only Enemy Is thy Body better than thy Soul Yea is thy Soul the only thing that thou takest no care for Is the Surgeon thy Friend tho he cutteth and launceth and probeth and putteth thee to an intolerable Smart for the recovery of thy Body And is the Minister thine Enemy for doing only the same things for the recovery of thine Immortal Soul Does the Surgeon use a blunter Launcet for the launcing his dear Wife or his tender Child Or does he not use the sharpest Launcet that he has and launces them the deepest too And is this any thing else but the greatest effect of his Love and the greatest sign of his Tenderness and Affection And why then shall the Minister be reckoned thine Enemy for doing that to thy Soul which the Surgeon does to thy Body Is not the sharpest Sermon the best Sermon Does not the sharpest Rebuke create the soundest Faith Tit. 1. 13. Does it not prick the Heart most and pierce and sink down deepest Is it not most like to that Word of God which is quick and powerful and sharper than any Two-Edged Sword Are not we the Salt of the Earth And is not that the best Salt which is sharpest Is there an taste in the white of an Egg Job 6. 6 Are not we the Light of the World And is not that the best Light that inflames the Heart most and makes it to burn within a Man and purifies him from all his Filth and Dross And yet still can you possibly take us for your Enemies for telling you these plain Truths and incurring your displeasure for the good of your Souls What do we get by this but your Hatred Certainly you hate these Truths extreamly when you hate us so much for only telling you of them And you are passionately and desperately in love with your Sins when you hate us so much for only telling you of them Oh what shall we do that you may take us for your Friends Yea what is it that we have not already done to convince you of our Love and Friendship Have not we lost your Love that we might love your Souls the better Have not we lost our Reputation in the World which we might easily have gained as well as others by the smooth inticing Words of Mans Wisdom that in the power and demonstration of the Spirit we might preach the Foolishness of the Cross of Christ and make the Meanest Capacity to understand us The Meanest Man has a Soul to save as well as the Greatest and perhaps it is more precious in the sight of God as is plain from Dives and Lazarus Have not we renounc'd all our Knowledg in the Tongues the Criticks the Fathers the Counsels the Schoolmen and Philosophers Have not we renounc'd all this and contented our selves with bare Scripture Proofs and determined to know nothing among you but Jesus Christ and him Crucified whatever our Learning is elsewhere Have we made a shew of any Learning which serves to commend our selves more than to build you up in your most Holy Faith Yea have not we utterly disclaimed it and preached up the quite contrary Preached the sincere Milk of the Word and the plain simplicity of the Gospel and the foolishness of Preaching that your Faith should not stand in the wisdom of Men but in the power of God Have not we become Fools to make you Wise Have not we become Poor to make you Rich and to Reign and to Abound in all things Have not we quitted even our necessary Food and Raiment to feed you with the Bread of Life and to cloath your Souls with the Righteousness of Christ What is there near or dear to us that we have not freely hazarded for your good Hare not we hazarded our very lives by our indefatigable Labours for you in the Lord Have not we labour'd hard to commit our Sermons to our own Memories that you might think them worth your remembring Have not we deliver'd our selves with all possible earnestness and affection that you might see the Travail of our Souls and learn to be in earnest your selves by our Example Have not we preached you awakening and searching Discourses that if possible we might keep you awake and hinder the Devil from Stealing away the good Word of God from all your Hearts when you were asleep And have we at any time by our own Laziness or Lolling or Unconcernedness or Indevotion or the insufferable affected Lightness of some Men disposed you to the same Indifference in God's Worship Nay farther Have not we done all this not only upon the Lord's Day but also upon every Day in the Week Have not we called and stretched forth our Hands and our Hearts unto you both Morning and Evening and that too of our own accord without the least acknowledgment Have not we labour'd and striv'n and wrestled with God in Prayers for you and yours Have not we openly rebuked those that have been bad And

Destruction is at hand For says Solomon Prov. 15. 10. He that hateth reproof shall die For while Uzziah the King was wroth with the Priests the Leprosie rose up in his Forehead before the Priests in his House of the Lord 2 Chron. 26. 19. And the Sons of Ely hearkned not unto the voice of their Father the Priest because the Lord would slay them 1 Sam. 2. 25. Their Disobedience to the Priest was the cause that God would slay them was the cause of their Destruction And at the very same time that the Men of Sodom contended with Lot the Preacher of Righteousness the destroying Angels were at hand for his Assistance and their Destruction Gen. 19. throughout the Chapter And two she Bears came forth out of the Wood and tare to pieces two and forty Children that mocked Elisha by saying unto him Go up thou bald Head go up thou bald Head 2 Kings 2. 24. And the Destruction that attends those who hate God's Ministers is no ordinary Destruction I do assure you For it is so great and terrible that Sodom and Gomorrah will fare much better than they at the Day of Judgment Matth. 11. 24. And therefore certainly that Man must needs be a very Bruit indeed that provokes God to destroy him with an utter Destruction rather than he will for bear to hate his Ministers for telling him the Truth Fourthly Every Minister shall be damned for not telling the Truth to his People And God will require the Soul of every man at his hand if he does not give him timely warning against every Sin Ezek. 3. 18. And can you be angry with your Minister for telling you the Truth that he may prevent his own Damnation and yours too If he does not tell you the Truth you will get nothing by it you will die in your Iniquity notwithstanding Your Ignorance of what what you ought to know will never excuse you at the Day of Judgment If you follow a blind Guide that will not or cannot or dare not tell you the Truth you as well as he shall both fall into the Ditch together Matth. 15. 14. You are worthy of such a Guide and he is worthy of such a People to guide So then If we tell you the Truth we prevent our own Damnation and as far as in us lies we prevent yours too But if we do not tell you the Truth we do not prevent our own Damnation nor yours neither And which is most reasonable that we should tell you the Truth and so save both our selves and you too Or that we should not tell you the Truth and so damn both our selves and you too If our concealing the Truth did us no harm and could possibly do you any good then indeed you might have some reason to hate us because we tell it But when our concealing the Truth is matter of Damnation to us and cannot possibly do you any good then certainly you have no imaginable Pretence to hate us for telling it Be content then to neglect your own Duty and do not desire us to neglect ours Be content to be damn'd alone and do not desire us to be damn'd with you for Companies sake Your Company is not so good that we should purchase it at so dear a rate 'T is true indeed Moses desired to be blotted out of God's Book and St. Paul desired to be accursed from Christ for the Salvation of their Brethren the Jews But neither the one nor the other did ever desire to be damn'd for their Damnation And I do here assure you all in the Presence of Almighty God that if I know any thing of my own Heart I would willingly suffer any temporal Evil in this World for the Salvation of the greatest Enemy that I have But I will never be damned in the other World for the Damnation of my greatest Enemy by concealing the Truth from him I will willingly suffer any Harm in the World to do you good but I will never do you the least Harm for a thousand Worlds if I can help it Although I must needs own at the same time that if you do not practise those plain Discourses that I have preach'd to you from this place they will do you the greatest harm imaginable They will rise up in Judgment against you and condemn you at the last Day They will be unto you the Savor of Death unto Death and not the Savor of Life unto Life For Christ is set for the Fall as well as the rising of many in Israel And his Word does never return void it does never return without accomplishing that whereto it is sent Isa 55. 11. It always does either Good or Evil it always softens or hardens a Mans Heart it always convinces a Man or leaves him inexcusable Do not imagin that we take any pleasure in telling you of your Faults Do not imagin that we delight to rake up the Filth of your deceitful Hearts and to speak of such uncomely things as Nature blusheth but to name We are Men of like Passions with your selves We are as loath to tell you of your Faults as you can possibly be to be told of them We are more concerned for you than you are for your selves We see the Terrors of the Lord and we know what it is to be damned and we feel that you are our Members tho you have no fellow-feeling for us and what-ever befalls you grieves us and makes our very Hearts to bleed again And we denounce the Judgments of the Lord against you after the same manner and with the same aking and trembling Hearts that a Man suffers an infected Member to be cut off for the preservation of his whole Body Our very Flesh trembles again and our Eyes gush out with Tears and our Souls are vexed when we see and hear some of your ungodly Actions I speak the truth in Christ I lie not my Conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost It is a greater trouble to us to tell you of your Faults than it is to you to hear them told For you see how concern'd we are in speaking to you and how unconcern'd you sit down and hear us speak Yea and perhaps you do not so much as hear us neither But if your Conscience misgives you that such or such a Sin of yours will be preach'd against you either come not here at all or if you do come you but sleep or talk or censure or sit you down in the Seat of the Scornful and set your Mouth against the Heavens Fifthly If the Minister tells you the Truth and that Truth pricks your Hearts and wounds your Consciences then those Woands are the Wounds of a Friend they are in order to your recovery And the same Minister that makes you sore will bind you up if you will let him He woundeth and his Hands make whole He breaks your Hearts and makes them contrite but it is only that the Seed of the Word may