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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39761	The dead saint speaking, or, A sermon preached upon occasion of the death of that eminent man, Mr. Mathew Newcomen ... wherein is succinctly discoursed (to a popular auditory in Dedham) what instructions are given and sealed to the living by the death of the righteous servants of God / by J.F., Minister of the Gospel.	Fairfax, John, 1623-1700.	1679 (1679)	Wing F127; ESTC R16035	17,568	32

scores 2. Abel a man being dead speaketh to the strong Death may overcome thee in thy strength No question but Abel was come to strength of years and that age was much stronger than this when out of the loins of one the immediate issue might be an hundred-fold and more What then speaks Abel being dead Glory not O strong man in thy strength Remember thy beauty thy vigour thy maturity thy marrow and fatness the courage of thy heart the stoutness and straitness of thy body the dexterity of thine arms and legs cannot withstand the assaulting enemy but must yield up themselves to the force of prevailing death 3. Abel a man being dead yet speaketh he speaketh to the secure and unprovided death may surprize thee unawares Abel in the Field Abel about the works of his Calling Abel conversing with his Brother Abel to whom death was so much a stranger that he never saw it who would have thought that Abel went out into the field to dye Thus Abel was taken in his calling Nabal in his feasting Belteshazzar in his cups Herod in his pomp the rich fool promising himself ease and merriment all spake the same thing 4. And lastly Abel a man being dead yet speaketh unto all Death may kill thee with thine own weapon A brother is born for adversity a brother is born for a help in danger for a defence and safeguard Oh but yet by a brother doth Abel dye What then speaks Abel being dead Why so frail is thy life that thy food thy physick thy house thy horse thy sword thy servant thy friend thy brother yea thy self may be thy death Abel a man being dead yet speaketh Secondly Abel a believer being dead yet speaketh What speaks he He speaks 1. The grace of God to be most free he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy It is Grace that makes the difference between one man and another Abel and Cain both Children of one and the same Father both lying together in one and the same womb as twins probably both partakers of one and the same means both commended to God in one and the same prayer Abel the younger and Cain the elder and yet behold Abel is a believer and Cain is a murderer Abel is loved and Cain is hated Abel righteous and Cain wicked Abel is justified and Cain is condemned Abel the Child of God and Cain a Child of the Devil What speaks Abel being dead but this That grace makes the difference 2. Abel a believer being dead yet speaketh Righteousness is by faith not by works By faith he obtained witness that he was righteous Cain had his works but he had no faith Cain sacrificed but believed not Cain is unrighteous Cain is condemned Abel hath works and faith too Abel offereth and believeth Abel is righteous he is justified God hath respect unto Abel Justification is by faith 3. Abel a believer being dead yet speaketh That it is a happy advantage to live under means Abel believed Whence hath he his faith from God as the Author from God as the principle But what without means No Abel had the happy instruction of a Father and he was taught the law by a holy Mother The Patriarchs were Priests and Prophets in their own families Adam taught his Children the fear of the Lord. Abel then being dead yet speaks this in the language of the New Testament Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God blessed are they that hear the joyful sound thereof 4. Abel a believer being dead yet speaketh this That the grace of God doth not priviledg from the greatest crosses of all evils death is the forest death is the most grievous Skin for skin and all that a man hath will he give for his life was a truth though a lyar spoke it Abel a Saint in grace and in favour with God yet he dyed he dyed a violent death by the hand of his brother It was not an enemy then I could have born it saith David neither was it he that hated me that lifted up his hand against me but thou O man my brother mine equal mine acquaintance this was the wounding of his heart What speaks he If grace exempts not from death from such a death with such circumstances much less from lesser evils God scourgeth every son whom he receiveth 5. Lastly Abel a believer being dead yet speaketh What The greatest crosses shall not make void the grace of God Abel died he is bel●ved of God still Abel dyed he is righteous Abel still he speaks this That God knows the souls of his Saints in their adversities God chuseth the Saints in the furnace of affliction He tells their wandrings and puts their tears into his bottle The supplication of the Saints come before him their desires and their groans are not hid from him Thus Abel a believer being dead yet speaketh Thirdly Abel a worshipper of God being dead yet speaketh what speaks he as a worshipper of God 1. God is to be worshipped by us His holy example speaks this God is to be worshipped as the Author of our beings as the Lord of our lives as the Father of our spirits as the God of our mercies as our King and Lawgiver the Mighty the Almighty Jehovah our Saviour and Redeemer whose we are and who we ought to serve we are not our own not our own free-men not independent beings but we are made by the power of God we are maintained by the providence of God we are bought with the blood of God we were subject to the Law of God we are bound by the Covenant of God and therefore ought to live to the glory of God 2. Abel a worshipper of God being dead yet speaketh That God that is to be worshipped is to be worshipped by faith By faith he offered a more excellent sacrifice by faith he worshipped God The worship of God in faith is a worship of Gods own constitution God is not to be worshipped by mens inventions but by his own appointments God is to be worshipped not as we will but as he commands 3. Abel as a worshipper of God being dead yet speaketh That God is to be worshipped with our best Abel he brought of the firstlings of his flock of the fat thereof Gen. 4. of the best The last or the least the torn the blind the lame the weak the sick the dregs of our beings the weakness of our age the deadness of our hearts the coldness of our affections the exercise of our bodies this alone is not to be offered unto God for he is a great King but the kindness of our youth the ripeness of our age the strength of our parts the zeal of our affections the intentions of our hearts the health of our bodies our whole hearts all our souls and all our strength the best improvement we can make of our selves is an offering becoming the great God 4. Abel a worshipper of God being dead yet speaketh That the best

would restore to him the life that Cain took away it still cries and it shall cry until the day of Resurrection Abels blood yet crieth unto God not only against Cain but it cryeth unto God against all the generation of the Cainites against all the persecutors of the Church of God for all persecutors following in respect of Abel are as Saul in respect of Stephen they are consenting to his death For had the present generation of persecutors lived in the days of Abel they would as well as Cain have imbrued their hands in the blood of Abel Tremble at this then oh ye generation of persecutors Abels blood crieth unto God from the earth against you The souls from under the altar of those that were slain for the testimony of Jesus cry unto God perpetually How long Lord holy and true dost thou not judg and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth and what is it that they cry for unto the Lord but that which our Saviour said Mat. 23.25 That upon these persecutors may come all the righteous blood that hath been shed from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of the last martyr that shall be slain upon the earth Abel being dead he thus speaketh unto us and he thus speaketh unto God Take the words now in a passive sense Abel being dead is yet spoken of he obtained a good report as it is said ver 2. He is spoken of by God in holy Writ to the intent that he may be spoken of by man God doth make an honourable mention of Abel and therein commends him to his Church that an honourable mention may be made of him for where-ever this Scripture shall be read and preached this also that Abel hath done and suffered shall be spoken of Abels Faith and Righteousness Abels good and holy Conversation Abels Sufferings and Martyrdom shall be spoken of for an honourable memorial of him The memory of the just is blessed Prov. 10.7 but the name of the wicked shall rot We read in the 6th of Gen. of Giants in the earth mighty men and men of Renown Giants in stature and Giants in nature Giants in state condition and quality in the world and Giants too in wickedness but there is not one of their names mentioned in all the Scripture Abel and Seth and Enos and Cainan and Mahaliel and Jared and Methusala and Lamech and Noah These have their names recorded and perpetuated with honour from the beginning of the world to the end thereof while these Giants in wickedness both persons and names are gone down in silence and buried in the ●and of forgetfulness We read the names of many sinners that are mentioned in Holy Writ but with shame enough Of bloody Cain of hunting Nimrod of hard-hearted Pharaoh of a painted Jezabel of an incorrigible Ahab of proud Herod of an ambitious Diotrophes But what are these to a Martyr Abel To a righteous Noah A faithful Abraham A plain-hearted Jacob A meek Moses a zealous Phineas A praying Samuel A patient Job A penitent Peter Let men boast and glory and brag of their birth and power and wit and authority and dignity and preferment Let them boast of these true Religion is the true honour Abel being dead yet speaketh and being dead he is yet spoken of We have now spoken to the Text as it is in it self Let us now apply it to our occasion That dead Saints do yet speak that is the general truth to which we have hitherto spoken in the particular instance of Abel but instances of this kind and nature are more than one Let us speak therefore to the general truth again in another instance invert only the name change Abel for Newcomen and read the Text of him he being dead yet speaketh Being dead did I say What art thou dead Oh thou blessed soul Oh! killing wounding word could I bleed for thee thou whom God was pleased to separate from thy Mothers womb and to call by his Grace that he might reveal his Grace in thee that thou mightest preach the everlasting Gospel to the world of sinners Thou that wert commissionated to be Christs Ambassador in his name to beseech sinners to be reconciled to God Thou a Scribe instructed to the Kingdom of Heaven that broughtest out of thy treasury things both new and old Thou whose natural gifts and abilities were like Aarons Plate of pure Gold upon thy breast whereon holiness to the Lord was ingraven Thou who Isaiah like hadst the Tongue of the learned and touched with a Coal from Gods Altar who knewest how to speak a word in season to the weary Thou that like Paul wert brought up at the feet of Gamaliel and moreover instructed as he by a light from Heaven Thou a glistering glorious star in the right hand of God Thou that wert the Angel of God to this his Church Art thou dead Thou the desire of thousands The dearly beloved and longed for the joy and crown of thy generation Thou on whose face so many eyes were fixed Thou on whose lips so many ears were hanged at whose windows so many Doves have flocked Thou at whose silence so many hearts were broken Thou at whose departure into a foreign Land so many tears were shed and hands wrung Art thou dead Thou whose tongue was as choice silver whose lips fed many Thou whose Doctrine fell as the rain Whose life shined as the light Whose zeal provoked others Whose labours blissed the Earth Whose prayers pierced the Heavens Thou at whose presence the bold Sinners blushed At whose thunderings secure consciences were awakened Thou at whose searchings the Hypocrite trembled Thou at whose force the Kingdom of darkness shaked and the powers of Hell fell Thou who hast bound up many a broken heart with thy tender and skilful hand Thou who hast carried the Lambs in thy arms A spiritual Father of so many Children The happy instrument of life in so many dead souls Art thou dead Oh could the love-lines of thy person the usefulness of thy gifts the willingness of thy heart to thy Masters service the necessity of the Church the prayers of the Saints the love of thy Friends the desire of thy Relations could this have prevailed we had not said of thee this day Thou art dead Verily thou art the tryal of our faith Thou art the exercise of our patience and contentation How hardly do we restrain our reasonings and complainings to the Almighty What a multitude is the wicked ungodly violent intemperate prophane blasphemous generation The very curse and pest and burden of the earth they tread upon the very earth groaneth under them hell gapeth for them and heaven is darkned by them And shall these live and thou dye What mercenary hirelings and greedy wolves are crept into the Church of God not regarding nor sparing the flock unsavoury salt fitter for the dunghil Shall these live and thou dye What dark corners require light What hungry souls are craving for

bread What desolate Congregations mourn in silence And is this a time for thee to dye But righteous art thou O Lord and we will not plead with thee concerning thy judgments this is the will of our heavenly Father and thy will be done Thou art gone oh precious and desired Newcomen Thy course is finished thy race is run thy work is done this place that knew thee Twenty years and upwards shall know thee no more this Pulpit shall sound forth and these walls shall eccho back thy voice no more This Congregation shall receive the law at thy mouth no more but our eyes shall weep for thee when we see thee not and our tongues shall speak of thee when we hear thee not May our feet follow thee though we reach thee not May we go to thee that canst not return to us But recollect thy self oh my passionate soul whither shall affection carry thee Wipe thine eyes from tears and read on the Text this second word shall extenuate the first He is dead but being dead he yet speaketh These be the last words of David saith the holy Pen-man of the book of Samuel And thus were the last words of Reverend Newcomen Shall the standers by report and say they were no for he yet speaketh You remember his dying words his parting words which viva voce from this place he delivered to this Congregation and out of that dear love he had unto this Congregation and that his dying words might make the deeper impression he afterwards committed them to perpetual memory and this is the name by which he called them his Vltimum vale But my Text shall blot out that that was not his last farewel for being dead he yet speaketh He speaketh First From a Forreign Land to his Native Countrey Oh dear England In thee my Mother conceived and brought ●…e forth In thee I drew my first breath In thee I hung upon my Mothers breasts In thee I was nourished and fed and cloathed and had all things pertaining unto life In thee I had a liberal ingenious and religious education In thee the name of Christ was put upon me In thee I saw a glorious light and heard the sound of the Gospel In thee it pleased God to call me effectually by his Grace In thee God judging me faithful put me into the Ministry In thee I enjoyed many years of precious liberty of serving God in the Gospel of his Son In thee I have begotten many spiritual children unto God In thee I enjoyed sweet communion with God and his Saints This was thy bounty and this was thy blessing and this was it which endeared thee to me This is the bond that did constrain my heart to love thee This is the foundation of my most enlarged and improved discharged duty to thee Now from this unfeigned and invincible love and from the conscience of this my bounden duty I have faithfully served thy welfare and happiness I have propounded and set before thee peace that peace may be within thy walls and prosperity within thy Palaces was the desire of my heart to God and the endeavour of my hand In the day when thou hadst sinned I was ashamed for thee and bare the burden of thy sins before my God I wept in secret for thy pride and sighed for the abominations that were found in thee and entreated for thee In the day when thou sufferedst I mourned When thou wert sick my cloathing was sackcloath I humbled my soul with fasting and my prayer was in thy calamity When thou rejoicedst I rejoiced with thee I went with the multitude to give thanks and to keep holy day I gave thanks for thee in the great Congregation and I praised God for thee among much people Where thou wert ignorant I endeavoured to enlighten thee Where thou wert wandering I endeavoured to reduce thee Where thou wert offending I endeavoured to reform thee My Closet my Study my Books my Pulpit Publick Assemblies mine own and other Families can bear witness for me how I have spent and been spent watched and prayed and fasted and studied and laboured in the word and doctrine how I have preached the word in season and out of season reproving rebuking with long suffering Now my dear Countrey what have I done unto thee Wherein have I offended thee What is my iniquity and my sin Is my zeal for Reformation conscience of pure and undefiled Religion the forfeiture of my liberty that thou hast cast me out of thy Vineyard and turned me out of the Harvest that my mouth must be shut up in silence that I must never speak more to thee in the name of the Lord Have I not reason to say For my love thou hast been my enemy Thou hast requited me evil for good and hatred for my good will Through thy unkindness my gray hairs are brought down with sorrow to the grave in a strange Land More particularly He being dead yet speaketh 1. He speaketh first to you my Brethren the Ministers of the Gospel and to my self He speaketh First Having put your hands to the Plough look not back Lay not up your Talent in a Napkin Never think of being discharged from the Ministry of the Gospel or the service of the Gospel by God Hath God intrusted you with gifts Hath God called us to the Ministry Hath he made us Stewards of his Mysteries Surely he will find us work he will give us opportunities to dispence his Word he will shew us where to sow our seed No man having lighted a Candle putteth it under a bushel but sets it on a Candlestick The manifestation of the Spirit is given to profit withall Therefore the Providence of God that shut his mouth in one place opened it in another 2. He speaketh unto us Natural and acquired abilities are needful accomplishments for the work of the Ministry He had in his treasury things both new and old the old things of Nature as well as the new things of grace and both together made him an able Minister of the New-Testament by this then he speaketh unto us as Paul to Timothy 1 Tim. 4.13 Be thou an example to the believers in word in conversation in spirit in faith in charity in purity Give attendance to reading to exhortation to doctrine And 2 Tim. 2.15 Study to shew thy self approved a workman that needeth not to be ashamed He that will be a Workman in the Ministry that needeth not to be ashamed must be a Student Grace is profitable to our selves but gifts are not to be expected immediately by God now as in the Primitive Church but in the use of means 3. He speaketh unto Ministers Diligence painfulness and faithfulness are incumbent upon the Ministers of the Gospel His great example speaks this of which this place wherein we are do bear him ample witness The difficulty of the service the concernment of precious souls the certainty and strictness of the accompt that must be given are strong arguments