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A53259	The last sermon and sayings of that most pious and reverend divine, Mr. John Oakes, minister of the gospel in the City of London who was struck with death in his pulpit, in the afternoon after he had preached this sermon; to the admiration of all his hearers. A subject of great account, worthy to be written in letters of gold. Being a thanksgiving sermon, for God's great goodness in delivering this nation from popery, slavery, and destruction, by that eminent instrument of God's glory, King William King of England. Discoursed of from these words, Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. Luk. 10. 20. And having preached upon the first part of the text in the forenoon, of God's great deliverance of this kingdom from popery, &c. and coming to treat more fully in the afternoon, what it is to have our names written in heaven, God took him to himself, and gave him a full enjoyment thereof. With a brief sum of his funeral sermon preached the next Sunday after, by the reverend divine Mr. Williams. To which is added two Godly	Oakes, John, d. 1689?	1689 (1689)	Wing O19A; ESTC R218540	11,358	25

The Last Sermon and Sayings Of that most Pious and Reverend Divine Mr. John Oakes Minister of the Gospel in the City of London who was struck with Death in his Pulpit in the Afternoon after he had preached this Sermon to the admiration of all his Hearers A Subject of great Account worthy to be Written in Letters of Gold. Being a Thanksgiving Sermon for God's great Goodness in delivering this Nation from Popery Slavery and Destruction by that Eminent Instrument of God's Glory King William King of England Discoursed of from these words Notwithstanding in this rejoice not that the Spirits are subject unto you but rather rejoice because your Names are written in Heaven Luk. 10. 20. And having preached upon the first part of the Text in the Forenoon of God's great deliverance of this Kingdom from Popery c. and coming to treat more fully in the Afternoon What it is to have our Names written in Heaven God took him to himself and gave him a full Enjoyment thereof With a brief sum of his Funeral Sermon preached the next Sunday after by the Reverend Divine Mr. Williams To which is added two Godly prayers Printed for J. Conyers in Holbourn 1689. M R. Oakes His Last Sermon c. Luk. 10. 20. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not that the spirits are subject unto you but rather Rejoice because your Names are written in Heaven THis Text read unto you may at the first view seem to be like Rain in the Harvest or Snow in Summer very unseasonable and may seem to contradict the loud Calls of the present Providence which God's Providence at this day seems to call on us for when we are called to Rejoice for that signal Mercy and unparallel'd Deliverance which God hath wrought for us and this poor Nation at this time when God hath in so short a time and by such unlooked for means and by such an unexpected way so suddenly altered the Scene of our Affairs when God hath broken the Snare the Wicked had prepared for us and suffered them to be taken by the works of their own hands and found out a way for the accomplishing of such a Delivrance as this is which you will every day be more and more convinced of Surely the Lord calls for People at this day to rejoice and yet my Text séems to put a check on this rejoicing Rejoice not in this that the Lord hath thus delivered us Why The various Circumstances as attends this marvellous Deliverance calls for Joy a●d Singing of Praises unto the Lord Psal 126. 1 2. When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion we were like them that dream So suddenly and by such unexpected means God turned about the Captivity of England and turned away from us that bondage we were like to be in we were like them that dream And what were the Consequences of Ziors great Deliverance Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with singing then said they among the Heather the Lord hath done great things for them The very wicked Atheists may take notice of this and may say the Lord is God and he hath done great things for us and shall not we say so the Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad and have reason to be so This is that God calls for But let the righteous be glad let them rejoice before God yea let them exceedingly rejoice s●ng unto God sing praises to his Name Psal 68. 3 4 And this is that which the generality of Protestants are disposed for now you cannot but expect every one you meet withal will have a smile in his or her face except it be in the face of a Papist who have cause for sorrow But whence is it God's People have cause to rejoice It is a necessary duty to rejoice praise is comely for the Saints when God delivers Zion we should rejoice and be glad yet says my Text Rejoice not Now how shall we reconcile these séeming contradictions to put our hearts into a right frame we must look into the Context and see how these words are brought in and what is the drift of them In the foregoing Chapter you find our Saviour giveth commission unto his Apostles to go forth and work Miracles and to preach the Gospel and to encourage them he promises to protect them and to give them success in it And in this Chapter ●e sends forth other seventy and they go forth and afterwards they return to their Master to give him an account of their success ay in the 17th verse And the seventy returned again with joy and said Lord even the Devils are subject unto us through thy name They returned to their Master with joy By the way let me tell you We are Ambassadors sent forth by our Lord and Master Christ and in a little time we know not how soon we must return unto our Master and give an account unto our Lord and Master of our success what it hath been And Sirs by the Call of God I have been among you nigh Ten years What success shall I give account of unto my Master as to you what account shall I give of you to my Lord and Master at my return shall my return be with joy or shall I say to my Lord and Master Lord I went and stretched forth my hand to a gain-saying people they would not be prevailed with they would not hear they would not hearken This would be a sad account as to you Well but these Apostles return with joy and had good success and amongst the rest they tell their Master that the very Devils were subject unto them whereever Gospel-Ministers are sent forth the Devil raises all the force he can if possible he will raise all the power of Hell that if he can help it one Sinner shall not be gained to Christ The Devils are subject unto us This was the power the Devils then had it was to torment the members of the body but now it is very rare the Devils power is lengthened out so far if he had power to torment our bodies he would make sad havock of mens bodies but blessed be God all the power of Devils is limitted they are chained up now they cannot go no further than God permits them But then it was a common trade for Devils to possess mens bodies and to to ment them The Proverb is he will play at any Game Now for wise ends God permitted the Devil to have such encursions upon mens bodies so he had upon Job's body he filled it with Diseases noisome Diseases to try Job but his aim is to possess the heart mostly there he doth the greatest mischief but now God lets not loose the Devil on mens bodies O dreadful and sad would it be if God should let go the Devil to possess peoples bodies he then would make them mad and it would be a sad judgment of God but sadder it is for the Devil to possess the

it hath delivered this Nation from Popery and Slavery if God had not delivered us from Popery and Slavery both which coming in upon us like a Corent if God had not prevented it we could not have escaped 1. God hath hereby delivered us from Popery Oh what a dreadful dangerous thing is Popery It is that Religion which doth teach men to keep no Faith it is a Religion which teacheth men to worship Stocks and Stones and that on penalties too Oh what a dreadful damning thing is Popery that they may be Converts they will cut your throats so that it is not your Estates will serve them but they would have your Lives too 2. God hath hereby delivered us from Slavery too even from serving an Idol If God had not delivered us thus then what would have become of us and our Children Could you be content to have your Children brought up to fall down to a Crucifix and to worship a Breaden God to the ruine of their own souls certainly if any persons were ever under such a Character as in 2 Thess 2. 11 12. it must be Papists And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a Lye That they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness Oh the tyranny we are in part delivered from we are delivered from their infringing upon those Immu●ities and Priviledges of our Forefathers which was from our Forefathers care and to their great Cost that we might not be brought up into Popish Slavery 2. Another foundation of joy and rejoicing for this begun Deliverance is the time when God thus interposed between us and our danger it was at the time when we were e'en ripe for our destruction Indeed we do not know yet what our danger was Oh had not God just at that very time interposed so seasonably when the Knife was just at our Throats in what a sad condition had we béen in at this day but the Lord was seen in the Mount. 3. Consider the means God did make use of this is a Foundation of our joy and rejoicing that God should put it into the Heart of a stranger even of a Foreign Prince and that God should Spirit him for such a Work and put resolutions and courage into him to run the hazard of his life and should make him of such a publick spirit which many English-men have lost that he should come from that plenty that splendour he was in to bring about this our begun Deliverance 4. This should raise our hearts to rejoice from the manner of this begun Deliverance that it was so suddenly speedily in so short a time Indeed God hath said As the Birds flying so will I save Jerusalem That such a work should be done without the Effusion of blood whereas he might have answered the Prayers of his People in terrible things as might make our hearts to quake our streets might been running with blood our garments might been rowling in blood when the Sword was drawn it might have eaten up much flesh and drank up much blood but it pleased God to interpose all this This might cause us to rejoice I might suggest one thing more to raise our hearts up to this frame For whom was this wrought what were we Protestants Ay But are we a reformed People if not we are for all this an undone People 2. I now come to the second part of the Text But rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven This is a precept or direction what we should chiefly rejoice in But rather Rather is a Note sometimes signifies the difference or inequality of the thing by a Figure But rather rejoice that is rejoice more let your joy be raised higher let your hearts be enlarged wider unto an higher acknowledgment of such a thing It should be taken uppermost in all our thoughts rejoice in nothing else absolutely If thou béest one who art assured thy name is written in Heaven whether this temporal Salvation came or no you have grounds of rejoicing Here are two things before us 1. The Object 1. What is that we are oblig'd so much to have in our thoughts and to have so much on our hearts It is expressed to have our names written in heaven 2. The act or duty with respect or relation unto the Object it is in that one word Rejoice Doct. That a Christian having evidence of his Name being written in the book of God in heaven this affords him sufficient matter for his continued joy and rejoicing here on Earth I say if a Christian have good satisfaction in this point it abundantly affords him just and sufficient matter for his constant joy and rejoicing on Earth let matters go how they will. Sirs whatever circumstances you may live to be under here in this world if you have a satisfactory Evidence of your Names being written above you may not only be reconciled unto but may smile on every dispensation of Providence There are three things lieth before me to be considered 1. What it is to have our Names written in Heaven that is one great thing wants to be explained 2. What those Evidences are which a Christian may have that he is in that blessed number of such whose Names are written in Heaven 3. On what account this affords such matter of Ioy as continually to rejoice 1. What it is to have our Names written in Heaven It is a Metaphorical Expression which alludes unto the custom of City or Corporation Communities where persons who are Members of that City or Corporation are invested with some peculiar priviledge or immunity that are not common to all persons but only unto those peculiar Corporations where they are related unto these Corporations particular Laws are proper unto them and Frée persons thereof have a propriety unto those priviledges Now these priviledges are recorded and registred where these persons may find out their Names Thus Names are written 1. There is God's opened Look which is the revealed Will of God in the written word of God wherein God reveals and discovers unto us his will in order unto our Salvation Oh! this is a Book God hath put into our hands to be our daily study and blessed be God who hath delivered us from a Generation of men who would have taken this book out of our hands such who will not enter into the Kingdom themselves and would shut you out and hinder you also from coming there Let me tell you Sirs that a Bible wou'd been a precious thing in your hands however now you slight it if God had suffered them to go on but seeing God hath so priviledg'd us as yet to continue this Book among us let us study this Book often There you have a discovery of the sinful and miserable condition we exposed our selves to which we have plung'd our selves into by our causeless Apostacy and there we have a discovery blessed be God of that