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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

Government among them first by Judges He gave unto them Judges v. 20. And afterwards upon their desire by Kings delivering that government first to Saul v. 21. Afterward they desired a King and God gave unto them Saul But the Kingly Government was established by God upon the house of David v. 22. He raised up unto them David to be their King c. and having recited these particular mercies of God to his people he makes a great leap from the dayes of David to the dayes of the Messiah the Son of David and shuts up his Catalogue of Mercies with the mention of the greatest and freshest mercy namely Gods sending a Saviour out of Davids loynes according to his promise v. 23. Of this Mans seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour Jesus Now this being the principal Nail that the Apostle had to drive and fasten in that Assembly he spends the rest of his Sermon in driving that Naile-home proving that this Promise made to David was fulfilled in the same Jesus whom their Rulers at Jerusalem Crucified And this he proves First By Johns coming as his fore-runner to preach Repentance according to the Prophecyes of Isaiah and Malachie v. 24 When John had first preached before his coming the Baptism of Repentance to all the people of Israel Isai 40.3 Malach. 3.1.4.5 6. Secondly He proves it by the expresse Testimony that John gave of him v. 25. He said I am not he but behold there cometh one after me c. Thirdly He proves it by the fulfilling of the ancient Prophecies of Scripture in his cruel and causeless death v. 27 28. For they that dwelt at Jerusalem and their Rulers because they knew him not nor yet the voice of the Prophets which are read every Sabbath day they have fulfilled them in condemning him And though they found no cause of death in him yet they delivered him to Pilate that he should be slain Fourthly He proves the same thing by his Resurrection from the dead v. 29.30 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him they took him down from the tree and laid him in the Sepulchre But God raised him from the dead Which Resurrection of the Lord Jesus is proved 1. By the Testimony of Eye-witnesses v. 31. And he was seen many days of them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem who are his witnesses to the people And 2. He proves this Resurrection of Christ by Testimonies of Scripture foretelling his Resurrection ver 34 35 36 37. Then you have the Application of all this to the hearers in particular v. 38 39. And so the Apostle concludes his Sermon with a serious admonition to his Hearers not to despise nor reject this offered Grace In all which discourse and carriage of Paul you have nothing but what doth really evidence that Blessed and Holy Spirit whose fruits are Love Peace Gal. 5.22 23 Long-suffering Gentleness Goodnesse Faith Meeknesse Temperance Here is not one bitter boysterous intemperate word in all this Discourse of Pauls How far are they from this Apostolical Spirit that pretend in these times to be the only Apostolical men and to be guided and acted by as Infallible a Spirit as the Apostles themselves were They will tell you the Spirit moves them and bids them go to such a Town to such a Meeting-place Well what do they when they are there Do they sit as Paul and Barnabas did and demean themselves with gravity and reverence becoming such an Assembly No but carry themselves in such a proud scornful wild disdainful manner that their very presence is a disturbance to the whole Congregation Do they wait till they are invited and called to speak as Paul and Barnabas did No but as soone as the last word is out of the Ministers mouth if not before they blow their Trumpet sound their Alarm bid defiance to him his Doctrine and Calling And when they speak what Do they use sober meek and gentle speeches as the Apostle Paul here Men of Israel and all ye that fear God Do they bring cleare evidence Scripture Arguments and solid Reasons as the Apostle Paul here doth No but break out into bitterest railings and cursings condemning for Hypocrites and Damned and full of the Divel all but themselves Whether these men be acted by an Apostolical Spirit or by a Diabolical Spirit whether their Tongues be touched with a Cole from the Lords Altar or set on fire of Hell it is easie to judge if it be true which our Saviour saith Mat. 12.37 By thy words thou shalt be Justified and by thy words thou shalt be Condemned Out of this whole Discourse of Pauls I have made choice of the words of the 36 verse to insist upon at this time and upon this Occasion But David after he had served his Generation by the will of God fell on sleep and was laid unto his Fathers and saw Corruption Which words are a prevention of an Objection that might be made against a Scripture which the Apostle in the verse immediately foregoing had cited out of the sixteenth Psalm to prove the Resurrection of Christ in these words Scopus Verberum Thou shalt not suffer thine holy One to see corruption Now lest the Jews should in their hearts object that this place might be spoken by David of himself the Apostle Anticipates this and shews that this place cannot be competent to David properly and directly but only as he was a Type of Christ and by way of participation as he should together with the rest of the godly be raised up by Christ For David after he had served his own Generation by the will of God fell on sleep and was laid to his Fathers and saw corruption In which words we have considerable first Divisio Textus the person spoken of David secondly the employment of this person he Served thirdly the Object on which he bestowed his pains and service his own Generation fourthly the moving or ordering or regulating cause of this the will of God fiftly the issue and event of this in three particulars first he fell on sleep secondly he was laid to his Fathers thirdly he saw corruption David a man whom God found out and framed according to his own heart Explicatio Verborum and took from following the Ewes great with young to feed and Rule his people Israel whom God advanced from a mean and low condition to the highest Pinacle of honour setting his Throne higher then the Kings of the earth Psalm 89.27 He Served not Himself by an Exorbitant Arbitrary Government as his predecessor Saul had done but he served Others he served All he served his own Generation That word Generation is a word of frequent and various use in Scripture I shall not lead you through them all I shall only give you notice of four or five First Sometimes it signifies a Succession of men begetting and propagating one

his only Love O that none of you had ever given him cause to complain with the Apostle The more abundantly I love the lesse I am beloved In reference to this holy man and what befel him in this Congregation I have often thought upon that in Exodus where it is said There rose up another generation which knew not Joseph O Sirs if you had all known as some of you did what service he had done for this poor Town what a state when he came first hither he found Braintree in and what a state and degree of eminency in profession and outward prosperity he or rather God by his means and Ministry had advanced it to I am confident you would all have pai'd him the just Tribute of Love and Reverence in his Life and Honour at his Death which many of you did and do I go unto the next particular and that is Faith Thou hast fully known my Doctrine manner of Life Purpose Faith He was none of those Qui frigide Jejune de fide disserant that do discourse of Faith unto others coldly and overly Tanquam de terrâ incognitâ But as Tertullian speaks of the Prayers of the Primitive Christians so it is true of his Preachings They were tanquam de Pectore His Sermons came from the Heart he was a Preacher that could say with the Apostle John 1 Epist 1.1 That which we have seen with our eyes and have lookt upon and our hands have handled of the Word of Life declare we unto you The next thing the Apostle instanceth in is Long-suffering Now the Long-suffering of this Holy man if it were not sufficiently tryed in the time of his Health if the forty six years time of his Ministry in this place and the variety of tryals he met with in that time from men of several tempers and spirits if that were not tryal enough of his Long-suffering yet the many weeks of his sore and tedious affliction was For many weeks was the hand of God heavy upon him in a sore Quartane Ague And in all that time he never uttered one unbecoming word but lay quiet contented chearful in the frame of his Spirit all the time of his sickness till it pleased God to put an end to his dayes Here was Long-suffering For his Charity though I say nothing I am sure there are enough who will proclaim it I believe there is scarce a poor man or woman in all your Town but will acknowledg that in him they have lost one of their best Friends one of their most ready chearful tenderhearted Relievers of their necessities that they had in all the world There is one thing more in these Ministerial Perfections summed up by the Apostle and I know that some of you watch to hear what I will say of that and that is Patience And may I speak the truth I never heard any thing laid to the charge of this holy man in all my dayes but some defect in this particular some want of Patience Now suppose that this charge were true why may not the want of this one particular Grace be over-lookt where there is such a full confluence of other Graces What Man what Saint is there living upon the face of this earth that wants nothing This Holy man of God say some wanted patience and are there not other men that want the wisdom he had the gravity that he had the sobriety that he had in the use of meats and drinks and apparrel the charity that he had the modesty and humility that he had And yet all these can be over-lookt in them only this one want of patience must be objected against him But I beseech you tell me some of you what was this want of patience and in what cases For there are cases wherein to want patience is not a fault but a duty there are cases in which good men holy men may not be patient cannot be patient ought not to be patient Even Moses himself the pattern of patience the miracle of patience having to do with a froward and gainsaying people hath much ado sometimes to keep the bounds of patience yea meets with some occasions in which he dares not but shew some impatience If the people in his absence set up a golden calf and worship it patience can hold no longer then how impatient would Moses have been if this had been done in his presence and before his face If the people despise and loath the Manna of the Lord if Cora Dathan and Abiram will rebel against the Lord by taking to themselves an Office about the Holy things to which the Lord hath not called them and so make a Schism a Sedition among the people Moses cannot must not be patient in these cases Now I beseech you what were the cases in which this servant of the Lord shewed any Impatience at any time were they properly his own concernments when people withheld his Maintenance from him was he impatient then Did he molest any Did he hale them before the Judge When people despised him opened their mouths in scornful reproachful manner against him as many delight to do against all the Ministers of Christ Jesus was his impatience then Being reviled did he revile again Surely no but if when he saw people slighting the precious Manna of the Word setting up the Idols of their own brain in stead of Gods Ordinances sowing Schism and division among the people committed to his charge if upon such occasions as these his Spirit was stirred in him shall this be imputed as a fault to him Nam quis Iniqua Tam Patient Gentis tam ferreus ut teneat se This leads me to the last thing Persecutions and Afflictions which he suffered Not from the hand of Publick Power from that his own Integrity and Prudence and principally that hand which upholds the Stars in his Church preserved him all his dayes under all that variety of changes that hath passed over us But I mean Persecutions and Afflictions from private hands Not at Listra Iconium and Antioch not among Heathens and Jews but at But I will draw a Curtain here The Lord hath now delivered him out of them all and I will not make these wounds recrudescere The Lord look upon this poor Town in Mercy and overlook all the failings and miscarriages of his people in it and send a man among you if it be his good pleasure that may continue as long with you as this holy man did And may do as much good among you as he in his Generation that though he find you divided may unite you and may restore you to your pristine state of Beauty and Unity wherewith God had sometimes dignified you Amen Amen FINIS