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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62904	Christ's ministers must shortly put off their tabernacles set forth in a funeral sermon preach'd at Hungerford at the interring of Mr. Ric. Moor, late minister of the Gospel there / by Samuel Tomlyns ...	Tomlyns, Samuel, 1632 or 3-1700.	1694 (1694)	Wing T1857A; ESTC R32812	18,504	42

over your Neighbours to have on Eye towards to instruct exhort warn reprove as opportunity is offered or Necessity requires The work that God calls you to is great you must prune weed water improve your Vineyard The work is Noble and Honourable to render your own Souls and the Souls of others fruitful Vineyards to God to yeild such Wine as he delights in as will cheer the heart of Christ and of Saints The work is profitable you will record in Heaven what you do on Earth for his glory by your diligence and faithfulness Fruit will be brought forth that will abound to your account in the great day of the Lord Phil. 4.17 Suffer not therefore your Vineyards to be over-run with Nettles Briars or Thorns or to lie open and unfenced 6. I would mind you of your Race Heb. 12.1 2. as there is Hope set before you Heb. 6.18 so there is a Race set before you Heb. 12.1 Keep your eye stedy on the Mark and bend your course directly towards it The Apostle saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I follow on I press forward in a strait line towards the mark 1 Cor. 9.26 I do not sometimes move one way sometimes another this would be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to run as if we were uncertain what course to steer what mark to aim at what Prize to run for He that is a double-minded man and pursues Two Objects doth run so obscurely sometimes inclining to one Object sometime following another as if he were uncertain which is the best Master which is the chief Good Again persons may be said to run as uncertain or not to run with any Evidence when they make no visible progress when they do not get ground and advance in the way everlasting Persons run 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 darkly when they do not manifest any proficiency in the Knowledge and Grace of Christ when they neither root deeply in him or manifestly grow up into him 2 Col. 6.7 Ephes 4.15 look to it that you not only hold out as Travellers but also that you may hast as Racers as you are to beware of wrong steps out of the way so also of slow steps in it the mark is perfect Holiness the prize is glorious Happiness there is an excellency in the Mark as well as in the Prize yea the very Mark here may be accounted a Prize we profit and advantage our selves when we have our fruit to Holiness Rom. 6.22 O! therefore forget what is behind and reach forth to what is before Phil. 3.13 14. let not any attainments in Grace slacken your pace cool your Zeal abate your diligence or fervency but be as earnest as if you had but just now started or were taking your first steps in the Spiritual Race this is properly to forget what is behind tho the Eternal Inheritance be properly a Legacy bequeathed in Christs Testament Heb. 9.15 yet the Lord to encourage and honour our diligence and to reward our obedience proposeth it as a Prize to be won by us Phil. 3.14 tho we live move and act by the strength and influence of Grace continually 8. Let me put you in remembrance of your Account we must all stand before the Judgment seat of Christ and every one of us must give an account of himself to God Rom. 14.10 12. the account is long and large there are innumerable thoughts words actions to be accounted for there are Registers and Records of all kept above Isa 65.6 behold it is written before me God would not have been a Lawgiver if he design'd also to be a Judg The Divine Records must be 〈◊〉 viewed the Books must be opened the Accounts of Sinners stated and the Sentence pass on them Rev. 20.12 2 Cor. 5.10 Our Lord will come and reckon with his Servants and summon Stewards to give an account of their Stewardships Luke 16.1 2. O! therefore let not your Lords Stock Talents or Pounds lye idle and dead in your hands as one Candle will tind or light a thousand Candles so let that knowledg you have received be improved to enlighten many others let the Love of Christ so burn in your Hearts so flame out in your words and Actions that all those may be heated that come near to you or Converse with you let your Loins be girt work strenuously and diligently let your Lamps be burning act wisely and skilfully Luke 12.35 yet when you have done all confess your selves to be unprofitable Servants that you have not merited that any reward or profit should redound to you from such sick Service from such defective and imperfect Obedience Lay all your Offerings on Christ as an Altar let all your sins be drowned and your Service washed in Christ's Blood how else can you account with God for Years Months or one Day the Lord Jesus will certainly return to take an account Luke 19.12 He is the Nobleman that is gone into a far Country 〈◊〉 receive a Kingdom and return and shortly your Spirits must return to God to give an account Eccl. 12.7 All you have done will follow overtake meet you in another world Think on prepart for your account set this Sentence on the Head of your account The Blood of Jesus Christ the Son of God cleanseth from all sin 1 John 1.7 then this passage may be put at the Foot of it There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8.1 I have done with the Text of Scripture that I pitched on and I shall now proceed to speak something on that Text of Providence that the Lord hath chosen to be the Occasion of this mournful solemnity Two things I would propose to you on this Occasion 1. O consider of reflect upon and be duly affected with this sad sudden and unexpected stroke of Providence should not this make deep impressions on your hearts that a faithful and skillful Labourer is in the midst of his days discharged from his work when a great Door is open for Service and the Fields are white to the Harvest when the Necessities of Souls are so great and the Labourers are so few to attend them Pause and stay your thoughts on this sad dispensation a Star is taken down from the Orb and Firmament of the Church a Lamp of the San●●uary is put out a Shepherd is removed from his Flock an Amba●●…dor of Peace is recalled by 〈◊〉 King of Glory It is true the hand of the Lord hath done 〈◊〉 but may not your sins have been the meritorious and procuring cause of it have not many of you heard the Word from him with drousie Ears cold Hearts unconcerned Spirits have you not made light of the Travel of Christ's soul of the purchase of his blood of the Legacies of his Testament have not your hearts been frozen within you tho with respect to the warm dispensation of the Gospel among you you have liv'd in the Torrid Zone of Love have not some of you drawn out the Fatal Web of your iniquity even under his Ministry and so provoked God to cut short the precious thread of his Life and have not the looseness of some and the barrenness and unthankfulness of others snatch'd your Pastor away out of the World silenc'd and laid him in the dust have not your Ears and Hearts been stopt from hearing the word and so you have provoked God to shut his mouth from Preaching it any more among you do not sooth or flatter your selves this is a loud speaking reproving rebuking Providence to you 2. O! cry earnestly and fervently to God to supply your wants and to fill up this breach plead with the great Shepherd to raise you up a Pastor according to his own heart to feed the flock of God among you with knowledg and understanding Jer. 3.15 it is a great work skilfully to feed the Flock of God rightly to divide the word of truth and to give every one his Portion terror to sinners comfort to saints instructions and exhortations to both pray to the Lord of the Harvest to provide you a Labourer Matt. 9. last so great are the discouragements to this sacred Function from an ungrateful World that the Lord of the Harvest must thrust forth Labourers Matt. 9. last And so great is the Carnality and averseness of People from the Feast of Jesus Christ that Ministers must compel guests to come in it is the Lord of the Harvest that must fit and furnish men to be Labourers it is he that must enrich them with Grace and fill them with the Spirit It is such Pasto●● 〈…〉 that become an Exalted Glorified 〈…〉 bestow on the Church Eph. 4.10 11. Christ 〈…〉 take them in his own Net as Fish and then fit them to be Fishermen he must first gather them into 〈◊〉 own Fold as Sheep and then render them meet to 〈◊〉 Shepherds he must first espouse them to himself 〈◊〉 then Enlighten their Minds and inflame their 〈◊〉 to Wooe others for himself he that hath not 〈◊〉 Embraced Christ's Offers and consented to match 〈◊〉 him will but coldly Prosecute Christs Suit to gain others to the Lord of Glory In the judgment of a learned man * Dr. Stil●●●●leet in 〈◊〉 Irenicum Ministers Pastors and Teachers are called Saints Ephes 4.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which he thus renders For the perfecting or fitting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry that is for the per●●●●ing or fitting of Ministers that are or should be Saints for the work of the Ministry As the Priests Court 〈◊〉 in the Temple by some steps higher than the Peo●●●… Court so Christ's Ministers should be higher and 〈◊〉 above the People both in Knowledge and in 〈◊〉 Be earnest Solicitors to the Father of Mer●●… that he would not leave you desolate as sheep with●●… shepherd as in some Games among the Grecians 〈◊〉 did run carrying a burning Lamp and then deli●●●'d it to another to run also with it so this Servant of the Lord how deceased did in his Life-time run a●●●● you carrying the sacred Lamp of the Gospel O 〈◊〉 to God to raise up another to take his Lamp and 〈◊〉 it further before you to direct your hearts into the 〈◊〉 of God and to guide your Feet in the way of Peace FINIS