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A42696	A funeral sermon preached at Newport-Pagnell, April 11, 1697 on the occasion of the sudden death of William Maxwell, a pious and hopeful young scholar belonging to Harvard-Colledge, in Cambridge, New-England.	Gibbs, John, 1627?-1699.	1697 (1697)	Wing G662A; ESTC R28403	8,748	18

part from him but your love had too much Self-love in it seeing you would have kept him from his Father and the Glory prepared for him So that your Child might say If you lov'd me with a cordial sincere love free from a mixture of self-love you would rejoyce and not over-much afflict your self with sorrow because I am gone to the Father Joh. 14. 28. 3. This you say is a very heavy burden that the Lord has laid upon you but not so heavy as your Sins were that was laid upon Christ the which He bore Isa 53. 6. 12. 1 Pet. 2. 24. He bore them on his own Body on the Tree to bear or carry them away from us Ferebat auferebat Did Christ silently and patiently bear and bear away our sins Was He as a Lamb before the Shearers and this burthen laid upon Him by the Father and shall not we be silent under the burthen of Affliction that the hand of the Lord lays upon us 4. You complain that the Tryal and Affliction is great but alas it might have been far greater He might have been taken from you by the hand of Justice inflicting death for horrid wickedness He might have died and you had no well-grounded hopes of his Eternal Salvation but he gave early Proofs of his preparedness to meet with the Enemy though he came suddenly upon him 5. It may be he had taken up too much room in your Heart and was lodged in the bed which the Lord had chosen to lye in and therefore takes him out of the way that He might have your Hearts more fixed upon Him It was as I have read the Saying of a good Woman whose only Son was taken away by Water That now the Lord had left her none to love but Himself Your Son though not your only Son was thus removed from you that your heart might be more at liberty to love the Lord. 6. If the Affliction be great and the Burthen be heavy do the best you can to lessen your Affliction and make your Burthen lighter this is done by a quiet silent submission unto the Will of God in this awful Providence whereas impatience or discontent under it will add more weight unto it 7. Such a carriage and deportment will bespeak our Reverence of God in resigning up our choicest Creature Comforts to Him patiently to part with that which we have no great affection unto or kindness for is no proof of our Reverence and Obedience but if our Isaac be called for and we quietly give him up By this we manifest our Fear of God Gen. 22. 12. 8. Patience under sharp Afflictions gives us possessions of our Souls as saith Luke 21. 19. The Mind being Composed will render us capable of making use of those means whereby we may gain Support and Relief under it Hence the Apostle James 1. 4. Let Patience have her perfect work that ye may be intire and want nothing that is needful for your support under the present Circumstances 9. The exercise of Patience in our Tryals will bring in Experience Rom. 5. 4. of the Power Mercy and Goodness of God then shall we be capable of taking notice of his merciful dealings with us Hence that of Moses unto the Children of Israel Exod. 14. 13. Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. This included Psal 46. 10. Be still and know that I am God 10. The Lord takes it well when we are graciously silent not sullenly silent under our troubles and quarrel not with his Rod He glories in his Servant Job in the face of the Devil on this account Chap. 2. 3. 11. By such a carriage in afflictions we imitate our Lord Jesus who by his patient bearing all that He underwent from the hand of God and man did give us an example and certainly it becomes a Christian and is no small part of his glory to be conformable to his Lord and Master FINIS

no not so much as a drop of water which is the miserable case of the damned in Hell 2. Obs That the good and evil Things we receive are from the Hand of God either immediately or mediately 3dly Which I shall principally insist upon in the Doctrinal Part That as we receive Good so must we receive Evil though from his Hand and make use of the Second Doctrine in the Application Reasons why and the manner how we are to receive these evil things from the Hand of God 1. Because they come from the same Hand that all our good Things come This is the force of the Reason given by Job 2. Is from the Sovereignty of God Psal 46. 10. Job 9. 12. who hath an Absolute Unlimited and Indubitable Right to dispose of Us and Ours according to his Pleasure and none may dare to question it 3. From the Wisdom of God who best knows what to do with us In Wisdom he doth all things whose Understanding is Infinite Ps 147. 5. and therefore is beyond our search Isa 40. 28. 4. His Justice that doth not nor can do us any wrong 5. His Goodness is such that He will do us no harm nor intends it 1. All the Good we receive from Him is more than we deserve for we are not worthy of the least of his Mercies Gen. 32. 10. nay contrary to our deserts for whenever He doth us Good or whatsoever Good He bestows on us He comes over the heads of innumerable sins and offences 2. The Good we receive from Him if weighed in the Ballance will out-weigh all the Evils we receive had we only a naked Life This Truth came out of the Mouth of the Father of Lies That skin for skin and all that a man hath will he give for his life Job 2. 4. Importing that Life is of so great a value that it will weigh down all the Good we enjoy and therefore will out-weigh all the Evils that we suffer Hence Lam. 3. 39. Wherefore doth a living man complain Have Life and yet complain which plainly speaks That where there is Life it is so great a Good that no troubles should so distress us as to procure sinful Complaints but there are none that live but have some other Good with it if nothing else yet they have Time which is a great Good 3. Whatever Evil we receive from the Hand of God if we are his People it is because there is need of it 1 Pet. 1. 6 7. The All-Wise GOD that understands our Conditions sees that we have need of such evil Things It is no pleasurous thing with Him to Afflict his People Lam. 3. 33. If a wise and faithful Physician that knows our Distemper sees that it is needful to breath a Vein and take away some of our Blood or finds it necessary to Prescribe an unpleasing Potion to us we abiding by his Judgment and relying on his Fidelity are willing to receive it therefore 5. We should receive those evil Things because they are designed for our good Heb. 12. 10. and if we receive them as we ought they will no doubt produce that effect Isa 27. 9. Rom. 8. 28. 6. To suffer or receive those evil things doth become those that profess themselves to be Christians and to be a Christian indeed and not in Name only is one that takes Christ for his All and Resigns up himself and his All unto His Dispose with a consciencious endeavour to be Conformable to Him who hath left us an Example How to bear the evils that we suffer 1 Pet. 2. The manner how we should receive evil things from the hand of God 1. With a holy submission unto his Will and Providence it is a Cup put into our hand by a Merciful and Compassionate Father which tho' it hath some Gall in it as no affliction for the present is joyous Heb. 12. yet there is no Poison John 18. 11. The Cup which my Father hath given me shall I not drink it Christ had a bitter Cup in the Garden yet if his Father saw it not good it should pass from Him He was willing to take it Mat. 26 39. 2. Receive evil things from God's hand humbly either to make us humble or to keep us humble to prevent Pride and hide it from our eyes Job 33. 16. or to pull down Pride is one principal end of God in the evil thing He brings upon us as it was to Israel in all the hardships they met with in their Passage through the howling Wilderness that Land of Pits Drought and the shadow of Death Deut. 8. 2. Pride is so contrary to God that he cannot bear it in his Children and therefore his Day of Affliction comes upon them to prevent it or rebuke for it as with Paul 2 Cor. 12. 7. Hence that Counsel 1 Pet. 5. 6. Humble your selves under the mighty hand of God He loves to see his Children cloathed or rather adorned with the Garment of Humility 1 Pet. 5. 5. 3. Receive them silently or patiently Rom. 5. 2. Tribulation is said to work Patience or work it out that Patience might be kept in exercise he that is without it had need to pack up and be gone out of the World there being so much need of this Grace Patience is exercised either in bearing evils Rom. 12. 12. or in waiting for good things Hence the Apostle concludes we have need of it Heb. 10. 36. as the Husbandman Ja. 5. 7 8. As we are to do all things without murmuring at the difficulties or disputing the Equity of the Command so are we to bear and suffer all things from the hand of God without fretting or discontent but more of this in the Application 4. Receive evil things from God's hand with reflection upon our own evils or the evil of our ways Lam. 3. 40. Consideration of our ways is necessary when under the Rod Hag. 1. 3. 5. Ecl. 7. 14 5. Diligently attending or hearkening to the Voice of the Rod Mic. 6. 9. that we may know something of the holy ends of God therein for there is a Reason for every Stroak that comes upon us which we are concerned to inquire into 6. With Prayer and Supplication Times of Affliction are proper Seasons for Prayer Jam. 5. 13. This hath been the constant course of the People of God under the Rod and herein they have often found relief Pray for Strength to bear it Pray for a Blessing upon the Rod that you may be taught as well as chastened Psal 94. 12. And that the Rod may produce the peaceable Fruits of Righteousness 7. Thankfully with our Holy Man bless God for your Afflictions Chap. 1. 21. Grace in a lively exercise doth not only bring Quietness unto the Mind in Affliction but raiseth up the Heart to admire at God's condescention Chap. 7. 17 18. that He will bestow a Rod upon us and thank Him for his Paternal Care of us and his gentle and favourable Dealing with us who might