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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

all the burthen of all rest upon thee wilt thou keep thy filthy Garments and retain thy spots and stains will they not then render thee loathsome and abominable is the Fountain so near and wilt thou not have recourse to it and make use of it 2. Take heed that thou dost set up any in opposition to or Competition with this Fountain Do not put thy penitential Tears or Reformation in the place of the Blood of Christ God hath established the Sacrifice of Christ Heb. 10.9 This is the only Meritorious cause of Justification and means of atonement beware therefore that thou dost not mistake and tread in the steps of the blind zealous Jews that went about to establish their own Righteousness and did not submit to the righteousness of God Here was mans establishment directly contrary to Gods Establishment as if they must build a proud Babel of their own to get up to Heaven by when God had provided Jesus the Mediator as a long compleat spiritual Ladder for men to ascend to glory by it is the greatest curse not to come into this Righteousness of God Psal 69.27 this is a horrid Imprecation on the unbelieving Jews Let them not come into thy Righteousness and wilt thou bring this curse on thy own Soul He that come into Gods Righteousness shall never come into Condemnation Joh. 5.24 It is by Faith alone that we come into and are Interested in this Righteousness The Righteousness of God is revealed from Faith to Faith Rom. 1.17 Faith begins to apprehend goes on to apply this Righteousness and at last doth terminate center and rest in it 3. I would put you in remembrance of the great Physician of Souls Jesus Christ Mat. 9.12 13. Never was there Physician like to him he first died himself to provide a soveraign Remedy and then visits the dead and applys it to them You are sensible of bodily Diseases you complain of them you groan under them yet they do but separate Soul and Body but will you not resent and be affected with your spiritual Maladies which will part God and their Souls for ever To all other Diseases Sinners add a Lethargy they are stupid senseless of their Misery and danger Though the world be full of sick Folks yet how little practice hath the great Physician How few apply themselves as Patients to him or seriously commit their sick dying Souls to him to be recovered by him Is the Fall of Adam and the sin and corruption of the world that floweth from it but a Fiction or Fable that you have no sense or feeling of these things will you say you are not siek or diseased till you suddenly drop down to Hell Are you resolved to continue and dye in your sins What an aggravation will this be of your wilful obstinacy that you will perish when the Physician is so near and the remedy is at hand 4. I would put y ou in remembrance of a great Supper Luke 14.16 of an excellent Feast that God hath provided Isa 25.6 and hath invited you to God the Father gives you the true bread from Heaven John 6.32 There wants nothing to your participation of it but a due Esteem and thankful acceptance of it This is an excellent Supper 〈◊〉 Fire on an Altar Heb. 13.10 and Feast on a Sacrifice offered by the Son of God 1 Cor. 5.7 8. The Lord 's gracious Call if you echo to it his free Invitation if you comply with it gives you a right to all this spiritual good cheer tho you are poor maimed halt and blind yet all your Defects shall be passed over none of them shall exclude you from the Feast Luke 14.21 God is so set upon filling his House with Guests Luke 14.23 that he hath commanded us to compel you to come in This is strange Aversness Corruption and Rebellion in poor and Famishing sinuers that they need to be compelled to come in to a Feast and this is wonderful goodness in God that he chargeth us to compel you both by remonstrating your sin and danger if you do not come and by representing to you the Excellency Riches and Grace of Jesus Christ to invite and allure you to come On do not famish your Souls by neglecting to feed on Christ do not poyson your souls by drinking in the pleasures of sin that are but for a season O that we could so press these things on you and that with such warm hearts and lively affections that our importunity might answer our Commissions and savour of a kind of Violence and Compulsion 5. I wovld put you in remembrance of a spiritual Market that the Lord himself hath set up and keeps O improve this spiritual Market day 1. Here is food brought from far that is not of the growth of this world there is bread of God that cometh down from Heaven and giveth life to the world John 6.33 the bread is living bread John 6.51 and therefore well may it be bread of life John 6.48 2. Jesus Christ imports spiritual food by the precious River or Red Sea of his own blood If there were not such a Red Sea there would be no Traffick or Commerce between Heaven and Earth Christ is a Priest of good things Heb. 9.11 3. Jesus Christ keeps a Market for the Poor Isa 55.1 he encourages those to trade with him that can bring neither mony nor price If there were a Market kept in a City for the poor how would all flock to it And will you not that are spiritually poor come and buy of Christ without Money or Price It was observed of Attica that it was one of the poorest most hungry and barren Soil in Greece and that therefore the Inhabstants of it were most given to Trade and Merchandize So your poverty should press you to deal with Jesus Christ that is so liberal and free to those that come to him and will traffick with him He requires you to part with nothing that will impoverish you or inrich him 4. You are undone for ever if you buy not of Jesus Christ and obtain not his goods your Eyes will be blind if not anointed with his Eye-Salve your Souls will be naked if not cloathed with his white Raiment your Spirits will be poor to Eternity if you buy not his Gold tried in the fire 5. I would put you in remembrance of your work in God's Vineyard that you are hired to mind and prosecute Matth. 20.1 2. The Kingdom of Heaven is like to an Householder that went forth to hire Labourers into his Vineyard You cannot pretend or excuse your selves as the Heathen World and say None hath hired you and therefore you stand idle Mat. 20.6 God hath come forth several times in the day of your life to hire you Tho Ministers have a larger Vineyard to cultivate yet every particular Christian hath a lesser piece of Ground to manure and employ his labours on You have your own Hearts to keep your own Families to watch

concerning Men nor concerning Beasts Plants or Trees these Creatures have a Sensitive or Vegetative Life but when they die they are not said to sleep because their Life is utterly extinguished and totally abolished but when Men Die they do but Sleep the Senses of the Body are indeed seal'd up it becomes a Carcase without Sense or Motion but the Soul is alive the Light is snatched out of the Lanthorn of the Body but is not exringuished Life is still preserved in the Soul as the root and tho men sleep yet there is one that will a wake them Christ the first born of Gods new Family is up fi●st he is raised out of the Grave and will call out and rouse up all his Spiritual Brethren and Sisters out of the long sleep of Death 3. Peters saying He must put off his Tabernacle doth further mind us of and instruct us in a great Duty that Saints ought to Die in obedience and willingly to lay down the body tho Christians are snatched by a violent death and cut off by cruel hands tho their fleshly Garment be plucked off and their Earthly Tabernacle by barbarous Enemies be plucked down yet God expects and Christ looks for submission to the fatal Stroke and that we should choose Sufferings and Death rather than sin this is to put off our Tabernacle when God takes away the Souls of Hypocrites Job 27.8 we must commit them into his Hands Psal 31.5 when others are driven away out of the World Prov. 32. we must desire to depart and to be with Christ Phil. 23. We must die to the Lord Rom. 14.8 that is we must breath out our Souls and give them up when he calls for them and requires them we must die in compliance with his will to be more subject to him to 〈◊〉 more possessed by him to enjoy a Peace and fuller Communication with him not so much to be freed of Sufferings as to be rid of Sin To be perfected in the Image and Life of Christ 3. Why must Christs Ministers as well as others put off their Tabarnacles Ans 1. They have contracted and are involved in guilt all have sinned Rom. 3.23 As they are not free from the Contagion of Iniquity so they are not exempted from the Sentence of Death Gen. 3.19 Sin dwells in them and this opens the door and lets in Death upon them they as well as other Christians do want the Soader the Glew the Cement of a perfect inherent Righteousness and therefore their Building doth moulder and the Stones of it sall one from another Death is compar'd to a Flood Psal 90.5 Thou carriest them away as with a Flood this Flood is very general it carrie away High and Low Rich and Poor Saints and Sinners we read but of two little Islands Enoch and Elias that have not hitherto been over whelm'd with this Flood all the rest of Mankind shall be carried away with this Plood except those that shall be found a live at the last day It is appointed for all men once to die Heb. 9.27 This is a Law not to be Repealed a Se●●… not to be Reversed the Body is Dead by Reason of Sin Rom. 8.10 Death passeth over all men because all have sinned Rom. 5.12 2. Ministers must die that sometimes by their Death they may Eminently Glorify God Christ foretold Peters Martyrdom and by his being girded and led whither he would not did signify that violent death whereby he should Glorify God and John 1.18 19. that he durst not lay down his Lise that is most sweet and submit to Death that is most bitter to Nature in obedience to an invisible God and in hope of an unseen World this signally Glorifies God and benefits his People Paul speaks of his being offered on the Service and Sacrifice of the Philippians Faith 2 Phil. 17. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word signifies a Drink-offering the Drink-offering used to be annexed to the Sacrifices and these were of Wines On this account the Vine in the Parable saith That by its Wine it cheared the Heart of God Judg. 9. as well as of men the Apostle with allusion to the Sacrifices of the Law was willing that his Blood should be poured out by cruel hands that God might dispose his true Offerings to this Holy and Gracious end to promote and advance the Faith of the Philippians the sufferings of the Pastors for the true Religion do so greatly tend to Edify their Flocks and to strengthen their Belief of the Gospel Paul would not have Died for an uncertain Doctrine or for a Fable invented by men he was fully perswaded of the truth of the Gospel of Christ that he durst to venture his Life his Soul his all for Eternity on the credit of this Doctrine so Christ was Magnified by him and Saints were confirmed and established by his sufferings Phil. 1.12 13 20. 3 Christs Ministers do put off their Tabernacle to shew that God is not stinted or confined to particular Ministers he can bare up his Name support his Kingdom carry on his Interest tho he cut off eminent Embassadors and gives a quiet rest to painful Labourers God hath absolute need of no person if he cut off some he can raise up others if the day and work of some be done he hath a residue of the Spirit and can furnish fit and thrust out other Labourers into his Harvest if Pillars be pulled away yet the Church that is the Temple of the Living God shall not fall God hath others to substitute in the room of those that are snatched away as God reneweth the Face of the Earth by sending forth his Spirit Psal 104.30 tho Plants and Trees decay Birds die Beasts perish Men give up the Ghost yet Gods great Farm is not unstocked his House unfurnished or destitute of Inhabitants so tho Saints die and Ministers are snatch'd away yet God sends forth his Spirit and begets a new Generation of Saints and raises up a new Stock and suptly of Ministers and so renews the Face of the Church God will not want Friends to wooe for that Bridegroom Ambassadours of Christ for Peace Heralds to Proclaim Christ the King of Glory 4. God calls his Ministers home to receive the Reward of their Labours to reap the fruits of all their pains 2 Tim. 4.7 8. Paul saith That after Death there remnined for him a Crown of Righteousness God design'd it towards him God laid it up for him Ministers go hence to set on the Throne to wear the Crown to possess the Eternal Inheritance to partake of the everlasting Feast promised to them when God saith to the Body Return to thy dust Gen. 3.19 then he speaks to the Soul as God did to Jacob Gen. 31.3 Return to the Land of thy Fathers and to thy Kindred and I will be with thee when the Soul is turned out of an Earthly Tabernacle it is taken into an Heavenly House when the Flesh is Sown in the dust the