my hands and the time of my Vengeance is come I pronounce thee guilty of persidiousness to my Name and Interests and unprofitable to others and thy self in not rightly employing my Talents for common benefit as well as thine own for this I now effectually and irrevocably adjudge thee to the Loss of all Felicity Glory Grace and Joy which my presence doth afford and this without any future Hopes from any further strivings with thee or offers to thee and be thou now sealed and separated to the height of Misery that is Depart from me you cursed a Misery in its nature and degree so great as what 's fitted to torment those capital Enemies of mine the Devil and his Angels who shall be thy Companions because they were thy Rulers so painful to thy Body as the hottest fire and not less to thy Soul else it were not fitted to torment the Devils who are Spirits so full of horrour as Darkness is yea a Darkness as remote and free from Light as can be that is outer Darkness and all so resented felt and afflictive as to cause the extremest sorrow anguish and fretting against God thy Companions and thy self there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth And as for Duration it 's everlasting fire it 's for ever that this Sentence shall take hold of and be executed upon thee which is confirmed by another place that declareth the continuance of the Misery of unuseful Men under the Emblem of Chaff as opposed to useful Wheat the Chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire Luke 3. 17. which is the same with those words their Worm dieth not and their Fire is not quenched Mark 9. v. 46. There 's no hopes of an alteration of their Estate unless words cannot express the Eternity of Hell Torments yea unless Sinners may be reclaimed when expelled from all the gracious Influences of the Divine Presence implied in depart from me Yea unless there be a more Valuable Sacrifice for Sinners than the Son of God was for this will not relieve them Heb. 9. 26. Yea if there be not an Administration for reducing Sinners after and fitter than the Kingdom of Christ for this will be delivered up upon that time that this Sentence passeth the first time on Sinners found then alive solemnly upon the departed and living and executed upon Devils who till then are Prisoners 1 Cor. 15. 23 24 26 28. 2 Pet. 2. 4. compared with Matth. 8. 29. Ought not you to tremble at this prospect of Eternal Misery Yet if you are these unfaithful and unprofitable Sinners during Life you will be thus found guilty and sentenced when you Die Consider again and again what thou must hear feel and endure for thy unprofitableness add this to the great things thou losest by it and also that what now thou seemest to get or save through unusefulness cannot at present be kept with a Blessing when thou hast done thus in a serious manner I will appeal to thy self whether thy folly is not gross enough to make thee ashamed and thy Misery great enough to fill thee with terrour that unusefulness in thy Age hath been allowed by thee Yea I dare give you leave to put all the loss charge labour and danger of Publick Service with all the ease safety and benefit of unserviceableness and set them all against the fore-mentioned Mischiefs which attend the unprofitable and if thou believest the certainty of these be then affected at thy barrenness as the cause appears to thy self nay were there but a probability nay but a possibility that these fruits of unprofitableness were true it were sufficient to make thee ashamed and grieved for it Obj. Tho' I must agree that it's folly to become liable to these Mischiefs yet are all who are unuseful subject to endure them for if so who shall escape Supposing a capacity to service I shall briefly answer Ans. There is 1. A degree of unusefulness which through weakness and temptation may oft befal a godly Man which indeed shall not bring Eternal Misery upon him tho' God usually testifies his displeasure against it in this Life 2. There is an unusefulness which will infallibly bring Eternal Misery upon whoever is guilty of it If it be not so you must question the plainest discoveries of the Gospel of Truth Obj. 2. How shall I know the kind and degree of that unusefulness that will certainly bring Eternal Misery from that which a godly Man may be guilty of thro' weakness and temptation Ans. A full Answer to this and the other Objections may be gathered from what is largely insisted on in the former heads But because some may not so easily apply that to such particular cases I shall therefore give you these short hints 1. The Unusefulness of any good Man is such as doth consist with an unfeigned dedication and habitual devotedness of himself and all he hath to God in Christ and this is persevered in He is no Believer or good Christian that is not thus devoted to God and such unusefulness as is consistent with this is not a Mark of Hell But that unusefulness which is not consistent with unfeigned dedication and habitual devotedness to God in Christ is an infallible Mark of Eternal Misery if persisted in 2. He that shall escape Eternal Misery is not unuseful in the prevailing scope of his life but every Son of Perdition is so the course of his life is unprofitable and thence he is denominated unfruitful in his best State the stated bent of his Soul is to do more hurt than good 3. What good he doth who shall escape Hell he usually doth it in uprightness from love and obedience to God with a believing respect to God in Christ but the Child of Wrath in whatever seeming good he doth hath a greater regard to carnal considerations and acteth not from Faith Love and obediential regard to God 4. The good Man repents of and bewails his unusefulness when convinced of it and heartily desires to know wherein he is culpably unuseful that he may reform as well as by Faith in Christ sue out his Pardon upon repenting of it But the ungodly is hardened in his unusefulness unwilling to know it set against reforming if not insensible of his need of Pardon yea oft justifies himself in his selfish unprofitable course 5. The true Christian is truly glad and thankful when God doth most encline and enlarge his heart to overcome his selfishness and to act in the most useful serviceable manner tho' no carnal respects of his own be served thereby yea tho' loss reproach and suffering attend it so God be but honoured and a common good subserved But the carnal Man if he hath been over-ruled to any thing which proves useful yet if his own Credit or wordly Benefit be not advantaged and much more if he comes to suffer by it he is grieved and repenteth of what he hath done whatever honour God receives or benefit others get thereby By
only them I shall distribute them under three Heads 1. Such things as are needful to incline them to become intently willing to employ themselves in serving a Common Good Ability without a readiness of mind to and solicitousness for the Honour of God and good of Men will never make us serviceable To ingage your Hearts herein it 's necessary 1. That you have a believing view of invisible things Of God as he who hath a full Authority over you to command you to this Work as he who hath an absolute Propriety in you and yours and therefore may dispose of you and all you have to what Service he pleases to refuse which is Sacriledge in you who have dedicated your selves to him Believe a Judgment-Day when you must Account for all keep sight of Christ who bought Souls with his Blood and whom it cost so much to Redeem you for his Service be at a certainty about the worth of Souls your own and others And of the dreadful Misery of such who die unconverted or unfruitful realize sinners woful state when they cry Come and help us Acts 16.9 and thy own if thou refusest Beg Faith of Christ who is the Author and the Finisher of it This is that by which unseen things are evident Heb. 11.1 without which Evidence we lose what must affect and move us in our service to Souls Knowing the terror of the Lord we persuade Men 2 Cor. 5.11 Every Man's unbelief is equal to his unserviceableness and as our Faith is will our usefulness be 2. Love to God and Man is needful to excite us to Usefulness This constrains us to express our gratitude to God who hath done so much for us when miserable and to be beneficial to Men whose Misery we believe and pity Strong Love will answer all those Excuses which have their rise in Enmity to God and Men the remains whereof govern the best Man as far as he is unprofitable By this Divine Passion poor Endeavours will be disdained and the most expensive be no cause of regret yea a pleasure riseth with the height of the performance and God's inclining us to do so much becomes the very Matter of our Praises to him as 1 Chron. 29.14 15. Keep then this holy Fire blazing it will always point you work and find you strength to do it Nay it will put you to pain whiles unemployed and make you solicitous that it be to purpose This this was it put Paul in travel till Christ was formed in those Gal. 4.19 3. A Publick Spirit is also needful to the same End This is the immediate effect of Love it 's the Heart dilated by it This is the next Spring that sets all the Wheels in motion which otherwise stand still within the Precincts of narrow self How became David such a publick Blessing he tells you Psalm 137.6 If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief Ioy let my right-hand forget her cunning The vastest Stock is productive of little in that Man's Hand who is all for himself whether self in his own Person or self in his Family yea or self in his own Party and Faction But a Publick Spirit will be contriving and aiming at a common Benefit above his own in this will such a one delight and this he must pursue because it moves as a common Soul related to and concerned in all Men well knowing God hath an interest in each and ones self to be but a small part of the whole and therefore to be less regarded than that wherein God's glory is infinitely more displayed and from which a so far greater Tribute of Honour and Service will redound Therefore be earnest with God to enlarge thy Heart and bring it more under the power of that Relation wherein thou standest to the Catholick Church yea to all Men otherwise thou wilt be apt with Cain to say of thy very Brother Am I his Keeper Gen. 4.9 Own thy self with St. Paul a Debtor both to the Greeks and to the Jews to the Wise and to the Unwise Rom. 1.14 A narrow Spirit is a common Plague abhor and deprecate it as Unchristian and Inhumane while it prevails I can hardly hope thou canst get to Heaven but all may freely say it 's no matter how soon it be that thou wert there Look at Christ who made himself Poor that he might make many Rich 2 Cor. 8. 9. and blush that thou wearest his Name whiles thy Money Rusts and so many Poor do starve But happy is that Publick Spirit that can scarce relish his own Felicity when he sees so many Miserable but is bound with them that are in bonds Heb. 13.3 by this Spirit a Man is bent for God and a Publick Good and without it all beyond self in that cursed self is as nothing to him a meer Galio caring for neither God nor Souls Church nor State You see that to encline you to Eminent Usefulness you must get improve and exercise Faith and Love with a Publick Spirit these will employ your Abilities for service 2. If you would be eminently Useful you must get such things as will fix and relieve you against those Difficulties which attend eminent Usefulness Good Inclinations and Resolves will be tried in a course of publick Service and as the Trials will be different our Preservatives and Supports should be as various Indeed Faith Love and a publick Spirit which excite a Man to great Attempts for a publick Good do also yield Relief against discouragement in the prosecution of them Yea Faith derives supporting Strength from Christ as he is our Head of Influence as well as Conduct But besides these 1. Be truly humble The proud Heart will scorn to stoop to many things which Publick Service requires nor endure the Debasements which it will expose to and so the Work will be half done at first and forsaken at last as too grating on a proud Spirit which formeth Projects more agreeable to an aspiring Mind But if you are cloathed with Humility you 'll be fitted to stoop cheerfully to what ever your Work calls you to condescend and with easiness of Mind to endure the Contempt which you 'll meet with from such you design to be useful to Can you without great Humility use such plain Words as the Ignorant understand inculcate the same thing often admit a familiar Freedom to the Poor and Mean go into nasty Cottages hear much Weakness and Nonsence without discouraging the Silly from saying any more Can you and not be humble become all things to all Men that you may win some and be a Servant to all that you may gain the more 1 Cor. 9.19 21. Yea you may meet with Affronts and Scorns with Slanders and Reproach from the very poor whom you endeavour to benefit in Soul and Body too Pride will soon disdain all such Work but so must not you unless you cease to be a Publick Blessing Be humble i. e. look at your selves vile Dust and Ashes as bad
by Nature as the most wicked you would Reform and worthy to be as poor as the most Indigent you 〈◊〉 and not too good to be employed 〈…〉 in the meanest Services 〈◊〉 really honoured to be used in such as this 〈…〉 irs and this seems har 〈…〉 s too debasing ask may not that 〈◊〉 better fit me which was in Christ Iesus my Lord who made himself of no reputation Phil. 2.5 2. Be weaned from the World mortified to all in it and well content with what God hath reserved in Heaven for you what you make your Portion that will prescribe your Work If your Happiness is confined to Flesh and Time you 'll soon quit what seldom contributes to it and is daily exposing it to hazard yea oft to ruine Even Publick Spirited Men for their Country venture all in common Danger yet after Success they get the least it 's oft more than so with Men who are engaged for the Testimony of Christ and good of Souls Worldly Affections can never drive this Trade Covetousness Effeminateness fondness of Relations excessive love of Life Ease and Pleasure will obstruct you when the Expences Losses Pains and Dangers of Eminent Undertakings present themselves Therefore be Crucified to the World if ever you would be Useful in it and let it be a dead Carkass in your Account if you would not be hindred by it in your best Designs Cherish Heavenly Affections and with pleasure oft view your chosen Portion otherwise an irregular Appetite will press too hard to let you be much of long engaged in a Work that 's so far from gratifying it This way Moses became so profitable to his People Heb. 11.25 26. and Paul to Iews and Gentiles 2 Cor. 5.12 15 18. 3. Get true Christian Fortitude And this will unite fix and steel the Heart against all Onsets which try your Patience Courage and Resolutions Rev. 2. 3. A pusillanimous Man will refuse what 's difficult and forsake what 's dangerous or so demean himself under it as to frustrate a good Effect The truest Courage will be put to a stand for Satan singleth out the eminently Useful to level all his Darts against his own Votaries he 'll employ to persecute them whatever in civil Men is to be made use of shall conspire to make your Work difficult and you unhappy and uneasie nothing shall be wanting to terrifie or bribe you to tire or distress you Rev. 2.102.3 2. Envy also still accompanieth signal usefulness which oft renders your Friends more grievous to you than your professed Enemies In every Age it 's found the spirit within us lusteth to envy Jam. 4.5 I wish all good Men yea we Ministers could also find with the Apostle but God giveth more grace Yet as unreasonable and devilish as Envy is you must expect it and be prepared to endure the Effects thereof but still with a Mind no more averse from your Work or indifferent to it other than avoid all Oftentation to conceal what of your Work you can and to but omit none unless you can get it done by another hand 3. If you are called to serve your Generation by opposing the Errors or Church-dividing Practices of any considerable Sects pretending to Zeal for Truth tho' never so falsly and to a purer Form of Administration tho' in all that highly Superstitious you 'll find those violent and base Methods to asperse and sink you which very Pagans would abhor to use yet this must not abate your Testimony nor incline you in the least to betray the Truth or to seem to approve of their Unchristian Attempts against the Common Good neither suffer your Spirit to be infected and debased to a resemblance of theirs in Malice Rancour Wrath Rage or Revengefulness which is so contrary to the Spirit of Christ as to make you justly suspect you were no appointed Advocate for his Truth and Interest And alike careful must you be that the highest provocations prevail not with you to vindicate your self by ways that all things duly considered appear a greater damage to the Publick Good than the single Interest of your Person can countervail I have given you some hints of the Exercise which you ought to provide against lest a surprize cause you to quit or disserve the Blessed Work you are called to 4. Yet it 's true it may prove more creditable safe and easie if it be only beneficial to Men's Bodies or Estates for against that sort Satan and the World make less resistance unless it affect the Publick in somewhat wherein Factions are concerned Yea it may be less hazardous and grievous if it profit Mens Souls if it be only in points which Christ hath gained a reputation to and that you have many to assist you in the Defence of especially if your motion be but equal with those many because such things are familiarized or have obtained a greater interest in the Consciences of Men and the remaining Stream of Opposition is divided 5. But the most eminent Usefulness is much determined to those points which are difficult as still deciding and wherein the Interest of Christ in your Day and Place is the subject of a present Contest between Christ with his Instruments on the one side and Satan with his on the other In such cases there will be great opposition as far as Satan can influence any either by their Ignorance Malignity worldly Considerations Pride or Custom c. And generally the Contenders on Christ's part are at first but few especially the more eminent ones and therefore it necessarily follows that such must be exposed It were easie to instance all this in the case of introducing the Gospel where it was not before in the reformation of Worship or Discipline where they have been corrupted in opposing and detecting false Doctrines which many have imbibed and long entertained in reclaiming a degenerate People from evil practises much indulged in resisting incroaching Errors and Disorders abetted by a considerable Number of great Zealots especially if they have some plausible Pretensions suited to the disposition of sober ignorant People and that some more than common Spirit and Fervour do attend the Seducers which is very usual But this is less needful having cautioned you as to the Snares and fore-warned you of the Danger 6. Therefore may not I with reason ask you Can a feble Mind or unfortified Heart persist in great Endeavours and in the face of such Dufficulties steadily pursue his glorious End No he must succumb and will quit the plainest and most important Truth or Duty The Interest of Christ will say of these as in Paul's case No Man stood with me all these Men forsook me 2 Tim. 4.16 Therefore watch against all declinings in holy Christian Courage meerly natural will not serve tho' it 's a good preparative pray with hope for renewed Vigour that you may find as Psalm 69.32 your Heart shall live that seek God and that he is the strength of your Heart when
utmost Wisdom God vouchsafes you a neglect whereof will aggravate your disappointment as well as conduce thereto But my chief design under this Head is to convince you of the necessity of Wisdom in the whole course of Publick Usefulness that so you may become more earnest with God for this careful to excie your Souls to the constant exercise of it Without Wisdom you cannot rightly judge of the work of your Generation a mistake wherein is dangerous to your great End it 's so tho' it should be no other mistake than to overlook one of the more principal parts of it and take up with what is next to it as plainer easier or safer yea if it lies in several things and you neglect but the least How needful is Wisdom to discern which is our present Duty and what the greatest Good when several appear in competition yea often there 's need of exquisite Skill in an Affair of Publick consequence to determine but what will do more good than hurt He hath not well observed that thinks it always easie to judge what 's the most proper Duty in each Company and wherein they need most to be benefited especially the fittest Seasons Opportunities and Methods to apply suitable Means to effect that Good which they severally stand in greatest need of and are most capable of receiving It 's hard to accommodate your selves to the various tempers and circumstances of your very Acquaintance and know whom when and how to Reprove Encourage Examine Exhort or Relieve so as to be most beneficial to each within the limits of your power and according to your different obligations tho' to the extent of it Great discretion is necessary to judge of Obstacles and to demean your selves under them as may most conduce to your Publick Usefulness to know when and how to strive to remove or oppose them when it 's best to connive and be silent How to avoid the Imputation of Rashness and foolish Zeal in the former and of Lukewarmness and Cowardize in the latter for Publick Usefulness will be affected by both In like manner there is use of Wisdom towards such as drive on the same good design with you as well as towards them who oppose if you are younger that the elder may not by Envy or Suspicion be tempted to divert you from your work or give you disquiet in it To avoid which serve with them in humility as Sons with a Father Phil. 2. 22. If you be elder that the younger's rashness unfixedness and less experience give not Satan an advantage to prevent which do not discourage or despise but assist and countenance them But be they inferiors equals or superiors who do contribute to a common good He that will be eminently useful and give up himself to it had need of greatest Wisdom to govern himself towards each for a little acquaintance with the World will discover in most men so much of either humour pride envy selfishness covetousness suspition cowardliness unconcernedness for the Publick unfixedness sloth ignorance credulousness or aptness to be imposed on by designing men as will force the observing to fix this Conclusion and govern themselves by it They that will be most useful in their Generation must spend do adventure and suffer most and yet must resolve to allow intreat connive yield thank forbear forgive deny themselves and endure most whatever persons they have to deal with and thus make the best use of all for a common good Who is sufficient for these things but with thee O Lord who employest whom thou wilt nothing is impossible A stammering Moses a suspitious Gideon a childish Ieremiah did succeed in that whereto thou didst appoint them Surely by all this you are induced to seek earnestly for Wisdom Ask it daily of God through Christ who giveth liberally for direction to do as well as suffer and upbraideth not Iames 1. 5. dependingly hope He will guide me by his Counsel and afterwards bring me to Glory Psal. 73. 24. I have finished the second general Head viz. an account of what 's needful to bring a man to eminent Usefulness who is capable of it under which you have heard that his Soul must be excited to undertake it by Faith Love and a Publick Spirit 2. Be relieved against the Difficulties attending it which is by Humility Mortifiedness to the World and Christian Fortitude 3. He must facilitate his Success by Prayer to God a due behaviour before Men and true Wisdom in the management of all his Endeavours 3. I shall evidence the Excellency of this Character To be an eminently Useful Man is no empty Title without real worth God approves of it Angels and good Men highly esteem it yea there 's that in every man which now secretly and in time will publickly allow this man to be the best the wisest and the greatest Eminent Usefulness greatly differeth from its Counterfeits This is no pragmatical business in other men's matters but a faithful discharge of our Obligations to God and our fellow Creatures Neither is it a Pharisaical Proseliting to a Sect which doth narrow and weaken Christ's Interest proving oft as fatal to the Church yea to Men's selves as their walking at large in the World would be no it 's an intentness to promote mere Christianity and unaffected Godliness which reforms the World edifies the Church and saves the Souls of Sinners in proportion to its success It 's what advanceth Men above the Rank of ordinary Christians who are Babes to these grown Men Shrubs to these Cedars very cyphers if not blemishes and burthens compared with these Men of Name these common Blessings these Witnesses to a Divine Life and Ornaments of Religion who bear up the Pillars of the Church yea of the Earth to each of whom we Weaklings may say as they to David Thou art worth 10000 of us This will appear if you consider 1. It 's an extraordinary honour to be singled out by God eminently to serve our Generation What can be more glorious than to be singled out as David from among his Brethren to effect God's benign purposes to multitudes when most Men are useless yea hurtful their Names are registred among the Worthies of Israel and famous in Bethlehem Ruth 4. 11. This is that Moses Acts 7. 37. Being publick Blessings they with Iabez are more honourable than their Brethren I Chron. 4. 9. No Office reflects honour but with respect to that usefulness to which it obligeth and or which it capacitates 2. It argues a most God-like and Excellent Spirit He is good and doth good Psal. 119 68. He is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which was visibly instanced in our Lord Jesus He went about doing good Acts 10. 38. to Souls and Bodies in whom is this so exemplified as in the signally useful whose activity fixedness labours designs and beneficence correspond to Christ's allowing for our contracted Capacities In such a Man many Graces and Virtues are associated nay which
can be wanting yea or weak in the Constitution of this Person he also must be greatly cleansed from those dregs which debase divert and deaden the less useful He seems to breath in another Air to be of another make and governed by contrary Inclinations and Rules than most of Mankind be I had like to have said Christians hence he is too often branded as less prudent because he walks by Rules so much above what poor and narrow Souls embrace and postponeth those things beyond which a vulgar spirit cannot derive a Motive Let us remark a few Scripture Instances lest all appears a meer speculation behold Queen Esther taking her Life in her hand to save her People did not she then love her People above her Life Esth. 4. 16. Moses neglected God's Offer to advance his Family and intercedeth for the Nations safety as if he had hated his own house Numb 14. 12 17. What Dominion over Covetousness Selfishness and Cowardice did Nehemiah manifest whiles by acting their contraries he repaired Ierusalem established God's Worship among the Captives restored by his means Without ostentation he might say Should such a one as I flie Neh. 6. 11. Mordecais mind was well ballasted that under such Advancement retained such Goodness and Meekness as still to seek the Weal of his People and speak Peace to all his Seed Esth. 10. 3. How could Caleb and Ioshua refuse to frame their Account to the Humour of the Multitudes but that that they had a more Excellent Spirit than the other Spies Numb 14. 24. Oh the magnanimity zeal for God love to Souls contempt of the World and unwearied vigour and largeness of heart which governed Paul to his extensive Usefulness which might be instanced in the other Apostles and Martyrs yea those illustriously shine in every eminently useful Christian It 's the excellency of their Spirit which forms such vast Designs and enables to the unwearied pursuits thereof Divine Influence inspires them and keeps their Minds above what 's mean and selfish beyond what 's narrow and sordid yea so widens and enflames them that their Spheres prescribe the only Limit to their Attempts how far would they relieve reform and improve the Church the Nation yea the World were it but in their power Judge the Spirit by the use others make of the same Abilities how useless how hurtful 3. The eminently Useful have more manifest grounds for a comfortable Death than others can expect Death makes a great discovery of the true Value of things whatever renders this safe and easie we ought highly to esteem as Men assured it 's our Passage into Eternity and puts a period to our Preparations for it In the grave there 's no work nor device to change our State or improve our Meetness for an unseen World Eccles. 9. 10. Therefore whatever is the best Evidence of our Title to Eternal Life and the greatest Meetness for it that must afford ground of highest Comfort when Self-love and the nearness of Eternity gives Death an awakening power 1. I shall prefix a Caution 2. Prove what I assert 1. For Caution The Mistakes of weakly designing Men necessitate me to acquaint you it 's Christ only who procured a safe and comfortable Death by meriting our Pardon and a Right to Eternal Glory with a happy Resurrection It 's by Faith only that a Regenerate Penitent looks to rely on and receives Christ as our Atoning Saviour for Pardon and Life according to his Promises in the Gospel which Promises with the included Benefits are purchased only by Christ's Obedience and applied as an Effect thereof whenever they are applied The Qualifications which the Gospel appoints in him whom the Promises invest in its Benefits are no causes of those Benefits nor any part of the Righteousness which procured them But Christ using his Gospel as an Instrument in the Governing and Saving of Sinners and pleading with them his purchased Benefits for Motives to their Obedience to the Gospel as a Rule of Judgment It 's not sufficient to our comfortable Death that we believe that Christ obeyed and died to procure Pardon and a Right to Salvation for Penitent Believers but it must appear to us that we are partakers of that Pardon and Right to Life which must be by the Evidence of our Regeneration Repentance and Faith not one without the other nor either when we come to die without their genuine necessary Effects and each persevered in Vain hopes if we totally want whatever the Gospel Promises make indispensably needful to our obtaining Eternal Glory and the contrary whereto the Gospel threatneth with an Exclusion from Heaven Iohn 3. 3 36. Luke 13. 3. Heb. 12. 14. cap. 10. 38. He is fool hardy that dares die not knowing but that his Faith was the Faith of an unregenerate impenitent heart yea or satisfies himself with having thought he once at first had such a true Faith but is not sure that he persevereth therein that regards not any conformity to Christ. Universal Obedience sincere Holiness and Fidelity to God and Improvements of his Talents all which the Gospel so insists on as being fitter to give evidence than things more obscure or remote can be Mat. 10 33. and 25. 30. 2 Cor. 13. 5. Ephes. 5. 6. 2. I shall prove that the eminently Useful have more manifest grounds for a comfortable Death than others can expect for which end it will be sufficient that I evidence This eminent faithful usefulness is a most plain and infalible Evidence of our Title to Eternal Life and it also argueth a very great meetness for Heaven whence it will follow that the eminently faithful useful Man hath more manifest grounds for a comfortable Death than others can expect and consequently his Character is Excellent It tends to a comfortable Death as 1. It is a most plain and infallible Evidence of our Title to Eternal Life Faithful eminent usefulness is not only an evidence considered abstractedly but it gives evidence to the sincerity of all or most other Graces yea and receives it from them for by the in-being and activity of such Graces it subsisted and in it each of them expressed their vital power and sincerity and that not darkly but clearly not doubtfully but to full conviction so that the eminently useful Man hath the concurrent Testimony of every Grace in a light to which each contributes And it answers any just challenge that can be made to his having those several Graces and that in reality so that if Faith Repentance love to God a new Birth or Perseverance have Life promised to them and the sincerity thereof being evident to a Man must yield strong consolation then the eminently useful Man hath very abundant reasons of Comfort as to his interest in Eternal Life I shall evidence this by three things 1. Can he doubt the Truth of his several Graces Not of his Faith because he hath been thus signally excited by his assent to what Christ as Prophet hath
revealed and encouraged by trusting in his Saviours Merits Strength Testament and governed by the commands of Christ his received Lord and that in so faithful an Execution of his own Covenant Consent and Vows yea his Union to Christ is attested as well as his Faith by which he is united for his truly devoted fruitful life could proceed from and subsist by nothing lower than those Vital influences and supplies which came from Christ his Head and Root Gal. 2. 20. Phil. 1. 19 20 21. His Repentance also is unsuspected when he beholds his Lusts so subdued as not to hinder his living to God entirely as his end his Heart so altered in its purposes resolves and relishes that he could not live to carnal self but a common good wherein he delighted and spent himself He knows his former evil course is duly bewailed when so directly changed and that sin was truly hateful being he hath not only endeavoured the utter Mortification of it in himself but greatly laboured to rescue all others from the dominion and effects thereof He is sure of his new Birth when he reflects that nothing less could make my aims my temper and course to be so far conformed to Christ's as my devotedness to God's glory and to the benefit of Saints and Sinners doth attest 1 Ioh. 4. 17. Yea more a lower Principle than what was formed in Regeneration would never have lasted thus long and carried me thus far Ioh. 4. 14. 2. This eminently useful Man's stated course and contrivances repel a Jealousie that his love to God or Man or appearing Zeal was a painted Fire his Faith Hope or other Graces a dead Image because all these have vitally concurred to direct fix and strengthen his Labours to lay out his Talents drive a constant Trade and spend his life for Christ Ioh. 14. 21. 1 Ioh. 3. v. 16 17. Rom. 12. 11 12 13. And there is as little ground to question his Perseverance when he knows he was not taken off from publick serviceableness by his sloth fear weariness selfishness or change of purpose or designs yea that now he feels his Soul solicitous for and prepared unto a publick good were he but capable to contribute to it 3. Besides this Testimony from the evidence of such Graces as Life is promised to the useful Man is in a way likelier for comfort than others because the spirit of God doth not usually forbear to cast a light upon the Graces of such when they come to die but and that not rarely he makes them to behold his face and experience some foretasts of the approaching Glory so that with Moses they die at the Mouth of God with Stephen Act. 7. 57. as David 2 Sam. 23. 5. Yea besides this the useful Man is encouraged by the great things that passed between God and his Soul in bending him for and carrying him through those Attempts and Employments wherein he hath served the Will of God in his Generation many Answers of Prayer eminent Deliverances from Evil Supports when Fainting Revivings and Enlargements when tempted to Remissness frequent views of Christ and Heaven for renewal of Strength and the like which he hath oft experienced have so familiarized God and Christ to him and so fixed his Trust in his Goodness Truth and Word that he can quietly commit his Spirit to him And so from all put together having now fought a good fight finished his course and kept the faith he beholds that Crown of Righteousness hanging over his head which he knows his God will give him 2 Tim. 4. 8. and he hath an abundant entrance into God's Kingdom 2 Pet. 1. 11. 2. This eminent Usefulness argues a meetness for Heaven He can easily quit all worldly Enjoyments who valued Life it self but as a means for service and consecrated all he had as subservient to it This Man is not called off before his Work be done for his course is finished and the end of his being on Earth so fully answered Acts 13. 25. Heaven must be a real Rest to him after so much Labour and very suitable in the nature of it to one of so agreeable a disposition What welcome Company are perfected happy Souls when the contrary made the saving and healing of miserable Sinners to engage his Thoughts and command his Strength whiles he lived on Earth His Soul that was so enlarged by Grace for publick Use will be very receptive of those fuller Streams of heavenly Joys How will he be satisfied with more of God's likeness there when it will be but the perfection of what he judged so lovely as to strive so much to propagate it here Psalm 17. 14 15. This Publick Spirit will be ravished in contemplating and adoring a blessed God when he beholds how universal a Good he is yea and ever hath been by the Records of his Beneficence there published and explained whatever Employment Heaven allots for it 's no place of idleness he is greatly prepared for it who did heartily perform so much under the great disadvantages of this present state which did arise both from his Works and himself yea and such as he had to deal with So that this man is gathered when ripe he his even here a Vessel of Glory being so meet for his Masters use 2 Tim. 2. 21. Now how comfortable will Death be to a Man thus well assured of eternal Happiness and prepared for that wherein it will consist It cannot endanger nor hurt him he must rather desire than abhor or fear it when only a sense of present serviceableness where it is more needful hath reconciled useful Saints to a longer Life Phil. 1. 23 24. To such useful ones as Paul it belonged to triumph over Death rather than be afraid and welcome its approaches to enjoy that a regard whereto had made him so laborious 1 Cor. 15. 57 58. Thus I have represented the Grounds on which a very useful Man may die comfomfortably But can there be the like for an unuseful Person I am sure where a Life unprofitably spent through sloth negligence self-seeking and unfaithfulness to God doth stare a Man in the Face it 's a just challenge to his Hopes it justifies his Fears and he vainly expects Advantage by Death or Safety in dying Yea a Man who hath been Useful in lesser degrees through remissness and narrowness of Heart cannot but feel greater jealousie of his Condition than the eminently Useful yea he must make bitter reflections upon his past Life wherein he finds so many neglects and baulks So little Work done in so long a time and with so great a Stock and being self-conscious of the much greater Things he might have performed for a common Good sure he cannot without grief behold his season over whiles the Blood of Souls the Groans of a dying Church or a sinking Nation testifie against his departing Soul that omitted relieving them to his Power What work for Shame and Sorrow ay and Fears too will this
or ascribed the honour of past successes or performances to your selves Pour out your complaints and your apprehensions of your own weakness before the Lord who is full of pity and faithful and whose strength is manifest in our weakness 2 Cor. 12. 8 9. Be much in the contemplations of Heaven review your own experiences of seasonable sufficient supports when your fears were as great as at present and attentively think it 's but a little while and my work is over He that shall come will come and will not tarry and all the promises of perseverance were made to Souls in Eminent Service by doing and suffering which you may safely apply to your selves expecting those greater Consolations and Supplies which God will not disappoint you in 4. To useful Persons inclining to Remisness in the Service of their Generation The greatest part of this Discourse being so much directed to your Case I shall only advise you to renew your Covenant with God in Christ. Reflect on your selves what you found when vigorously useful and what you feel now in this declining Frame Enquire what forfeitures you have made of the Spirits quickening influences or what lust begins to invade your Souls or what Carnal thing is setting up for an Idol Pray earnestly for exciting Grace and be much in such Soliloquies as these Am not I a Redeemed Sinner and shall I neglect the interests of my Redeemer Shall I disregard the end of my Being break my Vows be false to my trust Is it not in well-doing that I grow weary Are my Talents less accountable for than they were or have I now more reason to think that my Abilities were not given for Publick use Where shall I stop if I recover not What shall I be doing the residue of my time if I cease to be useful What may I meet with to awaken me out of this slothful Sleep Do others less need my help or have I the leave of God to be remisser Can I think Christ a worse Master than before or Heaven less worthy of my pains Dare I commend the unprofitable part of Mankind that I am thus about to justify or condemn the eminently useful whom now I seem resolved to censure Must not I shortly on a Death-bed reflect on what a barren life I am going to live and the blessed Courses I put a stop too Have I done more already than Christ deserves at my hands who died for me or would I be content he should now more remissly intercede in my behalf Plead such things closely and frequently with your Hearts and force a deliberate answer that all may issue in fresh resolves to be more vigorous than ever and in shame and grief that you could be inclinable to remisness in Publick Service I shall conclude the whole with three cautions to all who are willing to serve their Generation 1. Equal nothing with the Publick which is short thereof especially your selves Let every thing have its due regard and no more Our esteem of things should be according to their value and our concern is irregular if dissonant from our just Esteem Moses words Exod. 32.32 If not blot me out of thy Book and St. Paul Rom 9.3 For I could wish that my self were accursed from Christ for my Brethren were not Absolute Desires but the regular indications of a Publick Spirit adjusting things as compared together A Common good is above a Particular and the more common still the more Estimable The very Reason why Divine Worship is proper to God is because he is Author of all above all and infinitely more than the whole Creation yea and we cannot but most intend his Glory in our undertakings as our regards are most extensive and make every thing a selfish Idol as we Postpone what 's more Publick to it Nevertheless the true Order is generally inverted Most Men do not account a Mischief or Benefit to be greater or less as they affect the Publick but as they affect themselves we begin and end at the wrong Point and Erect a false Standard when our main concern is how will such Publick Affairs Profit or Damage First My own Person then my own Family then my own Party then my own Nation if at all it will reach so far be warned against this preposterous course look at your selves but as small parts of the whole and to signifie no more than as the Publick is advantaged by you Acknowledge the interest all have in you according to their True Order and your Capacity and obligation to be serviceable to each Be uniform in your Course and let God in a Common good as such be your Governing end Fill up each Place and relation you stand in let each have a due regard and no more Your own Families the particular Church you belong to and the Catholick Church above that also your own City and Nation and the World let all these have their due and this in just order and proportion not exclusively of each other Your Prayers must reach the World your Mental Communion the Catholick Church Occasional Communion to others then that wherein you are stated Members tho' in many things they differ from you In short confine not your Care Estate or Advice below or otherwise than that Mind will dictate which accounts the Body more valuable than a Member and a common Good than a particular If you are Ministers abhor a thought that your Office obligeth you to mind no more Souls than your own Flocks 2. Neglect not your selves whiles you mind the Publick Do not disregard your own Soul no nor Body neither keep the last in a fitness for Service and be ever watchful that the first be in a meetness for Glory and improving for it Work out your own Salvation with fear and trembling Phil. 2.13 Receive your selves the Christ and Mercy you offer to others look not so Abroad as to forget you have a Home yea labour to affect and profit your own Souls by all your endeavours to profit others to walk in the light you give and to grow in Grace by doing all the good you can If you are Ministers oft think of 1 Cor. 9.27 I keep under my Body and bring it into subjection lest that by any means when I have preached to others I my self should be a cast away 3. Disregard not the first or least declinings in those Graces that are the springs of publick Service but be intent to get their vigorous Exercise restored as soon as you perceive abatement Very imperfect Actings will follow decaying Graces and strengthening the last is the way to perfect the first Rev. 3.2 As Ephesus decayed in her first love she abated her first works Rev. 2.4 5. which were Labours and Sufferings for publick use v. 3. Unbelief enmity to God and Man and a narrow Spirit grow as Faith Love and a publick Spirit weaken and those will as much obstruct your Usefulness as these contribute to it they will pervert your
Judgment abate your Delight aggravate your Difficulties frame Excuses find Diversions enervate Motives and many other ways lessen your Service and as they grow they tend to still further Abatements in the opposite Graces Oh! where will these declensions stop if you allow them And every Day you will be less able and disposed to recover your former strength and consequently be less sure and fit to serve your Generation 2 Obs. The usefullest persons die David fell asleep Shall I represent this as a Warning or as an Encouragement to Service It hath something of both and in each respect it 's a strong Motive to serve our Generation 1. It 's a Warning to be useful whiles you live for Work or Loyter you Death is daily making its Approaches and when it seizeth it will be in vain to wish to be spared for greater use or resolve to do what you hitherto neglected Death sets a period to our Endeavours to benefit the Church or Nation our Friends or Relations they can expect no further advantage by us Therefore in a sence of your own frailty and the certainty of dying within a short while resolve with our blessed Saviour Ioh. 9.4 I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day the night cometh when no Man can work It 's a Mercy to have nothing undone which God gave us Life for and to be finishing it when the Arrest of Death is felt 2. It 's an Encouragement to such as faithfully serve their Generation The usefullest fall asleep not indeed if it were such a sleep as rendred the separated Soul unactive for continued Service here would be more pleasing and profitable to them than such a sleep as that but it 's a rest from Labour tho' not from Work from Pain but not from Pleasure to the departed Soul which will be with Christ and tho' separated for a while is sure to be re-united to the Body at the Resurrection It 's a Woe to the unprofited World that eminently useful Men are Dead for you can hope for no further help nor expect any benefit by them they left you barren and miserable after all their Labours and must be terrible Witnesses against you It 's a loss to the Church and Nation that such eminently useful Men must die the Defence Glory and Blessing of a People are removed what an open breach is made The Earth's endangered by removal of such Pillars These are the Chariots of Israel and the Horse-men thereof 2 King 13. 14. There be but few such among the multitude of Christians and their loss is not easily made up but to the faithful eminently useful Saint it 's a privilege he shall die being all such are not to be translated he would not live always Job 7.16 for by Death he goes into better company he 'll be freed from a weight that clogg'd him tho' he moved so fast the Sin and Sorrow he felt he is to feel no more he shall enjoy Christ in another manner relish Pleasures in a higher way and possess what he hoped and waited for Death must be his great Advantage to whom faithful and publick Service is his very Business and Trade whiles he liveth To me to live is Christ and to die is Gain Phil. 1.21 22. Instead of the Application of this Doctrine I shall turn my Discourse to the Occasion of our present Meeting the Death of your Pastor Dr. Samuel Annesley in whom we have the whole Text exemplified he served his Generation and he is fallen asleep In the last part a just cause of Mourning is presented with respect to many more than our selves in the former a lively Example is proposed for our imitation as to both here 's a convincing instance We see it 's possible for Men in our Age to serve their Generation and yet the greatest Usefulness prevents not Death for he who was so eminently Useful lies now Dead He began early he continued long and never ceas'd to serve his Generation until by Death he was allowed to rest from his Labours He was born of very godly Parents at Kellingworth near Warwick Anno 1620. and their only Child The Name Samuel was appointed for him by his eminently Pious Grand-mother who died before his Birth and gave this reason for her desire that he should be so called I can say I have asked him of God His Infancy was as strangely impressed with the thoughts of being a Minister to which his Parents dedicated him from the Womb which so transported him from 5 or 6 years old as to engage him to unusual Industry in what improv'd him in order to it then it was he took up a custom which he always observed viz. Reading 20 Chapters in the Bible every Day Our God to whom the end is known from the beginning was as provident in forming him for great Service as he was forward in those indications that he should be employed therein this appeared in the hale and hardy constitution of his Body which was such as to endure the coldest Weather without Hat Gloves or Fire For many years he seldom drank any thing besides Water his Sight so strong that to his Death he read the smallest Print without Spectacles and in a Life lengthened to his 77th Year He was rarely sick his Natural capacity was good and his temper vigorous and warm which his Grace over-ruled mostly to undertake those excessive Labours and sustain the Difficulties which without a Body and Mind so fashioned had been impossible in so long a course of Service And this vigour he so retained to his very Death as if God would give an instance That the servour of some Mens Souls in his Work were either independent on the Body or their Bodies with Moses were still repaired even to Old Age when he designeth extraordinary Services by them But which was more he was not only thus separated but also sanctified from the Womb oft since declaring He never knew the time he was not Converted About 15 Years of Age he went to Oxford where he gave such Instances of his Piety and Diligence as would engage a Recital if I resolved not to omit these with all other things tho' very laudable except his Usefulness his ripe Fruits which fed so many my regard is to A Heart so naturally bent for God's Glory and the good of Souls cou'd admit no longer delays from Work than what a due fitness for it and a regular call unto it made necessary yet so long Conscience obliged him to desist he well knowing that the strongest desires of Ministerial Work in the unqualified and uncalled will not justifie their usurpation of the Office nor prevent Disorders and Damage to the Church and themselves by their publick performances He began to cast his Net as Chaplain to the Earl of Warwick then Admiral and thence removed to Cliff in Kent where he met with a Storm more tempestuous than at Sea for the people of that Place being fond of
and tended to make him a successful Blessing or his Heart and Hands had failed He was a Man of great uprightness he squared not his Profession by his Secular Interest tho' he had a large Family yet he quitted a full Maintenance rather than sin against God by Conformity Before then he was turned out of his Lecture and kept out a while because he could not comply with some Extravagancies of the late Times and since hath he suffered because he must witness for the Old Truth against Antinomianism His Integrity made him a Stranger to all Tricks and sometimes his Charity betrayed him to be impos'd on by such as use them His Humility was signal he seemed to have the meanest Opinion of his own Gifts and Labours highly esteeming others and envying none no not the acceptance of our promising young Ministers He might say with David I prayer as if made up of that Every Day he prayed twice in his Family to the last moment that he was capable His usual way was to pray 3 or 4 times a day in his Study Upon every extraordinary Occurrence in his House he kept a Fast. Under every Affliction before he would speak of it or pitch on means to redress it he spread it still before God in Prayer which brought him tho' a most affectionate Husband to bear the News of his Wives death with that composure as calmly to say The Lord gave the Lord hath taken away blessed be the Name of the Lord. And after the greatest Losses he was used to speak of them with an unconcernedness as if anothers not his own In Prayer he was mighty and the returns remarkable and frequent He could trust God with all and was still resigned to his Will His solicitous concern was that God might not be dishonoured When he lay Sick this was oft repeated Oh! that I may not dishonour God in my last moments whom in my poor manner I made it the business of my Life to honour Oh! that I may not dishonour my God by my impatience Being one Night under exceeding torture he called his Daughter then present and charged her not to entertain one hard thought of God by any thing he felt but be assured he is infinitely Merciful and none are happy but those that serve him he gives peace of Conscience that 's beyond all the World can give none can die cheerfully but a Christian he shines on my Soul through Christ. God and Heaven were so habituated to him that in some disorder in his Head by his Distemper fixing there he still kept the same Savour breathed the same Spirit and spake of Divine Matters most consistently His Head was not free of those Projects for God which in Health it was ever full of I 'll end this with Mr. Baxter's who knew not how to flatter or fear any Man Account of him Dr. Annesley is a most Sincere Godly Humble Man totally devoted to God Mr. B's Life Having hinted some things that respect the Excellency of this Person some may whisper but what Tokens of God's Favour had this useful Man more than others he had many Troubles and Exercises God testified his Favour to him in Instances which he most esteemed and pursued above all things yea dispised and renounced all compared therewith which is enough to testifie him a happy Man what ever he endured or wanted God kept him faithful in his Work to the last for which he thus thanked God on his Death-Bed Blessed be God I can say I have been faithful in the Work of the Ministry above 55 Years He had great success in his Work many called him Father as the Instrument of their Conversion the worthy Mr. Brand was one many called him Comforter In all his sufferings he found supports which kept him as chearful as his Office and Age allowed under all yea 17 weeks pain without a discontended Word or Thought Signal returns of Prayer he frequently had and very close Communion with God in Christ. His Charity and Care wanted not comfortable Effects How many whom he contributed to the Education of are useful Ministers In how many Places doth Religion flourish by his means God gave him a great Interest in the Hearts of most Ministers and serious People How oft and long did they pray for his Life as a publick Blessing And how generally is his Death lamented He thankfully owned God in all He signally witnessed for him in his Judgments on several of his Persecutors One died signing a Warrant to apprehend him Many might be instanced but it 's fit we cover such in acknowledgment of present Quiet He had uninterrupted peace and assurance of God's Covenant-Love for above 30 years last past It 's true he walked in Darkness for several years before that which is common to those who are converted in Childhood their change not being remarkable and so apter to be questioned and they oft make up in a long time by frequent returns the sad hours that others have pressing in at once But God had a further design viz. The fitting and enclining him to relieve wounded Consciences by his Ministry and Discourse wherein he was so Eminent that most troubled Souls resorted to him He used to say that this made him unable to preach a Sermon without some Word to them This Assurance had not one Cloud in all his Disease He oft said I 've no doubt nor shadow of doubt all 's clear between God and my Soul he Chains up Satan he cannot trouble me To conclude all He had an abundant entrance into God's Kingdom He was reconciled to Death yea so desirous of it as hardly induced him to have his Life prayed for But hearing some Ministers had been servently praying for his Life he replied I 'm then more reconciled to Life than ever for I 'm confident God will not give a Life so eminently in answer of Prayer as mine must be if he would not use it to greater purposes than ever before Yet some little time before his change his desires of Death appear'd strong and his Soul filled with the foretasts of Glory oft saying Come my dearest Jesus the nearer the more precious the more welcome Another time his joy was so great that in an extasie he cried out I cannot contain it what manner of Love is this to a poor Worm I can't express the thousandth part of what praise is due to thee we know not what we do when we offer at praising God for his Mercies it 's but little I can give but Lord help me to give thee my All. I 'll die praising thee and rejoice that there 's others can praise thee better I shall be satisfied with thy likeness satisfied satisfied Oh my dearest Jesus I come Now do not you think Christ is worth the faithfullest Service which ends in this manner To you of this Congregation for whose Salvation he was so concerned shall I say bewail the loss of him when you are so sensible Yet that 's but Just. Bless God for your enjoying his faithful Labours so long see that none of you perish after such pains to save you be established in the Truths you have heard which you see governed his Life to such great purposes and helped him to die with sure Triumph Shew your regard to his Memory by kindness to his Family and by not breaking off from this Church that he may not be reflected on by your giddiness as if he Taught you no better or Established you no more than to be deluded to serve a Carnal Turn in pretence of greater Purity You his Children live your Fathers Advice and Example or what a Witness will he be against you Let us all go hence with a due sence of it The World hath lost a Blessing the Church hath lost a Pillar the Nation hath lost a Wrestler with God the Poor have lost a Benefactor You his People have lost a Faithful Pastor his Children a Tender Father we in the Ministry an Exemplary Fellow Labourer FINIS There is now in the Press A COMPLEAT HISTORY of the most Remarkable Providences both of Iudgment and Mercy which have happened in this present Age Extracted from the best Writers the Authors own Observations and the numerous Relations sent him from divers Parts of the Three Kingdoms To which is added whatever is Curious in the Works of Nature and Art The whole digested into one Volume under proper Heads being a Work set on foot 30 Years ago by the Reverend Mr. Pool Author of the Synopsis Criticorum and since undertaken and finished by William Turner M. 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