352 Beermatis Far6veil Sermon, Aug, 17. to them Fla}, ? Pawls i Secondly, their carriage i to him. Fir(}, Nut's behaviour towards them, that was very pious, as you may read from very. 17. to v. 37 . Secondly, the ...eoples behaviour towards their departing Miniller, which you have in the two lati verfes. Wherein is obfervable Fitt}, Z kve. Secondly, S their forrow. Fill}, their love, expreifedby kitting him, and accompanying him unto the fhip. Secondly, their forrow, expreffed by their weeping, they could not part with fuch a Miniikr with dry eys ; but faith the Text, They all wept foray, forrowidg 24911 of allfor the words which he fpake, that they lhould fee his face mare. They wept, and they all wept, and they all wept forely ; a fore weeping vv11,:n this Minitler and this people parted. From whence I note this, That there is occalion and matter of great iorrowwhen people lofe a godly Minifler. Paul was not the fiil Minifier that ever parted with a people, nor the E- phelians the firil people that ever lamented the Joffe of a faithful 1,,Ainiiler. See how th.: people lamented Samofi, i Sam. 2 5. a. And Samuel died, and all 'Padwas gathered together, and lamentedSamu- el, 0 t hi heave, chat powertul preaching Samuel is gone. How Eli 11,4 lament Elias, catching ho/c1 of his garments, and crying out, My father r' rn my father, the Chariots of 'frac', and the Horfeen thereof. Chria him fel f when he far/ the Children of lfrael fcattet- ed abroad upon the mountains as fheep without a fhepheard,hovv did his bowels yern rowirds them ? but to name no more, take St. Ste- phen ("A1s 8. a. when Stephen was departed, dead and gone, devour men carried Stephen to his grave, and made great lamentations over him, they could not but lament to think that that noble, contagious, and heal-daunting Minliter fhould never preach more before them. When Chria vvis put to death, how did his followers lament him ? is it nor a lamentable fight to behold a poor weather-beaten rotten fhip, without Maf+ or Tackling, in a ternr:,$(i ? Good Lord what will be_ - CO-Me of the Shipand Mariners ? Is it a a fad fight to fee a flockof iheep invironed with a band ofwolves,, afl,d no fhepheard to prote& them ? thus it is with people when their f.finifier is gone. Miniflers therrifelves have wepr'ind lamented, whcr they have thought of parting from their own people, and that foe there two cvZts.
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