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A45184	The bow of Jonathan with the flower de Luce in a funeral lamentation committed to the men of Judah : parallelled and applyed to that worthy his compeere Robert Lucy of Charlcote in the county of Warwick, Esquire, lately deceased : in a sermon preached at Charlcote / by Richard Hunt ...	Hunt, Richard.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3741; ESTC R32357	22,399	42

wounded not his Liver Eyes or Ears The quiver of Christ puts three better into your hands The 1. is the Light of Scripture in this the Man of God must guide and give you aim 2. Is the Death of Nature this directs you to the life of grace The 3. is the day of Censure which keeps you in the fear of God The three first of Satans arrows he was free from and afraid of The three last he was much exercised in and well acquainted with his Example he hath bequeathed to you The Legacy Dear Mistris he hath left to you is comprised in three Counsels Have Purity in your Religion Erpenius Arab. Prov. Patience in your Condition and Prudence in your Conversation To you all and as many as follow these Rules peace be upon them and mercy and upon the Israel of God Gal. 6.16 which is in fine the vote of Your loving Countryman and humble Servant in Christ Jesus RICHARD HUNT JONATHANS BOW 2 SAM 25.26 Oh Jonathan thou wast slaine in thine high places I am distressed for thee my Brother Jonathan very pleasant hast thou been unto me thy love to me was wonderful passing the love of women IT was a solemn custome of the Hebrews to visit the graves of their Friends thereby to remind themselves of their mortalitie Novarin schedas lib. 5. sect 73. and the Bells of Aarons priestly coat were placed in the fringe and bottome of his garment to signifie to the people Origen in Exod. 28. that their passing-bell was alwayes tolling that they might consider their latter ends the bottome of life to them and the judgement to follow after Death David the sweet Singer of Israel accordingly hath lost a friend and for his commemoration and obsequies is musing on a Funeral Song whose name and title must be new and singular which himself will compose and set and then commit in charge to the men of Judah and their children sons and daughters to sing in the houses and streets all abroad as well as to the Choristers in the Quire This singular friend is Jonathan who deserves to have a Song and Lesson set to himself and that is this the Bow of Jonathan so called not for any surmised meaning to set up Artillery in the Common-wealth of Judah Willet ad locum as it was commonly mistaken but to set up and advance the life and death of Jonathan a master at that art of shooting and so excellent a Bowman that he might without arrogancy compare what all that were past challenge all then present and set a sample to all posterity so famous in their Ages Alex. ab Alex. 2 Sam. 22. as that Sythians Parthians Persians and Roman Emperors at the Bow and unexampled skill of shooting might learn of him From the Blood of the slain and the fat of the mighty the Bow of Jon. turned not back That this is the proper and approved sense and intention of David in this Title and that the men of Judah should learn the tune is the importance of the Hebrew word Chesheth the word Bow set emphatically and independently by it self without relation before or after it Serrar Sancher Cor. a Lap. Mariana and Mr. Greg. on the Plar The Seventy Translation sounds no discord but a Ditty dedicate to Lamentation to the same tune the vulgar Latine the report of Josephus that the Elegie continued to his time the custome of Israel to endite their sonnets in this sort and the consent of Gentile Authors to give some signal name and title to their tracts and poesies This Monodie nene or Lamentation funeral was recorded in the Canon and lest that should miscarry or not be exposed to common view behold it is written in the Book of Jasher where every one might read it a Letanie to be sung and a Legacie entailed to the use and memory of Jonathan and generations after him that bare the Burden of the Song O Jonathan Hence by the way we learn that Interpreters are not all in one tune and the opinions of men are of like authority unless reason and learning shew the difference Titles of Musick Lessons are not to be tampered with by unskilful hands lest they mistake a figure for a vulgar forme and dance a false measure after their own fancy like him that took Orpheus harpe supposing to himself like our unstinted fumblers that he made good musick how unskilfully soever he handled it being as St. Paul says to Timothy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 men that love to hear themselves to sing or play Next to this we may consider with Solomon 2. Eccles 9.11 that the Race goes not alwayes with the swift as Asahel Mercer ex Midras Ibid. nor the Battle with the strong as Abner nor Bread to to the wise as Solomon nor Riches to men of understanding as Job nor Favour to men of skill as Moses for the swift sahel was overtaken the valiant Abner was slaine the wise Solomon by report beg'd his bread Job the wealthy was wasted to a potsheard and Moses lives not to enjoy a foot of the promised land And Jonathan how art thou made as heire apparent to the fortunes and successes of the most or all of them Proverbs how art thou cut down with the helve of thine own wood how wounded with the feathers of thine own wing how set in the stocks of thine own making how taken in thine own toyle falne in thine own pit roaring in thine own Bull slain by the bow of the Philistims thine own master-piece and weapon how doth time and chance untimely take thee away O Jonathan how wast thou slaine But now my Errand is to bend this Bow another way to teach the children of this coast and country the use of the Bow An ancient way of Triumphs was to erect great Arches or Bows of marble to the honour of worthy Patriots who had been Vindicators of their country against Enemies Pancirol de ●rcubus trium●h part 1. tit 28. and true deservers of renown and fame in these were written and inscrib'd the noble acts and atchievements done in memory of the actors hereof were thirty six at Rome and one thousand in the Eastern parts as in China This might be the mind of David and under favour of more knowing judgements may serve to instruct us that passe by to read and consider the merits and noble vertues of our deceased Friend and countreys Worthy who after many testimonies of grace and vertue exhibited in his life was at the last shot by a deadly Philistines arrow that drank up his Spirits riding a summers progress under the Sun that Apollo that in the camp of mankinde smites with his darts of Epidemical diseases here and there to Death Homer Il. 1. leaving us with David to erect his Arch to write his acts and publish his memorial When also all the hearts of the hearers may be so taken like untoucht instruments to resound and eccho