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cause_n	bring_v	good_a	let_v	1,459	5	4.0417	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76457	Ezekiel's prophesie parallel'd: or, The desire of the eyes taken away Delivered in a sermon, preach'd at the funerals of the most virtuous Mrs Elizabeth Cole, wife to Robert Cole Esquire, at Wye in Kent, Nov. 26. MDCLI. By Samuel Barnard, Doctor in Divinity.	Bernard, Samuel, 1590 or 91-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing B2037A; ESTC R231035	15,530	38

Holy David when he was in danger to lose a kingdome and was driven from the Desire of his eyes the Ark of God and his Chiefest City He commits himself and his cause to Gods disposall If I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me again and shew me both it and his habitation But if he thus say I have no delight in thee Behold here I am let him doe unto me as it seemeth good unto him 2 Sam. 15. 25. 28. m. 15. 25. So did Davids Lord our blessed Saviour when he was to take down that bitter cup to undergoe the Pain and shame of the Crosse though it was bitter to swallow and heavy to bear he complies with his Fathers decree Not my will but thine be done Luke 22. 42. Perdidit vitam ne perderet Luke 22. 42. obedientiam saith St August He was content to lose Augustine his life rather then lose his Loyalty and bis obedience to his Father And when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously 1 Pet. 1 Pet. 2 23. 2. 23. I confesse the parting of a man from his Wife is like the parting of the soul from the body And there is a time when a man must leave Father and Mother for his wife But here is a neerer tye between Christ and thy Soul then between a Man and his Wife why he must leave his wife and all for him Mark 10. 29. and shall never repent it Mark 10. 30. Mar. 10. 29 30 Vse 4 For Comfort therefore in the last place to the Children of God amidst all their losses yee have heard His dearest ones his favorites he doth excercise under the Crosse and uses to the rod Why so much the better It is an argument he hath the more care of you as his Children No son he doth receive but he chastens Hebr. Heb 12. 6 8. 12. 6. Nay we are no Children but Bastards without it Heb. 12. 8. Nay it brings us neerer to God All things work together for their good that love God Rom. 8 28. Rom. 8. 28. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith St Chrysostome our Chrys in Rom. 8. very Greviances and afflictions though Tribulation and Poverty and fetters and famine and death or whatsoever else saith the Golden-mouthed Doctor He makes no exception Never think they are tokens of his displeasure of separation They are Pignora amoris Pawnes of his love I report me to St Paul for a witnesse 'T is the Challenge of that great Doctor of the Gentiles Who shall separate us from the love of Christ Rom. 8. 35. shall Tribulation or Distresse or Persecution Rom. 8. 35. or Famine or Nakednesse or Perill or the Sword Nay in all these things we are more then conquerours through him that loved us And therefore in this Comfort and Confidence he triumphs I am perswaded that neither Death nor Life nor Angels nor Principalities nor any other Creature shall ever be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord Rom. 8. 39. Rom. 8. 39. Well then Hath he taken away thy goods why he can restore them double as he did to Job Job 42. 10. Hath he taken away thy Children why God can give thee more or preserve them to thy Comfort with himselfe so that thou shalt say they are not lost And indeed I remember St Gregory Gregor Moral 35. cap. 11. gives the reason why God Almighty when he doubled Jobs substance in his sheep and his camels and his oxen yet he gave him but just so many Children as he had taken from him because his dead Children were not lost but in Gods Keeping in a better life Hath he taken away thy Parents why when my Father and my mother forsake me the Lord takes me up Psal 27. 10. Hath he taken away thy Husband Psal 27. 10. He is the Father of the Fatherlesse and the Judg of the widows Psal 68. 5. Hath he taken away thy Psal 68. 5. Wife thy Comforter and thy Companion Why God is all in all Thy Wife Thy Husband Thy Father Thy Comforter and thy Companion Our best refuge Our greatest strength a very present help in time of trouble Psal 46. 1. Let that comfort thee And now I have done with my Text and the generall application give me leave to apply more particularly and as I told you in the beginning to find it at our own doores What ye have heard with your ears you see here presented to your eyes Fixe them upon that Coffin upon those Blacks and Eschutcheons and they will lead you from the Thesis to the Hypothesis from the Prophecie to the Parallel That Death which you heard of in the Text you see in her proper Colours Behold the Stroke she gave The wounds she made yet bleeding fresh and I fear nothing so much as that while I seek to close them the Commemoration of those Vertues which did shine in this Deare deceased should make them Wider You heard a Wife was the neerest the dearest delight to her husband in the world The desire of his eyes So it was here And that will be your joy Again you heard it pleaseth God oftentimes to deprive his dearest Children of that their dearest delight by the Stroke of Death as he uses to do so he hath done here And that will be your sorrow For the first I must tel you I shall present you with a shadow with a Picture of a most heavenly Soul which though it dwelt in an earthly body was right dear indeed unto her Husband and that body though now a liveless Corps I may boldly say The desire of his eyes in all three respects First in respect of the Originall frame and Composure God had made her of the same mould so that he look'd upon her as a piece of his own flesh And the great workman of heaven and earth had done his part so well that there needed no Art to perfect Nature or supply any defect But her own Beauty and lovely Proportion had power both to procure and Continue her Husbands Affection To make her the more desireable she was of no base mettal but Extract and derived from a Noble and an ancient family the memory of some whereof was precious in this Place But I remember withall what the wise Roman hath upon record Genus et proavos et quae non fecimus ipsi Ovid. Met. Lib. 13. Vix ea nostra voco Our pedigrees and Noble bloud we are beholden to our fore-fathers for rather then our selves I passe them over and come to the next Secondly therefore she was deare unto him The desire of her husbands eys In respect of the marriage Knot the mutuall Covenant between them Gods own Institution under which condition as they had chosen one another out of mutuall Affection so they did look upon one another