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A52287	The dying mans destiny, and the living mans duty, opened. And applyed in a sermon preached on board the Loyal-Eagle, upon the coast of Cormodell in the East-Indies. At the solemn obsequies of Mr. Richarde Bernard, Chyrurgeon, who, at the conclusion of it, was (with universal sorrow) thrown into the sea, Feb. 1. 1680. Together, with an elegy on his death. By C.N. Minister of the same ship.	Nicholets, Charles.	1682 (1682)	Wing N1087; ESTC R222287	39,747	53

which was the occasion of their Fall as some learned Writers have supposed And what God speaks of forming the World in general we way apply to the Creating of Man in particular with respect to the excellency of the Work when he was presented on the Theatre of the World How did the Morning Stars in that day sing together and how did all the Sons of God shout for joy And surely the Dissolution of Man affords as much cause of sorrow as his Making did of gladness especially considering that it is in Scripture called a destroying of him Thou turnest Man into destruction and then thou sayst Return again ye Children of Men. When Man is in the midst of his honour in the height of his glory in the greatest of his power in a moment in the twinckling of an Eye he may be dashed in pieces and be destroyed from off the Earth for by the blast of God he perisheth and by the breath of his Nostrils he is consumed One small puff blows him away and he is no more to be heard of as though he had never been And should not this be matter of grief and lamentation to the Living to see so excellent a Creature as Man deprived of his Being bereaved of his Breath stript of his Enjoyments and all his Glory to be laid in the Dust Ah! What Eye can behold such a sight what Ear can hear of such a thing and not be deeply affected with it and Heart-pricked with sorrow at it Oh! How was our blessed Lord Jesus concerned how Mournfully was he touched when he heard the tydings of Lazarus decease though he was determined very well knew how to raise him up and bring him to Life again Pray hear what is said of him John 11. ver 33. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping and the Jews also weeping which came with her he groaned in the Spirit and was troubled Here are two words in the Greek and both emphatical 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he roared or cried out in the Spirit That is he Mourned inwardly and Lamentably at the loss of Lazarus Again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He vehemently troubled or disturbed himself He was mightily affected with the change Death had made in that Family which he had so great and peculiar a Love for Our Saviour shewed this great example of Morality that he might modestly and moderately express the sentiments of Grief which we ought to have at the departure of Man from the Land of the Living Secondly For that when a Man goes to his Long Home all the pleasure in his society is dead with him nothing remains of it but the remembrance which serves only to aggravate and heighten the Grief of the Surviver 'T was a true saying of one Aura secunda bonus socius A good companion is as a prosperous Gale carrying a Man pleasantly and with comfort through the Tempestuous Sea of this World And again Bonum sodalitium optimum solatium Good Company is the best solace Indeed suitable society is the comfort of Life the improvement of parts the joy of the Intellect the only distinguishing Priviledge that gives the Preference to Men above Beasts Take away this and what happiness is it to be a Man or what is humane Life any thing to be accounted of But when Man is dead there can be no more delight in him or comfort received by society with him There is no converse in the shades below no interlocution in those gloomy Regions The Grave is a silent house where the Eyes of all the Inhabitants are closed in the Dust and their Mouths filled with cold Clay And therefore this should cause Mourning in the Streets when we see a Man going to his Long Home especially such a Man whom we have had any intimacy with because we shall never have the opportunity of enjoying any pleasant hours with him or delighting our selves in the Spiknard of his friendship which was wont to send forth so fragrant a smell We must then bid farewel to all discoursing upon any subject to all advising about any difficulties to all profiting by any Polemick Notions started and improved in an amicable way In a word we must bid an eternal Adieu to any pleasure or satisfaction we received in communing with him for we shall enjoy no more of it for ever Oh! surely this cannot but cut deep in a generous Soul this cannot but greatly wound a spirit whose thoughts are drained from the dross of Plebeian conversation that has any esteem at all for the advantages of a rational Life Upon this account it was that the old Prophet in Bethel Lamented over the Man of God which came from Judah who was slain by a Lyon as he rode upon an Ass in the High-way He bitterly Bewailed and Mourned for his Death crying out Ah! alas my Brother As if he had said I have been extreamly refreshed by thy company in hearing the Word of the Lord from thy Mouth concerning the destruction of the Priests that burn Incense upon the Altar and the pulling down the House of Jereboam Oh! How have I been strengthned in my Courage confirmed in my Faith and the more resolved in the Ways of God by this thy Prophesy But now thou art gone I shall never have any more of this profitable and spiritual Discourse with thee This made him Weep over his torn Carcass and bitterly Lament his untimely Fall and to give a solemn Charge to his Sons that when he was Dead they should Bury him in the Sepulchre wherein this Man of God was Buried and lay his Bones close by the Bones of this Prophet Thirdly For that when a Man Dyes and goes to his Long Home he is past doing any more good or being any farther serviceable in his Generation There is no praising or praying in the Grave or any remembrance of God or Man As the Tree falls by Death it will lye till Judgment without bringing forth any fruit at all Whilst Man is in the Land of the Living he is capable of doing some good or being useful in that place and condition wherein God hath set him But when Death cuts him off his day of opportunity is at an end and the night is come upon him in which he cannot work nor do any more as he hath done And therefore there is just cause of Mourning and Lamenting at his Decease Thus the Widows of Joppa Bewailed the Death of Tabitha a Woman full of good Works and Alms-deeds which she had done Acts 9. ver 39. Then Peter arose and went with them when he was come they brought him into the upper Chamber and all the Widows stood by him Weeping and shewing the Coats and Garments which Dorcas made while she was with them By which they commended her Charity and bitterly Bewailed her fatal Exit The thoughts of parting with such a Woman who was so charitable so useful even broke their Hearts with Sorrow and dissolved their Eyes with Tears They brought the

a great truth which the Poet tells us In recto medecina valent data Tempore prosunt Et data non apto Tempore vina nocent The truth is he was Skilful in every thing that conduced to his Patients Good So that great is our Loss in this respect Indeed the whole of that Judgment is come upon us which God threatned his antient People with in the days of old Isa 3. ver 1 2 3. For behold the Lord the Lord of Hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff the whale stay of Bread and the whole staff of Water The Mighty Man and the Man of War the Judge and the Prophet and the Prudent and the Antient The Captain of Fifty and the Honourable Man and the Counsellor and the Cunning Artificer and the Eloquent Orator Ah! verily our stay and our staff is gone He that was the stay of our Strength and the staff of our Lives He that was a cunning artificer and a skilful Operator in the concerns of our Bodies is now taken away therefore we ought to be Mourners about his Hearse Fourthly Consider we have Lost an Useful Man yea a Man of the greatest Use amongst us The variety of Distempers Men are afflicted with and subject to in these Hot Climates do sufficiently infer the Usefulness yea the Necessity of an able Physitian I know you look upon your Minister as a needless Person because you are unsensible of the worth of your Souls if he had gone you would not have accounted it any great loss Ah! but now Sirs God knew how to take that Mercy from you which you are most sensible of the worth and use of He knew where to prick the Vein that will most Bleed and therefore he has taken away the Physitian of your Bodies whom you may most dearly miss before you go home And surely this bespeaks your Mourning in a grievous and bitter manner for this so sharp a Stroke What Paul told the Colossians chap. 4 ver 14. Luke the beloved Physician and Demas greet you May be truly applyed to him who was indeed a beloved Physician and he deserved no other for his diligent care and pains towards the meanest Patient He was seldome sent for to any sick Person being so forward of himself to go as soon as he heard of it Most Applications he made use of went through his own hands though the Disease was never so loathsome or the Person never so mean How then may I bespeak your Mourning over his Hearse this day us David did the Mourning of Israel over Saul Ye Daughters of Israel weep over Saul who cloathed you in Scarlet and ether delights who put on ornaments of Gold on your Apparel So O ye Seamen and Officers of this Ship Weep over this Painful Diligent Affectionate Physitian who refreshed you with Cordials and other delights Who was day and night serviceable to you and Dyed in that service amongst you He is now gone to his Long Home who retrieved many of us when we were almost there He helped us but we could not help him Ah! how can we think of parting with such an Useful Faithful Affectionate Friend and not Mourn How can we think of throwing him who was the very delight of our Souls Over-board into the wide Ocean to be made a Prey to the devouring Fishes and not break forth into doleful Crys and Lamentations Thus you see the cause we have to Mourn from the Consideration of the greatness of our present Loss But the many aggravating circumstances of this Loss do yet call for our Farther Mourning and the scruing up our Sorrow one Peg higher Hence consider First He is taken away before our Voyage is done It would have been a very considerable Loss if he had Lived with us to England and then have been removed by Death It would then have called for Mourning at our hands I but it would not have been so dismal a providence so afflictive a stroke as now it is having so long a way to run and so many difficulties to go through before we see our several Homes This was the cause of Israel's so long and so great Mourning for Moses Deut. 34. ver 8. And the Children of Israel wept for Moses in the Plains of Moab Thirty days So the days of Weeping and Mourning for Moses were ended Mark it they were yet in the Plains of Moab had they been in quiet and full possession of the Land of Canaan the present dispensation of Moses his Death though at any time bitter enough had not been so dreadful and dismal to them But this highly heightned their Misery and consequently their Sorrow that he was taken from them before he had brought them to the promised Rest So now in this case Oh! what cause have we to Mourn in an exceeding great measure for that Death has removed our Physitian so long before the conclusion of the Voyage Secondly Consider he is taken away whilst the Judgment of God is upon us in retarding our Passage and threatning no less than a Winter Voyage We have staid so long in the Indies that there is little likelyhood of our going Home this Year And at present we are here scorching in an hot sultry Climate the Winds so cross to us that we can neither go backward or forward and what will become of us the Lord knows But sure I am the hand of his Displeasure is stretched out against us and we feel in part that terrible Word threatned Mat. 26. ver 31. Then said Jesus unto them All ye shall be offended because of me this night for it is written I will smite the Sheapherd and the Sheep of the Flock shall be scattered abroad Ah! Sirs Death has smitten our Physitian and we arc like to be scattered abroad God Almighty knows where we may be forced to Winter where we may be driven for shelter from the Furious Ocean we cannot as yet tell But the great yea certain likelyhood of our being Tossed up and down the World for several Months before we can get about Cape of good Hope makes this Loss the more considerable and our Condition the more lamentable Thirdly Consider he is taken away in his Youthful days yea in the very flower of his Youth in the height and excellency of his Strength We ought to be Mourners in the Street when we see any Man go to his Long Home but to see a Young Man go there that 's newly come into the World That is beginning as it were to live that is but blossoming in the early Spring of his Years to see such an one so immaturely seized upon by the griping paw of Death Oh! this must needs aggravate Sorrow very greatly Upon this account it was that there was made such an heavy Lamentation for the Death of Josiah that Famous King of Judah 2 Chron. 35. ver 24 25. His servants therefore took him out of that Chariot and put him in the second