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A86601	Preces & Lachrymæ. A sermon on Act. chap. XX. vers. 36, 37, 38. Vers. 36. And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. 37. And they all wept sore, and fell on Pauls neck, and kissed him. 38. Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, thay they should see his face no more, and they accompanied him to the ship. / By William Houghton, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	Houghton, William, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2938; Thomason E602_3; ESTC R206405	33,827	37

be at the grave too for when she rose up hastily and went out they said it was to weep at the Sepulcher they comforted her in the house now they thought she was gone to comfort her self at the grave Vers 19.31 as if it had done her good to lay her tears near her brother Lazarus I will draw one spirituall meditation from this point Inference If it be so comfortable weeping in the presence of a friend Oh what is it then think you to weep for our sinnes before God! nature oft teacheth the former oh that grace might teach us to do the later to weep in the presence of Christ with Mary to wash his feet with our tears shee came into the house Luc. 7 37. and stood at his feet weeping and washing his feet with tears her heart was full and she found no comfort till she came to Christ to weep in his presence then she heard that joyfull sentence thy sinnes are forgiven thee so that her tears as they washt the dust from Christs feet so through the mercy of God they washt away sin from her soul so if we go to Christ and wash his feet with our tears of Repentance he will wash both us and our repentance in his own blood and so cleanse us from all our sinnes When we offer up our prayers if we then let fall a shower of tears at his feet this rain being fallen there will be faire weather in our souls Therefore we see what a comfort it was to the Prophet David that he could powre out his tears before God and that God should take notice of his weeping Psal 6.8 Lachrymae pondera vocis habent The Lord saith he hath heard the voice of my weeping But to return where I was They wept upon Pauls neck that was the place Consider withall the manner of it falling upon his neck so saith the Text They all wept sore and fell upon his neck But was that good manners all to fall upon him thus Indeed love loves sometimes to be unmannerly When Christ after he was risen appeared to Mary she would fain have been falling upon him and touching him but hands off saith Christ Touch me not Love made her forget duty So the Shunamite coming to the Prophet Elisha caught him by the feet insomuch that Gehezi thought it a saucy part of her 2 King 4.27 to hold his Master in that manner therefore went and shoved her away Oh saith Elisha let her alone for her soul is vexed within her that which shee did she did it out of the abundance of her affection therefore the Prophet knew how to bear with her Love you see made her likewise forget manners Object But how then doth the Apostle say 1 Cor. 13.5 That love doth not behave it self unseemly or unmannerly T is true Answ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Therefore I answer It is a very seemely unseemlinesse and if I may so speak mannerly unmannerlinesse that comes from love love puts a grace upon gestures otherwise undecent speeches otherwise rude When a Pagan offered water to King Artaxerxes in the hollow of his hand it was so well accepted because he did it out of love Drexel recta intent epist Nemo succenset amanti Pro. 23.26 that he put it into a viall of Gold We know not how to be angry with him that doth any thing to us out of love if a man doth truly love me I regard not his tongue but his heart God saith Give me thy heart That 's accepted with him though something be wanting in the outward man but the outward man cannot please without the heart So here If I have a mans heart whatsoever failing there may be outwardly I construe it but as an errour of love Neque salsum neque suave esse potest quicquam ubi amor non admiseetur but without the heart all shews and formalities are nothing worth If a man love me and that from his heart it being with me and for me what if his carriage be not so courtly nor his words so starcht and set out as other mens I can see no indecorum in that gesture no soloecisme in that speech that comes from love You have now seen the place of their weeping Pauls neck and the manner of it ruentes in collum Pauli they fell upon his neck and wept there Because they should see his face no more Vers 25. As Job speaks the ey of him that hath seen me shall see me no more Job 7.8 The fourth thing propounded concerning this weeping was The cause of it Paul had told them that they should see his face no more Behold I go bound to Jerusalem and I know not what afflictions I may live to see there but this I know that these eyes shall never see you more nor your eyes see me any more Hinc ille lachrymae this was the cause of their weeping Paul had said grievous wolves shall come in among you and he had said I am pure from the blood of all men Vers 29.26 A worull change instead of the face of an Apostle to see the face of a wolf terrible sayings these enough to make sad their hearts but that which grieved them most and put them into the greatest agony was this saying of his Ye shall see my face no more as if they had replyed and said Oh blessed Paul who can refrain tears that hears such words as these shall wee see thy face no more give us leave then to weep 1 Sam 30.4 till we can weep no more thou hast oft bedewed thy cheeks with tears for us suffer us now to shed tears for thee They wept most of all for the words which he spake that they should see his face no more that saying was like a Bucket let down into the bottom of their hearts which drew up such adundance of tears They wept sore Their sorrow was great as you have heard and no marvell you see here they had great cause had there been hopes of seeing him again the weather would soon have cleard and their tears dryed up but no seeing of him after this and that went to their hearts When our Saviour left his Disciples Be not sorrowfull Joh. 16.22 saith he for I will see you again but Paul here tels them flatly they should see him no more and how could their eyes chuse but water in beholding him now whom they should never behold more It was one of Augustines three wishes that he might hear Paul in a Pulpit no marvell then if these wept that heard him so oft but now should never see nor hear him more how are their eyes now fixt upon that face that was never to be seen more after this In some sense indeed they would see him the ofter for that face that now began to disappear being withdrawn from the sight of their bodies would questionlesse be the ofter presented to the eyes of their mindes yet

love was great Love consists not all in words I doubt not but words past between them ere they parted but what they were in that the Text is silent it presents us with nothing but mute expressions such as kissing weeping walking and these as I noted to you before are the three acts wherein their love was exprest according to the three faculties or members of the body lips eyes feet in their lips in kissing him their eyes in weeping over him their feet in walking with him and accompanying him to the ship First then I shall consider their love as it broke out at their lips They kist him They kissed him Prov. 24.26 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Home Every one kisseth the lips of him that maketh a wise answer saith the Wise-man When Paul was preaching and praying with the Ephesians his lips seemed to drop like an hony-comb they cannot therefore let him go without a kisse and herein they shewed their love to him Luc. 7.45 Wherefore else did our Saviour complain of Simon and take it so unkindly at his hands that when he was at his house he gave him no kisse The learned know that to love and to kisse come from the same root one word in the originall expresseth both and as if it were a thing known to the meanest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when a mother speaks thus to her child come love me her meaning is no more but this that her child should turn and give her a kisse And therefore when t is said of the Ruler in the Gospel that Jesus beholding loved him Marc. 10.21 some will have it to be meant onely of a kind salutation that is he saluted or kist him Now this kisse or salute was used as a token of love either when men were reconciled when they met together or when they parted first when they were reconciled and made friends as the Father of the Prodigall and his sonne Luk 15 20. Gen. 29.11 Secondly when they met together after a long time as Jacob and Rachel in Padan-Aran Moses and Jethro in the wildernesse Exod. 18.7 who meeting his father-in-law there he did obey sance and kissed him Or thirdly at parting as Elisha said to Eliah Let me I pray thee kisse my father and mother 1 King 19.20 that is take my leave of them and then I will follow thee Ruth 1.8 9. Thus Naomi to her two daughters-in-law Go and return each to your mothers house and the Lord be with you c. then she kissed them and they lift up their voice and wept Of this last kind was this in my Text They hang'd upon him saith Erasmus being now to go away from them desirous to be fild with his company Religion then you see is no enemy to civility kisses and mutuall embraces Religion simply mislikes not But it condemns first Inference 1 Prov. 7.13 Pangit suavium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 impudicitiae Ames cas 3. such kisses as wantons use She caught him and kist him Such are proems of adultery preparatives to lust and corporall uncleannesse as strokes are the beginning of murther Interim sciendum haecantiquitus porrect a oscula fuiffe spicitualia non carnalia quae complexu corporum animas copulant non desiderio carnis fed spiritus Ambros in secundam ad Cor. 7. so are such kisses of adultery These in my Text are of another nature symbols of that divine conjunction of souls when the souls of two friends go forth as it were of their bodies to salute each other in a Christian manner therefore 't is called an holy kisse * 1 Thes 5.26 1 Tim. 1.5 Greet all the brethren with an holy kisse the other are unholy Paul speaks in Timothy of love out of a pure heart but the love and kisses of wanton persons come out of an impure one And secondly counterfeit and treacherous kisses as Joab dealt with Abner took him out of the way to salute him and then smote him under the fifth rib 1 Credibile est Judam colosum nebulonem ad iisse detecto capite pileo supra modum demisso curvatóque corpore Christo procul tedendisse manus amplexaturus vultu hilariore voce amicitiam solito magis profitente labia labiis impressisse ne quid proditionis deesset per molle osculi blandimentum inflixit execrabile proditionis jaculum Bosquier theatr pass p. 192. 2 1 Pet. 5.14 Vocatur osculum charitatis quod non est adulatorium sicut Absolonis non simulatorium sicut Joabi non proditorium sicut Judae Hereuschmidt osculolog 82. And 1 Judas who in a great shew of love and respect kist our Saviour when he came to betray him So there are in the world such as will embrace and kisse with their lips those whom they hate in their hearts but such are lying lips though they say nothing Therefore as Paul calls it a holy kisse so 2. Peter a kisse of charity It must be of charity not of hypocrisie But so much of their love They wept Vers 19.31 as it broke out of their lips Consider we it now in the second place as it had vent at their eyes The Text saith They wept twice had Paul made mention of his tears Serving the Lord with all humility of mind and with many tears and remember saith he that for the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears Now therefore they come in with their tears he powred out his prayers and they now powre out their tears sad men you must needs think they were Sermon-while and prayer-while now they cannot contein a torrent of tears gushes out of their eyes they wept and this likewise shewed their love Paul proves his love to the Corinthians by this very argument Out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears 2 Cor. 2.4 then it follows that ye might know the abundant love which I have towards you Our Saviour is said to weep when hee stood over Lazarus grave Jesus wept then said the Jews Joh. 11.36 see how he loved him So any man might see love in these tears its evident they loved him by their weeping thus for him But this was a bitter weeping this weeping of theirs there 's more to be said of it Consider these four things in the Text the Generality the Excesse the Place and the Cause of their weeping First The 1. Generality of it They all wept 2. Excesse of their weeping or depth of their sorrow Wept sore 3. Place where On Pauls neck 4. Cause why Because they should see his face no more Of these in order First of the Generality in that word all not some but all Paul had warnd every one of them with tears All wept his love hath broken their hearts now out fly their tears every one hath tears now at command for him I know not well what to say to it