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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

Regard to the Prophet Daniel The Angel cals him Dan. 10 11. Ish Chamudoth A man of Desires Beloved and deare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to God So here the expression of her dearnesse is by the Desire of the eye from Chamod in the Originall which implies an earnest and an ardent affection Ubi amor ibi oculus Where love is it fastens the eye He must desire He must look upon nothing else under God with equall delight with equall Dearnesse And dearest she is in regard of a threefold Obligation 1. In regard of her Originall frame and Composition 2. In regard of Gods Institution of marriage and the Covenant between them 3. In regard of a gracious Disposition working in her 1. For the first In the beginning she was taken out of man Gen. 2. 22. And for so curious a Gen. 2. 22. frame to make them male and female the whole Trinity enters into a consultation about the composure Gen. 1. 26. 27. And when all is done Gen. 1. 26. 27. that Curious piece is Nothing else but a Piece of his own flesh Gen. 2. 23. And therefore in Loving Gen 2. 23. his wife he loves himself Eph. 5. 28. Dear then in respect of her frame Secondly Dearest she must needs be in regard of Gods Institution of Marriage and that mutual Covenant that he made between them He brought her unto the man There 's the Conjugall Knot Tyed by Gen. 22 2. Almighty God himself Gen. 22. 2. God is the Author of Marriage And when he made the Match He ordained it by a perpetuall Decree a neerer Tye A dearer Relation even then that of Parents Therefore shall a man leave Father and Mother and shall Cleave to his wife and they shall be one flesh Gen. 2. 24. Nay they Two shall Gen. 2. 24. be one flesh saith our Saviour Matth. 19. 5. Math. 19. 5. Though Two in person yet one in flesh In nearness and affection Dear in respect of the Marriage bond or Covenant Thirdly Dearest she must be in regard of Gracious Dispositions For where grace moulds and rules the heart reformes the will and sanctifies the affections This Causes Love indeed Goodness and Grace is the object of love where-ere we find it we desire it we admire it most of all in a Wife Favour is deceitfull and Beauty vain but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be Prov. 31. 30 Praised Prov. 31. 30. A Face will fail But Grace is eternall Age or a Disease will wrinckle the smoothest forehead and make furrowes in the Cheekes But the Indowments of Grace goe beyond the Grave and are neither subject to rottenness nor to Corruption Such a woman while alive the heart of her husband safely trusts in her Prov. 31. 11. Prov. 31. 11. And even when the body is dead their souls are still glued together Goodness is of an attractive Vertue Et figuram animi magis quàm corporis amplectimur Tacit. in vita Agr. saith the wise Historian There are imbraces for the Picture of the mind as well as of the Body The Apostle proposes a Catalogue of Holy men and Gracious women Heb. 11. 35. Honoured in their lives to be imitated remembred admired after their Deaths A Gracious Disposition is a desireable piece it deserves love And then tell me Is it not pity to part with such a Body in which dwells such a soul It is indeed But there is a time when the Creator may take in pieces this goodly Frame of his own making When he that made the Match may break the Match and lose the bond and Command a Divorce When the Author of all grace may Challenge and call for his own again and no wrong to any So it pleased God here in the Text Behold I take away from thee the desire So that a second Observation may be this which shall take in all the Parts Doctr. 2 2 God is pleased often times to deprive his Dearest Children of that which they love most which is dearest unto them and that by some heavy affliction even Death it self 1 God is he that doth it The word of the Lord came unto me saying I that is God 2 Here is Depriving I will take away 3 His dearest Children The Prophet was one yet from Thee 4 That which is dearest unto them The desire of thine eyes That must needs be deare 5 By some heavy affliction A Stroke and that Stroke was Death The Text is full and fitt ye shall see it confirmed by Scripture-Proofes Abraham loved his Sarah dearly and she deserved it She had been a dutifull and a loving Wife So St Peter Commends her 1. Pet. 3. 6. and shee had brought 1 Pet. 3 6. him forth a blessed Son the heir of the Promise yet Death must deprive him of his dearest Sarah Gen. 23. 2. Gen. 23. 2. Jacob loved Rachel so tenderly that his seven years service for her seemed but a few dayes to him for the love that he had to her saith the Text Gen. 29. 20. Yet he must not carry her into Egypt Gen. 29. 20. with him but she must die in travail And as soon as she is delivered of her Benoni The son of her sorrow his fathers Benjamin Jacob must lose his dearest Rachel Gen. 35. 18. Gen. 35. 18. To instance in other Relations David a man according to Gods own heart had a Son whom he Passionately loved for whom he would have died himself so dear he was to him yet he must lose this Dearest son Absolom 2 Sam. 18. 2. Sam. 18. 33. ver 33. Look upon Josiah the good Josiah the best of Kings Never any like him before nor after 2 Kings 23. 25. The Scriptures stile him the 2 Kings 23. 25. Breath of our Nostrils yet the Prophet complains there So good a King was taken in their Pits Lam. Lam. 4. 20. 4. 20. And that best of Kings that was so deare to his people whom that holy Prophet and the people so lamented 2 Chron. 35. 25. was deprived 2. Chron. 35. 25. of his life and that by a violent death 2 Chron. 35. 23. 2 Chron. 35. 23. It seems by these Stories the best of men the best of Kings have a share in the greatest afflictions have lost their Dearest Wives their Dearest Lives The Scripture doth set forth holy Job to the Job 1. 14. 15. life a chief example a very Map of misery Robbed of his Cattell Bereaved of his goods Deprived of his servants Spoiled of his Children One in the neck of another and all in a day Himself exposed to scorn and Contempt to Pain and shame and none to comfort him Job 1. 14 15 I could here tell you of the Martyrs the Prophets Heb. 11. 37. Their righteous blood So the Saviour of the world cals it Matth. 23. 35. and tells us it was Matth. 23. 35 shed upon the earth The Apostles I think near