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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04165	Sinnelesse sorrow for the dead a comfortable sermon, preached at the funerall of Mr. Iohn Moyle, of Buckwell, in the countie of Kent, Esquire, the sixt of Ianuarie, 1614 / by Thomas Iackson, Batchelor in Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word, at Wye in Kent.	Jackson, Thomas, d. 1646.	1614 (1614)	STC 14305A; ESTC S2143	15,386	32

extraordinarie courage and 〈◊〉 as if with the Swanne hee would end his dayes with a Song which ministred no small comfort to mee and others that noted it that for one whole yeere and an halfe hauing beene visited in himselfe and his family with such exceeding sicknesse yet he could so sweetly comfort himselfe in God whereunto wee may adde his daily exercises of reading and prayer with his family And as was his profession so was his practise though hee liued not without sinne yet without reproofe hee kept himselfe vnspotted of the world a Father more like then a friend to the poore a setled good house-keeper and euer open-handed in any good cause as free in Charitie as euer in Dutie humble in prosperitie patient in aduersitie sober in his health comfortable in his sicknesse and most blessed in his death though but a young man for yeeres yet long hath he wayted for his change and daily exercised himselfe in the meditation of mortalitie hauing his Iestament alwayes readie and as occasion serued renewed so that though sicknesse came sodainly he was prepared his house set in order and himselfe free to prepare for God to whom with much peace and meekenesse hee resigned his spirit And as hee liued with much loue so is he dead with as great lamentation the Church of God the Common-wealth the Parish his family and specially the poore sustayning great losse but what doe I speake of losse seeing his gaine doth counteruaile the same an hundred fold wee haue lost but a man he hath sound God we haue lost a friend he hath found his Sauiour wee haue lost his Neighbourhood hee hath found the fellowship of innumerable Angels and Saints we haue lost the help of his prayers and purse Counsell and countenance but hee hath found the blessednesse of heauen which all Gods people loue and long for in the fruition whereof wee leaue him for euer and euer Amen And to speake a word or twaine of this his good Seruant who in Ruths resolution hath liued is dead and shall be buried with his Master Aman in his place worthie of great commendation and a rare patterne for men of his ranke to looke vpon an honest harmelesse carefull willing diligent and faithfull seruant I cannot but note vnto you the good prouidence of God that no seruice performed by any other being comparably acceptable to his good Master in his sicknesse and weakenesse God was pleased euen extraordinarily to raise him from the gate of death to attend his Master To the closing of his eyes which seruice ended that he should haue a relapse and in two dayes also end his life I may say of them both as Dauid did of Saul and Ionathan they were louely and pleasant in their liues and in their death they were not diuided onely this difference he that in life time often rode before is now carried after but now no more as Master and man for in this path there is no difference in Golgotha no difference betwixt that skull which wore the Crowne and that which bore the Tankard all fellow-heires of the same inheritance but one kingdome yet all raigne though degrees of glory yet all haue more then enough none enuie them that haue more none disdaine them that haue lesse In which blessed fellowship wee leaue them for euer Now let vs come to the Text. And Iesus wept FOr three principall respects haue I chosen this Text before others with Gods assistance and your wonted Christian patience at this time to speake of First because vnto profitable hearing the remembrance of the Text is specially required the remembrance whereof doth necessarily draw on the remembrance of such things as naturally arising haue thence beene deliuered Now I dare entrust the weakest memorie of all in this congregation with this Text being so short yea the shortest verse in all the Bible so that here needeth no adding of line to line or precept to precept one bare reading will cause so sufficient an impression in the memorie that I hope if many yeeres hence any one should be demanded what was our Text this day he or she will readily answere Iesus Secondly as it is short so it is fet mourning in feasting and mirth in fasting agree not it is sfit that Occasion and Matter Theame and Time should accord as Christ at Iacobs Well did speake of the heauenly water and from feeding the body with loaues and fishes 〈◊〉 of the heauenly Manna bread of 〈◊〉 Now if houses of sicknesse be houses of mourning times of dying times of 〈◊〉 and places of burying places of weeping how fit is it for me to entreate of mourning and weeping seeing we come from an house of great and long continued sicknesse Our friend Lazarus is dead and we are come to the place of 〈◊〉 Iesus wept Thirdly as it is short and fit so it containeth very profitable matter for if it be the greatest perfection of a Christian to gouerne his affections and passions aright and the best haue been soyled and bewrayed their weakenesse herein either weeping or reioycing on such 〈◊〉 or in such manner or to such ends as they should not how profitable will it be to direct this great mourning to a true meane which I can not possibly better doe then by proposing the sinlesse Sorrow of our blessed Sauiour vpon a like occasion Lazarus is dead and Iesus wept Wouldest thou then not sinne in weeping looke vpon Christ who wept and sinned not yet if any in passion breake their bounds let the words of my Text procure a charitable excuse for euen Iesus wept When Christ was borne there was much singing and mirth olde father Simeon he sung Zach●rishe sung Marie shee sung and the Babe in Elizabeths wombe did spring for ioy yea the Angels of heauen sung but Christ his ministrie and specially his death were mournfull times and of much weeping some in passion others in compassion Christ he wept and the Disciples they wept the daughters of Ierusalem they wept yea time Sunne put on Sackcloth and that wept the Temple rent in ●ayle and that wept yea the crie of the Creatures was heard so farre that the Heathen Philosopher said either the 〈…〉 nature 〈…〉 or the world would 〈…〉 but I am to speak onely of Iesus his sorrow Iesus wept Christ and Lazarus Mary and Martha two men and two women two sisters and a brother three sinners and their Sauiour these that had so long loued liued together and many a time and often feasted godlily reioyced together haue now their mirth turned into mourning and singing into sighing Lazarus is dead and Christ is absent his sisters weepe the Iewes come to comfort them and they weepe when they vnderstand that Iesus is comming Martha she runneth to meete him saluteth him with words of bitter complaint Lord if thou hadst