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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

beene heere my brother had not beene dead No sooner had hee with words of consolation shut the sluces and flood-gates of her teares but Mary shee commeth and breaketh out into the same words of dolefull complaint Lord if thou hadst beene here my brother had not beene dead the Iewes they weepe and Christ he wept the sluces are broken vp againe as if all should be drowned with a deluge of teares or at least here were another Hadra-drimmon for Lazarus as was for Iosuth Wee see then though wee be neuer so neere or deere vnto Christ yet we may not looke to be exempt from mournfull occasions nay Iudgement beginneth at Gods owne house it is enough that Christ weepeth with us who in the end shall wipe all teares from our eyes where as the wieked being forsaken of God shall weepe and gnash their teeth for euer In these three Verses vers the 34. 35. and 36. we haue foure speakers Christ asketh a question Where haue yee laid him Mary and Martha giue answere as with one mouth Lord come and see The Euangelist reporteth his passion Iesus wept And the Iewes passe their censure thereon loe how he loued him Iesus wept As the Souldiers that marched after Ioab stood still and wondred at that they saw so may wee well stand still and wonder at that we heare What Doth the sonne of God who was from all eternitie with his Father as his delight continually reioycing before him he that was annoynted with the oyle of gladnesse aboue his fellowes hee who when he went to his passion would not suffer the daughters of Ierusalem to weepe for him he that was sent by his Ministerie to comfort them that mourned in Zyon and to giue them oyle of ioy for mourning hee that in the end shall wipe away all teares from the eyes of his children doth hee weepe yes indeede and fit that now he should so doe that being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and his workes theandricall diuinely humane in this great miracle of the raising of Lazarus both this Diuinitie and humanitie by infallible demonstrations might be seene he commanded Lazarus being foure dayes dead to come forth this was the voyce of diuine Maiestie but he wept for Lazarus and this was a passion of true humanitie that so if diuine Maiestie feare vs humane infirmitie may encourage vs if humane infirmitie doe offend vs diuine Maiestie may comfort vs and wee both loue and reuerence our blessed Emmanuell God with vs. The like we may obserue in other his miracles as man he spat on the ground as God with clay hee made him that was borne blinde to see as man hee fell on sleepe in the ship as God he rebuked the winde and seas and they obeyed him but first Manhood and then Godhead first weakenesse and then power first Humilitie and then Maiestie doe appeare he first spitteth and then annointeth first sleepeth and then rebuketh first weepeth and commandeth Iesus wept Amongst all the blessings which God gaue vnto man by Creation there were principally two which were as the perfection of his happinesse Viz. Ioy and Life or a ioyfull life The one ad esse the other ad bene esse without life no ioy for it is an affection of the liuing and without ioy no life but a neuer-dying death But man by sinne pulling vp the flood-gate hath let in a Sea of miserie and specially those two maine euils viz. Sorrow and death or a sorrowing death The childe is borne with teares and many times dyeth before it be borne to liue But as the Garment breedeth the Moath which eateth it and the Tree the Worme that consumeth it so Sinne bred Sorrow and Death and Sorrow and Death destroy Sinne. To her that in godly sorrow washed Christs feete with teares was pronounced Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee and hee that is dead is freed from sinne It was said to Adam Sinne and dye but to all his Children in Christ Dye and cease to sinne Christ came to take away sinne and that hee might vtterly destroy it first hee weepeth and then hee dyeth and pronounceth It is finished God reconciled Heauen opened Sinne abolished and Death for euer destroyed It is written of Heraclitus a Philosopher of Ephesus that hee continually wept but Democritus of Athens continually laughed at the fading ioyes and follies of their times Our blessed Sauiour the Prince of all diuine Philosophers is said to haue often wept but we reade not in all his Story that hee once laughed And truely no maruell for if the Wise-man haue giuen his iudgement aright I haue said of laughter it is madde and the sage Ethnicke Laughter is an argument of great leuitie and another makes it the badge of a foole if by conference of Scriptures with Experience wee shall seldome or neuer reade or obserue that any laugh but it is eyther in folly or at folly if the Prouerbe hence grew to call that which is foolish ridiculous if a man cannot endure to be laughed at and the Scriptures haue branded it for a kinde of cruell persecution if the Scriptures so often commaund weeping but neuer laughing if lastly to laughter be threatned a woe and to weeping be promised a reward how should hee laugh that is Wisedome it selfe and in whom the treasures of Wisedome and Knowledge are hid By whose example wee are taught in this world which as Dauid calleth it is a vale of teares to looke for no sound or enduring ioy but continuall occasions of sorrow and mourning Wee doe specially reade that our Sauiour did thrice weepe First when he came to Ieee lorusalem and fore-saw the misery thereof hee wept and said O Ierusalem if thou hadst knowne at the least in this thy day those things which belong to thy peace but now are they hid from thine eyes Secondly now when Lazarus was dead as my Text saith Iesus wept Thirdly when he prayed for the Apostle saith Hee put vp his Prayers and Supplications with strong crying and teares Whose example teacheth vs when to weepe viz. First when eyther with our eyes wee see or with our mindes fore-see the miserie ruine or desolation of any Kingdome Country Citie Towne or Familie and specially of such Places and Persons where and by whom the great Name of GOD is called vpon we ought to take it to heart and in token of inward griefe to breake out into teares is no effeminatenesse as the Ethnicke hath censured it but an argument of a milde and melting heart and warranted by best Examples Thus did Ieremy lament the desolation of Ierusalem Oh that mine head were full of water and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for the slaine of the Daughters of my people Secondly for the deaths of our friends and specially if they were