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A60352	A sermon preach'd at Crosby-Square, Jan. 8, 1692 upon the funeral of that faithful servant of Christ, Mr. John Reynolds, who died in the Lord the preceding 25 Decemb. / by Samuel Slater ...	Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.	1693 (1693)	Wing S3972; ESTC R37561	27,157	38

Mountains therefore his Death I look upon not as my Affliction but Deliverance accordingly some Tears I will drop over him and bestow a sigh or two there but can soon wipe mine eyes and dry my Cheeks again leaving sorrow and mourning upon his account as a business more proper for them who find themselves concern'd 2 Sam. 1. 24. Ye daughters of Ierusalem weep over Saul who cloathed you in Scarlet with other delights who put on Ornaments of Gold upon your Apparel You have reason for he was your Friend and Benefactor As for mourning over Ionathan that is my Province my Business and I undertake it and will go about it with all my might there is none to be found in Israel that I will trust with it none that can do it so well as my self there being none so much concerned none so inwardly sensible none so great a Sufferer none so deeply wounded I am distress'd for him brought into a great strait While I had him my Heart was enlarged with Love to him and Joy in him how did it flame how did it leap how strong was my Affection how high my Delight but now he is gone those Comforts are gone with him my Heart is pent and opprest my Sun is set and I am clouded benighted left alone to bemoan my self We have finished the Doctrinal part and now come to the Improvement of all in a way of Application And there are only three things which I shall bring in as so many Corollaries and speak to in order to the making the late Providence and my present Discourse profitable to you USE 1. From hence learn the weak slippery hold you have of all your worldly Comforts Tho' your Title to them be good the best that can be founded not only upon Providence but Covenant yet they may slip thro' your Fingers before you are aware your Possession is not sure Whatever sweetness you taste in them whatever expectations you have from them they may take their leave and disappoint you there by at once proving their own Vanity and your Vexation Hence they are called things that are not because they have so little of being are of so uncertain continuance and no further removed from nothing They are here to Day looking pleasantly but may be gone to Morrow yea before and leave you drown'd in Tears Fragrant Flowers they are by which you are at present greatly refreshed but know not how soon they may wither in your hands You greatly rejoice in your loving Friends dear Relations faithful Ministers but their Breath is in their Nostrils and wherein are they to be accounted of Ionah was exceeding glad of the Gourd under the refrigerating shadow whereof he sate comfortably and at ease in a scorching day but a Worm smote it that it dyed by this the good Man was transported into an excess of Passion and disordered throughout Iob complained not without Cause Iob 10. 17. that Changes and Wars were upon him or against him a multitude a variety of Changes they trod upon the heels of one another so that he was at no time safe knew not what a Settlement meant could not say the Morrow will be as this Day nay he could not commend one Day before the Night the fairest Morning he had seen overcast and converted into a blustering Afternoon He that hath the most Eagle-eye and pierceth into Mysteries cannot look into the Purposes of God concerning his present State nor into the Womb of Providence so as to tell aforehand what a Day will bring forth The gross Mistakes of every Almanack about the Weather proclaim the Impudence and Ignorance of the Star-gazers and it is to be attributed to the Patience and Mercy of God that he doth not strike those Diviners mad As God hath a variety of Mercies and Blessings so that Day unto Day sheweth Love and Night unto Night Faithfulness he compasseth his Children with Favour as a shield loads them with Benefits and we may say many such things are with him so hath He great store of Afflictions and Exercises for them too an House of Bondage an howling Wilderness and a red Sea Before you have finished your Course pass'd through the World and enter'd into your Rest you may be sure of Changes but none of you can tell what those Changes will be how God will try you nor in what Vein bleed you Now through Mercy you have your Comforts but know not how little awhile you shall have them Ruth 1. 20 21. Call me not Naomi call me Marah for the Lord hath dealt bitterly with me I went out full and the Lord hath brought me home again empty The Comforts of Life are not sure for Life it self is not that is at best a Vapour and may be soon exhal'd Upon this account let the Advice I shall give in four things be acceptable to you First Do not overvalue any of those outward good things you have Do not withhold from them that which is meet There is a Love and Delight due to them according to the several degrees of Excellency which they have and of nearness in which they stand to you this is a Debt you owe them and what you owe you are obliged to pay if you do not Divine Justice may come upon you for it Oh that you would wisely consider how dreadful and tormenting a sting it would be to you at the last if Conscience which is now a Curious Observer of you and all the Passages of your Lives should arrest you and say Man Woman thou art now fetching thy last Breath a dying Creature ready to launch into Eternity and to appear before the Tribunal of God but know thou diest desperately in debt to thy Friends thy Relations and thy Family thou hast lived with them and conversed with them but not carried toward them as thou oughtest to have done thou didst not abound in those Expressions of Love which thou shouldest nay thou didst want the Love its self thou didst not take that Care of them thou shouldest neither Care of their Bodies nor of their Souls Indeed it is no wonder that their Souls were neglected by thee since thou didst not at all mind thine own thou wast not so kind to them as Civility would have taught thee to have been but morose and chubbid at one time thy Carriage was strange at another thou didst put on the Countenance of a Fury thy Words were cutting like sharp Swords nor didst thou hold thy Hands but they lighted heavy upon the Wife of thy Bosom unnatural Brute as thou art whom thou shouldest have been tender over and loved as thine own flesh As for you that are herein guilty I cannot but tell you Your Relations now feel the want of your Love and Care and Kindness but you will then feel the Smart and Horrour of your having been so willingly and wickedly wanting to your Duty Therefore amend your wayes and put away the evil of your doings from before the Eyes of

satisfi'd about the happy Exchange Ionathan had made and the goodness of that Condition in which he now was that if he might return again to be as he was before he would not nor leave the clear Vision and immediate Communion with the Son and Lord of David for a fresh and further Enjoyment of David himself Instead of making a descent to this lower dirty and troublesom World he would choose to continue where he now is and take some delight in the thoughts of Davids coming to him as soon as he had served his Generation according to the Will of God and finished the Work given him to do But Secondly I judge him brought into this distress by a reflection upon the manner of Ionathans Death That he did not Die in a Natural way but was cut off in his prime and flourishing Age by a violent stroke and that which was Gall in the Cup given by the hand of the Uncircumcised it pained him at the very Heart to think that that brave Prince who had been so eminently valiant and prosperous in fighting the Battels of Israel whose Bow turned not back from the blood of the slain nor from the fat of the mighty had now fallen a Sacrifice to their Fury and was become the Object of their boasting and triumph Hence it is that he did as in an Agony cry out in the 20th Verse of this Chapter Tell it not in Gath publish it not in Askelon Conceal it from them if it be possible conceal it from them lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoyce lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph Poor Soul he knew not how to bear up under the thoughts of this that those desperate Enemies to his God and People should rejoyce in the fall of his beloved Ionathan and with their unhallowed feet trample and dance upon his precious Dust. But then Thirdly That which encreased his Distress and did yet much more straiten him was the Consideration of his own Loss We all know that cordial Friends of good humour are the great Comfort of our Lives Suppose a man hath a great confluence of mundane Delights Waters of a full Cup wrung out to him more indeed than Heart could wish yet would he be miserable in the midst thereof if he were Friendless God did not think it good for Man to be alone tho' in a Paradise He enjoyeth himself pitifully that hath not a Friend to enjoy The Sacred Scripture speaking of a Friend adds this Expression 13 Deuter. 6. Who is as thine own Soul i. e. as near and dear to thee as thy self he is an alter Ego another self a second self So that when an intimate entire Friend is taken away by Death a Man is almost torn in pieces and loseth a very considerable part of himself The wisest of Men tells us in the 17 Proverbs 17. A Friend loveth at all times and a Brother is born for adversity This was verified in Ionathan he was such a Brother endearing David in the clearest Sunshine and under the blackest Clouds in fair Weather and soul in Halcion days and most tempestuous blustering Storms being always the same whatever Changes were to be found abroad he being tryed by Adversity was found faithful When his Father was his implacable Enemy he was his fast Friend Saul could not be more resolved to ruine him than Ionathan was studious of saving him He stuck to David and would not leave him any more than Ruth would her afflicted Mother-in-law Naomi who spake thus to her 1 Ruth 17. Where thou diest will I die and there will I be buried the Lord do so to me and more also if ought but death part thee and me His Fathers Enmity and Hatred of David could not part them if for that he did not love him the better for certain he pityed him the more His Fathers Displeasure and Indignation against him for loving of David could not part them But Death came it may be unexpectedly and by way of surprize and did that which nothing else could do it parted them and now whatever Friends David still had about him he had lost the best He had not his Ionathan among all the rest he could not find one like Ionathan and therefore when he thought of it yea dwelt in his thoughts upon it as he could not choose but do he found himself wounded and in pain so that he could not forbear crying out in our Text I am distressed for thee my Brother So we are got to the third and last thing which I said was to be enquired into viz. The import of the word What may we look upon as the meaning of David when he saith He was distressed I shall give you my Thoughts of it in these two things By this word he intimates 1. The greatness of the Loss he sustained 2. The intimate sense he had of it First By saying he was distressed he signifieth the greatness of the Loss the soreness of the Affliction It lay heavy upon him being no common stroke no ordinary blow not the blasting of a sorry Gourd but withering a Plant of Renown a principal Stud was faln This was such a loss as every one could not meet with none but a David could lose so lose his Ionathan It must be granted his Death was a publick Loss all Good Men had a share in it but his own was more than double His Brethren had a Loss let their Eyes be fountains of Tears his Family had a Loss let them put on Sackbloth and be cloathed in Mourning all Israel hath had a Loss let them hang their Harps upon the Willows but their Loss put them all together is not comparable to mine mine is by far the greatest I have lost my Right Hand I have lost my Companion my Counsellor my Comforter My Loss is such as that it cannot be made up to me by any Man upon Earth but only by a God in Heaven from whom came all that sweetness that I found in Ionathan and in whom there is infinitely more Secondly By saying he was distressed he giveth us to understand the deepness and intimacy of that sense which he had of this his Loss He felt it for it went to the quick and struck him to the very Heart this was such a blow as he did not well know how to bear he was troubled at it and bowed down greatly feeble and sore broken so that he was scarce able to outlive it therefore here he draws up the Flood-gates spends the strength of his Sorrow pours out his last and heaviest groan We may conceive him speaking thus to himself I easily yield some Sorrow to be due to Saul as bad as he was because Israels King chosen and appointed of God one that had been anointed with Oyl yet I can bear with his Death for tho' he was King and my Father-in-law yet he was my irreconcileable Enemy who hated me with a cruel hatred and hunted me as a Partridge upon the