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A87379	Moses his death: opened and applyed, in a sermon at Christ-Church in London, Decemb. 23. MDCLVI. at the funeral of Mr. Edward Bright, M.A. Fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and minister of the Gospel there. / By Samuel Jacombe M.A. Fellow of Queens Colledge in Cambridge, and pastor of Mary Woolnoth, Lumbardstreet, London. With some elegies.	Jacombe, Samuel, d. 1659.	1657 (1657)	Wing J109; Thomason E904_4; ESTC R202649	55,430	77

prepared for this charge bee the Devils servant and have the Devils curse bee Gods and the gift is eternal life Aaron goes up willingly to Mount Hor and dyes Moses when hee sees it is Gods will is satisfied Nothing like the testimony of a good conscience that a man hath been faithful in Gods service though every one in Gods family bee not a steward a publick officer as Moses was yet every one is a servant hath some work to do oh why do you neglect it Is that a fit time for man to dress himself in a dark night when the dreadful cry astonisheth him that his house is on fire about his ears the poor man stands naked amazed and is either burnt or runs down the stairs with fears not to bee conceived by any body but himself so it is when death fetcheth the sinner and conscience cryes aloud that the fire of hell will scorch him and the great Judge infallibly condemn him Is this a time now for him to put on the ornaments of grace when hee is putting off the body No alas that is too great a work to bee done so soon and hee is too much amazed to go about it The fear of a danger past kills Nabal and makes his heart like a stone within him There are sad instances that make it evident that the time which men allot to make preparation for death is generally useless and ineffectual for that purpose A learned Doctor of our own hath collected three sad examples which give sufficient restimony to our last assertion Great Exampl 3. Part. p. 144. the first of them he met with in S. Gregory who reports of Chrysaurius a Gentleman in the Province of Valeria rich and vitious witty but lascivious covetous proud that being cast upon his death bed he fancied he saw evill spirits coming to arrest him and drag him to hell hee fell into a great agony shreeked out And when his disease grew desperate hee cryed out Give mee respite but till the morrow And with those words he dyed His second example is of a drunken monk whom Bede mentions who upon his death-bed seemed to see hell opened Lib. 5. c. 15. Hist Gent. Angloium and a place assigned him near Caiaphas and those which crucified our Saviour The Religious persons which stood about his bed called on him to repent of his sin to implore the mercies of God but hee answered this is no time to change my life the sentence is passed upon mee it is too late His third example is one Gunizo a factious and ambitious person of whom Damianus reports that the Tempter gave notice to him of his approaching death but when any man preached repentance to him Biblioth F. Pp. Tom. 3. out of a strange incuriousness or the spirit of reprobation hee seemed like a dead and unconcerned man in all other Discourses hee was awake and apt to answer Divers now in Cambridge will quickly perceive that these three instances call to their mindes a fourth of a woman that lived there who on a sick-bed being visited by divers persons of piety and entertained with holy discourses used to say nothing but this Call Time again It is true wee have not every day such remarkable instances no more is every murderer hanged upon the Gibbets yet so many suffer this dreadful punishment as to make acts of baseness formidable and to shew the sore hatred which a good and compassionate Magistrate hath against them so the former examples demonstrate that Gods grace though of absolute necessity to our happiness yet then when wee should need it wee may either forget or else not finde it wee thought wee should at the command of our wishes But what is the design of poor besotted man Let a sickness arrest us a Physitian is sent for an estate a great revenue shall bee parted with for Time get but health and then any man shall have it for a trifle Nay wee are weary of it if it must bee spent in the thoughts of God and eternity then this short very short life is too long for us Men that are full of business in the world talk like Augustus Aliquande se victurum sibi sperabat he hoped he should sometime live to enjoy himself and they long passionately for a great Vacation but when it may bee in their power they act like Turannius who after the ninetieth year of his age having received a discharge from Caesar and got liberty to bee freed from Court attendance Componi se in lecto velur exanimem a circumstante familia plangi jussit Seneca de Brevitvitae cap. ult will needs bee laid in his bed like one that hath breathed his last and all his family must bewail the old mans death The God of heaven will tel us at the day of judgement how little wee knew what to do with our selves and our time when we had fair opportunities to prepare for death and to work out our salvation God will easily convince us that it was our wilful prosecution of our own lusts which ruined us and that wee would not come to him that wee might have life If any one shall ask mee what should bee done to make preparation for death I would beg of him first Nihil minus est hominis oecupati quam vivere idem cap. 6. That hee would bee so much at leasure as to bee a while serious if hee can but prevail so far with himself as not to bee turned out of doors by his own thoughts hee will answer his own question himself and soon resolve that to live is the best preparation to dye Haec quae vides ossa circumvolura nervis obductam cutem vultum que ministias manus caetera quibus involuti sumus vincula animorum tenebraeque sunt Seneca Consol ad Marciam c. 24. For it is one thing to bee in the world another thing to live To bee a man in the due use of all powers and faculties in the just command of all passions to bee a Christian in the exercise of all Divine graces this is to live otherwise men are dead in sins and trespasses and their souls are buried in a lump of flesh I perswade my self in this point men need more to bee awakened than instructed for who knows not that hee ought to repent and who understands not that by repentance God means that which hee himself means when hee charges a son a friend a servant to repent viz. That hee should bee heartily sorrowful for what is past S. Augustinus sibi jussera Psalmos Dividicos de paenitentia scribi ipsosque jacens in lecto contra paretem Posito Jegebat jugiter ubertim flebit Posidonius and do so no more why then is not the Catalogue of sin read over till thy heart bee melted with godly sorrow and a constant antipathy against iniquity make thee watchful That thou sin no more lest a worse thing come Reader tell mee

loved my soul and asked mee why I would die must come in as a witnesse against mee and justifie God in my condemnation why should I slight Gods message or slight him who brings it Now hee is for ought I know entring into the joy of his Lord now God so values him as to reward him Surely this arguing is rational and might easily enter into any mans minde who observes but common experience though hee had nothing else to prompt him I hope all of you will reap this advantage from the present occasion to value the persons and the Sermons of all consciencious preachers better idolize them not was our first advice that is one way to lose them Gustavus the renowned King of Sweden prophesied truth when hee said God would take him off because men too much admired him yet scorn them not for Ambassadors are soon called home when it is desperate to prevail so far as to get fair audience but howsoever you deal with us do but practise godliness and we shall rejoyce for I question not but holy men can heartily present Pauls petition Now I pray to God that yee do no evil 2 Cor. 13.7 not that wee should appear approved but that yee should do that which is honest though wee bee as reprobat●● Experience tell us that good thoughts of the Physitian facilitate the cure and the good health of a sickly patient brings credit enough to the Physitian 3 Moses his death Chargeth you not to be confident of long life your selves if Palaces crack and fall sure weak cottages must if Moses die a●private Israelite must not live alwaies All flesh is grass Isa 40.6 7 8. Homo cum sis id fac ut semper intelig as The Heliotrope may pride it self at the Suns presence the pretty flowers may open all their heads and welcome the salutes of the grand beauty of this visible world but the Sun will set and a night must be found every four and twenty hours in Summer but at length comes a cold Winter a tedious absence of the warm beams and then the leaves drop and the roots perish we are far nearer sickness and death than wee think wee are Soul take thine ease that the man said This night shall thy soul bee taken away from thee that God said Is not this great Babel that I have built for the honour of my name The great King hath no sooner said it but hee hears a voice that speaks something of a different nature like the noise of a thunder-clap that swallowes up the melody which his secure pride made him The Kingdome is departed A remarkable check you have to mens vain presumption of life in 1 King 16.8 9. Elah is drinking himself drunk and his servant Zimri comes in and kills him Well Zimri will bee King promiseth himself much happinesse in his royalty but it hastens his death Omri besiegeth him and when the City is taken 1 King 16.18 the poor King goes into the Palace burns the house over him with fire and dies The Israelites like not Mannah they must needs feed more delicioussy they shall but while the meat was in their mouthes the wrath of God fell upon them and slew the mightiest of them wee are blinde if wee see not that man groweth up as a flower and is cut down Job 14.2 hee fleeth as a shadow and continueth not Every thing in nature tells us of changes our very Table is but a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a bier whereon every dish of meat stands as a dead corpse I could weep sometimes and drop my tears as the dew of the morning when I see a young man in the pride of his strength Quis pacturientem rosam papillacam corymbum anteq●●m in calarnum f●andatur orbis totâ ruben ium foliorum unbitione immature demesium aequis oculis mai cessere videat Hieron ad Pammachiam super obit Paulinae uxoris in the acuteness of his parts in the blossome of his beauty whilst hee is the delight of friends and his society the ambition of spectators hee sits still and thinks no hurt when a rude passion stabs him or hee is innocently merry but his juvenile blood is inflamed hee is sick hee groans hee sighs hee dyes But I resolve to stop the flood-gates and blame my folly for it is folly to forget that it is as natural for the grass to wither and it is as ordinary for it to bee cut down as it is to creep out of the womb of the earth Bee as careful as wee can good fruit will perish because it is worm-eaten and that which eats it is bred within it Just when Pharaoh will have bricks made and build Pyramids leave Monuments of his greatness to posterity then is God about to break him and pluck down the plumes of Aegyptian pride And surely if an Israelite cannot presume that long life shall bee his portion an Aegyptian cannot if a Moses cannot then not an Israelite but this fond self-flattery this great disease of besotted humane nature whilst I perceive so much reason as a medicine proper for its cure and yet so little of it received makes mee sad and bewail the delirium that hath deprived us of all sober understanding And indeed who can think of Jonathans great integrity and read his great mistake without some degree of this passion 1 Sam. 23. hee said to David Thou shalt bee King over Israel and I shall bee next unto thee Alas good man who knew not that hee was to dye in the next battel and shall not the tares bee cut up when the wheat is Shall not the dust bee blown away when pearls are Whether I or you shall bee deaths portion next I know not but that wee shall all bee is certain for Moses is dead neither humility nor meekness power and greatness neither the love of God to him nor the love of Israel gives a dispensation from deaths claim 4 Moses his death Commands you to prepare for death nothing will secure from it therefore provide for it Art thou great or small in prosperity in adversity the way may differ it may bee fairer to thee fouler to another but the journies end is the same the debt is due the day of payment not expressed and therefore it may bee demanded presently What have you to say when death comes Will you speak to Time as Joshua to the Sun Stand still that I may bee avenged of all my adversaries that I may murder and crucifie those sins and lusts which have robbed mee of God and Heaven Alas you cannot Times Chariot runs post hee will not hear or is the grim visage of death and the thoughts of eternity and a day of judgement so little formidable that thou canst look steadily without amazement on them Alas thy heart fails thee at the thought of them What cordial then hast thou Moses my servant goes before Death comes after bee Gods servant and thou art well