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death_n	adam_n	sin_n	wage_n	4,026	5	11.2119	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45184	The bow of Jonathan with the flower de Luce in a funeral lamentation committed to the men of Judah : parallelled and applyed to that worthy his compeere Robert Lucy of Charlcote in the county of Warwick, Esquire, lately deceased : in a sermon preached at Charlcote / by Richard Hunt ...	Hunt, Richard.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3741; ESTC R32357	22,399	42

Jonathan from Jonathan to himself from himself to Jonathan drawing this strong bow of sighs and ejaculations to the head and sending them out like arrows I am undone for thee my Brother whose Sister Michol I have married a faire a wise ingenuous and faithful wife more wives may I live to enjoy but never more must I look to see such another Brother as now is dead Let my loss and lamentation for ever warrant against all gainsayers the ancient custome of Epitaphs and mournings at the departure and loss of friends Use our near and dear Relations Let Adam and Eve forbear their frolicks Fons●●d ex Heb. Ser. 1. and retire an hundred years in mournings to see the wages of sinne so severely paid in the slaughter of Abel in the death of the bodie and the abandoning of Cain for the soul in this Equipage and traine let Abraham and Jacob Joseph and Jeremy the High Priest and the Old Prophet the people for Moses Aaron and Samuel and me for Saul and Jonathan the Subjects for Josias Christ for Lazarus behold how he lov'd him his Sisters for the same the widow for her Son St. Paul for Epaphroditus and the good women and neighbours for Dorcas Let the Barbarous Laughing and cruel revels the profane fidling and the buriall of an Asse be banisht to the Pagans and as farre off our Christian funerals as the Antipodes to be so Stoical or stockish as to stiflle our good afffections and to strangle our winds in our baggs with Aeolus is unnaturall ungracious unchristian Apathy The will of God is not resisted with tears and weeping he barrs not our affections but bids us let them out be of like affection weepe with them that weep Rom. 12. what though we cannot help it yet le ts weep the more because we cannot t is some ease to let these swelling waters out le ts weep with Xerxes beholding this numerous army of mankind for that within one age not one of them survives into such a ruine hath the sinne of one involv'd us all le ts weep for our selves that have sustained that losse and let the losers have leave to speak that our sinne hath bereav'd us one of a father another of an husband a master a companion a patron a friend if he were good let them deplore the Churches countries houses townships losse if evill as Absalom whose gracelesse crime was as the Mule that carried his hairy scalpe to the tree of execution yet bewaile him the more Manass Ben. Israel de Creat ●robl 19. as David is observed 8 times to have cryed out for him O Absalom my son my son seven times for that sin of rebellion containning the seven degrees of evill that accomplish such a sinner as naught Belial perverse sinful wicked impostor scornful proud high-minded which lead to those seven staires of the infernal dungeon Sheol Abaddon Beor Shacah Bor Tait Haijon Thelamoth Arets Ecclus 22.11 12. Tactith Weepe seven dayes for him that is dead but for a foole all the dayes of his life weep for a noble friend thirty forty dayes an year yet not without hope as if all were cast away blame not nature with Electra nor kill our selves with Jocasta become not a stony fountain with Niobe let heathen rites be out of fashion with men of better hopes baldnesse vociferations hired counterfeits slaying slaves young men sent to death making tombs for horses or keeping solemn funerals with Crassus for a Lamprey with Hadrian for a hen Catullus for a sparrow but weep and overweep again each teare till ten moneths put an end to mournings To conclude rather then want mourners for so noble Jonathans let the widowed Swans in the River and the Turtles in the wood the flowers in the Garden and the fruits of the Trees let the groves and the walkes the chambers and the walls let the bowels of the poor and the backs of his compliants the towns round about and this Church and Pulpit bear a part in this lamentation and say wo is me for thee my brother Jonathan and that for good consideration in the fifth place Magnentha ti meod 5. Very pleasant hast thou been to me pleasant in thy person very beautiful pleasant in thy expression bountiful beautiful the first born son of Saul the properest man in all Israel 1 Sam. 18.4.14.49 50. and bountiful for Jonathan stript himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David and his garments even to his sword and to his bow and to his girdle His beauty is presumed as begotten in the prime of his fathers abilities of Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz whose name signifies my fair sister Jonathan was then a bird of that Eagle and a whelpe of that Lion both Father and Son so renowned in ver 23. Swifter then Eagles stronger then Lions the Kings of birds and of beasts fortes creantur fortibus grapes grow not out of thorns nor figs of thistles David praiseth in them decorem formae constantiam animi Lyra in loc for outward beauty amiable persons for inward bravery of gallant properties The way to the Temple of Honour was through the Temple of Vertue and a fair step to it is to be the son of Nobles a true born Eaglet looking on the sun of gallantry and a princely Lion scorning the affronts of low-bred-currs and whiplets Pearls are begotten of the Orient dews and the fair bed of Whitspar the Spaniards call el madre del ore the mother of gold Dion Chrysostome tells of a family at Thebes that had hereditarily a lance branded in their flesh as a mark of honour by nature See Causinus Eabl Tiraquel de leg con lib. 9 Arsen de Conjug without which they were reputed illegitimate and Bastards nobleness goes by Blood and the word of God itself thrives not but upon good ground an honest and noble heart Doves delight in white houses and the Dove-like Spirit of God takes up her lodging in the fairest coats A Bishop of Millain retained none into his family but the fairest he could choose his reason was Improbitas in egregio corpore vix comperta foule conditions are scarcely found in faire complexions St. Chrysostom notes it of the beggars of his time that from beauteous persons they would expect a bounteous almes God Man and Nature give the preeminence and principality to the fairest even among Blackmores and who will not choose to eat out of the clean dish to lodge in the fairest linnen and his companion to be as Joseph or Jonathan of a sweet complexion What an increase of grace is it to come from a gracious deportment Caus●● Embl. and how grand an imposture to behold a fine Gentleman like the Caspian Bird stalk forth and turn him about stately like a Crane with a scarlet back and a green breast a white neck powdered here and there with spots of yellow and to the disgrace of all to come off with a