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death_n	age_n	life_n	year_n	4,245	5	4.7587	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18385	Sarahs sepulture, or A funerall sermon preached for the Right Honourable and vertuous lady, Dorothie Countesse of Northumberland, at Petworth in Sussex. By Richard Chambers Doctor of Diuinitie.	Chambers, Richard, b. 1583.; R. H., fl. 1620.	1620 (1620)	STC 4953; ESTC S107948	17,912	32

out of euill light out of darknesse strength out of weaknesse Can there come from a wofull mother ought sauing a wofull creature Secondly to point backe vnto the History going before which well eyed and carefully obserued will shew that this good Lady led a carefull life all the dayes of her life First if she were the daughter of Haran which is the currant and receiued opinion of all the Iewes then was she an Orphan and fatherlesse almost as soone as she was borne Gen. 11.27 No sooner borne but subiect to the crosse Secondly when she came to womans estate then is she likewise made subiect to affliction she is barren childlesse a great crosse yea in those dayes reputed a curse that she cannot bear Eues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ish Iehouae the man the Lord Gen. 4.2 Iacobs Shiloh Gen. 49.10 Daniels Messias Dan. 9.24 Pauls second Adam 1 Cor. 15.45 our Lord Iesus Christ Thirdly constrained to forsake her house and home kindred and country Gen. 12.1 and for the space of 62. yeares to liue a Pilgrime Fourthly in this pilgrimage she felt the smart of want and famine Gen. 12.10 Fiftly in Aegypt Gen. 12.15 as also in Palestina Gen. 20.4 she was in hazzard of her honour the woman Iewell Chastitie Sixtly her Lord goeth to a dangerous war against foure mighty Monarches Gen. 14.14 Seauenthly she was incumbred with domesticall dissentions ouertopped by her owne seruant no small vexation Gen. 16.14 Where by the way in a short passage obserue that domesticall dissentions are not alwayes a curse though euer a crosse Eightly shee was not free from spirituall temptations long did faith and frailty wrastle and striue whether the God of heauen who is faithfull and true and cannot lye were true of his word concerning the promised Seed So that with Moses she might truely say Psal 90.10 Optimum in vita labor dolor The best day she saw dawne was full of labour and sorrow From all which learne this lesson and yee may write on the truth thereof Nulla calamitas sola No misery is alone but like the waues of the Sea one followes in the neck of another neuer let vs look for rest in this miserable life till wee come to rest with Christ Iesus in the world to come To conclude this point because that they who in their life see and feele many sorrowes are accustomed to obserue the time best and as it were tell the houres thereof Iob 7.2.3 Therefore Moses doth not set down her yeares in grosse but draweth them out at length q. d. Sarahs life and dayes were not so short that she forgat them but God did so remarkeably marke them forth with one misery or another that she might easily count them on her fingers ends That which hapned to Sarah is or may be likewise incident to all the godly 2 Tim. 3.12 In the booke of Exodus chapter the 15. verse 25. there is this passage Ibi posuit deus iustitias iudicia Ther God made the Israelites an ordinance and a Law Ibi ubi amaritudo ubi sitis quod est grauius Origen Tom. Hom. 7. fol. sitis in abundantia aquarum ibi posuit Deus iustitias iudicia Alius non erat locus dignior aptior vberior quàm iste in quo amaritudo est Where is this there God made them an ordinance a Law euen there where was the bitter waters of Marah there where the people were like to perish through thirst though there was water at will and in great plenty There God made them a Law and gaue them ordinances no fitter or more conuenient place could be found then it where was the bitter waters of Marah Hitherto of the quality of Sarahs dayes now of the quantity continuance of the same namely 127 Although this noble and vertuous Lady endured many a sharpe shower yet neuerthelesse the Lord continued the thread of her life for many a faire yeare To make manifest to all ages and generations to come that the Lord preserued her life in the midst of death Psal 23.4 If euer any afflictions could haue hastned the death of any then might they haue hastned hers who for the space of little lesse then 90. yeares was continually subiect to one calamity or another In so much that it may seem the worlds wonder how she was able so long to endure But God in whose right hand are length of dayes Pro. 3.16 Mortem times vitam perennem exoptas in dextra sua longitudinem dierum habet Qui viuit credit in me non morietur in aeternū Ioh 11. Immortalis est mortem superavit Immortali dextra immortalitatem porrigit Baynus lib 1 in Pro. Salom. did preserue her life in the midst of those miseries Miseries cannot shorten the dayes where the feare of the Lord is but sin may Pro. 10.27 The feare of the Lord increaseth the dayes but the yeares of the wicked shall bee diminished And Israels Singer saith Viri sanguinum dolosi non dimidiabunt dies suos Psal 55.24 Wicked men shall not liue out halfe their dayes To conclude though Sarahs life was replenished with a world of woes yet did it not want some singular comforts For this vertuous Lady liued after the birth of her sonne Isaac as appeareth Gen. 17.17 the space of 36. yeares The Lord Gods good pleasure was that for some good space shee might fol ce her selfe with that childe so greatly wished so long expected and so often promised Thus the good God of heauen suffereth not his seruants to depart out of this life without some especial comfort which sweetneth and mitigateth all other sorrowes The currant of the Scriptures is plentifull to proue this point Psal 42.11 In the multitude of the sorrowes that were in my heart saith Dauid thy comforts Lord haue refreshed my soule Shewing that as the world had a multitude of sorrowes to assault Dauid so God had a multitude of comforts to refresh his heart As our sufferings abound so consolations abound 2 Cor. 1.5 Elias for a time mourned and was persecuted but at the last besides the comforts 1 Reg. 19.6.7.18 there came a charriot which freed him from Iezabels rage 2 Reg. 2.11 Sperandum quod qui in vita mortes infernos tulerint in morte mitius h●bituros Luther Tom. 2. pag. 75. The man according to Gods owne heart Dauid of whom before I spake had anguish and sorrow dangers and perils many and mighty Psal 18.4.5 Funes mortis the cords or bands of death compassed him about Dolores inferni the sorrowes of hell compassed him hee was inuironed with the pangs of hell and death Psal 116.3 yea and as it is in the 11 ver of this Psal 116. he breaketh forth into words little lesse then of infidelity accusing holy Samuel the Lords Prophet of a lie that he deceiued him in the promised kingdome of Israel The God of comfort taketh not this his seruant Dauid out