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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88808	Three sermons viz. Davids tears for his rebellious son Absalom, Israels tears for Abners fall by bloudy Joab, infants tears for Athaliahs treason, / preached by S.L. a true lover of the church, his king, and country, in his country-cure.	S. L.; T. L.	1660 (1660)	Wing L66; Thomason E2129_2; ESTC R210253	75,004	185

go to heaven that had all his time served the Devil on earth and therefore of the two he thought his own case best and that he was most fit to die and so if God had so pleased chose to die I would God I had died for thee From whence we learn Obs That death which to the ungodly is the King of terrors Job 18. 14. to the righteous is a welcom guest at all times Absalom may be afraid to die because the wages of his wickedness are alwayes ready to be paid him which is eternal death of body and soul for ever Rom. 6. 23. When good David shall willingly resign up his soul into the hands of his Creator for he knows his end will be peace Psal 37. 37. Oecolampadius being ready to depart as old Simeons Phrase is comforted his friends that stood howling about him with these words Non mori timeo quia bonum habeo Dominum I am not afraid to die because I have served a good God He that fears God shall never need to fear death for Christ hath pulled out the sting thereof that he may tryumphantly singwith the Apostle 1 Cor. 15. 55 56 57. O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sin but thanks be unto God which hath given me victory through our Lord Jesus Christ The Reasons why death is welcome to the godly at all times are Reas 1. Because it is an end of their sorrows and the beginning and entrance into the joy of their Lord Matth. 25. 23. It is the Exodus of their miseries and Genesis of their comforts It is as a Bridge over which they must passe into life as the Israelites must go thorow the red Sea before they can get into Canaan a Land flowing with milk and hony and all good things wherefore they rejoice to see that day as old Simeon did when he embraced Christ in his arms Luke 2. ●8 Reas 2. Because they are a people ready prepared for the Lord Luk. 1. 17. they are not fool-hardy like others who put far away from them the evil dayes that they may boldly approach unto the seat of iniquity Amos 6. 3. but they are still thinking of death and looking for death and providing for death that whensoever it comes early or late at the Cock crowing at midnight or the dawning of the day they may enter into the rest remaines for the people of God Heb. 4. 9. Reas 3 Because they have Jachin and Boaz faith and a good conscience to support them from sinking under the pains of death And this made the thief on the Crosse to die joyfully believing Christs words that he should that day be with him in Paradise Luk. 23. 43. this made St. Steven to laugh in death beholding the heavens opened and Christ standing at the right hand of the Father ready to receive his spirit Acts 7. 55 56. and this made David so willing to die for Absalom because he believed that his sinnes were covered Psal 32. 1. Obj. Did David well to wish for death or to die for his sonne Answ 1. Mortem optare malum formidare pejus It is not good to wish for death but worse to fear it It is an argument of great weakness to dispute with God much more to quarrel with God and most of all to seem to be wiser than God We pray and David prayed Thy will O Father be done and yet here he seems to prefer his own will before Gods Would God I had died for thee Absalom So that as the Apostle speaks James 3. 10. This thing ought not to be 2ly David did savour much more in this wish of flesh and blood than of spirit for that altogether submits with patience to suffer and bear what the good pleasure of the Lord is to bring to passe when the other grumbles and murmurs and repines at every thing contraries their humours This was Davids case and was his failing as the best want not theirs Vse Speaks the true happy state of a godly man He will not be afraid of evil tidings for his heart is fixed and he believeth in the Lord Psal 112. 7. when the wicked trepidant ad arundinis umbram tremble at the shaking of a leaf and flee when none pursueth then the righteous are as bold as a Lion Prov. 28. 1. The very thought of death strikes the ungodly as dead when they that fear the Lord like the Swan sing the sweetest song in death and the song of the Saints Rev. 22. 20. Come Lord Jesus come quickly The wicked when they are visited with sickness which is deaths Paratour to summon them into the Court for to give up their great accompt like the unjust Steward Luk. 16. 2. they roar and howl and crie like the hog which thinks he is never taken but to have his throat cut when the upright and just look up and lift up their heads with joy and comfort for their redemption draweth near Luke 21. 28. When the wicked call to the mountaines to fall upon them and to the hills to cover them and hide them from the presence of him that sitteth on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb Rev. 6. 16. The righteous shout for joy like those that divide the spoyl and rejoyce according to joy in harvest Isa 9. 3. for they shall be gathered like wheat into the Lords Garner when the chaff shall be burned with unquenchable fire Mat. 3. 12. And as Balaam said Numb 23. 10. O that my latter end might be like his And so thus much of the first person spoken of in the text David with his passion and compassion 2ly The next person is Absalom And in him let us consider 1. His Name 2ly His Person 3ly His Life 4ly His Death Of these in order 1. His Name and that was Abishalom which signifies his fathers peace He was so sweet a Babe that his father promised himself great matters and hope in him but he proved the greatest crosse that ever he did bear So that we cannot say Vt nomen sic natura as Abigail did of Nabal As his name was so was he For he was a moth a canker a thorn in his fathers eye and the greatest disturber of his quiet and rest and ease and peace that ever he was acquainted with that he is constrained to flee and shift for his life lest he be devoured by his Sonnes sword 2 Sam. 13. 14. 2ly His person And so he was the fairest of ten thousand for from the sole of the foot to the top of his head there was no blemish in him 2 Sam. 14. 25. He had a fair body but a foul soul and heart like the Swan which hath a white feather but a black skin Or like Mausolus his tombe or the painted Sepulchres in the Gospel glorious and beautiful without but full of rottenness and stinking bones within Or like a white glove over a scabby hand Or like the Pharisees

over his Chamber door now after a little time some discontented people hired a rude lewd fellow to stab the King and going about his work with a heart full of mischief and reading this superscription his countenance changed and falls trembling and shaking as if he had an ague fit the which being perceived and he examined confessed the whole matter and what diverted him from it Even so if men would but seriously consider that with what measure they mete shall be measured to them again or that nothing surer than their sins would find them out or that the end of sin and wages of sin is death Rom 6. 23. How would this Meditation stop the current of their vile affections and divert them from sinning It was an excellent Speech of one Cave quid agis te videt Deus Beware what thou doest for God seeth thee and all things are naked and open to his eyes with whom thou hast to do saith Paul Heb. 4. 13. and Homer speaking of a Frog and a Mouse who having a sharp contestation and bitter Skirmish the party grieved tells the other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God had a revenging eye to right him even so if men would but remember whatsoever they are about or doing God looked upon them and had a revenging eye to requite it in the same measure and nature it would stifle all treason against heaven and earth Vse 3. This may teach us that seeing with what measure we mete shall be measured to us again to walk circumspectly and warily not as fools but as wise Eph. 5. 115. the Law of God and nature should be our rule to square our lives and all our actions by and that is Quod tibi non vis alteri non feceris to do as we would be done unto Matth. 7. 12. and saith Paul Gal. 6. 16. To as many as walk according to this rule peace shall be upon them and mercy as upon the true Israel of God Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap Gal. 6. 7. He that soweth righteousness shall receive a good and sure reward Prov. 11. 18. But he that soweth iniquiry shall reap affliction and the rod of his anger shall fail chap. 22. 8. God hath a twofold measure 1. Either a measure of glory and that is for those that abound in the works of the Lord 1 Cor. 15. 58. 2ly A measure of wrath and sorrow and that is for those that plough iniquity and sow wickedness Job 4. 8. and with this measure did God mete Athaliah Doct. 3. Is Qualis vita finis ita As we live so commonly we die as we speak in another kind Mali principii malns exitus an ill beginning hath an ill end even so an ungodly life is accompanied usually with a sad death Look upon Haman behold Judas cast an eye upon Julian the grand Apostate who died cursing and banning crying out in defiance of Christ Vicisti Galilaeo O thou Galilean thou hast conquered and overcome me Turn over the Chronicle of Athaliah and thou shalt find that as she s●ank living in the nostrils of the people for her idolatry pride usurping of anothers Crown blood-thirstinesse so in her death she was abhorred by all and had not power to cry out with Peter Lord save me or with the Publican God be mercifull to me a sinner The Husbandman can tell us that which way the tree leaneth that way it will fall if it be not prevented by art and I have often observed in visiting the sick that as the Proverb is quod in corde sobrii id in lingua ebrii what lies close hid in the heart of a sober man is revealed by his tongue when he is drunk even so as men lean and are affected living so their hearts and tongues run of it dying and what hopes can there be that they who had not God in all their thoughts Psal 10. 4. when they were in health should go to God when they are dead Vse As the tree standeth so it falleth and saith Solomon Eccl. 11. 3. As the tree doth fall so in the place that the tree falleth there it shall lie So that this doth much concern us to denie ungodlinesse and worldly lust and to live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and appearing of that glory of that mighty God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ Tit. 2. 12 13. labouring to fall to the South of his mercy and not to the North of his Justice Death is not so fearfull and terrible in it self as is the sting of it which is sin 1 Cor. 15. 56. And therefore let it be our care to be every day weakning and puling out this serpents sting that we may with old Simeon depart in peace Luke 2. 29. And blessed shall be the dead that die in the Lord for their works follow them Rev. 14. 13. Thus ye have heard 1. what Athaliab was 2ly What her Treason and 3ly what her end was She rent her clothes and cryed Treason Treason and was slain by the way which the horses go to the Kings house FINIS A Prayer for the Morning O Thou mighty Almighty Creator and Preserver of men We thy poor Creatures protected this night from Fire Sword Sicknesse Death and those manifold evils that might have befallen us and overtaken us by reason of the multitude of our sins for man suffers for his sins cannot but ascribe all praise with the Samaritan Leper due unto thy holy name for this unspeakable mercy of thine towards us miserable sinners unworthy to tast of the least drop much lesse that Ocean of thy love daily streaming and flowing home to our doors to the great comfort of our souls For what is man that thou art mindfull of him or the Son of man that thou shouldest regard him there is nothing in man but deserves open shame and confusision of face continually Wherefore we deny our selves and all our own unrighteousness as filthy clouts and menstruous rags and flee unto thee in thy Christ that in him by him and through him both now and ever we may be acceptable in thy sight O Lord our strength and our Redeemer And as thy mercies have been great towards us this night past so we beseech thee to continue the same mercy unto us this day and so to the end of our dayes Defend us from our Ghostly and bodily enemies Shield us with thy grace that we fall not this day into any manner of evil of sin that we may never grieve thy good Spirit any more by sin and so prevent another day the evil of punishment for sin Direct us in thy mercie in our going out and coming in that whatsoever we shall take in hand it may prosper like Joseph O prosper thou our handie work upon us Instruct us in the heavenly wisdome that above all things we may be wise unto the salvation of our poor souls And teach us with the night past to cast away