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A30620	A soverain remedy for all kinds of grief opened and applyed in a sermon at the funeral of Mr. John Langham, the eldest son of Sr. James Langham, knight, a child of five years and an half old, who dyed at Cottesbrook in Northhamptonshire, July 29, 1657 : with a narrative of sundry remarkable passages concerning him before and in the time of his sickness / by Thomas Burroughes.	Burroughes, Thomas, b. 1611 or 12.	1662 (1662)	Wing B6132; ESTC R4359	39,217	52

and to lodge there Speed is successful quickens joys and in a throng 'T is so we think him best at ease that stays not long Dry up those christal streams 't was not too soon He gains the prize that first his course hath run Lod. Downs D. D. In Obitum Johannes Langham generosi optimae spei puelli qui nondum pueritiam excedens vitam hanc mortalem cum immortali commutavit Julii die 29. An. D. 1657. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 SOl loca terrarum rediens Antarctica versus Partibus aestatem reddit Borealibus orbis Induit haec agros maturis frugibus atque Exuit agricolis tandem sua vota rependens Falciferae manui flavas dum praebet aristas Interea cadit haec matura at spica tenella Falce necis properae potius generosa-ve planta Decidit Autumno nondum nudante capillis Arboreos ramos inopino funere monstrans Quantula sint hominum corpuscula nempe caducis Vel foliis quod sunt leviora ut justa doloris Causa tamen cum plena spei modus esto querelis Semen ut obtectum caro sic tellure resurget Ad decus eximium vires renovata perennes Oh sua qui toties ventis commisit undis Non sine successu de terra ne anxius esto Quin sibi commissam prolem cum faenore reddet Debitor usuram pariter cum sorte negabit Agricolis potius nec reddent arva laborum Fructus sperato lucro mercator ab Indis Nec fruiturus erit quam non rediturus ab urna Filius hic lucis qui spe requiescit in illa Nam prius angusto ex mens corpore viva recessit Ad patriam superam cumulatis dotibus aucta Munere divino sic decrescente Johanne Cresceret ut Christus sancto formatus in isto Ad culmen surgens quo non perfectio major Sperari queat à lachrymis hoc temperet omnes Queis aliter talem sobolem periisse doleret Francise Markham MEn in their strength being counted trees the young Are plants or buds and blossoms when the strong Are but as flowers the aged being like sheep In deaths-fold ready to be laid on sleep Children are lambs if these be made a prey To death and nipped first their noon of day Being by night prevented 't is not new Nor should seem strange being so often true In lambs and buds that are the forwardest Such plants being first remov'd that promise best Men dealing thus with creatures them below If God above deal so with us may know We clay before him should be dumb this rod Being deserved too at th' hand of God 'T is fitting sinful creatures should be meek When smitten then to turn the other check And Adam's sin it was to spare no tree His seed since mortal are by just decree So that no tree nor plant nor graft nor oak Can be secured from deaths fatal stroke In Paradise no one untoucht might stand None outed thence scapes deaths impartial hand Yet death's no death to him being in that trice Transplanted to the heavenly Paradise Being gathered from the weeds here left on ground For ever in lifes bundle to be bound Tane from the flock in that pure Virgins train Which are with th' lamb of God for to remain Then count not this for death night call not this But a dark cloud conveighing him to bliss Dark on Survivers side to him 't was bright Whom it translated to eternal light All tears being wip'd then from his eyes that 's gone Wipe those away this doth occasion When he received was he was but lent Not lost now gone but is before us sent Thither where's had that one daies full delight Which is an endless Sabbath without night Francis Markham An Encomiastique upon the death of that precious Child Mr. John Langham the son of Sir James Langham Knight HAd I the vein to versifie as some My pen should write although my tongue was dumb A Poets pate I never had nor shall My fansie seldome wrought that way at all Yet give me leave to try though Muses nine Stand a far off the Bayes shall ne'r be mine JOHN LANGHAM a man on high A Child and yet a Man no Paradox There are few men can shew such fruitful stocks Of sacred wisdome sorrow faith love zeal Which grew on thee and thou didst much reveal So wise so young May we not liken thee To Solomon in 's youth to Timothy For Scripture skill and for hearts tenderness To sweet Josiah thus did God thee bless Thy faith entitled thee blest Abrahams son For thou believing didst as he had done This difference observ'd his faith was strong When he was old but thine when thou wert young So great to thy dear Lord was thy affection The loving thou wert and the beloved John Yet more for zeal may we not thee compare To Israels singer an example rare The most choice virtues of these three and three Did all concenter and concur in thee On high thou art now gone where thou hast more Of Man and God than we who stand on shore Thy parts are perfect and thy lovely grace Is ratified for no dross hath place In heaven And now could thy Parents dear But think how blest thou art surely no tear Would drop from their too mournful eyes but they Would as they should rejoyce to see this day Of thy souls triumph o're sin death and hell Who didst well living and being dead art well Wait but a while and thy most precious dust Shall rise again when God shall raise the Just When soul and body both compleat shall be Fully enjoying God t' eternity Samuel Ainsworth Minister of the Gospel at Kelmersh Gen 44. 30. Prov. 17. 6. Epist Ded. before the Book of his reverend Father called The Doctrine of Fasting c. Esa 56. 5. 1 Joh. 1. 3. Esa 53. 13. a Esa 54. 11. b Psal 42. 5. Augustinus legit quia tu fecisti me ac proinde erravit in hujus loci iaterpretation● a Job 1. 8. Lam. 3. 12. b Job 1. 12. c Psa 31. 15 Esa 16. 14. Joh 7. 36. d Gen. 15. 13 Rev. 2. 10. e Mat. 26. 55. f Job 1 12. and 2. 6. g Psa 78. 50. He weigheth a path to his anger 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 h Joh. 19. 11 i Esa 9. 13. k Mat. 10. 29. l Psal 91. 5. Lam. 3. 12. m 1 King 22. 24. 1. The Testimony of the godly n Job 1. 21. o 2 Sum. 16. 11 p Psal 12. 4. q Psal 17. 13. r Mat. 8. 9. 2. The Testimony of God himself s Esa 45. 7. t Esa 9. 13. u Amos 3. 6. w Deut. 28. 21 22. 7. 15. x Esa 40. 15. y Ver. 17. z Ver. 12. Victriae causa Deo placuit sed victa Catoni Carncades said it was the misery of Athens that what wise men debated fools judged of a Esa 55. 8 9 b Exo. 21. 13. compare Deut. 19. 5. c 1 King 22 28. d

I be patient under such sufferings as mine are so great so suddain so unexpected so irrepairable Know you are allowed to mourn so you do not murmure you are not forbidden to grieve so ye be not dejected He is an unreasonable man that thinks one should feel no pain when one limb is torn and pulled from another All that I drive at is that you would labour for such a dumbness under Gods afflicting hand as was before described that is Take heed of quarrelling with Gods providence take heed of falling out with wayes of holiness stand not justifying your selves and your own doings by prayer and meditation do your endeavour to quell all tumultuous risings in your hearts hold your peace and hearken that you may take out these lessons God is now reading to you in his School of affliction acquiesce and rest satisfied with Gods dispensations subscribe to his Wisdome Justice Holiness Goodness and Truth This is that you are to be exhorted to This is the work that now lies before you But you will say to me Do you think you can perswade us to all this I answer The truth is God must perswade yea and he must bless the Physick else all is in vain But this I am sure of I can tell you what it is that Gods people have found to be the most Soveraign Remedy for the curing of the most heart-aking griefs and that is this in my Text. I remember Pliny writing to a friend of his and acquainting him how much he took to heart the death of Corellius an aged person one whom he exceedingly loved and valued wisht his friend to suggest something that might comfort him But saith he Do not think to do it by telling me he was an old man and infirm and one that in the course of Nature could not live long These things I know tell me something that is new something that is great something I never read something I never heard before for those things which I have heard I often think of but my grief is too strong and vehement to be qualified and allayed by them Now if any of you should impose such a Law upon me and bid me either tell you some new thing to comfort you that you never heard of before or else your sorrow is such that it will scorn all that I can say as Leviathan doth the shaking of a spear and the spirit of impatience that is in you will not be laid Though the task be hard yet thus much by Gods grace I shall undertake 1. To suggest such Arguments to calm your spirits as neither Pliny nor any Heathen of them all ever heard or dream't of 2. To tell you some things which if you do know it is to be feared you have forgot or to be sure do not mind and take sufficiently to heart And it is no small mercy to have known truths brought unto our remembrance upon occasion It is a courtesie any of us would thank a man for if he do but help us to our purse again when we have lost it though he give us nothing but what we had before But peradventure some may hear that of which till now they were utterly ignorant This I dare say concerning the Remedy I am now giving you the receipt of it is the best in the world it hath by the blessing of God done admirable Cures upon the most sad souls under the most heavy afflictions What David said of Goliah's Sword may be affirmed of it There is none like it I shall reduce all that I have to say farther about this point to these two Heads 1. How and after what manner the consideration of Gods hand works the heart to such a dumbness and silence as hath been spoken of 2. What there is contained in this consideration for such a purpose or what the Ingredients of this Medicine be Now for the way and manner how this Consideration of Gods hand worketh such an effect in the afflicted soul as hath been spoken of It is 1. Partly by frighting us out of our impatience and discontent One passion is often cured or at least repressed by another The apprehension of Gods hand in our sufferings stirs up fear and fear drives away sinful distempers Sauls thirst after David's blood was frighted away at least for the present by an apprehension of the danger he was in from the Philistims If by the Eye of Faith we do but once see God it will so terrifie us as to make us abhor our selves and repent in dust and ashes 2. Partly by furnishing us with matter of Consolation something to put into the other Scale to weigh against our sorrow Consolation is properly a kind of reasoning whereby we lay one thing against and compare it with another that by the consideration of the one we may be able to bear the other better When you would make both ends of the ballance even ye still put more and more into the one end till ye get the other up Now this Consideration of Gods hand doth furnish us as we shall hear anon with sundry weighty Arguments of Consolation enough to raise the soul that is sunk deepest in despondency and so must needs be effectual to quiet and compose the heart 3. Partly it turns one sorrow into another a sorrow that causeth death into a sorrow that brings repentance never to be repented of a sorrow for suffering into a sorrow for sin and so it worketh a tranquility in the soul by diverting our passions into another channel where they may take their course without any danger Thus Physicians to stop bleeding in one place do use the way of Revulsion and open a vein some other where The consideration of Gods hand will raise in our hearts a sorrow according to God and that as Moses his Serpent did with those of the Magicians will eat up our sorrows of other kinds 4. It works lastly a calmness in our spirits by turning our sorrow at length into joy converting our Wormwood and Gall into Wine and inabling us by degrees to say It is good for me The due apprehension of Gods hand in all our losses and sufferings will first strike us dumb and make us silent but those who are thus dumb as hath been shewed shall in due season find that promise verified to them The lame man shall leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb shall sing And thus it was with our Prophet at last Blessed is the man as he sings sweetly whom thou chastnest O Lord and teachest him out of thy Law It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes Only you must know that these effects will not be produced on a suddain it is not to be expected that in an hour or a day such an alteration should be made There must be frequent application of the Remedy and the soul must dwell in these meditations and

pains of hell for ever A little before his death he brake out into these words My sins pardon my soul save for Christ his sake I cannot blame those worthy persons so neerly related to him though they mourn at parting with such a sweet and hopeful Child any more than I could blame them for feeling pain if one of their limbs were torn from another Only they must not mourn to despondency and I hope I gave them sufficient reason why before What an instrument of Gods glory might he have proved What a deal of service might he have done to God in all likelihood had he lived to old age But it was Gods doing I shall only make two or three Animadversions upon the whole and conclude all with five words of application How many are there that live to fifty or threescore years of whose life so good an account cannot be given as of this little one of five years of age and an half How many Gentlemen be there of whom when they die all that can be said is this They were born they did eat and drink and play and hunt and hawk and lived like so many wild Ass-colts never minding any thing that concern'd Gods glory or their own salvation either when they were children or after they came to mans estate and so died and dropt into hell How many others be there of whom when they die all that can be said is this They were born they did eat and drink and moil and labour for the bread that perisheth with all their might but neither knew nor cared to know what they were born for like bruit creatures only minding present things and thus spent fifty or threescore years and so died and went down to hell How much more comfortably might a Minister of the Gospel admit to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper such a Child as this notwithstanding his years than those of ten times his age that are children would to God they were like some children in understanding I shall make Application of what hath been said touching him in five words 1. To all in general to admire and adore Gods Grace which doth shew it self and work thus in little ones Do not say All this was nothing but his education Blessed be God for his education and those children have cause to bless God whose Parents have been careful to bring them up in his fear But sure it was something else for we see how different wayes those take that have one and the same education If education would have done the thing without Gods blessing doubtless Eli and David and many others of Gods Saints had never had their hearts broken by the ungraciousness of their children 2. To Parents to encourage them to be dropping principles of Religion into their little ones and to be doing it betime to season the Vessel first if possible with the fear of God We know not how soon God may be pleased to work upon the hearts of our children even the youngest of them 3. To young ones that they would learn to imitate and follow this example that hath been set before them Learn to know God and remember your Creator betimes Learn to pay the duty and observance you owe unto your Parents This is a thing well-pleasing unto God 4. To old ones that come short of this sweet Child Blush and be ashamed man to be forty or fifty years of age it may be more and yet out-stripped by a Child of five years and an half not to have attained so much knowledge of God and the things that concern your souls in all these years as he had attained in so short a space Learn to know God at last get acquaintance with the principles of Religion while you have yet a day while ye have yet an hour left before ye go hence and be seen no more You will say would you have us old folks as this age go learn the Catechism like children If you do not know those things already why not I am sure you were better do so Than have Christ come in flaming fire to take vengeance on you because you know not God It is better by far to set your selves to the learning of the points in the Catechism than to go to hell for your ignorance 5. To those worthy persons the neer Relations of this sweet Babe that is gone God hath but taken up this little Lamb to heaven to make you in your hearts and affections to follow after There is a part of you in heaven already He must not come again to you make sure that you meet him there And when you think how dearly you miss him remember but who hath taken him Submit to and acquiesce in Gods Dispensation Remember it is his hand Some do think there is no such Remedy for the Disease called the Kings-Evil as a touch with the Kings Hand but this I am sure of there is no such way to abate the anguish of our souls under any smarting blow from Gods Hand as the serious consideration of Gods Hand from whence the pain comes Do not forget the Text Be dumb open not your mouths not one word It is Gods doing Imprimatur EDM. CALAMY Septemb. 10th 1657. FINIS In Memoriam Johannis Langham summae spei pueruli D. Jacobi Langham Eq Aur. filii FElix ingenio cui laeva in parte mamille Nil cordis bone necquicquam quererere magister Mollis ad obsequium flecti sine moribus hilum Non valet ingenium cui displicuisse parenti Paenagravis sine paena alia Non ille salubres Quod pueri faciunt monitus committere ventis Non odisse libros imò his incumbere totis Viriculis ludo est jamdudum clamitat O he Jam satis est fili genitor requiesce parumper Ille operi intentus divelli sustinet aegrè Tantus amor libri tantique scientia rerum Omnibus accessit pietas quae maxima virtus Qua sine nil prodest habuisse atque omnia nosse Non pueri pro more preces ut inania verba Effudit sine mente Obiter non Biblia legit Hunc librum manè serò versare juvabat Indeque decerpsit quae mente reponeret alta Quaeque animo secum pia nocte dieque revolvat Saepe videns pater haec vix sua gaudia celans Jam juvat O vixisse inquit juvate esse maritum Te tanta mihi prole Tibi O! sunt Nestoris anni Saepe eadem charae genetrici mens eodem Illa Deum voto pia corde voce fatigat Saepe sua venerandus Avus sed saepe nepotis Causa gavisus mea spes mi Scipio dixit Vive meosque oculos patris claude superstes Saepe Fortunas aliquis laudabat amicus Vestras secum si tali ego prole beatus Heu quantum caecae mortalia pectora noctis Quantum noctis habent quoties heu fallere nostrum Nos solet augurium Non

quae potiora miselli Censemus sic visa Deo retinere parentes In terris satagunt Hunc caelo destinat illuc Vult Deus ut properet vocat parere necessum est Ergo abiisse preces in sumos ergo dolori Indulgere absit neque enim periisse putandum Morte caput charum hoc illi tantùm alia columbae Concessa procul a terrenis faecibus istis Fugit ubi aeternùm requies ubi vilia habentur Maxima quae censent mortales cuncta Quid ergo Oppugnant capitis tam chari gaudia vestris LEt those that have an Elephant to make Of some poor silly worm themselves betake To invoke their Muses for t' inspire their brains With some poetick high-flown ranting strains But for my part as I have no such task So from the Muses I no help do ask He is a Little One of whom I treat But yet of worth sufficiently great Those fictions with which some do use t' adorn Such as they praise we from our hearts do scorn Precise and measur'd truths here only be Strange without help of all Hyperbole That he so young should be so ripe in parts So dutiful so skill'd in th' innocent arts Of pleasing's Parents so well pleased when he Had done what by them he approv'd did see So pliant to their counsels things which most Throw at their heels and suffer to be lost So docil so delighted with his book On which as on their torment others look So pious that 's the chief and fearing God And all this with so little help of rod. These things are strange and some may think scarce true But all this by experience many knew And witnesse will that this is no device To make men take for gold a Copper-piece You his Relations to whose hearts so neer This Jewel lay and lye's be of good cheer He is not lost whom you so dearly miss He has but found some shorter Cut to bliss So you have known a Seaman by a wind Serving his turn and blowing to his mind Soon brought with joyful speed unto his home In a few weeks when many others come Tossed with adverse tempests sad and late Sore weather-beaten moaning their hard fate To wish thee here would be thy injury Rather let 's wish our selves dear soul with thee T. B. In praeproperum satum charissimi sibi adolescentuli Summaspei flosculi Johannis Langham dibectissimi sui fratris D. Jacobi Langham Eque Aur. filioli COndones lachrymis puer haec tua Justa beate Fonte hoc lustrali Sacra adeunda tua Quamvis excelsis splendet tua gloria caelis Solem spectamus cum madidis oculis Vidimus hic vires puerili in corpore adultas Augusta augustam mens tenuitque donum Taedebat vitae maturum caetera caelis Longa fuit virtus vita fit ergo brevis Emicat haud aliter fugitivo numine fulgur Aer nec longa luce coruscus erit Sic subito placidi cecidere ex arbore fructus Sic hyemem nullam dulcia poma ferunt Exiguus durat cum parvo lumine juncus Clarior at magnis quàm citò flamma perit Angustare oculsque Tubis transmittere visuns Ut stellas videant Tu Galilaee doces Clarus ab exiguo penetrabat corpore Caelos Hic puer utque Tubo Corporefunctus erat Quis vellet longae jam ducere taedia vitae Cum brevis ad superos possit adire dolor Ille hic qui tenui modulatus arundine Caelum est Inter caelestes non Cherubinus erit Sic flevit mastissimus patruus Guil. Langham M. D. MY tears are just these distillations are Not issues of a Rheumatick Catarrhe Nor call them womanish I hate to be Esteemed as a Mourner but in Fee You 'l say the cause was small I yield he was Yet a small child a gyant may surpass Vertue excelleth bulk and goes beyond Great is the loss of a small Diamond As for his Soul 't was of the biggest sizes Enrich't with all the chiefest rarities So have I seen a little case contain All the whole lineaments of a goodly man In smallest things Art is more rich and pure He was a picture drawn in Menuture This little Child had as great faith as any The ten Commandments written in a penny His soul in those streight lodgings to too pent Removed to a larger apartiment His Meditations and his fervent prayers Were higher stronger than his tender years Through the inner Cypress Veil we call it Love Of 's innocent body Heaven did more warmly move We e're choak't with thicker clay and muffled on As pris'ners are at execution We e're full of darkness horror and despair And when we die replenished with fear Death found him joyful and hath left him so Whil'st we like Mourners'bout the street do go And ha'nt we cause whil'st we delight to wear His Memory like pendents in the ear William Langham M. D. To the most Hon. Sir Ja. L. Knight and his most vertuous Lady in memory of their young Scient newly transplanted Jo. L. SAy is 't not a sacred injury to rehearse Past griefs and make you suffer o're again in verse But that the subtilty of love hath found out arts Rifling his Vrn to cossin him in eyes and hearts Where lives embalm'd an early piety their view This Orient Pearl fresh made of that morning dew Vnder whose name thus vail'd least that we fondly pry Too neer in Sorrows Lodging there you may descry Ingenious Innocence an hollowed Wit A stranger to those blacker Crimes that poyson it Grown perfect Man by thriving Education Spares some Refinings of a Resurrection Here me thinks I see that pretty Questionist Catechize his teachers unto his own acquist Of Truths there satisfied chiding that busie sect Of restless heads those Picklocks of Heavens Cabinet A morning Penitent see him beg pardon when 'T was hard to say which first the Penance or the sin Waters which to each thirsty soul may given be Taught by a Prophecie may well be spent on thee Tasting such sweets we find mortality did much Thirst after crasie mortals deeming all were such Men were in love with sadness States for sorrows call Sickness became the Natives Epidemical But stay Let now no German Confident from hence Dlazon the Glories of his youthful Excellence 'Bove th' Europian World who did at twice seven become A Psalmists Paraphrast in his own Idiom But in these Herse-cloaths this young Catechist you see Bound up a little volum of Divinity But why so fast Sweet St. was 't to keep pace in Hymns The hallowed Reason with those winged Cherubims And you his neer Relates who sublimated are Into an height in Natures Crusible so far Could you then well expect your next extract should be Clear'd and refin'd to less than immortality Whilst Heaven 's so friendly by this gainful violence To Court you thither where he hath his Residence Steals th' affectionate raises the Souls to bear A part with whom your love was plac't