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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

your work in Gods houshold Luke 12.42 To give them their portion of meat in due season Can you forbear to break the bread of life to souls souls for which Christ dyed Can you forget how passionately hee said If yee love mee feed my sheep Have you neither love to Christ nor his sheep neither Do you not remember that your Saviour had compassion on the multitude because they had nothing to eat and hee would not send them away fasting Mat. 15.32 lest they should faint by the way Oh that wee had as much love to souls as Christ had to bodies How many have continued many years and never yet tasted the bread of life Oh what sad deliquiums what fainting fits at death what dreadfull horror when they shall enter into the borders of Eternity and see themselves separated from the true portion of immortal spirits Will they not bee ready to upbraid your cruelty and unmercifulness Observe what ridiculous and absurd things sinners make themselves here The covetous man that hath more than enough yet perplexeth himself with his own wants look how like a fool hee goes leading his horse in his hand and carrying his saddle on his back till hee bee pickled in his own sweat when his horse would with ease carry him and his saddle too Look what a fool the proud man is that will needs bee popular and do every thing to bee honoured by others yet himself is as much afraid left this secret plummet which puts all the wheels in motion should bee discovered as a Theef is to bee taken in the very act and if hee have the hat and the knee of spectators the poor man doth as the Ass that thought shee was honoured when alas it was the image shee carried It is not the man for him they scorn but the fine cloaths and the great estate that is so much Idolized for so a dull beast shall command the eyes of the multitude with gaudy trappings when one of better spirit and service shall not bee looked on Do you not minde what a Swilling-tub a beastly Drunkard is what a childish Ape hee is that is given to chambering and wantonness Look how the poor discontented man like the Silkworm eats out his own bowels Can you see all this and much more which your own thoughts tell you and not pitty the degenerate estate of lost man Oh what is become of the glory of Gods Creation How hath this fair Picture lost the oriency of all its colours that beauty of all its Lineaments Cast your eyes upon the excellency of a true Christian who is bonorum rector malorum victor one that knows how to want how to abound one whose goodness and wisdome strikes an awe and reverence into all that converse with him the prophane person fears him the hypocrite counterfeits him as knowing hee hath no beauty unless painted with those colours Can you see sinners want these perfections and bee satisfied Hath the Devils malice done so much mischief Shall your affectionate compassion do no good but the dreadful terrors of Eternity mee thinks should strike fire out of a flint All vice is folly here and this folly will bee punished with weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth hereafter Oh think when you are preaching it may bee here are many that have not hearkned to Gods voyce and God may now be about to swear that they shall never enter into his rest Can this enter into your serious thoughts and you forget to do the work of faithful servants If it bee possible perswade this foolish world to leave mudwalls for good food and Pest-houses for healthfull air Tibinobilius est servire quam regna mundi capessere merito quando ex servis filii eximpiis Justi de eaptius reddimur absoluti Cassidor in orat p. 439. Herbe●ts Odor p. 169. new Ed. Query 5. Is it not your glory and perfection your own great honour and priviledge to bee Gods servants Abraham is Gods servant but hee is his friend too Isa 41.8 Moses is his servant but Moses sees him face to face How sweetly doth My Master sound My Master As Amber-greese leaves a rich Sent unto the Taster So do these words a sweet Content An oriental fragranoy My Master With these all day I do perfume my minde so Mr. Herbert that pious and most incomparably ingenious Poet of whom it is said That in his ordinary speech when hee made mention of the blessed Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ hee used to adde My Master Who is it I beseech you that you can glory in as your Master your selves your lusts the world the Devil or God which is greatest honour to bee Ambassador for a wise Prince or to bee a slave to a base beggar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristoph Plut. Alas wee are too much fools to bee fit to rule our selves and the Devil hath wit enough but it is to cheat us and make us miserable The Philosopher hath well observed Arist pol. lib. 1. cap. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that there is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one whose weak spirits and crazie intellectuals shew him born to bee in subjection to another wiser than himself and the best character that can bee given of him is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hee is able to bee under Authority hee is not so wilful as to refuse government not so stubborn as to scorn direction Unhappy and miserable creature that cannot see it self and will not bee led by a seeing guide The greatest favour that can bee done to children is to put them under the inspection of wise and sober Tutors and it is childrens credit when under them to bee like soft wax warmed that will receive any impression It is the happiness of an Angel to comply with the Divine will sure it must bee ours who are yet in a state of infancy and nonage ready to run headlong into all dangers to consult the Oracle of heaven and take Gods advice in all wee go about 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plut. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for it any thing bee rational this is Where the superiour is infallibly wise righteous and good there the inferiour cannot do himself so great a courtesie as universally to surrender his uncertain fallible mutable will to him in all things I wonder not therefore that David chuseth to bee a door keeper and that hee cryes out so pathetically Psal 116.16 O Lord truly I am thy servant I am thy servant I might at large prosecute this great argument to diligence and fidelity by propounding 1 The excellency of all Gods Laws 2 The great reward which his bounty hath promised Compare the former with your own passions the latter with shame and death the onely profit that can bee reaped from sin and it will easily bee granted that every prodigal when he comes to himself will quickly cry out Make mee as one of thy hired servants

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

did you his body give ' Cause his design was that your souls might live Vanish vain thoughts here neither care nor skill Was wanting nothing but his Makers will When God saith no Physick shall lend no aid Who first hath done his work shall first bee paid An Epitaph for his Tomb. HEre ly's a Saint the poor mans purse Of babes in Christ the tender Nurse The Sick mans salve the blinde mans eye Of troubled hearts the ease and joy Zeals sacrifice Faiths Herbenger His Saviours wise Ambassador His passion's Master and the Lord Of 's time and every thought and word Whose bones and ashes pawn'd remain In Christ Church here until again The world dissolve by the same fire That calcin'd him but then entire Both soul and body shall unite And with the Lamb stand cloath'd in white With Saints and Angels there to tell The prayses of Emmanuel J. Illingworth Co. Em. Soc. S. On the Death of his highly valued and much beloved Friend Mr. Edward Bright VVHen grief makes Poets and untimely death Makes room for tears Sure then a barren heath Can yeeld a Flower or two to deck a Hearse The driest fancy can weep out a verse And leave the Reader to determine why Such ill-scann'd course-spun shriveld Poetry Appears in Print 't is not because the name Worth Learning Piety well-bottom'd fame Of our Dear Friend with God need such Divine To shew him to the world such foggy Vapours Do rather intercept Bright's beams alas I bleed afresh to name him cannot pass It o're without a sigh Now mee thinks I could wink This vain world into nothing call 't a sink Of emptiness nothing betwixt two dishes Embroyder'd lyes womens and childrens wishes Herb. Poems Yet why so passionate Is it so strange That friends should shake hands here that dust should change That smoak yet such is man should disappear That stars should twinckle in the Hemisphere I 'le play no more the childe but curb my passion I 'le dry mine eyes and henceforth learn this lesson To dote no more on friends I see a Rose If held too fast can prick mee in the close R. Perrot An Epitaph ZEal without Faction charity Free from vain glory piety Not soild with sordid affectation Religion void of innovation An able head an honest heart A down right man in every part Lyes here intomb'd a burning light Spent in the Temple Now good night R. Perrot Sid. Suss Col. ΘΡΗΝΩΔΙΑ Upon the Death of E. B. M. A. Fellow of Emanuel Colledge Cambridge and Pastor of Christs-Church London 1 HOw Bright dead too Ah let m'lone Think you a sigh or groan Or blubber'd eyes For him just obsequies Ah! tell me not the greatest Urne Hath but a hearse Scutchion and verse And gets but one poor month to mourn 2 Oh that I had Timanthes art who drew The Giants Thumb to shew How might bee guest The greatness of the rest For who can Bright-at-length set forth Though all the nine Adore his shine Vails are best comments on great worth 3 I 'de quickly shew no need to let One word sound griefs retreat But ah my span 'S too short for th'least of him So great so good so learn'd was hee My words want weight To take his height Tears his best Epitaph will bee 4 Know you him not go then and spye Within his Tombe there eye How his green head Was the gray-Fathers bed Then 's mouth where Greek and Hebrew plaid About his tongue Whither did throng Chalde● and Syrick there to trade 5 In 's rumbling bowels you may trace Whole troops of Lumbards race Which conquer'd stand Great Sir at thy command Strong his Supporters were you 'l see The liberal Arts Did play their parts Nor in a Science lame was hee 6 His heart you 'l finde all scor'd with lines Out of our own divines And now at last Entred on Baxters rest And as Ignatius had so there Within I'm told Is writ in gold The Creed Commandements and Lords Prayer 7 But griefs are soon fordable that have Their ●ides or needs a grave To make them spring Give mee the offering Of sorrow when retir'd Th●n see This done you part Then will each heart Keep time with Nicke and mee Jos Hill In Obitum M ri Bright Col. Eman. Socii QUid tantum egregias animis quid debit a c●●lo Pectora terreno querimur defunct a ve●islo An quia nos retinent inviso care●●● clanstra Corporis miserae servant ergust●ila vitae Ergone Divinis animis coeloque locandis In partriam prohibemus iter Ergo optima fata Impia sacrilego deflemus turba dolore Proh sancta impietas suspiria prersus iniqua Aequatamen lachrymaeque ipsapi●● are propha●i Sed nostras lugere vices mata nostra quer●●●s Flere licet non illum adeo vixiffe do●●● 〈◊〉 oft Quam quod nos ultra dimisso vivim●is ipso Eheu sidere as quae tanta penurlo J●des Invasit sic nempe vacant caeles●ia Regua Ut Terrae invideant illine tamra●a pi●●●● Ut capita abripiant ingens jactura relict●●● O nimium delecte De● quem postulat Aether Ante diem fati dignum melioris amiea Vis rapuit Coeli gestitque ornate triumphis Ergo ageter felix terrenâ mole solute 〈…〉 Ch●●●● super astra 〈◊〉 Perge triumphali currus educere pompâ Non qualem in Terris 〈…〉 mentis Tot curis ambire solent non quam sibi plausu Captat ab obstropero miseranda superhia vulg● Sed te vera manent 〈…〉 cupess● Aurea sidereis decorand●●●hioulu fortis Gul. Leigh A. M.C.C.S. In Obitum Magistri Bright M. A. Nuperi Tutoris mei Charissimi SOlve parentales ritus justa repend● Justo funde●us ca●●i●a●●●sa part Intima cui pietus quae su●●● fr●●● decora Sincer● cordi●●●●g●●que promus erat Quo fervor ca●●●que ammi discordia ●●●●●rs Tynd●● d●●f●●●re● 〈…〉 Non vacat ign●●us Genis qui m●●era plura Qua totum posc●● 〈…〉 Nec satis est lucer●dien● 〈…〉 Contentus mini●● nocte Britannus erat Dumque alio luce●● vibrus arde●● 〈…〉 Ut pell●●c●●●● pictoribus ●●●bras Heu oleum citiu● perlit in 〈…〉 Sin oleum perdas niloper●●● periit Sed tibi long aq●●is f●ss●● fortique triu●●bus Sementique gravi●●s●● 〈…〉 Splen ridere facit 〈…〉 sed●ad 〈◊〉 Descondit morbus sp●enque d●●er● fa●it Caetera dam solvit qu● dibit mast●● camana Solvitur in luctus Rob. Alfounder M. A. Col. Em. Soc. In Eundem A Writ of ease so soon and dost thou turn Thy vocal Pulpit to thy silent Urne No sooner watch-man but with sleep opprest Thou went'st not there to labour but to rest Wee often finde that plants upon remove By their new welcome thrive and fruitful prove But thou transplanted soon decayest wee fee Death with his Spade and Mattock fells the Tree No 't is remov'd this Tree of Knowledge is But hence transplanted into Paradise If any wonder at thy shorter day That night treads on the heels of noon

harp was turned to mourning and his organ into the voyce of them that weep In the time of our Saviours greatest joy Luke 9.28 29 30 31. when the fashion of his countenance was altered and his rayment was white and glistering and Moses and Elias appeared in glory they spake to him of his decease I could wish all persons of worth and excellency in their mutual converse in their contribution of assistance for the promoting of the most pious interests would sometimes entertain one another with a discourse about their decease for that would pluck up the weeds of vain hopes and fond imaginations which are apt to grow in the hearts of good men And though some men whose thoughts are so immersed in secular and worldly affairs that they are scarce at leasure to consider whether their strength bee the strength of brass or clay Though they bee guilty of this mistake whose lives meet with few hours of pain and their little sadness is but like vinegar put into sweet sauce makes it taste better or like a harsh note in musick that goes before a sweet one forcing the ear to bee more covetous and making the harmony more grateful yet it is wonderfully strange that they who by long study and serious thoughts have macerated their bodies and made them sickly who are like a flower exposed to the violence of the North wind and have no shelter that such as these should forget their death seems to bee incredible Did not sad experience tell it was too true I would not bee as the Screech-owl a messenger of death to any one much less to my beloved brethren in the Ministry I would gladly bee as the Crow on the Capitol who when shee could not say It is well said It shall bee well I cannot say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is well with us when Mr. Vines Mr. Frost Mr. Bright Sueton. Domit. are carried to their graves I would say It shall bee well and the next year shall produce no such sad spectacies But neither my Text nor the occasion of this solemn Assembly make mee able to promise it In the former you finde a Prophet that never had one like him till the Son of God appeared dead before you By the latter you may bee informed that a holy man may have his Autumu even in his Spring and his leaves may drop asunder before hee bee well ripe When the Sons of the Prophets came forth to Elisha they said to him Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy Master from thy head to day hee answered Yes I know it hold you your peace 2 King 2.3 If I should tell you that your Saviour is dead I might say Know you that your Master lay in the grave and the servant must not bee better than his Lord. But now I say Know you that God hath taken away from you your fellow-servant I presume you will answer mee Wee know it hold you your peace Yet I am ready to urge that Question thrice as the Sons of the Prophets did for I am sure that which you know quickly you may forget hastily It is not hasty showers but soft snow that soaks deep whilst the former runs off as fast as it comes the latter gently creeps in at every chink of ground Let mee humbly therefore beseech you to think again and again to look wishly upon the Text and upon the Grave of that usefull friend whom God hath now taken from us And then I question not but you will bee prepared for the second thing which the Text recommends to your practice Corol. 2. Then it is good reason you should do your work as fast and as well as you can It is good reason 1 Because you are servants 2 Because you are dying servants 1 Consider you are servants If you bee asked Why stand you idle and go not down into Gods Vineyard you cannot answer God hath not called us Shall servants loyter It was Moses commendation that as a servant hee was faithfull in all Gods house Let it bee yours Suffer mee to propound a few Queries Let all your consciences answer them Query 1. Is it not your Justice Is not your service a debt Ought you not to discharge it Have you a right to your selves Did you make and redeem or do you now preserve your selves Hath God no way ingaged you Did God give you your parts and talents to bee laid up in napkins or doth hee expect his own with due improve●●ent or were not your gifts given you for others sake as the mothers breast for the childes advantage Mr. Gurnals Christian Armour Part. 1. p. 333. A most accurate Preacher hath said truly If the Minister labour not to increase his stock hee is the worst Theef in the Parish It is wicked for a man trusted with the improving of Orphans estates to let them lye dead by him much more for a Minister not to improve his gifts which I may call the Town stock given for the good of the souls of both rich and poor Or have you a minde it shall bee said at your death There is gone the unjust servant that called God Master but served the Devil Quer. 2. Is not faithful service the expression of your ingenuity Are you not beholden to God Do not mercies make thee resolve to present thy self to him Rom. 12.1 which is thy reasonable service Can you forget how passionately the bleeding Saviour said If thou lovest mee feed my sheep Lovest thou mee feed my lambs Have divers lusts and pleasures which you have served too long Tit. 3.3 Done you greater favours than God Quer. 3. Is it not your security The Coward that runs away in this service shall certainly bee killed If Jonah will go to Tarsus a storm must follow him and overtake him Do wee provoke God to jealousie 1 Cor. 10. ●● are wee stranger than hee Oh remember often those dreadful words of our Saviours Take the unprofitable servant and c●st him it to everlasting burning The servant that had work to do and began to drink and bee drunken His Lord will come in a day when hee looketh not for him and will cut him in sunder Luke 12.46 M●s crat dominorum nomen servis in fronte scribere Ari●ophan●● Babylonios s●rvos cum fronte inscriptâ introduxit in Scenam Grot. in loc and will appoint him his portion with the unbeleevers None were safe when the earth was hurt Rev. 7.3 but the servants of God who were sealed in their fore-heads Do you think you shall alwaies live at Gods table to delight in the Devils drudgery No at length you must have their portion too Depart yee cursed I know you not Wee may flatter and deceive men but wee cannot that God who will not bee mocked who tells us That hee will require the blood of others at our hands Quer. 4. Doth not your compassion to others force it You that are Gods Stewards have this for