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A89350	A plant of paradise, being a sermon preached at St. Martin's in the Fields at the funeral of John-Goodhand Holt, the young son, onely child, and hopefull heir of Thomas Holt of Gristlehurst in the county of Lancaster Esq; March the 19th. 1659. / By R.M. Minister of S. Pet. P.W. Lond.	Mossom, Robert, d. 1679.	1660 (1660)	Wing M2865; Thomason E1025_4; ESTC R208652	11,701	35

mourning and a firm ground of consolation and rejoycing 1. The present subject of lamentation and mourning A cropping off the tender top-branch of a Goodly Cedar the takeing away by death the hopeful young Heire of a worthy and ancient Family so sayes God by his Prophet in the Moral I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one 2. The firm Ground of consolation and rejoycing the happy transplanting this tender Branch into the Heavenly Paradise the Mountain of Sion high in Eternity and eminent in Glory thus I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent Method Explication and Application 1. Explication The Present Subject of lamentation and mourning I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one Here observe we have a Branch a top-Branch of the tree one and a tender one not withered or broken de medulla Cedri Vulg. evertice Cordis Arab. Interp. but in its full sap cropt off and taken away this the ascent of degrees in the letter of the Parable and Allegorical representation which gives us this accent of sorrow in the meaning of the Morall and Tropological interpretation viz. That a Son and Heir the last born of the Family and first born of his Mother a Childe and an only Childe in the blossom of his youth and vigour of his strength not wasted with some lingring Consumption nor lamed with some dismal Disaster but suddainly cut off by a most Acute disease is taken away by the hand of God from the Land of the living But what said I taken away from the land of the Living Ay as to an Earhly and Mortal life and that 's our Grief but yet with correction not quite taken away onely transplanted into a better Soile that of an Heavenly and life-giving Immortality which is our Comfort Now in Funeral Solemnities which receive their birth from our Death and had their rise from Mans fall Pleading their Antiquity from Abels Burial For if we will believe the Rabbins Adam and Eve were chief Mourners for the Death of Abel an 100. years Ay and his Panegyrick too that still remaines in the lasting records of Sacred Scripture where the Holy Ghost tells us in a Ludatory Commemoration of his Sacrifice Righteousnesse that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though he be dead he yet speaketh Heb. 11.4 Now I say in these Funeral Solemnities whether attending the eastern Pyle or the western Coffin the dolfullest mourning is in the obsequies of a deceased Son such a Son as is the Fathers hope and the Mothers joy primogenitus unigenitus the first born and the onely born Thus thus the Prophet Zachary to set forth more lively the sorrows Poènitential he does it most Pathetically most Emphatically by the sorrows of a Funeral when the humbled sinner shall mourn Zech. 12.10 as one mourneth for her onely Son and shall be in bitternesse of Soul as one that is in bitternesse of sorrow for his first born and here then retreat we into our own bosomes and let Conscience speak how much or rather how little we have been acquainted with true Penitence seeing the moanes of Penitence must be like the mournings for a Son even a Funeral sorrow yea like the mournings for an onely Son and first born which is the saddest sorrow of all Funerals And hinc illae lacrymae this oh this is the black cloud of mourning which dissolves it self into so many showres of tears in the present Exequies Whosoever they be then Beloved that either now do or hereafter shall mourn for the loss of a Son let them consider what mournings may be sufficient for the loss of a Soul especially seeing by the devout Teares of prayer and Penitence the lost soul may be recovered but the lost Son cannot be recalled Sophocles in Scyr 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Sayes the Grecian Sophocles If we could with cry's recall or moans recover the dead O how precious were our tears more rich then pearles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. more desirable then gold more Soveraignly restorative then Elixar it self Wherefore let those Parents whom Gods hand hath made Childless especially in the loss of a first born son and hopeful Heire let them make this holy use of their heavy affliction even a penitent Humiliation So shall their sons death further their Souls life and a spiritual Communion repaire the breach of a temporal separation and whom they have lost for a while as to an earthly presence they shall enjoy for ever in an Heavenly fellowship Father and Son Mother and Child all through an Obedience of Faith being made joynt heirs with Christ of the everlasting inheritance which Inheritance Christ hath purchased by his righteousness promis'd in his Gospel and gives full possession of it at his second coming in Glory Which is that very thing administers comfort here in sorrow to dry up the Tears of mourning even the firm ground of consolation in the Text that though God hath cropt off the Top-branch of the Family a Son and Heir tender and young Yet he hath planted him in Paradise the mountain of Sion high in dignity and eminent in glory For so says God of Zerubbabel in the Allegory appli'd by us to the deceased in the Moral I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent This then our second particular 2. Part. The firm Ground of Consolation and Rejoycing I will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent In which high mountain of Heavenly Sion the transplanted branch enjoys a perpetual Spring without any return of Autumn's falling leafe or Winters nipping frost Neither does the Moon 's motion measure out its moneths or the Suns course determin its years nor does the night press upon the day to mask its light but to keep this Plant fresh and flourishing the bright beams and sweet influence of the Sun of Righteousness are continually upon it Malach. 4.2 in the souls Beatifical Vision of God in Christ It was of the earthly Sion that David said it and therefore much more to be said of the Heavenly Psal 87.3 Glorious things are spoken of thee O thou City of God! some of those Glorious things are spoken by S. Augustine S. Aug. de Civit. Dei that in this City of Heavenly Sion Rex est Veritas Lex charitas pax felicitas vita aeternitas the King thereof is truth it self the law thereof is love it selfe the Peace thereof is felicity it self and the life thereof is Aeternity it selfe The whole blessedness and glory is such as Eye mortal Eye hath not seen 1 Cor. 2.9 nor ear heard nor hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive In cor hominis non ascendit so the Vulgar Latine and that according