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The clearing of the saints sight A sermon preached at Cundouer neere the religious and ancient towne of Shrevvsbury. By Sampson Price Batchelour of Diuinitie of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.
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Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.
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the death of his sonne as Dauid for Absolon as hee went vp to the chamber ouer the gate 1. Sam. 18.33 as if like Aeneas hee had cared for none else but Absolon Omnis in Ascanio chari slat cura parentis Virg. O Absolon my sonne my sonne Nothing can be dearer vnto a man then his sonne except it be his soule Hannah begd a man childe of God â— Sa. 1.11.27 and she had her petition giuen Pithius Bithinius seeing his sonne murthered by Xerxes buried him Texoff left his kingdome to his wife and spent the rest of his life in the same graue with him The mother weepeth for the daughter as Rachel for her children with great mourning Mat. 2.18 shee brought her children into the world in much pangs to the halfe killing of her selfe yet careth for them to bee washed and swadled Ez. 1â— 4 sometime laughing to hope what they will be sometimes distressed with feare of what they may be euer tender and deare vnto them and beloued in their sight Pro. 4.3 O that wee were halfe so tender of our soules as our mothers haue beene of our bodies Their teares are ready in life and death The sonne sheddeth teares for the father as Ioseph did for Iacob when hee had made an end of commanding his sonnes gathered vp his feet into the bed and yeelded vp the ghost Gen. 50.1 Musculus Ioseph fell vpon his face and wept vpon him and kissed him It is Stoicall to hold that a wise man should be without compassion or affection Gen. 42.24 Hee wept at the sight of his brethren aloud that the Aegyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard but his teares were more violent for the death of his father Gen. 45.2 Eeel 3.11 no maruell for the glory of a man is from the honour of his father The childe sheddeth teares for the death of the mother Sara and perhaps continueth mourning as long as Izhak did for his mother D. Willet in Gen. 3. yeeres when shee had liued 127. yeeres the only woman whose whole age is recorded in Scripture The mother beareth the childe nine moneths in her womb longer in her armes for euer in her heart she beareth with many childish infirmities and when no other eye pittieth shee weepeth batheth Ier. ep de suspâ—cto contubernio suffereth much harty trouble shee so vseth the children as if they were her parents Aug. conf l. 9. c. 9. as A. Austin writeth of the tender affectionate care of his mother Monica ouer him The husband sheddeth teares for the death of his wife as Abraham who was 140. Peter yeeres old at the death of Sarah Gen. 2.18.22 man and wife are but one flesh The woman was made to be an helpe meet for man shee was made of the ribbe of man not from the earth but from the side of man neither out of his head lest she should be too proud neither out of his feet for she is not a vassall but from his side that the man knowing the woman to be taken out of him might more firmely set his affection vpon her being flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones Muse from his left side where his heart lay to shew the loue that must be betwixt them It was not of a monstrous superfluous part but a ribbe aboue the vsuall number of ribs created of purpose by the Lord as necessary for the creation of woman A good wife is a consummation of other pleasures Calu Nullius boni sine socio iucunda est possessio No good thing can be possessed pleasantly without a companion no companion can be so deare to man which made Euphrates a Philosopher vpon the death of his wife to crie out O tyrannous Philosophie thou commandest to loue and if we lose the things beloued thou forbiddest vs to be sorry for them The brother sheddeth teares for his brother Ber. pro si atre Gerardo as Bernard for Gerardus wee were but one heart and one soule but now the sword hath pierced it fetching one part to heauen and leauing the other vpon the earth The friend weepeth for the friend as Christ did for Lazarus and Dauid for Ionathan Ioh. 11.35 I am distressed for thee very pleasant hast thou beene vnto mee and Gregory Nazianzene for Basil Monod in Basil As for my selfe now I am bereaued of such a man what shall I doe but either die or liue in miserie which way shall I turne mee what shall I doe what counsell shall I take now I haue lost him that was my comfort But howsoeuer it bee lawfull to mourne and shed teares 1. Thess 4.13 yet not as without hope Mourning for the dead and remembrance of them is lawfull else Deborah Rebekkahs nurse had not beene buried so carefully and the place expressed and called Allon Bachuth Gen. 35.8 Gen. 35.20 the oake of weeping else Iacob had not set a pillar vpon the graue of Rachel else Israel had not mourned for Iosias the faithfull for Stephen and women for Dorcas Ennius the Poet would not be weeped for Nemo me lachrymis decoret Tully Prudent nec funera fletu No more would Laurence the Martyr but Solon commanded that the Common-wealth should mourne for his death and wee must shedde some teares ouer the dead Saints because by their departure wee may seeme to suffer harmes Ecc. 38.16 we had comfort by their presence which we want by their absence because they did much good to the Church and Common-wealth The world was blessed by them worse vsually succeed the wicked will grow more obstinate and wee may feare some iudgement to follow Is 57.1 for their death is a prognostication of some euill to come as when Noah entred into the Arke the world was drowned with the floud and when Lot departed out of Sodome it was burnt The godly need not to feare as Herod who being ready to die Ios an t l. 17. c. 9. de bello Iud. l. 1. c. 21. and thinking that his death would be a ioy to many shut vp in prison some Noble men of euery Towne and required his sister Salome and her husband Alexa that as soone as bee was dead they should kill those Noble men and then all Indaea would lament his death The Lord causeth them to be lamented as he did Ambrose in Italie Austin in Africke Luther in Germanie and others in other places sending extraordinary iudgements immediately after their deaths But our comfort should bee as Cyprian speaketh Cyp that they are but gone before and wee shall follow after that we must not lament them ouer-much who by the call of God are freed from miserie that they are but gone a iourney wee must looke for their returne they are sailed into a strange countrey and will if wee wait come againe that their deaths are not funerals but triumphs that as life without Christ
is death Ignat so their death with and in Christ is life that loue commandeth our teares Isid but faith should rule our passions and prescribe a moderation that as Ierome spake to Eustochium concerning her mother Paula Ier. ad Eustoch Epitaph Paula we should not so much mourne because we haue lost such as giue thanks that wee haue had such yea rather that wee still haue such for all liue vnto God and whosoeuer returneth vnto the Lord is reckoned in the number of the familie that we shall all meet at the last and there shall bee no more occasion of sorrowing sighing sobbing for as the spirit here telleth Saint Iohn when wee appeare before the Lambe God shall wipe away all teares and there shall bee no more occasion of mourning which directeth to this doctrinall proposition That after the end of this life God will free all the elect from all miseries It is prophecied of by Esay c. 57.2 Doct. He shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds each one walking in his vprightnesse so in Psal 126.5.6 They that sow in teares shall reape in ioy He that goeth forth and weepeth bearing pretious seede shall doubtlesse come againe with reioycing bearing his sheaues with him a truth repeated c. 21. of this prophecie v. 4. And God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more paine for the former things are passed away Here teares often are helpfull to expell griefe as the Poet desired to be wept for it would doe him a pleasure Fle que meos casus On l. 4. Trist est quaedam slere voluptas Expletur lachrymis egeriturque dolor But hereafter there shall be no occasion of teares as was to Iosiah weeping at the denouncing of a curse 2 King 22.19 2. King 20.3 Neh. 1.3 to Hezekiah weeping sore at a message of death to Nehemiah weeping because the wall of Ierusalem was broken downe and the gates thereof burnt with fire Iob 30.25 Is 22.4 Ier 9.1 to Iob for him that was in trouble and the poore to Isai for the spoiling of the daughter of his people to Ieremie for the slaine of the daughter of his people to Elisha the man of God weeping for Israel whose strong holds were to be set on fire their young men to be slaine with the sword their children to bee dashed and their women with childe ript 2 King 8.12 to Phaltiel weeping because his wife Michol was sent for away from him by Ishbosheth 2 Sam. 3.16 Gen. 21.16 to Hagar when all the water was spent in the bottle and shee cast her childe vnder the shrubs and sate downe a good way off as it were a bow shoot that shee might not see the death of her child Mat. 26.75 or to Peter weeping bitterly for denying his Master The way of all holy Kings Prophets Apostles Martyrs Confessors and Saints hath beene by the weeping crosse Their colours haue bin persecutions Christ hath beene persecuted Iohn 25.20 so must they be Their combatings are their many afflictions but the Lord deliuereth them out of all Psal 34.19 They performe no deuotion more pleasing to God then their hearty teares which they poure out so plentiful that they cause their beds to swimme in teares to be their meate day and night Psam 6.6 and to be botled vp by God himselfe Psal 42 3. who shall wipe them all away Vse 1. How terrible is this message to the obdurate sinners that neuer shed teares for sinne Bar. For Deus non infundit oleum misericordiae nisi in vas contritum God poures not the oyle of his mercy but into a broken vessell The obstinate sinner hath no teares and therefore can hereafter haue no comfort Ier. 19 10. They are not humbled vnto this day Christ wept for the sinnes of others but these will not weepe for their owne Christ shed his bloud for the least sins but they shedde not one drop of water for the greatest sinne Eccl 12 5. they are worse then those hired mourners going about the streetes which would lament and cut themseleus and make themselues bald for a little reward making this their whole trade Vt flerent oculos crudiêre suos But Heauen cannot drawe these worse then the Hart for if he be compassed with dogges Pliny he will weepe and mourne but these will not though set about by many sinnes and as many Diuels No sacrifice can be accepted without an humble heart vnlesse a man hath a poore Isa 66.3 a contrite a trembling spirit if he kill an Oxe he is as if he slew a man if he sacrifice a Lambe it is as if he cut off a dogges necke if he offer an oblation it is as if hee offered swines bloud if he burne incense it is as if hee blessed an idoll Amb. de paeniâ— â—câ— 4. our prayers must haue teares God expecteth them that he may send reliefe This is our violence that we must offer to the Lord. Prayer doth mollifie but teares doe compell Aug. Ser. Exhortations to others must haue teares If we would haue them to weep we must shed teares our selues therefore Origen after his fall taking that text and reading it in the Church Psal 50.16 But vnto the wicked God saith what hast thou to doe to declare my statutes or that thou shouldest take my couenant in thy mouth seeing thou hatest instruction and castest my words behind thee being not able to speake for teares set all the congregation a crying so effectuall is the silence of a touched weeping heart the Saints haue grace in their words and in their very faces Chrys Heare the word neuer so zealously yet vnlesse thy heart be melted it is but like the strokes of an hammer vpon an anuile But if with Dauid we make a Bath of our teares a Cauldron of our bed an Altar of our heart a Sacrifice not of vnreasonable beasts but of our owne bodies a liuing and reasonable sacrifice we shall haue comfort hereafter Hast thou beene omnium notarum peccator a sinner soyled with euery sinne be now then omnium horarum paenitens a penitentiary euery houte for sinne weepe for thy selfe and after for the sinnes of others else thou must immediately after this life is ended bee cast into that place where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Woe be vnto thee if thou doest nothing but laugh it shall be turned into mourning Mourning for friends cannot raise them againe though men should weepe their eyes out of the holes of their heads Chrys ad pop Antioch hem 15. but godly sorrow for sinne will helpe and purchase vs that which Achsah got of her Father Caleb the vpper and the nether springs Ios 15 19. a spring of comfort heere and heereafter a spring of the water of life all teares