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A52287	The dying mans destiny, and the living mans duty, opened. And applyed in a sermon preached on board the Loyal-Eagle, upon the coast of Cormodell in the East-Indies. At the solemn obsequies of Mr. Richarde Bernard, Chyrurgeon, who, at the conclusion of it, was (with universal sorrow) thrown into the sea, Feb. 1. 1680. Together, with an elegy on his death. By C.N. Minister of the same ship.	Nicholets, Charles.	1682 (1682)	Wing N1087; ESTC R222287	39,747	53

Steven was their brother and companion in the Faith Patience and Tribulation of the Gospel and therefore they looked on themselves obliged to Mourn bitterly and Lament sorely when he went to his Long Home But alas there is little of this Sorrow in these days wherein Iniquity doth so much abound and the Love of so many waxes cold to every good Work There is no Mourning in the Streets of our Jerusalem no Lamenting in the City of our Zion when the Godly Man ceaseth when the Faithful fail from among the Children of Men. The Prophets complaint was verily never more just and pertinent than now The Righteous perisheth and no Man layeth it to heart and Merciful Men are taken away none considering that the Righteous is taken away from the Evil to come Thirdly There is a Relation by Affinity which obligeth Men to Mourn at the Departure or going to their Long Home of any so Related to them This Relation is by Marriage or joyning Families that were remote and wholly unacquainted by Hymens bands together Thus Hamor and Shechem desired That themselves and all their Citizens might be Related to the Family of Jacob when they communed with him in the Gate These Men are peaceable with us therefore let them dwell in the land and trade therein for the land Behold it is large enough for them let us take their Daughters to us for Wives and let us give them our Daughters As if they had said Let us contract a Relation by making interchangeable Marriages that so we may be near to them and better acquainted with them And surely in the compass of this Relation it ought to be a sensible Affliction when Death is Marring the Glory of their Society and breaking the Hedge of their Unity by taking one away This was the cause of the Mourning of Orpah and Ruth at the parting with their Mother Naomy who was indeed their Mother but by Marriage Ruth 1. ver 14. And they lift up their voice and wept again and Orpah kissed her Mother but Ruth clave unto her They could not think of a Farewel without powering out floods of Tears Nay so strong were Ruth's Affections that when it came to the pinch she would not leave her But was resolved to accompany her in all her Travels and Troubles whatever she should undergo or meet with for it and therefore she told her Thy God shall be my God and thy People shall be my People where thou goest I will go where thou dyest I will dye and there will I be buried Now as Solomon sayes Go to the Aut thou sluggard consider her ways and be wise So I say in this case Go to this Moabitish-Woman thou hard-hearted Christian that canst with dry Eyes and a sottish Spirit behold a Relation entombed in the Earth consider the depth of her Affection the pureness of her Love the tenderness of her Heart and be Religiously Wise in knowing how to carry it under a parting-dispensation Oh! remember that as there may be an innocent and lawful Mirth when Relations first meet to begin their acquaintance or contract their proximity together so there ought to be a Mourning in a moderate way when there is any parting or separation by the hand of Death Fourthly There is a Relation by Consanguinity which not only obliges but enforces Tears from the Eyes of all persons unless unnatural bruits accompanying any so related to them to their Long Home This Relation comes not only by a general deduction from Adam but by a more near and immediate alliance and conjunction in Blood whereby they become Bone of one Bone and Flesh of one Flesh Such is the Relation between Husband and Wife Parents and Children Brothers and Sisters c. Now what Husband can forbear Tears when his dear Wife is snatched out of his Arms by Death when the delight of his Eyes is taken away with a stroak Who can then but imitate affectionate Abram of whom it is said Gen. 23. ver 2. And Sarah dyed in Kiriath-Arba the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan and Abram came to Mourn for Sarah and to Weep for her She was the companion of his youth the wife of his delights the mother of his Isaac yea the better half of himself and therefore he could not but Weep when she was gone from him What Wife can refrain Mourning when her beloved Husband is going down into the shades of Death and she to be left a poor desolate disconsolate Widow as Naomi and her two Daughters in the land of Moab were And how can poor Parents keep in Sorrow when they see Death preying upon the Children of their Bowels and confining their tender Limbs to the cold Grave Hence we find David giving vent to his passion for the Death of Absolom in this pathetical Exclamation 2 Sam. 18. ver 33. And the King was much moved and went up to the Chamber over the Gate and wept and as he went thus he said O my Son Absolom my Son my Son Absolom would God I had dyed for thee O Absolom my Son my Son Indeed Divines conjecture the reason of David's so great Mourning was the fear of Alsolom's miscarrying as to his eternal State his doubt that it was not well with his Soul he dying in a state of Rebellion both against his earthly and heavenly Father Though this might have some impression on David's Heart yet questionless 't was Nature it self drew out his Sorrow from this very consideration that he was his Son and there needs no other to enforce a Mourning From this sprung that Voice of Lamentation and Weeping and great Mourning which was heard in Ramah poor Rachels pittifully Weeping for their Children and refusing to be Comforted Because they were not And then reciprocally what Children can be so hard-hearted so stony-spirited as not to wait upon their Parents Coffins with Tears to the Grave When Jacob was gathered to his Fathers and had yielded up the Ghost in a good old Age we read that his Son Joseph fell upon his Face and wept upon him and kissed him And truly this Mourning is but an expression of Love and where it is not we may safely infer that those persons had no love no affection at all for their Relations when alive Thirdly Morally There is an obligation which none that pretend to any principles of Morality will disown upon the Living to Mourn for the Dead First For that a Man is lost by Death As to the enjoyment of him and society with him he is perished from among Men. Now Man being a sociable delightful Creature the Loss of him is considerable and ought to be laid to heart by all that survive him Man is to be lookt upon as the chief peice of Workmanship in the Creation the glory of all the Works of God in the lower Region So wonderfully was he made so strangely was he fashioned so excellently was he adorned that the good Angels admired him and the Bad envyed him

those things which the principals of natural being do require as necessary to the demonstration of its being but rather provokes to a lively and regular doing of them And surely this duty under our present consideration is that which the spirit of a Man dictates to him though in a dark mistaken way and the Spirit of God suggests to him in a right safe justifiable way That there is a time to Mourn is past dispute since the Word of Truth speaks it and that a Funeral Solemnity or seeing Man go to his Long Home is such a time is also out of doubt since the Word of Truth enjoyns it Hence we may warrantably and not uncharitably conclude That Man void of Reason or Religion of Nature or Grace yea of Love to God or Man that brings not a Mourning-heart along with him to the House of Mourning Secondly Relatively There is a relative obligation upon the living to Mourn for the dead which Relation either in a more large or strict sence takes in the whole Race of Mankind First For that all men are related in Adam as springing from his Loyns Though men are now distinguished into many sorts of Nations and divers Kinds and Manners of persons yet they all come from the same Root the same Off-spring all Children of the same Father of the same Mother So we are told Gen. 3. ver 20. And Adam called his Wives name Eve because she was the Mother of all Living All the vast numberless multitudes of People throughout the Universe that have been or still are in the World came originally from her Womb. She is the Parent from whence so many Millions of Souls may derive their pedigree The highest and most certain degree of Relation in natures Climax Methinks then we should not be so unmindful of our primitive Extraction as to be wholly unconcerned at the departure of one of the same Race with our selves There is none so remote from us in Country or Acquaintance but he is near to us yea related to us Secundum esse as he is a Son of Adam And can we afford never a tear never a sigh never a compassionate sob to accompany such an one be he who he will or what he will to his Long Home Ah! 'T is sign we are hardned against our own Flesh and that we shamefully forget the Father that begat us and the Mother of whom we are all Born Oh! what a debauched abominable Age do we live in wherein Men are so senceless and horridly stupid so intoxicated with Lusts and Vanities so bewitched to the Allurements of the World so feared in their evil ways and courses that Death though it be even at their doors is disregarded by them and the going to the Grave of others though their very Neighbours is a thing they take no notice of nor in the least Mourn for so long as they have their strength and health to drink and swear and indulge themselves in their lusts and pleasures they care not who are Sick or who Dye or who go to the Grave it is all one to them Truly such persons are so far from being like Christians that they are ten thousand times worse than Heathens Oh! how will the Egyptians rise up in Judgment against the Men of this Generation and condemn them for their melting and mourning Deportment at the Funeral of good old Jacob notwithstanding he was of another Nation and Religion when they came to the Threshing-floor of Arad which is beyond Jordan 't is said they Mourned with a very great and sore Lamentation insomuch that the place was called Abel-Mizraim the Mourning of the Egyptians But ah How little Mourning is there found amongst us upon such occasions Secondly As there is a Relation in the first Adam wherein all are concerned so there is a Relation in the second Adam wherein not a few are tied and obliged to be concerned one for another especially at so great a change as that of Death Now this Relation is either more Large or more Strict More Large and so all that own Jesus Christ the Son of God to be come in the Flesh are within the reach of it who are therefore called by one general and Catholick name Christians But more Strictly and so it is restrained peculiar to Believers who by the same work of Grace are made true Members of the Church-militant and by the same act of Faith are expecting the glory of the Church-triumphant Who are engaged in the same cause Souldiers under the same Banner Wrestlers against the same Enemy even Principalities and Powers and spiritual Wickednesses in high places Who are sighting the same Battle Runners of the same Race Pursuers after the same Crown even that which is incorruptible undefiled that fadeth not away Who are Inheritors of the same Promise Fellow-heirs of the same Kingdom Waiters for the same Adoption to wit the Redemption of the Body Who are Professors of the same Faith Believers in the same Christ Experiencers of the same happiness in the glimpses of Zion's glory and the fore-taste of the Joys of the Life to come In a word who are under the same Tye confirmed by the same Seals bound by the same Covenant to live according to the Rule and in the Fellowship of the Gospel This Relation is so near so great so obligatory that the Apostle calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Brotherhood or a company of Brothers As all Men are Brothers in Adam naturally so Believers are Brothers in Christ spiritually and this nearness in Relation should certainly cause a Mourning when Death makes a Separation Oh! when a Godly Man goes to his Long Home then Godly-Mourning should Go about the Streets for that there is a great Loss and will be a real want of his Prayers his Tears his Holy Converse and the good he might farther have done in the World Upon this account Elishah Mourned for Elijah and sent his loud Acclamations of Sorrow to Heaven after him when he was taken up from him My Father my Father the Chariots of Israel and the Horsemen thereof This made the Ephesians Mourn so dolefully at Paul's departure because they were never to see him again So saith the Text And they all wept sore and fellon Pauls Neck and kissed him Sorrowing most of all for the words that he spake that they should See his Face no more Paul was their spiritual Father that had begotten them to God and therefore they could not but Mourn to think of parting with so dear a Relation especially since it was to be an eternal Farewel How must they never see his Face more never hear the sound of that golden Trumpet more that had been so charming to their Ears yea so ravishing to their Souls Oh! This strained up their Sorrow to the highest Peg this made them Mourn with a Mourning truly Mournful And we read Acts 8. ver 2. And devout Men carried Stephen to his Burial and made great Lamentation over him

a future Being is a day of Wrath a day of Trouble and Distress a day of Wastness and Desolation a day of Darkness and Gloomyness a day of Clouds and thick Darkness a day of the Trumpet and Alarum against the senced Cities and against the high Tower Now who can behold a Friend in any pain or under the power of any Distemper upon a sick Bed and not Grieve at it What Object calls more for Pity and Commiseration yea for Grief and Lamentation than a pained Heart-sick-man who cannot help himself or receive Ease from any Application especially of that pain that precedes his Dissolution for Contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis And as Distempers are coroding and tormenting in their Natures so they are Multitudinous in their number There are innumerable Diseases that go before Death that are as pursivants in the same Livery warning the Sons of Men to be ready at Deaths approach according to the Poet Mille modis lethi miseros mors una fatigat And as another well expresseth it Mille modis Morimur miseri sed Nascimur uno There is but one way of our coming into the World but a Thousand of our going out 'T was a Curse upon Man after his Fall that he should live by the Sweat of his Brow and the same Curse hath entailed this misery upon him that he must Dye in the Anguish of his Soul As he Lives in Sweat so he Dyes in Pain and this Pain cannot but enforce Mourning from all tender-hearted Spectators that are about him Secondly For that a Dying-man is really himself a Mourning-man When Man is going to his Long Home his Soul is clad with Cypress his Spirits are drooping and in a sorrowful trembling posture he is waiting the finishing of Deaths last stroke He lies groaning and pitifully crying out on his sick-bed and with rowling-eyes lifted-up hands and panting breasts he sighs he sobs he dyes And from this condition good Men are no more exempted than wicked at their deaths nay we find the best of Men even buried in Sorrow in the day of his humiliation when he was going to his Death Matth. 26. ver 38. Then saith he unto them my Soul is exceeding Sorrowful even unto Death tarry ye here and watch with me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The word signifies Fear on every side The faculties of his Soul were as it were beset and besieged with Grief Sorrow went round about him Indeed Aristotle would not own that a Man of Spirit could be capable of such a Sorrow but 't was his ignorance in the things of God which made him think so And our Saviour's sorrowful posture is a sufficient confutation of that Notion Verily Sirs when the terrors of Death notwithstanding the Sting of it is taken away takes hold upon the most Heroick-spirited yea upon the most gracious qualified among the Sons of Men it makes him presently hang his Harp upon the Willow-tree and hide his Face within the drawn Curtains converting his Songs into Sighs his Laughing into Mourning and all his Rejoycing into heavy Groans Emblematically be speaking to all that are round about him with a shaking head and ghastly look what Job did so passionately Have pity upon me Oh ye my Friends have pity upon me for the Hand of God yea the hand of Death hath touched mt Help help O Wife O Children What shall I do my Spirits are fainting my Breath is going my Soul is departing and I must leave you all And then turning sighs and sobs to that sorrowful Note of Jobs Oh that I were as in Months past as in the day when God preserved me When his Candle shined upon my Head and when by his Light I walked through Darkness as I was in the dayes of my Youth when the Secret of God was upon my Tabernacle Thus poor Man concludes the Tragick-Scene of his troublesome Life inbreathing out such doleful Epicediums He came into the World Crying and he goes out Sighing He Crys the first thing he does after he is Born and he Sobs the last thing he does before he Dyes Now what Heart can be so obdurate to behold Man expiring in the midst of his Sigh and not say as Thomas said of Lazarus Lord let its go that we may Dye with him So let me go and Sob with him and bear him company in the bitter Agony he is now in Thirdly For the great change Death makes in the person Deceased of an active lively Man he is become a dead lump of Clay so changed and wholly altered in the Physiognomy and outward appearance of the Body that we may say with the Poet Qui color albus erat nunc est contrarius albo The Man that a day or two ago lookt so fresh and fair Oh how pale how wan how ghastly how affrightning does he look now The Man that was so pleasant so every way desirable in his conversation a little while ago how loathsome and detestable does he appear now That it makes his dearest Relations say of him as Abraham said of Sarah Gen. 23. ver 4. I am a stranger and a sojourner with you give me a possession of a Burying place with you that I may Bury my Dead out of my sight Sad was the Change death made in Sarah which enforced this so seeming unnatural Resolution in Abraham to put her out of his sight He could no longer look upon her as his delightful Wife to sleep in his Bosom but as a rotten piece of Flesh that must be removed away Man in his Coffin is like a growing flower how splendidly does it look how fragrantly does it smell whilst upon the stalk but no sooner cropt but it presently fades and in a few hours is trodden under foot as dirt So that we may say of him as the Nations said of the King of Babylon His Pomp is brought down to the Grave and the noise of his Viols the Worm is spread under him and the Worms cover him Oh! Sirs All Man's Pomp his Beauty his Glory is then withered away And as it was said of our Redeemer in his state of humiliation There is no from or comeliness to look upon him nor no beauty in him that we should desire him His Body is then a contemptible despicable abominable thing Hence the Apostle makes use of these expressions of meanness and contemptibleness concerning man's going to his Long Home elegantly shewing thereby what his Body under those circumstances is It is sown in corruption 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a state of filthiness and contamination Again It is sown in dishonor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a state of ignominy and contempt Again It is sown in weakness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a state of inability to withstand the Power of Death Once more It is sown a natural Body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Body subjected to all the miseries appertaining to and entailed upon Apostate Nature From all this we may gather the proper