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The bow of Jonathan with the flower de Luce in a funeral lamentation committed to the men of Judah : parallelled and applyed to that worthy his compeere Robert Lucy of Charlcote in the county of Warwick, Esquire, lately deceased : in a sermon preached at Charlcote / by Richard Hunt ...
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Jonathan from Jonathan to himself from himself to Jonathan drawing this strong bow of sighs and ejaculations to the head and sending them out like arrows I am undone for thee my Brother whose Sister Michol I have married a faire a wise ingenuous and faithful wife more wives may I live to enjoy but never more must I look to see such another Brother as now is dead Let my loss and lamentation for ever warrant against all gainsayers the ancient custome of Epitaphs and mournings at the departure and loss of friends Use our near and dear Relations Let Adam and Eve forbear their frolicks Fonsâ—â—d ex Heb. Ser. 1. and retire an hundred years in mournings to see the wages of sinne so severely paid in the slaughter of Abel in the death of the bodie and the abandoning of Cain for the soul in this Equipage and traine let Abraham and Jacob Joseph and Jeremy the High Priest and the Old Prophet the people for Moses Aaron and Samuel and me for Saul and Jonathan the Subjects for Josias Christ for Lazarus behold how he lov'd him his Sisters for the same the widow for her Son St. Paul for Epaphroditus and the good women and neighbours for Dorcas Let the Barbarous Laughing and cruel revels the profane fidling and the buriall of an Asse be banisht to the Pagans and as farre off our Christian funerals as the Antipodes to be so Stoical or stockish as to stiflle our good afffections and to strangle our winds in our baggs with Aeolus is unnaturall ungracious unchristian Apathy The will of God is not resisted with tears and weeping he barrs not our affections but bids us let them out be of like affection weepe with them that weep Rom. 12. what though we cannot help it yet le ts weep the more because we cannot t is some ease to let these swelling waters out le ts weep with Xerxes beholding this numerous army of mankind for that within one age not one of them survives into such a ruine hath the sinne of one involv'd us all le ts weep for our selves that have sustained that losse and let the losers have leave to speak that our sinne hath bereav'd us one of a father another of an husband a master a companion a patron a friend if he were good let them deplore the Churches countries houses townships losse if evill as Absalom whose gracelesse crime was as the Mule that carried his hairy scalpe to the tree of execution yet bewaile him the more Manass Ben. Israel de Creat â—robl 19. as David is observed 8 times to have cryed out for him O Absalom my son my son seven times for that sin of rebellion containning the seven degrees of evill that accomplish such a sinner as naught Belial perverse sinful wicked impostor scornful proud high-minded which lead to those seven staires of the infernal dungeon Sheol Abaddon Beor Shacah Bor Tait Haijon Thelamoth Arets Ecclus 22.11 12. Tactith Weepe seven dayes for him that is dead but for a foole all the dayes of his life weep for a noble friend thirty forty dayes an year yet not without hope as if all were cast away blame not nature with Electra nor kill our selves with Jocasta become not a stony fountain with Niobe let heathen rites be out of fashion with men of better hopes baldnesse vociferations hired counterfeits slaying slaves young men sent to death making tombs for horses or keeping solemn funerals with Crassus for a Lamprey with Hadrian for a hen Catullus for a sparrow but weep and overweep again each teare till ten moneths put an end to mournings To conclude rather then want mourners for so noble Jonathans let the widowed Swans in the River and the Turtles in the wood the flowers in the Garden and the fruits of the Trees let the groves and the walkes the chambers and the walls let the bowels of the poor and the backs of his compliants the towns round about and this Church and Pulpit bear a part in this lamentation and say wo is me for thee my brother Jonathan and that for good consideration in the fifth place Magnentha ti meod 5. Very pleasant hast thou been to me pleasant in thy person very beautiful pleasant in thy expression bountiful beautiful the first born son of Saul the properest man in all Israel 1 Sam. 18.4.14.49 50. and bountiful for Jonathan stript himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David and his garments even to his sword and to his bow and to his girdle His beauty is presumed as begotten in the prime of his fathers abilities of Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz whose name signifies my fair sister Jonathan was then a bird of that Eagle and a whelpe of that Lion both Father and Son so renowned in ver 23. Swifter then Eagles stronger then Lions the Kings of birds and of beasts fortes creantur fortibus grapes grow not out of thorns nor figs of thistles David praiseth in them decorem formae constantiam animi Lyra in loc for outward beauty amiable persons for inward bravery of gallant properties The way to the Temple of Honour was through the Temple of Vertue and a fair step to it is to be the son of Nobles a true born Eaglet looking on the sun of gallantry and a princely Lion scorning the affronts of low-bred-currs and whiplets Pearls are begotten of the Orient dews and the fair bed of Whitspar the Spaniards call el madre del ore the mother of gold Dion Chrysostome tells of a family at Thebes that had hereditarily a lance branded in their flesh as a mark of honour by nature See Causinus Eabl Tiraquel de leg con lib. 9 Arsen de Conjug without which they were reputed illegitimate and Bastards nobleness goes by Blood and the word of God itself thrives not but upon good ground an honest and noble heart Doves delight in white houses and the Dove-like Spirit of God takes up her lodging in the fairest coats A Bishop of Millain retained none into his family but the fairest he could choose his reason was Improbitas in egregio corpore vix comperta foule conditions are scarcely found in faire complexions St. Chrysostom notes it of the beggars of his time that from beauteous persons they would expect a bounteous almes God Man and Nature give the preeminence and principality to the fairest even among Blackmores and who will not choose to eat out of the clean dish to lodge in the fairest linnen and his companion to be as Joseph or Jonathan of a sweet complexion What an increase of grace is it to come from a gracious deportment Causâ—â— Embl. and how grand an imposture to behold a fine Gentleman like the Caspian Bird stalk forth and turn him about stately like a Crane with a scarlet back and a green breast a white neck powdered here and there with spots of yellow and to the disgrace of all to come off with a
The BOW of JONATHAN WITH The FLOWER de LVCE IN A FUNERAL LAMENTATION Committed to the men of Judah Parallelled and applyed to that Worthy his Compeere ROBERT LVCY Of CHARLCOTE in the County of Warwick ESQUIRE Lately Deceased In a SERMON preached at Charlcote By RICHARD HUNT B. D. And Pastor of Bishops-Ichington LONDON Printed by William Godbid M.DC.LVII To the truely Honoured MARGARET LVCY The dear CONSORT and now right sorrowful Relict of ROBERT LVCY Esq DECEASED And to the Brethren Sisters and Friends of that renowned Family of CHARLCOTE Be Joy Comfort and Salvation in Christ Jesus My noble Friends THis Piece of Jonathans Bow and its Parallel in a rural expression might both have been laid up in the Book of Jasher in some obscurer corner and unknown and the Author deservedly like the Latinian Shepherd have ever slept in some more solitary cave had not the fair aspect of your merit and importunity stooped so low as to make the speakers lips your favourite to bring this work to light which now like Memnon's Statue the Son of the morning is so framed of dark marble that the rising Sun of the LUCY's name casting its beams upon it makes it to render a resplendent image of it self with a mournful sound in lamentation for its Master and may these Notes flying abroad become as Funeral Birds each morning to bewail the loss of so true deserving a person for nothing is more to be condol'd or moving humane compassion than a Son of the morning to be suddenly interposed with darkness and a flower of the light soon blasted and withered in the blooming Bacon de Sap. vet cap. 14. as the learned Lord Verulam makes the moral I cannot therefore blame your mourning Blacks and Cypresses much less your Tears and Sorrows when I read of a Turquois stone that would glister and look bright upon the Living owners finger Caufin Embl. li. 11. c. 54. but at his Death to have chang'd his colour into lowring and sweating tears as sensible of the loss The Darling of the time this lovely youthful Gentleman is chang'd into a Cypress tree whose boughs and bark lopt and cut down by Death bids you take hence your mourning wreaths the funeral rites belonging as consecrate to the Death and Obits of the nobler sort which wood will entertain no moth or timber-worm of vice to breed or thrive upon it and once cut down revives no more but in succeeding plants Vespasian miracles faln over night and reflourishing more fixt and green the next morning in its followers of whom the next in league is you Dame MARGARET his dear and onely Spouse who amidst the Ladies boasting of their tyre and jewels Plutarch in Phocion might with the Grecian Dame shew forth your Husband and say for you and him Hic est ornatus meus Loe here 's my richest ornament and jewel Your sweet conjunction and conjugal affection drew forth your beholders and your countries hearts to vote that this Sun might stand still in Gibeon Josh 10.12 and this Moon in the valley of Ajalon But Divine pleasure hath forbidden that Ovid. Met. 1.11 fab 10. and parted the two Kingfishers of Love and Delight and left you without your Mate to bewail your condition as now widowed and bereav'd of your companion Fonseca the Spanish Frier will teach you nâ—â— to lay aside perfumes of Ambergreece and Nuptial garments and to smell of Frankincense and Prayers at visits of your Husbands tombe Lent Ser. 18. Luc. 7.11 to dress your windows not with roses violets and pansies or love and idleness but with the herbs and flowers of Artemisia that Motherwort of mortifying those affections bearing the name of her who by drinking each day a spoonful of her Husbands ashes for a Mornings draught at last made again two bodies into one and entomb'd him in her owne bowels De viduis 1 Tim. 5.4 5. St. Ambrose hath many comely precepts for the Widows second to S. Paul's and seemeth to correct the Poets fancy that Widows should be changed into Birds called Kingfishers with greenish feathers and a ruddy beak and face as ill-beseeming that condition to fly abroad with new green fancies and to shew their face too full of sanguine amorous complexion I have shewed you a more excellent way Learn by this your sad experience the truth of that Hebrew Proverb Drus probl 5. clas 1. The Bride gets up into the Marriage-bed and little wots 't wil prove her Bridegroomes Death-bed At the Wedding therefore they use to take a Glass wherein both drink to begin their joys but then they break it Idem li. 2. quest 9. to denote the brittle condition of the Marriage-bonds and how soon it may be da'shd to pieces S. Francis also somewhat minding this was wont to make him Wife and Children of the snow fair but soon fading comforts Fancy you so of Husbands and their Issue t will wean your mind the more from all such worldly allurements and relations This Text of Jonathan will tell you they are but Butts or Prickmarks standing within a dangerous distance and at the mercy of Death and all the glory of Youth Beauty Valour and Wealth high places of Honor and Relations of Friends wherein the pride of heart doth flant it out is by the true confession of the Gallants in Solomon like an arrow which parteth the air Wisd 5.12 and immediately cometh together again and a man knows not where it went thorough And you my honoured Friends Pardon I pray you the Enquiry my affection led me into the Ark and carriage of your Ancestors lest mine eye may seem too curious to peep into or my hand too rash and presumptuous to be laid upon it it is your due and more if I could do it Mr. Dugdal's Warwickshr our industrious Chorographer will make it out The short and summe of all I shall humbly present to your thoughts is contained in that ancient Proverb Parate vos in vestibulo ut ingrediamini conclave Dress you so in the Gatehouse that you may enter into Christs withdrawing Closet Heb. Prov. for he that labours the six dayes of this life may eat and rest on the Seventh his perpetual Sabbath This will be done by observing of the best Examples and the best you hear or saw exemplary in your deceased Brother Fidelity in Trust love to Virtue Humanity to his Friends Bounty to the Poor Providence in his Affairs Welcome to his Relations Humility in his deportments Kindness to Brothers and Sisters Innocency to his Neighbours Love to all in which incomparably your Ancestors are known to have excell'd Holcot on Wisd 5. Lect. 66. and left a light for you to follow An old Archer and good Marks-man to allude to the Lesson of my Text will advise you further and bids Beware of three arrows in Satans quiver Rev. 6.2 2 Kin. 13.16 1. Carnal concupiscence 2. Envious detraction 3. Whispering suggestion these