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A18385	Sarahs sepulture, or A funerall sermon preached for the Right Honourable and vertuous lady, Dorothie Countesse of Northumberland, at Petworth in Sussex. By Richard Chambers Doctor of Diuinitie.	Chambers, Richard, b. 1583.; R. H., fl. 1620.	1620 (1620)	STC 4953; ESTC S107948	17,912	32

of this life when his minde was not in quiet when he was oppressed with inward and outward sorrow Mortem iustorum vocat pacem quoniam à mundi pugna liberati coelestem pa em cosequuntur Hector Pintus in Isay 57.2 but giues him a comfortable deliuerance Psal 116.6 O the infinite goodnesse of a gracious God! Hitherto of the time now of the place And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba the same is Hebron the land of Canaan Sarahs daies yeres before were numbred and found to be full of labour and sorrow And now at Hebron those dayes of misery haue an end now she is at rest from her manifold troubles Apoc. 14.13 now peace is come and shee resteth in the bed of peace Isay 57.2 ô praeclarum diem ô blessed and happy houre Horat. lib. 2. Car. ad Lycinium Ode 10. Our Latine Pindarus could say Non si malè nunc olim sic erit It is a strange storm that lasteth euer Nocte pluit tota redeunt spectacula manè which I english by a better Poet Psal 30.5 Weeping may endure for a night but ioy commeth in the morning Many are the troubles of the Righteous Psal 34.50 These words Many troubles are able to amaze many a man but what followeth The Lord deliuereth out of all This is able to comfort and raise vp any man In the Gospell of Saint Iohn we haue the promise of our Sauiour Iohn 16.20 Verily verily I say vnto you Christi iuramentum Christianorum sit fundamentum saith Augustine Christs oath and strong asseueration may be to christians the stay and staffe of consolation And what is Christs asseueration Ye shall weepe and lament and the world shall reioyce and yee shall sorrow but your sorrow shall bee turned to ioy Gen. 8.4 Long was righteous Noah tossed with a tempest but at the last hee and his Arke rested vpon the mountains of Ararat from whence the sweet Singer of Israel tooke the originall of the Bibles briefe a sentence full of consolation Psal 55.22 Cast thy burden vpon the LORD and hee shall nourish thee Non dabit in aeternum fluctuationem iusto The iust shall not alwaies be floating There is neuer a Go my people into Aegypt but there is Come againe my people out of Egypt There is no leading of them into captiuity but there is a bringing backe out of captiuity There is not Enter Noah into the Arke but there is Come forth againe Noah out of the Arke Non dabit in aeternum fluctuationem iusto At Hebron the dayes of misery haue an end And to take a suruey of this Hebron This City had three names At the first it was called Mamree of the name of the first founder and builder of it Gen. 13.18 Afterwards it was called Kiriath-arba of one Arba a great man among the Anakims who repaired the same Iosh 14.14 and 15.14 Lastly it was called Hebron of the nephew of faithfull Caleb 1 Chro. 2.4.2 It is most certaine that at this time it was the Metropolitan and Lady City of the whole land hauing vnder it many other Cities Iosh 10.37 As it is said of Sion Psal 87.3 So it may in some sort be said of Hebron glorious things are spoken of it First Antiquity Num. 13.23 it was an ancient City seauen yeares ancienter then Zoan in Aegypt Secondly it was a Princely City euen a mansion for a King Io. 10.3 Thirdly it was for Calebs worthy seruice giuen to him for an inheritance Iosh 14.14 Fourthly it was appointed for one of the Cities of refuge and giuen for the Leuites to dwell in Iosh 20.7 Iosh 21.11.12 Fiftly in it Dauid first reigned ouer Gods people 2 Sam. 2.1.11 Sixtly to this came the blessed Virgin the mother of our Lord Iesus Christ to visit Elizabeth Luke 1.39 Lastly it became a place of buriall for many worthy persons 2 Sam. 4.12 Here was buried Abraham and his Sarah Gen. 23.2 Isaac and his Rebecca Iacob and his Leah Gen. 49.31 The first letters of the principall of all their names who were buried in one graue are contained in that one name of Israel And in this place some affirme was buried great Adam the first Father of vs all Hierom The obseruation which I collect is that sinne and sinners staine pollute and defile all things Gen. 6.7 Rom. 8.20 yea maketh each place where they come a hell Fulk in locum Apoc. 2.13 Ibi thronus Satanae vbi pietas profligata impietas verò summa regnat There is a hell where grace and goodnesse is shoued out and where sinne and iniquity beareth the sway So on the other side wheresoeuer grace and goodnesse is whersoeuer a good man treadeth he giueth a dignity and a kind of sanctity vnto it he imprinteth on it and into it a kinde of eminency and inuesteth it with firme and constant stabilitie To goe no further then my Text Kiriath-arba is made excellent by Abraham and Sarah and from their time is made a sanctuary and refuge and a seat for a godly king to sit vpon What hath the spirit of God obserued concerning the death of this worthy personage Here is neuer a word of the disease whereof she dyed not a word of the last words which she spake which questionlesse were comfortable holy and heauenly But the holy Ghost windeth vp all in three or foure words Mortua est in Hebron leauing the rest to our further consideration These words Mortua est shee died in Hebron wisheth vs to meditate vpon the precedent history It is well knowne to all such as are conuersant and exercised in the holy Story the blessed Bible and booke of God that the mother of the faithful Sarah bare her sonne Isaac at Beersheba thirty seauen yeares before her death Gen. 17.17 compared with Gen. 21.2 As also that at Beersheba Abimelech made a league with Abraham the tenure whereof was That the one should not hurt the other Gen. 21.23 Hereupon Abraham supposing hee should set vp his staffe rest for euer and lay his bones did there plant a groue Gen. 21.33.4 And when the Lord by especiall commandement sent him to mount Moriah to offer his sonne for tryall of his faith and obedience Gen. 22.2 he returned backe to Beersheba and there dwelt Gen. 22.19 Yet for all this Sarah dyeth not there but dyeth at Hebron certaine miles distant from it It is very probable that after the death of Abimelech that good and moderate King the inhabitants brake the league before made troubled Abraham in so much that now in his old age when more then one foot was in the graue this godly aged gray-headed man with his aged wife are constrained to seeke a new seate Luthar and in this their remouall religious Sarah dyeth Dyeth I say Paulus ab Eitzen lib. 1. pag. 6●1 in absence of her yoake-fellow Abraham and happily without the presence of her sonne and other acquaintance dyeth in a strange place and among strangers Chr. Tom.

out of euill light out of darknesse strength out of weaknesse Can there come from a wofull mother ought sauing a wofull creature Secondly to point backe vnto the History going before which well eyed and carefully obserued will shew that this good Lady led a carefull life all the dayes of her life First if she were the daughter of Haran which is the currant and receiued opinion of all the Iewes then was she an Orphan and fatherlesse almost as soone as she was borne Gen. 11.27 No sooner borne but subiect to the crosse Secondly when she came to womans estate then is she likewise made subiect to affliction she is barren childlesse a great crosse yea in those dayes reputed a curse that she cannot bear Eues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ish Iehouae the man the Lord Gen. 4.2 Iacobs Shiloh Gen. 49.10 Daniels Messias Dan. 9.24 Pauls second Adam 1 Cor. 15.45 our Lord Iesus Christ Thirdly constrained to forsake her house and home kindred and country Gen. 12.1 and for the space of 62. yeares to liue a Pilgrime Fourthly in this pilgrimage she felt the smart of want and famine Gen. 12.10 Fiftly in Aegypt Gen. 12.15 as also in Palestina Gen. 20.4 she was in hazzard of her honour the woman Iewell Chastitie Sixtly her Lord goeth to a dangerous war against foure mighty Monarches Gen. 14.14 Seauenthly she was incumbred with domesticall dissentions ouertopped by her owne seruant no small vexation Gen. 16.14 Where by the way in a short passage obserue that domesticall dissentions are not alwayes a curse though euer a crosse Eightly shee was not free from spirituall temptations long did faith and frailty wrastle and striue whether the God of heauen who is faithfull and true and cannot lye were true of his word concerning the promised Seed So that with Moses she might truely say Psal 90.10 Optimum in vita labor dolor The best day she saw dawne was full of labour and sorrow From all which learne this lesson and yee may write on the truth thereof Nulla calamitas sola No misery is alone but like the waues of the Sea one followes in the neck of another neuer let vs look for rest in this miserable life till wee come to rest with Christ Iesus in the world to come To conclude this point because that they who in their life see and feele many sorrowes are accustomed to obserue the time best and as it were tell the houres thereof Iob 7.2.3 Therefore Moses doth not set down her yeares in grosse but draweth them out at length q. d. Sarahs life and dayes were not so short that she forgat them but God did so remarkeably marke them forth with one misery or another that she might easily count them on her fingers ends That which hapned to Sarah is or may be likewise incident to all the godly 2 Tim. 3.12 In the booke of Exodus chapter the 15. verse 25. there is this passage Ibi posuit deus iustitias iudicia Ther God made the Israelites an ordinance and a Law Ibi ubi amaritudo ubi sitis quod est grauius Origen Tom. Hom. 7. fol. sitis in abundantia aquarum ibi posuit Deus iustitias iudicia Alius non erat locus dignior aptior vberior quàm iste in quo amaritudo est Where is this there God made them an ordinance a Law euen there where was the bitter waters of Marah there where the people were like to perish through thirst though there was water at will and in great plenty There God made them a Law and gaue them ordinances no fitter or more conuenient place could be found then it where was the bitter waters of Marah Hitherto of the quality of Sarahs dayes now of the quantity continuance of the same namely 127 Although this noble and vertuous Lady endured many a sharpe shower yet neuerthelesse the Lord continued the thread of her life for many a faire yeare To make manifest to all ages and generations to come that the Lord preserued her life in the midst of death Psal 23.4 If euer any afflictions could haue hastned the death of any then might they haue hastned hers who for the space of little lesse then 90. yeares was continually subiect to one calamity or another In so much that it may seem the worlds wonder how she was able so long to endure But God in whose right hand are length of dayes Pro. 3.16 Mortem times vitam perennem exoptas in dextra sua longitudinem dierum habet Qui viuit credit in me non morietur in aeternū Ioh 11. Immortalis est mortem superavit Immortali dextra immortalitatem porrigit Baynus lib 1 in Pro. Salom. did preserue her life in the midst of those miseries Miseries cannot shorten the dayes where the feare of the Lord is but sin may Pro. 10.27 The feare of the Lord increaseth the dayes but the yeares of the wicked shall bee diminished And Israels Singer saith Viri sanguinum dolosi non dimidiabunt dies suos Psal 55.24 Wicked men shall not liue out halfe their dayes To conclude though Sarahs life was replenished with a world of woes yet did it not want some singular comforts For this vertuous Lady liued after the birth of her sonne Isaac as appeareth Gen. 17.17 the space of 36. yeares The Lord Gods good pleasure was that for some good space shee might fol ce her selfe with that childe so greatly wished so long expected and so often promised Thus the good God of heauen suffereth not his seruants to depart out of this life without some especial comfort which sweetneth and mitigateth all other sorrowes The currant of the Scriptures is plentifull to proue this point Psal 42.11 In the multitude of the sorrowes that were in my heart saith Dauid thy comforts Lord haue refreshed my soule Shewing that as the world had a multitude of sorrowes to assault Dauid so God had a multitude of comforts to refresh his heart As our sufferings abound so consolations abound 2 Cor. 1.5 Elias for a time mourned and was persecuted but at the last besides the comforts 1 Reg. 19.6.7.18 there came a charriot which freed him from Iezabels rage 2 Reg. 2.11 Sperandum quod qui in vita mortes infernos tulerint in morte mitius h●bituros Luther Tom. 2. pag. 75. The man according to Gods owne heart Dauid of whom before I spake had anguish and sorrow dangers and perils many and mighty Psal 18.4.5 Funes mortis the cords or bands of death compassed him about Dolores inferni the sorrowes of hell compassed him hee was inuironed with the pangs of hell and death Psal 116.3 yea and as it is in the 11 ver of this Psal 116. he breaketh forth into words little lesse then of infidelity accusing holy Samuel the Lords Prophet of a lie that he deceiued him in the promised kingdome of Israel The God of comfort taketh not this his seruant Dauid out