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A87379	Moses his death: opened and applyed, in a sermon at Christ-Church in London, Decemb. 23. MDCLVI. at the funeral of Mr. Edward Bright, M.A. Fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and minister of the Gospel there. / By Samuel Jacombe M.A. Fellow of Queens Colledge in Cambridge, and pastor of Mary Woolnoth, Lumbardstreet, London. With some elegies.	Jacombe, Samuel, d. 1659.	1657 (1657)	Wing J109; Thomason E904_4; ESTC R202649	55,430	77

a few shall do that work Moses is too much admired Moses shall die that God may be more acknowledged and man lesse for it is our sin and folly to ascribe to Saul his thousands and to David his ten thousands but to God nothing at all Reas 2. Moses is dead That God may shew what an extreme hatred and antipathy hee hath to sin every where Psal 106.32 even in a Moses If this meek man be provoked and speak unadvisedly with his lips it shall go ill even with Moses Psal 106.32 33. If the good man be passionate and say I am not able to hear all this people alone it is too heavy for mee Numb 11.14 15. and if thou deal thus with mee kill mee I pray thee out of hand Moses shall know that God can take him at his word and another shall have the burden and the honour too yea though hee be afterward earnest for lite and beg importunately that hee may enter into the promised Land yet God will not be intreated Wee little think how much mischeif wee do our selves who may be any way publickly serviceable to be at any time weary of the imployment God hath charged us with especially if the discontent shew it self to others for then the divine providence is ingaged to make it manifest that hee can well enough be without such muttering servants and that it becomes us not to be too bold or presumptuous by the confidence we have in our former fidelity or present usefulnesse Let Jonah run away if he will but a storm shall follow him For God will have all the world take notice that hee hates sin because it is sin and not because such a person commits it If wee would observe wee might easily perceive how irreconcileable Gods hatred is to sin Adam was the prime peece of divine Art the glory and honour of the visible World if hee sin hee shall die and because the dishonour is great an● unavoidable necessity of death shall bee the fad condition of all his posterity Wee read of none excepted from the execution of this fatal sentence but Enoch and Elijah one would think that any considering minde that shall see the tears of them that are in misery hear the groans of them that lye on sick-beds observe the sighs of consuming persons who decay by little and little as a garment that is Moth-eaten or that shall surveigh the tossings of men in feavers who are never at rest God outs them off with pineing sicknesse and as a Lion hee breaks their bones I say one would think a very weak head that will but seriously consider might easily from those premises conclude that sin is a thing odious and abominable and though God bee good yet hee is not fond for the righteous Lord loveth righteousnesse Psal 11.7 If this convince thee not sufficiently come nearer and see how sin like a noisome carkasse infects the air and all that come near it suffer for it let a man bee openly wicked and do high acts of basenesse and his relations his children Exod. 20.5 yea his childrens children shall smart for it for God v●sits the iniquity of the Fathers upon the children to the third and fourth Generation Epiphanius tells us that for three thousand three hundred and thirty two years there is not one example in Scripture of a Son that died before his Father till Terahs time whom he conceives to be a notorious Idolater and of him it is said Gen. 11.28 That Haran died before his Father Terah in the Land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees hee could not forget Abel and therefore no question hee intended only that they of whom it might properly bee said They died not they who were killed should come within the reach of this observation Hee that is not a very carelesse reader of Scripture cannot but grant that if this Leprosie once break forth no man knows whither it will spread When Korah Dathan Numb 18.30 31. and Abiram sin the earth swallows them up and their little children two even all that appertained to them Yet we must remember that a temporal evil brought upon the childe as a punishment of the Father may be a mercy to the childe of which wee have a happy instance 1 King 14.13 that this childe came to the grave was the great grief of Jeroboam and yet the great blessing of the childe Adams sin made death certain and when sin grew greater than death which before crept like a Snail began to come faster till it had brought the life of man from a thousand years long to seventy and if any one was an open affronter of the Lawes of Heaven the poor family and the innocent infants found the thread of life cut asunder for the Parents crime Do you yet beleeve that God hates sin If you will see further behold the holy God is no respecter of persons and it David murder Uriah the sword shall follow him If Moses be angry and speak unadvisedly God is angry presently and Moses shall die in the Wilderness Reas 3. Moses is dead that hee may bee rewarded for the faithfull service he hath done already sin brought in death but God hath made death to bring in glory the dark room is an entry into the presence chamber It was a great riddle to flesh and blood but was perfectly discovered at Christs resurrection and ascension Out of the cater comes meat Had Moses lived hee would have found that in every day there was something of Autumn as well as Spring even in the face the most beautifull part of the body is the sink of the brain It is better to bee in the mount with God than to be troubled with the Idolatrous Israelites hee cannot forget Numb 12.1 that even Aaron and Miriam spake against him Meeknesse of spirit is one of the best Antidotes against such mischiefs from neer relations but no man knows what trouble hee may finde from those hee loves best and whom hee hath served most If Moses be blamelesse himself they will bee angry because of the Aethiopian Woman Thus one relation produceth trouble from another If his face shine when hee comes down from the mount the Israelites cannot bear it hee must put a veil on let the life bee carelesse and then hee scornes himself or others may quickly scorn him let it bee exemplary that a man shines as a light in the world holding forth the word of life it will be alwaies true that sore eyes cannot bear it It is better to be with Angels who alwaies-behold the face of God in Heaven All things are yours Life and Death 1 Cor. 3. ult in life good men do work after death they enter into joy yea into the joy of their Lord they are glorified together Rom. 8.17 Particeps est herilis gaudij Grot. in Mat. 25.23 Here they serve there they are served Luk. 12.37 Blessed are those servants which waited for

Wouldest thou not do this this week it thou thoughtest thou shouldest dye the next but remember this day cannot bee too soon because to morrow may bee too late It was a good saying of a wise Rabbi It is every mans duty to repent one day before hee dyes and hee that knows not but that this day may bee his last had need begin to day and so make every day a continued act of repentance Do this to purpose now for since nothing makes enmity betwixt the holy God and us but sin practise this duty daily by surveying all thy life by continuing resolutions of obedience by holy watchfulness that when the hour of death comes thou mayest have this by thee as a never failing cordial And dost thou not know that thou wilt then need a strong beleef of this great truth That God hath mercy for a repenting sinner That the case of man is not desperate That wee have liberty for second thoughts by the New Covenant That there is a great glory hereafter and a certain resurrection to eternal life why is not this point studied by thee till thy soul bee fully confirmed in this great Article Or art thou ignorant that thou shalt be unwilling to dye if thy treasure be not laid up in heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plat. in Phaed. you may pull off a glove with ease but not the skin you may easily see a soul go hence that hath none on earth that it desires in comparison of God Whereas a soul immersed in body used to nothing but eating and drinking and the pleasures of the belly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sc that is bewitched by the body faln in love with it and imbraceth it Oh how willing it is to catch at and clasp about every thing that might make it stay in its beloved tabernacle Oh be sure to inure thy minde to things heavenly and spiritual for inordinate consent to the pleasures of our outward man do 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the noble Philosopher speaks strangely unite our souls to our bodies that they cannot go from that which they count their happiness without infinite torment and vexation That day wherein the vanity of the world the emptinesse and dissatisfaction of all corporal delights are not so far studied as to preserve our love for God that day did nothing for our provision for death Reader all this thou art perswaded of practice it yet for thy comfort and quiet at the hour of death remember to familiarize death to thy thoughts in life a Mariner is not afraid in a storm at Sea when a childe or a timorous woman quakes for fear in a fair day on a shallow river Think thy Saviour the beloved Son of God died and lay in the grave remember if thou art Christs all things are thine life and death seriously read and duly consider Heb. 2.14.15 1 Cor. 3. last Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood hee also himself likewise took part of the same that through death hee might destroy him that had the power of death that is the Devil and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage Did wee thus practice and thus anticipate death by thoughts wee should finde our childish fancies apt to converse with that grim visage which at the first they ran away from By this means wee should bee worthy that character of those valiant people Lucan Animaeque capaces Mortis Men not transported with the love of life nor inslaved with the fear of death Men fit to live fit to die men that could triumph and sing that glorious 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oh death w where is thy sting Oh grave where is thy victory Fifthly and lastly I speak here only of good men that make provision for death by a pious life Moses death chargeth you to bee satisfied quiet and contented when you die your selves when your friends when good Magistrates good Ministers die before you for sure wee and they may bee sick and die and yet bee beloved of God so was Moses Yea behold a greater than Moses Jesus Christ hee that heard the voice from Heaven this is my beloved Son hee felt the pains of death and lay three daies in a Sepulchre deaths face looks more lovely ever since and may bee beheld with less astonishment Now wee may chearfully say come let us go and dye also sure though the Bee humme and make a noise though the Serpent hiss yet the sting is gone Blessed bee God for the satisfaction wee have in this great case by the death and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour when our pains are next to intollerable though wee should sweat as hee did drops like blood yea when wee feel the stroak of death and finde the face besmeared with a cold clammy moisture the eyes are dimme the hands stiffe the friends stand by and weep they speak but can receive no answer there is no liberty for a thought of any thing but pain and sadness grief and sorrow yet may a sober Christian now by this Gospel-knowledge of the death of Christ make this happy conclusion this may bee my case and yet I not bee hated but so far beloved of the holy God as that I may hereafter shine as the Sun in the firmament Mat. 13.43 and may for ever bee as the Angels beholding the face of my Father in Heaven Go then yee useful exemplary persons who speak much to the World when you say nothing who by good works Est aliquid quod a magno viro vel tacente proficias Seneca those unanswerable syllogismes those invincible demonstrations convince spectators who by the beauty of holinesse steal away the hearts of gainsayers and win their affections almost against their wills go lay y●●r heads upon a cold stone or a soft turfe wee are satisfied if wee weep it shall bee for our selves not for you Our Saviour when he died charged his disciples they should not let their hearts bee troubled his death hath prevented the cause of trouble wee are no more Scepticks whether the grave bee the way to glory or not no more scrupulous whether it bee best for you to die Fine Apologiae or live It is not now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Socrates speaks a thing known only to God whether the Scales turn for the advantage o● the dead or living and since the Son of God and the best o● Gods servants ever since the creation have walked through this dark vault wee will never expect a better way fo● our selves that is to be proud nor will we be amazed whe● wee come at it for after this Gospel knowledge it is to 〈◊〉 nothing but play the fool or to fear where no fear is And if ever I needed this understanding I do now for if ever I had reason to resent deeply the loss of any man I have reason now to bee affected at the losse