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A76457	Ezekiel's prophesie parallel'd: or, The desire of the eyes taken away Delivered in a sermon, preach'd at the funerals of the most virtuous Mrs Elizabeth Cole, wife to Robert Cole Esquire, at Wye in Kent, Nov. 26. MDCLI. By Samuel Barnard, Doctor in Divinity.	Bernard, Samuel, 1590 or 91-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing B2037A; ESTC R231035	15,530	38

upon her grave Would ye have any Oyntments or sweet Odours Why she her self hath prepared them against her Buriall to perfume her Corps as Mary did our Saviours A good report is better then a Precious Matth. 26. 12 Oyntment Eccles 7. 1. I doe but powre it out and Eccl. 7. 1. sprinkle it among you I hope we shall all smell the better for it But is it not pitie we should part thus Give me leave to look back again and to propose the question anew Is it not pitie that such a Frame should be taken in pieces that such a Knot should be untied Is it not pitie such a Gracious Disposition should be subject to Dissolution It is indeed if we look no higher then our own Designes But if we look into the Text 'T is the Lords doing He it is that may Challenge his own As I told you in the beginning He made this goodly frame and may unmake it He made this Match and may Break this Match He gave those Graces and may call for a return of those Graces His dearest Children must suffer the loss of all without repining Behold I take away from thee the desire And is shee taken away Hath Death seised upon her by a Stroke was shee snacht away and surprized as it were before we thought upon it 'T is true Beloved We might be surprized but so could not She. Ye heard of her Life She could not be unprovided for Death She that lead such a blessed life must needs be Blessed in her death You must therefore know That she died in Child-bed and while she brings another Saint to life within few dayes after she resignes her own The Throws of a woman in travail are dangerous and threaten death in the best condition and will make those that are most secure look about them But a Religious woman ever expects Death in it and is never unprepared for it Sure I am this worthy Gentlewoman as through the whole Course of her life you could never heare any vain or idle discourse proceed from her blessed mouth So now more especially it was ever filled with heavenly language and breathed out nothing but Devotion For that purpose she desired my self not long before the time of her travail to make her partaker of the Pawns and Pledges of her salvation in the blessed Sacrament that whatsoever befell her in that great conflict she might have her Viaticum her heavenly provision as the Fathers call it the food of her soul to witnesse her faith and her hope and to give us assurance of her preparation And certainly she that prepared her self for the Sacrament so neer the time of her danger did also by the Sacrament prepare her self for Death And indeed the Lord had prepared her for Himself and though death were able to divide her from her dearest Husband and her nearest friends yet it could not divide her from her God Even in the hour and Pangs of death when strength and senses seemed to fail when she knew no body her heart was fixt upon her Creator his name only was in her mouth and her last words that were heard fall from her sweetly warbled forth this heavenly Note Lord where am I I am here Lord. As if she were seeking her Saviour to resigne her soul into his hands where she might find rest from her Labour Thus she lived and thus she died carrying with Her those Graces and goodness that were the Ornaments of her life But leaving us the grief for so great a loss and those sad Remaines that we are about to carry and lay up in her Grave Now if my words and testimony may add honour to her Funerall give me leave to expresse the hopes that I have of Her happinesse in an heavenly desire Cum mihi supremos Lachesis perneverit annos Non aliter cineres mando jaceremeos Mart. Epig. lib. 1. Ep. 89. Thus would I live and when I die I wish my soul may be a companion with Hers. And now I would call for your tears but that I see them trickling down your cheeks already Mourning is seasonable and is an argument of of love and affection Flebat et Jesus Lazarum Hierom. super obitum Blesi … saith St Jerome Our Saviour wept himselfe for Lazarus for he loved him He wept at his John 11. 35. Grave But now I remember Weep not for Her so much as for your selves and your friends Weep ye women for ye have lost the Glory of your sex Weep ye Husbands for ye have lost the Pattern for your Wives Weep ye of the Kindred for ye have lost the honour of your Blood Weep ye that were her Friends and Acquaintance ye have lost a Companion and a Comforter Weep ye that were poor and in want ye have lost a nurse and a Reliever And if I had any tears left not yet powr'd out from those eyes that were witnesses of her worth I would even now empty them into her Grave and bemoan my own loss also Death comes too neer us when it comes to take away a Portion of our selves of our eyes of our hearts The desire of both It is coming to us too it let us prepare for and let it come when it will But now to wipe away those tears which fall from your eyes This heavenly soul whose dead body we are about to carry to her resting Place to lay her by her Mothers side that noble and worthy Lady sometimes the Honour of this Place Though her body be to be buried there and Covered with earth yet she is not lost H●r name lives for ever There is amends made for all the spoiles that death can make And I may truly say of Her as that great Historian did sometime of the Noble Roman Agricola Tacit in vita Agricola Quicquid ex Agricola amavimus quicquid mirati sumus manet mansurumque est in animis hominum in aeternitate Temporum fama rerum What ever we did love in her deceased That which we admired and honoured in Her remains and so will remain in the minds of men in continuall succession of times in fame and renown As she was like Rachel in her Death and Gen. 35. 18. while she gave life to another in a few dayes after she lost her own so shall she have Rachels Pillar The Monument of her vertues more lasting then Rachel's The goodnesse and graces of her mind that never die that are never subject to rottenness or Corruption to mouldring or consuming I will go a little farther and joyn altogether Those three Relations or obligations That made her the delight of her Husbands eyes First Her originall frame That shall be restored This corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortall must put on immortality 1 Cor. 15. 53. Secondly Her marriage 1 Cor. 15. 53. Covenant That shall be renewed The marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife hathmade her self ready Rev. 19. 7. The soul is the Lambes Rev. 19. 7 wife Christ and his Church are married together Eph. 5. 32. Thirdly Her gracious disposition Eph. 5. 32. that never dies Virtus clara aeternaque habetur Riches and Beauty fade and perish Virtue is eternall saith the wise Heathen man Their Salust Consur Cat. works follow them Saith the Spirit of God Rev. 14. 13. The graces and goodnesse of Her mind Rev. 14. 13. continue for ever And as the Apostle speaks of Abel so may I of her By them she being dead yet speakes Heb. 11. 4. Heb. 11. 4. For conclusion of all That which remaines for us to doe is to Remember Her Graces To imitate Her goodnesse when we are taken from the earth they will accompany us to heaven when our Saviour sees us clothed with the robe of his righteousness He will welcome his own Graces into his Fathers Glory with a Venite Beati Come yee blessed of my Father inherit the Matth. 25. 34. Kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world She is gone before Now that we may follow after and find the same entrance let us first pray that we may follow Her Practise And at last find Her Reward FINIS The Elegie English'd As Jacob's Rachel Cole's ELIZABETH Diswombing their Benoni's each found death Jacob on 's Rachel did a Pillar reare So Cole on his ELIZABETH 'T is there O My ELIZABETH my dearest she My eyes Delight and all that Good might be How heavy Lord hath thy afflicting Hand On me been laid * vid. p. 26 She answering thy Cōmand She whom All loved that did Her once but know What Piety what Charity did flow From Her Religious soul Her spotlesse Life Her love so truely Conjugall A Wife Whose Train of Graces Whose beauteous shape Did Her both Lovely and Beloved make Her Mind and Body highly did contest To render Her to all most Sweet most Blest She She is gone Who Her doth not bemoan For Virtue lost or sweetnesse will not groane The mournfull Husband sighs Farewell my Sweet Till at the Resurrection we shall meet

Regard to the Prophet Daniel The Angel cals him Dan. 10 11. Ish Chamudoth A man of Desires Beloved and deare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to God So here the expression of her dearnesse is by the Desire of the eye from Chamod in the Originall which implies an earnest and an ardent affection Ubi amor ibi oculus Where love is it fastens the eye He must desire He must look upon nothing else under God with equall delight with equall Dearnesse And dearest she is in regard of a threefold Obligation 1. In regard of her Originall frame and Composition 2. In regard of Gods Institution of marriage and the Covenant between them 3. In regard of a gracious Disposition working in her 1. For the first In the beginning she was taken out of man Gen. 2. 22. And for so curious a Gen. 2. 22. frame to make them male and female the whole Trinity enters into a consultation about the composure Gen. 1. 26. 27. And when all is done Gen. 1. 26. 27. that Curious piece is Nothing else but a Piece of his own flesh Gen. 2. 23. And therefore in Loving Gen 2. 23. his wife he loves himself Eph. 5. 28. Dear then in respect of her frame Secondly Dearest she must needs be in regard of Gods Institution of Marriage and that mutual Covenant that he made between them He brought her unto the man There 's the Conjugall Knot Tyed by Gen. 22 2. Almighty God himself Gen. 22. 2. God is the Author of Marriage And when he made the Match He ordained it by a perpetuall Decree a neerer Tye A dearer Relation even then that of Parents Therefore shall a man leave Father and Mother and shall Cleave to his wife and they shall be one flesh Gen. 2. 24. Nay they Two shall Gen. 2. 24. be one flesh saith our Saviour Matth. 19. 5. Math. 19. 5. Though Two in person yet one in flesh In nearness and affection Dear in respect of the Marriage bond or Covenant Thirdly Dearest she must be in regard of Gracious Dispositions For where grace moulds and rules the heart reformes the will and sanctifies the affections This Causes Love indeed Goodness and Grace is the object of love where-ere we find it we desire it we admire it most of all in a Wife Favour is deceitfull and Beauty vain but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be Prov. 31. 30 Praised Prov. 31. 30. A Face will fail But Grace is eternall Age or a Disease will wrinckle the smoothest forehead and make furrowes in the Cheekes But the Indowments of Grace goe beyond the Grave and are neither subject to rottenness nor to Corruption Such a woman while alive the heart of her husband safely trusts in her Prov. 31. 11. Prov. 31. 11. And even when the body is dead their souls are still glued together Goodness is of an attractive Vertue Et figuram animi magis quàm corporis amplectimur Tacit. in vita Agr. saith the wise Historian There are imbraces for the Picture of the mind as well as of the Body The Apostle proposes a Catalogue of Holy men and Gracious women Heb. 11. 35. Honoured in their lives to be imitated remembred admired after their Deaths A Gracious Disposition is a desireable piece it deserves love And then tell me Is it not pity to part with such a Body in which dwells such a soul It is indeed But there is a time when the Creator may take in pieces this goodly Frame of his own making When he that made the Match may break the Match and lose the bond and Command a Divorce When the Author of all grace may Challenge and call for his own again and no wrong to any So it pleased God here in the Text Behold I take away from thee the desire So that a second Observation may be this which shall take in all the Parts Doctr. 2 2 God is pleased often times to deprive his Dearest Children of that which they love most which is dearest unto them and that by some heavy affliction even Death it self 1 God is he that doth it The word of the Lord came unto me saying I that is God 2 Here is Depriving I will take away 3 His dearest Children The Prophet was one yet from Thee 4 That which is dearest unto them The desire of thine eyes That must needs be deare 5 By some heavy affliction A Stroke and that Stroke was Death The Text is full and fitt ye shall see it confirmed by Scripture-Proofes Abraham loved his Sarah dearly and she deserved it She had been a dutifull and a loving Wife So St Peter Commends her 1. Pet. 3. 6. and shee had brought 1 Pet. 3 6. him forth a blessed Son the heir of the Promise yet Death must deprive him of his dearest Sarah Gen. 23. 2. Gen. 23. 2. Jacob loved Rachel so tenderly that his seven years service for her seemed but a few dayes to him for the love that he had to her saith the Text Gen. 29. 20. Yet he must not carry her into Egypt Gen. 29. 20. with him but she must die in travail And as soon as she is delivered of her Benoni The son of her sorrow his fathers Benjamin Jacob must lose his dearest Rachel Gen. 35. 18. Gen. 35. 18. To instance in other Relations David a man according to Gods own heart had a Son whom he Passionately loved for whom he would have died himself so dear he was to him yet he must lose this Dearest son Absolom 2 Sam. 18. 2. Sam. 18. 33. ver 33. Look upon Josiah the good Josiah the best of Kings Never any like him before nor after 2 Kings 23. 25. The Scriptures stile him the 2 Kings 23. 25. Breath of our Nostrils yet the Prophet complains there So good a King was taken in their Pits Lam. Lam. 4. 20. 4. 20. And that best of Kings that was so deare to his people whom that holy Prophet and the people so lamented 2 Chron. 35. 25. was deprived 2. Chron. 35. 25. of his life and that by a violent death 2 Chron. 35. 23. 2 Chron. 35. 23. It seems by these Stories the best of men the best of Kings have a share in the greatest afflictions have lost their Dearest Wives their Dearest Lives The Scripture doth set forth holy Job to the Job 1. 14. 15. life a chief example a very Map of misery Robbed of his Cattell Bereaved of his goods Deprived of his servants Spoiled of his Children One in the neck of another and all in a day Himself exposed to scorn and Contempt to Pain and shame and none to comfort him Job 1. 14 15 I could here tell you of the Martyrs the Prophets Heb. 11. 37. Their righteous blood So the Saviour of the world cals it Matth. 23. 35. and tells us it was Matth. 23. 35 shed upon the earth The Apostles I think near