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Harvest-home being the summe of certain sermons upon Job 5. 26 : one whereof was preached at the funeral of Mr. Ob. Musson, an aged Godly minister of the Gospel in the Royally licensed rooms in Coventry : the other since continued upon the subject / by J.B. D.D, ... ; the first part being a preparation of the corn for the sickle, the latter will be the reaping, shocking and inning of that corn which is so fitted.
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Bryan, John, d. 1676.
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is No work device any man minds In grave whither he goes nor any bliss There to be had Deferring therefore 's bad And as to matter we should look So to the manner too upon this ground Hypocrites doing good ' i th' Book Of God not to their good are often found No small pains taking Marring good works i th' making Cain brought fruits Esau lamented Jehu reform'd Herod did many things Pharisees fasted Judas repented Many such instances the Scripture brings To let us know More is requir'd than so And that God loveth Adverbs better Than Adjectives calls for sincerity In Spirit resting not in letter Yea that we do all duties fervently Each service so As we the last would do Now would we hear read meditate Confer sing Psalms receive for blessings pray Work in our callings recreate Our selves if we knew we should dye this day Draw out at length We would our utmost strength So when thou read'st a Chapter read As if thou never should'st read Chapter more Every time thou hear'st take heed Attend apply each word open the Door To let truth in To mortifie thy Sin Make thee to live a life of grace Hear as if this Sermon should be last Let meditation run apace On heavenly things this day as if when past Thine eye behold Another never should So praise and pray to God to day As if thou never shouldst praise pray again So eat and drink and work and play And buy and sell with all thy might and main Strive to do all As if God should thee call Presently hence to give account Of all these things that thou hast done what care Would'st thou take higher much to mount Than a bare outward form no labour spare To be upright Not playing th' hypocrite Followes the third means of repelling The reasons taking off mens minds from thinking Seriously on death hold them rebelling Against right reason which if it were sinking into their hearts They would act better parts The Poem tit'led Vertue teaching That many spectacles do death present A Lecture of Great Herberts Preaching From his Theorbo's let us be content That shoul'd make way To what we have to say Sweet day so cool so calm so bright The Bridall of the earth and sky The dew shall weep thy fall to night For thou must Dye Sweet rose whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye Thy root is ever in his Grave And thou must Dye Sweet spring full of sweet dayes and Roses A box where sweets compacted lye My musick shew's you have your closes And all must Dye Only a sweet and vertuous soul Like season'd Timber never gives But though the whole world turn to Cole Then chiefly lives Let vertuous pious men not fear this King Of frighting fearfull terrors Christ Jesus rectifying errors Heb. 2.14.15 Having death suffered for this very thing This very end to cure this fear of death Which gracious hearts Was wont to pierce with poyson'd darts As with a sharp sword drawn out of its sheath To wound them so and work them such unrest In bondage they With Israel serv'd in brick and clay But their Redeemers Death their wounds hath drest Delivered them from former Bondage now They may and ought To beds of ease and rest be brought No fear of dying in themselves allow But in triumphing wise with voices shrill Merrily sing O death where is thy mortal sting There is in thee much good nothing of ill Death thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing Nothing but Bones The sad effect of sadder groans Thy mouth was open but thou couldst not sing For we considered thee as at some six Or ten years hence After the loss of life and sence Flesh being turn'd to dust and bones to sticks We look'd on this side of thee shooting short Where we did find The shells of fledg Souls left behind Dry dust sheds no tears but may extort But since our Saviours death hath put some blood Into thy face Thou art grown fair and full of Grace Much in request much sought for as a Good Therefore we can goe dye as sleep and trust Half that we have Vnto an honest faithful Grave Making our Pillows either down or dust The Dialogue Antheme's likewise worth our hearing The Christian first Questions with death in 't self accurst Which questions too but sans the Christians fearing Alas poor death where is thy Glory Chr. Where is thy famous force thy Ancient sting Alas poor mortall void of story Death Gospell and read how I have kill'd thy King Poor death and who was hurt thereby Chr. Thy curse being laid on him makes thee accurst Let loosers speak yet thou shalt dye Death These arms shall crush thee Chr. Spare not do thy worst I shall be one day better than before Chr. Thou so much worse that thou shalt be no more Death should be unto Godly men no more Terrible than Sleep is unto a weary man A rest from labours crosses many a Score Unruly passions which do vex them here From winnowings Of Satan dreadfull buffetings They 'r freed from these by death and from their fear The day of death is unto them a day Of Liberty Beginning of felicity Ferfect in part which after a small stay Shall be consummate at the resurrection When they shall be Rewarded for their industry Have vision and fruition in perfection While they live let them make their lives as free From fears and griefs as possibly they can Eating and drinking merry let them be Singing cares fears away during this span Let all clouds scatter What shall befall hereafter make no matter The Lords Prerogative royal it is Future events to order as he pleaseth Let come what will nothing can come amiss To those that love him this the Spirit easeth When 't is opprest In midst of cursed chances these are blest Every wind blowing them profit griefs The greatest are if taken in their way Ready to prove themselves greatest reliefs However every drooping Christian may Utter these words Which by his Servant God to him affords Awake sad heart whom sorrow ever drowns Take up thine eyes which feed on earth Vnfold thy forehead gather'd into frowns Thy Saviour comes and with him mirth Awake awake And with a healthfull heart his comforts take SECT IV. The several blessings and comforts comprised in the Text for good men instances of such as have enjoyed them Objection that experience tells 't is otherwise with many of the Godly Severall Answers put in to this THe severall comforts in this text held forth To every pious person we Will mention first next prove apply the worth Of each of them that each may see Who will take pains Till he an int'rest in the promise gains A healthfull sound fresh lively constitution Is the first blessing promised He shall until his day of dissolution From sole of foot to crown of head Free from attaches Of sickness weakness in no part feel
's increas'd by fuel it is fed Withall Some say the reason is Because we running in our race Are after our perfection carryed And cannot terminate desires in ought That 's short of that which all the Creatures are What ever is the cause we are most sure That 's true which Solomon hath taught And we must ponder on with care Who loveth silver by the fire made pure Eccl. 5.10 Cannot be satisfi'd with Silver nor Who loves abundance with increase As nought Can be the Souls perfection so nothing Can be its satisfaction for These are concurrent in our thought What wants the first cannot the second bring Nothing I say but he that made the soul None but the chief good can suffice it El Shaddai beyond whom nought's imaginable Can give a satisfying Bowl The way unto it who can tell Beyond whom nothing is desirable Adde lastly all is nothing if it be Not alwayes now there 's nothing in this world That changeth not but God the same for ever Of whom all Saints have full and free Enjoyment and are never hurld Into unhappiness blest ones persever Th' objection's answer'd all these blessings are Made up abundantly in God Possest by every one Who hath in truth Religion No robber meets on th' road Enjoying all these goods in manner rare Or if he seem to be robb'd of health wealth In lieu of lead he gainth gold Even sanctifying grace Takes up those common blessings place Which he doth firmly hold Esteems it therefore a most blessed stealth Am I not better to thee saith the Lord Than all these outward worthless things Thy Christian-patience I By these afflictions prove and try Sickness health want wealth brings These seeming evils real goods afford One grain of faith a thousand worlds is worth Take comfort then in this that thou In tears repentant sowing And in all saving graces growing Joy springs thou know'st not how Shalt shortly reap when th' blessed fruits brought forth Cast all thy care on me for time to come Mind only what thou hast to do Seek to me and submit With even foot I 'le make thee fit Upright to come and go Until like Corn shockt up thou art brought home SECT VI. Reasons why Good men are sometimes unwilling to dye some grounds of their desires of longer life in several objections and their invalidity discovered those objections answered Three things further discovered for the cure of this unwillingness to dye THe illustration of these Promises By this similitude i' th' text Will to our tast be sweet And meditation not unmeet Is to be handled next Will bring the soul to everlasting ease Before I come unto this illustration Job's coming to his grave in a full age Comes fresh again into my meditation Deserves to come again upon the Stage To act its part a little longer I With this desire without regret comply Come on then let us see what can be said For and against Saints willingness to dye And leave this life it cannot be gain-said But that some practisers of Piety Expressed have themselves loth to depart 1 Sam 16.2 To God and men with Phrases pretty smart Jer. 37.20 As Lot did linger when he was to go 2 Pet. 2.8 Out of that sinfull City where his Soul Was dayly vext with hearing seeing So It fares with other Lots who cannot roll Off from their hearts this load for so they find This lothness to depart is to their mind What should the reason be Death is a parting Of two most dear inward and ancient friends David and Jonathan found this most smarting 1 Sam. 20.41 Besides the best believe in part grace rends Not all corruption out till heartstrings break The spirit 's willing Mat. 26.41 but the flesh is weak Moreover there are seeming reasons why Some Saints so willing are longer to live Form them into objections by and by We will to each of them an answer give No real force in any we will prove To make good men unwilling to remove Loth I am to part with friends Obj. 1 Wife and children t'leave unsettled Pleasures profits honour ends With loss of these my heart is netled And of my body specially Which in a loathsom grave must lye I would live but to such an age To fourscore or a hundred years Then willing to goe off the Stage I would be and without all fears More service unto God and men I fain would do fain live till then To the first allegation Ans 1 This answer I return where is In any habitation One friend with any Emphasis Though David had his Jonathan Scarce such a one hath any man If any such yet mutable Psal 146.3.4 Mortall at best they are and Saints By death get friends delectable Of whom they 'l never make complaints As for thy Wife and Children left Gods promises to them bereft Of thee are made that they shall be Psal 68.5 Provided for when thou art gone Father of fatherless is He The good man's widow's portion Settle thy heart in this belief They shall not fail to find relief Thou leave'st them better husband father Than any that could look to them In this world to be chosen rather Ten thousand times of more esteem Lastly it is but for a while That thou shalt be without their smile As for the worldlings Trinity Of Riches Honours Pleasures these Are such poor nothings vanity Thou canst not part with but with ease Especially considering Death will all these redoubled bring As for thy body which thou sayest Thou art so loath to lay down think What it in truth is then thou mayest Be satisfied and not shrink It s not the man the Soul is so The bodyes but the Casket Know Moreover it a Prison is A rotten ragged garment and If thou enamoured be with this Then to thy comfort understand It shall ere long restored be When by the grave refin'd to thee As for thy stint of time be sure Death the same to thee will appear Then as it doth now to endure A little longer thou wilt hear Thy heart crave hard O might I spend But some few months before my end Who tost on Seas is troubled that He 's got so soon to th' Haven if Desire be served contemplate What cares disgrace distempers grief In dayes to come thou' rt like to find Who sees not storms will rise is blind What fears of sin falling away Will dayly seize upon thee then Consider death 's a debt to pay Due first or last to God or men It s every whit as good its best To pay this then thou 'lt be at rest The last is onely a pretence However this may Satisfie God will not call for any hece Until their work be done till he Provided be his business To do without them more or less Again its best give over while We 're doing well and if godâ— pay For half a day our penny smile We may and ought to praise him pray