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A14280	A divine discoverie of death directing all people to a triumphant resurrection, and euer-lasting saluation.	Vaughan, Edward, preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth.	1612 (1612)	STC 24596; ESTC S105922	75,056	213

parents soules and bodies Gen. 4.10 As the bloud of Abel did call and crie from earth to heauen for vengeance against his brother Caine 2. Kin. 1.12.13 to 15. and as Eliah called cried that fire might come from heauen to the earth vpon all the captaines of Ahaziah euen so is there an interchangeable entercourse from heauen to earth frō earth to heauen of Gods irefull plagues to fall vpon such children The holy man Dauid although he vnlawfully longed to drinke of the water at Bethlehem yet vpon better consideration he wold none of it when the three Worthies brought it vnto him but poured it for an oblation to the Lord and said Let not my Lord God suffer me to do this 2 Sam 23.15.16 Be it farre from me that I do this is not this the bloud of these men which went in ieopardie of their liues 1. Chron. 11 17.18.19 shall I drinke the bloud of these mens liues So that by this it appeareth were there no other proofe how dangerously ill gottē goods are kept how more dangerously they are to be spent and how damnably such children do liue in this world indeed as it were without God yea the very damned in hell shall rise in iudgement against thē Luk. 16.27 For the gluttō in torments was perplexed with griefe for the state of his brethren which liued in sin would not haue them come to that place to aggrauate his torments Whereas these vngracious children haue no remorse or sorrow for their distressed parents which died in sinne and liue in death And what may not be said of another sort of gracelesse children who after the deceasse of their godly religious parents are so far from mourning after them or for them as that they indeed do ioy and reioyce in their hearts at their departure If they sorrow any thing at all it is for that they died not sooner according as many times they wished for their lands and goods sake Shall they escape for their wickednes No the Maiestie of our eternall Father will shorten their dayes diminish their store and from their gracelesse stocke shall spring vngracious impes to requite disobediēce seuen fold into their bosomes Mat. 7. For the measure saith our Lord which you mete to others shall be heaped vpon you againe When good king Iosiah was dead we reade not that his sonne Iehohaz mourned for him or followed his good examples either in the continuance of religion administration of iustice or godly conuersation Wherefore his dayes were shortned his life miserable and his kingdome was left to the disposition of his enemie His posteritie was yet more miserable for his sonne being dead was not lamented Ier. 22.18.19 neither did any mourne for him saying Ah Lord or ah his glory he shall be buried as an asse euen drawne and cast forth without the gates of Ierusalem This serueth necessarily to instigate and to call vpon all suruiuors of their parents and friends carefully to commemorate the heauy hand of God vpō themselues for that priuate depriuation of friends if they were godly with the acknowledgement of their owne sinnes chiefly in the omission of many reuerent duties towards them and specially in thankfulnesse vnto God for those helpes which they receiued from them It serues for the accomplishment of other holy duties towards the dead in taking care in making conscience to do good vnto those whom their friends being dead entirely loued whiles they liued Whereof we haue a famous example in Dauid toward his faithful friend Ionathan who was dead Is there any man 2. Sam. 9.1 to 8. said he of the house of Saul that I may shew mercie vnto him for Ionathans sake to whom was brought Mephiboseth Ionathans son Dauid said vnto him Feare not for I will surely shew thee kindnesse for Ionathan thy fathers sake who is dead and I will restore thee all the fields of Saul thy father and thou shalt eate at my table continually Againe he said 2. Sam. 10.1 I will shew kindnesse vnto Hanun as his father shewed kindnesse vno me There was a solēne law in Israel which was to be performed to the widow of him which was dead if she had no son to comfort her which law Christian commemoration for the dead was memorably performed by Boaz towards Ruth Ruth 4.10.21 If the person dead were wicked in his life and at his death then there is more cause of mourning and lamentation and calling earnestly vnto God by his kindred and by his allied friends for the auoiding of Gods iudgements which they most iustly haue deserued in that they did not more carefully and more conscionably instruct such a man or such a woman vnto a better life whereby he or she might haue made a better death According to which purpose Saint Iames speaketh after this maner Iam. 5. v. 19.20 If any of you haue erred frō the truth and some man hath conuerted him let him know that he which hath conuerted the sinner from going astray out of his way shall saue a soule from death and shall hide a multitude of sinnes If the partie dead or dying be publicke spirituall or temporall and iust Then consider the present euill that hath happened to particular persons to priuate families to publike congregations and to whole kindomes after the deceasse of such a man or such a woman Which is drawne from that good which almightie God vouchsafeth for the time present wherein they liued who being dead it incontinently ceasseth As Salomon saith By the blessing of the righteous Pro. 11.11 cities are exalted to wit the whole inhabitants of that towne and countrie where a righteous person liueth shall fare and prosper the better and shall haue the iudgements of God which they haue deserued withholden from them And it is certaine Iosua 7.1 to 6. as for the sinnes of one many haue bene in the anger of God destroid and brought to nothing so for the true godlinesse of one or more 2. Sam. 24.15 many hundreds and thousands haue bene most miraculously preserued God promised Abraham that if in all Sodome and Gomorrah there were found but ten righteous persons Gen. 18.24 to 33.19.18 to 26 he would spare all the rest for their sakes The same was experimented in Zoar at Lots request for all the people therein were miraculously preserued from the fire which abundantly fell from heauen round about them There was three yeares dearth in all the land of Israel for Sauls sinnes onely in slaying the Gibeonits 2. Sam. 21.1 to 11. Dauid the King did therfore importune the Gibeonits for their fauour vnto God in their behalfe which being obtayned the plague ceassed On the contrarie so long as Ioseph liued King Pharao and all his subiects prospered but when Ioseph died Exo. 1.6.7.8 to the end 9.1.33 Exo. 9.27.28 2 King 24.2 to the end Dan. 11.1.2 then their plagues reuiued and fell thicke