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A01069	A sermon preached at Constantinople in the Vines of Perah, at the funerall of the vertuous and admired Lady Anne Glouer, sometime wife to the honourable Knight Sir Thomas Glouer, and then ambassadour ordinary for his Maiesty of Great Britaine, in the port of the Great Turke. By William Forde Bachelour in Diuinitie, and lately preacher to the right honourable ambassadour, and the rest of the English nation resident there. ...	Ford, William, b. 1559.	1616 (1616)	STC 11176; ESTC S102518	32,899	92

was on mount Moriah to sacrifice his sonne Isaac the diuell to make it a reall tragedie represented the manner of Isaacs offering vp vnto Sarah wherevpon say they shee tooke a conceit and died and so Abraham returning from the mount and finding his vvife dead is said to come to mourne and to weepe for her But Iosephus hath sufficiently refuted this fancie For if Isaac were 25. yeeres old at the time he should haue beene sacrificed and Sarah after that liued 12. yeeres how then died Sarah presentlie when she heard from the diuel her sonne was sacrificed Or whether hee came from burying his father Therah as some thinke whom the Iesuite Pererius would haue to die but two yeeres before but the truth is that hee was dead 62. yeeres before for Abraham was now 137. yeeres olde who vvas borne in the 70. yeere of Therahs age who liued 205. yeeres in all so Abraham was 75. yeeres old when his father died to that adde 62. so shall wee haue Abrahams age of 137. * Gen. 12.5 Or whether he be said to come because he went out of his tent and entred into Sarahs tent which is most probable for though they soiourned together yet their tents were asunder as appeareth out of the last verse of the 24. Chapter as the manner of those Countries was the men to haue their tents by themselues apart and the women their tents apart as heere among whom we soiourne vve see at this daie the Turkes haue their houses and their roomes apart halfe for themselues and the other halfe for their wiues and women slaues or howsoeuer it was wee will not so much inquire from whence he came as the end of his comming which was to mourne and weep for Sara whence we obserue That naturall affection is commendable in all In Abraham therefore in others and that not euerie light touch of affection but a mourning and weeping an inward affection and an outward action sorrow within and sadnesse without the hearts griefe and the eie teares must goe together For weeping and teares without are tokens of loue within As the Iewes gather from the teares of Christ which he shedde for the death of Lazarus * Iohn 11. Behold how he loued him how appeares that euen from this And Iesus wept for then said the Iewes vvhen they saw him vveepe Behold how he loued him Where loue is teares are if extremity of griefe suppress not the passiō of loue And therefore God hath made men as liuing so louing creatures to the end that they should not be as stockes and stones 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 senselesse and void of affection but that liuing and louing together the loue of the one should not end vvith the life of the other but in token that he loued while hee liued the suruiuer should accompanie the dead to the graue vvith his teares and weepe that they two can no longer liue and loue together Therefore the custome of some nations to vveepe at their childrens birth and to laugh at their death I hold vnnaturall for verie nature it selfe as also Euripides a meere naturalist could tell vs seemeth to haue ingraffed inacted this desire into euery one yea though he dye for some foule offence a shamefull death to haue yet his kinred his frends to celebrate his funerall with their teares and lamentations and the saying of Solon vvas more naturall and humane Mors mea ne careat lachrymis linquamus amicis Maerorem vt celebrent funera cum gemitu Then that proud and ambitious vaunt of Ennius which yet Tully much commendeth Nemo me lachrymis decoret nec funera fletu Faxit cur volito viua per ora virûm It is all one as if he had said Let no man loue me for where loue is griefe will surely be if the thing beloued be taken away And therfore Abraham wept for Sara here and Ioseph and his brethren wept for their father Iacob and Iosephs brethren wept for Ioseph Thus the Israelites wept for Aaron Moses for Samuel thus all Iuda and Ierusalem mourned and made sorrowfull songs and lamentations for Iosiah and Ieremiah the Prophet himselfe lamented Iosiah and all singing men and women mourned for Iosiah and behold this is written in the lamentations Thus the Disciples wept for Stephen thus Marie and Martha wept for Lazarus thus others though neuer so godly neuer so learned neuer so wise haue wept neither could they forbeare nempe homines for they are men and to weepe is humane M. Antonius the Emperour wee finde vvas a wise man his surname was Philosophus the Philosopher and yet hee could not refraine to lament and weepe bitterly at the death of his Tutor which when some reprehended in him as vnbeseeming both the maiestie of an Emperor and grauitie of a Philosopher Antonius Pius excusing him said vnto them Sinite vt homo sit neque enim imperium aut Philosophia hominem ex homine tollit neque humanis sensibus affectibus hominem exuit Let him alone hee doth but his owne for neither Soueraignetie nor Philosophie can take from him the nature of a man nor exempt him from humane passions and affections In likewise * 26. Serm. in Cant. Saint Bernard we all know was a holy and deuout man yet hee could not but weepe for his brother Gerardus and yeelds the reason For if one Oxe saith he finding another Oxe dead low and roare for it and in his kinde celebrate a funerall for the dead what should man doe for man whom reason teacheth and affection draweth Saint Ambrose also was a graue godly man and yet he weeps for his dead brother and why not saith he bos bouem requirit doth one Oxe low for another if hee want his mate with whom he was wont to be coupled Et ego te frater non requiram and shall not I desire thee againe my brother shall not I weep for thee shall I euer forget thee with whom I haue liued so long No no my brother I will remember thee I will shed teares for thee and let no man condemne me for if we shed some few teares which runne softly like the waters of Siloh no force Erunt non doloris ilices sed indices amoris they will not bewray in vs any want of faith but onely testifie an aboundance of loue Therefore the Wise-man exhorteth vs saying My sonne powre forth teares ouer the dead and begin to mourne as if thou hadst suffered great harme thy selfe and then couer his bodie according to his appointment and neglect not his buriall make a grieuous lamentation * Ecc. 28.16 and bee earnest in mourning and vse lamentation as hee is worthy and that a day or two least thou be euill spoken of But here by the way let vs obserue and learne that if we may not bee senselesse as Stoicks but ought to mourne and weepe for those that die a corporall death what are we to doe how are we