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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

he makes it to set at night God sends forth men into the world to bee useful they are his servants hee calls them home they dye Let God every where bee acknowledged no man●dolized 2 Yet Moses his death chargeth you that they bee not sleighted Servants indeed they are but they are Gods servants they dye but it is God that calls them from you to himself that he may reward them Have you any good Magistrates thank God for them live quietly under them in all godliness and honesly Have you good Ministers that labour in the word and doctrine bless God for them they beseech you as in Gods stead that you would bee reconciled to him respect the Ambassador for his sake that sends him those whom you value not upon their own account value as they stand in relation to God I presume no man can easily bee so fond and ignorant as to imagine that hee is bound to think every one that hath the name and the garb of a Minister must bee looked on as Gods servant No it is too evident that many carrie Gods livery on their backs which do the D●vils service with their hands Unto many of whom even men may say what God will when they talk of prophesying in Christs Name Yee are workers of iniquity wee know you not and if Korah Dathan and Abiram will offer strange fire the congregation must leave them But I now speak of those whose study and prayer is to save themselves and them that hear them who prayes to their people whilest they are spectators as well as whilest they are auditors they are would convert souls to righteousness let them bee respected for their works sake yea for their Masters sake let them bee reputed servants of the most high God The Devil found it would bee a good way to pine and starve the vitals of Christianity to make the feet lame Mr. Baxters learned and excellent Discourse to prove that over doing is undoing in his directions for peace of conscience and the hands feeble if hee made the head too bigge if hee put a Pope into St. Peters chair and then the design ever after should be more to maintain their own grandeur and greatness than the life and power of godliness If the Protestant Religion findes out this temptation then scorn vilifie down with Ministers and Ministry vilifie the persons and that will help to make the Doctrin vile I cannot forget how angry God was even with Aaron and Miriam Numb 12. For alas even they could speak against Moses Wherefore saith God were yee not afraid to speak against my servant Moses vers 8. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them Why what had they spoke see vers 2. Hath the Lord spoke only by Moses he married the Aethiopian a strange woman hee is not so much wiser than wee God will not bear any thing which manifests contempt of them that are imployed by him But the best way to shew respect to them that now consecrate themselves to Gods service is to accept of the Doctrine which they preach viz. the holy commands and promises of the Gospel What though some of them have not such parts such sagacious apprehensions such peircing expressions such lively representations of their thoughts remember that Isaiah was a noble man and nearly allyed to the King Amos was a Herds-man yet both were Prophets Jesus Christ dieth Mark 16. and sends out poor Fisher-men and they do more miracles and greater than ever hee did and convert more souls If God please the pulse the courser fare shall make Daniel look better than the rest though Moses must not bee idolized yet Joshun must not be despised I of Paul and I of Apollo and I of Cophas sure yee are carnal are they not all the servants of Christ what is no sense nor reason spoke unless it bee adorned with such a degree of eloquence Is there no light unless there be noon-day glory this is just like a silly Country-man that counts him the King which hath most silver lace and can shew the biggest handfuls of gold the foolish sports of lacivious fancies grave and masculine plety looks on with a noble contempt though I love with all my heart to hear discourses wherein my understanding perceives learning and my affections feel piety yet I am far from thinking that one quarter of them is learned which the world reputes so where the words are starched and they are set together to make a few fine cadencies and they please an itching eare that affects trifles but cure no disease blow away no mist from the understanding leave no foundation for setled peace or sober godliness Hieronimus ad Pannachium Cito turgens spuma dilabitur this froth that looks white is presently wasted A tumor in the face that glisters and shines much is contrary to that healthful complexion which makes beauty I would have learning but it should be to convey truth better to the understandings of all that hear mee learning to make every thing plain not to make any thing obscure and difficult Mr. Meade used to say to preach so as people should not understand was like a Shooe-makers bringing home a handsome Shooe but with a Last in it it looked nearly but it was of no use as it was for no foot could bee put into it When I am in pain and a member gangrenes talk not to mee how the Chirurgeon looks but tell mee how fit hee is and how well skilled for the cure doth the Prince applaud the Ambassador that hath shewed hee could speak elegantly and had words at will but left out the potent reasons wherewith hee should have secured the business or else so buried them in his own phrases that they were not understood If any one ask why I speak all this I shall tell him no other reason but this I wish I had no more I would not have the water of life valued for the Vessel through which it runs nor Gods truth for the mans parts but them for truth and every one esteemed as hee is a member of Gods family and is more or less a faithful servant But if you will sleight them let mee tell you they shall not be troublesome to you very long for Moses shall die God sends them now to demand fruit and to charge you to prepare for eternity and to invite you to accept of great salvation it may be it is the last time that ever this Messenger shall bee sent to you welcome him now or never Think every time you see a godly Minister going into the Pulpit it may be I shall never hear this man more never hear him pray for my soul more never perceive him entring into my very heart and command my affections and raise my spirit by Gospel Arguments and allure mee by divine motives if not now never if not now nothing must speak to mee but his gra●e until the day of judgement when hee who

suddenly upon his coming hither and entring on the Ministry in this City This Discourse such as it is is yours and though there are many things in it that will need your pardon and a second reading makes mee observe more Errata's in my own copy Nam mihi prope semper sermo meus displicet August de Catechiz rudibus cap. 2. than in the Press yet because I know it is next to impossible for mee to please my self and because I know it will bee welcome for his sake whose death was the occasion of it I present it to you with confidence of your acceptance The Almighty God bless your Society Make your Colledge a Nursery of Religion and Learning Sanctifie this providence to us all convince us by it more fully of the vanity of all things Quod cuiquam conting it cuivis potest yea of learning that most curious peece of vanity make us to provide for sickness and death Make us thankful for life health the use of reason and understanding carefully to improve all for the glory of God that wee may dye with the testimony of a good conscience and the love of good men yea of God himself So prayeth Your most real Servant Sam. Jacomb TO The Inhabitants of Christ-Church Parish LONDON IF the care of a most compassionate Dr. Cox and ingenious Physitian If the prayers of good men in this City and in the University had been sufficient preservatives against the assault of death there had been no occasion for the preaching or publishing of this Sermon That I should preach at his Funeral was his request to whom I might lawfully deny nothing that I should publish it is the request of his Friends whom I heartily respect whom I was the more induced to gratifie that I might have an opportunity to tell you what thanks my dead Friend had for all the expressions of your love to him how deeply hee resented them and how much resolved hee was to testifie his thankfulness by a serious and conscientious care of your souls I am confident you cannot easily forget him I beseech you let his memory put you in minde of these two things 1 Of the vanity of all the world Alas you see all the joyes of this world are not big enough to counterpoise the trouble of one disease you cannot with all your estates buy a faithful friend and when you have him you cannot keep him from the stroke of death nay you cannot Nebuchadnezzar a greater man than any of you could not keep out one melancholly fancy was any of you great as the Roman Caesar beloved like Titus wise as Solomon learned as the best Philosopher yet you could not tame the rebellion of one pertinacious humour nor preserve that which is as dear to you as life 2 Look after a better world seriously and to that end bee sure to prize the next conscientious Minister God shall give you To presse you to more care in your choice would bee superfluous since I am not ignorant how solicitous you have been already I hope hee upon whom you have pitched your thoughts will accept that charge and if hee do I can easily bee confident hee will bee a great blessing to you but when you have him or any other faithful preacher of the Gospel then remember what reason you have to profit by every pious Sermon when you know not but that your next Minister may bee taken as suddenly from you as Mr. Bright but this duty with diverse others are at large pressed in the Sermon it self I have nothing to desire of you but this if you forget Mr. Bright remember the welfare of your immortal souls that Christ may see the fruit of the travel of his soul in you and may bee satisfied that the godly Ministers you have had or shall have may rejoyce in the day of Christ that they have not run in vain nor laboured in vain this is his request to you who is Your Servants for Jesus sake Samuel Jacombe ERRATA THe ingenuity of a Scholler will either not take notice of or easily pardon the mistakes of the Presse in accenting Greek words as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 1. and in these words themselves captius p. 21. Marg. for captivus Antonio p. 26. Marg. for Antonino 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 4● for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 47. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. The mistakes which prejudice the sense are And p. 12. l. 4. for An. Grace p. 26. l. 18. for Grave Joshua 1.2 Moses my Servant is dead SAd News But may it not bee hoped that hee who in his infancy was miraculously preserved in an Ark of Bulrushes and therefore called Moses n = a Exod. 2.10 Hanc nominis rationem assignant tum illi qui verbum volunt esse Aegyptium ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aquâ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 servatus factum Sic Philo. Jud. Josephus Cl. Alex. Tum illi qui ex Hebrae● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 derivatū volunt quod verbum nunquam usurpati nisi de eductione ex aquis observat Bochartus v. 2 Sam. 22.17 Isa 63.11 because drawn out of the water And hee who once was absent forty dayes and forty nights and the Israelites said n = b Exod. 32.1 As for this Moses the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt we wot not what is become of him Yet hee descended from the Mount with his face shining and brought excellent Laws for the Jewish Nation and established a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 n = c Joseph Cont. Apion a Divine Government amongst them May it not bee hoped that a third providence equally miraculous attends him and that once more his presence may scatter these fears of his death as the rising Sun doth the foggy vapours Never did the poor Hebrews need him more they were yet in the Wilderness had Jordan to pass over the Canaanites to conquer And will the compassionate God take away the Nurse before the childe can go alone Will it bee a crime then to question that intelligence it will if you consider who is the Intelligencer viz. God himself for so it is said vers 1. The Lord spake to Joshua saying Moses my Servant is dead But if the Sun bee set and work bee yet to bee done a candle must bee lighted If Moses Gods Servant bee not here then Joshua who was Moses servant shall arise and lead the people over Jordan no Parenthesis put in by God shall spoyl the sense of what hee was speaking his gracious providences may like some Rivers run on a sudden under ground but by and by they appear again and the swelling torrent pleaseth and refresheth him who sees it Israel must take possession of the promised Land and since it cannot bee done by the hand of Moses it shall by the hand of Joshua Moses my Servant is dead now therefore arise Vers

their Lord whom at his comming hee shall finde watching Verily I say unto you that hee shall girde himself and make them sit down to meat and will come forth and serve them Moses cryed out passionately Lord shew mee thy glory God will now answer that prayer Honorem illis novum habebit atque insolitum Grctius in loc but then his desire of life must be denyed for no man can see my face and live upon which words Saint Augustine meditating cryed out Moriar Domine ut te videam Let mee die Lord that I may see thee And indeed Paul told him that he must be dissolved if he would bee with Christ A soul that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 winged with divine love is like a poor bird in a cage sits often sad because imprisoned Chrysost In Acts 26. looks through the wires sings when the Sun comes at it but alass it sets by and by and a cloudy dismal night follows it The souls clear visions of God are too glorious for this state here it is rara hora br●vis mora as Bernard phraseth it the man whose piety is steddy and industry great sees here through a glass darkly there face to face and then hee shall know even as hee is known When you therefore wonder why good men die you forget too much the trouble of life and the glory after death Jacobs Motto agrees well with their experience Few and evil have been my daies So great are the exigencies and necessities of the present state that it requires the skill of the wisest man and most self-observing to give a catalogue of those imperfections which all persons feel and groan under the happinesse of infancy is that wee feel only the trouble of what is present and wrack not our selves with fears of what is future when we get up to understanding there are boisterous lusts like cruel Pyrates setting upon us that we cannot quietly sail to the Haven of peace and rest What it is to be wise and live in the enjoyment of God and a mans self-busy-passions scarce suffer the Juvenile age to make enquirry If a man come to old age hee is an Imperious Infant or a childe in authority If a man bee good the Devil sets on him Waspes are busie where the honey is If hee cannot bee hindred from doing good which is the Devils first design hee shall bee Fly-blown with pride which is the second and as dangerous Upon due thoughts it will bee found that for us to serve God here is our great wisdome for us to dye when God pleaseth is Gods great mercy Labour in the Lord shall not bee in vain but the reward of Labour in the Lord is when wee dye in the Lord For then wee rest from our labours Rev. 14.13 and our works follow us Hitherto our Discourse hath tended to give satisfaction to this enquiry why Moses dyed It remains that wee draw some Corollaries and so make application to all your consciences 1 The death of Moses speaks something to all that stand in the same relation to God that hee did viz. that are his servants publick instruments for the doing of his work 2 The death of Moses speaks something to all those who are in a capacity of losing persons so eminently usefull and beneficiall to them as Moses was to the Israelites I begin my Discourse with all those that are in publick imployment and are sincerely faithful to the trusts committed to them whether they be Magistrates or Ministers Two things are proper advice from all that wee have hitherto spoke upon this Text. Corol. 1. Promise not to your selves long life One would have thought if any man in the world might have bee confident of his life sure Moses might till hee had carried the people through the Wilderness and brought them into the Land of Canaan this business was that which God set him about It was the fulfilling of the ancient Promise made to Abraham Gods glory was ingaged to perfect it that his Name might not bee dishonoured by the heathen round about who had seen or heard of all his Miracles Moses knew the people and was much honoured by them and so one would imagine the fittest man in the world for it yet Moses dyeth Know therefore that when you are about the best work the most excellent design most honourable for God most usefull for others yet then death comes with commission the shadows of the evening stretch themselves upon you it is no longer day And when this night comes no man can work When first thou didst entice to thee my heart I thought the service brave See Herberts Poems Philosophers observe that a very great calmness usually goes before a mighty Earthquake Such folly and madness hath spread it self upon the hearts of men that generally they promise to themselves what God never promised them and promise not to themselves what hee hath promised them God never perswaded men to bee Christians by constant health by long life by applause and honour but hee hath told us of a providence about us that shall make all things work for good Wormwood wee may drink but it shall turn to health that wee shall not dye or that wee shall not dye at thirty as well as at threescore God hath not spoke one syllable but hee hath told us of a great glory hereafter and that our labour shall not bee in vain in the Lord. If ever a good man might have hoped for exemption from such sore calamities sure Job might then when they fell upon him Immensi praeconii est bonum eriam inter malos extitisse Gregor Mag. though hee lived not among the Jews but in the land of Uz yet hee was perfect and upright hee feared God and esehewed evill The Sun-shine of outward plenty put not out the fire of his devotion hee did but fear that his sons might sin It may bee that my sons have sinned vers 5. and hee must send for them and sanctifie them and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all Did not ' Job hope for a happy life from hence Yes When I looked for good Job 30.26 then evill came unto mee and when I waited for light then came darkness Was hee not one that acted the part of a good Magistrate Yes Hee was eyes to the blinde and feet to the lame hee was a father to the poor Job 29. and the blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon him But the conclusion which hee made did not follow from the premises Job 29.18 Then I said I shall dye in my nest and I shall multiply my dayes as the sand Long life and peace were things presumed but you will finde it a sad mistake if you peruse the next Chapter vers 15. T●rr●urs are turned upon mee vers 23. Job Chap. 30. I know that thou wilt bring mee to death and to the house appointed for all living His

not our own 1 Cor. 6. for wee are bought with a price I have insisted the more largely upon this Conclusion not only because the whole superstructure of Worship is built upon it but because it is peculiarly useful 1 To Masters and all in Authority that they impose no other commands on those under them and behave themselves no otherwise towards the meanest servant than the supreme Lord will allow of 2 That all who are under subjection and are diligent observers of the pleasure of those who are above them would remember that they owe more to God than to any creature and that his service never must bee neglected Therfore God ought to bee served Conclu 4. Since God alone hath a sovereign and peculiar right to all his creatures it follows naturally that all Angels and men ought freely and voluntarily to pay that homage to do those acts of obedience to perform that service which is due to him Our Saviours maxime should bee evermore before our eyes as the Jewish Phylacteries were before theirs Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Mat. 4.10 The unhappy Jesuite who in most of his notions is like the horse-leech sucking the worst blood and leaving the best behinde might if fond prejudice would have given him leave have understood enough from this place to have abhorred the doctrine of Saint-worship For hee might easily observe that our Saviour refuseth not to worship the Devil because hee was Gods enemy because a Rebel because an Apostate but because hee was not God for his answer is framed as an universal deciding of this case that religious worship is due to God alone and therefore the holy Angel refused it upon this account See thou do it not Rev. 19 10. I am thy fellow-servant Let that which is Caesars bee given to Caesar those testimonies of honour and respect which wee owe to creatures let them have it but that which is Gods let it bee given to God who since hee hath a peculiar right ought to have a peculiar service for so wee are taught by the examples of all pious and understanding persons mentioned in holy Writ the Holy Jesus said It was his meat and drink to do his Fathers will and though hee fulfilled the Law and might by vertue thereof have demanded life for the Law saith Do this and live yet hee became obedient to the death and spoke words never to bee forgotten Father not my will but thine bee done Abraham is called Gods servant Gen. 26.24 as a faithfull servant hee followed his heavenly Master whithersoever hee pleased and therefore it is said Isa 41.2 That God called him to his foot that which is in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 righteousness wee well translate the righteous man for the following words that speak of a person justifie that Translation and the Chaldee Paraphrase tells us who the person was which is plainly intimated by the Context 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Abrahamum electum justum Abraham that choice and famous man for righteousness God said no more but this Go to a place that I shall shew thee leave thy Country and thy friends Hee is obedient follows his Master step by step 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homer whithersoever hee leads him I must confess Moses Gods servant in the Text was at first unwilling to go about the work God called him to yet not because hee was unwilling to do God service but because hee thought himself unfit for it yet I cannot think him so unwilling as some incautelous Reader may perhaps guess hee was at first sight of those words recorded in Exod. 4.13 And hee said O my Lord send I pray thee by the hand of him whom thou wilt send Which to a vulgar English eare sounds as if hee should say O Lord send whom thou wilt I will not go about this errand I rather think as a very learned man hath observed to my hand that hee desired God to send by the Messiah that excellent Messenger whom hee had promised to the lost world For the common name of the Messiah among the Jews as the New Testament informs us was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hee that was to come Mat. 11.3 and he who was to bee sent by which notion Johns expression may be understood Joh. 3.34 For hee whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God John was Gods Messenger yet hee utterly disclaimes this title of being that person whom God hath sent which hee could not have done had it not been peculiar to the Messiah The Syriack Arabick and Samaritan versions Quem mislurus es the meaning therefore of Moses his words seems to bee Lord I know thou hast promised to send an authentick Messenger into the world one that shall speak as never man spake I beseech thee at this time send him on this great Errand to Pharaoh for the deliverance of thy people Israel I am the more inclined to this interpretation because I yet see nothing in our Modern Commentators that oppose it which should weigh down the scales against the judgement of the Ancients But whether hee did particularly eye the Messiah or not or whether hee left the person to bee indifferently at Gods choice so hee might bee excused himself It is certain it was his fault to dispute so long against Gods call For which God was angry vers 14. Yet his modest intreaty vers 13. O my Lord I pray thee makes it to mee evident that this unwillingness arose not from perversness of spirit but a deep sense of his inability But wee finde sometimes that a tree shaken by the wind roots it self the faster and broken bones well set grow stronger and they who go backwards leap the further for it Moses when once hee accepts Gods imployment having bafled the great temptation at the first undertaking hee doth his work with courage and afterwards receives Gods testimony that Moses his servant was faithful in all his house Heb. 3.5 God owns Moses in this relation For God useth to observe and to own all that are in relation to him Moses my Servant which was the second thing wee took notice of in the first part of the Text and had wee time to dwell upon it it might bee of excellent use to consider that God hath not only minded them and acknowledged them whilest living but hee hath evidenced great respect to them when they are dead The Israelites got many a blessing for Abrahams sake and it is remarkable that when God considers himself hee considers David too 2 King 19 34. I will defend this City to save it for mine own sake and for my servant Davids sake Oh rare encouragement to bee faithful to God! when it shall not only bee said to us at death Well done good and faithful servant enter into thy Masters joy But for our sakes also it shall go better with those wee leave behinde us on earth Children

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