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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

Holy David when he was in danger to lose a kingdome and was driven from the Desire of his eyes the Ark of God and his Chiefest City He commits himself and his cause to Gods disposall If I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me again and shew me both it and his habitation But if he thus say I have no delight in thee Behold here I am let him doe unto me as it seemeth good unto him 2 Sam. 15. 25. 28. m. 15. 25. So did Davids Lord our blessed Saviour when he was to take down that bitter cup to undergoe the Pain and shame of the Crosse though it was bitter to swallow and heavy to bear he complies with his Fathers decree Not my will but thine be done Luke 22. 42. Perdidit vitam ne perderet Luke 22. 42. obedientiam saith St August He was content to lose Augustine his life rather then lose his Loyalty and bis obedience to his Father And when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously 1 Pet. 1 Pet. 2 23. 2. 23. I confesse the parting of a man from his Wife is like the parting of the soul from the body And there is a time when a man must leave Father and Mother for his wife But here is a neerer tye between Christ and thy Soul then between a Man and his Wife why he must leave his wife and all for him Mark 10. 29. and shall never repent it Mark 10. 30. Mar. 10. 29 30 Vse 4 For Comfort therefore in the last place to the Children of God amidst all their losses yee have heard His dearest ones his favorites he doth excercise under the Crosse and uses to the rod Why so much the better It is an argument he hath the more care of you as his Children No son he doth receive but he chastens Hebr. Heb 12. 6 8. 12. 6. Nay we are no Children but Bastards without it Heb. 12. 8. Nay it brings us neerer to God All things work together for their good that love God Rom. 8 28. Rom. 8. 28. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith St Chrysostome our Chrys in Rom. 8. very Greviances and afflictions though Tribulation and Poverty and fetters and famine and death or whatsoever else saith the Golden-mouthed Doctor He makes no exception Never think they are tokens of his displeasure of separation They are Pignora amoris Pawnes of his love I report me to St Paul for a witnesse 'T is the Challenge of that great Doctor of the Gentiles Who shall separate us from the love of Christ Rom. 8. 35. shall Tribulation or Distresse or Persecution Rom. 8. 35. or Famine or Nakednesse or Perill or the Sword Nay in all these things we are more then conquerours through him that loved us And therefore in this Comfort and Confidence he triumphs I am perswaded that neither Death nor Life nor Angels nor Principalities nor any other Creature shall ever be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord Rom. 8. 39. Rom. 8. 39. Well then Hath he taken away thy goods why he can restore them double as he did to Job Job 42. 10. Hath he taken away thy Children why God can give thee more or preserve them to thy Comfort with himselfe so that thou shalt say they are not lost And indeed I remember St Gregory Gregor Moral 35. cap. 11. gives the reason why God Almighty when he doubled Jobs substance in his sheep and his camels and his oxen yet he gave him but just so many Children as he had taken from him because his dead Children were not lost but in Gods Keeping in a better life Hath he taken away thy Parents why when my Father and my mother forsake me the Lord takes me up Psal 27. 10. Hath he taken away thy Husband Psal 27. 10. He is the Father of the Fatherlesse and the Judg of the widows Psal 68. 5. Hath he taken away thy Psal 68. 5. Wife thy Comforter and thy Companion Why God is all in all Thy Wife Thy Husband Thy Father Thy Comforter and thy Companion Our best refuge Our greatest strength a very present help in time of trouble Psal 46. 1. Let that comfort thee And now I have done with my Text and the generall application give me leave to apply more particularly and as I told you in the beginning to find it at our own doores What ye have heard with your ears you see here presented to your eyes Fixe them upon that Coffin upon those Blacks and Eschutcheons and they will lead you from the Thesis to the Hypothesis from the Prophecie to the Parallel That Death which you heard of in the Text you see in her proper Colours Behold the Stroke she gave The wounds she made yet bleeding fresh and I fear nothing so much as that while I seek to close them the Commemoration of those Vertues which did shine in this Deare deceased should make them Wider You heard a Wife was the neerest the dearest delight to her husband in the world The desire of his eyes So it was here And that will be your joy Again you heard it pleaseth God oftentimes to deprive his dearest Children of that their dearest delight by the Stroke of Death as he uses to do so he hath done here And that will be your sorrow For the first I must tel you I shall present you with a shadow with a Picture of a most heavenly Soul which though it dwelt in an earthly body was right dear indeed unto her Husband and that body though now a liveless Corps I may boldly say The desire of his eyes in all three respects First in respect of the Originall frame and Composure God had made her of the same mould so that he look'd upon her as a piece of his own flesh And the great workman of heaven and earth had done his part so well that there needed no Art to perfect Nature or supply any defect But her own Beauty and lovely Proportion had power both to procure and Continue her Husbands Affection To make her the more desireable she was of no base mettal but Extract and derived from a Noble and an ancient family the memory of some whereof was precious in this Place But I remember withall what the wise Roman hath upon record Genus et proavos et quae non fecimus ipsi Ovid. Met. Lib. 13. Vix ea nostra voco Our pedigrees and Noble bloud we are beholden to our fore-fathers for rather then our selves I passe them over and come to the next Secondly therefore she was deare unto him The desire of her husbands eys In respect of the marriage Knot the mutuall Covenant between them Gods own Institution under which condition as they had chosen one another out of mutuall Affection so they did look upon one another

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 BERNARD Doctor in Divinity A woman that feareth the Lord SHE shall be praised Pro. 31. 30. London Printed for Andrew Crook 1652. Gen Cap. 35 Vt Rachel Sic mortua est Elizabetha Cole No. XIV M.DC L● Cuius est haec 〈◊〉 diu Domine Gen. Cap. XXXV Vt Rachel Sic mortua est ELIZABETHA COLE Novemb. XIV MDCLI Cujus est haec COLUMNA Quam diu Domine O mea ELIZABETHA O Maritella mea ELIZABETHULA O Desiderium Oculorum meorum Heu quàm gravi me afflixit manu Te Te mihi eripiens Deus Te Quam nemo non amavit qui noverit Quàm amabilem Te fecerunt Pietas Charitas Quàm conjugalis Amor illibata Vita Quàm Gratiarum Cohors quàm Formae decor Virtutes certè omnes Tum Corporis Tum Animi Concertârunt Te reddere omnibus Plusquam Commendatissimam Sanè qui Te ademptam non deplorat Nec Suavitatem nec Virtutem ipsam Extinctam deplorabit Vale itaque mea ELIZABETHULA Moestissimus ingemit Maritus Vale Vale Vsque ad Resurrectionem Valeto Moerens Posuit Composuit Maritus Ipse HIc dormit ELIZABETHA U … Rob ti Cole Arm ri Timo thei Thornhill 〈◊〉 Filia unica Quae animam puerpera Creatori suo religiosè reddidit 14. Novemb. An. Dō 1651. Aetatis 3● Conjugii 10. Reliquit Filiam Janam Annorum oct Filium Richardum Qui mox Ab ubere raptus in sinu Matris Conquiescit Cujus dulci Memoriae Sed nec minùs acerbae Eo magis acerbae quia maximè dulci Tristissimus Maritus Sociale marmoravit Mnemosynum To my most Honoured Friend ROBERT COLE of Addington in Surrey ESQUIRE Noble Sir I Am very sensible how deep a Wound the taking away of Her who was the Desire of your eyes made in your brest and therefore I have been very unwilling to present you with this Picture lest the Colours with which it is drawn should renew the wound and make it bleed afresh This was the only reason that hitherto I was so hardly brought to represent it to your view But now I begin to call to mind that though the Originall was an incomparable piece yet he that drew the Copy did it with an unskilfull hand I am content therefore upon your Importunity to let you cast your eye upon it in stead of a Foile But I am very Confident withall upon my Importunity you will more easily suppresse it and suffer it only to lye within your private walls among your other Papers It will be satisfaction enough for you and for Her friends to Know How much She deserved how much you desired and how much the Workman endeavoured but was not able to perform For my part I am easily perswaded both to pardon and please my self with that of the Poët In magnis voluisse sat est In things that are hard and difficult The Will is to be accepted for the Deed And if I can but purchase so much favour at your hands you shall Challenge what proportion you please both in the sincerest Affections and most Earnest Devotions of Waddon Dec. 2. 1652. Sir Your most endeared Servant SAM BERNARD A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL Of the Vertuous Mrs ELIZABETH COLE EZEK 24. 16. Son of Man behold I take away from Thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke MY Sermon is like this Evening very gloomy and stormy And indeed I must be your Petitioner at this time as well as your Preacher That it may be lawfull for me so far to be a Time-server as to fit my Text unto the time The occasion of this meeting is sad and sorrowfull and therefore I have chosen a sad and a sorrowfull Text to meet it And in the same kind 'T is a prophecie or a prediction of a great loss the loss of a precious Pearl which the prophet had in his Keeping And though it be dark and obscure as all Prophecies are at the first sight yet the Explication of two words The desire of thine Eyes and the Stroke here mentioned will acquaint you with the sense of the Prophecie and the reason of the Parallel For the first The Prophet shall be his own Expositor The Desire of his Eyes was his Wife and the Stroke by which she was taken away was Death Look but into the 18th verse and he tells you He spake unto the People in the Morning and at Even his wife dyed and so the Prophecie was fulfilled Ezekiel is in a sad condition His Prediction is proved a great Affliction The loss of his dearest Wife For the second The Parallel we find even at our own doores we have too just an Occasion to pick out this Text. But we must submit to the Stroke because it stands so with His good pleasure who works all things after the Counsell of his own will Eph. 1. 11. I opened not my mouth saith Holy David because thou Eph. 1. 11. didst it Psal 39. 9. So it was in the Text so it is here Behold I take away from thee Psal 39 9. My Text is a very Winding Sheet Or a Coffin Containing in it some dead Corps and ready for the Burial Let us look into it and survey those sad Remaines and we shall find many things very Considerable 1 The Author God I. 2 The Act Taking away I take away 3 The Patient from whom from Thee 4 The Object what The desire of thine eyes 5 The Instrument with which Death That was the stroke Every one of these would furnish us with a severall Observation but I consider the time of the night and must Remember at this time the mortality of your hearing and mine own speaking and therefore I will rather make bold to set limits to my own Meditations then presume to tire out your Patience Give me leave only to Choose out two Doctrines agreeable both to the Text and the Time and with some brief Application to encourage us to the imitation of those vertues which we shall learne from this Excellent Patterne that lies here inclosed in her Coffin and the rest I will leave to your meditation The first shall be this Doct. 1 A Mans wife is and ought to be esteemed the nearest and dearest delight to him in the world The warrant hereof is in my Text Where God himself cals her the Desire of her husbands eyes There was never any thing dearer to our Saviour then his Church He Purchased it with his blood Acts. 20. 28. What expressions of love and deernesse Acts 20. 28. doth he use to her Cant. 7. 6 And this is the Cant 7. 6 Pattern he commends to the Husband To love his wife as Christ loved the Church Eph. 5. 25. Eph. ● 25. When God would express his love and