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A45184 The bow of Jonathan with the flower de Luce in a funeral lamentation committed to the men of Judah : parallelled and applyed to that worthy his compeere Robert Lucy of Charlcote in the county of Warwick, Esquire, lately deceased : in a sermon preached at Charlcote / by Richard Hunt ... Hunt, Richard. 1657 (1657) Wing H3741; ESTC R32357 22,399 42

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The BOW of JONATHAN WITH The FLOWER de LVCE IN A FUNERAL LAMENTATION Committed to the men of Judah Parallelled and applyed to that Worthy his Compeere ROBERT LVCY Of CHARLCOTE in the County of Warwick ESQUIRE Lately Deceased In a SERMON preached at Charlcote By RICHARD HUNT B. D. And Pastor of Bishops-Ichington LONDON Printed by William Godbid M.DC.LVII To the truely Honoured MARGARET LVCY The dear CONSORT and now right sorrowful Relict of ROBERT LVCY Esq DECEASED And to the Brethren Sisters and Friends of that renowned Family of CHARLCOTE Be Joy Comfort and Salvation in Christ Jesus My noble Friends THis Piece of Jonathans Bow and its Parallel in a rural expression might both have been laid up in the Book of Jasher in some obscurer corner and unknown and the Author deservedly like the Latinian Shepherd have ever slept in some more solitary cave had not the fair aspect of your merit and importunity stooped so low as to make the speakers lips your favourite to bring this work to light which now like Memnon's Statue the Son of the morning is so framed of dark marble that the rising Sun of the LUCY's name casting its beams upon it makes it to render a resplendent image of it self with a mournful sound in lamentation for its Master and may these Notes flying abroad become as Funeral Birds each morning to bewail the loss of so true deserving a person for nothing is more to be condol'd or moving humane compassion than a Son of the morning to be suddenly interposed with darkness and a flower of the light soon blasted and withered in the blooming Bacon de Sap. vet cap. 14. as the learned Lord Verulam makes the moral I cannot therefore blame your mourning Blacks and Cypresses much less your Tears and Sorrows when I read of a Turquois stone that would glister and look bright upon the Living owners finger Caufin Embl. li. 11. c. 54. but at his Death to have chang'd his colour into lowring and sweating tears as sensible of the loss The Darling of the time this lovely youthful Gentleman is chang'd into a Cypress tree whose boughs and bark lopt and cut down by Death bids you take hence your mourning wreaths the funeral rites belonging as consecrate to the Death and Obits of the nobler sort which wood will entertain no moth or timber-worm of vice to breed or thrive upon it and once cut down revives no more but in succeeding plants Vespasian miracles faln over night and reflourishing more fixt and green the next morning in its followers of whom the next in league is you Dame MARGARET his dear and onely Spouse who amidst the Ladies boasting of their tyre and jewels Plutarch in Phocion might with the Grecian Dame shew forth your Husband and say for you and him Hic est ornatus meus Loe here 's my richest ornament and jewel Your sweet conjunction and conjugal affection drew forth your beholders and your countries hearts to vote that this Sun might stand still in Gibeon Josh 10.12 and this Moon in the valley of Ajalon But Divine pleasure hath forbidden that Ovid. Met. 1.11 fab 10. and parted the two Kingfishers of Love and Delight and left you without your Mate to bewail your condition as now widowed and bereav'd of your companion Fonseca the Spanish Frier will teach you n●● to lay aside perfumes of Ambergreece and Nuptial garments and to smell of Frankincense and Prayers at visits of your Husbands tombe Lent Ser. 18. Luc. 7.11 to dress your windows not with roses violets and pansies or love and idleness but with the herbs and flowers of Artemisia that Motherwort of mortifying those affections bearing the name of her who by drinking each day a spoonful of her Husbands ashes for a Mornings draught at last made again two bodies into one and entomb'd him in her owne bowels De viduis 1 Tim. 5.4 5. St. Ambrose hath many comely precepts for the Widows second to S. Paul's and seemeth to correct the Poets fancy that Widows should be changed into Birds called Kingfishers with greenish feathers and a ruddy beak and face as ill-beseeming that condition to fly abroad with new green fancies and to shew their face too full of sanguine amorous complexion I have shewed you a more excellent way Learn by this your sad experience the truth of that Hebrew Proverb Drus probl 5. clas 1. The Bride gets up into the Marriage-bed and little wots 't wil prove her Bridegroomes Death-bed At the Wedding therefore they use to take a Glass wherein both drink to begin their joys but then they break it Idem li. 2. quest 9. to denote the brittle condition of the Marriage-bonds and how soon it may be da'shd to pieces S. Francis also somewhat minding this was wont to make him Wife and Children of the snow fair but soon fading comforts Fancy you so of Husbands and their Issue t will wean your mind the more from all such worldly allurements and relations This Text of Jonathan will tell you they are but Butts or Prickmarks standing within a dangerous distance and at the mercy of Death and all the glory of Youth Beauty Valour and Wealth high places of Honor and Relations of Friends wherein the pride of heart doth flant it out is by the true confession of the Gallants in Solomon like an arrow which parteth the air Wisd 5.12 and immediately cometh together again and a man knows not where it went thorough And you my honoured Friends Pardon I pray you the Enquiry my affection led me into the Ark and carriage of your Ancestors lest mine eye may seem too curious to peep into or my hand too rash and presumptuous to be laid upon it it is your due and more if I could do it Mr. Dugdal's Warwickshr our industrious Chorographer will make it out The short and summe of all I shall humbly present to your thoughts is contained in that ancient Proverb Parate vos in vestibulo ut ingrediamini conclave Dress you so in the Gatehouse that you may enter into Christs withdrawing Closet Heb. Prov. for he that labours the six dayes of this life may eat and rest on the Seventh his perpetual Sabbath This will be done by observing of the best Examples and the best you hear or saw exemplary in your deceased Brother Fidelity in Trust love to Virtue Humanity to his Friends Bounty to the Poor Providence in his Affairs Welcome to his Relations Humility in his deportments Kindness to Brothers and Sisters Innocency to his Neighbours Love to all in which incomparably your Ancestors are known to have excell'd Holcot on Wisd 5. Lect. 66. and left a light for you to follow An old Archer and good Marks-man to allude to the Lesson of my Text will advise you further and bids Beware of three arrows in Satans quiver Rev. 6.2 2 Kin. 13.16 1. Carnal concupiscence 2. Envious detraction 3. Whispering suggestion these