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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

a few shall do that work Moses is too much admired Moses shall die that God may be more acknowledged and man lesse for it is our sin and folly to ascribe to Saul his thousands and to David his ten thousands but to God nothing at all Reas 2. Moses is dead That God may shew what an extreme hatred and antipathy hee hath to sin every where Psal 106.32 even in a Moses If this meek man be provoked and speak unadvisedly with his lips it shall go ill even with Moses Psal 106.32 33. If the good man be passionate and say I am not able to hear all this people alone it is too heavy for mee Numb 11.14 15. and if thou deal thus with mee kill mee I pray thee out of hand Moses shall know that God can take him at his word and another shall have the burden and the honour too yea though hee be afterward earnest for lite and beg importunately that hee may enter into the promised Land yet God will not be intreated Wee little think how much mischeif wee do our selves who may be any way publickly serviceable to be at any time weary of the imployment God hath charged us with especially if the discontent shew it self to others for then the divine providence is ingaged to make it manifest that hee can well enough be without such muttering servants and that it becomes us not to be too bold or presumptuous by the confidence we have in our former fidelity or present usefulnesse Let Jonah run away if he will but a storm shall follow him For God will have all the world take notice that hee hates sin because it is sin and not because such a person commits it If wee would observe wee might easily perceive how irreconcileable Gods hatred is to sin Adam was the prime peece of divine Art the glory and honour of the visible World if hee sin hee shall die and because the dishonour is great an● unavoidable necessity of death shall bee the fad condition of all his posterity Wee read of none excepted from the execution of this fatal sentence but Enoch and Elijah one would think that any considering minde that shall see the tears of them that are in misery hear the groans of them that lye on sick-beds observe the sighs of consuming persons who decay by little and little as a garment that is Moth-eaten or that shall surveigh the tossings of men in feavers who are never at rest God outs them off with pineing sicknesse and as a Lion hee breaks their bones I say one would think a very weak head that will but seriously consider might easily from those premises conclude that sin is a thing odious and abominable and though God bee good yet hee is not fond for the righteous Lord loveth righteousnesse Psal 11.7 If this convince thee not sufficiently come nearer and see how sin like a noisome carkasse infects the air and all that come near it suffer for it let a man bee openly wicked and do high acts of basenesse and his relations his children Exod. 20.5 yea his childrens children shall smart for it for God v●sits the iniquity of the Fathers upon the children to the third and fourth Generation Epiphanius tells us that for three thousand three hundred and thirty two years there is not one example in Scripture of a Son that died before his Father till Terahs time whom he conceives to be a notorious Idolater and of him it is said Gen. 11.28 That Haran died before his Father Terah in the Land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees hee could not forget Abel and therefore no question hee intended only that they of whom it might properly bee said They died not they who were killed should come within the reach of this observation Hee that is not a very carelesse reader of Scripture cannot but grant that if this Leprosie once break forth no man knows whither it will spread When Korah Dathan Numb 18.30 31. and Abiram sin the earth swallows them up and their little children two even all that appertained to them Yet we must remember that a temporal evil brought upon the childe as a punishment of the Father may be a mercy to the childe of which wee have a happy instance 1 King 14.13 that this childe came to the grave was the great grief of Jeroboam and yet the great blessing of the childe Adams sin made death certain and when sin grew greater than death which before crept like a Snail began to come faster till it had brought the life of man from a thousand years long to seventy and if any one was an open affronter of the Lawes of Heaven the poor family and the innocent infants found the thread of life cut asunder for the Parents crime Do you yet beleeve that God hates sin If you will see further behold the holy God is no respecter of persons and it David murder Uriah the sword shall follow him If Moses be angry and speak unadvisedly God is angry presently and Moses shall die in the Wilderness Reas 3. Moses is dead that hee may bee rewarded for the faithfull service he hath done already sin brought in death but God hath made death to bring in glory the dark room is an entry into the presence chamber It was a great riddle to flesh and blood but was perfectly discovered at Christs resurrection and ascension Out of the cater comes meat Had Moses lived hee would have found that in every day there was something of Autumn as well as Spring even in the face the most beautifull part of the body is the sink of the brain It is better to bee in the mount with God than to be troubled with the Idolatrous Israelites hee cannot forget Numb 12.1 that even Aaron and Miriam spake against him Meeknesse of spirit is one of the best Antidotes against such mischiefs from neer relations but no man knows what trouble hee may finde from those hee loves best and whom hee hath served most If Moses be blamelesse himself they will bee angry because of the Aethiopian Woman Thus one relation produceth trouble from another If his face shine when hee comes down from the mount the Israelites cannot bear it hee must put a veil on let the life bee carelesse and then hee scornes himself or others may quickly scorn him let it bee exemplary that a man shines as a light in the world holding forth the word of life it will be alwaies true that sore eyes cannot bear it It is better to be with Angels who alwaies-behold the face of God in Heaven All things are yours Life and Death 1 Cor. 3. ult in life good men do work after death they enter into joy yea into the joy of their Lord they are glorified together Rom. 8.17 Particeps est herilis gaudij Grot. in Mat. 25.23 Here they serve there they are served Luk. 12.37 Blessed are those servants which waited for

Margin plainly one newly come to the faith they that were yesterday Gentiles to day should they be imployed as the publick dispensers of Gods Oracles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Stay a while the armour may bee good but every young man cannot use it and hee may do well under command that would be a bad leader It would bee better for young students to stay longer at their studies to satisfie themselves in the great truths of Scripture than to bee baffled by every one that shall ask them how they can confute an Atheist and how they can prove the Divine Authority of the Bible Read Pownals excellent Apology for a young Divines stay in the University and when truth is known it is good to see the heart bee well ballanced that it bee not quite discouraged if the world frown nor lifted up with pride if it smile it is dangerous to lay a great building upon green walls This good man therefore was thankful for his Fellowship in Emanuel Colledge above all the providences that hee had in his life whereby hee had liberty for study for converse with men of the greatest worth thinking alwayes that it was no wisdome to bee hasty to spend if there was no good stock But besides the accomplishments which hee had by his natural parts his acquired learning his diligent perusal of the holy Scripture and other Authors subservient to his design hee had a most deep compassion to souls nothing more appeared in his prayers in publick in his private conference than this And indeed no man is rightly qualified to preach Christs Gospel that hath not Christs affection in some measure hee had need bee compassionate that will give good food and good phyfick to mad people though they beat him for it the world loves their bodies and will thank a Physitian that discovers their disease but are either so careless of their souls or so confident of their own skill that they will hate a Minister that shall shew them the leprosie of sin which hath spread it self over their persons and their families But herein was this good man singular that hee had a most ardent desire to save the souls of them that heard him and cared not what the sinner said of him so hee at length might pluck him out of the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity hee that is to guide the Israelites those peevish creatures through the wilderness had need bee a Moses that is a man of great abilities and vast affection 6. His admirable Industry a very learned and worthy friend in the University whose thoughts of Mr. Bright I desired because if I may bee bold to use his expression Good Astronomers are in this case to bee imitated who chuse to take the altitude of a star at two several stations that they may make the more steady judgement gave me this account of his industry for one whole year I think the last of his residence there hee discharged all these several imployments viz. preaching once every Lords day in Trinity Church besides Catechizing there frequently in the afternoon explaining the Commandements examining the younger and more ignorant sort to whom hee gave Catechismes also preaching in the Colledge once every fourteen night and moderating Divinity Disputations both which were his charge as Dean of that Colledge besides the care of his Pupils above thirty which was continually upon him who fared very little the worse for all his other business I humbly propose this to the consideration of all pious and conscientious men in the University into whose hands these papers shall come Nor must I forget his diligence in instructing Colledge servants and constant attendants upon young Scholars wherein they that knew his practice know hee was very exemplary Nor must I forget his readiness to visit the meanest man or woman in Town whose necessity required his presence Thus did this good man put the Talents that God gave him to use Idleness is the burial of a living man every where odious but there abominable where sloth will not suffer a man to stir though it bee to save a life No death is cruel enough for that Nurse that lets her childe though it cries starve to death because shee will not be at the pains to pluck out her breast This good man so much abhorred this vice that it might bee said to him what Jethro said to Moses unto whom but that I dare not bee nice and curious I might shew him very parallel Thou wi●● surely wear away Exod. 1● 1● for this thing is too heavy for thee The strict●ess and exactness of his life standing alwayes Sentinel to observe what thoughts appeared in his soul Cum sublatum 〈◊〉 conspectu lumen est conticuit uxor moris jam mei ●onse ia totum diem mecum scrutor facta ac dicta mea ●emetior nihil mihi ipse abscondo nihil transeo quare enim quicquam ex e●●oribus meis timeam cum possim dicere vide ne istud amplius facias nunc tibi ignosco in illâ disputatione pugnacius loquutus 〈◊〉 Noli postea congredi cum im perltis N●lu●● diseere qui nunquim dilicerunt in lib. 3. de ira cap. 36 and that hee might secure a good fra●●e of heart and a holy life he kept a constant Di●ry and no day we●t over his head for some years before his sickness but hee called himself to an account that he might see what evill had that day been done what good neglected hee used to record his fins which hee had to consess to make the ●●reams of godly sorrow run fresher to record the mercies hee wanted to make his prayers more importunate to record the mercies hee received to make his thankfulness more hearty and more constant hee used to compare the observations hee made of himself at the latter end of the month with those made in the beginning of it that bee might see whether his sins or his graces had made the greater progress This is a course which no man will long keep but hee that is resolute to follow holiness without which no man can see God 8 His profound humility pictures that have no curtains before them gather nothing but dust and so do their mindes that stand exposed to all mens view and their own too that is a blessed soul which knows how to do good for goodness sake and when it is done by him to bee able to say Not I but the grace of God with wee the sense that Mr. Bright had of his own infirmities together with his contracted melancholly made him more apt to complain than boast It is said Numb 12.3 that the man Moses was meek above all the men of the earth Meekness was Moses his great perfection and when our Saviour proposeth himself as a pattern hee saith Learn of mee for I am meek and lowly It is admirable when wee receive many mercies to see our selves lesse than the least of them