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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 ...
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Hunt, Richard.
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Jonathan from Jonathan to himself from himself to Jonathan drawing this strong bow of sighs and ejaculations to the head and sending them out like arrows I am undone for thee my Brother whose Sister Michol I have married a faire a wise ingenuous and faithful wife more wives may I live to enjoy but never more must I look to see such another Brother as now is dead Let my loss and lamentation for ever warrant against all gainsayers the ancient custome of Epitaphs and mournings at the departure and loss of friends Use our near and dear Relations Let Adam and Eve forbear their frolicks Fonsâ—â—d ex Heb. Ser. 1. and retire an hundred years in mournings to see the wages of sinne so severely paid in the slaughter of Abel in the death of the bodie and the abandoning of Cain for the soul in this Equipage and traine let Abraham and Jacob Joseph and Jeremy the High Priest and the Old Prophet the people for Moses Aaron and Samuel and me for Saul and Jonathan the Subjects for Josias Christ for Lazarus behold how he lov'd him his Sisters for the same the widow for her Son St. Paul for Epaphroditus and the good women and neighbours for Dorcas Let the Barbarous Laughing and cruel revels the profane fidling and the buriall of an Asse be banisht to the Pagans and as farre off our Christian funerals as the Antipodes to be so Stoical or stockish as to stiflle our good afffections and to strangle our winds in our baggs with Aeolus is unnaturall ungracious unchristian Apathy The will of God is not resisted with tears and weeping he barrs not our affections but bids us let them out be of like affection weepe with them that weep Rom. 12. what though we cannot help it yet le ts weep the more because we cannot t is some ease to let these swelling waters out le ts weep with Xerxes beholding this numerous army of mankind for that within one age not one of them survives into such a ruine hath the sinne of one involv'd us all le ts weep for our selves that have sustained that losse and let the losers have leave to speak that our sinne hath bereav'd us one of a father another of an husband a master a companion a patron a friend if he were good let them deplore the Churches countries houses townships losse if evill as Absalom whose gracelesse crime was as the Mule that carried his hairy scalpe to the tree of execution yet bewaile him the more Manass Ben. Israel de Creat â—robl 19. as David is observed 8 times to have cryed out for him O Absalom my son my son seven times for that sin of rebellion containning the seven degrees of evill that accomplish such a sinner as naught Belial perverse sinful wicked impostor scornful proud high-minded which lead to those seven staires of the infernal dungeon Sheol Abaddon Beor Shacah Bor Tait Haijon Thelamoth Arets Ecclus 22.11 12. Tactith Weepe seven dayes for him that is dead but for a foole all the dayes of his life weep for a noble friend thirty forty dayes an year yet not without hope as if all were cast away blame not nature with Electra nor kill our selves with Jocasta become not a stony fountain with Niobe let heathen rites be out of fashion with men of better hopes baldnesse vociferations hired counterfeits slaying slaves young men sent to death making tombs for horses or keeping solemn funerals with Crassus for a Lamprey with Hadrian for a hen Catullus for a sparrow but weep and overweep again each teare till ten moneths put an end to mournings To conclude rather then want mourners for so noble Jonathans let the widowed Swans in the River and the Turtles in the wood the flowers in the Garden and the fruits of the Trees let the groves and the walkes the chambers and the walls let the bowels of the poor and the backs of his compliants the towns round about and this Church and Pulpit bear a part in this lamentation and say wo is me for thee my brother Jonathan and that for good consideration in the fifth place Magnentha ti meod 5. Very pleasant hast thou been to me pleasant in thy person very beautiful pleasant in thy expression bountiful beautiful the first born son of Saul the properest man in all Israel 1 Sam. 18.4.14.49 50. and bountiful for Jonathan stript himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David and his garments even to his sword and to his bow and to his girdle His beauty is presumed as begotten in the prime of his fathers abilities of Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz whose name signifies my fair sister Jonathan was then a bird of that Eagle and a whelpe of that Lion both Father and Son so renowned in ver 23. Swifter then Eagles stronger then Lions the Kings of birds and of beasts fortes creantur fortibus grapes grow not out of thorns nor figs of thistles David praiseth in them decorem formae constantiam animi Lyra in loc for outward beauty amiable persons for inward bravery of gallant properties The way to the Temple of Honour was through the Temple of Vertue and a fair step to it is to be the son of Nobles a true born Eaglet looking on the sun of gallantry and a princely Lion scorning the affronts of low-bred-currs and whiplets Pearls are begotten of the Orient dews and the fair bed of Whitspar the Spaniards call el madre del ore the mother of gold Dion Chrysostome tells of a family at Thebes that had hereditarily a lance branded in their flesh as a mark of honour by nature See Causinus Eabl Tiraquel de leg con lib. 9 Arsen de Conjug without which they were reputed illegitimate and Bastards nobleness goes by Blood and the word of God itself thrives not but upon good ground an honest and noble heart Doves delight in white houses and the Dove-like Spirit of God takes up her lodging in the fairest coats A Bishop of Millain retained none into his family but the fairest he could choose his reason was Improbitas in egregio corpore vix comperta foule conditions are scarcely found in faire complexions St. Chrysostom notes it of the beggars of his time that from beauteous persons they would expect a bounteous almes God Man and Nature give the preeminence and principality to the fairest even among Blackmores and who will not choose to eat out of the clean dish to lodge in the fairest linnen and his companion to be as Joseph or Jonathan of a sweet complexion What an increase of grace is it to come from a gracious deportment Causâ—â— Embl. and how grand an imposture to behold a fine Gentleman like the Caspian Bird stalk forth and turn him about stately like a Crane with a scarlet back and a green breast a white neck powdered here and there with spots of yellow and to the disgrace of all to come off with a
for his acts how you that have been faithfull in few things hath he not made rulers over many and if you like stones should hold your peace the Farmes Leases and Estates for life would speak by him granted and confirmed say Sirs for that little model of commands in his courtly service found you not a great appearance of the graces in his rewards he hath put the proverb out of date an old serving-man and a new gentleman in the place how many largesses to his lacquais suites of cloths with Jonathan hath he put off to invest and make known his favorites withal And now may you worthily put on your mourning weeds for Jonathan 1 Sam. 1.24 ye daughters of Sion weep for him that clothed you in scarlet and put ornaments of gold upon your apparel and some whose lives he sought to save with the hazard of his own To speak all in a few words his house was a Bethgerim for hospitality of strangers a Bethlehem an house of bread for the needy bellies the poole of Bethesdah for relief of waiters in her porches Lucius Aci 〈◊〉 both alike and the house of the Lucies joyned to the Spencers was pardon the comparison those two fishes which by the blessing of the Son of God did feed five thousand persons and twelve baskets for the poor If the Bow-song on Jonathan suite not aright in all proportion sure I am that with Davids leave we may properly intitle his praise to the Shoshanim and tune of the Flower de Luce for six leaves in that flower displaying themselves He was a true Flower de Luce to lose nothing of his name which open'd and shut his favours with the Sun of righteousness in a sympathy with his Saviour Christ living and dying about the same age and now following the Lamb wheresoever he goeth His six leaves of mercy to the body exposing themselves Visito Poto Cibo Redimo Tego Colligo Condo I View Drink Feed Redeem Bring home and Bury were accompanied with the six spires of spiritual assistance to complete and answer them Consule Castiga Solare Remitte Fer Ora Counsel Reprove Forgive Bear Pray Makemerry A Flower de Luce. 1 Rooted so fast in his religion that no wind or storm could stir or alter him For his candor and sincerity in which vertue he was so plainly visible and transparent that his bosome was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 5.8 exposed to the Sun and might be seen thorough sincere with an heart so clear perspicuous and plaine that like Drusus house full of windows all that was contained within might be seen without as the Poet Cui meliere luto Juvenal finxit praecordia Titan. Whom the pure Sun with better clay Made a true heart for yea and na y. 2 So candid and fair conditioned to treat so oyly and soft to handle so innocent and harmlesse to act that Adam seem'd to have lent him little matter to be offended and grace lesse mind to give offence 3 So coole a temper in his nature that as the lilly water allays and cooles all burning sores and apostems so he by example and sweet words loved to asswage heart-burnings swelling and fallingout of neighbours 4 So white and spotless in the virgin and his married life that he esteem'd and made his chastity most odoriferous to all in a bed undefiled and kept whole but if broken or bruised he abhorred as too rank a smel for him and most unsavoury in his family 5 So open and expansed in his love and bounty spreading on every side that his dishes and vessels were as the baskets and bowls of the Lilly full of refreshment ornament and medicine to his friends all graced with such an humble condescent that you might say there was the rose of Sharon Cant. 2.1 and the lilly of the Valleys A Flower de Luce broad in his blowed leaves upwards towards heaven 6. but contracted and narrow in the bottom toward the earth being large and heavenly minded in his contemplation of that land and mansion esteeming all his lands and houses not worth a thought to think on nor a look with Lots wife to reflect upon no nor so much as one sisters tear to fall for the losse of them going as willingly to his grave with his body as to his bed and sending forth his soul as chearfully as Noahs dove flew from the Arke when the flood was past or a prisoner to be enlarged to a palace In a time large enough for him to have lived longer although determined of God whose eternity meets and complies with all times but enforceth none in the Autumn that deadly season and fall of the year when the Sun falls from his height the dayes from their length the Elements from their beauty the Corne under the sickle Flowers from the stalk Leaves from the trees Fruits from the boughs men from their families now the lovely Adonis of all delight is rooting up by the dirty Bore of winter hasting on enough to make women superstitious to weep for this Tamuz Ezek. 8.14 the sweet-heart of the Sun and cause enough for us to take on with David for our Sun is now gone down of whom the world was not worthy our Adonis is withdrawn by death our Brother Jonathan is in the dust But stay Rachel thy work shall be rewarded his body shall return in the day of Renewing when the great Lapidary shall have ripp'd off the earthy bark of this diamond Mal. 3.7 and shall make up his jewels the righteous and such as do likewise shall see and enjoy him again the stay wil seem no longer than a sweet nights sleep and the time no more to you than the years past before you were born But methinks I see his soul and better part ere this become a gainer by this blessed change The Bow of Death hath not taken this within its reach or distance it is past the stroke or aim of all these earthly Archers and having broken thorough the black colour and cloud of death Rev. 4.3 shines like the Rainbow in the green colour of Gods reflecting grace until both soul and body united shall ascend higher even to the bright Aurora-colour of full glory And in the mean time learn Clergy Laity Widow and Posterity Brethren and Sisters Tenants and Servants Strangers and Familiars Friends and Poor folks not to furnish the pasquils of mens ears with libels jeers or reproches they cannot hang upon his worthy Pillar but fill it with the inscriptions of complaints and praises commendations and Panegyricks and learn the lesson if not to excel or equal yet to aim at or to imitate which was the end of David's Lesson and shall be of mine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉