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A45689	Old Jacobs accompt cast up and owned by one of his seed, a young lady &c., or, A sermon preached at Laurance Jury, Feb. 13, 1654 at the funerall of the honorable and most virtuous lady Susanna Reynolds wife to the Honorable Commiss. Gen. Reynolds / by Thomas Harrison.	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1655 (1655)	Wing H914; ESTC R28062	18,006	42

OLD Jacobs Accompt Cast up and owned by one of his Seed A young Lady c. OR A SERMON PREACHED At Laurence Jury Feb. 13. 1654. At the Funerall of the Honorable and Most Virtuous Lady SVSANNA REYNOLDS Wife to the Honorable Commiss. Gen. Reynolds By THOMAS HARRISON Preacher of the Gospel LONDON Printed by J. Macock for Lodowick Lloyd H. Cripps at their shops next to the Castle in Cornhill and in Popes head Alley 1655. To the truly Noble Commissary-General Reynolds Honoured Sir I Account this Discourse as holding no proportion with the Greatness of the Occasion which brought it forth nor with the rest of that Evening-Service on which it was brought forth there-being nothing mean in that Funeral but the Sermon so also unmeet to make one amongst so many already extant upon this subject And the truth is unless the Law of the Spirit of life which is in Christ Iesus set in with it to free us from the power of sin and to prepare us for death This wil 〈◊〉 prove to some a● present an Object to provoke their contempt and hereafter a Witness to aggravate their impenitency However I resist not its going forth so our Lord may in any sort serve himself therewith Any of his find any sweetness or helpfulness in it My great observance towards your self be attested by it and the lustre of her Name and Memory not darkened from it Who really was and universally was known to be one of the chiefest Ornaments of her Sex in this Nation Sir You have it now not onely under my hand but before many Witnesses that I am SIR Your affectionate Servant to love and honor your Person Graces and Virtues T. H. Dunstans in the East this 16th of 12th Mo. 1654. Old Jacobs account cast up and owned by one of his Seed a young Lady c. GEN 47.9 Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been and have not attained unto the days of the yeers of the life of my Fathers in the days of their Pilgrimage THese are the words of the Patriarch Jacob and with what evidence of truth might that Daughter of Abraham whose Exequies we now celebrate stand up and say them after him Few and evil have the days of the yeers of my life been c. Yea excepting the number of his yeers in that indeed more happy then he I think we may all repeat them after him as will better appear in the sequel A subject not unseasonable for our thoughts at any time for our whole life should be as Philosophers could say a continual meditation of death much less then unseasonable when God doth offer unto us either in our selves or others about us some eminent occasions and provocations to such meditations The words do present unto your consideration our common condition and we may resolve them into these three Propositions or Conclusions 1. Our life here is but a Pilgrimage 2. The days of this our Pilgrimage are but few 3. These few days of our Pilgrimage are evil To begin with the first of these from the last word in the Text Our life here is but a Pilgrimage this was shaddowed out in the continuall flitings of the Patriarchs they dwelt but in Tents and Tabernacles and did never stick to confess that they were but Pilgrimes and strangers upon earth as the Holy Ghost bears them witnesse Heb. 11.13 Aye they might well say so may some think for they had not yet obtained the Land of promise but was it so afterwards yes mark what David says when he was King of the Country King I say of that country in comparison of whose Inhabitants al Nations besides were strangers and that not then when he was out-lawed by Absalom and went weeping up the Mount of Olives but in the time of his solemn joy and festivity when his Son Solomon was installed as his successor 1 Chron. 29.14.15 All things saith he come of thee and of thine own have we given thee for we are strangers before thee and Sojourners as were all our fore-Fathers And therefore he calls the Church a Tabernacle Psal. 15.1 Lord who shall dwell in thy Tabernacle And Peter the time of our life a being in this Tabernacle 2. Pet. 1.13 Our Lord Jesus whose members we are was born in an Inn a lodging for strangers in his life time he had not a house where to lay his head and when he was dead he was buried in another mans Sepulchre and the price of his blood did buy a field for the burial of strangers nor were these onely strangers in Israel for we may all subscribe in the same schedule every man is an Hebrew a Passenger a Gersham a stranger in the Land Hebraei i.e. transitores from Gnabar migrare And no marvel for while we are here we are absent from our Fathers hous whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord 2 Cor. 5.6 and from the best of our friends our elder brother Christ Jesus and all our fellow brethren the glorified Saints and Angels we are absent from our own home our house is in Heaven When this Earthly Tabernacle is dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens 2 Cor. 5.1 Houses indeed we have here as Foxes have their holes and Birds their nests and Bees their hives to be chased and driven from them but here we have no continuing City In my Fathers House saith Christ are many Mansions or settled dwellings there must be our abode that 's our long home Beth Gnolam our house of Eternity and there lyes our means that Inheritance that fades not away is reserved for us in the Heavens Nany profitable instructions we learn from hence As Use 1. Not to seek great things for our selves 't is the same Use that God by Jeremy makes upon the like occasion Jer. 45.4.5 saith he to Barach I will break down and pluck up this whole Land it shall be given up into the hands of strangers thou must but Sojourn a while in it and seekest thou great things for thy self seek them not Travellers do not seek for honours and offices in the way as they go all their care is how they may pass well and quietly on they do not look over every Pale nor step aside into every corn field when as they have enough at home if we have but as much as will bear our charges by the way as will carry us to our journeys end we need not care much or if they do traffique buy or sell in the way it is but for some Viands some necessaries in the way or to advance their estate at home We who are Citizens of another corporation must meddle no more with the world then needs must if we have any thing to do with it it must be to get some competent provision for the way or to make us a fairer and surer estate in our Country to further

all Those Sacred Similes that speak mans fall His life is likened to a Vapour vain To Shepherds Booth soon up and down again To flying shadows To a fading flower Grows up is green pluck't withered in an hour To dreams i th' morning ended ere begun To a short stories Race that 's quickly run To Dust that 's blown away with every blast To Wind that goes and comes no more in hast To Weavers Shuttle moving fast away To flying Eagles hasting to the prey To the swift sayling Ships that hasten most To the swift riding of a winged Post All these made good in one so justly dear May fill Survivors hearts with care and Fear To her worthy Husband Y' have lost your softest sweetest half a part Is rent from off that Cawl that hides your heart How great 's your loss You but begun to know What you to God for such a Mate did owe The Throne of Beauty seated in her Face Loves Loadstone in her pure and peerless grace A Soul so full of that diviner flame Of love next God to you Oh love her Name Her name and memory And love the Lord Who once though but a while was pleas'd t' afford And lend you such a Jewel but few such Do shine on Earth all th' earth will say as much And now She shines above behold her there By Faith and follow her up to that Sphaere Where centred both in him whom we adore You 'le meet e're long neer to be parted more To her Noble Parents Y' have lost part of your selves a Child a Friend The seed of fairest hopes which might extend To after times in her your selves set forth In a new Volume the same Grace and worth Might to the world and Saints have lived still When Heaven your souls and earth your bodies fil But why do thoughts 'gainst him arise and mount Who of his matters giveth no account Death like the Serpent's dieted and must Meddle no further onely feed on dust And give up that at last as he that 's bold To chop up morsels too too hot to hold That part which you were Organs to convey Shall be restored in that glorious day To her Brethren and onely Sister Y' have lost your selves repeated and no less A loss then of a Glass wherein to dress Your souls you still might learn a staff a stay She might have proov'd to you another day Y' have lost a Right hand and a Non-such friend When once your precious Parents days shall end Strive to make up this Breach Strive to exceed Excel your selves in every worthy Deed Resemble her that 's gone pray to inherit A double portion of your Sisters Spirit Sic deflevit Hodieque deflet Thomas Harison In Excellentissimam Charissimam Dom. Susannam Reynolds Sic Flevit H. P. HEr matchless worth had I not known My rustick Reed had never blown But cause I knew this Phenix well My Tit-mouse joyns with Philomel And though unskil'd in Sol Fa Re Can bear a part in Lachrimae The little Spanlet of her life She past a Child a Maid a Wife The first was such a lovely story Her Parents had that joy that glory So sweet it was that they can tell Obedience beyond Paralel She could subscribe with guileless breath Obedient Daughter unto death There needed not a Fathers frown Or Mothers lowrings to take down An awless Spirit where an eye Or hint commanded Loyalty Deer heart so anxious to obey She grew all duty as some say She carryed duty or it her Unto the Grave if I don't erre A Virgin so unsoild so chast That to bee a Wife she made no hast Such vertue lay in Beauty hid That all absurd attempts forbid Honour and Greatness came a wooing And Riches offer'd to be dooing But in her bosome find's no place It was so taken up with Grace Curled Locks and powdered Loyns The Votaries to Beauties shrines Painted Puppets and fine things Like men with Watches and with Rings Presenting Love in Ryme and Prose Were answered I will none of those Unless I meant to see some feats Playd by Baboons or Marmosets At length her Nobler thoughts she plac'd On one whom Heaven and Earth had grac'd But how like to a Rock she stood 'gainst Waves and Seas to make vows good And how through thick thin hot and cold She travel'd and through ways untold And how her worth did swim above Frowns and disdains to answer love Yea how withal she did contest To gain a long'd for short-liv'd rest Must be the work of a Steel'd Pen I can but weep it ore agen A Wife she is Oh give me back That word agen though words I lack To tell how good she was and yet Whether a Wife I ev'n forget For ere the Sun had run its round Nor Child nor Maid nor Wife was found But dainty Dust layd up in Clay Onely Deer Shade this must I say Religion and not Phancical Prudence and meekness not formal And faithfulness without deceit A spirit most humble and as great Birth worth and sweetness met in thee All strove for place yet all agree But what of these Alas she dies Let other Muses write mine cries For sorrows tears drop not from Pens blest Sue But hearts and eyes Adew adew adew H. P. In Conjugalem Amicitiam JOHANNIS REYNOLDS SVSANNAE REYNOLDS I Ask no Muse's help to write Nor yet of Venus flame or light My Fancie's mov'd by Nobler love Such as virtuous minds approve Beauties fair colour and its Shape Is Natures gift or Natures Ape By love which of two Souls made one Two Spirits composition And Friendships Sacred Bond so knit Death's Sword alone could severe it Pythagoras and Plato may Of Scepticks eas'ly gain the day Old Poets some blind Prophets call Since love 's become Ethereall Our Gospel ground-work and no less Then hearts enjoyments as we guess More of Souls love I can't reherse In tear's Floud ends my Swan-like Verse In obitum Susanna Piissimae Sponsae magnanimi illius Renoldi Exercitûs imperialis Commissarii publici Sic allocutus est conjux QUo cuis unfaelix nunquam sat flebile fatum Non mala sat sentis nisi sis sub pondere stratus Connubiine diem celer es celebrare reversum Festinant nimium dicis tua carbasa ventis En quid habet thalamus Lectum mors occupat atra Quid facis ah Fatum Cujus praecordia rumpis Clepsydra quid properas graciles diffundere arenas Quid peragis viduum gaza de ludere mundum Te nihil attonuit qui tantis emicat ignis Ingenii radiis Te nil tot fulgura mentis Nil pietas nil cara fides nil inclyta virtus Eximius candor nil nobilitasque parentam Suadet ut infaustum poteris divertere telum Parcarum quid sunt nisi nomina vana recenses Parcere quae nostrae nondum didicere Renoldae Si pietatis opus Si quid pia numina Spectant Omnia circumstant Nec desunt