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In memory of that faithful disciple of the Lord, William Mecho, or, The substance of his legacy to his friends the Lord's Day before he sickned who fell asleep in the Lord, the 13 of the 8th month 1676.
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Faith Forbear mistaken Sense Mat. 10.28 thy fruitless crys Bespeak impatience 't is but Flesh that dyes His active Spirit is advanc'd you know He is but gone where you must quickly goe 2 Sam. 12.23 Pale death 's the portal that lets into Glory Our Writ of Ease from all things transitory Sense He is but gone that soul dividing word Begets more terror then the sharpest sword I dy by halves why did not deaths arrest As well as his reach my tormented brest 'T is but the rage of unappeased Hosts To tear insunder our expiring Ghosts Faith These exclamations this thy fond desire Is passion drest in passionate attire His work was done thou art not ripe for Heaven Thy longer space is for Repentance given Rev. 2.21 Thou may'st be quickly lifeless 't is Gods grace To take the fit and leave th' unfit a space Sense If gasping Sion must endure such rubs When Cedars fall what will become of Shrubs Or if successive blows our strength must break How shall our walls be manned by the weak If men of prayers must thus cut off be Sion will loose its best Artillery Faith Can Sion fear or overthrow or harm Psal 136.12 When great Jehovahs strong out-streched Arm Becomes its Bulwark can we fear a want Deut. 4.34 Of leaders when Gods so by Covenant Deut. 11.2 Although our Lord doth home some servants call Exod. 6.7 He still supplys us and is All in All. Ex. 19.5 Sense Ah! but how often do our sins provoke The Lord in judgment to repeat his stroke Who can but shake in storms can it be hop'd The Church can stand when it is thus unpropt Ah how my troubled Soul 's amaz'd to think That fainting Sion will like Peter sink Mat. 14.30 Faith All must once die the Prophets have you see Heb. 9.27 No pattent for their immortality Zach. 1.5 When they 've done that for which they hither came Mat. 3.9 God can of stones raise sons for Abraham Mat. 14.31 When Peter sinks Christ is at hand to heave him And by his promise he will never leave him Luke 22.32 Sense Gods hand is heavy and his Anger 's sore His frowns are deadly and his strokes much more Such mortal visitations have a voice To make friends mourn and enemies rejoyce What temper 's so well set but will be soon As broken strings make musick out of tune Faith As tender parents exercise the rod Heb. 12.6 Not to destroy but to reform so God 1 John 3.1 Is pleased to manage his rebukes he hath 1 John 4.8 Full show'rs of love as well as drops of wrath Rev. 3.9 Gracious effects he gives of seeming crosses Mat. 10.39 A future purchase by our present losses Sense Mine eyes must vent my grief upon his Herse He weeps in earnest that does weep in verse When Jonathan was slain 2 Sam. 6.26 a Royal eye In doleful accents wept his Elegy So must I take like priviledge to mourn In Ink as well as Tears upon his Urn. Faith The time consum'd in fruitless crys was lent Not for such wast but to be better spent If thou wilt murmur ' when the Lord do's strike The Rod provok'd may treat thee with the like In Faith and Patience wait times almost come T' Exchange this frail for an eternal home What needs this grief if God will take his due I will not murmur as some mourners do Lord he was thine and to the earth but lent Let none repine if for your own you sent I f't be severe t' extinguish such a light Ah! 't was our sin procur'd it for we might Make more of mercies which are sent for gain Men when full fed have little sence of pain Eternal Parent mollifie our doom Correct thy Children but do not consume How blacks the cloud that menaces a shower O shelter Sion by thy mighty power That so protected we may sing always David like Hallelujahs to thy praise FINIS