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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04165	Sinnelesse sorrow for the dead a comfortable sermon, preached at the funerall of Mr. Iohn Moyle, of Buckwell, in the countie of Kent, Esquire, the sixt of Ianuarie, 1614 / by Thomas Iackson, Batchelor in Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word, at Wye in Kent.	Jackson, Thomas, d. 1646.	1614 (1614)	STC 14305A; ESTC S2143	15,386	32

righteous ones by whose death the church of God hath sustained losse wherof more anone Thirdly in our prayers the Prayer of a righteous man auayleth much if it be feruent What greater feruencie then that which is testified by vnfaigned teares Teares as an auncient Father saith are the blood of the soule and wine of Angels which flowing from the Wine-presse of an oppressed and bruized spirit are more forcible with God then all the Eloquence and Rethoricke in the world Annah when shee prayed wept sore and God gaue her a Sonne And when God sent a Message to King Ezekiah by the hands of the Prophet Esay that hee should set his house in an order for hee should dye and should not liue hee turned his face to the wall and presently dispatched Embassadours to Heauen euen his teares to pray for life which no sooner appeared but were graciously heard the Lord sent him word that hee had seene his teares and would adde to his dayes fifteene yeeres Dauid saith God hath heard the voyce of my weeping The obseruation of which phrase made a Learned man demaund this question What haue teare tongues trow we and answereth that the cloud-cleauing Thunder of the Almightie doth not make so roaring a noyse in the eares of man as our teares doe in the eares of the God of mercy And truely no maruell for euen with man whose mercies are cruell the Poet said true that sometimes teares are waightie words There were principally three things which concurred to make Christ weep and so much to increase his sorrow that if he had beene but meere man as he was true man hee had doubtlesse beene foyled of his passion as many holy men of God haue beene viz. 1. the death of Lazarus 2. the sorrow of his Sisters 3. the miserie of the Iewes Somesay that Christ wept not for Lazarus at all for he knew that hee would by and by raise him againe as he told his Disciples before Lazarus is dead and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there that yee may beleeue 2. Others hold that he wept for Lazarus not because hee was dead but that for the glory of God hee was to raise him againe and so bring him from rest and happinesse to labour and misery And indeed whereas there are but three places of residence for Gods Elect 1. the Wombe 2. the Earth 3. Heauen The second doth not so farre exceede the first in libertie and comfort as the third exceedeth the second in all true happinesse as then it were a miserable thing if it could possibly be put in execution for a man to leaue the comfort of this life and be imprisoned in his mothers wombe so a thousand times more miserable were it for a soule to leaue the vnconceiueable ioyes of heauen and to be imprisoned in the loathsome dungeon of the body againe and therefore little did the Rich-man know what hee begged when hee would haue had Lazarus to haue left Abrahams bosome and to haue gone to his Fathers house But I hold it more probable that as the godly weepe for the death of others absolutely considering it whereas Circumstances considered they should rather reioyce as Christ said to his Disciples being full of sorrow to heare of his death If yee loued mee yee would rather reioyce because I goe to the Father So Christ absolutely and without circumstances considering his death wept for him which thing both the Context and the construction thereof doe proue And this Circumstance teacheth vs that it is lawfull to take to heart and euen to sorrow and weepe for the death of deare friends and godly persons so did the Israelires bewayle the death of that good Patriarke Iacob And afterwards for thirtie dayes together did they weepe for that singular Prophet Moses and all Iudah and Ierusalem so lamented the death of their zealous King Iosiah that euer after it became a Prouerbe The mourning of Hada-drimmon in the valley of Megiddo great lamentation was made for the death of Steuen and when Paul tolde the Christians they should see his face no more they sell on his necke and wept sore Which Examples of the best doe condemne both as an extreame on the one side that Stoicall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with all the degrees of it as first not to be moued with their death which thing God long since reproued by his Prophet The righteous perish and mercifull men are taken away and no man considereth it in heart but more all shamelesse reioycing at the fall of good men as those that sent gifts one to another when the holy witnesses of Christ were slaine Secondly and also that faithlesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and excessiue mourning as an extreame on the other side and directeth all Christians to the true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mourning for the dead but not as the Heathen which haue no hope A second concurring occasion was the sorrow of Mary and Martha whom hee so dearely loued so saith the Text when Iesus saw Mary weepe and the Iewes also weepe that came with her he groaned in the spirit and truly Nature hath so prouided that teares beget teares and the sight of those that weepe in passion prouoketh others to weepe in compassion And this Circumstance teacheth vs the practise of that Christian vertue which the Apostle prescribeth viz. Be ye of like affection one to another reioyce with them that reioyce and weepe with them that weepe Is there that Simpathie and fellow-feeling in the members of the naturall body that if one member be honoured all the rest reioyce with it if it be hurt all doe suffer with it that if the elbow receiue a rappe euen the fingers ends will tingle and is there not much more such fellow-feeling in the misticall members of Christ assuredly such as are either senselesse of the miseries and afflictions of Gods people as those that the Prophet complayned of Did drinke their wine in 〈◊〉 and annoint them●elues with the best 〈…〉 but were not sory for the afflictions of Ioseph and as it is noted of Aha●●●erash and Haman They sit drinking when the Citie of Sushan 〈◊〉 in great perplexity or that more wickedly reioyce therein as the children of Edom who in the day of Ierusalem cryed Downe with it Downe with it euen to the ground doe fearefully shew themselues to be rotten and dead members and are neere to a heauy iudgment As God threatned Ashur the rod of his wrath I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the King of Ashur and his glorious proud lookes For as God is a God of mercie and neuer but with griefe correcteth his Children so cannot hee endure that ●ay should adde affliction to affliction by 〈◊〉 ouer his Children being vnder his rodde but rather condole and