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spirit_n	lord_n	young_a	zion_n	45	3	8.5394	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30673	Death improv'd, and immoderate sorrow for deceased friends and relations reprov'd wherein you have many arguments against immoderate sorrow, and many profitable lessons which we may learn from such providences / by Edward Bury ...	Bury, Edward, 1616-1700.	1693 (1693)	Wing B6204; ESTC R11343	169,821	306

called so much better for what is that space of time to Eternity 'T is called also The house of all the living because all that ever did or shall live shall there dwell together God hath provided all Men one House in the Womb and another in the Tomb one when they enter into the World and another when they go out and the Wise Man tells us The day of death is better than the day● of ones birth Eccles 7.1 For man that is born of a woman is born to sorrow Job 14.1 therefore the Coffin is to be preferred before the Cradle An Ancient Father calls the days wherein the Martyrs suffered their Birth-days because then they began to live indeed their Marriage-day because then the Marriage was consummate between Christ and their Souls It was an Epicure that said Ede bibe lude post mortem nulla voluptas But 't is better saith Solomon to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting Eccles 7.2 Now through this Gate your dear Daughter is gone and you are stepping after her you are treading out her steps and others ere long will do as much for you you are but a Vessel of Clay and begin to crack your Pains and Aches and Decays in Nature may mind you that you are declining that you have one foot in the Grave and are you troubled that another hath stept in before you Yet a little while and you will enjoy her to Eternity when both of you will be stript of all Infirmities and Corruption which here renders Communion less delightful Where you shall be ever with the Lord and with the spirits of just men made perfect 1 Thess 4.17 Heb. 12.23 Blessed is that Day and happy will that Union be between Christ and the Soul and happy is that Man whether he die old or young that shall come to Mount Sion unto the City of the living God the Heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the general assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant c. Heb. 12.22 23 24. Oh what a Glorious Meeting will here be in Heaven how Happy and Glorious will that day be when we leave this wretched World and wicked Company to enjoy the Assembly of holy and happy Saints and Angels yea of God himself blessed for ever Now she that formerly was in her blood and no eye pityed her Ezek. 16.3 4 5 6. doth now shine by the Beauty her Husband hath put upon her as the stars for ever and ever and ere long you will meet where you shall never part Then will you solace your selves in each others Love and both in the love of your dear Redeemer When she will never repent that she died so young nor you that she lived no longer She is not lost but found she is but gone a days Journey before you and at Night you will Lodge together you will over-take her and find her in her Father's Cabinet among his Jewels She hath gotten the start and is at the Race end before you she hath won the Prize and is this matter of Grief or Rejoycing She hath cast her Ground and recovered the Hill and is at the Race end before you You came not together into the World and it was unlikely you should leave it together There was a probability you think she might have survived you but God determined otherwise Some Roses are taken in the bud some are full blown when others wither and fall but those that grow longest prove but fading Flowers and are of short continuance sic transit gloria mundi God is not engaged to shew us the Reason of his Actings his Will is his Law and 't is our Duty to acquiesce in it We cannot resist his Power and we pray his Will may be done let us not contradict our own Petition God knows best what is best and he tells us All shall work for the best to those that love God Rom. 8.28 and this may suffice us If you prefer your own Will before his or loved your Daughter better than your God you cannot be his Disciple If you had rather enjoy her Company than submit to God God will take it ill from you he took her hence when he saw her Work was done and left you as yet to moil and toil and sweat in the Vineyard Submission under his strokes is your best and wisest course contending against his Will is foolish and sinful foolish because you cannot resist it sinful because you ought not to resist love to God and the Creature cannot be both in the same Party in the prevailing degree we cannot serve God and Mammon 'T is your Wisdom rather to mind your own end than to lament hers The Scripture frequently minds us and not in vain for we are apt to forget it of our latter end and the brevity of our Lives And this if well minded would imbitter all Earthly Enjoyments and make us set a low value upon all Creature-Comforts Man that is born of a woman saith Job is of few days and full of trouble he cometh forth like a flower and is cut down he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not Job 14.1 2. And what more fading than a Flower What more fleeting than a Shadow And sometimes 't is compared to a Weaver's Shuttle yea to a Post that hasteth away Your Glass is also running and the last Sand is ready to drop 'T is the Complaint of Old Themistocles that a Man must die even when he begins to live when he begins to be Wise Death calls him hence we usually spend the flower of our Age the strength of our Bodies and the vigour of our Spirits in sinful Vanities before we know why we live or what Errand we came into the World upon little considering that upon a little Inch of Time depends Eternity our everlasting well or ill Being many had their time before they begin their Work not considering that whether they sleep or wake work or play their Glass is running and their Time wasting Few and evil saith old Jacob are the days of the years of my Pilgrimage and yet few attain to the number of Years which he then had attained There is but a little time between our Spring and Fall and therefore our Lives may fitly he compared to Jonah's Gourd that sprung up in one Night and perished in another Death is stealing upon us tacito pede with a silent foot and 't is an absurd thing saith one to ask when we shall die but rather when we shall make an end of dying for every day Death seizes upon some of our Lives and gains ground upon us and steals upon us insensibly as the shadow doth upon the Dial till our Sun be set and whether sleeping or waking we are in continual motion we are like Men

the good Seed so the Godly should suffer did not their Father look to them These are Strangers and 't is no wonder if they meet with hard Usage and that Dogs bark at them Happy therefore is that Person that hath safely past through all these Dangers and is safely arrived at home and got to his Journey 's end The World doubtless is not desirable for our selves or our Relations that are already past through the Pikes of Danger and are out of the reach of the Devil and his Instruments and we our selves are pressing hard after This may satisfie us in this Providence If you apply this to the present ●ase your Daughter is out of the danger and you are a days Journey behind and in a little time will over-take her and seeing the World out of which she is gone and you are hastening is not desirable and seeing after a short space you will enjoy her to Eternity without interruption Then mourn not for her but rather rejoyce that she hath left you so much ground of Comfort behind her that her Life was such that she lived desired and dyed lamented and was not a Corazine to your heart as many Children are to their Parents in this Age when they behold their vicious Lives and Conversations and sometimes their untimely Death But she hath left a good savour behind her yea a good Name more precious than precious Ointment These Cordials may keep up your sinking Spirit from fainting under this sad Providence the Lord grant they may be effectual to this end By these and the like Arguments Madam I have upon the like Occasion oft-times argued my self into content and stilled those boisterous Storms and Tempests which Passion and Discontent had raised in my breast and brought the Controversie between God and me to this Result That God was wise and I was foolish and that it was much fitter for him to dispose of me and my Relations than it was for me and brought me to a Resolution to let him who had ruled the World for so many thousand Years to Rule it still The like Consideration had the like Operation on Job though at first he had a mind to quarrel God yet at last he lays his hand upon his mouth and humbles himself in Dust and Ashes and cries out I am vile what shall I answer These Meditations brought me to know that it was fitter for me to prepare for my own Death than to bewail the Death of another yea made me know that it was of much more concern to take care of my Relations while living to fit them for their Eternal Being than to bewail them especially those I have comfortable hopes of when dead and to be troubled more at my own Neglects than at God's Providence And the Lord grant that these and the like Meditations may have the same or rather a better Effect upon you to quiet your Spirit under this present Providence But Madam though this be necessary to bring us to submit unto God and bring our Wills to God's Will and to acquiesce in what he doth yet 't is not sufficient God doth not lash us only to make us leave crying or to cease our murmuring but in these Visitations he hath a further design upon us his Rod speaks more than this unto us he expects that his Physick should have some other Operation upon us and not only leave us as it finds us but should do us some good also the Father beats one Child that the rest may beware It was good for me saith David that I was afflicted that I might learn thy statutes Before I was afflicted I went astray but now I learn to keep thy commandments Psal 119.67.71 If God preserve us 't is no great matter whether it be in Salt or Sugar Fish prosper as well in salt as fresh Water The Wallnut-tree they say bears best when most beaten and I am sure many times Christians thrive best under Affliction The Wind shaking the Tree makes it take deeper and better Root quae nocent docent bitter Pills may sometimes be as necessary as Sweet-meats a Lesson set on with whipping is best retained and many times Correction doth what Cockering will not and there is no doubt whatever Man intends God in Correcting his Children minds their good Heb. 12.10 These bitter Pills procure sweet Health as sharp Winters kill Weeds and Worms and God's Vines bear the better for bleeding neither are they hurt when superfluous branches are lopt off Camomile the more 't is trod upon the more it spreads and the more the Cypress-tree is bowed down the more it riseth Ephraim found the benefit of Affliction this made him Obedient when before he was as an untamed Heifer unaccustomed to the Yoak Jer. 31.18 c. Manasseh's Prison and Fetters were better to him than his Crown and Scepter 2 Chron. 33.12 c. As 't is said of Queen Elizabeth Mr. Ascham was a good Tutor to her but Affliction did her most good Correction with Instruction is sure and safe Blessed is the man whom thou chastisest O Lord and teachest him in thy Law Psal 94.12 Feri domine feri saith Luther strike me as much as thou wilt if thou wilt instruct me lash me and spare not so thou wilt Lesson me God doth chastise his People that they may not be condemned with the world 1 Cor. 11.32 God hath a double end in your present Visitation and both for good one to set an end to your dear Daughter's Misery and the other to prepare you for Happiness by weaning you from the World and raising up your heart to Heaven whither your Delight is gone And happy are you if you learn this Lesson and wisely improve this Providence if you learn the voice of the rod and of him that holds it Micah 6.9 For the rod of reproof gives wisdom Prov. 29.15 Vexatio dat intellectum A Father Corrects his Child not so much in Revenge for the fault done as for caution for the future Schola crucis Schola lucis The way to the Crown is by the Cross When God's Judgments are abroad in the World the Inhabitants thereof should learn Righteousness Isa 29.9 Under such Providences as these God would not have us be like unto bruit Beasts in a Pasture when one by one goes to the Shambles the other regard it not All Spectacles of Mortality especially those of so near a concern should mind us of our latter end and make us prepare for Death when we see younger and stronger than we go to the Grave before us We should be like ingenious Children when one is beaten the other should not only cry and tremble but also take warning We should not blame our Father's Cruelty but our own Folly and if all work together for our good why not this Nay doubtless a good use may be made of this and if well improved we shall have cause to say with the Psalmist It was good for us that we were afflicted Some