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A52287	The dying mans destiny, and the living mans duty, opened. And applyed in a sermon preached on board the Loyal-Eagle, upon the coast of Cormodell in the East-Indies. At the solemn obsequies of Mr. Richarde Bernard, Chyrurgeon, who, at the conclusion of it, was (with universal sorrow) thrown into the sea, Feb. 1. 1680. Together, with an elegy on his death. By C.N. Minister of the same ship.	Nicholets, Charles.	1682 (1682)	Wing N1087; ESTC R222287	39,747	53

extraordinary in this Funeral that may be my Apology for speaking something concerning him who is going to his Long Home this day He Dying here in a strange Country far from his Relations where none of his Fathers ever were and that befalling him which the Poet accounting a great misery 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 'T is true he was not drowned and so did not Dye in the Waters in that sence but he Dyed upon the Waters and is now to be Buried in the Waters And therefore I think it but highly just to strew some deserved Flowers on his Herse that we may all carry home the Fragrancy of his Name in our Memories since we cannot carry home his Body to his dear Mourning Relations Besides I look upon my self as obliged to speak because I knew more of him than any I believe in the World did He was pleased to make my Breast die Repository where he locked the very Secrets of his Soul Never two were more intimate we were pleasant to each other in our Lives Oh! that in our Deaths we had not been divided However my love to him and intimacy with him shall not trappan me into any thing of Flattery which I ever abhorred And hence I will not insist upon what I wish I could do more viz his exemplariness in Piety Although I am more than confident the Root of the matter was in him I know his unavoidable Association with all sorts of Company betrayed him to some tinctures of vanity which himself was sensible of and most deeply bewailed upon his dying Bed But for an example of Morality a modle of Civility a platform of all Humanity I dare presume to present you with as exact an one as has been seen in this latter-Latter-Age I remember what the Orator sayes Frigida laudatio mera vituperatio A cold kind of praising is no better than a dispraising Hence what I shall say shall be in the words of Truth Sobriety and I think justifiable Fervency I will begin with his Extraction His Birth was truly honourable for he was Born of the race of the First-born being immediately descended from the Loyns of the Prophets and such as in their day were Stars of the first Magnitude enrowled in the Catalogue of those Worthyes of whom the World was not worthy His Grand-Father Mr. Richard Bernard of Batcomb a most famous elabourate Divine whose Name is as Oyntment poured forth whose Works praise him in the Gate and whose Memory will never dye so long as Religion lives in England His Father also an able eminent Minister the Husband of one Wife by whom he had I think One and Twenty Children of whom this our deceased Friend was the youngest So that he was their Benjamin the Staff of their Old Age they were careful of his Education and infused those great principles of Truth into his Infant-years the savor of which he retained to the last so true is that Quo Yemel est imbuta recens servabit odorem Testa Diu Or as Solomon Englishes it Train up a Child in the way wherein he should walk and when he is old he will not depart from it He was Filius Fidelium Precum A Child of the Covenant and a Child of Prayers There was a great stock of Prayers laid up for him and I am perswaded they were not lost After he had past his impuberous days under his Parents Wings in the Country he was sent up to London to his Brother Mr. John Bernard a pious holy Man in great esteem amongst the Godly who was more than a Brother yea a Father to him as I have often heard him acknowledge with a great sence of Gratitude he took great care about disposing of him in order to his future Settlement At length he placed him with an honest Master whom he faithfully and truly Served I have heard his Master say this of him He never had such a Servant His Calling obliged him to use the Seas which he was as unfit for as the Sea was unworthy of him He had a reach at higher things and his Heroick Spirit hardly brooked the Conversation genuine to this Element he had an exceeding good Natural Wit a Ripe Invention a Quick Fancy a Logical Head a Strong Memory and as a Crown to all a Great Judgment He was an universal accomplisht Man able to carry himself Aptly and to speak Congruously in all Companys from the King's Court to the Beggars Cottage He was endued with that Humility and Modesty which very well became his Young years and yet with that Depth and Judgment that was a great deal above his Years He was unsatiable after Knowledge especially in the best things He would often bring me some of the hardest Scriptures to explain and propose some of the abstrucest Points in Divinity to be resolved Indeed he had Notions of a very high Birth and Conceptions far above one under his Circumstances Insomuch that I have often admired him and said of him as the Multitude of our Saviour From whence hath this Man this Wisdom He was a constant hearer of the Word and a great Honourer of those that delivered it He dearly Lov'd a Learned Ministry and by such was he Beloved Several eminent Divines in London had an high Respect for him The truth is I knew not any whose Judgments was worth a minding that were acquainted with him but very deeply affected him and esteemed him as one of a more than ordinary Capacity He greatly delighted in reading good Books especially Dr. Bates Of the Existence of God His Harmony of the Divine Attributes and Mr. Baxters Directory which he mightily prized and would often say he looked upon it as the next Book to the Bible In his Match he preferred Virtue before Money contrary to the Genius of this corrupt Age. He advised with me and indeed gave himself up wholly to me to choose a Wife for him In order to which I brought him acquainted with an honest Religious Family to which he was soon Related by espousing a Wife that Heaven in Mercy had every way prepared an Help meet for him In whom he took great Delight as also in the Piety and Ingenuity of her Relations with whose Society he promised himself a great deal of Comfort and Satisfaction at his return from this Voyage But poor Gentleman he is now gone Death has frustrated all his Expectations of that kind Labitur Savo Rapiente Fato to use Senecas words he is taken away by the over-ruling Powers above never to be among his poor Relations or to be seen by them any more for ever He had an admirable mixture and mediocrity in the whole of his Deportment he was Facetious and yet Solid Affable and yet Reserved Courteous to all and yet Familiar with very few He was a most Just Upright Man in all his Dealings I never knew him guilty of the least dirty or disingenuous Action He was a faithful and true Friend Vsque ad aras I found him so

a great truth which the Poet tells us In recto medecina valent data Tempore prosunt Et data non apto Tempore vina nocent The truth is he was Skilful in every thing that conduced to his Patients Good So that great is our Loss in this respect Indeed the whole of that Judgment is come upon us which God threatned his antient People with in the days of old Isa 3. ver 1 2 3. For behold the Lord the Lord of Hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff the whale stay of Bread and the whole staff of Water The Mighty Man and the Man of War the Judge and the Prophet and the Prudent and the Antient The Captain of Fifty and the Honourable Man and the Counsellor and the Cunning Artificer and the Eloquent Orator Ah! verily our stay and our staff is gone He that was the stay of our Strength and the staff of our Lives He that was a cunning artificer and a skilful Operator in the concerns of our Bodies is now taken away therefore we ought to be Mourners about his Hearse Fourthly Consider we have Lost an Useful Man yea a Man of the greatest Use amongst us The variety of Distempers Men are afflicted with and subject to in these Hot Climates do sufficiently infer the Usefulness yea the Necessity of an able Physitian I know you look upon your Minister as a needless Person because you are unsensible of the worth of your Souls if he had gone you would not have accounted it any great loss Ah! but now Sirs God knew how to take that Mercy from you which you are most sensible of the worth and use of He knew where to prick the Vein that will most Bleed and therefore he has taken away the Physitian of your Bodies whom you may most dearly miss before you go home And surely this bespeaks your Mourning in a grievous and bitter manner for this so sharp a Stroke What Paul told the Colossians chap. 4 ver 14. Luke the beloved Physician and Demas greet you May be truly applyed to him who was indeed a beloved Physician and he deserved no other for his diligent care and pains towards the meanest Patient He was seldome sent for to any sick Person being so forward of himself to go as soon as he heard of it Most Applications he made use of went through his own hands though the Disease was never so loathsome or the Person never so mean How then may I bespeak your Mourning over his Hearse this day us David did the Mourning of Israel over Saul Ye Daughters of Israel weep over Saul who cloathed you in Scarlet and ether delights who put on ornaments of Gold on your Apparel So O ye Seamen and Officers of this Ship Weep over this Painful Diligent Affectionate Physitian who refreshed you with Cordials and other delights Who was day and night serviceable to you and Dyed in that service amongst you He is now gone to his Long Home who retrieved many of us when we were almost there He helped us but we could not help him Ah! how can we think of parting with such an Useful Faithful Affectionate Friend and not Mourn How can we think of throwing him who was the very delight of our Souls Over-board into the wide Ocean to be made a Prey to the devouring Fishes and not break forth into doleful Crys and Lamentations Thus you see the cause we have to Mourn from the Consideration of the greatness of our present Loss But the many aggravating circumstances of this Loss do yet call for our Farther Mourning and the scruing up our Sorrow one Peg higher Hence consider First He is taken away before our Voyage is done It would have been a very considerable Loss if he had Lived with us to England and then have been removed by Death It would then have called for Mourning at our hands I but it would not have been so dismal a providence so afflictive a stroke as now it is having so long a way to run and so many difficulties to go through before we see our several Homes This was the cause of Israel's so long and so great Mourning for Moses Deut. 34. ver 8. And the Children of Israel wept for Moses in the Plains of Moab Thirty days So the days of Weeping and Mourning for Moses were ended Mark it they were yet in the Plains of Moab had they been in quiet and full possession of the Land of Canaan the present dispensation of Moses his Death though at any time bitter enough had not been so dreadful and dismal to them But this highly heightned their Misery and consequently their Sorrow that he was taken from them before he had brought them to the promised Rest So now in this case Oh! what cause have we to Mourn in an exceeding great measure for that Death has removed our Physitian so long before the conclusion of the Voyage Secondly Consider he is taken away whilst the Judgment of God is upon us in retarding our Passage and threatning no less than a Winter Voyage We have staid so long in the Indies that there is little likelyhood of our going Home this Year And at present we are here scorching in an hot sultry Climate the Winds so cross to us that we can neither go backward or forward and what will become of us the Lord knows But sure I am the hand of his Displeasure is stretched out against us and we feel in part that terrible Word threatned Mat. 26. ver 31. Then said Jesus unto them All ye shall be offended because of me this night for it is written I will smite the Sheapherd and the Sheep of the Flock shall be scattered abroad Ah! Sirs Death has smitten our Physitian and we arc like to be scattered abroad God Almighty knows where we may be forced to Winter where we may be driven for shelter from the Furious Ocean we cannot as yet tell But the great yea certain likelyhood of our being Tossed up and down the World for several Months before we can get about Cape of good Hope makes this Loss the more considerable and our Condition the more lamentable Thirdly Consider he is taken away in his Youthful days yea in the very flower of his Youth in the height and excellency of his Strength We ought to be Mourners in the Street when we see any Man go to his Long Home but to see a Young Man go there that 's newly come into the World That is beginning as it were to live that is but blossoming in the early Spring of his Years to see such an one so immaturely seized upon by the griping paw of Death Oh! this must needs aggravate Sorrow very greatly Upon this account it was that there was made such an heavy Lamentation for the Death of Josiah that Famous King of Judah 2 Chron. 35. ver 24 25. His servants therefore took him out of that Chariot and put him in the second