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A87379	Moses his death: opened and applyed, in a sermon at Christ-Church in London, Decemb. 23. MDCLVI. at the funeral of Mr. Edward Bright, M.A. Fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and minister of the Gospel there. / By Samuel Jacombe M.A. Fellow of Queens Colledge in Cambridge, and pastor of Mary Woolnoth, Lumbardstreet, London. With some elegies.	Jacombe, Samuel, d. 1659.	1657 (1657)	Wing J109; Thomason E904_4; ESTC R202649	55,430	77

a few shall do that work Moses is too much admired Moses shall die that God may be more acknowledged and man lesse for it is our sin and folly to ascribe to Saul his thousands and to David his ten thousands but to God nothing at all Reas 2. Moses is dead That God may shew what an extreme hatred and antipathy hee hath to sin every where Psal 106.32 even in a Moses If this meek man be provoked and speak unadvisedly with his lips it shall go ill even with Moses Psal 106.32 33. If the good man be passionate and say I am not able to hear all this people alone it is too heavy for mee Numb 11.14 15. and if thou deal thus with mee kill mee I pray thee out of hand Moses shall know that God can take him at his word and another shall have the burden and the honour too yea though hee be afterward earnest for lite and beg importunately that hee may enter into the promised Land yet God will not be intreated Wee little think how much mischeif wee do our selves who may be any way publickly serviceable to be at any time weary of the imployment God hath charged us with especially if the discontent shew it self to others for then the divine providence is ingaged to make it manifest that hee can well enough be without such muttering servants and that it becomes us not to be too bold or presumptuous by the confidence we have in our former fidelity or present usefulnesse Let Jonah run away if he will but a storm shall follow him For God will have all the world take notice that hee hates sin because it is sin and not because such a person commits it If wee would observe wee might easily perceive how irreconcileable Gods hatred is to sin Adam was the prime peece of divine Art the glory and honour of the visible World if hee sin hee shall die and because the dishonour is great an● unavoidable necessity of death shall bee the fad condition of all his posterity Wee read of none excepted from the execution of this fatal sentence but Enoch and Elijah one would think that any considering minde that shall see the tears of them that are in misery hear the groans of them that lye on sick-beds observe the sighs of consuming persons who decay by little and little as a garment that is Moth-eaten or that shall surveigh the tossings of men in feavers who are never at rest God outs them off with pineing sicknesse and as a Lion hee breaks their bones I say one would think a very weak head that will but seriously consider might easily from those premises conclude that sin is a thing odious and abominable and though God bee good yet hee is not fond for the righteous Lord loveth righteousnesse Psal 11.7 If this convince thee not sufficiently come nearer and see how sin like a noisome carkasse infects the air and all that come near it suffer for it let a man bee openly wicked and do high acts of basenesse and his relations his children Exod. 20.5 yea his childrens children shall smart for it for God v●sits the iniquity of the Fathers upon the children to the third and fourth Generation Epiphanius tells us that for three thousand three hundred and thirty two years there is not one example in Scripture of a Son that died before his Father till Terahs time whom he conceives to be a notorious Idolater and of him it is said Gen. 11.28 That Haran died before his Father Terah in the Land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees hee could not forget Abel and therefore no question hee intended only that they of whom it might properly bee said They died not they who were killed should come within the reach of this observation Hee that is not a very carelesse reader of Scripture cannot but grant that if this Leprosie once break forth no man knows whither it will spread When Korah Dathan Numb 18.30 31. and Abiram sin the earth swallows them up and their little children two even all that appertained to them Yet we must remember that a temporal evil brought upon the childe as a punishment of the Father may be a mercy to the childe of which wee have a happy instance 1 King 14.13 that this childe came to the grave was the great grief of Jeroboam and yet the great blessing of the childe Adams sin made death certain and when sin grew greater than death which before crept like a Snail began to come faster till it had brought the life of man from a thousand years long to seventy and if any one was an open affronter of the Lawes of Heaven the poor family and the innocent infants found the thread of life cut asunder for the Parents crime Do you yet beleeve that God hates sin If you will see further behold the holy God is no respecter of persons and it David murder Uriah the sword shall follow him If Moses be angry and speak unadvisedly God is angry presently and Moses shall die in the Wilderness Reas 3. Moses is dead that hee may bee rewarded for the faithfull service he hath done already sin brought in death but God hath made death to bring in glory the dark room is an entry into the presence chamber It was a great riddle to flesh and blood but was perfectly discovered at Christs resurrection and ascension Out of the cater comes meat Had Moses lived hee would have found that in every day there was something of Autumn as well as Spring even in the face the most beautifull part of the body is the sink of the brain It is better to bee in the mount with God than to be troubled with the Idolatrous Israelites hee cannot forget Numb 12.1 that even Aaron and Miriam spake against him Meeknesse of spirit is one of the best Antidotes against such mischiefs from neer relations but no man knows what trouble hee may finde from those hee loves best and whom hee hath served most If Moses be blamelesse himself they will bee angry because of the Aethiopian Woman Thus one relation produceth trouble from another If his face shine when hee comes down from the mount the Israelites cannot bear it hee must put a veil on let the life bee carelesse and then hee scornes himself or others may quickly scorn him let it bee exemplary that a man shines as a light in the world holding forth the word of life it will be alwaies true that sore eyes cannot bear it It is better to be with Angels who alwaies-behold the face of God in Heaven All things are yours Life and Death 1 Cor. 3. ult in life good men do work after death they enter into joy yea into the joy of their Lord they are glorified together Rom. 8.17 Particeps est herilis gaudij Grot. in Mat. 25.23 Here they serve there they are served Luk. 12.37 Blessed are those servants which waited for

Moses his Death Opened and applyed IN A SERMON At Christ-Church in London Decemb 23. MDCLVI AT THE FUNERAL OF Mr. Edward Bright M. A. Fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge and Minister of the Gospel there By Samuel Jacombe M. A. Fellow of Queens Colledge in Cambridge and Pastor of Mary Woolnoth Lumbardstreet London With some ELEGIES Nec unquam magnis ingeniis cara in corpore mora est Exire atque ●rumpere gestiunt Aegrè has augustias ferunt Vagi per omne sublime et ex alto assueti humana despicere Inde est quod Plate clamat Sapientis animum totum in mortem prominere hoc velle hoc meditari hac simper cupidine ferri in exteriora tendentem Seneca lib. de Consol ad Martiam c. 23. London Printed for Adoniram Byfield at the Bible in Popes-head Alley neer Lumbardstreet 1657. To the Reverend and Learned WILLIAM DILLINGHAM D. D. Mr. of Emmanuel COLLEDGE in CAMBRIDGE And to the Fellows of that Religious Foundation HONOURED SIRS HE whose memory is a faithful Register of former practice and whose judgement doth not much miscarry in his observation of present experience will as easily acknowledge this truth as I can propose it viz. That men of noble and gallant spirits able to scorn injuries bravely to conquer yea to revenge themselves upon the base attempts of malice by not vouchsafing so much as to take notice of them yea men whose magnanimity is heightened by danger and their courage increaseth with it that these generous mindes have been disconsolate at the absence of a friend have been male-contented at the death of a beloved relation Hee who could not bee astonished by Hectors valour nor his attendants rage yet when the news comes that his friend Patroclus is dead it is then said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Iliad 6.6 Sorrow like a thick cloud sate upon his countenance and obscured those sparkling rayes which used to come from it The victorious David that trembled not to see Goliah but with undaunted resolution though a young stripling sets upon him yet Jonathans death makes him say I am distressed 2 Sam. 1.29 when hee was grown elder and had more experience of Gods presence with him The Holy Jesus that great exemplar of piety who alwayes submitted to his Fathers will and therefore could not bee obnoxious to the corroding thoughts of discontent yet by his practice shewed how much our nature was liable to bee afflicted with the loss of Friends for hee who wept but twice that I remember wept once for impenitent Jerusalem Joh. 11.33 35. dead in sins and trespasses and another time when the beloved Lazarus lay in the grave and the chorus of mourners came lamenting him Nature it seems quickly opens the flood-gates the ingenuity of Christianity allows a serious sense of the presence and absence of a reall friend true goodness promotes compassion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the great skill is to moderate the passion that the stream may keep within the channel and not over-flow the banks I hope all you by your piety and prudence secured your selves from discontent when you heard of the sickness and death of our dear and truly honouréd Friend But I for my part must confess that few Providences in my life have hitherto been made such arguments to it by the tempter to mee as this was and because it is possible that some in your Famous University might feel the same disease with my self I shall make bold to tell you I am sure I speak to my Friends the course I took for my Cure The Dictate of the Imperious Stoick soon came into my minde Non sentire mala non est hominis non ferre non est viri Not to feel an evil speaks no humanity not to bear it speaks no man-hood This I thought was soon said but all his arguments though I deny not their usefulness yet were too short to bring mee to that manly I will rather say that Christian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 peace and tranquillity which I desired Two things I found 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that had the true vertue of Nepenthe in them partly awing mee and commanding down impetuous tumults partly relieving and refreshing mee in my combate with them The first of them was the command of our Saviour to his Disciples Let not your heart be troubled Joh. 14.1 When I considered the occasion of it the command was strange but the stranger it appeared at first sight the more emphatical and remarkable it was The great evidence of Gods love to man was now withdrawing the Prince of life was to suffer death He whose presence animated the poor Disciples as the Generals doth the unskilful Souldiers Hee whose Miracles kept them from contempt Hee for whom they had forsaken Father and Mother goods and lands Hee who asked them most pathetically when others forsook him Will yee also go away Hee is now leaving them John 6. will go away himself and yet hee saith Let not your heart bee troubled I from hence concluded that if I had been in the Disciples case I should have seen more reason for discontent than now I do And if it was not lawful at the farewel of the blessed Jesus it could never bee lawful Whilst I thus stated my duty I found something refreshing mee and it was nothing else that satisfied mee but that which was the occasion of the grief of the Disciples and of all good men before them and since viz. That Christ dyed Thus the wise God can make use of this sad providence to satisfie under another and all the holy men that lived before him and all that had given up themselves to him as his servants since his coming into the world For I considered there was no reason why God should work Miracles for my sake and since so many were dead that I knew were the love and delight of God I concluded death could not bee to a good mans loss and since I saw God had provided for the world notwithstanding the death of so many useful persons thus long I concluded hee could still and if for the world and the Church sure hee could for my peace and comfort Whilst I concocted these meditations and surveyed the examples recorded in Scripture None sooner came into my thoughts than Moses who by his Country man is truly called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Heathen not at all mistaken when hee said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Philo Judaeus lib. 1. Longinus a man not of the ordinary rank but rarely accomplished of whom God himself gives most full testimony His death in the Wildernss when one would have thought his life might with much confidence have been expected 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diadorus Sic. lib. ult made mee thinke a discourse on it was pertinent to the present occasion and would tend both to awaken some and satisfie all others that were perplexed at the death of our Friend so

When Peter hath the draught of fishes hee cryes out Lord I am a sinful man Luke 5.8 It is excellent when Gods affliction makes us not to forget his goodness and when Gods mercy makes us not to forget our sinfulnes Loss than the least of all Saints is the Motto of the greatest A●●stle I never perceived our good man apt to prefer himself above others hee would heartily bless God for breaking that pride of his spirit which hee would say was too wilful and excessively impetuous before hee had a serious sense of true piety Omni acto triumpho depositus triumphus clarior adeo spreta in tempore gloria interdum redit cumulatior Livi. lib 2. when hee read over to mee as hee did often the history of his life hee was willing to stay there where hee might speak something to shame himself but true beauty will bee seen through such Cypress hee got respect by it Like Fabius in the Historian who got more honour by refusing the triumph than others did by having it Follow thy Saviour O my sould and tread in the foot-steps of all thy friends who are truly humble humility is the souls ornament Quantum bonum est ubi sunt praeparata pectora in quae tuto see otum omne descen●dat quo●um conscien●●am minus quam tuam timea● quorum sermo solitudinem leniat sententia concilium expediat hilaritas tristitiarn dissipet conspectus ipse delectet 〈◊〉 Seneca de tran●quillit cap. 7. the basis of all Religion the vessel of graces the foundation of friendship betwixt God and man the channel of all divine communications the proper imitation of Christ the transcendent excellency of the Gospel the only way to true rest and peace Matth. 11.29 9. The faithfulnesse of his friendship and this whosoever forgets I must not who had happy experience of it how rare a thing is it to finde prepared souls where secret thoughts are safely laid up and a man is more afraid of himself than hee is of him with whom hee doth converse and is more suspicious of self-flattery and falseness to his own interest than he is of either from his friend the present temper of this age makes mee think most men take that advice which if I mistake not the Oratour saith Bias gave it a amare oportet ut aliquando osurus you must love no man otherwise to day than as you may hate him to morrow But Scipie said Vide Ciceronis Laelium never was there a speech more pestileutial to the vitals of this noble thing friendship than this is But the former vertues wee have observed in this good man made him capable of being a faithful sincere friend Aristot in● Ethic. the Philosopher saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a friend is another self and therefore a wicked man can never bee a true friend hee is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not himself but one passion or other is alwaies in rebellion and they make him to have so many interests that hee cannot bee faithful to the dictates of reason which is the foundation of friendship but hee that steadily aims at this one thing which wee call piety and true goodness hee converseth with himself and so may others too and not finde him Proteus like changing shape in every place hee comes to but the humility the strictness and exactness of this holy person made him amiable made him love and bee beloved might I lawfully take the Poets expression of his friend Dimidium anims mea I must then say I am half buried since hee is or hee is but half dead since I am alive my passion speaks as St. Austins did Mirabar caeteros mortales vivere quia ille quem quasi non moriturum dil xeram mortuus erat me magis quia ille alter eram vivere illo mo●tuo mirabar Lib 42. confess cap. 6. when hee had lost his friend Nebridius I wondred any mortal man could live when hee was dead whom I loved as if hee had been immortal but I wondred more how I lived my self when our affection had made us as it were one person With thankfulness to God I this day remember this friends readiness to preach every other Lords day for mee in Cambridge when my own weakness made mee despair of being able to preach constantly and attend my other business Something I have now told you what Mr. Bright was but alas I have but drawn up the flood-gates which I should rather have let down Miserum est fuisse felicem but it is ordinary to see sad persons pleasing themselves with stories of their friends that they have lost and though every word almost is interrupted with a sigh and every sentence hath tears to make it emphatical yet no other discourse delights nor is any thing else grateful but what leads to raise this passion higher so me thinks I could begin again and tell the story of his life larger and when I have finished it wonder how I did to make an end so soon I have said the less because hee charged mee to say but little of him and only referre him to God But this I have said because I desire that the Parish to which hee was related that this City which yet knew not his worth might know whom they have lost and might bee sensible of it It is sad to lose a good Christian but more to lose a good Minister Ad Pammachium It was a notable speech of Metania mentioned by Hierome who when shee saw her Husband dead presently before hee was cold had two children died also shee only said Expeditius sum tibi servitura Domine quiatanto me onere liberasti I hope Lord I shall serve thee better having now nothing to attend but God S●ent immobilis nec gutta fluxit what her relations were I cannot tell but I am sure Ministers should bee helpes in our service of God not hinderances that is it which makes the loss multiply when death summons them out of this world and this is it which is grievous to mee at the present I am afraid you will not serve God so well without him Yet I would not have any who are most sensible of this loss bee discouraged I did not all this while make the wound gape that the patient should faint but that I might make the safer cure Was hee not Gods servant yes that is it which causeth our present sorrow for his absence but is hee the first servant that ever God took away out of the world You have seen in the particulars I mentioned how like hee was to Moses in his life see how like hee was in his death Moses had but begun that blessed work of bringing the people to a quiet injoyment of the promised land and hee dies in the wilderness so this Minister of the Gospel had but begun to sow this seed of life Hee preached not above six or seven Lords daies Hee lay

sick fifteen weeks lived not to see it comming up but a sore feaver arrests him and a pineing ague with other sad distempers cut the thread of life and makes us call for a burying place where wee may bury our dead formerly the delight of our eyes out of our sight let us see whether our sins made not this breach and let us remember to mourn for them Quod gravissimum fecit natura commune fecit ut crudelitatem facti consolaretur aequalitas Seneca consol ad Polyb. Let us sin no more lest a worse thing come lest God send sorer and heavier judgements upon the Parish and City too Yet let Moses his death satisfie you in Mr. Brights let Mr. Brights in your own God hath used to do thus in the world and if the tide stay not for the best Merchant every petty chapman must not chafe because it runs too fast from him If the Sun set to Kings and Princes while they travel it will to beggers God will not comply with all our humours Id Princeps potest quod salva majestate porest nor must his wise understanding submit to our passionate fancies where a Moses is taken away it becomes them from whom hee is taken to bee modest not to murmure against Gods pleasure but to pray hard and use all the means they can to get a Joshua and when they have him to bee thankful I have done only I beseech you that are Parishioners here that you would remember to use all the means you can if it bee possible to get another Bright amongst you Empericks were alwaies confident but there were that heard Paul I know and Jesus I know but who are yee hee said wisely who said th● Cart was empty when the Horses ran so fast get a Minister that will bee faithful to your souls that you are assured aimes at your everlasting wel-fare and when you have him hear divine truth from him with attention practise it with conscience refresh him by the fruits of your piety by the exercise of the power of godliness no comfort to the tender nurse like the thriving of the childe FINIS To the Dear Memory of my Friend Mr. Ed. Bright IF a large heart open and unconfin'd Free as the Air it lately breath'd a minde Worthy of God and brave friends that durst be Good in this age and scorn hypocrisie If to speak so i' th Pulpit that from thence Atheists might learn to think Religion sense The vertuous so inspir'd as still to bee Made more in love with vertue and with Thee Rare Preacher where the times are so perplext To see the Sermon oft confute the Text. If good men's wishes Physick's noble cares If Heav'n importun'd with early pray'rs If flourishing years which now so far had run To bee a just Meridian for their Sun If all these might have kept thee that dark Fate That too soon clos'd thine eyes had then come late Late as the slow-pac'd motion of that year Late to the most long-liv'd that wisht thee here Late as thine own requests that ask'd a truce Not for thy self but for thy Master's use Late as the time when best friend's might desire To see thee full of day's and God expire Thou now had'st liv'd and preach'd and our tears bin Not for the Preacher shed but for our sin Awaken'd at his Sermon 's Then O why So soon should what deserv'd whole ages dye Must great mind's like New Stars but look about Bee wondred at a little and go out Yet we 're secure that their eternal light Removes not from its being but our sight To spend it's glory 's in some better place Where no dark exhalation hides it's face But let 's weep leisurely and think for what Retail our sigh's Item to this and that Vertue a tear deliberately view Him in his Pulpit when quick lightning flew About men's ears and their steel'd souls did melt Within'um or agen as when hee dealt A thunder through the Church all in a fright Thunder would make Caligula look white Or when but tear's distract these objects so As numerous refractions use to do That they dam up themselves and hinder more Being thus at once both their own sea and shore And so 't is fit let trifling subjects throw Our griefs into soft Number 's make them flow Uninterrupted in one even stream A motion as unworthy as the Theam For Thee our sorrows tumult shall confess It is more full and high by seeming less Ascend brave spirit in thy robe of light Thy Flame is more illustrious through this Night Of grief beheld by us who can no more But weep and what thou now enjoy'st adore And for you Sir whose pious labour must Hallow the Urn that receives this dust Whilst his fair Name moves in your paper-bark On flood 's of tears like Noah in his A●k Of 't may wee meet and for that Name so dear Whilst living on it's Ashes drop a tear Will. Croone Fell. of Em. Coll. ELEGIES On the much lamented death of Mr. EDVVARD BRIGHT his sincerely honoured Friend DEar Soul too dear for earth are thy bones lay'd With common dust and numbred with the dead Thou dead who hast so often with thy breath Blasted life's fatal Foes Sin Hell and Death Thou who didst erst mens hearts with flagrant words As lightnings through the scabbards melts the swords And by thy skill in Chymistry Divine Turnd'st courser mettals into current coin For Heavens Kingdome such as neither rust Nor earth corrupts What! Art thou turn'd to dust Is the salt melted and the moysture dry'd The Conqueror vanquish't and the Chymist try'd In his own furnace and to ashes turn'd Hath Divine heat the Microcosme burn'd Yet thus wee see sharp swords soon cut the sheath The purest flame aspires and vanisheth The finest China mettal's broken soon The Nightingal's sweet pipe 's soon out of tune Houses of best prepar'd and purest clay Oft totter fall and moulder in a day Nor may wee wonder when let loose to fight The Elements begun to try their right And for dominion strove the little world Being with wars into confusion hurl'd That then thy peaceful soul stirr'd up its might To quit the Kingdome which disclaim'd her right And just incensed rage awak'd thy minde To make a way out where it could not finde As a bold Lion when hee meets his foes Lashes his sides and roars then stoutly goes Through hot'st encounters streight unto his den That there hee may repose in peace agen So like Petars thy soul made gates to flye That op't the passage to felicity And at such gates who would not venture in When though hee lose his life hee 's sure to win But you Physitians who are wont to boast Y' are Natures helps why quel'd you not the host Of Rebels here and caus'd the civil war Of inmate enemies to cease what are Your Potions Clysters and your letting blood Only to save the bad and kill the good Or to the grave

wee 'l say Thou rann'st the faster to have wonne so soon Thou wroughtst the harder to have done by noon Such Lamps as are not niggards of their light Soon spend their Oyle and bid the world good night Wee 'l not compute thy time by daies and years But by thy labours then thine age appears Double let actions bee the Sands that run And then thy glass runs long when much is done But fate what makes thee hard to us alas Thou needs not shake or break the Pulpit Glasse Is this thy cunning there to send the stone Where it may hit a multitude in one Are Pulpits Butts because they stand so high Preachers the marks at which thou lettest flye And is the Lawrel that was counted free Now sooner struck than any other tree Wee see when sentence is pronounc'd by fate Then Beneficium Cleri's out of date On the Death of his very dear Friend Mr. Edward Bright Fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge O Death I cannot skill thy arts How thou could'st by thy power win And by thy Method kill that man That 's dead unto the world and sin It seems it is not hard to put to flight That soul that 's fledg'd for it's eternal light Sure wee are mistaken hee but sleeps Or if you rather call him dead I 'me sure you mean no more but this That hee 's unto his kindred fled Then let us dress ourselves against hee come Who shall bee sent to call us also home So may wee meet and joyn in one Wreath'd in an everlasting love Breathing our joyful praise to him Who only wrought us this remove For so wee see rejoycings in a Quire Redoubled where all meet and all conspire This may suffice then here lies one Whose life was upright and whose end Was like his life But yet wee weep Because bereav'd of such a friend That man whose life was just example rare Shall never need a verse nor want a tear Rich. Kidder A. M. Fel. of Emmanuel Coll. Upon the frequent Death of Ministers divers young of Mr. Brights in particular and the manner of it HOw is' t the span of life so little showes Sith th' hand that measures it no shorter grows The grants of life in Character are writ Death findes some fault with Time and now thinks fit To date its strokes after the modern stile Anticipating Natures debt a while All Times proportions wee by sem briefs rate Into th' imperfect mood are shrunk of late The vital shadow doth too nimbly haste And th' famous Temple-clocks go much too fast Sure God's incenst wee treat with such delay Hee takes Ambassadours so soon away Or his revenewes don't to th' summe amount Hee calls so many Stewards to account Or 't is to screen his Seens eyes from fire By Deaths thick shade hee 's kindling in his ire Th' Promethean Games more sacred now revive Where Lights run races and so ardent strive Which shall bee first kist out by that pure Sun To whom their divine flames as tribute run ' Mongst which our Brights extinct the reason why My thoughts are tinctur'd with this mourning dye And put on black teaching my hand to wear This Elegie griefs Phylactery here All lives are lines drawn to the point of Death Of which some upward tend some end beneath Some long some short some crooked some more straight This centred line was shorter cause 't was right A line made up of points emphatick light A sprightly ray reflected out of sight But in some deeper waters broken first Or through a duskie cloud Meanders ●h●●st A silver thread u●t wined at the end Coin of diviue impresse but with a bend A Theam which reconciles integrity With a dis-jointed judgement where wee see In lifes last page Reasons errata cast A Chaos to another world prefac't A twist of night and day a polar guide Or fiery Pillar but with a dark side A living Sermon but of one use lame Gods Image seen inverst a vigrous flame Panting with often assaies to assoil It self with dimness charg'd by grosser oile Deaths penumbra his setting Sun 'ore cast While vapours rais'd did reasons twilight haste His tongue then rang his senses funeral Which was the Curfeu that to rest did call Those jarring sounds so harsh to tender ears Were but while hee was tuning for the sphears His souls Reveile struck at the dawn of glee The Prolegom'na of eternity Whose speech sometimes yet flow'd in nobler sort Like spirits rectifi'd in a retort His heavenly Master laid his hand on 's head And turn'd him round to manumit him dead A sacrifice to God his body meant Hee to consume a fire a feaver sent Hee was an interlined Text whereon Heavens bestow'd a gloss the world needs none Hee was not so obscure to hint his fame Whom to commend's to comment on a name With Glow-worms that is writ with beams or teach B' our breath a Star to shine or light to bleach This pen shall only be the Tube to set His lustre this short draught on Paper set Zeal gave his words their accent piety Figur'd his life grace 't with simplicity Whom faithfulness advance't to richer case Being call'd from Christ-Church to a better place Which countermands our tears bids joyful bee Hee 's gone from Christ Church but to Trinity John Reyner M. A. Em. Col. In Obitum Edvardi Bright Col. Eman● Socii NIl opus esse Deo quis uti saepius ipse Dignatur studios hominum nil arte manuque Auxiliatrici quicquid discernit agendum Nos tua sed quantum deflenda Vir optime fata Immatura docent quo non iustructior alter Extitit interpres divina mentis alma Pandere summa pot is mysteria religionis Qui tam flexanimi Suadâ nervoque potentis Eloquii traheres mortalia pectora sacra Leg is in obsequium rigidas impellere mentes Doctus artifici dextra formare sequaces Nempe hoc illud erat captiva scientia rebus Caeter a divinis aderat rati●que modestè Ancillabatur fidei prudentia zelo Temperieni dabat coelesti plenus amore Humanas miserente vices tibi Spiritus intus Ardebat flammis non luce carentibus instar Lampadis heu nimium radiis lumine donec Impertis alios oleum vitale liquescit Haec quoties animum subeunt geminata recursat Maestitia veluti lani● praesente cadaver Caede recente madens ebullit sanguine vulnus Triste recrudescit dolet immedicable vulnus Nos imprudentes numeris qui stringere paucis Quaerimus luctus pedibus metirier arct is Immensos remurque animos eludere tandem Carmine posse brevi tanti moment a doloris T. L. In Exequiis Edoardi Bright nuper Collegii Emmanuelis Socii QUis dabit ut liquidas oculi vertantur in und as Et fluat in madidis lachryma multa genis Sic tua perpetu● deflerem funera rivo Non requies flendi non modus ullus erit Sed mens obstupuit nimio