492 Tempus putatlonls, &c. afterthem, we perfume the room. Indeed if our bodies (w hich like garmentswe cafl' offat our death) were never to be worn again, we need little carew here theywere thrown, orwhat became of them ; but feeingthey muffferveMI again, theirfa/him being only altered, it is fit we carefully lay them up in deaths Gfardrope thesgrave: though a manafter he have loft the jewel,doth Icfs let by the casket, yet he+who loves much,and highly efteemed i hly ofthe foul ofhis friend,as olexanderdidof Hemer,cannot but make fome reckoningofthe Desk or Cabinet in which it always lay ; we have a care ofplacing the pieture of our friend,andlhould wenot much more ofbeftow- ing his body ? If burial were nothingtothe dead, God would never have threatned let' 12.19. Coniah that he thould have the burialof an Afi ; nor the Pfalmiff fo quavered upon, Pfal.79, e.a. this doleful note, dederuntcadäverfervorum martini call volucribus, O gad the frea- then are come into thine inheritance, thyholy Temptehavethey defiled, and madeJe- trufalem anheap ofHones, the deadbodies of thyfervantshave theygiven to thefowlsof Heaven. But thoufha/t be buried in agóod old age. ! Proco iusobfervethitine/`Yliriam,e faron,and p arL`lofes,that as they exceededone the other inholinefs, foindaycs; for Aaron outlived Miriam, and Mofes,aaron; long life is a crown, when it isfound inthe ways of rtghteottfnefs, cum fenelfute bona: and albeit it is almoft the burthenof every mans long, that age is a burthen, and a perpetual difeafe, or rather a continual tras ofdifeafes, and a feyuenreni maladies ; 1 yet noneforought I fee goethabout to lay down this burthen, or tobe cured ofthis difcafe ; even they who molt eloquently declaim upon the vanity, and exclaim a-, gainftthe miferies ofthis life; andwills a thoufand timesthat they were dead, would be loath to be taken at their word. rteis in Greek fignificth pramittm a reward, as fenetfum old age, and doubtlefs old age in general is fo to be accounted ; for it is reckoned among the bleffings which God beftowed upon Yob, Ifaac, David; and I Jebotdst, who are all laid to havediedin agood oldage, or fullofdayes, riches andho- nour. Forhovefoever toTome men in fome cafe, contraction of their dayes bath proved an advantage, by 'abridging their prefent, and preventing their future for- j rows ; as itwas to good King jofah, whowas timely taken away, that be might not 1 v°¡id, io vat, fee th'e evil which after his dèath fell upon his people, and to Saint Ai'jl'in, who died ! Exod.ao.tz ! immediatly before Hippowas taken. Yet lengtho£dayes ordinarily is a blefling, and ; rial. S 3 3' ' promifed to filch as obey their Parents; honour thy father andthymother, that thy The blood- dazesmay+belong: as on the contrary, fhortningthe dayesoflife is threatned by the thidly and de. 2 cntfut man Pf Imift as a curie to the bloodthirflyand deceitful man; and E/i took it for fuch, Than ors bye wben Samuel fromGod toldhim,therefbouldnot be an oldman in hisfamily. How- oat half his foever if oldage benot perpetually and (imply a bleffing in it felf,yet as it is here qua -. dayes. lified with bona, Iam hareitis. The Almond. tree isbeautiful ofit fclf, how much t mo, z. 31. tusare when it is hung withjewelsandpreciousHones, as Xerxes his Platinas was, and' crowned with health, riches, honour, and the comfort ofa good confcience. Thefe make old age fuch a burthen, as bladders are to him that fwimmeth which bearhim{ up; or feathers to a bird, which though they have fome weight, yet by them fhe' railed her fell up and and flyeth. By this time you cxpe&,l know,theapplicationofithis Scripture,butitismade al-1 ready,not in word,but in deed; not by me,but by him whole empty Casketwe be. hold with tear's ; yet rejociving that Cod path taken out the jewels to adorn his' Spoufethe triumphant Church its Heaven. He is alreadygone infoul tohis (webers, and is now going in bodyto them to beburied in their Sepulchre,his body andfoul are 'how diflrìsi1ed, and we forhis diflratlion ; his foul is gone, and our hearts are gone. I ever heldfighs the heft figrres, and tears the fluenteFH rhetoric¢ in a Funeral fpecch ; if I had better known thishonourablePcrfonage,I couldhave fpokenmore in his praife, yet no more than the City and Countrey will prove to be true, by the mils of him. Defderantur reliqua. diet°. epitaph Pa uli. f ntimut quid habuemut, P°flquam habe. re cleavimu+. es; Satz. PO
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