iz 4 edture's Goodnight. . ..Fria t. Tamar. 10.1: a e.31. Et átlehunt yu,fifiti,e sire. awn. Hieion, in Koh. c. i. Tom. S. p33í. Ovid. Epif,y. Hie (fetus non hater pietatem. Heron. ad Ty- tat, Tmprotiusnihil his lictihw rife poteft. M,.1. to. Ep. 71. Luk. 9. ,,. Po:pert. t. r. ; deg. I. Job. 7, 14.. Death, Mary, nay the whole world (which fay the Fathers was reprefentarive in her) had caufe enough to weep. But nowChri(l the dead was rifen,and had made way for all his Members to follow ; now Jefus had beaten Death at his own wea- pon, and kill'd it by dying, fnce hehath changed the Grave into a Bed, Death into Sleep, and made the Land of Darknefs the ready way to the place where Light dwellcth. Tears ate both unreafonableand unfeafonable, Why weepefl thou t is as much as Weep not. Sy- Confiderable are the Siren and she Swan, whofe different fare is thus: the ren fings away her life in wanton ayres, and charms of lull, the treacherous in- ttcements to def+rudion, but when fhe dies, fhe breaths out her foul in how- frogs, fighs and fobs, in pangs and horror. TheSwan who (pends her days in innocence as white as herlivery, in penfive notes of fadnefs, mournful and black as her feet, when fhe dyes the expires in joyful Anthems , the voice of joy and gladnefs, Sic ubi fats voeant, udis abjeflue in herbu, Ad vada Meandri, cencinit altos Olor. So when Death calls theaged Swanfrom firearm ; She dying, lingo her own glad Requiems. A wanton life u(hers in a wailful death, but an innocent life ends in a joÿful death ; they who laugh all their life, may weep attheir death, but who weep in their Lives, at their Deaths weep not. Good people, had you the Reverfion of a rich living, or Office, would you weep becaufe it isfain into your poffe(fion ? Invidi non amantes, 'ewere more of Envy then Love to bewail an earthly happinefs. I dote, as Jefus to the Daughters of 3erufalem, Weep nor fer me, but weep for your felver, not for me that am d in g+ bit for your felves that ate livin g i for your !elves that have tefufed my Doelrine, defpifed your Saviour, condemned sour innocent and righteous Prince; for your (elves over whole heads a cloud is teeming with the heavicfl wrath tisiat ever fell upon a Nation; for your (elves who will not own your God on earth,and therefore thorny not to be own'd by your God in Hea- ven ; and he that would now have bought you with his blood, will fhortly fell y.3u to an utter and irreverfible defolation. For the fins and fuffcrings of the wing, I confers, there is weeping work enough for him who hath 3eremies with, His head a fountain of tears toweepday and night : But for the dead that dyein the Lord weep not. Weep not, the is not deadbat fleepeth. The Application. . Being already partly difchargedin parcels, the remaining fum which we wi.l put to u(e, that you may havelnrerefl in ir, and profit by ir, is only this humble advice which I have borrowed from Plato. Sic ad fomnum proficiféi corporibus affeilis ut nihil fit. quad animo perturbationcm afferat ; Since the fate of Ref+ in the (late of Separation, and happinefs, at meeting again of Soul and Body, de- pends upon the holinefs at parting: let us becompofed in both, that neither the diforder of the Body, nor multitude of bufinefs, either ill done, or undone, may .4í(hurb the quiet of the Soul, and give her occafion to fay to the Body, as the difcontenredLover to his affe&ed : Inme noffraVenus noller exercet amoral ; Thou fearchefl me with Dreams, and terrifrefi me with Villain., ,Job 7.14. For the memory of every unrepented fin (though the body fleep in the Grave) lodges the Soul in a bed of fcorpions, which fling her with plagues as snceffanr, as inviable, and as infuffeiable.as either. To procure reff, the Phyfitian may apply Mandragora and Opium, may ad- minifler a cup of (lumber to flupifie his Patient, but the Divine mull give more alive and (Erring potions. Therefore, Firfl
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