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love_n	affection_n	friend_n	love_v	2,693	5	6.0383	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79887	An antidote against immoderate mourning for the dead. Being a funeral sermon preached at the burial of Mr. Thomas Bewley junior, December 17th. 1658. By Sa. Clarke, pastor in Bennet Fink, London.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1660 (1660)	Wing C4501; Thomason E1015_5; ESTC R208174	34,512	62

worldly sorrow causeth sicknesse and death 2 Cor. 7. 10. and to the opening of the mouths of the wicked who scorn them and Religion for it saying These are your Professours that make Idols of their children and friends and mourn for the losse of them as if they had lost their God They are like Rachel that wept and lamented for her children and would not be comforted because they were not Such forget the exhortation which speaks to them as unto children My son despise not thou the chastening of the Lord nor faint when then art rebuked of him Heb. 12. 5. Prov. 3. 11. Indeed we are sometimes in danger of setting light by Gods corrections saying with those sturdy persons It is my burthen and I must bear it Jerem. 10. 19. But more frequently we are impatient either outwardly fretting at the rod like those plunging horses which will not indure their Rider or inwardly repining like those horses which digest their choler by biting their bridles And if we neither despise nor impatiently murmur against the dispensation of God yet our weaknesse is such that we are ready to take the affliction too much to heart so that our spirits droop and faint and this is so much the worse because it 's commonly accompanied with a wilful indisposition which will not suffer us to entertain such things whereby we might be truly comforted and the hearts of such many times like Nabals die within them that they are not capable of counsel so that all consolatory exhortations are to them like water spilt upon the ground whereas we should take our correction and humble our selves under the smart of it but withall we should look to Christ and beg of him that he would not suffer our Faith Hope and Meeknesse of mind to be overturned Again consider that it 's not love to them when we are perswaded that they are with the Lord which makes us excessively grieve when they are taken from us It is indeed self-self-love and carnal affection Our Lord Christ told his Disciples If ye loved me you would be glad because I go to the Father And what measure then do we offer to God herein We can many times send our children far from us where it may be we shall never see them again if we are but well perswaded that it will be for their good and preferment and yet we cannot indure to have them taken out of our sight by the Lord though we are perswaded that their souls are with him in the highest glory We ought to labour for such tractable and obedient hearts as may not be content perforce to let him take them but may willingly resign even our children if it were by sacrificing them with our own hands as Abraham to him who hath not thought his onely begotten Son too dear for us but hath delivered Him to death for our sakes Once more remember that it 's a sign that we felt not Gods love in them nor received them at his hand as we ought to have done if we do not thankfully give them back to him when he calls for them Hannah having received Samuel as a gift gotten by prayer from God did readily part with him to God again and she lost nothing by that loan which she so cheerfully lent to the Lord as you may see 1 Sam. 2. 20 21. and so dealt Abraham with his onely Sonne Isaac whom by faith in the promise he had obtained of the Lord Hebr. 11. 17. This is true indeed but yet Parent-like affections cannot easily part with and yield up children so dearly beloved But take heed lest whilst you plead love to your children or friends you do not bewray and discover unkindnesse unto God Dare any of you say Lord if I did not so love them I could be content to give them to thee Surely if with a calm spirit you think of this you would blush for shame that your heart should be so cold towards God as not to be willing to part with any thing you love when he calls for it To part with that which you much care not for is not at all thanks-worthy It 's said of Abraham that when God commanded him to sacrifice his own and only son that he arose early in the morning Gen. 22. 3. to do it he consulted not with flesh and blood nor with carnal reason nor with fond affections but as David said He made hast and delayed not to keep Gods commandments How should this shame our backwardnesse and our many reluctancies against the will of God when he hath declared it in taking away a dear child or relation from us How much better were it for us to do as David did that man after Gods own heart who when he heard that his child was dead arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his apparel and went into the house of the Lord and worshipped and then came into his own house and called for bread and did eat 2 Sam. 12. 20. Again the consideration hereof may minister singular consolation First To every godly person when he lies upon his sick bed and sees death approaching and his friends standing about his bed weeping and wringing their hands and that upon a twofold ground First Because himself hath hope in his death Prov. 14. 32. Death is to him as the valley of Achor It 's a door of hope to give entrance into Paradise and to translate him into a state of blessednesse whereas to the wicked it 's a trap-door through which they fall into hell It 's an excellent saying Improbi dum spirant sperant Justus etiam cum expirat sperat wicked men hope whilst they live but a godly man when he breaths forth his last hath hope He is like unto that dying Swan of which Aelian tells us that sang most sweetly and melodiously at her death though in her life-time she had no such pleasant note There is some truth in that saying of the Heathen Optimum est non nasci proximum quam celerrime mori For wicked men it had been best for them never to have been born or being born to die quickly seeing that by living long they heap up sin and thereby treasure up wrath against the day of wrath but as for good men the day of death is best to them because here to live is but to lie a dying and eternal life which they are now taking possession of is the onely true life as saith Saint Austine Secondly because as they have hope themselves in their death so they leave a good hope to their friends to quiet their hearts in their losse Oh what a cutting grief is it to a godly heart to see a child or kinsman or other dear relation taken away and cut off in the midst of his sins so that he can have no hope of his blessed estate in another life But on the contrary if self-love be not too prevalent with us we cannot

and affable nature and loving and courteous disposition Of his indefatigable diligence in his imployments and shunning yea hating of idlenesse I shall only adde one word more of his ingeniousnesse in and the usefulnesse of his recreations which were divers one while he exercised himself in the Art of Dialling another while he applied himself to Musick But I shall say no more of these because he attained not to any perfection in them that which he followed with most diligence and delight was the Art of Drawing Painting and Limning whereof he hath left many very good Pieces for so young a Practitioner and had he lived longer probably he would have attained to a great perfection therein He had also a Poëtical Vein whereof I shall give you a taste by and by His meditation upon the History of Christs Transfiguration Matth. 17. 1 c. Jesus Christ is so willing that we should have communion with him in this life that he takes us up into his most secret retirements Prayer is a divine ascention and whosoever would pray spiritually must have an holy elevation of spirit to meet God in that duty High Turrets of faith and mountains of graces are the real helps in prayer In prayer we are sure to enjoy Gods presence It 's a sure way to see God face to face and if I may so say in his natural complexion we may meet with God as Moses did in the Mount Sinai of Prayer It was in the Mount praying when the fashion of Christs countenance was altered It is in the mountain of prayer that Christs purity appeareth more and more to a believer Never more whitenesse do believers see in Christ then in their prayers to him In this life the Saints have a taste of the glistering and whitenesse of his out-side But in the life to come it is that they have immediate fruition of himself In this life we only see a sudden transfiguration to stay our stomacks as I may say till hereafter at what time we shall see him as he is and if this transfiguration appears white He began to write a Book in Verse which he calls Spuma Musarum which he purposed to dedicate to his Father and Mother I shall only give you an account of the first Verses in it that by them you may judge of the rest Rete venatur ventos To hunt the winds with a net Thou that do'st strive the windes with net to catch Unfruitful labours to thy self do'st hatch What! catch the wind If caught thou 'lt not enjoy Thy dear times worth to purchase such a toy And when y' have done look in your net you 'l find All that remains is folly yea and wind Many littles make a mickle 'T is Unity brings strength if then you 'ld have Strong Noble Vertues Vices to outbrave Unite your weak-limb'd forces and you 'l see Many a little will a mickle be T. B. FINIS Upon the death of that pious young Gentleman Mr. Thomas Bewlije Thomas Beulije Anagram O beati humiles If either Fate or Fortune had Made such a breach among us I should have call'd them blind or mad Or envious thus to wrong us I should have in my showers of tears exprest A weeping eye with furious anger drest That when in all the garden did But one choice flower appear It should be thus nipt in the bud Who can with patience bear But most in that in this one flower alone The sole hope of the Root is overthrown But stay it was a better hand More sacred and more wise Then Fate or Fortune can command Those Heathen-Deities The root 's not dead the flower is but transplanted With added beauty which before it wanted And happy they who humbly can submit To Him whose Wisdom hath transplanted it Thomas Beulye Anagram Thy Love-beams THY LOVE-BEAMS Lord so strongly shone on me That I impatient was of more delayes But needs must leave the Earth to go and see The sacred Fountain of those glorious rayes Thomas Beulie Anagram The Smile above * * The posie of the Ring given at the Funeral Set your affections on things above Not things of sence It was THE SMILE ABOVE loadstone of love That drew me hence Ad Parentes Thomas Beaulie Anagram Leave me as I both LEAVE ME AS I BOTH you 't is for our gain When you know how I do you 'l not complain Thomas Bewlie Anagram I 'me well as both I 'ME WEL AS BOTH you can be nay I am Better because triumphing with the Lamb Yet I 'me not gone for ever our parting is Till Death unlock for you this door of bliss J. C. A. M. On the Death of that Ingenious industrious and pious young Gentleman Mr. Thomas Bewlie Junior OH death of terrors King could nothing move Thee to suspend this stroak no not the love Nor cries of Parents Tutor Friends and all That knew his worth and now bemoan his fall Nor 's age but eighteen years nor that estate To which this onely Sonne was destinate Not's active soul and hand nor 's nimble head Nor 's skill in Common-Law could thee out-plead Nor 's tongues nor 's Logick nor 's Philosophy Nor 's drawing Limning nor his Poetry Not disposition sweet nor 's gracious heart Not's love to God! nor that he did impart To Saints not's pity great to poor and such As age and chance with want afflicted much No! Servant like thou but to passe didst bring The Counsel wise of God his Soveraign King Who at this time and thus hath cropt this Rose With 's hand of love and giv'n't a safe repose In heaven above where he doth clearly see What in his Mountain thoughts he spied to be Then cease you Parents Tutor Friends to waile He is with God your grief cannot avail Another VIew underneath this stone a fancy choice Invention good a Sed'lous hand to poise The greatest things a mind made wise by grace And Tongues with Arts not Scantlingly t' embrace His Parents joy now grief his kindreds losse O' th' Bewlies Phoenix here remains the drosse On the Death of his dear Friend and cousen Mr. Thomas Bewley Junior Gent. ARt fled dear Soul and is thy purer breath Become a Victime ah too rich for death Could not the Riv'lets from thy Parents eyes Prevail for once to drown the destinies Or 's death so envious that th' art onely shown Cropt like a bud before thou wer 't well blown Envious indeed in that he doth deny Us the enjoyment of thy company Which joyn'd with goodnesse and a candid mind Must few Aequators no Ascendent find But here methinks injustice taints my will In that while worth'less I would take my fill In Traffique sure Divine of which each part Throughout thy Soul might make a sev'ral Mart. I envy thee that perfect happy shore To which on earth 't was thy desire to soaere Injust perhaps it seems yet let me say That though I could have wish'd a longer stay So great 's thy gain in thy friends greatest losse That wee 'l conjoyn the harp unto the crosse To thee thy parents greatest love did run A fit Meridian for affections Sun And nature will have vent perhaps immerse Their eyes in tears attending on thy Herse Yet should but an Impartial Judge stand by He 'd think your tears from passions contrary Proceeded that that seeming dismal sound Did not through sorrow but through joy abound That 's love indeed if Parents don't complain At their own losse if 't be their childrens gain 'Twixt Joy and Sorrow T. E. Doct. Doct. Doct. Doct. Doct. Dr Tuck Doct. Doct. Doct. Doct. Doct. Doct. Doct. Quest Answ Object Ans. Quest Answ Quest Answ Dr. S●ought Dr. Tuckney Rev. 21. 2● Rev. 22. 20. Dr. Hall Dr. Reynold Mr. Trapp Quest Answ Object Answ Gen. 37. 35. Object Answ Vse 1 Pet. ● 7. Vse Joh 14. 28. Mr. Baines Object Answ Psa. 119. 60. Vse Gen. 31. 53. Mr. Pat. Drummond