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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56656	Divine arithmetick, or, The right art of numbring our dayes being a sermon preached June 17, 1659, at the funerals of Mr. Samuel Jacomb, B.D., minister of the Gospel at S. Mary Woolnoth in Lumbardstreet, London, and lately fellow of Queens Colledge in Cambridge / by Simon Patrick ...	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1659 (1659)	Wing P792; ESTC R11929	59,678	90

whether any such sence of the truth remain upon them that you will try how you like them upon second thoughts And I pray our good God that whosoever of you taketh a review of these things may learn so much of this Divine Art as to take an account of the dayes he hath passed to keep a fair account of the rest of his life and to give up his accounts with joy at the day of our Lord. I use this boldness and freedom of speech to you because you have been used unto it by my dear friend and because I think thereby I shall best serve both the truth and you Let me be so importunate therefore with you as to conjure you by all the names of love and dearness by all that is pretious and valuable to you by the remembrance of our Lord by the remembrance of all the servants of the Lord that have laboured among you by the love you bear to your own souls and as you desire after heaven that you wil consider seriously how pretious a thing a day is and that you will not spend it all in the business of this world much less in sports and recreations but let God have a considerable portion of it Some of the Heathens have carefully prohibited the wastefull mispense of mens hours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. L. 2. Var. hist cap. 5. and therefore I may well be suffered if I be urgent with you to redeem them It is a notable Testimony that Aelian gives of the Lacedaemonians that they were hugely parsimon ous and even covetous of their time spending it all about necessary things and suffering no Citizen either to be idle or to play In so much that when it was told that some used to walk in the afternoons for their recreation the Ephori forbade it as savouring of pleasure and would have them to recreate their bodies by some manly exercises which had some profit in them and would breed them to be servicable to the Common good How much will they shame us in the day of judgement when it shall appear that all this thriftiness of theirs was not so much for their souls as for the profit of their City and we would not use half so much care for immortal beings and the securing of a better Countrey which is an heavenly Ib. cap. 28. Themistocles seeing two Cocks fight when he was going to a battle pointed his Souldiers to them and said Do you see yonder Combatants how valiantly they deal their blows and yet they fight not for their Countrey nor for their Gods nor for the honour of their Ancestors no nor for glory nor liberty nor children but meerly to overcome and crow over the vanquished What courage then my brave Countreymen should this put into your hearts on whose resolution all these depend and by whose valour they subsist The same I say to you Do you see how sparing and saving of their time the Old Lacedaemonians were And yet it was not for the worshipping of their Gods nor for the attending to their souls V. Wheatly of redemption of time c. but meerly that they might be hardy Souldiers and might overcome all their enemies How good Husbands then ought we all to be how valiantly should we resist all Theeves and Robbers that would steal away our time from us when it is for God for heaven for the safety of our souls yea and for our happiness peace and quiet in this world also If this discourse may any thing quicken you let not me be forgot in those good hours that you spend with God and I shall not forget to pray for you that he would provide a Pastor for you after his own heart that will feed you with knowledge and understanding and guide you in the good old paths that lead to everlasting life Your Servant in the Lord Jesus Simon Patrick June 28. 1659. Divine Arithmetick OR The Right Art of numbring our DAYES PSALM 90.12 So teach us to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts unto Wisom IF I were come hither to vent my own passions they would have been better pleased in the choice of some other Text then this that I have read unto you When I first heard of the departure of mine and your dear friend those words of David did strike my mind and me thought did very well fit my mouth with the alteration of a name only I am distressed for thee my Brother Jacomb 2 Sam. 1.26 very pleasant hast thou been to me thy love to me was wonderfull passing the love of Women Upon this Text it is possible that affection would have taught me eloquence Grief it self it would have been pleased that I should have related his pleasantness Sorrow would have been contented that I should have remembred the joyes of his-society for they would have been huge gainers by it in the conclusion when the heat and ardency of the affection would have but ended in greater drops of tears for the loss of such a friend Oh how willingly could I fill your ears with such pathetick groans as those of David saying O my Friend my Friend would God I had died for thee my friend my friend And then I imagine that I should hear the reboation of an universal groan from all your hearts more sad then his dolefull knell I imagine that at least you would say in your thoughts as the Disciples did when they saw our Saviour weep Behold how he loved him It were easie with a very little art to make this place a Bochim a place of weepers so that it should be said by those that see you as they said at good Jacob's Funeral This is a grievous mourning to this people But then my beloved when the flood was a little faln and the tempest blown over when reason and religion had leave to return and take their places you and I would begin to ask our selves What have we done what a folly is it to suffer such a deluge that should drown the thoughts of God what forgetfulness to let grief stifle the motions of our soul to him that ought to have the precedence of all our other relations then should we begin again to lament our too forward lamentations then should we call for a new tide to wash away the former mud Yea and the soul of our pious Brother if it could be sensible of what we say and do here would be much grieved too that he should leave such an unworthy friend behind him to discourse at his Funeral as knew not how to prefer Gods honour before all the respect that is owing unto him I will remember therefore that it was his desire and ought to be mine also that I should serve the good of your souls and accordingly I shall speak as much as I can for God before I speak any thing of him And what I say of him I shall endeavour likewise may reflect honour and glory upon God and

many showrs Let me a little quicken you by this Story Zeno Cittiaeus consulted with the Oracle how he might live well and he received this Answer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If he was of the same colour with the dead This he interpreted to mean that he should get and read all the ancient Books that he could hear of and then steep and die his mind in their sacred notions My Brethren what St. Paul said of Epimenides his sentence Tit. 1.13 that I may say of this This testimony is true Look as like to the dead in the Lord as ever you can and labour to turn your souls into their shape Not as though there were not living examples and teachers which you are to mind thanks be to God there are a great number here before you but I would wish you not to forget men when they are dead and gone For you cannot tell how soon you must live according to the manner of the dead and not of the living The world may prove so bad that if you will be of their colour you may be all but only white Let me beseech you therefore to remember his Doctrine and his manner of life too to tread in his steps and be followers of him as he was of Christ And though I have already made your patience sweat yet let me exercise it a little longer and borrow so much time of you as but to remind you of a few things I would have you imitate 1. Remember how great a reverence he did bear to the Name of God You should not hear him speak ofit I think without alteration of his countenance and the manner of his pronunciation Learn from him not to take it up on every trifling occasion and when you have any discourse of him let your mind be serious and lay aside laughter and jesting with whatsoever at another time may be lawfull but not grave enough to keep company with God 2. Remember how serious he was in Prayer and addresses unto God His soul seemed to be gathered into it self and then gathered up to God And I believe you can remember that his expressions were such that all might joyne with him and that he was not acted by any private but a publick and divine spirit 3. How he taught you to observe the Lords day Not long ago he entred with me into a discourse of that thing and I perceived by it he had earnestly desired of you in some Sermons to spend that time more religiously in recounting the mercies of God in telling to your Children and Servants the great things that the Lord hath done since the beginning of the world that they may be had in everlasting remembrance But especially in magnifying the goodness and wisdome of God in the glorious work of Redemption by Christ Jesus 4. Remember his Charity to the Poor to which he excited you not only in publick but in private and if you could have seen it by his example also From some of you sure it was that he obtained yearly a good summe for poor Scholars in the University not being content with doing good himself unless you did reap some fruit too Do not forget I say this Charity now that he is gone but let it be still as a living water though it doth not run through the same hands Fifthly Get a faithfull Friend if you can for a Friend was a thing that he much loved and valued as the rarest Jewel in the world next to Piety without which no man can be our true Friend A true Friend will tell you of your faults he will advise you of your concernments he will be to you as the Wife in your Bosome He may indeed sometimes be more deare then the nearest relation which we have and there is a Friend that sticketh closer then a Brother or whatsoever name of love there is in the world And therefore it is observable that in the 13. Deut. 6. he is put in the last place as the chiefest of all relations If thy Brother or thy Son or thy Daughter or the Wife of thy bosome or thy Friend which is as thy own soul entice thee secretly saying c. It is very clear that Moses rises up by steps from the lowest to the highest from a Brother of the same venter to a Child and then to a Wife and at last to a Friend as the highest of all And it is likewise clear that a Man and Wife are but one flesh but a Man and his Friend are one soul and therefore unless they be friends as well as Man and Wife there is a greater love then theirs but when both these conspire together the relation of a friend and of Consorts too then it is the highest of all love and the Image of the love that is between Christ and his Church Friendship is such a sacred thing that though we are sometimes mistaken in our choice yet it is not fit to snap the bones asunder but gently to dissolve them that there may be some love afterward Amicitiam etiam subdolam non lacerabo sed dissuam De vita propria So Cardan professeth that he would never rend and tear a false friendship in pieces but would fairely unloose it and pick the threds by which they were sown together I have said more of this then of the rest because it is so rare and we are most apt to talk of the thing we love To conclude this my address to you Let me prevaile with you to remember but this in Generall how he commended Religion to you both in his words and in his practise as the life of the soul as the soul of friendship as the best friend of men and the best natured thing and fullest of humanity in the world It did not appear in him with its face all clouded with looks sable and sad with eyes heavy or distorted but he represented it as the very joy of ones heart the marrow of our bones and that which gives health to all our flesh Methinkes it should make you all in love with Religion when you remember how chearfull how pleasant and I had almost said how sportfull a thing it seemed When we have once attained to the true gust and rellish of it a man that shall perswade us to forsake it shall be like to him that is in love with his own Dreams would perswade us into the Paradise of fools And if at any time you be sad O wha● sweet things are those tears how full of joy are those sorrows they are but like a Cypress cast over a beautifull face or at the worst but like the clouds which cover the face of the Sun for a while that it may be more acceptable when it shines and beside they water the Earth with their showres which make it flourish and spring the better But there are some other here present who will expect a few words from me and therefore I must pass these things over without any further enlargements Thirdly To you then who were his Auditors and Friends let me say that I hope you have learned by his instruction to chuse another Guide if you want one in your own Parishes and that you cannot honour his acquaintance more then by a devout and strict life and walking orderly and peaceably according to the Gospell I am sure he loved his Friends with an ardent love and he was as void of complement as he was of gall And therefore love his memory and labour to do that which you think would have pleased him best if he had still lived And what is that as St. John saith concerning his Children so would he have said of his Friends I have no greater joy then to hear that you walk in the truth 3. Epist v. 4. and therefore he saith v. 11. Beloved follow not that which is evill but that which is good He that doth good is of God but he that doth evill hath not seen God Fourthly To his Relations I need only say that I need say nothing For should I say remember him alas he was so dear that they cannot forget him Shall I say be of good comfort their piety is so great that it will let them want no Cordials Shall I bid them prepare them selves against all other changes that is counsell common to us all And therefore I will not address my speech unto them not knowing how to Administer any ●ounsell where there are so many Physicians Fifthly But lastly to my self what shall I say 〈◊〉 If he that hath lost a friend● half dead and like a worme cut in two 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orat. 20. as Na●ianzen speaks then it is a wonder that I have said already so much to you Little do I think when he so passionately bewailed the death of our Friend Mr. Bright that I should so soon have come to pay my tears at his Funerall I have said enough having called my self fool by saying so much But love made me blind and love makes me speak it And O that we could all show that we loved him by our tears O that we could all water his ashes with such affectionate showres that nothing but Roses and Violets might grow upon his Grave that his name may be like a sweet perfume that none may violate that precious thing by any envious and pestilent breath May thy dust sleeep in peace my dear friend may thy ashes take an indisturbed rest May thy memory be alwayes green and fresh in my mind May I live and do as much good And may I be as happy in my latter end Oh my soul let us begin then to take our leave more seriously of this world let us cease to weep for him and weep for our own folly Nazian Epist 63. Arise arise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Let us go away from hence Let us throw away these dreams Let us not live among these shadowes Let us not be mockt any more by these false pleasures Let honour glory and applause find some body else to make their fools Farewell all the Puppets that dance on the scene of this world Farewell all these painted clouds these gilded vanities these hyperbolized nothings Let this henceforth be writ upon my heart yea let it be ingraven on us all Vanity of vanities saith the Preacher all is vanity Surely man at his best estate is altogether vanity FINIS