spirit of His was accompanied with three admirable properties wherein he excelled all that ever I knew and most that ever I read of First such singlenesse of heart that no by respect could any whit sway him no respect of any Friend He regarded them in their due place but knew neither Brother Kinsman not Friend Superior nor Inferior when they stood in the way to hinder his pursuit of the publike good Magis amica Respublica And he used to say Such a one is my entire friend to whom I am much obliged but I must not pay my private debts out of the publike stock Yea no self-respect no private ends of His owne or family were in any degree regarded but Himself and His were wholly swallowed up in the care of the publike safety insomuch that when friends have often put Him in mind of his family and Posterity and prest him that although he regarded not himself yet he ought to provide that it might be well with his Family a thing which they thought he might easily procure his ordinary answer was If it went well with the publike his family was well enough Secondly such constancy and resolution that no feare of danger or hope of reward could at any time so much as unsettle him How often was his life in danger vvhat a World of threats and menaces have bin sent Him from time to time Yet I challenge the Man that ever saw Him shaken by any of them or thereby diverted from or retarded in His right way of advancing the publike good nor could the offers of the greatest promotions vvhich England could afford in any measure be a block in His way in that He was as another Moses th' only man whom God went about to bribe who desired that Hee and his might never swim if the cause of God and his people did ever sinke His spirit was not so lovv as to let the whole World prevaile with Him so far as to hinder his vvork much lesse to be his Wages Thirdly such Vnweariablenesse that from three of the Clock in the morning to the evening and from evening to midnight this vvas his constant employment except only the time of his drawing nigh to God to be some wayor other helpfull towards the publike good burning out his Candle to give light to others Who knows not all this to bee true who knevv this Mans conversation not onely since the time of this Parliament but for many yeers together hath He beene a great pillar to uphold our sinking frame a Master workman labouring to repaire our ruinous house and under the weight of this worke hath the Lord permitted this rare Workman to be overthrown and that 's all I meane to say of His Life And as His life such was His Death enjoying all the time of his sicknes the same evennesse of spirit which he had in the time of his health with an addition of a more cleare evidence of Gods love in Jesus Christ and most ready subjection to Gods will to live or dye at Gods choice professing to my self that it was to Him a most indifferent thing to live or dye if Hee liv'd Hee would doe vvhat service He could if Hee dyed Hee should goe to that God whom He had serv'd and who would carry on his worke by some others And to others He said that if his Life and Death were put into a paire of ballances He would not willingly cast in one dram to turne the ballance either way This was his temper all the time of his sicknesse but as He drevv nigher to his end the swifter His motion was to God-wards enjoying more abundant comfort in His spirit more frequently pouring out His heart in prayer and whereas formerly his Soliloquies and private devotions were only betwixt God and his own Soule now out of the abundance of his heart his mouth was compel'd to speake and that so audibly that such of his Family or Friends who endeavoured to bee neere Him lest he should faint away in his weaknesse have over-heard Him importunatly pray for the Kings Majesty and his Posterity for the Parliament and the Publike Cause for Himselfe begging nothing but that if His worke were done He might bee received into his Masters joy And a little before His end being recovered out of a swound seeing his friends weeping about Him he cheerfully told them hee had look't death in the face and knew and therfore fear'd not the worst it could doe assuring them his heart was filled with more comfort and joy which hee found and felt from God then His tongue was able to utter and soon after whilsta Reverend and godly Minister was at prayer with Him He quietly slept in the Lord It may bee some of you expect I should confute the Calumnies and Reproaches which that generation of Men who envied his Life doe already begin to spread and set up in Libels concerning his Death ' as that hee dyed Raving crying out against that Cause wherein he had beene so great an instrument Charging him to die of that loathsome Disease which that accursed Balsack in his Booke of slanders against Mr Calvin charged him to dye of But I forbeare to spend time needlesly to wipe off those reproaches which I know none of you believe And this will satisfie the World against such slanders that no lesse then eight Doctors of Physick of unsuspected integrity and some of them Strangers to him if not of different Religion from him purposely requested to be present at the opening of his Body and well neere a thousand people first and last who came many of them out of curiosity and were freely permitted to see his Corps can and doe abundantly testifie the falshood and foulnesse of this Report the Disease whereof he dyed being no other then an Imposthume in his Bowels But now to leave this tell me all you that passe by the way have we not great cause of Mourning in the fall of such a Man May I not say as David to the People Rent your Clothes and gird you with Sackcloth and mourne before Abner Verily when I consider how God hath followed us with breach upon breach taken away all those Worthy Men I before mentioned and all the other things wherein the Lord hath brought us low and now this great blow to follow all the rest I am ready to call for such a Mourning as that of Hadadrimon in the valley of Megiddon But mistake me not I do not meane that you should mourne for Him You his deare children You Right Honourable Lords and Commons who esteeme him little lesse then a Father I mean not that you should mourne for Him his worke is done his warfare is accomplished He is delivered from sin and sorrow and from all the evils which wee may feare are comming upon our selves Hee hath received at the Lords hand a plentifull reward for all his Labours I beseech you let not any of you have one sad thought
ΘΡΗÎΩΔΙΑ THE CHURCHES LAMENTATION FOR THE Good Man his losse Delivered in a Sermon To the Right honourable the two Houses of Parliament and the Reverend Assembly of Divines at the Funerall of that Excellent Man JOHN PYM Esquire late a Member of the Honourable House of Commons Preached in the Abbey-Church of Westminster by Stephen Marshall B. D. Minister of Gods Word at Finching-field in Essex Published by Order of the House of Commons Esa. 57. 1. The righteous perisheth no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come London Printed for Stephen Bowtell and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes head Alley 1644. To the Right honourable THE Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament Right Honourable THis plaine piece which were it worthy should bee sacred to this excellent Man memory comes now also devoted to your service It should have been his picture but becomes your possession and let it be inter {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and that by your fourfold interest 1. In himselfe whilest he lived every one of you deservedly esteeming him as a Friend a Brother if not a Father 2. In his losse â—or rather yours of him which because I cannot describe 〈…〉 vaile over with silence 3. In the worke wherein hee lived and by which he dyed which was not so much his as yours or yours as your Countries your Gods in which he laboured so much that he died the sooner that you might have his better helpe toward the finishing of it who through the mercy of God live longer 4. In this meane Sermon which by your command comes to publike view and therfore craves patronage in your favourable acceptance The Lord make it yours by a greater right even by making the commands delivered in it to be so ingrafted in your hearts that you may all not onely with him be cast into the same mold but that his Spirit may be so doubled upon you all that you chearfully and without fainting may beare whatever remaining heat and burden of the day and at last come to the same blessed evenings-reckoning rest and reward in everlasting life So prayeth daily Your most unworthy Servant in and for Christ Iesus Stephen Marshall Die Veneris 15 Decembr 1643. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That Master Sollicitor doe returne thankes to Master Marshall for the great paines he tooke in his Sermon preached at the Funerall of Master Pym a worthy Member of the House of Commons and to desire him to print his Sermon And it is Ordered that no man presume to print this Sermon but whom the said Master Marshall shall authorise under his hand-writing H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I doe authorise Stephen Bowtell to print this Sermon Stephen Marshall A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE Right Honourable the LORDS and COMMONS and the Reverend Assembly of Divines at the Funerall of JOHN PYM ESQUIRE RIght Honourable and beloved Should a stranger behold the face of this Assembly and see the Honourable Houses of Parliament and the Reverend Assembly of Divines and such a great confluence of persons of all ranks and qualities in this mournefull posture they would say as the Inhabitants of Canaan did when they saw the mourning for old Jacob in the floare of Arad This is a grievous mourning to England and would certainly enquire What Prince what great man is this day fallenin our Israell But you who knew the worth of this excellent person whose shadow lies here before you doe rather wonder that all faces are not covered with blacknesse and all bodies with sackcloth and come hither so fully prepared to mourne that you even long till something bee spoken of him that you may ease your hearts a little though it bee with weeping But stay a while I beseech you till I first deliver an errand from God the ground whereof you shall find Micah the seventh the first and second verses MICAH 7. 1 2. Wo is me for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits as the grape gleanings of the vintage There is no clusterto eat my soule desireth the first ripe fruit The good man is perished out of the Earth THis Text and two or three verses following containes a sad complaint of the Prophet in the Churches name of the small number of the good and the great multitude of evill men in the dayes wherein he lived The paucity of goodmen is set downe in an elegant comparison they are as the scatterings after the In-gatherings of the summer fruit as the grape gleanings after the Vintage here and there a berry in the top of a bough not an whole cluster anywhere left to eat She needed full clusters the worke she had to doe required many able hands and gratious hearts There were clusters enough of vile ones whole boughes whole trees whole hedge rowes of such were to be found every where Every Family every street Town and City abounded with them There were Princes that were oppressours Iudges who received bribes great men uttering their mischievous desires a world of people who lay in wait for bloud who could hunt every man his brother with a net that could doe evill with both hands earnestly the best of them as a briar the most upright sharper then a thorne hedge but such a thin scattering of men willing and fit for the service of God and his Church that if one searched as diligently as Diogenes did in Athens at noon day for an honest man hee was hardly to be found But how comes the Church to be thus empty had she never any better store O yes she had precious Sonnes comparable to fine Gold She had Nazarites purer then Snow whiter then Milke At the first she had her Iudges that were upright and wise her Prophets that taught them the feare of the Lord her Priests and Levites pure who bore the Vessells of the Sanctuarie she had her mighty men and the men of warre the honourable man and the Counsellor the cunning Artificer and the eloquent Oratour She had every place furnished with men of renown the Throne the Campe the Senate the Colledge the City but in her greatest need they were well nigh all gone How gone Were they apostatised had they voluntarily left her No neither but even perished cut off before their time and for these things she weeps her eyes run downe with teares and she cries out Woe is mee because the comforters which should refresh her soul are removed farre from her O England England I see thy woefull face in this Glasse this Text holds out a type of thy sad condition But I proceed to the words Woe is me the good man is perished out of the earth Wherein observe these two things First The state and condition of the Church in this Prophets daies The good man is perished out of the earth Secondly
The Churches sensiblenesse of her present condition Woe is me for it The words need no great explication only let us enquire what is meant by the good man Secondly what by the good mans perishing By a good man in the largest sense is meant a godly man a holy man a righteous man but more strictly here a good man is an usefull man such are instruments of good to others such as are good Magistrates the pillars of a State who execute judgement and justice in the gate a Mordecai who seeks the wealth of his people and procures peace to all his seed Or good Ministers such an one as Jehojada who did good in Israell such an one as Barnabas a good man and full of the holy Ghost by whose Ministrie much people were added unto the Lord A good Father in a Family as Abraham who teaches all his children the feare of the Lord Thus some interpret that place Rom. 5. 7. Scarcely for a righteous man will one dye yet per adventure for a good man some would even dare to die that though they would hardly die to excuse an ordinary man though godly yet some eminent usefull man they would not onely with the Galathians pluck out their eyes but lay downe their lives for them Secondly what by perishing how the good man may be said to perish You know to perish in the common acceptation is taken in the worst sense to be cut off from the Land of the living by the hand of God in wrath and fury and their soules cast for ever into the pit of Hell but thus the good man perisheth not though the wicked be driven away to Hell in his wickednesse yet the righteous hath hope in his death But here to perish and elsewhere is to dye immaturely unseasonably to bee cut off from the place where they were usefull and could ill be spared Many excellent lessons doe these words hold forth unto us As first The Prophet makes the Churches condition his own with Aaron bearing them on his shoulders on his brest-plate yea in his very heart If it be ill with the Church you may discerne it in his countenance heare it by his speech If well by the cheerefullnesse of his spirit If they be afflicted he mournes if they rejoyce he is cheerefull with them Secondly the Prophet observes all his people whose faces stand towards heaven who looke another way who are Saints who are Children of Belial is diligent to know the state of his flock Thirdly that it is no new thing to find in the Church of God many evill and few good in Gods field many tares little good Corne in his Barne floar much chaffe and little Wheat in his great house many Vessels of dishonour and few of honour many stones few precious stones in his drag Net abundance of weeds many bad Fishes and few good ones in his Vineyard many wilde grapes and few right Grapes Fourthly And this also that even those few Godly men which are the Churches Treasure are subject to Death even immature and untimely death as well as others But I passe over all these with a bare mention of them and confine my selfe to these two Observations as most cleerly held forth in the Text and suitable to this sad meeting First that the most excellent and usefull men are often taken away when the Church could ill spare them The Church at this time did abound as wee also now doe with Sons of Belial compassed about with many Enemies and therefore needed the first ripe fruits many choise Instruments and yet those very few Shee had were now taken away the good man is perished out of the Earth Secondly that when God doth this it is a matter of sad lamentation Woe is mee the good Man is perished c. The first of these that God often takes away choisest men Men more precious then Gold then the fine Gold of Ophir When the Church hath greatest need of them hath alasse abundance of sad evidence A whole Cloud of Witnesses might easily be brought in A large Catalogue of Examples Abel the first Flower that ever grew in the Lords Garden cropt off as soone as blowne and in him all the seed of the Woman devoured by the seed of the Serpent slain by the eldest sonne of reprobation So Moses and Aaron when the Israelites were to take possession of the Land of Canaan to root out thirtie Kingdomes to set up both Church and Common-wealth these long experienced and able Leaders Prince and Priest taken off in the very beginning of the work and all seem to be left to raw heads and hands that know not how to manage it so Elisha the man of God fell sick and died when in the judgement even of a wicked King he was all the Chariots and Horsemen of Israel all the strength they had left So Iosiah that rare and excellent Prince who seemed to be created as a new Star purposely to shine in those darksome times cut off in the midst of his work for whose death Jeremiah composed the whole book of the Lamentations And in the Christian Church in the beginning of it when all the World was to be subdued to the faith of Christ The Harvest very great and the Labourers but few Iohn the Baptist a greater Prophet then whom was never borne of a woman comming in the spirit and power of Elias to turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to the fathers and the disobedient to the instruction of the wise taken away violently after but two or three years work whiles he was making ready a people for the Lord James the brother of Iohn one of the Pillars one of the chief Apostles cut off by the sword and Stephen a rare man full of the Holy Ghost whose wisdom and spirit the enemie was not able to resist exceedingly fitted to convince the Iewes and to prove that Iesus was the very Christ suddenly taken off and knocked on the head in a popular tumult and commotion And now of late our Edward the sixth another Iosiah when this Land had been long in bondage unto Antichrist overwhelmed with the darknesse of Idolatry and Superstition and seemed to be purposely raised up to bring light and salvation to this desolate Land while he was preparing this wildernes to be the Lords fruitfull Vineyard planting it with the choisest Vines and setting up a Wine Presse in the midst of it walling it and fencing it about after five or sixe years labours suddenly snatched away So the incomparable King of Sweden brought over the Baltick Sea by the hand of God to restore the ruines of Germanie travelling in the greatnesse of his strength and working little lesse then wonders for two or three yeares together and drawing the eyes of all men towards him as the man that should undoubtfully have delivered that woefull Countrey in a moment this bright Sun set soon
the evil to come So it proved in this place The good man is perished the vile are left behind then followeth vers. 4. The day of thy watchmen and thy visitation commeth now shall be their perplexity It 's true as I said before to them who are godly the Fountaine remaines when the Pipes are cut and there is ten thousand times more cause of joy in their God who lives then of sorrow for their friends who die but to others it 's a sad prediction that when God makes up his Jewels and carries them away he hath a day comming that shall burne as an Oven and all the wicked shall be as stubble that it shall leave them neither root nor branch And indeed they are the very {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the onely meanes to keep off wrath and judgement from the places where they live Every mercie saith to such a people as Elisha to Jehoram Surely were it not that I regard the presence of Jehosaphat I would not looke toward thee nor see thee and the devouring judgements say to these godly ones as the Angel said to Lot We are come to destrâ—y this place up get thee out hast thee escape hence for we can doe nothing till thou art gone When the Husband-man thus p 〈…〉 s up the fence and gathers in his crop it is a signe that shortly you 'll have wild beasts in the field This Jeroboam and his whole family found to be true who had Abijah one child in his family in whom some good thing was found toward the Lord and as soone as he was taken away the judgements of God broke in upon his house and cut off him that pist against the wall and him that was shut up and left in Israel and took away the remnant of the house of Ieroboam as a man takes away dung till it be allgone This the old world found true in Noah and Sodome with the rest of the Cities in Lot this the Iews found true when the Christians admonished from heaven left Ierusalem fled to Pella soon after their departure the enemies made a trench about them and laid their City even with the ground and their children with them not leaving one stone upon another Thus fared it with the City of Hippo in Africa where Saint Augustine was Bishop which as soone as ever he was dead was taken and sackt by the Goths and Vandals Luther was no sooner translated to a better life but the Smalchaldick war begun in Germany wherein all the Protestants were almost wholly wasted No sooner was old Paraeus taken away from Heidelberg but Spinola entred the Towne These and many other instances of Gods wrath breaking in upon the departure of godly men abundantly manifest that we have cause to weep and lament not for them who thus dye but for our selves and our children because of the miseries which we may then justly feare are comming upon us Take a briefe Application of this Lesson and I have done my Sermon First Would God have his people thus to mourne when usefull men decay and faile how sadly then doth this reprove our generall stupidity the Lord hath made many great and lamentable breaches amongst us in this kinde he hath broken all our carnall confidences our Parliament is weakned our Armies wasted our treasure is exhausted our enemies increased and of those few able hearts heads and hands who abode faithfull to this great cause and worke in hand it might even stab us to the very heart to thinke how many of them the Lord hath even snatcht away in the middest of their worke and our greatest need That excellent spirited Lord the Lord Brooke that rare man Master Iohn Hampden that true-hearted Nathaniel Master Arthur Goodwin pardon me I beseech you though I mention them amongst these friends who cannot thinke of them without bitternessâ— How are these mighty men fallen in the midst of the baâ—tell ana the weapons of warre perished the beauty of our Israel is slaine in the high places Whose heart wou 〈…〉 not bâ—eed and cry out as David at Ionathan his death Tell it not in Gath publish it not in the streets of â—skelon lest the daughters of the Philistins reioyce lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph But now which of us laies these things to heart who considereth the bitter things which God writes against us No we are rather like that wretched people who when the righteous perished and mercifull men were taken away though it were from the evil to come were so farre from laying it to heart aright that they banished all serious thoughts from them every one looking to their owne way some to their gaine others to their pleasure Come ye say they I will fetch wine and we will fill our selves with strong drinke and to morrow shall be as this day and much more abundant and this even when the righteous perished Verily this is our carriage the Lord deprives us of these excellent men and we it may be for a moment bewaile their losse in some passionate expression saying There is a brave man lost I am sorry such a man is dead c. and then every one goeth on againe in his owne way As I have seen a Hen pardon an homely similitude goe clocking and scraping in the midst of her Chickens then comes the Kite and snatcheth away first one then another then a third till all are gone and the Hen brustles and flutters a little when any is snatched away but returns instantly to her scraping and picking as if she had lost nothing Even so doe wee presently forgetting our great losses but no man sitting alone by himselfe to enquire What God hath done and what He meanes to doe with us or what we have done to provoke him thus far against us thrusting such thoughts far away from us passing by on the other side of the way as the Priest and Levite did by the wounded man as if it nothing concerned us O Beloved this wofull security and regardlesnesse of ours is one of the saddest tokens of Gods purpose still to bring us lower It was the Prophet Hósea his complaint against Israel a little before their utter ruine Strangers have devoured his strength and he knew it not gray haires were here and there upon him and he regarded it not The losse of good men was one of his gray hairs which argued his declining and his not-regarding it was the saddest evidence of his incurablenesse the Lord in mercy make us sensible of these heavie strokes before it be too late lest we prove like them of the old world who did eat and drink marry and give in marriage and would know nothing untill the flood came and swept them all away Secondly but how exceedingly doth this discover the wickednesse the divellishnesse of the spirits of a generation of men amongst us who are so far from bemoaning and lamenting the losse of
good men that they have no greater joy or content then to heare of their fall who with the Edomites rejoice over the Church in the day of their destruction and speake proudly in the day of their distresse who say with Tyrus Aha now I shall be replenished since they are brought low who with the inhabitants of the earth Rev. 11. reioiced when the two Witnesses were killed and sent gifts one to another because those Witnesses tormented them with their prophesying whilest they lived But stay profane and wicked man if any such be here and let me a little reason with thee What such cause is there of thy rejoicing art thou a gainer by their deaths dost thou imagine to rest more safely because the pillars of the house which covers thee are taken away hast thou any surer footing because the bough is cut whereupon thou treadest because the thread is cutting asunder whereby the sword hangs which is over thy head art thou therefore further from danger or dost thou conceive that God hath taken them away to gratifie thee is it possible for thee to thinke that they who are thus precious in his eyes who are to him as the apple of his owne eye are by him removed for any advantage to thee whom his soule â—ateth I tell thee nay I tell thee if thou weighest things seriously thou shalt finde their life was thy gaine and their death thy losse because it assures thee first chat thou art now deprived of them who put up many a prayer for thee who stood in the gap to turne away wrath from thee for whose sake thou faredst the better every day God delighting to doe good to the place where his children lived And secondly their death assures thee that thou also must dye If the greene tree be cut downe the dry must not long escape not only die but after thy death thou must come to judgment and their soules whom thou thus hated'st will give most terrible evidence against thee of all the ungodly deeds which thou hast ungodly committed and of all the hatred spite and hard speeches which thou hast thus long exercised and spoken against them the very sight of whom at that day will be more dreadfull to thee then the most terrible Lyon at terrible as Death or hell it selfe Thirdly and lastly would God have the death of his Saints thus to be lamented then Right Honourable and Beloved learne the right and onely way to attain that which I know all your Soules desire even to be desired whilst you live and lamented when you dye a thing so naturally engraven in the heart of every man that nothing can be more to have an Eternall and Honourable Memoriall Ego si bonam famam servavero sat ero felix said the heathen man You have read of Herod that Monster of men who perceiving the approaching of his death caused the flower of all the Jewes to be apprehended imprisoned and to be murthered at the instant of his death that he might have lamentation to accompany his death and Funerals nor was there amongst the Heathens any thing esteemed a greater plague then to dye unlamented and their Memoriall to be buried in obscurity or remain in infamy And I believe there is not a man in this great Assembly who would not esteeme himselfe extremely miserable to be with Jehojakim buried with the Buriall of an Asse to live undesired and to dye unlamented Now know for certain th' only way to prevent this and to bee truely honour'd in life and bewail'd in death is to bee good men to serve God and his Church faithfully in your generation It may be some of you as yet doe not think so being accustomed onely to bee flatter'd and daubed up and made to believe that you are as great in other mens eyes as you are in your owne that because with Dives you swim in pleasure we are soft Raiment fare delitiously every day enjoy the worldly accomplishments of health wit honour friends c. though in the meane time you be strangers from God and it may be enemies to him his wayes his servants and his ordinances but could you know how meanly you are now esteemed by them who are best able to judge of things that differ even by God his Angels and Saints and couldst thou guesse the discourses will bee of thee when thou art dead thou wouldst certainly think otherwise Do but listen abroad in the world and thou maist discerne what is spoken of them who in their life time blest themselves as much as thou canst doe Is such a Noble Man dead blessed be God who hath rid his Church of a great enemy Is such a rich Mandead the world is well rid of a griping Usurer a cruell Oppressor a Mammonist who had his portion in this World Is such a great Schollar dead God bee praised for it his learning and parts were imployed onely for the hurt of the Church of Christ Is such an one gone then ther 's a cursed blasphemer a profane swearer an uncleane adulterer a swinish Drunkard a dangerous stumbling blocke out of the way of the Saints happily removed This or the like talke will be of thee when thou art gone if thy life bee such a one and which is worst of all thine immortall soule for ever sunke into a lake burning with fire and brimstone where is nothing but weeping wayling and gnashing of teeth for evermore but couldst thou with a single heart give up thy selfe to bee good and doe good every one who hath interest in Heaven would beg thy Life and when thy worke is done and thou gathered to thy Fathers every godly Mans eye would lament thee every one of their tongues would praise thee thy memoriall should be Crowned by them all Yea God himselfe would make thy Funerall Oration rather then thy work should not praise thee in the Gates and which is best of all thy soule shall enjoy the fruit of all in Everlasting life and glory ANd now the more particular Application of all this brings me directly to the sad occasion of this present meeting even to lament the fall of this choice and excellent man in whose death the Almighty testifies against us and even fills us with gall and wormwood I know you come hither to mourn so fully prepared for it that although I am but a dull Oratour to move passion I may serve well enough to draw out those tears wherewith your hearts and eyes are so big and full there is no need to call for the mourning women that they may come and for cunning women that they may take up a wailing to helpe your eyes to run downe with teares and your eye-lids to gush out with waters the very looking downe upon this Beere and the naming of the man whose corps are here placed and a very little speech of his worth and our miserable losse is enough to make this Assembly like Rachel not only