A plea for the Godly

2. His death is precious to the Saints surviving; they follow his hearse weeping, as David did Abner's, 2 Sam. 3. 31. Though they know that when a godly man dies he is fixed in an higher and more transparent Orb, yet they cannot but mourn at the fall of such a Star. 'Tis a lamentation when God cuts down the Pillars of a Land; the great Cables and Anchors of a Ship being gone, there is danger of a Shipwreck, it presageth a storm coming when God hides his Jewels: After Austins death followed the sacking of Hippo by the Goths and Vandals. ⟨p. 38⟩After the decease of Paraeus, fell out the destruction of Heidelberg: Hence it is that the Saints who are left behind, when they see such as are the Glory of a Kingdom taken away by a stroke of death, cannot but cry as Elisha did, when Elijah was parted from him, 2 King. 2. 12. My Father, my Father, the chariot of Israel and the Horsemen thereof. The Saints living are affected with the loss of the godly, and carry them to their grave with a shower of tears.

2. His death is precious to the Saints surviving; they follow his hearse weeping, as David did Abner's, 2 Sam. 3. 31. Though they know that when a godly man dies he is fixed in an higher and more transparent Orb, yet they cannot but mourn at the fall of such a Star. 'Tis a lamentation when God cuts down the Pillars of a Land; the great Cables and Anchors of a Ship being gone, there is danger of a Shipwrack, it presageth a storm coming when God hides his Jewels: After Austins death followed the sacking of Hippo by the Goths and Vandals. ⟨p. 38⟩After the decease of Paraeus, fell out the destruction of Heidelberg: Hence it is that the Saints who are left behind, when they see such as are the Glory of a Kingdom taken away by a stroke of death, cannot but cry as Elisha did, when Elijah was parted from him, 2 King. 2. 12. My Father, my Father, the chariot of Israel and the Horsmen thereof. The Saints living are affected with the loss of the godly, and carry them to their grave with a shower of tears.