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| John Pearson
But when it first beginneth in a superior person, the proper effect which it createth in an inferior, is not of a single nature, but such a love as is mingled with duty and respect. Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father! Love, when in an equal, commandeth love; and this is so just, that fire doth not more naturally create a flame. Mortality is a proper object to invite our pity, and privation of life alone sufficient to move compassion in the living. Secondly, the death of the righteous is to be desired rather then lamented: and it were a dishonour put upon Religion to think a pious man less happy dead, then when he liv'd. The love of God to man challengeth love from us, but that of such a nature as cannot be demonstrated but by obedience; and that of a Father to his Son is of the same condition, though not in the same proportion. The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time. They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man. Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition. What reason then can we produce, that the life of a man whom we esteem, should be sorrow to himself, and his death be grief to us? |
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