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B01727	The servant's audit: a sermon preached at the funerals of the right worshipful Sr. Edmund Anderson baronet, in the church of Broughton in the county of Lincoln, Febr. 15. 1660. / By Edward Boteler ... now rector of Wintringham in that county ...	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing B3803A; ESTC R212802	28,513	80

THE SERVANT'S AUDIT A SERMON Preached at the Funerals of the Right Worshipful Sr. EDMUND ANDERSON Baronet in the Church of Broughton in the County of Lincoln Febr. 15. 1660. By Edward Boteler sometimes Fellow of St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge now Rector of Wintringham in that County and Chaplain to his MAJESTY Horat. Carm. li iij. Od. xi I Secundo Omine nostri memorem Sepulchro Sculpe querelam London Printed for G. Bedell T. Collins and are sold at their shop at the Middle-Temple Gate in Fleet-street 1662. To the Right Worshipful Sir JOHN ANDERSON OF BROVGHTON in the County of LINCOLN Baronet SIR I Was in some dispute with my self to whom this Dedication might be most proper your Lady Mother or your self Rom. 16.27 but it pleased God only wise to decide that Question by translating her into Glory and leaving you to enter upon your Parentalia among which this Sermon with your approbation and good leave may be accounted and passe for one It was preached by your Father's Will but printed against my own Pardon me Sir that I tell you so It is not that I was unwilling to raise my whole Posse and offer my utmost Contributions to his memory The adventure I made of my self in that great and solemn appearance at his Funerals will assert me against that Suspition but because I was sensible of that Torrent of Inke whick broke in upon us during the late lawlesse and scribling dayes every one licensing himself to invade the Press till we were become almost all Books and no learning insomuch that if we had held on at that rate that expression of Saint John had scarce been an Hyperbole with us Joh. 21.25 Even the world it self could not contain the Books that should be written You cannot then blame me if I was so charitable to my self as to desire not to be listed among those Supernumeraries Over and besides all this I looked on your self as the fairest Transcript of your Father's vertues out-doing all Copies that a pen could pretend to and coming so near the Original as might justly silence and Supersede all attempts of this nature So that what is or can be written may be seen exemplified in your self with many advantages And it is no small help to me that where I am defective and come short I may remit those that know you to look at you for their Reparations The world then having the best account of your Father in your self these Papers with the Escutcheons and other their companions in duty for the Rites of that day might well have gone into privacy according as every one could get their share and not have been summoned to this Reviviscence to stand a second trial and submit to a further but it may be not a more favorable sentence But I have learned not to consult my self where you command and have therefore given my self up to your obedience Please that your Name may give life to this Sermon the creature of your Father's death 't will encourage the Reader in the perusal as it hath done the Writer in the Publication for the worth of it will more than abundantly compound for the wants of SIR Your most faithful And most humble servant E. BOTELER A SERMON Preached at the Funerals Of the Right Worshipful Sir EDMVND ANDERSON Baronet Febr. 15. 1660. MAN being in honour abideth not is a Truth Psal 49.12 not more legible in the Psalmist than in this Solemnity Under the Herse is Man Adam of the Earth Earthy the Ruines and Reversions of Man A dead man excuse the Expression is Man drawn to the Life Upon the Herse you may see Man in honour There you have his Insignia the fair Atchievements of meriting Ancestors illustrated by a late Access the Cognizance of His Princes Favour the Guerdon of his own Loyalty And if you look at the mournful Attendants on his Exequies this day they tell us That this Man in honour abideth not Job 17.1 Eccl 12.5 Superest Sepulchrum in a nearer sense than Job spake it The Grave is ready for him he is going to his long home and therefore do the Mourners go about the streets But though Man abide not yet his honour I hope will be long lived it will live in his hopeful Son and Successor it will live in the mouths and memories of the present Age and grateful Posterity I came not hither to paint his Sepulchre or trick up his Name with any light Embroide yes of Wit or Art it is plainness suits best with mourning Besides his infinite Fame admits no addition no cont ibutions of the Orator can better it his own life hath given him the clearest commendations to the World and his sickness and death are his best Funeral Sermon Virtus Sepulchrum condidit Horat. in Epod 9. However being designed to this Employment both by the Will of God and the Will of the deceased I shall neither be so faithless to his Merits or false to your Expectation as to let him go to the Grave in silence and not let you know as King David said of Abner That there is a great man fallen this day in Israel 2 Sam. 3 38. But I must remember he is not my only Text though the practice of Antiquity would justifie me should I spend my whole Discourse upon him I know you will expect another and I have chosen one which I perswade my self shall have all your Votes for the sutableness of it Give me leave to treat your Attentions with it a while It is written MATTH 25.21 His Lord said unto him Well done Thou good and faithful servant Thou hast been faithful over a few things I will make thee Ruler over many things Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. THE Righteous perisheth Isa 57.1 and no man layeth it to heart was a complaint in Isaiah's dayes may be so in ours Thoughts of our own of anothers death we strive to keep as far from the heart as we can To mourn in our cloaths and laugh in our sleeves that 's fashonable and familiar it is to be light enough within so we can but black our selves a little about the skirts and edges and carry a face of sadness And if such an occasion as this do at any time melt us into some seasonable meditations of our mortalities they may rather be called our Fits than our Affections It is with us for the most part as with the people of Israel who 2 Sam. 20.12 13. when they saw Amasa wallowing in blood and lying before them in the way stood still a while and made a melancholy pause but when he was removed out of the way and a Cloth cast upon him they went on after Joab When we come to a Funeral our thoughts happily are at a stand sometimes seldom at a stay we are willing it may be to let them visit but cannot consent they should sit down in the Chambers of darkness