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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45563	The royal common-wealth's man, or King David's picture represented in a sermon preached at the solemnity of the funeral of Sir Tho. Adams, knight and baronet, and alderman of London ; in St. Katherine Creechurch, on the 10th of March, 1667 / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1668 (1668)	Wing H742; ESTC R16815	26,628	50

The Royal Common-Wealths man OR King DAVID'S Picture Represented in a SERMON Preached at the Solemnity of the Funeral of Sir Tho. Adams Knight and Baronet and Alderman of London In St Katherine Creechurch On the 10th of March 1667. By Nath. Hardy D. D. D. R. Chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty and Vicar of St. Martins in the Fields David fortis in bello patiens in adversis in Hierusalem pacificus in victoriâ mansuetus in peccato dolens in senectute providus rerum modos vices temporum per singularum sonos servavit aetatum ●t mihi videatur non minus vivendi genere quam canendi suavitate praedulcis moralem Deo sui fudisse meriti cantilenam Ambros. de officiis l. 1. cap. 24. In the SAVOY Printed by Tho. Newcomb for William Grantham at the Sign of the Black Bear in Westminster-Hall 1668. To the Right Worshipful Sir WILLIAM ADAMS Baronet AS it is not only lawful but in Gregory Nazianzens opinion a most due debt to publish the praises of Gods eminent servants especially when dead so it is expedient that the publication should be extended as far and perpetuated as long as may be It is the advantage which all discourses particularly encomiastical have by being printed above that which they have by being only spoken that whereas these are like pictures hung in a private Gallery those are as statues set upon an high hill every way conspicuous these are as pictures drawn in fading colours those are as Imagery wrought in lasting Arras Vpon these considerations worthy Sir I suppose it is that you desired this following Discourse might by the Printers help become legible and though I am very conscious of its manifold defects upon the same reason I have fulfilled your desire It were too great pity if such a rare and precious Jewel as he was should have been lockt up in a Cabinet yea pity it is that a more skilful Lapidary was not made choice of to have set him forth in his lustre But the best of it is his native lustre was such as needed not the help of Art and so far is this Discourse from adding to his splendour that in truth it receiveth whatever worth it hath from him Such as it is I tender to you by this Dedication and justly since you have the greatest right to it as being an Inventory of your Dear Fathers best goods and choicest riches which he hath at once carried with him and left behind him in as much as the good works of them who die in the Lord follow them to wit for their own remuneration and yet stay here to be paterns for others Imitation An Inventory I call it and that such as I dare own to be so far true that there is nothing said of him which doth not belong to him and therefore let none think that I do nimis adulari at all flatter him though on the other hand I ingeniously acknowledg it is far short of what might have been said of him and therefore your self with the rest of his relations may think that I did frigide laudare coldly commend him The Truth is though I will not use Saint John's hyperbolical expression concerning our Saviour There are many other things which Jesus did the which if they should be written every one I suppose that the world it self could not contain the books which should be written yet I dare say the several Passages of his excellent life could not be contained in an hours discourse but justly require a large Volume And now Honoured Sir though it grieve you to have lost it is no small comfort to you that you had such a Father so far excelling in all virtue nor will I hope the reading afresh what you have heard before discompose you since you will finde more white of your deceased Fathers gracious life than will checker the black of his dolorous death nor is it only a Comfort but an honour a great honour to you to have had such a Father who was greatly and highly yet no more than deservedly beloved and honoured both living and Dead in City and Country But withall give me leave to mind you that the having such a Father layeth upon you a strong obligation of duty to walk in his steps and conform to his Patern which I trust in some measure you do and will do more and more May you if it be God's will equalize his years and as you grow in years grow in grace that you may if not equalize yet come near to his righteous Patern I doubt not but whilst he was on earth he put up many devout Prayers for you your Consort your Posterity and not for you only but your sisters with their Relations whereof you all have and will experience the benefit nor can I close with a better Prayer than that all those blessings ghostly and bodily which he implored for you may by divine bounty be continued and multiplied upon you I subscribe my self Apr. 7. 1668. Sir Your affectionate servant Nath. Hardy Acts 13. 36. David after he had served his own generation by the will of God fell asleep and was laid to his Fathers and saw corruption I Am at this time to preach upon a Double text the one whereof I have now read in your ears and the other is here presented to your eies both of them so copious that the scantling of an hour is too narrow for each And therefore waving all Prefaces and without enquiring into the context or occasion of the words I shall immediately address my self to a short discourse upon the text and so proceed to give an account of the sorrowful occasion of this solemn Assembly And if in performing this double task I shall exceed the limits of a single hour my Apology shall be in the language of Salust Praestat tacere quam pauca loqui It were better to say nothing at all than too little upon two such pregnant subjects The former whereof is St. Pauls narrative concerning David as it is set forth in these words David after he had served his own generation by the will of God c. Which Narrative plainly parts it self into the life and death of David The Character of his Life is but one but that unum aggregatum such an one as by the handling it will appear hath many involved in it He served his own generation by the will of God Those of his Death are Three by which the state of the dead is represented to the life He fell asleep and was laid to his Fathers and saw corruption I begin with the Character of David's life He served his own generation by the will of God And before I proceed further it will not be amiss to observe that the Apostle speaking of David though but collaterally giveth him an excellent Encomium It had been sufficient as to the scope of St. Pauls discourse only to have said David after he fell asleep saw