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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77116	The worthy of Ephratah represented in a sermon at the funerals of the Right Honorable Edmund Earl of Mulgrave, Baron Sheffield of Botterwic. In the church of Burton-Stather, Sept. 21. 1658. / By Edward Boteler, sometimes fellow of Magdalen-Colledge in Cambridge, and now rector of Wintringham in the county of Lincoln.	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3804; Thomason E2139_1; ESTC R208363	29,248	83

there 's a box of ointment which a skilful hand would open but I must break that the place may be filled with the odor of it And that it may be the sweeter let us mingle it with some Scripture-ingredients We shall be better furnished to speak of the dead when we have a while consulted the Book of life in that portion of it which is written RUTH 4.11 Do thou worthily in Ephratah and be famous in Bethlehem A Scant and a short Text to accompany so great a Person to so long an home But non est huic alter similis as David said of the sword there is none like that ● Sam. 21.9 give it me A fitter could not be found I could not miss it he was so much the Comment on it look at it and you see him The persons the place the actions the fame all agreeing and what was there voted is here verified it is now the praise of the dead what was then a prayer for the living Do thou worthily in Ephratah and be famous in Bethlehem The words are the gratulatory votes and hearty wellwishes signified by the general acclamations of the Ephrathites and people of Bethlehem-Judah to the great and noble Boaz a Prince of the Assembly famous in the Congregation a man of renown one that sate chief in the gate of his place and was the honor of his people He was of good descent and extraction great Grandfather to David in the right royal line of Judah whose fair pedigree is to be seen from Adam the son of God to Jesus the son of man Luk. 3. And which heighten'd his height and made his greatness yet greater he was good too there were apples of gold set in those pictures of silver Wisdom Justice Mercy Love Pro. 25.11 Good works a right Retinue for Nobility This was the Temple which sanctified the gold and the Altar which makes pleasant the offering This person thus great thus good is best for our purpose For it was not every one that would have made a parallel for my Lord of Mulgrave but he must be great Not every Great one neither For many like mushroms and children of the earth are sprung up and grown to their greatness since yesterday and made but a step out of the dirt into honor like those Giants which the Poets tell us were simul sati editi sown and grown in the same instant But he must be one the spring of whose honor is to be found rising in remoter ages and his Ancestors the acquaintance of History ennobled in blood great by derivation from greatness Satus sanguine Divûm Not every Great and Noble one neither If he have no evidences to shew for it but the Houses and Inheritance the Lands and Lordships the Escucheons and Seal of his Family if he be descended by as many degenerations from the worth and vertue as generations from the loins and blood of atchieving progenitors But he must be one who hath brought in his share of Honor hath illustrated old Dignities by new additions and by doing worthily acquired fame Such the person presented in the Text and represented in the Occasion Do thou c. In the Text you have Nobility advanced betwixt two Supporters Facts and Fame Facts give fame a bottom to stand on and Fame gives Facts a top to stand up Facts get Fame and Fame gilds Facts To do good is the way to be great and to be great is the reward of doing good Worthy actions command honorable commemorations Do I find several readings and I 'll name that first which I like worst Pro. 3.10 Compara opes Ephrathae Get thee riches at Ephratah have servants and cattel and flocks and herds let thy garners be filled with plenty Eccl. 2.8 and thy presses burst out with new wine Bring Ophir to Ephratah gather silver and gold and the peculiar treasure of Kings and of the provinces Some will like this well enough because it makes wealth the gage of worth and so it is by the rate of the world where look what a mans estate is that commonly is said to be his worth But to make this Worth were to make the camel a passage through the needles eye Quidam scribunt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifie the great beast it self and not the Seaman's rope only as some contend upon that expression Mat. 19.24 To make wealth the standard of worth this were to offend against the generation of Gods children and to cast out those as vile and worthless among men of whom the world is not worthy Heb. 11.38 Lam. 4.2 This were to esteem the precious sons of Zion comparable to fine gold as earthen pitchers the work of the hands of the potter Nor can I think the votes of the Ephrathites ran so low as wealth the last and least in the inventory of good things a blessing of the left hand and not always a blessing neither Riches being sometimes kept for the owners thereof to their hurt Eccl. 5.13 It is but the fatness of the earth at best which many have their full of who shall never taste of heaven And therefore I like the vulgar Latine better which reads it Exemplum virtutis saving that their sit in stead of sis seems to incline that part of the words to Ruth which other Copies and so our Translation applies to Boaz and speaking to him it speaks to purpose voting him to that which is the ornament of great persons an Exemplarity The highest lines are the writers copy and therefore thou that art high make an advantage of thy place prescribe those that be under give a copy to others to write after But I shall speak to this when I come to apply Text and Occasion and shall now follow our English reading word for word Do thou worthily in c. In which words please to observe with me that there is 1. Agendum Something to be done Do. 2. Modum agendi the rule or measure of doing worthily Do worthily 3. Motivum actûs the motive of such deeds taken 1. From the person on whom such doing is incumbent Thou Do thou worthily 2. From the place where such a person is resident Ephratah Do thou worthily in Ephratah 3. From the name which is attendant on such a person in such place doing so worthily it is famous And be famous in Bethlehem First for the Agendum Do. Men must be active for heaven in their generations Souls are high metall'd and it is a shame to rust them in their scabards They are Inanimates or ill thriving Vegetables that gather moss A torpid life misbecomes any man most a Christian We came not on the Stage as Cato on the Theatre who is said to have entred only ut exiret that he might go out again But we have our parts to act something is to be done by us whilst we live in the world As vertue is the lustre of action so