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A68255	A sermon preacht at the funerall of the Lady Mary Villiers, eldest daughter of the Right Hon[ora]ble Christopher Earle of Anglesey who dyed the xxi. of Ianuary 1625. at Horningold in Leicester shire, and was buried the xxiiij. at Goadeby in the Sepulchres of her ancestors / preacht by George Iay ...	Jay, George.	1626 (1626)	STC 14479; ESTC S1252	18,945	56

afterward was shee more troubled than became a Caesarean and discretion and without teares afterwards she could repeate his vertues his excellencies and those did best please her that did most remember him As no man went beyond Sylla in cruelty so not in the love of a son yet the sad story of his fatall end was almost as soone forgotten as related But what neede I goe for a precedent beyond my Text. Now the childe is dead why should I fast saies as tender as loving a father as the Scripture can shew us But some there are more stoically obstinate than wisely couragious Aug. de verb. Dom. serm 35. which barre a discreet man from the least impression of griefe Potest non dolere cor humanum defuncto charissimo melius tamen dolet sanatur cor humanum quùm non dolendo sit inhumanum I will easily beleeve that such men were never owners of a jewell of this prize or if they were so they are still otherwise the losse would have humbled their hauty confidence and have forc'd a confession of what they deny Reason hath done her part if she hath cut off and defalcated the luxuriancy and over-plus of griefe in great detriments 't is stupiditie and dulnesse not to lament at all as the excesse is madnesse the meane is safest and will gaine you the opinion of a discreet and well-tempered mourner Permittantur itaque pia corda charorum de mortibus suorum contristari dolore sanabili et consolabiles lachrymas fundant conditione mortali Aug. de verb. Dom. serm 34. quas citòreprimat fidei gaudium quâ credunt fideles quando moriuntur paululùm à nobis abire ad meliora transire I will allow that the floud-gates of your eyes may be open but not too wide nor too long and I will give you leave to sigh from the bottome of your hearts but not too often nor too much No man shall perswade mee but they are Gods children which silently suffer and with patience endure his correction humbly and contentedly submitting themselves to the wisedome of his proceedings Especially in this case when that which we take to be a punishment is a blessing for they that dye in the Lord as Saint Bernard saies ab omni peccato labore periculo liberantur are freed from all sinne Bern. de trans Mal. labour and danger of either but these that survive are not and at last must dye And so I come to Davids meditation on his owne mortality I shall goe to him Turne over the whole booke of nature Pars quarta and you shall read mortality in every page every character is written in dust and the hand of Time wipes it out sooner in this later decrepit age of the world than heretofore We cannot now say with Iacob The daies of the yeares of our Pilgrimage are 130 yeares Gen. 47.9 but we may conclude with him Few and evill are the yeares of our life we have not attained unto the dayes of the yeares of the life of our Fathers in the dayes of their Pilgrimage When first wee begin to live we begin to dye ●or Nascentes morimur or to use Saint Ambrose his words which excellently expresse our condition Vitae hujus principium mortis exordium Amb. l. 8. de voc Gent. nec augeri●●●jus quam minui incipimus If death make a thrust at us we have no defence if she assault us we cannot finde a place of security to protect us Ille licet ferro ca●tus se condat are Mors tamen inclusum protrahet inde caput Whither can we go from the presence of death take wee the wings of the morning and flye whither wee will wheresoever we settle our selves under heaven she will be sure to finde us out And as she is unavoideable so is shee unpartiall 't is not greatnesse nor height of place that can priviledge any man from her attempts The Scripture cals Kings gods of the earth but least they should flatter themselves with the hope of immortality it immediately followes They shall dye like men Could any get a Patent for eternity these are they but a late example fresh still in our memories tells us they have it not Where are the great Commanders of the world where are the Rulers over thousands and 10000 the Princes Potentates of the earth are they not dead Goe search the grave and you shall bee no more able to distinguish betwixt their dust and the meanest beggers than Diogenes was to finde Phillip the King of Macedons bones Intervallis distinguimur exituaequamur Life makes a difference betwixt us death none neyther in the meanes of dissolution nor the ruines after shee can make a weapon of the least of the unlikeliest of things to destroy them a needle a fish-bone a raysin-stone is sufficient nay two great Princes one of India the other of Rome were slaine by a hayre A great Duke of Brittanny was prest to death in a throng Aemilus Lepidus and Aufidius great Romanes died with a stumble the one at his owne threshell the other at the senate house Etiā cibus potus sine quibus vivere non possumus mortifera sunt Mors aequo pede c. Hor. no lesse to them than us She doth as wel besiege the palace of the King as the cottage of the Beggar as they have the same sun the same clymate the same seasons with us so have they the same infirmities the same ages and not unequall deaths If there be odds the advantage many times lyes on our sides If travell or gold or watchings or the industry of the best of Physitians could have given life this curious peece of mortality had not been yet defac'd Let this visible argument a stronger I cannot use rectifie the truth of your frailty If you desire a confirmation from Gods Word I can give it All flesh is grasse Esa 40.6 and the glory thereof as the flower of the field Here is set downe the condition as well of the noblest as the common sort their glory fades as a flower the other dyes like grasse all meet in the dust The causes of the necessitie of death which are laid upon all men are three first the decree of God Statutum est omnibus semel mori which as the law of the Medes Persians is unchangeable Secondly the composition of our flesh which is of contrarie qualities their struglings and combustions necessitate diseases they death Thirdly the sin of our soules which is the true Non mors homini accideret nisi ex paena quam praecesserat culpa Aug de verb. Dom. serm 34. Steriles dominantur avenae Virg. reall and radicall cause God in our creation sow'd in our bodies the good corne the wholsome graine of health and soundnesse sinne and disobedience came with an after-cast and sprinkled tares of sickenesse amongst the corne and they grow up together with it and