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A defiance to death Being the funebrious commemoration of the Right Honourable, Baptist Lord Hickes, Viscount Camden, late deceased. Preached at Camden in Gloucester-shire, Nouember 8. 1629. By Iohn Gaule.
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Gaule, John, 1604?-1687.
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A DEFIANCE TO DEATH Being The Funebrious Commemoration of the Right Honourable Baptist Lord Hickes Viscount Camden late deceased Preached at Camden in Gloucester-shire Nouember 8. 1629. By IOHN GAVLE LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper for Robert Allot and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Blacke Beare 1630. To the truely Honourable and religious Ladies Iulian Viscountesse Camden and Mary Lady Cooper Daughters to the late right Honourable Baptist Lord Hickes Viscount Camden the blessings of both this and the life to come Most Noble and vertuous Ladies TO whom should I dedicate the memoriall of your deceased Father but to you in whom he liues Who mee thinkes but his Monuments may challenge his commemoration Besides the life hee was personally possessed of you are his deriued life and he yet liues and long may he though not in himselfe yet in his Successions Yet alas how much rather had you I know to haue still enioyed then thus supplyed his life But you are not ignorant how nature abides not alwayes but succeedes how God but lends not bindes your friends to your inioyment He was giuen you to be taken from you yours hee was to vse rather then possesse yours in his life name vertues graces to inherit and not yours in an earthly being to ingrosse Therefore had you him to lose him and must therefore be contented with his losse yea ought indeed to reioyce rather that once yee had him then sorrow that now ye haue him not Grant it cannot bee but a griefe to misse him so neither but a ioy to remember him It was an happinesse more delighting when you might reioyce in his presence but is an happinesse more lasting that you may yet reioyce in his remembrance You both beyond the common lot and hap were much and long happy in a double Parent the losse of one now admonishes yea applaudes you to esteeme another Parent and feare anothers losse But I spare from further repetitions of your losse lest while I would striue to consolate and appease them I rather prooue but to renew your sorrow prouoke your feare For mine owne part who reckon my selfe not the least in his losse I count it euen as enuy to bewayle the happy and but folly forlornely to sorrow for him that certainly reioyces for himselfe Neuerthelesse for losse of friends forbid I no man to mourne but murmure and despaire Such our sorrowes are but the late tokens of our loue and must as wel be moderate as vnfaigned Neither should our hearts in this case be flinty nor effeminate nor our eyes alwayes dropping nor altogether dry For me I like neither to bee niggardly nor prodigall of my teares neither to be desperate nor ambitious of my complaints I say no more of this sorrow and losse because I would not packe them vp or decke them vp in words onely Thus much haue I written because I would not that a priuate houre should extinguish or ingrosse them What I haue herein presumed besides the comfort I trust you shall receiue by it this also shall comfort mee that you daigne to receiue it Your good Ladiships in all humble obseruance IOHN GAVLE A DEFIANCE TO DEATH 1 COR. 15.55 Oh death where is thy sting VPright Adam was made immortall but sinfull Adam begat all his Sonnes mortall like as hee had made himselfe Adam then is dead and so all Adams Sonnes but liue to dye The sentence of death past vpon vs in him wee are but borne to the execution thereof in our selues Euen as Adam himselfe for the necessity of dying Gen. 2.17 dyed the same day that hee sinned though for the euent and issue of death hee liued an hundred and thirty yeares after that day Gen. 5.5 So in him wee vnderwent the same necessity though it be for thousands of yeares after that wee are brought out to such an euent As a Malefactor is a dead man according to the law at that instant the sentence is pronounced vpon him though for some few dayes after the execution be deferred So according to Gods law and decree we are all dead in Adams doome though God bee yet pleased to prolong those things of ours wherein we must liue to dye accordingly as hee hath doomed vs. A malefactor is not executed sometimes of one two three foure fiue or sixe dayes after his iudgement Euen so were we all adiudged to dye before wee were but God with whom a thousand yeeres is but as one day hath appoynted the first second third fourth fifth or sixt thousand yeare of the world to be the day of our execution There is a more necessity vpon our death then our life No such need that hee that is not should be as that he that now liues should once dye The former may be supposed but this other is expressed It is appoynted for all men once to dye Heb. 9.27 There is alwaies a more necessity of the End then Meanes Not onely in execution but intention is death the end of life Mortinati sumus wee are borne to dye and dye from the time that we are borne Our birthday what is it but the beginning of our death-day our death-day what but the end of our birth day our birth-day precedes or happens before our death-day but our death-day is preferred before our birth-day The day of death is better then the day that one is borne Eccles 7.3 Did wee so consider it our birth-day is indeed a punishment and our death-day in comparison a reward Vt suppliciam non sit nascâ— mors efficit Death is as the remedy against the miseries of life and to dye is but to rest from those labours and cease from those sorrowes whereunto wee were borne What a plague and punishment were our birth-day into a sinfull and miserable world did not our death-day giue an end to all such euils both of sinne and paine I said our birth-day is the beginning of our death-day and our death-day but the end of our birth-day We are deceiued to call the day of our departure onely the day of our death On our last day indeed we cease to liue but from our first day wee beginne to dye Consummat hora mortem extrema non facit Our last day doth not cause death but consummate it doth rather finish then beginne it It is not the extream and vtmost minute of our life that brings death vpon vs it rather but manifests that death was alwayes with vs. As spake the Prophet of persecutions Wee are killed all the day long Psal 44.22 1 Cor. 15.31 and the Apostle Paul concerning his owne sufferings I dye daily So though no violence come against vs euen through natures owne frailty wee dye daily and by fatall mortality we are killed all the day long We dye daily from the time we first beginne to liue On our first day our life is the longest euery day after takes one day from our liues and
alwayes the Churches vse not onely to relate but commend the liues of the Faithfull being dead that so the liuing might come to know their conuersation and bee brought to follow their example Both for our information and imitation of this Saint deceased I could gladly as I might iustly inlarg my selfe to a volume of â—is prayse I flatter him not to say the best I can of him that is now better then I can tell how to say To pâ—ayse a good man after his death is not to flatter him but to prayse God for him besides a dead mans commendation is the liuings admonition Then whâ— should we forget whom we ought to imitate Why should his vertues dye with him before men on earth whose graces are gone before him and liue before the face of Christin heauen Let vs yet therefore speake of him when wee cannot now speake with him Let vs haue him now in our mindes while he is now no more before our eyes hauing now lost his presence let vs inioy him yet in his remembrance The life of our Honourable and deare Brother departed must I remember vnto you according to the two-fold state of life his prosperity his aduersity and in them both I commend vnto you his Christianity Hee is worthy the consideration in either state In as much as hee dranke deepe of a mixed Cup both had he his share of the honey-combe and withall was vineger and gall made his portion to drinke as a large talent was giuen him so an heauy load was layd vpon him God wonderfully both blessed and afflicted him because in both as himselfe both found and said God would try him to the full And indeede neither state did more then exercise and examine him for neither did the height of his prosperity puffâ— him vp nor could the depth of his aduersity depresse him In his prosperity I neuer heard but that he was iust and temperate This I can say hee was both humble and thankefull in his affliction 1. For his prosperity in particular and there to beginne with him as soone as he began to prosper He was a man as it is well knowne worshipfully borne religiously educated wisely instructed honorably promoted A man happy in a loyall wife ioyfull in vertuous children prosperous in worldly wealth Nor were his prosperity so commendable but for his Piety and charity For his Piety he serued his God hee reuerenced the Church hee heard the word he beleeued the truth he endeauoured the good His sighs and teares could witnesse his tender heartednesse so his prayers and meditations his heauenly mindednesse For his Charity it is well noted where euer he had any thing to d ee the first thing he did was alwaies to doe good Besides his oft and priuate almes his light moreouer shines in publique and both in City and country men may see his good workes Were I for memory and imitation sake to catelâ—gue or record his works I could declare when how where hee spared neither for hundreds nor for thousands to doe good But such a thing I rather thinke worthy a wide worlds eye then but only a small peoples care What he hath bestowed to pious and charitable vses amount to more then 11000. pounds And this the seuerall places endowed can truely witnesse and Parties benesitted shall thankfully confesse Both liuing and dying was he largely and variously beneficent As for the most things of common vse and neede these were the obiects of his liberality Hale Hospitals Prisons Schooles Colledges and Churches of some was he sole Founder to some a free Benefactour I might not amisse call him a man of good workes Hee was food to the hungry a garment to the naked comfort to the sicke a reliefe vnto the prisoner and an harbour euen to the stranger For besides those of his acquaintance many one had cause to blesse him that scarce euer saw his face One thing I may not here omit that when he had done much good for many hee further demanded of vs Who was there would haue him doe any thing for them And when he had freely and orderly giuen the last he gaue hee yet askâ— what else was for him to doe Though his good deeds were many and munificent yet such words shewed a minde beyond his deeds that whâ—n he had done well and sufficient yet was he not satisfied with doing good 2 Touching his aduersity his heauenly Father as hee had for a long time imbraced this his Sonne in the armes of his blessings so did his heauy hand scourge him sore now that hee receiued him Hee so cherished him as not to let him escape the whip And all to tell him he could not be so happy here as not to be miserable and must be miserable a while to be happy for euer During the time of his sinknesse his sufferings were both tedious and extreame so that comparing hâ—â— pâ—ines cogether with his yeares we wondred he could be so mightily afflicted and yet so 〈◊〉 subsist in his afflictions Both were his paines great and groanes many and for many 〈◊〉 together his 〈◊〉 and sleepe in comparison small or none His Bed was but as his Racke the place of naturall refreshment as an engine of extreame torment Nor was any time so restlesse to him as the common time of rest For all which he was neuer heard to charge God foolishly but alwayes in his wholesome Admonitions his holy Confessions his hearty Inuocations so improoued hee his breath to the last All those godly and comfortable sayings that proceeded from him should I now vtter them in particular I suppose it would bee another Sermon to recite them Lastly hauing both appoynted and perfected his whole bequests and so set his house in order and now quite renounced the world setting himselfe as he said to present his soule before God in Christ after a long and bitter agony and now towards the doomed and expected moment of this peaceable passage while our hearts groaned and eyes distilled in their deuotions his soule beganne already to be rauished in her heauenly visions and blessed contemplations and so he cheerefully flitting from vs left vs sadly looking on To insist long vpon the vertues of the Dead is in some case to adde vnto the sorrowes of the liuing For to heare his goodnesse praysed cannot but this way grieue vs namely in that wee haue lost so great a good We haue lost him wâ—â— haue lost him nor indeed is he lost but to vs. We haue some lost a Lord some lost a Friend some lost a Magistrate some lost a Master some lost a Peâ—re some lost a Patron one lost a Husband some lost a Father and to mine owne particular next a Father his losse was mine To reckon so manifold a losse my Teares begin to stop my speech and bid me bewaile it rather in sobbes then words But I refraine the rather to let loose mine owne passion at this time and place considering how vnfitting he is to comfort