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A19935	A funerall sermon preached the xxvi. day of Nouember in the yeare of our Lord M.D.LXXVI. in the parishe church of Caermerthyn, by the Reuerende Father in God, Richard by the permission of God, Bishoppe of Saint Dauys, at the buriall of the Right Honourable VValter Earle of Essex and Ewe ...	Davies, Richard, 1501-1581.; Waterhouse, Edward, Sir, 1535-1591.	1577 (1577)	STC 6364; ESTC S109385	23,626	69

it is tonuenient to dawbe a golden piller with myre clay Salomon was of that minde and therfore sayeth Be not thou hasty to be angry for anger resteth in the bosom of fooles I haue had occasion by that I noted in his Lordship to call to remembrance this saying of christ A good man of the good treasure of his hart bringeth forth good things And the euill man of the euill treasure of his heart bringeth forth euill thinges For though occasion were ministred yet shoulde you neuer heare him vtter any opprobrious wordes no not agaynst his aduersarie so pure and immaculate dyd he studie to preserue the Nobilitie of his minde There be some that count thēselues worthie honour and estimation when they teare God in peeces with chafing and horrible othes which this Noble Earle detested and abhorred as a matter not onely vndecent but also repugnant to the nature of true Nobilitie attributing due reuerence to the name of the Lorde and therby proouing the fountaynes of his Nobilitie to spring out of the hyll of the feare of god But what was his religion what fayth God had blessed him with what godly disposition he was of and how abundantly God had enriched hym with his holy spirite his confession of his fayth hys speaches nay rather his sermons in his sickenesse afore his death shall testifie for euer For I receyued by the relation of such as are woorthie credite and were present about him although not all yet many of hys learned godly sayings at that tyme Concerning hys saluation hee reposed his affiaunce and sure trust in the bloude of Iesus Christ. He forgaue all the world and by inuincible fayth apprehended layde holde and imbrased remission of his sinnes in the merites of the sacrifice of Christes bodie offered vppon the crosse for the sinnes of the world Trentals Masses Diriges Pardons and such other papisticall trifles he vtterly contemned as wicked and blasphemous agaynst the death and passion of christ He fared like the children of Israell in the wildernesse which when they were stinged with Serpentes euen to death yet when they looked vp to the brasen Serpent they were made whole safe and sounde So this Noble Earle grieued wyth the remembraunce of his former vnthankefull lyfe as he iudged immediately directed the eyes of hys mynde to the death and passion of Christ and forthwith felt such health of soule that he was replenished with ioy in the holy Ghost and all his delite was in meditacion of the ioy of the worlde to come and the fruition of the presence of God for euer In so much that fyue or sixe dayes before he dyed he shewed himselfe more lyke an Aungell from heauen then a man compassed with flesh and bloud My Lorde the Archbyshoppe of Dublin as I was enformed could mooue him in no question or article pertayning to saluation that he was not ready in and learnedly and godly resolued yea and made such aunsweres in all thinges that my Lord of Dublin had them in great admiration and affirmed that his speaches at that tyme shoulde serue him for sermous as long as he liued How truely he relinquished the vanitie of this worlde and how effectually he thyrsted after the ioy of the life to come his godly admonitions ministred vnto such as visited him and his heauenly lessons and exhortacions to his seruants shall testifie for euer for they were such that his seruaunts report they shall neuer forget and such as they shall be the better for whyles they lyue Thus haue I briefly and partly declared vnto you both the lyfe and death of this worthy Magistrate to the ende we shoulde consider how seriously God doth call vs to a reconing by the losse of such a good Magistrate Now a worde or two to shewe who be they that dye in the Lorde and then an ende They principally are sayd to dye in the Lorde which suffer death vnder the beast for confession of Christes religion for they properly dye in the Lords cause Such are the Martirs aswell of the primitiue church vnder the cruell Emperours as the martyrs of all ages sithence vnder Antichrist of Rome They also dye in the Lorde which though they dye not by the crueltie of the beast yet they dye in the faith of Iesus Christ and are therfore blessed Of this number was this godly Earle as I haue before declared Wherfore I will conclude and direct my speach for two or three wordes to this good Earle O noble Earle of Essex in thy tyme the Pearle of Nobilitie the myrrour of Vertue and woorthy qualities the childe of Chyualrie the beautifull flower of Englande the precious Iewell and comfort of VVales the trustie stay of Ireland Thy lyfe was most Honourable thy worthinesse incomparable thy death precious in the sight of God for thou dyedst in the Lord a right inheritour of the euerlasting kingdome of heauen Wherfore by authoritie of the heauenly oracle that S. Iohn was commaunded to write thou art to be pronounced blessed for euer Our sinnes hath shortned thy lyfe so that we coulde enioye the same no longer Thou hast notwithstanding bequeathed thy body to be buryed amongest vs here in Wales Of very duetie therefore O Noble Earle thy Tombe shall be with vs in reuerence estimation honour the fame and name of thy Nobilitie valiauntnesse vertue and woorthinesse shal neuer be forgotten but shall lyue and be kept with vs in memorie from generation to generation whyle the world standeth Deare beloued audience bycause the tyme is spent here wyll I abruptly make an end and neither deale with the thyrde part of my first diuision nor make recapitulacion of any matter I haue spoken of Onely let vs pray that God of hys mercy graunt vs grace to consider his holy will and pleasure declared vnto vs by so many messengers and especially by this message that we now receyue in the death of this noble Magistrate And that we may learne to dye in the Lorde as he hath done and that togither wyth him and all the elect of God we may participate a ioyfull resurrection in the world to come through our Sauiour Iesus Christ to whome wyth the Father and the holy Ghost be laude honour prayse for euer and euer Amen 1. Thomae 1. Agnes 1. Iohēs Crophul abauus 1. Theobaldū D. V. Io. D. V 1. D. Verdon 1. Marescalli 1. Will. Comes 1. Strongbow Comitis D'eureux 1. Wil. Domi. Com. Winton 1. Ceciliam 1. Ceciliae 1. eusdem nominis 1. Constabular 1. Consta. Vicecomitem Do. Fitzwaren Arch. Cant. Do. ●ernes 1. Cantabrigiae 1. Essex 1. Tierowen 1. 36. Annis Ecclesi 3. 1. 1. Cor. 10. 31 Psal. 119. 105. Reuel 1. 1. Dan. 7. 23. Illiricus inter Test. veritet pag. 387. Reue. 14. 1● Plutarch in Laconicis Reuel 1. 8. Reuel 1. 12. Iohn 16. 13. Esay 55. 1. 1. Iohn 5. 19. 1. Tim. 6. 7. Luke 12. 17. Exod. 16. 20 ▪ Eccle. 41. 1. Ecclesi 2. Reuel 21. 3 ▪ 22. 4. 1. Cor. 2. 9. 1. Cor. 9. 25. Luke 16. 1. Mat. 25. 15. 2. Cor. 5. 10. Mat. 25. 34. Wisd. 6. 2. Mat. 23. 13. Wisd. 6. 4. Amos. 6. 12. Esay 3. 14. Rom. 3. 20. 2. Sam. 12. 1. 1. King. 22. Iob. 34. 3● Comparison of true Nobilitie Panor lib. 20. de rebus gestis Alphonsi Prudence Fortitude Exod. 18. 21. Iustice. Iob. 29. 15. Suetonius Temperaunce Ecclesi 7. 9. Luke 6. 45. Numb 21. 9.

of God and therefore Paule the Apostle saith Whether you eate or drinke or whatsoeuer you doe doe all to the glorie of God. But such is the blindenesse and corruption of our nature that we of our selues are neuer able to satisfie our bounden required dutie Herein God therefore of his great mercy hath in the holy Scripture prouided Lanternes to our féete and light to our steppes which if we attende vnto shall deliuer vs from ignoraunce and guide vs in the right way So that the Scripture is as it were a Storehouse appointed for vs to repaire vnto and from thence to fetch out counsell instruction and direction that in all our dooings God may be glorified and we our selues in God edified I therefore considering the businesse we haue nowe in hande and the cause of our assemblye at this time that is the buriall of this Noble man haue repaired to the Scripture and from thence haue chosen out the péece of Scripture I haue read vnto you out of the xiiij chapter of the Apocalips In the which after we haue weyed opened and considered it we shall finde cause to extoll and magnifie the holy name of the Lord and shall also for our partes receyue sundry christian lessons and diuers godly instructions First we are to call to remembraunce some part of the Argument of this Booke of the Apocalips and some matters therin conteined wherevpon this our text doth depend part of the Argument of this Booke is a declaratiō and a foreknowledge opened by our Sauiour Iesus Christ in a vision to s. Iohn the Apostle and Euangelist of the variable state of the kingdome of Christ in this world the prosperitie and cruelty of the kingdome of Antichrist the successe and entertainment of the Gospell of Christ the persecutions which the Professors of the same shoulde susteyne of Antichrist and his ministers And amongst other Reuelations in the xiij Chapter mencion is made of a horrible Beast that s. Iohn séeth ryse out of the bottome of the Sea hauing seauen heads and tenne hornes to the which it was giuen to make warre against the Saintes and preuaile against them After that he séeth an other Beast comming out of the earth hauing two hornes like to the Lammes but spake lyke the Dragon and had power to doe all thinges that the first Beast coulde doe By the former Beast is vnderstoode the Empire of Rome which vnreasonably and beastly persecuted the Christians in the primitiue Church Daniell the Prophet in the vij Chapter doth terme the Empire a Beast And s. Ierome expounding that place of Daniell sayth by the Beast he meaneth the Empire of Rome by the seconde Beast is vnderstood the Popedome in cruelty and shedding of bloud nothing inferiour to the former Beast as Adrian Byshop of Rome testified saying Nos succedimus Romulo in effutione sanguinis non Petro in predicatione verbi We sayth he succéede Romulus in shedding of bloud and not Peter in preaching of the worde The instruments of the cruell persecution of Christians doe appeare vnto s. Iohn in the forme and figure of monstruous noysome beastes partly bicause the Saintes of God shall haue at their handes no more pittie compassion or ciuill order shewed then if they fell to the daūger of Leopards Lions Woolfes or Beares ▪ Malefactors and transgressors of lawes whatsoeuer their offence is though it were treason shall haue lawe obserued shall holde vp their hande and speake for themselues and shall finde some orderly dealing but the Professors of Gods word vnder those cruell beastes shall be tormented butchered torne and slayne without law mercy compassion or any humanitie The histories of the old time and the experience of these our dayes are foorthcomming to beare witnesse of this truth Now least the Saints for feare of these horrible beastes shoulde forsake the profession of the Gospell and take vpon them the marke of the Beast in their forheades and so enter to doubt that if they shoulde lose this lyfe there were no reward foorth-comming for constant Martirdome nor no other lyfe but this to be looked for Amongst other matters of consolation reuealed to s. Iohn he is here by a voyce from heauen commaunded to write Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lorde and so foorth In these words the Saints of God may find a sufficient consolacion and cause of good courage to enter the combat with the cruell beasts being hereby assured that there is a rewarde ordeyned of God for his Saintes in Heauen and that there remayneth a lyfe of euerlasting blisse after the tyme of this troublesome worlde And therefore the lesse cause to feare the fiercenesse of the beastes whose power reacheth no further then this temporall transitorie lyfe Our text we haue in hand we will deuide into thrée parts The first is of the assuraunce authoritie of the doctrine herein comprehended The seconde the doctrine it selfe that s. Iohn is commaunded to write The thirde is a declaration of the same by circumstances of these parts or so many of these as conuenient time will serue we will by the helpe of God speake and deale wyth But first let vs pray c. Here the Prayer was made Audiui vocem de coelo dicentem c. I hearde a voyce from Heauen saying write c. HEre S. Iohn seemeth to allude to the maner commonly receyued amongest all people which is to committe to wryting such knowledge of profytable and necessarie matters as are found out to be certayne vndoubted and sure and so to transmit the same to the posteritie The credit and authoritie of matters founde out and committed to wryting depende much vpon the first authours as the authoritie of the Lawes of the Athenians and Lacedemonians depended vpon the credite of Solon and Lycurgus the authours of the same The authour of thys doctrine that s. Iohn is commaunded to write is God himselfe for he saith I hearde a voyce from heauen and further ioyneth therto euen so sayth the spirite This is therefore the voyce of the sonne of God our Lord Iesus Christ for it is his voyce that s. Iohn in the beginning of the Reuelacion hearde as the voyce of a trumpet saying I am α and ω the first and the last that thou seest wryte in a booke sende to the seuen churches in Asia It is he that s. Iohn sawe sitting betweene the seauen golden Candlestickes lyke to the sonne of man Christ whyle as yet he was conuersant with his disciples promysed to doe all things to teach and to speake in the Church by the spirite and here now the spirite teacheth and confirmeth this doctrine for in the text foloweth euen so sayth the spirite Thus we haue certaintie and assuraunce that the wordes which are here mencioned be the wordes of Iesus Christ and that this is a celestial oracle which is lawfull for no man to doubt of Christ from heauen doth minister the

shall misse so Noble and so worthy a Ruler and Magistrate that bore them so great affection so ready to benefite all and hurt none and for the high calling he was of so able to pleasure and to doe good Although I say this countrey by the death of this Noble Earle is most earnestly and effectually cited to appere before the Lord to fall to a reconing yet do I beleeue that the Queenes Maiestie hir highnesse Counsell all the Nobilitie of the realme may hereby receyue admonition and cause of further circumspection and aduigilancie For such valiaunt and couragious Noble men are the bulwarks and walles of defence of the whole realme They say the realme is walled about bycause it is enuironned with the sea but I holde rather with their iudgements that make the side litie and true heartes of the subiectes and especially of such of the Nobilitie that haue made themselues by Gods especial grace expert to gouerne and rule vnder hir Maiestie aswel in warre as peace the strong towers of defence both of hir Maiestie and hir highnesse realme this Noble Earle was one of these number For I beleeue there is no Prince in the worlde that had a more faythfull Noble subiect then hir Maiestie had of him in his tyme And for the notable valiantnesse experience and vertues that were in him I am perswaded that hir Maiestie if he had liued might haue vsed his seruice to be a terrour to all enimies forreine or domestical And now that I may speak somewhat of his great Nobilitie his excellent vertuous worthie qualities First I thinke I may say this much in a generalitie that it was easie for a man of any iudgement that should beholde his countenance behauiour to finde in him Nobilitie Maiestie and Honour planted by the especiall gift of God euen from his Mothers wombe When I consider the nature of Nobilitie with the causes efficient and finall It seemeth vnto me that Nobilitie may be compared vnto a riuer or a floud which in the originall issueth out of foure principal Welles all the foure rise out of the compasse of one hill The Welles of nobilitie are Prudence Fortitude Iustice and Temperaunce the hill whēce they spring is the feare of God or true religiō Although this worthie Earle by progenie was of noble bloude whose auncetours were of great Honour which of it selfe if a man degenerate not to farre from his forefathers deserueth honourable acceptation in this worlde yet was he not therewith satisfied as it may appere by his study and traueyle in his life time for he seemed to be of that iudgement that Alphonsus king of Aragon of whome we reade in stories was of When a certayne man tooke in hande to set out the lande and praise of his Nobilitie he stoode much in recitall that he was a King a kinges sonne a kinges Nephew a kinges brother and such like tytles The king interrupting his tale aunswered that he neuer esteemed much of that kinde of glorie and that it was the praise and commendacion of his auncetours who by vertue and woorthye qualities had deserued such high callinges and honour and not of him And that his prayse stoode not in that which might fall vnto him by testament but in the imitacion and perfourming of the noble actes prowesse and valiauntnesse of his forefathers This Noble Earle lykewise not aunswered to hys expectacion in that he was a Noble man by bloude and inheritaunce gaue hymselfe whollye all the dayes of hys lyfe to purchase and wynne the Nobilitie that springeth immediately from the very originall fountaines of the same as partly I will put you in remembraunce of We will beginne with Prudence which may be thus defined Prudence is a power or facultie of the minde giuen of God whereby man is made wyse prouident and circumspect and whereby man attayneth knowledge cunning and expertnesse in all matters that the children of men haue to deale with in this worlde This Noble Earle was of great wysedome deepe iudgement graue consideratyon and so blessed wyth vnderstanding experience and manifolde vertues and giftes of God that he was right woorthy to serue hir Maiesty in princely and weighty affaires both in warre and peace He was of such prudent and excellent discretion that he had a speciall grace to entertayne all states of men superiour equall and inferiour with such comelynesse and decencie that for ciuilitie humanitie maners honourable behauiour he was a paterne an example for Nobilitie to imitate and to follow In his youth he bestowed not the tyme in vanitie ydlenesse or voluptuousnesse but in atchieuing and winning of such sciences properties vertues which might beautifie and increase his Nobilitie and preuayled therin so effectually that he became excellent in all kinde of knowledge and qualities meete commendable or necessarie for a man of honour concerning diuine matters I haue in my tyme conferred with his Lordshippe and therefore can say somewhat therein and amongest others one thing is notable which in conference I receyued at hys mouth He affirmed thys in effect that there was nothing in the worlde that coulde blemish and abase the Heroicall nature of Nobilitie so much as to haue the eyes of vnderstanding so closed and shutte vp that a man in honour shoulde not be able to discerne betwixt true religion the Hypocriticall false religion betwixt the right worshipping of God and Idolatry betwixt the traditions of men and Gods worde but remayne subiect to lyes and supersticion and to call badde good and good badde and concluded that to be free from this seruill state was a necessarie pointe of true Nobilitie He therfore in his tyme had diligently traueyled in the Scriptures and so furnished himself with principles of christian Religiō that he was able readilye to discerne Sermons and disputacions and to finde out who had veritie on their syde and also probably to speake with authoritie of scripture in matters of controuersie His vnderstanding by the especiall work of the holy Ghost was so illuminate that he claue and drew to true Christian religion as the adamant stone cleaueth and draweth to steele His Lordship therefore furthered and fauoured all Preachers of Gods worde so that whosoeuer wyll iudge of the successe of Christes religion by humane reason must confesse that the Gospell hath lost a mightie Protectour and an earnest defender But God in setting out of his worde vseth to worke besyde the expectacion of man and behinde the reache of reason I haue yet further to speake of his Lordship that I beleeue there be very fewe Noble men in Englande more ready and expert in Chronicles Hystories Genealogies and Petigrues of Noble men and noble houses not only within the Realme but also in forreine realmes then this Noble Earle was in his time He excelled in descrying and blasing of Armes in all skill pertayning thereto and to be short his vnderstanding and capacitie was so liuely and