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A88381	Enchiridion judicum, or, Jehosaphats charge to his judges, opened, in a sermon before the Right Honourable, the judges, and the right worshipful, the sheriffe of the county palatine of Lancast. Together with Catastrophe magnatum, or, King Davids lamentation, at Prince Abners incineration. In a sermon meditated on the fall, and preached at the funeral of the Right Worshipful John Atherton of Atherton Esq; high-sheriffe of the county palatine of Lanc. / By John Livesey minister of the Gospel at Atherton.	Livesey, John.	1657 (1657)	Wing L2594E; Thomason E1582_2; ESTC R208948	163,446	337

live not in the highest Nobles in the middle poor men in the lowest but all in one region All meet together in the grave this is commune hominum diversorium the common Inne of all mankinde The Scripture and the Sepulchre know no difference It is not the royalty of the Pallace it is not the pomp and Majesty of the Prince nor the piety of the Prophet it is not the noblenesse of your birth it is not the pregnancy of your parts that can exempt you from Death nor priviledge persons of quality from Mortality For all your Princely houses your vast estates your high descent your great authority and command your famous victories Vide Dionys Carthus de 4. Noviss de morte Artic. 13. p. 53. sq The Grave shall bee your bed sheets shall bee your shrines the clods of the vallyes shall bee your cover the Grasse shall bee your carpet death will demand his due from his sentence there is no appeal from his arrest no bale Paracelsus shows the way to revive a dead bird not a dead man lib. 4. de natura rerum It is not Hippocrates or Paracelsus not mortal men nor mortal means that can keep you an hour in life beyond the prefixed time of death What is man the noblest wisest learnedst man hee is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 regula ac mensura omnium animantium whatever excellencies bee scattered in the other creatures are summed up in man Sennert Tom. 1. p. 113 Seneca propounds that question and gives the answer quodlibet quassum vas imbecillum corpus fragile nudum suapte natura ad omnem fortunae contumeliam projectum cujuslibet ferae pabulum ex infirmis fluidisque contextum c. what is life Paracels de Natura rerum lib. 4 it is but a vapour a little warm breath as one saith tun'd in and out by the nostrils a very narrow passage and soon stopped Alas wee blow away our lives as often as wee blow away our breathes who can admire that men live no longer rather wee may admire that wee dye no sooner wee were old enough to dye so soon as ever wee began to live In the 6th of the Revelations wee read of four Horses Of a White Horse on him sate Truth verse 2. Of a Red Horse on him sate War vers 4. Of a Black Horse on him sate Famine vers 5. Of a Pale Horse on him rides Death vers 8. As Men so Death rides either for greater pomp or for greater speed or for greater strength Wee are all posting towards Death and Death is mounted riding towards us It is not possible but wee shall meet As there is a Terra quam terimus and a Terra quam quaerimus and a Terra quam gerimus so there is a Terra quae e●imus Dust wee are high and low and unto dust wee must return Will you have Authentick Testimonies and clear Instances Consult Josh 23.14 Joshua a worthy Prince a truly valiant and victorious General a mirrour of piety and magnanimity speaking of Death Behold saith hee I am going this day the way of all the Earth Consult that speech of holy Job chap. 30.23 I know thou wilt bring mee to death and death will bring mee to the grave which is the house appointed for all the living and stored with Myriads of the dead and Job 3.13,14 Then had I been at rest with Kings and Counsellors of the earth which built desolate places for themselves Take one for all Psal 82.6 I have said yee are Gods and the children of the most high but yee shall dye like men Ennead lib. 9. cap. 8. contra Gnosticos Plotinus thinks the stars have eyes and see us ears and hear us It cannot bee thought saith hee but that they are Gods certainly the stars are not Gods but those Gods are stars stars of the first magnitude but they may bee numbred amongst the Sporades they are wandring stars they cannot long keep their station Their daies upon earth are but a shadow and there is no long abiding Hormisda observed that in Rome that everlasting City as Am. Marcellinus called it men dyed as in other places Where is that Wisdome which folly hath not tainted that Honour which envy hath not stained that Strength which sicknesse hath not impaired where is the body which bad humours never molested the beauty that age shall not or hath not defaced The Prince or Great man that is not fallen or shall not fall one day in Israel Hoc muta cadavera clamant Arguments to convince I need not sure to urge or inlarge nor do I purpose to produce or press many The decree is sealed the sentence shall never bee reversed Moth Tamuth yee shall die the death or in dying yee shall dye you have tasted the forbidden fruit Is there not with you even with you Yee Princes and Great men Is there not with you sin against the Lord were not you sinners as soon as Creatures It is appointed for all men once to dye Lazarus dyed twice but sure all once Alas you carry death about you every day and every way Death in its causes and in its symptoms Death runs rides and walks hand in hand with you your sins in short will bring you as low as the dust your sins commonly are not common sins and it may bee your falls shall not bee common falls they may bee much sooner and sadder than others Every man living shall have his fit of dying God hath appointed it his counsel shall stand Behold the Rock whence you were digged Consider your original Non exqu●lilibet humo homo sed exghaphar adamah i.e. Ex pinguissima mollissima Ar. Montan. the matter and mettle of which you are composed Dust yee are ex pulvere limoso lutoso you must bee meat for Worms before you can bee mates for Angels May not you say of your selves as did those poor distressed oppressed ones Neh. 5.5 Our flesh is as the flesh of our Brethren and all flesh is grasse which in the morning though green and flourishing yet in the evening cut down it is withering Our skins and bloods are much alike omnis sanguis est concolor cutem habemus communem si non vestem wherein are you from others differenced only a few chips more are taken off which makes you something neater but more tender and weaker Or is the difference in your empty Names and Titles of honour which are as mortal as your selves Notable is that of Seneca Conditor ille generis humani non natalibus nec nominum claritate nos distinxit nisi cum sumus aequat omnes cinis Senec. Ep. 91 c. Cardinalis Barbarini poemata pag. 209 Jactet nunc stemmata gentis Ignotos extrema dies insignibus aequat Behold the diseases the sicknesses under which you have sometimes laboured who can enumerate the maladies the Aches pains the Leprosy Dropsy Stone strangury to which you are exposed Notable is that of

of the living as they return from funerals it is said they pluck up the grass and cast it into the air repeating those words of the Psalmist They shall flourish and put forth as the grasse of the Earth Amongst the Romans it is said it was an usual saying of a dead friend abiit reversurus est Hee is gone but will come again Beloved Aug. Ep. 6. Melch. Ad. in Luth. p. 154 This Great man shall rise again comfort your selves in this you shall see him again and know and love him better than ever As Augustin spoke to the Lady Italica and Luther at his last supper Thirdly To conclude this The Lord hath a special care of your dead relations Keeps their very bones Psal 34.20 Hee leaves not his in the dust Rizpah watched over the bodies of the sons of Saul and guarded them against the fowles of the air 2 Sam. 21.10 but the Lord hath greater care of his children living dying and dead Observ 2. It is every mans duty to take notice of and to lay to heart the death of great men especially if they bee good men Know yee not How was Sauls death lamented Saul P. Mart. 2 Sam. 1.19 Sq. for whose salvation wee have nothing to say Nullum uspiam extat vestigium verae paenitentiae yet David and all with him rent their cloaths and wept hearing of his and Jonathans death The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places how are the mighty fallen Jonathan was a chief Patient in this woful tragedy but not the only subject of this doleful elegy Vide Perer. de laude Mosis Moses was a gallant man an excellent Philosopher more ancient than Socrates or Trismegist A notable Poet the Pen-man of eleven Psalms as Hierom thinks from the eighty eight to the hundreth though De Dieu saith some think Adam penned and sang the ninety second the morning after his creation how was Moses his death lamented in the Plains of Moab Vide Lud. de Dieu in Psal 92 Deut. 34,8 was not a book of Lamentation writ upon the occasion of Josiahs Death It is thought that that sad Poem or doleful ditty which Nazianzen could never read without tears lamentation was composed by the Prophet Jeremiah Orat. 12. mihi pag. 202 upon the fall of that most incomparable and unparalleld Prince whereof mention is made in the sacred Annales Jeremiah lamented for Josiah and all the singing men and singing women speak of Josiah in their Lamentations to this day and made them an Ordinance in Israel c. 2 Chron. 35.25 During the Captivity sundry Fasts were observed on set daies and on sad occasions The Fast of the fourth month the Fast of the fifth Zechar. 8.9 the Fast of the seventh and of the tenth Gedaliah the Protectour of the remnant of the Jews after their King was carried away captive was slain on the seventh month therefore they fasted and mourned Wee may write down this day this very day and mourn for the Death and Fall of this Prince and Great man the children yet unborn may also observe it when wee shall bee laid in dust Notable to this in hand is that of King Joash 2 King 13.14 Mark his pathetical exclamation and his plausible acclamation O my Father My Father the Chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof observe what lamentation hee makes though a wicked King And devout men carried Stephen to his burial and made great lamentation over him the Syriack reads it Act. 8.2 Gibre Mehemene Faithful men carried Stephen to his bed they wept for him bitterly or vehemently The Priests and sometimes Prophets too were not allowed upon special considerations in the Old Testament to mourn Ezek. 24.16 Thou shalt not weep nor mourn nor shall thy tears run down make no mourning for the dead forbear to cry c. but if wee bound our sorrows within the precinct of that Apostolical precept not mourning as men without hope Junius Brutus Valerius Poplicola Augustus c. viri optime de Rep. meriti annuo luctu fuerunt defleti wee may bee afflicted wee ought to weep and mourn our laughter should bee turned into mourning and our joy into heaviness Christ himself wept over dead Lazarus wee may over this Prince and Great man who was so useful an instrument both to Church and State grandis in eum est pietas as Jerom speaks of another Quae ratio Why are wee to take notice of and to lay to heart the Falls of Princes and Great men First Because when such men are taken away by death then Judgements hasten and post on apace Their dissolution is an evident demonstration of the Lords indignation upon the death of Crassus such miseries befel the Roman State saith the Oratour that life was not so much taken from him as a punishment as death bestowed on him as a reward In 2 Chron. 34.24 I will bring evil upon this place saith the Lord who owns all paenal evils and upon the Inhabitants thereof even all the curses that are written in this book why so see verse 25. Because they have forsaken mee and have burned incense unto other Gods Psal 39.11 Jer. 25.6 Lam. 3.39 Sin is the foundation of punishment God doth not punish nor afflict ordinarily but in case of sin Read on But as for Josiah the King of Judah say you unto him because thy heart was tender and thou didst humble thy self before God when thou heardest his words against this place and against the Inhabitants thereof and humblest thy self before mee Behold I will gather Thee to thy Fathers thou shalt bee gathered to thy grave in peace neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place and upon the Inhabitants thereof The Philosopher speaking of the Stars hath this passage when they shoot it is a sign of high winds following When zealous Magistrates Chytr de morte p. 75 and faithful Ministers shoot and slide into the earth such as survive may sadly conclude They are taken away from the evil to come Isa 57.1 Methusalem that great and godly Patriarch died Eo anno quo caepit diluvium Cartw. Electa Targumico-rabbinica in Gen. 5. 25 7. 4 Vide Philon. ● lib. 2. de Vita Mosis Senec. lib. 3. Qu. Nat cap. 27. Sq. Perer. in Gen. p. 338 the very year the flood came I know some have asserted that hee lived fourteen years after it and others say hee died seven daies before it His very name signified a messenger of death his death presaged that fearful Inundation the causes whereof I shall not now so mu●h as hint at Augustin that great Ornament and Muniment of Hippo was taken away by death immediately before the barbarous Goths and Vandals sacked that City in which hee lived Ambrose his death was afore-runner of Italies ruine as Chytraeus reports and Luthers death according to his prediction was a fore-runner of

Casmannus Angelograph p. 2. cap. 10. Aq. p. 1. q. 113. Att. 4. Est lib. 2. dist 11 c. this conduceth very much to your present safety and security It is queried in the Schools whether every man hath his particular Tutelar Angel assigned him for his custody Most of them and many of the Fathers they tell you answer it positively Our Orthodox Divines conceive it a platonick conceit no Scripture Truth Camero sufficiently and solidly refutes it Camero prael in Mat. 18.10 This is a very certain Truth the Angels are appointed for the custody of men they have a special charge to safeguard such men as you And as they are invisible so they are invincible Nay the Lord himself is your pavilion he hath ingaged himself to be a Sanctuary an hiding place a shield and refuge To the Oppressed Psal 9.9 The Lord will bee a refuge for the oppressed a refuge in time of trouble To such as walk uprightly Psal 84.11 To such as are exiled and banished Ezek 11.16 Though I have scattered them among the Countries yet I will bee to them as a little Sanctuary or a Sanctuary for a little time To such as trust in him Prov. 30.5 To the meek ones of the earth Zeph. 2.3 To such as keep the word of his patience Rev. 3.10 To such as hide his people in a storm God will hide such people as Rahab c. To the humble person Job 22.29 To such as say not a confederacy with them that say a confederacy Isa 8 12.14 To such as are much in prayer he will not keep such from him in a storm as will not be kept from him in a calm Heaven ever stands open for such it fears no Devils the highest they can go is the air Psal 32.6,7 Ephes 2.2 To such as do Justice and Judgement Hee that walketh or worketh righteously and speaketh uprightly that despiseth the gain of oppression and shakes his hands from holding of bribes doth not this concern you See Isa 33.15,16 My Lords Now mark what follows Hee shall dwell on high he shall be as safe as castled or immured in some invincible Tower or impregnable City Walls and bulwarks shall not be His Salvation but Salvation shall bee for walls and bulwarks Chap. 50.7 Psal 90.1 In Jeremies Prophesy God himself is stiled the Habitation of Justice Justice dwells with him and just men too Such need not lye down nor rise up in fear If there bee one that executeth Justice and I will spare it Jer. 5.1 Will the Lord spare It and not Him will hee shew such favour to the City for the sake or such a man and will hee not be so favourable to one such man if found in the City Fifthly It is a conscience-quieting and soul-solacing act As there is joy in the presence of the Angels when a sinner repents unfainedly so when one by the sword of Justice dies deservedly And this will bee your rejoycing the testimony of your consciences that in simplicity and godly sincerity you have administred Justice exactly amongst us When with Hezekiah you turn your faces to the wall God will in mercy turn his face towards you if you walk before him in truth and with a perfect heart doing that which is Just in his sight Samuel was one of the last and one of the best Judges that ever Israel had hee purged the Church from Idolatry hee restored Religion to its purity hee executed Justice and Judgement impartially and herein hee comforts himself exceedingly I have walked saith hee before you from my child-hood unto this day 1 Sam. 12.2,3,4 In my minority when I was a Levite doing the service of the Sanctuary and since I came to more maturity administring Justice as a Judge Here I am and witnesse against mee who can before the Lord and his anointed your King Saul whose Oxe have I taken or whom have I defrauded or of whose hands have I received any bribe q. d. if any bribery or cruelty any injustice or partiality can be justly charged upon mee let them now speak Beati qui gaudent quando intrant ad cor suum nihil mali ibi inveniunt saith Augustin they are blessed who can come unto their houses Ener in Psal 33 and unto their hearts and finde no guilt there Thus it was with that good man Samuel Augustin pleaseth himself much with the comparison of an evil corroding conscience to a scoulding discontented wife hee hath it often I finde it in his Enarrations upon the 33. Psalm and upon the 35. Psalm c. Qui habent malas uxores quommodo exeunt ad forum gaudent caepit hora esse qua intraturi sunt in domum suam contristantur As they vex men infinitely so doth a guilty conscience but as a good wife so a good conscience is a continual feast Moses solaced himself in the integrity of his heart and Job also Numb 16.15 Job 29.14.15 When other covetous Caitiffs unjust wretches shall have fears falling upon them and anguish of spirit which makes their bones shake and tremble the hairs of their heads stand up their heart strings burst and break when the terrours of Hell shall take hold upon their filthy consciences Then you My Lords who discharge your duties and high trust reposed in you shall have the Honour of it in life and the comfort of it in death Sixthly Not to do Justice and Judgement is a sin most hainous and abominable it is malum complexum it is peccatum complicatum a big-belly'd Evil a land desolating sin that God will bee avenged on It is a sad charge Jer. 5.28 Among my people are found wicked men they over-pass the deeds of the wicked i.e. they are worse than Turks and Pagans they judge not the cause of the Fatherlesse Such as are least able to right themselves should have most help from others but the right of the needy they do not judge Shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this To think any sin little is no little sin yet some are greater than others and this is one of the greatest saith the Lord yea hee will surely visit for these things Amos 5.12 I know saith God your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins peccata vestra valida fortia as Drusius Gravia copiosa saith Vatablus magnopere me irritantia Ribera obstinata enormia scelera vestra vidi saith Lambertus on the Text words are wanting to expresse the sinfulnesse of their sins the Original is more full and emphatical your boney sins but what were they They afflict the just they take a bribe they turn aside the poor in the gate from the right therefore saith the Lord I hate and despise your Feast-daies I will not smell in your solemn assemblies let judgement run down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream vers 21. to the 25. There hath been much wrestling with God in prayer and soul-afflicting yet prayers are

the German wars Vide Luth. in Isa 57.1 I can do nothing saith God till thou bee come thither Gen. 19.22 non posse se dixit quod sine dubio poterat per potentiam non poterat per justitiam saith one of the Ancients Aug. Sence Non posse praetenditur non velle in causa est No sooner was Lot in Zoar but the Lord rained down fire and brimstone upon Sodome Such stand in the gap to turn away the Lords wrath but when they are removed what remains to stop the current of divine vengeance when the precious fruits of the earth are gathered into the barn the hedges are broken down the beasts over-run all When the Jewels are taken out of the Trunk the courser things are thrown over-board when Noah is housed in the Ark his Pella the fountains of the deep are broken open Woe is mee saith the Prophet Micah The Good man the Great man is perished out of the Earth Psal 12.1 De contemptu mortis and David cries and praies Help Lord as if the Heavens had been falling on him Heinsius reports that the Sun with-drew its shine and was eclypsed when Joseph Scaliger dyed Darkness seizeth upon us in these parts wee have had many of quality lately taken from us it is well if the Lords wrath bee not comming upon us Secondly Because when they fall the persons with whom they conversed Jer. 48.25 Zech. 10.4 the places in which they lived are exceedingly weakened As in the Text And I am this day weak And are not wee this day weak Behold the Family is it not a weak Family a disconsolate Widdow tender sickly children A weak Town hee was under the most high our strength and munition our defence and protection Should wee unite our hearts and hands our power and policy Alas what can wee do Our strength is weaknesse our wisdome foolishnesse As Jehosaphat said so wee say O Lord wee know not what to do but our eyes are towards thee In uno Caesare multi insunt Marii There are many men in one Great man One Josiah in a Kingdome one Lot in a City one Paul in a Ship is of more value and vertue than many thousands Labans family fared the better for Jacobs sake Pharaohs Court and Kingdome fared better for Josephs sake and hath not this Town these parts of the Country fared much better for this great mans sake Every great man if hee bee a good man is a great blessing and strengthening to the place in which hee lives a blessing by his presence a blessing by his prayers a blessing by his example which is as a Looking-glasse for others to dress themselves by a blessing by his counsels The death of faithful Ministers weakens wonderfully the weapons of their warfare are mighty with God 2 King 2.12 and mighty through God The death of zealous Magistrates weakens infinitely but I must not expatiate See that notable Text Judges 18 7. when there was no Magistrate in Laish ●…n increased and ruine approached Thirdly Because when such fall sin commonly increaseth exceedingly Not only the Laws but the lives of great men it truly godly give a shrewd check to daring impieties and prophanesse many whose hands only were chained but their hearts not changed may break our and fall off returning with the dog to his vomit and the Sow to wallow in the mire again It is not unknown to hundreds of us within these walls that this great mans countenance had special influence upon all the vile wretches that came nigh unto him Hee could do very much with a look I could not in that compare him to any other but Luther De vita Lutheri p. 168 Melchior Adams reports of him that hee had such a Leonine aspect ut oculorum suorum intentionem rectâ aspiciendo non omnes ferre possunt How was the prophanation of the Lords day prevented Travellers according to Law punished drunkennesse subdued c. Tremble godly souls to think how the eye of Gods glory is like to bee provoked let rivers of waters run down your eyes Is there not matter of lamentation when the winds are rising the Sea swelling the Heavens lowring and the enemy approaching to behold the souldiers gasping the Pilots and Steers-men dead upon the deck How shall the little flock bee kept out of the jaws and paws of the wild boar and Beasts of prey O pray Lord remember thy Lilly amongst the Thorns thy Lambs amongst the Wolves thy love amongst the daughters The Saints are as speckled birds Jer. 12.9 Jerem. 12.9 All about them are enemies to them Fourthly Because otherwise they cannot make a right use and improvement of their death and dissolution It is the Lords will that wee should make a right good use of his rod upon others and of the fall of others Quest What use should wee that survive now make of this Princes dissolution Answer A threefold Use An Honourable Use An Charitable Use An Profitable Use An Honourable Vse in relation to God acknowledging his power and supremacy his soveraignty and authority over man to kill or make alive to deliver from death or to death A Charitable Vse in relation to them who are afflicted or taken away by death not concluding them the greatest sinners because they are the greatest sufferers or that it is for some notorious impiety that they are cut off in the midst of their daies Their death may bee in mercy to them in judgement to us A Profitable Vse in reference unto our selves wee should learn thence to walk humbly to put our hearts in order to see what the bitter fruit of sin is c. Though the occasion of our comming together this evening bee very sad yet the opportunity is sweet if wee can learn rightly to improve this great mans fall I remember Plotinus hath this passage Men should so live and so die that others might learn some good from them both living and dying Anatomists and Physitians advantage themselves by dissecting dead bodies and prying into the inward parts wee may spiritually profit our selves by a serious consideration and observation of his dispensations in the Fall of Princes and Great men Fifthly Not to take notice of not to lay to heart the death of such men is a God-provoking sin a fruit of sin and the cause of many horrid iniquities and grievous transgressions This inconsideratenesse is that which the Prophet checked and much lamented Isa 57.1 None considereth that they are taken away from the evil to come none pondered it in their hearts they did not search into it what should bee the minde and end of God in it God laies it to mens charge that they lay not those things unto their hearts as if personal mortality were not sometimes a presage of publick misery This is a direct violation of a divine injunction Eccles 7.3 The living shall lay it upon their hearts Is not the hand of God in this sad