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A02242	A sermon, at the funeral solemnitie of the most high and mighty Prince Ferdinandus, the late Emperour of most famous memorye holden in the Cathedrall Churche of saint Paule in London, the third of October. 1564. Made by the reuerend father in God, Edmund Grindall, bishop of London.	Grindal, Edmund, 1519?-1583.	1564 (1564)	STC 12377; ESTC S103449	21,147	38

by burning candels is signified the light of faith and Christian conuersacion the very fruite of true fayth and so in sūme that we should be altogether in a readines Saint Peter also when he maketh mention of the ende of al thinges to be at hand vseth much like exhortacion Be ye sober saith he and vigilant in praier signifieng thereby that temperaunce in meates and drinkes sobrietie of conuersation in al the partes of our life vigilancie and continuaūce in praier and other godly exercises are sure signes that we make preparation for death and for the comming of Christ. Of such like exhortaciō to prepare against death the scriptures are most full so plaine that this part needeth no long prosecution Now for the second part there be two causes that ought if we be not altogether vnsensible to moue vs to prepare for death The one is the necessitie of death The other is the vncertaintie therof The ineuitable necessitie of death is very wel expressed by saint Paule in these wordes Statutum est omnibus hominibus semel mori post hoc iudic●um It is ordained or it is a statute concluded and enacted in the high court of the heauenly Parliament such a statute as neuer shalbe repealed y t al men of what estate o● condicion so euer they be shal once die and after that foloweth the iudgement The wise man sayth Moritur doctus simul et indoctus The learned vnlearned both die The Ethnickes also did very wel expresse this necessity of death For Horace saith thus Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumque turres Pale death or death that maketh the most beutyfull and best couloured faces pale doth knocke as indifferently at princes palaces as at poore mens cottages An other Poet hath these woordes Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat Death maketh scepters and mattockes equal and assone arresteth he the Prince that carieth the scepter as the poore man that diggeth with the mattocke Dauid calleth death Viam vniuersae carnis the way● of all flesh But what needeth many testimonies in so plain a matter so vniuersally knowen by dayly experience in all places and times Now as concerning the vncertaintie of death which is the second and greatest cause to moue vs to be in redines This may be truly affirmed that as nothing is more certaine then that death wil come so is there nothing more vncertaine then the houre when it wyll come And therfore is our life in the scriptures cōpared to things that vpon light and sodaine causes are alterable as grasse a flower shadow smoke vapour and death resembled to the stealing in of a theefe to a snare intangling the 〈◊〉 and the hooke catching the fishe vnwares This 〈◊〉 is also touched in my text Quia qua hora nō putatis c For the Lord will come at the houre which ye thincke not But both these things shall appeare more clerely by examples And to begin first with thexamples of the latter parte Nothing doth more euidently declare the vncerteinty of death thē the sodaine deathes of persons of all ages and degrees of which we finde plenty both in prophane histories and in the Scriptures Plinie in the seuenth booke of his naturall history hath a whole Chapiter intituled De mortibus repentinis And the like Chapiter hath Valerius Maximus where they write that many vpō most light causes sodenly haue died One at Rome as he went forth at his chāber doore did but stricke his finger a litle on the dore cheke and immediatly fel downe deade An other did but stumble as he wēt forth and died forthwith An Ambassadour of the Rhodians after he had declared his message to the Senate departing forth of the Counsell chamber fell downe by the waye sodenly and there died Aeschilus the Poete lieng on slepe bare headed nere the Sea a great seafowle thinkyng his head to be a stone whereon he might breake the shelfishr whiche he caried lette it fall on hys heade wherewith he was killed out of hande Luciane a man in deede learned and eloquent but a derider of all religion and namely a blasphemer of Christian religion trauailing by the way was sodeinlye set vpon wurried with dogs a death worthy such a blasphemer and a terrible example to all cōtemners and deriders of religiō and pietie The Scriptures also want not like exāples The churlish rich mā Nabal who at his sheepeshearing held a feast in his house like a kyng but denied to relieue Dauid thē persecuted and in distres within ten dayes after was smitten of the Lorde so di●d Ananias and Sapphira pretēding y t they gaue their whole patrimonie to y e relief of the poore in the primitiue Church but in dede reseruing a portion to them selues and so lieng to the holy Ghost were immediatly stricken of God and so ended their lyues to the fearefull example of all hypocrites and dissemblers namely in matters pertayning to Gods religiō Herodes Agrippa being in his most glorious magnificencie contented to heare him self magnified and extolled as a God and not a man was sodenlie smitten by the Angell of the Lord and dyed a most miserable death The riche man of whom mētion is made in the xii of Luke that entended to pull downe hys barnes and granaries and to builde larger sayd to his soule Soule thou hast prouision layed vp in store for many yeares and therfore take thyne ease Eate drinke and be merie But what became of him God sayd vnto him Thou foole euen this very night shall thy soule be taken from thee and then who shall haue that thou hast prouided Thexample of Nabuchodonosor is veri terrible who walkyng in his pallace and glorieng in his strong and stately Citie Babilon whiles the wordes were yet in his mouth was sodenly stricken with a plague worse then death for the vse of reason was taken from hym and he him self turned forth among beastes became as a beast eating hay like an oxe to teach al posterities ensuing not to glory in things of this world which are but vaine but that he which glorieth should glory in the Lord. It shal not be amisse if I adde one example of myne owne knowledge For Gods Iudgemētes exercised in our dayes are also to be obserued and marked I knew a Priest who had rapped together foure or fiue benefices but was resident vpon neuer a one of them All this sufficed him not and therfore he longed for a prebend also there to spende at ease the milke and the fleese of the flockes whiche he had neuer fed At length by mediation of money he obteyned a Prebende and when his man brought him home the seale thereof cast into a maruelous ioye hee brust foorth into these woordes of the Psalme taken out of his Portesse whiche was all his study Hec requies mea This is my rest saith the Priest this is my place of