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A47412	A sermon preached at the funeral of the R' Reverend Father in God, Bryan, Lord Bp. of Winchester, at the Abby Church in Westminster, April 24, 1662 by Henry, L. Bp. of Chichester.	King, Henry, 1592-1669.	1662 (1662)	Wing K505; ESTC R4884	16,120	47

wherein the Dead sleep tast of Corruption Sunt et sua fata sepulchris Tombs themselves have their Dying day And those Marble Quarryes which stand over Princes moulder to dust as do the Bodies lying under them If then an inevitable Necessity of Death or some decay like it lies upon Metals and those solid Bodies which scarcely retain a Cause of Putrefaction within them Certainly Man whose complexion is not Stone nor his Ribbs Brass must be better acquainted with Dust and Rottenness Job 17.14 Say to Corruption thou art my Father and to the worm Thou art my Mother and my Sister Yea so far is He unable to bear off by any Armour he can buckle on the assaults of Death That not the Armour of the Apostle of more curious Temper and better proof than Steel Ephes 6.16 The Shield of Faith and Brest-plate of Righteousness which are able to resist the fiery Darts of Satan can guard him from Death's Dart For even the Best of Men Gods dearest Servants and Saints are the subject of Deaths triumph 2. Of Saints It is Mors Sanctorum the Death of Saints That Nolite tangere Christos meos Psal 105. Touch not mine Annointed which encircles God's Servants and like a Charm Exorcises all other dangers cannot guard Them from this Fiend Death Moses his Body found a Champion to defend It from the Devil Jud. epist ver 9. He found no Champion to fight for Him against Death The Decree is past and not to be reversed Deut. 34.5 He must up to Mount Nebo and there Dye There is no Gluttony like Death The greatest Practitioners in the School of Ryot have at length met a Surfet which hath done that nor Sea nor Land Granges too narrow to serve their excess could ever do Choaked their boundless Appetite But Death is a Glutton unacquainted with Surfet or Satiety Of whom I may say as the Scithian Embassadour once did to Alexander Q. Curt. Vnus es omnium qui satietate parasti famem Satiety to Thee only serves to beget Hunger Not all the Gross Meals the Grand Feasts which Warr or Pestilence have drest could make Him say It is Enough Not all those Messes in the Revelation Revel 19.18 The Flesh of Kings and Captains the flesh of Bond or Free-men Small and Great Provision sufficient for all the Vultures invited to that Supper could make a Competent Meal for Death ver 17. Not all the Rarities of Nature the choicest fruits the world affords Youth gather'd in the Bud and Beauty cropp'd in the flower could satisfie Deaths Palate But after all these services He must have a Feast of Saints cooked in all the barbarous fashious Tyranny and Cruel invention could devise They were Ston'd were saw'n in sunder Hebr. 11.37 Rosted in the Fire Broyl'd on Grid-irons Flead Torn in pieces Brayed in Mortars I have not memory nor language to recite this horrid Bill of Fare Search the Histories of the Church and see it upon Record We should not grudge at this large Allowance made to Death did He feed on Those that would not be missed amongst us Lucan Vulgares Animas trivial Soules and Frustrà peritura cadavera Those unusefull burchens of the Earth who only walk about and talk out their Time having no profession but that of the Athenians to Hear and Telt News Act. 17.21 Well were it for the world did Death remove such unprofitable things as These who like the fruitless Tree in the Gospel only cumber the Earth Did He only exenterate Nature which at first hatch'd this devouring Cokatrice and did not also eat through the Bowels of the Church destroying those Holy Births which lye within her Womb. To our grief we must remember those heavy Stroaks have fallen thick upon us You had one Famous Light Dr. Fern. Bp. of West Chester whose Learning and Exemplary Life shone brightly in the Orb of our English Church extinguished very lately And when that Earth which covered Him is scarcely made up behold here Another worthy follows ready to take his final Lodging in the same Dust Thus doth this Tyrant double His Blow depriving us of Two such incomparable Persons that though you search Their whole Order and Run through our Hierusalem with Lanterns as once the Prophet did you shall not match again Tune duos unâ saevissima vipera caenâ Juven●l Tune Duos Let me play the Satyrist with Death Cruel Viper as thou art Could not One suffice thy ravenous appetite but thou must have Two to gorge upon I need not stay for the answer I find it ready made there Septem Septem si forte fuissent were it possible to find out Seven more like Them His dart is lifted up as ready now to strike as He was then We have cause God knows too much to lament these great Losses in such a barren Time as ours which produceth very few Saints And where Good men are thinly found Like the shaking of the Olive Tree which amongst many Leaves yield perhaps here and there a Berry Knowing that Ten Righteous Persons if so many may be found are able to bear off a Showr of Vengeance and Fire nor less violent than that which fell on Sodom and Gomorrah G●n 1● 91. Nay One Aaron is authoriz'd to stand in the Gapp betwixt an Offended God and a Sinfull People Indeed the World is now in it's Dotage Creepled and Bed-rid In the last and worst Age So that had it not some few sound Crutches to support it some few Pillars not eaten in by the vices of the Time nor Canker'd by those Opinions which madly fly about not only to the disfiguring our Churches Decency and Order but the shaking and undermining even Her Fundamental Truths It could not subsist Whensoever then a Good man dyes a Shore of the declining world is taken away and a Pillar of the Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nazi anz ora 〈◊〉 Land Pa●ris threatning a Ruine to that part where the Stay was broken out It is our best Course therefore to strengthen our remaining Stayes by our Prayers Knowing that the Devil's malice is ever planted against our Best Fortifications assaulting Those most hotly who stand in the Breach For he doth not wound us blindly or by chance but by Election and Judgement So doth his Agent Death cull out the Best Garbling the Race of Men and Commonly leave the refuse Moes optima rapit deterrima relinquit Making us know to our grief that of Hieron to be most true Peccatores terrae habitatores Justi peregrini Sinners are the proper Inhabitants here Saints only sojourn in the world I am a Stranger Psal 39.13 and a Sojourner as all my Fathers were They who justly consider how many Hundreds of Men yield one Saint How many years Religiously spent are required for His probation and How many Virtues go to the Making up of a Saint They who Corsider again how hard