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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12160	Corona charitatis, = The crovvne of charitie a sermon preacht in Mercers Chappell, May 10. 1625. at the solemne funerals of his euer-renowmed friend, of precious memory, the mirroir of charitie, Mr. Richard Fishburne, merchant, and now consecrated as an anniuersary to his fame; by Nat: Shute, rector of the parish of Saint Mildred in the Poultry, London.	Shute, Nathaniel, d. 1638.	1626 (1626)	STC 22466; ESTC S117282	35,817	55

funeralls our Churches mourne our houses mourne wee our selues mourne yea the very aire by a kind of repercussion of blacknesse seemes it selfe to be black and mournes The death of man in generall is able to make our Sorrowes runne what pittie is it that hee that euen now was Monarch of the aire to breathe where hee listed should by and by haue his lungs stopt with dust and bee lockt vp well-nigh for euer in the breathlesse earth That he that had Gods candle shining vpon his head euen now Iob. 29.3 should presently lay his head vpon the sable pillow of the bed of darknesse That hee that kept the best companie with men Buxtors Sina Iud. c. 11. should by and by haue no other companie but with wormes If the Iewes in the feast of reconciliation thinke the swealing of a candle ominous what may wee thinke of the dying of a man Certainly if wee blow vp this powder into our heads it will awake vs from our Lethargie specially such who take vp this consideration withall that the same death that slue their brother may next tread vpon their heeles But aboue all things my iudgement runnes this way that the death of good men should make our vaines cold when an ordinarie man breaks rank and dyes there falls a vapour but when a good man dyes there falls a Starre when the Israelites shooke off Egypt and departed they robde the Egyptians and when a good man shakes off the world he robs the world Such was the death of this thrice-worthy and euer-renowmed Gentleman Master Richard Fisburne whom death too soone for vs though too late for himselfe hath with an Habeas corpus remoued into another world So sowre is the remembrance of it that my Prayers are rising still that his death with other good men may not be a lightning before a great thunder and that the losing of such corner stones may not perish the whole building But before I spinne out the particulars of his vertues I must first shape some Apologie for my selfe and my dead friend of neuer-dying memory On my part some mens thoughts may bubble vp within them and imagine that I speake for my fee. Others out of a gloomy suspition may conceiue that there might some desire start from him to haue his Sepulchre whited after his death and this commendation painted vpon it but I will put in myne answere First for that imputation that may bee rolled vpon me I doe professe with an vntainted heart that though I haue as good a cause as a poore man can haue to dote vpon the remembrance of my friend yet shall not any sinister end set my tongue on worke further then the truth commands me For him hauing now no relike of him but only his Remembrance which is no more to a friend himself then a shadow to the bodie I will euer defend it and keepe his name bright from the rust of contradiction yea I should slay mine owne conscience if I should not wipe out the least imputation that is cast vpon him Hee did diuers times both in the beginning of his sicknesse and towards the end grate vpon the abuse of this custome of ouer-spicing the dead in large commendation and intreated me yea with some flashes of importunitie that I would performe this last office of Preaching for him but speake nothing of him And indeed had it not beene that by my silence I should haue maymed the common expectation his honour and your example I had turned these wordes into sighes and haue imposed this dutie vpon mine eyes and not vpon my tongue But who can part with so good a man so sweet a friend in so rude a manner as to say nothing If I must needes therefore erre one way as in these occasions commonly the wind stands in our faces and our actions returne vpon vs againe I will rather be immodest in denying the modesty of my friend then vnthankfull in denying mine owne duty And so I breake away from the Apologie to the matter This brother of ours deceased was by birth a Gentleman of the Towne of Huntington cut out of no meane quarrie borne of a good house what the strength of his education was and how hee was translated out of Nature into Grace shined cleerly in the vertues lent him by God when more yeeres fell vpon him Commonly the heate of good institution which is put into a child yong glowes in him little or much while hee hath a day to runne through in this life And as many times the Husband-man that hath the eye of experience will giue a faire ghesse of the whole day by the morning so many times to a man of a fresh sight youth is an Optick-glasse to discouer afarre off the sequell of many yeeres After that hee was well inlayed by his education God hauing endowed him with excellent parts of Nature hee was transplanted into the seruice of a Noble Countesse in this Kingdome where as the fairest flowres haue oftentimes the faintest smels he did not long like the candied happinesse of the Court. From thence therefore hee tooke his way into the Ciite and became seruant to a Gentleman of full esteeme and credit Sir Baptist Hickes now Knight and Baronet from whose owne mouth I heard it with what diligence and faithfulnesse euen for many yeeres together hee disindented and discharged himselfe of that seruice For his vnderstanding so much as might lye within the compasse of an ordinary braine Fame it selfe could scarce lie of him which knowledge of his he often watred with assiduous reading professing in his sicknesse the large comforts he had culled to himselfe out of those houres laid by for his priuate studies And this was ascertain'd afterwards by a Booke in folio which bare the collections which he had fisht out of diuers Bookes of Diuinitie Historie and the like Pet. Martyr M. Perkins c. Besides by the voice of reason it is commonly true that hee that is prouident in his youth is rich in his age so he that is studious of good things in his former yeeres is all comfort in his death Hee wsa an affable man Hee that looked but vpon his face might haue seene goodnesse and courtesie looke out of his eyes If a poore man whose hopes perchance lay a bleeding had had any request to haue aduanced vnto him he carried such a dew in his lippes and answers that he would haue breathed as it were another life in his face His gestures so without all specks of offence iniurie as that he deserued the name which Nicholas the third had for his modestie to bee called Compositus Volateran Anthropolog l. 22. A man well composed This was that which made him Lord of so many hearts Scarce was there a man within the compasse of our memory that euer wonne himselfe more loue in his health more Prayers in his sicknesse more lamentation after his death Hee was a iust man in his words yea