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A87150	Abners funerall, or, a sermon preached at the funerall of that learned and noble knight, Sir Thomas Lucie. By Robert Harris, B.D. and Pastor of the Church at Hanwell, Oxon.	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1641 (1641)	Wing H869; Thomason E132_27; ESTC R21249	21,519	42

the Princes Iob 34 19. fall and that like others Psal 82.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as well as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal 49. 3 Not of Parts Ver. 10. As dies the foole so the wise 4 Not of Place Ver. 12. 5 Not of Meanes and Friends Ver 7. 6 In One Psal 89.48 No Earthly Greatnesse will deliver No 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let his Strength lye where it will the word is large shall deliver himselfe from the Grave Death he must See that is Feele as all senses be a kinde of Feeling 2 No Greatnesse will free from any Death No not from any 1 Not from a Bloody Death Witnesse great Saneherib 2 King 19. ult 2 Not from a Base Death Witnesse Queen Iezabel 2 Kings 9. ult 3 Not from an Vnnaturall Death Witnesse that great Statist and President of Counsellors Achitephel 2 Sam. 17 23. 4 Not from the most Contemptible Death Witnesse King Herod at his highest Act. 12.23 But why doe I insist where every Schoole-boy can inlarge upon the same Theame One Abner is an instance of all being every way great Great in Strength able to lead the bravest Armie then in being Great in Spirit who would not give his Head for washing nor take his advantage of Asahel the Assailant Great in Place Captaine of the Guard and that to Three Princes in succession To warlike Saul To Prince Isbosheth and now consigned by valiant David Great in Power and Authority able to contest with his Master and able to sway all Israel at his pleasure This mighty Abner lyes Dead before you and fals from Greatest Greatnesse into the Lowest Pit suddenly Shall I give you one Reason for all Reas Greatnesse will not keepe from any one Cause therefore not from any one Kinde of Death 1 The Causes of Death if we speake of Death at large are Morall or Legall Sin and Guilt Naturall or Physicall Dyscrasy Disproportion c. Earthly Greatnesse can free from none of these as experience hath taught us Indeed if this Greatnesse could take off Adams Guilt free from all Sinne deliver from all Distemper Morall or Naturall Then might it give a Supersedeas from Death But the first is not possible Therefore the second is no way feasable 2 If wee speake of this Death Violent Death so to call it this you know growes from Innate Impotency and Deficiency and Forraine either Suspension of Influence Ayds and Supplies 〈◊〉 Vide de Anima cop 52.53 c. or forcible Impressions and Incursions made beyond all power of Resistance Now here Greatnesse is also at a stand Great men be as tender as passive as others Depend as much as others and Stand by a Manutention Lye as open as others to Invasions and Assaults Nay Greatnesse is sometimes Vnweldy of it selfe Et mole suâ ruit Sometimes it sets a man more in the Eye of Envie and face of Danger and in stead of sheltring him makes him a fairer marke At all times 't is Finite and may be matcht There is an Higher than the Highest that will make but Morter of those under foot as 't is Esay 41.25 At least Esay 41 2● what 's wanting in Power may be made up in Number which is all one Many Shoales of small Fish may encounter the greatest Whale Many Swarmes of Flies and Frogs may invade King Pharaoh and his Kingdome Cave multos si singulos non times Maximmus said one to that great Tyrant Leo fortis est occiditur Elephas grandis est occiditur c. The stoutest Lion the greatest Elephant the fiercest Tygre may be violently slain a Sword will pierce a Gun will shoot Fire will burne Water will drowne nay a Raisin-stone a Fly an haire will choak the greatest Monarch living We have said enough to so ordinarie a point Vide instances in some Popes and Princes Only we are to make our use of it before I dismisse it and that I shall instantly doe if first I shall be bold to tell you what you are to trust to You see how it fares with Funerall Sermons They are mostly made but matters of forme and men come to them as to great Feasts The first Course wherein GOD is most concern'd is lightly passed over The second wherein Man is represented is most expected and stood upon For the preventing of this I pray you understand That you are not to expect any Second course at all But such provision as I could make in this my indisposednesse you shall have served in altogether This said I have now a double addresse Vses 1 The first to us little ones 2 The other to you of greater marke and place Vse 1 First we of lower ranck must learne to reine in our strong affections to an earthly greatnesse For why should we be so licorish after that which is of so little availe Moderate therefore as all so chiefly these affections 1 Great Feares 2 Great Hopes 3 Great Desires after great things here For Feares It is the Prophets Inference Psal 48.5 Why should I feare when I am threatned and another inriched Nay 't is GODS owne use Esay 51.12 and 7 8. verses Who art thou that fearest a dying man fading grasle a little Wormes-meate Mothes-meat Object O but he is a great man and may doe me a shrewd turne Answ Feare him as Great with a Feare of Reverence as a larger Picture of Almighty GOD whose is Greatnesse and all great things As great Cedars are Cedars of God c great Cities Mountaines c are Gods But feare him not with a Feare of Basenesse feare him not so as out of Cowardise to decline station balk duty swallow sin dissemble truth Why He is a dying man saith GOD and his greatnesse will be devoured of Mothes So basely to feare a dying man begins in weaknesse and ends in a snare Prov. 29.25 Therefore qualifie those Peares For Hopes Heare Esay Chap. 2. last Cease from Man whose breath is in his nostrils Esay 2. ult wherein is he to be valued O! he is a Great a promising man Yea But is not his breath in his nostrils ready to be let out If so Cease from hoping in or trusting on him Psal 146 Heare David Trust not in the Son of man What if he bea Prince Trust not in Princes Psal 146.3 Oh but they have noble thoughts Ver. 4. Yea but those dye with or before them Why should I be infinite Is he a Man Man at his best Every man every whit of him is not only vaine Psal 36.5 62.9 but vanitie Nor so only He is upon the Balance and Triall lighter than vanitie it selfe Therefore cast not thy Anchor of Hope there Hope if thou see cause with an Humane Hope of Charitie and possibilitie Beware of any higher Hope of Certainty of Infallibilitie No doubt but many Captaines their Hopes rose and fell with rising and falling Abner 3 But the third Affection Desire is that I most

senses and see a decay there Or if you will abroad improve this double instance See here a Noble Paire and establish your selves in this truth by the testimonie of two mouths two bodies both not long before their ends valiant both vigorous both presenting as well and promising as much as we can and now both lie Dead before you Nay seeing Examples knowne and at hand worke best and the Eye of senses most affects the heart See here under view a Man accomplished and made up of all the Contributions of Art and Nature a Man in whom concurred all those things Pythagoras which the Philosopher could thinke to beg of his God to wit Beautie Riches firme Constitution of body and mind D. Baz●● Such a Braine such an Heart as the most learned Physitian never saw And thence inferre that There is no Redemption from the Grave For certainely if greatnesse of wit of learning of spirit of riches of friends of allies if greatnesse of care in servants of atendance in Yokefellow of skill in Physitians of affection in all could have kept off Death wee had not been thus overcast and clouded this day But no outward greatnesse will doe it Mors sceptra liga●ibus aequat aequo pede pulsat c. quae sequentur passim Death knowes no measures no distances no degrees no differences but sweepes away all and either finds or makes them Matches To you then O yee sons of the mighty is my message Set your houses in order for you must dye You are left behinde to make ready Oh prepare for death for any death nay for sudden death for why may not you fall in your strength in your Journie aswell as Abner Say then Are ye ready now ready is your Will made your Pardon sealed could you dye this houre in this place If so happy yee in case you Stay for death not death for you But if as yet you bee not Shot-free and Death-proofe what doe yee meane why doe ye defer What Doe yee thinke that death feares greatnesse or will bee answered with Complements Or doe yee thinke that greatnesse of spirit of meanes of chearfullnesse of Titles can beare you out Or that it is all one to die in a Bravado and in cold blood Or that death is the same in the hand of a man and of GOD Or that a Lord have mercy or two an houre or two before you are all dead will serve the turne No no it 's a worke of works to Die that is Actively and Cheerfully to resigne life The best who have been about it all their life finde all provisions little enough And therefore doe not thinke to slight and to outlooke that King of Feares that top-gallant but feare before hand that you neede not feare at any hand And yet let me advertise you of another extremity and that is base-feare for that will barre up the doores against all thought of death Vitellius trepidus dein'temulentus Tac. and set you either on Drinking with him in the storie or on some other Diversion therby to drowne or to forget your feares There is as elsewhere I have discoursed 1 A Spirituall Feare of death There is 2 A naturall Neither of which may bee disswaded The Feare I give warning of is 3 A Base Cold Carnall Feare which will make a man creepe into an Augre-hole swallow any sin admit of any slaverie which will kill one daily because he must once die and keepe him a perpetuall slave Heb. 2. and prisoner This the feare I would not have you Cowed by and this feare you may competently overcome if you will set right the 1 Judgement 2 Conscience 3 Heart The Inward man Things upon another occasion lately spoken to not here to be rehearsed At present this is all Mistake not Death 1 It is not in it selfe the greatest of evils As there be better things than this poore life GODS favour GODS image the Life of CHRIST Eternitie c. Vid. Animadversions of Bish of Sarum on Gods Love to Mankind So are there worse things than this death Hell is worse Sin is worse GODS Curse is worse Corruption worse Morall Sinfull Evils worse than this which is painefull and evill only to Nature And reason we have to grieve more for being in a possibilitie and proximitie of sinning than of dying 2 This Death is not so simply and intrinsecally evill as that no good can be made of it Nay this may be improved and death may bee the death of all our deaths of deadly diseases corruptions temptations of all Thus simply considered it is not so formidable as that we must fling away our weapons desert our station and fly Excessum dix Tert. contra Valent Cypria Ep. 3. as once Israel at the voice of this Goliah But now Death to a Christian becomes another thing It hath lost its name Luk. 2.29 and hears a Departure Phil. 1 23. a Dissolution a Change a Sleepe Iob 14.14 c. and we should take up GODS language Ioh. 11.11 Passim Aliud demutatio aliud perditio Tert. de resur c. 55. It hath lost its Nature and Relation t is not to such an one Penall but Medicinall destructive but fetching its denomination from its terme perfective Looke upon it under a new Notion Plin. Nat. hist lib. 7 55. and then you will not be of poore Plinies minde Hic rogo non ●uror est ne moriare mori Mart. lib. 2. Epigram That It doubles ones paine and death to Forethinke the issues of it No it doubles your strength and makes your courage redoubted therefore view it and spare not but view it thus 1 Look upon it not as destructive tending to ruine but as a meane and way to life Looke beyond it See what stands behinde it A Crowne of Glory of Life of Blisse And this end will sweeten and smooth the way it will dare amica●ilitatem mediis 2 Looke upon it as a Rod in GODS hand This as other strokes is moderated by him and hee can make a Rod a Staffe Psal 23. yea turne Moses serpent into a Rod and worke with that Rod Wonders Death is a cup in our Fathers hand as well as sicknesse and workes wonders 3 Looke upon Death in CHRIST Hee hath conquered it in his Person and will in his Members See how unable death was to separate him from the Godhead and shall be us from GOD Rom. 8.38 Rom 8.38 See how hee hath intercepted and cut off Deaths succours Whereas death borrowed its Sting from sinne 1 Cor. 15.56 and Strength from the Law and Curse CHRIST hath disarmed them all of all their destroying killing power and cald us with S. Paul to set our foot upon their neckes and to sing O Death O Sinne O Curse O Hell where 's your power c. Yea see him having kild Death and buried the Grave fetching Honey and sweet out of the

them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 especially for the First Borne of his family what Hector shall I say in Homer did for his Sonne 1 King ● 47 Nay what David's servants did for their Young Master That his worth and honour may furmount his Fathers Amen said Father David Amen said his Truest servants to that prayer then Amen say I to the like now And so we have done with Abner But all this while what becomes of the King Abner is now quiet But the King bemoanes himselfe Heare him I am weake The sonnes of Zerviah are too strong for me And why the sons of Zerviah Why not of Asar if that were as Iosephus tels us their fathers name Ioseph An●●● lib. 7 ●p 1. Was it because hee was dead Or was the Mother more Masculine and Active Or was it because the honour came in by the Mother as nearest allied to the now King However The Sonnes of Zerviah they were and some of them yet liv'd and these were too big for David as things stood to buckle withall and hence the complaint But what was not David a King What! Did he Rule in Israel and yet complaine Was hee Annointed and yet overmatch't Why then see how it fares with us whilest here Doct. 3 The highest estate may be over-topt The best estate here is a maimed and imperfects estate The Best man David The Greatest man King David hath here his Hands and Heart full We must draw in Note but the Particulars in the Text. 1 All is imperfect Some what still wanting in the fullest estate Abraham had Riches but then hee wants an Heire and after that a Wife Isaac hath Health but then he wants Sight Asa honour but he wants Health Vzziah Riches but he wants Libertie In One David hath a Crowne but hee wants an Arme. 2 All somewhat galling and vexing When we are at the Highest somewhat is too Hard for us 1 Kings 21. Ier. 38.5 Dan. 6. David Ahab Zedekiah Darius All kings and yet all met with their Match and were held to Hard meate One sonne or other was too hard for them as well as Zerviahs sons were for David 3 And in a word All unsatisfying and not fully to our minde King David cannot have his will in all things Somewhat goes against the Haire 1 King 21.6 Esth 5.13 Nay the Worlds Minions Ahab and Haman make their moane But why doe I tire you I 'll quickly say all Reas 1 1 These earthly things are Lame and unsufficient partiall goods which will not fill all chinks Reas 2 2 Wee are Needy and shiftlesse both Wee want all things and are patcht up with these poore Shreds Reas 3 3 We mingle all with Sinne and then GOD mingles all with Gall. Reason 4 4 Briefly We are here from Home and out of Place And what Quiet and Comfort when there 's such a Dis-location Vses I apply in three words 1 Be not Surety for the world Neither promise nor expect great matters thence at First as men who have the world in Reversion usually doe Lest at Last you cry O Solon Solon or O Seldius as others have done before you Croe●us in Herodo● Carol. 5. There is saith David An end of all Created perfection and we either have Psal 119.96 or quickly may see over it Indeed the most of us have already seene the best of this world And we doe but Dreame if we Dreame of better Dayes Meliora tempora nolite sp●●are Aug. in Psal 96. Do not hope for that saith Austin looke not for better times for better successe than others have found Greater wee cannot bee than King David he wore a Crown but he found as another said Cares under it Wiser we cannot bee than that Magazin of knowledge Salomon yet all his Wit could not keep sorrow from his heart Great Rodulphus Rusus His experience told him that All was vanity yea utmost vanitie And worse than so Vexation and that of Spirit too And believe it Hee that will build his hopes upon these Sands well may he Die before his time as Abner did But withall hee will Die a foole as Abner did not Ieremy hath said it and men shall finde it Ier. 17.11 Vse 2 2 Have patience in case your Friends bee preferd hence to Heaven Suppose them Kings here Alas Kings have their Cares also All things be not to their minde They cannot save whom they would as David found in Absolom Nor can they Execute whom they would as David felt in Ioab Nay suppose them aswell as Earth can make them What is Earth to Heaven Gold to Glory The whole Creation to the Creator Earth Why it will breake Ones Head to compasse it Ones Backe to keepe it Ones heart to lose it T is a misery to Need any of the Earths Crutches and 't is a Cumber to have them But if once they get above us and bee our Masters they undoe us and the more we expect from them the lesse wee shall enjoy them Then of Leane Comforts they become heavie Crosses Our Great Conquerour could not conquer his delights His Horse hee is hurt thereby And Polyd. Virgil. if I bee not deceived This Worthy Gentleman and brave Horseman met with his disease in the same delight and so both dyed Laesis Intestinis as I conceive Vse 3 3 Shake hands with this world and assure Heaven 1 There 's a Full estate Nothing is wanting there Nothing that Reason and Grace can desire Here 's a world of wants The Soule that wants Faith Knowledge all as Peter implies 2 Pet. 1.5 The Body that wants first meat and then cloth and then fire and then sleep and then physick and ever one slabber or other Yea every sense wants every member wants every joynt must bee eft soones supplyed 2 There in Heaven is a Free Estate No sinne there no sorrow no temptation no tempter Here all is mingled and compounded Our best comforts are Bitter-sweets our nearest friends sometimes our greatest Griefes as David found his Cosins here His Father his Brethren his greatest Familiars his Sons his Wife elsewhere Here nothing is fully to our minds wee doe not please or satisfie our selves We must Perforce beare what we beare Sadly In Heaven All goes Right Every one will please us and wee shall offend none There all are of a minde all as one in Christ all one Christ and Christ all in all 3 There is a Firme estate A City that hath foundations a dwelling that is indeed a Mansion Heb. 11. a Crown unfading Mov●● c. Joh 14.2 a Kingdome unshaken Here all things totter and tumble here 's nothing but Drooping Dropping Dying Erewhile David mourning for Saul now for Abner anon for his owne and thus t is here But in heaven there 's no Sun-set no Night no Death We shall never see Grave but Ever bee with the Lord and with our faithfull brethren Oh! Assure this Blessed estate that is thus Full Free Firme Till you be sure of that you are sure of nothing But how may this be done I will speake it but too briefly 1 Cleare your title that comes in by the Heire the LORD CHRIST You must claime by and under him 2 Cor. 3.18 Phil. 2.5 Pet. 1.4 Gal. 5 28. 2 Cor. 5.17 Make it good that he is yours you his That is Produce his Image his Mind his Nature his Affections Prove your selvs crucified to the World and It to you Prove that Old things are past that al in you from top to toe is New Mat. 5. And the very Title to this estate Intitles you to a present blessing 2 Get present possession That all your Counsellours will advise you unto Now every Saving-grace is as Turfe and Twig Eph. 1.14 2 Cor. 5.5 6. is as the first fruits in Israel is an earnest of the purchase and Inheritance and gives you entrance Liverie and Seisin 2 Peter 1.11 These if well setled will make you Dye safely and put you beyond all Danger To these Two if you will be perswaded to add Two things more you will Die gladly and bee free not only from the Hurt but from the slavish feare of death and they are these 1 Conformitie with heaven 2 Conversation in it 1 Conforme to it and from that likenesse will grow Love Whereas in our sinfull estate the holinesse of GOD and that companie is a terrour and torment to us Heaven would be an Hell to a sinfull man But fierie things Ascend as willingly and naturally as earthly things descend And thinke the same of heavenly Spirits and affections 2 Converse in heaven Lodge your thoughts and hearts there Look into that every day Spend each day some thoughts upon GOD upon Christ upon heaven make that your home Looke upon it as your place your Center and then you will make to it whatever it cost you A Stone will through an Element of fire a Sea of water to come to its Center So will yee if your dwelling bee above I have said how you must bee qualified If now you come to learne and minde these things and keepe the Soule in warmth and upon the wing you shall be able to beare up in the approaches of death and to thinke of Christs comming without sin with comfort Nay you will love his appearance 2 Tim. 4.8 1 Thes 1.10 Phil. 3.20 1.23 Heb. 9.28 2 Pet. 3.12 wait for it looke for it long for it hasten to it and hasten him in the words of the whole Church and of this her Sonne Come Lord JESUS come quickly So Shee to the last Rev. 22.17 Rev. 22.17 So the Spirit So this Noble Knight who most as I am told in his last words breathed out this Come Lord JESUS Come Come quickly O my Lord quickly Amen Even so Come Lord JESUS Come apace come once for all to make an end of all Sins Sorrows Funerals by ending the Last enemie death and by casting death and hell and grave and all that opposes life and glory into the Fire Amen Even so come Lord JESUS Amen FINIS