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A21104	A sermon preached at the funeralls of that worthie and worshipfull gentleman, Master Thomas Dutton of Dutton, Esquire who yeelded to nature the 28. of December. By Richard Eaton Bachelour of Diuinitie, and pastor of Great Budworth in Cheshire.	Eaton, Richard, 1563?-1617.	1616 (1616)	STC 7468; ESTC S100229	18,744	30

the wages doth the worke as God threatned Gen. Gen. 2. 17. 2. 17. And the Apostle Rom. 5. 15 By one man sinne Rom. 5. 12. entred into the word and death by sinne And so death went ouer all men in whom all men haue sinned Vse 1 There shall be no difference betweene the rich the poore in the graue there is a great difference in their life time in respect of honours and houses lāds and liuings duties and dignities and such like externall priuiledges and prerogatiues But in the end we see that wise men and likewise the ignorant and foolish Psal 49. 10. perish Zenacherib in his Ruffe for a time made proud challenges Where is the king of Hamah where Esay 37. 13. is the king of Arpad where is the king of Hena kings which he had destroyed And haue the Gods of the nations deliuered their Clients and orators out of my hands But a man might soone haue asked him Where is the king of Ashur And hath Nisroch the God of Assiria deliuered Zenacherib himselfe Looke into the graue and shew me where is Diues where is Lazarus where is Alexander that conquered the whole world and Zerxes that could not number his armie for multitude where is Nimri that built his rest in the clouds and Antiochus that sealed vpon the Mountaines where is Edom that exalted himselfe like an eagle in the skies and said in the swelling of his heart Who shall bring me down Where is Paper the king of Persia that wrote himselfe Rex regum fratersolis et lunae par●ceps siderum king of kings brother to the sunne and moone and partner with the starrs where is Samsō that slew an armie with the law bone ludg 15. 15. of an asse what is become of all those great Roman Lords Nero Caligula Vespasian Titus Domitiam and the rest Haue they not all felt and bin foyled by the stroake of this all conquering death who would haue Acts 12. 23. a Kings 9. 35. thought that Herod who was honoured as a God should haue bin deuoured of wormes That Iezabel should haue bin eatē of dogs what would he thinke that should haue seene Solomon in his glory and Royaltie to see him now lying in the clay Yesterday the tallest Cedar in Libanus to day or to morrow a broken stick trodden vnder foot when death comes no difference The bones of Agamemnon that renowned Captaine among the Grecians and of Thirsites that ill fauoured and deformed souldier shal be mngled together The bones of Vashti the most beautifull queene and the blackest Egiptian bond-woman shall not be found asunder looke into the graue there I say is no difference but Putidum et putridum Cadauer a rotten and a stinking Carkas Vse 2 Men of excellent eminent places must learne to liue religiously vprightly for they must go the way of all the earth and depart hence when it shall be said Priora transierunt Former things are passed away and it wil be said Come giue an account of thy stewardship The thriuing of the wicked in the bookes of Iob of the Psalmes wanteth not a learned oratour Luke 16. 2. Iob 21. 7. Psal 73. 3. to set it forth at large But as in the burning of a candle when it hath long giuen light Extremum occupat fumus et caligo The end is in smoake and in a stinking sauour so falleth it out with the candle of the wicked In puncto descendunt in infernum In the stirring of an eye they goe downe to hell where if there be not famus caligo smoke and darknesse and the blackenesse of darkenesse and a stinking sauour and much worse there is no hell at all Lift not vp your Psal 75. 5. borne on high speake not with a stiffe necke for in the hand of the Lord there is a cup and the wine is red of the colour of bloud My brethren let not the pompe of the world deceiue you whether it stand in authoritie in opulencie or voluptuousnesse of life I say let it not deceiue you for as all the fresh riuers runne into the salt sea so shall all the honours of the world end in basenesse all the pleasures of the world in bitternesse all the treasures of the world in emptinesse all the garments of the world in nakednesse and all the dainties and delicates of the world in loathsomnesse and rottennesse Take heede of too large an indulgence least God giue you a rent that hath giuen you a garment and cloath you with worser then leprosie that hitherto hath couered you with glory worship and dignitie Vse 3 Let vs prepare for death that we may haue oyle in our lampes when the bridegroome commeth Let vs prepare and prouide for the day of our dissolution Let vs prepare for a Nunc dimittis Oh be not like the foolish virgins that knocked at the gate when it was shut and too late Oh be not like the vnprepared Math. 25. 12. Math. 22. 13. guest that came to the wedding without his wedding garment Great Iupiter was carelesse of his death Visuntur magniparua sepulchra Iouis Great Iupi●er had but a little tombe And Alexander the Monarch of the world prepared nothing at all for his death he had all other things sauing onely a sepulcher to burie him in when he was dead But Abraham prouided for his death for he bought a field to Gen. 23. 17. burie his dead in So did Ioseph of Aramathea for he Gen. 23. 17. Math. 27. 60. made his tombe in his life time in his garden to put him in remembrance of death Oh imitate these latter prouide and prepare for your last end and still looke vp to death as the wisemen looked vnto the starre which stood ouer Bethlem Qui gloriatur viribus corporis gloriatur viribus carceris He that glorieth in the strength of his bodie glorieth in the strength of his prison Plato spake wittily to one of his schollers when he saw him too curious in pampering his belly and his body Why doest thou said he make thy prison so strong Doct. 2 I will proceede now to the second conclusion to wit that mans time is set and his bounds appointed which he cannot passe It was said to Belshazzar Dan. 5. 25. Mene mene God hath numbred thy kingdome So it may be said Mene mene God hath numbred the daies of our life To this Iob beareth witnesse Are not his Iob 14. 5. daies determined thou hast appointed his bounds which he cannot passe And the Prophet Ieremie saith The Egyptians could not stand because the Ierem. 46. 21. day of their destruction was come and the time of their visitation Reason 1 A certaine time is appointed for all other things The day of birth the day of marriage the day of honour the day of deliuerance and the day of death must not bee excluded God hath determined Dan. 1 1 36. all things saith the Prophet

A SERMON PREACHED AT THE FVNERALLS OF THAT WORTHIE AND WORSHIPFVLL GENTLEMAN MASTER Thomas Dutton of Dutton Esquire who yeelded to nature the 28. of December By RICHARD EATON Bachelour of Diuinitie and Pastor of Great Budworth in Cheshire Deut. 39. 29. Oh that they were wise then they would vnderstand this They would consider their latter end LONDON Printed by Iohn Legatt for Samuel Man dwelling at the signe of the Ball in Pauls Church-yard 1616. TO THE HONOVRABLE AND HOPEFVLL YOVNG GENTLEMAN SIR GILBERT GERRARD KNIGHT OF the Noble order of the Bath The Ladie Elenour his wife together with her right Worshipfull mother Mistris Thomasin Dutton all increase of true happinesse SYR being called vpon to prepare this sermon for an impression and finding a necessitie laid vpon me to satisfie the importunitie of some friends it came into my minde to tender the same to you And I doe more then hope that you will kindly accept it from me and entertaine it as a testimonie of my loue because it was both preached in your hearing and at the funerall of that worthy and Worshipfull gentleman Master Dutton your father in law And I am the rather incouraged to commend it to your vse and to write your name as it were in the front of it because albeit you liued not vnder my Ministerie yet in as much as out of that part of your faire inheritance which lyeth here I receiue some part of my maintenance and sustentati●● I must needs thinke it my duty to bestow some spirituall gift by which I might euidence my care of your soules health and something further you in your passage towards that Countrey which I trust you seeke Let it not displease y● therefore that I haue presented you with these few notes bu● vouchsafe them a roome of lodging among your bookes I confesse in this scribling age many are carried with a busie h●mour making the times surfeit with their needlesse papers ● would be loath that anie man who hath in him anie true worth and is of a right religious vnderstanding should so thinke of me● wherefore to cleere my selfe to euery sober iudgement this I say I was drawen into this course in presenting this sermon to publique view by the earnest request of some friends and by the good approuement of sundrie fearing God The matter of this sermon is excellent if the workemanship were suteable I might boldly say It were no disparagement to you to afford your patronage and to haue your name prefixed Whatsoeuer my defect maie be I beseech you be pleased to accept from me this small present small not in respect of the matter of it for no man can treate of a more worthie subiect But in regard of the manner of handling Accept it I saie as an vndissembled argument of the sinceritie of my affection as a testimonie of my well wishing to your soule and as a pledge of my setled purpose to labour to deserue your loue And to be a continuall petitioner to the throne of grace that you and your good Ladie your Worshipfull mother in law with the rest of your line and familie maie be kept by the power of God through faith vnto saluation From Great Budworth in Cheshire Yours in all readinesse to doe you my best seruice in Christ Iesus RICHARD EATON PSAL. 90. 12. Teach vs so to number our daies that we maie applie our hearts to wisedome THis Psalme was compiled by Moses at what time the spies returning from the land of Canaan discouraged their brethren and the Lord for the murmuring of the people pronounced that all aboue twenty yeares old Caleb and Iosua only excepted should die in the wildernes Now whē Moses heard this general sentence of death denounced both against himselfe and all those that ●ame out of Egypt with him he frameth this Psalme and praieth thus for him selfe and all the rest But I may not insist in generalls the foundation of my speech shall onely rest vpon this 12 verse The words are so plaine and manifest that I may say of this Scripture as Augustin speaketh Desiderat auditorem Tract 50. in Iohannem magis quàm expositorem It requires rather an attentiue hearer then a skilfull expositor I will draw the substance of mine intended speech vnto two generall heads the first a prayer of Moses Teach vs so to number our daies The second a reason why he prayed thus That wee maie applie our hearts to wisedome Out of these two generall heads I will distinguish fiue seuerall conclusions First Death is the hauen of euery man Moses maketh this prayer in the plurall number Mans time is set and his bounds appointed which he cannot passe Peach vs to number our daies there is a number of dayes Mans time is short Moses mentioneth not yeeres nor monethes nor weekes but dayes Although mans time be short yet he remembreth it not for we are apt to forget death If we could remember death it would cause vs to apply our hearts vnto wisedome Thus you see how this Scripture naturally brancheth and deuideth it selfe into these particulars I wil not offer any violēce in the handling of this text I will not set any of these points vpon the Racke I will not proffer to stretch mine arme higher then my stature may carry it I will not trouble you with Idle curiosities I will returne therfore to the head of the race where I first began Doct. 1 The first conclusion to be examined and the first doctrine to be extracted is this That death is the hauen of euery man What man liueth saith Dauid And Psal 89. 48. shall not see death The Apostle saith It is appointed vnto all men to dye once Heb 9. 27. And if we looke into the catalogue of those long liued Fathers before the floud though some of them liued 700. some 800. some 900 yeers and vpward yet at length this Epitaph was written ouer euery one of their heads Mortuus est He died Though euery day of our life were Gen. 5. as long as the day of Iosua when the Sun stood stil in the midst of the heauen yet the Sunne will set and go Iosh 10. 13. downe and it will be night at last Euery man must acknowledge with Iob Corruption is my father and the worme is my mother therefore Esay witnesseth that ●ob 17. 14. Esay 40. 6. All flesh is grasse All these testimonies as a cloud of witnesses confirme this doctrine There are also two reasons to inforce the same Reason 1 First all men are dust in their originall the matter whereof we are made is the dust of the earth And therefore to dust we must againe returne And this Gen. 3. 19. reason is vsed Gen. 3. 19. Reason 2 Secondly all men haue sinned and are depriued of the glory of God Man at the first was created to immortality and if he had neuer sinned he should neuer haue died But when sin entred death followed as