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A79008	A patterne for all, especially for noble and honourable persons, to teach them how to die nobly and honourably. Delivered in a sermon preached at the solemne interment of the corps of the Right Honourable Robert Earle of Warwick. Who aged 70 years 11. months, died April 19. And was honorably buried, May 1. 1658. at Felsted in Essex. By Edmund Calamy B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing C262; Thomason E947_1; ESTC R207615	31,046	52

will come certainly shortly uncertainly suddenly and irresistibly 1. That it will come certainly There is an oporte● for it We must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ c. There is nothing certain in life but death 2. That it will come very shortly It is not long but we must all go down to the house of rottennesse This life is but as an hand-breadth as a vapor c. swifter than a post and passeth away as the swift ships and as the Eagle that hasteth to the prey it is nothing else but a salve vale 3. Uncertainly as to the time when the place where and the manner how Your Almanacks will tell you when the next Eclipse of the Sunne and Moone will be But there is no Almanacks will tell you when the Eclipse of your lives will be This comes uncertainly And therefore uncertainly to provoke us to be always ready because we know not in what hour the Son of man will come Matth. 24. 42 44. 4. That oftentimes it comes suddenly like a thiefe in the night 1 Thef. 5. 2. Like an evil net in which the fishes of the sea and a secret snare in which the birds of the aire are suddenly caught Eccles. 9. 12. Luk. 21. 35. Psal. 73. 19. 5. That it comes irresistibly like paine upon a woman with childe 1 Thes. 5. 3. Death will not tarry till we be ready for it The young man as Gregory the great relates it when he saw he must die cried out Inducias Domine usque ad mane Lord tarry till to morrow but God would not heare Death comes unavoidably and if it findes us unprovided it sends us to hell without remedy Adde to this 6. It comes but once It is appointed for all men once to die When once dead no living againe to provide better for death And therefore we had need be careful ut semel pie moriamur as Paraeus saith that we may once die well for we cannot live again upon earth to live better 7. That after death comes judgement and after judgement everlasting happinesse or everlasting misery Death is nothing else but a passage to judgement A thorough-fare to heaven or hell Did we consider these things and consider them seriously as we ought to do it would work very many gracious and most glorious effects in us Therefore Moses saith very emphatically O that men were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end and prayeth very earnestly So teach us O Lord to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom The very heathens have been much in the meditation of death Plato tells us that true Philosophy is nothing else but a meditation of death The Egyptians in all their great feasts had a deaths-head served in as one dish to teach them sobrietie and temperance in eating and drinking This meditation if sanctified will be 1. A soveraign antidote against all sin Sume hoc remedium contra omnia peccata Would you have a preservative against all sin Remember thy latter end and thou shalt never do amisse As a copy is then safest from blotting when dust is cast upon it so are we from sinning while we remember that we are but dust Jerusalems filthiness was in her 〈◊〉 because she remembred not her latter end Lam. 1. 9. 2. It will marvellously weane us from the love of the world It is the Apostles argument 1 John 2. 15 16 17. Love not the world nor the things in the world for the world-passeth away It passeth away as Jonas his gourd when he had most need of it And as Absoloms mule which passed from under him and left him hanging on the tree To what purpose do we provide multum viatici when we have but parum viae much victuals when we have but a short journey The like argument is used 1 Cor. 7. 29. 30 31. 3. It will make Jesus Christ and his righteousness very pretious to us For it is Christ only that can unsting death and sweeten it and make it comfortable and desirable And therefore the Apostle accounts all things dung and drosse that he might gaine Christ and be found in him at that great day not having his own righteousnesse but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousuesse which is of God by faith And St. John saith Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord for they rest from their labours c. He that dies in Christ shall certainly go to Christ 4. It will exceedingly quicken us to provide effectually and to speed and hasten our provisions for heaven There is nothing will more provoke us to labour for that life which never shall have an end than the serious consideration that this life will shortly have an end These all died This is the first inference The second Doctrine That the best of men must die as well as the worst of men These all died These godly persons died as well as others Abraham the Father of the faithful and Sarah the Mother of the faithful Godly Isaac 〈…〉 Jacob These all died The husband and the wife The father the child and grandchild all godly and yet all these died The first that ever tasted of death was a godly man even godly Abel For the godly have the same principle of mortality within them which others have They dwell in houses of clay whose foundation is in the dust And they have the same remainders of sinne in them to make them liable to death which others have They have idem fundamentum mortis idem demeritum But besides these there are proper and peculiar reasons why the godly must die not only as well but rather than others For 1. They shall never be freed from sicknesse sorrow and laborious employments They shall never have all teares wiped from their eyes till they die 2. They shall never be free from the persecutions of wicked and ungodly men and from the temptations of the devil till they die 3. They shall never be rid of the body of sin till they put off the body of the flesh 4. They shall never be perfected in grace till they die 5. They shall never see God face to face never be with Christ in glory till they die They shall never be cloathed with the house which is from above till they be uncloathed of their earthly Tabernacle Therefore blessed be God that they must die For if they had hope only in this life they were of all people most miserable O that I could perswade the people of God to look upon death with a paire of Scripture-spectacles Death in it selfe considered is the King of terrors and of all terrible things most terrible It is as a fiery serpent with a biting and destroying sting But to you that are in Christ 〈…〉 all comfortable things most comfortable It is as a 〈◊〉 without a sting

to enter his Courtgates least his excessive mirth and jollity should be damped and interrupted by the sad thought of death The wise man tells us O death how bitter is thy memory to one who hath great possessions And indeed if the not thinking of death could free you from the stroak of death it were worth the while not to think of death But whether you think of it or not death will come and by not remembring of it your lives prove to be full of abominations and death is made a trap-door to let you down into eternal damnation And therefore let me beseech you to imitate Philip King of Macedon who appointed a boy every morning to come to him and to say to him Remember thou art a man and must die And the Emperors of Constantinople who on their Coronation day had a Mason appointed to present unto them certaine marble stones using these ensuing words Elige ab his saxis ex quo invictissime Caesar Ipse tibi tumulum me fabricare velis Choose mighty Sir under which of these stones Your pleasure is ere long to lay your bones Or if you will have a Scripture-example Let me beseech you to imitate that rich and great person Joseph of Arimathea who built his Sepulchre in his garden In the midst of all your pleasures and pastimes remember you must shortly leave them It was a wise speech of Charles the fifth to the Duke of Venice who when he had shewed him the glory of his Princely Palace and earthly Paradise instead of admiring it or him for it only returned him this grave and serious memento Haec sunt quae faciunt nos invitos mori These are the things which make us unwilling to die To prevent this unwillingnesse build your Sepulchres in your earthly Paradises and remember that you must very shortly die and that after death comes judgement And that you must all appeare before the tribunal seat of Christ to give a strict and impartial account of whatsoever you have done in the flesh whether it be good or evil Let great men remember That great and small must stand before the great God of heaven and earth at the great day of judgement and that their greatnesse will nothing at all availe them at that day Greatnesse without goodnesse will be but as a great fagot to burne them the more in hell They that are great in place and greater in sin shall have great damnation Where God hath bestowed great benefits if they be accompanied with great iniquities God will plague them with great punishments It is said Rev. 6. 15 16. The Kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captaines and the mightie men c. hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains And said to the mountains and rocks Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb c. Therefore let rich men labour to be righteous as well as rich and great men to be good as well as great for riches without righteousnesse is but as a golden jewel in a swines snout and greatnesse without goodnesse is but as the greatnesse of a man sick of the dropsie which is not his happiness but his disease Remember Abraham who though he was a Lord and a mightie Prince yet he was also a friend of Gods and the Father of the faithful Though he was rich in gold and silver yet he was richer in faith and obedience And though he had three hundred and eightteen trained servants in his house yet he was exactly carefull to traine them all up in the wayes and Commandements of God And remember Jacob and how God himselfe changed his name and called him Israel because he wrestled with God and as a Prince had power with God and man and by prayers and teares prevailed over them When greatnesse and goodnesse meet together it is like apples of gold in pictures of silver It is as an embroidery upon an embroidery And therefore let great men labour to be good men The more you have of holiness the fitter you will be for happiness The more you have of grace the fitter you will be for glory This is the third inference Doctrine 4. That it is not enough for a Christian to live in the faith but he must also die in the faith This text takes notice of the constancy and perseverance of these holy men They persevered in the faith unto the end maugre all oppositions and temptations to the contrary They did live in the faith and continued living in the faith and as they lived so they died These all dyed in faith Perseverance in grace is maximum donum Dei saith Austin the greatest of Gods gifts or graces without which no other gift or grace will availe unto salvation Therefore Christ saith he that endureth to the end shall be saved And be thou faithful unto the death and I will give thee the crown of life No grace will make us worthy to obtaine the crown of glory but perseverance he that would go to heaven must not only live well but die well Though a man continue never so long in holinesse yet if he fall away before his death all his righteousnesse that he hath done shall not be mentioned in his trespasse that he hath trespassed and in his sin that he hath sinned in them shall he dye If Methuselah who lived nine hundred sixty nine years had fallen away from grace the last year of his life he had been undone for ever Wherefore my beloved brethren let me beseech you not only to beleeve but to persevere in beleeving not only to be holy but to persevere in holinesse and as the Apostle saith To perfect holinesse in the feare of God The Greek word is to finish holinesse The beauty glory and goodness of every thing is when it is finished A garment till it be finished is of no use nor a shop nor a house till finished A house halfe built and halfe unbuilt is good for nothing The excellency of a Christian is not only to be holy but to finish holinesse not only to have a good beginning but a happy closure and conclusion of his life This is a necessary lesson in this Apostatizing age wherein so many sons of the morning and children of high illumination are fallen into the darknesse of sin and errour and many who in outward appearance were as fixt starres are now proved falling starres in so much that if Mr. Fox were alive againe he would see cause rather to write a book of Apostates than a book of Martyrs And there are also some risen up amongst us who being many of them Apostatized themselves begin to preach the Doctrine of the Apostacy of the Saints Give me leave therefore to perswade you 1. To be rooted and established in the

A PATTERNE for all especially for Noble and Honourable Persons To teach them how to die Nobly and Honourably Delivered in a SERMON Preached at the solemne interment of the corps OF THE Right Honourable ROBERT EARLE of Warwick Who aged 70 died April 19. And was Honorably buried May 1. 1658. At Felsted in Essex By Edmund Calamy B. D. and Pastor of the Church at Aldermanbury Psal. 82. 6 7. I said Ye are Gods and all of you are children of the most High but you shall dye like men and fall like one of the Princes Rev. 14. 13. I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me write Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord c. Illius est nolle mori qui nolit ire ad Christum Aug. Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus De imperatore Theodosio fertur magis se gaudere quod membrum Ecclesia Dei esset quam caput imperii Aug. Ultima verba morientis Grynnaei Ut nunc triste mori est sic dulce resurgere quondam Christus ut in vitâ sic quoque morte lucrum In terris labor est requies sed suavis in urnâ In summo venient gaudia summa Die LONDON Printed for Edward Brewster at the Crane in Pauls Church-yard 1658. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT EARLE of WARWICK Baron of Leeze Right Honourable THe noble favours which I received from your deceased father are so many that I can never sufficiently expresse them and I hope shall never be so ungrateful as to forget them The chiefest requital I can now make for them is to pray for your Lordship That as you are his heire and inherit his estate so you may also inherit his virtues And that whatsoever was good in him may live in you For as it is a happinesse when a sonne is descended from religious Ancestors he being hereby made partaker of their good counsels prayers and pious examples so also it is an invaluable blessing when a father hath religious and virtuous children It was a sad complaint of Augustus O that I had lived a Bachelor or dyed childlesse And concerning Marcus Aurelius Antoninus that he had been perfectly happy had he not begotten such a wicked sonne as Commodus was And that he did injure his country in nothing but in being the father of such an ungodly child Hoc solo patriae quod genuit nocuit Some children are blots and blemishes to their Parents as Manasseh was to Hezekiah My prayer for your Lordship is that you may be an honour glory and crown of rejoycing to your Family and by your godly and virtuous life make your Father though dead to enjoy a kind of happiness upon earth while you live And that you may embalme his memory to posterity by the spices and sweet odours of your godly life and conversation It ought not to be forgotten but for ever to be remembred That your Lordship may not unfitly be called the Lords Passeover For when he took away by death your only sonne and heire he passed over you and instead of the Father took to himselfe the Grand-father This remarkable Providence is alone sufficient to teach you to pass the time of your sojourning here in feare and to purge out the old leaven of sinne and iniquitie that you may be a new lump of sincerity and truth and thereby have an undoubted interest in Christ your Passeover who was sacrificed for you This ensuing Sermon was preached at your Fathers funeral and it is now dedicated to your Lordship as yours by birth-right and by many other obligations It will much conduce if put in practice for the encouraging of you in wayes of holiness and righteousness For it teacheth wherein true Nobility doth consist and that nothing makes a man truely noble but pietie and godlinesse Sinne defiles a person and makes him vile and loathsome though otherwise never so honourable David calls a sinner a vile person and his sonne Solomon calls him a loathsome person Antiochus the great because of his wickednesse is stiled by Daniel a vile person Sinne makes us not only like unto dogs vipers and swine but unto devils Nay Sin makes us devils Christ himselfe calls Judas a devil and saith Revelations● 10. The devil shall cast some of you into prison c. meaning thereby wicked and devilish men He that is a slave to his lusts is base and ignoble though a King or Emperour Nobilitie without virtue is but as a scarlet roabe upon a leaprous body A true Christian is of a noble extraction He is the adopted Sonne of God brother to Jesus Christ heire of God and co-heire with Christ He is partaker of the divine nature and without all controversie the Noblest man in the world The Lord give you grace to believe this that as you are nobly borne in reference to your earthly extraction so you may be borne from above and borne of God in reference to your heavenly original This Sermon will likewise instruct your Lordship how to dye nobly and honourably And that is to dye in the faith He that dyes in his sinnes must of necessity be condemned for his sinnes but he that dyes with a true faith in Jesus Christ shall certainly live for ever in heaven with Christ It will teach you to build your Sepulchre in your earthly Paradises and in the midst of your pleasures to remember your latter end This will be a golden bridle to keep you from unlawful and to moderate the use of lawful pleasures It sets before you a double patterne for your imitation The lives of the ancient and religious Patriarcks and many commendable and praise-worthy things in your Fathers life And if your Lordship will endeavour to write after these excellent copies and live as they lived you will be happy both in life and death which that you may be is and shall be the prayer of My Lord Your humble servant in Christ Jesus EDMUND CALAMY A SERMON Preached at the Funeral OF THE Right Honourable ROBERT EARLE of WARWICK Heb. 11. 13. These all dyed in Faith THese words are a description of the constancy and perseverance of the Old Testament Saints in holinesse notwithstanding all the difficulties and discouragements they met with They did not only live in the faith but they continued in it till death and dyed in the same faith in which they lived All these dyed in the faith In the words we have two parts First The persons mentioned Secondly The things mentioned concerning these persons 1. The persons mentioned these all That is as some would have it all the forementioned Saints Abel Noah Abraham Sarah c. except Enoch who dyed not and yet continued in the faith and in that faith was taken up These all But I conceive that the Holy Ghost principally and directly intends only such of the forenamed Saints who were heirs of the land of promise and sojourned in Canaan as in a

sufficient to prove that according to the mind of St. Austin none but the elect of God are in time effectually called and really justified and pardoned and made partakers of the holy Ghost and become real members of Christs body and therefore the effectually called and justified c. can no more fall away than the elect which all confesse to be under an impossibility of Apostacy in St. Austins judgment 2. Let me perswade you not only to beleeve but to practise the doctrine of perseverance For there are Divers learned men that are so much scandalized at the great Apostacy of some eminent professours in our unhappy dayes that they begin to be stagger'd and to doubt of the truth of the doctrine of Perseverance But these men forget the saying of the Apostle They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us For my part I conceive that these Reverend and learned men should rather doubt of the truth of their graces whom they see thus foully to A postatize than of the truth of the Doctrine of Perseverance But howsoever let us take heed of laying this stumbling block least by our practical Apostacy men should begin to turne Doctrinal Apostates Let us labour to dye well as well as to live well to continue and persevere in wel-doing It is the great commendation of the Saints in the text That they died in the faith These all dyed in faith Remember what Christ saith No man having put his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for the Kingdome of God And what the Apostle Paul saith If any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him but we are not of them who draw back unto perdition c. And what the Apostle Peter saith It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousnesse than after they have known it to turne from the holy commandment delivered to them c. Remember also Lots wife She did only look back she did not go back and yet she was turned into a pillar of salt As God hath fire and brimstone for a Sodomite so he hath a pillar of salt for an Apostate But why do you exhort us to persevere when as you tell us that if we be true Saints we cannot but persevere 1. We do not say it is simply and absolutely impossible for a Saint not to persevere For if you consider the Saints as they are in themselves and the mightinesse and multitude of their spiritual enemies it is impossible for them not to fall away But we say it is impossible upon supposition Considering the unchangeable nature of God and the unchangeable decree and purpose of God and the unchangeable Covenant promises and Oath of God in this respect we say it is impossible 2. Scripture exhortations are divine motives and meanes to perswade and enable the Saints to persevere and they are so farre from interfering with or nullifying of the promises of faith and perseverance that they are many of them built and grounded upon them Phil. 2. 12 13. 2 Cor. 7. 1. What meanes must I use that I may hold out and continue unto the end and not only live in the faith but also dye in it 1. Dig deep in humiliation The stony ground fell away for want of depth of earth Humility is the best preservative of grace The lower the foundation the surer the building Spiritual pride paves a causey to Apostacy A chesnut put whole into the fire will fly out It is the broken heart only that will persevere 2. Labour for sincerity and uprightness of heart As the firmnesse of a pillar is in the uprightnesse of it if once it begins to bow it will quickly break So the firmnesse and stability of a Christian is in his sincerity and uprightnesse Rottenness of heart betrayeth a man into Apostacy A rotten apple will quickly appeare so outwardly So will a rotten Christian If ever you would persevere take heed of making use of Religion for the promotion of your carnal interest He that serves God for an earthly Kingdome when he bath got what he sought for will forsake God as Jehu did He that followeth Christ only for the loaves will leave Christ when he hath got them 3. Labour for a tender conscience This will keep us from the least degree of Apostacy As hot water grow's cold by degrees first it is luke-warme before it is starke cold So a Christian declines into Apostacy by degrees Lots wife first lingred and then afterwards lookt back first we slack our pace in Religion then we stand still and at last turne back But now a tender conscience will keep us from the least abatement of zeale and forwardnesse in Religion 4. Be not high minded but feare I speak not of a feare of diffidence and distrustfulnesse but of a feare of diligence and watchfulnesse He that would be secure from feare let him feare to be secure Mr. Saunders by his feare of falling away kept himselfe from Apostacy whereas Dr. Pendleton by his notorious presumption and over-bold confidence fell away 5. Take heed least there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} will end in {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Apostacy is the child of unbelief Faith will set us upon a rock higher than us even such a rock against which the gates of hell shall never prevaile 6. Take heed of the inordinate love of the world and of the base feare of men The love of mony is reckoned by the Apostle as the root of all evil in general and more especially of Apostacy 1 Tim. 6. 10. Which while some coveted after they have erred from the faith c. And the base feare of men was the cause which made thousands Apostatize in Queen Maries bloody dayes And therefore if ever you would persevere you must labour to love God above your corruptions relations and possessions and to feare sin more than the losse of estate or life He that loves God above the world will never forsake God to gaine the world He that feares sin more than death will rather dye than sin 7. Pray unto God the Father Son and holy Ghost that they would uphold you and enable you not only to live but to dye in the faith Pray to the Father that he would keep you by his power through faith unto salvation that he would uphold you by his mighty hand and keep you from falling as it is Psalm 37. ●4 Psalm 94. 18. That he would put his feare in your hearts that you may never depart from him Pray to the Son that he would apprehend you and hold you so fast in his armes that none may pluck