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A88807	Peplum olivarii, or A good prince bewailed by a good people. Represented in a sermon October 13. 1658. upon the death of Oliver late Lord Protector. By George Lawrence A.M. minister of Crosses Hospital.	Lawrence, George, 1615-1695?	1658 (1658)	Wing L659; Thomason E959_4; ESTC R207645	20,778	41

immarcessible 1 Pet. 5.4 Quarta Perennis Seneca as he lived vertuously so he chearfully died with this verse in his mouth Vixi quem dederit cursum fortuna peregi And as Frisius said of Plato 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he shined as the morning starre amongst the living and dying the evening star amongst the dead And though he had been in deaths often and faced death as often as he fought battles and though his death had been attempted by Sundercombe and others yet he died not a violent but a natural death in his own personal peace and peace of his Kingdomes being full of dayes and lies now in the bed of honour and on the third day of September 1658. he received his Writ of ease from all his more than Herculean labours which had been a day one year after another viz. Anno 1650. Anno 1651. rubrick't with two remarkable victories at Dunbar and Worcester as Antipater died on the same day of his rising 2. With much grief to others Octavian and Titus Vespasian were not more lamented of the former it was said Would to God he had not been born or never died and of the latter that he was * Amor Victor deliciae humani generis the Love Conquerour and delights of mankinde to whom Speed compares our Henry the fifth And such was the lamentation of the Emperour Severus that * Aut non nasci aut non mori debaisse the Senate of Rome said he should either not be borne or not die Our English Senate much laments his death of whom it may be said as of David Acts 13.36 After he had served his own generation by the will of God he fell on sleep 1 Chron. 29.28 He died in a good old age full of dayes riches and honour and Solomon his son reigned in his stead On whom the Criticks made this Epitaph Here lies David who when he was a boy Slew Lyons and Bears In his middle age great Goliah When he was a little older great enemies The Philistins And in his old age overeame himself 9. In his fame * Statius Notum per saecula nomen His memory as of the just is blessed Prov. 10.4 and shall be an everlasting foundation ver 25. whence the Rabbins in their quotations of any eminent Authour deceased usually subjoyne this honourable commemoration BENEDICTAE MEMORIAEN or such an one of blessed memory Memoria ejus sit in Benedictione The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance HAPPY Psal 112.6 OLIVER of HAPPY MEMORY this the second motive 3. Consider your own sins Our sins have hastned the Protectours removal as unthankfulnesse pride animosities avarice formality and licentiousnesse These were the ague fits which have expelled his breath and our obduracy the stone which hath sunk him to the grave And we may say as Bradford said of the death of King Edward the sixth King of England Our sins made holy Oliver die 4. Consider our own losse The losse of a General is a general losse The losse of him is a complexion or rather a complication of losses We have lost a Captain a Shield the Head an Heire of Restraint the Breath of our Nostrils an Healer a Shepherd a Father and a Nursing Father a Corner-Stone a Builder a Watchman an Eye a Saviour a Steers-man and Rector a Pilot and a Common Husband 5. Lastly consider our miseries which we deserve even the miseries which befell Judah and Jerusalem after Josiah's death in the dayes of Jehoahaz Jehoiakim and Zedekiah desolation of Cities Temple Families and a Captivity stricter and longer than a Babylonian which the Lord in mercy turn from us and turn us to him by true and unfeigned repentance O England repent repent And now considering all these incentives who can refrain from weeping Quis enim tam tristia fando Myrmidonum Dolopúmve aut Diri Miles Vlyssei Temperet à lachrymis And if any should ask me what is the cause of so much mourning I answer with Ambrose telling the cause of his grief to a friend for the decease of an eminent person demaunding the question * Quia di ficile esset similem ei invenire Because it would be a hard thing to finde one like to him Saith God of Solomon 1 Kings 3.12 There was none like him neither after him should arise any like him Anglia Nec primum similem visa es nec habere sequentem He hath wonne the Palme Victory hath setled the Olive Peace and hath left his friends to hang * Plectra dolo retacent muta dolore lyra est their Harps upon the Willow Truly I may say his Deeds deserve a full distinct and faithful Chronicle which were so superlative that a succeeding generation of no little faith would scarce suppose them credible yet of him I may dare say as was said of the Royal Princesse Prov. 31.29 Many Princes have done vertuously but Renowned OLIVER hath excelled them all But here an Asthma stops me for with * Si omnia corporis mei membra verterentur in lacbryma● holy Hierom if all the members of my body were converted into tears yet in this short variety of words I fear I should have silenced more than what is spoken and with * Silere meliùs putem quâm parum dicere Salust him of Carthage better may I judge to say nothing more than speak a little And therefore here die away my mourning pen and let thy Manumitter sob the rest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 easing his heart-bound grief by weeping forth this Epitaph HIC JACET TOTIVS ANGLIAE SCOTIAE ET HIBERNIAE INDVPERATOR ET TOTIVS CHRISTIANISMI MIRACVLVM OLIV ARIVS But now methinks I hear the treading feet and the reviving voice of his Royal Successor saying Why make you this ado and weep hath not my father of admired fame by the advice of Parliament provided a succession to prevent the Rivalry of all pretenders and ten thousand woes O my Lord you are the Honorius of our deceased Theodosius his eldest son the rightful heir you do patrize and walk in your fathers steps you are entred into the Harvest of your fathers dear-bought labours and may you and yours reap the sweetnesse of them to many generations But yet give me leave to vent these Votes and pray 2. Directions to prevent miseries after the Protectours death 1. For your Highness That the God of Counsels would direct you your Council Armies and the whole Land that you may be a father of thousands of millions and that your seed may possesse the gate of them that hate you that Jacobs legacy to Joseph may be your portion Gen. 49.26 Surpassing blessings may crown your Head that the advice of your languishing father on his death bed may not be forgotten Tu Civem Patremque geras lu consule cunctis Nec tibi nec tua te moveant sed publica vota As Theodosius counselled Honorius That in the strength of Jesus Christ * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch you would rouze and bestir your self for without Christs assistance the government of three Nations would quickly sink you * Grande opus sub quo sudaret Olympifer Atlas ● A work so great Would make Olympus-bearing Atlas sweat And that the wilde dream of raving Porphyrius in Gildas Britannia est fertilis Provincia Tyrannorum may by your godly and prudential Regency be prov'd a lye 2. That your Subjects would study loyalty peace and love that you may not be ashamed of them nor they afraid of you and that they may be as willing upon all occasions to serve you as Ittai and his servants David 2 Sam. 15.15 21. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Said Ignatius in an Epistle to the Smyrneans The people ought to honour the Prince for there is none more excellent and near to God in the University of things than he And 3. That both you and all might mind our own mortalities while we are called upon to bewail the death and sicknesses of others Said Elihu to Job chap. 36.18 Because there is wrath beware lest he take thee away with his stroak But here I shall conclude with the vote of Tertullian to Trajan the Emperour wishing your Highnesse * Vitam prolixam Imperium securum Domum tutam Exercitus fortes Senatum fidelem Populum probum Orbem quietum LONG LIFE A SECURE REIGNE A SAFE HOUSE VALIANT FORCES A FAITHFUL SENATE A GOOD PEOPLE AND A QUIET WORLD FINIS

King 13.29 1. Use is of Information 1. 1. Use Learn the Antiquity of Funerals though the Rule of Augustine must be often minded namely * Curatio Funeri● conditio sepulturae Pompa exequiarum magis sunt vivorum salatia quam subsidia mortuorum l 2. de curâ pro mortuis the over-seeing of the Funeral the nature of the Burial and the Pomps of Exequies are rather the comforts of the living than the subsidies and succours of the dead 2. It is a blessing for Princes and others to dye lamented and to have as we say Christian Burial as 1 Kings 14.13 Jer. 34.4 5. but otherwise a curse Esay 14.18 19 20. Jer. 16.6 chap. 25.23 Ezek. 23.13 seen in Jehoiakim the second son of this Josiah Jer. 22 18 19. They shall not lament for him saying Ah my brother or ah sister they shall not lament for him saying ah Lord or ah his glory He shall be buried with the burial of an Asse drawn and cast forth beyend the gates of Jerusalem Hunc nemo lachrymis decorat neque funera fletu 3. The special honour done to Josiah at his inhumation Marcellus had six hundred Herses and Sylla six thousand Herses to attend his Herse and the Ethiopians when their King was dead would deprive themselves of life as a glorious testimony of their love and friendship And all Judah and Jerusalem seem to be but one common Herse to honour the Herse of their Noble and Religious Prince See the Honour done to him 1. He was buried in Mausolaeo as reads Hierom the burning place of Kings taken from that great and regal structure Queen Artemisia built for Mausolus her husband King of Caria which was accounted one of the seven wonders of the world He was buried in one of the Sepulchres Notat sumptuosisimum pulcherrimum saith Vatablus a most sumptuous and fair Tombe 2. By the Mourners 1. In General All the Inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem all his subjects paid their last and unenforced tribute even that of tears 2. In especial 1. Jeremiah is recorded to be the chief Mourner For he 1. Composed the Funeral Verses which were not his Threnod or Lamentations bound up in your Bibles next to Jeremiahs Prophesie as Jonathan Josephus Hugo Abubensis Lyra the Hebrews and others do imagine for Calvin and Cornelius à Lapide understand it of Zedekiah Josiahs third sonne who was imprisoned and in whose dayes the greatest part of the threatned storme and desolation fell 2. He foresaw that the Guardian of Religion and Discipline being removed most sad confusions of opinions manners and worship would ensue 3. With great grief of heart had he experience of the dissimilitude between the father and children and as Josiah had eighteen years cherished him as his Patron yea as his Father yet his degenerated sonnes sported at the good Prophets troubles so Strigelius 2. The Chorus which was to carry on the Solemnity and the Jewes were so skill'd in lamentations that the Greeks do hire them to crie at their Funerals saith * plorat Uberibus semper lachrymu semperque paratis In statione suâ atque expectantibus illam Quo jubeat manere modo Juvenal Satyr 6. Juvenal 3. The Chronicle of all his deeds In perpetuam rei memoriam Thus they who honour God them will God both in life and death honour 2. Use is of Reproof condemning 1. Such who are senselesse as when King Uzziah died the people were dull Isa 6.1 10. They have stricken me shalt thou say and I was not sick they have beaten me and I felt I knew it not Prov. 23.35 Evil men understand not judgment Prov. 28.5 Isa 57.1 2. Such who triumph at the death of godly Princes It is observed by the Historian That none rejoyced at the death of Hannibal but Rogues even that Hannibal who was an instructed enemy against Rome from nine years old insomuch that when he was Adult Hannibal ad Portas put all the Inhabitants to an afright as Senacherib throwing his fire-balls The sinners in Sion were afraid saying who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burning Isa 33.14 The truth is Though our Oliver of spreading Fame did bear the Olive of Peace in his Name yet his heart and actions were at warre with Rome and no marvel then that Papists as the daughters of the Philistins and uncircumcised at the death of Saul and Jonathan do so much triumph 2 Sam. 1.20 Many laughed saith Levater on my Text not lamented as we may collect from Jeremiah and Zephaniah because they hoped Idolatry would be restored There be three sorts who now rejoyce 1. Malignants And 2. Debauched persons as Panders Trepanners Hectors Fidlers and the scum of the people And 3. Despisers of Dignities Because the sword did hew the first His Lawes did scourge the second And His clemency did unboot the third And it is but the truth of the Prediction of our departing Lord and Master Joh. 16.20 Ye shall weep and lament but the world shall rejoyce ye shall be sorrowfull but your sorrow shall be turned into joy at the Masculine birth of a travelling womb the Scene shall be changed Isa 65.13 14. 3. Such who erre in mourning First In Defect 1. Who mourn hypocritically as Herod for John and Ishmael Gedaliah Jerem. 41.6 For often in Funerals saith Lavater many dissemble sorrow Ille Dolet verè Qui sine veste Dolet It is storied of the late King Charles Esquire Saundersons Chronicle contrary to former Presidents that he in person attended the Herse of his father as the chiefest mourner But the nakednesse of his fathers grave puts the question Whether that action in it self imitable and commendable were not a a piece of Court-policy to still the shrill clamour about his fathers death rather than a testimony either of the truth or excesse of his own love or sorrow 2. Who mourn customarily as the daughters of Israel the Recesse of Iephthah's daughter Iudges 11.39 and * ●●●los erudicre suos the mourning women who schoole their eyes a lamentation These Christ dismissed Matthew 9.23.24 * Martyroleg lom 1 pag 493. A Text Master Thorpe a godly Minister and Martyr did use against Arundel Arch-bishop of Canterbury in the Reigne of Henry the fourth to overthrow Organs and Church-musick Many lay no more to heart the death of publick persons than children the death of a father or mother if they can have comfits though they quickly feele to their reall grief afterwards that they had such a father and such a mother 3. Who mourn profanely carowsing swearing and as it were dancing about the dead mans grave Said Esau in his heart The days of mourning for my father are at hand then will I slay my brother Iacob Gen. 27.41 King Marres was so profane that he bewailes his Crow saith Aelian the Lady her Dogge saith Martial and Crassus his Lamprey no lesse than a sonne and built a