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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16906	A sermon preached at Westminster May 26. 1608 at the funerall solemnities of the Right Honorable Thomas Earle of Dorset, late l. high treasurer of England by George Abbot ... ; now published at the request of some honourable persons, very few things being added, which were then cut off by the shortnesse of the time.	Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1608 (1608)	STC 38.5; ESTC S555	25,872	37

giueth him most singular commendation and doubteth not but that his soule was in peace and rest with God Yea albeit at that time Valentinian had not receiued the Sacrament of Baptisme yet Saint Ambrose is resolued that propter voluntatem votum Baptismi for his desire and wish that he had to be Baptised the Lord had receiued him to mercy Where I may not forget a speech which he vttereth in that Sermon Iustus quacunque morte praeuentus fuerit anima eius in refrigerio crit The righteous man by what kind of death soeuer he be ouer taken or hastily caught away his soule shall be at rest I might rehearse the example of Iouian another famous Emperour who was the man that freed the Roman armie from the danger whereinto Iulian the Apostata going against the Persians had brought it In the midst of their perill the Captains and souldiers assured both of his vertue and his valour proclaimed him for their Emperour But he being a zealous and most resolute Christian and knowing that they not long before to giue contentment to Iulian had turned Heathens and Infidels made answer that himselfe professing for Iesus Christ would neuer take vpon him any gouernment ouer Gentiles which made them by and by returne to the Christian faith Yet this holy and worthy Emperour like to the Sunne breaking foorth after a fearefull storme was presently caught away and taken out of mens sight For going in health to bed he was found dead in the morning and no reason of that hastie change could be imagined but that either he had taken too liberall a supper or was choaked with the sauour of new lime on the walles of the house where he lay or with the smell of bad coles foetore prunarum as Saint Hierome doth deliuer it Nay I might tell of Iosiah whom Ieremy did terme the breath of their nostrels the Anointed of the Lord yet saith withall that he was taken in their nets that is was caught away suddenly He went into battel against Pharao Necho and there was wounded and slaine Iustine Martyr speaking of this most godly king and the maner of his death doth make this obiection why the wicked did not say that Iosias was so slaine and died in such a fashion because hee ouerthrew their idols and their altars Whereby he doth intimate that the maner of men is to giue a hard iudgement on the good as well as vpon the bad if any thing extraordinarie especially in their death do befall them Saint Hierome noteth the same where hee writeth thus Solent aliqui dicere Some men vse to say He who was slaine had not beene killed vnlesse he had beene a fornicator or had committed some sinne The house had not fallen vpon him vnlesse he had beene a malefactor He had not suffered shipwracke had hee not beene an offender But see what saith the holy Scripture Et sanguinem innocentem condemnabunt They shall condemne euen innocent bloud Though the person be innocent yet God sometimes doth suffer the euill man to condemne him This may well be a lesson to men in our time that they be not too quicke nor nimble in giuing vp their verdicts or censures of other men Especially since God disposeth all at his pleasure Since he hath said that All things come alike to all and the same condition is to the iust and the wicked to the good and to the pure and to the polluted to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not Which is to bee vnderstood of externall and outward things since the parties that speake this haue their owne breath in their nostrils and it may be their owne case if God should so determine it it being true that this noble man spake in another cause the very houre that he died Hodie mihi cras tibi It is my turne to day and it may be yours tomorrow I might amplifie this point much farther but I end it with that saying of the Apostle Paul What art thou that condemnest or iudgest another mans seruant He standeth or falleth to his owne master 15 Yet that truth may not be concealed in the matter which now I handle as God dealt with this noble person somewhat extraordinarily in taking him from among vs so it may be well supposed that he gaue him more than an ordinarie coniecture or suspicion that his death was not farre from him The last yeere when he returned after his greeuous sicknesse he spake it more than once to his honorable friends that he had setled his soule and composed it to another world whensoeuer God should call for him Soone after he began to dispose of all those worldly things which the Lord had lent vnto him Of late it was his common speech I am now an old man therefore this or therefore that as I my selfe can witnesse The day before he died writing with his owne hand to one of his grand-childrē he more than once in that letter vsed this or the like phrase After my death and when I am dead and gone The last morning of his life it was noted by those who were neerest about his Lordship that he was apparently longer at his priuate meditations then commonly hee did vse But the words of his will written with his owne hand may giue great satisfaction to a man of a hard conceit that he did fit himselfe to mortalitie whereof in the former yeere he had had a warning peece I will read his Lordships owne words in which letech man iudge whether it may not bee thought that there was some instinct more then ordinarie Thus then his will beginneth The eternall God of heauen and earth the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost guide and prosper this mine intent and purpose which in their name I heere take in hand and begin Because it is a trueth infallible such as euery Christian ought not onely perfectly to know and stedfastly to beleeue but also continually to meditate and thinke vpon namely that we are borne to die That nothing in this world is more certaine then death nothing more incertaine then the houre of death and that no creature liuing knoweth neither when where nor how it shall please Almightie God to call him out of this mortall life So as heere we liue euery houre nay euery instant a thousand waies subiect to the suddē stroke of death which ought to terrifie teach and warne vs to make our selues ready as well in the preparation of our soules to God as by the disposition of all our earthly fortunes to the world whensoeuer it shal please the heauenly power to call vs from this miserable and transitory life vnto that blessed and euerlasting life to come Therefore c. 16 Yet to all this I may adde that by vs who are liuing there is an vse to be made of these th●ngs For Exempl ●mori●ntum sunt documenta viuentium The examples of men dying are the