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A06686	A funerall sermon, preached at the buriall of the Lady Iane Maitlane, daughter to the right noble earle, Iohn Earle of Lauderdail, at Hadington, the 19. of December. 1631. By Mr. I.M. Together with diverse epitaphs, aswell Latine, as English, written by sundry authors	I. M., Mr.; Maitland, John, fl. 1617-1637, attributed name.	1633 (1633)	STC 17142; ESTC S108302	20,077	52

passed is but a dream but vanitie Thus of life as appointed by God as measured by dayes The other two points of our change and waiting for this change is matter for many sermons and a task for our whole life But within this short scantling of time wherewith I am straitned I shall absolve them in two words The change we must wait for is that which is begun by death and is accomplished at our resurrection O how joyfull how glorious a change to the godly whose corruption puts on incorruption whose mortality puts on immortality who are changed and transchanged into the glory of God This happy change we must wait for First by practise living so as we may attain to it Secondly by meditation thinking on it ere it come Thirdly by resolution embracing it when it comes I hasten to the application Works move more than words teaching by exemple is more effectuall than by discourse If the ardent and affectionat desires of her Honourable parents the hearty wishes of her many worthy friends the many salt tears sobs sighes groanes of all her acquaintance the prayers and supplications of us all if gifts of body and minde surpassing ordinarie and stirring almost admiration in the beholders if all those could have delayed this change neither should your eyes have seene nor my tongue this day spoken of it but it was appointed by God blessed be his name his will not ours be done Maximilian the first of that name commanded that his dead body should be exposed to publique view adding this reason ut vel meo discant exemplo Behold we have this day proposed our Maxima the choycest jewell we had once the delight of our eyes and the joy of our hearts her we proposed a spectacle not to be gazed upon but that in this change ye might read a lecture of your own coming change It is I know expected I should speake somewhat of her and why should I frustrat your expectation for though these speeches should not be Panegyricks onely for the praises of the dead but rather instructions for the living yet I see not why their due commandations because of their excellent vertues should be suppressed since God in them by them is glorified others edified And hath not the holy Spirit told us that As the memorie of the wicked shall rot so the memorie of the just shall be blessed Prov. 10.7 The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance Psal 112.6 If with God why not with man Having upon those grounds resolved to speake of her yet so as the truth of my love should not prejudge my love of truth still for a time I remained irresolved what to speake where to begin when to end inopem me copia fecit In end I found that as to speake nothing were intolerable so to speak all were impossible So that my course must be of many things to make choyce of some few and that by confining my speech to my text 1. of her dayes 2. of her appointed time 3. her change 4. her waiting for her change All the dayes of her appointed time did she wait till her change came All the dayes Sometimes dayes are taken for years and years for dayes when I speake of her time I doubt whether to say dayes or years Let me joyn them both all the dayes all the years Her appointed time was dayes her appointed time was years it was short it was long Will we take time and dayes as they are ordinarily alasse then I must say she had dayes and but few dayes that was worthy of years of many years thousands who abuse their time to the dishonour of God themselves the world have many dayes while she who knew both what time was and how to use time had but few Ah what pitty to behold such a blossome blasted in the spring such a flower withered in the morning such a bright and glancing starre over-clouded with a gloomie and tempestuous night But if we shall call those onely dayes that are spent honourably vertuously religiously then I may boldly turn dayes into years and say all the years of her appointed time Her time was not short but long Diu vixit licet non diu fuit She lived long in a short time is one day of a mans life governed with knowledge and reason to be prized above the many years of the unreasonable creature why not her few dayes full of knowledge and grace to be valued beyond the longest time of too too many who at foure times twenty come to their change emptie of both if her few dayes breed sorrow let her many years bring us comfort Her time was Appointed by God here a ground of patience Since this change the affections and passions of many have shown themselves and still doth The eyes of all who knew her the tongues of all who heard of her do abundantly testifie not a private but a publique sorrow and shall we condemn that which God and Nature commands Christ and his Saints practised it We finde the Patriarches and holy men mourning over their dead our blessed Saviour shedding teares over Lazarus and shall it then be strange if we behold her worthy parents lifting up their voyces with cryes being deprived of such a divided peece of themselves Her honourable friends to bedeaw their cheeks being robbed of such a choyce flower of their garland all her acquaintance familiars and followers to fill heaven and earth with their lamentations wanting her whose injoying was a great part of their earthly joy yea and it is strange to see all those bounds wher she was known by eye or eare to mourn each family as if they were mourning for their own first born being frustrat of those great hopes and common benefits her few dayes did promise to all Surely it is not strange nor can be blamed And to increase it by patheticke speeches I neither can being already at such a hight neither will least we give too large reines to it Not to mourn is not onely gracelesse but unnaturall to be immoderate in our mourning is not Christian but Heathenish When Iacob came to his change Ioseph mourned so did the Egytians he but 7. dayes they 70. Gen. 50.3.10 He knew his time was appointed by God they looked to fate and necessity he knew his death was but a change they tooke it for a finall dissolution and destruction Mourn then we may we should but to exceed in our mourning as those who have no hope we may not we should not And here among many one ground for the moderation of our sorrow and perswading of patience Her time was appointed of God if it had been possible that another should have wrought this change would we think ye have taken it patiently no rather would we have parted with our own eyes But now O Lord thou hast done it and therefore with thy servant David we must close our mouth yea reverence obey glorifie thy appointment just are all thy

even mourning for her sacred change Whose fame in spite of envie lives though strange Divorce black death hath made Her noble parts Craves tears from eyes and sorrow from sad hearts Who as she liv'd belov'd now dyes with mone Of kin of countrey nor of these alone But all who worth or vertue did adore None saw her like succeed few past before Thy worth so great our sorrow must be such Mourn as we can we cannot mourn too much Aliud RAra fides virtus prudentia entheus ardor Si poterint poterant te moriente mori Indulsit cuiquam nunquam natura quod in te Non rarum majus laude vel invidia Hoc citius proerepta licet tua funere flere Vt resonet famam vix satis orbis erit Aliud With sanctified 1 unspotted 2 true 3 This one Wit 1 worth 2 and vertue 3 To the grave is gone Moeroris amoris ergo posuit M.I. Cockburnus FOrma genus virtus miranda in flore juventae Laudem virginei te statuere chori Metellana domus generosâ prole beanda Per te sic matrum gloria prima fores Sed demissa polo pietas in fruge senectam Maturans comitem te super astra rapit Marmora mitte igitur fuge laudes dicere versu Huic immortali ne moritura struas M. Ro. Balcanquel PVlchra Metellana est primâ proerepta juventâ Et secli sexus gloria prima sui Quae teneros opibus mentis praeverterat annos Sincerâ ornârat quae pietate genus Tota decens morum candore modestia alti Artibus ingenii laude pudicitiae Hanc tantùm terris fata ostendére quod esset Non hoc digna loco sed meliore frui Nempe sibi propriam sociavit foedere Nympham Christus ut aeternâ luce beata cluat Alex. Setonius SI probitas si forma magna modestia ingens Spes hominum quicquam conciliare valent Cuncta mihi thalami nec opes nec caetera longe Vult generum mater vult pater esse socer Sed mea mortalem sors dedignata maritum Asseruit coelo virgineoque choro Quid nunc forma genus quid inania caetera vitae In sponso Domino cuncta reperta meo M. I. D. ERgone in illustrem potuisti squalida gentem Met'lanam hoc mandare nefas anne invida tanti Nominis hunc tantum potuisti inferre dolorem Ausa nimis funesta Tuos si flectere sensus Non potuit generis praeclari gloria saltem Plurima tam sacra suadebant parcere Nymphae Illa quidem taedas velut aversata jugales Qualiter apricis ducebat Delia campis Virginibus comitata suis sic lata sorores Inter honoratas duxit Metlana choraeas Illa vel aequales quas sors dedit esse vel inter Illa deas luxit quas sors dedit esse priores Casta pudica decens artes quàm daedala Pallas Edocuit teneram tenerisque refovit in ulnis Namque animum fingit studiis nec inanibus aptum Et quae foemineum decorant illustria sexum Alma Venus Nymphae nec defuit illa decorum Contribuit placidumque simul super omnia vultum Et pinxit roseos artus corpusque decenti Ordine composuit quo singula quaeque referrent Et genus tantae sublimia munera mentis Cuncta annos aevumque simul suasere sed eheu Sola Metellanae renuisti parcere nymphae Epicedium NYmpha Metellanas inter celeberrima tantae Quae fueras nuper lucida gemma domus Nympha inter cunctas celeberrima blanda venusta Et quae virginei gloria prima chori Vive vale decus omne tuis dulcissima rerum Junctaque divinis nune fruere usque choris Epitaphium STemmate praelustris virtute illustrior unum Id mihi prae cunctis nomen honoris erat Vixi chara aliis chara parentibus uni Quod fueram Christo chara beatafui Patricius Kinalochus STay passenger O goe not by Till thou behold who here dothly And help with me to shed some tears For her who living had few peeres A comely Lady truly chast Who in her birth was with the best Minerva's stock was her descent Which made to vertue her so bent As testifies what 's to be seen And might be presents to a Queen In bountie matchlesse and so rare As few with her now may compare But in her life so sanctified As in her death she edified Well to be short she nothing wanted Which to the noblest Nymphs was granted M.T. M. TE matri similem formá pietate parenti Proh dolor ante diem mors inopina rapit Te Deus omnipotens primis tibi charus ab annis Artibus ornavit quas didicisse juvat Occidis heu prima prudens in flore juvente Atque avi finis ipsa pudicitia est Nobilis à proavis origine clara parentum Clara Metellana es moribus usque bonis Moeroris ergo posuit Patricius Metellanus WHen thy fair beautie like the blushing morne Which Ida's Goddesses did all adorne Shin'd on earths stage and bare the golden ball Of which for excellence thou reft them all All that had hearts to wish or eyes to see Became admirers of thy worth But thee No eye nor heart had worth enough t' aspire To make his own till heav'n was set on fire With its own Master-piece and took thee home In thy pure virgin white as here thou come And left us now alas with weeping eyes To praise thy worth which best thy want can price For why we truly know it in thy lack Since all Earth's treasure cannot buy thee back Ah me when nature thus had playd her best Or would or could she not still make thee last Pencils and pens may thy worths portrait draw Which to presume the best should stand in awe But heav'n that holds thee now a virgin Queen Among the sainted souls a leader seen Vouchsafes no further good to after daies By want of thee But if that ought worth praise Nature produces henceforth it shall be Most chiefly prays'd for being like to thee But thy rich mould hath taken such a blow That now it cannot such another show Yet in despite of nature death and time That thus hath reft thee from us in thy prime Like the Arabian Bird thine ash shall give A rare invention how to make thee live Since all that saw or heard or knew of thee Shall think their best like thee to live and dye So though thy earthly part death hath subdu'd All age shall see thy vertuous fame renew'd JAMES DRUMMOND of Millanab HAEc Laderdeli generosa nata Vt Metellano Patre sic Setona Matre praeclaris oriunda solo haud Sanguine avito Sed magis verâ pietate eâdem Jure cantari meruit Camaenis Mens ut in coelis it a fama terris Vivat in aevum Nobiles ut sic alios parentes Nobiles ut sic pariterque natos Provocet non tam Baphicove cocco aut Murice tinctis Vestibus corpus