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A45557	Mans last journey to his long home a sermon preached at the funerals of the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Warwick, who died in London, May the 30th and was interr'd at Felstead in Essex, June the 9th 1659 / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1659 (1659)	Wing H735; ESTC R19289	18,083	38

Instance of the rich fool in the Gospel whose thoughts were to pull down his barns and build greater and thereto bestow all his fruits and his Goods and to say to his soul Soul thou hast much good laid up for many years take thine ease eat drink and be merry but that night was his soul required from him and those thoughts perished St. James speaketh of those whose thoughts were that to day or to morrow they would go into such a City and continue there and buy and sell and get gain forgetting that their life was but a vapour which appeareth a little while and vanisheth away and together with it all such thoughts St. Gregory upon those words The eyes of the wicked shall fail giveth this as the reason Quia intenti●nes eorum desideria occupantur circa transitoria because their thoughts and desires are imployed about perishing objects Oh let it be our wisdome to six our thoughts and designes upon higher and better objects how we may obtain an Inheritance among them that are sanctified and enjoy the beatifical vision These are those thoughts which being pursued in life shall not be frustrated but fulfilled at our death He whose life hath been a continued Meditation on Heaven and whose endeavoures have been to make sure an Interest there in that very day when his body returneth to the earth his soul goeth forth to the fruition of it and so his thoughts receive a full a joyfull accomplishment Once more Not only our worldly but our charitable our penitential our Religious thoughts perish in that day of death How many have thoughts with themselves When I come to such and such years I will leave my sins and lead a new life When I have got this and that estate I will give Almes to the poor But in the mean time death hath unhappily prevented them Oh therefore let it be our prudence to lay hold on the present time and when good thoughts are in our minds if we have ability and opportunity to put them speedily in execution lest we too late condemn our own folly and be forced to say non putaram I did not think death would so soon have seized upon me I shut up this with that excellent Exhortation of the Wise man Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it withall thy might for there is no work nor device nor wisdome nor knowledge in the grave whether thou goest THe text is now finished but my discourse must not yet end What hath been from the text sounded in your eares is by this sad occasion fulfilled in your eyes We have before us a dolefull Instance of great mens mortality in this Noble Earl whose breath some daies past went forth from him and whose body is now returning to this earth Indeed it is that sad Providence which I cannot but mention as being fit to be laid to heart how Almighty God hath not only once but again and again within a little circuit of time exemplified the truth of this Doctrine in this Noble Family No lesse then three Persons of Honour the Father the Son the Grandson have in lesse then two years been taken away by death and that in the three several ages of life the Father in the evening of old age the Son in the noon of manhood and the Grandson in the morn of youth It seemed good to the wise God who doth not look in the Church-Book to see who is eldest and take men out in the same order that they come into this world to begin with the youngest of the three by death lopping off from this goodly tree a blossoming branch which might in probability have flourished long and brought forth much fruit But when his surviving relations consider what hath lately fallen out and is too likely to befall this Land they may look upon it as a mercy in that he was taken away from the evil to come Not long after it pleased divine providence to strike at the very root the aged Father of the Family who having lived many years was cut off in a few houres and is gone to his grave in a full age like a shock of corn in its season And now one main arme of this tree which first sprung from that root and from which that branch sprouted is hewen down the Father of that hopefull Son and the Son of that aged Father is brought to be Interred together with them both in the Sepulchre of his Ancestours It was not my happiness to have either long or much knowledg of this Honourable Person and therefore a large Panegyrick cannot be expected from me nor shall I say any thing concerning him more then truth as not daring for fear of the great God to speak false and flattering words of the greatest man To tell you how illustrious the Family is whereof he is descended were superfluous you can better tell me who have for many years beheld its splendor nor indeed doth that adde much to any mans commendation I shall not stay long to mind you how happy he was in his conjugall Relations having been the Husband of two excellent Ladyes whose memory is and will be precious though their bodies are rotted in the Grave by the former of whom he was the Father of that only Son who went before him and by the latter of three Daughters ingenuous and promising Ladyes which are left behinde him It will be needless to enlarge upon what all who knew him will readily testifie that he was a Person of excellent natural endowments of a sweet and loving temper affable and courteous behaviour and of a meek and lowly spirit not only before but after he was possessed of that dignity to which he was born He was in honore fine tumore lifted up with honour but not puffed up with pride That which I cannot forbear to mention since thereby he became an honour to his Family is as his untained loyalty to his Sovereign so his faithfull constancy in adhering to the Church of England in her Faith and Worship It pleased God in his latter dayes to visit him with many Diseases which as they were in mercy intended by God so I hope in charity they were looked upon by him as summons to the Grave and Monitors of his frailty In his last sickness I had the Honour to wait upon and administer to him in holy things wherein my conscience beareth me witnesse I dealt with him freely and faithfully and I trust not without good success Having set before him the sinfulness of sin and the necessity of repentance he did with tears and sighs as well as words acknowledge and bemoane the follyes of his youth and former life implore forgivenesse of them from God resolve if God should spare him that he would through Divine Grace be more carefull of his wayes And though it hath not seemed good to divine wisdome to give him opportunity of performing his Pious and Penitent resolves yet I hope they were sincere and being so I am sure they are mercifully accepted by his gracious God He was indeed willing to have lived longer but for good end namely to amend his own waies and see Jerusalem in prosperity and withall he desired to submit to Gods will and did wholly cast himself on Christs mertts for his salvation If there be any who like fleas which bite most when we are asleep shall speak evil of this dead Lord I wish they would consider that it was one of Solons Prohibitions {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to stain the Honour of the dead God I trust upon his Repentance hath covered his sinnes let us do so too They were his earthly dusty ashy parts let them be buried with him This Honourable Person is dead and going to his long home But blessed be God the Earl of Warwick still liveth in his succeeding Brother who will I hope not only continue but encrease the Honour of his Family by endeavouring not only to equalize but excell his Predecessours in being a Friend to the Orthodox Religion of this despised Church a pattern to his Tennants Servants yea the whole Countrey of Piety Charity Humility and all Vertues And may there long long be found one of this line fit to enjoy the Revenue and weare the Title of this Earldome Amen FINIS Ps. 23. 4 5. John 18. 6. 2 Sam. 3. 38. Gen. 1. Calv. in loc. Isai. 2. 22. Job 21. 23. James 4. 14. Theod. in loc. Jerom. in loc. Eccl. 12. 7. Gen. 2. 7. John 4. 24. Heb. 1. 5. 2 Cor. 5. 1. A●g●e civit de● Eccl. 3. 21. 12. 7. Sen. Epist. Greg. M●● Matth. 10. 28. Luke 20 38. Cajet in ●oc Eccl. 12. 7. Gen. 2. 7. 1 Cor. 15. 41. Ovid Job 4. 19. Phocyl Phil. 3. 20. Gen. 2. 17. 3. 19. Lucr●● Horat. Gen. 26. Psal. 76. 12. Aug. in loc. Nehem. 5. 5. Prov. 22. 2. Gen. 3. 14. 1 Sam. 10. 2. Job 3. 19. Gen. 25. 32. Prov. 24. 21. Mal. 1. 6. Psal. 9. 20. Isai. 51. 12. Psal. 56. 4. Verse 5. Chryso in loc. Isai. 2. 〈◊〉 Jer. 17. 5. Trem. in loc. Lor. in loc. Isa 26. 4. Psal. 〈…〉 1 Maccab. 2. 62 63. Luk. 1● 18 19. Jam. 4. 13 14. Job 11. 2● Eccles. 9. 10.

to his two constitutive and essentiall parts soul and body the egresse of the one His soul goeth forth and the regresse of the other he returneth to his Earth the one whereof is verified In ipso articulo mortis in the very point of death and the other is most evident in sepultura corporis at the time of his Buriall Both which when I have handled by themselves I shall discuss with reference to the quality of the person of whom especially they are spoken and then close up this first and main part of the Text with a sutable of Application 1. Begin we with Mans egress in those words His Breath goeth forth The Hebrew word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} being derived from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as also the Greek {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and the Latin spiritus from spiro most properly signifieth breath In this notion the Targum and our Translators here render it nor is it incongruous to the Psalmists design which is to give us a Character of death yea Calvin inclineth to this as the most genuine meaning of the word in this place And thus it is a most evident truth that when a man dyeth his Breath goeth forth Indeed it is not true that when a mans Breath goeth forth he dyeth Since life is maintained inspirando respirando by taking in and letting forth Breath but when we can no longer take in breath we are said expirare to breath forth our last and so dye In this respect man is fitly resembled to a bladder puffed up with wind which being by any prick let forth the bladder shrivels up when we cease to Breath we cease to live Upon how slender a thred doth our life hang it is but a puffe and we are gone we carry our lives in our hands or rather in our nostrils that is the Prophet Isaiahs Character Man whose Breath is in his Nostrils How easily how speedily is a mans breath beaten out of his body so quickly is he deprived of life our life doth not depend upon the soundness of our parts strength of our joynts one dyeth saith Job in his full strength but only upon our breath which how soon are we bereaved of no wonder if one Philosopher being asked what life was turned himself about and so went out and another resembles it by oculus clausus and apertus an eye shut and open or rather open and shut we dye in the twinkling of an eye and St. James putting the Question What is your life returneth this answer It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while and then vanisheth away Oh that as we continually live by breathing so we would be thereby put in mind of dying when our breath shal go forth But though this construction be true yet I rather adhere to Theodorets and Hieromes gloss upon the place who by spirit understand the soul partly because when this word is applyed to man in holy writ it is most frequently so to be understood and where the sense will bear it is best to take words in their usuall acception partly because the next clause is generally referd to the other part of man his body and therefore it is most congruous to refer this to his soul chiefly because in that place of Salomon the Son which may very well be looked upon as fetched from and parallel to this of David the Father by spirit can be meant no other then the soul of man If you ask why the soul of man is called by this name of a spirit the answer is given both from the Etymology of the word and the nature of the thing 1. The word as you have already heard signifieth breath and the soul of a man is a breath both Passively and Actively 1. Passively Quia spiratur because it is breathed into us according to that of Moses in the Creation of Man God breathed into him the breath of life and however it be a controverted Question whither the rationall soul be propagated and infused generated or breathed yet it suiteth best as with the dignity of the soul so with the current of Scripture to affirme that the soul of man is still breathed into the body immediately by God himself 2. Actively Quia spirat because it is the fountain and originall of our breath which begins with the ingresse and ceaseth with the egresse of the soul upon which consideration the former sense appeareth to be included in this latter since together with the soul the breath goeth forth 2. The thing which this word spirit is used for the most part to signifie is an invisible immortall incorporeall immateriall substance upon which account God is said to be a Spirit and Angels are called spirits and in this respect the soul of man is a spirit as being not an accident but a substance and that void of gross corruptible matter This spirit when a man dyeth goeth forth for the further explication whereof it will be needfull to inquire the double term of this motion whence and whither it goeth 1. If you inquire whence the spirit goeth forth the answer is out of the body Conceive the body as an house or Tabernacle or rather with St. Paul to put both together the house of our Tabernacle the soul as an Inhabitant or sojourner in this house into which when it enters we begin to live and out of which when it goeth we dye The second death saith St. Austin Animam nolentem tenet in corpore detains the soul against its will in the body and the first Animam d●lentem pellit●e corpore driveth the sorrowfull soul out of the body when this bold Serpeant cometh with a Writt from the divine Majesty he entreth in and turneth this Tenant out of doores 2. If you would know whither the spirit goeth the Wise man giveth you the Answer where he saith the spirit of a man goeth upward and again where he saith it returneth to God that gave it as it goeth forth so it ascendith upward Sursum eam vocant initia sua saith Seneca it goeth whence it came To God it goeth and that for this end to receive its doome which being past it accordingly remaineth in a state of weal or woe to the day of the Resurrection By this it appeareth how dissonant both the Epicucuraean and the Pythagorean Philosophers are to truth the one whereof affirmeth that the spirit of a man goeth forth that is vanisheth away as the soul of a Beast doth and the other that his spirit goeth forth from one body to another whereas in truth the spirit of man goeth forth so as to subsist and that by it self till it be reunited with the body Tres vitales spiritus creavit omnipotens saith St. Gregory to this purpose very appositely The Almighty hath created three