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A66700	Planctus unigeniti et spes resuscitandi, or, The bitter sorrows for a first born sweetened with the hopes of a better resurrection with consolations, moral and divine, against the death of friends, suited to the present occasion : delivered in a funeral sermon at Felsted in Essex, May 23, 1664, at the solemn interment of ... Charles Lord Rich, the only child of ... the Earle of Warwick / by A. Walker.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.	1664 (1664)	Wing W307; ESTC R24590	38,237	75

Funerall are presented to us 1. The Herse a dead man carried out 2. The Mourners his Mother the chief and much People with her 3. The process of the whole they carry him forth In the second the Cordiall 1. The Cordiall it self Weep not 2. The Holy Lymbeck from whence t is distilled the tender bowells of Jesus Christ He was moved with Compassion 3. The fire that gives it operation the seeing of this pittifull object a Desolate Disconsolate Mother When he saw her Then he was moved with Compassi n and when he was so moved then he said Weep not I begin with the First the Funeral and in that 1. The Herse 2. Then the Mourners and this order Custome approves Nature Compells Ceremony appoints and Necessity constrains the Herse leads the Mourners follow Our Noble Lord is gone before we must go after 1. The Herse And that as harsh and dark as if the Pall were of the Coursest Hair-Cloath and made more black and Heavy with these six sable Escutcheons which are its load and burden rather then its Ornament 1. A Man dead 2. He a Young Man 3. That young man a Great man 4 That Great man an Only Son 5. That only Son as Childless at his death as his decease did leave his Mother 6. That Mother a Widow like to continue Childless Heirless concluded and shut up under dispaire of having more to comfort and relieve her Solitude Each circumstance calls for an heavy accent and needs a mournful circumflex let 's drop them with our tears in Order that every Escutcheon may be Guttee only suppose those drops of Pearle and Argent to charge the dispairing Sable Field of Death with brighter hopes of an approaching Resurrection 1 Tim. 2.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 preco Caduceator predicator 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 predicare publice laudare Excuse this phrase a Preacher is properly an Herauld but chiefly so at such a time Each word like a slip of Ciprus sprouts up into a mournful Stem the Blazon of each Escutcheon is a dolefull Sentence in Order thus 1. Man is Mortall 2. Even Young men may dye and often do 3. Great Men must fall as well as others 4. Onely-Children cannot escape 5. Whole Families may fayle in Childless Heirs 6. Former Sorrows do not excuse us from Succeeding Ones She that was made a Widow by her Husbands death may yet be rendred more desolate by the loss of Children One comfort gone secures not the rest By the glimmering light which these six dim and lowring Tapers cast about the Herse you may distinctly read the Impress of each Shield 1. Man's Mortal This truth 's so obvious we cannot suppose the Ecce prefixt to it The wonder is greater that any man out-lives his Mothers travel then that he dyes so soon The many witty Emblems of our frailty devis'd and used by gravest Sages Ethnick and Christian are abundantly excused from all suspicion of Hyperbole's by what the holy spirit speaks so frequently in the same Argument Isa 40.6 7. Psal 103.15 Job 13.25 1 Pet. 1.24 Jam. 4.14 Job 7.7 Psal 144.4 Isa 40.17 comparing man to Grass to Flowers to dryed Leaves and Stubble to Dust to Vapours to Wind to Vanity to less then vanity and nothing And no truth is written in Gods Book with more Indelible and larger Characters then that It is appointed unto all men once to dye A time to be born a time to dye Mark how close they stand together nothing parts them Jos 23.14 1 Kings 2.2 'T is the way of all the Earth an universall Rule that doth admit of no Exception Gen. 5.5 8 11 14 17 20 the constant conclusion of all mens History And he dyed So that the challenge was very safe What man is he that liveth and shall not see death Psal 89.48 and shall he deliver himself from the hand of the Grave And the determination as warily made No man can give to God a Ransome for himself or Brother Psal 49.9 that he should still live for ever and not see Corruption 2. And 't is as obvious to common notice we need not Revelation to perswade our Credence they give assent who never saw the Bible and t is become a Proverb nothing so sure as death where seeing is believing there need no other Topicks to make a demonstration 3. And Natural Reason gives its perfect suffrage that must decay whose foundation is i' th dust as ours is who are but the sub-divisions of Adams red Clod crumbled into multiplied Atomes the stream cannot ascend beyond the Altitude of the Fountains Scituation From Corruptible Principles no Product can proceed Incorruptible Man that is born of a Woman is of few dayes it carries its own Evidence because he is so born A Tabernacle patcht together of sappy sticks Job 14.1 and rotten straw and mouldring dirt cannot stand long especially exposed to Storms without and Fire from within and such is mans body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nyss Orat. de Mortuis tost and consumed with dayly strife of hot and cold moyst and dry and which soever Conquers leads life it self a Captive to its Victory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nyss ubi supra And Dust returns to dust 4. And there is a Moral cause i th' Soul as mortall as any Natural one i th' Body Eze. 18.20 Gen. 2.17 Rom. 6.23.5.12 the Soul that sinneth it shall dye In the day thou eatest thou shalt dye the death death is the wages of sin which shall be surely paid By one man Sin entred into the World 1 Kin. 8.46 and death by sin And in as much as no man liveth and sinneth not you may conclude that no man liveth Mors interficit omnes quos natura presentem perducit ad vitam ducit Reges trahit Populos gentes impellit non divitiis redimi non flecti precibus non lachrimis molliri non viribus potuit illa unquam superari Chrysologus Serm. 118. and dyeth not With what words then shall we bewaile or upbraid rather the Atheistical security and stupid madness of those men who will not be perswaded of this truth or which is ten times worse under convictions and confessions of it live here as if they should live here for ever and tempt us to believe they judge their Souls are Mortal they take so little care to save them and their Bodies Immortal they heap up so long provisions for them 2. Even young men may dye and often do Ours in the Text is expresly called so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the ver next following your common saying is Old men must dye and Young men may Senibus mors in januis Juvenibus in obsidiis sayth St. Bernard T is very remarkable how the Scripture Records the Death of Haran And Haran dyed before his Father Tera Gen. 11.21 in the Land of his Nativity Most Children dye before their Parents not one of an hundred

of distress cry out My coal that was left is quenched and to my Husband is not left Name or Remainder upon the Earth This is so deep a Key no Base can touch it but the hoarsest sobbs and groans A Note so superlatively above Ela no female trebble's shrill enough to Reach it and keep Tune 'T will crack our sorrows into Schreeks and Squeling but to venture at it and would be some Apology if Rachell like his dearest Mother should be obstinate in sorrow and refuse to be comforted Fugientis naturae in successore pignus remanet extinquentis jam luminis lucerna ex parte accensa 5. Childless too himself more sorrow still had he but left an Heir and lived a vicarious life liv'd in another though he had dyed himself left but an Hostage in his steed rack't up one spark to kindle more we could have spared him better had he Knit on an end Nodosa aeternitas successio liberorum Aetatis incrementum to lengthen out his Line and fixt one Linck to keep the Chain intire the Wound had been Curable and the breach more Reparable Jer. 15.18 But now the pain is perpetual therefore will we Wayle Mich. 1.8 and Howle and go strip't and naked and make a Wayling like the Dragons and Mourning as the Owls But Lastly because no Sorrows are Superlative which want the Emphesis of Widow that ours may be more then such that's here with full Advantage Though his Right Honourable Mother be not so yet is his Sweet and Dearest Lady such with so much forer agravation as her tender years are less accustom'd to endure it and be distressed with the dolefull Epithite of Dowager so immaturely So soon so suddainly is she bereaved of him as if she had onely had him to be made miserable by loosing of him and in him such an Honour and Happiness as his High Ranck and Higher Sweetness Kindness Nobleness of mind possest her of in Him The smart and sorrows of our losses have no true Standard but the content and joy we had in their fruition But I forget my Self and You 't is Cruelty to gall your bleeding hearts afresh To Rake in your wounds and longer vex those eyes are half wept out already and draw more sluces when all the Banks run over Claudite jam rivos what I have drawn already was not to hurt but help you to give your sorrows vent least they should fester inward Tears help to swage our griefe Sedatur lacrymis egeriturque dolor Ovid. And yield us some reliefe Now let me hasten to refresh you and reassume the ●…ht side of my Text Weep not at least No more when we have wept enough already Not that he can soon or easily be sufficiently bewayled but we must not shed so many tears as he deserves least we shed abundance more then he needs or we can spare or God allowes Nihil difficilius quam magno dolori paria verba reperire Senec. And though the task be hard to counterpoize your sorrowes yet Accept these Anodines which may dissolve and mollifie the tumour asswage the smart and ease the throbbing they are Collyria fitted for such eyes And let me speak as if more of the most-concern'd were present 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for if any thing be spoken worth the carriage you that are present may transmit it to the absent As Gregory Nyssen spoke in his Funeral Oration for Young Pulcheria But because they must digg deep who will build sure and begin below who would ascend I will lay the First Stone under ground within the Earth of his Mortality and lead you gradually to higher Comforts Utrum stultius mortalitatis legem ignorare an recusare Weep not for he was Mortall he must have died ere long What wise man sheds his tears because his Roses shed their leaves He came into the World under this Law Seneca Nulli contigit impune nasci No man is born on cheaper terms then a necessity of dying He answered as became a Gallant man who entertain'd the Message of his Sons discease with Ego cum genui tum moriturum scivi I knew when I begat him he must dye huic rei sustuli 〈◊〉 't is but a little Maximum solatium est cogitare id sibi accidisse qu d ante se passi sunt omnes omnesqu● pass●…i ideo mihi videtur rerum natura quod gravissimum fecit commune fecisse ut crudelitatem fati consolaretur aequalitas Sen. ad Polys little sooner that he 's gone A few more changes of the Night and Day and fewer of the Summer and Winter would have brought him and will bring us where we shall change no more We all must follow in the Order set us had you a View larger then that which Xerxes took of all Man-kind at once You might conclude with him not one of them should be alive within an hundred years Fate 's impartiality makes some amends for it's Severity Yea the end of all things seems to hasten and not to be at such a distance as secure Atheists would fain perswade themselves Weep not he dyed not in a Forreign Land Ubi non licuerit matri ultima filii oscula gratumque entremi sermonem oris haurire Sen. ad Martiam at a neglected distance the Seas return'd him safe But in a Mothers Bosome where she both might and did assist his Soul and Body with the most pious tenderness and was her own witness with what faithfullness and Care Chaplain Physitians Nurses all Attendants performed towards him Weep not He dyed not suddenly by a surprize or ambushment of Death which grants no liberty to trim a Lamp He dyed not in a Broyle or Duell Mat. 25.7 he dyed not Flagrante Crimine in any Notorious Sin or with symptomes of unusuall Vengeance but in the way of all the Earth the common death of all Men Numb 16.29 Num. 27.3 Et suâ siccâ morte In his own sin as Zelophehad's Daughters spake of their Father in opposition to dying for any signall provocation Weep not He 's gone unsoyled Redditur illi aequale testimonium omaiam hominum desideratur in tuum honorem laudatur in suum Sene. ad Mort. free from reproachfull blots of Scandalous Enormities and needs no tears to rinsh him He did not out-live a good Report but hath left a Memory behind him Clean and Vnstained a Lovely Shaddow of his Lovely Person and his Fairer Mind His Part was Acted well and He 's gone off the Stage as Great Augustus Caesar thought he did and may with him require your Plaudite 2 Kings 22.20 In hoc tam procelloso in omnes tempestates ex posito mari navigantibus nullus portu nisi mortis est Seneca He 's come into his Grave in Peace which was the Great Promise to Gods Friends of Old He hath escap't the storms and is Arrived in the Port with safty He

's lay'd to rest with Honour and his Vnstain'd Ashes are shrined in immortall Vrns whose Gold no rust can cancker and which will Try and Vex the teeth of Time it self to injure and the most spitefull Malice dares nor attempt once to besmear his Marble Weep not He 's taken from an Evil World which is very full of sin and therefore cannot be void of sorrow Evasit omnia vitae incommoda Though he hath left some good Quis divinat an mors inviderit an consulucrit he hath escap't more evills and Death did consult his Ease and Safety more then Envy his Felicity With the wings of a Dove he is flown away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nyff. and is out of the reach both of Temptation and Trouble and shall no more offend a Good God nor be offended by bad men He is taken from the Evil to come and shall not hear or see what may make our hearts to ake and our Eares to Tingle to hear the Relation of Si bene computes plus illi remissum quam ereptum Non miser quod amisit sed Beatus quod non desiderat If you reckon right you 'l find him gainer by his loss 'T is better not to need then to injoy whatever he hath left to be above them then to have them Weep not for he is not Extinguisht but Removed Non amissus sed praemissus He ceaseth not to be Ciprian but to be here The House indeed 's pull'd down in order to repairing and raysing up more glorious and splendid But the Inhabitant was neither crushed with its Ruines nor soyled with its dust The Bird the Angell flew away at the disturbance of the Nest And the Immortall Man made his escape when Death unlock't the Prison Doors The Spirit is return'd to God 'T is a good Observation one of the Ancients makes upon that passage of God's rewarding Job Chap. 42.10 The Lord gave Job twice as m●ch as he had before or as 't is in the Hebrew Ad●ed all that had been unto Job unto the double for h● had Fourteen Thousand Sheep for his Seven Thousand and Six Thousand Camells for his Three Thousand Job 1.3 with 42.12 and a Thousand Yoake of Oxen and a Thousand Shee-Asses for Five Hundred of Each But He gave him but Seven Sons and Three Daughters the even Number which he had before Greg. Nyss Oratione fu●eb pro pulcheria in fine Compare Chap. 1 2. with Chap. 42.13 And he gives the reason of it because 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He gave him twice as many Cattle as he had before but only the Even Number of his Children because they perish't not as did the Cattle though they dyed and so the Equal Number prov'd Double in Effect and Job had twice Ten Children half in another World and half in this at the same time though in so distant place I need not heap Arguments to prove the Souls Existence after Death St. Luke 12.4 St. Mat. 10.28.22.32 when Christ hath so plainly told you It cannot be killed And that He who is the God of the Living not of the Dead is still the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob who therefore do still live 1 King 17.21 The Prophet pray'd that the Childs Soul might return again into him not a new one be made for him And St. Paul speaks most expresly that when we are absent from the body we shall be present with the Lord 2 Cor. 5.8 and therefore desires to be dissolved that he may be with Christ Phil. 1.23 Which were a most absur'd Argument if the Soul should bear the Body company in dying And the Souls under the Altar call for vengeance against them who shed their blood De consolatione ad Marti Cap. 24. Seneca could tell disconsolate Mercia Imago duntaxat Filii tui periit Effigies non similima ipse quidem aeternus meliorisque nunc Status est despoliatus oneribus alienis sibi relictus The Image only of thy Son is perished and the Picture which was not very like him neither is defac'd But he himself is Eternall in a better state eas'd of his uneasie burden and now at freedom to injoy himself Arguments for the Souls imortality and Existence after death And if I may suggest an Argument or Two It would be a Chasma and Hiatus in Nature if some Creatures being wholly Immortall others wholly mortall there were not one made up of both Fibula utriusque mundi the Button and the Buckle of both Worlds which knits and clasps them into one Connubium visibilis invisibilis The Beast and Angell mixt into one which makes a medium betwixt both and containeth both Doth the Image of the King Perpetuate his Coyne and render it Treasonable to Melt it down And shall not Gods Image much more preserve what that is stamp't upon from perishing It acts without the body and above it here that is an Earnest it can be without it afterwards It is a Spirit consists not of Contrarie's of Corruptible of Self-destoying Principles therefore abides for Ever Hath Vast and Everlasting Expectations which Nature would never have imprest if they had been in vaine Lastly consent of Nations Seals to this Truth These if neither most nor best are such as lay uppermost amongst my sudden thoughts and may suffice Weep not for He shall Rise again Non solum representata sed expectata resurrectio luctum nobis minuere debet ob mortuos Grotius He shall not continue Death's Everlasting Captive or the Graves Eternall Prisoner Thy Husband Son and Friend is but asleep he shall do well and wake The Grave hath been forc't and broken up and our True Sampson hath carried away the Gates the Bars and Posts of this Philistian Gaza O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy Victory And when that glorious Morn draws back the Curtains and dispells the Night then shall he wake Refresh't and Rise and Dress himself and be re-married to his Flesh Each Mornings Sun each Summers Verdure is a loud instance and presage of this both Testaments the Old and New confirm it as well in Examples as Predictions Christ is risen as a Man to shew 't is possible as an head to assure 't is certain And God is Just therefore the dead must Rise that what hath been so much a amiss in this Life may be amended and better ordered in the Next where it shall be Bonis Benè Malis Malè They that need more to satisfie their reason or confirm their Faith let them consult the 1 Cor. 15. Chap. at their leisure where they shall find good measure Prest and Heapt and Running over Illud te non minimum adjurerit si cogitaveris nihil profiturum dolorem tuum nec illi nec tibi percamus lachrimis nihil proficientibus Sen. Weep not Your sorrows now are fruitless wherefore should I fast Now he is dead can I bring him back again Was

Glocester Sed ridiculum est mortalitatis exempla coll●gere and therefore I conclude with him whose Example is above all Paralel So dyed our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ in the very Strength and Vigour of his Age. And notwithstanding sorrow mostly st●ps its ears against the charms of sober reason yet let me modestly debate the Case Nihil est ●am fallax quam vita humana nihil tum infidiosum non m●h●rcle quisquam accepisset nisi daretur in scii Sen. What is the life that he hath parted with you so bemoan his loss look back and see what Comforts it afforded You What had You lost if You had dyed as Young would it quit cost to live it over if you might again Has the World been so kind a Stepdame to your Selves Was your Apprentiship so sweet and gentle you grudge so much his Earlier Freedom What is it but a constant hurry and a druging Bondage A wearisom delight and vexing vanity A little-ease a great Temptation a slippery Good which slideth through our fingers and leaves nothing † Quid aliud in mundo quam pugna adversus diabolum quotidie geritur cum avaritia nobis cum impudicitia cum ira cum ambitione cōgressio est cum carnalibus vitiis cum illecebris saecularibus assidua molesta luctatio est Cipra but its slime upon them A Glutinous and clammy Evil which stains us with a guilt that sticketh faster to us then our Skinns A leakie ship and an infected house a peevish neighbour and insulting master which like to Joab * 2 Sam. 2.14 makes our miseries and torment his sport and play ‖ which daily keeps us floating on the unconstant waves of fears and hopes of grief and anger of fainting joyes and sullenest dispair Now tell me is it not a mercy Beneficium mortis contra tot vitae injurias habere To lye still and to be quiet Job 3.13 17 18. to sleep and be at rest to be where the Wicked cease from troubling and where the weary be at rest where the Prisoners rest together and hear not the voice of the Oppressour And with the great Bishop of Nyssa Vide Nyss in funere pulcheriae let me demand yet farther 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tell me what good and loveliness thou seest in old Age to render thee so fond on 't Is it a shrivel'd cheeke and wrinkled brow a toothless mouth and faultring tongue a head grown bald and crazed A stooping back and trembling leggs and every part made impotent and all unable for their Offices To be an Hospital of pains and aches a bagg of Rhumes and Flegme the constant Prisoner of the Gout or Stone Onely the Ruines and Reproach of thy own Comliness the Confutation and Revers of former Vsefulnesse and Beauty To be in paenam vivax to out-live thy Sences Phancy Memory and Judgement and to live Blind and Deaf and tantum non to Dote to be a Burden to our selves a Trouble and Temptation unto others to be our own moving Sepulchers and to conclude our strength Psal 90.10 in Weakness Labour Sorrow In a word to have so long a Reckoning and Account to make and to go late to Heaven as if that were only a reserve when we can stay no longer here and not a place of Choyce Objection 2 But He was our All and all is gone in him and we are undone Answer Not so All is not gone while God and Christ's not gone Though He be Dead yet the Lord Liveth and Blessed be the God of our Salvation His Life or Death had no Affinity with your Eternall State No loss undo's us but the loss of Christ 'T is a Miserable Happiness which stands upon so weak a bottome as the Life of Man He that gave Him can give another Eve once observed that God gave her another Seed in the stead of Abell and Jobs submissive patience was rewarded with a Full Return Abraham believed God to very good purpose in no unlike a case With God nothing shall be impossible A Phoenix may arise out of the Ashes the harder is the streight the more is He ingaged to Relieve who seldome doth Extraordinary Things in Ordinary Cases By how much our sorrows are more smart and pressing by so much the more we may expect his help All those we read of Rais'd by Miracle in Scripture were Onely Children except Lazarus and he was to Mary and Martha as is an Onely-Son unto the tenderest Mother The Widows Son of Zereptha 2 Kings 17. rais'd by the Prophet Eliah the Shunamites by Elisha 2 Kings 4. Jarus's Onely Daughter and this in my Text who was a Widows Onely Son and though we have no ground to hope for help in kind yet may we in proportion The Key of the Womb is in his hand or He can give a Name and Place within his Sanctuary Isa better then of Sons and Daughters He can vouchsafe to be instead of all Relations who calls them Mother Sister St. Mark 3.35 Brother that obey his word He can give Faith and Patience and a Sanctified advantage by our Tryalls He can make a Bee-hive of the Lions Carkass Jud. 14.8.14 and bring forth meat out of the feircest eater and leave us gainers in the issue by our soarest losses and t is like he will Our deepest and our hollowest miseries send up the loudest Eccho's in the Ears of Mercy and magno vulneri majora Adhibebit remedia He hath greater remedies for greatest wounds But now the Family is dead and fallen with Him Objection 3 and the Line and Name will fayle by his departing Childless That 's more then any man can tell Answer you had better hope the best then apprehend the worst He Treats himself unkindly that antidates his fears But suppose it true then He nor His shall never taint the Blood nor foul his Shield with any Stainant Colours nor blot his Honourable Impress * GARDE TA FOY T were Endless to Recount how many Noble English Families have seen their Period In hoc uno se ceteris exaequari hominibus non injuriam sed jus mortalitatis judicaverunt Two Right Honourable Earls have None betwixt them Now whose Patents and Creations I have been assured differ Two Hundred Years and None Remain of those who were Created in so long a space Hic habere se dolet liberos hic perdidisse And if Children cause us grief that 's least uneasie which concerns their want Do we rejoyce when single persons have performed handsomly and shall we do less for Noble Families laid up unblemish't in the Bed of Honour and whose Names are sufficiently Embalmed with Renown and Virtue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Entred in the Registers of Fame and History to be Coevall with the Sun and Moon and need not Succession to Eternize them Objection 4 But I fear most that I sinn'd him away and 't is