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B12278	A sad memoriall of Henry Curwen esquire the most worthy and onely child of Sr Patricius Curwen Baronet of Warkington in Cumberland, who with infinite sorrow of all that knew him departed this life August: 21. being Sunday: 1636. In the fourteenth yeare of his age; and lyes interred in the Church of Amersham in Buckingham shire.	Croke, Charles, 1590 or 91-1657.	1638 (1638)	STC 6044a; ESTC S114526	11,548	42

thinges I have let them be helpfull to thinges within me would any know when they have this beauty goe to the looking glasse the word of God into which all of both sexes should looke more carefully for composure of life then the fairest Bride doth for ornament of body into the clearest Christall and never should wee thinke our selves well dressed but by direction of that undeceiving Glasse But now when your beauty is truly amiable like Iob's daughters none so good in the land like Susanna a very faire woman and one that feared God Yet such is Gods ordinance and mans frailty you must wither you must like the flower of the field be cut downe Hebr. 9.27 it is appointed to all men once to dye a decree is gone forth against these beautifull flowers some lasted a long time not the Oake now as the flowers did once I meane the Fathers before the floud yet all came under Adams Epitaph Gen. 5.5 and he died so that no man now may presume of a long life no not when the flower is most vernant Eccles 14.12 remember that death will not be long a comming but remember it without sadnesse eamus laeti agentes gratias Cic. Tusc 1. In the vulgar it is testamentum hujus mundi est morte morietur you have the legacy Gen. 2. in the day thou eatest therof morte morieris And this is falne hastily upon us our birth is an entrance upon death beauty is decayed Libitina and Venus were the same eâdem Deâortibus interitibus praesidente Plutarch Morall wise men never put the remembrance of death farre off Ioseph of Arimathea makes his Sepulchre in his health and strength and in his garden amidst his pleasures The glory then of man must goe into the dust and into ashes as the flower which is cut downe nay as the flower which though not cut downe will wither and decay debemur morti nos nostraque not wee only that are a mouldring dust but our stately houses our curious workes time will gnaw on them and consume them and us Yet have we nothing to complaine of 1 Man is in the hands of his maker as tenants at the will of the Lord as money lent Data est usura vita tanquam pecunia nullo praestituto die Tusc 1. Cic. life is given unto man as mony lent without nomination of day of payment due in Law presently God hath his divine purpose in it Si mors certae cōstituta esset aetati fieret homo insolentissimus humanitate omni careret Lact. l. 1. c. 4. de opif. Dei. were death appointed at a set age man would be most insolent and voyd of all humanity for that man who is so forgetfull of himselfe now in this uncertainty while hee may dye in hoc nunc I while I am speaking you while you are hearing O how unbrideled would man be if he had certaine assurance that he should not this 20.30.40.50 yeares be called to account for thinges done in the body 2 wee cannot complaine that dye wee must and suddainly we may every dieing friend may say to us as dieing Calanus to Alex then in health and young brevi te videbo neither should it daunt us Socrates triduo concesso primo bibit having three dayes of death given him underwent it the first though his Consolation in death was but philosophicall the Athenians have adjudged thee to dye thē nature he replieth he knew not that through Christ withering is flourishing death a passage to life that life that dieth no more vita vobiscum est de morte solliciti estis Orig. tom 2 p 443. with you is life of angels are you troubled at the cogitation of death what is the cause saith hee tom 2. pag 522 the mind of wise men of old men is hardly brought ut cedat naturae legibus this Hagar of feare must be cast out if shee be immoderate shee cannot be he ire with the child of the free woman Hope of Salvation Ejus est mortem timere qui ad Christum nolit ire ejus est ad Christum nolle ire qui se non credat cum Christo incipere regnare Cyprian de mortalit p 341 it is for him to feare death who would not goe to Christ and it is for him to be unwilling to goe to Christ who doth not beleeve that hee doth already begin to raigne with Christ But some men happily can resolvedly dye who cannot without great sorrow looke upon deaths stroke in their friendes such as was our beloved here taken from us for which losse I see your great heavinesse I feele my owne The councell is good Eccl. 22 11 if wee could obey it make litle weeping for the dead hee is at rest sorne wee may nay great mourning for some dead Gen 50 10 at the threshing floure of Atad was a great and sore lamentation for Iacob and from that sore lamentation I will take my exhortation that according to Saint Paul none do sorrow as men without hope v 1. Ioseph mourning wept over his dead father and kissed him Teares doe expresse sorrow kisses comfort wee must mingle in our mourning our Teares with Kisses not as if Corporall presence of dead friendes could still be enjoyed Abraham intreateth roome to bury his dead out of his sight hee looked for no more of that content but no doubt hee never ceased upon fit occasions to remember and delight in the manifold comforts once enjoyed which pious remembrances are as so many Kisses of present and beloved friendes our kisses take not away our moderate teares mourne wee may as sensible of our losse none have lost more none may sorrow more then my selfe heare a litle of his person and you will be very sensible of my sorrow This gentleman whose Corps lieth before us was the only and most justly beloved child of Sir PATRICIUS CURWEN Baronet and his vertuous Lady ISABELLA of a most auncient and noble family in Cumberland the child I could perceive for I looked throughly into him and may be a competent reporter was modestly sensible of birthes priviledge knew which much his elders forget that of Cicero nobilitas est nihil aliud quàm cognita virtus which posterity is to imitate and perpetuate otherwise Et genus proavos quae non secimus ipsi vix ea nostra voco Plutarch noteth of Lysander that he yeelded nothing to the posterity of Hercules unlesse they did imitate the vertues of Hercules and Cicero ad Quint. fratrem vides ex amplissimis familiis homines quòd sine nervis sint tibi pares non esse you do see how men of very great families are not equall to thee an upstart because they have not other worth Come wee then to what was this gentlemans own not borrowed frō his honourable progenitors if you consider him in his bodily partes he was a flowre a Lilly wee found it in his fragrancy I would we had not found it

in his withering gratior est pulchro veniens e corpore vir tus such gracefullnesse had he amōgst us he adorned beauty with humility and modesty fortitude even 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 appeared in his tender yeares who carried out a weake constitution with manly patience As for his generall carriage and giftes of mind O how beautifull was this Lilly 1 for his piety to God never did I see the age of 14 so seasoned with piety devotion so free from all appearance of faction or superstition the common rocks many doe now fall upon This under God wee must ascribe to judicious and carefull parents who bred a sonne in very remote partes of this Kingdome almost ultimâ Thule which for piety and generous carriage might be a patterne to the youth of our nation certainly they were carefull to avoid that reproch magna culpa Pelopis qui non erudierat filium Cic. Tusc 1. His delight was in Gods house where hee sate as you noted I doubt not comely and with attention above the Condition of his yeares he profited as I had cause to observe it exceedingly his first mornings worke in which I could discerne antecedent custome was prayer and a portion of scripture which he performed with manly and serious attention hee loved the Sunday and the Temple and hee died on the Sunday and almost in the Temple having beene in reverend manner on that day at morning and evening solemnities in the Temple I cannot here omit how through Gods providence I walking in the fieldes with him the evening before as by reason of his weake body I mixed his study with recreations wee fell into above an houres communication not as often wee did in rudiments of humane learning but our talke was then so God disposed it about many fundamentall points of religion and some polemicall I found him so apprehensive of reason so delighting in truth apprehended so able to discerne a weake objection from a strong so prompt to conceive an answer and give it some addition of confirmation that Apollonius looked not on his Cicero with more admiration and affection then I on him I conjectured then and by some other markes taken at other times that some enemies to the truth had attempted him but Trialls are confirmations to the judicious For his carriage towards man 1. for parents hee joyed at any mention of them was obedient and Dutifull towardes them his wishes were tender and pious for them his soule was able to discerne they affected really his good his spirit was captivated to their will he thought no thing good for him but what they directed hee was more guided by commandes of them absent then most children are and yet I know some good ones by intreatings or threatnings of parents that are present Hee well remembred the councell of Solomon Prov. 1 8. my sonne heare the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother some read diminish not the Law of thy mother and so his life expounded it 2 for parents of the mind teachers certainly hee divided his soule betwixt the parents of the body and them they gave him earnest directions to shew obedience to mee as to themselves hee yeelded all obedience willingly with love hee was never usually out of the teachers society which children and vaine youth doth desire to shun So tractable hee was to all my waies a frowne would deject him a harsh or hasty word would melt him into teares the man must have beene very rough most indiscreet that had used Stripes sowre discipline was not for him who never did in so many mōthes you are present that know it the thing vaine light or childish and all this obedience was mixt as I said with love the life of it If at any time crasinesse and distemper of body came upon him good God how should I forget it he would say to servants tell them not they grieve too much I shall quickly be well again nay when the very stroke of death came he would have hid it from mee and my consort but God so disposed wee were both at hand in our armes this Lambe of God expired and in his very dissolution wee might perceive his griefe for our teares 3. for his behaviour towards others if among superiours it was reverent if equality if inferiours with kindnesse and with dignity for his literature and hopes therein had his body beene strong enough for the diviner part he might have out-gone even the great desires and hopes of carefull parents his memory was quick and would have beene tenacious such was his diligence his apprehension cleare his judgement solid his invention above his yeares savouring of mans age his speech was discreet his gesture comly his wit pleasant unoffensive his presence delectable and the losse of him hath filled us with mourning judge you what blessed gifts were in him all cannot be set before your view and all that I have said of this noble gentleman I have spoke it and so doe you receive it not as from an Oratours desk but as from a sacred Pulpit Touching his dissolution I have not much to say I would I had nothing I wish that in maturity of his age hee might have closed these eyes of mine that I might have been so happy to have seene some of the glorious actions of his great hopefulnesse His death was sudden Iulius Cesar desired such a one were it that even great spirits are too weake to looke the prepared assault of death in the face or that warre in which he delighted was likely to give him no other death so that he would seeme to turne a necessity into a choyce let him judge that hath leasure The sudden fatall stroke came from an aposteme ingendered about the heart as the most learned in Physicke were of opinion which not possibly finding passage soone drowned that vitall and noble part quickly taking sense life motion from this Lambe of God by which wee are in griefe he in glory But some may demand why hath so much been spoken of a youth of 14. years a child of Adam I doe not willingly exceede in this kind Cicero noteth 2. de legibus postquam su mtuosa fieri funera et lamentabilia coepissent Solonis lege sublata sunt But a wiser and greater Lawgiver then Solon doth warrant Funerall decencies 2. Chron. 35.25 and Ieremiah lamented for Iosiah and all the singing men and singing women spake of Iosiah in their lamentations set out his excellent vertues Anthems Verses Sermons are fit meanes to honour bewaile the death of Gods Saintes And for this gentleman whosoever knew his ornaments of grace and nature as I did will rather wonder how in so large an argument I could speake so litle inopem me copia fecit why is so much spoken 1. that we may know the goodnesse of God towards a child of Adam we are all conceived in sinne wee are by nature children of wrath omnis