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A77116	The worthy of Ephratah represented in a sermon at the funerals of the Right Honorable Edmund Earl of Mulgrave, Baron Sheffield of Botterwic. In the church of Burton-Stather, Sept. 21. 1658. / By Edward Boteler, sometimes fellow of Magdalen-Colledge in Cambridge, and now rector of Wintringham in the county of Lincoln.	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3804; Thomason E2139_1; ESTC R208363	29,248	83

pass his remarkable Temperance and Sobriety which he both loved in himself and looked after in his family Nor did this proceed from any weakness of body but goodness of mind It was not the choice of an infirm constitution but of a vertuous inclination And the more commendable it is because in these days wherein luxury and riot have so far obtained that Entertainments are never thought well enough except they be wet enough and Drunkenness is deem'd the most fashionable and familiar treatment And the greater the vertue still because in a Great person Drink being become a Flood which like the great Deluge too often tops the Mountains Gen. 9.21 1 Sa. 25.11 36. So easie it is even for Noah to plant a Vineyard and be drunk and rich Nabal that wretched Churl who could not afford David a little water to overcharge himself with wine A rare thing it is to swim in Plenty and not swallow down too much of it His Charity would speak for it self should I hold my tongue Not that the Hypocrites trumpet gave notice of it Mat. 6.2 For I have reason to think much of it ran invisible like the * Mola Anas Cam. Br. p. 296. Rivers our Antiquary tells us of which spend their streams in part under ground but because he left such tokens of it in all places where he came pouring it out rather then giving it He was God's Almoner with his own estate He had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Col. 3.12 that word which hath and yet will have no singular number bowels of mercies Isa 58. 10 He would draw out his own soul to the hungry and satisfie the afflicted soul Let me borrow an expression or two from Job they 'll fit us as well as if they had been made on purpose Job 31.17 He would not eat his morsels alone the stranger and fatherless must eat thereof v. 19. He would not see any perish for want of clothing or the poor without covering v. 20. Many loins blessed him and were warmed with the fleece of his sheep He was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame ch 29.15 and a father to the poor The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon him v. 13. and he caused the widows heart to sing for joy I 'll say no more of this many mouths are full of it this place is a standing Monument of his Charity He hath dispersed Ps 112.9 he hath given to the poor his righteousness endureth for ever his horn shall be exalted with honor I fear to have spent your Patience before I speak of his But a word of it therefore This grace was in him like the rest which makes them thus concatenated in gradu heroico in an high and invincible measure not to be broken nor baffled by any assaults As he was not Tumidus agendo so neither was he Timidus patiendo He did nothing proudly Heb. 10.32 he suffered nothing poorly Many a great fight of affliction as the Apostle phraseth it did he endure endure without shrinking or recoiling one whereof had been charge enough for ordinary pieces of Mortality Indeed his whole life was a continued act of Patience under a succession of several Sicknesses and Infirmities having as it is said of overworne Students Bonam Conscientiam malam Valetudinem a clear Conscience and a crazie Carkass He had need of patience v. 36. and he had patience for his need so much that you have seldom heard of the like it being observed as I am credibly informed he was rarely or never heard to groan under whole loads of pressures that lay upon him God had laid in much of this grace where he intended it should be much laid out He had given him a stock of it suitable to those great expences he purposed to put him to and his stock held out like the Israelites clothes Deut. 29.5 it wore not out it waxed not old on this side Canaan No more of his patience lest I trouble yours Perseverance shall close all That 's the last but not the least grace more then a grace a complication of many the complement and perfection of all grace It is this that lays hands on the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Other graces run in the celestial course but this seiseth the prise and sets the crown on the Conqueror's head Perseverance is grace scrued up to the highest pin grace at stretch and holding out to the last Such was his enduring to the end Mat. 24.13 free from all suspition of despondencie notwithstanding those many batteries and breaches made upon his walls of earth All this was but Tundere vasculum Anaxarchi non Anaxarchum This knocked but at the case the casket the carkass the jewel was safe his soul prospered and did well He possessed his soul in patience Luk. 21.19 till his soul was dispossessed of his body and taken up into the prepared mansions Joh. 14.2 there to rest within the embraces of the Everlasting arms Deut. 33.27 Rev. 2.10 He was faithful to the death and hath now changed his Coronet for a Crown of life It remains then that we contribute our dues to his fame Let us decently commit to the Earth what Heaven hath left of him Eccle. 44.14 Let his Body rest in peace and let his Name live for evermore Let his Vertues survive in his Son his Memory in the hearts and mouths of his Country And when we can neither keep it nor our selves up any longer let us make it over to succession and leave it for the children which shall be born that the Generations to come may know how good how great he was He hath done worthily in Ephratah let him be for ever famous in Beth-lehem FINIS

anon may have your mouths and hearts all full with that of Mary who being asked by the Angels why she wept Joh. 20.13 cries them out this answer They have taken away my Lord. Other families and other persons have their parts in this mourning too and this our meeting makes a Consort of lamentation such an one as may seem to emulate that memorable mourning of Haddadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo Zech. 12.11 And now that we had a Jeremy for this place Jeremy in the possession of his wish his head waters and his eyes a fountain of tears For he could broach the eyes and pierce the hearts of after-generations and by the power of his pen make impressions upon pious posterity All the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day and made them an ordinance in Israel and behold they are written in the Lamentations 2 Chro. 35.25 Oh for a David one that had power to his passion who did not only himself bewail the anointed Saul and honorable Jonathan but for their sakes commanded the children of Judah to be taught the use of the Bow not to shoot in as it is ordinarily and easily mistaken but to sigh in the lamenting song called the Bow behold it is written in the book of Jasher 2 Sam. 1.18 But why do I call in mourners we want none We need not hire any Roman Praefica's a custom observed also among the Jews Jer. 9.17 Call for the mourning women that they may come and send for cunning women that they may come s●●h as let out their eyes for hire and set their tears to sale having both a trade and a trick of mourning We have true tears in showers and have more cause to suspect a flood then a drought and the fear is lest so many rivolets met in one confluence like Jordan in harvest should overflow all banks and bounds But to keep us within compass it was expresly provided by the deceased Lord whose honorable remains now lie before us according to the constant tenor of his admirable humility desirous always rather laudabilem esse than laudari to be than to be accounted good That he might be buried with all Christian warrantable decencie without pomp or costly vanity quietly and peaceably without giving offence to any one person or creature if possible Those are the very words of his last Will and Testament By which as it is said of Abel Heb. 11.4 being dead he yet speaketh speaketh against all immoderation and excess speaketh as our Saviour sometimes did to the lan enting followers of his cross and passion Daughters of Jerusalem Lu. 23.28 weep not for me but weep for your selves and for your children There 's a black bill of Jerusalem's sins gone up to heaven and given in against her and there 's a black cloud of miseries hangs over Jerusalem's head ready to fall upon her You have sins and are like to have sufferings will set your tears on work and therefore lavish not away such precious eye-water be so thrifty in what you spend upon compassion that you be sure to keep for contrition Thus weep or weep not at all for me but weep all for your selves and for your children But if moderation be intended then what means this great and unusual appearance this sad and solemn Procession these multiplied Blacks that stately Herse those Armorial Ensigns and tricks of Honor those Atrati the Mourners walking about the streets Et non plebeios luctus testata Cupressus Such a question was once put by the Disciples and that with indignation too when they saw the Alabaster-box of very precious ointment poured on the head of Jesus Mat. 26.7 8. To what purpose is this waste S. John seems to take it off in some measure at least from the other Disciples and lay it upon Judas making him the greatest if not the onely murmurer He had the filthiest heart and foulest mouth and so fittest to speak that base objection which he hatched in his bag not his conscience Joh. 12.5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor It is not unlike there may be some of Judas his brood here this day Great sins seldom die issueless who being of the same mind may murmure after the same manner and therefore the same answer will fit them Joh. 12.8 This is for the day of my burying for the poor you have always with you but me you have not always They whom Christ cannot satisfie deserve no answer nor will I trouble my self further with them then to tell them It is more then suspicious that they who have over-slovenly thoughts of Burial have too slender hopes of the Resurrection He lays his clothes by handsomly doth not throw them away carelesly that intends to put them on again in the morning Indeed were our minds after the Heathen Motto Non est spes ulla sepultis There 's no hopes of them that are once buried any burial were good enough any hole will serve no hopes Let lost forlorne carkasses be kicked into corruption the ditch is fittest for that which will never be better then dirt But a body which hath been Animae domicilium it is Origen's word the dwelling-house of a divine soul and whilst in the state of conjunction Eph. 2.22 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 't is S. Pauls word an habitation of God through the Spirit a Temple of the Holy Ghost one of the dwellings of God and mansions of the most High A body which shall rise in honor 1 Cor. 15.43 put on glory and wear immortality A body which shall be fashioned like unto Christs glorious body Phil. 3.21 let it have some of the fashion of his burial too the honorable attendance the spikenard and spices Mar. 15.43.46 the ointment and fine For questionless had costly linnen solemnities been a sin he who knew no sin would not have made his grave with the rich in his death Isa 53.9 nor should the Sun being under his command have put both himself and the heavens into black Mat. 27.45 to witness their mourning to the world Let them who live and die like beasts be buried like beasts the burial of an ass Jehojakim's curse Jer. 22.15 suits best with them But let not man a good man a good man in honor though he abideth not be thus like the beasts that perish Ps 49.12 Let us give him the honor due unto his name Due indeed For if ever Funerals were called Justa as being a debt to the memory of the deceased these are they in which we do not perform but pay the service of this day Which whilst we are about let me bless you 2 Sam. 2.5 as David did the men of Jabesh-Gilead Blessed be you of the Lord that you have shewed this kindness unto this Lord and are thus come to bury him But before his burial