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A79008	A patterne for all, especially for noble and honourable persons, to teach them how to die nobly and honourably. Delivered in a sermon preached at the solemne interment of the corps of the Right Honourable Robert Earle of Warwick. Who aged 70 years 11. months, died April 19. And was honorably buried, May 1. 1658. at Felsted in Essex. By Edmund Calamy B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing C262; Thomason E947_1; ESTC R207615	31,046	52

It is as the brazen Serpent was to the Isralites not a hurting but a healing Serpent It is your birth-day The birth-day of heavens eternity It is not an annihilation or utter extinction of you but an {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as the Apostle Peter calls it A going out of Egypt into Canaan An {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as the Apostle Paul calls it An hoysing up as it were of the sailes for heaven a letting out the soul as a bird out of the cage of the body that it may fly to heaven An {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as old Simeon calls it a departure from earth to heaven a going from your own houses to your Fathers house a putting off of the ragges of mortalitie that you may be cloathed with the robes of immortality In a word It is an out-let to all misery and an in-let to perfect and perpetual happinesse It is sepultura laborum vitiorum lachrymarum The burying of all troubles sins and teares When a godly man dies homo non moritur sed peccatum hominis The man doth not die but the mans sins Nothing dies in him totally and finally but sin For the soul doth not die at all but goes to live with God in endlesse happiness And the body though turned to dust shall rise againe unto the resurrection of life and be made glorious like unto the glorious body of Jesus Christ But the bloody issue of sin is totally and finally dried up by death in every true childe of God Let all that feare the Lord comfort themselves against the feare of death with these considerations This is the second inference Doctrine 3. That rich great noble and honourable persons must die as well as others These all died Abraham a Lord and a mighty Prince or a Prince of God as he is called Gen. 23. 6. One who had three hundred and eighteen trained servants in his family Gen. 14. 14. One who was very rich in silver and gold and in cattel Gen. 13. 2. even he died And Isaac his Sonne and heire a person not only gr●●● but very great even to the envy of those who dwelt near him as it is Gen. 26. 13 14. even he died And so did Jacob the grandchilde a man of honour and great renown one who is called a Prince and as a Prince had power with God and with men and prevailed over both These all died The Cardinal of Winchester commonly called the rich Cardinal who procured the death of the good Duke of Glocester in the raign of King Henry the sixth and was shortly after struck with an incurable disease when he understood by his Physitians that he could not live murmuring and repining thereat cried out Fie will not death be hired will money do nothing must I die that have so great riches If the whole realme of England would save my life I am able either by policy to get it or by riches to buy it But yet all would not availe to keep him from dying of the same disease What man is he that liveth saith David and shall not see death The Hebrew is What strong man liveth and shall not see death shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave What 's become of Alexander the great Pompey the great Charles the great Are they not all dead This day we have a sad example before us of the death of a very great and most Noble person Wise men die saith David as well as fools and great as well as small The mortal sithe saith one is Master of the Royal Scepter and it moweth down the lillies of the Crown as well as the grasse of the field These all died And die they must though never so unwilling I could tell a doleful story of a great man who when he saw there was no remedy but he must die cried out in a lamentable manner let me live the life of a toad rather than dye But yet he died And of another who when he saw he must die caused himselfe to be carried to the place where his baggs of gold and silver were and taking them up in his armes and hugging them was heard to say must you and I part but part they did though unwillingly Rich men and Noble-men must die whether willing or unwilling And when they die they must carry nothing out of the world with them Naked they came out of their mothers wombe and naked they must returne thither They brought nothing into this world and it is certaine they can carry nothing out And therefore when a rich man dies the ordinary saying is what hath he left behind him for he cannot carry any thing with him There is a famous story of Saladine the great Sultan of Egypt who when he was dying caused his coffin to be carried thorough the campe where all his souldiers were with this saying Saladinus totus Asiae Dominator ex tanto imperio tantisque opibus c. Saladine the great Ruler of all Asia of all his Empire and all his wealth carrieth nothing out of the world with him but his coffin and his winding sheet Death is the greatest of Levellers It levels the mountains with the valleyes The Skeletons and bones of great men have no inscriptions or titles of honour put upon them Diogenes told Alexander that he could finde no difference between the bones of his Father Philip and other mens bones When the Chesse-men are put into the bagge they are all alike There is no difference between the dust of an Earle and of a beggar The only use I shall make of this is To beseech those who are great in estate and in honours to remember that they must die as well as others Though they be as Gods upon earth yet they must dye like men It is no easie matter to perswade rich and noble persons to remember their mortality Lewis the eleventh King of France in his last sicknesse commanded his servants not to name the word Death unto him But when he saw there was no remedy he sent for the Holy water from Rhemes together with Aarons rod as they called it and other holy reliques thinking therewith to stop deaths mouth and to stave him off but it would not be O miser saith one thereupon hoc assidue timés quod semel faciendum est hoc times quod in tuä manu est ne timeas Pietatem assume superstitionem omitte mors tua vita erit quidem beata aeterna O miserable wretch why doest thou daily fear that which one day must come to passe why doest thou feare that which is in thy power not to feare leave off thy superstitions labour after true piety and then thy death will become life yea a most blessed and eternal life If I be not mistaken this was one reason why Ahashueroah would not suffer any cloathed with sackcloath

A PATTERNE for all especially for Noble and Honourable Persons To teach them how to die Nobly and Honourably Delivered in a SERMON Preached at the solemne interment of the corps OF THE Right Honourable ROBERT EARLE of Warwick Who aged 70 died April 19. And was Honorably buried May 1. 1658. At Felsted in Essex By Edmund Calamy B. D. and Pastor of the Church at Aldermanbury Psal. 82. 6 7. I said Ye are Gods and all of you are children of the most High but you shall dye like men and fall like one of the Princes Rev. 14. 13. I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me write Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord c. Illius est nolle mori qui nolit ire ad Christum Aug. Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus De imperatore Theodosio fertur magis se gaudere quod membrum Ecclesia Dei esset quam caput imperii Aug. Ultima verba morientis Grynnaei Ut nunc triste mori est sic dulce resurgere quondam Christus ut in vitâ sic quoque morte lucrum In terris labor est requies sed suavis in urnâ In summo venient gaudia summa Die LONDON Printed for Edward Brewster at the Crane in Pauls Church-yard 1658. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT EARLE of WARWICK Baron of Leeze Right Honourable THe noble favours which I received from your deceased father are so many that I can never sufficiently expresse them and I hope shall never be so ungrateful as to forget them The chiefest requital I can now make for them is to pray for your Lordship That as you are his heire and inherit his estate so you may also inherit his virtues And that whatsoever was good in him may live in you For as it is a happinesse when a sonne is descended from religious Ancestors he being hereby made partaker of their good counsels prayers and pious examples so also it is an invaluable blessing when a father hath religious and virtuous children It was a sad complaint of Augustus O that I had lived a Bachelor or dyed childlesse And concerning Marcus Aurelius Antoninus that he had been perfectly happy had he not begotten such a wicked sonne as Commodus was And that he did injure his country in nothing but in being the father of such an ungodly child Hoc solo patriae quod genuit nocuit Some children are blots and blemishes to their Parents as Manasseh was to Hezekiah My prayer for your Lordship is that you may be an honour glory and crown of rejoycing to your Family and by your godly and virtuous life make your Father though dead to enjoy a kind of happiness upon earth while you live And that you may embalme his memory to posterity by the spices and sweet odours of your godly life and conversation It ought not to be forgotten but for ever to be remembred That your Lordship may not unfitly be called the Lords Passeover For when he took away by death your only sonne and heire he passed over you and instead of the Father took to himselfe the Grand-father This remarkable Providence is alone sufficient to teach you to pass the time of your sojourning here in feare and to purge out the old leaven of sinne and iniquitie that you may be a new lump of sincerity and truth and thereby have an undoubted interest in Christ your Passeover who was sacrificed for you This ensuing Sermon was preached at your Fathers funeral and it is now dedicated to your Lordship as yours by birth-right and by many other obligations It will much conduce if put in practice for the encouraging of you in wayes of holiness and righteousness For it teacheth wherein true Nobility doth consist and that nothing makes a man truely noble but pietie and godlinesse Sinne defiles a person and makes him vile and loathsome though otherwise never so honourable David calls a sinner a vile person and his sonne Solomon calls him a loathsome person Antiochus the great because of his wickednesse is stiled by Daniel a vile person Sinne makes us not only like unto dogs vipers and swine but unto devils Nay Sin makes us devils Christ himselfe calls Judas a devil and saith Revelations● 10. The devil shall cast some of you into prison c. meaning thereby wicked and devilish men He that is a slave to his lusts is base and ignoble though a King or Emperour Nobilitie without virtue is but as a scarlet roabe upon a leaprous body A true Christian is of a noble extraction He is the adopted Sonne of God brother to Jesus Christ heire of God and co-heire with Christ He is partaker of the divine nature and without all controversie the Noblest man in the world The Lord give you grace to believe this that as you are nobly borne in reference to your earthly extraction so you may be borne from above and borne of God in reference to your heavenly original This Sermon will likewise instruct your Lordship how to dye nobly and honourably And that is to dye in the faith He that dyes in his sinnes must of necessity be condemned for his sinnes but he that dyes with a true faith in Jesus Christ shall certainly live for ever in heaven with Christ It will teach you to build your Sepulchre in your earthly Paradises and in the midst of your pleasures to remember your latter end This will be a golden bridle to keep you from unlawful and to moderate the use of lawful pleasures It sets before you a double patterne for your imitation The lives of the ancient and religious Patriarcks and many commendable and praise-worthy things in your Fathers life And if your Lordship will endeavour to write after these excellent copies and live as they lived you will be happy both in life and death which that you may be is and shall be the prayer of My Lord Your humble servant in Christ Jesus EDMUND CALAMY A SERMON Preached at the Funeral OF THE Right Honourable ROBERT EARLE of WARWICK Heb. 11. 13. These all dyed in Faith THese words are a description of the constancy and perseverance of the Old Testament Saints in holinesse notwithstanding all the difficulties and discouragements they met with They did not only live in the faith but they continued in it till death and dyed in the same faith in which they lived All these dyed in the faith In the words we have two parts First The persons mentioned Secondly The things mentioned concerning these persons 1. The persons mentioned these all That is as some would have it all the forementioned Saints Abel Noah Abraham Sarah c. except Enoch who dyed not and yet continued in the faith and in that faith was taken up These all But I conceive that the Holy Ghost principally and directly intends only such of the forenamed Saints who were heirs of the land of promise and sojourned in Canaan as in a

will come certainly shortly uncertainly suddenly and irresistibly 1. That it will come certainly There is an oporte● for it We must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ c. There is nothing certain in life but death 2. That it will come very shortly It is not long but we must all go down to the house of rottennesse This life is but as an hand-breadth as a vapor c. swifter than a post and passeth away as the swift ships and as the Eagle that hasteth to the prey it is nothing else but a salve vale 3. Uncertainly as to the time when the place where and the manner how Your Almanacks will tell you when the next Eclipse of the Sunne and Moone will be But there is no Almanacks will tell you when the Eclipse of your lives will be This comes uncertainly And therefore uncertainly to provoke us to be always ready because we know not in what hour the Son of man will come Matth. 24. 42 44. 4. That oftentimes it comes suddenly like a thiefe in the night 1 Thef. 5. 2. Like an evil net in which the fishes of the sea and a secret snare in which the birds of the aire are suddenly caught Eccles. 9. 12. Luk. 21. 35. Psal. 73. 19. 5. That it comes irresistibly like paine upon a woman with childe 1 Thes. 5. 3. Death will not tarry till we be ready for it The young man as Gregory the great relates it when he saw he must die cried out Inducias Domine usque ad mane Lord tarry till to morrow but God would not heare Death comes unavoidably and if it findes us unprovided it sends us to hell without remedy Adde to this 6. It comes but once It is appointed for all men once to die When once dead no living againe to provide better for death And therefore we had need be careful ut semel pie moriamur as Paraeus saith that we may once die well for we cannot live again upon earth to live better 7. That after death comes judgement and after judgement everlasting happinesse or everlasting misery Death is nothing else but a passage to judgement A thorough-fare to heaven or hell Did we consider these things and consider them seriously as we ought to do it would work very many gracious and most glorious effects in us Therefore Moses saith very emphatically O that men were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end and prayeth very earnestly So teach us O Lord to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom The very heathens have been much in the meditation of death Plato tells us that true Philosophy is nothing else but a meditation of death The Egyptians in all their great feasts had a deaths-head served in as one dish to teach them sobrietie and temperance in eating and drinking This meditation if sanctified will be 1. A soveraign antidote against all sin Sume hoc remedium contra omnia peccata Would you have a preservative against all sin Remember thy latter end and thou shalt never do amisse As a copy is then safest from blotting when dust is cast upon it so are we from sinning while we remember that we are but dust Jerusalems filthiness was in her 〈◊〉 because she remembred not her latter end Lam. 1. 9. 2. It will marvellously weane us from the love of the world It is the Apostles argument 1 John 2. 15 16 17. Love not the world nor the things in the world for the world-passeth away It passeth away as Jonas his gourd when he had most need of it And as Absoloms mule which passed from under him and left him hanging on the tree To what purpose do we provide multum viatici when we have but parum viae much victuals when we have but a short journey The like argument is used 1 Cor. 7. 29. 30 31. 3. It will make Jesus Christ and his righteousness very pretious to us For it is Christ only that can unsting death and sweeten it and make it comfortable and desirable And therefore the Apostle accounts all things dung and drosse that he might gaine Christ and be found in him at that great day not having his own righteousnesse but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousuesse which is of God by faith And St. John saith Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord for they rest from their labours c. He that dies in Christ shall certainly go to Christ 4. It will exceedingly quicken us to provide effectually and to speed and hasten our provisions for heaven There is nothing will more provoke us to labour for that life which never shall have an end than the serious consideration that this life will shortly have an end These all died This is the first inference The second Doctrine That the best of men must die as well as the worst of men These all died These godly persons died as well as others Abraham the Father of the faithful and Sarah the Mother of the faithful Godly Isaac 〈…〉 Jacob These all died The husband and the wife The father the child and grandchild all godly and yet all these died The first that ever tasted of death was a godly man even godly Abel For the godly have the same principle of mortality within them which others have They dwell in houses of clay whose foundation is in the dust And they have the same remainders of sinne in them to make them liable to death which others have They have idem fundamentum mortis idem demeritum But besides these there are proper and peculiar reasons why the godly must die not only as well but rather than others For 1. They shall never be freed from sicknesse sorrow and laborious employments They shall never have all teares wiped from their eyes till they die 2. They shall never be free from the persecutions of wicked and ungodly men and from the temptations of the devil till they die 3. They shall never be rid of the body of sin till they put off the body of the flesh 4. They shall never be perfected in grace till they die 5. They shall never see God face to face never be with Christ in glory till they die They shall never be cloathed with the house which is from above till they be uncloathed of their earthly Tabernacle Therefore blessed be God that they must die For if they had hope only in this life they were of all people most miserable O that I could perswade the people of God to look upon death with a paire of Scripture-spectacles Death in it selfe considered is the King of terrors and of all terrible things most terrible It is as a fiery serpent with a biting and destroying sting But to you that are in Christ 〈…〉 all comfortable things most comfortable It is as a 〈◊〉 without a sting

you out of his hands and that you may every day enjoy the benefit of his Intercession Pray unto the holy Ghost that he would abide in you for ever and give you the earnest of your inheritance and seale you up unto the day of Redemption So much for the fourth inference Doctrine 5. That to dye in the true faith is a noble gallant blessed and happy ●anner of dying These all died in faith Herein especially consisted the happy condition of these godly Patriarks that they lived and dyed in the faith It is put down by way of commendation and left upon record as a patterne for us to learne to die by They died in the faith of the Messias expecting salvation by him only They died perswaded of the promises and embracing the Lord Jesus Looking waiting and confidently hoping for a City which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God There is a double manner of dying 1. A dying in sin 2. A dying in faith 1. A dying in sin Of this we read John 8. 24. If you beleeve not that I am he ye shall dye in your sins This is a said manner of dying If any should desire me to give him a character of a man in a cursed condition I would answer He is one who is dead in sin while he lives and dies in his sins when he dies It is a happinesse to be dead to sin but to die in sin is misery unexpressible For he that dieth in his sins shall certainly go into everlasting damnation He that dies in his sins dies out of Christ and he that dieth out of Christ shall never go to Christ 2. A dying in faith This is a noble gallant and blessed manner of dying heaven it selfe beares witnesse to this Rev. 14. 13. I heard a voyce from heaven saying unto me write Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord that is united unto the Lord Jesus Christ by a true and a lively faith Such as these are happy if you will either beleeve a voyce from heaven or the voyce of the Spirit for it followeth in the text so saith the Spirit And they are blessed from the very instant of their death So it is in the same place from henceforth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} from that very minute for their souls go immediately to God to enjoy perfect and perpetual rest and happinesse and their works follow them It is a greater happinesse to die in the Lord than to die for the Lord If a man die for the Lord and be not in the Lord he is not blessed in his death A man may die for the Lords cause and not for the Lords sake but out of vain-glory This is hinted by the Apostle Though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it profiteth me nothing If I do it not out of love to God but out of love to my selfe and mine own praise it is nothing worth But he that dyeth in the Lord is certainly blessed The only use I shall make of this is to beseech the New Testament Saints to follow this Old Testament copy and patterne You have been often taught how to live well give me leave to teach you this day how to dye well It is not long but you must all die Let it be your care that when you come to die you may die in the faith of the Lord Jesus There is a double faith in which you must labour to die In fide quae creditur quâ creditur 1. In the true doctrine of faith 2. In the saving grace of faith 1. In the true doctrine of faith For there are damnable doctrines as well as damnable practices There are doctrines of Devils as well as works of Devils A man may go to hell for heresie as well as ●or iniquity The Scripture tells us of some opinions which subvert the soul and overthrow the faith which T●rtullian calls doctrines devouring a mans salvation and the cankers of Christian Religion And therefore let it be your care to avoid all soul-subverting doctrines to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the Saints and to hold fast the ancient Catholick and Apostolical faith Now if you ask me in what Religion I would have you to die I shall quickly returne an answer without the least haesitation In the true Christian Protestant reformed Religion This is via tuta ad vitam aeternam A safe way unto eternal life as a learned Knight hath sufficiently made known to the world my soul for yours he that dies in this Religion wants nothing in point of doctrine necessary to salvation For it is built wholly only upon the Scriptures It is purely Apostolical and teacheth us to deny ungodliness and all worldly lusts and to live godly soberly and righteously in this present world It requires us to beleeve in Christ for justification and to manifest the truth of our faith by our holinesse towards God and our righteousnesse mercy and charity towards our neighbour And when we have done all to account our selves but unprofitable servants and to trust only to the merits of Christ for salvation It hath been sealed by the blood of many Martyrs and he that professeth it and liveth according to the directions of it may die with a tribunal-proofe confidence of everlasting salvation Let us therefore be stedfast and unmoveable in this faith and take heed of the Arrian and Socinian heresies which unchristianize a man and of all doctrines that are contrary to godliness which drown the soul in perdition and destruction Let us abhorre the heresie Idolatry and tyranny of the Romish Synagogue alwaies remembring that sad text If any man worship the beast and his image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out witbout mixture into the cup of his indignation and he shall be tormented with ●●re and brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb Let us be sure that when we come to die we may be able to say with the Apostle Paul I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith Though I have lost my liberty wealth and honours yet I have kept the faith And with that Reverend Bishop I can deny my selfe my estate my reputation but I cannot deny my faith 2. In the saving grace of faith He that dieth with faith in Christ shall certainly go to live in heaven with Christ He that dieth embracing Christ shall go from Christ to Christ from Christ by grace to Christ in glory But then you must be sure that this faith be a true justifying-faith A heart-purifying sanctifying and world-overcoming faith A painted faith will never bring you to a real heaven A dead faith will never please a living God Faith without works will send a man merrily