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A10904	A sermon preached on September the 20. 1632. in the cathedrall church of Christ at Canterbury, at the funerall of William Proud, a lieutenant collonell, slaine at the last late siege of Mastricke. By Francis Rogers, Doctor in Diuinity	Rogers, Francis, d. 1638.	1633 (1633)	STC 21175; ESTC S116095	14,227	26

Lyon the deuill are but like the Frenchmens assaults in warre Prima Gallorum p●aelia sunt plusquam virorum secunda minus quam faminarum At first he doth come on like an Emperour hee chargeth home brauely but resist him then and at the second encounter he is more effeminate then a woman Euen so resist Satan at the first and hee will flee from you for the deuill is but like a coward If a coward deale with a man whom hee knoweth hee can ouermatch or bee in place where hee is sure hee may not fight then none will giue prouder words nor make more bragges then a coward but if he haue to doe with a man with whom what he speaketh with his tongue hee must make good with his sword and if he bee in place where they may conueniently buckle then none is more base or submisse then a coward Euen so resist Satan and hee will auoyd thee but giue the least way to his temptations and then he will fetch seuen other deuils and they all at once will enter into that man and make his end farre worse then his beginning All this that we may better performe let vs take to vs the shield of fayth and pray to God that all our thoughts words and deeds may be begun continued and ended to his glory And so I passe to the second thing Princes and great men are subiect to mortality Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede Pauperum domos Regumque turres Death seazeth on the King in his Palace as well as on the begger in his cottage It is determined for all men to dye once Death Gods Baylife returneth not his writ with a Non est inuentus in baliuanostra but death bringeth corpus cum causa to the King of heauens bench A King may loue his friends and aduance his followers to honour but to adiourne death or to fill the empty veines with liuely blood or the dry bones with marrow or redeeme life from the power of the graue in these things nor Dauid nor any other is a King 2. Reg. 5. 7. Am I God sayth the King of Israel to kill and to giue life or can I heale Naamans leprosie The Vses of this Doctrine are these First let euery man perswade himselfe that he shall dye This may seeme a paradox for it any so sottish as to imagine he shall neuer dye Beloued bee not deceiued I am perswaded few men doe dreame of their owne death for there is none so old but thinketh he may liue one yeere longer and then another though in generall wee say all shall dye yet in numbering our particular liues we thinke our selues shall neuer dye Two ships meete on the sea they in eyther ship thinke themselues stand still and the other to bee swift of sayle whereas both sayle though the one faster then the other Euen so men are as ships see we an old man with a staffe in his hand stooping downeward Alasse poore old man say we hee cannot liue long Heare wee a passing-bell Oh one is going out of the world Visit wee a sicke friend We thinke he can hardly liue till morning Thus we imagine all other men are dying but we stand still whereas alasse they may goe a little before and wee are sure to follow after Secondly let this teach vs to prepare our selues to dye that if death be sudden to vs in regard of expectation yet death may neuer be sudden to vs in regard of preparation death is like the Basiliske It is reported if a Basiliske first see a man before the man see him that then he killeth the man but if a man first see a Basiliske then the Basiliske dieth Thus is it with death If death first lay hold on a man before he is prepared to dye then death killeth that man body and soule for euer but if a man first looke on death and euery day prepare to dye then death is but an entrance into euerlasting happinesse It is a worthy thing which hath beene related to me of that braue souldier of a noble Family Sir Iohn Burrough who receiuing a mortall wound in the Iland of Rees and being aduised not to feare death but to prepare for another world he answered I thanke God I feare not death and these thirty yeeres together I neuer arose at the morning that euer I made account to liue till night so let euery true Christian euery day when he awaketh commend himselfe to Gods protection whether he liue or dye and at the euening none knoweth if That nights bed shall be his graue or That nights sleepe shall be his death therefore before his eyes doe sleepe or his eyelids slumber or the temples of his head take rest make his peace with God for all sinnes that whether he liue or dye hee may liue and dye to the Lord and Iesus Christ may be to him aduantage And so I passe to the last thing Notice is to be taken of a great mans death Know ye not c. The death of a great man and of a meane man is like the report of a Cannon and of a Musket a Cannon is heard many miles but a Musket for a little space So if a great man dye all men speake of it as such an Earle such a Bishop such a Commander is dead But if a poore man or a common souldier dye few of his neyghbours and friends accompany him to the graue and there is an end of him But i● a great man dye which is able to doe his Country seruice notice shall bee taken of it to lament his death so is Abner heere bewayled both of King and people In Esay the 3. chapter God threatneth it as a plague He will take away the strong man and the man of warre Therefore as Lament 1.15.16 The Lord hath troden vnder foote all the valiant men in the middest of mee for this thing I weepe mine eye euen mine eye casteth out water because the Comforter which should refresh my soule is farre from me God taketh away good men and great men in mercy and in iudgement In mercy when God taketh away a bad Prince and giueth a better as hee tooke Saul and gaue Dauid Hee tooke away from this land Queene Mary and gaue vs Queene Elizabeth Or when God taketh away a good Prince and giueth another good one in his place Thus he tooke away Moses and gaue Ioshua thus from vs hee tooke away King Iames and gaue vs King Charles whom God long preserue among vs God taketh away great men in iudgement eyther when he taketh good Gouernors and rayseth vp none in their stead Thus when all the Rulers were dead which knew Moses Ioshua God gaue the Iewes no Rulers for in those dayes there was no King in Israel but euery one did what seemed best in his owne eyes Or else God taketh away good Rulers and rayseth vp bad as he tooke away Samuel and gaue Saul Let vs consider if within these few