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A12980	The churches lamentation for the losse of the godly deliuered in a sermon, at the funerals of that truly noble, and most hopefull young gentleman, Iohn Lord Harington, Baron of Exton, Knight of the noble order of the Bath, and his Maiesties lieutenaunt of the county of Rutland, at Exton in Rutland, the last day of March 1614. Together with a patterne of piety, and the power of godlinesse expressed in his life and death, who yeelded to nature the 27. of February, 1613. when he wanted two moneths of 22 yeeres of his age. By Richard Stock, pastor of Alhallowes-Breadstreet in London.	Stock, Richard, 1569?-1626.	1614 (1614)	STC 23273; ESTC S117806	48,046	145

verò nobiscum migrent et istorum quidem rationem dabimus horum autem praemia repetimus Chrys hom 63. ad pop At. here these things are left behind vs those go with vs of these we shall giue an account of them we shall reape a reward as Chrysostome saith wee must therefore imitate strangers who prouide for their departure and store themselues with such things that are both portable and profitable as may stead them in their passage and possession of their country so must we prouide for spirituall things store our selues with them which we onely must carry with vs and cannot be taken from vs shall be cōmodious to vs when wee come to our country Chrysostome saith y Virtute inutus talem habet vestem quam non tantum tineae verum mors ipsae ledere nequit merito non enim hae animae ●irtutes ex terra originem trahunt sed spiritus sunt fructus Chrys hom 47. ad pop At. He which is indued with vertue hath such a garment which as moaths cannot so neither can death it selfe hurt and not without cause for these vertues of the mind take not their beginning from the earth but are fruites of the spirit They will then be eternall riches and wee shall be eternall by them and though death dissolue body and soule and destroy our present being in th● life yet as Iustin Martyr spake for himselfe others to their persecutors z Vos occ●dere quidem potesti● at nocere non pot●●tis Iust Mart. Apol. 2. You may kill vs but yee cannot hurt vs. So death may kill vs but it cannot hurt vs while it comes thus expected and prouided for it may be to our great commoditie and advantage And now I will come to the third point Doctrine 3 AN immature and vntimely death for a mā to be taken away before he be come to the full period of his life that in the course of nature and the eie of reason he might attaine to is a thing that may betide good men and not be a curse to them Here the good man perisheth is vntimely taken away And this is the Iame that is in Esay a Esay 57.1 The righteous perisheth the mercifull man is taken away namely vntimely for if they died in a full age it were not blame worthy for a man not to consider it in his b 1. Kings 14.13 He heart So of Ieroboams sonne only of Ieroboam house shall come to the graue because in him is found some goodnesse towards the Lord God of Israell in the house of Ieroboam The Preacher teacheth vs this c Eccles 8.12 Though a sinner doe euill an hundred times and God prolong his daies yet I know it shall be well with him that feares the lord and doe reuerence before him that is though God do not prolong their daies Now this truth is confirmed vnto vs by two arguments the one drawne from the malice of the wicked against the godly the other from the mercy of God to the godly Reason 1 For the first the wicked through their malice seeke by all meanes to cut off the godly because their wickednesse and sinfull life is reprooued by their godly conuersation neither can they follow their sinnes so freely as they would nor so quietly without detection or checke The Apostle saith Caine slew and cut off Abel and wherefore slew hee him because d 1 Iohn 3.12 his owne works were euill and his brothers good As the Patriarches sold Ioseph and sent him out of the house of his father because he was a meanes they were e Genes 27.2 checked for their euil sayings This is that we haue in the booke of Wisedome f VVisd 2.12 Therfore let vs defraud the righteous for he is not for our profit and he is contrary to our doings He checketh vs for offending against the law and blameth vs as transgressors of discipline vers 14. He is made to reprooue our thoughts it greeueth vs also to looke vpon him for his life is not like other mens his waies are of another fashion vers 20. Let vs condemne him vnto a shamefull death for he shall be preserued as himselfe saith But all this is not against them but as Ioseph said of his brothers enuie g Genes 50.20 When you thought euill against me God turned it to good So when they think and doe euill against them God disposeth it to good through his mercy and that partly to their bodies partly to their soules for their bodies Reason 2 Because in the goodnesse he affecteth them withall he taketh them from the euill and the plagues to come As Lot out of Sodome h Genes 19 1● The Lord being mercifull vnto him the men brought him forth and set him without the Citie So them out of the world and as Huldah the Prophetesse sent Iosiah word by his messengers and from the Lord i 2. Kings 22.20 Behold I will gather thee to thy fathers and thou shalt be put in the graue in peace and thine eies shall not see all the euil which I will bring vpon this place Plotinus the Philosopher as Austin hath it k Hoc ipsum quod mortales sunt homines corpore ad misericordiam dei partis pertinere arbitratus est ne semper huius vitae miseria teneantur Aug. de Ciuit. l. 9. cap. 10. De ciuitate dei saw this in part This very thing that men are bodily mortall hee thought it an appurtenance to the mercy of God the Father lest they should alwaies be tied to the misery of this life It is no lesse mercy to be taken sooner away that they may see and suffer lesse misery which the length of their daies would effect Reason 3 Now his mercy appeares towards their soules because they are by this meanes freed either from hauing their soules grieued with the sinnes of other or from grieuing God with their owne sinnes which are no small benefits For being led by the same spirit that l 2. Pet. 2.7 Lot was they cannot choose but be vexed as he was with the vncleane conuersation of the wicked For it cannot be but as in the Prouerbs A wicked man is an abomination to the iust Prouerbs 29.27 as he that is vpright in his waies is abomination to the wicked Againe they being indued with a true filiall feare they grieue to offend so gratious a father which they cannot but doe whiles they are here but after this life shall be freed from it Austine reporteth that Cyprian vsed to comfort his friends in dying with this m Non solum fidelibus non in vtilis est mor● verum etiam vtitis reperitur quoniam peccandi periculis hominem subtrahit in non peccandi securitatem constituit Aug. de praed sanct lib. 1. cap. 14. Death is not not only not vnprofitable to the faithfull but is also found to be profitable because it taketh a man out

farme hee shall enter at the expiration of his time vpon a better or a worse Dauid for his learning a Prophet for his accepation a man after Gods owne heart for his authority a King was then very studious in this knowledge when after watching fasting hee besought God to be instructed in it r Psal 39.4 Lord let me know mine end and the measure of my daies what it is let mee know how long I haue to liue So Moses wise in all the wisdome of Egypt and Israel accounted faithfull in the house of God prayed yet for this point of wisdome to be informed in it as well himselfe as others ſ Psalm 90.12 Teach vs so to number our daies that we may apply our hearts to wisdome like carefull Schollers who breake their sleepe and forsake their meate and are often in meditations when they beate vppon some serious subuect What thinke you it will profit a man if by his skil it Arithmeticke hee be able to deale with euery number and to diuide the least fractions and neuer to thinke of the numbering of his daies with the men of God which are so few euill What will it profit him if by Geometry hee be able to take the longitude of the most spacious prospects and not be able to measure that which the Prophet hath measured with his span What will it auaile him if with the Astronomer he be able to obserue and know the motion of the heauens and yet haue his heart so buried in the earth that he cannot thinke of that which passeth away as swiftly as them What profit if he be able with the Philosopher to search out the causes of many effects and to know the causes of many changes as of the ebbing and flowing of the Seas the increasing waning of the moone and the like and be not able to know his owne changes the causes of them Doubtles all this will profit him nothing all his knowledge will be to little purpose in the end Many men beate their heads about friuolous matters some being more busie to know where Hell is saith Chrysostome then how to auoide the paines of it others pleasing themselues in pelting and needlesse questions to seeme singular amongst men neglecting this the like necessary things but when they come to their departing they shall finde they haue spunne a faire thread and wearied themselues in vaine euery one then as Daniel searched and found out by the bookes of Ieremiah not onely the returne but the time of the returne of Israel to their own land from their captiuitie so by studie of the Scriptures ought they to search so may they come to know the time of the returne from their exile on the earth to their country in heauen and though they cannot find the particular day or yeare yet they shall find it to be most certaine and that which in short time shall be finished And thus shall death when it cōmeth be lesse hurtfull as a tempest before expected Death is compared to the Basilisk which if she see before she be seene there is some danger but if a man first descrie the Basiliske the serpent dieth then there is no feare Vse 2 So if death be not seene and prouided for before hand there is great danger but if it be seene and prouided for the danger is past before their death come eVs 2 Secondly must euery one die wil no priuiledg protect thē nay it is certaine that they can carry none of their priuiledges with them out of the world as they brough them not into the world m 1. Tim. 6.7 1. Tim. 6.7 We brough nothing into the world it is certaine we can carry nothing out It is wisdom then in euery one to labor to be fitted for this passage n Ad hunc exitum praeparem●r multis enim nobis opus est vitaticu quoniam et multus est ●stus multa sic cit●● multa solitudo Non iam licet in diuersorio requiescere non est quod ●matur ab eo qui non hic omnia sumpserit audi certe quid dicat virgines Mat. 25. ite potius ad vendentes sed profectae non inuenerunt Chrys hom 51. ad pop Aut. Let vs be prepared to this iourney as Chrysostome saith for we haue need of much prouision because there is much heate much drought much solitude no Inne no resting place no place of abode there is nought to be boght of him who hath not taken all things here Heare what the Virgins say Mat. 25. Goe rather to them that sel but going they found not What ought we then to doe wee must not so labour for the things of this life from which me must be taken and which wee must leaue behind vs but for those which concerne a better life and wee may carry with vs not for those things which shall haue either a finem tuum or finem suum o Finem tuum an t finem suum Bern. as Bernard speakes an end of thee if thou haue not an end of them either shall they be taken frō vs as they were from Iob or else we from them as the rich man was from his substance wealth but for those things which wee may carry with vs and may either bring vs to or adorne vs where wee must be perpetually and for euer It were a very foolish part and a sencelesse practise for strangers when they are in exile or far from their owne country in a forraigne soile and dwelling whence they are sure to be called either by their owne Prince or cast out by the Prince of the country to lay out all they are worth vppon some farme or Lordship there neuer prouiding for that which they may carry with them to their county adorne them when they come there specially if the so imploying of themselues their estate be a meanes to keepe them from the enioying of the happinesse of their country yea a cause that they shal be cast in to prison plunged into misery So it is but a madnes for vs to imploy all our care and spend all our time and endeuour for this life and things for it and the body vpon earthly and transitory things things wee found here must leaue here u 2. Corinth 5.6 And being here from home strangers in the body absent from the Lord and our owne land as the Apostle speaketh whence we know wee shall be called either by a naturall or a violent death ordinary or extraordinary taken away by God or thrust out by the cruelty of men neuer prouiding for that which must adorne vs there or further our passage yea procure our entrance specially when such things and the care for them which was ioyned with the neglect of so great things euen of so great saluation shall procure misery and punishment where the other would procure mercy and happinesse x Hic ista relinquuntur illa