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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92319	A cedars sad and solemn fall. Delivered in a sermon at the parish-church of Waltham Abbey in Essex ... At the funeral of James late Earl of Carlisle. By Thomas Reeve, D.D. preacher of Gods word there.	Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing R685; Thomason E1056_2; ESTC R208034	43,685	55

greatest glory is subject to the stroke of death the Cedar is fallen The magnificence of this world is but an apparition the sweetest Musick but a semibrief Are not my dayes few what should we talk of the pomp and Minstrilsy which the flesh doth afford for thy pomp shall be brought down to the grave and the noyse of thy Viols Death will strip us out of our pompous robes and case up our Viols though thy windows be close shut and thou hast mured up thy self in hewen stone yet Death will come up into the windows and enter into the palaces Jer. 9.21 Let thy veins eyes and heart-strings be never so quick and lively yet thy eyes will be turned into thy head thy veins will be broken and thy heart rent asunder with sorrow Oculi vertentur in capite venae rumpentur cor scindetur dolore Bern. Sit volu●t●rium quod est necessarium Chys Prima quae vitam dedit hora carpsit Seneca Thou hadst as good yield up thy self cheerfully to death for maugre all thy resistance death will force thee into her back-room her blind room dark room rotten room carcase-hole therefore let that be voluntary which is necessary Thou tookest thy poyson in the womb and it will never leave working till it hath brought thee to the grave the first hour which gave that life took it away for if thou beest in thy young age thou art beginning to dye if thou art in thy middle age thou art half dead if thou beest in thy old age thou art at the point of death and wilt ere long be quite dead These Chimes will soon leave going this Lottery will be soon drawn forth this Comedy will soon be acted out to the last Scene sleep will enter into our eyes the Voyder will be brought upon the table these shop-doors will be shut these buzzing flies will betake themselves to their Winter-rooms these swelling torrents will be dryed up the fair fruit will drop the loftiest Cedar will fall The Cedar is fallen Application 1. First this doth shew that Nature hath her casualty Non est crede mihi sapientis dicere vivam It is not believe me the part of a wise man to say I will live Fools may thus chatter but wise men will use no such Solecisms yet how many of these Lunaticks have we that talk of nothing but of long life let things happen here tanquam in choro as it were in a fit of Musick yet they think the tune will never alter nor the dance be done Naz. We have many a Deaths-head worn upon our fingers but when shall we find this Deaths-head in our ears eyes tongues or hearts We see many a dead corps but we do not think that this flesh of ours shall ever be carcase-strong we behold many a Grave-spade yet we are confident that it will be a long time ere that shall dig for us But O be not Fanaticks beware of illusions Moriendo obliviscatur sui qui vivens oblitus est Dei Caesarius admonit 6. Quid perdidit homo quid invenit Ansel●r in med thou which wilt not mind death perhaps at last shalt not mind thy soul If thou must part with life it were good beforehand to think of the separation lest thou dost meet with a general damage and a general curse together such a careless wretch doth know to purpose both what he hath lost and what he hath found Simple men ye that cannot hide your selves from death why do ye not endeavour to kill death by many a dying thought before it doth come to kill you O that this whole Congregation should not be full of dying men O that this whole Congregation hath scarce three dying men in it How many of you do that now living that ye would do at last dying how many of you do kill those corruptions now which being here unmortified will kill you in another world what can ye feel nothing till the Pursivant hath arrested you what do ye put off all your souls work to a deaths pillow it is to be thought so for weak men have not misery enough about them to apprehend this learned men have not wit enough to apply this what is the reason can any of you escape death have any of you a writ of privilege to be freed from death no death hath you in her black roll and every one of you shall be called forth in order O therefore have an expectation of death and a preparation for death or else I shall say that there is a great deal of Knowledge but little Vertue a great deal of Profession but little Conscience Tell not me of your skill in the Metaphysicks get skill in the Physicks this same state of Nature be well versed in generation and corruption I shall conclude that ye are some Conjurers and addicted to familiar Spirits and much given to Necromancy if your knowledge of death do not teach you to dye but onely to tell tales or death and to prophesie of accidents in this world they that study the Black Art do thus and I doubt ye do little better Would to God I could draw you with the Magicians to burn your books of curious Arts and to turn this book of the Expiring art the large Treatise of Corruption as small a book as ye do account it I tell you it is more voluminous than the Pandects or than all the Codes To study this book well it will exercise the best wit to the height ye will find more Aenigma's and Postula's in it than in the Mathematicks yea more difficulties in it than in learning all the Eastern Languages A crafty politician for all his Mercurial brain will be Lard put to it to unfold this State-riddle a Doctor of the chair may be posed in this intricate book I tell you it hath so many branches in it and is so copious in Canons and Axioms and Aphorisms that it may be called the book in Folio or the Library of the world or a general History Annal Ephemerides It doth discourse of all things from the Artique to the Antartique Pole from the Creation to the later day of Judgment it doth contain the state of all Mankind Ye must not go to any Stationer for it for it is sold onely in Tomb-street at the sign of the Deaths-head and thou canst not buy it for any money but onely laying down a mortified heart for it Amongst all thy pamphlets or most classical Authors it were good for thee to get this book and to peruse it seriously and to begin to be skilled in it betimes for I tell thee it is a necessary book an hard book and a large book thou canst not read it over in an hour in a year no the Saints are learning it from the first hour of their conversion to the last gasp If thou wilt not get this book of thy self Death at last will thrust it into thy hand it will force thee to read it If

pleased you highly to hear the Grandees menaced throughly but rejoyce not too much for I have threats for the infimates also Come on then Mechanicks Tradesmen yea the poorest Abjects here which are half-naked and perhaps halfe-starved look to your selves I hold up deaths arrow and shew you that it will strike in the breasts of you all for ye in the galleries and ye upon the pavements ye that sit and ye that stand ye that have the vast Ware-houses and ye that have scarce a shop or shud of your own are all going into the strait passage the narrow hole Your lusty leggs will fail you your quick breath will draw short in your lung-pipes ye are all fainting and failing the Cedar is fallen and the Firre-tree must fall I see none but mortal faces amongst you I behold none but dying men Death doth sway an equal scepter to all mankind impartial death doth spare no man Communia toti genti sceptra tenens Maphreus Vegius in append Virg. Nullum saeva coput Proserpina sugit Many of you have gotten a pardon for all your exorbitances but death will seal no Act of Indemnity ye have escaped the halter of many your fellow-miscreants but death hath set up her gibbet for you Free your selves from this and I will say that ye have more wit then the cunning Secretary the crafty Judge wily Gaol-keeper and the politick Fanatick but I see death ready to apprehend you condemn you and lead you forth to execution what therefore have ye any wet eyes ye will else ere long have dry eyes Do ye bend your knees if not ye shall bend them lower have ye held up your hands for mercy if not ye shall not have an hand to stir have ye found the plague of your own hearts if not ye will die with the deadly marke upon you have ye stilled the cries of the poor have ye made satisfaction for your minglings adulteratings false-weights slippery bargaines usuries perjuries spoiles spights if not they will meet you at Gods judgement-seat Think not that ye because ye can out-brave the pulpit that there is nothing can tame you yes death is coming to right all the injuries that ye have done to the Ordinances Who hath heard our voice to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed no the Prophet is ye say a fool the spirituall man is mad But behold ye despisers and wonder Ye shall answer for every Sermon which ye have disdained defied vilified or neglected He that hath dashed his foot against this stone shall be broken in pieces it had been better for him that a mil-stone had been hung about his neck and that he had been thrown into the midst of the Sea We are Messengers but death is the powerful Preacher it is the Church-mans pleader or if ye will Gods Herald at Armes it will force you to make reparation for all your contempts and revenge them with fury Here is a thundering teacher indeed it doth preach the Funerall Sermon of the whole world the last Sermon that every man shall hear or if ye will the Repetition-Sermon Thou shalt have but one Lecture and if thou beest not converted by that it will send thee away to the deep pit the scalding furnace the worm that will never die the utter darknesse to lament thy hard-heartedness O therefore search for thou wilt be tried to the height humble thy self or else there will be no place found for repentance cleanse or else thou wilt remain spotted for ever shine for thou must be extinguished turn a living Saint for thou wilt turn a dead corpse The Cedar is fallen and Firre-tree thou must fall I know that ye of the Inferiour rank have Superiour spirits but for all your roughness and perversenesse your obstinacy will not prevail against this prophet of the Sepulchre Death is a sharp preacher indeed for it doth preach with a dart in the lips and this preacher you must hear and this dart ye must feel Quit your selves of your sins for ye cannot quit your selves from the grave leap out of hell for ye cannot leap from death Ye must all have grisly faces fallen chaps bloodless cheeks breathless lungs staring eyes and stark limbs ye will be fit for nothing at last but the land of darknesse and the pit of corruption Potent and impotent noble and base rich and poor Cedars and Firre-trees must all fall Firre-tree the Cedar is fallen But why did the Prophet call upon the Firre-tree to consider the fall of the Cedar could he not have called upon the shrubs or myrtles or thorn-trees to lament the loss of a Cedar no these had ill sap in them or a rough bark and so fruitless and useless many of them that they were fit for nothing but the fire therefore he doth reject these and apply himself to the firre-tree For the firre-tree is a most beautiful tree as Pliny saith and purely white and therefore it is called by some Gallica it is full of delightfull strakes within and admirable for beams and to bear the weight of buildings and both the pars sapina fusterna as Authors call them are of rare use for several employments Cato would have his curious Presses made of them and Solomon next to the Cedar doth call to Hiram for the Firre-tree to build his Temple with as ye may see in 1 Kings 5.8 10. Verses a very singular tree it was and though not so excellent as the Cedar yet little inferiour to it The Firre-tree then was the fittest judge of the worth of the Cedar and well chosen out by the Prophet as the most proper tree to lament the fall of the Cedar Firre-tree the Cedar is fallen From hence then further observe That they must be men of prime affections which must be selected to prise the perfections of others Desert will want its honour if worthless men pass sentence upon it what need have 1 of madmen so what have we of low-gifted or bad and base-minded men Sus Minervam shall the injudicious or profligate set out the fame of meriting men no what taste is there in the white of an eggs the heart of the wicked is little worth Vertue will never have due commendation from the contemptible Wisdom is justified of her children Indignitas laus non habent concordiam Seneca They which have no dignity in themselves leave the most laudable things with an indignity honey is not sweet to a distempered palate Hercules shall be held but an half-man if Lycus give his opinion of him who knew not how to handle either sword bow or spear Cicero shall be counted a man of no wit if Cestius may pass sentence upon him Varro shall have no other name but that of Swine out of the mouth of Palaemon So that as the Hircanians were wont to cast their dead bodies to dogs to be devoured so we had as good have Mastiffs as men to be judges of worthy mens qualities if they have