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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90143	Bradshaws ultimum vale, being the last words that are ever intended to be spoke of him. As they were delivered in a sermon preach'd at his interrment. By J.O. D.D. time-server general of England.	Owen, John, 1616-1683, attributed name.	1659 (1659)	Wing O3; Thomason E1011_1; ESTC R203078	8,878	15

Brother Foxley who spoke Bulls more reverently in the Pulpit or was more gravely impertinent in his Homilies Yet was he Chaplain to our deceased Patriot and he fed him with Mony and fat Venison But why have we made use of a Sundyall why because it is the only thing which discovers the Thieveries of that Arch Pilferer old Time You 'l say I might as well have made use of those things with which the young Striplings play for Sawcers in Bartholomew Fair but I deny that for though they serve to passe the time away yet they are no Sundyals Now this Time my Beloved was one of the arrantest Thieves in the World He was Great grandfather to Robin-Hood that Robb'd in Yorkshire and his Mother was Sister to Wood of Kent For he was as great a Glutton as a Thief and he Robb'd to Eat and Eat that he might Rob. And therefore our Auncestors knowing how great a Thief he was translated the Latin word Tempus and called it Time placeing him upon the Beams of Sundyals with a great Si●h in his hand judge yee what great gobbets he puts in his mouth and what a Stomach he hath by the weapon with which he uses to cut his meat Now this Time being made a Demon or Semigod even as our fore Fathers deifyed Wine and call'd it Bacchus by reason of its great power over Mortals will not yet leave his Theiving but steals our Years our Days Months and Minutes nay our very Lives from us And more than this if the Sexton be not too nimble for him makes no Conscience to steal our winding Sheets from us as we lye helplesse and succourlesse in our Graves In Law Offices the Rats and He feed together upon old Parchments so that the Lawyers are fain to make their Deeds and Leases of no use after so many years lest he should eat away the Evidences of Mens Inheritances Ecce venio ut Fur saith the Dyal of Cannon Street Church Surely he was a VVise Man that made that Dyall and understood Latin for never was a better Character given of Time than this But let him go like a Thief as he is and let us see what we have next to insist upon You find by what we have said already a true explanation of the Letters and Hieroglyphic of this Text. Now the Letters and Hieroglyphic being put together do immediatly spawn or procreate this sense or meaning We Must Dye all Here we are to note the action and universality of the action The action is Dying the universality of the action Wee Must Dye all VVell then Wee Must Dye all But what must we Dye all after one fashion In other things there is variety as of VVomen there are the Black the Brown the Fair. Of Drink there is variety as Ale Beer Cider Sack Claret c. There are also several sorts of Meat as Flesh Fowl And of these also there are various kinds whereby the Palat need not to be nauseated alwayes with one and the same thing And is there but one way of Dying Beloved yee need not fear There are as many wayes of Dying as of Eating and Drinking Some Men Dye for Love as you may read in the first Book of Claudian Gruget or the Cronicles of Queen Marget Beloved I shall read unto you the Text it self where you shall find the Story of a certain young man who this way lost his Life It is said o him V. 1. c. 10. There was a certain young man who loved a certain Lady and his Love was grounded on no other end but to Love her with all his power as perfectly as he could V. 2. But this Lady he being not a match sufficient for her was by the urgency of her Friends caus'd and forc'd to marry another Gentleman V. 3. Therefore he fell Sick and his strength failed him so that he was forc'd to keep his bed V. 4. Neverthelesse the Daughter and the Mother haveing some compassion on him came to visit the Gentleman whom they found near his end V. 5. But then being ready to descend unto the sleep of Death and beholding her whom his Heart loved he found himself so fortified that he did arise up in his bed V. 6. And said unto the Mother of the young Lady I beseech you to give her into my Arms and command her to Embrace and Kisse me V. 7. Then Embracing the cause of his death and Kissing her with his pale and cold Lips he held her with so much vehemence that his weak Heart could not endure the strength of his Love V. 8. Therefore the faculties of Life abandoining him the seat of his Soul failed and she fled to her Disposer Thus you see the Example of one way of Dying But what says the Learned Hircan in his Comment upon this place This saith he was the veryest Fool that ever I heard speak for is it likely or reasonable that we should Dye for Women who are made for us and be afraid to ask them what they are enjoyn'd to give us Now I speak not this for my self nor for any man here that is married for I have enough of a VVoman or rather more than will serve my turn but to shew you that there are more ways to the Wood than one Truly Beloved our dear and worthy Brother here lying before us was not a little guilty of this vanity which made him in hisyounger days quaff a health to his Mistriss in his own blood I should have blam'd him for it but that it made him known and shew'd him fit for the trust reposed in him for he that was so lavish of his own blood could never be chary of another mans But there are other ways of leaving the World and I believe as many postures there are of dying as our Brother Aretine hath delivered postures of Copulation Let us reckon One I have told yee already The second is when a man going to bed takes a good Dose of Opium and sleeps away his life and this is called the Syndercomb The third is the Turks way of strangling and borrows its name from a stuff in Pater-noster-ro and is called Lute-string The fourth is that posture which Derick most commonly uses and is called Noosing The fifth is burning to death and is called the Witches Farewell The sixth is breaking on the wheel and is called St. Katherines Legacy The seventh is when a man wasted with a Disease lyes upon his back and gives up the Ghost and is called the Custome of Women The eighth differs little from the seventh only that the man lyes on one side and this is called King Arthurs way of dying The ninth is broyling to death and is called St. Lawrences March The tenth is drowning and this is called Neptunes Excise The eleventh is beheading and is called Bradshaws Delight The twelfth and last which I shall now number up referring you for the rest to the Pictures of the ten Persecutions and Sennertus's work is our deceased

Brorhers way of dying and is called the Agues Triumph Whereby you may see that a Souls House and a Mans House are not alike for they say of Building that a trembling House stands fastest but a Soul loves not that her Mansion should shake The Physicians say because they are not able to cure this Disease that it is a certain Devil which possesses a man If this be so then certainly it was Belzebub himself possessed our dear President For he shook him worse than he shook the Protectors Trees and never left shaking him till he had shaken him into his Grave Truly Beloved 't is a sad thing when the Devil comes to Winnow a mans Soul out of his Body But to say truth what had he to do to live any longer he had done his great work neither was there any likelyhood that he should have any more by reason that the Nation was so generally inclin'd for a Common-Wealth He knew for ordinary Delinquents and a Common High Court of Justice the Lord Lisle could serve as well as he He saw that the Rump stunk in the Nostrils of the Nation and it grieved him to see them so despis'd by the people He had had his reward in this World and therefore thought 't was time to get his reward in the other What that is we cannot tell his Friends hope the best his Enemies hope the worst However to give yee some satisfaction we shall a little dive into the Actions of his life and see if they deserve that punishment which his Enemies would inflict upon him I confesse we have a difficult task to undergoe to Cloth Virtue in the Habit of Vice and to trick up Vice in the Habit of Virtue Neverthelesse wee must doe something in the discharge of a good Conscience for else how can I be said to have merited my Ring and my Five pieces perhaps it may be Ten which is a Sum considerable Truly wee Ministers love Mony 't is the main thing we Ball for and I think he 's a Fool that does not You know 't is Mony that makes the Mare to goe 't is Mony that makes the Pot boyl Now good victuals my Beloved are highly reverenc'd and esteem'd among us Parsons 't is that which encloses our Kidneys and lines our Midriffs with fat They talk of the Food of the Soul but I beleive that if there were no other Food we might starve for all that Therefore saith the famous father Binet c. 31. v. 130. By Hook or by Crook it matters not whether so we can but gain Riches which are indeed the Nerves and Sinews of a Mans life Thus much by way of pickeering from our Text a thing usual among us modern Divines Now let us begin to justifie our deceased President You must know then that once upon a time Escobar and Lopez meeting together they fell into a dispute concerning the Actions of a Mans life But me thinks I hear Somebody pulling me by the sleeve say unto me who is that Escobar and Lopez you talk o● why my Beloved this Escobar was great Grand-child to the Pin●…r of Wakefield who comming of the race of the Valiant became a very strong man at an argument Now Lopez was an East-Indian Divine and he wore a Jerkin made of Ostrich Feathers his Shooes were made of an Elephants Hoof and upon his Head he wore a Fools Cap. Then said Lopez unto Escobar May a Man doe Evil that Good may come thereof and Escobar answered and said Follow the Prestdent that lives in our days Don Juan de S●… the Portugal Embassadors Brother proves this most exactly from the Doctrine of Probability For saith he ● 7. v. 3. A Man may doe that which he conceives lawful according to a probable opinion though the contrary be in reality the more honest And Vasques saith in his book of Sanctifi'd Experiences that in cases of Morality a man ought not to be guided by the antient Divines but by the modern Casuists Of this opinion also was our dear Brother Julian the Apostate Now you will say that our deceased President was Ambitious I grant it but what then but hear what the famous Escobar saith Ambition which is an immoderate desire of greatnesse and dignity is of it self a venial Sin 〈◊〉 when a man covets that greatnesse to prejudice the State the external circumstances are that which make it Mortal But our President exercis'd his Ambition for the good of the State He prerended Religion the destruction of Tyranny and at last the setting up of the Good Old Cause And therefore yee may read in our de●● Brother Catilines Remains how that he disturbed 〈◊〉 Country for that he was greatly in Debt and had no other way to get mony to be honest to his C●… But me thinks I hear the Cavaleers crying out with open mouth how he killed the King VVhy what if he did did not our dear Brother Ravillac kill Harry the Fourth would not our Brother Faux have blown up the King and all his Peers did not our Sister Tomyris cut off King Cyru's Head did not our Ancestors run a hot spit into the Fundament of King Edward Therefore saith our Brother Syndercomb It is as lawful for to kill a Tyrant as it is to drink Coffee And the antient Greeks and Romans gave rewards to those that were most swift in the execution of such an enterprise Machiavel in his Comment upon the works of Heliogabalus saith that it is lawful to kill a Man for six or seven Duckets and our holy Brother Molina the Jesuite assures us that regularly a Man may kill another lawfully for the value of a Crown and in this opinion consents with him Domitian the Fly-killer and the holy Nero Also further saith that it is lawful for one Man to kill another for an Apple Now if this be true that a Man may be killed for six or seven Duckets or for such a slight thing as an Apple then certainly might our President judge a Man to Death for my Lord Cottingtons Estate Our President was like Necessity for he had no Law If then he had no Law could yee blame him for not doing that which was agreeable to Law Thus my beloved you see it prov'd out of the Labours of the most authentick Divines that he was not so bad as the World took him to be But he is gone and we stay here behind to wear Rings for his sake Truly I would wish if I might reap the same benefit that such a President might dye every day For I le warrant yee our Rings are worth eight and twenty shillings a peice now twenty eight shillings a day is five hundred and eleven pounds per annum I le promise yee a good younger Brothers Estate and I believe the time has been when the best of yee all here present hath been contented with farr lesse I am sure the time was when our Beloved President had not so much but thanks be to God and his