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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

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

sufficient to prove that according to the mind of St. Austin none but the elect of God are in time effectually called and really justified and pardoned and made partakers of the holy Ghost and become real members of Christs body and therefore the effectually called and justified c. can no more fall away than the elect which all confesse to be under an impossibility of Apostacy in St. Austins judgment 2. Let me perswade you not only to beleeve but to practise the doctrine of perseverance For there are Divers learned men that are so much scandalized at the great Apostacy of some eminent professours in our unhappy dayes that they begin to be stagger'd and to doubt of the truth of the doctrine of Perseverance But these men forget the saying of the Apostle They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us For my part I conceive that these Reverend and learned men should rather doubt of the truth of their graces whom they see thus foully to A postatize than of the truth of the Doctrine of Perseverance But howsoever let us take heed of laying this stumbling block least by our practical Apostacy men should begin to turne Doctrinal Apostates Let us labour to dye well as well as to live well to continue and persevere in wel-doing It is the great commendation of the Saints in the text That they died in the faith These all dyed in faith Remember what Christ saith No man having put his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for the Kingdome of God And what the Apostle Paul saith If any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him but we are not of them who draw back unto perdition c. And what the Apostle Peter saith It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousnesse than after they have known it to turne from the holy commandment delivered to them c. Remember also Lots wife She did only look back she did not go back and yet she was turned into a pillar of salt As God hath fire and brimstone for a Sodomite so he hath a pillar of salt for an Apostate But why do you exhort us to persevere when as you tell us that if we be true Saints we cannot but persevere 1. We do not say it is simply and absolutely impossible for a Saint not to persevere For if you consider the Saints as they are in themselves and the mightinesse and multitude of their spiritual enemies it is impossible for them not to fall away But we say it is impossible upon supposition Considering the unchangeable nature of God and the unchangeable decree and purpose of God and the unchangeable Covenant promises and Oath of God in this respect we say it is impossible 2. Scripture exhortations are divine motives and meanes to perswade and enable the Saints to persevere and they are so farre from interfering with or nullifying of the promises of faith and perseverance that they are many of them built and grounded upon them Phil. 2. 12 13. 2 Cor. 7. 1. What meanes must I use that I may hold out and continue unto the end and not only live in the faith but also dye in it 1. Dig deep in humiliation The stony ground fell away for want of depth of earth Humility is the best preservative of grace The lower the foundation the surer the building Spiritual pride paves a causey to Apostacy A chesnut put whole into the fire will fly out It is the broken heart only that will persevere 2. Labour for sincerity and uprightness of heart As the firmnesse of a pillar is in the uprightnesse of it if once it begins to bow it will quickly break So the firmnesse and stability of a Christian is in his sincerity and uprightnesse Rottenness of heart betrayeth a man into Apostacy A rotten apple will quickly appeare so outwardly So will a rotten Christian If ever you would persevere take heed of making use of Religion for the promotion of your carnal interest He that serves God for an earthly Kingdome when he bath got what he sought for will forsake God as Jehu did He that followeth Christ only for the loaves will leave Christ when he hath got them 3. Labour for a tender conscience This will keep us from the least degree of Apostacy As hot water grow's cold by degrees first it is luke-warme before it is starke cold So a Christian declines into Apostacy by degrees Lots wife first lingred and then afterwards lookt back first we slack our pace in Religion then we stand still and at last turne back But now a tender conscience will keep us from the least abatement of zeale and forwardnesse in Religion 4. Be not high minded but feare I speak not of a feare of diffidence and distrustfulnesse but of a feare of diligence and watchfulnesse He that would be secure from feare let him feare to be secure Mr. Saunders by his feare of falling away kept himselfe from Apostacy whereas Dr. Pendleton by his notorious presumption and over-bold confidence fell away 5. Take heed least there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} will end in {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Apostacy is the child of unbelief Faith will set us upon a rock higher than us even such a rock against which the gates of hell shall never prevaile 6. Take heed of the inordinate love of the world and of the base feare of men The love of mony is reckoned by the Apostle as the root of all evil in general and more especially of Apostacy 1 Tim. 6. 10. Which while some coveted after they have erred from the faith c. And the base feare of men was the cause which made thousands Apostatize in Queen Maries bloody dayes And therefore if ever you would persevere you must labour to love God above your corruptions relations and possessions and to feare sin more than the losse of estate or life He that loves God above the world will never forsake God to gaine the world He that feares sin more than death will rather dye than sin 7. Pray unto God the Father Son and holy Ghost that they would uphold you and enable you not only to live but to dye in the faith Pray to the Father that he would keep you by his power through faith unto salvation that he would uphold you by his mighty hand and keep you from falling as it is Psalm 37. ●4 Psalm 94. 18. That he would put his feare in your hearts that you may never depart from him Pray to the Son that he would apprehend you and hold you so fast in his armes that none may pluck

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