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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

by their presēce praiers we were blessed for them for their sakes at their suites were many iudgements turned frō vs that otherwise would haue fallen vpon vs as Moses by his praiers tied the Lords hand that hee could not hurt Israel as for Ioseph not only Potiphar fared the better but for his the familie of Iacob Egipt prospered was preserued when other countries perished with famin in the time of want Doubtles as Elisha said to Iehoram i 2. Kings 3.14 If it were not that I regarded the presence of Iehoshaphat King of Iuda I would not haue looked towards thee nor seene thee so if it had not beene for their presence praiers God would neuer haue respected our armies and our generals to haue giuen them such reliefe as they found when they were often in distresse in Ireland elsewhere As Tertullian saith that k M. Aurel. germanicam sitm Christianorum fortè militum precationibus impetrato imbri discussam contestatur Tertul. aduer Gent. Apol. M. Aurelius the Emperor when he was in fight against the Germans and in a streight for water by his letters witnessed that the German thirst was driuen away with ashower obtained by the praiers of the Christian souldiers So may I say that from many streights haue wee and our armies obtained reliefe by them Yea as Moses and his praier ouercame more then Ioshua and his power and strength for l Exod. 11.11 when Moses held vp his hand Israel preuailed that is when he praied feruently Israel had the day of the Amalekites but when he let his hands down Amalek preuailed that is when he left praying the enemy got the better So may wee say of the faithfull of the land that at all times their suites to God when they were feruent preuailed more then the swords of our Captaines and souldiers their praiers were of more force then all their peeces their cries then all the Cannons of the Armie m Heb. 11.34 by their faith were turned to flight the armies of the Aliants But now when so many of these are taken away when they haue yeelded to nature and are receiued into glory haue we not cause to mourne with great lamentations Yes yes if wee did vnderstand those things that did belong to our peace and safety if we did conceiue rightly of things tending to our woe and misery if we doe not if we cannot it is because as Saluian saith to the Catholike Church n Repugnante contra temetipsum tua foelicitate Saluian l. 1. ad Eccles Catholiam Thy owne felicitie fighteth against thy selfe our prosperity our plenty standeth against vs and hath bewitched vs wee are so drunke with the pleasures thereof that as drunken men we see no danger though we lie open to infinite danger hereby Shall vse that of Saluian o Ablâtus erat a peccatoribus timor ne posset esse cautela Saluian de Feare was taken away from offenders that there should be no caution against it We are destitute of the feare of euill because we should not take care to auoid it and that it should come vpon vs vnawares God forbid God forbid let me be found a false Prophet But to draw to an end of this point Honorable and beloued had the old world cause to feare and mourne when Noah went into the Arke was it high time for Sodom to lament when Lot was taken away and hastened out of it by the Angell and haue not wee cause can we not mourne when so many Noahs Lots I wrong none as I take it though I honour some by this comparison are taken away and hastened away out of our Land Cities Trust me now or time will come when you shall trust me that we haue cause and cause againe to lament and mourne not for them who dying in the Lord are happy with the Lord rest from all their labours and miseries but as Christ said to the women that followed him Weepe not for mee but for your selues and your children so wee for our selues and our children for hauing been safe by them and strengthened through them they are taken away from the plague we lie open to it and it hastneth the faster because they that kept it from vs are remooued Men vse to fence and defend to keepe watch and ward ouer their corne fields whiles the corne and fruits are in them vnreaped vngathered when they are gathered and put safe into the barne thē is open tide as they say they lay them open to beasts of all kind and sometime set fire on the stubble So and so hath God dealt oft times with many lands and countries wherein his Church and the godly haue liued And are we better then they Nay as Saluian saith p Deteriores sumus quia meliores esse debemus Saluian We are worse because wee should be better hauing such examples to admonish vs haue we any priuiledge or protection more then they nay nay we haue no helpe vnlesse wee cease to doe euill and learne to doe well and labour to bee good and faithfull as they were and beleeuing this to bee true it may be as Tertullian speaketh in one place q Fides facit formidinem sormid● solicitudinem Tertull faith causeth feare feare carefulnesse so our faith may breed feare and our feare care to cease to be euill and learne to doe well that repenting for our sinnes and practising true piete we may still liue and eat the good things of the land Let vs proceed to a second point Doctrine 2 THere is no priuiledge no not spirituall that can preserue a man frō a natural death or the first deth out of no court can a man fetch a writ of protection against this Sergeant no place will preserue no person can be priuiledged from it Here the holy and good man the righteous and religious man is taken from the earth and dieth It is no maruel though as Iob speaketh r Iob. 14.1.2 Man that is borne of a woman is of short continuance he shooteth forth as a flower is cut down he vanisheth also as a shadow and continueth not But a man would thinke that ſ Iames ● 18 he that is begotten againe of Gods owne will by the word of truth that t Iohn 3.5 hee that is borne againe of water and of the spirit and so u Iohn 1.13 borne not of blood nor of the will of flesh nor of the will of man but of God yea x 1. Pet. 1.23 borne a new not of mortall seede but of immortall the word of God which liueth and indureth for euer A man I say would thinke that he should not die and yet behold the whole generation of Gods Children they all die in their appointed time and vndergoe death y Non supplicium sed ●ri●utum viuendi Seneca not as a punishment but as a tribute as the heathen man speakes which euery man must pay for his life

Though the foole die yet may not the wise man liue euer z Eccles 2.16 How dieth the wise man as doth the foole saith the Preacher but though the subiect die yet cannot the Soueraigne put away death with his Scepter a Psal 82.6 I haue said ye are Gods and ye all are children of the most high but ye shall die as a man and ye Princes shall fall like others But though Prince and people die yet are not the Prophets excused b Zach. 1.5 Your fathers where are they and doe the Prophets liue for euer Examples of other times experience of our owne teacheth vs that all of all sorts die and are gathered to their fathers Yea c Etiam muta Clamant cadauera Basil the dumbe and dead bodies cry this aloud to vs. As Basill of Seleucia saith of Noah hee preached without preaching euery stroke of the Arke was a reall sermon of repentance so euery corps wee follow and accompany to the graue preacheth really this truth to vs. And this truth hath certaine ground Reason 1 First because the Lord of life and death hath so decreed it d Heb. 9 27. It is appointed vnto men that they shall once die The decree was made Gen. 3.19 e Gen. 3.19 Thou art dust and to dust thou shalt returne If it be his decree it must needes haue a certaine effect the decree is certaine the euent is ineuitable f Psal 115.3 Our God is in heauen and he doth whatsoeuer hee will g Vol●isse fecisse est Cypr. de Duplici martyr Gods will is his deede as Cyprian saith if he haue once willd it it is as good as wrought if he haue decreed it it is as certaine as if it were done Reason 2 Secondly because all of all sorts and conditions are made of one mould and one matter h Iob 4.19 made of clay and earth whose foundatiō is in the dust which shall be destroied before the moth Hence the Apostle calleth mens bodies i 1. Corinth 5.7 The earthly house of this Tabernacle It is true that as there are difference of stars though al made of th same matter and difference of mettalls some are gold some siluer some lead some tinne but all made of one earth so are there difference of bodies some more excellent then other and made of a purer earth but yet all subiect to corruption as the matter whereof they are made is It being the body then that dieth and seeth corruption one must die as well as another Reason 3 Thirdly because all haue sinned and all haue sinne k 1 Iohn 1.8 9 10. If we say we haue no sinne we deceiue our selues and make God a liar The holy and beloued Apostle ranketh himselfe with others and confessed that he had still sin in him He i Qui se inculpatum dixerit aut superbus est aut stultus Cypr. de oper Eleem. that saith he is without fault is either proud or a foole saith Cyprian Then must all be subiect to death for saith the Apostle m Rom. 5.12 As by one man sinne entred into the world and death by sinne and so death went ouer all for as much as all men haue sinned Sinne the only cause saith one which enlarged deaths dominion and made all the world to become his tributaries for had it not been for sinne death had neuer entred into the world n Si Adam non peccasset mortem non gustaret Aug enchirid cap. 104. If Adam had not sinned he had not tasted death as Austin speakes And the Lord said o Genes 2.17 In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt die the death not actually but potentially become mortall Now that which is true in the root holdeth in the branches Reason 4 Fourthly because sinne which brought in death might be destroied againe by death this viperous damme by such a daughter this beast by such a brood had it not been for sinne death had neuer entred into the world and were it not for death sinne would neuer goe out of the world As Basill saith p Deiu mortem non fecit sed nosmet ipsi ex mente praua nobis ipsis etiam sponte attraximus quam Deus minimè prohibuit ne immortalem in nobis morbum conseruaret Basil serm 9. quod Deus non est author malorum God made not death but we our selues by our wicked minds of our owne accorde wee haue drawne it on our selues which God did not at all forbid lest it should keepe in vs an immortall disease And as Epiphanius bringeth in Methodius disputing with Proclus the Originist q Instar medicamentariae purgationis mortem Deus bene inuenit quo sic omnino inculpabiles in noxij inueniantur c. Epiph. haer 64. c. methodio God as the true Physitian hath appointed death to be a physicall purgation for the vtter rooting out and putting away of sinne that we may be made faultlesse and innocent and that as a goodly golden image saith he sightly and seemly in all parts if it be broken and defaced by any meanes must be new cast and framed againe for the taking away of the blemishes and disgraces of it euen so man the Image of God being maimed and disgraced by sinne for the putting away of those disgraces and the repairing of his ruines and decaies must by death be dissolued into the earth thence to be raised vp againe perfect and without default Vse 1 But what vse may we make of all this First it is a care that euery one ought to haue to know they must die and they cannot auoid it the decree is gone out against them from the highest court of Parliament and that from the most highest what contempt were it not to take notice of it eury one ought to labour to number his daies and truely to know his mortality the greatest as well as the meanest the wisest as the simplest for if any one then all and if any more then other the greatest for they are not the least but rather the most subiect to this as they challenge themselues to be of the finest of the common mould so they must know that they are not by that exempted from the common law of nature and force of Gods decree but as the finer the mettall or the purer the matter of any glasse or earthen vessell the more subiect it is to breaking so they to mortality And therefore both they and all must labor for this spirituall Arithmeticke To number their daies which is a religious meditation and sound consideration of their frailty and mortality A thing worthy euery mans best disposed thoughts and intentions for seenig euery man must die and hath a course to finish which being finished he must away it is speciall wisdome to learne to know the length of his daies as it were the length of his lease for as hee hath vsed himselfe in his

Her face with teares besoyld Her brest with swellings throbs and sighs quite rent If heau'n had not both strength and comfort sent Such Lord such sonne few Ladies euer gaind And therefore none haue tasted such a losse The happinesse w●ich she before attaind Double●h the griefe and greater makes the crosse The losse was great the crosse much greater sute Thanks to the Lord who strength gaue to endure Yet may we well that mother happy deeme That brought to light so great an ornament Vnto this land that we may iust esteeme VVhole months wh●re yeeres in teares and sorrow spent For his vntimely death his sudden fall VVhich hath amaz'd and terrifi'd vs all Who doth not see the dreadfull glorious God Threaten this Realme with iudgements manifold VVhen thus he shakes at vs his iron rod Is too Mole-blind this say I dare be bold Pillars demolisht of a pallace great The ruine of the frame do truly threat Since that tall Cedar chiefe of all the rest Prince HENRY fell by sad disastrous fate No one that grew in our English forrest Gaue such a blow vnto the Church and state He was too good for vs vnworthy we Of such a treasure such felicity His vertues haue him call'd aboue the stars Earth was vnworthy such a diamon He novv partakes not of our brawles and iars For mourning weeds white robes he hath put on Sinne griefe and teares haue tane them to their wings And with the Lambe he Hallelu-iah sings Then let vs cease for to bewaile with teares That happy soule possessing heauenly ioyes That no tongue can expresse no humane eares Hath euer heard no earthly wit can poyse Let vs lament our selues our sinfull liues VVhich of so precious iewels vs depriues By F.H.D.M. An Epitaph vpon the said rightly honored Lord in life and death in English Iambicks HEre liet Lord Harington the second of that house Who scarcely left his second in the Brittish I le In honour true in vertue matchlesse pietie The Phaenix of our age in whose graue countenance The graces sat the Muses lodged in noble Brest At twenty yeares whose wisdome great did farre excell The hoary head of long and good experience Too good for earth fit to adorne the highest heauens Where now his soule liues raignes in celestiall ioyes His body here reseru'd till the last iudgement day His name like ointment sweet through all Europa smells And shall so long as vertue and religion Shall find renowne in these cold Nothern Climats By F H.D.M. Another Epitaph HEere lies interred young Lord Harington Heire to his Fathers worth and dignitie And now by too too soone succession Of fathers fates heire to eternity His body in his grand dames bosome is His minds suru●ving vertues speake his blisse His noble birth to learned Arts mode way His learned arts on vertue still attended His vertue on true piety did stay His piety hath him to God comm●nded His birth his Arts vertues and pious grace Alot him earths large praise and heauens place The Church tels what a patron now is gone The Common-weale did him a pillar deeme He was his houses hope truthes Champion The good mans friend indeed as he did seeme Their patro● pillar champion hope and friend They waile and marke where misery will end I.P. Cant. Coll. Syd Suff. To the liuing memory of the late and last Sr. Iohn Harington Knight Lord Harington Baron of Exton To the Booke GOe and speake tru h It is thy office now Not onely to enforme our liues but how By ● are examples miracles agree With praise● and wi●h praecepts This was hee His praise will not dishonour simple truth To say but what he was and but a youth To the World If thou wert all dull earth I should beleeue Thou hadst no sence to feele nor soule to greeue But ô thou art compol'd of su●ler parts And see●t thy losse engrauen in our hearts The purest part of all thou art alas How fraile art thou then was as fraile as grasse To England Thou hast beene beaten many thousand yeares VVith seas and yet art safe But ô teares VVill more endaunger thee he was in thee The Hand thou the sea where such men bee Bea●en with rage of changes yet they stand Safe in themselues and fix'd as any land To his Mother and sisters Rather then tell how good he was I will Perswade you to forget yet weepe your fill For such a Sonne O death and such a brother Is rare as heauens great eye that hath no other To his Friends To all that vertue loue I doe commend This title It was al one to be his friend And good who hath no claime and title now He doth not him but vertue disauow And yet he had one nearer then the rest Sr. Ed. Harwood He liu'd at houshold with him we at feast To the Arts. Ioy he is gon he would haue diu'd into Your deepest secrets and your knots vndo As vnknown ●ricks discouerd easy seeme He would to v● reduce you not esteeme To Religion What hast thou lost ô sacred misterie Thy Nurse and yet thy Childe He did not die To thee of all the rest he was aliue They martyr and now dead he doth more thriue In thee ô no his state takes no increase Full of the ioies of God he liues in peace To Death Poore vncreated nothing to contend To make all things like thee yet misse thy end Canst thou hold him one houre ô enuious death Or touch his last yet euerlasting breath O No that fled where thou shalt neuer come Though here a while thou triumph on his Toombe Thomas Roe Knight

expectation of death though diuers thought nothing lesse till a day or two before his dying day therefore hee addressed himselfe thereunto and besides his meditations hee called often for others to pray and often vsed praiers himselfe confessing and that often both his sinnes and his faith and vndoubted hope of saluation by Christ and with great alacritie he professed that he feared not death in what shape soeuer he came He brake forth often into heauenly speeches expressing his desire to be dissolued and to be at home with his God and Father professing not two howers before his death that he still felt the assured comforts of his saluation by Christ so finished his life in peace and ioy of the holie Ghost vttering neere his death these longing words O that ioy O my God when shall I be with thee Which ioy he vndoubtedly enioyeth and is with his God in glory and euerlasting happinesse Thus honorable and beloued you see by these things the worth and excellency of this deceased person honorable both by nature and grace the more his worth was by these naturall and spirituall endowments the greater our losse and the greater his gaine and the more cause haue we to sorrow for our selues though to reioice on his behalfe The whole hath cause to mourne and bewaile and many particulars to bewaile a part His honorable mother whom God hath depriued of hir sonne hir only sonne of such a sonne such ā staffe and stay of her age and such a ioy of her life His honourable sisters from whō the Lord hath taken such a noble worthy brother who would haue been not only a crowne of their honor but a furtherer of them in the way of piety and godlinesse to the crowne of glory His kindred and aliance who are depriued of such an honor of their house and such a glory of their name His kinde and familiar friends who are bereft of such a true harted Ionathan one that was very kind vnto them whose loue vnto them was wonderful specially to him whō he termed in his Wil his deare friend Sr. Ed. Harwood His seruants that haue such a master taken frō their heads the ground of al their future hopes And not these only but more generally others haue cause to mourne and bewaile as the Church who hath lost so hopefull and noble a Theophilus that would haue defended her truth and doctrine such an honorable Obadiah that would haue hid and protected her Ministers The common wealth and specially this little Shire whereof he was L. Lieutenant that hath lost so hopefull a Nehemiah who would haue set himselfe for the publike good and giuen example and encouragement to keepe the Sabboth and haue charged them so far as his power had extended to haue carefully obserued it and so gouerned them that he would not only not oppresse them himselfe but haue to his vtmost power prouided that they should be free from the oppression of others And here I will not omit that which may make the losse the greater something since brought vnto me by his deare friend of two purposes he had for experiēce to adde to the former grounds of his study the better to haue enabled himselfe for his Countries seruice The one by a voyage to sea into some places the knowledge whereof for war by sea would haue been most vsefull another by land into one of our neighbour countries fittest to haue enriched his mind in the knowledge of land-seruice Thus is there both generall and speciall cause of mourning and lamentation in respect of our selues but see what great cause we haue of reioycing for him What cause of reioycing and thankfulnesse hath his honorable mother though she hath lost her heire yet to speake in Chrysostomes words vnto her o At haeredem bonorumque successorem non habes quid malebas eum tuorum an caelestium haeredem fieri Quid vero cupis eum pere●ntiae suscipere quae paulo post esset dimissurus an permanentia immubilia non haeredem eum hab●isti sed ipsum prote Deus habuit Chrys hom 69 ad pop Ant. But you haue no heire nor any successor of your goods well and had you rather he should be inheritor of these of yours then of those heauenly What doe you desire he should enioy perishing things which within a small while he must cast away or permanent and immoueable Nay you had not an heire of him but God had him for you His honorable sisters in their sorrow may reioice ouer him for though as Chrysostome saith p Propriorum non fuit fratrum cohaeres sed Chr●sti constitutus est Chrysost quo ant He was not coheire with his priuate brethren yet he is made coheire with Christ And that not in hope but in present possession he now at his full age they but in their nonage as yet How may his worthy friends roioyce for him when we can say to them as Hierome to Heliodorus comforting him ouer the death of his Nephew Nepotian who died in his youth q Intelligeres illum non emori sed emig●are mutar● amicos non relinquere Hier. epist 3. Thou shouldst vnderstand that he doeth not die but decease And only change his friends not leaue them So they should be informed that he is not dead but translated hath not left his friends but changed them for far more honorable and glorious then they and so to reioyce in respect of him lest they may seeme to enuie his happinesse What cause of reioiycing hath the Church for him so deare a child of hirs that hath left the militant but is possessed of the triumphant Church that hath left the state of Militancie and warfaring and is in the state of triumphancy and victory How may the Common-wealth and this Shire reioyce ouer him that is taken from an earthly gouernment to an heauenly regiment from ruling with men to raigne with Christ and hath left these few corruptible ensignes of honor but now possesseth true honour and an immortall crowne Finally how may we all reioyce for him and change our note as much as may be forgetting our owne losses and thinking of his gaine As Bernard of his friend Gerard r Et meum faleor luctum poene in cantum conuertit dum intentus gloria ecius propriae ferè misoria obliuiscor Ber. super Cant. 26. And I confesse it turnes my mourning almost altogether into singing wholes being intent vpon his glory I forget almost my owne misery And now honorable and beloued to draw towards an end If for all this his losse and the want of his presence bee drieuous to you and that either in generall or particular you desire his presence and to see him let me speake to you as Chrysostome to some that were like affected ſ Ipsum cernere de sidera● eandem cum eo vitam viue sacram ocius illam accipis praesentiam Ch●ys hom 69. ad