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A19935	A funerall sermon preached the xxvi. day of Nouember in the yeare of our Lord M.D.LXXVI. in the parishe church of Caermerthyn, by the Reuerende Father in God, Richard by the permission of God, Bishoppe of Saint Dauys, at the buriall of the Right Honourable VValter Earle of Essex and Ewe ...	Davies, Richard, 1501-1581.; Waterhouse, Edward, Sir, 1535-1591.	1577 (1577)	STC 6364; ESTC S109385	23,626	69

it is tonuenient to dawbe a golden piller with myre clay Salomon was of that minde and therfore sayeth Be not thou hasty to be angry for anger resteth in the bosom of fooles I haue had occasion by that I noted in his Lordship to call to remembrance this saying of christ A good man of the good treasure of his hart bringeth forth good things And the euill man of the euill treasure of his heart bringeth forth euill thinges For though occasion were ministred yet shoulde you neuer heare him vtter any opprobrious wordes no not agaynst his aduersarie so pure and immaculate dyd he studie to preserue the Nobilitie of his minde There be some that count thēselues worthie honour and estimation when they teare God in peeces with chafing and horrible othes which this Noble Earle detested and abhorred as a matter not onely vndecent but also repugnant to the nature of true Nobilitie attributing due reuerence to the name of the Lorde and therby proouing the fountaynes of his Nobilitie to spring out of the hyll of the feare of god But what was his religion what fayth God had blessed him with what godly disposition he was of and how abundantly God had enriched hym with his holy spirite his confession of his fayth hys speaches nay rather his sermons in his sickenesse afore his death shall testifie for euer For I receyued by the relation of such as are woorthie credite and were present about him although not all yet many of hys learned godly sayings at that tyme Concerning hys saluation hee reposed his affiaunce and sure trust in the bloude of Iesus Christ. He forgaue all the world and by inuincible fayth apprehended layde holde and imbrased remission of his sinnes in the merites of the sacrifice of Christes bodie offered vppon the crosse for the sinnes of the world Trentals Masses Diriges Pardons and such other papisticall trifles he vtterly contemned as wicked and blasphemous agaynst the death and passion of christ He fared like the children of Israell in the wildernesse which when they were stinged with Serpentes euen to death yet when they looked vp to the brasen Serpent they were made whole safe and sounde So this Noble Earle grieued wyth the remembraunce of his former vnthankefull lyfe as he iudged immediately directed the eyes of hys mynde to the death and passion of Christ and forthwith felt such health of soule that he was replenished with ioy in the holy Ghost and all his delite was in meditacion of the ioy of the worlde to come and the fruition of the presence of God for euer In so much that fyue or sixe dayes before he dyed he shewed himselfe more lyke an Aungell from heauen then a man compassed with flesh and bloud My Lorde the Archbyshoppe of Dublin as I was enformed could mooue him in no question or article pertayning to saluation that he was not ready in and learnedly and godly resolued yea and made such aunsweres in all thinges that my Lord of Dublin had them in great admiration and affirmed that his speaches at that tyme shoulde serue him for sermous as long as he liued How truely he relinquished the vanitie of this worlde and how effectually he thyrsted after the ioy of the life to come his godly admonitions ministred vnto such as visited him and his heauenly lessons and exhortacions to his seruants shall testifie for euer for they were such that his seruaunts report they shall neuer forget and such as they shall be the better for whyles they lyue Thus haue I briefly and partly declared vnto you both the lyfe and death of this worthy Magistrate to the ende we shoulde consider how seriously God doth call vs to a reconing by the losse of such a good Magistrate Now a worde or two to shewe who be they that dye in the Lorde and then an ende They principally are sayd to dye in the Lorde which suffer death vnder the beast for confession of Christes religion for they properly dye in the Lords cause Such are the Martirs aswell of the primitiue church vnder the cruell Emperours as the martyrs of all ages sithence vnder Antichrist of Rome They also dye in the Lorde which though they dye not by the crueltie of the beast yet they dye in the faith of Iesus Christ and are therfore blessed Of this number was this godly Earle as I haue before declared Wherfore I will conclude and direct my speach for two or three wordes to this good Earle O noble Earle of Essex in thy tyme the Pearle of Nobilitie the myrrour of Vertue and woorthy qualities the childe of Chyualrie the beautifull flower of Englande the precious Iewell and comfort of VVales the trustie stay of Ireland Thy lyfe was most Honourable thy worthinesse incomparable thy death precious in the sight of God for thou dyedst in the Lord a right inheritour of the euerlasting kingdome of heauen Wherfore by authoritie of the heauenly oracle that S. Iohn was commaunded to write thou art to be pronounced blessed for euer Our sinnes hath shortned thy lyfe so that we coulde enioye the same no longer Thou hast notwithstanding bequeathed thy body to be buryed amongest vs here in Wales Of very duetie therefore O Noble Earle thy Tombe shall be with vs in reuerence estimation honour the fame and name of thy Nobilitie valiauntnesse vertue and woorthinesse shal neuer be forgotten but shall lyue and be kept with vs in memorie from generation to generation whyle the world standeth Deare beloued audience bycause the tyme is spent here wyll I abruptly make an end and neither deale with the thyrde part of my first diuision nor make recapitulacion of any matter I haue spoken of Onely let vs pray that God of hys mercy graunt vs grace to consider his holy will and pleasure declared vnto vs by so many messengers and especially by this message that we now receyue in the death of this noble Magistrate And that we may learne to dye in the Lorde as he hath done and that togither wyth him and all the elect of God we may participate a ioyfull resurrection in the world to come through our Sauiour Iesus Christ to whome wyth the Father and the holy Ghost be laude honour prayse for euer and euer Amen 1. Thomae 1. Agnes 1. Iohēs Crophul abauus 1. Theobaldū D. V. Io. D. V 1. D. Verdon 1. Marescalli 1. Will. Comes 1. Strongbow Comitis D'eureux 1. Wil. Domi. Com. Winton 1. Ceciliam 1. Ceciliae 1. eusdem nominis 1. Constabular 1. Consta. Vicecomitem Do. Fitzwaren Arch. Cant. Do. ●ernes 1. Cantabrigiae 1. Essex 1. Tierowen 1. 36. Annis Ecclesi 3. 1. 1. Cor. 10. 31 Psal. 119. 105. Reuel 1. 1. Dan. 7. 23. Illiricus inter Test. veritet pag. 387. Reue. 14. 1● Plutarch in Laconicis Reuel 1. 8. Reuel 1. 12. Iohn 16. 13. Esay 55. 1. 1. Iohn 5. 19. 1. Tim. 6. 7. Luke 12. 17. Exod. 16. 20 ▪ Eccle. 41. 1. Ecclesi 2. Reuel 21. 3 ▪ 22. 4. 1. Cor. 2. 9. 1. Cor. 9. 25. Luke 16. 1. Mat. 25. 15. 2. Cor. 5. 10. Mat. 25. 34. Wisd. 6. 2. Mat. 23. 13. Wisd. 6. 4. Amos. 6. 12. Esay 3. 14. Rom. 3. 20. 2. Sam. 12. 1. 1. King. 22. Iob. 34. 3● Comparison of true Nobilitie Panor lib. 20. de rebus gestis Alphonsi Prudence Fortitude Exod. 18. 21. Iustice. Iob. 29. 15. Suetonius Temperaunce Ecclesi 7. 9. Luke 6. 45. Numb 21. 9.