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A66700	Planctus unigeniti et spes resuscitandi, or, The bitter sorrows for a first born sweetened with the hopes of a better resurrection with consolations, moral and divine, against the death of friends, suited to the present occasion : delivered in a funeral sermon at Felsted in Essex, May 23, 1664, at the solemn interment of ... Charles Lord Rich, the only child of ... the Earle of Warwick / by A. Walker.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.	1664 (1664)	Wing W307; ESTC R24590	38,237	75

memoria Respice Sepulchra vide quis Servus quis Dominus quis Pauper quis Dives Discerne si potes Vinctuma Rege Fortem a Debili Pulchrum a Deformi Memor sis itaque ne extollaris aliquando Memor autem eris si te ipsum respexeris the Strong from the Weak the Comly from the Deformed think of this and it will keep thee humble and thou canst not but remember it unless thou forget thy self 4. Onely Children cannot escape 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vnigenitus Quod plus est quam unicus quem solum genuerat The onely begotten on her that bare him these are our Darlings as we translate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vnicam meam Psal 22.20 No Argument moves pitty more then when those are taken from us yet Death knows none to spare them to us the Widow of Sarepta's Onely Son dyes 1 King 17.17 and so doth Jarus's Onely Daughter St. Luke 7.42 and Abraham must Offer up his Onely Son Isaack whom he Loved Gen. 22. and Jephtha his Onely Daughter Jud. 11.39 Death aymes so right hee 'l hit a single mark and needs not shoot at Herds and God often guides his Darts this way 1. Because they are Over-loved and stand so full betwixt their Parents heart and Him He cannot be Lov'd Himself till they are Removed out of'th way 2. To Try their Obedience Faith and Patience Gen. 22.1 as He Tempted Abraham 3. To Honour them before the World and make it known how quietly they 'l part with any thing He pleases to call for though never so dear Lastly to fit them by so deep a sorrow for some more Excellent and lasting Good and Joy He hath in readiness to give them in Exchange It being Gods usuall Method as Luther Observes when He hath some Eminent Comforts to bestow or some Signal Service to imploy us in to Vsher them in with some great Tryal and Temptation Oh therefore let not those whose Store is so Compendious too fondly hug those dearest Pledges least God grow jealous and be forc't to deal with them as he is used to do with his Rivalls and those who stand in Competition with Himself 5. Whole Families may fail in Childless Heirs Death takes root and branch and doth not onely deal by Retale Tota cum Regibus regna populique cum gentious tulere satum futum Sen. but slayes by Whole-Sale and with compendious and stupendous stroaks mowes down a Family at one blow and sweeps away the hopes of all Posterity as if he gap't for the Inheritance and all and had resolved with those bloody Rebells St. Mat. 21.38 Come this is the Heir let us slay him that the Inheritance may be ours Thus fayled the two Young Sons of Greatest Alexander Heirs of their Fathers Conquests all the World Thus half the Provinces Escheated into the hands of the People of Rome when they were Lords-Paramount of the Earth Vespasian Antoninus Philosophus Severus Valerian Domitian Commodus Bassianus Gallienus and of Forty Emperours from Julius Caesar to Constantine the Great but four left Heirs of Lineal Descent and all of them the Worst which ever wore the Roman Purple Their Fathers Vomicae Carcinomita Soars and Ulcers as Augustus called his Daughters Faelix Infortunio qui caret liberis Sen. three of whom had been happy unto Envy had they dyed Childless as Augustus wisht he had Lived Oh! therefore let not your Inward thoughts be that your Families shall continue for ever and your Dwelling-Places bear your Names to all Generations Their way is their folly who do so Psal 49.13 But know that Riches are not for ever neither doth the Crown Endure to all Generations Prov. 27.24 And let not such blows too much deject those on whom they Light because nothing is befallen them but what is common to Man 1 Cor. 10.13 6. Former sorrows do not excuse us from succeeding griefs The poor Mother in the Text whom the last Funeral made a Widow is made Childless too by this All thy Waves and Billowes are gone over me Psal 42.7 one in the neck or on the back of another troubles are often born out of the Womb of Providence as Esau and Jacob came from Rebecca linckt together and holding each other by the heel Take we heed then we flatter not our selves nor say with Agag The bitterness is past nor listen to a Desperate and Blasphemous suggestion now let him do his Worst Not wickedly as the Poet wittily Nil quod istic agat tertia tussis habet Mar. Mich. 6.9 I have no more Marks left for his angry Arrows nor other Blots to hit but with Submisse and Humble Reverence le ts hear the Rod at present and fear it for the Future and by the first lash be warned to prepare for or to prevent the second and so to stand in awe that we sin not Psal 4.4 John 5.14 least a worse thing come upon us and what we judge the worst prove but the beginning of our sorrows I might have added and the rather because the case is Paralel 7. That this Great Young Man dyed not i' th Country in some Remote Obscure Ville the Relatives of them who dye so 2 Chron. 16.12 being ready with Asa's Spirit to say to some Great Physitian as Martha did to Christ Sir John 11 21. If thou hadst been here my Brother had not dyed But in the City Inter Turbam Medicorum where probably no Ayd was wanting which Able Skilfull Physitians could afford And 8. In his Mothers House and Bosome who now was his Nurse the second time her self and therefore he wanted not most Carefull looking too t is not for want of Physick or good Nurses that Men are cast away or lost as some too often speak but where ever they be and whatever help they do enjoy whom Death comes for he will not go without them but will force them out of the most Skilfull Faithfull Painfull Carefull Loving and Tender hands and all the Strongest Guards which those can set about them Thus have you seen the Herse passe by and heard its Scutcheons Blazoned wee 'l view the train of mourners with a quicker glance And that deep mourner following next-the Beir is his Distressed Mother close-hooded with a Cloud of thick and blackest sorrow and over that a vayle of Love of Womans Love of Mothers Love of Mothers Love unto an Onely Son 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nyss in func Palch the truest Mourning dress and over all a dark Vmbrella made of the Shaddow of Death supported by the fatal Sisters She 's the Chief Mourner not in Pomp and Cerimony but in deep Anguish and bitterness of Soul She brings him forth And this is the second time she Travells of him and no Travells so difficult as of dead Children he came from her Womb before but now and never untill now he comes from her Inmost Bowells St Luke 2.35 A Sword

shall pierce through thy own Soul her former Pangs might rend her Flesh these smarter throws do Rack and Tear her very Heart and Soul and as before he was born for her Ease though with her Paine so now doth she bring him forth for her Safty though with great Danger she is in danger to weep to death at parting yet must they part If she 'l not send out him he 'l sent out her one House cannot hold them now such is our sad necessity Gen. 2.34 We must bury our dead out of our sight and smelling but she 's resolved to see him Hous'd and Lodg'd in his Long home and while he passes thither the Mourners go about the Streets Much People of the City was with her T is a Custome without date and might have urged prescription many Ages since Antiquorum p●…storum 〈◊〉 curati sunt exequiae celebratae sepultura provisa Aug. de cura pro murt for Friends to give attendance at the Obseques of their disceased Worthies this we read practised and approved both in Sacred and Common Story thus at the death of Abraham his Sons are said to bury him so Isaac so Jacob of whom it is Recorded Gen. 25.9.25.29 50 7 8. that Joseph went up to bury his Father and with him went up all the Servants of Pharaoh and the Elders of his House and all the Elders of the Land of Aegypt And all the House of Joseph and his Brethren and his Fathers House and they went up with Chariots and with Horse-men and it was a very great Company and they Mourned with a very great and sore Lamentation 2 Sam. 25.1 1 Kings 14.13 2 Chron. 24 15 16. Acts 8.2 So all Israel Lamented Samuel and buried him so David and Jeroboams Young Son and Jehojada and Josiah 2 Chron. 35.25 So St. Stephen in the New Testament Whom devout men buried and made great Lamentation for him Not that this avails them any thing as to their state in the other World For Corpori humano quicquid impenditur non est presidium salutis sed humanitatis officium But 1. Is for their Honour here being a decent Respect we pay to their Name and Memory it being a favour to live Desired and dye Lamented and a Curse and Reproach to be buried Jer. 22.19 with the burial of an Ass as was threatned against Jehojakim and others They shall not be lamented nor buried Jer. 6.4 but be as dung upon the face of the Earth which is an Earnest that their Names shall Rot. 2. Charitatis ergò In Charity to the Living for their Comfort and alleviating of their sorrow while their burden is made lighter by many helping them to bear it as the Jewes came lovingly to Comfort Martha and Mary because of their Brother Lazarus Curatio funeris John 11.31 conditio Sepulturae pompa exequiarum magis vivorum solatia sunt quam subsidia mortuorum August Ubi Sup●ra 3. Pietatis ergò For their own advantage and increase of piety T is good to go to the House of Mourning Eccl. 7.3 for by the sadness of the Countenance the heart is made better while the living lay it to their heart The House of Mourning is the School of Wisdome the Grave hath a Teaching as well as a Devouring mouth and the Coffin is a Pulpit from whence the Dead yet speak and warn us to behold our mortality in their frailty and to prepare to follow them to dye to this uncertain World to mortifie our sins that they may dye before us and to make sure of the first Resurrection that as we must dye once we may dye but once 4. Fidei testisicandae ergò Propter fidem resurrectionis Astruendam to testifie our Faith in that great Article of the Resurrection of the dead which is the Basis of a Christians Comforts Tota spes Christianorum Resurrectio mortuorum For 1 Cor. 1● if in this life onely we have hope we are of all men most Miserable Now in this Solemn Equipage these Mournfull Friends bring forth this Corps Hinc coll●ge ●…deos Sepulch●… sua habuisse non in Urbe sed extra Urbem idque tum obnitorem tum ob●…n● cada●era s●…o foetore pu●…dine a●…●…cerent 〈◊〉 Lap. are carrying him out of the City both as the Jewes and Romans used to bury Ob nitorem sanitatem legalem munditiem 1. For Decency and Splendour that the Graves and Sepulchers might not deface the comliness and beauty of their Cities 2. For Safety and Health that the fetent exhalations and noysome and noxious vapours of the Graves might not infect the ayre and hazzard the health of the Living 3. For legal purity and cleaness that neither themselves nor habitations might be defiled by the dead and our present custome of burying in or about our Churches and places of our Solemne Assemblies for Gods Worship was brought in upon Opinion that it would advantage the dead to be buried near some holy Martyr over whose Graves usually those Basilicae Stately Edifices were Erected and the answering of that case propounded to him by Paulinus Bishop of Nola Vtrum prosit alicui pest mortem quod corpus ejus apud sancti alicujus memoriam sepelitur gave occasion to St. Augustin to Write that Book De Cura pro Mortuis gerenda in the 4th Tome of his Works where he resolves it in the Negative Thus have you past the cloudy side of the Text which hath besprinkled you with showers of sorrow whilst you were viewing of the Herse the Mourners and their Solemn March while they attend deaths Chariot that 's carrying home his prisoner to the house of darkness And now we have compast it so long untill the brighter side begins to glimmer and appear for Behold yea behold and wonder at the seasonable mercy the Lord of Life and Death most unexpectedly appears Jansenius in Loc. Christ Cujus occursus obtutus semper faelix est faustus Comes and meets them at the very Gate and brings relief and rescue and gives a cordial to the fainting Mother Weep not The Order is thus 1. He meets the Object seasonably both the Course and Mourners He saw her 2. That moves his heart effectually He was moved with compassion 3. That commands his tongue to speak good words and Comfortable Weep not Observe Affectum cordis affatem oris effectum operis commitatur Bonivent 1. The Lord is near and ready in our greatest streights 2. Christ was exceeding full of tenderest humanty and Bowells 3. Christs compassions are active and relieving full of help He pitties then He speaks 1. The Lord is near not in his essence only in which respect he 's never far from any Acts 17. For in him we live and move and have our being but in his gracious compassions willing to meet us in our moans and plaints Yea ready to prevent us and before we call to answer Our

fulfulled in your cares and eyes Lo here is an heavier Comment on our heavy Text alas but too exact a Counterpayne of that sad Narrative the Sermon translated into such a Language as your eyes can understand A Sacrament added to the Word to convince you and confirm your Faith of Mans Mortality beyond recoyle or hesitancy En magnum fragilitatis humanae Sacramentum the word confirmed by visible signes My Text of Death so painted to the Life that he that runs may read it If e're t were true t is now that Pictures are Idiots Books Look on that dolefull Picture of fading Youth and Greatness and you that can never a Letter in the Book may spell the whole Story word for word without Instructer Oh you Ingenious but Fruitless and so unhappy searchers for an universall character which may with still and silent glances conveigh and whisper to our Intilect the natures and notices of things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we find alas too soon what you have sought too long Though I were dumb or had forgot my Text one glance repeats it unto them recalls it unto me In paucis verbis quantae calamitates miseriae In that visible Sermon Behold A Dead Man A Young Man A Great a Noble Man An Onely begotten Son An Heir without an Heir Each w●rd's a wound Here are all the mournfull circumstances but one Quot verba tot vulnera and blessed be God that we meet a full stop before we read to the end of the line And she was a Widow let us lay hold on 't as a better Omen there may be yet a blessing in it Let this a while sustaine you till I can run and fetch you some more Cordialls which you must stay a little for because my way lyes round the Herse again the viewing which will stop my hast 1. That Mournfull sable Pall tells us sad tidings that a Man is Dead and shrouded under it and t is alas too true the dead remains of him who this day Seven-night was alive and this day Fort-night was a Lively Likely Man to live Verily every Man living is altogether vanity Hear what advice he whispers Watch for what 's my case to day may be thine to morrow Hodie mihi eras tiöi Be ye therefore ready also for the Son of Man cometh when you think not St. Luke 12.40 and in an hour when ye are not aware 2. A Young Man in the Flower and Blooming of his Age not fully yet of Age not of Disposing Age in the Laws and Stile of England Yet at Age to be dispos'd of in the Chambers of Death An Ear nay an whole Sheaf nay an whole Field Reapt by Death's Fatall Sickle before 't was ripe or set or Kern'd As if in an immature Harvest you should reap to * Being in May. morrow a Rose Bud gather'd ere 't was blown a Torch puft out not half consumed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nyss de Pulch. an Hour-Glass dash't and pash't in peices and all the Sand spilt and lost before it was a third part run What Age is safe from Fate In the very mid'st of Life we are in Death Of whom may we look for help but from thee O Lord who for our sins most justly are displeased Psal 90.12 Oh Teach us to Number our dayes that we may apply our hearts to Wisdome and that we may know how frail we are 3. But those Coat Armours Ruby and Topas Diamond and Pearle speak him some Noted Personage Nobilis quasi noscibilis I need not aske the Question here which David ask't over Abner's Herse Know You not that a Prince and a Great Man is fallen this day You know it well unto your Cost and Sorrow and see by Dear Experience In this Fourth dolefull Instance in one Family all of Recent and Fresh-bleeding Memory that Earldoms and Perage Nobility and Honour Lordships and Manours Possessions and Apparances Gold and Silver Pallaces and Parks and store of Richest Lands and Tallest Timber and what ever else the World calls Noble Grand and Stately cann't shade or hide their Lords from Death are no good Brest-Works against his Bullets nor best charg'd Shields security against the Arrows of Mortality Death with his ill-match't-pair of Pale and Sable Hackneyes out-drives the goodliest Sets of Sixes 'T were as impertinent as the Philosopher's reading a Lecture of War-like Discipline in the presence of Hanniball for me to unfurle his crimson Ensigns and Vnfold and Display his Splendid Banners or paint out and Deliniate his thrice Honourable Stem amongst those to whom they have been now so long Familiar and as superfluous to Blazon his Scutcheons in that Country which hath to long been irradiated in every corner with the Illustrious Rayes of his cross-Crossets Sol in their Field Mars or inriched and secured by those Ruby Shields glistering with Topaz 'T would but Adorn Deaths spoyles and more Inhaunce his Triumphs to tell you that his Captive was the onely-Onely-Son of an Antient Hereditary Earledome By Blood and Marriage The Son of Two the Grand-Child of Four Eminent Earls and as many Countesses and Nephew to more Peers then all Arithmetick hath Digits Deriv'd from or Alli'd to almost all the Noble Blood that runs in English and in English-Irish Veins A Branch of two Families The One the Grand Nursery of Antient Piety His Mother was the Lady Mary Boyl Daughter to the Earle of Corck the Other the Happy Source of Newest Ingenuity a Society of virtuosi within themselves the Original and Architypes of those Insigniz'd with that Noble Character In a word the Son of Two Bloods which I may boldly call not the least Ornaments of two Great Kingdomes And indued with all those Generous Lovely Innobling Excellencies which might Retribute what he Borrowed from such Blood and would Oh unhappiness he hath not have Transmitted it to his Posterity Inrich't if it be capable of more and hath not attain'd its Acme with increased glory Yet now must lye down in Obscurity and Dust under the Dishonours Reproaches and Squallidness of Death Stript and Desrobed of all his Amiable Manly Goodly Beauty Proportions Features calling Corruption Rottenness and Worms Mother Brother Sister Cease then from Man whose breath is in his Nostrills Isa 2.22 for wherein is he to be accounted of Psal 146.3 4. And Trust not in Princes nor in any Son of Man for when his breath goeth forth he returneth to his Earth in that very day his thoughts perish Surely all Flesh is Grass yea the goodliness thereof as the Flower of the Field 4. The next Impaled Shield tells me he was a Son and those unwelcome Labells hint immature death nay an Onely One yea an Onely Begotten One griefs in a cluster huic illae lacrymae this gives the killing Accent What the good Woman feared in a Parable is here fullfilled without one 1 Sam. 14.7 and his perplexed Mother may with anguish

's lay'd to rest with Honour and his Vnstain'd Ashes are shrined in immortall Vrns whose Gold no rust can cancker and which will Try and Vex the teeth of Time it self to injure and the most spitefull Malice dares nor attempt once to besmear his Marble Weep not He 's taken from an Evil World which is very full of sin and therefore cannot be void of sorrow Evasit omnia vitae incommoda Though he hath left some good Quis divinat an mors inviderit an consulucrit he hath escap't more evills and Death did consult his Ease and Safety more then Envy his Felicity With the wings of a Dove he is flown away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nyff. and is out of the reach both of Temptation and Trouble and shall no more offend a Good God nor be offended by bad men He is taken from the Evil to come and shall not hear or see what may make our hearts to ake and our Eares to Tingle to hear the Relation of Si bene computes plus illi remissum quam ereptum Non miser quod amisit sed Beatus quod non desiderat If you reckon right you 'l find him gainer by his loss 'T is better not to need then to injoy whatever he hath left to be above them then to have them Weep not for he is not Extinguisht but Removed Non amissus sed praemissus He ceaseth not to be Ciprian but to be here The House indeed 's pull'd down in order to repairing and raysing up more glorious and splendid But the Inhabitant was neither crushed with its Ruines nor soyled with its dust The Bird the Angell flew away at the disturbance of the Nest And the Immortall Man made his escape when Death unlock't the Prison Doors The Spirit is return'd to God 'T is a good Observation one of the Ancients makes upon that passage of God's rewarding Job Chap. 42.10 The Lord gave Job twice as m●ch as he had before or as 't is in the Hebrew Ad●ed all that had been unto Job unto the double for h● had Fourteen Thousand Sheep for his Seven Thousand and Six Thousand Camells for his Three Thousand Job 1.3 with 42.12 and a Thousand Yoake of Oxen and a Thousand Shee-Asses for Five Hundred of Each But He gave him but Seven Sons and Three Daughters the even Number which he had before Greg. Nyss Oratione fu●eb pro pulcheria in fine Compare Chap. 1 2. with Chap. 42.13 And he gives the reason of it because 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He gave him twice as many Cattle as he had before but only the Even Number of his Children because they perish't not as did the Cattle though they dyed and so the Equal Number prov'd Double in Effect and Job had twice Ten Children half in another World and half in this at the same time though in so distant place I need not heap Arguments to prove the Souls Existence after Death St. Luke 12.4 St. Mat. 10.28.22.32 when Christ hath so plainly told you It cannot be killed And that He who is the God of the Living not of the Dead is still the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob who therefore do still live 1 King 17.21 The Prophet pray'd that the Childs Soul might return again into him not a new one be made for him And St. Paul speaks most expresly that when we are absent from the body we shall be present with the Lord 2 Cor. 5.8 and therefore desires to be dissolved that he may be with Christ Phil. 1.23 Which were a most absur'd Argument if the Soul should bear the Body company in dying And the Souls under the Altar call for vengeance against them who shed their blood De consolatione ad Marti Cap. 24. Seneca could tell disconsolate Mercia Imago duntaxat Filii tui periit Effigies non similima ipse quidem aeternus meliorisque nunc Status est despoliatus oneribus alienis sibi relictus The Image only of thy Son is perished and the Picture which was not very like him neither is defac'd But he himself is Eternall in a better state eas'd of his uneasie burden and now at freedom to injoy himself Arguments for the Souls imortality and Existence after death And if I may suggest an Argument or Two It would be a Chasma and Hiatus in Nature if some Creatures being wholly Immortall others wholly mortall there were not one made up of both Fibula utriusque mundi the Button and the Buckle of both Worlds which knits and clasps them into one Connubium visibilis invisibilis The Beast and Angell mixt into one which makes a medium betwixt both and containeth both Doth the Image of the King Perpetuate his Coyne and render it Treasonable to Melt it down And shall not Gods Image much more preserve what that is stamp't upon from perishing It acts without the body and above it here that is an Earnest it can be without it afterwards It is a Spirit consists not of Contrarie's of Corruptible of Self-destoying Principles therefore abides for Ever Hath Vast and Everlasting Expectations which Nature would never have imprest if they had been in vaine Lastly consent of Nations Seals to this Truth These if neither most nor best are such as lay uppermost amongst my sudden thoughts and may suffice Weep not for He shall Rise again Non solum representata sed expectata resurrectio luctum nobis minuere debet ob mortuos Grotius He shall not continue Death's Everlasting Captive or the Graves Eternall Prisoner Thy Husband Son and Friend is but asleep he shall do well and wake The Grave hath been forc't and broken up and our True Sampson hath carried away the Gates the Bars and Posts of this Philistian Gaza O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy Victory And when that glorious Morn draws back the Curtains and dispells the Night then shall he wake Refresh't and Rise and Dress himself and be re-married to his Flesh Each Mornings Sun each Summers Verdure is a loud instance and presage of this both Testaments the Old and New confirm it as well in Examples as Predictions Christ is risen as a Man to shew 't is possible as an head to assure 't is certain And God is Just therefore the dead must Rise that what hath been so much a amiss in this Life may be amended and better ordered in the Next where it shall be Bonis Benè Malis Malè They that need more to satisfie their reason or confirm their Faith let them consult the 1 Cor. 15. Chap. at their leisure where they shall find good measure Prest and Heapt and Running over Illud te non minimum adjurerit si cogitaveris nihil profiturum dolorem tuum nec illi nec tibi percamus lachrimis nihil proficientibus Sen. Weep not Your sorrows now are fruitless wherefore should I fast Now he is dead can I bring him back again Was

the wise Argument of Holy David 2 Sam. 12.23 Could you weep Aquafortis your tears would not dissolve the chains of Death Si fletibus fata vincuntur eat omnis inter luctus dies sed si nullis planctibus defuncta revocantur desinat dolor qui perit Was the grave Council of the Sage Moralist● let Reason master Passion and spare those Tears you know are Fruitless and but spent in vain Weep not Tears may hurt you though they bring him no help 2 Cor. 7.10 and kill your selves though they 'l not quicken him The sorrow of the World worketh Death Facilius nos illi dolor adjiciet quam illum nobis reducet Too many tears reproach you both Him as if he needed them and dyed like Absolom whose Body onely he resembled not his Manners Mind or End Your selves for their Excess no less upbraids your Manhood then their defect would have reproached your Humanity Non sentire dolorem non est hominis non ferre non est viri Yea your Patience Faith and Christianity as if you sorrowed like those who have no hope Weep not A● hac te infamia vindica ne videatur plus apud te valere unus dolor quam tam multa Solatia Least you provoke the Lord to Multiply his stripes as Children often suffer more for sullingness and sobbing then for the first occasion of Correction take heed you forfeit not the mercies which are left Weep not For 't is the Work of God Lev. 10.3 Psal 39.9 Aaron held his peace in a case more difficult and David was dumb with silence because God did it 1 Sam. 3.13 and Good Eli thus submitted 'T is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good He that hath Ruled the World now near Six Thousand Years and never yet committed over sight or errour guided this blow He call'd him back Iniquus est qui muneris sui arbitrium danti non relinquit avidus qui non lucri loco habet quod accepit sed damni quod reddidit Ingratus qui injuriam vocat finem voluptatis Senec. who gave him and had more Right and Title to him then a Wife or Mother and they too ungratefully forget God and themselves who reckon it an Injury for him to take his Own Gods absolute and Indisputable Sovereignty his Infallible and un-erring Wisdome and his constant and faithfull Goodness should at least make us lay our hand upon our heart and mouth that we may neither speak nor think amiss 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nyss of what he doth Knowing that he doth all things well But rather say with Holy Job The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away as it pleaseth the Lord so come things to pass blessed be the Name of the Lord. But because sorrow is very querulous witty to afflict it self and pregnant ●f Arguments to aggravate its burdens And he saith little to the purpose talk he never so much who takes not the Mourners Tears and Sighs from their own Eyes and Lips and measures out returns proportionable Let us suppose we heard them as we have heard them thus complaining Objection First that he Dyed Young in the very Spring and Flower of his Age when all their Comforts were expected from him and these budding pregnant hopes are nip't and blasted and suffer a sad Abortion Nimis cito periit immaturus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Answer I know the wound is tender and will not bear such handling therefore I shall not Answer so roughly as to say Optimum non nisci proximum quam citissime mori the sooner he dyed the better because the First best is not to be born the next best after that is to dye as soon as may be But I will refer you to what the Authour df the Book of Wisdome speaks concerning Enoch Honorable Age is not that which stands in length of time Chap. 4.8 nor that is measured by number of years Quicquid ad summum pervenit ad exitum properat Eripit se ausertque ex oculis perfecta virtus Nec ultimum tempus exp●ctant quae in privio maturaerunt Indicium imminentis exitis Maturitas but Wisdome is the gray hair unto men and an unspotted life is Old Age. Speedily was he taken away least wickedness should alter his understanding or deceit beguile his soul He being made perfect in a short time fulfill'd a long time for his soul pleas'd the Lord therefore hasted he to take him away from amongst the Wicked and admit this be not the true Solomon yet He hath told us Eccl. 7.1.4.1 The day of Death is better then the day of ones Birth and again I praised the Dead which are already dead more then the Living which are yet alive He dyes not too soon who dyes in the time that God hath set and so dyed he and this should stay your hearts Job 7.1.14.5 Is there not an appointed time to man upon the Earth his days are determin'd the Number of his Months is with thee thou hast appointed his bounds which he cannot pass and the Phylosopher could see this Nemo nimis cito moritur qui victurus Soluitur quod culque promissum est Habebit quisque quaetum diis Primus ascripsit Ser diutius quam vixit non fuit sixus est cuique terminus manebit semper ubi positus est No man dyes too soon because no man hath less of life then was design'd and promist from the first And because Examples of the like sufferings soften those stroaks which are most pungent when they are conceiv'd least common and Esteemed Singular Take these few Instances in a Case where multitude hath made our choyce more difficult Thus dyed Blest Abell the First that ever dyed and Consecrated Early Death Thus the Good Son of that Bad Father Jeroboam Thus dyed the Holy Josiah Octavia Livia altera soror Augusti altera uxor amiserunt filios juvenes utraque spe futuri principis certa Octavia Marcellum Livia Drusum like whom was none in Zeal for God Thus dyed Marcellus and Drusus successively both Heirs Apparent to Augustus Caesar and the Worlds Empire Thus dyed sweet Titus Deliciae generis humani the Darling and Delights of Man-kind Thus dyed that Glory of the Roman Caesar Alexander Severus Paganus Christianizans and Happy had it been for Nero had he dyed so and his Quinquennium and his Life had had the same Period and the kinder hand of Death had drawn a preventing Vayle after the Glory of those rare beginnings Quam multis diutius vixisse nocuerit to cover the Reproach of what succeeded in the Obscurities of Everlasting Night But to come nearer home So dyed that Miracle of Grace and Greatness Edward the sixt So dyed Prince Henry le boon le grand So dyed of Later Date the much Admired Young Lord Hastings and that Early Confessour Son of the Royal Martyr the thrice Illustrious Duke of