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A87150	Abners funerall, or, a sermon preached at the funerall of that learned and noble knight, Sir Thomas Lucie. By Robert Harris, B.D. and Pastor of the Church at Hanwell, Oxon.	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1641 (1641)	Wing H869; Thomason E132_27; ESTC R21249	21,519	42

strong turning Death into a Living Friend 1 Cor. 3. ult and most usefull servant 1 Cor. 3. ult subdued to us Death and so made it Ours O view death in the face of CHRIST make him your Second in this Duell and then you are freed from the feare and so from the bondage of death then you are Men indeed Free men A Man is not himselfe but a Slave till hee can either Live or Die as this noble Gentleman and I were wont to discourse Then only he is free when with S. Paul he can abound and want bee sicke and well can live or die Nay then you shall be brave accomplisht men indeed some of GODS Rabbins as Daniel cals them Vid. cap. 9 27V t Job 32.9 A man is not to be held a man because he dares meet a man and can look any man in the face A great matter to looke a Worme in the face But then you shall be men when you can looke any paine in the face any fit in the face any danger any death in the face when you can looke Judgement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 16.13 and the unpartiall Judge in the face This is to bee a Man Thus Man-it And sith your greatnesse cannot keepe you from Dying let your Goodnesse keepe you from sinking perishing and losing by Death Thus for Davids ground of sorrow as that must be Rationall and stand upon ground Now followes his inference and practice A man great and considerable fals Therefore David fals upon mourning and pleads for it 1 A man is slaine and upon grounds of humanitie David would mourne 2 Next a publike man now upon a publike service and errand is slaine and upon reasons of State David would appeare a Mourner 3 A man so usefull was slaine in Israel and in point of Religion David is to lament and seemes to Wonder at his Servants Wondring at his practice Know yee not saith he c. q. d. It you owne your owne eyes and knowledge you cannot but know that I have reason to be sensible of this stroke Hence our second Inference Doct. 2 When great men are taken from us we must be affected with it When Abners fall men great of place and use both we must have a sense of it and observe it for use Zach 4.7 Dan 4.10 Ezek. 31 3 14 When Mountaines are shaken and Ceders shattered When pillars are Pulled downe and Stars of greatest magnitude hide their heads we must resent this with David and improve it unto sorrow Shall I need to prove these ordinary and confessed truths Eccl 7.2 Salomon tels us that A wise man layes any mans death to heart And Isaiah chides us if we let an usefull man though private passe out of the world Esay 57.1 without observation What would hee say in case we should burie a man of publike use and spirit without an Ah his glory what in this case hath beene done it is needlesse to report I will not lead the simplest out of his owne knowledge Gen. 50.10 2 Chro. 32.33 2 Chro. 35.24 25. ● King 13.14 Who knowes not what lamentations were taken up for Patriarch Iacob great Hezekiah good Iosiah who hath not heard of Elisha's Epitaph The Horsemen and Chariots of Israel and that from a man not of best note And lest you should impute all this to the greatnesse only of mens place without respect had to mens use and worth the Holy Ghost is pleased to set a marke upon the Coffin of persons lesse publike and more obscure when they were use full Thus Nurse Deborah a profitable member leaves a marke upon the place of her buriall The Oke of Weeping more famous than the Oke of Reformation in our Storie Gen. 35.8 Thus mercifull Dorcas rather Tabitha was covered with teares as she covered others with cloaths Act. 9.39 Nor was this solemne mourning only for men and persons eminent for pietie but for others who in Morall and Politicall considerations were in their way usefull Thus holy David weepes over Captaine Abner of whose pietie wee heare not much All that his friend and Countrey-man saith of him is That he was a Prudent man Iosephus well qualified for naturall parts Thus he much bewails the death of Abners master King Saul and lets not to tell the State 2 Sam. 1.17 that their losse in him is great not because his forwardnes in Religion was much only he was a good Husband for the Publike and a brave Commander Vers 24. no lesse active and valiant Ratio res Dei Tort. than he was comely and proper But Reason is GODS as well as Scripture we bind up the Point with Three Reasons Reasons Reas 1 1 If we looke upon such men as they are members of a Body-Politique the losse is great If the Body cannot say of the Foot nay of one Toe of the foot nay of one joynt or naile of the toe I have no need of thee 1 Cor. 12.21 much lesse can it say so of a more noble part There is a losse a maime in the least and the body is sensible of it much more when an eye or hand or arme is taken off Dan. 11.15.22.31 And Great Personages are Eyes Hands nay Armes Reas 2 2 If wee consider such as Heads over charges who knows not what an influence they have upon Inferiours and what a dependence there is upon them They Why they are as Pinnes whereon many Vessels hang Isaiah 22. As great Okes which yeeld life to many Sprigs shade and shelter to more One such a Sunne is more than a Thousand Candles with one so pregnant and big-bellied hundreds live and die Reas 3 3 If we view them as they relate to GOD and are subjects wrought upon by him The stroke is the greater Because it is a Messenger of some Wrath. When GOD thus Beheads a Family or Towne or Countrey there 's a great breach made with such a blow when he who should stand in the gap is taken away Ier. 5.1 'T is farther an ill presagement as Isaiah foretels cap. 3. The Pilot lost the whole Ship is hazarded The Captaine as the Seventie here read it may be more than all his Companie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and weigh downe Thousands as Davids Souldiers once said 2 Sam. 18.3 In short In one head is Vertually contained the whole body Iudg. 9.53 Wound Abimeleck there and where 's Abimeleck Vses I apply now in some haste and must divide my selfe againe betwixt Great and Small Vse 1 1 And first let me begin with you of the Higher Ranke and Marke And my suite to you is That you will answer your places and be Vsefully Great which only Greatens you The Great GOD doth not measure men by Inches Men of Measures in Moses as sometimes men doe Nor by an outward Greatnesse He regards not the armes Psal 147.10 Job 34.19 or legs of a man Hee respects

Abners Funerall OR A SERMON Preached at the Funerall Of that Learned and Noble Knight SIR THOMAS LVCIE By ROBERT HARRIS B. D. and Pastor of the Church at HANWELL OXON Graves are for me JOB 17 1. Qui pro nobis mortem semel vicit semper vincit in nobis Cyprian Epist Secundum Pamelium 9. LONDON Printed for Iohn Bartlet and are to be sould at the signe of the Gilt Cup by Saint Austins Gate 1641. TO THE HONOVRABLE AND VERTUOUS The Ladie LUCIE OF CHARLCOT Grace and Peace Madam STrange not my slownesse I never penn'd and printed more unchearefully more sadly Sorrow moves slowly And what is this your Ladiship hath now woone from me alas I cannot print your Lord alive againe nor did I intend any pourtraiture of him What I spake was meant to the Living The Dead needed not my attestation Indeed I loved Him more as another once said than to say much of Him All that I can wish is that all who pretend to Him and his Religion would expresse him in these particulars 1 That they would See with their Owne Eyes and satisfie themselves in their Owne Grounds 2 That they would be True to their Owne Principles that so a man might know where to have them and see that they did Believe themselves 3 That they would Say lesse and Doe more Cic. de sinibus tib 2. Epkurei mihi videniur melius faccre quam dicere and so difference themselves from other men as once some Philosophers did 4 That they would give leave to Dissent where Assent cannot be without Dissembling It is confessed Madam That Sir Thomas and I were not alwaies of one minde Dissent we did in some things But this I shall ever honour in Him That He was Himselfe and his Friends too Neither prostituting his owne nor ravishing another mans judgement Herein we concur'd and for this I honoured him and he was pleased to owne me The world conceives my losse to be exceeding great He was as Aristotle saies of the magnanimous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And it is a truth For I have lost the Freest Reprover that ever I met withall But why should we reckon our friends Gaines to our Losses I have done Madam with him And now let us I beseech you get off from our selves At least Let 's improve our sorrows to spirituall purposes Mourne for this Kil-friend Sin Mourne for the losse of our time and our not inhansing opportunities and societies And henceforward set our faces Homeward Heaven-ward Study Heaven Secure Heaven Trade and dwell in Heaven There looke our selves thence expect our Saviour Meane while consider Noble Lady your great trust A Great Estate A great Family You have many Servants to order Children to educate Neighbours to relieve Here seale up your Thankfulnesse to God your Faithfulnesse to your Dearest Husband And the God of Heaven help you Thus at last I returne you your own What to call these Funerall Dispatches I wot not Yours such as it is it is you will owne it withall its imperfections and stand betwixt blame and me I could not come home to your Desires fully Some things I forgat in the Delivery and some I then abridged for haste and now make short breathd enough But I am come as neare to my meaning and my own Copie as I can The Lord go with it and ever be with you and all yours So will Pray Your Ladiships constant servant in the Faith ROBERT HARRIS Abners Funerall OR A SERMON Preached at the Funerall of that Learned and Noble Knight Sir THOMAS LUCY 2 SAM 3.38 39. 38. And the King said unto his servants know you not that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel 39. And I am this day weake though annointed King and these men the sons of Zerviah be too hard for me the LORD shall reward the doer of evill according to his wickednesse T Is an hard thing to Funerall it well Moses pray'd GODS helpe in the case Psal 90.12 and GOD in part helps us here by David He had the art of mourning His heart was exercised his hand in Earst he mourned for King Saul Prince Ionathan 2 Sam. 1.17 and other his Allies Now for Generall Abner This Abner fell very unseasonably for Himself for David for all Israel The King is sensible of it solemnizes his Funerall becomes the chiefe Mourner and makes his Panegyricke And having passed through his other parts is now upon his Peroration where his Master-peece is To wash his hands of Abner's blood and his plea stript out of its Rhetoricke is this He that is truly sorry for the dead and would if he could revenge his death cannot reasonably be charged with the murder But this saith David is my case I am sorry for Abners death I am sorry for my self that I cannot revenge his death And therefore no way chargeable with it The Conclusion is open The first Proposition evident The Assumption is made good by his practice 1 He did not only mourne but justifie it from reason A man A great man A leading man was Slaine Slaine in Israel This was knowne if men would own their owne knowledge and therefore they could not strange at his practice in Forbearing Meat Vers 35. in Feeding upon Teares 2 And for the Second Whereas it might be said Object Many like the Treason though they cry out of the Traitor and contrive the slaughter though they weepe over the slaine If Davids heart went not with the murder why is not his hand upon the Murderer Davids Answer is Sol. He was willing but not able to doe Abner right his estate being yet unsetled and the concurrents The sons of Zerviah potent in Court and Camp and therefore execution is perforce secured So then David here reconciles things seemingly incompatible and gives an accompt of himselfe I. Why he did mourne II. Why he did no more Mourne he could More he could not and that 's the very Truth Let us now survey Davids practice and trace his steps First you see him refusing comfort and inviting sorrow Next you finde him so imbroild that he knowes not well which way to turne him 1 In the first we will take notice of his grief and 2 Of his ground whence he infers it A man saith he is slaine A Consider able man of place and worth is slaine and that in Israel This is the ground of his sorrow and these his terms and expressions are no way inconsistent The man may be great a Great Prince of great authoritie and yet Die For Greatnesse will not keepe from Death Nay let 's give this Proposition its full extent Doct. 1 No Greatnesse will keepe from any Death No Greatnesse none 1 Not of Strength There be that Die saith Iob Chap. 21.23 24. in the strength of their perfection or in their most perfect strength when there is not the least decay in Nature 2 Not of Birth The high saith Iob nay

them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 especially for the First Borne of his family what Hector shall I say in Homer did for his Sonne 1 King ● 47 Nay what David's servants did for their Young Master That his worth and honour may furmount his Fathers Amen said Father David Amen said his Truest servants to that prayer then Amen say I to the like now And so we have done with Abner But all this while what becomes of the King Abner is now quiet But the King bemoanes himselfe Heare him I am weake The sonnes of Zerviah are too strong for me And why the sons of Zerviah Why not of Asar if that were as Iosephus tels us their fathers name Ioseph An●●● lib. 7 ●p 1. Was it because hee was dead Or was the Mother more Masculine and Active Or was it because the honour came in by the Mother as nearest allied to the now King However The Sonnes of Zerviah they were and some of them yet liv'd and these were too big for David as things stood to buckle withall and hence the complaint But what was not David a King What! Did he Rule in Israel and yet complaine Was hee Annointed and yet overmatch't Why then see how it fares with us whilest here Doct. 3 The highest estate may be over-topt The best estate here is a maimed and imperfects estate The Best man David The Greatest man King David hath here his Hands and Heart full We must draw in Note but the Particulars in the Text. 1 All is imperfect Some what still wanting in the fullest estate Abraham had Riches but then hee wants an Heire and after that a Wife Isaac hath Health but then he wants Sight Asa honour but he wants Health Vzziah Riches but he wants Libertie In One David hath a Crowne but hee wants an Arme. 2 All somewhat galling and vexing When we are at the Highest somewhat is too Hard for us 1 Kings 21. Ier. 38.5 Dan. 6. David Ahab Zedekiah Darius All kings and yet all met with their Match and were held to Hard meate One sonne or other was too hard for them as well as Zerviahs sons were for David 3 And in a word All unsatisfying and not fully to our minde King David cannot have his will in all things Somewhat goes against the Haire 1 King 21.6 Esth 5.13 Nay the Worlds Minions Ahab and Haman make their moane But why doe I tire you I 'll quickly say all Reas 1 1 These earthly things are Lame and unsufficient partiall goods which will not fill all chinks Reas 2 2 Wee are Needy and shiftlesse both Wee want all things and are patcht up with these poore Shreds Reas 3 3 We mingle all with Sinne and then GOD mingles all with Gall. Reason 4 4 Briefly We are here from Home and out of Place And what Quiet and Comfort when there 's such a Dis-location Vses I apply in three words 1 Be not Surety for the world Neither promise nor expect great matters thence at First as men who have the world in Reversion usually doe Lest at Last you cry O Solon Solon or O Seldius as others have done before you Croe●us in Herodo● Carol. 5. There is saith David An end of all Created perfection and we either have Psal 119.96 or quickly may see over it Indeed the most of us have already seene the best of this world And we doe but Dreame if we Dreame of better Dayes Meliora tempora nolite sp●●are Aug. in Psal 96. Do not hope for that saith Austin looke not for better times for better successe than others have found Greater wee cannot bee than King David he wore a Crown but he found as another said Cares under it Wiser we cannot bee than that Magazin of knowledge Salomon yet all his Wit could not keep sorrow from his heart Great Rodulphus Rusus His experience told him that All was vanity yea utmost vanitie And worse than so Vexation and that of Spirit too And believe it Hee that will build his hopes upon these Sands well may he Die before his time as Abner did But withall hee will Die a foole as Abner did not Ieremy hath said it and men shall finde it Ier. 17.11 Vse 2 2 Have patience in case your Friends bee preferd hence to Heaven Suppose them Kings here Alas Kings have their Cares also All things be not to their minde They cannot save whom they would as David found in Absolom Nor can they Execute whom they would as David felt in Ioab Nay suppose them aswell as Earth can make them What is Earth to Heaven Gold to Glory The whole Creation to the Creator Earth Why it will breake Ones Head to compasse it Ones Backe to keepe it Ones heart to lose it T is a misery to Need any of the Earths Crutches and 't is a Cumber to have them But if once they get above us and bee our Masters they undoe us and the more we expect from them the lesse wee shall enjoy them Then of Leane Comforts they become heavie Crosses Our Great Conquerour could not conquer his delights His Horse hee is hurt thereby And Polyd. Virgil. if I bee not deceived This Worthy Gentleman and brave Horseman met with his disease in the same delight and so both dyed Laesis Intestinis as I conceive Vse 3 3 Shake hands with this world and assure Heaven 1 There 's a Full estate Nothing is wanting there Nothing that Reason and Grace can desire Here 's a world of wants The Soule that wants Faith Knowledge all as Peter implies 2 Pet. 1.5 The Body that wants first meat and then cloth and then fire and then sleep and then physick and ever one slabber or other Yea every sense wants every member wants every joynt must bee eft soones supplyed 2 There in Heaven is a Free Estate No sinne there no sorrow no temptation no tempter Here all is mingled and compounded Our best comforts are Bitter-sweets our nearest friends sometimes our greatest Griefes as David found his Cosins here His Father his Brethren his greatest Familiars his Sons his Wife elsewhere Here nothing is fully to our minds wee doe not please or satisfie our selves We must Perforce beare what we beare Sadly In Heaven All goes Right Every one will please us and wee shall offend none There all are of a minde all as one in Christ all one Christ and Christ all in all 3 There is a Firme estate A City that hath foundations a dwelling that is indeed a Mansion Heb. 11. a Crown unfading Mov●● c. Joh 14.2 a Kingdome unshaken Here all things totter and tumble here 's nothing but Drooping Dropping Dying Erewhile David mourning for Saul now for Abner anon for his owne and thus t is here But in heaven there 's no Sun-set no Night no Death We shall never see Grave but Ever bee with the Lord and with our faithfull brethren Oh! Assure this Blessed estate that is thus Full Free Firme Till you be sure of that you are sure of nothing But how may this be done I will speake it but too briefly 1 Cleare your title that comes in by the Heire the LORD CHRIST You must claime by and under him 2 Cor. 3.18 Phil. 2.5 Pet. 1.4 Gal. 5 28. 2 Cor. 5.17 Make it good that he is yours you his That is Produce his Image his Mind his Nature his Affections Prove your selvs crucified to the World and It to you Prove that Old things are past that al in you from top to toe is New Mat. 5. And the very Title to this estate Intitles you to a present blessing 2 Get present possession That all your Counsellours will advise you unto Now every Saving-grace is as Turfe and Twig Eph. 1.14 2 Cor. 5.5 6. is as the first fruits in Israel is an earnest of the purchase and Inheritance and gives you entrance Liverie and Seisin 2 Peter 1.11 These if well setled will make you Dye safely and put you beyond all Danger To these Two if you will be perswaded to add Two things more you will Die gladly and bee free not only from the Hurt but from the slavish feare of death and they are these 1 Conformitie with heaven 2 Conversation in it 1 Conforme to it and from that likenesse will grow Love Whereas in our sinfull estate the holinesse of GOD and that companie is a terrour and torment to us Heaven would be an Hell to a sinfull man But fierie things Ascend as willingly and naturally as earthly things descend And thinke the same of heavenly Spirits and affections 2 Converse in heaven Lodge your thoughts and hearts there Look into that every day Spend each day some thoughts upon GOD upon Christ upon heaven make that your home Looke upon it as your place your Center and then you will make to it whatever it cost you A Stone will through an Element of fire a Sea of water to come to its Center So will yee if your dwelling bee above I have said how you must bee qualified If now you come to learne and minde these things and keepe the Soule in warmth and upon the wing you shall be able to beare up in the approaches of death and to thinke of Christs comming without sin with comfort Nay you will love his appearance 2 Tim. 4.8 1 Thes 1.10 Phil. 3.20 1.23 Heb. 9.28 2 Pet. 3.12 wait for it looke for it long for it hasten to it and hasten him in the words of the whole Church and of this her Sonne Come Lord JESUS come quickly So Shee to the last Rev. 22.17 Rev. 22.17 So the Spirit So this Noble Knight who most as I am told in his last words breathed out this Come Lord JESUS Come Come quickly O my Lord quickly Amen Even so Come Lord JESUS Come apace come once for all to make an end of all Sins Sorrows Funerals by ending the Last enemie death and by casting death and hell and grave and all that opposes life and glory into the Fire Amen Even so come Lord JESUS Amen FINIS