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A45557	Mans last journey to his long home a sermon preached at the funerals of the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Warwick, who died in London, May the 30th and was interr'd at Felstead in Essex, June the 9th 1659 / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1659 (1659)	Wing H735; ESTC R19289	18,083	38

the small To this tended that surcasme of Diogenes when he told Alexander that he had been seeking his Father Philips bones but could not distinguish between them and others And for this reason Alphonsus putting the Question what it was that did make high and low equall answered Death Pliny writeth of a River in Spaine wherein all the fish that are pnt are of a golden colour but being taken out of it they are of the same colour with other fishes They who whilest they live in this world glitter with gold and silver when taken out of it return to the same earth with the rest of mankind Whilest the Counters are upon the Table one stands for five another for ten while the Chasemen are upon the Board one is a King another a Queen a third a Bishop a fourth a Knight and those have their several walks but when put into the bag they are all alike Thus is it with men who though upon the earth they are of different orders and degrees are alike when they are cast into it And as the several kinds of herbs which are thrown into the Limbeck being distilled make one water so they but one earth Epictetus when asked What was common to the King with the Begger answered to be born and to die they come into and go out of the world one as well as the other Nor is there any difference between them in the womb and the tomb Let not those that are above insult over others since this grand Leveller Death will one day put them in the same condition with others 2. This Meditation of the going forth of the soul and return of the body is a no lesse powerfull disswasive from a voluptuous life then an haughty mind Oh that you who have vivendi voluptatem the pleasure of life would contemplate moriendi necessitatem the necessity of death That you who have the world at will would remember you have not death at command I die said Esau and what good will my Birth-right do me Oh that the voluptuous Epicure would say I die and what good will my vain and sensual pleasures do me Agathocles when a King having been a Potters Sonne drank in earthen Vessels It were not possible men should surfeit at their Tables carouse it in their Cups would they eat and drink as it were in earthen vessels in the midst of their delicacyes remember that they are earth Consider this you who spend your doyer in eating and drinking in playing and sleeping whose whole design is to pamper and feed to deck and adorn your bedies to gratifie your senses and glut your selves with the delights of the flesh Dic mihi ubi sunt amatores mundi Nihil ex eis remanet nisi cineres vermes Tell me what is become of those lovers of pleasures of whom nothing remaineth but wormes and ashes What will become of that body of thine which is so full fed and richly clod when it shall be laid in the grave They say of Bees that when they are buzzing and humming about our ears making a great and angry noise if you throw a little dust upon them they are quiet and hive again presently Surely it would still the roaring Gallant in the midst of his joviall revellings were the thoughts of dust frequently suggested to and seriously pondered on by him And yet were this all that the body returneth to the earth the Epicures plea might be good enough Let us eat and drink for to morrow we die But if we die to morrow as our body returneth to earth so our soul goeth forth to God to give an account to rereceive a sentence either of absolution or condemnation And oh think what fear will possesse thy spirit when it apprehends it self going forth to be arraigned at the Barre of Divine Justice yea how dismall the account will be of that time and strength and health and wealth which hath been expended upon carnal and sensual pleasures 2. Let those who are in the lower ranke of men learn to look upon great ones as subject to death and the grave and that for a double end so as not to fear them distrustfully nor trust in them presumptuously 1. Their breath goeth forth they return to their earth fear them not Indeed there is a fear which is due from Inferiours to Superiours God and the King are set down by the Wiseman as the joynt Objects of our fear and they will at last be found fooles who divide them When God saith If I be a Master where is my fear he intimateth that fear is due from the Servant to the Master whilst they live they are above and over us and therefore ought to be feared by us but with a fear of reverence not diffidence and that because their power and Honour is soon laid in the dust Have we not sometimes observed a Ball tossed up and down in the aire eyed and observed by every one which way it moveth least it should hit them yea and when it passeth by they ofttimes stoope to it and yet it is nothing but the skin of a dead beast filled with wind which is easily let out A fit embleme of Tyrants who are so observed and of whom we stand in so much awe when yet they are but mortal men whose breath quickly goeth forth Put them in fear oh Lord is the Prayer of the Psalmist that they may know themselves to be but men Indeed this consideration That the greatest enemies of the Church are but men may put them in fear and us out of fear no wonder if God bespake his Church in that vehement Interrogation Who art thou that thou shouldst be afraid of a man that shall dye and of the son of man which shall be made as Grasse and therefore as David resolves I will not feare what flesh can do unto me so let us not fear what earth can do against us 2. Their breath goeth forth they return to their earth trust them not This is the principall intendment of the Psalmist as appeareth by the former Dehortation Put not your trust in Princes nor in the son of man in whom there is no help to presse which this is annexed as a reason namely their mortall condition Excellently doth St. Chrysostome here enlarge He that cannot defend himself how shall he deliver another Do not say he is a Prince for in this he hath no greater priviledge then the meanest but is subject to the same uncertainty of life nay that I may at once speak what is true and yet strange {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for this reason especially he is not to be trusted because he is a Prince for these earthly powers are slippery great men are subject to more casualities and dangers then private and when they fall they that trust to them are ruined with them as the body of the Church is beaten down with the fall of the Steeple How often

Instance of the rich fool in the Gospel whose thoughts were to pull down his barns and build greater and thereto bestow all his fruits and his Goods and to say to his soul Soul thou hast much good laid up for many years take thine ease eat drink and be merry but that night was his soul required from him and those thoughts perished St. James speaketh of those whose thoughts were that to day or to morrow they would go into such a City and continue there and buy and sell and get gain forgetting that their life was but a vapour which appeareth a little while and vanisheth away and together with it all such thoughts St. Gregory upon those words The eyes of the wicked shall fail giveth this as the reason Quia intenti●nes eorum desideria occupantur circa transitoria because their thoughts and desires are imployed about perishing objects Oh let it be our wisdome to six our thoughts and designes upon higher and better objects how we may obtain an Inheritance among them that are sanctified and enjoy the beatifical vision These are those thoughts which being pursued in life shall not be frustrated but fulfilled at our death He whose life hath been a continued Meditation on Heaven and whose endeavoures have been to make sure an Interest there in that very day when his body returneth to the earth his soul goeth forth to the fruition of it and so his thoughts receive a full a joyfull accomplishment Once more Not only our worldly but our charitable our penitential our Religious thoughts perish in that day of death How many have thoughts with themselves When I come to such and such years I will leave my sins and lead a new life When I have got this and that estate I will give Almes to the poor But in the mean time death hath unhappily prevented them Oh therefore let it be our prudence to lay hold on the present time and when good thoughts are in our minds if we have ability and opportunity to put them speedily in execution lest we too late condemn our own folly and be forced to say non putaram I did not think death would so soon have seized upon me I shut up this with that excellent Exhortation of the Wise man Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it withall thy might for there is no work nor device nor wisdome nor knowledge in the grave whether thou goest THe text is now finished but my discourse must not yet end What hath been from the text sounded in your eares is by this sad occasion fulfilled in your eyes We have before us a dolefull Instance of great mens mortality in this Noble Earl whose breath some daies past went forth from him and whose body is now returning to this earth Indeed it is that sad Providence which I cannot but mention as being fit to be laid to heart how Almighty God hath not only once but again and again within a little circuit of time exemplified the truth of this Doctrine in this Noble Family No lesse then three Persons of Honour the Father the Son the Grandson have in lesse then two years been taken away by death and that in the three several ages of life the Father in the evening of old age the Son in the noon of manhood and the Grandson in the morn of youth It seemed good to the wise God who doth not look in the Church-Book to see who is eldest and take men out in the same order that they come into this world to begin with the youngest of the three by death lopping off from this goodly tree a blossoming branch which might in probability have flourished long and brought forth much fruit But when his surviving relations consider what hath lately fallen out and is too likely to befall this Land they may look upon it as a mercy in that he was taken away from the evil to come Not long after it pleased divine providence to strike at the very root the aged Father of the Family who having lived many years was cut off in a few houres and is gone to his grave in a full age like a shock of corn in its season And now one main arme of this tree which first sprung from that root and from which that branch sprouted is hewen down the Father of that hopefull Son and the Son of that aged Father is brought to be Interred together with them both in the Sepulchre of his Ancestours It was not my happiness to have either long or much knowledg of this Honourable Person and therefore a large Panegyrick cannot be expected from me nor shall I say any thing concerning him more then truth as not daring for fear of the great God to speak false and flattering words of the greatest man To tell you how illustrious the Family is whereof he is descended were superfluous you can better tell me who have for many years beheld its splendor nor indeed doth that adde much to any mans commendation I shall not stay long to mind you how happy he was in his conjugall Relations having been the Husband of two excellent Ladyes whose memory is and will be precious though their bodies are rotted in the Grave by the former of whom he was the Father of that only Son who went before him and by the latter of three Daughters ingenuous and promising Ladyes which are left behinde him It will be needless to enlarge upon what all who knew him will readily testifie that he was a Person of excellent natural endowments of a sweet and loving temper affable and courteous behaviour and of a meek and lowly spirit not only before but after he was possessed of that dignity to which he was born He was in honore fine tumore lifted up with honour but not puffed up with pride That which I cannot forbear to mention since thereby he became an honour to his Family is as his untained loyalty to his Sovereign so his faithfull constancy in adhering to the Church of England in her Faith and Worship It pleased God in his latter dayes to visit him with many Diseases which as they were in mercy intended by God so I hope in charity they were looked upon by him as summons to the Grave and Monitors of his frailty In his last sickness I had the Honour to wait upon and administer to him in holy things wherein my conscience beareth me witnesse I dealt with him freely and faithfully and I trust not without good success Having set before him the sinfulness of sin and the necessity of repentance he did with tears and sighs as well as words acknowledge and bemoane the follyes of his youth and former life implore forgivenesse of them from God resolve if God should spare him that he would through Divine Grace be more carefull of his wayes And though it hath not seemed good to divine wisdome to give him opportunity of performing his Pious and Penitent resolves yet I hope they were sincere and being so I am sure they are mercifully accepted by his gracious God He was indeed willing to have lived longer but for good end namely to amend his own waies and see Jerusalem in prosperity and withall he desired to submit to Gods will and did wholly cast himself on Christs mertts for his salvation If there be any who like fleas which bite most when we are asleep shall speak evil of this dead Lord I wish they would consider that it was one of Solons Prohibitions {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to stain the Honour of the dead God I trust upon his Repentance hath covered his sinnes let us do so too They were his earthly dusty ashy parts let them be buried with him This Honourable Person is dead and going to his long home But blessed be God the Earl of Warwick still liveth in his succeeding Brother who will I hope not only continue but encrease the Honour of his Family by endeavouring not only to equalize but excell his Predecessours in being a Friend to the Orthodox Religion of this despised Church a pattern to his Tennants Servants yea the whole Countrey of Piety Charity Humility and all Vertues And may there long long be found one of this line fit to enjoy the Revenue and weare the Title of this Earldome Amen FINIS Ps. 23. 4 5. John 18. 6. 2 Sam. 3. 38. Gen. 1. Calv. in loc. Isai. 2. 22. Job 21. 23. James 4. 14. Theod. in loc. Jerom. in loc. Eccl. 12. 7. Gen. 2. 7. John 4. 24. Heb. 1. 5. 2 Cor. 5. 1. A●g●e civit de● Eccl. 3. 21. 12. 7. Sen. Epist. Greg. M●● Matth. 10. 28. Luke 20 38. Cajet in ●oc Eccl. 12. 7. Gen. 2. 7. 1 Cor. 15. 41. Ovid Job 4. 19. Phocyl Phil. 3. 20. Gen. 2. 17. 3. 19. Lucr●● Horat. Gen. 26. Psal. 76. 12. Aug. in loc. Nehem. 5. 5. Prov. 22. 2. Gen. 3. 14. 1 Sam. 10. 2. Job 3. 19. Gen. 25. 32. Prov. 24. 21. Mal. 1. 6. Psal. 9. 20. Isai. 51. 12. Psal. 56. 4. Verse 5. Chryso in loc. Isai. 2. 〈◊〉 Jer. 17. 5. Trem. in loc. Lor. in loc. Isa 26. 4. Psal. 〈…〉 1 Maccab. 2. 62 63. Luk. 1● 18 19. Jam. 4. 13 14. Job 11. 2● Eccles. 9. 10.