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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	die_v	judgement_n	4,265	5	6.1046	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65063	The hearse of the renowned, the Right Honourable Robert Earle of Essex and Ewe, Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, Bourchier and Lovaine, sometime Captaine Lord Generall of the armies raised for the defence of King and Parliament As it was represented in a sermon, preached in the Abbey Church at Westminster, at the magnificent solemnity of his funerall, Octob. 22. 1646. By Richard Vines. Published by order of the House of Peeres.	Vines, Richard, 1600?-1656.	1646 (1646)	Wing V553; ESTC R203895	21,108	39

of receiving doing good Not is there a sharper corrosive than the reflection upon those dayes and times that have passed over him Male aliud nihil agentem The highest hils are the barrennest ground and I would that saying did not so truly square to great Ones that is that the goodliest Trees as Cedars c. doe either beare none or the worst Fruit. Great parts and abilities without exercise and putting forth are but secret and unknowne Mines of Silver and Gold which lye hid in an unfruitfull and unprofitable soyle And therfore you the great and Noble Worthies in whose hands are the Publike Faith the Publike Mercy the Publike Justice and the Publike Peace be good and let your goodnes make you quicke dispensers of what you have in Stewardship because the time is short and the word redde rationem may be given suddenly look upon us as mortall men who shall not live long to receive and upon your selves who shall not live long to give the fruits of your hands And because the Occasion invites me let me propound an object to your charitable justice that is the relief of those great sufferers who have bin great doers I meane the first adventurers with this great Commander when he first cut through the Alps. As for the great and doubtfull matters that are under your hand I would not be thought so rash as to wish you to precipitate A Pilot among shelves and rocks may be too quick A Cunctator sometime saved the Common-wealth only thus I may pray that when the Haven lyes faire before you and is without barre you may fortiter occupare set in stifly lest new waves raised by crosse winds carry you backe into the Main againe 3. Arme you against your fall that the day therof may be to you as the passion-Passion-day of the Martyrs was called the birth-day of Eternity Nequaquam morte mortemini was the inlet of our sin and misery keeps the doore open to sin still The Epicure hath his Armour against death a senselesse consideration of it as of a nothing or a not being The great Spirit hath his Armour too A contempt of death out of principles of Valour and Honour but neither of these Armours can keep the arrow from the quicke There is a terrible clause in the Statute of dying And after that the judgement Nor yet will I goe about to arme you with this meditation that we shall have a shorter journey from death to life again than we had from not being unto life or that which is cited by Gerard out of Luther that all the time that hath run or shall run out from the beginning to the end shall seeme to Adam when he riseth againe but tanquam somnus unius horae as the sleep of the body for one houre But if you will breake the fall which else will breake you then you Gods must become Saints for all Gods are not Saints the death of Saints is more precious then the death of Gods Grace is speciall baile against death there is no gall and vinegar in it to be drunk by them for whom Christ hath already drunke it Death saith the Apostle is yours because contributory and subservient to your happines That life which is hid with Christ in God is out of the reach of death our Saviour proves Abraham to be living because God had long after his death said I am the God of Abraham Those that are confederate with God in Covenant must always live that the Covenant may not be dissolved by the death of the one party There is a way then to break the teeth of death and to be immortall Have God for your God labour to have something in you that is immortall besides your very souls lay up for your selves a treasure beyond the sea of death that when this membrana dignitatis as Seneca cals it a thin skin of honour breaks you may not be quite bankrupts enrich your souls with the power of godlines which is profitable to all things The place of Princes the magnificence and great works of great men The faith and godlines of poore men doe make a rare composition Do not in stead of disarming death arme it rather against you by putting a sword into the hand of it The more service that you may doe by the advantage of ground you stand upon the heavyer will your accounts be if your greatnes be made a Stage and Theater for to act the parts of luxury lasciviousnes oppression upon What difference is there between such gods and those in Homer of whose drunkennesse and adulteries there is frequent mention let me speake one word to you young Noblemen and Gentlemen Learne you the way of godlinesse that may free you from the loosenesse and vanitie incident to greatnesse for when you have given florem Diabolo the floure of your time to lusts of youth your fall may come before you can so much as give faecem Deo the dregs thereof to God I conclude this point with that which one observes upon Gods seeing all the works that he had made that they were very good for then immediately saith he followed the Sabbath or rest of God which though our salvation be not of workes may signifie thus much to you that when you shall come to a retrospect upon your wayes and works and find them so empty of and contrary unto God there can be no expectation of a Sabbath or rest unto your soules and therefore wash ye make ye cleane c. Isa 1. 16 17. The second Know ye not is spoken to you the lower shrubs You are to know that your great men may fall in the very time of their usefulnesse and service for your good In their losse bewaile your sins for though you feele not the stroke while the wound is fresh and green yet afterwards you will find the want of such as are worthy instruments when wee expect they should doe great things God by taking them away interrupts the cast Put not therefore your trust in Princes nor in the son of man in whom there is no salvation for his breath goeth forth and in that very day his thoughts perish Ps 146. 3 4. even his projects and intentions for your good dye in the wombe and are abortive If we leane hard upon the reed it breaks the sooner and wee are laid flat on the ground God will not let his people enjoy that long which they prize too much some worme shall smite that gourd and it shall wither and though many great men are not likely to be blasted by the confidence of the people yet our sad experience teacheth us that we smell too much to our sweetest flowers and so wither them I Shall now come to the paralell Herse of that Prince and great man fallen this day in England of whom though modestie it selfe may without blushing speak in a magnificent stile yet have my thoughts waved me too and fro it not being easie to be

way is troden by you great ones too for ye Gods do die and ye Princes shall fall like other men If you run your Genealogies high enough you will finde your selves but as other men in the fretum or narrow sea of Mankinde that divided the two Ocean worlds the Arke of Noah and thence if ye hold your way upward you will be found the sons of Adamah common dust And you that are the highest dust raised up a puff of winde of Honour above other men are laid like the small dust with one drop of rain There is a great Arbiter of all things that can thunder the proud Emperour under his bed and write the great King at three or foure words into trembling That can send Adrian the fourth Acts and Monum a Fly to fetch the Triple Crown before his Tribunal and make a hair or the kernel of a Raisin as mortall as Goliah his spear That can unspeake the whole world into nothing and blowe down a great bubble with an easie breath That by drawing one nail can throw down the stateliest building and undresse your souls by unpinning one pin If he take the Bridle off the head of that fire that 's in you it presently burns you up by a Fever If he loose the water it drownes you by a Dropsie If he lay his hand upon your mouth he takes away the airy difference betweene sleep and death He saith to Moses Go up and die and it follows after Moses my servant is dead Every man hath a day which is called His day and death never makes returne 1 Sam. 28. 10. Non est inventus in baliva nostra 4. The subject of this Lamentation is a Prince and a great man fallen in the time of his agency usefulnesse for the settlement of the destractions of Israel The key of the story unlocks the sense of these words This day in Israel It was a time that the promise of God to David was at the birth and the Midwivery of Abner was offered Let Abner otherwise be what he will for a man God may use an Egyptian midwife to bring forth the child of an Israelite But this great man falls in the very nicke of time before the good issue of his designes Let me point out this Observation to you It s not unusuall that great builders catch a fall when they are upon the scaffold aboute their worke Oh how it amazeth the faith of Gods people when the star that led them out of their own Countrey goes out of sight before it have brought them to their journeys end That youngling world of Reformation in Luthers time had a sore temptation when it must see the fall as I may say of the Electour of Saxony and others that were pillars of hope Moses must live no longer then to bring Israel into the plains of Moab himselfe is allowed but a prospect of that he hoped to have enjoyed and to have brought Israel into We are not without presidents our eyes have seen some of our greater lights eclipsed pleno orbe when they have been at their Full. The great God that hides his Counsels knows his Works from the begining to the end and he takes off such Instruments that he may shew that he doth not need is not tied to any tool for he made the great world without any When he saith Faciamus he speaks to himselfe alone not to himselfe and man Thus he makes way for some other Providence to come upon the Stage and brings about his Worke by a more crooked Instrument which wee imagined should be done by a strait one So Israel is speedily reduced to David though Abner fall Or he humbles his people just before his promises take effect and first strikes them dumb before he open their mouthes in a Benedicite that the lowlinesse of his handmaidens may break forth into a Magnificat or the time is not yet come that Israel is to be brought out of Egypt and therefore though Moses begin to rescue the Israelite and slay the Egyptian yet he must flee for it and be hidden for Fourty years Or else he pulls the stool of our confidence from under us because we sit down upon it or else pulls up the sluce of some judgements which have been hindr'd by some Lot or great man or whatsoever it be We see that God writes the Names of our best and greatest men in the shell and takes them away by a kind of Ostracisme All the help hope and comfort is that God hath all instruments eminently in himselfe and can raise up a Ioshua in steed of Moses Wherefore if his Disciples cannot cast out the evill Spirit let us come to himselfe and make our selves as sure of his Word by faith as he is sure of his word by promise for though Ioseph die in Egypt yet he layes his bones at stake that God will surely visit his Israel Gen. vlt. ver 25. 5. All this that hath been said a Prince a great man fallen at such a time is just reason of sad and solemne lamentation and therefore David and Israel is in this mourning posture such a man whose influence had a large circumference or sphaere while he lived is followed by an honour and sorrow of the same compasse when he dyes You Princes and great men death will tell what the world thought of you while you live it may be Sycophants flatterers lay their egges in your eares and hatch monstrous opinions in you of your greatnesse Such Rooks usually build in the highest Trees and on the other side envy detraction may breath upon the glasse of your reputation that it shall not while you live report so cleare an Image of you but death wil make thorow-lights in you that you shall be seen on both sides sorrows will not cannot be tongue-tyed you will then begin to reape your due Then the world breaks out into these expressions Hee was a brave man He was a great Courtier that could not be curbed with a white staffe to bee of counsell to subvert the freedomes of his Countrey He was a Captain that could draw a line but not to the ignoble center of his private ends He was a Justice that would scatter the drunkards from their Ale-bench and did not understand the language of a bottle or a basket He was a Nehemiah whose kindnesses were great which he shewed to the house of God and the Offices thereof He was a Minister that could not only thunder in his Doctrine but lighten in his Life He was a Papinian a great Lawyer but hee would not defend Imperiall and arbitrary exorbitances though he dyed for it He was a man that appeared stood for the truth and for God in the worst times when the Summer birds were hidden in their hollow Trees He was a man firm and fixed and studied not the neutral art of putting off the cap to one and making a leg to another And is not this a