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A10904	A sermon preached on September the 20. 1632. in the cathedrall church of Christ at Canterbury, at the funerall of William Proud, a lieutenant collonell, slaine at the last late siege of Mastricke. By Francis Rogers, Doctor in Diuinity	Rogers, Francis, d. 1638.	1633 (1633)	STC 21175; ESTC S116095	14,227	26

Lyon the deuill are but like the Frenchmens assaults in warre Prima Gallorum p●aelia sunt plusquam virorum secunda minus quam faminarum At first he doth come on like an Emperour hee chargeth home brauely but resist him then and at the second encounter he is more effeminate then a woman Euen so resist Satan at the first and hee will flee from you for the deuill is but like a coward If a coward deale with a man whom hee knoweth hee can ouermatch or bee in place where hee is sure hee may not fight then none will giue prouder words nor make more bragges then a coward but if he haue to doe with a man with whom what he speaketh with his tongue hee must make good with his sword and if he bee in place where they may conueniently buckle then none is more base or submisse then a coward Euen so resist Satan and hee will auoyd thee but giue the least way to his temptations and then he will fetch seuen other deuils and they all at once will enter into that man and make his end farre worse then his beginning All this that we may better performe let vs take to vs the shield of fayth and pray to God that all our thoughts words and deeds may be begun continued and ended to his glory And so I passe to the second thing Princes and great men are subiect to mortality Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede Pauperum domos Regumque turres Death seazeth on the King in his Palace as well as on the begger in his cottage It is determined for all men to dye once Death Gods Baylife returneth not his writ with a Non est inuentus in baliuanostra but death bringeth corpus cum causa to the King of heauens bench A King may loue his friends and aduance his followers to honour but to adiourne death or to fill the empty veines with liuely blood or the dry bones with marrow or redeeme life from the power of the graue in these things nor Dauid nor any other is a King 2. Reg. 5. 7. Am I God sayth the King of Israel to kill and to giue life or can I heale Naamans leprosie The Vses of this Doctrine are these First let euery man perswade himselfe that he shall dye This may seeme a paradox for it any so sottish as to imagine he shall neuer dye Beloued bee not deceiued I am perswaded few men doe dreame of their owne death for there is none so old but thinketh he may liue one yeere longer and then another though in generall wee say all shall dye yet in numbering our particular liues we thinke our selues shall neuer dye Two ships meete on the sea they in eyther ship thinke themselues stand still and the other to bee swift of sayle whereas both sayle though the one faster then the other Euen so men are as ships see we an old man with a staffe in his hand stooping downeward Alasse poore old man say we hee cannot liue long Heare wee a passing-bell Oh one is going out of the world Visit wee a sicke friend We thinke he can hardly liue till morning Thus we imagine all other men are dying but we stand still whereas alasse they may goe a little before and wee are sure to follow after Secondly let this teach vs to prepare our selues to dye that if death be sudden to vs in regard of expectation yet death may neuer be sudden to vs in regard of preparation death is like the Basiliske It is reported if a Basiliske first see a man before the man see him that then he killeth the man but if a man first see a Basiliske then the Basiliske dieth Thus is it with death If death first lay hold on a man before he is prepared to dye then death killeth that man body and soule for euer but if a man first looke on death and euery day prepare to dye then death is but an entrance into euerlasting happinesse It is a worthy thing which hath beene related to me of that braue souldier of a noble Family Sir Iohn Burrough who receiuing a mortall wound in the Iland of Rees and being aduised not to feare death but to prepare for another world he answered I thanke God I feare not death and these thirty yeeres together I neuer arose at the morning that euer I made account to liue till night so let euery true Christian euery day when he awaketh commend himselfe to Gods protection whether he liue or dye and at the euening none knoweth if That nights bed shall be his graue or That nights sleepe shall be his death therefore before his eyes doe sleepe or his eyelids slumber or the temples of his head take rest make his peace with God for all sinnes that whether he liue or dye hee may liue and dye to the Lord and Iesus Christ may be to him aduantage And so I passe to the last thing Notice is to be taken of a great mans death Know ye not c. The death of a great man and of a meane man is like the report of a Cannon and of a Musket a Cannon is heard many miles but a Musket for a little space So if a great man dye all men speake of it as such an Earle such a Bishop such a Commander is dead But if a poore man or a common souldier dye few of his neyghbours and friends accompany him to the graue and there is an end of him But i● a great man dye which is able to doe his Country seruice notice shall bee taken of it to lament his death so is Abner heere bewayled both of King and people In Esay the 3. chapter God threatneth it as a plague He will take away the strong man and the man of warre Therefore as Lament 1.15.16 The Lord hath troden vnder foote all the valiant men in the middest of mee for this thing I weepe mine eye euen mine eye casteth out water because the Comforter which should refresh my soule is farre from me God taketh away good men and great men in mercy and in iudgement In mercy when God taketh away a bad Prince and giueth a better as hee tooke Saul and gaue Dauid Hee tooke away from this land Queene Mary and gaue vs Queene Elizabeth Or when God taketh away a good Prince and giueth another good one in his place Thus he tooke away Moses and gaue Ioshua thus from vs hee tooke away King Iames and gaue vs King Charles whom God long preserue among vs God taketh away great men in iudgement eyther when he taketh good Gouernors and rayseth vp none in their stead Thus when all the Rulers were dead which knew Moses Ioshua God gaue the Iewes no Rulers for in those dayes there was no King in Israel but euery one did what seemed best in his owne eyes Or else God taketh away good Rulers and rayseth vp bad as he tooke away Samuel and gaue Saul Let vs consider if within these few

A SERMON preached on September the 20. 1632. In the Cathedrall Church of Christ at Canterbury at the Funerall of William Proud a Lieutenant Collonell slaine at the last late siege of Mastricke By Francis Rogers Doctor in Diuinity 2. SAM 3.38 Know yee not that a Prince and a great man is fallen this day in Israel LONDON Printed by Iohn Norton for William Adderton and are to bee sold at his shop in Bethlem without Bishops-gate 1633. To the Honoured and VVorthy Sir Dudley Digges Sir William Monins Sir Peter Heyman Sir Thomas Palmer Sir Iohn Wild Sir Thomas Wilford Sir Christopher Harfleit Sir Iames Oxenden and Sir Edward Masters MVCH Honoured and Worthy Countreymen this Sermon was preached at the Funerall of Lieu-tenant Collonell Proud our Countryman who was slaine at the late siege of Mastrick J know not to whose protection better to commend it then to your selues who are all Gentlemen of good worth and to whom the chiefest charge of military discipline for our East parts of Kent is committed Yee were all attentiue hearers may it now please you to accept these my poore endeauours fauourably and to censure them charitably J haue what J desire And so wishing all health and happinesse to your selues and your families I rest your euer louing Countryman and faythfull Seruant in Christ Iesus FRANCIS ROGERS From St. Margarets in Canterbury Octo. 29. 1632. A Sermon preached at the Funerall of William Proud a Lieu-tenant Colonell slayne at the last late siege of Mastricke 2. SAM 3.38 Know yee not that a Prince and a great man is fallen this day in Israel WEE reade before in this chapter that King Saul being dead there was great warre betweene Ishbosheth and Dauid for the Crowne Ishbosheth claymed it as sonne to King Saul Dauid did challenge it as anoynted by Samuel and appointed by God Abner Generall for Saul his house being rebuked by Ishbosheth for going in to his fathers concubine tooke it very indignely and threatned to forsake Ishosheth and to vnite himselfe to Dauid for which purpose he sendeth messengers to Dauid to make a couenant with him Dauid being a wise King aswell as a godly man thought it no 〈…〉 neglect such 〈◊〉 opportunity and therefore he doth embrace Abners loue he entertayneth him royally and dismisseth him peaceably After this Ioab Dauids Generall comming to the Court and whether out of malice because Abner had slaine his brother Asael or out of ambition fearing that Abner might haue his command or out of affection to Dauid being his nephew hee is very angry and telleth Dauid that Abner came but as a spy to watch Dauids going in and going out and therefore it was not wisedome in Dauid to suffer Abner to depart from him and when he had done speaking to the King he hastneth after Abner who comming to Ioab mistrusting no euill was vnder pretence of friendship most treacherously killed by Ioab This murder so odious in the sight of God and man doth astonish Dauid for now Beniamin and all Sauls Alies are likely to hate Dauid perpetually yea his owne seruants and kindred haue great cause to suspect Dauids tyranny wherefore Dauid to cleare himselfe from so foule a blot First he detesteth the fact Secondly he wisheth a curse vpon Ioab and his posterity for the same Thirdly he causeth his Nobles to lament and himselfe followeth Abners corps to the graue he weepeth and hee bewaileth his death and hee sayth Know yee not that a Prince and a great man is fallen this day in Israel In which words three things are obseruable First that there is a difference and a degree betweene man and man in this title giuen to Abner a Prince and a great man Secondly that Princes and great men are subiect to mortality A Prince and a great man is fallen this day in Israel Thirdly notice is more especially to be taken of such mens deaths Know yee c For the first this difference of man and man is not in respect of our Creator nor in respect of our first earthly father nor in respect of our matter for wee are all made of the same earth but it is in regard of the vse and seruice of men in a ciuill state for parity breedeth confusion both in Church and Common-wealth and God is the God of order See this in vnreasonable creatures The Bees haue in the Hiue a master-Bee whom they obserue and follow the Cranes march forth in orderly array yea among the diuels there is a superiority and an order for Belsebub is the Prince of them Acts 17.11 There are Nobles these were Noblemen and there is a degree in Nobility These were more noble men then those of Thessalonica For better vnderstanding this poynt obserue foure sorts of Nobilitie The first is naturall which is by birth descending from ancient progenitors and God promiseth Abraham that Kings shall come out of his loynes I but the old Stoickes obiect Nature is alike to all she is a stepdame to none are not all borne alike into the world are not all subiect alike to casualties in the world and doe not all dye and go alike out of the world where is then any inequality Likewise the new Switzers say God did not make two Adams one of siluer to beget Gentlemen another of earth to beget common people Coates and Crests notos magis facit quàm nobiles they make men rather knowne then noble No more for shame let not that sin rule among vs which Esay speakes of That the vile presume against the honourable They are me thinketh as Esdras the 1. booke the 3. chapter saith the words of men in wine who neuer remember their King nor their Gouernours doubtlesse it is a great blessing of God to be borne of honourable parents for Christ himselfe though he liued so poore as the Foxes had holes and the birds of the ayre had nests but he had not where to lay his head yet he would not be borne base he would bee borne a Gentle man he was of the blood Royall and true heyre to the Crowne of Iudah for hee descended from the linage of Dauid according to the flesh In metals of the same kinde which Plato resembleth to the soule of man some are farre purer then are others In plants there is a great difference of seeds and branches Est in iunencis est in equis patrum virtus Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis If a man haue a Horse hee esteemeth him better according to the sire and damme he commeth from Euen so among men it doth often much auayle from what stocke they descend and the Scriptures call men nobly borne The famous of the congregation The worthies of the land The glory of the Kingdome The strength of Israel and it was one high degree of sorrow in Iudah her captiuity that her nobles were slayne But Generatio optima corruptio pessima best things corrupted proue the worst Angels if they fall doe become deuils and Gentlemen if

Pharaoh commanded all the male children of Israel to bee drowned in the riuer there was onely Moses preserued aliue in a basket God might haue called him another Enoch for as Enoch walked with God and was translated from men euen so Moses went into the mountayne Nebo to the toppe of Pisgah and was neuer seene more of men God might haue called him the familiar Prophet one which spake to God face to face but all this layd aside God onely sayth Moses my seruant is dead to shew vs that to be a true Christian and to serue God is most honourable yea to bee Gods seruant is a Title most durable for if any aske mee what was great Alexander I answere that while hee liued hee was a valiant Monarch one which did conquer the Easterne parts of the world but if you aske me what Alexander is now I say hee is a damned * This is sayd according to the Tenent Without the Church is no saluation As for Gods secret Councell wee may not dare for to meddle with it soule in hell But if you aske me what was Abraham I answere Abraham while hee liued was the father of the faythfull and now he is dead he still is and euer will bee Gods faythfull seruant in heauen In diuine nobility wilt thou know thy pedegree and thy kindred Then know God is thy Father Christ Iesus is thy brother the Holy Ghost is thy preseruer the blessed Angels thy attendants thy foode is more precious then Manna for it is the bread of life which came from heauen of which he that eateth shall neuer hunger not thirst any more Alexander the great had a monster brought forth whose vpper parts had a manshead and brest but these were dead but the lower parts were full of monsters of all kinds and these were liuing this sayd the Southsayers did foretell the death of Alexander So is it in noble houses The head with a mans face and brest is religion If this bee dead then nothing but all monstrous sins will appeare which will bring ruine and destruction to all honourable families Wherefore let me labour to stir you vp to be diuinely noble and to become true Christians and because our meeting is to doe honour to a worthy Souldier and to a braue Commander giue mee leaue to vse for this purpose some few examples drawne from military discipline First Souldiers in the field may not vse their weapons as they will but as they are commanded The Musketeere must not discharge when he listeth but when the Officer bringeth him vp and sayth Present fire so likewise the Cannoneere In our spirituall warfare Christ is our Generall wee are his souldiers to fight vnder his banner our weapons are our soules with their faculties and our bodies with their members and these must bee vsed as God commandeth not as wee desire Our vnderstanding must know God aright our will must chuse what is good our affections must loue God aboue all and for our bodies wee must not abuse them to performe the lusts of the flesh or make them brewers horses to beare much quantity of wine and beere but Wee must giue vp our members weapons of righteousnesse to true holinesse our tongues must prayse God or pray to God our eyes must not looke on strange women to lust after them our eares must heare Gods Word our taste must eate Christs flesh and drinke his blood in the blessed Eucharist our hands must relieue the poore our feete must carry vs into Gods Temple and to visit the sicke and such as are in misery In one word wee must offer vp our soules and our bodies a liuing sacrifice holy acceptable to God which is our reasonable seruing of God Secondly Souldiers execute what the Commander willeth without arguing and asking why they should doe so as let the Generall send to such a Collonell to enter such a breach to make good such a place he presently obeyeth for they know that the Generall his office is for direction the Officers and Souldiers duty is to put his direction into execution Euen so looke what our Generall Christ hath commanded in his Word that must we execute without discussing by our naturall reason as did Abraham in offring vp Isaack and as the Iewes sayd vnto Moses Whatsoeuer the Lord commandeth that will we doe Euen so let vs rather dye then not performe all God willeth and commandeth vs to doe Thirdly Souldiers which beleager a Towne vse two kinde of stratagems First they make themselues masters of the riuers they cut off all springs of water which succour the Towne they enquarter themselues and blocke vp the Towne so that no reliefe of Ammunition of Victuall or of men shall any way relieue the Towne Euen so must we doe sinne is our great enemy then take heed that we take away from the strength of sinne and flee sinne and all occasion of sinne Adde not to our originall corruption euill thoughts euill words or euill deeds If any man had two swords and being to fight with his enemy should lend him one this were the next way to haue his throat cut with his owne sword Hence euery one coueteth to disarme his enemy so must not wee adde sinne to sinne this were for to bring finall destruction to our owne soules Secondly they doe not onely endeauour to withhold all necessaries from the Towne but they vse all the means to offend the besieged for they raise their batteries to make breaches they make their approches build their gallies spring their mines they haue ladders to seale the wals and all this to force the Towne Euen so wee must not onely auoyd sinne and weaken our corruption but wee must take into our hands the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God whereby wee may be able to kill all the temptations of the world the flesh and the deuill Fourthly Souldiers in the field no more feare the report of the Cannon then the report of the Musket as I haue heard it related of that true noble Peere and valiant Commander Sir Horace Vere Baron of Tilbery that when in the Palatinate a Councell of war was called and there being debated whether they should fight or not some Dutch Lords sayd that the enemy had many pieces of Ordnance planted in such a place and therefore it was dangerous to fight That noble Gentleman replyed My Lords if you feare the mouth of the Cannon you must neuer come into the field Euen so oft times men fall into diuers and great temptations as for to despayre of Gods mercies for to make themselues away yea the deuill oft times tempteth men by voyce by appearing in some shapes and the like Yet a Christian courage must not bee daunted at any crosses or temptations but he must endure constant to the end for God is faythfull and iust and will not suffer vs to be tempted aboue what we are able to endure Bee we assured all the temptations of that roaring