these had faith and kept it to the death and yet as the Apostle here witnesseth they all notwithstanding that died how is it then that Christ saith If any man keep my sayings he shall never see death Oh how mysterious is the word of God Answ and what a riddle to fleshly wisedom and humane â—nse It 's to be believed and held for true by faith not to be judged of as true or false by the verdict of our sense certainly both Christ and his Apostles said the truth he that keeps his sayings shall not see death and yet these that kept his sayings for before Aâ—â—ahâ—m was Christ was and his sayings they were that he received did all die yea the Apostle here hints a solution to that doubt of the appearing contradiction in them when he saies these all dâ—d in faith for in this very thing that they died in faith they were so preseryed that they did not see death for this very faâ—h in which they died carried them above sense and took their eye off from death and set it upon life so that they saw souâ—d felt experimented life in death even when they dâ—ed according to the flâ—â—h yet the then lived in their spirits their bodies did but sleep in death while their spâ—its lived above death being made partakers of Jesus Christ as he word of God to be made flesh who is the resurrection and the life and the very death of death putting it to death they passed through the shadow of it but they saw not felt not found 〈…〉 of it they saw God in their death and the sight of him â—o â—ook up and filled their eye that they could not see death Or 2. they saw not that death that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for ever for indeed that is death and worthy the name of death the second death the other the first death Rom 3.12 the condemnation that came by the first man upon all men that spent it sell upon Christ being by the wise and mercifull God â—a slated upon him 2 Tim. 1.10 and he hath abolished it so in and by himself that nothing but the carcasse and shadow of it abideth for us to see or grapple with so that he that sees but it sees not death properly but only the shadow and shell of it Its life power and proper vigour is by the death of Christ swallowed up abolished and gone he then that never sees the second death sees not death for there is no other death by way of punishment of man for his sinne that 's propeâ—y death but it remaming and that hath no power upon Christ or any in him the just shall live by faith in the midst of the shadow of the other death and he shall live out of the way and danger of this second death he shall never be hurt of it either by the bearing it or fearing it his faith shall keep him from the first and being exercised carry him through and above the second and he shall never be overcome or over-powred by it thence blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection Rev. 20.6 that hath part in Christ the first begotten from the dead the resurrection and the life that in their spirits are raised with him and shall have their bodies raised with the just at his glorious appearing Seeing then that we must all needs die Appliâ— and that 's our portion in the flesh and there is a way by which we may so die as not to see death viz. to die in faith what wisedom is it to take that course that we may so die that we may see no death when we die feel no sting in death finde it but a shadow that hath no deadly substance in it nay rather finde it lighted with the glory of eternall life seen and tasted through it that we may see life in death a life beyond above and without death Oh how terrible is death to men when they see death in it when they experiment and feel a sting in it the sting of a self-condemning conscience and the pricks of the second death in the first death When they see death and nothing but death when life is hid from their eyes and so their hearts and thoughts die within them together with or before their bodies when they die full of despair strangers from and hopelesse of ever finding the life of God that will be a black griesly day to a soul that sees not life in it what need then to cry to God here so to teach us to number our daies that we may apply our hearts to Wisedom the wisedom of God in its sayings reproofs counsels cals that it powring out its spirit upon us and opening its precious words to us we may be filled with faith and courage and be in such a state as in which to see no death that we may so believe and live in and by faith in the power and exercise of it that in all our dying conditions yea when we come to breath out our souls we may die in faith die according to faith and not according to sense Even some believers not living and dying in an exercise of faith are many times filled with sorrow fears faintings especially in their dying cases because they judge not and so die not according to faith they judge according to sense they feeling pain and feeling temptations and seeing griesly things represented to them by Satan they are affrighted and rerrified at them though they be false illusions whereas exercising faith and so judging according to it they are carried above and get the victory over sense and temptation Let us therefore so follow on after wisedom that her words may dwell richly in us that her spirit may be a spirit of faith in us that we may live in faith and have a living exercise of faith in all conditions so shall we also dying have our hearts born up by faith and shall be enabled to lay down our tabernacle with peace and joy as that will leade us and not with trouble as sense would carry us and unbelief affright us while we judge of God and Christ life and death sinne and righteousnesse according to faith and not according to carnall sense and philosophicall speculations we shall be from seeing death when we die yea shall finde and feel life in the shadow of death according to that Joh. 5.24 He that heareth my Word and believeth on him that sent me hath eternall life and shall not come into judgement but is passed from death to life and that Joh. 11.25 26. I am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and he that liveth and believeth shall never die Those all died in faith Faith Ay but what is faith and how may a man come by it Object The Apostle in this Chapter Heb. 11.1 tels us what it is Answ It 's 〈◊〉
and to uncircumcised gentile the body and generality of them not so proselyted The second is the common proâ—hannesse of superficiall Christians and turners of the grace and Gospel â—f Christ into wantonness that rest in a name and notion of Christianity but deny the power of it of which sort there are every where too many The third is the sect of the Sadduces that deny the resurrection the visible coming of Christ personally again and the glorious performance of the promises at that his appearing a too too spreading generation May God make it usefull to you to leade you besides all these tocks in the true ancient Scripture-doctrine and faith formerly also attested to in the Church in England so to embrace and love the promised salvation and so to follow the steps of this good man and of other Worthies that have gone before him in the belief of and hearty love to closing with an entertainment of the Word of God that it may produce like fruits in you as in them unto death and in death that you with them also may partake of the glorious resurrection unto life and happinesse I shall have cause of much rejoicing The fountain of mercy and wisedom flow down upon you sill you with truth with peace and righteousnesse direct and blesse you and make you blessings in your places and generations So praieth Your Worships Servant to his ability J. H. Vpon the subject of this Book An INSTRUCTION and HYMN REader see here how great a mystery Lies cropped up in Christianity Strange Paradoxes hâ—râ—'s a bush oâ— flame Burning yet noâ— consumed by the same By Collâ—quintida death in the set And yet so healed that it his teth not Drink from a rock in gravell wâ—â—â—some feed In darknesse light in midst of eval good In sicknesse health the sweetest case in pain In weaknesse strength in losse the greatest gain Yea life in death and in absurdities The depth of wisdom bassling all the wise The tell how men by falling rise and how By lesing what they have they richer grow How by dishonour mâ—n may mount on high By being overcome have victory Here hast thou meat out of the eater here Sweet from he strong holdnesse in greatest fear A dying man sild full of life and breath Conquer'd and yet triumphing over death But whence all thu or how can these things be Shall Paradoxes be Divinity Behold here 's God with maâ— Emmanuel That only word 〈…〉 dâ—th unspell In God is good light 〈…〉 strength case and gain In man all darknesse sicknâ—sse weaknesse pain Yea sorrow lesse and misery and death God fountain is of blesse jor life and breath In Christ these 〈◊〉 Behold the mystery Manhead united with the Deity Yea all those properties and consequents Of each found place in him a battell thence In him was fought while sin on righteousnesse Death on eternall life and curse on blesse Made their assault for these on him did seise Cause God to bruise his precious soul did please Death with us train could finde but small alode Though the humanity did yeeld thereto The Deity soon resoued is therefro And since our evils in that death did meet The eater yeelded meat and the strong sweet God shen'd himself in man in weaknesse strength In darknesse glortom light in shortnesse length Even length of daies and immortality Death being swallowed up in victory Of which mans nature being dispessest Is now become in him Gods endlesse rest Yea men is there the seat of blessings all Asâ—eâ—ded and captivity made thrall Which treastored are in him for us from thence Blessing of every kinde God doth â—â—spense Christy his hoâ—y Word and Spirit by which He peace and pardon in 〈◊〉 Name doth preachâ— By these he worketh saith and that the 〈◊〉 'Twixt us and Christ bringing to unitie With him from which doth such communion slow That he and we no longer are as two â—oyn'd in one spirit as he took our flesh So he gives us his Spirit which doth refresh And fill our hearts with joy Gods power he is Conquering death and its accomplices In us as once in Christ with whom joyn'd thus He writes his Name upon us God with us He is our life in death hope in despair Our strength in weakâ—sse and he doth repair Our breaches all while he doth make us see That we shall râ—st and reign as well as he Oh glorious death by which our life appears Oh glorious Spirit that our hearts no bears Oh gloricus Word that doth this tidings bring Oh glorious Chaâ— where our heavenly King Comes riding to 〈…〉 precious Faith That such a spring and such an issue hath Oh precious Lord that barâ—st to us such love Try self so to abase â—ll to remove From 〈…〉 whom it lay and would have wrought Our and esse ruine Thou to is hast brought Life yea immortall life Thou art the day That lightnest our night Thou art the way By which God comes to 〈◊〉 in he great night By which he give to 〈◊〉 his holy Spirit By which we come to him and finde his power Infusing life into us in deaths hour Thâ—â—s art the Word on thee the Spirit is put To open eyes that blinde are and unshut The stepped ears from bondage to set free And to get over dâ—â—th full victory Oh shew thy self to us be thou our life Fill us with peece and joy end all our strife Be thou our All open our hearts to see And fill us withâ—ly glory so shall we Triumph in midst of death and sing thy praise Full well assured that thou thenâ—e wilt raise Vs up again and set us on thy Throne For evermore with God to be at one THE LIFE OF FAITH IN DEATH The Text. HEBREWS 11.13 14. All these died 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in or according to faith not having received the promises but seeing them afar off they were perswaded and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners in the earth For they that say such things manifest that they seek a Countrey THe custome of a solemn interring of the dead bodies of deceased friends and of making lamentations over them is very ancient and laudable the mention of it is as old as Abrahams time we finde it was then a custome usuall in the Eastern countries as we reade in the book of Genesis of the Patriarchs and Egyptians and surely in its original it was tessera fidei amoris a pledge and testimony both of their faith and love fidei a witnesse of their faith that they beleeved and looked for the resurrection of the body and therefore would decently bestow cost upon and interre the body amoris of their love to the deceased whose reliques therefore they so sarre honoured and whose losse or absence rather they lamented as in their presence formerly they had been delighted thus I might shew you Abraham himself the father of the faithfull Gen. 23.2 burying the Corps of his deceased Sarah and
caring for and getting in the things of this world 1 Tim. 6.7 for we must leave them As we brought nothing into this World With us so we are sure We can carry nothing out With us Sobriety in all things for we must die to them Sobriety in fears of growing enemies Psa 49.17 18. Be not thou afraid When one is made rich and the glory of his house is encreased yea though he be one that bâ—tes thee and so hath more power visibly to harm thee for his day will come he also is but mortall and death will overtake him and bring down his excellency and when he dies he shall not take any thing with him nor shall his glory and pomp descend after him Isa 57.12 who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die and of the Son of man that shall be made as grasse though here enemies be strong and potent and use their power wickedly to persecute the innocent and oppresse them yet this their state is but for a moment they also shall die and goe down to the dust and then where is their fury in the grave we shall be quiet and they have no power to harm us Job 3.17 18 19. There the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary are at rest there the prisoners rest together and they hear not the voice of the oppressour the small and great are there and the servant is free from his master yea the thought of death might further us in taking of our Saviours counsell Joh. 6.29 Labour not for the meat that perisheth but for that that will endure to life eternall Set not we our hearts on these things whereof death will surely deprive us and we know not how near that is unto us but look we after those things that will abide with us after death and carry us through death which it hath no power over nor can take from us the favour of God the light of his countenance faith and a good conference assurance of eternal happinesse when thou hast these things thou must rejoice indeed and thy joy nor men nor death can take away from thee These all died But wherefore died they There might be many reasons given but I will not insist upon them they died that they might be removed from the evil of the world and not alwaies therewith burthened Isa 57 1. The righteous is taken away from the evil to come and they died that they might rest from their labour Rev. 14.13 that having done their work and served their generation as is said of David Act. 13.36 they might go to bed and sleep 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they shall enter into rest or peace they shall rest in their beds each one walking in his uprightnesse Isa 57.2 thence death is usually in Scripture called a sleep such a one fell asleep and such a one slept with his fathers thence the heathen Poets have also called sleep Placidissima mortis imago and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the pleasant image resemblance and as it were the premeditation of death But I passe from these things and goe forward with the text for this is not the businesse that the Apostle here mainly propounds though very usefull for us to consider and at this time also very seasonable and sutable with our present occasion that we also might be stirred up with earnestnesse to pray as that good man of God Psa 90.12 So teach us O Lord to number our daies that we may apply our hearts unto wisedom but the Apostle adds These all died 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in or according to faith Secundum fidem after the faith What Did they die in faith Did their faith die Verily no they did not cast away their faith when they died but exercised it their act of dying too was done in faith and according to their faith they died in an exercise of faith that it might be further manifest according to the first proposition and prime intent of the Apostle here that they did live by faith as they did believe in God while they lived so when they came to die they yeelded up themselves to God in that belief and were not shaken from it no not by death they feared not in the valley of the shadow of death Psa 23.3 nor fainted in the hour of death Gen. 49.18 even then also they waited for Gods salvation though death ceised on their bodies yet they retained and let not goe their confidence though the day of their lives here was expired yet died not their hopes and hearts within them but were supported by faith with the expectation of another day in which the promises should be enjoyed and here we may further note the excellency of faith They that live by faith die in faith the just by saith fiâ—de life through their faith even in the midst of death These all died in faith In this these righteous ones diffâ—r fâ—m others All die but die not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as becometh faâ—th or with an experiment of the power of faith all die passively they sâ—ffer the pains of death and have their lives feâ—â—hed from them but all are not active in death willingly and believingly to resign up their spirits to God and cast themselves into his arms with confidence that he will keep and restore them and notwithstanding death intervene their receit of his word and the performance of his promise yet he will not fail of his word but perform every jot and tittle of it to them This is the carriage and priviledge of those that have the word of God abiding in and united by faith with them These all died in faith these die in the Lord 1 Th. 4.16 Rev. 14.3 Through faith they close with and are enclosed in the power strength and vertue of the Lord Jesus Christ by which their souls are acted and carried with lively hope and expectation of good from God through him and as they live in him so they die in him too as they walk in his vertue and power while alive in the body so in the same vertue power putting forth it self in yea encompassing their souls through faith they depart out of the body unto God and depoâ—e themselves with God till the time in which he shall restore them These hold fast their faith to the death and in death that they mighthe examples and encouragem â—s to us also to hold â—sastâ— that we may have the like use and beneâ—â—â— of it in our deaths But may some object But how do these things stand together Object Faith and Death When Christ hath said that if a man keep his saying he shall never see death Joh. 8.51 What is it to keep his saying but to believe his sayings and hold fast that belief and did not Abraham keep his sayings and the Prophets keep his sayings might not we be offended at Christ as the Jews were and say with them All
to their own countrey which they came out of at Gods commandment as the former sort of men deny the word of faith and discover their defect of faith by opposition to the word so these by their works declare the vanity of their words neither of these faiths faith upon works and not grounded on and springing from the word nor faith or rather a saying a man hath faith without works inward operations and outward testimonies through the power of the word feeding it will suffice to make a man just or cause him to live nor will either of them be sufficient for dying to keep a man that he see not death But there 's one thing more yet they received not the promises though they beleeved and saw them afar off they died in faith but yet enjoyed them not how may we understand that and what shall we note from it The promises metonymically for the things promised which are either for this life or the life that is to come for this life such as these to be a shield to them to protect them provide for them give them children c. for the life to come such as the countrey or city that hath foundations the full enjoyment of himself and his glory and as the way to that the Messias to be born of their seed to die and rise c. as also to blesse all nations in him Again the word promise sometimes in Scripture signifies the word of promise or the promise it self made in words to us and by these distinctions and considerations we may resolve a doubt for whereas it 's said here these all died in faith not having received the promises it 's said as we reade it in ver 17. that Abraham had received the promise He that had received the promises offered up his only begotten Son and so chap. 6.15 after he had patiently endured he obtained the promise The solution that the word of a promise he had received from God God made his promise with and to him and that promise as a thing made in word he had received it he heard it and beleeved it but he had not received the things spoken of in that promise or in those promises as the word promises in the text signifies the things promised 2. He did before he died obtain and receive the promise in some things but not in all the promises for this life of having God a shield to him to protect him and be his God and own him and give him a Sonne these he had obtained and received before the died yea before he offered up his son Isaac but not all the promises nor the main things promised as neither the land of Canaan nor the multiplying his seed as the stars of heaven nor the Messias coming and blessing all nations nor which is the main the full thing aimed at the heavenly countrey or kingdome the enjoyment of God and Christ in glory with his seed and yet these they were heirs of these fell to them by lot from God Heb. 6.12 yea these they received in semine in Isaac and Isaac in Iacob c. they had them in pignore but not in plenitudine in the first fruits or pledge but not in the full enjoyment They all died in faith not having received the promises the greatest part the glory and the inheritance promised they received not and yet though they had them not till their death yet they left not off believing and hoping for them nay in their very death they held fast that faith and hope of them and that upheld them in death they knew themselves heirs of them and judged God faithfull not to deprive them But how could that be seeing now they died without them Sure then they looked for another day and time in which they should enjoy them and in which we also that now believe should enjoy them with them as is said ver 39 40. These all being Wiâ—nessed of by faith or having received a good report or testimony by saith received not the promises God having provided some better thing for us that they without us should not be made perfect God hath provided another time and day in which they and we together shall receive and enjoy them Mâ—nde we here then a little these dying beleeved still the receit of the promises though even at the time of their death they had not received them how did they then believe wrong or right was the thing they believed true or false Surely their faith was good for the holy Ghost here commends it and God therefore vouchsafed to be called their God having prepared a city for them vers 16. and if so then surely they must yet have the promises performed to them though now dead What shall we say then Verily we must needs hence further note That there shall be a resurrection from the dead Note 5. death shall not frustrate the promises of God and make void their faith There shall be a time when they shall be brought out of the power of death and grave and then shall receive the promises that they died short of then shall the word of God be performed to them and indeed here was the triumph of their faith that though God kill them and take their lives from them and they never see the fulfilling of the prime things promised yet they beleeved that they should receive them death it self wherein according to sense there was an end put to them and all further hope and expectation could not make their faith to fail them for they beleeve in God that raised the dead and calleth things that are not as if they were Rom. 4 17. and so above hope beleeved in hope according not to sense but to what was spoken of God so shall thy seed be O the power and vertue of divine faith supported by the power of God in the belief of the resurrection from the dead Surely if they believed not in vain as without doubt they did not then it undeniably follows that they shall have and so that there is a day of Resurrection when the promised countrey and glory shall be made good unto them Verily if this doctrine were not true our faith were vain and the Gospel preaching with its promises vain we could have no ground for faith in death but faith and hope and all must die with us but now they died all in faith though they had not yet received the promises verily there shall be a reward for the righteous for all their faith and patience verily there shall then be a resurrection of them that they may be rewarded the time of the resurrection of the just is the time of their remuneration as in Luk. 14.14 Thou shalt be rewarded in the resurrection of the just deny the resurrection of the just and thou takest away the hope of their reward and thou makest them of all men most miserable because here they have a time of deeper sufferings and sorrowings
then is nothing with them to trim up themselves and wear and eat and drink the best to play and game and perhaps do worse things these they will not deny the flesh they will please it what they can here because they think it shall have no pleasure or good hereafter But oh take heed to the Scriptures both Pharisees and Sadduces erre in not knowing and believing them Mat. 27.29 ye erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God they pretend to know them better then others while they can pervert them more then others and while they pretend a more spirituall understanding of them they contradict the spirit of understanding speaking in them and through fraud and subtlety seduce the simple seeming at first to speak as they till they winde them into their snares as Tertullian observed of them in his times De Res Car. they would say to the simple-hearted Vae qui in hâe carne non resurrexerint Wo to them that rise not in this flesh which the simple hearted hearing oftentimes were led to judge they meant honestly and according to the Scripture only whenas they meant saies he Dum in hâc carne sunt that rise not while they are in this flesh and so by one part of truth seemingly confessed the rising of our spirits here by faith with Christ they would by little and little undermine the faith of the simple-hearted and doctrinate them not to matter and then to deny the resurrection of the body running themselves and them that listened to them into the errour of Hymenaeus and Philetus 2 Tim. 2.17 that say the resurrection is already past in whose very footsteps many also now walk not knowing the Scriptures yea departing from the Scriptures and not acknowledging the power of God thence say they how should the bodies that are long since dead and divers waies dispersed and that have endured so many transmutations be possibly raised and how can the world it self contain them as if they did not believe God Almighty and that all things are possible to him beyond our thought to whom I might say with the Apostle Act. 26 8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead But I say again minde we the word of God and so minde and keep it that we may be kept by it in the faith from this dangerous errour of the wicked dream not with them of all our resurrection here no coming of Christ but what they meet with here no performance of promises but what they have here all enjoyments and fullnesse and perfection here sure if that was true Paul was very low and ignorant to them when he saies he had finished his course 2 Tim. 4 8. and kept the faith and yet adds henceforth is laid up for me the crown of righteousnesse which God the righteous Judge shall give me at that day he had done his work and yet he had not received his reward it was but laid up for him and laid up to be given him not in this but in that day in another day the day of Christs appearance sure then the Apostle was out here too when he said these all died in faith and yet had not received the promises Nay the Apostle ' Paul instructs us that we shall not one prevent another in the receit of them 1 Thes 4.15 They that live at the coming of Christ shall not prevent them that are asleep They that now live shall not have them till Abraham Isaac and Jacob have them nor they before we have them Heb. 11.40 the dead in Christ shall be first raised at his coming and the living changed and both be caught into the air up together to meet him certainly they say false then that say Christ is come to them in his glory and they are raised and have the promises all they look for or all that any shall have and yet many of their brethren died without them and are not yet raised and if we will believe them never shall be and many yet are uncalled to them But beloved regard we not their sayings but know them to be false and vain and look we to Christ that died for us and rose again and know that as he rose so shall we also and together with Abraham and the Patriarchs and Prophets and all the Saints shall be caught up at his appearance to meet him 1 Thes 4.18 as the Apostle exhorts us comfort we one another for our deceased brethren with these sayings And indeed what comfort could we have for one another in respect of them if we believed that all their portion they are to have they have had it already and when they and we die our spirits go to God and our bodies to the dust and ther 's an end of the matter we shall never enjoy them again there shall be no resurrection away with such unchristian and unsavours conceptions and let ns where we have believed hold fast the faith and not upon any pretence or by any Philosophy or vain deceit of man depart therefrom let us live in it that we may die in it or according to it And thus I have given you a view of the text I suppose you expect I should now return to our present occasion and say something about our deceased brother Truly the text is such a comment on him as that we might go over it again and apply it to him or you might understand that spoken of these Worthies here as if said of him he believed the Gospel and had insight in it and oftentimes rejoiced much in it was perswaded of it embraced it loved it counted himself a stranger and pilgrim in the earth walkt with that contempt and carelessenesse of it how it thought of him and esteemed him as if he judged it not his habitation but had his eye as indeed he had upon a better countrey an enduring city that hath foundations he lived in this world as if he had his heart in another world not regarding nor scarce suffering the honours of this world or of this place to be thrust upon him his name was nothing to him for the Gospels sake that he would approve whoever disproved him he would stop his ears against and not endure to hear of their sayings who deny Christs mediation and impugn the doctrine of the resurrection and professing his joy and comfort to be therein and in the hope he had therethrough of an enduring happy condition for justice uprightnesse and honesty it was his aim and endeavour and therein hath not left many to exceed I doubt I may say to equallize him we may say of him the righteous man is taken away and the mercifull man from amongst us In both which respects I fear many will misse him as the loins of the poor blessed him alive so I doubt they will finde cause of mourning for his death as he affected not honour with men so did he not long enjoy it God not judging us worthy the improvement of his abilities for the good of the Town perhaps because no better respected when more able by them he was more like the self-denying Olive then the aspiring bramble he looked upon earths honour as a burthen having his chief desire upon that which is from heaven therefore God hath taken him from his burthen to give him his desire in a word he was upright in his life faithful to the truth to his death patient under affliction though long in great pain and very desirous of his dissolution that he might be with Christ Let it be ourcare to imitate him in these good steps that with him and all those who through faith and patience have looked after the promises of God we may in due time be raised up and brought to inherit them I shall only adde an Epitaph upon him and I shall leave both you and him * ⎠* FINIS AN EPITAPH QVi cum vixit erat Major major moriendo est Morte repurgatus quam fuit ipse prius Majestatis erat brevita cadaveris umbra Vix ea majestas illius umbra brevis Spe laetus multumque gemens mala publica corpus Mandat humo plenam numine caelo animam In English thus This man alive was May'r now dead is more Advanc't death bettring him then heretofore Short shade o' th corps of Royalty he was That Royalty scarce shadowed what he was Who joy'd in hope did publike woes condole Left earth his corps to heaven his gracefull soul FINIS