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A48948	A sermon preached at Lambeth, April 21, 1645, at the funerall of that learned and polemicall divine, Daniel Featley, Doctor in Divinity, late preacher there with a short relation of his life and death / by William Leo [sic] ...	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing L2817; ESTC R7483	22,538	42

miles distant from one another 12. We served together in three Convocations to wit the last two of King James of precious memory to whom we had the honour to be Chaplaines in Ordinary and the first of King Charles kept at Oxford All which time he strongly set himselfe against all that had any smack of Rome or Romish superstition 13. In which Convocations five and forty of us whereof he was chiefe made a solemn Covenant among our selves to oppose every thing that did but savour or scent never so little of Pelagianisme or Semi-Pelagianisme And being elected by the Clergie of Surrey for to be a Clerk of the Convocation for this present Parliament and hearing me make Protestation in the face of that Clergie an occasion being offered in these terms Atque odi ego Arminianismum ac Bellarminianismum came and embraced me in his armes and said Well said good brother I protest and will sweare the like Ay me much more might be said of his Christian living and carriage amongst us but I hasten to his Christian leaving of us 1. He was not idle no not to his very end After he came to Chelsey by the favour and grace of the Parliament to take the ayre for the cure of his infirmities I resorting unto him with a visit found him very ill affected with the Asthma in saburra stomachi and with the Dropsie which was on the left side of his face and was falne into his left legge insomuch as I perceiving that he spake with great shortnesse of breath and much difficulty to utter his words in our conference I requesting him to spare his speech I related severall passages unto him which hee much rejoyced in and so it tooke up the rest of the time I then stayed with him 2. Within lesse then a weeke after this my visit of him there was a rumour spread that he was distracted of his wits which when I heard I hasted to him as soone as he heard in his chamber that I was there he speedily came downe to me into the Hall where after embracings as our manner was we sat down and talked Truly I durst not tell him what I heard concerning the rumour but after a little pause he told me himselfe of it in this manner Wot you what Brother why they say I am mad Now absit quoth I. He replyed My case is like Sophocles the Tragedian whose sonnes accused him for a mad man and therefore by their law he by the sentences of the Judges had his Quietus est no more to trouble himselfe with the affaires of his state Hereupon Sophocles that wrote Tragedies even to extreame age recited to the Judges a Tragedy of his own making which he had then in his hand called Oedipus Coloneus and asked the Judges after he had read it unto them Whether that Tragedy did scent or savour any whit of madnesse or distraction Upon this question the Judges changed their mindes and judgements and quit him from the accusation of his unworthy sonnes So sayes he I shall leave such notes behind me quoted in this time of my weakenesse for Nulla dies sine linea no sober man will think or conceive to be the meditations of a mad man 3. But when I perceived that this rumour did somewhat affect him I said I hope Brother this false report need not trouble you awhit it is usuall in this sorry world for worthy men to heare of evill when they are most busied in goodnesse How was that most judicious and sound Divine Mr. Calvin used by foolish Surius and malitious Bellarmine who reported that he dyed of the Pthiriasis the lowsie evill such as Herod dyed of Act. 11. ult. when it was but an ordinary disease called the Phthisis or Tissick How was Theodorus de Beza used when it was reported at Rome that Beza was dead and a little before his death that he had revolted and falne back to Rome yea and a lying Libell printed at Rome flew into all parts of Christendom intituled Tota Geneva Catholizat But Beza lived to answer that Pamphlet with a Treatise called Tota Roma Critizat Cretizatque For Paul in his Epistle to Titus cap. 1. sayes The Cretians were alwayes lyars evill beasts slow bellies c. and cited unto them the Greek verse out of one of their owne Poets to manifest it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Yea further Saint Paul makes this verse Scripture by his attestation in the words following after it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is to say this witnesse is true 4. Further he told me that he was writing still and I encouraged him with {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Indeed the lively voyce in preaching moveth more yet a mans writing teacheth more For it gives a man leave to pause on it and doth not strike the eares onely and then away Words have wings {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Writing reacheth those that are far off words those that are neere Words reach onely to them that are alive writing to them that are unborne He that speaketh profiteth his owne congregation but he that writeth profiteth all hee that speaketh for an houre but he that writeth for ever After this I departed from him and saw him no more for within six dayes after I heard he was dead and by credentiall witnesses am assured that he departed this life a sound and faithfull Protestant living and professing at end That hee dyed in the Faith and Religion of the Church of England established by many Parliaments 5. Thus he ran this course and was faithfull and painfull unto death and God I make no doubt hath washed his soule in the blood of the Lambe and hath given him a Crowne of life which shall never be taken from him I leave him in the hands of his God in whom hee ever beleeved and ever carefully served I now returne to the gentle Reader and certifie thee That he was ever the same man never dismayed with paines taking not unlike the Palme Timber which never bendeth under never so great a lading but riseth upward against it and as the children of Israel shrunk not down under their labour howsoever it were increased Wherefore all that knew him gave glory to God saying Surely the Lord hath done great things for him and by him I doe not give him halfe his due as they know that knew him yet haply more then every one that knew us both doe or may think fit to be spoken of him but truth is truth whosoever is the speaker and of the abundance of the heart the mouth will utter and the Pen will write howsoever it be taken I hope I shall not seem absurd to any sober Reader for in all I have spoken I yeeld nothing so to flesh and blood neither have I stretched my selfe beyond his measure as the Apostle speaketh Dr. Bucer called himselfe Pila fortunae and surely this Doctor and I being together

to God nor to man nor to himselfe The fourth beast is not named but deciphered to have teeth of iron This is no other beast but hellish and diabolicall malice which rends teares and tyrannizes over the proud Peacocks the stinking voluptuous Beare and the amphibious Leopard The fourth passage is That the Sea of this world is passing dangerous in respect of the inconstancie thereof Sometimes in siraquedry and excesse lifting worldlings up to heaven upon her billowes and anon sinking them downe as it were to hell as the holy Psalmist tells you The Philosophers tell us that the Moone is Mistris of the Sea and the Moone is ever constant in her continued inconstancie The Moone never shineth long with one and the same countenance but still she is either in her wane or in her increment Ay me how fit a semblance is this Moon a Mistris of the Sea and the inconstancie of the Sea and Moon an absolute Demonstration of this Sea of slippery and brittle glasse Thus have we made good the fitnesse of the Resemblance That the Sea of this world is passing dangerous in foure respects Namely by reason it is subject to every disgust of the ayre blow the wind out of what quarter you will Secondly dangerous in respect of the many rocks shelves syrtes and sands Thirdly dangerous in respect of Sea-monsters And fourthly dangerous in respect of this worlds constant inconstancie The second piece of the Doctrinall part of my Proposition is this That all the passages in this world are ever transitory and alwayes fleeting The holy Divine St. John is very plaine and passing peremptory in this The world passeth away and the lust thereof but he that doth the will of the Lord abideth ever We all know that we are all in passage the world is either leaving us or we the world peradventure this night who can tell how soon this voice may be heard at your chamber window Thou foole this night shall they snatch thy soule from thee whose are those things then that thou possessest now If not to night yet the wise man tells you They have wings and askes you this question Wilt thou set thy hears upon that which is not For riches take unto them wings and flye away Jeremy tells the Muck-worme that he is like the foolish Partridge which sits abrood on egges and never hatcheth them So the fond worldlings have riches and enjoy them not And the holy Psalmist burnes the foolish worldling in the fore-head with a Behold the man who tooke not God for his strength but boasted and blest himselfe in the multitude of his riches The third piece of my Proposition is this That all the passages of this world are never satisfactory They that drinke Sea-water doe never quench their thirst but are dry and thirsty still Whose eye was ever satisfied with seeing whose eare with hearing whose scent with smelling whose mouth with eating Men may satiate their senses but never satisfie them The Prodigall was not satisfied with his revelling excesse though he brought his noble to nine pence and his nine pence to nothing The Scholler is never satisfied with his knowledge He that encreaseth his doctrine encreaseth his dolour Nor yet the honourable either in the state Ecclesiasticall or Civill Nor the opulent man with all his fulnesse See the antiphony of those that have nothing and those that have too much They both cry out O what shall we doe So cryed the foole in the Gospel when his increase was bigger then his barne And so complained the poore Prodigall when hee had not one Denier to help himself withall if he had not had a good Father to goe unto and remembred him at last cast the poore starveling had eaten husks with Swine and pitifully perished The fourth and last piece of the Doctrinall part of my Proposition is this That all the passages of this world are alwayes open overt obvious and transparent to God with whom we have to doe The sweet Singer of Israel expostulates this truth with his God Whither shall I goe from thy Spirit or thy presence If to heaven thou art there in thy displayed glory If to hell thou art there also in thy judgements on the wicked in torments If to Sea thine hand must guide me there too If I thinke the darknesse shall hide me the darke night to God is as cleere as the brightest day The Spirit of God tells you That there is no creature that is not manifest to his sight and all things are open and naked to him with whom we have to doe And the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ sayes That Gods eyes like flaming fire run to and fro thorow all the world This last piece of the doctrinall part of my Proposition as it is a terrour and trembling to the wicked all whose cursed and crying wickednesses are open to his all-seeing eyes so it is a cordiall and comfort to the godly knowing and considering that their heavenly Father seeth and beholdeth all their pressures vexations and distresses that they endure and lye under in this slippery brittle and boisterous Sea of the world Would you know the reasons of these particular truths As first why the passages of this world are so dangerous The reasons are ready It is because the raging Sea is not subject to so many disgusts either of dangerous rockes stormes shelves shallowes syrtes sands Sea-monsters and other incumbrances as this restlesse world is that is fraught with dangers and incarnate divels What find we here but brevity in all our Contents as the Prophet Esay Evangelizeth It is even as when a hungry man dreameth and behold he eateth but he awaketh and his soule is empty Or as when a thirsty man dreameth and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and his soule is faint Oh how many are there in this Sea of glasse whose whole course of life is but a dreame and when death comes they are awakened and never till then in all their life and their soules are empty of all comfort and fainting dye and their places know them no more What finde we here but levity the very wicked confesse as much saying We have wearied our selves in the wayes of wickednesse and the wayes of the Lord wee have been strangers to What finde wee here but Cymmerian blindenesse millions selling away their interest to Heaven for nothing What find we here but multitude and vast magnitude of all sorts of iniquities transgressions and sinnes God himselfe complaining by his Prophet Amos with a witnesse Behold saith the Lord I am pressed under you as a Cart is pressed that is full of sheaves VVhat meet we here daily but with deceitfulnesse on all hands the world it selfe is all glasse and where it glittereth most there it cracketh and breaketh soonest VVhat doe we finde the world to be in our experience of it but a