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A18384	A sermon preached at Farington in Barkeshire, the seuenteene of Februarie, 1587 At the buriall of the right Honorable the Ladie Anne Countes of Warwicke, daughter to the Duke of Sommerset his grace, and widowe of the right worshipfull Sir Edward Vmpton knight. By Bartholomew Chamberlaine, Doctor of Diuinitie.	Chamberlaine, Bartholomew, 1545 or 6-1621.	1591 (1591)	STC 4952; ESTC S118615	11,801	34

death to them which are taken away in his wrath without repentance Behold the day cometh saith Malachie that shall burne as an ouen and all the proude yea and all that do wickedly shalbe as stuble and the day that cometh shal burne them vp saith the Lord of hosts and shal leaue them neither roote nor branch The Lord saith the Prophet Dauid is a righteous iudge strong patiēt and God is prouoked euery day if a man will not turne he hath whet his sword hée hath bent his bow and made it readie if the Lorde be angry the earth shall tremble quake the very foundation of the mountaine shall moue and shake When Adam perceiued the anger of God kindled against him for his transgression he could not abide his voice but went about to hide himselfe in the middest of Paradice sinne maketh men foolish for he coulde not hide himselfe from God which is present euery where beholdeth all things When Cain felt the wrath of God incensed against him for embruing his guilty hands with the guiltles bloud of his righteous brother Abel he fell into a desperate minde my punishmēt is more then may be borne my sinne is greater then it may be forgiuen mentiris Cain saith Augustine Maior est Dei misericordia quam omnium peccatorum miseria In the 21. of Nombers The wrath of God was kindled against certaine tempters and they were destroyed of serpents The wrath of God was enflamed against certain murmurers and they were destroyed of the destroyer Num. 14. The wrath of God was kindled against certaine that committed fornication and there fel in one day twenty and thrée thousand All these thinges came vnto them for examples and are written to admonish vs vpon whom the ends of the world are come This anger of God against sinne how great it is by this it may appeare that when man had sinned no creature in heauen or in earth could appease it but only he which is y e loue of the father the brightnes of his glory and the very ingraued fourme of his person euen Iesus Christ our sauiour who appeared to loose the works of the diuell and through death destroyed him which had the power of death that is the diuel and to redeem vs from the curse of the law was made a curse for vs and being consecrate was made the author of eternal saluatiō vnto al them y t obey him and is made more excellent then the Angels in as much as he hath obtained a more excellent name then they penitent sinners confessing with their mouthes the Lord Iesus belieuing in their harts that God raised him from the deade to whom God hath not giuen the spirit of feare but of power of loue and of a sound minde néede not to stand in feare of God his anger for vnto them and for them Sathan the author of sinne is vanquished sin the worke of Sathan is destroyed death the effect of sinne is subdued The curse of the law is taken away the wrath of God is pacified and man to God euerlastingly reconciled They which are subiect to God his anger are the wicked men of corrupt mindes reprobate concerning the faith louers of their owne selues no louers at al of them which are good louers of pleasures more then louers of God hauing a shew of godlinesse but haue denyed the power thereof Notwithstanding if they could forsake euil and doe good if they coulde cast away all filthinesse superftuity of maliciousnes and receiue with meekenes y e word which is able to saue their soules if they could put off that old man which is corrupt though the deceaueble lusts be renewed in the spirit of theyr minde put on that new man which after God is created vnto righteousnes and true holines they should not néed to fear God his anger for God is pleased in Christ for his owne sake This is my beloued son in whom I am well pleased heare him There are two sorts of sinners some penitent some impenitent Impenitent sinners are they which are led with sensuality as naturall brute beastes walking after theyr owne lustes whose mouths speake proud things and the swelling words of vanity whose eies are full of adultery and that cannot cease to sin whose harts are exercised with coueteousnes whose minds are puffed vp with pride hauing no sense of sinne no féeling of Gods mercy no swéetenes in Christ his merits not seruing God for hée is a spirite and they are carnall for he is charity and they are malicious for he is light they walke in darkenes of ignorance and sin which minde nothing but earthly things Penitēt sinners are they which rent their harts and not their garments and turn to the Lord their God hauing in them that godly sorrow which causeth repentance vnto saluation beléeuing in true repentance that when they shall confesse their sinnes God is faithful and iust to forgiue them their sinnes and to clense them from all iniquity denying all vngodlines and worldly lusts and studying to liue soberly iustly and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and appearing of the glory of that mighty God and of our Sauiour Iesus Christ who gaue himselfe for vs that he might redeeme vs from al iniquity and purge vs to be a peculiar people vnto him selfe zealous of good works To him therefore with the Father and the holy Ghost thrée in persons one in nature bee glory and maiesty and dominion and power both now and for euer Amen FINIS

A Sermon preached at Farington in Barkeshire the seuenteene of Februarie 1587. At the buriall of the right Honorable the Ladie Anne Countes of Warwicke daughter to the Duke of Sommerset his grace and widowe of the right worshipfull Sir Edward Vmpton knight By Bartholomew Chamberlaine Doctor of Diuinitie LONDON Printed by Iohn Wolfe and are to be sold at his shop at the broad south dore of Paules 1591. To the right Honorable and most vertuous Ladie the Ladie Doritie Vmpton Bartholomew Chamberlaine wisheth increase of health wealth worship and godlines with long life here to gods glorie and euerlasting life hereafter with Christ Iesus in heauen WHether yee eate or drinke or whatsoeuer ye doe do all to the glorie of God as the Apostle saith Which when I remembred to the glorie of my creator and benefite of his church I thought good to commit this little treatise to writing preached at the buriall of your motherinlaw a noble Ladie a faithfull wife a vertuous woman and a godly widow And because your Ladishippe whose giftes of bodie and minde are excellent heard it with attention as you do alwaies the word of truth to gods praise and your owne commendation be it spoken I tooke it meete to dedicate it to you for a New yeares gift and declaration of my thankfull mind for your manifold courtesies towardes me And forasmuch as the daies are euill sinne abounding and charitie being cold I haue therefore set downe the iudgements of God against the dissolute people of this age which haue a shew of godlines but haue denied the power thereof And seeing they giue themselues to commit all sinne euen with greedines being proude without humilitie malicious without charity cruell without compassion coueteous without measure vaine without vertue vile without the feare of God like to the horse and mule in whom is no vnderstanding therefore they shall vndoubtedly tast the bitter cuppe of Gods heauie displeasure except they speedily and truely repent Which if they shall do though their sinnes were as crimsin they shall be made white as snowe though they were red as skarlet they shall bee as wooll and that they may so do I daiely and deuoutly craue of God in the gratious name and glorious face of Iesus Christ his sonne who gaue him selfe for vs to redeeme vs from all iniquitie and to purge vs to bee a peculiar people vnto himselfe zealous of good workes To him therefore with the Father and the holy Ghost three in persons one God in nature be all glorie for euer Your Ladiships at commandement Bartholomew Chamberlaine A Sermon preached at Farington in Barkeshire the seuenteene of Februarie 1587. O Death how bitter is the remēmbrance of thée to a man that liueth at rest in his possessions vnto the man that hath nothing to vexe him and that hath prosperity in al thinges yea vnto him that is able to receiue meate O death how bitter is the remembrance of thée to the Epicure which beléeuing no resurrection of the bodie to life euerlasting but counting it pleasure to liue deliciously for a season doth spue out euill words corrupting good manners saying Let vs eat and drinke for to morowe we shall die O death how bitter is y e remembrance of thée to the coueteous whose trust is in vncertain riches not in the liuing God which giueth vs aboundantly all thinges to enioy to the glutton whose God is his belly and glorie to his shame to the Atheist which hath no hope and is without God in the world O death how swéete is the remembrance of thée to him which hath put on the brestplate of faith and loue and the hope of saluation for an Helmet liuing soberly iustly and godly in this present world hauing his conuersation in heauen from whence also ye looke for the Sauiour euen the Lord Iesus Christ desiring to be loosed and to be with him which is best of all O death how swéete is the remembrance of thée to the man which looketh not on the thinges which are séene for they are temporall but on the thinges which are not séene for they are eternall because to him thou art the ende of all miserie and the beginning of all felicitie because thou art a passage to the thinges which eye hath not seene neither eare hath heard neither came into mans hart which God hath prepared for them that loue him Notwithstanding though the remembrance of death to some be bitter yea bitterer then wormewood it selfe yet it is appointed for all men once to die It is appointed therefore it is certaine for all men therefore none can escape once to die therfore euery houre death is to be expected It is appointed for rich Cresus and poore Codrus for wise Salomon and foolish Esau for godly Abell and wicked Caine for proude Pharao and méeke Moises for vertuous Iosua for mightie Dauid for faire Absolon for strong Sampson for learned Tertullus for prince and people it is appointed for all once to die Noah liued nine hundreth and fiftie yeares and died Adam liued nine hundred and thirty yeares and died Methuselah liued nine hundreth sixtie and nine yeares and dyed And of all the fathers of the olde Testament though it be saide they liued long yet it is added they went the way of all the world that is they died Now it is good to remember death it is better to learne to die it is best of all in death to hope for life knowing that if one earthly house of this tabernacle bée destroyed wée haue a building giuen of God that is an house not made with handes but eternall in the heauens Some to remēber death do go euery morning into the church yeard and behold the graues Some wil haue deathes head engrauen in a ring Some death painted on their houses Philip king of the Macedonians euery morning before he came out of his chābre had one to cry thrise at his dore remember thou art a man Whereby he was put in minde of his mortality that albeit he was a king yet in time he must lay downe his tabernacle as well as others Which consideration might make him to rule discréetly and to liue orderly For there can bee no stronger bridle to hold vs backe from sinne neither sharper prick to stirre vs forward to goodnes then to remember we must remoue out of this body and appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ to receiue the thinges which we haue done in this bodie according to that we haue done whether it be good or euill Saint Hierom was wont to say whether I eate or drinke or whatsoeuer I do me thinkes that terrible Trumpet soundeth in mine eare Arise ye dead and come vnto iudgment This made him to hope in Christ stedfastly to loue God sincerely to ouercome his affections valiently to repent his sinne vnfainedly to beare the troubles of this life patiently knowing that the afflictiōs of this present times are not worthy of the glorie which shall be