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A09867	The baronets buriall, or A funerall sermon preached at the solemnitie of that honourable baronet Sr Edvvard Seymours buriall. By Barnaby Potter Bachelor in Divinitie, fellow of Queenes College in Oxford, and preacher to the towne of Tottnes in Devon	Potter, Barnaby, 1577-1642.	1613 (1613)	STC 20133; ESTC S114967	24,302	46

30 Ibid. 28. with the beasts of the field shall never bee blotted out Builde vp your selues your sonnes and families in the feare of God and then your houses and honors shal cōtinue longer then those that build them castles and cal their lands and livings after their owne names Els feare the curse which the Prophet hath pronounced Wo vnto Psal 49. 11. Jer. 22. 13. him that buildeth his house by vnrighteousnes and his chambers without equity and vseth his neighbor without wages and giueth him not for his worke hee saith I will build me a wide house and large chambers so he will make himselfe large windowes and seeling with cedar paint them with vermilion shalt thou raigne because thou closest thy selfe in Cedar Did not thy father eate and drinke and prosper when he executed iudgement Will you continue you name by your numerous progenie and multitude of children descended from your loines So might Ahab haue hoped if his sinnes had not beene a cause to cut of his seed and posterity But we knowe how his seventy sonnes had all their heads laid in a basket 2 King 10. 6 7 2. King 9. 33. on one day his wife Iezabell eaten vp with dogs all his posterity rooted out as the Prophet had pronounced To conclude this point then let the glory of God and his service be your chiefest aime speake for it stand for it fight for it die for it Sound it in your mouthes manifest it in your liues defend it with your swords and if need be seale it with your blood and so your names shal be blessed when your flesh bones shal bee consumed yea both body soule happy when your names shal be buried in oblivion The court you see cannot truely commend you your politique heads will no way profit you your moving eloquence cannot better you your gay clothes cannot grace you your stately house litle helpe you nor your multitude of children maintaine your honour heare on earth or procure your happynesse in heaven this only title given by the spirit of God vnto Moses to be the servant of the Lord is worth all the rest and will last for ever From the person Moses and his praise the servant of the Lord I proceed to his end or period death Moses 3. Part. the servant of the Lord died His period or end Doct. Neither great nes nor good nes is a good pleate against death It is neither his greatnesse you see nor his goodnesse that can purchase him a supersedeas against the arrest of death he that had fed many when they were readie to starue for hunger and refreshed many when their soules fainted within them for want of drinke hee at whose commande came frogges and lice and haile and darknesse and blood and blisters hath not his breath in his owne hand But I haue heretofore spent much time in pressing this point of mans mortalitie how death without difference of degree or condition summons all sorts of men Prince and Priest people the captaine and the common iouldier the master the man the mistresse her maid haue the same end they may die of diverse diseases at diverse times in divers places but they all die death hath the sole soveraignty of all the worlde and knockes assone at the great mans castle as at the poore mans cottage Would to God we were wise to apply this to our Vse owne selues for doth it not iustly reproue such as seldome so much as mind their mortalitie but liue here as though they thought verily they should never die If these men had no religion yet reason would teach them that their strength is not the strength of stone yet this the very drops of water weareth nor our sinewes of brasse or iron and yet this the rust and canker consumeth but a vapour but a smoake which the sunne soone drieth or the wind driveth away It was wittily said of Epictetus the Philosopher who going forth one day and seeing a woman weeping that had brokē her pitcher and the next day meeting another woman weeping that had lost her sonne heri vidi fragilem fran gi hodie video mortalem mori Yesterday saith he I saw a brittle thing broken and to day I see a mortall man die And what difference betwixt these two Much one manner of way for take a glasse saith St Austine which as it is bright so is it much more brittle then an earthen pitcher keepe it fafe in a cupboord where it may be free from the violence of outward wrong and it may continue many thousand yeares but take a man of the most pure complexion of the strongest constitution and keepe him as safe as thou canst hee hath that in his bosome and within his owne bones that will bring him to his end Nay I heare some say saith the same Father as I remember that such a one hath the plague or the plurisie and therefore sure he will dy but we may rather say such a one liueth and therefore sure he will die for diverse haue had those diseases did not die of them but never any man lived that did not die The consumption of the liver is a messenger of death the consumption of the lungs the minister of death the consumption of the marrow is the very mother of death and yet many haue had these diseases and not died of them but there is another kinde of consumption which could never yet be cured It is the consumption of the daies the common disease of all mankind and whereof all must die David spake of it my daies are consumed like smoake Let mee then warne Psal 102. 3. you and stirre vp your meditations of your mortasity with the words of our Moses who hath walked that way before vs Deut. 32. 29. O that men were wise then would they vnderstand this then would they consider their Deu. 32. 29. latter end Wee are vnwise that wee consider not the times past the evill we haue committed the good we haue omitted the benefits of God we haue abused the time we haue mispent and yet we grieue not because we thinke not yet whether we shall die More vnwise are we not to consider things present as the shortnes of life the difficultie of salvation the small number of such as shall be saved and yet wee shame not because we thinke we shal not yet die But most vnwise that we consider not things to come death iudgement hell al to come and yet we feare not because I feare wee thinke we shall never die O that we were wise then would we consider our latter end Wise Princes vse to prepare tenne yeares before hand for a field of one day beloved let vs lay vp something every day for the last When we shall wrastle with death if wee winne that skirmish we haue enough and when or where wee shall come to the conflict who can tell For Moses when hee

was now ready to set foot in the promised land liues not to enioy it but when he comes within kenne of it it pleaseth God to prevent him by death to take him away in the land of Moab Which is the fourth particular that I proposed to be handled name ly the place where Moses died In the land of Moab See after all the care paines that Moses hath taken with this people to bring them 4 Pa●t The place to the promised land now that he was come neere the confines and borders of it God had set him in such a place where he might see it hee suddenly here calls him out of this life Whence wee might well obserue the fickle state and condition of all worldly things Moses greatest comfort I imagine both against the tediousnesse of the way and weiwardnesse of this people and the perplexities of his owne soule was to consider how happy he should bee when after all this hee should come to liue quietly in the land of Canaan and now behold that he is ready to come into it he is suddenly Doct. All worldly hopes quickly vanish cut of O the vncertainty of these worldly things O the vanitie of those men that vex themselues with hope of such things as they shall never haue Great mens favours and old mens shooes thou maist looke for perhaps hope for but never trust to And yet how many Cameleons are there that liue onely by the aire and breath of hope not of heavenly but of earthly things which when a man should put forth his hand to lay hold vpon vanisheth away and is seen no more One hopes to growe rich suddenly his trade failes him another hopes for his fathers or some other old mans living and the old man outliues him a third hopes to rise to honour and his meanes are taken from him The hope that is deferred saith Solomon Prou. 13. 12. maketh the heart sicke If then the hope be defeated mee thinks it should die Moses had as much reason to hope to come to this happy land as any man living of any earthly thing and yet how is his hope quite dasht whē a mā would not haue dreamed how his comfort could haue beene crost It is wisdome then to hope for such things as we may haue and to ground our hope vpon such a foundation as cannot faile Let the word of God be the ground of thy Christian perswasion and so thou maist boldly hope for heaven A second point which from the consideration of the place I will propose and lightly passe by is the vncertaintie of the place where wee shall die As death spares not any persons so it respects not any place When thou art walking peaceably with thy brother in the fieldes thou maist bee murthered as Cain was Gen. 4. 8. when thou art sitting quietly in thy chaire thou maist fall backward and breake thy necke as old Eli did whē thou art at thy devotions in the Temple thou maist 1. Sam. 4. 18. dy there as Zenacherib did yea at the very altar as Ioab Isay 37. 37. 1. King 2. 34. Iob 1. 19. 2. King 2. 24. while Iobs sonnes were feasting the house falls vpon them while the scoffing boyes are mocking beares come from the wildernesse and devoure them while Chore and his company are contending the earth opens Num. 16. 31. and swallows them while the captaines their fifties are fetching the Prophet perforce to the King 2. King 1. 10. fire falls from heauen and consumes them Thus death dogges vs wheresoever wee goe and hath his darts ready wheresoever we are Let this then teach vs to take heed that wee bee alwaies Vse prepared for death seeing it is so vncertaine where it will meet vs. Go to now you that say to day or to morrow we will goe into such a city and continue there a Jam. 4. 13. 14 15. yeare and buy and sell and get gaine and yet cannot tell what shall be to morrow for what is your life it is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time and afterward vanisheth away for that you ought to say if the Lord will and if we liue wē will doe this or that Nay go to you that by play pastime driue away the remembrance of death nay by surfeiting and drunkennesse hasten your owne death and yet never thinke of dying How will you dare to looke death in the face whom you would not vouchsafe the least roome in your hearts nay whom eftsoones you did in your daring humours scorne defie Let experience tell whether many do not meet with death in places of greatest mirth now merry and presently mourned for whether a bone in our meate may not choak vs or a haire in our milk strangle vs or a stone in a raisin stop our breath as it did Anacreōs O thē let vs whersoever we are whithersoever we walk make the meditatiō of our end our vade mecum best companion least like vnthrifty servāts in great mens houses having their allowance of light mispending the same in dicing or dancing or drunkennesse at last are faine or rather forced to goe to bed darkling so while we neglect the time of light in this life which God hath granted the night of our death do suddainely surprize vs when we do litle dreame of it To him that is to walke through some darke and dangerous place one light carried before will do more good then many that are brought behinde so the serious preparation for death before it come armes vs both with more confidence against it and comfort in it then that which comes not till death call I will conclude this point with our Saviours words Take heed to your selues least at any time your hearts be oppressed with surfetting drūkennesse Luk. 21 34. 35 26. and cares of this life and least that day come vpon you at vnawares for as a snare shall it come on all thē that dwell vpon the face of the earth watch therefore and pray continually that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe and that you may stand before the sonne of man Giue me leaue now I beseech you to apply these things to our present occasion before I proceede to the last particular in my text When our Saviour Luk. 4. 20. light vpon a place of Luk 4 20. the prophet Isaias had red it in the audience of the people hee closed the booke gaue it againe to the Minister and sate downe said this day is this scripture fulfilled in your eares and all bare him witnesse I doubt not beloved but you wil all witnes with me this daie that what you haue hard the same you haue seene and the words which I haue handled are fulfilled in your hearing Moses a great man and our Moses the servant of the Lord is dead and hee died in the land