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A62466	A funerall speech upon the death and buriall of Charles Dymoke, Esq Late champion to the King and Crown of England. Who dyed at Oxford, in July 1643. and was interred at Scrivelsby in Lincoln-shire, September the 6th, 1652. By R. Thornton.	Thornton, Richard, Fellow of Lincoln College.	1653 (1653)	Wing T1059; ESTC R220885	3,503	12

A FUNERALL SPEECH VPON The Death and Buriall OF CHARLES DYMOKE Esq LATE CHAMPION To the King and Crown of ENGLAND Who dyed at Oxford in July 1643. and was interred at Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire September the 6th 1652. By R. Thornton London Printed in the Year 1653. A FVNERALL SPEECH UPON The Death and Buriall OF CHARLES DYMOKE Esq LATE Champion to the King and Crown of England c. IT was a heavy case when the dead bodies of Gods Servants were given for meat to the Foules of the air and the flesh of his Saints to the beasts of the field when their blood was shed like water on every side of Hierusalem and there was no man to bury them If this as yet be not our case who thereby must not think them greater sinners then our selves it is Gods doing in the midst of judgement to remember mercy and it is marvellous in our eyes for these wretched times have already seen many holes no graves many graves and no burials but thanks be to God and praise thou the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me praise his holy name as for all other blessings so in particular for this publick and pious meeting in that wee are now come to the last period of a sad and solemn Funerall long since begun and ever since not more expected by any then desired by those whom it most concerns And now least any here present should mistake the meaning of this solemnity or report it for a dumb shew give me leave to ask them in our Saviours language What went yee out to see Torches Mourners Escotcheons the Hearse the Grave all these are but silent expressions of his condition and mortality to whom such Obsequies justa funerum do of right belong But since by his death and this imployment I may say with Iob My Harp also is turned into mourning and my Organ into the voice of them that weep suffer me a little from a troubled fountain renovare dolerem to pour a few tears upon his dry bones though I cannot revive yet I may bewaile his worth his worth who dying amongst the schooles of the Prophets above nine years since and being there imbalmed with sweet Odours and all this while preserved in a Colledge Chappell the very place of his former education that under such state as became a Person of his quality is thus brought hither to his resting place his long home the antient Sepulchre of his Fathers Where now you may behold a Sceleton a glimpse of that body which being alive was the Cabinet of a religions soule a deep understanding a sound judgement a noble mind a high commanding spirit Hence he became wise in his designs obedient in his principles just in his actions valiant in his resolutions and temporate in his whole life and conversation which being adorned with comlinesse of person and behaviour with affability of carriage and a courtly presence made him a companion for Princes at their pastimes for Magistrates at their Benches for armed men at their weapons for learned men at their books for holy men at their prayers and devotions These were the vertues of a son whose father dyed in his childhood These were the vertues of a child brought up by his mother in her widowhood These were the vertues of a young man the only son the only child of his Parents These were the vertues of one who by antient worth and descent was a Champion And these be the vertues of a Champion who by his place title had no equall no sharer not one like him in the whole Kingdom Nay the hazard is too great there will never be the like again The subject was such without all question the vertues may be questioned unlesse they be further justified And yet we may behold thē bred as it were in the bone nursed up in the Cradle and flourishing in his youth such as no doubt had brought forth abundance of fruit in due season had his strength of body and the command of his fortunes been answerable to the courage and magnificence of his spirit Nay all these vertues though springing like himself to a great height were yet enlightned not consumed by the flames of these times these unhappy times made them more beautifull and exemplary in that he was not carried away with every wind of doctrine but upon mature deliberation and consultation too setled in the ways of truth and sobernesse so that in the midst of these divisions distractions I do not wonder to see him dye as he lived not by the sharpnesse of the sword but subject to infirmity and sicknesse a christall vessell soon broken by divine providence Nay I consider it with others of like merit vessels of honour taken away from the evill to come as being fitter for the glory of a new Hierusalem which is at unity in it self Only methinks this rich Cabinet of flesh and bloud wanted an exchange to set it forth I mean an exchange of like nature quality a conjugall society that so a living representation of it self might have commended it from generation to generation For my part I labour not to advance his worth beyond the reach of envy as being himself more vertuous then to escape it Nor will I say but amongst so many Flowers of note there might be now and then some spotted leaves to obscure a little the lustre and brightnesse of his proceedings He may well die without a friend who lives without a fault Only I cannot say God speed the plough which ploughed upon his back and made long furrows as though he also were earthly minded and there by stood in need like his land to be tilled himself and turned upside down whence perhaps it came to passe that whilst some thought him not so careles of his fortunes as their craft could wish others thought him not so open handed as his condition or their necessities required and so the report stuck close to him of sticking close to himself a report which some others made too common by their credulity thus tearing in peeces that reputation which they could neither write nor read But if we may judg by way of comparison every one set forth in their proper colours the ploughers no question had not then so much mistook their soile as now I presume they did for ex melioriluto experience found he was not a greater Heir of land then discretion how to use it had he but lived to see by the faithfullnesse of his servants as much experience of the one as of the other The truth is his predecessors freedom became afterwards a heavy burthen upon his shoulders which together with other mens harms and a wise example made him seem a little partatueri willing to know his own estate and by knowing to preserve it answerable to that wisdom of Solomon Be diligent to know the state of thy Flocks and might not this be well done for example sake the better to shew himself carefull and to make others the more industrious for how can a man think to find his kindnesse worthily accepted or his friend sufficiently thankful who knows not himself what he gives or grants Sure I am this body wanted not as many doe a free and bountifull hand when either the honour of his reputation his love of learning or his patronage required it Instances of this nature might once have been drawn from the breath of our Nostrils to the soles of his Feet being like that pretious oyntment which from the top of Aarons head ran down to the skirts of his clothing but now the poore mans box and the legacies which he gave his servants are the best witnesses together with his care readines not to pull down but repaire Churches this by name as being the place designed by himself for a more lasting monument of his predecessors being his own well-being and devotion Here methinks before I go hence I could willingly call to your remembrance the riches of his Library the glory of his buildings the orders of his family and the provisions of his house were it not that when the Qu. of Sheba came and saw the wisdom of Solomon and his building the neat at his table the sitting of his servants the attendants of his Ministers and their apparrell t is said there was no more spirit in her So I fear a relation of this nature though qualified with all respects of civility and discretion would make some spirits droop or raise up others beyond their due proportion But let it suffice time was when I might have told you in the day time he had the favor of his Prince the loyalty of a subject the prayrs of the Church and the decent buriall of a good Christian buriall did I say yes that 's past already a burial not daubed with untempered morter but solemnly performed according to the publick service of the Church of England upon like occasion from which form of divine service we now only borrow this eccho Earth to Earth Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust and so we cover him with his own mould the bowels of his Ancestors a noble and renowned family Thus then in a word you may see and apply too he who once was clothed in soft raiment is now wrapped up in sheets of lead and he who was so frequently brought up in Kings houses and loved them too is now ex congruo lodged in one of Gods houses the blessing of a goodly heritage his own patrimony where we leave him with this memoriall worthy to be written in letters of gold He died Champion to the King and Crown of England and now like his title lyes in the dust expecting a speedy and glorious Resurrection which that we may all obtaine The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Love of God and the Fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with us and let all the People say Amen FINIS