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A10904	A sermon preached on September the 20. 1632. in the cathedrall church of Christ at Canterbury, at the funerall of William Proud, a lieutenant collonell, slaine at the last late siege of Mastricke. By Francis Rogers, Doctor in Diuinity	Rogers, Francis, d. 1638.	1633 (1633)	STC 21175; ESTC S116095	14,227	26

Lyon the deuill are but like the Frenchmens assaults in warre Prima Gallorum p●aelia sunt plusquam virorum secunda minus quam faminarum At first he doth come on like an Emperour hee chargeth home brauely but resist him then and at the second encounter he is more effeminate then a woman Euen so resist Satan at the first and hee will flee from you for the deuill is but like a coward If a coward deale with a man whom hee knoweth hee can ouermatch or bee in place where hee is sure hee may not fight then none will giue prouder words nor make more bragges then a coward but if he haue to doe with a man with whom what he speaketh with his tongue hee must make good with his sword and if he bee in place where they may conueniently buckle then none is more base or submisse then a coward Euen so resist Satan and hee will auoyd thee but giue the least way to his temptations and then he will fetch seuen other deuils and they all at once will enter into that man and make his end farre worse then his beginning All this that we may better performe let vs take to vs the shield of fayth and pray to God that all our thoughts words and deeds may be begun continued and ended to his glory And so I passe to the second thing Princes and great men are subiect to mortality Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede Pauperum domos Regumque turres Death seazeth on the King in his Palace as well as on the begger in his cottage It is determined for all men to dye once Death Gods Baylife returneth not his writ with a Non est inuentus in baliuanostra but death bringeth corpus cum causa to the King of heauens bench A King may loue his friends and aduance his followers to honour but to adiourne death or to fill the empty veines with liuely blood or the dry bones with marrow or redeeme life from the power of the graue in these things nor Dauid nor any other is a King 2. Reg. 5. 7. Am I God sayth the King of Israel to kill and to giue life or can I heale Naamans leprosie The Vses of this Doctrine are these First let euery man perswade himselfe that he shall dye This may seeme a paradox for it any so sottish as to imagine he shall neuer dye Beloued bee not deceiued I am perswaded few men doe dreame of their owne death for there is none so old but thinketh he may liue one yeere longer and then another though in generall wee say all shall dye yet in numbering our particular liues we thinke our selues shall neuer dye Two ships meete on the sea they in eyther ship thinke themselues stand still and the other to bee swift of sayle whereas both sayle though the one faster then the other Euen so men are as ships see we an old man with a staffe in his hand stooping downeward Alasse poore old man say we hee cannot liue long Heare wee a passing-bell Oh one is going out of the world Visit wee a sicke friend We thinke he can hardly liue till morning Thus we imagine all other men are dying but we stand still whereas alasse they may goe a little before and wee are sure to follow after Secondly let this teach vs to prepare our selues to dye that if death be sudden to vs in regard of expectation yet death may neuer be sudden to vs in regard of preparation death is like the Basiliske It is reported if a Basiliske first see a man before the man see him that then he killeth the man but if a man first see a Basiliske then the Basiliske dieth Thus is it with death If death first lay hold on a man before he is prepared to dye then death killeth that man body and soule for euer but if a man first looke on death and euery day prepare to dye then death is but an entrance into euerlasting happinesse It is a worthy thing which hath beene related to me of that braue souldier of a noble Family Sir Iohn Burrough who receiuing a mortall wound in the Iland of Rees and being aduised not to feare death but to prepare for another world he answered I thanke God I feare not death and these thirty yeeres together I neuer arose at the morning that euer I made account to liue till night so let euery true Christian euery day when he awaketh commend himselfe to Gods protection whether he liue or dye and at the euening none knoweth if That nights bed shall be his graue or That nights sleepe shall be his death therefore before his eyes doe sleepe or his eyelids slumber or the temples of his head take rest make his peace with God for all sinnes that whether he liue or dye hee may liue and dye to the Lord and Iesus Christ may be to him aduantage And so I passe to the last thing Notice is to be taken of a great mans death Know ye not c. The death of a great man and of a meane man is like the report of a Cannon and of a Musket a Cannon is heard many miles but a Musket for a little space So if a great man dye all men speake of it as such an Earle such a Bishop such a Commander is dead But if a poore man or a common souldier dye few of his neyghbours and friends accompany him to the graue and there is an end of him But i● a great man dye which is able to doe his Country seruice notice shall bee taken of it to lament his death so is Abner heere bewayled both of King and people In Esay the 3. chapter God threatneth it as a plague He will take away the strong man and the man of warre Therefore as Lament 1.15.16 The Lord hath troden vnder foote all the valiant men in the middest of mee for this thing I weepe mine eye euen mine eye casteth out water because the Comforter which should refresh my soule is farre from me God taketh away good men and great men in mercy and in iudgement In mercy when God taketh away a bad Prince and giueth a better as hee tooke Saul and gaue Dauid Hee tooke away from this land Queene Mary and gaue vs Queene Elizabeth Or when God taketh away a good Prince and giueth another good one in his place Thus he tooke away Moses and gaue Ioshua thus from vs hee tooke away King Iames and gaue vs King Charles whom God long preserue among vs God taketh away great men in iudgement eyther when he taketh good Gouernors and rayseth vp none in their stead Thus when all the Rulers were dead which knew Moses Ioshua God gaue the Iewes no Rulers for in those dayes there was no King in Israel but euery one did what seemed best in his owne eyes Or else God taketh away good Rulers and rayseth vp bad as he tooke away Samuel and gaue Saul Let vs consider if within these few

Pharaoh commanded all the male children of Israel to bee drowned in the riuer there was onely Moses preserued aliue in a basket God might haue called him another Enoch for as Enoch walked with God and was translated from men euen so Moses went into the mountayne Nebo to the toppe of Pisgah and was neuer seene more of men God might haue called him the familiar Prophet one which spake to God face to face but all this layd aside God onely sayth Moses my seruant is dead to shew vs that to be a true Christian and to serue God is most honourable yea to bee Gods seruant is a Title most durable for if any aske mee what was great Alexander I answere that while hee liued hee was a valiant Monarch one which did conquer the Easterne parts of the world but if you aske me what Alexander is now I say hee is a damned * This is sayd according to the Tenent Without the Church is no saluation As for Gods secret Councell wee may not dare for to meddle with it soule in hell But if you aske me what was Abraham I answere Abraham while hee liued was the father of the faythfull and now he is dead he still is and euer will bee Gods faythfull seruant in heauen In diuine nobility wilt thou know thy pedegree and thy kindred Then know God is thy Father Christ Iesus is thy brother the Holy Ghost is thy preseruer the blessed Angels thy attendants thy foode is more precious then Manna for it is the bread of life which came from heauen of which he that eateth shall neuer hunger not thirst any more Alexander the great had a monster brought forth whose vpper parts had a manshead and brest but these were dead but the lower parts were full of monsters of all kinds and these were liuing this sayd the Southsayers did foretell the death of Alexander So is it in noble houses The head with a mans face and brest is religion If this bee dead then nothing but all monstrous sins will appeare which will bring ruine and destruction to all honourable families Wherefore let me labour to stir you vp to be diuinely noble and to become true Christians and because our meeting is to doe honour to a worthy Souldier and to a braue Commander giue mee leaue to vse for this purpose some few examples drawne from military discipline First Souldiers in the field may not vse their weapons as they will but as they are commanded The Musketeere must not discharge when he listeth but when the Officer bringeth him vp and sayth Present fire so likewise the Cannoneere In our spirituall warfare Christ is our Generall wee are his souldiers to fight vnder his banner our weapons are our soules with their faculties and our bodies with their members and these must bee vsed as God commandeth not as wee desire Our vnderstanding must know God aright our will must chuse what is good our affections must loue God aboue all and for our bodies wee must not abuse them to performe the lusts of the flesh or make them brewers horses to beare much quantity of wine and beere but Wee must giue vp our members weapons of righteousnesse to true holinesse our tongues must prayse God or pray to God our eyes must not looke on strange women to lust after them our eares must heare Gods Word our taste must eate Christs flesh and drinke his blood in the blessed Eucharist our hands must relieue the poore our feete must carry vs into Gods Temple and to visit the sicke and such as are in misery In one word wee must offer vp our soules and our bodies a liuing sacrifice holy acceptable to God which is our reasonable seruing of God Secondly Souldiers execute what the Commander willeth without arguing and asking why they should doe so as let the Generall send to such a Collonell to enter such a breach to make good such a place he presently obeyeth for they know that the Generall his office is for direction the Officers and Souldiers duty is to put his direction into execution Euen so looke what our Generall Christ hath commanded in his Word that must we execute without discussing by our naturall reason as did Abraham in offring vp Isaack and as the Iewes sayd vnto Moses Whatsoeuer the Lord commandeth that will we doe Euen so let vs rather dye then not performe all God willeth and commandeth vs to doe Thirdly Souldiers which beleager a Towne vse two kinde of stratagems First they make themselues masters of the riuers they cut off all springs of water which succour the Towne they enquarter themselues and blocke vp the Towne so that no reliefe of Ammunition of Victuall or of men shall any way relieue the Towne Euen so must we doe sinne is our great enemy then take heed that we take away from the strength of sinne and flee sinne and all occasion of sinne Adde not to our originall corruption euill thoughts euill words or euill deeds If any man had two swords and being to fight with his enemy should lend him one this were the next way to haue his throat cut with his owne sword Hence euery one coueteth to disarme his enemy so must not wee adde sinne to sinne this were for to bring finall destruction to our owne soules Secondly they doe not onely endeauour to withhold all necessaries from the Towne but they vse all the means to offend the besieged for they raise their batteries to make breaches they make their approches build their gallies spring their mines they haue ladders to seale the wals and all this to force the Towne Euen so wee must not onely auoyd sinne and weaken our corruption but wee must take into our hands the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God whereby wee may be able to kill all the temptations of the world the flesh and the deuill Fourthly Souldiers in the field no more feare the report of the Cannon then the report of the Musket as I haue heard it related of that true noble Peere and valiant Commander Sir Horace Vere Baron of Tilbery that when in the Palatinate a Councell of war was called and there being debated whether they should fight or not some Dutch Lords sayd that the enemy had many pieces of Ordnance planted in such a place and therefore it was dangerous to fight That noble Gentleman replyed My Lords if you feare the mouth of the Cannon you must neuer come into the field Euen so oft times men fall into diuers and great temptations as for to despayre of Gods mercies for to make themselues away yea the deuill oft times tempteth men by voyce by appearing in some shapes and the like Yet a Christian courage must not bee daunted at any crosses or temptations but he must endure constant to the end for God is faythfull and iust and will not suffer vs to be tempted aboue what we are able to endure Bee we assured all the temptations of that roaring

all dangers with an vndanted resolution and as Seneca of another fuit vir vere fortis gloriam maluit quam vitam he was a man truely valorous hee had rather maintayne his honour then to preserue his life And which is more he did not abuse Gods blessings as many doe to ryot and waste but knowing hee is worse then an Infidell which prouideth not for his family yet abhorring a base and sordid course he liued in a fit equipage for his place and dignity and yet left a large possession behinde him for his posterity So I may truely say of him Ille suis maioribus virtute praeterit hee surpassed all his Ancestors in vertue and valour and withall non fuit finis sed principium familiae Hee was not the end but the beginning and foundation of his family Hee hath so raysed his house as that his Heire may liue nobly and consort himselfe with the prime Gentlemen of his Countrey Iulius Caesar when he saw great Alexanders Monument and that it was written on his Trophee That at 32. yeeres of age he had conquered the Easterne parts of the world did presently weepe to thinke that himselfe being thirty foure yeeres of age had done no memorable Act to purchase honour to his Country or to himselfe And so me thinkes this patterne of true Nobility before vs should stirre vp the braue spirits of our Gentlemen specially the yonger brothers of families not to spend their dayes in idlenesse in a Tauerne or the like but they should endeuour by some vertuous profession to augment their fortunes and to adde lustre to their Families But to goe forward Abner in my text did fall so did this our Abner but as Dauid sayd Dyed Abner as a foole thy hands were not bound nor thy feete tyed with fetters of brasse So did this braue Commander dye like a foole as a base man that is whipped in the stocks or as a malefactor which is led bound to execution No surely but as we say O portet imperatorem mori stantem An Emperour should dye standing The comfortablest bed for a Preacher to dye in is the Pulpit So a Souldier should dye honorably in the field And thus did this noble Leader dye in the bed of honour in the field in the execution of his Office and the face of his enemies And as Dauid the Nobles and the people buried Abner nobly and mourned for him so the Prince and the whole Army bewailed this Souldiers death and they did burie his bowels there in an honourable manner His body is brought to bee interred in his owne Citty and Country And as when King Iosiah was buried all Iuda and Ierusalem mourned and came to his buriall Euen so Sic enim paruis componere magna solebam all the Country round about of the prime ranke for Knights Cleargy and Gentlemen with the graue Citizens and others came to performe their last duety of ciuill humanity and Christian charity to his deceased corps desiring to giue him that honour which while he liued he worthily purchased to himselfe by his valour I but all this may be said of an Infidell as of Alexander Caesar Scipio Hanibal Marke then for his soule and for him a true Christian Noble His custome when he came into England was obserued still on the Sabbath and on the Lecture daies to frequent Gods Temple for to heare Gods Word and where hee liued I am credibly enformed by diuers that twice euery day in his priuate chamber hee did vse to pray heartily and feruently to God on his knees both for the forgiuenesse of his owne sins and for a blessing vpon his family and he did dayly vse to reade in the Bible and in other good bookes But some weeke before his death he was farre more deuout and giuen to holy exercises then ordinary Sic vbi fata vocant vdis abiectus in herbis Ad vada Maeandri concinit albus olor As the Swan so this Christian noble Lieutenant Collonell ready to leaue the world did sing more sweetly then euer he did before And he carried into the army not only sword and speare weapons for a Souldier but for his Christian warfare he had his Bible his Prayer booke and other Authors of holy deuotion What should I say more He which in his life-time gaue such a testimony of a liuely and of an vnsayned repentance and he which dyed in the quarrell of Gods true Religion and for his Countries firme Alies I doubt not but in the Canon of charity I may apply to him the saying of S. Paul He hath fought a good fight he hath finished a good course Therefore hee is now crowned with glory in the Kingdome of Heauen where wee leaue his soule singing with the heauenly Quire Amen Halelluiah glory honor and maiesty be giuen to God to the Lambe that sitteth vpon the Throne for euermore And we commit his body to the graue to sleepe and rest in peace till the generall resurrection at the last day where they which haue done euill shall arise to euerlasting damnation and they which haue done well shall arise to euerlasting saluation Now God of his mercy make vs partakers of this latter Resurrection for Christ Iesus sake Amen FINIS