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A19935	A funerall sermon preached the xxvi. day of Nouember in the yeare of our Lord M.D.LXXVI. in the parishe church of Caermerthyn, by the Reuerende Father in God, Richard by the permission of God, Bishoppe of Saint Dauys, at the buriall of the Right Honourable VValter Earle of Essex and Ewe ...	Davies, Richard, 1501-1581.; Waterhouse, Edward, Sir, 1535-1591.	1577 (1577)	STC 6364; ESTC S109385	23,626	69

wordes S. Iohn the Apostle Euangelist at the commaundement of Christ doth write the same and so transmitteth them to vs and to the posteritie for euer If Charters or letters written by the Chauncelours or Secretaries of Kinges and Princes cary with them great credite how much more iustly doth this celestiall Charter dictated by the sonne of God and written by the Disciple beloued of Christ Iohn the Apostle and Euangelist deserue credite and authoritie In the tyme of Papistrie and blindnesse men reposed great affiaunce and trust in writinges and pardons that came from Rome wherein they imagined they receiued forgiuenesse of sinnes Apoena Ã culpa and therefore vsed at the tyme of death to take order that all such pardons shoulde be cast into the graue with the corps Such writings be commonlye called Bulles of Rome they well deserued so to be called for Bulla in the latintonge signifieth a bubble or fome that riseth on the water wherin is no substance but though it swell and make a shewe of some thing yet in deede it is voyde and emptie so that with the touche of a straw or the least blast of wind it breaketh vanisheth away and is become nothing Such assuredly were all these deceytfull pardons which if tyme dyd serue I coulde easily by authoritie of gods worde declare and prooue But now blessed is our tyme if we can consider it the tyme of light and knowledge of the Gospell of Christ wherein men are taught to repose their affiaunce and trust not in the Bulles that come from Rome but in this autenticall Charter that came from Heauen not voyde emptie as the popish Bulles but full fraughted and replenished wyth euerlasting treasures and eternall consolacion and comfort The Romish deceitfull ware could not begotten without money but this heauenly Iewell is offered freely without recompeÌ„ce or payment Come saith Esay the Prophet in the .lv. chap. All you that thirst to the waters you that haue no siluer come buye and eate come I say buy wine and milke without siluer and without money thus much for the first part concerning the certayntie and assuraunce of the doctrine contayned in the seconde parte which is this Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lorde Here we haue three matters to consider of first what is blessednesse or what is it to be blessed the seconde what admonition we may gather out of these wordes thirdly who dye in the Lorde for the first The whole worlde which as s. Iohn sayeth lyeth in wickednesse seeketh to be made blessed by worldly goodes riches and possessions as the infinite traueyle of men by sea and by land by perilles and daungers the oppression extorcion theft contentions in lawe the vnsatiable couetousnesse and ambition that reigneth in the worlde doth testifie and manifestly prooue But all these are frustrated and deceyued of their purpose for we finde by experience that true which saint Paule saith Nihil intulimus c. we brought nothing into the world neither shal we cary any thing out We find also dayly performed in effect before our eyes in the weithy and great riche men of this worlde that which Christ in the twelfth of Luke reporteth to haue beene sayde to the man that reioyced and solaced himselfe in the exceeding abundance and increase of corne that had happened vnto him one yeare that is O foole this night shall they fetch away thy soule from thee and then whose shall those things be that thou hast prouided The childreÌ„ of Israel in the wildernes were fed with Manna they were commaunded daily to gather it in the fielde by measure euery man according to his eating and whatsoeuer was reserued till morning contrarie to Moses commaundement stancke and became full of wormes we are the children of Israell this worlde is the wildernesse Manna is the riches and goodes of this worlde whatsoeuer therof is gathered and horeded vp contrary to gods commaundement more then will serue euery mans turne to liue in his degree and calling stincketh afore God and breedeth a worme of disquietnesse of conscience wherby a man shall hardly dispose himselfe to dye in the Lorde so to be blessed And therefore sayeth Ecclesiasticus O death how bitter is the remembraunce of thee to a man that lyueth at rest in his possessions Notable is the sentence and conclusion of Salomon concerning this matter After he had gathered to him siluer and golde and the chiefe treasures of Kings and prouinces and had furnished himselfe withall kinde of worldly pleasures so that he exceeded all that euer was afore him he concludeth saying And I looked on all the workes myne hande had wrought and beholde all is vanitie and vexacion of the spirite there is no profit vnder the sunne we see now that earthly bodily matters be they neuer so precious can not make a man blessed in deede It must therefore consist in Heauenly and spirituall matters It can then be nothing else but the ioy of the lyfe to come in the kingdome of Heauen in the which we shall see God as he is and shall haue the full and perfite fruition of his blessed presence and lyue in him with all the Saincts foreuer and shall possesse ioyes that cannot be explicated with mortall tongues as it is written the eye hath not seene nor the eare heard neither hath ascended into the heart of man that which God hath prepared for them that loue him This celestiall ioy the childreÌ„ of God do taste of in this world in that they apprehend by faith remission of sinnes and quietnesse of conscience in the bloud and passion of christ Howbeit this celestiall ioye in this worlde is but expert in part till the soule be deliuered out of the reache of flesh and bloude I haue determined to speake of diuers matters within the compasse of this sermon and some of them such that I would be sory for lacke of time to be dryuen to cut them of and therefore of this matter here I make an ende I will now returne to the text agayne Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord. Out of these wordes we may iustly reason that some dye but not in the Lorde and that lyke as they that dye in the Lord are blessed as inheritours of euerlasting life so are they that dye not in the Lordcursed as heires of euerlasting damnation Hereby are we admonished that it is the part of a good Christian in hys lyfe time to take thought and care to prouyde by the assistaunce of Gods grace that he may dye in the Lord and that it is a desperate part to be carelesse in what state the houre of death shal take a man in The maner of wise men in this worlde when they haue any serious and earnest affayres to performe is by some exercise aforehaude to make themselues expert and readie agaynst the tyme they come to earnest dooings as S. Paule noted

â§ A FVNERALL SERMON PREACHED THE XXVI DAY OF NOVEMBER IN THE YEARE OF OVR LORD M. D. LXXVI IN THE PARISHE CHVRCH OF CAERMERTHYN BY THE REVERENDE FATHER in God Richard by the permission of God Bishoppe of Saint Dauys at the buriall OF THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE VVALTER EARLE OF ESSEX AND EWE EARLE MARSHALL OF IRELANDE VISCOVNT HEREforde Bourgcher Lord Ferrers of Chartley Bourgcher Louein of the most Noble order of the Garter Knight Â¶ Imprinted at London by Henry Denham dwelling in Pater noster Row at the signe of the Starre Anno Domi. 1577. HONI SOYT QVY MAL Y PENSE â§ To the right Honourable my very good L. Robert Earle of Essex and Ewe Viscount of Hereforde and Bourgchier Lorde ferrers of Chartley Bourgchier and Louayne hir Maiesties Warde c. MY Lord your absence lately from the Funeralles of my L. your Father was lamented by such in VVales as would gladly haue beheld the liuely Image of him in you and if the tendernesse of your yeares vnmeete for so tedious and so vnseasonable traueyle had not by necessitie disappoynted their hope then shoulde the lamentable speache of the graue and reuerent Father the Byshop of S. Dauies expressed wyth abundaunce of dolour and teares haue left in you a deepe impression of griefe for the intollerable losse of so Honorable a parent But it may be iudged that God hath turned your absence to your more benefit Since the importunacie of such as loue and honour you and who couet to haue your Fathers vertues discende with his inheritaunce hath obtayned the publishing of that learned Sermon wherein your L. may at good leysure view in the iust report of his lyfe and death the paterne and forme of true Nobilitie The Heroicall discription that the Byshop maketh of Nobilitie comparing it to a mountayne from which foure famous ryuers must issue the Mountaine true Religion the riuers Prudence Iustice Fortitude and Temperaunce is a rule to you â–ª first to follow your Father in truth of Religion then to be as he was wyse iust valiaunt and temperate The naturall and vnforced courtesie and affability that was in your Father and that excellent mixture of disposition and aptnesse both for warre and peace doth promise to the worlde a singular perfection in you hereafter For as your Grandfather who dyed in his young yeares dyd make shewe of much more Honour then was in the Noble Viscount his Father And this our Earle by famous actions dyd altogither eclips the vertuous hope coÌ„ceyued of your Grandfather so considering that God in nature continueth as it were the race by outward shew of good partes in you and that you haue more aduauntage of education both by the place where you liue and by the Honour and wisedome of your patrones then your Grandfather or father had we cannot but hope of a further degree of excellencie in you to ouershine the goodnesse both of your Father and Grandfather Some people there be that can hardly discerne betwene honour and profit that doe ouer much thinke of the disaduantage offered you by the Earle your Father in diminishing some part of his patrimonie in his forrayne Seruices and will wish you perhaps with a contrarie course to deserue more of your heire and woorse of the worlde But as I wishe in you a liberall frugalitie vnder this rule and protestation that nothing can be profitable that is not honest so to deserue well as your Father dyd of your Soueraigne and countrey in matters appertayning to hir Maiesties obedience rather throw the helue after the hatchet and leaue your ruynes to be repayred by your Prince then any thing to degenerate from Honorable liberalitie And as in attempting great things it is good to be circumspect and wyth iudgement wysely to foresee the ende before you beginne so hauing entered into any Honourable attempt that may be iustly grounded vpon reason follow the same with such inuincible coÌ„stancie in all extremities as your Father dyd for so shall you iustly deserue lyke testimonie as hir Maiestie gaue to him in hir gracious letters namelye that he was a rare Iewell of hir Realme and an ornament of hir Nobilitie True Religion and wisedome vpon whome Iustice dependeth doe proceede from God by grace and therefore by inuocation prayer and studie to be obtayned but the other vertues as Fortitude temperaunce courtesie affabilitie liberalitie and constancie be peculiar to your house discending by nature and graffed as it were in your principles so that to degenerate into the lothsome contraries of these and in steade of habite of vertue to disguyse your selfe with vice shall be harder to you and more impossible for the contrarietie of your nature then to attayne in good things to the perfection of excellencie And to the end that you may know what you are by birth and bloud and that you shoulde not by ignoraunce or lacke of knowledge of your selfe doe any thing vnworthy the Noble houses from whence you are discended a welwiller of yours hath ioyned to this Sermon amongs other Epitaphes contayning your Fathers due prayses his stately discent in well digested Latine verses not to puffe you vp with any swelling vaniteis but to giue you a reason how you beare your Armour and Badges of Honour and to remember you what errour you enter into if you should blemish the vertues of your Noble Auncestours or to doe any thing as I sayde vnworthy your birth and calling Lastly my L. haue alwayes before your eyes the feare of God and the Counsell of the Earle your Father at his death namely that you shoulde euer be mindefull of the moment of tyme assigned both to your Father and Grandfather the eldest hauing attayned but to sixe and thirtie yeares to the ende that vpon consideratioÌ„ of the short course of lyfe that you in nature are to looke for you might so imploy your tender yeares in vertuous studies and exercises as you might in the prime of your youth become a man well accomplished to serue hir Maiestie and your Countrey aswell in warre as peace wherevnto he commaunded you to bende all your indeuours and with those conditions heaped his blessings vpon you I pray therefore that God will increase those condicionall blessinges and the causes of them in you to the ende that hir Maiestie may thinke of you hereafter as of a true seruaunt and humble subiect one of the pillers of hir estate hir Maiesties kinsman by many alliances and the sonne of a most Noble Father Your L. at commaundement E. W. EPitaphium genealogicum in obitum illustrissimi Gualteri Comitis Essexiae Euiae Comitis Mareschalli regni Hiberniae Vicecomitis Hereford Bourgcher Domini Ferrers de Chartley Bourgcher Louein praenobilis ordinis Garterij militis qui obijt Dublinij 21. Sept. 1576. Aetatis suae 36. Sepulti apud Maridunum 26. Nouembris SI quisquam claret veterum splendore parentum Aut famam meritus morum probitate perennem Profiteatur

it is tonuenient to dawbe a golden piller with myre clay Salomon was of that minde and therfore sayeth Be not thou hasty to be angry for anger resteth in the bosom of fooles I haue had occasion by that I noted in his Lordship to call to remembrance this saying of christ A good man of the good treasure of his hart bringeth forth good things And the euill man of the euill treasure of his heart bringeth forth euill thinges For though occasion were ministred yet shoulde you neuer heare him vtter any opprobrious wordes no not agaynst his aduersarie so pure and immaculate dyd he studie to preserue the Nobilitie of his minde There be some that count theÌ„selues worthie honour and estimation when they teare God in peeces with chafing and horrible othes which this Noble Earle detested and abhorred as a matter not onely vndecent but also repugnant to the nature of true Nobilitie attributing due reuerence to the name of the Lorde and therby proouing the fountaynes of his Nobilitie to spring out of the hyll of the feare of god But what was his religion what fayth God had blessed him with what godly disposition he was of and how abundantly God had enriched hym with his holy spirite his confession of his fayth hys speaches nay rather his sermons in his sickenesse afore his death shall testifie for euer For I receyued by the relation of such as are woorthie credite and were present about him although not all yet many of hys learned godly sayings at that tyme Concerning hys saluation hee reposed his affiaunce and sure trust in the bloude of Iesus Christ. He forgaue all the world and by inuincible fayth apprehended layde holde and imbrased remission of his sinnes in the merites of the sacrifice of Christes bodie offered vppon the crosse for the sinnes of the world Trentals Masses Diriges Pardons and such other papisticall trifles he vtterly contemned as wicked and blasphemous agaynst the death and passion of christ He fared like the children of Israell in the wildernesse which when they were stinged with Serpentes euen to death yet when they looked vp to the brasen Serpent they were made whole safe and sounde So this Noble Earle grieued wyth the remembraunce of his former vnthankefull lyfe as he iudged immediately directed the eyes of hys mynde to the death and passion of Christ and forthwith felt such health of soule that he was replenished with ioy in the holy Ghost and all his delite was in meditacion of the ioy of the worlde to come and the fruition of the presence of God for euer In so much that fyue or sixe dayes before he dyed he shewed himselfe more lyke an Aungell from heauen then a man compassed with flesh and bloud My Lorde the Archbyshoppe of Dublin as I was enformed could mooue him in no question or article pertayning to saluation that he was not ready in and learnedly and godly resolued yea and made such aunsweres in all thinges that my Lord of Dublin had them in great admiration and affirmed that his speaches at that tyme shoulde serue him for sermous as long as he liued How truely he relinquished the vanitie of this worlde and how effectually he thyrsted after the ioy of the life to come his godly admonitions ministred vnto such as visited him and his heauenly lessons and exhortacions to his seruants shall testifie for euer for they were such that his seruaunts report they shall neuer forget and such as they shall be the better for whyles they lyue Thus haue I briefly and partly declared vnto you both the lyfe and death of this worthy Magistrate to the ende we shoulde consider how seriously God doth call vs to a reconing by the losse of such a good Magistrate Now a worde or two to shewe who be they that dye in the Lorde and then an ende They principally are sayd to dye in the Lorde which suffer death vnder the beast for confession of Christes religion for they properly dye in the Lords cause Such are the Martirs aswell of the primitiue church vnder the cruell Emperours as the martyrs of all ages sithence vnder Antichrist of Rome They also dye in the Lorde which though they dye not by the crueltie of the beast yet they dye in the faith of Iesus Christ and are therfore blessed Of this number was this godly Earle as I haue before declared Wherfore I will conclude and direct my speach for two or three wordes to this good Earle O noble Earle of Essex in thy tyme the Pearle of Nobilitie the myrrour of Vertue and woorthy qualities the childe of Chyualrie the beautifull flower of Englande the precious Iewell and comfort of VVales the trustie stay of Ireland Thy lyfe was most Honourable thy worthinesse incomparable thy death precious in the sight of God for thou dyedst in the Lord a right inheritour of the euerlasting kingdome of heauen Wherfore by authoritie of the heauenly oracle that S. Iohn was commaunded to write thou art to be pronounced blessed for euer Our sinnes hath shortned thy lyfe so that we coulde enioye the same no longer Thou hast notwithstanding bequeathed thy body to be buryed amongest vs here in Wales Of very duetie therefore O Noble Earle thy Tombe shall be with vs in reuerence estimation honour the fame and name of thy Nobilitie valiauntnesse vertue and woorthinesse shal neuer be forgotten but shall lyue and be kept with vs in memorie from generation to generation whyle the world standeth Deare beloued audience bycause the tyme is spent here wyll I abruptly make an end and neither deale with the thyrde part of my first diuision nor make recapitulacion of any matter I haue spoken of Onely let vs pray that God of hys mercy graunt vs grace to consider his holy will and pleasure declared vnto vs by so many messengers and especially by this message that we now receyue in the death of this noble Magistrate And that we may learne to dye in the Lorde as he hath done and that togither wyth him and all the elect of God we may participate a ioyfull resurrection in the world to come through our Sauiour Iesus Christ to whome wyth the Father and the holy Ghost be laude honour prayse for euer and euer Amen 1. Thomae 1. Agnes 1. IoheÌ„s Crophul abauus 1. TheobalduÌ„ D. V. Io. D. V 1. D. Verdon 1. Marescalli 1. Will. Comes 1. Strongbow Comitis D'eureux 1. Wil. Domi. Com. Winton 1. Ceciliam 1. Ceciliae 1. eusdem nominis 1. Constabular 1. Consta. Vicecomitem Do. Fitzwaren Arch. Cant. Do. â—ernes 1. Cantabrigiae 1. Essex 1. Tierowen 1. 36. Annis Ecclesi 3. 1. 1. Cor. 10. 31 Psal. 119. 105. Reuel 1. 1. Dan. 7. 23. Illiricus inter Test. veritet pag. 387. Reue. 14. 1â— Plutarch in Laconicis Reuel 1. 8. Reuel 1. 12. Iohn 16. 13. Esay 55. 1. 1. Iohn 5. 19. 1. Tim. 6. 7. Luke 12. 17. Exod. 16. 20 â–ª Eccle. 41. 1. Ecclesi 2. Reuel 21. 3 â–ª 22. 4. 1. Cor. 2. 9. 1. Cor. 9. 25. Luke 16. 1. Mat. 25. 15. 2. Cor. 5. 10. Mat. 25. 34. Wisd. 6. 2. Mat. 23. 13. Wisd. 6. 4. Amos. 6. 12. Esay 3. 14. Rom. 3. 20. 2. Sam. 12. 1. 1. King. 22. Iob. 34. 3â— Comparison of true Nobilitie Panor lib. 20. de rebus gestis Alphonsi Prudence Fortitude Exod. 18. 21. Iustice. Iob. 29. 15. Suetonius Temperaunce Ecclesi 7. 9. Luke 6. 45. Numb 21. 9.

haue iustifyed the wicked and condemned the iust and so turned iudgement to wormewood as Amos the Prophet speaketh Then shall appeare that they haue altogither applyed their authoritie and office to pyll and poll the countrey and to begger their poore neighbours to perfourme that which Esay the Prophet sayth Rapina pauperuÌ„ in domibus vestris you dresse your houses with the goodes of the poore Then shall appeare that whereas by reason of their offices they should haue bene Patres patrie Fathers of the countrey they became spoylers of the countrey And where the part of fathers is to prouide for theyr children they contrarywyse agaynst order of nature forced the childreÌ„ that is the countrey to prouide for them and their houses How thinke you what is it to committe authoritie to such men is it any better then to committe a sworde to a madde mans hand Would to God the maners and conditions of all Iustices of the peace Shyrifs in Wales were so well knowne to hir Maiestie and hir Highnes Counsell as they be in the countrey amongst their neighbours that both good and badde might receyue their deserued prayse rewarde and commendacion And though perhappes they may escape this my wishe yet shall they not escape the iudgement sent of God but shal be sure there to make their accompt in maner as I haue declared The third point concerning this reconing is to understande what officers or messengers God hath ordayned to sommon call and bring men to a reconing We finde many and diuers officers appointed of God for that purpose the preaching of Gods lawe is one Per legem enim agnitio peccati by the law is the knowledge of sinne This messenger fetched king Dauid out of the denne of securitie and ignoraunce of his estate betwixt him and God after he had committed adulterie with Vrias wyfe and had slayne Vrias with the of the children of Ammon Nathan the Prophet dooing this message telleth the king a pitious story of a riche man that had many sheepe of hys owne yet to cheere a guest that was come to him fetched away a poore mans sheepe that had no more in the worlde but that the king hearing of that wicked vnconscionable dealing giueth sentence of death against that riche man Nathan replyeth that he himselfe was that riche man which against law equitie or honestie had killed Vrias and fetched awaye his wife Nowe king Dauid by thys messenger is brought before the iudgement seate of God and hauing nothing to aunswere submitteth himselfe to Gods mercie saying peccaui I haue sinned This message though it seemed bitter at the beginning yet was it holsome sweete comfortable in the end For by this meanes king Dauid recouereth the fauor of God forgiuenesse of his sinne Here we may note that it is more profitable for kings princes great men to haue one Nathan or Michea about them then twenty deceyuing Zedechia which Achab the king of Israel to his paine liked so wel of The law of nature which the finger of God hath engraued in the coÌ„science of euery man is an other messenger ordayned to cite men to appeare before the tribunal seate of God to render an accoÌ„pt when Nathan is excluded out the doores and can haue no accesse nor be heard then serueth this officer which pursueth the wicked dooer though he be his owne maister so harde that though the cryme be hid from the knowledge of all men yet shall he neuer be able to deliuer himselfe out of the handes of this messenger except he flye to the tower of repentaunce and bath himselfe in the fountayne of Christes bloud This officer being but himselfe alone shall lay such violent handes vppon the wicked offender as if there were a thousande pursuers Conscientia enim mille testium instar for coÌ„science serueth in steede of a thousande witnesses There were learned of the heathen that noted this woonderfull worke of god And therefore one sayeth Prima vltio haec est quodse iudice nemo nocens absoluitur Improba quamuis gratia fallacis praetoris vicerit vrnam This is one vengeaunce to beginne withall that no male factour can escape the condemnation of his owne iudgement although vnlawfull fauour corrupt the sentence of the false Iudge There were that endeuoured and determined wyth theÌ„selues to expell all feare of God setting on a brasen impudent face making no diuersitie betwixt beastly crueltie in shedding bloude and humane compassion pittie or mercye betwixt honestye and dishonestye betwixt goodnesse commended and wickednesse dispraysed But such were neuer able to auoyde the pursute and checke of this messenger Caius Caligula the fourth Emperour of Rome who was woont to wishe that all Rome had but one necke that he might strike of their heades at one stroke exceeded in contempt of God humanitie and honestie In crueltie a fierce vnreasonable beast and swinish in all filthy volupteousnesse And yet when any token of Goddes power or wrath dyd appeare if it were but a thunder no man more desperately quaked nor more miserably trembled for feare of the deserued vengeance of god King Richarde the thirde after he had caused his two innocent Nephewes to be murthered and brought himselfe to the Regall seate neuer enioyed quietnesse of minde all the dayes of his lyfe for this messenger so chased him that sometimes in the night season he vsed to start vppe out of bedde imagining he was besette with enimies They that doe vse to reade stories sacred or prophane finde examples ynough of the actes and force of this messenger dooing his office There be other messengers which in comparison of these we haue spoken of may be called extraordinarie and yet sent and appointed of God to do the same message as the other ordinarily doe Of this sort are tribulation aduersitie sickenesse warre famine plague signes and tokens in the Sunne and the Moone straunge sightes in the Element Earthquakes and such lyke prodigious matters The losse of friendes the losse of a good Prince gouernour or Magistrate for like as God maketh the Ipocrite to raigne for the sinnes of the people so God taketh away a good Magistrate for the same cause Is it not therefore time for vs to looke to our selues to consider our state betwixt vs and God for all these messengers for the most part haue beene with vs of late dayes Within these few yeares the famine was so great in al these couÌ„treis of Wales that many thousandes dyed for lacke of sustenaunce we haue beene visited with the plague we had an Earthquake straunge sightes haue beene seene in the ayre And now last of all beholde the heauy hande of God for our sinnes vpon all the whole countrey in the death of this Noble man which is not onely a messenger of Gods wrath towardes this towne and countrey wherein he was borne but also in very deede a great losse to the whole realme And although this countrey who

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