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A08807	A sermon, preached at the funerall of that most honorable and worthie knight S. Richard Leueson vice-admirall of England: who dyed at London the 2. of August, and was interred at VVooluer Hampton in the countie of Stafford, the 2. day of September following. Anno Domi. 1605. By Samuel Page, Batchelour in Diuinitie, and vicar of Deptford in Kent.	Page, Samuel, 1574-1630.	1605 (1605)	STC 19094; ESTC S120978	13,449	41

opinion of an vndiscerning multitude and therefore they make their liues presidents of liuing to others and their whole comportsment exemplary deseruing well Some for aduice others for execution Some for Artes some for the Tongues some for the Sword some for the Compasse some in the Chambers of Princes some in the Field making merite still the true lustre of their greatnes Paulum sepaltae distat inertiae celata virtus Vertue that commeth not abroade is little better then vnseen● vnskilfulnesse which the Poet sp●ke not to encourage men to put all their Vertue vpon the Stage and to set it alwayes in the common eye with base prostitution for this is an ambitious begging of popular ayer But he admonisheth to keepe Vertue in breath with exercise to giue it life in action and not suffer it to keepe house too much or to rust with rest and idlenesse Thus shall not a man trust to hereditary Dignitie and spend vpon that stocke of Honour which his noble ancestors haue left him neither shall hee basely purchase precedence and priority with the Penny nor diue by cunning insinuation into the fauour of Princes by flattering their amisses All these are the Balles of Fortune racketed vpon high but not abyding there but falling downe againe These spring tides haue their neapes these are very Meteors making a portentose shew of light awhile but soone put out For when this Curtayne of Greatnes drawne betweene them and the deceiued eyes of men shall be withdrawen when this ouer-guilding with false Honour shall begin to weare off and their vnworthinesse looke like it selfe stript and naked When they shall vnlearne the art of Seeming shall it not then be sayd vnto them What fruite haue you now of these thinges where of you are ashamed Ler Honour then follow Vertue and let Vertue be content with it selfe S. Augustines rule is Gloria nostra est testimonium Conscientiae nosirae Our glorie is in the testimonie of our owne Conscience The first Adam sought Honour and it fledde from him The second Adam fledde from Honour and it ouertoke him The vse of this instruction is this to prouoke euery of you according to the measure of Gods endowment of Grace to stirre vp in your selues those faire partes of Vertue and goodnes by which your God may be most glorified in his creature your Countrie may haue the benefite of your seruice your King the vse of your Vertue and all men the example of it Seneca sayth Recie facii fecisse merces est To haue done well is the reward of well doing therefore if Riches buy away or Fauoure giue away from you your wel-deserued Honoures yet God hath promised to be your portion and exceeding great reward It will be a great euidence against you that you neuer loued Vertue and goodnes truely if you do neglect them when you see your selues neglected for Honourable actions are not to be vndertaken in regarde of the honour which we gayne by them but that God may be honoured by vs in them Our Sauiour hath enformed vs that they which seeke the prayse of men haue their rewarde heere I will conclude this first poynt with the saying of S. Chrisostome Hon●● verus est in virtute animi True honour is in the vertue of the minde and for all other that goe for honours heere let vs say with the same learned father Honores non sunt im● ministeria They are not Honours but meere seruices 2 Though I haue found as much difference betweene man and man as betweene high and low rich and poore great and small yet I haue set mine eye in the second place vpon the mortaliue of Great Men because my Text saith A great man is fallen It hath cost the liues of the greatest to exemplifie this to vs from Adam the Father of vs all by whose disobedience Sinne came into the world and by Sinne Death euen to this moment of time wherein thousands are breathing their last in sundry places and by sundry sorts of death Where be those great ones euen the greatest of the Sonnes of men which haue ouerrunne Kingdomes people with an inundation of power and taught the Earth to groane and tremble vnder the burthen of their Armes Did not God blow vpon them and they withered And did not the whire wind take them away as stuble Esa 40. 24. When Iob was out of taste with his life he wisht that he had gone immediatly from the wombe to the Graue for sayth hee I should haue slept then and been at rest with the Kinges and Counsay lours of the Earth which haue builded them selues desolate places or with the Princes that had gold and haue filled their houses with siluer Iob 3. 13. Dignitie friends followers wealth plentie the best supporters that euer the world could find of temporall happines giue way when Death commeth The Centution sayth to his seruant Goe and he goeth Death sayth to the Centurion Come and he commeth Deaths Nettes are not Cobwebbes to take none but small Flyes nor Snares for none but small Birdes If great Men should not die small men should not liue Vnrestrayned geatnes growes saluage but the thought of Death makes it come to hand and become tame All the life of some is a rize from one aduancement to another till they haue lost themselues in their owne greatnes but they shall fall euen from the greatest It was so decreed in Paradice when wee were all yet in the loynes of our first Parents before there was any such difference betweene vs in dignitie For out of it wert thou taken because thou art Dust and to Dust shalt thou returne Gen. 3. 19. Dust is our first and last The most neat the most cutious amongst vs shall not brush off this dust till we rise againe euen till our mortall do put on immortalitie Reu. 6. 8. S. Iohn looked and behold a pale Horse his name that sate vpon him is Death Death is an Horseman you see to shew his speede and his Horse is pale which is the complexion of departing and dying men This ryder hath ouertaken Abner a Great man in Israel This filles the eyes of Dauid full of teares till they runne ouer 1 The vse of this obseruation is to vnderstand that Princes haue their sorrowes Luctus sayth Tully est agritudo ex eius qui charus est acerbo interitu Mourning is a sorrow conceiued at the death of a deare Friend In this griefe is impartiall the friendes of Kinges are as mortall as the friendes of Subiectes It is not in the Cotages of the poore or vnder the roofe of the Widow only in the Hospitals of the diseased onely or in the darke Dungeons of the imprisoned but in the Palaces of Princes in the Bed-chambers of Kinges nay in their bosomes and the inmost conclaues of their breastes Luctus et vltrices posuere cubilia curae Sorrow and sad vnrest haue taken vp their lodging Abner dyeth in the nonage of King Dauides