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A18384	A sermon preached at Farington in Barkeshire, the seuenteene of Februarie, 1587 At the buriall of the right Honorable the Ladie Anne Countes of Warwicke, daughter to the Duke of Sommerset his grace, and widowe of the right worshipfull Sir Edward Vmpton knight. By Bartholomew Chamberlaine, Doctor of Diuinitie.	Chamberlaine, Bartholomew, 1545 or 6-1621.	1591 (1591)	STC 4952; ESTC S118615	11,801	34

shewed vnto vs. O that wée could remember thrée thinges past What good thinges wee haue omitted what euill things we haue committed what time we haue lost O that we could consider thrée thinges present The breuity of our life The difficulty to be saued The paucity of them which shall be saued O that we could foresée thrée thinges to come The houre of death then which no thing more vncertaine The resurrection to iudgement then which nothing more terrible The paines of hell then which nothing more intollerable Remember the ende and thou shalt neuer do amisse The end of sinne is death Here is a spectacle a Ladie by birth a Countes by mariage by title right honorable a widow of a vertuous life a woman of many yeares a mother of good children whose bodie death hath killed whose soule Christ hath taken whose bodie must to the earth whose soule is in the hands of God Beholde in her the ende of all flesh for as we are so was she and as she is so shal we be that her trusty Seruants that her faithfull frendes that her worshipfull déere and louing children seing God hath wrought his will vpon her as in time also he will vpon you and vpon all flesh by calling her from earth to heauen from men to Saintes to Angels to the fruition of his most glorious presence praise God for her Let your lamentations be mixed with moderation because she is gone from a vale of miserie to a hauen of all happines and when Christ which is her life shall appéere then shall shée also appeare with him in glorie For though her bodie be sowen in corruption yet it shall be raised in incorruption Though it be sowen in dishonor yet it shall be raised in glorie Though it be sowen in weakenes yet it shall be raised in power Though it be sowen a naturall body yet it shall be raised a spirituall body when this corruptible hath put on incorruption and this mortall hath put on immortality Who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry THe earth which drinketh in the raine that cometh often vpon it bringeth forth hearbes meete for them by whom it is dressed receiueth blessing of God But that which beareth bryars and thornes is reproued and is neare vnto cursing whose end is to be burned who so heareth Christes wordes and doth the same is likened to a wise man which hath builded his house on a rocke and the raine fell and the floudes came and the windes blewe and beat vpon that house and it fell not for it was grounded on a rocke But whosoeuer heareth Christes wordes and doth them not is compared to a foolish man which builded his house on the sand and the raine fell and the flouds came and the windes blew and beat vpon that house and it fell and the fall thereof was great If any heare the word and doth it not he is like vnto a man that beholdeth his naturall face in a glasse for when he hath considered himselfe he goeth his way and forgetteth immediatly what manner a one he was But who so looketh in the perfect law of libertie and continueth therein he not being a forgetfull hearer but a doer of the worke shall be blessed in his déede When a woman with a lifted vp voice had saide to Christ Blessed is the wombe that bare thée and the pappes which gaue thée sucke he answered yea rather blessed are they which heare the word of God and kéepe it He that hath my commaundements saith Christ and kéepeth them he is he that loueth me He that hath them saith Augustine in his beliefe and kéepes them in his life he that hath them in his wordes and kéepes them in his workes he that hath them by hearing and kéepes them by doing He that hath them by doing and kéepes them by continuing in doing he and none but he loueth Christ The fruitles trée is good for nothing but to be cut downe and cast into the fire That saucy marchaunt which intruded himselfe into the marriage of the kinges sonne without his wedding garment was not onely checked but also commaunded to be bound hand and foote to be taken away and cast into vtter darkenesse where shall be wéeping and gnashing of téeth The figge trée which had leaues but no fruite was by our Sauiour accursed for euer The foolish virgins which had lampes without oyle though they cryed Lord Lord open vnto vs yet they receiued a short and sharpe answere verily I say vnto you I know you not That euil slouthfull and vnprofitable seruant which hid his maisters talent in the earth had it both taken from him and was cast into vtter darknesse where shall be wéeping and gnashing of téeth That therefore we may be doers of the word and not hearers onely deceiuing our owne salues that the word may be vnto vs not the sauour of death vnto death but the sauour of life vnto life That the worde may be vnto vs liuely and mighty in operation and sharper then any two edged sword and enter through euen to the deuyding a sunder of the soule and the spirit and of the iointes and the marow and may be a disterner of the thoughts and intents of our harts so that all thinges in vs may be new let vs by humble prayer looke vp to almightie God in the glorious face of Iesus Christ When sinners once begin to despise the riches of Gods bountifulnesse and patience and long sufferance not knowing that the goonesse of God leadeth them to repentance when walking in the vanitie of their minde in darkenesse of their vnderstanding in straungenesse from the life of God through the ignorance in them in hardnesse of their hart and being past féeling shall giue them selues vnto wantonnesse to worke all vncleannesse euen with gréedinesse when they shall turne the grace of our God into wantonnesse and deny God the onely Lord and our Sauiour Iesus Christ ledde with sensualitie as natural brute beastes walking after the flesh in the lusts of wantonnes when they shall thinke it lost labour to serue God and no profit to kéepe his commandements neither to walke humbly before the face of the Lord of hostes when they shall say to them selues our life is short and tedious our breath is as a smoke in our nostrels our wordes as a sparke raised out of our harte our spirits vanish away as the soft ayre our bodies shall be turned into dust our life shall passe away as the trace of a cloud our time is as a very shadow our workes shall soone be forgotten our name no man shall haue in remembrance come on therefore let vs enioy the pleasures that are present let vs be partakers of our voluptuousnesse let vs leaue some token of our pleasure in euery corner let the law of vnrighteousnes be our strēgth let vs eate and drinke for to morrow wee shall dye when neither often warnings by his preachers nor faire promises of rewarde nor

A Sermon preached at Farington in Barkeshire the seuenteene of Februarie 1587. At the buriall of the right Honorable the Ladie Anne Countes of Warwicke daughter to the Duke of Sommerset his grace and widowe of the right worshipfull Sir Edward Vmpton knight By Bartholomew Chamberlaine Doctor of Diuinitie LONDON Printed by Iohn Wolfe and are to be sold at his shop at the broad south dore of Paules 1591. To the right Honorable and most vertuous Ladie the Ladie Doritie Vmpton Bartholomew Chamberlaine wisheth increase of health wealth worship and godlines with long life here to gods glorie and euerlasting life hereafter with Christ Iesus in heauen WHether yee eate or drinke or whatsoeuer ye doe do all to the glorie of God as the Apostle saith Which when I remembred to the glorie of my creator and benefite of his church I thought good to commit this little treatise to writing preached at the buriall of your motherinlaw a noble Ladie a faithfull wife a vertuous woman and a godly widow And because your Ladishippe whose giftes of bodie and minde are excellent heard it with attention as you do alwaies the word of truth to gods praise and your owne commendation be it spoken I tooke it meete to dedicate it to you for a New yeares gift and declaration of my thankfull mind for your manifold courtesies towardes me And forasmuch as the daies are euill sinne abounding and charitie being cold I haue therefore set downe the iudgements of God against the dissolute people of this age which haue a shew of godlines but haue denied the power thereof And seeing they giue themselues to commit all sinne euen with greedines being proude without humilitie malicious without charity cruell without compassion coueteous without measure vaine without vertue vile without the feare of God like to the horse and mule in whom is no vnderstanding therefore they shall vndoubtedly tast the bitter cuppe of Gods heauie displeasure except they speedily and truely repent Which if they shall do though their sinnes were as crimsin they shall be made white as snowe though they were red as skarlet they shall bee as wooll and that they may so do I daiely and deuoutly craue of God in the gratious name and glorious face of Iesus Christ his sonne who gaue him selfe for vs to redeeme vs from all iniquitie and to purge vs to bee a peculiar people vnto himselfe zealous of good workes To him therefore with the Father and the holy Ghost three in persons one God in nature be all glorie for euer Your Ladiships at commandement Bartholomew Chamberlaine A Sermon preached at Farington in Barkeshire the seuenteene of Februarie 1587. O Death how bitter is the remēmbrance of thée to a man that liueth at rest in his possessions vnto the man that hath nothing to vexe him and that hath prosperity in al thinges yea vnto him that is able to receiue meate O death how bitter is the remembrance of thée to the Epicure which beléeuing no resurrection of the bodie to life euerlasting but counting it pleasure to liue deliciously for a season doth spue out euill words corrupting good manners saying Let vs eat and drinke for to morowe we shall die O death how bitter is y e remembrance of thée to the coueteous whose trust is in vncertain riches not in the liuing God which giueth vs aboundantly all thinges to enioy to the glutton whose God is his belly and glorie to his shame to the Atheist which hath no hope and is without God in the world O death how swéete is the remembrance of thée to him which hath put on the brestplate of faith and loue and the hope of saluation for an Helmet liuing soberly iustly and godly in this present world hauing his conuersation in heauen from whence also ye looke for the Sauiour euen the Lord Iesus Christ desiring to be loosed and to be with him which is best of all O death how swéete is the remembrance of thée to the man which looketh not on the thinges which are séene for they are temporall but on the thinges which are not séene for they are eternall because to him thou art the ende of all miserie and the beginning of all felicitie because thou art a passage to the thinges which eye hath not seene neither eare hath heard neither came into mans hart which God hath prepared for them that loue him Notwithstanding though the remembrance of death to some be bitter yea bitterer then wormewood it selfe yet it is appointed for all men once to die It is appointed therefore it is certaine for all men therefore none can escape once to die therfore euery houre death is to be expected It is appointed for rich Cresus and poore Codrus for wise Salomon and foolish Esau for godly Abell and wicked Caine for proude Pharao and méeke Moises for vertuous Iosua for mightie Dauid for faire Absolon for strong Sampson for learned Tertullus for prince and people it is appointed for all once to die Noah liued nine hundreth and fiftie yeares and died Adam liued nine hundred and thirty yeares and died Methuselah liued nine hundreth sixtie and nine yeares and dyed And of all the fathers of the olde Testament though it be saide they liued long yet it is added they went the way of all the world that is they died Now it is good to remember death it is better to learne to die it is best of all in death to hope for life knowing that if one earthly house of this tabernacle bée destroyed wée haue a building giuen of God that is an house not made with handes but eternall in the heauens Some to remēber death do go euery morning into the church yeard and behold the graues Some wil haue deathes head engrauen in a ring Some death painted on their houses Philip king of the Macedonians euery morning before he came out of his chābre had one to cry thrise at his dore remember thou art a man Whereby he was put in minde of his mortality that albeit he was a king yet in time he must lay downe his tabernacle as well as others Which consideration might make him to rule discréetly and to liue orderly For there can bee no stronger bridle to hold vs backe from sinne neither sharper prick to stirre vs forward to goodnes then to remember we must remoue out of this body and appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ to receiue the thinges which we haue done in this bodie according to that we haue done whether it be good or euill Saint Hierom was wont to say whether I eate or drinke or whatsoeuer I do me thinkes that terrible Trumpet soundeth in mine eare Arise ye dead and come vnto iudgment This made him to hope in Christ stedfastly to loue God sincerely to ouercome his affections valiently to repent his sinne vnfainedly to beare the troubles of this life patiently knowing that the afflictiōs of this present times are not worthy of the glorie which shall be

death to them which are taken away in his wrath without repentance Behold the day cometh saith Malachie that shall burne as an ouen and all the proude yea and all that do wickedly shalbe as stuble and the day that cometh shal burne them vp saith the Lord of hosts and shal leaue them neither roote nor branch The Lord saith the Prophet Dauid is a righteous iudge strong patiēt and God is prouoked euery day if a man will not turne he hath whet his sword hée hath bent his bow and made it readie if the Lorde be angry the earth shall tremble quake the very foundation of the mountaine shall moue and shake When Adam perceiued the anger of God kindled against him for his transgression he could not abide his voice but went about to hide himselfe in the middest of Paradice sinne maketh men foolish for he coulde not hide himselfe from God which is present euery where beholdeth all things When Cain felt the wrath of God incensed against him for embruing his guilty hands with the guiltles bloud of his righteous brother Abel he fell into a desperate minde my punishmēt is more then may be borne my sinne is greater then it may be forgiuen mentiris Cain saith Augustine Maior est Dei misericordia quam omnium peccatorum miseria In the 21. of Nombers The wrath of God was kindled against certaine tempters and they were destroyed of serpents The wrath of God was enflamed against certain murmurers and they were destroyed of the destroyer Num. 14. The wrath of God was kindled against certaine that committed fornication and there fel in one day twenty and thrée thousand All these thinges came vnto them for examples and are written to admonish vs vpon whom the ends of the world are come This anger of God against sinne how great it is by this it may appeare that when man had sinned no creature in heauen or in earth could appease it but only he which is y e loue of the father the brightnes of his glory and the very ingraued fourme of his person euen Iesus Christ our sauiour who appeared to loose the works of the diuell and through death destroyed him which had the power of death that is the diuel and to redeem vs from the curse of the law was made a curse for vs and being consecrate was made the author of eternal saluatiō vnto al them y t obey him and is made more excellent then the Angels in as much as he hath obtained a more excellent name then they penitent sinners confessing with their mouthes the Lord Iesus belieuing in their harts that God raised him from the deade to whom God hath not giuen the spirit of feare but of power of loue and of a sound minde néede not to stand in feare of God his anger for vnto them and for them Sathan the author of sinne is vanquished sin the worke of Sathan is destroyed death the effect of sinne is subdued The curse of the law is taken away the wrath of God is pacified and man to God euerlastingly reconciled They which are subiect to God his anger are the wicked men of corrupt mindes reprobate concerning the faith louers of their owne selues no louers at al of them which are good louers of pleasures more then louers of God hauing a shew of godlinesse but haue denyed the power thereof Notwithstanding if they could forsake euil and doe good if they coulde cast away all filthinesse superftuity of maliciousnes and receiue with meekenes y e word which is able to saue their soules if they could put off that old man which is corrupt though the deceaueble lusts be renewed in the spirit of theyr minde put on that new man which after God is created vnto righteousnes and true holines they should not néed to fear God his anger for God is pleased in Christ for his owne sake This is my beloued son in whom I am well pleased heare him There are two sorts of sinners some penitent some impenitent Impenitent sinners are they which are led with sensuality as naturall brute beastes walking after theyr owne lustes whose mouths speake proud things and the swelling words of vanity whose eies are full of adultery and that cannot cease to sin whose harts are exercised with coueteousnes whose minds are puffed vp with pride hauing no sense of sinne no féeling of Gods mercy no swéetenes in Christ his merits not seruing God for hée is a spirite and they are carnall for he is charity and they are malicious for he is light they walke in darkenes of ignorance and sin which minde nothing but earthly things Penitēt sinners are they which rent their harts and not their garments and turn to the Lord their God hauing in them that godly sorrow which causeth repentance vnto saluation beléeuing in true repentance that when they shall confesse their sinnes God is faithful and iust to forgiue them their sinnes and to clense them from all iniquity denying all vngodlines and worldly lusts and studying to liue soberly iustly and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and appearing of the glory of that mighty God and of our Sauiour Iesus Christ who gaue himselfe for vs that he might redeeme vs from al iniquity and purge vs to be a peculiar people vnto him selfe zealous of good works To him therefore with the Father and the holy Ghost thrée in persons one in nature bee glory and maiesty and dominion and power both now and for euer Amen FINIS