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A01347	The mourning of Mount Libanon: or, The temples teares A sermon preached at Hodsocke, the 20. day of December, anno Domini, 1627. In commemoration of the right honourable and religious lady, the Lady Frances Clifton, daughter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Cumberland: and wife to the truly noble Sir Geruas Clifton of Clifton, in the county of Nottingham, Knight and Baronet, who deceased the 20. Nouember, 1627. By William Fuller Doctor of Diuinity, one of his Maiesties chapleines in ordinary.	Fuller, William, 1579 or 80-1659.	1628 (1628)	STC 11468; ESTC S102826	23,698	50

because the pride of Iordan is destroyed Questionlesse all that but remember that the righteous are taken away from the anger to come howsoeuer they haue no part in our priuate losse may ioyne themselues in our publicke feare knowing that the death of Saints trencheth to further danger God for his infinite mercy grant grace in our liues pardon at our deaths and after both the fruition of his blessed vision Amen In obitum praematurum praeclarissimae Heroinae D. Franciscae Clifton quae obijt in pace paulò post puerperium Ad turgescentem tumuli molem Qu. CVrita turgescis moles vnúmne cadauer Aut multa hâc sacrâ contumulantur humo Res Hic sita nobilitas quicquid nobile virtus Ingenium probitas pietatis amor Hic sita faeminci sexus laus deliciúmque Hïc Francisca sita est desine musa sat est Ad patrem de quinâ tantùm defunctae matris prole QVinque tibi casti charissima pignora lecti Donauit coniux nobilis atque obijt Non auxit numerum sed sensibus omnibus vnum Ex aequo tribuit disce quid hic numerus Vt videas tangas gustes atque oscula figens Coniugis olfacias dulcia dona tuae Atque etiam ascultes cùm blando murmure pappant Tu nobis mater quinque patérque simul Per Sam. Simson Pietati virtuti honori foelici memoriae illustrissimae D. D. Franciscae Clifton Ampliss Comitis Cumberlandiae charissimae filiae atque honoratissimi viri D. Geruasij Clifton Militis Baronetti coniugis spectatiss PEtrarum in clivis gaudent habitare columbae Hoc est quod Christi sponsa columba cluit Christus enim petra est Christique in vulnere clivus Gestit vbi solum figere sponsa pedem O te foelicem idcirco Franscisca Columbam Quae tota in cliuis vixeris moreris A cliuo ad clivum mortalis sponsa volabas Nunc eadem in clivo caelica sponsa lates Vtque ille in terris ampli tibi portus honoris Hic itidem aeternae porta salutis erit Io. Crauen VVHat means this mourning on mount Libanō Why howle ye firre trees O a Cedars gone Whose hallowed boughs to vs such shade had lent As shepheards sang and trees made merriment Which being fallen the hils would equall faine Hadadrimmons mourning on Megiddons plaine Yet know we well it 's but remoued hence To holy Zion where with deare expence Of Shiloes bloud God raised hath a quire To which all Firres and Cedars doe aspire It is our losse foule crimes haue caused these throes For present want and feare of future woes FINIS Ier. La. 1. 1 La. 2. 10. La. 5. 15. 16. Exod. 12. cap. 9. 1. Reg. 5. 8. Gerson ser 19. post pentec 2 Sam. 12. Iud. 9. Quare dicit vlula Gen. 35. 18. Ruth 1. 20. 1. Sam. 4. 21. 9. ● vers 11. vers 12. Ier. La. ● 11. 12. Aug. dever Apost ser 33. Idem ibid. La. 5. 1● De miseriâ hominis Serm. in Cant. 20. Tract de remed contra pusillanimitatem In 4. sent dist 16. Item Aquarius in 4. sent ex S. Thom. Aug. serm 189. de tempore Idem lib. de verâ falsâ poenitent cap. 9. In 1. sent Ezech 33. 14. 15. Panigarola ex Bonauent in l●● 5. Dan. 4 24. Ps 32. 1. Ps 51. 2. Ps 41. 4. Matth. 9. 2. Matth. 6. 14. Ouicciard lib. 14. Lib. 2. nat hist Lib. 1. sent art 5 Item Aug. lib. 11 deciuit Dei cap. 25. Pet. Bless ep 49. Serm. 26. in Cant. Ambr. serm 46. Item lib. 10. in Lucam cap. ●6 〈…〉 1. Thessa 4. 13. De verb. Apost serm 32. ●dem vbi supra In Ezech. 24. Aug c●●●… 12. Aug de ver●d sal p●n●● cap. 8. Io●d ca ●2 〈◊〉 sent Cyprian ser de lapsis Anselm de si militudine cap 102. A●g vbi supra cap. 13. Cyprian de coena Domini Idem ibidem Aug ● de 〈◊〉 cap. 5. Gersin serm pro hum●l Bellarm. lib. 3. de bonis operibus in particulari cap. 4. 1. Kin. 6. 21. Ps 107. 10. Euseb de vita Con. lib. 1. cap. 47 Iob. 29. 15. 〈◊〉 Bless ser 53. Rom 12 ●1 Aquin●… 4. contra gent. cap. 81. Hieronymus in vita eius lib. 3. epist Rom. 3. Apoc P●●●… Ro. 7. Philip. 1 Cyprian de immortalitate Ps 42. Phil. 1. De laude martyrij Fuseb lib. 3. eccles hist c. 33. Platina in vita Anacien 1. Reuel 6. 10. Hieronym cont Iouin lib. 2. Ser. in Cant 47. Cypr. ep 9. Ioh. 20. 21. Lib. 3. de poenit cap. 18. Ep. 49. ● Quare quia cecidit Cedrus Ep. 27. Greg. Nazian oratione de funere Patris ● Sam. 1● 33. Luk. 23. 28. Ep. 27. Ep. 2. Gen. 25. 〈◊〉 Paniga Ps 12. 1● 2. Sam. 24. 27. Oratione in laudem Athanas● j. M. Foelix in Octav. 1. Cor. 15. ●● Lib 5. Eccles poli sec 67. Lib. 4. de gubernat dei

none but impure bloud and the flie that lighteth vpon nothing but vlcers this heere would famish that be vselesse Hee that should dare to snuffe this taper would but defile his owne fingers and make her light the cleerer as the waters sayth Stella that by ouerflowing their bounds make the bankes cleane and themselues dirty A flourishing branch she was of a stocke as honorable as ancient and as it to her so she to it an ornament knowing that vertue with much adoe might begin a house but vice with little labour easily end it that Cham and Esau had noble parents themselues were base that there is no greater argument of pouerty then to boast anothers worth or vertue And therefore stroue to be side nobilis quae omnibus ornatibus ornamento est noble in faith which to all honors is an ornament Who knoweth not that great births haue the strongest ties to chayne them to those duties by which the ancestor rose or flourished And the greatest liberty for to lose themselues in courses that are both irregular and vnlawfull which begets a soloecisme in great houses that is honoris titulum sine homine much stile and little man Shee therefore knowing both the rocks and channell sayled in the one and waued the other there being not any noble vertue befitting her blood and sex that she did not in high measure practise as if she had beene ambitious to be verè nobilis that is virtute prae alijs notabilis as some deriue the word exceeding others as much in the gifts of minde as fortune Nor is it maruell she should bee scarlet in the cloth that was dyed so in the wooll sucking Religion with her milke the excellency of her nature being perfected by education It were very improbable shee should degenerate hauing such a sister to accompany and such a mother to lead the wayes of godlinesse both demonstrating in life and death how she following should learne of them to liue and die So as it were no arrogant chalenge to bid Rome which maketh traytors Saints and strawes miracles to set from foorth their legend such a parent with such a payre of sister Saints Sure I am many a superstitious knee hath beene bowed to inferior worthies From the time of her marriage to her death few can giue more ample testimony then my selfe for from that time I had good cause to know and to obserue and cannot but with comfort remember the happy both fruit and incouragement of my weake indeuours as a poore labourer that lookes with ioy vpon some goodly pile of building because hee can say he brought something to it although but stone or morter Shee was a woman full of noble curtesies eyther when shee did visit others or her selfe were visited One that could stoope low by the rules of Religion and vet knew her distance in the truth of reason so she had alwaies the rich mens applause and the poore mans praiers with the one she conuersed not but with an honourable familiarity nor with the other but with a charitable reliefe Hee must haue beene of an euill life she would not haue deigned to speake to and of an euill disposition that would not be content with her answers Iudicious in all discourse beyond the degree of her sex yet pleasant to interlacing mirth with earnest both in such a posture as did well become her and such a manner as was beyond exception her presence would not grace either the Cynicks rudenesse or the wantons boldnesse Well seene in History and other humane knowledge but so as her mayne ayme was at Religion and to be skilfull in the Law of God For that father that chasteneth euery childe that he receyueth had giuen her a long infirmity bred with her from her childhood bringing as much payne to her as shame to the Physitians And this though the bodies hurt yet the soules physicke filling those empty parts that appeared at her dissection with inuisible graces that there might bee no vacuity Calamitas saepius disciplina virtutis est Her calamity directed her virtue So mortifying all her affections as she valued not the world relyed not vpon arte trusted not her strength nor euer was vnprepared to entertayne death so long expected I haue diuers times heard her say that she neuer went to her bed but as to her graue nor euer saw that morning that she did thinke she should liue to see the euening Thus what some make easie with patience she made easie with preparation and prouidence and Quicquid expectatum est diù leuius accidit what so is foreseene before it happeneth falleth lightly when it commeth when hee that is surprized is halfe beaten before a blow bee giuen Omnia nouitate grauiora All things seeming more greeuous as they are more sudden She if any might truly take vp that of the Apostle I die dayly hauing so many and so bitter fits as all attendants as well as her selfe thought them mortall yet borne with that vndanted resolution as might well demonstrate how she had learned Christ her tongue neuer venting the least word of murmur or repining but continually vttering heauenly ●inculations to God and comfortable assurances to those about her Nor were her many deliuerances passed ouer in silence as if shee would receyue the fruit and not looke to the tree that dropped it to her for God had alwayes due praises and the poore large almes and bounty One time among many others was most remarkeable hauing conceyued and a fit taking her when she was quicke with childe the extremity was such as within her shee felt no motion and but small signe of life eyther of her selfe or that she went with From which danger when God had preserued her she vowed a vow vnto the Lord and performed it truely that that day should be annually holy vnto his name which she spent in her priuate Chamber with fasting reading Psalmes and prayer her fast indeed but the Poores feast they might well write that day in red letters as their greatest Festiuall So as what she was in euery relation as a daughter sister wife mother Ladie Mistresse neighbour Christian both in life and death neede not seeme strange although transcendent in each particuler the goodnesse of her nature being ordered by education that rectified by grace grace exercised by afflictions and they purged out all vanities and thence she was as fine gold often tried fit for her Makers Temple Such a Daughter as would make a Father wish to be aged to haue the comfort of that respect and dutie euer attending him with a bended knee and a carefull loue humble obeisance and a ioyfull heart as if she had receiued a second life by his presence from whose bloud the first was taken Such a Sister as if the bloud were still in the old vaines vndiuided Such a Wife as might be an argument against a vow her society rather perfecting then interrupting deuotion She seldome parted from her noble

honour of nobility And it presently followeth O quantus in Christiano populo honor Christi est vbi Religio ignobilem facit How little honour do Christians shew their God when the profession of the Religion maketh the professor to be held ignoble Let me adde that no nation vnder heauen of what religion soeuer if they acknowledge a God doe vnder-value their Priests and orders but only the Reformed Churches I pray God it may portend no iudgement I haue now breathed her course of life and proceed to a conclusion if I bee tedious you must blame her vertues As her life was nothing but a care for death so her death an entrance to a better life She hauing beene a Mary to God a Martha to the world a Sara to her husband a Lois an Eunice to her children a Lydia to the Disciples in a word an elect Lady borne for the good of many So as shee might well vtter S. Ambrose his speech to his people of Millan which S. Augustine so much admired Non sic vixt vt me pudeat apud vos diutius viuere nec mori timeo quia bonum Dominum habemus I haue not so liued as that I should be ashamed to liue longer nor feare I to die because wee haue a gracious Lord. Sure it is that death which was so long expected and prepared for could neither be suddaine nor grieuous when it happened About a moneth before her childebirth she had a dreame which something troubled her and sent for me a bad interpreter if I could to tell the meaning Her body she thought was past all cure her vitall spirits spent she had taken her leaue of the world and reconciled her selfe to God and was euen giuing vp the ghost into the hands of her redeemer and so awaked I told her dreamed came either from the disposition of the body or the sollicitude of the minde and that questionlesse her meditations were much vpon mortalitie and that some of those broken species remained in the fancie vndiscoursed and the soule which cannot bee idle did worke vpon them She replied in few words to this effect I doe or should daily think to die sure I am not I only but all should doe so and occasion being offered of some thing to be done a moneth after by that time said she shall I be in my graue And indeed within three or foure daies of her account she was so as I compute the time as if God rather then nature had revealed it to her After her deliuery succeeding a painfull labour it was well hoped she had at once parted with her Childe and danger and that her many faintings were signes of a weake but not a dying body Lord how a little glimpes of comfort giueth light to desire and loue and maketh men thinke they she when they doe but dreame hope being the first thing that taketh vs and the last that leaueth vs but she that had often seene the face of death and had as often wrestled with his forces seldome comming off without great paine and hazard found him now manifestly preuailing and cryed out farewell vaine earth I embrace thee Heauen Then calling for her noble Husband tooke her leaue of him and prayed for him blessed her Children and s●●tching her little Sonne into her dying armes desired God to make him true to him and iust to man and at other times although not then that he might resemble his great Grandfather in all noble vertues for he said she was likewise a Cliffords Sonne then casting her eyes vpon all together with a zealous exclamation besought God for them that the seedes of his grace might be so sowen within their hearts that they might bud and blossome and bring forth fruit and become in time broad shades for the poore afflicted members of Christ to sit vnder and receiue comfort In the morning before she died she had conuulsion and the signes of death and I comming to her although she had not slept foure or fiue nights before an infirmity able to haue weakned the strongest braine yet presently without the least distemper distraction or shortnesse of breath her old disease she recalled all her vitall spirits to doe that last office comfortably and confidently made the profession of her faith auowing that there was no name either in Heauen or in Earth that she hoped to be saued by but that of Iesus Christ the righteous She was not then to learne either the principles or practice of Religion so that I stood rather to behold the vse then teach the theory From that wee went to prayers she repeating with wonderfull feruency the words after me vntill perceiuing her weaknesse I besought her to spare her decayed spirits telling her that both shee and wee might receiue as much comfort by her silent assistance in the length and vocall assent in the conclusion When all was done that could be required of a Christian in that extremity I boldly proceeded to the office of my Ministry and pronounced her absolution and am very confident that it was olaue non errante with a Key that erred not and that God did ratifie in heauen what I his vnworthy Minister declared on earth she receiuing it as comfortably as I deliuered it faithfully After this she seemed to sleepe and a great care was had for feare of interruption and so continued vntill the afternoone when her speech left her and the messengers of death againe appeared And we as was our duty renued our prayers which for a time she answered with signes vntill her memory as well as her tongue did faile her Nor did we then giue ouer as knowing well with S. Augustine that God differreth sometimes to grant to teach vs to beg and so promiseth to beginners as that he will giue to none but perseuerers My selfe and another Minister that came in that perplexity continually solliciting his Diuine Maiesty for mercy vntill in the middest of one of my prayers in which I desired him to giue his Angels charge ouer her in that her agonie against sinne and Sathan she departed going her selfe to vndoubted ioy and leauing vs to vnfayned sorrow And thus O firre trees our Cedar is fallen If such a fall bee not an exaltation rather for it shall bee my ambition to liue so that I may die so And now she lieth low by the side of that other excellent Lady her predecessor two such parcels of earth as the earth that couereth them may seeme proud of What remayneth but a generall sorrow not for her but for our selues in which each order may beare a part of mourning the firre trees because all the mighty are spoyled as it followeth the words of my text and the oakes of Bashan to for their defenced forrest is come down I shall not need to bid the shepheards howle for the next verse sayth that their voyce is already heard and good reason for their glory is destroyed nor the Lions whelps their roaring is presupposed