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A03597	A remedie against sorrow and feare, delivered in a funerall sermon, by Richard Hooker, sometimes fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford	Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.; Jackson, Henry, 1586-1662.; Spenser, John, 1559-1614.	1612 (1612)	STC 13722; ESTC S121049	7,781	18

because it is secret shall we thinke they goe vnpunisht because no apparent plague is presently seene vpon them The iudgements of God doe not alwaies follow crimes as Thunder doth Lightning but sometimes the space of many ages comming between When the sunne hath shined faire the space of six daies vpon their Tabernacle wee knowe not what cloudes the seventh may bring And when their punishment doth come let them make their account in the greatnesse of their sufferings to pay the interest of that respect which hath beene given them Or if they chance to escape cleerely in this world which they seldome do in the day when the heavens shall shrivell as a scrole the mountaines moue as frighted men out of their places what Caue shall receaue them what mountaine or rocke shall they get by intreatie to fall vpon them What court to hide them from that wrath which they shal be neither able to abide nor to avoid No mans miserie therefore being greater then theirs whose impiety is most fortunate much more cause there is for them to bewaile their owne infelicitie then for others to bee troubled with their prosperous and happy estate as if the hand of the Almightie did not or would not touch thē For these causes and the like vnto these therefore bee not troubled Now though the cause of our heavinesse be iust yet may not our affections herein bee yeelded vnto with too much indulgencie and favour The griefe of compassion whereby we are touched with the feeling of other mens woes is of all other least dangerous Yet this is a let vnto sundry duties by this we are to spare sometimes where we ought to strike The griefe which our owne sufferings doe bring what temptations haue not risen from it What great advantage Sathan hath taken even by the godly griefe of hartie contrition for sinnes committed against God the neere approaching of so many afflicted soules whome the conscience of sinne hath brought vnto the very brink of extreame dispaire doth but too aboundantly shew These things wheresoever they fall cannot but trouble and molest the mind Whether wee bee therefore moved vainely with that which seemeth hurtfull and is not or haue iust cause of griefe being pressed indeed with those things which are grievous our Saviours lesson is touching the one be not troubled nor overtroubled for the other For though to haue no feeling of that which meerely concerneth vs were stupiditie neverthelesse seeing that as the Author of our Salvation was himselfe consecrated by affliction so the way which we are to follow him by is not shrewed with rushes but sette with thornes be it never so hard to learne wee must learne to suffer with patience even that which seemeth almost impossible to be suffered that in the houre whē God shall call vs vnto our tryall and turne this hony of of peace and pleasure wherewith wee swell in that gall and bitternesse which flesh doth shrinke to tast of nothing may cause vs in the troubles of our soules to storme and grudge and repine at God but every heart be enabled with divinely inspired courage to inculcate vnto it selfe Be not troubled in those last and greatest conflicts to remember it that nothing may be so sharp and bitter to be suffered but that still we our selues may giue our selues this encouragement Even learne also patience o my soule Naming patience I name that virtue which onely hath power to stay our soules from being over excessiuely troubled a virtue wherein if ever any surely that soule had good experience which extremitie of paines having chased out of the Tabernacle of this flesh Angels I nothing doubt haue carried into the bosome of her father Abraham The death of the Saints of God is pretious in his sight And shall it seeme vnto vs superfluous at such times as these are to heare in what manner they haue ended their liues The Lord himselfe hath not disdained so exactly to register in the booke of life after what sort his servants haue closed vp their daies on earth that he descendeth even to their very meanest actions what meat they haue longed for in their sicknesse what they haue spoken vnto their children kinsfolke and friends where they haue willed their dead Carkases to be laid howe they haue framed their wills and testaments yea the very turning of their faces to this side or that the setting of their eies the degrees whereby their naturall heat hath departed from them their cries their groanes their pantings breathings last gaspings he hath most solemnly commended vnto the memory of all generations The care of the living both to liue and to dy well must needs be somwhat increased when they knowe that their departure shal not be folded vp in silence but the eares of many bee made acquainted with it Againe when they heare how mercifull God hath dealt with others in the houre of their last need besides the praise which they giue to God the ioy which they haue or should haue by reason of their fellowship and communion of Saints is nor their hope also much confirmed against the day of their own dissolution Finally the sound of these things doth not so passe the eares of them that are most loose and desolute of life but it causeth them sometime or other to wish in their hearts O that we might die the death of the righteous and that our end might bee like his Howbeit because to spend herein many wordes would bee to strike even as many wounds into their mindes whom I rather wish to comfort therefore concerning this virtuous Gentlewoman only this little I speak and that of knowledge Shee liued a Doue and died a Lambe And if amongst so many vertues harty devotion towards God towards poverty tender compassion motherly affection towards servants towardes friends even serviceable kindnesse mild behaviour and harmelesse meaning towards all if where so many virtues were eminent any be worthy of special mention I wish her dearest friends of that sex to bee her neerest followers in two things Silence saving only where dutie did exact speech and Patience even then when extremitie of paines did enforce griefe Blessed are they which die in the Lord. And concerning the dead which are blessed let not the harts of any living be overcharged with griefe overtroubled Touching the latter affection of feare which respecteth evils to come as the other which we haue spokē of doth present evils first in the nature thereof it is plaine that we are not of every future evill afraid Perceaue we not how they whose tendernesse shrinketh at the least rase of a needles point do kisse the sword that pearceth their soules quite through If every evill did cause feare sinne because it is sinne would bee feared whereas properly sin is not feared as sin but only as having some kind of harme annexed To teach men to avoid sin it had beene sufficient for the Apostle to say fly it But to make

A REMEDIE AGAINST SORROW AND FEARE delivered in a funerall Sermon BY RICHARD HOOKER SOMEtimes fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford AC OX AT OXFORD Printed by Ioseph Barnes and are to be sold by John Barnes dwelling neere Holborne Conduit 1612. IOHN 14. 27. Let not your hearts be troubled nor feare THE holy Apostles having gathered themselues together by the special appointment of Christ beeing in expectation to receiue from him such instructiōs as they had beene accustomed with were told that which they least looked for namely that the time of his departure out of the world was now come Wherevpon they fell into consideration first of the manifolde benefits which his absence should bereaue them of and secondly of the sundrie evils which themselues shoulde be subiect vnto beeing once bereaved of so gracious a master and patron The one consideration overwhelmed their soules with heavinesse the other with feare Their Lord and Saviour whose wordes had cast downe their hearts raiseth them presently againe with chosen sentences of sweet encouragement My deare it is for your own sakes that I leaue the world I know the affections of your hearts are tender but if your loue were directed with that advised and staide iudgemente which should be in you my speech of leaving the world and going vnto my father would not a little augment your ioie Desolate and comfortlesse I will not leaue you in spirit I am with you to the worlds end whether I bee present or absent nothing shall ever take you out of these hands my going is to take possession of that in your names which is not only for me but also for you prepared where I am you shal be In the meane while My peace I giue not as the world giveth giue I vnto you Let not your hearts be troubled nor feare The former part of which sentence having otherwhere already beene spoken of this vnacceptable occasion to open the latter part thereof here I did not looke for But so God disposeth the waies of men Him I hartily beseech that the thing which he hath thus ordered by his providēce may through his gracious goodnesse turne vnto your comfort Our nature coveteth preservation from things hurtfull Hurtful things being present do breed heavines being future do cause feare Our Saviour to abate the one speaketh thus vnto his disciples Let not your hearts be troubled and to moderate the other addeth seare not Griefe and heavinesse in the presents of sensible evils cannot but trouble the mindes of men It may therefore seeme that Christ required a thing impossible Be not troubled Why how could they choose But we must note this being naturall and therefore simplie not reprouable is in vs good or bad according to the causes for which wee are grieved or the measure of our griefe It is not my meaning to speake so largely of this affection as to go over all particulers wherby men do one waie or other offend in it but to teach it so far only as it may cause the very Apostles equals to swarne Our griefe and heavines therfore is reproueable sometime in respect of the cause from whence sometime in regard of the measure wherevnto it groweth When Christ the life of the world was led vnto cruell death there followed a number of people and women which women bewailed much his heavie case It was naturall compassion which caused them where they saw vndeserved miseries there to poure forth vnrestrained teares Nor was this reproved But in such readines to lamēt wher they lesse needed their blindnes in not discerning that for which they ought much rather to haue mourned this our Savior a little toucheth putting them in minde that the teares which were wasted for him might better haue beene spent vpon themselues Daughters of Ierusalem weepe not for me weepe for your selues and for your children It is not as the Stoickes haue imagined a thing vnseemely for a wise man to be touched with griefe of minde but to be sorrowfull when we least should and where we should lament there to laugh this argueth our small wisedome Againe when the Prophet David cōfesseth thus of him selfe I grieved to see the great prosperitie of godlesse men how they flourish and go vntoucht Psal. 73. Himselfe hereby openeth both our common and his peculiar imperfection whom this cause should not haue made so pensiue To grieue at this is to grieue where we should not because this griefe doth rise from errour We erre when we grieue at wicked mens impunitie and prosperitie because their estate being rightly discerned they neither prosper nor goe vnpunished It may seeme a paradox it is a truth that no wicked mans estate is prosperous fortunate or happie For vvhat though they blesse themselues and thinke their happynesse great Haue not franticke persons many times a great opinion of their owne wisdome It may be that such as they thinke themselues others also do accompt them But what others Surely such as themselues are Truth and reason discerneth farre otherwise of them Vnto whom the Iewes wish all prosperitie vnto them the phrase of their speech is to wish peace Seeing then the name of peace containeth in it al parts of true happynesse when the Prophet saith plainly that the wicked haue no peace how can we thinke them to haue anie part of other then vainely imagined felicitie What wise man did ever accompt fooles happy If wicked men were wise they woulde cease to bee wicked Their iniquitie therefore proving their follie howe can wee stande in doubt of their miserie They abound in those things which all men desire A poore happynesse to haue good things in possession A man to whō God hath given riches and treasures and honor so that hee wanteth nothing for his soule of all that it desireth but yet God giveth him not the power to eate thereof such a felicitie Salomon esteemeth but as a vanitie a thing of nothing If such things adde nothing to mens happines where they are not vsed surely wicked men that vse thē ill the more they haue the more wretched Of their prosperitie therefore wee see what wee are to thinke Touching their impunitie the same is likewise but supposed They are oftner plagued then we are aware of The panges they feele are not alwaies written in their foreheads Though wickednesse bee sugar in their mouthes and wantonnesse as oile to make them looke with cheerefull countenance nevertheles if their harts were disclosed perhaps their glittering estate would not greatly be envied The voices that haue brokē out from some of thē O that God had giuē me a hart senseles like the flint in the rockes of stone which as it can tast no pleasure so it feeleth no woe these the like speeches are surely tokens of the curse which Zophar in the booke of Iob powreth vpon the head of the impious man Hee shall sucke the gale of Asps and the Vipers tongue shall sley him If this seeme light