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A87150	Abners funerall, or, a sermon preached at the funerall of that learned and noble knight, Sir Thomas Lucie. By Robert Harris, B.D. and Pastor of the Church at Hanwell, Oxon.	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1641 (1641)	Wing H869; Thomason E132_27; ESTC R21249	21,519	42

senses and see a decay there Or if you will abroad improve this double instance See here a Noble Paire and establish your selves in this truth by the testimonie of two mouths two bodies both not long before their ends valiant both vigorous both presenting as well and promising as much as we can and now both lie Dead before you Nay seeing Examples knowne and at hand worke best and the Eye of senses most affects the heart See here under view a Man accomplished and made up of all the Contributions of Art and Nature a Man in whom concurred all those things Pythagoras which the Philosopher could thinke to beg of his God to wit Beautie Riches firme Constitution of body and mind D. Baz●● Such a Braine such an Heart as the most learned Physitian never saw And thence inferre that There is no Redemption from the Grave For certainely if greatnesse of wit of learning of spirit of riches of friends of allies if greatnesse of care in servants of atendance in Yokefellow of skill in Physitians of affection in all could have kept off Death wee had not been thus overcast and clouded this day But no outward greatnesse will doe it Mors sceptra liga●ibus aequat aequo pede pulsat c. quae sequentur passim Death knowes no measures no distances no degrees no differences but sweepes away all and either finds or makes them Matches To you then O yee sons of the mighty is my message Set your houses in order for you must dye You are left behinde to make ready Oh prepare for death for any death nay for sudden death for why may not you fall in your strength in your Journie aswell as Abner Say then Are ye ready now ready is your Will made your Pardon sealed could you dye this houre in this place If so happy yee in case you Stay for death not death for you But if as yet you bee not Shot-free and Death-proofe what doe yee meane why doe ye defer What Doe yee thinke that death feares greatnesse or will bee answered with Complements Or doe yee thinke that greatnesse of spirit of meanes of chearfullnesse of Titles can beare you out Or that it is all one to die in a Bravado and in cold blood Or that death is the same in the hand of a man and of GOD Or that a Lord have mercy or two an houre or two before you are all dead will serve the turne No no it 's a worke of works to Die that is Actively and Cheerfully to resigne life The best who have been about it all their life finde all provisions little enough And therefore doe not thinke to slight and to outlooke that King of Feares that top-gallant but feare before hand that you neede not feare at any hand And yet let me advertise you of another extremity and that is base-feare for that will barre up the doores against all thought of death Vitellius trepidus dein'temulentus Tac. and set you either on Drinking with him in the storie or on some other Diversion therby to drowne or to forget your feares There is as elsewhere I have discoursed 1 A Spirituall Feare of death There is 2 A naturall Neither of which may bee disswaded The Feare I give warning of is 3 A Base Cold Carnall Feare which will make a man creepe into an Augre-hole swallow any sin admit of any slaverie which will kill one daily because he must once die and keepe him a perpetuall slave Heb. 2. and prisoner This the feare I would not have you Cowed by and this feare you may competently overcome if you will set right the 1 Judgement 2 Conscience 3 Heart The Inward man Things upon another occasion lately spoken to not here to be rehearsed At present this is all Mistake not Death 1 It is not in it selfe the greatest of evils As there be better things than this poore life GODS favour GODS image the Life of CHRIST Eternitie c. Vid. Animadversions of Bish of Sarum on Gods Love to Mankind So are there worse things than this death Hell is worse Sin is worse GODS Curse is worse Corruption worse Morall Sinfull Evils worse than this which is painefull and evill only to Nature And reason we have to grieve more for being in a possibilitie and proximitie of sinning than of dying 2 This Death is not so simply and intrinsecally evill as that no good can be made of it Nay this may be improved and death may bee the death of all our deaths of deadly diseases corruptions temptations of all Thus simply considered it is not so formidable as that we must fling away our weapons desert our station and fly Excessum dix Tert. contra Valent Cypria Ep. 3. as once Israel at the voice of this Goliah But now Death to a Christian becomes another thing It hath lost its name Luk. 2.29 and hears a Departure Phil. 1 23. a Dissolution a Change a Sleepe Iob 14.14 c. and we should take up GODS language Ioh. 11.11 Passim Aliud demutatio aliud perditio Tert. de resur c. 55. It hath lost its Nature and Relation t is not to such an one Penall but Medicinall destructive but fetching its denomination from its terme perfective Looke upon it under a new Notion Plin. Nat. hist lib. 7 55. and then you will not be of poore Plinies minde Hic rogo non ●uror est ne moriare mori Mart. lib. 2. Epigram That It doubles ones paine and death to Forethinke the issues of it No it doubles your strength and makes your courage redoubted therefore view it and spare not but view it thus 1 Look upon it not as destructive tending to ruine but as a meane and way to life Looke beyond it See what stands behinde it A Crowne of Glory of Life of Blisse And this end will sweeten and smooth the way it will dare amica●ilitatem mediis 2 Looke upon it as a Rod in GODS hand This as other strokes is moderated by him and hee can make a Rod a Staffe Psal 23. yea turne Moses serpent into a Rod and worke with that Rod Wonders Death is a cup in our Fathers hand as well as sicknesse and workes wonders 3 Looke upon Death in CHRIST Hee hath conquered it in his Person and will in his Members See how unable death was to separate him from the Godhead and shall be us from GOD Rom. 8.38 Rom 8.38 See how hee hath intercepted and cut off Deaths succours Whereas death borrowed its Sting from sinne 1 Cor. 15.56 and Strength from the Law and Curse CHRIST hath disarmed them all of all their destroying killing power and cald us with S. Paul to set our foot upon their neckes and to sing O Death O Sinne O Curse O Hell where 's your power c. Yea see him having kild Death and buried the Grave fetching Honey and sweet out of the

the Rich no more than the poore The thing hee looks to is Vertue Serviceablenesse that is the thing Gen. 1.16 The Moone is a Great Light because of Great Use A lew at Berea is more eminent Act. 17. ●1 and Honourable than another elsewhere because more Consciencious There is you know a Greatnes in Bulke and in worth A Larke may be more than a Kyte though not in bulk yet in worth Molis virtutis There is they say a Greatnesse Belluine Genuine in that a beast may and doth exceed us In this we exceed our selves and others and in this only No man is the better simply for his Greatnesse unlesse it bee attended with goodnesse So much we may learne from wiser times For sithence men understand themselves they let fall those Swelling and emptie Titles of Greatnesse few rejoyced in that name unlesse great worth and atchievements put it upon them As it fared with Constantine and some few others They were gladly heard Wise Learned Pious Philosopher Philopater and the like And when men would honour them with attributions of worth they stiled them Nedibims 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Optimates and other like sounding their true worth Bountifull Benefactors c. and carrying meat in the mouth Yea so much we may learne from Highest that is Divine Language Wisedome it selfe when it pleaseth to bestow honours upon men cals them Fathers Foster-fathers Saviours and the like 1 King 5.13 Exod. 20. Esay 49 23. Act. 7.35 Heb. 4.8 So●e●chus Soter Which some also without the pale of the Church either affected or enjoyed As Antiochus Soter Antigonus in Suidas c. So then in true judgement the stile and thing hat truly honours and enobles a man is Goednesse therein a man most nearely toucheth the Best and Highest Good Psal ●19 68 our Ever-blessed GOD whose highest title is that in the Psalme He is good and doth good I cannot enlarge I will say before you one only instance of Father and Sonne in the same family who ranne their severall waies with different successe The Father was Iosiah Hee was all for Goodnesse Good he was and did Good to GODS house and people The Sonne was Shallum whether so term'd in scorne and reference to another Shallum I have not to say He was all for an earthly Greatnesse Before he was well warme in his Fathers Throne he had great thoughts and would not take it as his Father did Hee would build a stately Palace much enlarge himselfe and as it seemeth by one affix in the Text Ier. 22.14 would take in a peece of GODS house too My Windows the Hebrew Thus they steared their course Now what was the issue 1 In Life the one prospered the other went backward Did not thy father prosper saith GOD to the Sonne Ier. 22.15 2 In Death the one had a most honourable interment All Israel mourned for him mourned much Lam. 4.20 mourned long the other like the unhappy sonne of another good father lived undesired died unlamented 2 Chro. 21.20 Ier. 22.18 19. and was buried with the buriall of an Asse no man weeping over him Give me leave to use my ancient freedome In these read your selves and your owne Lot If you with Shallum and his Brethren make none other use of your Greatnesse but to Rob GOD Pride your selves and oppresse the poore your Greatnesse shall be your Shame as 't was Shebna's and shall end in Basenesse and Contempt Well may men blesse and flatter you whiles here you magnifie and adore your selves But when you are Dead they 'll trample upon your faces and curse you as fast At your Grave none shall mourne See some Emperors Herod c. unlesse Fee'd or Forced as once it befell others rather they will rejoyce at your fall as once at anothers in Esa 14. and your names shal be written in the dust and buried in oblivion Or if they remain they shall Lie as Carrion above ground Prov. 10.7 Esay 25.25 and become a Curse On the other side If you shall improve your Greatnesse to GODS glory and to the Countries good to the Churches growth and mens comfort you shall not need with Absalom Otho Iulian or any other Publicola to Hunt for applause Honour will hunt out you and you shall not avoid it Whiles you live you shall live in the hearts and desires of men they will pray for yours and praise GOD for you And when you die you shall not need a Trumpet or Herald to sound your worth Every man will bee a Trumpet every man will make an Oration All Israel will mourn in heart and not in face and forme Oh Chuse rather to bee buried with Prayers and Thankes than with Curses and Complaints Set your Servants Tenants Neighbours on weeping rather than on laughing at your Graves So live that there may be Vse of you whilest you live and Misse of you when you are dead That is Bee humble modest godly sober in your selves Bee helpfull comfortable profitable unto others When you are gone there 's no more remaining of you but your Goodnesse The question will not bee How Rich How Great How Gallant you were The questions will bee What did he Who was the better for him If none What made he in the World An unprofitable man whilest living is dead A usefull member when dead yet lives Live Live Live quickly Live much Live Long. So you are welcome to the world els you are but Hissed and Kickt off this Stage of the World Phocas by He●a●● as another was Nay many as Iob. 27.23 V. 1 5. who were buried before halfe dead Vse 2 2 For us of a Lower forme nay le ts take in all This I say Either we yet have or have not Leading men among us 1 If as yet wee see some Starres in this great darknesse le ts joyfully entertaine them as Wisemen did once another Mat. 2. Doe but thinke what an Army is without a Captaine a Ship without a Pilot an Head without a Body what a misery it is to live without order to be where men Talke all at once and none can lay his hand upon other or command silence Truly such a Paritie borders neer upon an Anarchie and confusion and wee much forget our selves if we neglect this mercy of having Usefull men When Israel had a Salomon they divided their time Psal 72.15 betweene Praying and Praising GOD for him T is a misery never to see the Face but the Back only of mercies T is a frowardnesse to see nothing but faults in men whilest we have them and then nothing but whine when we lose them Take heed that you doe not Brawle Moses out of the world and then Scratch him out of his Grave againe unlesse GOD hide him from you Crosses sting deeply when Mercies Passe lightly See what you have before you cease to have it Have wee lost any Abner from amongst us David prompts us our