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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

insist upon Great Desires to earthly things discover little Judgement These are 1 Founded in Weaknesse 2 Fed with Wind. 3 End in Smoke For the first Their Rise is weaknesse as experience after Reason shewes Foundation Who so longing as the languishing person Who so climbing as the veriest childe So ambitious as the basest Bramble What so aspiring as Winde and emptinesse So ravening as the emptiest stomack A massy man of true worth indeed brings worth to things borrows none from them For the Second What is the food and fuell of these desires Food Truly Wind. We may say of all these Sublunaries what Salomon saith of one particular They are not Prov. 23.5 And shall our desires and eyes fly upon Nothing They are Nothing in realitie and vertue What they be they be as Tertullian somewhere in Phantasie Absolute greatnesse out of GOD is not There 's no such thing among Creatures The most is Arist as the Philosopher notes but a Comparative Greatnesse Thus we call somethings great compared to 1. Little things As Ten shillings is a great deale of monie to a Farthing token and yet what 's ten shillings 2. To little persons and Capacities So to a low apprehension a little thing is great Thus to a Child every Puddle is a Poole every Poole a Sea every Reed a Speare every Hollow Stick a Gun Not because these are great but because he is little as Rome was once formidable because the neighbours were contemptible But lay the comparison right Floyus and bring these poore things to the Standard and what are they Alas compared to the Great GOD they are lesse than Littlenesse Isa 40.15 17. All persons and things cast in the Balance beare not proportion with one drop of the Bucket beare not the weight of one dust in the Balance What 's one dust to the whole Balance What 's that to the Earth What 's one drop to the full Bucket And what 's the Bucket to the Well The Well to the Sea And what are all these laid in one to the Mighty GOD Nothing and lesse than nothing saith that high Prophet Nay what is all here below to those vast bodies above Ver. 17. And then what is such an Iland as this compared to some other Kingdomes and Continents What But a little Moat and Swans-nest So true is that which out Masters have taught us of old Nothing is simply great but in reference to what is lesse 3 But let them be as big as phantasie can make them End Prov. 23.5 they have as Salomon adds Wings but no hands under those wings Wings to fly from us no Hands to doe ought for us Load us they can with great feares cares envies jealousies distractions but helpe us they cannot in the day of sicknesse much lesse in the houre of death Ask the greatest what Death what Hell shall I say Nay what sorrow what sicknesse what ach what pain can these All these great nothings either prevent or remove or asswage Ah Smoke meer Smoke which carry with them some trouble but little or no warmth or comfort All which being confessedly so let me say to you what our LORD said to his Disciples Mat. 24.2 Are these the things you looke upon And what GOD said to Baruch Ier. 45. ult Seekest thou great things for thy selfe seeke them not Enjoy them you may if cast upon you But earnestly seeke them not Leave these to that poore fellow in Seneca who was all for this Poore Greatnessé Sen. in Suasoria 2. Senecio who in all haste must be a Grandee and thereupon lookt big spake big and bombasted himselfe out with big cloathes and so became a great Foole. Leave these to those dark men who never came where greatnesse grew whose highest ambition was to heare Great Alexander the great Mahomet the great Pompey the Great the great Cham the Grand Signior the great Mogor the King of Kings the Coeli Filius the Mundi-Dominus c. Let us who have as many Eyes as the Chinois boast of learne of Christian men Vid. Bot. relati l. 5. of the Chinois Salvia de provid l. 5. ad calcem what greatnesse is If thou wilt be Great saith Salvian be great in vertue outstrip men that way If thou wilt out-shine others get goodnesse get Wisedome saith Salomon If thou wilt get above all be most usefull and servicable saith our Saviour This the way The greatest greatnesse is goodnesse for that sets us nearest to the greatest GOD Eccl 8.1 Zep. 2.3 and good Therefore let goe those things which will never satisfie never set us above a Pagan and seek high great things indeed Seeke righteousnesse seek meeknesse seeke faith nay greaten these abound in these and other graces Psal 46.15 then shall ye be Princes in all the Earth you shall raigne with GOD and Iacob-like Prince-it with him This greatnesse Spirituall is feisable Hos 11.12 12.3 this will set you above all these Mole-hils below and will at last free you though not from the stroke and sense of sicknesse and death yet from the sting venome curse bondage and hurt of all Here stop here sit we downe Vse 2 My second addresse is to you great Ones My humble suite to you is this That you will bee true to your selves and know that in despite of all greatnesse Reade Ezekiel 32. where 5. or 6. instances are given ver 17.18 ad finem usque you must die The truth is greatnesse flatters men and men flatter it If great Ones will not deale truly with themselves they must not expect it from others Herein Povertie hath an advantage above Greatnesse that it meetes with plaine dealing so doth not this We dare tell a poore man that he is not like to last and bid him Set his house in order But what servant what friend nay almost I had said what Physitian what Esaiah will say so to an Hezekiah We dare call a poore mans sin Sin and tell him that his ignorance is dangerous his pride damnable his formalities fopperies and bid him sit sure But for the rich and mighty Cajetan we say in the words of the Cardinall in another case Si vult decipi Decipiatur If a poore Curre runne away with stolne goods wee pursue him and rate him till he resigne but who dares take the Beare by the tooth the Lion by the Beard and say Restore Sith then few or none will bee faithfull to you be ye good to your selves And if you will hold a distance from your teachers and not with some great ones admit of other Monitors Memento Mori Philip. c. be your owne and tell your selves that you also are Mortall els wee shall Immortalize you as some would Alexander Call your selves Sinners Vid Hist of Lewes the 11. els we with that Chartrous Monk in story Saint all who will fee and supple us Consult your owne bodies and