Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	caesar_n	great_a	pompey_n	979	5	11.1061	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85853	Funerals made cordials: in a sermon prepared and (in part) preached at the solemn interment of the corps of the Right Honorable Robert Rich, heire apparent to the Earldom of Warwick. (Who aged 23. died Febr. 16. at Whitehall, and was honorably buried March 5. 1657. at Felsted in Essex.) By John Gauden, D.D. of Bocking in Essex.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1658 (1658)	Wing G356; Thomason E946_1; ESTC R202275	99,437	136

disarmed their revenges forced them to shed teares even over their enemies corps or graves as Alexander the Great did over Darius and Julius Caesar when he saw his potent Rival Pompey the Great 's head deformedly parted from his body by treacherous villany These glasses shewed to every man their own faces in the truest and most unflattering representations Mors sola fatetur Quantula sint hominum corpuscula Some of the ancient Philosophers professed they profited most by conversing with the dead that is with good books whose Authors were long agone dead as to their bodies but living in the noble monuments of their minds Libri animorum urnae Mentium magnarum aeterna monumenta Lipsius their writings which are the urns or repositories of souls here on earth This was very elegant and very true there being as none more durable Monuments so no better Monitors Tutors and Instructers then those that are farthest remote from all passions of fear or flattery from the vices and parties of the age in which men live Nor is the frequenting of dead mens funerals less effectual to work on living mens hearts For as some Nonconformists of old the dead never speak louder then when they are most silenced nor shine brighter then in that night of darkness which is sending them to their long homes and to make their lasting beds in the cold grave that dismal house of darkness Dead men by an holy kind of Magick which is a due meditation of them and our selves doe in a sort revive to us and walk with us yea haunt us and talk with us in a dumb but potent kind of oratory Sometimes their noble deeds and good works praise them and upbraid us who are strangers yet to their worth and enemies to their holy examples Sometimes they lift up their voice like a trumpet of terrour to us in the sad riot and debaucheries and security of of their lives and in the suddenness the despair and dreadfulness of their deaths Sometimes the solemnity of their Funerals the mementoes of their Epitaphs and those Inscriptions which give Marmora animata as it were breath to their dust and a spirit or life to their marble monuments All these summon us to serious reflections that as Pliny tells us the dead sea affords some medicinals and mummy it self is become a useful drug in medicaments so great and special good use may be made of those that are recens mortui new dead among our neighbours friends acquaintance relations superiors inferiors Nulla unquam de morte hominis cunctatio longa As no mans death should be precipitated because life is invaluable and once lost is irreparable so nor is any mans death to be taken with a careless and useless indifferencie specially when it is neer us and like Balshazzars hand on the wall by the fingers of a man pointing to us Mortuorum funera viventium monita or writing as it were either some lesson for us or terrors against us some monition or instruction One of the great Egyptian Kings Sesostris as I remember commanded this to be written on his Tomb or Urn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whoever lookes on my Sepulchre Discite justitiam moniti ne temerite dives let him learn to be religious to fear and serve the gods The Scythians while yet Heathens and synonymous with Barbarity yet were so ingenuous to improve the Deaths of their most deserving Princes that they cut their dead bodies into little pieces which they kept about them as Jewels in precious boxes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as amulets or defensatives against vice and maladies no less then incentives to virtue and conservatives of their felicity The Ethiopians in a different manner yet to the same design were wont to put the intire bodies of their Princes exsuccated or dried by sweet spices and the Sun into glass Urns or transparent Coffins which they set in publick and most conspicuous places as Varro tells us the Romans did their Statues to be as it were the great Censors and Monitors no less then the exemplary inciters of posterity to parallel vertues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Infinite were the inventions of ingenious Antiquity either to advance the honour of the dead or to vindicate or revenge them as much as might be done by poor mortals from mortality or at least to moderate and qualifie the impotent passions and enormous grief of Survivors Hence they not only held their Geniusses immortal which they venerated by a will-worship and is properly Superstition but they built them stately and portentous Sepulchres for their bodies in Pyramids Mausoles and the like Fabricks which were Miracles of Architecture that their dust might have as stately palaces as themselves once living enjoyed Ludos solennes Besides they instituted solemn Sacrifices and magnificent conventions mixt with activity and bravery Judg. 11. See Ludo. Caepel votum Jephtae interludes and devotion in memorial of them as Jephtah did for his daughters being sacrificed as a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 curseor Anathema so devoted to God as was not redeemable Alexander the great at the Funeral of Ephestion squandred in a profuseness of passion and prodigality fit for none but himself so many Talents as amounted to more then a million of pounds sterling Nay See Bish Vsser his Chrono Imp. Alex. M. the Roman pride and glory dared Coelum ipsum petere ambitiosà nimis stultitiâ to vye with the Gods in Heaven and by the sumptuous pomp of their Funeral Piles and the Eagles mounting from the flames of them upward to raise the vulgar credulity beyond the thoughts of their Princes mortality to the imaginations of a Deity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. vid. Lip alios Thus fearing that Heaven should not be fully planted they sent them Colonies from earth that such as had either deserved very well of mankind or were able unpunished to do much mischief by such soveraign impiety as was great but not good might fill up the lower formes of Heaven which yet wanted Gods to supply them Which fancy did not stray much from that of some Christian Fathers who conceive the fall and defalcation of Angels when they degenerated to Devils is to be repaired by substituting as many Saints or Christian Heroes into their room How the souls of all those got to Heaven whom vulgar clamours and applauses or politick Deifications or Papal Canonizations lift up thither I list not to enquire I believe many of their Spirits went no higher then their Eagles might soar I am sure popular Superstition or passion is prone to fix upon many a golden Calf this title and proclamation Exod. 32.8 These are thy Gods O Israel Nor is any thing more frequent then as Crysologus observes for the pomp of Funerals to lye and flatter Mentitur funeris pompa fallaci vanitate adulantium Multos pompa funeris ad coelum evehit quos peccati pondus