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A sermon, preached at the funerall of that most honorable and worthie knight S. Richard Leueson vice-admirall of England: who dyed at London the 2. of August, and was interred at VVooluer Hampton in the countie of Stafford, the 2. day of September following. Anno Domi. 1605. By Samuel Page, Batchelour in Diuinitie, and vicar of Deptford in Kent.
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Page, Samuel, 1574-1630.
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A SERMON Preached at the Funerall of that most Honorable and worthie Knight S. Richard Leueson Vice-Admirall of England Who dyed at London the 2. of August and was interred at VVooluer Hampton in the Countie of Stafford the 2. day of September following Anno Domi. 1605. By SAMVEL PAGE Batchelour in Diuinitie and Vicar of Deptforde in Kent LONDON Printed by William White dwelling in Cow-lane neere Holborne Conduit 1605. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE HIS especiall good Lord the Earle of Nottingham the Lord high Admirall of England c. SAMVEL PAGE wisheth all encrease of Honour MY especiall good Lord the Loue which that Honorable Knight Sir Richard Leueson did deserue from mee hath made my eare so impatient of any imputation by which he may be traduced to the world that passing amongst the throng of variable sensures and obseruing how Emulation and Enuie of his Worth striueth to burie his Honour in the same dust with his life-lesse body I could not but wonder that so many faire parts of vertue and goodnes in him could be so slightly skipt ouer and that so cursory eyes as beheld them could so dwell vpon the errours and mis-heedings of his youth It concerneth mee whom he chose out of all his acquaintance to breath his last words in my eares and to make me the eye and the tongue witnesse of his ende to doe him this right to satisfie with my testimonie such who being better acquainted with his course of life then my selfe was might finde in it more to dislike and might therefore suspect his death to those and for discharge of my duetie to my honourable friende though departed I haue caused these Papers to speake more publiquely that which in a full hearing I deliuered to those which were present at his Funerals and I protest herein my sinceritie for as al my seruice done to him had beginning in my loue of his vertue So neither my labour was mercenary with him nor my penne hired for it is sufficiently knowen that I neuer receiued from him more then the rich reward of his thanks acknowledgment of that cōfort which he receiued from mee which I hold so deare a recompence that I could sow dayly to reape but such an Haruest What I haue herein deliuered I present vnto your Honour beseeching you who haue vouchsafed to be the Patrone of my Studies to receiue this and herewithall my most humble duetie Debtford this 8. December 1605. Your Honours Chaplaine in all duetie and seruice Samuell Page 2. Sam 3. vers 38. And the King said to his Seruants Know ye not that a Prince and a great Man is fallen this day in Israel ABNER is dead DAVID the King is become a mourner hee followed the Beare of Abner to the Graue When hee came to the Sepulchre hee lift vp his voyce and wept He bemoned his death to the people hee refused his meate till the Sunne was downe And in this Verse he pleadeth the cause of his griefe to his Seruantes and makes them sensible of his losse Knovv ye not that there is c. See how artificiall sorrow is in telling of her owne tale heere is not a word in this speach of the Kinges but it hath the taste and the relish of the greiued heart where it grew 1 It is not a feare or danger or some infirmitie of his friend that mooueth him but a fall a fall as low as the Earth and as deepe as the Graue 2 It is not the fall of any artificiall structare or composition but of a man a Man is fallen Heere is the dissolution of a little World a pile of the curiousest Architecture and the maister peece of the most skilfull builder Consult not herein the practise of humane inhumanitie which holdeth the life of man cheape and vnderualueth so rare a creature with low-priz'd estimation but consult Nature Hoc natura prescribit vt homo homini quicunque fit ob eam ipsam Causam tantum quod homo sit consultam velit This sayth Cicero is the document of Nature that a man should seeke the good of a man euen for this alone because he is a man 3 This man for whom Dauid makes this moane is none of them that are wearie of the light because God doth humble them and being vile and sitting with the Dogges of the flocke hunt after death But a great man is fallen great in the proofe of his vertue in the aduenture of his person in his aduancement to be the fauorite of a King in his imployment to be one of the supporters of a mightie Kingdome a Prince and a great man that is a principall great man in Israel 4 Hee is fallen in Israel and it is so much blood let out of Israels veynes some of that locke cut off wherein Sampsons strength lay and Israel being the enuie of all the Kingdomes of the world the Archers shooting at it and greeuing it as old Iaacob said of Ioseph If it had been sowen with the seede of valiant men it could haue set them all on worke to keepe violent intruders from inuasion and assault Therefore Israel had a great losse in the death of Abner 5 All this not a griefe of auncient times as Hecuba sayd of Troy Troia i am vetus est malum Troy is an old greife but it is a fresh woe instantly pressing and oppressing the sence for he is fallen To day 6 Doe you not kn 〈…〉 this saith Dauid had you an hope of his person and haue you no greife for his death Could your glad eares receiue the tydinges of his ioyning with our forces and do you with dry eyes see him by death disioyned from vs againe Thus doth Dauid keepe a scoare of his owne losses Beholde heere is Abner a Prince yet he is fallen a Great man yet a man fallen in Israel for Death hath left no place priuiledged no person free I will confine my present Discourse to these three perticular poyntes 1 I obserue a difference betweene man and man in this title ginen to Abner a great man 2 I finde the greatest subiect to mortalitie is fallen 3 I note in Dauid a desire that notise be taken of this losse Doe you not knovv 1. Of the difference betweene man and man This is not in respect of the maker for God hath not made some men himfelfe and deuolued the rest to inferiour iournimen vnder him but we are all alike beholding to him for our creation not in respect of the matter for we were all digged out of the same Pitte But the difference is in the vse seruice of men and that is directed in all well menaged States by their manners and merites Tullies rule of a mans Fortune that is of his condition of life is this Suis ea cuique fingitur moribus It is such as his behauiour and carriage makes it The best men seeke Honour and they seeke it best euen in the merrite of their owne worth not in the groundlesse