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A79008	A patterne for all, especially for noble and honourable persons, to teach them how to die nobly and honourably. Delivered in a sermon preached at the solemne interment of the corps of the Right Honourable Robert Earle of Warwick. Who aged 70 years 11. months, died April 19. And was honorably buried, May 1. 1658. at Felsted in Essex. By Edmund Calamy B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing C262; Thomason E947_1; ESTC R207615	31,046	52

you out of his hands and that you may every day enjoy the benefit of his Intercession Pray unto the holy Ghost that he would abide in you for ever and give you the earnest of your inheritance and seale you up unto the day of Redemption So much for the fourth inference Doctrine 5. That to dye in the true faith is a noble gallant blessed and happy ●anner of dying These all died in faith Herein especially consisted the happy condition of these godly Patriarks that they lived and dyed in the faith It is put down by way of commendation and left upon record as a patterne for us to learne to die by They died in the faith of the Messias expecting salvation by him only They died perswaded of the promises and embracing the Lord Jesus Looking waiting and confidently hoping for a City which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God There is a double manner of dying 1. A dying in sin 2. A dying in faith 1. A dying in sin Of this we read John 8. 24. If you beleeve not that I am he ye shall dye in your sins This is a said manner of dying If any should desire me to give him a character of a man in a cursed condition I would answer He is one who is dead in sin while he lives and dies in his sins when he dies It is a happinesse to be dead to sin but to die in sin is misery unexpressible For he that dieth in his sins shall certainly go into everlasting damnation He that dies in his sins dies out of Christ and he that dieth out of Christ shall never go to Christ 2. A dying in faith This is a noble gallant and blessed manner of dying heaven it selfe beares witnesse to this Rev. 14. 13. I heard a voyce from heaven saying unto me write Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord that is united unto the Lord Jesus Christ by a true and a lively faith Such as these are happy if you will either beleeve a voyce from heaven or the voyce of the Spirit for it followeth in the text so saith the Spirit And they are blessed from the very instant of their death So it is in the same place from henceforth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} from that very minute for their souls go immediately to God to enjoy perfect and perpetual rest and happinesse and their works follow them It is a greater happinesse to die in the Lord than to die for the Lord If a man die for the Lord and be not in the Lord he is not blessed in his death A man may die for the Lords cause and not for the Lords sake but out of vain-glory This is hinted by the Apostle Though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it profiteth me nothing If I do it not out of love to God but out of love to my selfe and mine own praise it is nothing worth But he that dyeth in the Lord is certainly blessed The only use I shall make of this is to beseech the New Testament Saints to follow this Old Testament copy and patterne You have been often taught how to live well give me leave to teach you this day how to dye well It is not long but you must all die Let it be your care that when you come to die you may die in the faith of the Lord Jesus There is a double faith in which you must labour to die In fide quae creditur quâ creditur 1. In the true doctrine of faith 2. In the saving grace of faith 1. In the true doctrine of faith For there are damnable doctrines as well as damnable practices There are doctrines of Devils as well as works of Devils A man may go to hell for heresie as well as ●or iniquity The Scripture tells us of some opinions which subvert the soul and overthrow the faith which T●rtullian calls doctrines devouring a mans salvation and the cankers of Christian Religion And therefore let it be your care to avoid all soul-subverting doctrines to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the Saints and to hold fast the ancient Catholick and Apostolical faith Now if you ask me in what Religion I would have you to die I shall quickly returne an answer without the least haesitation In the true Christian Protestant reformed Religion This is via tuta ad vitam aeternam A safe way unto eternal life as a learned Knight hath sufficiently made known to the world my soul for yours he that dies in this Religion wants nothing in point of doctrine necessary to salvation For it is built wholly only upon the Scriptures It is purely Apostolical and teacheth us to deny ungodliness and all worldly lusts and to live godly soberly and righteously in this present world It requires us to beleeve in Christ for justification and to manifest the truth of our faith by our holinesse towards God and our righteousnesse mercy and charity towards our neighbour And when we have done all to account our selves but unprofitable servants and to trust only to the merits of Christ for salvation It hath been sealed by the blood of many Martyrs and he that professeth it and liveth according to the directions of it may die with a tribunal-proofe confidence of everlasting salvation Let us therefore be stedfast and unmoveable in this faith and take heed of the Arrian and Socinian heresies which unchristianize a man and of all doctrines that are contrary to godliness which drown the soul in perdition and destruction Let us abhorre the heresie Idolatry and tyranny of the Romish Synagogue alwaies remembring that sad text If any man worship the beast and his image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out witbout mixture into the cup of his indignation and he shall be tormented with ●●re and brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb Let us be sure that when we come to die we may be able to say with the Apostle Paul I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith Though I have lost my liberty wealth and honours yet I have kept the faith And with that Reverend Bishop I can deny my selfe my estate my reputation but I cannot deny my faith 2. In the saving grace of faith He that dieth with faith in Christ shall certainly go to live in heaven with Christ He that dieth embracing Christ shall go from Christ to Christ from Christ by grace to Christ in glory But then you must be sure that this faith be a true justifying-justifying-faith A heart-purifying sanctifying and world-overcoming faith A painted faith will never bring you to a real heaven A dead faith will never please a living God Faith without works will send a man merrily

to hell instead of lifting him up to heaven It is faith unfaigned the faith of Gods elect the faith which worketh by lov● which will make the houre of death desireable and comfortable And let me adde That you must not only labour to die with a true faith but with a full assurance of faith not only to die bel●eving but fully assured that your faith is of a right stamp This is a heaven upon earth This will put you into heaven before you come to heaven This will cause you to die rejoycingly and triumphantly as Stephen did when he saw the heavens opened and Christ standing at the right hand of God ready to receive him And as old Simeon did with Christ in your spiritual armes and singing a Nunc dimittis Now Lord let thy servant depart in peace for mine eyes have seen thy salvation This then is thy great work O Christian industriously to endeavour that when thou comest to die thou mayest die in the true doctrine and true grace of faith and in the full assurance of faith that so thou mayst have an abundant entrance into the everlasting Kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ But what must I do that I may be able to make this gallant and noble end He that would die in the faith must first live in the faith For if you observe it it is not said in the text that all without limitation died in faith But all these that is all those who lived in the faith died in the same faith in which they lived These blessed Patriarks had not their faith to get when they came to die but they had got it in health They lived a holy life and died a happy death Life and death for the most part are like the voyce and the echo the body and the shadow Such as the voyce is such is the echo Such as the body is such is the shadow Qualis vita finis ita If we would die happily we must live holily If we would die gloriously we must live graciously If we would go to Christ when we die we must get into Christ while we live If we would die with assurance we must while we live labour to get assurance Woe be to those who have their faith to get when they are dying that begin to amend their lives when they are putting an end to them Woe be to those who begin to serve God when they can do him no service That begin to live when they are ceasing to live And sad is the condition of those who have their evidences and comforts to seek when they are going out of the world And yet I will not absolutely deny as some rashly do but that it is possible for a man to live a thiefe and die a Saint to live wickedly and to repent at death We have one and but one example of this But this is not Gods ordinary way and if I had ten thousand souls I would not adventure one of them upon a death-bed repentance We must not think to dance with the Devil all day and to sup with Christ at night To live all our life-time in Dalilah's lap and to go to Abrahams bosome when we die The ordinary way to die well is to live well In a word If you would die as Abraham did you must live as he did you must imitate Abrahams faith obedience and heavenly-mindednesse If you would die as Jacob did you must wrastle with God in prayer as he did If you would partake of their happinesse when you die you must be followers of their holinesse while you live This is the fifth inference Doctrine 6. That it is an unvaluable blessing when husband and wife Father and child and childs child live and die in the true faith These all died in faith Not only some of them but all Abraham the husband and Sarah his wife Abraham the Father and Isaac his Son and Jacob his Grand-child All these died in the faith Behold a true noble blood a holy kindred a blessed generation Worthy is Abraham of all honour who was the roote of such a noble and blessed brood And worthy are Isaac and Jacob of so good a Father who stained not their blood by forsaking their faith but held it as they received it and lived and died in the true faith handed to them by their Father Behold here you that are great in place and birth behold I say wherein true Nobility and Gentry doth consist and what is the fountaine of all true honour It is to live and die in the true faith In this faith Abraham died and Isaac his son and heire did not only inherit his fathers estate but his fathers Religion also And Jacob the Grand-child follows both his father and grand-father and dieth in the same faith with them Behold here Jacob a true Gentleman in blood His holinesse and Religion is in the third descent Let great men learn to adorne their Gentility and Nobility with these ensignes of true honour It is a rare blessing when there is a succession of godlinesse in a family when godlinesse is entailed upon children and childrens children When a man can say to God as Moses O God thou art my God and my Fathers God and my Grand-Fathers God There are many families in which there is a succession of drunkards swearers and adulterers c. in which sin and iniquity is entailed of whom it may be said my father was an adulterer a drunkard a scoffer at Religion so was my grand-father and so am I This is a sad pedegree O labour for a holy succession Let Parents write a faire copy to their children let them live and dye in the true faith and let children learne to follow such a copy Let husbands be patternes and examples of godlinesse to their wives and let wives follow their good examples Let wives imitate Sarah Parents Abraham and children Isaac and Jacob Let us and ours so live that when we come to die it may be said of us not that we died in our sins but as it is in the text that we died in the faith These all died in faith I have done with the text But there is another text of which I must of necessity speak something And that is concerning the sad occasion of our meeting here this day Give me leave to speak to you in the language of David concerning Abner Know you not that there is a Prince a great man fallen this day in Israel and in the language of the children of Seth concerning Abraham A Lord and a mighty Prince is this day to be buried One who had so much worth and excellency in him that whosoever will undertake to speak of him needs not feare as Nazianzen saith of his sister Gorgonia least he should spea● too much but rather least he should speak too little and by coming so farre beneath his due deserts should dispraise him even

A PATTERNE for all especially for Noble and Honourable Persons To teach them how to die Nobly and Honourably Delivered in a SERMON Preached at the solemne interment of the corps OF THE Right Honourable ROBERT EARLE of Warwick Who aged 70 died April 19. And was Honorably buried May 1. 1658. At Felsted in Essex By Edmund Calamy B. D. and Pastor of the Church at Aldermanbury Psal. 82. 6 7. I said Ye are Gods and all of you are children of the most High but you shall dye like men and fall like one of the Princes Rev. 14. 13. I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me write Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord c. Illius est nolle mori qui nolit ire ad Christum Aug. Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus De imperatore Theodosio fertur magis se gaudere quod membrum Ecclesia Dei esset quam caput imperii Aug. Ultima verba morientis Grynnaei Ut nunc triste mori est sic dulce resurgere quondam Christus ut in vitâ sic quoque morte lucrum In terris labor est requies sed suavis in urnâ In summo venient gaudia summa Die LONDON Printed for Edward Brewster at the Crane in Pauls Church-yard 1658. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT EARLE of WARWICK Baron of Leeze Right Honourable THe noble favours which I received from your deceased father are so many that I can never sufficiently expresse them and I hope shall never be so ungrateful as to forget them The chiefest requital I can now make for them is to pray for your Lordship That as you are his heire and inherit his estate so you may also inherit his virtues And that whatsoever was good in him may live in you For as it is a happinesse when a sonne is descended from religious Ancestors he being hereby made partaker of their good counsels prayers and pious examples so also it is an invaluable blessing when a father hath religious and virtuous children It was a sad complaint of Augustus O that I had lived a Bachelor or dyed childlesse And concerning Marcus Aurelius Antoninus that he had been perfectly happy had he not begotten such a wicked sonne as Commodus was And that he did injure his country in nothing but in being the father of such an ungodly child Hoc solo patriae quod genuit nocuit Some children are blots and blemishes to their Parents as Manasseh was to Hezekiah My prayer for your Lordship is that you may be an honour glory and crown of rejoycing to your Family and by your godly and virtuous life make your Father though dead to enjoy a kind of happiness upon earth while you live And that you may embalme his memory to posterity by the spices and sweet odours of your godly life and conversation It ought not to be forgotten but for ever to be remembred That your Lordship may not unfitly be called the Lords Passeover For when he took away by death your only sonne and heire he passed over you and instead of the Father took to himselfe the Grand-father This remarkable Providence is alone sufficient to teach you to pass the time of your sojourning here in feare and to purge out the old leaven of sinne and iniquitie that you may be a new lump of sincerity and truth and thereby have an undoubted interest in Christ your Passeover who was sacrificed for you This ensuing Sermon was preached at your Fathers funeral and it is now dedicated to your Lordship as yours by birth-right and by many other obligations It will much conduce if put in practice for the encouraging of you in wayes of holiness and righteousness For it teacheth wherein true Nobility doth consist and that nothing makes a man truely noble but pietie and godlinesse Sinne defiles a person and makes him vile and loathsome though otherwise never so honourable David calls a sinner a vile person and his sonne Solomon calls him a loathsome person Antiochus the great because of his wickednesse is stiled by Daniel a vile person Sinne makes us not only like unto dogs vipers and swine but unto devils Nay Sin makes us devils Christ himselfe calls Judas a devil and saith Revelations● 10. The devil shall cast some of you into prison c. meaning thereby wicked and devilish men He that is a slave to his lusts is base and ignoble though a King or Emperour Nobilitie without virtue is but as a scarlet roabe upon a leaprous body A true Christian is of a noble extraction He is the adopted Sonne of God brother to Jesus Christ heire of God and co-heire with Christ He is partaker of the divine nature and without all controversie the Noblest man in the world The Lord give you grace to believe this that as you are nobly borne in reference to your earthly extraction so you may be borne from above and borne of God in reference to your heavenly original This Sermon will likewise instruct your Lordship how to dye nobly and honourably And that is to dye in the faith He that dyes in his sinnes must of necessity be condemned for his sinnes but he that dyes with a true faith in Jesus Christ shall certainly live for ever in heaven with Christ It will teach you to build your Sepulchre in your earthly Paradises and in the midst of your pleasures to remember your latter end This will be a golden bridle to keep you from unlawful and to moderate the use of lawful pleasures It sets before you a double patterne for your imitation The lives of the ancient and religious Patriarcks and many commendable and praise-worthy things in your Fathers life And if your Lordship will endeavour to write after these excellent copies and live as they lived you will be happy both in life and death which that you may be is and shall be the prayer of My Lord Your humble servant in Christ Jesus EDMUND CALAMY A SERMON Preached at the Funeral OF THE Right Honourable ROBERT EARLE of WARWICK Heb. 11. 13. These all dyed in Faith THese words are a description of the constancy and perseverance of the Old Testament Saints in holinesse notwithstanding all the difficulties and discouragements they met with They did not only live in the faith but they continued in it till death and dyed in the same faith in which they lived All these dyed in the faith In the words we have two parts First The persons mentioned Secondly The things mentioned concerning these persons 1. The persons mentioned these all That is as some would have it all the forementioned Saints Abel Noah Abraham Sarah c. except Enoch who dyed not and yet continued in the faith and in that faith was taken up These all But I conceive that the Holy Ghost principally and directly intends only such of the forenamed Saints who were heirs of the land of promise and sojourned in Canaan as in a

to enter his Courtgates least his excessive mirth and jollity should be damped and interrupted by the sad thought of death The wise man tells us O death how bitter is thy memory to one who hath great possessions And indeed if the not thinking of death could free you from the stroak of death it were worth the while not to think of death But whether you think of it or not death will come and by not remembring of it your lives prove to be full of abominations and death is made a trap-door to let you down into eternal damnation And therefore let me beseech you to imitate Philip King of Macedon who appointed a boy every morning to come to him and to say to him Remember thou art a man and must die And the Emperors of Constantinople who on their Coronation day had a Mason appointed to present unto them certaine marble stones using these ensuing words Elige ab his saxis ex quo invictissime Caesar Ipse tibi tumulum me fabricare velis Choose mighty Sir under which of these stones Your pleasure is ere long to lay your bones Or if you will have a Scripture-example Let me beseech you to imitate that rich and great person Joseph of Arimathea who built his Sepulchre in his garden In the midst of all your pleasures and pastimes remember you must shortly leave them It was a wise speech of Charles the fifth to the Duke of Venice who when he had shewed him the glory of his Princely Palace and earthly Paradise instead of admiring it or him for it only returned him this grave and serious memento Haec sunt quae faciunt nos invitos mori These are the things which make us unwilling to die To prevent this unwillingnesse build your Sepulchres in your earthly Paradises and remember that you must very shortly die and that after death comes judgement And that you must all appeare before the tribunal seat of Christ to give a strict and impartial account of whatsoever you have done in the flesh whether it be good or evil Let great men remember That great and small must stand before the great God of heaven and earth at the great day of judgement and that their greatnesse will nothing at all availe them at that day Greatnesse without goodnesse will be but as a great fagot to burne them the more in hell They that are great in place and greater in sin shall have great damnation Where God hath bestowed great benefits if they be accompanied with great iniquities God will plague them with great punishments It is said Rev. 6. 15 16. The Kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captaines and the mightie men c. hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains And said to the mountains and rocks Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb c. Therefore let rich men labour to be righteous as well as rich and great men to be good as well as great for riches without righteousnesse is but as a golden jewel in a swines snout and greatnesse without goodnesse is but as the greatnesse of a man sick of the dropsie which is not his happiness but his disease Remember Abraham who though he was a Lord and a mightie Prince yet he was also a friend of Gods and the Father of the faithful Though he was rich in gold and silver yet he was richer in faith and obedience And though he had three hundred and eightteen trained servants in his house yet he was exactly carefull to traine them all up in the wayes and Commandements of God And remember Jacob and how God himselfe changed his name and called him Israel because he wrestled with God and as a Prince had power with God and man and by prayers and teares prevailed over them When greatnesse and goodnesse meet together it is like apples of gold in pictures of silver It is as an embroidery upon an embroidery And therefore let great men labour to be good men The more you have of holiness the fitter you will be for happiness The more you have of grace the fitter you will be for glory This is the third inference Doctrine 4. That it is not enough for a Christian to live in the faith but he must also die in the faith This text takes notice of the constancy and perseverance of these holy men They persevered in the faith unto the end maugre all oppositions and temptations to the contrary They did live in the faith and continued living in the faith and as they lived so they died These all dyed in faith Perseverance in grace is maximum donum Dei saith Austin the greatest of Gods gifts or graces without which no other gift or grace will availe unto salvation Therefore Christ saith he that endureth to the end shall be saved And be thou faithful unto the death and I will give thee the crown of life No grace will make us worthy to obtaine the crown of glory but perseverance he that would go to heaven must not only live well but die well Though a man continue never so long in holinesse yet if he fall away before his death all his righteousnesse that he hath done shall not be mentioned in his trespasse that he hath trespassed and in his sin that he hath sinned in them shall he dye If Methuselah who lived nine hundred sixty nine years had fallen away from grace the last year of his life he had been undone for ever Wherefore my beloved brethren let me beseech you not only to beleeve but to persevere in beleeving not only to be holy but to persevere in holinesse and as the Apostle saith To perfect holinesse in the feare of God The Greek word is to finish holinesse The beauty glory and goodness of every thing is when it is finished A garment till it be finished is of no use nor a shop nor a house till finished A house halfe built and halfe unbuilt is good for nothing The excellency of a Christian is not only to be holy but to finish holinesse not only to have a good beginning but a happy closure and conclusion of his life This is a necessary lesson in this Apostatizing age wherein so many sons of the morning and children of high illumination are fallen into the darknesse of sin and errour and many who in outward appearance were as fixt starres are now proved falling starres in so much that if Mr. Fox were alive againe he would see cause rather to write a book of Apostates than a book of Martyrs And there are also some risen up amongst us who being many of them Apostatized themselves begin to preach the Doctrine of the Apostacy of the Saints Give me leave therefore to perswade you 1. To be rooted and established in the