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A10904	A sermon preached on September the 20. 1632. in the cathedrall church of Christ at Canterbury, at the funerall of William Proud, a lieutenant collonell, slaine at the last late siege of Mastricke. By Francis Rogers, Doctor in Diuinity	Rogers, Francis, d. 1638.	1633 (1633)	STC 21175; ESTC S116095	14,227	26

they degenerate become the vtter ruine of the Church and Common-wealth they are as so many Lucifers fallen from heauen Hence we doe learne not with the Iewes to boast we haue Abraham to our Father not to stand so much vpon the blood wee haue as vpon the good we doe It little benefiteth a foule riuer to flow from a cleare spring It is small comfort for a blind man to say his father could see well it is no reputation for a deboshed liuer to say that he is nobly descended If we be the children of Abraham let vs doe the workes of Abraham and the better we are borne the better wee must liue Noblemen must be like trees planted by the riuers of water which bring forth their fruit in due season that their leafe may not fall nor their name perish from the face of the earth The second kinde of Gentry is Ciuill nobility which is by riches shining in the goods of fortune Hence Symonides esteemed those to bee noble which in a long course of time were descended from wealthy progenitors and though it often fall out true diuites in arca pauperes in conscientia Men rich in the cofers are poore in the conscience yet are riches reckoned a part of nobility First because they make it popular Secondly because riches are the instruments by which vertue and Gentry are or may bee maintayned Lastly because being gotten they serue as meanes for vertue and gentry to manfiest themselues in action yet bee not proud of wealth and thinke not because thou art rich that therefore thou must bee honoured this is to make men idolaters to worship a golden Calfe or a siluer Asse Riches sayth Bonauenture are but as a dogge following two men which walke together so long as the men are together you cannot discerne to whom the dogge belongeth but let them part and then the dogge will follow his true master so while man and the world liue together wee doe imagine riches belongeth to the man but if the man leaue the world then riches serues him but a dogged tricke and as the man did come naked into the world so his executors will bee sure hee shall goe naked out of the world hee shall onely haue his winding-sheete A man throweth a stone into the water which begetteth circle vpon circle and euery one bigger then other yet suddenly they all vanish away so is it with riches they are quickely gone As a bird hoppeth heere and there and no man knoweth where she will light so is it in getting riches which haue wings like an Eagle to flye away Luke 12. Thou foole this night shall thy soule be taken from thee and then whose shall all thy goods bee Striue not thou so much to bee rich in wealth as to be rich in fayth He in Plutarch which had a golden shoo sayd I but no man knoweth how it wringeth me so to haue a golden purse and a galled conscience will make all ioy and honour to bee but a dreame at the last The world is as the sea men as fishers things as fishes none can tell what he catcheth till his net come out of the water neyther can we tell vntill we are dead what will become of our soules then lay up thy treasure in heauen and not in earthly possessions Purse-nobility though it glitter in the eyes of worldlings yet it is seated in the hands of fortune quae vitrea est sayth Seneca a very brittle she friend See in Haman to day the Kings onely Fauourite yet to morrow hanged See in Gellinor that puissant Prince of the Vandals yet driuen so low as hee begged a loafe of bread to slake his hunger a spunge to dry vp his teares and an harpe to solace him in his misery Bellizarius that valiant Generall his eyes put out would cry Date obelum Bellizario Giue one poore farthing to relieue Bellizarius Henry the fourth a rich and a victorious Emperour he had fought fifty two pitched battels in the fields yet hee was driuen to that exigent as hee begged a Prebend in the Church of Spira to mainetayne himselfe and could not obtaine it no not of that Bishop whom himselfe had preferd but hee answered Per corpus Francisci non habebis By St. Francis thou shalt not haue it Therefore labour to bee rich in grace For not many rich not many noble but God hath chosen the poore in this world to bee rich in fayth and heires of the Kingdome of heauen The third kinde of Nobility is morall which a man doth purchase by vertue and good liuing Socrates asked what nobility was sayd Est animi corporisque temperantia It is a good composure and temperature of the minde and body Aristotle esteemed him a Gentleman which accounted it a glory to giue and a staine to his honour to take And Plato sayd he was gentle which is adorned with his owne not with others vertues so thou to be truely generous is to be in life and behauiour well gouerned disdayning to become subiect to vice or to be infected with bad manners to be iust and faythfull in promise patient in suffering wrong apt to pardon iniuries without reuenge milde in countenance courteous in speech sober in carriage Nobles may not be like the noblest trees for they are the most barren or without good fruite as the Oake the Beech the Laurell the Myrtle They must not be like beasts whereof the noblest are the cruellest neyther are they true vertues of nobility such as in these dayes are vsed as to dice well to drinke well to waste lauishly and to wanton it ventrously this is the way to bring ruine to your selues for Now as the axe layde to the roote of the tree euery tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewne downe cast into the fire and these courses will bring ruine to your posterity for the seed of the wicked shall not bee renowned for euer This morall nobility acquired by vertue is like Abishai one of Dauids Worthies he was the worthiest of three so this excelleth the other two but if we compare it with diuine Nobility it is but as Ioseph to Pharao the second in the Kingdome The fourth nobility is diuine to be a true Christian to be a new creature St. Paul a Iew was a Citizen of Rome a Pharise a great Rabbi brought vp at the foote of Gamaliel of the Tribe of Beniamin and circumcised the eyghth day being a Christian he was rap't vp into the third heauen yet he did esteeme all as doung in comparison of being a new creature in Christ Iesus for then to bee the true seruants of God exceedeth all other honour in the world Therefore after Moses was dead God sayd to Ioshua Moses my seruant is dead If God had so much regarded worldly titles hee might haue termed him another Noah for as when all the World was drowned in the Flood onely Noah his family were preserued aliue in the Arke Euen so when

Pharaoh commanded all the male children of Israel to bee drowned in the riuer there was onely Moses preserued aliue in a basket God might haue called him another Enoch for as Enoch walked with God and was translated from men euen so Moses went into the mountayne Nebo to the toppe of Pisgah and was neuer seene more of men God might haue called him the familiar Prophet one which spake to God face to face but all this layd aside God onely sayth Moses my seruant is dead to shew vs that to be a true Christian and to serue God is most honourable yea to bee Gods seruant is a Title most durable for if any aske mee what was great Alexander I answere that while hee liued hee was a valiant Monarch one which did conquer the Easterne parts of the world but if you aske me what Alexander is now I say hee is a damned * This is sayd according to the Tenent Without the Church is no saluation As for Gods secret Councell wee may not dare for to meddle with it soule in hell But if you aske me what was Abraham I answere Abraham while hee liued was the father of the faythfull and now he is dead he still is and euer will bee Gods faythfull seruant in heauen In diuine nobility wilt thou know thy pedegree and thy kindred Then know God is thy Father Christ Iesus is thy brother the Holy Ghost is thy preseruer the blessed Angels thy attendants thy foode is more precious then Manna for it is the bread of life which came from heauen of which he that eateth shall neuer hunger not thirst any more Alexander the great had a monster brought forth whose vpper parts had a manshead and brest but these were dead but the lower parts were full of monsters of all kinds and these were liuing this sayd the Southsayers did foretell the death of Alexander So is it in noble houses The head with a mans face and brest is religion If this bee dead then nothing but all monstrous sins will appeare which will bring ruine and destruction to all honourable families Wherefore let me labour to stir you vp to be diuinely noble and to become true Christians and because our meeting is to doe honour to a worthy Souldier and to a braue Commander giue mee leaue to vse for this purpose some few examples drawne from military discipline First Souldiers in the field may not vse their weapons as they will but as they are commanded The Musketeere must not discharge when he listeth but when the Officer bringeth him vp and sayth Present fire so likewise the Cannoneere In our spirituall warfare Christ is our Generall wee are his souldiers to fight vnder his banner our weapons are our soules with their faculties and our bodies with their members and these must bee vsed as God commandeth not as wee desire Our vnderstanding must know God aright our will must chuse what is good our affections must loue God aboue all and for our bodies wee must not abuse them to performe the lusts of the flesh or make them brewers horses to beare much quantity of wine and beere but Wee must giue vp our members weapons of righteousnesse to true holinesse our tongues must prayse God or pray to God our eyes must not looke on strange women to lust after them our eares must heare Gods Word our taste must eate Christs flesh and drinke his blood in the blessed Eucharist our hands must relieue the poore our feete must carry vs into Gods Temple and to visit the sicke and such as are in misery In one word wee must offer vp our soules and our bodies a liuing sacrifice holy acceptable to God which is our reasonable seruing of God Secondly Souldiers execute what the Commander willeth without arguing and asking why they should doe so as let the Generall send to such a Collonell to enter such a breach to make good such a place he presently obeyeth for they know that the Generall his office is for direction the Officers and Souldiers duty is to put his direction into execution Euen so looke what our Generall Christ hath commanded in his Word that must we execute without discussing by our naturall reason as did Abraham in offring vp Isaack and as the Iewes sayd vnto Moses Whatsoeuer the Lord commandeth that will we doe Euen so let vs rather dye then not performe all God willeth and commandeth vs to doe Thirdly Souldiers which beleager a Towne vse two kinde of stratagems First they make themselues masters of the riuers they cut off all springs of water which succour the Towne they enquarter themselues and blocke vp the Towne so that no reliefe of Ammunition of Victuall or of men shall any way relieue the Towne Euen so must we doe sinne is our great enemy then take heed that we take away from the strength of sinne and flee sinne and all occasion of sinne Adde not to our originall corruption euill thoughts euill words or euill deeds If any man had two swords and being to fight with his enemy should lend him one this were the next way to haue his throat cut with his owne sword Hence euery one coueteth to disarme his enemy so must not wee adde sinne to sinne this were for to bring finall destruction to our owne soules Secondly they doe not onely endeauour to withhold all necessaries from the Towne but they vse all the means to offend the besieged for they raise their batteries to make breaches they make their approches build their gallies spring their mines they haue ladders to seale the wals and all this to force the Towne Euen so wee must not onely auoyd sinne and weaken our corruption but wee must take into our hands the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God whereby wee may be able to kill all the temptations of the world the flesh and the deuill Fourthly Souldiers in the field no more feare the report of the Cannon then the report of the Musket as I haue heard it related of that true noble Peere and valiant Commander Sir Horace Vere Baron of Tilbery that when in the Palatinate a Councell of war was called and there being debated whether they should fight or not some Dutch Lords sayd that the enemy had many pieces of Ordnance planted in such a place and therefore it was dangerous to fight That noble Gentleman replyed My Lords if you feare the mouth of the Cannon you must neuer come into the field Euen so oft times men fall into diuers and great temptations as for to despayre of Gods mercies for to make themselues away yea the deuill oft times tempteth men by voyce by appearing in some shapes and the like Yet a Christian courage must not bee daunted at any crosses or temptations but he must endure constant to the end for God is faythfull and iust and will not suffer vs to be tempted aboue what we are able to endure Bee we assured all the temptations of that roaring