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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12160	Corona charitatis, = The crovvne of charitie a sermon preacht in Mercers Chappell, May 10. 1625. at the solemne funerals of his euer-renowmed friend, of precious memory, the mirroir of charitie, Mr. Richard Fishburne, merchant, and now consecrated as an anniuersary to his fame; by Nat: Shute, rector of the parish of Saint Mildred in the Poultry, London.	Shute, Nathaniel, d. 1638.	1626 (1626)	STC 22466; ESTC S117282	35,817	55

call vpon the maintenance of our persons without the seruice of God but it is Gods cause that giues fire to this discourse For I could wish that the arke of Gods worship might neuer shake but God forbid that it should bee ouerthrowne In Gods cause I dare throw a stone of reproofe against the face of such as care not for the demolishing of Gods publick worship Iudg. 17.10 so euery Micah may haue a wandring Leuite in his owne house And to this purpose it is that they seeke out staines in our coates and in the publike Officers of the Church as it is an easie thing to finde a spot in blacke and being found they wash them so oft in Nitre and Fullers Sope that in the end these garments are almost worne to rags Well I say If he that neglects to heare the Church Matth. 18.7 must bee vnto vs as a Heathen man or a Publican hee that robs the Church is worse then a Heathen or a Publican to curtall the garments of the seruant of the most high God deserues no better a reward Fulgos. l. 1. c. 2. theÌ„ that which Bambas the King of the Gothes gaue to Paulus Graecus the Church-robber to crowne him with a Crowne of Pitch Let such men conuent themselues before their owne vnderstanding and they shall plainly see a direct tract of just feare in these sacrilegious actions namely that he that alters Gods Decree concerning his seruice many times rowles himselfe into the same iudgement which Hee incurred that altered Cyrus his word concerning his bountie to Hierusalem which was Ezra 6.11 that a piece of timber out of his owne house should bee his ruine But now to seale vp this point In Spaine of old Ammian Marcell l. 16. they that brought in the Euening Lights cried Vincamus Let vs Ouercome as if the very light should inflame them vnto Victory so now haue we Nehemiah for a Light I as your Seruant present this Light vnto you and exhort you with all the bloud I haue Vincaemus Let vs ouercome Let vs ouercome I say our Hardnesse with Liberalitie to Gods seruice that God may remember vs concerning this and neuer wipe out the good deedes wee haue done to the house of our God and the offices thereof Thus hauing lodged the colours and run out the matter of Nehemiahs Prayer the manner of it now attends your consideration wound vp in this familiar tearme My God But the houre is declined and seeing I haue already compelled you a mile I will not compell you twaine And the rather not in this point because the matter of the Prayer was the principall Land-marke or Beacon at which I aymed at this time the manner at least wise this manner of familiar Prayer is no ingredient into the essence of Prayer but a degree of perfection in Prayer Therefore praeternauigabit oratio I will saile by it and onely now retriue some few things spoken by way of conclusion vnlade my ship perfectly and put her vp into the creeke Conclus Plin. l. 10. c. 3. Your eares haue receiued this day the steely confidence of Nehemiah how like a true Eagle he durst looke vpon the Sunne of righteousnesse and aske a reward I haue led you likewise to the golden anchor of his confidence His good deeds which with her two teeth layeth fast hold vpon his Charity to the house of God and to the â—ffices thereof No sweeter friend no better companion then a good conscience nor no better deedes in the World to warme the conscience with a comfortable hope then these two Micah the Idolater treasured vp to himselfe a sweete content by but an appearance of one of these actions Now know I that the Lord will doe mee good Iud. 17.13 seeing I haue a Leuite to my Priest what then remaynes but that wee transforme our selues into this example Let not our Aduersaries grind the face of our Religion to say Religion and Charitie were at one time thrust out of this Kingdome Though wee haue sent them their Religion yet wee haue kept and my hope yet liues shall keepe their Charitie For what is wealth without the true vse of it no more then those ornaments about the neckes of the Midianitish Camels Iud. 8.24 the poore beasts possessed them without vnderstanding and strait-skind rich men possesse their wealth without true comfort If there be any difference here it is that those Iewels were bound to the Camels but rich men more basely are bound to their wealth Againe how quickly may death snatch vs away as in a whirlewind as hee snatcht away the rich man in a night from his barne doores who sung a requiem to his owne soule but neuer askt himselfe in what posture other mens states stood Euen as a brooke with a fall of raine waters swels and as if it were proud of his late increase makes a noyse nay runnes here and there Sicut torrens aquis pluuialibus redundat perstrepit currit currendo decurrit sic est omnis iste cur suo mortalitatis Aug. in Psal 109. to shew it selfe till by running it hath runne out all that euer it had Euen so some rich men vpon some fall of wealth begin to swell as if they were little Seas then make a noyse of ostentation and because they haue but one tongue of their owne they get the Eccho of Flatterers they ouer-flow the lower grounds that is the poore and spread their names in text Letters of bloud in the end after some short noise as the brooke leaues nothing but mire so leaue they nothing at their death to themselues but confusion before God and men And now to bury all the ashes of this Sacrifice at the foot of the Altar and to end my text This is the common Sewer into which all humane vanitie runnes as Iulian said when hee was taken in to bee Emperour with Constantius Nihilo se plus assecutam quam vt occupatior interiret Amm. Marcel l. 15. and some vnexpected mischiefe dropt vpon him That he got nothing by his aduancement but only to dye with more trouble so this estate followes many times those that haue estate namely that Wealth abused yeelds no better crop then sowre weeds of discontent to make a mans death bitter Wheras the good mans death is like Musicke though it consist of Sharps yet it ends in a Diapason and with a sweet close Pro. 14.32 The righteous hath hope in his death Nay both in life and in death as the Prophet speaketh Hos 14 2. dareth to take words with him and say Remember mee O my God concerning this and wipe not out my good deeds which I haue done for the house of my God and for the offices thereof And so I fall downe from the Text to the occasion In all that whole row of solemnities which men obserue on earth there is none more powerfull to let down the heart of man then the solemnitie of

Corona Charitatis THE CROWNE OF CHARITIE A Sermon Preacht in Mercers Chappell May 10. 1625. at the solemne Funerals of his euer-renowmed Friend of precious memory the Mirroir of Charitie Mr. RICHARD FISHBVRNE Merchant And now consecrated as an Anniuersary to his FAME By NAT SHVTE Rector of the Parish of Saint Mildred in the Poultry LONDON NVM 23.10 Let me dye the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his Si non vacat omnes paginas Scripturarum euoluere tene Charitatem in ea inuenies omnem scientiam B. AVG. de temp Serm. 39. Libri aspecti non placent sed inspecti LIPSIVS Prolog Politic. LONDON Printed by W. STANSBY for SAMVEL MAN dwelling at the Swanne in Pauls Church-yard 1626. TO HIS MOST WORTHY AND MVCH honoured friend Master IOHN BROWNE Merchant Noble Sir AS you had a Partner-ship in seruice in estate nay in the hearts each of other with that euer-memorable Partner and brother of yours Master Richard Fishburne as appeared in health but most plainely in the time of his sicknesse by your mutuall teares oftentimes interchangeably answering each other so so giue mee leaue I pray you to make you Partners still in this Worke for I consecrate this litle booke to your liuing Person and to his liuing Memorie To cast fresh flowres of Commendation vpon him that is gone and that before you were but to moue you to a new regret and sorrow for him nay it were to lend eyes to the Eagle To tell you that which you knew better then my selfe To write of you not what you deserue but what I owe I dare not lest the least suspition might take you that I did not write but paint nay not paint but dawbe For I so farre vnderstand you that you loue not the common varnish of the world and that you turne in the fairest part of your abilities from the ordinarie view wherein I must needes say you much honour your selfe and shew your selfe a true Diamond which Artists best discerne by shining in the darke it being as great wisedome in our sufficiencie not to know our selues as it is in our wants to know our selues Sicut liuoris nota est silere quod noueraÌ„ ita crimen est non enarrare quod senseram Fulgent Car. Mytholog l. 2. Onely herein your modestie disaccomodates your friends while it will not admit no not a deserued thankfulnesse And I my selfe while I feare by writing what I might to flatter you am forced by not writing in a manner to be vnthankfull Yet I consider againe that paper is but a weake reflexion of a stronger affection and no true friend when hee writes most yet hath that gift to write as fully as hee loues therefore instead of my pen I enclose my heart in this small leafe and present them both together for a token of my sinceritie to you and because I may not bee so thankfull for that loue of yours which is past my resolution is with me to promise you my best seruice to come An instance of which in short because an Epistle as Seneca saith Sen. Epist 45. must not fill the Readers hand is this little booke which I now dedicate to you the first Commencement and beginning of my labours in this kind and vndertaken not for the burnishing of mine owne name as mine owne conscience dictates vnto mee but for the lengthning of his memorie who was your deerly-accounted Partner and my deepely-esteemed friend Accept it I beseech you for the arguments sake it is of Charitie a vertue I know you loue with the very inside of your heart accept it for his sake whose Character it is with whom as you were Partner on earth so I pray you may be Partner with him in heauen Nay such a claime your owne goodnesse hath giuen mee in you and such ground haue I gotten of you by your fauours that J dare intreat you to accept it for mine own sake as proceeding from that heart that hath no furrow of dissimulation in it from him who vowes himselfe Your most obseruant and euer affectionate poore friend in life and death Nat. Shute TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL THE Master Wardens Assistants and Commonaltie of the Mysterie of the MERCERS of the Citie of LONDON Right Worshipfull I Haue not without faire cause inscribed this Sermon vnto you First It was preacht in that sacred Circumference and Assembly whereof you were a principall part Secondly it was preacht vpon your owne ground euen in the bosome of your owne Bethell your owne Chappell Thirdly it was preacht for one who was not long since a conspicuous member of your Company and one who hath laid vp his greatest trust for the decurrence of many great workes of Charitie in your faithfull hands As it is then iustly consecrated vnto you so I desire you to receiue it with the right hand that it may passe vnder the Conuoy of your worthy names This is the first time that euer I set to Sea in this publike manner that euer my Name came into the Printer's stockes And though I haue not wanted that which is now made the common bridge of Pretence vnder which most Bookes passe I meane the Abetting of diuers friends to these Publications nor yet I thank my God some small thongs of meaner abilities in my selfe yet had it not bin out of conscience of my thankfulnesse to my blessed friend of euer-deere memorie rather to keepe vp his Remembrance then to spread mine owne I would still haue kept mine owne priuate way and neuer haue rode in the common dust But so sweet was the thought of his tender affection euer vnto mee that I could not obtaine rest of my selfe by erecting him a monument onely in mine owne heart but that I must present this walking monument of him in paper to all the World and first to you Nay sooner had this small Barke of mine floated abroad but that the last yeere God troubled our waters and turned them into bloud Howsoeuer I hope it is not out of season for a man that cannot serue the Occasion and pay at day to pay a due debt when the Occasion serues him though I could not by reason of that storme put out immediatly after his death yet now it comes as an Anniuersary at the end of a yeere to kindle his Memory once againe Therefore I humbly craue that you would bee pleased to lodge these poore labours in your good opinions and the rather for his sake whose goodnesse yet sparkles in your eyes and the Image of whose vertues is in this little Codicill represented to you So shall you binde vp his Name in your owne names And further beare a strong obligation of Respect and Humilitie ouer Your Worships most deuoted poore friend and Seruant NAT. SHVTE THE CROWNE OF CHARITIE The Text NEHEM 13.14 Remember me O my God concerning this and wipe not out my good deeds that I haue done for the house of my God and

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