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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

strange Country These all That is all those who lived in the second world after the flood Abraham and Sarah Isaac and Jacob the Husband and the Wife the Father the Son and the Grandchild These all 2. The things mentioned concerning these persons 1. It is said they dyed These all dyed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Though they lived long and many score of years longer than we now do yet they dyed at last Though they were very godly and religious persons though very noble and honourable persons yet they dyed These all dyed 2. It is said That they dyed in faith {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} They died according to the faith in which they lived {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is here put for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as ver. 9. 11 17. They died according to the faith that is in the faith in ●ide seu ●ide seu per fidem If you would know what this faith was in which they died you must take notice of what followeth in the text not having received the promises but having seen them afar off and were perswaded of them and embraced them and confessed that c. God had promised that the Messias should come of their seed and that in him all the nations of the world should be blessed God had promised that he would give them the land of Canaun and not only an earthly but an heavenly Canuan Now all these died perswaded of the truth of these promises embracing or as the Greek word signifieth kissing them They saw them afar off and beleeved them Even as a Mariner that hath been long at sea when he seeth afar off the desired haven claps his hands and skips for joy So did these holy men By the prospective glasse of faith they saw the performance of that which came not to passe till foure hundred years after and rejoyced in it as if already fulfilled They died in the faith of the Messias beleeving not only that he should come in the flesh but expecting salvation and life everlasting by him only They died perswaded of salvation by Christ and embracing saluting and kissing the Lord Jesus They died in the faith of the promised land of Canaan and they died looking waiting and resting upon God in Christ for a better country which is an heavenly ver. 16. In a word they died beleeving they should go to that City which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God ver. 10. This was that blessed happy and noble close and end of daies which these godly and honourable Patriarks made These all dyed in faith From the words thus expounded I shall gather these following inferences Doctrine 1. That though a man liveth never so long yet he must die at last These all dyed though they lived long Abraham lived one hundred seventy five years Isaac one hundred eightie Jacob one hundred fourtie seven and yet died at last Before the flood some lived seven hundred others eight hundred others nine hundred years but it is added as the common Epitaph of them all Mortuus est he dyed Gen. 5. 8 14 17 20 31. Death is the haven of every man whether King or beggar rich or poor Death is the gulfe which will swallow us all up Length of time cannot prescribe against death The longest day will have a night and the longest life a death This life is nothing else but prolixitas mortis as one saith or tendentia ad mortem A lingring kind of death or a pacing or journeying to death Some have a longer journy than others but all must come to their journies end at last There is a statute in heaven for it Heb. 9. 27. It is appointed for all men once to dye And death is called the house appointed for all living Job 30. 23. And the way of all the earth 1 King 2. 2. All flesh is grass Isa. 40. 6. Now then if they who lived so long died at last much more must we who are dwarfes in years in comparison of them and who are nearer death when first borne than some of them were when an hundred years old Let me beseech you frequently solemnly and seriously to consider That though we live never so long and labour by physick and temperate diet and wholesome aire to prolong our lives yet we must die at last As the King of Persia told Constantine the Emperour when he had shewed him all the wealth of Rome These are indeed saith he wonderful things which you shew me but I plainiy see that as in Persia so in Rome also men are subject to death For dust we all are and to dust we must all returne We must say to corruption thou art my Father and to the worme thou art my Mother and my sister We have here no abiding City As we had a day to come into the world so we shall have a day to go out of it The nature of man is wonderful prone to dreame of an eternal abode and of a lasting happiness here upon earth Saint Austin tells us of certain hereticks called Aeternales because they held the world to be eternal We have many such Eternalists who phancy to themselves a kind of eternitie here upon earth and are ready to say with the rich foole in the Gospel Soul take thy ease eat drink and be merry thou hast goods laid up for many years and in the mean time forget what God said to him Thou foole this night thy soul shall be required of thee then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided It is said of wicked men Psalm 49. 11. Their inward thought is that their houses shall continue for ever and their dwelling places to all generations c. They are ashamed to utter any such thing but their inward thought is that they shall abide for ever Then it followeth ver. 13. This their way is their folly yet their posteritie approve their sayings Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not c. Though he thinks he shall abide yet neither he nor his heires shall be continued but he shall be like the beasts that perish Therefore we had all need to pray Davids prayer Lord make me to know mine end and the measure of my dayes what it is that I may know how fraile I am There are few who know practically and applicatively how fraile they are Most men say they are mortal magis usu quam sensu more out of custome than feeling for they live as if their lives were riveted upon eternitie and as if they should never come to a reckoning Heu vivunt homines tanquam mors nulla sequatur Aut velut infernus fabula vana foret Let us supplicate unto God That he would teach us effectually to remember our frailtie and to consider that there will come a dying time and that it

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