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A10084	A verie godlie and learned sermon treating of mans mortalitie, and of the estate both of his bodie and soule after death. Preached at Denham in Suffolke. At the celebration of the solemne and mournfull funerals of the right orshipfull Sir Edward Lewkenor Knight, and of the vertuous Ladie Susan, his wife, both at once. By M. Robert Pricke their beloued and faithfull minister: now also since that time (to the encrease of our sorow for the losse of so excellent a light) departed this life.	Pricke, Robert, d. ca. 1608.; Allen, Robert, fl. 1596-1612.	1608 (1608)	STC 20338; ESTC S112476	28,846	49

it selfe Secondlie by relation that is by reference to the place to which it belongeth or wherevnto it is to be committed In it selfe by this word dust in the originall He gnaphar noting out the matter whereof the body is made agreeable with the hystorie of the Creation Gen. 2.7 in these words The Lord also made man of the dust of the earth where the selfe same Hebrew word is vsed The reason why it pleased God to make the bodie of man of the earth The reason why God mad the bodie of man of such base matter doth so often mention it in holie Scripture was no doubt to humble man and to represse that insolencie wherewith hee might easilie haue bene puffed vp in regard of his excellent estate in cōparison of other creatures if he had not set before his eyes both his originall also what manner of mansion place or dwelling that is It is a most effectuallmeanes to humbleman wherein th soule is still to be lodged For these are verie forcible Arguments to abase and cast downe the loftie hearts of all men which otherwise might as was said haue bene more easilie puffed vp As for example if his bodie had proceeded frō the glorious matter of the sunne and the heauens aboue Iob. 37.18 which Iob compareth to moulten glasse for the puritie and brightnes and so consequentlie his soule had dwelt in a stately pallace sutable to the excellent nature thereof he had had as might haue seemed some greater occasion to lifte vp himselfe aboue other creatures But now when as earth and dust is his mother which he daily treadeth vpō dwelleth in Iob. 4.19 as Iob saith in an house of Clay there is small cause why he shuld conceiue highlie of himselfe If a man which comes of a Noble parentage dwells in a house agreeable to his estate it is as wee would thinke some peece of an excuse though hee should be something high minded But if a poore creature who is descended of base parentage and withall dwelleth and lodgeth in a poore cottage built and framed of mudde clay should neuerthelesse hautilie exalte himselfe aboue others The pride of man is the more monstrous and finnefull it would iustly be counted so much the more monstrous and intollerable pride How monstrous then and absurd is the pride of man who being but a wretched worme and dirt it selfe doth yet exalte himselfe not only aboue all other creatures but euē against the mightie Lord his Creator whose seate is the glorious pallace of the whole heauens From whence we may gather a double vse And first of all that whensoeuer wee feele our selues conceited with anie speciall gift or qualitie which wee lifte vp and spread abroad as peacocks feathers that we presently looke vpon our vile and fraile bodies as vpon black feete which wil easilie cause our glorious taile to sincke and fall downe Secondly hereby we may see the extream madnes and more then diuellish Luciferian pride of Atheists and profane worldlings The pride of mā is the more foolish vaine and pernicious to himselfe who doe so swell and are puffed vp with such a vaine conceite of their owne excellencie that they doe not onely contemne God their Lord and Creator but as Giants doe make open warre against him Which persons seeing that the sight of their owne basenesse will not humble them assuredlie the hand of God with some fearefull thunderbolt of his wrath wil one day so represse them and crush them that they shal be inforced to confesse will they nill they their base estate condition in comparison of their Lords and Creator Which they may see by an example verified in Nebuchadnezzar Examples of who because hee would not acknowledge God and stoope to him as to his Superiour Gods iudgementes against proud persons was by the iust iudgement of his mighty Lorde and Soueraigne stript spoiled of his kingdom Dan. 4.30 liued the space of 7. years in the state of a bruit beast that eateth grasse till he did acknowledge himselfe a mortall man 2. Chro. 32.10 They may see it likewise in Sancherib the great King of Assyria who was lifted vp so high in the pride of his heart that hee durst blaspheme the Eternall But what got he thereby 21. The Lord made hauock of his huge Armie put a hooke in his nose caused him to returne home againe with shame and confusion anone after stirred vp his two sonnes who most vnnaturallie slew him in the temple of his false Gods What shall I speake of Herod the King Act. 12. vlt. Act. 12. who could finde in his heart to arrogate to himselfe the worship and honour due vnto God which was giuen vnto him by his wicked flatterers but the Lord by his Angell stroke him with a lowsie and loath-full disease A zealous and godlie admonition to all that they beware of pride whereof hee miserablie perished Wherefore Oh earth earth earth humble thy selfe and stoope downe before him whose glorious Maiestie not onely the Elect Angels but also the diuels adore and tremble at And alwayes remember thou that God of all other sinnes cannot abide the pride and loftinesse of Man It is the vsuall way dealing of God to take vengeance vpō proud persons 1. Pet. 5.5 Luc. 2.52.53 as may appeare by sundrie speeches in diuers places of the holie Scripture which testifie that God resisteth the proude that Hee beholdeth the proude a farre off that Hee filleth the hungrie with good things and sendeth the rich emptie away and such like Which all doe serue to bring all men to true humilitie which is a sweete and amiable vertue opening a way for all excellent graces of God into the soule of a man that is trulie humbled But this which wee haue spoken hetherto of the matter whereof the bodie is made was the estate of man before sinne should haue continued though man had not trangressed That is he should haue consisted of an earthly body a spiritual foule Nowe that which followeth in the next wordes of our Text came in by sinne and therefore is farre worse and more miserable in these wordes returne to the earth as it was For thereby is signified not onelie the simple buriall of the dead bodie The estate of mans earthly bodie in and after death It may be considered in three degrees 1. It is voyd of sense motion 2. It is vtterlie defaced 3. It putrifieth and turneth againe to base earth but also the estate thereof after it is buried and layd in the earth Which consisteth of diuers effects For first of all the bodie lyeth in the graue senseles and without motion euen as a blocke or stone Againe the maiestie and beautie of the face and whole bodie departeth and a pale deformed and vglie forme succeedes Thirdlie the bodie putrifieth and rotteth and from thence proceedes a most horrible and

the greatest dullard and rude person may vnderstand For to what ende serue so many Funeralls of all sorts All sorts of mē die euery day olde young rich poore noble and base To what ende so many Graues and Sepulchers in the places of buriall so many drie bones cast out of the Graues but to set forth visiblie before our eyes the mortall estate of mankinde Whereby is discouered and laide open the extreame blindnes and dulnesse of the most part For although they be conuinced both by the testimony of God and nature that all men must die yet reape they little or no benefite by it The greater more grosse is the sinne of all that profit not by the cōsideration of death in the care of a godly life For some lye rocked so fast a sleepe in securitie and in the pleasures of this worlde that they thinke no more of death then the bruite beast that is without vnderstanding Other can discourse finely of death to make shew of their eloquence and learning and yet will not by serious meditation applie the remembrance of death to their hearts Finally verie many doe quake and tremble at death who yet for all that vse no meanes that they may die well I will not at this time recite the causes and reasons hereof which are diuers and manifold only I may conclude that all these sorts are in a miserable case The duties of all Christians in respect of their mortalitie For auoyding whereof we must take a cleane contrary course which standeth herein that we do seriously meditate of death and as it were continually set it before our eyes and that not for discourse or speculation but for more weigntie profitable endes 1. We are to vvithdravv our hearts from all inordinat loue of this vvorld and the transitory thinges thereof And first of all to the end we may withdraw and weane our hearts from too much delight in this naturall life and in the things that belong therevnto And there is great reason thereof For seeing that both life and the things of this world are fraile transitorie and vncertaine true felicitie cannot consist in them How much better then were it for men by the consideration hereof to set their affections not on things belowe but vpon things that are aboue and to laie vp their treasure in heauen where neither rust nor moath can consume nor theeues breake through and steale 2. We are to humble our selues vnder the mightie hand of God and his fearefull sentence of death against sinne The second ende is to beate downe the pride and insolencie of men whereby they are puffed vp as though they were Gods immortall heere vpon earth From which conceipt as from a cursed sinke doe flowe blasphemies against God outrages doe flowe blasphemies against God outrages iniuries and violences against men yea a thousand mischiefes and abhominations whereat the Sunne in heauen doth as it were stand amazed For which cause the hand of the Lord doth strike the world with infinite calamities and iudgements 3. We are to lead our liues in godlines vse all good meanes there of that we may die with comfort The last and speciall ende is that men may be induced to apply their hearts vnto wisedome that is that by diligent and carefull vsing the holie and good meanes which God hath set vp in the church as the ministery of the word and Sacraments c. they may thereby attaine such a measure of faith repentance and holines that they may not tremble at the terrible face of death but knowing and beeing perswaded that his sting is pulled out and his weapons broken by the vertue of the death of our Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christ they may entertaine him as a friende and yeeld to him as to a Porter or Harbinger appointed by GOD to make a waye for all the faithfull vnto the place of euerlasting happinesse Againe that they may not die in trouble or vexation of conscience but in such a sweete tranquillitie of minde that they may with Simeon say Lorde now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace Luc. 2.29 Finallie that they may not see the mouth of hell gaping to deuoure and swallow them vp but by the eies of faith behold with Stephen the heauens open and the Lord Iesus Christ standing at the right hand of God his Father readie to receiue their soules It is a speciall grace of God which teacheth men to make the former good vses frō the consideration of our mortalitie We see here the singular fruits that growe from the seriours meditation of death and the due preparation for it Which yet is not a worke of nature but proceedeth from God and his holie spirit without whose vertue and operation nothing be it neuer so cleare neuer so great and forcible can work effectuallie in the hearts so great and forcible can work effectuallie in the hearts of men Which thing was so well knowne to Moses that in the 90. Psal he crieth out And therefore wee ought to praye earnestly to God for so speciall a grace Psal 90.12 Teach vs O Lorde so to nomber our dayes that we may applie our hearts vnto wisedome Which example euery one of vs are to follow not onely because it is recorded in Scripture but because that sodaine and vnprouided for death doth bring so manie euills with it to wit such feare and trembling such horror anguish despaire that manie wish at the first assault thereof that they had neuer beene borne nor seene the light of the sunne as we haue had too manie examples in these our dayes Well therefore did these two worshipfull persons who long before their death and dissolution The godlie couple late departed were notable examples right worthie our imitation herein had not onely the name of death and of the ende of this life often in their mouthes but by all good meanes fitted themselues for the comming of the Lord. Which manie neglecting death commeth sodenlie vppon them before they can prepare oyle for their lamps and so are they shut out of the Tabernacles of eternall life happines and cast down into an estate most miserable and to be trembed at of all Christians And thus much of death with the certaintie and vniuersalitie thereof The second part of the Text. Now let vs come to the second pointe of the Text namely of the estate of the generall and principall parts of man after death The parts are two The estate of man after death both in bodie and soule The Soule and The Bodie Of which the holie Ghost speaketh seuerallie and distinctlie But because the bodie is more visible and best knowne The estate of the bodie The originall of the bodie is from the earth And this consideration tēdeth very aptlie to the illustration folowing after both in and by death Gen. 2.7 hee beginneth first with that which he describeth two wayes First in

their studies Let the Noble and worshipfull race of Gentry Magistrates lay to heart the losse of two such familiars as were most faithfull and dutifull to them Poore of Den. ham and in the townes adioyning But O yee poore and miserable of these partes howle yee and cry out seeing they are taken from you whose hands in times past were alwaies open to relieue your necessities The Minister himselfe then a chief mourner for them on earth but now achiefe reioicer with them in heauen And would to God mine eies would gushe out teares yea riuers of teares seeing the place and seats open now empty and without them whose presence in times past was comfortable to my heart where vnto they alwaies bent themselues as did appeare by their readinesse and willingnesse to repaire to this place Finally there is cause that all should mourne for the death of such persons according to the laudable custome and manner of the Church The causes of comfort are resumed more fully amplified because they are greater and therfore ought to receiue the deeper more durable impression chiefly in the heartes of those that are most subiect to passe boundes in mourning in all times Yet least we should passe measure and runne into the excesse of mourning wee want not iust cause to moderate and temper our mourning and sorrowe and that not only for that we are not without hope as were the heathē but for far better more agreable causes And first of all although they be gōe yet haue they left behind them many persons equall to thē in degre dignity who are not ōly indued with excellent gifts but ready prest to performe the same duties which they in their life time performed As namely to professe and maintaine the Gospell The 1. cause of comfort sincerely to worship serue the Lord and to go before other in a holy christian example of life A 2. cause of comfort Againe it ought not a little to mitigate our sorrowe in regard of their departure because as they honoured God in their life so God hath now honored thē in their death as appeareth this day not ōly by the solemnities of their buriall but also in the great concurse of all sorts who are come together euery one according to his place to testifie what honorable and louing affections they bare toward them A 3. Cause of comfort both in life and in death The last full cause shuttinge vp perfecting all our cōfort against all our mourning Lastly that we may at lēgth conclud the greatest matter of comfort is that although they haue left vs for a time yet ere it bee longe wee shall meete with them in the Kingdome of God For which purpose because wee know not howe sodenly the Lord will come either by death And thus a sweete conclusion of a verie sweete godlie learned and fruitfull Sermon To God be all the praise honour glory to vs much benefit spirituall edificatiō through his most gratious blessing or at the last iudgement as we haue good cause to bethinke vs thereof by the present occasion let vs not driue off as the slouthfull seruant in the Gospell or as the foolish virgins but let vs fit our selues before hand for his glorious comming that is let vs get oyle in our lamps with the wise virgins and euerie one of vs behaue our selues faithfully in our place and calling by imploying such gifts as we haue receiued of our Soueraigne Lord and Maister to the glory of God and the benefit of our brethren And then no doubt as the second death shall not hurt vs so shall wee enter into our Maisters ioy where we shal with the soules of the righteous crie continuallie Lord Iesus come quicklie Reu. 22.21 as the soules of these two persons doe And in the end we shal doubtles heare those sweet words of heauenly entertainement which Christ our Lord Sauiour from his glorious throne shall pronoūce to the vnspeakeable comfort of all the elect saying Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you Math. 25.34 from the foundation of the world Which the Lord of his infinite mercie hasten speedily put an an end to the miseries of this world vnder which we doe continually sigh and groane 2. Cor. 5.4 And that euen for Iesus Christ his sake our onely Redeemer and Sauiour to whom with the Father the holie Ghost be rendred and giuen for euer and euer both in heauen and earth all possible praise honour glory immortalitie Amen And thus an ende Let vs pray