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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

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

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 worshipfull 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 Man goeth to the house of his age and the mourners goe about in the streete Eccles 12.5 Yet Christians must not mourne as other which haue no hope 1. Thess 4.13 For To be loosened and to bee with Christ is best of all Philip 1.23 LONDON Printed by Thomas Creede 1608. ¶ To my louing friend M. Timothie Pricke Minister of the word of God heartie Salutation in the Lord. MY welbeloued and verie deare friend in the Lord as God of his great goodnes and aboundant mercie hath vouchsafed you no small fauour in that you are not onely the naturall sonne of a good man but also the sonne of a verie faithfull Minister of his holy word thereby also a spirituall Father vnto you in the Gospell of Iesus Christ euen to you a sonne of his best desires and most comfortable hope an heire to manie his earnest prayers and supplications to God a behoulder witnes of his holie life a sheepe of his deare flocke and nowe a pastor of those who were lately his sheepe so I beseech you for the Lords sake to indeuour after no small and vulgar fruits of dutie and thankes to God your heauenly Father nor of imitation in respect of the excellent vertues of your both naturall and spirituall Father Lay sure and fast hold I pray you on the blessing of his holie feruent prayers wherein with great wrestlings he intreated God often that hee would make you an instrument of greater glorie to him in foyling the diuell and furthering the saluation of his people much more then hee thought himselfe to haue attained vnto though in truth hee quitted himselfe exceedinglie well and greatlie prospered in that spirituall fight and dangerous battell and in promoting the saluation of verie manie Thus comfort you vs deare friend the deare and louing friendes of your worthy Father thus reioice you the hearts of Gods people and thus tēder the good peace of your owne conscience I heartely intreat you Where much hath ben bestowed there much may iustly bee looked for and therefore as good ground hauing receiued the best seede yeeld you your best endeuor that you may bring foorth fruite after the fullest measure euen to an hundred fold Among other prouocations and incouragements let the present Sermon of your Father be as the lift of a strong shoulder to further you as longe as you shall liue in the care of a godly life as he cōstantly liued that growing to like perfection and ripenes of all holy ministery you may after māy yeares dy the like death of the righteous that he died In the meane season giue me leaue to commend it vnto you as a most artificiall picture better representing to the view of your inward sight the spiritual image of your Father then any the skilfullest Limmer could haue drawne his outward shape to the beholding of your bodilie eye Esteeme it deare friend as a verie worthy and memorable monument of that pure and pithie manner of preaching which he vsed and as a notable president set before you and before vs all let vs follow it with as prosperous a pursuite as we may And if we cannot attaine vnto it yet let vs presse toward it as neare as we can Wee all knowe what a blessing God gaue to his sincere and faithfull dealing that is so plentifull a blessing as is seldōe to be seene vpon the ministerie of any in a far greater congregation Now further that which remaineth ioine with me in request to the right worshipfull to whom your Father did both with hand and heart while yet hee was liuing dedicate this memorable gift a testimony of his speciall loue from a most parentlike and pastorall affection toward them that they will accept it as one little siluer streāe of pure and precious water deriued vnto them from that more full and liuing springe which was wont to flow dailie more plenteously to the sweete refreshing and comfortting of their soules And albeit his person be now gone and his pastorall care ouer them hath had an end which if they had continued to this day would surely haue procured their most ready and thankfull accepting of the same let vs be sutors that the thing it selfe being of great worth may be neuer the lesse regarded of them remembring still that they must giue an account vnto God how they haue profited by his holy ministery In which hope let vs for conclusion omitting all complements wanting beseech God the only full supplier of all defects to blesse the holy doctrine of this one blessed Sermon to as manie good endes and purposes both to them and to our selues and to many other as any one Sermon may be blessed and sanctified vnto And thus with my most hearty prayer I doe commend both your selfe and that right worshipfull familie and all of the families of the Church of God at your and their little Denham to all further and more full blessing of God Your louing friend and brother in the Lord. ROBERT ALLEN London this 2. of May. 1608. To the right vvorshipfull and Christian posteritie the Sonnes and Daughters of the right worshipfull Sir Edward Lewkenor Knight and of the vertuous Ladie Susan Lewkenor his wife Grace and peace in Christ Iesus THE Prophet Isaiah by the motion of Gods holie spirit did long since in great zeale vtter this holy saying The righteous perisheth Isa 57.1 and no man considereth it in heart and mercifull men are taken away and no man vnderstandeth that the righteous is taken away from the euill to come Which as it hath in former times bene true so is it prooued most true in these our miserable and desperate daies as may hereby appeare for that although the Lord withdraweth and taketh out of this world by death many of his principall and excellent seruants thereby setting vp as it were prodigious Comets to premonish all men not only of the vncertainty of this natural life but also that his iudgements are neare hand yet few doe so much as once turne their eyes toward this hand of God and fewer doe make vse thereof and applie it to their heart for the increase of true godlinesse and reformation of life Against which estate disposition gracelesse and more then brutish some what was vttered at the Funerall of your said worthie Parents which although it hath hetherto lyen in silence and beene whollie suppressed yet nowe by the grace of God it is come to light The discourse I confesse is homely

The vertues of the right christiā knight to manifest confirme the truth of his sanctification but thou surmountest them all Fauor is deceitfull and beautie is vanitie but a woman that feareth the Lord shall be praised Giue her of the fruite of her hands and let her owne workes praise her in the gates The outward conuersation likewise of her worthy Husband was very Christian vnblameable and without iust note of reprehension An example worthy to bee followed of all men specially of persons in special dignitie authority aboue the rest For first of all whereas all men know hee was indued with excellent ornamēts of nature and learning yet knew he how to make himselfe equall to thē of the lower sort And whereas hee could haue made many affraid as it is said of Iob yet was hee continuallie fearefull to offend the meanest An excellent vertue the true valour of great mighty mē In which respect if he had at any time ouerseene himselfe his soule was neuer at rest till hee had remoued the offence and satisfied the party Hee bare a feruent loue zeale toward the truth which hee was ready at all times to defend against Papists Atheists Hereticks c. as diuers do well knowe who haue felt the force and weight of his argumēts in disputation He was bountifull and liberall according to the measure of that portion and reuenewes that GOD had bestowed vpon him as the poore round about him can and wil testifie whose sides were warmed with the fleece of his sheepe and their empty and hungry stomackes relieued satisfied of his owne prouision How he carried him selfe in his publick calling concerning the administration of Iustice the worshipfull magistrates both here and els where in this country can both know and iudge Yet thus much I know and dare affirm that he was carefull to do his duty A conclusion not forced but very wel applied And that which is more and a very special grace of God in a magistrate hee hated and auoided priuy bribes and rewards 1. Sam. 13. least his eies should bee blinded therewith and his heart corrupted God graunt vs many such good Maiestrates euen for the Lord Iesus sake and blesse these excellent examples to helpe forward so gratious a worke of his so necessarie for his church Amen and so turned aside from iustice and equity So that he might if hee were aliue make his iust Apologie for himselfe as Samuel did 1. Samuel 13 in these words Behold here I am bare record of mee before the Lord before his annointed whose Oxe haue I takē or whose Asse haue I taken or whom haue I done wrong to or whome haue I hurt or of whose hand haue I receiued a bribe to blinde mine eies there with I will restore it you All this and the rest I speake God knoweth not in the way of flattery to gratifie the eares of anie as it is the manner of too many in assemblies vpō such occasions as this is The common abuse of funerall Sermons iustly taxed to make their tongus saleable in decking them with ornaments of commendation which are most vnworthy of any great commendation I haue abhorred flattery since I knewe the Gospell and rather runne into the contrarie Neither need I in this case to vse flatterie seeing I may appeale to the consciences of al them that knew them Yet did they not want their blemishes and infirmities all which I doubt not are couered and washed away in the precious blood and death of our Lord Iesus Christ And therefore seing that they both drew in one yoke of obediēce The vses of the former sonotable an exēplification not only walked hand in hād in the waies of righteoussnes while they liued but also were not much diuided in the act instant of their death 1. For christiā consolation comfort what enuy of man what rage of Sathan what power of hell can let but that both of their soules are now in heauē amongst the Angels soules of the righteous triūphing against the deuill the world the flesh all their spirituall enemies singing praise to God with the whole Church for their creation preseruatiō herevpon earth specially for their redemptiō saluation by the blood of the Lambe wishing the accomplishmēt of the number of Gods elect that the miseries of the faithfull might haue an end standinge at the fountaine of liuing waters wearing longe white roabes washed in the blood of Iesus Christ fedd and nourished continuallie with the fruit of the tree of life beholding the glorious face of their sweet Lord and Sauiour whose presence in their life time they wished and longed for with teares and earnest praiers Finally they liue remaine in such fulnes of ioy and happines as to the perfection thereof nothing cā be added or desired So that they neede no outward solemnities of Buriall although it bee agreeable to their estate and serueth very well for the auoyding of Anabaptisticall confusion For why in their life time they reared vp to themselues a Tombe in heauen not perishing or corruptible but euer during and eternall not polished by the art and cunning of man but grauen and commended by the hand of Gods spirit And therefore so glorious as it is not only pleasant and acceptable to God and his Angells but also maketh cōtinualie for the encrease of their owne comfort 2. For christiā sorrow and mourning yet with godly moderation All which notwithstanding this their great happines yet is there cause why their death and departure should bee lamented and bewailed It is the duty of al sores moderatelie to mourne at the death buriall of their friends specially of such as were of best imploiment vse not only generally but also by particular persons Generally the Church militant hath great cause to lament that two such excellent and profitable members are rent from it Particularly their chlidren haue cause to mourn and sorrow for that they want two such excellent Parents who did so tender and loue them as their own souls Children and therefore sought both by exāple al good meanes to procure their comfort and good estate in this life and in the life to come Seruants for that they haue lost the gouernmēt and direction of such a Master Lady Seruantes as continually expressed no lesse loue and care ouer them then if so be they had ben their naturall children so that by their death they are bereft of many sweete comforts and helps which many a yeare some of them inioyed Let the ministery of this congregation mourn sorrow Ministers for that it is disappointed and left destitute of such worthy Patrons Let students and fauorers of Learning Students ioine with the fotmer in mourning seeing they shall all see thē no more in this world by whome before times the receiued cōfort incoragemēt in