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A18384	A sermon preached at Farington in Barkeshire, the seuenteene of Februarie, 1587 At the buriall of the right Honorable the Ladie Anne Countes of Warwicke, daughter to the Duke of Sommerset his grace, and widowe of the right worshipfull Sir Edward Vmpton knight. By Bartholomew Chamberlaine, Doctor of Diuinitie.	Chamberlaine, Bartholomew, 1545 or 6-1621.	1591 (1591)	STC 4952; ESTC S118615	11,801	34

A Sermon preached at Farington in Barkeshire the seuenteene of Februarie 1587. At the buriall of the right Honorable the Ladie Anne Countes of Warwicke daughter to the Duke of Sommerset his grace and widowe of the right worshipfull Sir Edward Vmpton knight By Bartholomew Chamberlaine Doctor of Diuinitie LONDON Printed by Iohn Wolfe and are to be sold at his shop at the broad south dore of Paules 1591. To the right Honorable and most vertuous Ladie the Ladie Doritie Vmpton Bartholomew Chamberlaine wisheth increase of health wealth worship and godlines with long life here to gods glorie and euerlasting life hereafter with Christ Iesus in heauen WHether yee eate or drinke or whatsoeuer ye doe do all to the glorie of God as the Apostle saith Which when I remembred to the glorie of my creator and benefite of his church I thought good to commit this little treatise to writing preached at the buriall of your motherinlaw a noble Ladie a faithfull wife a vertuous woman and a godly widow And because your Ladishippe whose giftes of bodie and minde are excellent heard it with attention as you do alwaies the word of truth to gods praise and your owne commendation be it spoken I tooke it meete to dedicate it to you for a New yeares gift and declaration of my thankfull mind for your manifold courtesies towardes me And forasmuch as the daies are euill sinne abounding and charitie being cold I haue therefore set downe the iudgements of God against the dissolute people of this age which haue a shew of godlines but haue denied the power thereof And seeing they giue themselues to commit all sinne euen with greedines being proude without humilitie malicious without charity cruell without compassion coueteous without measure vaine without vertue vile without the feare of God like to the horse and mule in whom is no vnderstanding therefore they shall vndoubtedly tast the bitter cuppe of Gods heauie displeasure except they speedily and truely repent Which if they shall do though their sinnes were as crimsin they shall be made white as snowe though they were red as skarlet they shall bee as wooll and that they may so do I daiely and deuoutly craue of God in the gratious name and glorious face of Iesus Christ his sonne who gaue him selfe for vs to redeeme vs from all iniquitie and to purge vs to bee a peculiar people vnto himselfe zealous of good workes To him therefore with the Father and the holy Ghost three in persons one God in nature be all glorie for euer Your Ladiships at commandement Bartholomew Chamberlaine A Sermon preached at Farington in Barkeshire the seuenteene of Februarie 1587. O Death how bitter is the remēmbrance of thée to a man that liueth at rest in his possessions vnto the man that hath nothing to vexe him and that hath prosperity in al thinges yea vnto him that is able to receiue meate O death how bitter is the remembrance of thée to the Epicure which beléeuing no resurrection of the bodie to life euerlasting but counting it pleasure to liue deliciously for a season doth spue out euill words corrupting good manners saying Let vs eat and drinke for to morowe we shall die O death how bitter is y e remembrance of thée to the coueteous whose trust is in vncertain riches not in the liuing God which giueth vs aboundantly all thinges to enioy to the glutton whose God is his belly and glorie to his shame to the Atheist which hath no hope and is without God in the world O death how swéete is the remembrance of thée to him which hath put on the brestplate of faith and loue and the hope of saluation for an Helmet liuing soberly iustly and godly in this present world hauing his conuersation in heauen from whence also ye looke for the Sauiour euen the Lord Iesus Christ desiring to be loosed and to be with him which is best of all O death how swéete is the remembrance of thée to the man which looketh not on the thinges which are séene for they are temporall but on the thinges which are not séene for they are eternall because to him thou art the ende of all miserie and the beginning of all felicitie because thou art a passage to the thinges which eye hath not seene neither eare hath heard neither came into mans hart which God hath prepared for them that loue him Notwithstanding though the remembrance of death to some be bitter yea bitterer then wormewood it selfe yet it is appointed for all men once to die It is appointed therefore it is certaine for all men therefore none can escape once to die therfore euery houre death is to be expected It is appointed for rich Cresus and poore Codrus for wise Salomon and foolish Esau for godly Abell and wicked Caine for proude Pharao and méeke Moises for vertuous Iosua for mightie Dauid for faire Absolon for strong Sampson for learned Tertullus for prince and people it is appointed for all once to die Noah liued nine hundreth and fiftie yeares and died Adam liued nine hundred and thirty yeares and died Methuselah liued nine hundreth sixtie and nine yeares and dyed And of all the fathers of the olde Testament though it be saide they liued long yet it is added they went the way of all the world that is they died Now it is good to remember death it is better to learne to die it is best of all in death to hope for life knowing that if one earthly house of this tabernacle bée destroyed wée haue a building giuen of God that is an house not made with handes but eternall in the heauens Some to remēber death do go euery morning into the church yeard and behold the graues Some wil haue deathes head engrauen in a ring Some death painted on their houses Philip king of the Macedonians euery morning before he came out of his chābre had one to cry thrise at his dore remember thou art a man Whereby he was put in minde of his mortality that albeit he was a king yet in time he must lay downe his tabernacle as well as others Which consideration might make him to rule discréetly and to liue orderly For there can bee no stronger bridle to hold vs backe from sinne neither sharper prick to stirre vs forward to goodnes then to remember we must remoue out of this body and appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ to receiue the thinges which we haue done in this bodie according to that we haue done whether it be good or euill Saint Hierom was wont to say whether I eate or drinke or whatsoeuer I do me thinkes that terrible Trumpet soundeth in mine eare Arise ye dead and come vnto iudgment This made him to hope in Christ stedfastly to loue God sincerely to ouercome his affections valiently to repent his sinne vnfainedly to beare the troubles of this life patiently knowing that the afflictiōs of this present times are not worthy of the glorie which shall be

longe benefits of mercy nor sharpe threatnings of punishment can doe any good then God which in his wrath is a consuming fire playing the part either of a good schoolemaister towards his negligent scholer or of a naturail father towardes his dissolute childe or of a wise magistrate towarde his disobedient subiect taketh the rod in hand and executeth iudgement on those whom mercy could not allure nor draw to amendment Then his anger beginneth to kindle for as God is the father of mercies and the God of all comfort to them which drawe neare vnto him with a true hart in assurance of faith their harts being pure from an euil conscience and washed in their bodies with pure water kéeping fast the profession of their hope without wauering considering one another to prouoke vnto loue and to good workes so is he the God of iustice to them which beare euil and vnfaithful hartes to depart away from him fashioning them selues like vnto this world dead in trespasses and sinnes wherein they walke according to the course of this world and after the prince that ruleth in the ayre euen the spirite that now worketh in the children of disobedience hardened through the deceitfulnesse of sinne To the one he is louing as a father being his children elected of his grace called by his word iustified by his sonne sanctified by his spirit and reconciled to himselfe The other he hateth as his enimy For as the righteous Lord loueth righteousnesse whose countenance might behold the thing that is iust so he hateth all those that worke iniquitie not bearing in them his Image which is righteousnesse and true holinesse to beautify them but the image of the diuel which is vnrighteousnesse and vnholinesse to deforme them not speaking truth one to another considering they are members one of another but deceiuing one another by flattery lying and dissembling not speaking that which is good to the vse of edifying that it might minister grace to the hearers but vsing euil wordes which corrupt good manners not being courteous and tender harted one to another fréely forgiuing one another euen as God for Christ his sake fréely forgiue them but full of bitternesse and anger and wrath cursing and euil speaking with all maliciousnesse not knowing the wisedome that is from aboue which is pure peaceable gentle easie to be intreated full of mercy and good fruite without iudging and without hipocrisie but following the wisedom of this world which is foolishnesse with God The wisedom of the flesh which is enmity against God the wisedom that is beneath which is earthly sensuall and diuelish doe delight in enuying strife sedition and all maner of euil workes despising Gods presence abusing his patience offending his Maiestie and prouoking his anger But when to ascribe anger to the most high almightie euerlasting God which is to be loued for his mercy to be feared for his iustice they must not imagin any such cholericke passion to be in him as is in man as if God were moued of an intemperate heate when iustly he striketh the contemners of his bountifulnes and patiēce and long sufferance raineth vpon the wicked fire and brimstone storme and tempest which is the portion of their cup. As there is in God no corporall member of longitude latitude and profunditie so is he voide of affections and passions which procéede in vs from infirmity Si quis in Deo-humana membra humano more cogitet procul dubio de Deo in corde suo idola fabricat For God is a spirite and they that worship him must worship him in spirite and truth And as we are not to think that the Godhead is like vnto gold or siluer or stone grauen by arte and the inuention of man so must we not ascribe to the deuine power corporall partes bodily members And though the Scripture attributeth to God sometyme a heade eyes sometime sometymes eares sometymes hands yet grosly to imagine these thinges to bee in him is not onely erronyous but full of Idolatrie And albeit the Scripture saith that man was made after the image of God wherupō certaine heretikes grounded their opinion of corporall substance in God yet true it is that God is a spiritual substance most glorious most mighty most wise most good and hath no such corporall partes To be made after the image of God is to haue dominion as Adam and Eue had ouer all other liuing creatures before their fall also to be created in righteousnes true holynes Deus totus oculus est quia videt omnia He that made the eye shall he not sée God séeth sometime with the eye of his mercy sometyme with the eye of his iustice with the eye of his mercy to illuminate with the eie of his iustice to blind with the eye of his mercy to mollify with the eye of his iustice to reiect with the eye of his mercy to pardon with the eye of his iustice to punish Nathaniell saide Christ before thou wast vnder the figge trée I saw thée Here is the eye of mercy Nathaniell answered thou art the Sonne of God thou art the king of Israel here is the eye of faith or here is faith the eye of the soule The Lord turned backe looked vpō Peter here is the eye of mercy then Peter went out and wept bitterly here is the eie of faith or here is faith y e eye of the soule With the eye of iustice God saw Lucifer to throw him out of heauen Adam to cast him out of Paradyce the olde worlde to drowne it for sinne the cities of Sodom and Gomorra to burne them for iniquitie Pharao and his host to ouerwhelme them with water for rebellion Ananias and Saphira to strike them starke deade for lying Herod to consume him with wormes for not giuing him the glory God hath looked downe manye yeares vpon this realme with the eye of his mercy giuing vs peace plenty with y e preaching of his gracious glorious Gospel our sinnes doe deserue why he shoulde turne the eye of his mercy from vs looke down vpon vs with the eye of iustice God séeth them which walke not honestly as in the day time but in gluttony and drunkennesse in chambering and wantonnesse in strife enuying not putting on the Lord Iesus but making prouision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof Comfortable to the godly it is that God séeth all their doinges and terrible to the godlesse it may be that the Lorde beholdeth all their actions He that made the eare shall he not heare heare a parable The ground of a certaine rich man brought forth fruites plenteously Riches are common to the good with the bad and that of the blessing of God which maketh the sunne to arise on the euil and on the good and sendeth raine on the iust and on the vniust and blesseth the ground of the gracious and graceles Therefore he thought within him selfe saying what shal I doe because I haue not