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A66700	Planctus unigeniti et spes resuscitandi, or, The bitter sorrows for a first born sweetened with the hopes of a better resurrection with consolations, moral and divine, against the death of friends, suited to the present occasion : delivered in a funeral sermon at Felsted in Essex, May 23, 1664, at the solemn interment of ... Charles Lord Rich, the only child of ... the Earle of Warwick / by A. Walker.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.	1664 (1664)	Wing W307; ESTC R24590	38,237	75

Glocester Sed ridiculum est mortalitatis exempla coll●gere and therefore I conclude with him whose Example is above all Paralel So dyed our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ in the very Strength and Vigour of his Age. And notwithstanding sorrow mostly st●ps its ears against the charms of sober reason yet let me modestly debate the Case Nihil est ●am fallax quam vita humana nihil tum infidiosum non m●h●rcle quisquam accepisset nisi daretur in scii Sen. What is the life that he hath parted with you so bemoan his loss look back and see what Comforts it afforded You What had You lost if You had dyed as Young would it quit cost to live it over if you might again Has the World been so kind a Stepdame to your Selves Was your Apprentiship so sweet and gentle you grudge so much his Earlier Freedom What is it but a constant hurry and a druging Bondage A wearisom delight and vexing vanity A little-ease a great Temptation a slippery Good which slideth through our fingers and leaves nothing † Quid aliud in mundo quam pugna adversus diabolum quotidie geritur cum avaritia nobis cum impudicitia cum ira cum ambitione cōgressio est cum carnalibus vitiis cum illecebris saecularibus assidua molesta luctatio est Cipra but its slime upon them A Glutinous and clammy Evil which stains us with a guilt that sticketh faster to us then our Skinns A leakie ship and an infected house a peevish neighbour and insulting master which like to Joab * 2 Sam. 2.14 makes our miseries and torment his sport and play ‖ which daily keeps us floating on the unconstant waves of fears and hopes of grief and anger of fainting joyes and sullenest dispair Now tell me is it not a mercy Beneficium mortis contra tot vitae injurias habere To lye still and to be quiet Job 3.13 17 18. to sleep and be at rest to be where the Wicked cease from troubling and where the weary be at rest where the Prisoners rest together and hear not the voice of the Oppressour And with the great Bishop of Nyssa Vide Nyss in funere pulcheriae let me demand yet farther 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tell me what good and loveliness thou seest in old Age to render thee so fond on 't Is it a shrivel'd cheeke and wrinkled brow a toothless mouth and faultring tongue a head grown bald and crazed A stooping back and trembling leggs and every part made impotent and all unable for their Offices To be an Hospital of pains and aches a bagg of Rhumes and Flegme the constant Prisoner of the Gout or Stone Onely the Ruines and Reproach of thy own Comliness the Confutation and Revers of former Vsefulnesse and Beauty To be in paenam vivax to out-live thy Sences Phancy Memory and Judgement and to live Blind and Deaf and tantum non to Dote to be a Burden to our selves a Trouble and Temptation unto others to be our own moving Sepulchers and to conclude our strength Psal 90.10 in Weakness Labour Sorrow In a word to have so long a Reckoning and Account to make and to go late to Heaven as if that were only a reserve when we can stay no longer here and not a place of Choyce Objection 2 But He was our All and all is gone in him and we are undone Answer Not so All is not gone while God and Christ's not gone Though He be Dead yet the Lord Liveth and Blessed be the God of our Salvation His Life or Death had no Affinity with your Eternall State No loss undo's us but the loss of Christ 'T is a Miserable Happiness which stands upon so weak a bottome as the Life of Man He that gave Him can give another Eve once observed that God gave her another Seed in the stead of Abell and Jobs submissive patience was rewarded with a Full Return Abraham believed God to very good purpose in no unlike a case With God nothing shall be impossible A Phoenix may arise out of the Ashes the harder is the streight the more is He ingaged to Relieve who seldome doth Extraordinary Things in Ordinary Cases By how much our sorrows are more smart and pressing by so much the more we may expect his help All those we read of Rais'd by Miracle in Scripture were Onely Children except Lazarus and he was to Mary and Martha as is an Onely-Son unto the tenderest Mother The Widows Son of Zereptha 2 Kings 17. rais'd by the Prophet Eliah the Shunamites by Elisha 2 Kings 4. Jarus's Onely Daughter and this in my Text who was a Widows Onely Son and though we have no ground to hope for help in kind yet may we in proportion The Key of the Womb is in his hand or He can give a Name and Place within his Sanctuary Isa better then of Sons and Daughters He can vouchsafe to be instead of all Relations who calls them Mother Sister St. Mark 3.35 Brother that obey his word He can give Faith and Patience and a Sanctified advantage by our Tryalls He can make a Bee-hive of the Lions Carkass Jud. 14.8.14 and bring forth meat out of the feircest eater and leave us gainers in the issue by our soarest losses and t is like he will Our deepest and our hollowest miseries send up the loudest Eccho's in the Ears of Mercy and magno vulneri majora Adhibebit remedia He hath greater remedies for greatest wounds But now the Family is dead and fallen with Him Objection 3 and the Line and Name will fayle by his departing Childless That 's more then any man can tell Answer you had better hope the best then apprehend the worst He Treats himself unkindly that antidates his fears But suppose it true then He nor His shall never taint the Blood nor foul his Shield with any Stainant Colours nor blot his Honourable Impress * GARDE TA FOY T were Endless to Recount how many Noble English Families have seen their Period In hoc uno se ceteris exaequari hominibus non injuriam sed jus mortalitatis judicaverunt Two Right Honourable Earls have None betwixt them Now whose Patents and Creations I have been assured differ Two Hundred Years and None Remain of those who were Created in so long a space Hic habere se dolet liberos hic perdidisse And if Children cause us grief that 's least uneasie which concerns their want Do we rejoyce when single persons have performed handsomly and shall we do less for Noble Families laid up unblemish't in the Bed of Honour and whose Names are sufficiently Embalmed with Renown and Virtue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Entred in the Registers of Fame and History to be Coevall with the Sun and Moon and need not Succession to Eternize them Objection 4 But I fear most that I sinn'd him away and 't is

memoria Respice Sepulchra vide quis Servus quis Dominus quis Pauper quis Dives Discerne si potes Vinctuma Rege Fortem a Debili Pulchrum a Deformi Memor sis itaque ne extollaris aliquando Memor autem eris si te ipsum respexeris the Strong from the Weak the Comly from the Deformed think of this and it will keep thee humble and thou canst not but remember it unless thou forget thy self 4. Onely Children cannot escape 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vnigenitus Quod plus est quam unicus quem solum genuerat The onely begotten on her that bare him these are our Darlings as we translate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vnicam meam Psal 22.20 No Argument moves pitty more then when those are taken from us yet Death knows none to spare them to us the Widow of Sarepta's Onely Son dyes 1 King 17.17 and so doth Jarus's Onely Daughter St. Luke 7.42 and Abraham must Offer up his Onely Son Isaack whom he Loved Gen. 22. and Jephtha his Onely Daughter Jud. 11.39 Death aymes so right hee 'l hit a single mark and needs not shoot at Herds and God often guides his Darts this way 1. Because they are Over-loved and stand so full betwixt their Parents heart and Him He cannot be Lov'd Himself till they are Removed out of'th way 2. To Try their Obedience Faith and Patience Gen. 22.1 as He Tempted Abraham 3. To Honour them before the World and make it known how quietly they 'l part with any thing He pleases to call for though never so dear Lastly to fit them by so deep a sorrow for some more Excellent and lasting Good and Joy He hath in readiness to give them in Exchange It being Gods usuall Method as Luther Observes when He hath some Eminent Comforts to bestow or some Signal Service to imploy us in to Vsher them in with some great Tryal and Temptation Oh therefore let not those whose Store is so Compendious too fondly hug those dearest Pledges least God grow jealous and be forc't to deal with them as he is used to do with his Rivalls and those who stand in Competition with Himself 5. Whole Families may fail in Childless Heirs Death takes root and branch and doth not onely deal by Retale Tota cum Regibus regna populique cum gentious tulere satum futum Sen. but slayes by Whole-Sale and with compendious and stupendous stroaks mowes down a Family at one blow and sweeps away the hopes of all Posterity as if he gap't for the Inheritance and all and had resolved with those bloody Rebells St. Mat. 21.38 Come this is the Heir let us slay him that the Inheritance may be ours Thus fayled the two Young Sons of Greatest Alexander Heirs of their Fathers Conquests all the World Thus half the Provinces Escheated into the hands of the People of Rome when they were Lords-Paramount of the Earth Vespasian Antoninus Philosophus Severus Valerian Domitian Commodus Bassianus Gallienus and of Forty Emperours from Julius Caesar to Constantine the Great but four left Heirs of Lineal Descent and all of them the Worst which ever wore the Roman Purple Their Fathers Vomicae Carcinomita Soars and Ulcers as Augustus called his Daughters Faelix Infortunio qui caret liberis Sen. three of whom had been happy unto Envy had they dyed Childless as Augustus wisht he had Lived Oh! therefore let not your Inward thoughts be that your Families shall continue for ever and your Dwelling-Places bear your Names to all Generations Their way is their folly who do so Psal 49.13 But know that Riches are not for ever neither doth the Crown Endure to all Generations Prov. 27.24 And let not such blows too much deject those on whom they Light because nothing is befallen them but what is common to Man 1 Cor. 10.13 6. Former sorrows do not excuse us from succeeding griefs The poor Mother in the Text whom the last Funeral made a Widow is made Childless too by this All thy Waves and Billowes are gone over me Psal 42.7 one in the neck or on the back of another troubles are often born out of the Womb of Providence as Esau and Jacob came from Rebecca linckt together and holding each other by the heel Take we heed then we flatter not our selves nor say with Agag The bitterness is past nor listen to a Desperate and Blasphemous suggestion now let him do his Worst Not wickedly as the Poet wittily Nil quod istic agat tertia tussis habet Mar. Mich. 6.9 I have no more Marks left for his angry Arrows nor other Blots to hit but with Submisse and Humble Reverence le ts hear the Rod at present and fear it for the Future and by the first lash be warned to prepare for or to prevent the second and so to stand in awe that we sin not Psal 4.4 John 5.14 least a worse thing come upon us and what we judge the worst prove but the beginning of our sorrows I might have added and the rather because the case is Paralel 7. That this Great Young Man dyed not i' th Country in some Remote Obscure Ville the Relatives of them who dye so 2 Chron. 16.12 being ready with Asa's Spirit to say to some Great Physitian as Martha did to Christ Sir John 11 21. If thou hadst been here my Brother had not dyed But in the City Inter Turbam Medicorum where probably no Ayd was wanting which Able Skilfull Physitians could afford And 8. In his Mothers House and Bosome who now was his Nurse the second time her self and therefore he wanted not most Carefull looking too t is not for want of Physick or good Nurses that Men are cast away or lost as some too often speak but where ever they be and whatever help they do enjoy whom Death comes for he will not go without them but will force them out of the most Skilfull Faithfull Painfull Carefull Loving and Tender hands and all the Strongest Guards which those can set about them Thus have you seen the Herse passe by and heard its Scutcheons Blazoned wee 'l view the train of mourners with a quicker glance And that deep mourner following next-the Beir is his Distressed Mother close-hooded with a Cloud of thick and blackest sorrow and over that a vayle of Love of Womans Love of Mothers Love of Mothers Love unto an Onely Son 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nyss in func Palch the truest Mourning dress and over all a dark Vmbrella made of the Shaddow of Death supported by the fatal Sisters She 's the Chief Mourner not in Pomp and Cerimony but in deep Anguish and bitterness of Soul She brings him forth And this is the second time she Travells of him and no Travells so difficult as of dead Children he came from her Womb before but now and never untill now he comes from her Inmost Bowells St Luke 2.35 A Sword

fulfulled in your cares and eyes Lo here is an heavier Comment on our heavy Text alas but too exact a Counterpayne of that sad Narrative the Sermon translated into such a Language as your eyes can understand A Sacrament added to the Word to convince you and confirm your Faith of Mans Mortality beyond recoyle or hesitancy En magnum fragilitatis humanae Sacramentum the word confirmed by visible signes My Text of Death so painted to the Life that he that runs may read it If e're t were true t is now that Pictures are Idiots Books Look on that dolefull Picture of fading Youth and Greatness and you that can never a Letter in the Book may spell the whole Story word for word without Instructer Oh you Ingenious but Fruitless and so unhappy searchers for an universall character which may with still and silent glances conveigh and whisper to our Intilect the natures and notices of things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we find alas too soon what you have sought too long Though I were dumb or had forgot my Text one glance repeats it unto them recalls it unto me In paucis verbis quantae calamitates miseriae In that visible Sermon Behold A Dead Man A Young Man A Great a Noble Man An Onely begotten Son An Heir without an Heir Each w●rd's a wound Here are all the mournfull circumstances but one Quot verba tot vulnera and blessed be God that we meet a full stop before we read to the end of the line And she was a Widow let us lay hold on 't as a better Omen there may be yet a blessing in it Let this a while sustaine you till I can run and fetch you some more Cordialls which you must stay a little for because my way lyes round the Herse again the viewing which will stop my hast 1. That Mournfull sable Pall tells us sad tidings that a Man is Dead and shrouded under it and t is alas too true the dead remains of him who this day Seven-night was alive and this day Fort-night was a Lively Likely Man to live Verily every Man living is altogether vanity Hear what advice he whispers Watch for what 's my case to day may be thine to morrow Hodie mihi eras tiöi Be ye therefore ready also for the Son of Man cometh when you think not St. Luke 12.40 and in an hour when ye are not aware 2. A Young Man in the Flower and Blooming of his Age not fully yet of Age not of Disposing Age in the Laws and Stile of England Yet at Age to be dispos'd of in the Chambers of Death An Ear nay an whole Sheaf nay an whole Field Reapt by Death's Fatall Sickle before 't was ripe or set or Kern'd As if in an immature Harvest you should reap to * Being in May. morrow a Rose Bud gather'd ere 't was blown a Torch puft out not half consumed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nyss de Pulch. an Hour-Glass dash't and pash't in peices and all the Sand spilt and lost before it was a third part run What Age is safe from Fate In the very mid'st of Life we are in Death Of whom may we look for help but from thee O Lord who for our sins most justly are displeased Psal 90.12 Oh Teach us to Number our dayes that we may apply our hearts to Wisdome and that we may know how frail we are 3. But those Coat Armours Ruby and Topas Diamond and Pearle speak him some Noted Personage Nobilis quasi noscibilis I need not aske the Question here which David ask't over Abner's Herse Know You not that a Prince and a Great Man is fallen this day You know it well unto your Cost and Sorrow and see by Dear Experience In this Fourth dolefull Instance in one Family all of Recent and Fresh-bleeding Memory that Earldoms and Perage Nobility and Honour Lordships and Manours Possessions and Apparances Gold and Silver Pallaces and Parks and store of Richest Lands and Tallest Timber and what ever else the World calls Noble Grand and Stately cann't shade or hide their Lords from Death are no good Brest-Works against his Bullets nor best charg'd Shields security against the Arrows of Mortality Death with his ill-match't-pair of Pale and Sable Hackneyes out-drives the goodliest Sets of Sixes 'T were as impertinent as the Philosopher's reading a Lecture of War-like Discipline in the presence of Hanniball for me to unfurle his crimson Ensigns and Vnfold and Display his Splendid Banners or paint out and Deliniate his thrice Honourable Stem amongst those to whom they have been now so long Familiar and as superfluous to Blazon his Scutcheons in that Country which hath to long been irradiated in every corner with the Illustrious Rayes of his cross-Crossets Sol in their Field Mars or inriched and secured by those Ruby Shields glistering with Topaz 'T would but Adorn Deaths spoyles and more Inhaunce his Triumphs to tell you that his Captive was the Onely-Son of an Antient Hereditary Earledome By Blood and Marriage The Son of Two the Grand-Child of Four Eminent Earls and as many Countesses and Nephew to more Peers then all Arithmetick hath Digits Deriv'd from or Alli'd to almost all the Noble Blood that runs in English and in English-Irish Veins A Branch of two Families The One the Grand Nursery of Antient Piety His Mother was the Lady Mary Boyl Daughter to the Earle of Corck the Other the Happy Source of Newest Ingenuity a Society of virtuosi within themselves the Original and Architypes of those Insigniz'd with that Noble Character In a word the Son of Two Bloods which I may boldly call not the least Ornaments of two Great Kingdomes And indued with all those Generous Lovely Innobling Excellencies which might Retribute what he Borrowed from such Blood and would Oh unhappiness he hath not have Transmitted it to his Posterity Inrich't if it be capable of more and hath not attain'd its Acme with increased glory Yet now must lye down in Obscurity and Dust under the Dishonours Reproaches and Squallidness of Death Stript and Desrobed of all his Amiable Manly Goodly Beauty Proportions Features calling Corruption Rottenness and Worms Mother Brother Sister Cease then from Man whose breath is in his Nostrills Isa 2.22 for wherein is he to be accounted of Psal 146.3 4. And Trust not in Princes nor in any Son of Man for when his breath goeth forth he returneth to his Earth in that very day his thoughts perish Surely all Flesh is Grass yea the goodliness thereof as the Flower of the Field 4. The next Impaled Shield tells me he was a Son and those unwelcome Labells hint immature death nay an Onely One yea an Onely Begotten One griefs in a cluster huic illae lacrymae this gives the killing Accent What the good Woman feared in a Parable is here fullfilled without one 1 Sam. 14.7 and his perplexed Mother may with anguish