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A81847	A sermon at the funerall of the truely vertuous, honourable, valiant, in fame, never-dying, Sir Simon Harcourt, one of his Majesties most honourable privie councell in the realme of Ireland, and colonell over some of His Majesties forces there. Preached in Christ-Church in Dublin, Mar. 31. 1642. Before the Lords Justices, and the rest of His Majesties most honourable privie councell, his Majesties commanders and souldiers for that present service. By Edward Dunstervill, Batchelour of Divinitie. Now published by command of the House of Parliament.	Dunstervill, Edward.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1642 (1642)	Wing D2618; Thomason E125_1; ESTC R15434	11,217	24

company of wild Horses or beasts comming she presently whips up the Child into her armes and t●kes him home or as the Hen seeing the ravenous Kite hovering in the ayre over her shee clocks gathers her chickings under her wing even so when as the Lord sees a hovering judgement over a Land like a flying fiery Scroule hee gathers some of his choyce servants unto himselfe that hee may preserve them from the evill thereof It was a passage which this worthy Colonell fastned for his own stay and comfort in the day of his departure in my hearing that he did conceive that this might be a cause of this Gods dealing with him expressing his feares of some approaching evill to the Church of God I pray God that according to his feares it fall not out unto us Secondly God may have a minde in his so doing to bring them the more suddenly to Heaven one reports it for a saying of Bradford the most blessed Martyr if there being any going on Horse backe to Heaven it is by Martyrdome for this sends them away in an instant as fast as a raging fit or the like can haste them had the Gunpowder plot taken had Faux once given fire how soone had his then Majesty with thousands more of Gods most holy servants before the glance of an eye or motion of a thought beene in Paradise and certainely with the like celerity are all those of his Saints hasted unto the Lord who with Iosiah and this sweet holy Worthy are taken away with a stroake of an Arrow or any other instruments of Warre before they can returne to their Chambers their soules are in heaven Thirdly because that God hath a mind to honour such his Saints in their death before men * Dying in the Field we stile a dying in the bed of honour For indeed next to martyrdome no wounds so honourable no death so glorious nay no health or life so honourable when as they are wounded in the Lords battaile when as they dye in Gods cause have they not in this that surpassing glory to be made like unto Christ Iesus Isa 63.1.2 who went hence according to the prophecie with his garments and sacred body dyed in his owne pretious warme hearts bloud We reade of a sweet Primitive Martyr that whereas the persecutors had cut orifices diverse wounds in his sides hee even smiled saying now have I so many more mouthes meaning his wounds to praise the Lord for whom I suffer these things Nay it is reported of an holy Emperesse who with her hands dressed the wounds of the persecuted Saints Of Constantine who kissed the eye of Paphnutus put out by the Arrians some Souldiers affect glorious dies in apparell but give mee a Souldier whose garments have been dyed in bloud for therein is the best of outward glory excellent is that brave resolution of Paul God forbid that I should glory in any thing save in the Crosse of Christ Iesus Gala. 6.14 where by Crosse is not meant Constantines or the Papists fond materiall Crosse one of their dumbe Idols but the sufferings the stripes which hee underwent for the profession of his faith towards the Crosse Iesus See an example of this in Acts 5.40.41 of Peter and the other Apostles who when they were imprisoned and beaten they went from the Councell rejoycing that they were counted worthy to suffer for Christs name Pauls chaine was Pauls glory and Peters Crosse was Peters Crowne This uncertainty of the occurrences of War doth certainely afright multitudes of way ward spirits among us who thinke it death to goe into the field to put their heads out at a Castle but to such I say sith God hath made you men quit your selves like men for shame feare not to bee made honourable besides consider how Christ was smitten wounded and slaine for thy sake why then will you feare to suffer the hazard of wound or of life for his sake Lastly this should worke every Colonell Officer and Souldier of an Army to a holy care to prepare themselves for every event before-hand and to make their peace with God on their knees in their Chambers b●fore they go into the field Thus did those two renowned Emperours Constantine and Theodosius for this end consider what you have heard godly Iosiah was shot and fell in the field as well as unrighteous Ahab and if this happen to a Iosiah to the greene Tree what cause have the wicked especially to feare and as they are making ready the weapons of Warre so to make ready their soules and spirits for the Lord that made them It is a fond conceipt that every one that dyes in the field shall goe to Heaven then Goliah had gone to Heaven then Shebah and Absolon those two great Rebels had gone to Heaven then Richard the third that usurping murderous Tyrant had gone to Heaven then these impious rebels some whereof are already fallen and the rest whom I doubt not but God will give us for a prey according to the tenure of their base romish Bulls should goe to Heaven surely for those that die in the Lords quarrell God forbid that I should not be charitable in my secret thoughts of such yet let me tell you that hee that goes to Heaven he must die in the Lord as well as for the Lord Rev. 14.13 Rom. 8.1 Man sayes Salomon knowes not his own time though he bee in his parlour though in his bed though at his table feeding though in the fields walking though in Taverne revelling how many presidents might I name you in sacred stories in humane histories and some in our experience who have suddenly beene taken away in all places and conditions So that in all places in all conditions in all actions at all times it is a good and meet thing that all persons make ready with their loynes girt Luk. 12.35.36 with their lights burning to bee like men who wait for their Lord Watch yee therefore sayes CHRIST for ye know not when the Master of thehouse commeth at even at midnight or at the Cocke crowing or in the morning Mark 13.35 36. least comming suddenly he find you sleeping and what I say unto you meaning his Disciples I say unto all watch But especially give mee leave to apply my selfe to you who are in the service of Warre a service honourable and honoured yet perillous above all wayes of service because for you our enemies daily lay ambushments watch night and day in every opportune place who are often whole dayes and nights or may bee charged with instruments ready prepared to take away your lives you I say of all men should speedily make ready so that though you bee with Iosiah sore wounded in body in the day of battel you may have the sweet comforts the sweet comforts of a good Conscience in your soules Eccles 12. in a word though killed you may gloriously live in your spirits with that God who made you and his Sonne

A SERMON At the Funerall of the truely Vertuous Honourable Valiant in Fame never-dying Sir Simon Harcourt One of his Majesties most Honourable Privie Councell in the Realme of Ireland and Colonell over some of His Majesties forces there Preached in Christ-Church in Dublin Mar. 31. 1642. Before the Lords Justices and the rest of His Majesties most Honourable Privie Councell his Majesties Commanders and Souldiers for that present service By Edward Dunstervill Batchelour of Divinitie Opus unius Diei Now published by Command of the House of PARLIAMENT London Printed for Richard Badger 1642. A SERMON Preached at the Funerall of Sir SIMON HARCOURT COLONEL in IRELAND 2 Chron. 35.23 24. And the Archers shot at King Iosiah and the King said to his servants have me away for I am sore wounded His servants therefore took him out of that Chariot and put him in the second Chariot that he had and they brought him to Ierusalem and hee dyed and was buried in the Sepulchre of his Fathers and all Iudah and Ierusalem mourned for Iosiah I Have this day upon this most sad occasion two sable subjects to treat on one in the Text the other out of the Text the first is of slaine Iosiah a godly Prince the second is of this slaine Colonell a ●odly subject which two valiant worthies as they agreed in most things in the manner of their life so did they also in the manner of their untimely timely death * Mutato nomine de illo fabula For Iosiah was shot in the field by an enemy and so was he Iosiah was thereby sorely wounded and God knows so was he Iosiah was then carryed of in a Chariot by his servants so was he by his servants and sad Officers Iosiah dyed of the stroake and so did he Iosiah had the blessing to be buried in Ierusalem and so hath hee in this Citie in a word Iosiah was much lamented both in Ierusalem and Iudah and so will he be of all Gods servants and Loyall Subjects in the severall Kingdomes of his Majesties Dominion Give me leave to speak of the latter Subject first if it be but to ease my owne present sad thoughts for him Omitting to say any thing of his worthy descent of his goodly education his matching into an honourable family of his high Command and how famously he hath behav'd himselfe in forraigne services To begin with him at home 1. Hee was one who had an honourable repute in his and our Nation with the most honourable there of a prudent faithfull and choyce Warrior which may appeare by His Majesties and the Honourable Parliaments joynt Election of him for this our great service 2. He was one who from a Child was imployed in the Military service of our faith and not affected as some with glorious weares yet which is honourable indeed one that bore in his body Martyr-like the markes of Christ Iesus having beene before this his last two severall times sore wounded in two severall services at Mastrichte and Kinsconce 3. And in a word which is the best of his renowne the diamond in his gold he was godly honest temperate and faithfull as well to God and his Conscience as to His King and Country Durst I presume to inlarge my selfe further than my limited time I could tell you rare things of his devotion of his frequency in private prayer of his godly exercise with his Family of his diligence in reading the Scripture and other holy bookes Seldome as I received from diverse of those best acquainted with him did he come alone to his Chamber but immediately for the most part he addrest him selfe to the Bible or some other good booke a sure argument that he had his delight in the Law of the Lord and therefore in a blessed condition In the time of my short acquaintance with him I had in private a bundell of such sweet holy divine expressions from him which with out trespassing on my Conscience I may say then filled my soule with ravishment of joy as it is now with sorrow that God should be so gracious unto this distressed land to send us in this needfull time a leader of his people one as well vertuous as valorous one that was both a Ioshuah and a Iosiah and indeed such a worthy of whom we in this sinfull kingdome were not worthy It is worth recording that immediately before his fore stroke he was reproving a Souldier for swearing demanding what if God had taken him away with that oath in his mouth After being himselfe stricken and deeming his wound to be mortall hee with great willingnesse and patient mildnesse submitted himselfe to the LORDS will and to my knowledge so continued unto the end It is true hee lay the after night and many houres the next day in a constant torture of unutterable griefs which could not but trouble each beholder and yet in all the time of my being with him I never heard one impatient passage from him but comforting himselfe that it was in Gods cause he suffered saying to me had it not beene his cause he would never have come over hither on the service and in a word passing by many devout passages as long as his weary spirits had any vigour he scarce ever ceased sending forth with great comfort and confidence most strong cryes prayers and as one supposing every breath to be his last would frequently end his requests with that sweet dying saying of Saint Steven Lord into thy hands I give my spirit and in the end with the breathing out of our prayers for his salvation he gave up the Ghost So that howsoever his sore wounded dead and bloud-died body is here with us to be inter'd in the dust yet am I confident that his pure bathed soule is with the soule of Iosiah with the soules of the blessed Martyrs and of the just men made perfect in the presence of Iesus Christ Heb. 12.23 Isa 53.5 who was sore wounded for his transgressions bruised and slaine for his sinnes where he is triumphantly rejoycing like a great Conqueror where he is made of a godly subject and valiant Souldier on earth a most glorious happy and immortall King in Heaven For blessed and holy is hee who hath part in the first Resurrection On him the second death shall have no power but they shall bee Priests of God and of CHRIST and shall Reigne with him a thousand yeares Rev. 20.6 And thus much of the first thing proposed in this Treatise the subject out of the Text to wit the tragicallstory of this slaine Christian Colonell I proceed to speake of the second thing of the subject in the Text which is a like tragicall to wit of the fatall death of that godly valiant King Iosiah And the Archers shot at King Josiah and the King said have me away for I am sore wounded c. Least I should trespasse my commands which is to bee briefe I have hence cull'd out two particulars only to

Christ Jesus who gave his owne bloud aransome for you And this of this first point I proceed now from Iosiahs death to the peoples lamentation for him And all Iudah and Ierusalem mourned for I●siah This mourning for this godly Saint is further inlarged in Zach. 12.11 In that day there shall bee a great mourning in Ierusalem as the mourning of Hadadrimon in the Valley of Megiddon and the land shall mourne c. The point arising thence is That when God takes away an eminent Saint set in place of extraordinary service that then is surely great cause of great lamentation When Abner that great Generall of the field was slaine by Ioab 2 Sam. 3.32.33 it is storied that David cursed Ioab and he and his people mourned greatly for Abner and sayes the Text the King lift up his voyce and wept at the grave of Abner and all the people wept and the King lamented over Abner c. Again behold what excessive mourning was by him and his people at the tydings of the death of Saul and Ionathan but especially for righteous Ionathan Then David tooke hold of his cloathes and rent them and likewise all the men that were with him they mourned and wept and fasted untill even for Saul 2 Sam. 1.7.12 2 Sam. 1.24 15 and Jonathan and for the people of the Lord and for the house of Israel because they were fallen by the sword after hee applies himselfe to the women most pathetically and elegantly Yee daughters of Israel weepe over Saul who cloathed you in Scarlet with other delights who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparell How are the mighty fallen in the middest of the battell O Jonathan thou wast slaine in thy high places I am distressed for thee my brother Jonathan c. Moreover I dare adventure to go further that to be insensible of an affliction that besides a Ioseph a Saint a Land of Gods people is a provoking sinne as is plaine Amos 6.1 2 4 5. Much more when the Lord doth not only wound but take away a Ioseph a Iosiah a religious Statesman a godly Officer as he hath done from us this day 1. Because as you have heard it is a presage of some neere approching evill to the land from whence they are taken 2. Because this begets courage and gives cause of triumph to the adversaries a thing to be lamented oh how did the Papists joy and rejoyce at the death of that sweet Iosiah Edward the sixth and of his unparalleld godly Sister Queene Elizabeth and without question which pierces my heart to thinke on the like rejoycing is now in the hearts of our base and cruell enemits in this Kingdome upon the unhappie tydings of the fall of this renowned valiant This was one maine cause of Davids great mournings for the losse of the forenamed Saul and Ionatham 2 Sam. 1.19 20 21. The beauty of Israel is fallen slaine how are the mightie fallen Tell it not in Gath publish it not in the streets of Askalon Why Least the daughters of the Philistims rejoyce least the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph and for this cause sayes oe o●● our Tex● it was that Iosiah's servants after he was wounded took him out of his owne Chariot where he was and put him into another Chariot to cover and conceale his death from the enemy least they should have then trtumphed in the Campe. Thirdly consider that howsoever it is in many respects a blessing to the Saints thus taken from us yet is it in it selfe a grievous judgement to the people left where they had abode see the Prophets bewaylings of this evill and how hee rankes it with one of Gods sore judgments Isa 3.1 2 3. For behold the Lord the Lord of Heasts will take from Ierusalem the stay and staffe the whole stay of bread the whole stay of water the mightie man marke the man of War the Iudge and the Prophet and the prudent and the Ancient and the Captaine of fiftie and the honour able man and the Councellor So that not improperly may the soules of such cry and apply to the relict land that of our blessed Saviour Weep not for me but weep for your selves for as their gaine is unutterable so in their death the Kingdomes losse unconceiveable I remember what a most solid holy Divine * M. Bolton in his Funeral notes on Iudg Nicols said of the death of a worthy Judge of England that the redemption of the life of such a one in such times as we live in for the good of such a Country had beene worth a Kings ransome neither in my opinion doe I conceive that the life of this deceased Gentleman in such a time and place as this is to bee prized at a lower rate all the bloud in the bodies of a province of Rebels is not worth the bloud that ran in his Vaines The ground of this conclusion is in that the losse of such men doe greatly weaken the State of a Realme especially when a Realme is in such a broken condition and stands in such need of mighty men of men of Warre and prudent Captaines and honourable Councellors and most of all of godly servitors as ours doth this day It is a great losse to lose an Abner a Ioab a valiant Captaine such as were our old English Warwick Talbot and Bedford who were the terrour of the French such as Mountjoy Essex and Chichester in Ireland but there is no losse like the losse of such as these being godly religious As for a swearing deboyst Souldier Ios 7. he may bring a curse upon the Camp he may lose the day in the field though he fight couragiously wee have an example of this in Achan it is like he neither wanted skill nor will nor courage enough to help the Lords noast but by the wickednes he committed in taking the unlawfull pillage the wedge of Gold and the Babilonish garments he so provoked God that he permitted the men of Ai to smite Israels great Hoast them under brave Ioshuah that before prosperous Generall In Tertullians time the Christian Saints were counted of the wicked as now with us hostes publici the enemies of the common-Wealth so Ahab accounted of Elijah the troubler of Israel but the truth is it is Ahab and such as he wicked men who cause trouble and all evill that betides a State being indeed as so many secret hornets and Caterpillars to a Common-wealth or as so many vipers who eate into the bowels of their mother the Church As for the godly howsoever deem'd by the wicked they are the best friends that they have in the world they are the strength of a Land 2 King 2. as it is said of Elijah they are the Chariots and horse-men of Israel that is their very strength of War who prevaile more though at home precando then the Souldiers can pugnando Take away sayes famous Jewell the bonds the hoopes of the vessell and all