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A08807	A sermon, preached at the funerall of that most honorable and worthie knight S. Richard Leueson vice-admirall of England: who dyed at London the 2. of August, and was interred at VVooluer Hampton in the countie of Stafford, the 2. day of September following. Anno Domi. 1605. By Samuel Page, Batchelour in Diuinitie, and vicar of Deptford in Kent.	Page, Samuel, 1574-1630.	1605 (1605)	STC 19094; ESTC S120978	13,449	41

them as Boaz did for Ruth that they may gleane among the Sheaues the bowels of the poore will blesse you and they that are ready to perish will pray for your increase 2 Dauid teacheth vs a second vse of this Doctrine of Princes mortalitie Psal 146. Trust no in Princes c. A King is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let Let them goe to him for Iudgement and in his rest peace let them seeke rest but to fasten dependance vpon Great men is to forget the Lord of Hoastes they that sow their hope vpon this ground reape no better Haruest then that vpon the house toppe I will conclude this poynt with that Isay 31. 1. VVoe be to them that goe dovvne into Egypt for helpe c. The Egyptians are men not God their Horses flesh and not spirit and vvhen the Lord shall stretch out his hand their helpers shall fayle c. 3 I note in this fall of so Great a man the losse which the State where he liueth hath of him the King he loofeth Abners seruice I am nevvly annoynted King and the sonnes of Zeruiah c. The people generally shall want his direction and ouersight It is one of the Roddes rather it is one of the Scorpions wherewith God did vse to scourge the disobedient He calleth it The breaking of the pride of their povver Leuit. 26. 19. Ier●mie in his Lament bringes in Ierusalem thus complayning 1. Lament 15. The Lord hath troden vnder foote all my valiant men in the middest of me● For those thinges I vveepe mine eye euen mine eye easteth out vvater Lamen 4. 2. The noble men of Zion comparable to fine gold hovv are they esteemed as earthen Pi●chers euen the vvorke of the hands of the Potter What are the Walles about our strongest Townes but heapes of Stone and congestions of Earth Theopompus in Plutarch to one that shewed him the Walles of his Cittie asking him if they were not goodly and strong aunswered well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no if your Cittie hold none but Women Our Shippes are but walles of Wood our Ordinance but the messengers of Death and there must be some to sende these messengers abroade Indeed all our defence our strongest Bulwarkes and Propugnacles of our land what are they without the ministerie and seruice of Men but as Shaftes and Arrowes hunge vp against the wall And what are Men without order and Discipline but as droues of wilde Beastes So did disordered Confusion fashion the vnschoold minoritie of the world euen then when the Romane Empire like a young budd of greatnesse was first Inoculate in the ranckstocke of vndisciplin'd tymes So sayth a learned Romane Disciplina militaris acriter retenta c. Millitarie Discipline seueerely retained made Rome spread ouer Towne and Countrey Land and Sea and bredd the Empire of all the Earth in the poore Cottage of Romulus And was not all this performed by the vertue of men of action and vndertaking such as are called Great men Philip of Macedon had wont to call the Athenians an happie people because they had such store of Great Men of worth as yeerely to choose tenne fitt to be Leaders whereas he had in all his time found none but Parmenio worthy to take charge vnder him But now I begin to see how I do idle thetime to shew you how great a misse a State may haue of Worthy men and to endeare to you men of action For we haue put off our Armour and our Swordes and Sheildes hang vp rather as Monuments of old then Instrumentes of new Warre●tour Ships are double moor'd our Men of Warre haue wasted ouer welcome peace into our borders Abner hath leaue to die and men of action could neuer haue been better spared Smooth and euen is the face and outside of all things amongst vs. Let not our eyes ô Lord nor the eyes of our vnborne Children and Nephewes euer see it wrinckled any more Let vs all ioyne in prayer alwayes for the peace of our Ierusalem and let them prosper that loue it Yet by the faire leaue of a gentle Peace let vs consider that the Sonnes of Zeruiah may be too hard for vs and therefore let not Abner die without sence of a publique losse euen without an vniuersall condolement of the State wherein he liues and of which he hath deserued well But this is my third and last Obseruation For Dauid desireth that notice be taken of Abners death Kovv ye not Surely the righteous perisheth and no man considereth it in his heart Isay 57. 1. It is not possible but the common eye doth see it and the vnderstanding doth apprehende such sadd accidents but men keepe such things as much as they may from the heart loath to entertaine so vnwelcome a guest as Griefe is Dauid doth not put them in minde of it as of some sadd betiding to Abner for the aduantage of the death of the Righteous is manifold 1 Rest from labours For it is most true which S. Bern. sayth Qui in labore hominum non sunt in labore profecto Doemonum erunt They that labour not heere amongst men shall labour hereafter amongst Diuels 2 They are taken avvay from the euill to come as choyce stuffe remooued when Fire is feared So doth God defend his chosen from the conflagration of the vnrighteous 3 They are translated from death to life S. Gregory saith Curramus et sequamur Christum non sunt hic vera solatia sed ibi ponuntur vbi vera vita Let vs runne and follow Christ heere are no true comfortes they are layde vp there where it true life But Dauids end in this bemoaning of Abner is to teach them to depende vpon God not on man and to encourage euery bold hart and able hand amongst them to auenge the workers of that death to Abner that griefe to the King that weakenes to the Church and that common loste to all Israel It is our great fault that when God giueth any such blow to our State the smart of it in too soone past and their memorie buried in the same Graue with them This is a great disheartning of Worthy men from great vnderrakinges For this Land hath buried in our memorie of Worthres that are all dead their actes their name and all such an honourable breed as huing eyes cannot find paragons too and our present hopes which yet are our franckest promises cannot apprehend Let them all goe with this honour done them in heauen In memoria aeteina erit iustus And let Learning which bath the best eye to sec Virtue the Honourablest aff●ction to loue it and the longest liued meanes to immortalize it keepe her owne cours vpon the earth Vignum laude virum Musa vstat mori And let their owne good deedes prayse them in the gates They that trust a curious pile of Stone Piramids Colosses high-reard Monumentes ouer their low layd bodyes in the losome of the Earth with their