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A09867	The baronets buriall, or A funerall sermon preached at the solemnitie of that honourable baronet Sr Edvvard Seymours buriall. By Barnaby Potter Bachelor in Divinitie, fellow of Queenes College in Oxford, and preacher to the towne of Tottnes in Devon	Potter, Barnaby, 1577-1642.	1613 (1613)	STC 20133; ESTC S114967	24,302	46

not farre behind Gen. 7. 16. 17. when God sends his Angels to fetch his Lots out of Sodome it is a signe there is punishment for that sinneful Gen 19. 23. 24 citty shortly to insue From the party I proceede to the second part his praise Moses the servant of the Lord. Behold here Moses funerall sermon sent after him and perserved for posterity And it teacheth vs that sanctity is the highest honor and greatest commendations that can bee given a Sanctitie is the highest honour and greatest commendation that can bee given to a mā Heb. 11. 24. Eccles 12. 13. man He that refused to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter reioiceth here to be called the servant of the Lord. The end of all saith Salomon is this feare God and keepe his commandement for this is the whole duty of man There is nothing else that makes a man to bee a man without which we are below the brute beasts And amongst all titles of countries and kingdomes David had this as the highest honor afforded him that hee was a man after Gods owne heart If the name of a servant 1. Sam. 13. 14. seeme to imply some meanenesse and misery yet the name Iehovah Lord of heaven and earth whose servants they are wipes away this blot How earnest are we to sue and seek to be in some service about the King there is no service we say vnto such And yet when we haue spent our selues in great mens service either they cannot giue vs all they would or they will not alwaies giue vs what they can or if they both would could they knowe not what is best for them to giue or vs to haue But if wee serue God wee are sure to lacke nothing that is good We may want golde Psal 34. 10. and goods and health and wealth but then wee may assure our selues that God sees these are not good for vs else he would not keepe them from vs. For howsoever men make difference of servants and sonnes friends to seruants they commend their busines to our friends we commit our counsell but for our sonnes we keepe our choisest gold our choisest Iewels yea the whole inheritance Yet these are all one to God His servants are his friends his friends are his sonnes and his sonnes are both his friends and servants It is great favour in God great honor to vs that he wil vouchsafe vs to be his seruants but for our service to make vs his sonnes and friends what honor and dignity on earth if cast in ballance of comparison herein would not bee found to light Therfore David though a king counts this his greatest credit I had rather be a dore keeper in Ps 84. 10. the house of my God then to dwell in the tents of vngodlynesse For whether we consider the worke or the wages both will proue this service to surpasse all earthly things For what is the service of God but sanctity what is sanctitie but the renuing of that decaied image of God according to which we were created and the quieting of our clamorous conscience which will not be friends with vs vnlesse we be friends with God and dare not proue so kinde to vs as proue false to our master Now what worke so worthy vpon earth as to pray vnto God to praise his name to feed the poore hungry to cloath the naked to comfort the comfortlesse to do good to al especially our owne soules this is such service as we are set about the worst work that in Gods house his basest servant sets his hand vnto Secondly● the wages wherewith God of his mercie not our merit crowns our worke makes it much more glorious Blessings are vpon the head of the righteous but iniquity shall cover the mouth of the wicked And salvation Prov 10. 6. saith David belongeth vnto the Lord and thy blessing is vpon thy people Salvation which is the greatest blessing Psal 3 8. is peculiarly appropriated to such as serue God as the greatest prerogatiue God can giue none are blessed but such as are saved none are either blessed or saved but such as serue him and if we respect either this life not only while they liue on the earth which is their inheritance the righteous man shall inherite the earth and dwell therein for ever but even when they Psal 37. 29. are gone their name and memory is blessed they grow in credit when the glory of sinners shall ende in shame Therefore saith Salomon the memoriall of the iust shall be blessed but the name of the wicked shall rot though Prov. 10 7. sinful mē are magnified by sinners yet they are made abhominable to Saints you shall leaue your name as a curse to my chosen for the Lord God shall slay yor and call Isa 65. 15. his servants by a new name But if they liue never so meanely here yet the glory they shall haue hereafter will recompence all For if either life or glory or a kingdome or inheritance will giue content wee shall haue them in abundance What more desired among men then life What life more desired then a life of glory What glory compared to the glory of a kingdome What more glorious kingdome then that that is had by inheritance What inheritāc 〈…〉 gdome like to that which cannot be shaken When the Apostles were little lesse thē proud that divels were subdued vnto thē in his name whom they serued true saith Christ I saw Satanfall down frōheaven like lightning neverthelesse reioice not that spirits obey you but reioice that Luk 18. 18 20 your names are writtē in heauē Reioice not in your enobled bloods admired with living praises preserved the iawes of oblivion by sumptuous sepulchers ancient coates and armes large revenews alas it is theleast matter of ioy that the name liues in bright honour on earth when the soule lies in the rusting restlesse miseries of hell to haue all the kingdomes in the earth to command and not to haue the lowest place in the kingdome of heaven to quarter our armes with kings and to want the armes of Christianitie to haue no part in the red crosse of our crucified Saviour These latter only behold as in a mirror the glory of the Lord 2 Cor. 3. 18. with open face and are changed by the same image frō glory to glory from glory here for the spirit of glory resteth 1. Pet. 4. 14. Psal 149. 9. vpon vs vnto glory hereafter such honour haue all his saints Let this then pull downe the pride of all wicked men be they never so high and honourable here in Vse 1. this world they are worthlesse and base if this testimony of Moses may not worthely be sent after them that they are the servants of the Lord. For howsoever generous and noble spirits are ready to spit at the name of slaue and basenesse yet their sinfull carriage proues them

30 Ibid. 28. with the beasts of the field shall never bee blotted out Builde vp your selues your sonnes and families in the feare of God and then your houses and honors shal cōtinue longer then those that build them castles and cal their lands and livings after their owne names Els feare the curse which the Prophet hath pronounced Wo vnto Psal 49. 11. Jer. 22. 13. him that buildeth his house by vnrighteousnes and his chambers without equity and vseth his neighbor without wages and giueth him not for his worke hee saith I will build me a wide house and large chambers so he will make himselfe large windowes and seeling with cedar paint them with vermilion shalt thou raigne because thou closest thy selfe in Cedar Did not thy father eate and drinke and prosper when he executed iudgement Will you continue you name by your numerous progenie and multitude of children descended from your loines So might Ahab haue hoped if his sinnes had not beene a cause to cut of his seed and posterity But we knowe how his seventy sonnes had all their heads laid in a basket 2 King 10. 6 7 2. King 9. 33. on one day his wife Iezabell eaten vp with dogs all his posterity rooted out as the Prophet had pronounced To conclude this point then let the glory of God and his service be your chiefest aime speake for it stand for it fight for it die for it Sound it in your mouthes manifest it in your liues defend it with your swords and if need be seale it with your blood and so your names shal be blessed when your flesh bones shal bee consumed yea both body soule happy when your names shal be buried in oblivion The court you see cannot truely commend you your politique heads will no way profit you your moving eloquence cannot better you your gay clothes cannot grace you your stately house litle helpe you nor your multitude of children maintaine your honour heare on earth or procure your happynesse in heaven this only title given by the spirit of God vnto Moses to be the servant of the Lord is worth all the rest and will last for ever From the person Moses and his praise the servant of the Lord I proceed to his end or period death Moses 3. Part. the servant of the Lord died His period or end Doct. Neither great nes nor good nes is a good pleate against death It is neither his greatnesse you see nor his goodnesse that can purchase him a supersedeas against the arrest of death he that had fed many when they were readie to starue for hunger and refreshed many when their soules fainted within them for want of drinke hee at whose commande came frogges and lice and haile and darknesse and blood and blisters hath not his breath in his owne hand But I haue heretofore spent much time in pressing this point of mans mortalitie how death without difference of degree or condition summons all sorts of men Prince and Priest people the captaine and the common iouldier the master the man the mistresse her maid haue the same end they may die of diverse diseases at diverse times in divers places but they all die death hath the sole soveraignty of all the worlde and knockes assone at the great mans castle as at the poore mans cottage Would to God we were wise to apply this to our Vse owne selues for doth it not iustly reproue such as seldome so much as mind their mortalitie but liue here as though they thought verily they should never die If these men had no religion yet reason would teach them that their strength is not the strength of stone yet this the very drops of water weareth nor our sinewes of brasse or iron and yet this the rust and canker consumeth but a vapour but a smoake which the sunne soone drieth or the wind driveth away It was wittily said of Epictetus the Philosopher who going forth one day and seeing a woman weeping that had brokē her pitcher and the next day meeting another woman weeping that had lost her sonne heri vidi fragilem fran gi hodie video mortalem mori Yesterday saith he I saw a brittle thing broken and to day I see a mortall man die And what difference betwixt these two Much one manner of way for take a glasse saith St Austine which as it is bright so is it much more brittle then an earthen pitcher keepe it fafe in a cupboord where it may be free from the violence of outward wrong and it may continue many thousand yeares but take a man of the most pure complexion of the strongest constitution and keepe him as safe as thou canst hee hath that in his bosome and within his owne bones that will bring him to his end Nay I heare some say saith the same Father as I remember that such a one hath the plague or the plurisie and therefore sure he will dy but we may rather say such a one liueth and therefore sure he will die for diverse haue had those diseases did not die of them but never any man lived that did not die The consumption of the liver is a messenger of death the consumption of the lungs the minister of death the consumption of the marrow is the very mother of death and yet many haue had these diseases and not died of them but there is another kinde of consumption which could never yet be cured It is the consumption of the daies the common disease of all mankind and whereof all must die David spake of it my daies are consumed like smoake Let mee then warne Psal 102. 3. you and stirre vp your meditations of your mortasity with the words of our Moses who hath walked that way before vs Deut. 32. 29. O that men were wise then would they vnderstand this then would they consider their Deu. 32. 29. latter end Wee are vnwise that wee consider not the times past the evill we haue committed the good we haue omitted the benefits of God we haue abused the time we haue mispent and yet we grieue not because we thinke not yet whether we shall die More vnwise are we not to consider things present as the shortnes of life the difficultie of salvation the small number of such as shall be saved and yet wee shame not because we thinke we shal not yet die But most vnwise that we consider not things to come death iudgement hell al to come and yet we feare not because I feare wee thinke we shall never die O that we were wise then would we consider our latter end Wise Princes vse to prepare tenne yeares before hand for a field of one day beloved let vs lay vp something every day for the last When we shall wrastle with death if wee winne that skirmish we haue enough and when or where wee shall come to the conflict who can tell For Moses when hee