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A14794	Domus ordinata A funerall sermon, preached in the citie of Bristoll, the fiue and twentith day of Iune, 1618. at the buriall of his kinswoman, Mistresse Needes, wife to Mr. Arthur Needes, and sister to Mr. Robert Rogers of Bristoll. By Iohn Warren, minister of Gods word at Much-Clacton in Essex.	Warren, John, Vicar of Great Clacton.	1618 (1618)	STC 25094; ESTC S100741	20,600	48

Domus ordinata A FVNERALL SERMON Preached in the Citie of Bristoll the fiue and twentith day of Iune 1618. at the buriall of his kinswoman Mistresse Needes wife to Mr. Arthur Needes and sister to Mr. Robert Rogers of Bristoll By Iohn Warren Minister of Gods word at Much-Clacton in Essex IN DOMINO CONFIDO LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes and are to be solde by Iohn Harison dwelling in Pater-noster-row at the signe of the Vnicorne 1618. To the Right Honourable my very good Lord Richard Lord Dacres of the South grace and peace RIght Honourable That which vnwilling I was to offer vnto the view of the world vntill it was wrested from mee by the earnest desires of my good friends am I now willing to send forth as a remembrance of my dutifull affection to you Thus I satisfie their desires in publishing this Sermon and mine owne in dedicating the same vnto your Lordship For howsoeuer distance of place is large betweene vs yet neither is my affection to your Lordship so long since begun now diminished neither haue I found your Lordship vnmindefull of mee whom you haue prosecuted with good fauours It may be I shall bee condemned for sending to one in the prime of his age a discourse of death But this well perused will make you die not the sooner but the happier Olde age is already come to death this Sermon teacheth how to meete with death before it commeth The same spirit of God which saide Eccles 12.1 Remember thy Creator in the daies of thy youth doth knowe that it is fit in young yeares also to remember our end Oh that they were wise Deut. 32.29 then they would vnderstand this they would consider their latter end was the wish of God for the Israelites It is the way to bee wise to number our dayes Psalm 90.12 Amongst the Nobles of Egypt whiles they banquited was carried the picture of death and these wordes spoken Looke vpon this Herodot in Enterpe and so eate and reioyce as that you remember your selfe shall once be such The traine of birdes guideth their flight and the remembrance of our ends may direct our life Euen in yong yeares then let this booke be as Philip of Macedon his boy saying Memento Philippe quod homo es Remēber you are mortall And my earnest prayer is that as it may be accepted as a token of my dutifull respect to your Lordship and to your honourable Lady so it may bee some little furtherance that you both may still and still liue honourably and in a good age die Christianly All which your good beginnings doe largely promise Much-Clacton Iuly the 26. 1618. Your Lordships in all duty to be commanded Iohn Warren To the Christian Reader IT is not for any exellencie which I esteeeme to be in this my worke that I thus publishit Such hath beene the respect which I haue alwayes borne vnto my louing and kinde Vncle Mr. Mathew Warren at this time one of the Sheriffes of Bristoll and such haue the curtesies beene which I found at his hands at the hands of my cosen Mr. Robert Rogers brother to this disceased Gentlewoman at the hands of both their wiues and also of many citizens in that famous Citie that I cannot to satisfie them in divulging this which by no small number of them with more then ordinary importunity hath beene requested They earnestly protested to haue receiued much fruit at the hearing That it may now bring forth fruit in thee Reader let it bee in thy hands as a Deaths head to remember thy end take it as the clock striketh as thou thinkest vpon thy worldly store and as thou remembrest thy conscience apply it line by line and then as Dauid stood triumphing with the head of dead Goliah in his hand so when the time of thy dissolution commeth although others at the like time are either senselesse or else yell houle thou shalt dye as ioyfully as if death had no venome crying out triumphantly in the midst of the pangs of death 1. Cor. 15 O death where is thy sting When the seruants in the citie of Tyre had slaine their Lords and Masters they agreed to chuse him amongst them to bee king who should first espy the Sunne rising the next morning Iustin lib. 18. when they were all assembled to this purpose whiles all the rest stood with their faces looking into the East onely Strato looked vpon the high moūtaines westward for doing whereof although hee were at the first derided yet when by this means he first destroied the reflection of the Sun-beames then was this face of his iudged not to be Seruilis ingenij ratio from a speculation of a seruile braine but of some more noble spirit Malac. 4. So whiles some looke for Christ the Sunne of righteousnesse in the wildernesse some in the markets some in other places if you looke religiously to the Sun-setting of your life towardes your death it may be a meanes for you with great ioy first to discerne the Sunne of righteousnesse fauourably shining vpon you These things if thou hast any furtherance to obtaine by this samll work thou wilt first thanke God for his gifts next those citizens of Bristoll who were the meanes that it came to thy view and lastly thou wilt pray for mee that the dew of heauen may descend vpon my labours to thy further good and in this hope I commend thee to God and this small worke to thy good vsage Thine in Christ Iohn Warren The Preface before the reading of the Text. THat the name of the iust might be had in remembrance it is the laudable custome of our Church at funerall meetings to recite the vertues of the deceased as the widdowes shewed the coats and garments which Dorcas made whiles she was with them Act. 9.89 yet are there two things which will make mee very sparing at this time in the performance of this duty first least our consanguinity and nearenesse in blood and kinred should make any thinke I speake more out of partiality then out of iudgement Secondly because how neere soeuer I was vnto her in blood yet in respect of conuersation I was a stranger Yet thus much may I truely say that she is generally reported to haue beene towards her neighbours full of curtesie towards her husband full of such loue as himselfe witnessed to me that although they liued together many years shee neuer sought for any thing towards him but loue and peace towardes God religious insomuch that I visiting her but the day before her death when she could scarsely speak to man she was very desirous to speake vnto God by prayer and comforted herselfe saying I know that he who was the God of Daniel is my God not doubting but the same God will deliuer her from all paines and sorrowes which we all with ioy remembring leaue her in the hands of God and that we may thither also come at the last