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truth_n	believe_v	church_n	know_v	4,058	5	4.1423	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01559	A defiance to death Being the funebrious commemoration of the Right Honourable, Baptist Lord Hickes, Viscount Camden, late deceased. Preached at Camden in Gloucester-shire, Nouember 8. 1629. By Iohn Gaule.	Gaule, John, 1604?-1687.	1630 (1630)	STC 11688; ESTC S102991	19,410	83

alwayes the Churches vse not onely to relate but commend the liues of the Faithfull being dead that so the liuing might come to know their conuersation and bee brought to follow their example Both for our information and imitation of this Saint deceased I could gladly as I might iustly inlarg my selfe to a volume of ●is prayse I flatter him not to say the best I can of him that is now better then I can tell how to say To p●ayse a good man after his death is not to flatter him but to prayse God for him besides a dead mans commendation is the liuings admonition Then wh● should we forget whom we ought to imitate Why should his vertues dye with him before men on earth whose graces are gone before him and liue before the face of Christin heauen Let vs yet therefore speake of him when wee cannot now speake with him Let vs haue him now in our mindes while he is now no more before our eyes hauing now lost his presence let vs inioy him yet in his remembrance The life of our Honourable and deare Brother departed must I remember vnto you according to the two-fold state of life his prosperity his aduersity and in them both I commend vnto you his Christianity Hee is worthy the consideration in either state In as much as hee dranke deepe of a mixed Cup both had he his share of the honey-combe and withall was vineger and gall made his portion to drinke as a large talent was giuen him so an heauy load was layd vpon him God wonderfully both blessed and afflicted him because in both as himselfe both found and said God would try him to the full And indeede neither state did more then exercise and examine him for neither did the height of his prosperity puff● him vp nor could the depth of his aduersity depresse him In his prosperity I neuer heard but that he was iust and temperate This I can say hee was both humble and thankefull in his affliction 1. For his prosperity in particular and there to beginne with him as soone as he began to prosper He was a man as it is well knowne worshipfully borne religiously educated wisely instructed honorably promoted A man happy in a loyall wife ioyfull in vertuous children prosperous in worldly wealth Nor were his prosperity so commendable but for his Piety and charity For his Piety he serued his God hee reuerenced the Church hee heard the word he beleeued the truth he endeauoured the good His sighs and teares could witnesse his tender heartednesse so his prayers and meditations his heauenly mindednesse For his Charity it is well noted where euer he had any thing to d ee the first thing he did was alwaies to doe good Besides his oft and priuate almes his light moreouer shines in publique and both in City and country men may see his good workes Were I for memory and imitation sake to catel●gue or record his works I could declare when how where hee spared neither for hundreds nor for thousands to doe good But such a thing I rather thinke worthy a wide worlds eye then but only a small peoples care What he hath bestowed to pious and charitable vses amount to more then 11000. pounds And this the seuerall places endowed can truely witnesse and Parties benesitted shall thankfully confesse Both liuing and dying was he largely and variously beneficent As for the most things of common vse and neede these were the obiects of his liberality Hale Hospitals Prisons Schooles Colledges and Churches of some was he sole Founder to some a free Benefactour I might not amisse call him a man of good workes Hee was food to the hungry a garment to the naked comfort to the sicke a reliefe vnto the prisoner and an harbour euen to the stranger For besides those of his acquaintance many one had cause to blesse him that scarce euer saw his face One thing I may not here omit that when he had done much good for many hee further demanded of vs Who was there would haue him doe any thing for them And when he had freely and orderly giuen the last he gaue hee yet ask● what else was for him to doe Though his good deeds were many and munificent yet such words shewed a minde beyond his deeds that wh●n he had done well and sufficient yet was he not satisfied with doing good 2 Touching his aduersity his heauenly Father as hee had for a long time imbraced this his Sonne in the armes of his blessings so did his heauy hand scourge him sore now that hee receiued him Hee so cherished him as not to let him escape the whip And all to tell him he could not be so happy here as not to be miserable and must be miserable a while to be happy for euer During the time of his sinknesse his sufferings were both tedious and extreame so that comparing h●● p●ines cogether with his yeares we wondred he could be so mightily afflicted and yet so 〈◊〉 subsist in his afflictions Both were his paines great and groanes many and for many 〈◊〉 together his 〈◊〉 and sleepe in comparison small or none His Bed was but as his Racke the place of naturall refreshment as an engine of extreame torment Nor was any time so restlesse to him as the common time of rest For all which he was neuer heard to charge God foolishly but alwayes in his wholesome Admonitions his holy Confessions his hearty Inuocations so improoued hee his breath to the last All those godly and comfortable sayings that proceeded from him should I now vtter them in particular I suppose it would bee another Sermon to recite them Lastly hauing both appoynted and perfected his whole bequests and so set his house in order and now quite renounced the world setting himselfe as he said to present his soule before God in Christ after a long and bitter agony and now towards the doomed and expected moment of this peaceable passage while our hearts groaned and eyes distilled in their deuotions his soule beganne already to be rauished in her heauenly visions and blessed contemplations and so he cheerefully flitting from vs left vs sadly looking on To insist long vpon the vertues of the Dead is in some case to adde vnto the sorrowes of the liuing For to heare his goodnesse praysed cannot but this way grieue vs namely in that wee haue lost so great a good We haue lost him w●● haue lost him nor indeed is he lost but to vs. We haue some lost a Lord some lost a Friend some lost a Magistrate some lost a Master some lost a Pe●re some lost a Patron one lost a Husband some lost a Father and to mine owne particular next a Father his losse was mine To reckon so manifold a losse my Teares begin to stop my speech and bid me bewaile it rather in sobbes then words But I refraine the rather to let loose mine owne passion at this time and place considering how vnfitting he is to comfort