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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90143	Bradshaws ultimum vale, being the last words that are ever intended to be spoke of him. As they were delivered in a sermon preach'd at his interrment. By J.O. D.D. time-server general of England.	Owen, John, 1616-1683, attributed name.	1659 (1659)	Wing O3; Thomason E1011_1; ESTC R203078	8,878	15

Brorhers way of dying and is called the Agues Triumph Whereby you may see that a Souls House and a Mans House are not alike for they say of Building that a trembling House stands fastest but a Soul loves not that her Mansion should shake The Physicians say because they are not able to cure this Disease that it is a certain Devil which possesses a man If this be so then certainly it was Belzebub himself possessed our dear President For he shook him worse than he shook the Protectors Trees and never left shaking him till he had shaken him into his Grave Truly Beloved 't is a sad thing when the Devil comes to Winnow a mans Soul out of his Body But to say truth what had he to do to live any longer he had done his great work neither was there any likelyhood that he should have any more by reason that the Nation was so generally inclin'd for a Common-Wealth He knew for ordinary Delinquents and a Common High Court of Justice the Lord Lisle could serve as well as he He saw that the Rump stunk in the Nostrils of the Nation and it grieved him to see them so despis'd by the people He had had his reward in this World and therefore thought 't was time to get his reward in the other What that is we cannot tell his Friends hope the best his Enemies hope the worst However to give yee some satisfaction we shall a little dive into the Actions of his life and see if they deserve that punishment which his Enemies would inflict upon him I confesse we have a difficult task to undergoe to Cloth Virtue in the Habit of Vice and to trick up Vice in the Habit of Virtue Neverthelesse wee must doe something in the discharge of a good Conscience for else how can I be said to have merited my Ring and my Five pieces perhaps it may be Ten which is a Sum considerable Truly wee Ministers love Mony 't is the main thing we Ball for and I think he 's a Fool that does not You know 't is Mony that makes the Mare to goe 't is Mony that makes the Pot boyl Now good victuals my Beloved are highly reverenc'd and esteem'd among us Parsons 't is that which encloses our Kidneys and lines our Midriffs with fat They talk of the Food of the Soul but I beleive that if there were no other Food we might starve for all that Therefore saith the famous father Binet c. 31. v. 130. By Hook or by Crook it matters not whether so we can but gain Riches which are indeed the Nerves and Sinews of a Mans life Thus much by way of pickeering from our Text a thing usual among us modern Divines Now let us begin to justifie our deceased President You must know then that once upon a time Escobar and Lopez meeting together they fell into a dispute concerning the Actions of a Mans life But me thinks I hear Somebody pulling me by the sleeve say unto me who is that Escobar and Lopez you talk o● why my Beloved this Escobar was great Grand-child to the Pin●…r of Wakefield who comming of the race of the Valiant became a very strong man at an argument Now Lopez was an East-Indian Divine and he wore a Jerkin made of Ostrich Feathers his Shooes were made of an Elephants Hoof and upon his Head he wore a Fools Cap. Then said Lopez unto Escobar May a Man doe Evil that Good may come thereof and Escobar answered and said Follow the Prestdent that lives in our days Don Juan de S●… the Portugal Embassadors Brother proves this most exactly from the Doctrine of Probability For saith he ● 7. v. 3. A Man may doe that which he conceives lawful according to a probable opinion though the contrary be in reality the more honest And Vasques saith in his book of Sanctifi'd Experiences that in cases of Morality a man ought not to be guided by the antient Divines but by the modern Casuists Of this opinion also was our dear Brother Julian the Apostate Now you will say that our deceased President was Ambitious I grant it but what then but hear what the famous Escobar saith Ambition which is an immoderate desire of greatnesse and dignity is of it self a venial Sin 〈◊〉 when a man covets that greatnesse to prejudice the State the external circumstances are that which make it Mortal But our President exercis'd his Ambition for the good of the State He prerended Religion the destruction of Tyranny and at last the setting up of the Good Old Cause And therefore yee may read in our de●● Brother Catilines Remains how that he disturbed 〈◊〉 Country for that he was greatly in Debt and had no other way to get mony to be honest to his C●… But me thinks I hear the Cavaleers crying out with open mouth how he killed the King VVhy what if he did did not our dear Brother Ravillac kill Harry the Fourth would not our Brother Faux have blown up the King and all his Peers did not our Sister Tomyris cut off King Cyru's Head did not our Ancestors run a hot spit into the Fundament of King Edward Therefore saith our Brother Syndercomb It is as lawful for to kill a Tyrant as it is to drink Coffee And the antient Greeks and Romans gave rewards to those that were most swift in the execution of such an enterprise Machiavel in his Comment upon the works of Heliogabalus saith that it is lawful to kill a Man for six or seven Duckets and our holy Brother Molina the Jesuite assures us that regularly a Man may kill another lawfully for the value of a Crown and in this opinion consents with him Domitian the Fly-killer and the holy Nero Also further saith that it is lawful for one Man to kill another for an Apple Now if this be true that a Man may be killed for six or seven Duckets or for such a slight thing as an Apple then certainly might our President judge a Man to Death for my Lord Cottingtons Estate Our President was like Necessity for he had no Law If then he had no Law could yee blame him for not doing that which was agreeable to Law Thus my beloved you see it prov'd out of the Labours of the most authentick Divines that he was not so bad as the World took him to be But he is gone and we stay here behind to wear Rings for his sake Truly I would wish if I might reap the same benefit that such a President might dye every day For I le warrant yee our Rings are worth eight and twenty shillings a peice now twenty eight shillings a day is five hundred and eleven pounds per annum I le promise yee a good younger Brothers Estate and I believe the time has been when the best of yee all here present hath been contented with farr lesse I am sure the time was when our Beloved President had not so much but thanks be to God and his