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A06686	A funerall sermon, preached at the buriall of the Lady Iane Maitlane, daughter to the right noble earle, Iohn Earle of Lauderdail, at Hadington, the 19. of December. 1631. By Mr. I.M. Together with diverse epitaphs, aswell Latine, as English, written by sundry authors	I. M., Mr.; Maitland, John, fl. 1617-1637, attributed name.	1633 (1633)	STC 17142; ESTC S108302	20,077	52

A FVNERALL SERMON Preached at the buriall of the Lady Iane Maitlane daughter to the Right Noble Earle Iohn Earle of Lauderdail at Hadington the 19. of December 1631. BY M. I. M. Together with diverse Epitaphs as well Latine as English written by sundry Authors IN MY DEFENCE GOD ME DEFEND EDINBVRGH Printed by the Printers to the KINGS most excellent Majestie 1633. A FVNERALL SERMON PREACHED AT THE BURIALL of the Lady Iane MAITLANE IOB 14.14 All the daies of my appointed time will I wait till my change come IT is said that it is better to be in the house of mourning than mirth if ever I trust now you are in a house of mourning and mourners mourners not so much with their doole and mourning cloaths as with mourning hearts and weeping eyes I pray God this mourning caused by this more than mournfull object may draw us to a mourning for our selves and for our sins And that this change may leade us to the practise of Iob his resolution here All the dayes of my appointed time will I wait till my change come I make it the ground of my speech since of a mourner I must be a speaker Loth was I to it But how should I how could I detrect it this being the least dutie I can the last I ever shall perform to the never-to-be-forgotten memory of this Honourable young Lady Repressing therefore and smothering my own grief for a time I will proceed having first called upon God who onely can direct me how to speak you how to hear and both to his glory THis change to her al 's joyfull as to us sorrowfull cals upon us with Iob all the dayes of our appointed time to wait till our change come Few words yet large matter which at this time is rather a trouble than an ease to the speaker of whom you cannot expect Scholastick speculations flowres of Fathers broken sentences of Poets such elaborate and painted discourses as they are more for shew than profit so to this time altogether unsutable It shall suffice me if tempering my speech with brevity perspicuity I can enforce upon you the practise of what Iob resolved All the dayes of your appointed time to wait till your change come And thus I enter upon my text by way of 1. explication 2. application 3. exhortation For explication as I will not detain you with the dependence and deduction of the text so I will not be curious in cutting and dividing the words onely in generall I take them as running on three points 1. Life 2. Death 3. Preparation in life for death Of life you have two things one expressed That the time thereof is appointed the other implied That it is short rather to be measured by dayes than years Death and the preparation thereto are set down in two words of large extent death is a change and our preparation a waiting for this change ☞ Our time is appointed not by our selves not by man not by any other creature but by the creator of all His we are in our coming staying leaving this world from him is our time here and change hence what ever besides within us without us gets the name of prolonging our time or hasting our change it is subordinate to his appointment 2. Our time is appointed Some have years some months some dayes some houres all appointed and measured forth by God One comes to his change by a burning fever another by a lingring consumption one meets it in his bed another in the street thousands at once in the field and all by appointment If the sparrows falling or flying one haire of thy head it 's growing or falling be appointed how not our time and change by appointment 3. Our time is appointed by him who knowes what is best for him what for us our time is from him and should be for him As our coming is not by chance so neither our going We are all set here for some busines which being done then our appointed time leads to our change Thus for the appointment of our time All the dayes of my appointed time Here the next the brevitie of this time a point so cleare by the light of Scripture reason and daily experience that it might seeme a vain expense of our appointed time to insist upon it And surely if mens inward conceits and outward practises did comply with their verball profession I should wrong both you and my selfe to make a pause here But alasse what ever be the confession of the daies of our appointed time yet I am sure our carriage speaks that we dream not of dayes but of years yea many years of our appointed time Whence I intreat you is the casting away of so much of our appointed time in doing nothing in doing evill whence the tyring of our wits to finde out new wayes to the spending thereof whence the too-long spun-web of our ambitious avaritious thoughts whence those many delayes whereby we shift knowledge repentance faith All grace and goodnesse and this waiting for our approaching change whence all those but from our conceit not of dayes but of years not of short but long life Yet the truth is howsoever we may deceive and are deceived Iobs words must stand All the dayes of my appointed time spoken by a man of truth and inspired by the spirit of truth Scripture is so copious in this argument that hardly can you turn over many pages but you will meet with one or other passage or word sounding this way Neither onely will you finde positive speeches but great varietie of resemblances whereby Gods Spirit would set forth these daies or shortnes of our appointed time Hence these comparisons of a flower a shadow a vapour appearing for a while and then vanishing a dream an Eagles flight in the aire a cloud blown away with the winde or else dissolved a span measured in an instant with many such like David cals it vanitie which is nothing yea not onely his time and dayes but him selfe because of them Every man in his best estate is altogether vanitie Psal 39.5 where each word is emphaticke man every man every man in his best estate is vanitie is altogether vanitie And Psal 62.9 The children of men are vanitie the chief men are lyes to lay them upon a balance they are altogether lighter than vanitie And how I pray you can we count that long which is in continuall consumption the more time we have the nearer we are to our change yea our change begins in a manner with our time no sooner living than beginning to die Yesterday is not to be recalled what is past is perished the shadow of our time is still in motion this glasse still running this ship still sayling while we are eating drinking sleeping walking talking we are still carried to this change and to close this point there is nothing makes our time seeme long but the expectation of hope of long time and the longest time once

passed is but a dream but vanitie Thus of life as appointed by God as measured by dayes The other two points of our change and waiting for this change is matter for many sermons and a task for our whole life But within this short scantling of time wherewith I am straitned I shall absolve them in two words The change we must wait for is that which is begun by death and is accomplished at our resurrection O how joyfull how glorious a change to the godly whose corruption puts on incorruption whose mortality puts on immortality who are changed and transchanged into the glory of God This happy change we must wait for First by practise living so as we may attain to it Secondly by meditation thinking on it ere it come Thirdly by resolution embracing it when it comes I hasten to the application Works move more than words teaching by exemple is more effectuall than by discourse If the ardent and affectionat desires of her Honourable parents the hearty wishes of her many worthy friends the many salt tears sobs sighes groanes of all her acquaintance the prayers and supplications of us all if gifts of body and minde surpassing ordinarie and stirring almost admiration in the beholders if all those could have delayed this change neither should your eyes have seene nor my tongue this day spoken of it but it was appointed by God blessed be his name his will not ours be done Maximilian the first of that name commanded that his dead body should be exposed to publique view adding this reason ut vel meo discant exemplo Behold we have this day proposed our Maxima the choycest jewell we had once the delight of our eyes and the joy of our hearts her we proposed a spectacle not to be gazed upon but that in this change ye might read a lecture of your own coming change It is I know expected I should speake somewhat of her and why should I frustrat your expectation for though these speeches should not be Panegyricks onely for the praises of the dead but rather instructions for the living yet I see not why their due commandations because of their excellent vertues should be suppressed since God in them by them is glorified others edified And hath not the holy Spirit told us that As the memorie of the wicked shall rot so the memorie of the just shall be blessed Prov. 10.7 The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance Psal 112.6 If with God why not with man Having upon those grounds resolved to speake of her yet so as the truth of my love should not prejudge my love of truth still for a time I remained irresolved what to speake where to begin when to end inopem me copia fecit In end I found that as to speake nothing were intolerable so to speak all were impossible So that my course must be of many things to make choyce of some few and that by confining my speech to my text 1. of her dayes 2. of her appointed time 3. her change 4. her waiting for her change All the dayes of her appointed time did she wait till her change came All the dayes Sometimes dayes are taken for years and years for dayes when I speake of her time I doubt whether to say dayes or years Let me joyn them both all the dayes all the years Her appointed time was dayes her appointed time was years it was short it was long Will we take time and dayes as they are ordinarily alasse then I must say she had dayes and but few dayes that was worthy of years of many years thousands who abuse their time to the dishonour of God themselves the world have many dayes while she who knew both what time was and how to use time had but few Ah what pitty to behold such a blossome blasted in the spring such a flower withered in the morning such a bright and glancing starre over-clouded with a gloomie and tempestuous night But if we shall call those onely dayes that are spent honourably vertuously religiously then I may boldly turn dayes into years and say all the years of her appointed time Her time was not short but long Diu vixit licet non diu fuit She lived long in a short time is one day of a mans life governed with knowledge and reason to be prized above the many years of the unreasonable creature why not her few dayes full of knowledge and grace to be valued beyond the longest time of too too many who at foure times twenty come to their change emptie of both if her few dayes breed sorrow let her many years bring us comfort Her time was Appointed by God here a ground of patience Since this change the affections and passions of many have shown themselves and still doth The eyes of all who knew her the tongues of all who heard of her do abundantly testifie not a private but a publique sorrow and shall we condemn that which God and Nature commands Christ and his Saints practised it We finde the Patriarches and holy men mourning over their dead our blessed Saviour shedding teares over Lazarus and shall it then be strange if we behold her worthy parents lifting up their voyces with cryes being deprived of such a divided peece of themselves Her honourable friends to bedeaw their cheeks being robbed of such a choyce flower of their garland all her acquaintance familiars and followers to fill heaven and earth with their lamentations wanting her whose injoying was a great part of their earthly joy yea and it is strange to see all those bounds wher she was known by eye or eare to mourn each family as if they were mourning for their own first born being frustrat of those great hopes and common benefits her few dayes did promise to all Surely it is not strange nor can be blamed And to increase it by patheticke speeches I neither can being already at such a hight neither will least we give too large reines to it Not to mourn is not onely gracelesse but unnaturall to be immoderate in our mourning is not Christian but Heathenish When Iacob came to his change Ioseph mourned so did the Egytians he but 7. dayes they 70. Gen. 50.3.10 He knew his time was appointed by God they looked to fate and necessity he knew his death was but a change they tooke it for a finall dissolution and destruction Mourn then we may we should but to exceed in our mourning as those who have no hope we may not we should not And here among many one ground for the moderation of our sorrow and perswading of patience Her time was appointed of God if it had been possible that another should have wrought this change would we think ye have taken it patiently no rather would we have parted with our own eyes But now O Lord thou hast done it and therefore with thy servant David we must close our mouth yea reverence obey glorifie thy appointment just are all thy

ordinances upright are all thy wayes Though before with David we did weep and would not be comforted yet now seeing the evidence of thy appointment we must rise up and praise thee Ye see her appointed time I come now to her waiting Iob saith he would wait for his change and why may not I say All her dayes she did wait till her change came For if the waiting for our change be first the leading of such a life as doth shew we know there will be a change secondly if it be in the confluence of worldly blessings to minde more our change than them thirdly if it be at the approaching thereof to desire it embrace it welcome it joy in it then I may truly say she did wait for her change God is my witnesse what I speak it is not from partiall affection so it is not for particular ends I follow not doubtfull rumours uncertain and flying reports but what I know to be truth from her birth to this her change from her cradle to her grave I speake and that for truths sake setting her waiting for a pattern to our waiting First then I say her life was such as did testifie she knew there would be a change Religion piety devotion is that which gives as it were another life to all morall vertues and makes them Christian without it they may be profitable to others but little to our selves It is true onely God knowes the heart in it self and by himself but if pregnant presumptions and well nigh infallible signes may be a firme ground for passing censure I may confidently affirme and assevere that the fear of God was placed yea deeply rooted in her heart and from this fountain did flow those streames of the exercise of religion Her hunger and burning desire to hear Gods word her attention in hearing her knowledge by hearing her sweet devout communication and practise after hearing What shall I name to you her frequent praying daily reading her writing almost the whole New Testament with her own hand and was all onely in hypocrisie and for shew No I am assured her religion was not so much in her eares and tongue as it is with many as in her heart and life Who knew her knowes she was more in substance than in show From this same fountain flowed also that rare and scarce to be matched obedience love honour and all due respect to her parents which as her whole life did witnesse so her change nothing more grieving her for her change as that her change would bring grief to them If I should enlarge her observance to her superiours in regard of age and state of life her dutifull respect to her equals her modest moderat carriage to her inferiors her love to all and love of all I might easily wearie my self in relating and you in hearing The mouths of many will speak what now I may not onely two words It is rare to finde so few years so full of nature so full of grace And next whereas such eminent parts and vertues especially in young years are usually accompanied yea and darkned with more than conspicuous faults I know many will bear witnesse with me that not onely she was free of such as might any wayes obscure her more noble parts but even of such as might bring upon her the least stain before man being blamelesse far be it from me to say before God I am sure before the world Now judge yee if such a life was not a waiting for her change For the second The confluence of worldly blessings I confesse my ignorance in Herauldry to describe her pedigree and descent derived by many generations from her well deserving ancestors Onely this I can say and let me say it to provoke their posterity to imitation and emulation they were truly honourable since both blood and vertue joyned to make them noble noble not onely by inheritance but by purchase Their greatnesse from their blood their goodnes was from their vertue Such her birth But what availes names titles armes honours if there be no more her birth did not so much honour her as she it having in a beautifull body a more beautifull soule such knowledge wisedome skill in all things befitting her sex and far above her age● that scarse her equall let be her superiour could be found Why should I speak to you of her many noble friends her meanes and worldly estate and hopes and such like And those also are Gods blessings not to be neglected and by many too much respected Now what could have been expected but that this concurrence of earthly blessings of all sorts within without of birth body soul estate friends would have tied her heart to the world and raised her thoughts to an applauding of her self and contemning of others But ah who ever did see pride shine in those eyes when did ever neglect and contempt shew it self in that meek loving and lovly countenance I have often wondered to behold such excellent parts followed with such admirable humility humanity modesty curtisie and that not onely towards the great which may and oftentimes dwels with pride but even to those of the lower sort Now what did all this shew but that her heart was not in this world that those worm-eaten and fading pleasures did not bewitch her that she did thinke on her change and that trampling under foot all the pompe and glory of this world she did aspire to that glory the eye never saw the eare never heard Thirdly when her weaknesse did threaten her change with what spirituall courage did she welcome it Thousands dare not so much as once think on their change The Athiest the Epicure the worldling are confounded with the apprehension thereof Onely the child of God dareth encounter it Her strength was from God whom she did ply and importune with ardent prayers to strengthen and confirm her in her last conflict Her inward friends a good conscience and faith in Christ did sustain her and made that as she was not ashamed to live so not afraid to die The last word of my text and of her is her change O bitter-sweet change bitter to us sweet to her To us bitter who shall see no more that face nor hear that voyce we never saw nor heard but with pleasure and joy bitter to us who by this change have our joy changed into sorrow our laughter into mourning but ô sweet ô joyfull change to her who hereby hath changed earth for heaven the place of her exile for her fathers house where there be many mansions the company of mortall men with the happy fellowship of the immortall God of Christ her Saviour of the glorious Angels and blessed spirits of the just Her change like the furnace of fire to the three children at the worst hath but loosed her bands like Ionah's whale carried her through the storms of this tempestuous world to the port of her eternall rest like the red Sea hath