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A66700	Planctus unigeniti et spes resuscitandi, or, The bitter sorrows for a first born sweetened with the hopes of a better resurrection with consolations, moral and divine, against the death of friends, suited to the present occasion : delivered in a funeral sermon at Felsted in Essex, May 23, 1664, at the solemn interment of ... Charles Lord Rich, the only child of ... the Earle of Warwick / by A. Walker.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.	1664 (1664)	Wing W307; ESTC R24590	38,237	75

Funerall are presented to us 1. The Herse a dead man carried out 2. The Mourners his Mother the chief and much People with her 3. The process of the whole they carry him forth In the second the Cordiall 1. The Cordiall it self Weep not 2. The Holy Lymbeck from whence t is distilled the tender bowells of Jesus Christ He was moved with Compassion 3. The fire that gives it operation the seeing of this pittifull object a Desolate Disconsolate Mother When he saw her Then he was moved with Compassi n and when he was so moved then he said Weep not I begin with the First the Funeral and in that 1. The Herse 2. Then the Mourners and this order Custome approves Nature Compells Ceremony appoints and Necessity constrains the Herse leads the Mourners follow Our Noble Lord is gone before we must go after 1. The Herse And that as harsh and dark as if the Pall were of the Coursest Hair-Cloath and made more black and Heavy with these six sable Escutcheons which are its load and burden rather then its Ornament 1. A Man dead 2. He a Young Man 3. That young man a Great man 4 That Great man an Only Son 5. That only Son as Childless at his death as his decease did leave his Mother 6. That Mother a Widow like to continue Childless Heirless concluded and shut up under dispaire of having more to comfort and relieve her Solitude Each circumstance calls for an heavy accent and needs a mournful circumflex let 's drop them with our tears in Order that every Escutcheon may be Guttee only suppose those drops of Pearle and Argent to charge the dispairing Sable Field of Death with brighter hopes of an approaching Resurrection 1 Tim. 2.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 preco Caduceator predicator 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 predicare publice laudare Excuse this phrase a Preacher is properly an Herauld but chiefly so at such a time Each word like a slip of Ciprus sprouts up into a mournful Stem the Blazon of each Escutcheon is a dolefull Sentence in Order thus 1. Man is Mortall 2. Even Young men may dye and often do 3. Great Men must fall as well as others 4. Onely-Children cannot escape 5. Whole Families may fayle in Childless Heirs 6. Former Sorrows do not excuse us from Succeeding Ones She that was made a Widow by her Husbands death may yet be rendred more desolate by the loss of Children One comfort gone secures not the rest By the glimmering light which these six dim and lowring Tapers cast about the Herse you may distinctly read the Impress of each Shield 1. Man's Mortal This truth 's so obvious we cannot suppose the Ecce prefixt to it The wonder is greater that any man out-lives his Mothers travel then that he dyes so soon The many witty Emblems of our frailty devis'd and used by gravest Sages Ethnick and Christian are abundantly excused from all suspicion of Hyperbole's by what the holy spirit speaks so frequently in the same Argument Isa 40.6 7. Psal 103.15 Job 13.25 1 Pet. 1.24 Jam. 4.14 Job 7.7 Psal 144.4 Isa 40.17 comparing man to Grass to Flowers to dryed Leaves and Stubble to Dust to Vapours to Wind to Vanity to less then vanity and nothing And no truth is written in Gods Book with more Indelible and larger Characters then that It is appointed unto all men once to dye A time to be born a time to dye Mark how close they stand together nothing parts them Jos 23.14 1 Kings 2.2 'T is the way of all the Earth an universall Rule that doth admit of no Exception Gen. 5.5 8 11 14 17 20 the constant conclusion of all mens History And he dyed So that the challenge was very safe What man is he that liveth and shall not see death Psal 89.48 and shall he deliver himself from the hand of the Grave And the determination as warily made No man can give to God a Ransome for himself or Brother Psal 49.9 that he should still live for ever and not see Corruption 2. And 't is as obvious to common notice we need not Revelation to perswade our Credence they give assent who never saw the Bible and t is become a Proverb nothing so sure as death where seeing is believing there need no other Topicks to make a demonstration 3. And Natural Reason gives its perfect suffrage that must decay whose foundation is i' th dust as ours is who are but the sub-divisions of Adams red Clod crumbled into multiplied Atomes the stream cannot ascend beyond the Altitude of the Fountains Scituation From Corruptible Principles no Product can proceed Incorruptible Man that is born of a Woman is of few dayes it carries its own Evidence because he is so born A Tabernacle patcht together of sappy sticks Job 14.1 and rotten straw and mouldring dirt cannot stand long especially exposed to Storms without and Fire from within and such is mans body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nyss Orat. de Mortuis tost and consumed with dayly strife of hot and cold moyst and dry and which soever Conquers leads life it self a Captive to its Victory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nyss ubi supra And Dust returns to dust 4. And there is a Moral cause i th' Soul as mortall as any Natural one i th' Body Eze. 18.20 Gen. 2.17 Rom. 6.23.5.12 the Soul that sinneth it shall dye In the day thou eatest thou shalt dye the death death is the wages of sin which shall be surely paid By one man Sin entred into the World 1 Kin. 8.46 and death by sin And in as much as no man liveth and sinneth not you may conclude that no man liveth Mors interficit omnes quos natura presentem perducit ad vitam ducit Reges trahit Populos gentes impellit non divitiis redimi non flecti precibus non lachrimis molliri non viribus potuit illa unquam superari Chrysologus Serm. 118. and dyeth not With what words then shall we bewaile or upbraid rather the Atheistical security and stupid madness of those men who will not be perswaded of this truth or which is ten times worse under convictions and confessions of it live here as if they should live here for ever and tempt us to believe they judge their Souls are Mortal they take so little care to save them and their Bodies Immortal they heap up so long provisions for them 2. Even young men may dye and often do Ours in the Text is expresly called so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the ver next following your common saying is Old men must dye and Young men may Senibus mors in januis Juvenibus in obsidiis sayth St. Bernard T is very remarkable how the Scripture Records the Death of Haran And Haran dyed before his Father Tera Gen. 11.21 in the Land of his Nativity Most Children dye before their Parents not one of an hundred

the wise Argument of Holy David 2 Sam. 12.23 Could you weep Aquafortis your tears would not dissolve the chains of Death Si fletibus fata vincuntur eat omnis inter luctus dies sed si nullis planctibus defuncta revocantur desinat dolor qui perit Was the grave Council of the Sage Moralist● let Reason master Passion and spare those Tears you know are Fruitless and but spent in vain Weep not Tears may hurt you though they bring him no help 2 Cor. 7.10 and kill your selves though they 'l not quicken him The sorrow of the World worketh Death Facilius nos illi dolor adjiciet quam illum nobis reducet Too many tears reproach you both Him as if he needed them and dyed like Absolom whose Body onely he resembled not his Manners Mind or End Your selves for their Excess no less upbraids your Manhood then their defect would have reproached your Humanity Non sentire dolorem non est hominis non ferre non est viri Yea your Patience Faith and Christianity as if you sorrowed like those who have no hope Weep not A● hac te infamia vindica ne videatur plus apud te valere unus dolor quam tam multa Solatia Least you provoke the Lord to Multiply his stripes as Children often suffer more for sullingness and sobbing then for the first occasion of Correction take heed you forfeit not the mercies which are left Weep not For 't is the Work of God Lev. 10.3 Psal 39.9 Aaron held his peace in a case more difficult and David was dumb with silence because God did it 1 Sam. 3.13 and Good Eli thus submitted 'T is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good He that hath Ruled the World now near Six Thousand Years and never yet committed over sight or errour guided this blow He call'd him back Iniquus est qui muneris sui arbitrium danti non relinquit avidus qui non lucri loco habet quod accepit sed damni quod reddidit Ingratus qui injuriam vocat finem voluptatis Senec. who gave him and had more Right and Title to him then a Wife or Mother and they too ungratefully forget God and themselves who reckon it an Injury for him to take his Own Gods absolute and Indisputable Sovereignty his Infallible and un-erring Wisdome and his constant and faithfull Goodness should at least make us lay our hand upon our heart and mouth that we may neither speak nor think amiss 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nyss of what he doth Knowing that he doth all things well But rather say with Holy Job The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away as it pleaseth the Lord so come things to pass blessed be the Name of the Lord. But because sorrow is very querulous witty to afflict it self and pregnant ●f Arguments to aggravate its burdens And he saith little to the purpose talk he never so much who takes not the Mourners Tears and Sighs from their own Eyes and Lips and measures out returns proportionable Let us suppose we heard them as we have heard them thus complaining Objection First that he Dyed Young in the very Spring and Flower of his Age when all their Comforts were expected from him and these budding pregnant hopes are nip't and blasted and suffer a sad Abortion Nimis cito periit immaturus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Answer I know the wound is tender and will not bear such handling therefore I shall not Answer so roughly as to say Optimum non nisci proximum quam citissime mori the sooner he dyed the better because the First best is not to be born the next best after that is to dye as soon as may be But I will refer you to what the Authour df the Book of Wisdome speaks concerning Enoch Honorable Age is not that which stands in length of time Chap. 4.8 nor that is measured by number of years Quicquid ad summum pervenit ad exitum properat Eripit se ausertque ex oculis perfecta virtus Nec ultimum tempus exp●ctant quae in privio maturaerunt Indicium imminentis exitis Maturitas but Wisdome is the gray hair unto men and an unspotted life is Old Age. Speedily was he taken away least wickedness should alter his understanding or deceit beguile his soul He being made perfect in a short time fulfill'd a long time for his soul pleas'd the Lord therefore hasted he to take him away from amongst the Wicked and admit this be not the true Solomon yet He hath told us Eccl. 7.1.4.1 The day of Death is better then the day of ones Birth and again I praised the Dead which are already dead more then the Living which are yet alive He dyes not too soon who dyes in the time that God hath set and so dyed he and this should stay your hearts Job 7.1.14.5 Is there not an appointed time to man upon the Earth his days are determin'd the Number of his Months is with thee thou hast appointed his bounds which he cannot pass and the Phylosopher could see this Nemo nimis cito moritur qui victurus Soluitur quod culque promissum est Habebit quisque quaetum diis Primus ascripsit Ser diutius quam vixit non fuit sixus est cuique terminus manebit semper ubi positus est No man dyes too soon because no man hath less of life then was design'd and promist from the first And because Examples of the like sufferings soften those stroaks which are most pungent when they are conceiv'd least common and Esteemed Singular Take these few Instances in a Case where multitude hath made our choyce more difficult Thus dyed Blest Abell the First that ever dyed and Consecrated Early Death Thus the Good Son of that Bad Father Jeroboam Thus dyed the Holy Josiah Octavia Livia altera soror Augusti altera uxor amiserunt filios juvenes utraque spe futuri principis certa Octavia Marcellum Livia Drusum like whom was none in Zeal for God Thus dyed Marcellus and Drusus successively both Heirs Apparent to Augustus Caesar and the Worlds Empire Thus dyed sweet Titus Deliciae generis humani the Darling and Delights of Man-kind Thus dyed that Glory of the Roman Caesar Alexander Severus Paganus Christianizans and Happy had it been for Nero had he dyed so and his Quinquennium and his Life had had the same Period and the kinder hand of Death had drawn a preventing Vayle after the Glory of those rare beginnings Quam multis diutius vixisse nocuerit to cover the Reproach of what succeeded in the Obscurities of Everlasting Night But to come nearer home So dyed that Miracle of Grace and Greatness Edward the sixt So dyed Prince Henry le boon le grand So dyed of Later Date the much Admired Young Lord Hastings and that Early Confessour Son of the Royal Martyr the thrice Illustrious Duke of

's lay'd to rest with Honour and his Vnstain'd Ashes are shrined in immortall Vrns whose Gold no rust can cancker and which will Try and Vex the teeth of Time it self to injure and the most spitefull Malice dares nor attempt once to besmear his Marble Weep not He 's taken from an Evil World which is very full of sin and therefore cannot be void of sorrow Evasit omnia vitae incommoda Though he hath left some good Quis divinat an mors inviderit an consulucrit he hath escap't more evills and Death did consult his Ease and Safety more then Envy his Felicity With the wings of a Dove he is flown away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nyff. and is out of the reach both of Temptation and Trouble and shall no more offend a Good God nor be offended by bad men He is taken from the Evil to come and shall not hear or see what may make our hearts to ake and our Eares to Tingle to hear the Relation of Si bene computes plus illi remissum quam ereptum Non miser quod amisit sed Beatus quod non desiderat If you reckon right you 'l find him gainer by his loss 'T is better not to need then to injoy whatever he hath left to be above them then to have them Weep not for he is not Extinguisht but Removed Non amissus sed praemissus He ceaseth not to be Ciprian but to be here The House indeed 's pull'd down in order to repairing and raysing up more glorious and splendid But the Inhabitant was neither crushed with its Ruines nor soyled with its dust The Bird the Angell flew away at the disturbance of the Nest And the Immortall Man made his escape when Death unlock't the Prison Doors The Spirit is return'd to God 'T is a good Observation one of the Ancients makes upon that passage of God's rewarding Job Chap. 42.10 The Lord gave Job twice as m●ch as he had before or as 't is in the Hebrew Ad●ed all that had been unto Job unto the double for h● had Fourteen Thousand Sheep for his Seven Thousand and Six Thousand Camells for his Three Thousand Job 1.3 with 42.12 and a Thousand Yoake of Oxen and a Thousand Shee-Asses for Five Hundred of Each But He gave him but Seven Sons and Three Daughters the even Number which he had before Greg. Nyss Oratione fu●eb pro pulcheria in fine Compare Chap. 1 2. with Chap. 42.13 And he gives the reason of it because 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He gave him twice as many Cattle as he had before but only the Even Number of his Children because they perish't not as did the Cattle though they dyed and so the Equal Number prov'd Double in Effect and Job had twice Ten Children half in another World and half in this at the same time though in so distant place I need not heap Arguments to prove the Souls Existence after Death St. Luke 12.4 St. Mat. 10.28.22.32 when Christ hath so plainly told you It cannot be killed And that He who is the God of the Living not of the Dead is still the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob who therefore do still live 1 King 17.21 The Prophet pray'd that the Childs Soul might return again into him not a new one be made for him And St. Paul speaks most expresly that when we are absent from the body we shall be present with the Lord 2 Cor. 5.8 and therefore desires to be dissolved that he may be with Christ Phil. 1.23 Which were a most absur'd Argument if the Soul should bear the Body company in dying And the Souls under the Altar call for vengeance against them who shed their blood De consolatione ad Marti Cap. 24. Seneca could tell disconsolate Mercia Imago duntaxat Filii tui periit Effigies non similima ipse quidem aeternus meliorisque nunc Status est despoliatus oneribus alienis sibi relictus The Image only of thy Son is perished and the Picture which was not very like him neither is defac'd But he himself is Eternall in a better state eas'd of his uneasie burden and now at freedom to injoy himself Arguments for the Souls imortality and Existence after death And if I may suggest an Argument or Two It would be a Chasma and Hiatus in Nature if some Creatures being wholly Immortall others wholly mortall there were not one made up of both Fibula utriusque mundi the Button and the Buckle of both Worlds which knits and clasps them into one Connubium visibilis invisibilis The Beast and Angell mixt into one which makes a medium betwixt both and containeth both Doth the Image of the King Perpetuate his Coyne and render it Treasonable to Melt it down And shall not Gods Image much more preserve what that is stamp't upon from perishing It acts without the body and above it here that is an Earnest it can be without it afterwards It is a Spirit consists not of Contrarie's of Corruptible of Self-destoying Principles therefore abides for Ever Hath Vast and Everlasting Expectations which Nature would never have imprest if they had been in vaine Lastly consent of Nations Seals to this Truth These if neither most nor best are such as lay uppermost amongst my sudden thoughts and may suffice Weep not for He shall Rise again Non solum representata sed expectata resurrectio luctum nobis minuere debet ob mortuos Grotius He shall not continue Death's Everlasting Captive or the Graves Eternall Prisoner Thy Husband Son and Friend is but asleep he shall do well and wake The Grave hath been forc't and broken up and our True Sampson hath carried away the Gates the Bars and Posts of this Philistian Gaza O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy Victory And when that glorious Morn draws back the Curtains and dispells the Night then shall he wake Refresh't and Rise and Dress himself and be re-married to his Flesh Each Mornings Sun each Summers Verdure is a loud instance and presage of this both Testaments the Old and New confirm it as well in Examples as Predictions Christ is risen as a Man to shew 't is possible as an head to assure 't is certain And God is Just therefore the dead must Rise that what hath been so much a amiss in this Life may be amended and better ordered in the Next where it shall be Bonis Benè Malis Malè They that need more to satisfie their reason or confirm their Faith let them consult the 1 Cor. 15. Chap. at their leisure where they shall find good measure Prest and Heapt and Running over Illud te non minimum adjurerit si cogitaveris nihil profiturum dolorem tuum nec illi nec tibi percamus lachrimis nihil proficientibus Sen. Weep not Your sorrows now are fruitless wherefore should I fast Now he is dead can I bring him back again Was