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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17866	A treatise upon death first publickly delivered in a funerall sermon, anno Dom. 1630. And since enlarged By N.C. Preacher of Gods word in Scotland at Kilmacolme in the baronie of Renfrew.	Campbell, Ninian, 1599-1657.	1635 (1635)	STC 4533; ESTC S118869	47,144	129

compared by profane and divine writers to a passenger to a walking to a pilgrimage to a race to a post to a chariot to a whirlegig to a warfare to a tabernacle to the flitting of a tabernacle to a turning wheel to a stage-play to a table-play to dice to counters to a tale to a tennice-court to a weavers shutle to the dayes of a hireling to the moneths of vanitie to the wing of an eagle to an eagle in the aire to a span or hand-breadth to a smoak to a blast to a breath to winde to a passing cloud to a vanishing vapour to a bell to a space to a tyde to an ocean of waters to a ship sayling through the sea to a gowne soon put off or on to a sleep to a night watch to grasse to hay to a fading flower to a leaf to a thought to a dream to a shadow to the dream of a shadow to vanity to vanity of vanities to nothing to lesse then nothing This Epicharmus alludeth unto while he calleth man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a blowne bagge Aristophanes and Plutarch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like the flies of Aristotle at the river Hipanis which appear in the morning are in their full strength at noone and die at night like Jonah his gourd which sprung in one night and withered in another wee are like a blast and away with us as ye say in your trivial proverb And this we shall see more clearly if we look more narrowlie to our life Euripedes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Augustine expoundeth I know not whether to call this a mortall life or a vitall death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith one is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our life is a violence or trouble 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our body a sepulchre 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our beauty and colour a carion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our frame and shape a band 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our generation is a casting of us unto earth another funus est fumus our buriall a rieke So that this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a life not a life And this shall be more manifest if wee take a view of our ages First our infancie is full of infirmitie and tears when we are in our mothers bellies the least fall of her may crush us into pieces the smoak of a candle may smother us and she is so ashamed of our birth that no honest matron desireth to be delivered of us in publick And are we once come to light we creep in our own filth when other creatures take them to their feet or wings to feed themselves Secondly our child-hood is full of wantonnesse and foolishnesse we hunt after toyes and trifles not able to govern our selves wearisome of the instruction of our parents and masters and when they have much troubled themselves with us we are not worthie perhaps the paines taking on Thirdly our youth-hood is full of vaine idle and rash pleasures leading us to debauchery lulling us asleep in their bosome for to cut our throat like so many pillules of gold which under their outward beauty keep an inward sowrenesse like so many Dalila's to betray us to our enemies or like so many Syrens to devour us or like so many Judases to kill us with a kisse Fourthly our man-hood is full of pride emulation ambition with thousands of carking irking and pricking cares so that in this life we walke upon briars and he who hath the crowne on his head his heart is full of thornes and neither his purple nor his precious stones nor the magnificence of his fare or his court can keep him from traitours flatterers and assasinates So that some princes have thus spoken of their purple O cloath more glorious then happy Fifthly our old age is full of sicknesse complaints miseries for when a man hath done what he can to make himself honourable rich learned wise then it cometh to the which few winne many wish to come to it but they are no sooner arrived but they would bee far from it for with it are catarrhs colick gravell gout fever c. till that death give the stroak so that we begin in tears and end in miseries Astrologers such as Proclus Ptolemee and Aliben have more subtilly then solidly compared our ages looking to the perfection of the seventh number to the seven planets in this manner First our infancy humide moveable to the moone in the which having none or very little use of reason we live and grow like plants and in this only we differ from them as Philo Judaeus saith that other plants have their roote on earth but ours is in the heaven Secondly our child-hood to Mercurie wherein wee are taught and instructed Thirdly our youth-hood to Venus the dayes of love dalliance and pleasure Fourthly the Zeni of our youth the prime of our beauty to the sun in his goodly array Fifthly our ripe and full man-hood to Mars when we bend our desires intentions determinations towards preferment honour and glory Sixthly our raw old age to Iupiter when we begin to number our dayes and to apply our hearts unto wisedome Seventhly our rotten and decrepit age to Saturne when we are overclouded with sorrow tending to the doore of death which lyeth wide open at all times to all persons when the tyde of our dayes shall have a perpetuall ebbe without a full plemmura our leaf once fallen shal never spring up againe till that the world be no more So that ye see howbeit the spaces of our short time be compared to the heavens above yet they make us not immortall For as they have their owne courses which beginne and end according to their proper motions even so wee are wavering and wandring planets till that our first mover God settle us with eternall rest In the mean time we may say with Job ch 14. 1 Man that is borne of a woman is of few dayes and full of trouble And with Jacob Few and evil are the dayes of my pilgrimage Therefore let us live as sojourners aiming at our journeys end as runners looking for the prize as fighters sweating for the crowne for this is a strange land and this world is a banishment and heaven is our countrey and paradise our native soile and GOD our Father and Christ our Brother and the Spirit our comforter and the spirits justified our kindred and the holy angels our companions Why doe we not long for them But alas poore miserable wretches that we are wee fix not the eyes of our soules upon that life which is hid in Jesus otherwise wee would bee willing to lay downe this transitorie uncertain calamitous life for to regain that permanent secure and glorious life Oh if wee could see with the eyes of faith the things that are not seen by the eyes of a naturall man and which wait for us then ten thousand

he climbed up to the heavens The other was my dear honourable father who before his departure out of this mortall life delighted much in reading hearing meditating on this discourse and hoping that others should get instruction direction and consolation thereby commanded me to publish it So that I could not disobey him who was Gods instrument to bring me unto this world to train me up in the fear of the Lord and who both in and out of the country did prosecute me with his tender fatherly affection in my painful travels and dangerous expeditions for the golden fleece of vertue whose life was a clear mirrour of Christian charity yea above his power oftentimes which he did recommend to his children for the Lord blessed him with abundance to the end and in the end crowned his former favours with a pleasant and peaceable death which he oft craved at Gods hands and which was a matter of greater contentment to me then if he had left me heire of whole territories which with the rest of the toyes of this perishing world have but transitorie joyes like clouds rising in the morning but dissolving ere night without any memorie of them at all Neverthelesse honourable birth good education the patterne of worthy acts and the immortall fame of renowned ancestors either in church or policy communicated to the emulous posteritie for imitation is not the least portion of humane inheritance and he who follows their famous examples ingraven with letters of gold in chests of cedar or in tables of marble in the never-decaying temple of sacred memory he I say is not only in the way to worldly honour and preferment but also their footsteps lead him from grace to glorie which is the most precious purchase a Christian can acquire Without the which all is but dung and drosse for one drachme of goodnesse is better then a whole world of greatnesse even as a little pearle is of greater worth then a big rock of flint or as the sun is higher esteemed then the whole body of the firmament spangled with stars every one striving with another in beautie To be short then it is no inbred opinion of my self who am conscious of many infirmities in this body of death that maketh me to acquaint thee O Christian Reader with this funerall meditation which perhaps may live when I am dead In the mean time I wish it may teach thee me and other mortall men our Christian duety in this point rest with us familiarly at home warne us in our journey remember us of our present mortalitie guard us against our last enemie prepare us for that future immortalitie and full happinesse of soul and body conquered to us by the victorious death and meritorious passion of the only son of God our only Saviour In whom I rest ever Thine to power N. C. Ad Lectorem SI procul obscuri tenebris ab inertibus Orci Sit tibi propositum succinctae stamina vitae ' Ducere per virtutis iter dum fata diesque Suppeditant animam ne mors inopina labantem Auferat incauto neu formidabile Lethi Imperium quod cuncta domat terrorve sepulchri Vltricesve mali furiae aut quascunque sinistro Nox genuit faetu pestes quodve horridus Orcus Spirat inexhaustum flagranti pectore sulphur Solicitent miseram trepid â formidine mentem Huc ades en Campbellus opem tibi praebet anhelo Ante ferens gressus Vt quae velut orba carina Remige Jactatur variis impulsa procellis Fortunae instabilis tandem mens edita coelo Assuescat patriam paulatim agnoscere sedem Ille etenim ingenii nixus pernicibus alis Judicioque nitens memori quae docta vetustas Naturae ê tenebris hausit ratione sagaci Et quae sancta cohors patrum quos inclyta virtus Reddidit aeternos veriquoque fontibus hausta Mandavit scriptis quae ter maximus orbis Conditor indulsit divina oracula terris Hoc except a tulit tenui comprensa libello Ex quibus instructus triplici penetralia Ditis Agmine perrupit saevi mortisque ferocis Spicula contundens vinclis dare colla coêgit Qud tu magnanimo superat â morte volatu Aethereas subeas sedes lautaeque Deorum Accumbas mensae factus novus incola coeli PATRICIUS CAMPBELLUS A preface before the Sermon YE are all here conveened this day to performe the last Christian duties to a respected and worthy Baron with his honourable Lady who both have lived amongst you in this land and whose embalmed corps both yee now honour with your mourning presence and happy farewell to their grave I am here designed to put you all in minde by this premeditate speech that the next case shall be assuredly ours and perhaps when we think least of it Therefore that I may acquaint these who need information in this point with the nature and matter of such exhortations let them remember with me that there are two sorts of funer all sermons approved and authorized by our reformed churches in Europe The first whereof I call for orders sake Encomiastick or Scholastick because it is spent in the praise of the defunct and only used in schooles colledges academies and universities by the most learned And this is ordinarily enriched with pleasant varietie of strange languages lively lights of powerfull or atorie fertile inventions of alluring poesie great subtilties of solid Philosophie grave sentences of venerable fathers manifold examples of famous histories ancient customes of memorable peoples and nations and in a word with all the ornaments of humane wit learning eloquence Which howbeit I might borrow for a while yet I lay them down at the feet of Jesus and being sent hither not by man but by God whose interpreter and ambassadour I am I prefer before them the smooth words of Moses the stately of Esay the royall of David the wise of Salomon the eloquent of saint Paul and the ravishing of saint John with the rest of divine writers Gods pen-men out of whose inexhausted treasurie of heavenly consolation and saving knowledge I wish to be furnished with the secret preparation of the sanctuarie and to be accompanied with the full power and evidence of the spirit of my God For there is another second sort of funerall sermons which I call Ecclesiastick or popular viz. when the judicious and religious preacher only for the instruction and edification of the living frequently assembled at burials and earnestly desiring at such dolefull spectacles to be rejoyced in the spirit of their mindes taketh some convenient portion of scripture and handleth it with pietie discretion moderation to his private consolation the edification of his hearers and the exaltation of the most high name of God So that having no other ends but these three and taking God to be my witnesse that I abhor all religious or rather superstitious worship given to the dead and being naturally obliged to come here and oftentimes