Pompey was in Joab before it was in them He could not abide a corrivall or equall Let great Commanders looke to this Ambition is a Planet that must have a whole Orbe to it selfe and is impatient of Consort 4. His Funerall and that was solemne and honourable in Hebron now the royall City and formerly the Sepulchrall of Abraham Isaac c. At which David was chiefe mourner for he followed the Bed or Herse verse 31. and he was the Oratour that made the speech of Lamentation as he had before done for Saul and Jonathan 2 Sam. 1. 19. Now for the Hersebefore you let us see how farre it paralells with this in the Text. 1. The Prince or great man fallen this day in England was Captaine Lord Generall of the Host of England There is agreement in the Office and Title the Text could not be proper to any fallen under our Meridian unto this day but unto this new starre created by the Parliament and arising in this Horizon about July 1642. and now eclipsed or fallen 2. His project is written in a copy fairer then the originall and goes farre beyond that of Abner The reducement of divided Israel into one hive is somewhat alike in both But here is no effeminate spark that raiseth the spirit of this great man into a flame no such cause of his engagement but the defence of those pupill twinnes the two bleeding sisters ready to dye in each the others bosome the liberty and property of the Subjects of England 3. His fall is cleere of the disaster in Abners story he falls not by the hand of some unworthy and villanous desert or of him made bold by his vanquishment or flight as Pompey did nor by the just fury of an oppressed Senate as Caesar did nor by the arts and stratagems of a treacherous death as Abner did The hand of Joab is not in all this but by an Euthanasy which Augustus wisht for a faire death Hee dyed in peace 4. His Funerall for the state of it certainly over-matches the patterne Here are the two Houses of Parliament the map of all England in two globes powring out their sorrowes and paying their kisses of Honourable farewell to his tutelar sword The Princes of the Land that quarter with him in in honour and in bloud doe quarter with his herse this day in blacke and mourning The flowre of the renowned City of London far surpassing the meanness of Abners Hebron doe traile their teares after his Herse and are come to put upon him their civicam coronam their civicall crown of Honour propter servatos cives for their saved Citizens The reverend Judges and the Worthies of that gowne doe present the mourning teares of the lawes that pay this tribute for their freedome from all Antinomian prerogative The honourable souldiery those great names which while they wore his Orenge in the field could have daunted death it selfe doe now in change of colour weepe over him and what marble weepes not in such change of weather David that could take a lion by the beard yet weepes at the Herse of Abner The gowne also hath its ranke with the sword in this great Army of mourners The Assembly of Divines whose prayers hee somtimes valued and requested neede not be distreined for their contributions of teares grief they must wrap up in a cloth and lay up behind the Ephod this Goliah'-conquering sword in memory of a very cordiall and noble Patron Lastly what should I say of those starres that come not into any constellation I meane persons of quality not within the rankes yet within the line of this Lamentation together with that infinite multitude of all sorts from Cedars to the hysop that doe not onely come to fill their eyes but to empty them I must conclude to say as the cryer of the Ludi saeculares at Rome which were but once in a hundred yeares Come and see that which ye never saw before Plin. l. 7. c. 28. nor shall ever see againe If yet it be replyed that Abners Funerall hath one point or two of State above us David a mourner David an oratour I say but this The teares of David were at this time in great part Compurgators of that suspicion which he might lye under of having a finger in that wherein Joab had his hand which kinde of teares we have not nor could wish to have though Davids only in the orator David that made the speech wee are exceeded and I am glad that such a State as this is inferiour and deficient in nothing but that wherein my poore service lies By this unparallelling parallell you may easily see that my discourse will be divided between two noble Generalls and first let us come to the Text wherein David speakes something of the dead and something to the living Of the dead That a Prince and great man is fallen this day in Israel To the living Know yee not It concernes you to Vatablus in Annot. know or I would have you take notice both of it that I am weake this day though annointed King and that the sonnes of Zeruiah are too hard for me so that I cannot execute justice at present upon the bloody hand that hath given us this stroke Concerning that which is spoken of the dead therein you shall finde the reason or spring of the teares of this lamentation A Prince and a great man fallen and fallen this day in Israel This day in-Israel hath the Emphasis in it In this nick of time wherein Israel was upon the point of reducement by the agency and usefull contributions of this great man who seemed to be the onely Pilot that could have put the ship into quiet harbour or at least a very great steers-man in the worke This day is hee fallen and so Israel if not more alienated by his fall yet remaineth in distraction and unsettlement and this day wherein I cannot give them just reparation if they should demand it of mee if any shall deny that there is any accent or emphasis in the word this day in Israel doe but borrow the reflexion of light from the story and that will cleare it I shall not crumble that I have to say into literall and syllabicall minuts least I be of their number qui Gallius Doct. verborum minutijs rerum frangunt pondera but will draw up the matter into this theam or head The fall of a Prince and a great man in the time of his agency and usefulnesse for the settlement of the distractions of Israel is just reason of a sad and solemne lamentation This point I will open by parts and those words Know yee not shall bring up the uses of it in the rear 1. The subject of this lamentation is a Prince and a great man Prince to our English eares sounds the first masculine branch or surcle shooting from the stem of Majestie But the Scripture which speakes no Treason gives this title to Captains in
Robert Earle of Essex his Excellence Generall of the Army Imployed for the defence of the Protestant Religion the safety of his Maties Person and of the Parliament the preseruation of the Lives Liberties of the Subiects Aetatis suae 56. THE HEARSE OF THE Renowned THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT EARLE OF ESSEX and Ewe Viscount Hereford Lord Ferrers of Chartley Bourchier and Lovaine sometime Captaine Lord Generall of the Armies raised for the defence of King and Parliament As it was represented in a Sermon preached in the Abbey Church at Westminster at the Magnificent Solemnity of his Funerall Octob. 22. 1646. By RICHARD VINES Eccles 12. 5. Man goeth to his long home and the mourners goe about the streets Published by Order of the House of Peeres LONDON Printed by T. R. and E. M. for Abel Roper at the Sign of the Sun against Dunstans Church in Fleet-street 1646. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE The House of PEERES Assembled in PARLIAMENT Right Honorable I Have performed what service I am able to the memory of the renowned Lord deceased And to the Commands of that Right Honorable and Noble Triumvirate which gave being to this Sermon And to your Lordships by whose Order I have adventured upon this Publication All men except such whose either morosity or malignity doth account vetera in laude praesentià in fastidio must acknowledge the worth the valour the faithfulnesse which lie under the Robes you weare and that it is not a meere borrowed Opinion which makes you Honorable but the reflection or rebounding back of that upon you which went first out from you But this Sermon will teach you that Titles of Honour are written in dust and that Princes and great men must fall their very Monuments are mortall and will in time be found as Archemedes his Tomb by Cicero in vepretis over-growne with Thorns and Bryers and that light of memory which shines after your Sun-set is but like the Moon which wanes also by degrees No glory that 's woven in the finest Tapestry of this world but will lose colour decay and perish but saving grace and the knowledge of Jesus Christ is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a possession for eternity your zealous agency for the Church and State will carry you as far towards Immortality as any other Chariot in this world It s as much as nothing when one can say no more of a man then is said of some great ones that they reigned and died The Gen. 36. 33. Lord give you hearts actuated with zeal for God together with a right temperament of counsels knowing that you are over a people who as Tacitus saith nec totā servitutem pati possunt nec totam libertatem and if your fall do come before you see or reap the fruit of your labours The Lord make you such as may take comfort with you and leave Honour behinde you so prayeth Your Lordships most humble and unworthy servant in and for Jesus Christ RICHARD VINES Die Veneris 23. Octob. 1646. ORdered by the Lords in Parliament assembled That this House gives thanks to Master Vines for the great pains by him taken yesterday in the Sermon hee preached at the solemnization of the Funerall of the Earle of Essex deceased And hee is hereby desired to Print and Publish the same which is not to be Printed by any but by Authority under his own hand Jo. Browne Cleric Parliamentorum I appoint Abel Roper to print this Sermon Richard Vines A SERMON PREACHED At the Solemnization of the Funerall of the Right Honorable ROBERT Earle of ESSEX c. Right Honorable c. AS that Lot sent forth to attach a particular man Josh 7. 16. did move gradatim and by steps taking first the Tribe then the Family then the House and at last the Man after which manner of progression though at fewer steps Jonathan was also taken 1 Sam 14. 42. So doe the trackes or vestigia appearing to your eye lead you at two or three removes to the most sad occasion of this extraordinary and magnificent solemnity The Escocheons which are the Index of the Family do speak first and tell the name of that honourable Family which this Lot hath taken And this sable field of men charged with a stately Herse honoured with so great a confluence of names and titles of honour granted either by the Sword or Gowne whether Honourable Worshipfull or Reverend and that in this place where the Dij majorum gentium have their Shrines where the Lions of England have usually put off their exuvias and where Majestie and highnesse have laid up what of Mortality they had doth proclaime him to bee some Prince or great name of that Family whom the Lot hath taken But then the Military Equipage the mourning Drumme the broken Launce the insignia Instruments of Warre reversed and in a mournful posture The Truncheon in a dead hand doe speake the very man It is Jonathan that is taken And shall Jonathan dye that hath wrought so great salvation in Israel It is alas too late to say shall Jonathan dye This Jonathan cannot be rescued by the love of Israel therefore I must sadly lay the Scene in one that is already 1 Sam. 14. 45. fallen for do not yee know that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel 2 SAM 3. 38. Know yee not that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel THIS Text presents you with the Herse of Abner a Prince and a great man fallen in Israel This day presents you with a paralell Herse of a Prince and a great man fallen in England both of them magnificently attended with the drooping statelines of publike and universall lamentation That I may set up some lights about the Herse of Abner you may please to call to minde 1. His Office 2. His Project 3. His Fall 4. His Funerall 1. His Office was Captaine of the Host or stylo novo Lord Generall of the Forces of Israel it was not so much because he toucht King Saul in bloud being Cousin-Germane as in respect of this high command that he is called A Prince and a great man 2. His Project which he had upon the Anvile now at his death was the reducement of all Israel unto the Scepter of David herein his Project concurr'd with Gods but took rise in him from an ill or suspicious ground Ishbosheth doth but question him for familiar usage of a Concubine of Sauls which if true was in those times accounted a kinde of Crimen Majestatis and this heats his bloud for great Instruments will not beare a checke and thereupon his Stomack brings him off to David God useth the sins and great Spirits or animosities of great men though they be not carried by Conscience to bring to birth his owne purposes and promises made to his Davids 3. His Fall which was by the hand of pretended revenge but reall emulation the spirit of Caesar and
of receiving doing good Not is there a sharper corrosive than the reflection upon those dayes and times that have passed over him Male aliud nihil agentem The highest hils are the barrennest ground and I would that saying did not so truly square to great Ones that is that the goodliest Trees as Cedars c. doe either beare none or the worst Fruit. Great parts and abilities without exercise and putting forth are but secret and unknowne Mines of Silver and Gold which lye hid in an unfruitfull and unprofitable soyle And therfore you the great and Noble Worthies in whose hands are the Publike Faith the Publike Mercy the Publike Justice and the Publike Peace be good and let your goodnes make you quicke dispensers of what you have in Stewardship because the time is short and the word redde rationem may be given suddenly look upon us as mortall men who shall not live long to receive and upon your selves who shall not live long to give the fruits of your hands And because the Occasion invites me let me propound an object to your charitable justice that is the relief of those great sufferers who have bin great doers I meane the first adventurers with this great Commander when he first cut through the Alps. As for the great and doubtfull matters that are under your hand I would not be thought so rash as to wish you to precipitate A Pilot among shelves and rocks may be too quick A Cunctator sometime saved the Common-wealth only thus I may pray that when the Haven lyes faire before you and is without barre you may fortiter occupare set in stifly lest new waves raised by crosse winds carry you backe into the Main againe 3. Arme you against your fall that the day therof may be to you as the Passion-day of the Martyrs was called the birth-day of Eternity Nequaquam morte mortemini was the inlet of our sin and misery keeps the doore open to sin still The Epicure hath his Armour against death a senselesse consideration of it as of a nothing or a not being The great Spirit hath his Armour too A contempt of death out of principles of Valour and Honour but neither of these Armours can keep the arrow from the quicke There is a terrible clause in the Statute of dying And after that the judgement Nor yet will I goe about to arme you with this meditation that we shall have a shorter journey from death to life again than we had from not being unto life or that which is cited by Gerard out of Luther that all the time that hath run or shall run out from the beginning to the end shall seeme to Adam when he riseth againe but tanquam somnus unius horae as the sleep of the body for one houre But if you will breake the fall which else will breake you then you Gods must become Saints for all Gods are not Saints the death of Saints is more precious then the death of Gods Grace is speciall baile against death there is no gall and vinegar in it to be drunk by them for whom Christ hath already drunke it Death saith the Apostle is yours because contributory and subservient to your happines That life which is hid with Christ in God is out of the reach of death our Saviour proves Abraham to be living because God had long after his death said I am the God of Abraham Those that are confederate with God in Covenant must always live that the Covenant may not be dissolved by the death of the one party There is a way then to break the teeth of death and to be immortall Have God for your God labour to have something in you that is immortall besides your very souls lay up for your selves a treasure beyond the sea of death that when this membrana dignitatis as Seneca cals it a thin skin of honour breaks you may not be quite bankrupts enrich your souls with the power of godlines which is profitable to all things The place of Princes the magnificence and great works of great men The faith and godlines of poore men doe make a rare composition Do not in stead of disarming death arme it rather against you by putting a sword into the hand of it The more service that you may doe by the advantage of ground you stand upon the heavyer will your accounts be if your greatnes be made a Stage and Theater for to act the parts of luxury lasciviousnes oppression upon What difference is there between such gods and those in Homer of whose drunkennesse and adulteries there is frequent mention let me speake one word to you young Noblemen and Gentlemen Learne you the way of godlinesse that may free you from the loosenesse and vanitie incident to greatnesse for when you have given florem Diabolo the floure of your time to lusts of youth your fall may come before you can so much as give faecem Deo the dregs thereof to God I conclude this point with that which one observes upon Gods seeing all the works that he had made that they were very good for then immediately saith he followed the Sabbath or rest of God which though our salvation be not of workes may signifie thus much to you that when you shall come to a retrospect upon your wayes and works and find them so empty of and contrary unto God there can be no expectation of a Sabbath or rest unto your soules and therefore wash ye make ye cleane c. Isa 1. 16 17. The second Know ye not is spoken to you the lower shrubs You are to know that your great men may fall in the very time of their usefulnesse and service for your good In their losse bewaile your sins for though you feele not the stroke while the wound is fresh and green yet afterwards you will find the want of such as are worthy instruments when wee expect they should doe great things God by taking them away interrupts the cast Put not therefore your trust in Princes nor in the son of man in whom there is no salvation for his breath goeth forth and in that very day his thoughts perish Ps 146. 3 4. even his projects and intentions for your good dye in the wombe and are abortive If we leane hard upon the reed it breaks the sooner and wee are laid flat on the ground God will not let his people enjoy that long which they prize too much some worme shall smite that gourd and it shall wither and though many great men are not likely to be blasted by the confidence of the people yet our sad experience teacheth us that we smell too much to our sweetest flowers and so wither them I Shall now come to the paralell Herse of that Prince and great man fallen this day in England of whom though modestie it selfe may without blushing speak in a magnificent stile yet have my thoughts waved me too and fro it not being easie to be
moderatour of the Arguments that are for speech or silence Not because the matter will surpasse the work-manship and the copiousnesse of the subject shame the penury of my expression but because on the one hand it is argued that Funerall Encomiastickes of the dead are very often confections of poyson to the living for many whose lives speake nothing for them will draw the example into consequence and be thereby led into hope that they may presse a hackny Funerall Sermon to carry them to Heaven when they dye especially if such for whom no file could be rough enough while they lived be smooth-filed when they are dead on the other hand it may be said That though coÌ„mon graves have no inscription yet Marble Tombes are not without some Epitaph Heroicall examples should not go with a common passe but with a Trompet David afforded this Honorary to Saul and Abner and which is to be observed he drew not any line in their pictures with a black coale which yet he might have done for both of them had too much shadow if he would have used it but he dealt with them as the Painter did with Antigonus who had but one eye he drew his Picture imagine lusca halfe-faced and so buried the deformitie out of the beholders sight Neither is this all which makes me stand in a slippery place but the various senses and censures too which are very likely to be found in this great multitude Some that hated the sound of his Drums and Trumpets will not patiently endure the Ecchore-sounding to their dis-affected eares And some againe are indifferently content to heare some good words of his Epitaph because it begins with Hîc jacet here he lyes as Caracalla said to them that desired that some honours might be spent upon his Brother Geta now dead out of his way Sit divus saith he modo non sit vivus honour him as you will so as he doth not live The most voyces will doubtlesse vote that it is needlesse to set up a Candle to the Sunne for his story is yet alive in all mens memories and the stage whereon he acted it is yet warme The truth is I had rather leave him to the history which I hope the honourable Houses have bespoken and to that Homer that shall be the praco of this Achilles But because his name would sometime have passed me clear through all Guards and probably hath not as yet lost that vertue and that this State and presence speakes him with more eloquence then I so that I can but run the hazard of being an imperfect interpreter by word of that honour which your selves doe speake by signes And since death hath put him beyond pride all beyond envy and my selfe beyond flattery what if wee make a short Index of his Story and audit his dâ—bentur in the mean time not drawing him in full proportion but as Ezekiel pourtrayed the Citie of Ierusalem upon a Tile which wil indeed be more suitable to the posture we are in for deepe sorrowes make no long orations Leves loquuntur curae ingentes stupent Since then it must be so jacta est alea I shall impose upon my self this law not to build his Monument of common stones nor trouble my self and you to gather such flowers to cast upon his grave as grow in common fields nor descend or stoope to any thing which is beneath Heroicall His Nobilitie and his Noblenesse though they might each of them adorne his Monument yet the third which is his Excellency is the transcendent For his Nobilitie He was sprung of an exceeding faire an ancient Stem which doth branch forth into the great and Noble Families of the Princes and great men of England and he was the third of this Title which was inoculate into that Stem by Q. Elizabeth of famous memory But Titles of Honour must dye as well as men and because this renowned streame carries it's name no further I shall omit all matter of Heraldry as not becomming me at this time and place His Noblenesse was of a high and honourable elevation He was a man of fixed principles and of a masculine resolution of an inviting familiarity in a stately presence too generous to be cruell too great a Patriot to be Courted his compasse without trepidation or variation had constantly stood right to that Pole the good of his Country which he kept in his eye both when he wore the Gowne and Sword He was fidè Romana Anti-Romana of Roman faithfulnesse and of Anti-Roman faith A Senatour that honoured his Robes The teares of England of his servants of his tenants do speake him in a better language then the most eloquent Marble is able Though tenants teares be no commendation to a living landlord yet are they credit to the dead The Character of his Excellency may be that which David sometime gave to Abner the great man in my Text Art not thou a valiant man and who is like thee in all Israel When the time was come that Ianus Temple must be open'd here in England by the Porter that onely hath the key of it Necessitie and those orphane sisters before spoken of Libertie and Propertie were to chuse their Guardian Champion and Vindex you the Honourable Trustees looked out for a Dictator in whose hands you might deposite the very being safety freedom lives Senatus populique Romani of the Parliament and people of England and happily pitcht your eye and choyce upon this man who was stirpe ingenio bellicosus One that had honour to give credit to the Cause he undertooke reputation to vindicate his undertaking from contempt of enemies Interest whose Drum could presse an Army dexteritie to manage the Sword Counsell to direct it Valour to use it faithfulnesse to discharge it And he was the man you then resolv'd to live and dye with It was the greatest honour in the world to be credited with the infinite depositum of the life and being of the Parliament of England And at this time when you had assigned this Theater to act his part upon it was the highest honour to him that he would undertake to Pilot a Ship so laden with so great a fraught through the tempestuous and angry Seas which then began to swell and be intractable when this poore Kingdome knew not for the most part how to weare Buffe and Steele untill taught by him in whom that ancient Chivalry and Valour of England which had left it's Monuments in France and other parts of the world but of later times almost emasculate and grown obsolet was concenter'd and by transmigration had layd it selfe up in him He was the man that was to breake the yce and set his first footing in the Red Sea a Hercules but not in bivio a man resolved when others hung in suspence fixt when some starres of greatest magnitude were moved with trepidation or erratick That filled the breach when many lay post principa behind the hedge
No Proclamation of Treason could cry him down nor threatning Standard daunt him That in that misty morning when men knew not each the other whether friend or foe by his arising dispel'd the fogge and by his very name commanded thousands into your service Such as were for Reformation and groaned under pressures in Religion he tooke by the hand and they him Such as were Patriots and would stand up for common Liberties he tooke by the hand and they him and so became the bond or knot of both as the Axletree of the world upon which both the Poles doe move And this must be his honour alone for ever for though Ioshua also doe admirably when he comes to it yet it is Moses that first leads forth Israel by their Armies Thus he enter'd and for his deportment upon the Stage and the experience he gave of himselfe who knowes not it Such was his personall valour as if nothing but steele had gone to his composition The instances are famous In that great battell at Edge-hill where this Kingdome had her first Crisis upon a Sabbath day our wars have now fulfilled above halfe a weeke of yeares when he had lost a wing yet he flew about Et nullo discrimine notum dux an miles erat He shewed his Army there what a man they had adventured with in their first Voyage No I prae sequar Captaine but one whose Valour gave the word sequimini me with whose steele it s no disparagement to say that his for ever famous Chieftaines sharpned their edge and so that hill was made a standing Trophee your enemies Right Honourable from that day begun to take you for a Parliament I must leave to the large Map of his Story those many memorables victories which bear his name for even great places doe not always find any room in a little Map and shall instance him but in one other particular that famous expedition to Gloucester when we were at a very low water and this Eagle had then also moulted his feathers and having imped them with renowned Londoners did fight the greatest part of that long march thither where the then Governour whom I may borrowing Cicero his word call hujus Regni Stator the Stator of the Kingdome of England because he tooke the enemy his horse by the bridle in his full career and stopt him and being resolved to sell that City to them by the candle was rescued before the candle dropt by this noble Champion who retreating from that Tropick fought his way backe againe through hunger and hardship and because this Retreat should not be like an empty field without some charge He scattered that great Army near Newbery and to you this renowned City reddidit Legiones restored your valiant Legions and restored England to it selfe An unparalell'd Expedition His Faithfulnes was like Touch or Marble without any streaming flaw no Honours Offices or whatsoever beares the name of greatnesse could bribe it The two Indies would have bin as dirt He knew the Pole he must saile by and steered not by a mercenary Compasse He had espoused the Senate and Liberties of England and was resolved aut liberare fidem aut solvere animam His ends so far as one may learne the marke by the Archers eye were not private interests respects or parties to be served upon the ashes of publike ruins Talk of gold to souldiers of fortune He was Themistocles A right line drawne from the Center you set him would have cut the center of his aimes and ends Had you falne upon such a Merchant as would have been eccentricke to you and have cauponated the war to raise his private interest or have put in the great fraught he was trusted with and consigned the Cargazone to some Royall Port oh what a Ferall Table of Proscriptions like that of Syllae's might have bin set up amongst us and your lives have bin bargain'd for and sold as that Triumvirate did the lives of the Senatours of Rome His Counsell and wisedome was such as argued him to be a man that knew conduct He had a fine finger to find out and skilfull to untie or cut the knot In foresight of danger his eyes were open but when he came to execute his Councels his eyes were shut against all impressions of feare and terrour His love and respect to the Souldiery such as became a brave Christian He would not Turkishly fill ditches or stop Canon with them His hand of reliefe was not shut or short to rescued prisoners He affourded honourable respect to naked and wounded valour His countenance paid and arm'd his souldiers when sometimes they wanted both and no wonder if his Schoole bred such a gallant Infantry which had such a Master and such an Usher In summe This Camillus was a second Romulus His Monument needs no inscription for his Epitaph is written in the hearts of men Nothing but ESSEX the Great the Valiant the Faithfull the Parliaments Essex the Essex of England and the Tutelar thereof who added to his Noble Coronet all the Militarie Crownes saving that which is called Navall or the Sea-Crowne which is due to another most Noble Worthy more faithfull than the Element he was then the Master of For his death the Forlorne hope it sent out before it was but sleightly the Physicians thought him bailable but death lay in ambuscado in a full body suddenly surprized him with a dying sleep and now we are erecting of his Monument one of the seven wonders of the World was a Tombe And if the Noble and Famous men who fought under his Banner shall please to be set in for his supporters it will be such a Squadron-Monument as will have no Brother in England untill the time doe come and I wish it may be long first that the most renowned and excellent Champion that now governes the sword of England must now lay his bones by him and then there will be the Alpha and Omega of such a Story as shall render God fearfull in prayses doing wonders by the first hand of him that led us through the untrodden paths of the wildernesse and by the second hand of him that hath made Victory which Homer calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Jack on both sides to change its name who if he shall have but one stone out of each City or strong Hold taken by his Armes to make his Tombe it will be such a Monument that every stone of it will speak a History and some a Miracle Or if that cannot be it will be enough that he lay his head upon an immortall Turff taken out of Naseby field God thought Moses or rather made him the fittest man to begin lead Israel forth and he honored Ioshua with the compleating of the worke neither doth Ioshua eclipse the worth of Moses nor he the worth of Ioshua and so craving pardon of my boldnesse with your patience I have endeavoured to speak wthout reflections upon any nor did I
mean to tread on the foot or toe of any man thereby to raise my speech the higher as knowing that this Prince and great man needed not to pull downe the stones of any other mans Monument to build his who had enow in his owne Quarry as being nexâ—â—â—e Honourable Parliament that first man from whom we passe to our posterity the conveyancies of our liberty and safety Et nati natorum qui nascentur ab illis I have no more but this He lived a good Generall He dyed a Generall good and therefore a lamentation to all Israel and so I leave him in his Bed of Honour and draw the Curtains and put out the lights Only a word at parting and first my Lords to you we may know how great the Tree that 's fallen was by the vacuity or void place it leaves behind it We look upon you as them that will endeavour to prevent the vacuum by acting from that noble principle which moves to the universall and common good the losse we have sustained is great though he never had wore Buff but only Parliament Robes and they say that when a limbe or part of a man is cut off anima retrahitur the soule is retracted I wish the Philosophy may be verefied in the retraction of his reality and faithfulnesse unto you that so he may remaine among you in quintessence and vertue being as it were divided among you as they say of Romulus that he was discerpt by the Senate when he dyed and every Senatour got a piece of him Let nothing that was exemplary in him be put in his grave that neither we nor our posterity may have cause to write upon his Statue as they did upon that of Brutus utinam viveres As for his Military worth If any shall apply themselves to copy it out or some young Noble Spark shall please to goe to Schoole to his Monument their lesson is Disce Miles militare Galba est Here they shal be taught how to excell fide armis How to have mettell in their Coat as well as Colour How to carry themselves so as they may legere exercitum non emere win an Army and not presse silence mutinies or perswade the souldiery with one â—ord Quirites and in a word how to be an Essex not a Caesar who converted his Arms against the Senate and therefore hath a blot in his Copy to this day I must conclude with you the most Honourable Senate of England It would be too much presumption in me to thanke you for this Honour of your presence and sorrowes It s a great thing to be made immortall by an immortall Parliament All the Honour which belongs to your servants and instruments redounds to you what they get or receive is but handed by them to you the owners should we write downe but fifty to them when there is a hundred due the losse would be yours It was a stately deportment to entertaine the neweâ— of this great Champion and Senatour his death as the old Romans used to entertaine sad tydings mutatis vestibus and to honour your sorrow with an adjournment This is the way to breed more Essex's It s Honour that breeds a souldier Take honour out of his eye and you cut off the spurres from his heeles My wishes are first that you may never have occasion to create any moe then you have done by the name of Excellency secondly that if you must there may be such men with whom in safety you may lay up your lives and thirdly that you may have the happines to pitch upon them Amen FINIS Errata P. 15. l. ult for cared r. carried p. 26. l. 24 r. assigned him p. 29. l. 23 for Christian r. Chrestaine p. 30. l. 19. put out now p 32 l. 8. for accord r. word