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A85853	Funerals made cordials: in a sermon prepared and (in part) preached at the solemn interment of the corps of the Right Honorable Robert Rich, heire apparent to the Earldom of Warwick. (Who aged 23. died Febr. 16. at Whitehall, and was honorably buried March 5. 1657. at Felsted in Essex.) By John Gauden, D.D. of Bocking in Essex.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1658 (1658)	Wing G356; Thomason E946_1; ESTC R202275	99,437	136

by the meritorious death and passion of the Lord of life and glory the great and promised Messias thy beloved Son our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ who by suffering death hath both overcome death and satisfied thy justice for us freeing all true believing and penitent sinners from the sting curse and fear of death both temporal and eternal bringing by his glorious Gospel life and glory honour and happiness to light We beseech thee O heavenly Father for his sake who hath tasted death for us all to magnifie thy infinite mercy upon us before we go from hence and be no more seen O be better to us then ever we should be to our selves or we are utterly lost Bestow upon us all those graces and gifts which may both teach and help us to lead an holy life and die an happy death Prevent us graciously and follow us effectually with the motions and operations of thy holy Spirit which may excite and inable us speedily and throughly to mortifie the life and power of every sin in us even while it is called to day lest death and hell prevent us in our delays and presumptions Sanctifie to us all those occasions monitions and warnings by which thy providence presents the thoughts and state of death to us as the truest glass of all earthly glory that we may so lay them to heart as to die dayly to all inordinate love of our selves and of this world which at best is loss and dung in comparison of the excellency of our Lord Jesus Christ in whom thy love to us is better then life it self Thou hast by thy power given us our lives in this vain world by thy providence thou hast preserved them by thy patience thou hast spared them to this day notwithstanding we have with many sins and much unthankefulness provoked thee to our hurt yea by thy holy Word thou hast shewed and offered to us the way and reward of a better life upon our turning to thee with all our hearts from dead works to serve the living God O teach us so to number our days as to apply our hearts to true wisedom to value this pretious moment not to mispend it yea to redeem it because the days past have been evil and upon this moment depends our eternal fate O thou that hast made our moment here though it be sinful not wholly miserable but hast sweetned it with many mercies let not our eternity be miserable and sinful It is one great comfort in our mortality as to this life that we consider our sins shall not be immortal in us O let not sin die with us but before us as a work of choise and grace not of infirmity force and necessity We humbly lay hold on that eternal life which is thy gift through Jesus Christ our Lord. As we every day grow elder so Lord make us every day somewhat better as neerer to our graves so fitter for heaven teach us to live every day as if it were our last that we may never live in any such way wherein we cannot meet death comfortably make us such as thou wouldst have us while we live that we may find thee such as we would have thee when we die that when we come to die we may have nothing else to do but to resign our bodies to thy custody and our souls to thy mercy who having made this life on earth common to the bad and good the just and the unjust hast certainly prepared another state in which shall be infinite difference and everlasting distinction of recompenses to such as fear thee and such as fear thee not O enable us to do our duty and we are sure to receive thy rewards write thy name in our hearts and we need not doubt but our names are written in heaven even in thy Book of Life Sweeten the bitter thoughts of death to us by our faith and hope in the meritorious death the victorious resurrection and glorious ascension of Jesus Christ for our sakes let us find by our holiness and newness of life by our being dead with Christ and living to him that we are passed from death to life That our departure hence may be a joyful passage to a better life which consists in the vision and fruition of thy self O blessed Creator who must needs be better then all things thou hast made and as more necessary so infinitely more useful sweet and comfortable to us O that we may be willing and fitted to leave all to come to thy self that we may with all the blessed Angels and Saints for ever in heaven see love praise admire adore and enjoy thee O holy Father Son and Spirit the only true God To whom be glory and honour life and power thanks and dominion for ever Amen Februarii 17. Anno 1657. Observationes habitae In Dissectione Corporis Illustrissimi Nobilissimi Viri D. ROBERTI RICH coram Medicinae Doctoribus Chirurgis infra subscriptis 1. INventi sunt Pulmones substantiâ duriores quam secundùm naturam mole longè majores quam pro ratione pectoris toti ferè scrophulosi caseosâ materiâ magna ex parte purulentâ referti Superiori parte lobi dextri lacuna reperta est pure plena ad quantitatem cochlearis unius 2. Aqua collecta in sinistra cavitate Thoracis ad fesque librae quantitatem vel circiter 3. Auricula dextra Cordis major erat sinistrâ proportione ferè quintuplici 4. Mesenterium refertum glandulis scrophulosis aliquibus magnitudinem Ovi Gallinacei aequantibus aliis minoribus materiâ quadam sebaceâ plenis cum purulentiae guttis hinc inde sparsis in aliquibus 5. In substantia Panchreatis glandulae peregrinae huic annexus tumor scrophulosus grandis ad hepar usque protensus Orisicium Venae Portae comprimens 6. Vesicula fellis exteriùs albicans flaccida aliquam quantitatem fellis dilutioris continens 7. Hepar colore Albidiori substantiâ debito majori 8. Splen satìs laudabilis nisi quòd hinc inde granulis scrophulosis refertus 9. Inte Musculos Lumbares glandulae duae ingentes scrophuloae à quinta vertebra sinistrae partis una ad Inguen usque se protendebat ex dextra parte altera non adeo longa Fran. Prujean Geor. Bates Tho. Coxe Robertus Lloyd J. Goddard Theophilus Garancieres Edward Arris Chirurgus John Soper Chirurgus I Have judged my publishing of this Funeral-Sermon upon the immature death of the Son the fittest occasion I am ever like to have while I live to present those who can look upon eminent goodness without evil eyes with a short Epitome of the Mothers worth as it was long since in way of Epitaph composed by a person whose ambition is That justice might be done to the dead as well as to the living Vicious minds and manners like dead carkasses are then best when so buried that nothing may appear to posterity of their noysome and contagious fedities But exemplary and meritorious

buy and sell to sport and play to fight and kill others yea to gratifie thy senses in all sorts of pleasures and to attend nature in the most sordid necessities and yet canst find no time to repent no nor to admit one serious thought of repentance to lodge in thy soul one day one hour no not one minute Yea canst thou find time to sin all manner of sins over and over that thou thinkest safe from the vengeance of man and yet no time to repent of thy sins against God No time in youth to repent of the sins of childhood or puerice which St. Austin now an aged yet tender-hearted penitent did reflect upon and repent of with tears St. Austin's confession Tantillus puer tantus peccator No time in riper years to repent of the inordinate hears of youth to quench the flames of extravagant lusts which God and nature reason and Religion command to be confined as fire to their proper hearths and chimneys the order of modesty and chastity but they are not allowed to set fire on the house-top to the fighting against and endangering both soul and body Canst thou find no time in the high noon and Solstice of thy life no nor yet in the decline and evening when gray hairs are here and there when thy eyes grow dim and the shadowes long to repent of thy former misdemeanors thy neglects and slightings of God thy despising his mercies thy uncharitableness sacriledge Psal 50.21 cruelty oppressions hypocrisie lying swearing murthers blasphemies insolencies hardness and impenitency carried on against thy God and thy Saviour thy Mediator and thy own soul with so high an hand so long a time Sure thou either believest there is no God or that he is such an one as thy self neither wise nor good not holy nor just that he hath revealed no Word or Will Law nor Gospel to mankind that he is indifferent what we do or impotent to reward or revenge that he hath neither heaven nor hel crowns nor flames for either good or bad that they who feare God and they that feare him not shall be all blended by death in an eternal Chaos medly or confusion without any distinction of reward or punishment according to their works upon these perswasions only thou canst be hitherto impenitent But if any one of those sharp arrows of divine truth which are shot from heaven which thou hast heard of Atheus est qui non tam credit quam cupit non esse Deum seen and received into thy brest which thou canst with no colour of reason deny or repel and which with much adoe thou bafflest and shufflest off to a kind of cavilling unbelief I say if but one of them had well fixed it selfe upon thy heart and conscience it would move thee to the speedy thoughts and essays of repentance at least to pare off the superfluity of thy sins and that excess of riot 1 Pet. 4.4 which argue more a monster then a man and a Divel then a Christian who loves darkness more then light and in the midst of that glorious Gospel which hath shined from Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Martyrs Confessors John 3.19 all good Christians in all ages and places yea from Christ himself confirmed to be the light life the Redeemer and Saviour of the world by many infallible signs and wonders In this blight Temple thou affectest the dungeon and vault of thy rotten and nasty lusts chusing death and refusing life digging deeper into hell then when thou mightest make an ascent to heaven by those gracious means as the ladders of heaven which are offer'd thee in precepts promises terrors comforts holy patterns and great examples set before thee in all grace and virtue which whoso seeth not must needs be blind whoso sees and doth not praise yea admire must needs be unthankful whoso is not proportionably affected to their truth and worth Divinae veritatis majestatem benignitatis gloriam gratiarum nitorem virtutum pulcherimam suavitatem qui non videt caecus est qui videt non laudat ingratus est qui videns laudansque parili affectu non movetur aut mortuus est aut insanus Eccles 12.6 must needs be either mad or dead as St. Austin speaks Surely if thou couldst once meet thy self that is thy conscience in the cool of the day apart from the heats of thy passions and the rapid torrent of thy foolish and hurtful lusts thou wouldst bethink thy selfe at length before thou diest of the necessary work of Repentance and not only before thou diest but before thou declinest and droopest It is indeed a sad uncertain and uncomfortable work to begin when a man is drawing to his end then to tune thy soul for God when thy body is most out of tune and thy mind too then to begin to wind up the strings of an Instrument when the very ribs of it are flying in pieces Who of a thousand can hope to draw waters out of the deep wells of salvation when the golden bowl and silver cord of life as Solomon speaks are almost broken and loosed It must needs be an hudling and most confused work then to set thy house in order I mean that interiorem animae domum inward withdrawing room of thy soul thy heart which ought to be as a Temple always fitted for God purged from sin adorned with all gracious habits then when the Tabernacle or out-house of thy body in which thy soul dwels is wholly out of order either burning with feavorish flames or tottering with consumptionary weakness or burdened and falling with unnatural loads and painful obstructions Thou couldst never have chosen a worse or unfitter time to repent then when the pains of sickness the inquietudes of body the impertinent visits of friends the cryes of relations the want of sleep all extremities the terrors of death and the stupors of soul are before thee or pressing upon thee Repentance is a work to be begun seriously in the most sedate temper of soul and calmest state of life when we enjoy the greatest serenity of body and mind when we have most leisure fewest interruptions and least diversions strongest temptations potentest oppositions and the greatest abilities of soul to resist them Once well begun it must at the same rate be carried on every day For this like oft pumping in a ship that hath but little leaks will keep her afloat but it is desperate plying the pump when a vessel hath now so many foot water in hold that it begins to sink The early repentings in our health are the best Antidotes and Cordials in our sickness like Summer provisions seasonably laid in against an hard Winter nor is there any bitter potion which a sick man is less able or disposed to take then that of Repentance when he is weak languishing sunk dispirited almost despairing in his sickness which is like a mans setting himself to cleave logs and therewith to make himself