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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

honour under the conduct of an excellent Governour Mr. Mole sometime Vniversity Orator whom I cannot mention without such honour and love as are due to modest and most deserving worth Next that he might add Honour to Learning especially in an age where Ignorance and Rusticity began very rudely to vie with both the famous Vniversities decrying all good Learning and useful studies to make way for pitiful raptures and silly enthusiasms that is putting out the two great lights of heaven that hedg-creeping gloe-worms might shine the better that instead of a sage Nobility a prudent Gentry a learned Clergy judicious Lawyers and knowing Physitians the honour civility piety the souls the estates the Laws and Religion the bodies and lives of this so renowned a Church and populous a Nation might be exposed to the wills and hands of John-a-Leidens and Jackstraw's to Cnipperdolins and Muncers to Hackets and Naylors to Lack-latin preachers pettifogging Barretors and impudent Mountebanks all of them perfect Impostors in their several professions A project so unchristian so inhuman so barbarous so diabolical as suted no interest but that of the kingdom of darkness which the wise and merciful God hath hitherto defeated and I hope ever will if he have any favour toward England beyond Turkey Tartary or Barbary From Cambridge he travelled a second time into France where he had been before he came to me abiding there above two years and gaining such improvements as are usually most aimed at by young Gallants because most conspicuous and generally accepted by all persons of civility and breeding who are glad to see that English roughness moroseness and surliness which commonly like rust attends Country Gentlemen of only domestick and home-spun education taken off by that politure douceur debonaireté and gentlenesse which forraigne conversation in which young Masters are least flattered contributes to Gentlemen that have any thing of candor and suppleness in their nature In all places abroad his demeanour was generally such as became a person of his years and quality which is testified to me by a Gentleman that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 worthy of credit who attended him in all his motions During his absence in France that the world may see my respects to him were not flashy and formal but serious and real I had prepared a large volume for him against that time in which he could best bear and entertain it for even little books are great burthens to young Gallants when their overactive spirits make then most busily idle This great work I had furnished and fortified with all the strength of reason and religion of virtue and honour of grace and civility of useful humanity and solid Divinity gained by my reading or experience in order to satisfie all his relations to God and man yea to exceed all the expectations of his noble friends who could not but expect and wish an accomplished Son to repair that loss which the world had of his excellent Mother The matter of this composure I had advanced as much as I could with all the comely beauties of Oratory and majesty of language to avoid what might be all tediousness in the most curious and coy Readers of so copious a variety the whole fabrick was both founded and formed after that great and goodly model or Idea of all true worth for judicious piety and useful virtue which was most remarkable and for many years observed by me in his noble Mother that by his beholding so fair a figure and so neer an example of piety virtue and honour he might not only grow in love with it but by the secret charm of reading be transformed into it But my attending the setledness of his station and condition of life as most proper for such a present caused my deferring so long the publishing of it even untill the fatal closing of his eyes for whose sight it was chiefly designed hath now condemned it to correspond with that silence and darkness to which he is gone as to this world I now appeal to all Hearers and Readers of any Nobleness and ingenuity whether I am not excusable if I do with more then ordinary resentments of sorrow lay to heart the death of this young Nobleman to whom I was so truly devoted and justly indeared After that rate of care and kindness which the blessed St. John expressed so far to a young man of great hopes as the Ecclesiastical Histories tell us that when the good old man heard his dear depositum had deserted his breeding Euseb Histo l. 3. c. 20. and endangered his soul he not only severely reproved that Bishop for Bishops above Presbyters were so early to whose custody he had committed him but himself in his decrepit years true love never growing old or cold and infirm sought him found him followed him overtook him overcame him first with the young mans self-confusions then with his own paternal prayers and tears which never ceased till he had recovered so welcome a captive to Christ and his Church So loth was that holy man and so was I though vastly short of that beloved Disciple that either the labour of love should be lost upon any or that any we love should be lost for want of any labour for their good no defensative being too much to preserve a soul from the snares of sin and the hazzards of damnation After he was returned into England I shall but further afflict my self to tell you how amidst all the welcome receptions visits and caresses which he received or payed to his many noble and neer relations he forgot not by any juvenile or supercilious negligence to express to me and mine such civility kindness and noble gratitude as shewed both living and dying that he had a real value love and confidence of me I confess I unfeignedly deplore my loss of him not that I either hoped or expected any secular advantages by his private or publique station beyond those civil courtesies which I have oft enjoyed from his other noble relations which if I did never deserve yet I hope I did never abuse As for publique favours attainable by any mans mediation I understand my self and the times so well in the point of preferment as not to look toward any which are now rare to he seen in England for any Ecclesiastick of my proportions nor am I so vain as to seek in vain those little great things for my self further then an Evangelical and unenviable plow in a poor Country village where as in most populous and plebeian Auditories much good seed is lost much study and pains frustrated by falling on the thority stony and high-way grounds But my work and wages I hope are with Him who is a merciful Master and most impartially bountiful Patron to all faithful Labourers in his husbandry among which I beseech God I may be found one in whom ability industry and fidelity may help to keep up the authority of Evangelical Ministry from being trodden under