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A87150	Abners funerall, or, a sermon preached at the funerall of that learned and noble knight, Sir Thomas Lucie. By Robert Harris, B.D. and Pastor of the Church at Hanwell, Oxon.	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1641 (1641)	Wing H869; Thomason E132_27; ESTC R21249	21,519	42

senses and see a decay there Or if you will abroad improve this double instance See here a Noble Paire and establish your selves in this truth by the testimonie of two mouths two bodies both not long before their ends valiant both vigorous both presenting as well and promising as much as we can and now both lie Dead before you Nay seeing Examples knowne and at hand worke best and the Eye of senses most affects the heart See here under view a Man accomplished and made up of all the Contributions of Art and Nature a Man in whom concurred all those things Pythagoras which the Philosopher could thinke to beg of his God to wit Beautie Riches firme Constitution of body and mind D. Baz●● Such a Braine such an Heart as the most learned Physitian never saw And thence inferre that There is no Redemption from the Grave For certainely if greatnesse of wit of learning of spirit of riches of friends of allies if greatnesse of care in servants of atendance in Yokefellow of skill in Physitians of affection in all could have kept off Death wee had not been thus overcast and clouded this day But no outward greatnesse will doe it Mors sceptra liga●ibus aequat aequo pede pulsat c. quae sequentur passim Death knowes no measures no distances no degrees no differences but sweepes away all and either finds or makes them Matches To you then O yee sons of the mighty is my message Set your houses in order for you must dye You are left behinde to make ready Oh prepare for death for any death nay for sudden death for why may not you fall in your strength in your Journie aswell as Abner Say then Are ye ready now ready is your Will made your Pardon sealed could you dye this houre in this place If so happy yee in case you Stay for death not death for you But if as yet you bee not Shot-free and Death-proofe what doe yee meane why doe ye defer What Doe yee thinke that death feares greatnesse or will bee answered with Complements Or doe yee thinke that greatnesse of spirit of meanes of chearfullnesse of Titles can beare you out Or that it is all one to die in a Bravado and in cold blood Or that death is the same in the hand of a man and of GOD Or that a Lord have mercy or two an houre or two before you are all dead will serve the turne No no it 's a worke of works to Die that is Actively and Cheerfully to resigne life The best who have been about it all their life finde all provisions little enough And therefore doe not thinke to slight and to outlooke that King of Feares that top-gallant but feare before hand that you neede not feare at any hand And yet let me advertise you of another extremity and that is base-feare for that will barre up the doores against all thought of death Vitellius trepidus dein'temulentus Tac. and set you either on Drinking with him in the storie or on some other Diversion therby to drowne or to forget your feares There is as elsewhere I have discoursed 1 A Spirituall Feare of death There is 2 A naturall Neither of which may bee disswaded The Feare I give warning of is 3 A Base Cold Carnall Feare which will make a man creepe into an Augre-hole swallow any sin admit of any slaverie which will kill one daily because he must once die and keepe him a perpetuall slave Heb. 2. and prisoner This the feare I would not have you Cowed by and this feare you may competently overcome if you will set right the 1 Judgement 2 Conscience 3 Heart The Inward man Things upon another occasion lately spoken to not here to be rehearsed At present this is all Mistake not Death 1 It is not in it selfe the greatest of evils As there be better things than this poore life GODS favour GODS image the Life of CHRIST Eternitie c. Vid. Animadversions of Bish of Sarum on Gods Love to Mankind So are there worse things than this death Hell is worse Sin is worse GODS Curse is worse Corruption worse Morall Sinfull Evils worse than this which is painefull and evill only to Nature And reason we have to grieve more for being in a possibilitie and proximitie of sinning than of dying 2 This Death is not so simply and intrinsecally evill as that no good can be made of it Nay this may be improved and death may bee the death of all our deaths of deadly diseases corruptions temptations of all Thus simply considered it is not so formidable as that we must fling away our weapons desert our station and fly Excessum dix Tert. contra Valent Cypria Ep. 3. as once Israel at the voice of this Goliah But now Death to a Christian becomes another thing It hath lost its name Luk. 2.29 and hears a Departure Phil. 1 23. a Dissolution a Change a Sleepe Iob 14.14 c. and we should take up GODS language Ioh. 11.11 Passim Aliud demutatio aliud perditio Tert. de resur c. 55. It hath lost its Nature and Relation t is not to such an one Penall but Medicinall destructive but fetching its denomination from its terme perfective Looke upon it under a new Notion Plin. Nat. hist lib. 7 55. and then you will not be of poore Plinies minde Hic rogo non ●uror est ne moriare mori Mart. lib. 2. Epigram That It doubles ones paine and death to Forethinke the issues of it No it doubles your strength and makes your courage redoubted therefore view it and spare not but view it thus 1 Look upon it not as destructive tending to ruine but as a meane and way to life Looke beyond it See what stands behinde it A Crowne of Glory of Life of Blisse And this end will sweeten and smooth the way it will dare amica●ilitatem mediis 2 Looke upon it as a Rod in GODS hand This as other strokes is moderated by him and hee can make a Rod a Staffe Psal 23. yea turne Moses serpent into a Rod and worke with that Rod Wonders Death is a cup in our Fathers hand as well as sicknesse and workes wonders 3 Looke upon Death in CHRIST Hee hath conquered it in his Person and will in his Members See how unable death was to separate him from the Godhead and shall be us from GOD Rom. 8.38 Rom 8.38 See how hee hath intercepted and cut off Deaths succours Whereas death borrowed its Sting from sinne 1 Cor. 15.56 and Strength from the Law and Curse CHRIST hath disarmed them all of all their destroying killing power and cald us with S. Paul to set our foot upon their neckes and to sing O Death O Sinne O Curse O Hell where 's your power c. Yea see him having kild Death and buried the Grave fetching Honey and sweet out of the

strong turning Death into a Living Friend 1 Cor. 3. ult and most usefull servant 1 Cor. 3. ult subdued to us Death and so made it Ours O view death in the face of CHRIST make him your Second in this Duell and then you are freed from the feare and so from the bondage of death then you are Men indeed Free men A Man is not himselfe but a Slave till hee can either Live or Die as this noble Gentleman and I were wont to discourse Then only he is free when with S. Paul he can abound and want bee sicke and well can live or die Nay then you shall be brave accomplisht men indeed some of GODS Rabbins as Daniel cals them Vid. cap. 9 27V t Job 32.9 A man is not to be held a man because he dares meet a man and can look any man in the face A great matter to looke a Worme in the face But then you shall be men when you can looke any paine in the face any fit in the face any danger any death in the face when you can looke Judgement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 16.13 and the unpartiall Judge in the face This is to bee a Man Thus Man-it And sith your greatnesse cannot keepe you from Dying let your Goodnesse keepe you from sinking perishing and losing by Death Thus for Davids ground of sorrow as that must be Rationall and stand upon ground Now followes his inference and practice A man great and considerable fals Therefore David fals upon mourning and pleads for it 1 A man is slaine and upon grounds of humanitie David would mourne 2 Next a publike man now upon a publike service and errand is slaine and upon reasons of State David would appeare a Mourner 3 A man so usefull was slaine in Israel and in point of Religion David is to lament and seemes to Wonder at his Servants Wondring at his practice Know yee not saith he c. q. d. It you owne your owne eyes and knowledge you cannot but know that I have reason to be sensible of this stroke Hence our second Inference Doct. 2 When great men are taken from us we must be affected with it When Abners fall men great of place and use both we must have a sense of it and observe it for use Zach 4.7 Dan 4.10 Ezek. 31 3 14 When Mountaines are shaken and Ceders shattered When pillars are Pulled downe and Stars of greatest magnitude hide their heads we must resent this with David and improve it unto sorrow Shall I need to prove these ordinary and confessed truths Eccl 7.2 Salomon tels us that A wise man layes any mans death to heart And Isaiah chides us if we let an usefull man though private passe out of the world Esay 57.1 without observation What would hee say in case we should burie a man of publike use and spirit without an Ah his glory what in this case hath beene done it is needlesse to report I will not lead the simplest out of his owne knowledge Gen. 50.10 2 Chro. 32.33 2 Chro. 35.24 25. ● King 13.14 Who knowes not what lamentations were taken up for Patriarch Iacob great Hezekiah good Iosiah who hath not heard of Elisha's Epitaph The Horsemen and Chariots of Israel and that from a man not of best note And lest you should impute all this to the greatnesse only of mens place without respect had to mens use and worth the Holy Ghost is pleased to set a marke upon the Coffin of persons lesse publike and more obscure when they were use full Thus Nurse Deborah a profitable member leaves a marke upon the place of her buriall The Oke of Weeping more famous than the Oke of Reformation in our Storie Gen. 35.8 Thus mercifull Dorcas rather Tabitha was covered with teares as she covered others with cloaths Act. 9.39 Nor was this solemne mourning only for men and persons eminent for pietie but for others who in Morall and Politicall considerations were in their way usefull Thus holy David weepes over Captaine Abner of whose pietie wee heare not much All that his friend and Countrey-man saith of him is That he was a Prudent man Iosephus well qualified for naturall parts Thus he much bewails the death of Abners master King Saul and lets not to tell the State 2 Sam. 1.17 that their losse in him is great not because his forwardnes in Religion was much only he was a good Husband for the Publike and a brave Commander Vers 24. no lesse active and valiant Ratio res Dei Tort. than he was comely and proper But Reason is GODS as well as Scripture we bind up the Point with Three Reasons Reasons Reas 1 1 If we looke upon such men as they are members of a Body-Politique the losse is great If the Body cannot say of the Foot nay of one Toe of the foot nay of one joynt or naile of the toe I have no need of thee 1 Cor. 12.21 much lesse can it say so of a more noble part There is a losse a maime in the least and the body is sensible of it much more when an eye or hand or arme is taken off Dan. 11.15.22.31 And Great Personages are Eyes Hands nay Armes Reas 2 2 If wee consider such as Heads over charges who knows not what an influence they have upon Inferiours and what a dependence there is upon them They Why they are as Pinnes whereon many Vessels hang Isaiah 22. As great Okes which yeeld life to many Sprigs shade and shelter to more One such a Sunne is more than a Thousand Candles with one so pregnant and big-bellied hundreds live and die Reas 3 3 If we view them as they relate to GOD and are subjects wrought upon by him The stroke is the greater Because it is a Messenger of some Wrath. When GOD thus Beheads a Family or Towne or Countrey there 's a great breach made with such a blow when he who should stand in the gap is taken away Ier. 5.1 'T is farther an ill presagement as Isaiah foretels cap. 3. The Pilot lost the whole Ship is hazarded The Captaine as the Seventie here read it may be more than all his Companie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and weigh downe Thousands as Davids Souldiers once said 2 Sam. 18.3 In short In one head is Vertually contained the whole body Iudg. 9.53 Wound Abimeleck there and where 's Abimeleck Vses I apply now in some haste and must divide my selfe againe betwixt Great and Small Vse 1 1 And first let me begin with you of the Higher Ranke and Marke And my suite to you is That you will answer your places and be Vsefully Great which only Greatens you The Great GOD doth not measure men by Inches Men of Measures in Moses as sometimes men doe Nor by an outward Greatnesse He regards not the armes Psal 147.10 Job 34.19 or legs of a man Hee respects