unreasonable irreligious and divelish A carrionly carkass of a man is aromatick a very perfume in comparison of a dead and rotting soul The body becomes dead and so dissolves by the souls parting from it but the soul by Gods being separated from it first out of its own choise next by Gods penal deserting of it The soul is the salt the light and life of the body so is God of the soul Anima animae the very soul of our souls I mean his grace love and spiritual communion separation from this is the souls death here and hereafter For from the power wrath and vengeance of God the damned are not separated who are dead not to their being but to their well being or happiness to the union at and fruition of God in love The soul apart from God in grace or glory is not only an orphan or a widow condemned to eternal sorrow and desolation for nothing can maintain or entertain wooe wed or indow the soul to the least degree of happines or to any allay of misery when once God hath quite forsaken it But it is emortua conclamata in heaven earth and hell proclaimed as starke dead in Law and Gospel Matth. 13.42 to justice and mercy so represented in Scripture as the horridest expression or the blackest colour to set forth its misery and horror its regret and torpor its weeping and wailing its gnashing and despair Doth then such a thick cloud of horror hang over the face and state of a dead body which is senseless of its own death and deformity of its noysome grave and dark dungeon Sapiens ignis subtilis vermis carpit nutrit urit reficit Chrysol O what a world of horror must lie upon a dead soul when deservedly cast out of God's blessed presence when it feels its death and lives only to die when it feels it is plunged in a dead Sea which is boundless and bottomlesse where the worm dies not and the fire goeth not out because it is as Crysologus calls it a subtil fire and ingenious worm which burns but consumes not devours but destroyes not Who can dwell with everlasting burnings saith the Prophet in an extasie of holy horrour Isa 33.14 Who can live in everlasting dyings Who can abide his own everlasting rottings Is it a gradual and lingring death to want food raiment light liberty fit company Is it a total death to the body to want the little spark of the soul which is the breath and spirit of life to the body What is it then to the soul to want that God who is the breather of that breath of life and Inspirer of that spirit We want a word beyond death to expresse that state Lay it then to heart Phil. 3.11 and consider what cause we have to be humble to tremble and fear exceedingly to escape most solicitously and diligently that second and eternal death if by any means we may attain the resurrection of the dead to life eternal 3. Lay to heart upon the sight of a dead body and the meditation of a dead soul whence it is that these fears and faintings sicknesses and sorrows deaths and darknesses sordidnesse and desolation corruption and condemnation have thus mightily prevailed over the highest mountains as the flood over the most noble beautiful and excellent of all Gods works under heaven even over mankind good and bad great and small Eccles 2.16 wise and foolish upon which nature the great and only God had set such characters of special glory enduing it with a diviner spirit so making man as Moses saith a living spirit or a spirit of life And this after counsel and deliberation Faciamus hominem Sanctius his animal mentisâ— capaâ—ius aliâ—e Gen. 2.7 As in re magni momenti a matter of greater concern and weight then heaven and earth and all the host of them They were made ex tempore as it were Nudo verbo Let there be and there was But man was made ex consilio after Gods own Image full of beauty health honour riches wisedome the Spirit of the living God given him in an extraordinary beam Whence is this lapse to earth to dust to a sad and wretched a decaying and dying condition both temporal and eternal Sure not from the impotencie or envy of the blessed Creator whose omnipotent goodnesse is inconsistent with such infirmities nor yet from the frailty and inconsistency of the subject matter which he raised to so goodly a fabrick little lower then the Angels Psal 49.12 as man was made who should have been as long immortal as Angels had he continued a man that is Rom. 6.23 rational and religious enjoying the Image of God on him which forbids and excludes as all shadow of sin and defection so of all death or mutation to worse No. The Psalmist tells us after the history of Genesis Man being in honour did not so abide but is become like to the beasts that perish by the frailty of his will which fell from adherence to God as the durable and supreme Good Sin hath levelled us to beasts to death to devils to hell This death in all sizes and degrees from the least ache and dolour to the compleatnesse of damnation is the wages of fin So the Apostle oft tells us Rom. 5.17 by one mans offence death entred and reigned over all The soul that sins that shall die Ezek. 18. Sin is the source of all our sorrows the lethalis arundo poysoned arrow whose infection drinks up the spirits and eats up the health flesh bodies and soules of mankind No wonder we die since we sin at such a rate the wonder is that we live any one of us one moment How much more is the miracle of Gods love and mercy that hath by Christs death and merits brought forth to light eternal life and offered it to all penitent and believing sinners as purchased and prepared for them Because sin once lived in us we must once die and till sin be dead or mortified in us we cannot hope for life eternal Through death then thou wilt best see the face of thy sin What Poet what Painter what Orator whose colours are most lively can expresse the amazement horrour and astonishment that seized on the looks and hearts of Adam and Eve Rom. 27. 2 Tim. 1.10 when they had the dreadful prospect of their first great sin and curse written with the blood and pourtrayed on the face of their dead son Abel who in that primitive paucity of mankind was barbarously slain by his brother Cain Who can expresse or conceive the woful lamentation they made over their dead son in whom they first beheld the beauties of life swallowed up by the deformities of death Is death then so dreadful so dismal so deformed so putid O think what that sin is which thou so embracest and huggest The fountain of bitternesse is more bitter then the stream Our madness and misery is
preach his revealed will which is our sanctification by our repenting and amending according to the tenour of the Gospel Such as deaffen their ears harden their hearts and turn their backs on God and the meanes of grace all the time of their strength and health will find it very hard to see or seek his face in the disorder darkness and clouds of sickness which is the twilight and evening of Death As in civil conversation no man may so presume of Gods providence as to neglect honest industry so in religious respects no man may hope for grace that doth not rationally duely and conscienciously apply to the use of those meanes which God hath appointed in his Church All blessings temporal and eternal which are acquirable by and offered to reasonable creatures are ordinarily the effects of Gods mercy and mans industry not of miracles or omnipotence The meanes of grace given by God in his Church are never barren or ineffectual but to those who neglect to attend them and use them as they may and ought to doe if they look upon them as from God and in order to their soules good which is to be attained by this or no way 7. In order therefore to promote and speed by Gods assistance our repentance while we are yet in life and health we should lay to heart specially at the summons of another death What infinite patience and long-suffering it is that hitherto God hath shewed toward thee for many years of vanity sin and desperate folly Rom. 2.4 in which he hath spared thee notwithstanding thou hast daily provoked him to his face yet thou art not to this day cut off from the land of the living nor is the door of mercy and repentance shut upon thee How many have been cut off by the sword by sudden death and by lingring sickness here one there another while thou art reprieved Should not this forbearance of God lead thee to repentance Is it not enough in all conscience and too much in all reason and gratitude thus far to have offended a God that is loth to destroy thee giving thee space to repent Wilt thou after the hardness of thy heart and vain confidence of life still treasure up wrath against the day of wrath The time past may suffice to give thee sufficient experience how unwilling God is thou shouldest die 1 Pet. 4.3 and how willing thou shouldst repent and live Ezek. 33.11 For it is of the Lords mercy that thou art not consumed Thou mightest have been the corps now to be put into the grave Lam. 3.22 where is no device or wisedome of counsel or repentance or preaching Eccl. 9.10 or praying O turn no longer the grace of God into wantonness which is offered in Christ by his Ministers Breve sit quod turpiter audes Of a short precious and uncertain moment the least part is too much to be lavished in those wayes Jude 4. which are not only unprofitable but pernicious Our whole lives after the vanity of childhood and youth are too little to be spent in well-doing Isa 20.15 and in undoing what hath been either vain or wicked To live as if we had made a covenant with death and hell is not onely a fool-hardiness but a madness which hath by infinite sad and horrid instances been fearfully punished but not yet sufficiently cured in mankind Eccl. 8.12 Though a sinner live an hundred years twice told yet it shall not be well with him Eccl. 11.9 Though young and strong men please themselves in the delights of their eyes and desires of their own hearts yet they must know that for all these things God will bring them to judgment A mans debts and dangers are not the lesse because he is not presently arrested nor sees the books and specialties which are against him or the Serjeants which will arrest him 'T is high time to cease to offend that God who is willing to remit all our former arrears and debts upon our return to him begging his pardon and resolving to live worthy of such grace Doe not then feed any longer on ashes it is a deceived heart that turneth thee aside Isa 44.20 Jonah 2.8 Phil. 2.12 Heb. 2.9 so that thou canst not deliver thy soul nor say Is there not a lye in my right hand Take heed of following lying vanities lest thou forsake thy own mercies which are offer'd us but from moment to moment so as every minute of time that passeth every clock that striketh calls upon thee in the wise man's counsell Eccles 9.10 Whatever thine hand findeth to do do it with all thy might And what hast thou to do but to work out thy salvation with feare and trembling as the Apostle calls upon the Philippians All without this is time and labour lost 8. Lay to heart upon the sight and reflexions of death the infinite want thou hast of such a Saviour who may be able and willing to redeem thee a captive to sin and held all thy life in the fear of death from both these miserable bondages Lay to heart the infinite grace transcendent love and mercy of Christ Heb. 2.9 who is offer'd thee as a sufficient Saviour to all purposes Who hath tasted death for every man and hath overcome death as well as satisfied for the death of the whole world excluding none nor excepting any but putting all into a capacity of life and salvation upon their faith and repentance John 5.40 John 6.37 40. Ver. 54. John 8.52 John 11.25 Mark 16.15 so that whoever will come to him and believe in him shall not die but have eternal life yea though he die as to the body yet he shall continue to live in the happiness of his soul and his body shall be raised to live in glory and immortality by Christ who hath wrought this for us by his death and brought it to light by his Gospel which is commanded to be preached to every rational creature under heaven Lay then to heart that is seriously and alone ponder with thy self what Christ hath done and suffered for thee what he hath deserved of thee what he expects from thee as a man Christian for whose sake he hath died Wouldst thou have greater instances of his love to thee John 10.11 John 15.13 then thus to die for thee Shall not thy unthankful and sinful importunity be satisfied with that which hath satisfied divine justice stopped the Devils mouth conquered death and purchased life eternal to every true believer It wrought up blessed Ignatius's heart to an ambitious zeal of Martyrdome that he might shew his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 reciprocal love to Christ when he deeply considered and oft repeated Christ my love hath been crucified 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Doth it become thee to neglect despise sinne against such love any longer Canst thou trample that blood under feet which hath been shed for thee Wouldst thou have him
thou 'T is hard for us to give a just reason and Christian account for most of our weepings and least of those that are most excessive we weep more for any loss of a momentary toy then for the absence of our Lord the loss of Gods love the loss of a good conscience the Churches wastes Jerusalems ruines and the sins of our own souls or of others which call us to mourning As our blessed Lord said to the women weeping when they saw him led to be crucified so may every dead friend or other object of our weeping say to us Weep not for me but weep for your selves Luke 23.28 who many times have most cause to sorrow then when you sorrow least some tears are to be wept for again Tears cannot profit the dead but they may the living yea I recant they may profit even dead souls who are dead as St. 1 Tim. 5.6 Prov. 8.36 John 11.35 Paul speaks even while they live who love death tears and prayers may be a means by Gods grace to revive these as Jesus his tears were to bring to life Lazarus Tears are the distillations of love resolved into drops by the coolings of some ambient sorrow We cannot love any thing in our selves or others so justifiably as our and their souls In reference to these all our passions and affections should be rightly disciplined and ranged duly and exercised and improved as most needing and deserving our cares and counsels our prayers and tears Nor can I here omit to lay to your hearts what this Noble Gentleman suggested to me when being sent for I came to him the morning before he died He told me he was very sorry that it was so late with him yea he feared very late he had been long fed with some hopes of life but now he believed his time was short which he could wish he had more improved to his souls comfort while his strength of body had been somewhat better I know men and women too have a feminine and foolish fear to dispirit or deject any patient or decumbent with the serious thoughts or speech of their dying for fear their sad physick and nauseous prescriptions should not operate well on the ill humors of their bodies But the care of removing any burthens or obstructions upon their souls and consciences this must be deferred and neglected till there is such a decline of life and spirits as hangs out the black flag of death and despair then ubi desinit Medicus incipit Theologus when Physitians have in vain done their best the Divine must God knows too oft in vain do his best also for alas he hath little time in the agonies of death and the precipitations of life to search and apply the necessary remedies or comforts of a languishing soul which is as if a man should begin to read a long letter of great and present concernment when his candle was at the last twinkling A method certainly not more preposterous then dangerous to sick bodies and diseased souls If our Physitians were meer disciples of Galen and Hippocrates I should not wonder at their dilatory indifferencies as to mens souls and intensiveness only to their bodies but being many of them very learned men and some of them very good Christians I humbly conceive it would no way misbecome them nor any way impede the success of their arts and applications if they did upon the first perception of a dubious and dangerous state of any sick body with Christian wisedom and charity advise them yea and intreat them not to neglect the care of preparing their souls for God that as they will do their best with Gods help to cure their bodily distempers so it will no way hinder their skill or cure to carry on the concurrent welfare of their souls so as becomes good Christians because the event of all sickness is uncertain diseases oft flatter where they destroy therefore Physitians and Friends should be with all speed faithful to their Patients souls as well as bodies It bears no proportion for a sick patient to be visited twice or thrice in a day by Physitians in order to the bodies health and by a Divine once in a week it may be and this not till the last exigent and gasp of life as if this would abundantly serve the turn When men begin more to value their pretious and immortal souls they will more prize the help of true Divines whose prayers connsels and spiritual assistance being Gods indulgence and ordinance in his Church is usually followed with most gracious and comfortable successes toward sick persons that desire their help and send timely for them as St. James 5.14 James adviseth yea commandeth to do when Christians are cast down in bodily or spiritual dejections and when they are desirous to have the comfort of forgiveness of sins further sealed to them yea who is there so able so knowing so self-confident so comfortable in health that may not and usually doth not finde great damps dulness and difficulties of soul in sickness these are prone to be dispirited as well as the bodies of the best Christians and may well bear with nay most earnestly desire to have their weak hands supported and feeble knees strengthned by the counsel prayers and comforts of true Ministers Yea in the most desperate cases when dissolute livers are catched in Gods net or toile and now begin to make their addresses to God and preparations for eternity even in these cases the diligent and frequent assistance of discreet Ministers helping poor creatures to search and try their hearts to see their sins to look to God in Christ to turn to him and lay hold upon him doth many times work miraculous effects both to sanctifie sickness and to save souls so much doth God blesse the means he hath appointed when duly used which supinely neglected the end must needs fail I know many men and women too are now turned Preachers as not a few are turn'd Physitians which truly in my judgement amount no higher for the most part then Empiricks and Mountebancks in both making more work for able Divines and Physitians too This I am sure few men in their wits and willing to live but court the best Physitians nor do I see less reason why they should not desire and employ the best and truest Divines such as are most able and skilful most willing and faithful most authorized and commissionated by Christ and his Church to assist and comfort to instruct and absolve if need be dying sinners beyond what any man ordinarily can do in his health much less in the distempers dejections and darknesses of his sickness both corporal and spiritual who yet now affect in it most what in the frolick of their lives to be their own Teachers and Preachers their own Ordainers and Confessors their own Bishops and Presbyters too contrary to the judgment of all pious Antiquity who thought the Evangelical Ministry not an
God is to be blessed taking as well as giving Consider again that parents sins are oft visited by childrens immature deaths 1 Kings 14.13 as was threatned against Eli yea sometimes hopeful childron are cut off because some good thing was found in them as in Jereboam's childs case Sometimes they are the Idols of jealousie which take up parents hearts too much and therefore are taken away from them that there might be less distance between them and God their heavenly Father Vnicum bonum verum summum immutabile immarcessibile quod amittere non potes quamdiu amare non desinis Aug. who hath the wisedom of a father and the tenderness of a mother weaning us oft from those brests which we were too fond of and out of which we sucked more wind then wholesome nourishment All losses are mercies which end in the souls gain nor can that be a losse in any creature-comfort if it finds recompenses in his love who is the only immutable and unloseable good As for vain or vicious parents who are rather peremptores quam parentes when their children are taken away from their contagion I know not how they can have any greater summons from heaven or motives on earth to move their hearts to speedy repentance and preparation for death then when they see their prime branches lopped off as presages that the whole bulk of the tree root and branch shall ere long be hewn down and without repentance cast into unquenchable fire 7. Last of all in the death of such as are remarkable for nothing but their sin and wickedness for the dissoluteness of their lives the stupidity or despair of their deaths dying unawares and cut off by unexpected stroaks of heaven because their sin was great before God it may be a violent immature and preposterous fate yea it may be flagrante crimine as Absalom in his unnatural rebellion against his Prince and parents 2 Sam. 18. or possibly by the hand of human justice or by private duels or by their own debaucheries which are a self-assasination even these are not lightly to be laid to heart in any family kindred or acquaintance or neighbourhood because they are like Gods thunderbolts not every days terror nor striking every one therefore the more to be dreaded by all though the punishment falls but on one Poena ad unum terror ad omnes though the ruine falls upon the head but of one yet the news may justly make the ears to tingle and hearts to tremble of all that see and hear of it No man does deserves or suffers from God or man or himself so bad but the same might be exemplified in thee and me to the astonished world we might be the beacons on fire that should scare all the Country far more then any house on fire can do We read of David though otherways of a mind great and gracious 2 Sam. 18.33 full of courage and constancy becoming the majesty of a pious King yet he takes the dreadful fate of his son Absalom so to heart the three streams of parental penitent and pious affections meeting in one current that he forgets the comfort of victory his own and the publick safety the suppressing of so dangerous and popular a rebellion the restitution of his throne and dominion which my young Master under the colour of doing speedier and better justice or reforming publick disorders had almost snatched from him not without the ready applause and assistance of vulgar levity giddiness vileness and ingratitude to such a Prince yet all these weighty concernments sink in Davids soul and only grief swims uppermost publikely manifesting its either excess or just violence in words too high indeed for any Tragedy and never heard from any father or son in the case of a Kingdom Would God I had died for thee O Absalom my son my son The loss of a good child is tolerable of a wicked one is intolerable especially if bad by neglect or example 2 Sam. 12.23 because he is eternally lost David comforted himself He should go to that Infant whose innocency gave hopes of its safety though it were the fruit of his sin but in Asaloms desperate case he deplores geminam aeternam mortem a double and eternal death and this alone may serve to justifie the so great passions of Davids soul in that particular Yet besides this Absaloms sins and sufferings made secret reflexions upon the fathers offences which had not only occasioned but deserved such unnatural fires to burn in his own bowels which were only to be quenched with their own blood nor had David been only excessive in his rebellious presumings against God but defective too in his reproving of his sons hence sad effects of paternal indulgence toward dangerous and comminitting children whose sins are imputable in great part to their parents 1 Sam. 3.13 and so their sufferings on all sides are but the punishments of such unzealous fondnesses as Eli used to the ruine of himself and his sons yea of his whole house by intolerable toleration of such impieties as will certainly overthrow roof and foundation root and branch of any family under heaven Would we have less cause to mourn in the death of any one we love endeavour to make them as good as we can while they are with us however having done our duty and expressed the best evidences of a true and faithful love to them in order to their eternal good we shall with more comfort and patience bear their death which many times gives us greater regrets for our own neglect of that Christian duty and holy love which we owe to the souls of our relations then for their corporal absence the one being reparable the other never either in this or the world to come I have now finished these instances of particular cases in which the death of any is to be laid to heart proportionably to the weight of the becasion whose circumstances or manner of dying as the feathers of some birds are sometimes as heavy as their bodies and substances It were too much for me to drive this discourse which in the whole texture of it is pathetick and applicative to a further thinness or fineness like leaf-gold by multiplied uses which are there necessary where as in the riveting or clinching of nails we suspect the doctrines have not taken good hold on the hearers minds and hearts of which in this case I am not very jealous as to the most of you whose affections may be read in your attention There are only three Uses which I conceive may not impertinently be added as advantages to or deductions from the main of that I have hitherto set down 1. Vse To reprove the unchristian barbarous and inhuman temper of those hearts which are made of flint not flesh who are so far from laying to heart with any humble mortifying and compassionating reflexions the death of any that they either carry it with
he died of that scrophulous humor abounding in him which we call the Struma or Kings evil full of little and great knots or kernels in his lungs and entrails some as big as pullets eggs some larger and adherent to the backbone on both sides his lungs so full of that caseous or cheese-like substance that they were swelled and inflamed to a quantity too big for his brest and breathing so that he died on the suddain presently after he had spoken and removed himself with much seeming strength and earnestness the heart being suddenly suffocated and wasted on one side or Auricle for want of due refreshing and however the lungs began in some folds to be putrified yet neither my self nor any other perceived either while he lived though I spake very neer him any thing offensive in his breath or unsavoury from his pectorals or vitals This was the disease and languor of which this poor Gentleman died and I know by most assured experience it hath befaln such as have been both for unspotted virtue and exquisite handsomeness inferiour to no persons living in their times In a word the means which providence permitted to put an end to this noble Gentlemans days was such as might well deserve the pity of all but not the reproach of any good Christian who being at last thus truly and fully informed will in all respects carry themselves as becometh humanity and Christianity modesty and veracity A more solicitous confutation of any vulgar surmises and false reports were to give them too much reputation credulity not duly informed is venial though applied to calumnies but clearly convinced it becomes venomous and mortal because malicious How miserable a people are we whose civil and religious fewds are such that men are made to live and die to be saved and damned not as the mercy and justice of God wills but as human adherencies or antipathies list to censure No party no passion here sways with me I abhor to flatter or calumniate any man in Court or Country I follow no dictates but those of experience impartiality certainty upon which ground I presume no ingenuous man or woman can envy or deny me to apply even to the now dead body of this noble Gentleman these sweet persumes and honest spices made up of nothing but evident truth comely civility just honour and upright conscience which last office I perform not so much a friend and servant to him as to truth and the God of truth to whose merciful dispose we leave his soul for ever His Corps or bodily remains are brought you see to be deposited with you his kind friends his loving neighbours his honest tenants in reversion and his worthy Country-men to be laid up with the mortal reliques of his excellent Mother and other his noble Ancestors to whom he is gone before his Father or Grandfather by a preproperous fate inverting the usual and by most parents desired methods of mortality I need not tell your ingenuity to my worthy Country-men and you of this place what causes you have more then other men to lay this death to heart and to stand still at this dead Corps as the men of Judah and Israel did that came to the place where Asahel fell down and died as of a person eminently related as to many other 2 Sam. 2.23 so to a principal noble Family in this County the experience of whose piety hospitality charity and love of learning poor and rich have had long experience and some constant living monuments among you in this village besides that to which they have committed their urns and bones their dust and ashes as it were to your safe custody How far you are injured or detrimented by this noble persons death depends much on the piety vertue and honour of their minds and actions who now enjoy or may after succeed to those honours and revenews to which he was Heir apparent which he now neither wants nor envies nor desires How far you are or may be bettered by his death and these endeavours for your good depends much upon your care and conscience to lay to heart those many instances of improving a Funeral which I have told you wherein Gods grace upon your humble prayers and honest endeavours will enable you to live as becomes those that remember dayly they must die and appear before God For which last agony and great appearance the Lord in mercy fit us all for his sake who died for us Jesus Christ the righteous To whom with the Father and holy Spirit be everlasting glory for ever Amen Phil. 1.21 To me to live is Christ and to die is gain Id agamus ut vita sit jucunda morbus non injucundus mors verò jucundissima A PRAYER in order to prepare for DEATH O Lord the everlasting God the only giver and preserver of all life natural spiritual temporal and eternal who hast breathed into these our vile bodies of dust the breath of life even pretious and immortal souls by which we are capable to know to love to live with and enjoy Thee for ever as the only Supream Good who only art an object adequate to the vast capacities and sufficient to satisfie those infinite desires of living happily to eternity which thou hast planted in us Thou hast justly passed upon all mankind for our sinful falling from thee which is the present death of our souls as to an holy and happy life the irrevocable decree of once dying and after that appearing before thy judgement both which will certainly ere long overtake us all Blessed Lord the terrors of death and of judgement of our present mortality and our deserved misery are infinite upon us very fearful we are because very sinful and loth because unfit to die a natural death but we are wholly confounded and even swallowed up with the thoughts and dread of that black Abyssus an eternal death If the death of our bodies by the soules separation be so horrid and grievous to us O what must the death of our souls be which consists in an utter separation from thy love and favour shutting us up in the chains of eternal darkness and under the pains of everlasting burnings We confess how just cause we have to be ashamed to live and yet afraid to die having no hope of the least degree of life or happiness in our death as from our selves where our own consciences have already passed a sentence of death and an expectation of thy just vengeance to destroy us In which sad state of dying and despairing we should have both lived and died if thou hadst not made us who were dead in sins and trespasses to hear thy voice in Jesus Christ that we might live As thou hast been a God of great goodness and long-suffering to us not willing we should die in our sins but repent of them and live so as a most merciful Father thou hast made a new and living way to the throne of thy grace
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 Therefore I hated life for all is vanity and vexation of spirit Eccles 2.17 But the things that are not seen are eternal 2 Cor. 4.18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plato LONDON Printed by T. C. for Andrew Crook and are to be sold at the Green Dragon in St. Pauls Church-yard 1658. TO The Right Honorable the Lady FRANCES RICH. Madam THough I am justly tender of exasperating so vehement and unfeigned a grief as your Ladiship hath constantly expressed to the noble Mr. Rich both living and languishing dying and dead by my applying any such Balsame as may seem to renew your wound and pain yet knowing that your Ladiships greatest comforts next those of divine infusion arise from those proportions which your just sorrows bear to your generous affections which are now become the occasion and measure of your affliction I thought it would neither be offensive to your honour nor unbeseeming my respects if I justified your exceeding grief by representing to the world how diservedly you have loved and how worthily you have mourned for that Gentleman of whose honour and happiness even from his infancy I was most seriously ambitious Hence it is that I have adventured to dedicate to your Name this Funeral Cordial which was first devoted to adorn the Christian Interment and revive the honored Name of your dear Husband that since You lived not long together in your marriage yet You might at least be inseparable in this monument which aims not to add any further secular pomp to his dust much less to gratifie the impertinent curiosity of this or after ages touching his life sickness disease or death but rather to advance the glory of God in his unsearchable ways also to summon such as yet survive him to consider their latter ends that they may betimes even in youth remember their Creator and apply their hearts to true saving and eternal wisdom To these great and good ends I presume your Ladiships passionate piety will permit me to improve so sad a dispensation of providence whose aspect not only looks to your Ladiship but to all that stand within the view reach and terror of so sharp a stroak which deserves to be so far laid to heart by all spectators until they find their hearts mollified and mended through that gracious virtue which may by fear of death and grief for sin make way for faith in Christ and love of God Certainly a penitent and pious use is the best that can be made of such dreadful monitions that no seeming splendor of prosperity no vain confidences of youth and life no cumulations of worldly contents no momentary honours and imaginary pleasures should either blind or divert any of us from dayly taking a serious prospect of our sins and our souls of our death and judgement of our God and Saviour Nothing in all my lifes observation except one unparallel'd instance hath ever faln out of more pregnant and potent influence to abate the presumption of human vanity worldly confidence and earthly glory than the sudden Eclipse and fall of this great Star which was but lately risen to its lustre and conspicuity The contemplation of his so early death is no small warning to us that are yet living especially to those who most dally with death while they affect a dilatory indifferency as to any practise of repentance and true piety being afraid of nothing so much as of being good too soon as if they could be too soon in a capacity of happiness I know the folly and madness of many who have had not only ingenuous but religious breeding is usually such that though they please themselves in being civil and accomplist toward men yet they make no scruple of being neglective rude affrontive yea insolent toward God and therein cruel to their own souls forgetting at once both their moment and God's eternity which desperate frolick usually holds with many not only during the adventerous extravagancies of their youth and spring which is the chief hour of temptation and power of darkness but it extends by the hardning habits and deceitfulness of our sinful hearts to our Autumn and decline God knows our vicious accesses to the vanities and inordinacies of life are early and speedy but our gracious recesses in order to an holy life and happy death are very flow and late if ever unless special grace prevent the best of nature and God's good Spirit perfect the best of our educations Madame I write not at this rate out of a Censorian vanity to reproach others but out of an humble sense of my own infirmities and out of a Christian sympathy to others impendent miseries Alas 't is too evident that many persons otherways of excellent useful parts do live amidst the offers of eternal life and the terrors of eternal death as if they had never laid to heart either their own or any others death no nor the death of their blessed Saviour by the price of whose blood they have been both meritoriously Sacramentally redeemed from their vain conversation It is both a sad and shameful thing to consider that the least and last thoughts of many titularly Christians are devoted to their God their Saviour and their Souls These grand concernments are late unwelcome and but hardly admitted after the surfeits of sensual pleasures the crowds and pester of worldly affairs the importunities of ambitious designs and other busie vanities which so ingross the whole man and time that there is little place allowed in most mens and womens hearts or space in their lives which are always upon the confines and brink of death for that great point of wisedom and work of salvation which consists in beginning betimes to resist and retrench those evils to which our depraved hearts do naturally prompt us that so we might with greater speed and less impediment advance to that Supream and immutable good to which as we are invited and beseeched by the tender mercies and love of God in Christ so by the principles of true reason and religion and no less by the real interests of our own safety honour and eternal felicity The promoting of all which being my main design in publishing this grave piece I hope both your Ladiships great sadness and passion and my own deep resentments for the dead may be sufficient Apology for my freedom both of tongue and pen toward the living not only my natural genius prompting me but my conscience commanding me specially in publique and sacred remonstrances to speak and write out that is to use such honest Parrhesie as will least smother wholesome truths or flatter secure sins Nothing is more deformed
then parasitick preachers or mealy-mouthed Ministers He that speaketh or writeth which is a silent preaching a speech without noise or words without a voice in Christs name and authority to sinful and secure mortals had need be in very good earnest fervent in spirit unflattering in speech charitably serious yea kindly severe with all meekness of wisedom For Preachers of the Gospel are ordained of God to be Antiparasites purposely to crosse and encounter that pleasing but pernitious humor in mankind which loves to deceive and flatter even to the death both themselves and others the itching sores which others love to scratch we must wound that we may heal them and if ever we the so despised Ministers of Christ dare to own our selves in our authority and commission which is divine or none it should be at Funerals when standinng as it were upon the Tombs and urns of the dead we have more then ordinarily the higher ground above the the living all whose pleasures profits pride power and pomp should be then like the Moon under our feet when as Gods Heraulds or lesser Angels we summon all that hear or read us to Death and Judgement the due and timely preparing for which is the great lesson Ministers have to preach and people to practise For which purpose I have used such pathetick freedom of expressing my self as may by Gods blessing be useful and so acceptable to many but justly offensive to none that either are truly wise or would be good and happy in Gods way and method which is grace and holiness The ensuing discourse is now as your Honour easily perceives much inlarged beyond the Horary limits of a Sermon exceeding in length wosi of the ancient Orations I wish it might equal them in usefulness weight and worth For in recollecting and ruminating my meditations they easily multiplied and in transcribing my notes as I had prepared them I added with Baruch Jer. 36.32 many like words to what I had preached and had penned but omitted being necessarily and so excusably contracted in the Pulpit but now more dilated in the Press according to my own design and the desire of others who have a great empire over me What then was in my preaching more massive and rough hewen than I intended I have now malleated and polished not only to an ampler but I hope to a more august proportion That it may be somewhat answerable to those great respects of love and honour which I have not only to this noble Gentleman but to his honorable Relations and particularly to his most virtuous Mother The few years of whose mortal life as he oft foretold in my hearing he should not exceed so he did not attain to equal them God verifying his presages by his immature death being so far distant from his excellent Mother that she might be said to die in her April but he her only child in the February of his age as many years sooner as a month hath weeks Due regard to both their memories also to Your Ladiships honour who had neerest relation to him and so greatest affection for him These next my highest and more religious designs may I hope not only excuse the gravity and prolixity of this Epistle to so young a Lady but also patronise my thus publishing my self Madame Your HONOURS most humble Servant J. GAUDEN March 15. 1657. The ERRATA thus to be mended PAge 3. line 23. read stone for sin p. 4. l. 14. r. millenary of wives and concubines p. 15. l. 20. r. revolve for resolve p. 23. l. 27. r. wasting for washing p. 52. l. 36. r. convictions for corrections p. 58. l. 25. r. immoderate for moderate p 105. l. 28. r. O my for to my l 34. hlot out the experience p. 120. l. 6. r. parcreatis l. 16. r. Inter. l. 17. r. scrophulosae Books published by Dr. Gauden A Defence of the Ministry of England Of Tythes Three Sermons upon publike occasions FUNERALS MADE CORDIALS ECCLES 7.1 It is better to goe to the house of mourning then to the house of feasting for that is the end of all men And the living will lay it to his heart YOu have hitherto right Honorable and Christian Auditors either added to the Solemnity of this Funeral by the honour of your presence and attendance or enjoyed the pomp and ceremony of it as civil spectators You have all contributed what you can to cloath this Sceleton with a robe of State and to hold up the long train of death till it hath carried its prey to the grave which is its den and Throne where after a most savage and Cyclopick manner it doth at once triumph over us and gnaw upon us till it hath quite devoured not only our flesh but our very bones yea our names and memories if they be only written in the dust and not registred in heaven if our record be only among men here below and not with the most high God above as holy Job speaketh Job 16.19 You have indeed made a very ample and stately Commentary as to your civil respects upon this Corps and that Text Eccl. 12.5 Man goeth to his long home and the mourners goe about the streets It now remains to see what improvement may be made of so sad an occasion to your own interests the inward religious spiritual and eternal advantages of your soules Hitherto you have acted as men according to the rules of honour and methods of secular Heraldry but you now seem as Christians by your earnest and patient attention further to expect something from Me as an Herald of Diviner Honour as a Minister of Christ and his Church whereby to advance this Solemnity to Sanctity this pageantry to piety this ceremony or shadow which follows the dead to some substance and reality of benefit as to the living That it may not be fulfilled in you what was spoken by Christ Mat. 8.22 not without a sharp and just reproach to the young man Let the dead bury their dead while we are more solicitous and pleased to follow a dead friend and relation to the grave then to follow Christ who will set us beyond the confines of death and mortality in a state of grace and glory of honour and immortality Your humane and civil respects to the remains of the dead are worthy of you both as men and Christians Religion being no enemy to the sense and expression of what honour is decent and due both to the living and dead whose very dust as Christians is sacred and their carcasses so far consecrate as they have been Temples of the holy Ghost 1 Cor. 6.19 and are yet in Gods special care and custody as precious reliques 1 Cor. 15.42 never to be lost but reparable to a state of incorruption candidates of heaven and expectants in a silent but assured hope of eternal glory with their blessed Saviour whose once dead but now risen and glorified body sitting at Gods right hand that is in the
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
the feet of plebeian petulancy and mechanicke insolency under which Incubusses in many places it is miserably faln No my grief is partly that I have not so improved the opportunities of his life and my interest with him as possibly I might and should had I been aware though I confess for some months past I was jealous he would ere long deprive me and all the world of all capacities to serve him which is the other part of my sorrow this fear made me add of late such frequencies to my visits as I thought not unacceptable still aiming to catch those mollissima tempora fandi seasonable advantages in respect of his urgent infirmities as might do him most good in being his remembrancer for the main matters of life and death that one thing necessary his eternal interests in comparison of which all things of Houses Lands Honours Wife Children Crowns and Kingdoms are as losse and dung He seemed not to expect a long life since he could judge what it was to live by I know not what secret presage he would oft say in the height and vigor of his youth He should not live beyond his Mothers age who died under 27. and he under 24. God you see hath verified what was foretold I believe more beyond all their expectations that knew him then his own who certainly had some secret monition which I hope he did not wholly neglect though possibly he did not so much regard it as the event would have required having the hopes and flattering confidences of youth and spirit yet attending him This possibly encouraged him as is usual the more earnestly to pursue those allowed contentments of life which he conceived might most contribute to his honour and happiness then it may be he would have done if he had foreseen the speedy and impendent period of his life and how much more necessary for his true interests the eternal peace and happiness of his soul the gracious improvements of his short time had been beyond the most deserving consort and most splendid fortune in the world the enjoyment of which God soon deprived him of and I hope so far weaned his heart from them and raised it above them as became one that was shortly to leave them after he had but a few months beheld them not without much anxiety and bodily infirmity A great and remarkable instance to confute all the glory hopes and confidence of us poor mortals who at our best estate are altogether vanity Psal 39.5 6. disquieting our selves in a vain shadow till we turn meer shadows and cyphers to this world Let young sparks and Gallants of both sexes see their faces in the pieces of this sometime so fair and fulgent now broken and defaced glass or mirroir If parentage and descent if Nobility and honour if youth and bravery if courtly splendors and grandeurs if an ample fortune and revenue if human friendships and highest favours if neerest alliance to a person he thought most deserving of his love and most capable to make him happy in the highest point of human felicity if experience of virtuous love conjugal respect extraordinary tenderness and passionate prudence which he had to comfort him in his long and killing infirmity immediately succeeding his so desired nuptials if any one or all of these endearments and decoyes of life had signified any thing to the preserving of it or could have been advantaged by the care and skill of excellent Physitians this young and noble Gentleman had not now been the subject of my discourse and your attention of all our sorrows and tears yea stupors and astonishments for I assure you he is an object not lightly to be laid to all our hearts and especially to the hearts of all his neerest kindred and relations Warning all that have seen Isa 40.6 1 Tim. 6.17 or shall hear or read the sudden blastings of this goodly flower which is as all flesh but grass not to trust in this vain world not in uncertain riches Amos 6.3 Quamvis a Diis immortabibus prope absumus mortales tardè tamen ad Deorum cognitionem cultum usum accedimus nisi aut maris tempestatibus jactati aut terrae motibus perculsi aut vitae infirmitatibus vexati aut mortis terroribus attoniti potius quà m adducti honours beauties loves relations selves not to put far from them the evil day which is indeed never far from them even in their sense that is the day of sickness death and judgement and in Gods sense it is then most upon them when they live least to God and their consciences and most to their sinful lusts and pleasures Such as are conscious their days and hearts are evil toward God may justly fear his hand against them to cut them off from the land of the living I know as one of the ancients notably observed although we are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neer of kin to God and he is not far from any of us as the Apostle preacheth to the Athenians Acts 17.27 in being and bounty in mercies or in judgements yea he is neerest to us round about and within us intimior intimo nostri as St. Bernard by his omniscience and exact advertence of all our ways words thoughts and deeds yet we naturally affect a reserve a strangeness and distance yea an enmity toward God that if possible he may not be in all our thoughts who is as the Psalmist saith about our beds and spieth out all our paths Psal 139.2 that we may live without him in this world withoutwhom we can neither live move nor have our being It is very late very slowly Isa 51.13 and but seldome that we come to the sense service and use of God unless scared by tempests at Sea or dreadful earthquakes or bodily sufferings or the terrours of death It is a long time before the conceited 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 self-sufficiency of youth which swims in plenty pleasure and honour Acts 14.17 can fancy any necessity of having or owning a God forgetting the Lord that made them and casting his commands behind their backs Not that God is wanting to give them many witnesses of himself and by many cords of a man to draw them to him but the headiness pride and presumption of our own hearts our lusts and humours is such that like Sampson we break all these cords of love and divine Philanthropy the bonds of nature providence reason conscience Religion and Baptism in sunder So that it is a mercy of God if at any time he stops the fleetness of our youthful passions which are prone to run wilde and counter to Gods blessed will to our own consciences and welfare I hope this noble young Gentleman had a serious and humble yea a gracious and thankful sense of Gods merciful severities and indulgent afflictions We are certainly undone if God be not better to us then we would have him if as a wise father he doe not give us
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