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A02462	Tvvo fruitful sermons, needfull for these times whereof the one may be called, A mariage present; the other, A sickemans glasse. Compiled by Roger Hacket, Doctor in Diuinitie.; Two fruitful sermons, needfull for these times.	Hacket, Roger, 1559-1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 12592; ESTC S118993	30,700	42

to bee followers of their vertues that so they might bee partakers of their prayses let not these our speeches be vnpleasing to any neither let the studious of noueltie seeke to disgrace this laudable custome which to so good vses of all antiquitie hath bin approued For as Hierom speaking of Paula a vertuous woman a Hieron epist. 27. cap. 13. 2. Chron. 32.33 All assembled themselues when Paula was dead they thought it a sacrilege not to do this last dutie to such a woman So since this great and honorable assemblie doth thus honor our deceased to his graue I cannot be wanting in this my last duty vnto him And although his senselesse corps perceiueth not that is done vnto him and therefore it may seeme to some a thankelesse duty yet as a token of our true loue we leaue this with thee O thou beloued know as Augustine speaketh b August de ciuit Dei lib. 1. cap. 13. Jdem de cura pro mort cap. 3. That such pious duties do please the Lord. But where shall I begin in a poore place of poore yet honest parents he was borne aduanced by God to this wealth and worship and made the first of knowne note in his fathers house Thus God from the sheepe-fold called Dauid and gaue to this sonne of the earth to bee a Knight and to sit among the great ones of the Citie From out of this roote hath sprunge twelue liuing branches nine sons three daughters the gifts of God and the parents comfort Blesse thy gifts O God vnto her comfort and let the desired memory of their departed father still liue and bee remembred in them Whither shall I go His affable nature and most louely carriage desiring to doe good both to poore and rich his respectiue dutie vnto his betters and ready obseruance to be at their command his many imployments in this Citie causes and faithfull diligence wading through al his answering trust to his reposing friends and ready hand to helpe them at all times of need his kind entreatie of the poorest of his kin and willingnes to embrace the loue of strangers his bountie to the needie at home and abroad and purse supplying schollers wants his set weekely contributions to the poore whilest he liued and Wil giuing to them a childs part being dead maketh me entreate you as a Basil Concio de Sanct. Mamante Martyre Basil did his hearers in a funerall Sermon he maketh of Mamantes the Martyr that euery of you which haue been holpen pleasured or thus entreated by him or which can truly witnes this his kind and vertuous carriage would helpe me with the sweete flowers of your true reports to adorne his Herse That as many the b 2. Chron. 16.14 cap. 21.19 Kings of Iudah were said to be buried with sweete odors and diuers kinde of spices so wee may burie this our brother with the sweete reports of his well deeded life and the spiced odors of his happie death And to begin this is my flower best beseeming him and most pleasing me that as he grew in worship so he grew in pietie This doth witnes with me your morning Sermon by him notwithstanding his employments often frequented this the Preachers of the Word in greater loue than before respected this his prayers with his household in greater deuotion than before time followed Smell sweete pious flower spread forth thy odors he liueth well that liueth with his God Follow with your flowers and c Prou. 10.7 let the memorie of the iust be followed with praises when the name of the wicked as a snuffe of a candle shall goe foorth with stinke I will not excuse whatsoeuer his infirmities hee was a man and carried about him a bodie of flesh yet play not thou the part of a kite or puttocke which passeth ouer many sweete and pleasant things and gorgeth himselfe with garboyle and carrion for if thou doest many that heare me this day will speake against thy vile and base affection and to thy face shall shew as Gregorie speaketh of his brother Basil that his vices were better than thy vertues Greg. Nazian monod. in mag Basilium Couer therefore whatsoeuer his infirmities with a louely silence and since the Lord hath cast them behinde him and drowned them in the bottome of the sea let them die with him and with his dead carkasse let them be buried in his graue Thus he liued the loue of the world the desire both of poore rich And thus he died euen in the height of al his prosperitie being but newly entred into this place of worship and as another Hezechiah laid on the bed of his sicknes by turning to the wall praying weeping hee makes himselfe readie for his God For after he had set an order to his worldly affaires hee withdrew his thoughts from all worldly businesse and sought to holie that little remnant of his short life vnto the Lord. This his continued silence doth witnes when yet he knew all that came vnto him saluted thē by name but would not haue any further speech with them This that speech of his to me the first morning I saw him The Lord hath visited me but yet he hath not giuen me ouer as a pray vnto mine enemie O Lord thinke vpon me for thy mercie that I may still shew foorth thy truth This that which is written of dying Ierome a Eusebius de mort Hieron O my friends interrupt not my approching ioy doe not hinder me from yeelding to the earth that which is the earths For vrged to take by the entreatie of many friends his last but fruitlesse potion as though in it were life without it death for a while hee resolutely withstood and protested he would not take it for a thousand pound And when hee was further moued to take it by one that loued him and his hee replied I pray you mooue mee not you would reckon him vnwise that would take fortie shillings when hee might haue three pound that would accept of a life in this world when he might haue a life in heauen Thus as it is written of Austin b Possidon de vit August not ashamed to liue he feared not to die because he knew he had a gratious Lord. The which he further shewed for when the tongue failed and denied to make knowne the meaning of his heart and when many of vs that were present supposed for many houres before his departure that he was bereued of sense and knowledge being at the length to depart this world of himselfe vnmotioned raising vp his hands lifting them vnto the heauens and with the one knocking of his breast not as an euill seruant but as a cheerefull sonne hee gaue vp the ghost and as it is said of faithfull Abraham went vnto his fathers in peace Wherefore to turne from him againe vnto you do not only c Num. 23.10 wish with Balaam but endeuour whilst you liue that your soules may die the death of the iust and that your latter ends may be like vnto his And since hee so blessedly liued and blessedly died although thou canst not stop the floods of thy kinde affection d Eccles 38.16 but must needes bring foorth thy teares and make lamentation ouer the dead as one that hath suffred a great losse yet in so great an hope of his assured good let not the Temple of God be ouer sad e 1. Thess 4.13 weepe not as they that haue no hope Although thou criest with Dauid f 2. Sam. 1.26 I am sorrowfull for thee O my friend Ionathan very kinde hast thou been to me and g Iohn 11.32 weepes with Mary for thy brother Lazarus yet with thy teares goe vnto Christ in him seeke thy comfort Neither keepe as Basil speaketh h Basil Concio de grat act fresh the wounds of thy sorowing soule nor seek the meanes to encrease thy griefe but as the weake sighted turne away their eyes from such things as hurt them so turne away thy thoughts from all matter of thy griefe For although his body bee i 1. Cor. 15.42 sowen in corruption it shall rise in incorruption although it bee sowen in dishonour it shall rise in honour although it be sowen in weakenes it shall rise in strength k Aug. epist. 6. He is gone before we shal follow God giue vs so to follow that we may euer rest with him Sit Deo gloria

him she must open and with him shut This is a cordiall comfort most pleasing to the heart of man For when by her he receiueth children that he hath fathered to be heires of his labours staffe of his old age in whom his name memorie is continued it is so welcome to his heart that no cordiall comfort may be compared to it Neither is she only cordiall in her truth and loyaltie but in this that shee is an hauen of rest in mans greatest troubles the ease of his griefes helpe in his sickenes a sweete companion in all his sorrowes For in silence to ouerpasse the rest only see in the bed of her husbands sickenes how whilest there is hope she ministereth with care and feedeth with comfort nay shee when hope faileth how against hope she plieth the Physition still seeking for help Sometime casting vp her sighes and eies to heauen often be dewing the earth with her teares entertaining euery one with a welcome heart that wil but speak for husbands help How then can there be a more cordiall comfort vnto man then this Wherefore with you ô ye maried wiues let me leaue this Violet although it grow low to remēber you of your subiection yet since it is so helpefull so sweet so cooling so cordiall it is a flower most meet for you a flower which sheweth you what to your husbands you should be The last of the flowers is the Rosemary The Rosemary is for maried men the which by name nature and a continued vse man challengeth as properly belonging to himselfe In the which although it ouertoppeth all the flowers in the garden boasting mans rule and the Violet low groweth at his roote yet let man remember that it helpeth the braine strengtheneth memorie and is very medicinable for the head By which is inferred that as man is to haue the rule ouer his wife so he is to rule as the Rosemary with a sound not a sicke head to rule in wisedome in that wisedome with which heere Adam inspired doth acknowledge his wife to be bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh the only helper meete for himselfe Wherefore if thy wife be not alway pleasing but hath in her the infirmities of women yet of thee Peter requireth that thou shouldest dwell with her 1. Pet. 3.7 according to knowledge and giue her honor as to the weaker vessell Thou must dwell with her according to knowledge thy wise patience must be still continued thou must giue honor to her as to the weaker vessell thou must seeke to please her in her weake desires Although thy wife should be as the Moone which alwaies hath her staines and spots yea and which sometime with her owne disgrace turneth her body frō the Sunne yet must thou still continue a sunne to her not only in reaching to her the light of knowledge but in releeuing her with thy beames of comfort This is to dwell with her according to knowledge and as Paul in other words speaketh 1. Cor. 7.3 to giue vnto her due beneuolence The Philosophers diuiding the mind of man make reason to sit on high will to hold the middle the affections to stand beneath this reason may bee compared to man this will to woman these affections vnto her desires Now as the will will not bee enforced but ouerwayed with reason yeeldeth to him her ready consent so must a woman not by threats and high swelling speeches but by words of kindnes be woed to giue to her man in their different motions her due consent For heare ô ye men reason doth not enforce but seeketh to perswade the will And although vnto you it be giuen for to rule yet despise not the counsel of your wines remember God made them helpers meete for you Although it seemed grieuous in wise and faithfull Abrahams sight to put away the bondwoman and her child in so hard a matter to hearken to his wife yet to him the Lord commanded saying Genes 21.12 In all that Sarah shall say vnto thee heare her voyce For this is to rule in wisedome readily to embrace the counsell of thy wife when thou shalt finde it better than thine owne except Abigail had quenched the coales that her husband Nabal by his churlishnes had kindled 1. Sam. 25.34 Dauid had not left by the dawning of the day any one in Nabals house to make water against the wall Wherefore ô yee men although the Sunne rule by day yet let the Moone rule by night although you rule abroad yet let your wiues beare some stroke at home although you rule as heads yet let them rule also like to such as were taken out of your sides Let the Rosemary be in your hands and heads rule with wisedome which giueth to euery one and therefore to your wiues their due Another property of the Rosemary is it affects the hart euen so should your hearts ô yee men in true loue be affected to your wiues This you may obserue in Adam here no sooner God brought Eue gaue her to him but forthwith his soule cleaues to her but forthwith he saith This is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh Ephes 5.33 Forthwith he loues her as himselfe Let euery man therefore as Paul speaketh loue his wife euen as himselfe as himselfe ô Paul Vers 25. nay more then himselfe euen as before thou hast said as Christ loued the Church and gaue himselfe for it For consider ô man what thy wife doth and hath done for thee To thee she yeeldeth which before thee nōe might euer touch to take the mayden flower of her vnconquered selfe the which once gathered thou canst neuer restore For thy sake she forgetteth her father and her fathers house and is now called after thy name To thee she giueth her sweet selfe and all the fruits of her first loue By thee shee submitteth her lowlie selfe to be ruled and ouer-ruled when yet a while shee might bee free not vnder couert but of full power And how then canst thou but loue thy wife which with thee hath left so many knowne pledges of her vnfained loue To pleasure thee she breedeth in paine and bringeth forth in sorrow high priced children chiefe of mans desires which are called not after hers but after thine and thy fathers name these shee bringeth vp with care gouerneth with loue in pleasing them seeking to pleasure thee and how then canst thou but loue thy wife of whom thou hast receiued children the surest pledges of a womans loue If God hath shut vp her wombe and for thy sins withholds from thee this desired blessing yet at bord and at bed at home and abroad shee performeth to thee so many kind offices of her sweetest loue that thou canst not but confesse that Elcanah did to barren Anna that thou art better to her nay that she is better to thee than many sonnes 1. Sam. 1.8 Chrysost in Epist ad Coloss hom 10. Surely as