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A88381	Enchiridion judicum, or, Jehosaphats charge to his judges, opened, in a sermon before the Right Honourable, the judges, and the right worshipful, the sheriffe of the county palatine of Lancast. Together with Catastrophe magnatum, or, King Davids lamentation, at Prince Abners incineration. In a sermon meditated on the fall, and preached at the funeral of the Right Worshipful John Atherton of Atherton Esq; high-sheriffe of the county palatine of Lanc. / By John Livesey minister of the Gospel at Atherton.	Livesey, John.	1657 (1657)	Wing L2594E; Thomason E1582_2; ESTC R208948	163,446	337

If the Lord take houses from us estates and friends from us dearest relations from us yet if not himself nor his Son Senec. ad Polyb Plut. nor his Spirit from us Fas non est de fortuna conqueri c. 9 As many children are remaining with you Ep. 234. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as are removed from you I may say to you as Anythus did of Alcibiades 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hee that took one had power to have taken all Photius on this account comforts his Brother Patricius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Three are left though three bee lost nay they are not lost non amisimus sed praemisimus only the number of Jobs children remained the same when all things else restored double to him of which some give this reason his other possessions were quite gone but his children remained alive and were in peace with God 10 Their times as ours were in Gods hand not in the hands of their friends Psal 31.15 then they should have stayed here much longer not in the hands of their enemies then their stay had been shorter It is best to do what God would have us and to die when God would have us Prepare for future Breaches who can say when the storm is over hee shall not see another you are yet on the Ocean not in the Haven Dis-ingage your affections take off your heart from those which are left behinde your injoyment of them shall bee nothing the shorter and it shall bee infinitely sweeter they are certain cares but uncertain comforts In sorrow they are brought forth and up yea and out unto the grave On them wee often fix too much of our affections from them wee often have many of our afflictions When you think on them whom you have interred withal bee it your indeavour to meditate on death more by which you were so suddenly parted To love Heaven better where wee hope they are arrived To minde this world lesse whence they are and you shortly shall bee translated Hold on in the service of the Lord notwithstanding the breaches in your family Of what stock or lineage Job was I am not able to determine Tost Super caput 22. Gen. R. Salomon as Tostatus reports confidently asserts that hee was a Chananean and dyed but a while before the Jews entred into Chanaan and this hee builds on Numb 14.9 others as boldly say Aug. Amb. Vide Peter in Gen. 36.33 Cajet in cap. primum Jobi hee was that Jobab of whom wee read in Gen. 36.33 Pererius disputes the question whether Job was of Esau's Lineage and concludes hee was Cajetan thinks none can tell It is certain hee was a gracious person and this hee did notwithstanding All his losses chap. 1.20 Then Job arose and rent his robe and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshipped There are some duties of great difficulty As to love God when hee runneth upon us like a Gyant and shews himself as an enemy Credere invisibilia sperare dilata c. To have our spirits lowest when our imployments are highest And to name no more to have our obedience then at the highest when our comforts are at the lowest yet it is no pleading difficulty against a known duty though hee kills us yet wee should trust in him and worship before him they who are not faithlesse cannot bee fatherlesse nor friendlesse they are never at a loss When afflictions put us to it then by a lively faith wee put God to it and wee know God can do every thing Job 42.2 Record the gracious dealings of God with you in your saddest losses and breaches Keep a book of Remembrance for every passage of his Providence and improve former and present experiences in this hour of tryal When Moses went up to the Mount to pray hee took the Rod of God in his hand and why that Rod by that Rod the Lord had done wonderful things for his people Exod. 17.9 and against his and his Churches enemies by it hee turned water into blood brought Froggs and Lice upon the Land divided the waters of the Red Sea c. the sight of that Rod did incourage Moses to pray to God to confide in God for future deliverances you can apply it Weep not immoderately for the death of your dear Relations They shall rise again and you shall see them again their bodies now laid in the dust are mellowing for immortality and glory the businesse of a wise man said a wise man is not to bee without but above passions Flagrantior aequo Non debet dolor esse tuus nec vulnere major Juvenal Sat. 13 Poverty made Fabritius famous Rutilius was made excellent by his banishment Scevola by fire Cato by his death Socrates by prison and you by patience It were easy to say more but enough is better than all One thing yet remains which I humbly crave I have half promised to my self viz. your candid acceptance of this short and plain discourse it is below others envy and observation so is its Author and therefore craves no protection Hortensius was weak in writing but powerful in speaking Albeticus was weak in speech but notable with his pen. I am in both very weak you will however take it in good part for HIS sake whose death gave life to these unpolished line● the mantle of your charity will cover most of its infirmities Bradwardin once took small pleasure in reading Pauls golden Epistle● hee thought hee had not ingenium metaphysicum the like is said of Augustin and hee ingenuously confesseth Dedignabar esse parvulus c. It is not your humour to censure but your practice is to practise If these lines which bee in your hands finde a room in your heart if they work you out of Love with life to a serious and seasonable preparation for death I have my design I could say very much of you but I am writing to you and therefore shall say no more but pray for you that if the Lord will not shew you what hee will do with you and yours yet that hee would shew you what hee would have you and yours to do and inable you thereunto The good Lord make up this sad breach to your afflicted Family and this distressed Country Fit you for and fill you with those divine comforts which in the multitude of your perplexed thoughts will rejoyce your soul This is and shall bee his prayer who humbly desires a room still in your memory under the title of Your Faithful Servant J. Livesey February 14. 1655. THE Princes Fall and Funeral In a Sermon on 2 SAMUEL 3.38,39 And the King said unto his Servants know yee not that there is a Prince and a great Man faln this day in Israel And I am this day weak WHen Harraldus King of Denmark made war upon Harquinus and both Armies were prepared to ingage a dart was seen flying in the Air hovering this way

had in his library five hundred thousand books or Xenophon that great scholar how hee conducted ten thousand Greeks over the Fords of fifty Rivers and through the midst of an hundred thousand enemies from Persia into Greece Solon was used to say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Melchior Adams relates of D. Chytraeus that as hee lay upon his death-bed Jucundiorem sibi decessum sore si moribundus etiam aliquid didicisset pag. 694. hearing some disputing by him with a low voice lest they should disturb him lifted up his head and desired them to speak up for hee should die the more chearfully if hee died learning somewhat Sigismund the Emperour at the Counsel of Constance lamented this that neither hee nor any of his great Courtiers and Counsellors were able to answer a forraign Embassador in the Latine Tongue and told his Nobles that had no learning that hee preferred before them some of obscure Parentage meerly for their polite learning saying that hee had good reason to honour scholars above all men as those that wer singularly graced and gifted of God Knights and Lords I can make in a day as many as I please but scholars God only can make Vide Corn. Agr. de vanit Sci. Calvin in 1 Cor. 13.8,9 It is not great estates and places but great parts and graces that makes truly noble Augustin Bishop of little Hippo by his learning became more famous infinitely than Cecilius Bishop of great Carthage Yet I make bold to minde you of a common saying of your grave Father it is better to bee an honest man without learning than learned without honesty As Agrippa the noble Counsellor and Favourite of Octavian told him Vertue makes men equal to the gods 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let us not for the tree of Knowledge lose the tree of Life Surgun● indocti rapiunt coelum nos cum doctrina nostra detrudimur in Gehennam I cannot but tremble to read that of Augustin The unlearned arise and take Heaven by force when we with all our learning are turned into Hell Accomplished and accoutred with learning and grace you may serve your own Generation by the will of God before you fall asleep bee laid unto your Fathers and see corruption Non potest esse verus Christianus nec recitare orationem dominicam Ninthly Bee fitting and preparing your selves every day for your dissolution Looking for longing after and hastening to the comming of the day of God Hee cannot said Luther bee a sincere Christian Ioh. Gerard. Vossius de Extr. Jud. nor can hee pray over the Lords Prayer who with all his heart desires not this dayes approach It were very profitable could wee hear each hour what they say Jerome did though learned Vossius say's it is not found in his works Arise yee dead and come to judgement Death is strong it conquers all the grave is cruel it spa●…s none Hannibal never slept in the camp without his armour wee dwell in houses of clay our foundation is in the dust thrice happy are wee if wee bee ready for the grave Job 17.8 by that time the grave is ready for us I shall not praedict yet I humbly conceive if some of you live long I shall not My care shall bee as Seneca said his was now being young how to live well and if old age come then how to dye well Once more Psal 31.19 Heb. 11.2 2 Cor. 4.17 2 Tim. 4 8 Meditate frequently of the greatness of those good things and the goodness of those great things reserved for such as fear and love God Our Lord Jesus had them in his eye so had Moses Paul and others This will help you to walk more thankfully work more chearfully suffer more patiently fight more valiantly repulse temptations more strongly lay out your selves more freely live with what providence hath cut out more contentedly An mercedis intuitu Deo servire liceat Vide Estium in Sent. lib. 1. Dist 1. parag 3. lit D. E. F. to leave the world more willingly to imbrace death joyfully it is too large to dispute that question and weigh those school-distinctions Set some part of every day apart to admire the Lords graciousness not only in present protections of us but future provisions for us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Epict. Enchir. cap. 65. No more That of Isocrates shall bee my Apology for this boldnesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Freedome of discovery what bee our thoughts is the greatest signe of true affection Vide Plut. in Cat. Uti I shall not transcribe Cato's grave advice to his son it may bee worth perusal you have it in Plutarch to whom I referre you When God bestowed on Abram a new name hee gave him a new blessing bee it so with you When the time of your Shrevalty is expired and your health perfectly restored if you shall bee reinvested with magisterial power and authority I humbly beseech you and the God of Heaven for you not to bear the sword in vain put on Righteousnesse let it cloath you Let judgement bee your Robe and Diadem bee eyes unto the blind legs unto the lame the blessing of him who is ready to perish shall come upon you The Lord who brought you together blesse you together and fit you for Heaven in life and admit you and your hopeful progeny after you to Heaven at death This shall bee the prayer and breathings of his soul whose all is but to serve you in the Gospel of Christ J. Livesey August 24. 1655. Jehosaphats Charge TO HIS JUDGES Opened in a Sermon preached ON 2 Chronicles 19. part of the 6. verse Take heed what yee do Take up and read verse 5 6. 7. And hee set Judges in the Land thorough the fenced Cities City by City And said to the Judges take heed what yee do for yee judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the Judgement Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord bee upon you take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts ZEnophon reports of Socrates Memorab lib. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Hee was so pious that hee would do nothing till hee had asked counsel of the gods Zenoph Hist lib. 1. p. 19 20 and so just that hee never did wrong to any person no not in matters of trivial concernment the like hee relates of Cyrus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A. Gellius observes Zenoph de Institutione Cyri. that Publius Scipio Africanus was accustomed before hee set himself about any business of great consequence and importance before the dawning of the day to enter the Capitol and there to stay alone a season A. Gel. N. Attic lib. 7. cap. 1. pag. 187. Plin. Paneg. Trajano Augusto in principio consulting as it were with Jupiter there hee submitted his projects to the judgements of

them Ubi supra like a Tennis-ball tossed hither and thither from hazard to hazard and anon out of the Court Notable is that of Plutarch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let not your power your policy your command or magnanimity puffe you up Insitum est humanis ingeniis imperio insolenter uti De Const lib. 2. c. 25 said Lipsius as great men have been carried about in an Iron cage The blood which now is warm shall freeze anon in your veins the marrow shall drie up in your bones your sinewes shall shrink and eye-strings crack within a short space you shall not bee able to help your selves Let not your beauty or bravery make you ambitious supercilious or haughty Your bodies are vile bodies not God but sin hath made them so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Elut ubi supra beauty is a thing desirable but it is not durable it is but skin deep a raise with a pin or a daies sicknesse may spoil you of it Let not your Rings your Ornaments raise your spirits they are but badges of your sin and shame It argues a vain frothy heart to bee so proud of such petty things a naughty heart to bee proud of any thing If thy out-side be thy best side thou art poor miserable wretched Worthy Gentlemen when God lifts up your heads let it be your care to keep down your hearts all the world cannot keep that man up that doth not keep down his spirit Remember the doleful Catastrophe of Herod the great of Agrippa the great of Alexander the great you are all in his hand who touches the mountains they smoak who bindes Kings in chains and Nobles in fetters of Iron you are in his hand who will bring you to death and to the house appointed for all the living I shall close up this with that of Bernard Quid prosunt Divitiae quid Honores Divitiae non liberant a morte nec delitiae a verme nec honores a faetore nam qui modo sedebat dives gloriosus in throno modo jacit pauper in tumulo qui prius delitiis oblectabatur modo a vermiculo consumitur qui paulo ante in aula principium honorandus efferebatur modo in sepulchro ignominiosus jacet Eighthly Labour to get sin pardoned No sooner did iniquity enter into your souls but mortality seized on your bodies The parcels of dust which were bound together in Adam by a bond of Innocency were shaken loose upon the commission of his first sin and are not you of his posterity Death like an Archer sometimes shoots over the mark and takes one away that was above you sometimes short of the mark and takes one away that was below you sometimes on the right hand there falls a friend anon on the left then dies a foe but the game is never done till you fall and therefore it concerns you to importune the sin-forgiving God to wash your souls in the blood of Jesus to free you from the guilt and filth of sin Notable is that of Job c. 7. ult And why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away mine iniquity Observe the importunity of this holy man what 's the matter that Job so expostulates with God for the remission of his sin Bern. Peccare humanum est perseverare in peccato est diabolicum what need of so much speed and expedition hee gives you the ground and reason For now shall I sleep in the dust 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I shall go into the earth I shall die thou shalt seek mee in the morning but I shall not bee It was Chrysostomes complaint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. in Mat. 22. c. it is in that excellent peece of his which Aquinas professed hee had rather have than to bee chief Lord of Paris Every mans care is and labour is about this present life but about pardon of sin Mallem habere opus imperfectum J. Chrys super Matthaeum quam esse dominus Civitatis Parisiensis Carthus de 4 Nov. p. 48 assurance of Gods love and things to come Death and Judgement Not a word is spoken O that the Lord would make his own discoveries unto you of the excellency and necessity of pardoning mercy without pardon of sin you can neither live well nor die well It is a mercy which God ever gives in mercy it is a mercy which makes way for the obtaining of eternal mercies it is a mercy which makes all other mercies to look like mercies taste like mercies and work like mercy it gives liberty to the soul in prison ease in bonds life in death sense of pardon takes away the sense of pain It is bonum comprehensivum in the bossome of it Jer. 33.24 all the riches of Heaven and Earth too are treasured up It is the souls Sanctuary as Augustin speaks The one thing necessary in the day of adversity then there is plus periculi and then it is suavius beneficium How few Princes and great men have you heard upon their knees confessing and praying with that man after Gods own heart For thy Name sake O Lord pardon our iniquities In hoc nomine vincam Luth. for they are great Most miserabley on will bee though now honourable wretched you will bee though now rich if you go out of the world as you come into the world with the guilt of sin upon your consciences Nulla satis magna securitas dum pericli●atur aeternitas It is not imaginable that your resurrections shall bee to glory if you die in your iniquity your graves shall bee but the suburbs of Hell You shall bee digged out of those burrows and dragged out of those nasty dens to answer for all your wicked pranks and practises done in your mortal bodies Petitions for pardon speak the Petitioners dependence on another great men will not close with this they would bee thought to have all others to depend on them themselves on none petitions for pardon suppose guilt and guilt the breach of a divine Law Princes and great men would bee reputed guiltlesse lawlesse Petitions for pardon intimate a power in God to punish delinquents penes quem facultas remittendi penes ●um potestas puniendi this is not much regarded The God who multiplies pardons as wee multiply provocations open our eyes to see the sinfulnesse of our sins and the dolefulnesse of our state Anon there will bee no place left for repentance nor remission neither in Christs heart nor ours Anon wee shall have no more comfort from that promise of pardon Prov. 28.13 if now wee neglect it then now the Devils have the gates of mercy shall bee shut eternally and neither Christ in a capacity to give nor your selves in a capacity to receive a pardon Remember O remember this lay not the greatest burden upon the weakest beast leave not the greatest work for your sick-bed It is no beginning to caulk the Ship when in a storm it is

the German wars Vide Luth. in Isa 57.1 I can do nothing saith God till thou bee come thither Gen. 19.22 non posse se dixit quod sine dubio poterat per potentiam non poterat per justitiam saith one of the Ancients Aug. Sence Non posse praetenditur non velle in causa est No sooner was Lot in Zoar but the Lord rained down fire and brimstone upon Sodome Such stand in the gap to turn away the Lords wrath but when they are removed what remains to stop the current of divine vengeance when the precious fruits of the earth are gathered into the barn the hedges are broken down the beasts over-run all When the Jewels are taken out of the Trunk the courser things are thrown over-board when Noah is housed in the Ark his Pella the fountains of the deep are broken open Woe is mee saith the Prophet Micah The Good man the Great man is perished out of the Earth Psal 12.1 De contemptu mortis and David cries and praies Help Lord as if the Heavens had been falling on him Heinsius reports that the Sun with-drew its shine and was eclypsed when Joseph Scaliger dyed Darkness seizeth upon us in these parts wee have had many of quality lately taken from us it is well if the Lords wrath bee not comming upon us Secondly Because when they fall the persons with whom they conversed Jer. 48.25 Zech. 10.4 the places in which they lived are exceedingly weakened As in the Text And I am this day weak And are not wee this day weak Behold the Family is it not a weak Family a disconsolate Widdow tender sickly children A weak Town hee was under the most high our strength and munition our defence and protection Should wee unite our hearts and hands our power and policy Alas what can wee do Our strength is weaknesse our wisdome foolishnesse As Jehosaphat said so wee say O Lord wee know not what to do but our eyes are towards thee In uno Caesare multi insunt Marii There are many men in one Great man One Josiah in a Kingdome one Lot in a City one Paul in a Ship is of more value and vertue than many thousands Labans family fared the better for Jacobs sake Pharaohs Court and Kingdome fared better for Josephs sake and hath not this Town these parts of the Country fared much better for this great mans sake Every great man if hee bee a good man is a great blessing and strengthening to the place in which hee lives a blessing by his presence a blessing by his prayers a blessing by his example which is as a Looking-glasse for others to dress themselves by a blessing by his counsels The death of faithful Ministers weakens wonderfully the weapons of their warfare are mighty with God 2 King 2.12 and mighty through God The death of zealous Magistrates weakens infinitely but I must not expatiate See that notable Text Judges 18 7. when there was no Magistrate in Laish ●…n increased and ruine approached Thirdly Because when such fall sin commonly increaseth exceedingly Not only the Laws but the lives of great men it truly godly give a shrewd check to daring impieties and prophanesse many whose hands only were chained but their hearts not changed may break our and fall off returning with the dog to his vomit and the Sow to wallow in the mire again It is not unknown to hundreds of us within these walls that this great mans countenance had special influence upon all the vile wretches that came nigh unto him Hee could do very much with a look I could not in that compare him to any other but Luther De vita Lutheri p. 168 Melchior Adams reports of him that hee had such a Leonine aspect ut oculorum suorum intentionem rectâ aspiciendo non omnes ferre possunt How was the prophanation of the Lords day prevented Travellers according to Law punished drunkennesse subdued c. Tremble godly souls to think how the eye of Gods glory is like to bee provoked let rivers of waters run down your eyes Is there not matter of lamentation when the winds are rising the Sea swelling the Heavens lowring and the enemy approaching to behold the souldiers gasping the Pilots and Steers-men dead upon the deck How shall the little flock bee kept out of the jaws and paws of the wild boar and Beasts of prey O pray Lord remember thy Lilly amongst the Thorns thy Lambs amongst the Wolves thy love amongst the daughters The Saints are as speckled birds Jer. 12.9 Jerem. 12.9 All about them are enemies to them Fourthly Because otherwise they cannot make a right use and improvement of their death and dissolution It is the Lords will that wee should make a right good use of his rod upon others and of the fall of others Quest What use should wee that survive now make of this Princes dissolution Answer A threefold Use An Honourable Use An Charitable Use An Profitable Use An Honourable Vse in relation to God acknowledging his power and supremacy his soveraignty and authority over man to kill or make alive to deliver from death or to death A Charitable Vse in relation to them who are afflicted or taken away by death not concluding them the greatest sinners because they are the greatest sufferers or that it is for some notorious impiety that they are cut off in the midst of their daies Their death may bee in mercy to them in judgement to us A Profitable Vse in reference unto our selves wee should learn thence to walk humbly to put our hearts in order to see what the bitter fruit of sin is c. Though the occasion of our comming together this evening bee very sad yet the opportunity is sweet if wee can learn rightly to improve this great mans fall I remember Plotinus hath this passage Men should so live and so die that others might learn some good from them both living and dying Anatomists and Physitians advantage themselves by dissecting dead bodies and prying into the inward parts wee may spiritually profit our selves by a serious consideration and observation of his dispensations in the Fall of Princes and Great men Fifthly Not to take notice of not to lay to heart the death of such men is a God-provoking sin a fruit of sin and the cause of many horrid iniquities and grievous transgressions This inconsideratenesse is that which the Prophet checked and much lamented Isa 57.1 None considereth that they are taken away from the evil to come none pondered it in their hearts they did not search into it what should bee the minde and end of God in it God laies it to mens charge that they lay not those things unto their hearts as if personal mortality were not sometimes a presage of publick misery This is a direct violation of a divine injunction Eccles 7.3 The living shall lay it upon their hearts Is not the hand of God in this sad