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A10904	A sermon preached on September the 20. 1632. in the cathedrall church of Christ at Canterbury, at the funerall of William Proud, a lieutenant collonell, slaine at the last late siege of Mastricke. By Francis Rogers, Doctor in Diuinity	Rogers, Francis, d. 1638.	1633 (1633)	STC 21175; ESTC S116095	14,227	26

A SERMON preached on September the 20. 1632. In the Cathedrall Church of Christ at Canterbury at the Funerall of William Proud a Lieutenant Collonell slaine at the last late siege of Mastricke By Francis Rogers Doctor in Diuinity 2. SAM 3.38 Know yee not that a Prince and a great man is fallen this day in Israel LONDON Printed by Iohn Norton for William Adderton and are to bee sold at his shop in Bethlem without Bishops-gate 1633. To the Honoured and VVorthy Sir Dudley Digges Sir William Monins Sir Peter Heyman Sir Thomas Palmer Sir Iohn Wild Sir Thomas Wilford Sir Christopher Harfleit Sir Iames Oxenden and Sir Edward Masters MVCH Honoured and Worthy Countreymen this Sermon was preached at the Funerall of Lieu-tenant Collonell Proud our Countryman who was slaine at the late siege of Mastrick J know not to whose protection better to commend it then to your selues who are all Gentlemen of good worth and to whom the chiefest charge of military discipline for our East parts of Kent is committed Yee were all attentiue hearers may it now please you to accept these my poore endeauours fauourably and to censure them charitably J haue what J desire And so wishing all health and happinesse to your selues and your families I rest your euer louing Countryman and faythfull Seruant in Christ Iesus FRANCIS ROGERS From St. Margarets in Canterbury Octo. 29. 1632. A Sermon preached at the Funerall of William Proud a Lieu-tenant Colonell slayne at the last late siege of Mastricke 2. SAM 3.38 Know yee not that a Prince and a great man is fallen this day in Israel WEE reade before in this chapter that King Saul being dead there was great warre betweene Ishbosheth and Dauid for the Crowne Ishbosheth claymed it as sonne to King Saul Dauid did challenge it as anoynted by Samuel and appointed by God Abner Generall for Saul his house being rebuked by Ishbosheth for going in to his fathers concubine tooke it very indignely and threatned to forsake Ishosheth and to vnite himselfe to Dauid for which purpose he sendeth messengers to Dauid to make a couenant with him Dauid being a wise King aswell as a godly man thought it no 〈…〉 neglect such 〈◊〉 opportunity and therefore he doth embrace Abners loue he entertayneth him royally and dismisseth him peaceably After this Ioab Dauids Generall comming to the Court and whether out of malice because Abner had slaine his brother Asael or out of ambition fearing that Abner might haue his command or out of affection to Dauid being his nephew hee is very angry and telleth Dauid that Abner came but as a spy to watch Dauids going in and going out and therefore it was not wisedome in Dauid to suffer Abner to depart from him and when he had done speaking to the King he hastneth after Abner who comming to Ioab mistrusting no euill was vnder pretence of friendship most treacherously killed by Ioab This murder so odious in the sight of God and man doth astonish Dauid for now Beniamin and all Sauls Alies are likely to hate Dauid perpetually yea his owne seruants and kindred haue great cause to suspect Dauids tyranny wherefore Dauid to cleare himselfe from so foule a blot First he detesteth the fact Secondly he wisheth a curse vpon Ioab and his posterity for the same Thirdly he causeth his Nobles to lament and himselfe followeth Abners corps to the graue he weepeth and hee bewaileth his death and hee sayth Know yee not that a Prince and a great man is fallen this day in Israel In which words three things are obseruable First that there is a difference and a degree betweene man and man in this title giuen to Abner a Prince and a great man Secondly that Princes and great men are subiect to mortality A Prince and a great man is fallen this day in Israel Thirdly notice is more especially to be taken of such mens deaths Know yee c For the first this difference of man and man is not in respect of our Creator nor in respect of our first earthly father nor in respect of our matter for wee are all made of the same earth but it is in regard of the vse and seruice of men in a ciuill state for parity breedeth confusion both in Church and Common-wealth and God is the God of order See this in vnreasonable creatures The Bees haue in the Hiue a master-Bee whom they obserue and follow the Cranes march forth in orderly array yea among the diuels there is a superiority and an order for Belsebub is the Prince of them Acts 17.11 There are Nobles these were Noblemen and there is a degree in Nobility These were more noble men then those of Thessalonica For better vnderstanding this poynt obserue foure sorts of Nobilitie The first is naturall which is by birth descending from ancient progenitors and God promiseth Abraham that Kings shall come out of his loynes I but the old Stoickes obiect Nature is alike to all she is a stepdame to none are not all borne alike into the world are not all subiect alike to casualties in the world and doe not all dye and go alike out of the world where is then any inequality Likewise the new Switzers say God did not make two Adams one of siluer to beget Gentlemen another of earth to beget common people Coates and Crests notos magis facit quàm nobiles they make men rather knowne then noble No more for shame let not that sin rule among vs which Esay speakes of That the vile presume against the honourable They are me thinketh as Esdras the 1. booke the 3. chapter saith the words of men in wine who neuer remember their King nor their Gouernours doubtlesse it is a great blessing of God to be borne of honourable parents for Christ himselfe though he liued so poore as the Foxes had holes and the birds of the ayre had nests but he had not where to lay his head yet he would not be borne base he would bee borne a Gentle man he was of the blood Royall and true heyre to the Crowne of Iudah for hee descended from the linage of Dauid according to the flesh In metals of the same kinde which Plato resembleth to the soule of man some are farre purer then are others In plants there is a great difference of seeds and branches Est in iunencis est in equis patrum virtus Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis If a man haue a Horse hee esteemeth him better according to the sire and damme he commeth from Euen so among men it doth often much auayle from what stocke they descend and the Scriptures call men nobly borne The famous of the congregation The worthies of the land The glory of the Kingdome The strength of Israel and it was one high degree of sorrow in Iudah her captiuity that her nobles were slayne But Generatio optima corruptio pessima best things corrupted proue the worst Angels if they fall doe become deuils and Gentlemen if