© mts zie Si HENRY E, HUNTINGTON LIBRARY A SERMON PREACHED AT, Consrantinorte, in the Vines of Pe ean, atthe Fune- rallofthe vertaousand admited Lady ‘Anwe Groen, fmetine Wifeto” the Honourable Knight Sit Tit o- | mae Goven, and then Am | buldoar oir forbieMaily oiGaeny Barraany ioe Tacit ke By Witttam Foups Bachelow in Di site, andy Preacher othe rig Fmaoable “Anbafedior ond orf fis age Bat eins the «aon fof | | | cone TheGraue, op SPiginge 3 Printed by Eo vv ann Gripes y for Franc Cosby and arc be fldachisthepat the white ‘yon, oval thegret Non door ofTHEM O: ST HO-' NOVRED ACCOM| PLISHT AND VERTVOVS| bested Lady the Lady Wa w rw 0.4 rae Wifetothemottobleandaeftworhy filicposradalia Lo 0, theLad Warwvonr i tery His Sermon mop ee vvertuous and bo-| Sree: | ceiued at in} esa the Vines we rah, adioyning to renowned Conftantinople,tbeflam- Ar ballTue Evistie boll or great Gitie of the great Turke ind shee Sed ks ‘a “ei Temple) in a pleafane Garden, nde EXER |< loft» Cyprefle tree, in a goodly of- SE ombly of diners Nations, after lng sw ranaile through many and flrane| SCT" | Coueries, is now at length by te pro- cela pitions fauowr of the Abmighte, footed {Sane tn Great Britaine , where thinking to awe repofed i's wearied limbs, ir by | gensleintreatiemoued, and forcibleim. portunttie ouer-ruled, to bepinne a new| trauaile, co vndertake 4 ne iourney, ‘ifitemany Cities, enter many boyjes, af rough many bands, oferitflfe tommany quicke-fghted cies, fabmit to ‘many cenforions beads. As therefore in er fir birth fhe bad to fbadow ber fra the Sunnes fearching beames, a beauti- ([olland umbriferous Tree fo fhe meen hs dech en \ | Depicatory. | dechJomepleajing Canopie, amerefre- Vinrenrchesbe the fil. fe | der sbofemungs may fhe better uf taine and maintaine ber jelfeC maftver ‘uous and bonour: Lady) shen ‘onder [yours ? yeu were the Patrone(fe of che| Lady whom fhe honouret, whofe life Vrerelateth whofe deathfbelamenterh, bofe Funeral hecelebraterh youto-| gether nichyour bonourableand religi- ous" Mother.gaue that Lady ber bree#|; tty ding communicated to her your ver- ues, aduanced ber tober honours ; fo thatthe bf of ber life, ber education, er vertues, ber honours, fhee derived (next ynder God ) from you: and ther-| Jore being dead ber wandring obfequies awe recourfe mato you for protetton,| prefiming hat far love you bare onto the living, you ill ot ceafeto doe good A 3 ‘onto rasaTuzEpistee | Depicartory. ‘ita the dead, thegood yo Pall do ber 4110 daigne tha your bonaurable name (asit asa Santluarie unto ber eles | while he lined) fit mayppatronage ber | Funerals being dead. Yris nt 1, for \aphat am Tunkaasne to you, or my de- Ufernings 2 but bee, or becaufe fee trot, [for ber,or rather ber lining ver- et for ber dead flfe, shat implore tbirgratow faworatyour gentle hand. ‘Your tender brea wilnot deny [o bum. ble a fater, your olde love will bid you |yeeld ro. defirefo xealons. In fall con-| {dence whereof [baue ventured topre- ie your honourable name, which, iftt Ifind Cas it feruently deirerh) accep- [cance favourable, bal perbapsencon- rage mee to fecond it with fome mores plesfing and delghfal fab, wbicb mine abvne experience bath gathered | {from wa lef paineul hen farre fore| ‘raigne objeruations. Jn the meane ‘feafon my deuoted heart fhall deuoutly| pray for lengehof daies, redoubled ho- naurs, graces bappinefetadefcend and \refl »pon your vertuous head, and after |edir hfethe exernall croone of better iif. i YourHonoursin the moft humble ! defie,andtender of his fraice andobieuanc, i Witutaw Foxans= | a 1 Epiraraiv. teers anges le es, ‘em donee ss ba ats ratio a negro ase ceintoncae nena fiscal Aa amor dr, gn force am | agence ates gue lla Dee (fete Glen ulin ctmenerprtan \ ne BAtaaiR re Legato regio mpte, etait (mnt sepa se fam \fuakafuctbnintrrcoomans eer Jib, hint Ort, ats efi, tie ee) mea en se vegrapenpr cages onion get \SeUaet See uta fem fm Nos Seti lov are elle pofrne gy jects ra bon of a ‘spur alison martes no ee Le dae reall, ep free exesicneps bugs Vale, tpg | 72: kn, emer timtmee (Vii $$$ eonceee Gon, 25. er 3. 3.4 | 2. Then Sara deli Kéracarbahe fais, Febroninthelad of Car, And Abraham, ‘ame tomer for ber anata wecpe er ber. 3. Then Abraham refe cp from the fight of bis Cops and aed wit the Elite fyinge 4. Lam a firanger anda forrener among yon gine mea poffifion of bral with yourbat 1. ay Buy dead ont of my fight | Ora forowill meeting 5 ‘what more meet, then wordes, and fongs,and | fobs and fighes of for-| rowe? fpeech with mat XG ter, matter with ation aGion with affeGion, affedion with occa- fion thould fympathize together. We hhaue here before our eyes fad fpeftacle a hearlecouered with Sable weedes,acoF-| fin hlled with wornes and abes;fiting BHeb. ASermnpreaed for which obie@ ,ave haue fngled outa doleful exe, which doth intreat of noughe bur woes and forrowes , of death , ot tearss of pilgrimage, of the graue. Ot death) by She power olin ean ing couer life; of teares, asthe fritsof fiane sping tts power dt of pg rage +25 the lor of hfe rauelling vaco death, of the graue, as the home of pl- grimesand the houfe of death, Thon Sars ded . Here is the power of death wiumphing ouerlife? And Abraham camie to mourne for herand to weepe fos her, here are the fruits of inne weeping ar the powerofdeath. Then Abraban ling vp» faid voto the Fltites, Tama ftranger aida foremer ano you, hereis the lotto} lie, which is a pilgrimage vnto death, Gine mse a pofsfion of burl! withyon , here isthe home of pilgtimes and che houfe of death Then Sarah died. Thesice obferue, the ge- nerall condition of mankinde even that j which the Apoftle hath confirmed * Ii [pet eh ey ine de. Al Ars { «at Conftantinopl | | Araki came to mourne and weepe for ‘het thence obfenie that matoral aed | ontowardsthe dead is commendable in ball, Thea dbvcham tc Toma frager and ‘fare anon yo. Thence oblerues that all men are but flrangers and pilgrims here om eat. | Gine me a pflefion of burl with son. | rience eee etna] ‘honoured with ball and agraue. | Thaeallatenmattonce dieythataturall 1 towardes thedead iscommenda-. bleinallthat all arbue pilgrims ran gers hereon earth that allafter death are tobe honoured with burial fea gaue,are thefoure fad feuetll fabies, ol myen- luing fad difcounfe » which whiles 1 ap- plieto this fad Spectacle, applie you your heartstoforrow your eyes to tears, if otfor herthavis dead and gone ( for the is bet andeftech fom het labours) yee fioryour owe faves , which wll cau you (vill yourill you } God knoweshow Foone looks you how well, to follow afterher. we willby Gods alfftance and Be your affed4 A Sermon preached your mach defred patience , wauth the same gow we haue began to! ed [cing the fteppes , and following the me- ther inthe felfefame order we haue pro- jounded it. Then Sarah died . Was Sarab che firtt that died ;was not mother Bue with her daugh- ters and het daughters daughters dead long before: ifdead , andwhy not men- tioned ? what was rare and fingular in’ Surabs death , that thee alone aboue all other women , above Fue her felfe thould deferue to haue the firft memo. rill, then Surab died:fureiel know no other reaton but this, that as Abraham [vaste father f0 Saab was the moter of the fathfull, and therefore the holie Ghof vouchiaieth vnto her, that which |he denied to other women belore her, |an honourable mention both of her age |how long fhe liued and of the tyme of ‘her death , when thee died , when Sarah wwasanhundrethwentie and leven yeeres| jolde , folong lised fhe , then Sarah died: Sarah thoughthe mother of the faihfull, thou though a holy and religious manones| though a Samet ot God yet then Sarah died, ‘Whence we oblerue the general condi- ionof mankind Itis appointed voto menthat they fhall once die» all mult drinke of Sarabs eup,the cupisfullof oneand the fameliquoutthe Jiquouris draxmnefromone and the fame fountaine , the fountaine it felfe is poif- ned, and ifthe fountaine bevneleane the Ahrezmes willbe treubled too ifthe root be caubred the branches will wither alfo,| ifthe head bedileafed, the members will] bbediftempered too, Now thehead, the toote, thefountuine, asof Sirabfo ofall mankinde , was father Adam , as there-| ore adem by tuthing againftthe law like) pitcher that datheth againft che wall, finned notooliein his owne perfon , but in his humane nature , not oalie in him- {elfe butin his defcene fo he purchafed the punifhment offiane which is death, not onlie voto himfelie, vato his ewae perfon , but vato others, vato his humane! Bs nature)om. $48, mn in sohom all men ad fined * But how ASermon preaced ‘ature, of which we all partake. Foras by one man faith the Apoltle, (by one] | Man andvone Bue, two in fex, bucone in Jnacarey one in mariage, one in fianing, the woman feduced by the Serpent, the mmaninduced by the woman , (finue en" tered into the world, and death by fione, aby tbe fie of one man y deat went one al |did finne enter by one into the world ;not by propagation of kindeonlie , as Socinus ‘the hereticke auerreth, but by participat nef thefacalle , andbyimpation o jthe guilt; And how did death enterby finne ? euen as an effe@ that followeth yescaufe , or asathadowethataccompa- | nictha bodie in the funne, And how went | death ouer all ; asa plague graffants indo ‘no, cepopulating the citie or a houle where it engereth : or like an enemie erigants osflants » flements , raging ee a Yall chat he meets with, or like abidden, poyfon thar dif feth its venome , voto euery member, and peneirateth yntoalland euerie pare, not at Couponing snot onli vito a fev fickeweaklings, and poe Raruelings, bur generale vnto al, highand lowe ich and pore, bond and free of what age, fex condition, degree foeuer;all, men andwomen, youngand old , great and litle, ttrong and weake, ate fabiedt to deaths ftroke whence the poeteryethoue. eamertomircfinguefibas es, tf ce eign oan, nbs, opine des fon sche 1 pen Truc it isindeed that which Saint Auflen | taught long agoe » God at frit created mah asa meane bewweene Angels and bealts, ehstifheobeyedthe Lord histrue ereatour and kepthishettes, he might be | tranfported to the Angels focietie’, but| che became peruerfein wll andoffended the Lord hisGod , thenthat he mig! ht be 7 vat deat ikea bru belt Ando, this end he placed him in the garden of) io, the paralileof God , tired with] match-|8 A Serman preached matchlefle vatietie » of whatloeuct dee! | fights eae could deft efperiallie gar- rifled begnetshacaim , with the tee of | life , andbegnets haédagneth the tee of “Knowledge whchewo tees heappoin- red him fortwo Sacraments , by thetree ‘tlie rnltically importing thatthe ou tinued his obedience » he thould furely enioy life » never feele nor teare hungry think, fickenes, age or death, by the ‘tree of knowledge har ithe tanfgretled| the commandemient po faéb In the ve- yad™ ma coma dynge dpe» he Ovould Gent | holt certainlie die» or he thould die a Touble deathyhe deachol thebody Bethe Geath ofthe oule which accordingly hap {pened » as had beenetheeaaed fr i Krefamehoure he beganco care » hebe- fanto die, not onelic a fpirituall deat \Sihich is a feperation of man from Gods Desese. {who isthelite of man and the length of 1 dayes, unto which and vnto which on- lies hereticke Sociusteltraineth it, con eating the death ofthe bodie 1obea e- {ure natoffiane burof nature, even of cat Conflantinple. | ‘of nature vacorrupted , fo that eke body} |gammenr gece Hinged 5 but allo and not once (as | (Fok evvoneoutie ehinketh) a corporal | death, which isthe dilolution ofnature {and the fouls lat farewell vntill the ge- | nerall refarredtion yato the bodie which | | actual difolusion chough nttantleitfol-| lowed not » yet was to be eared euerie] moment, for asin euilliudgensents 8 lu- iil proceedings among men ft condemned to death , chough afer his corndemnation he be committed vnto the laylour, by him caltagaine into the dun-| geon , and there linger tora long timea| dyinglife, yetin common elteenie he is| father reckoned among thedead , thea i ing and we are wount to fay of Ini Grcuer la fanticvers day and hourehe received his eatenceot nova ghar atoll gupharthyby earththotaet, and ingo the earth chou! thalereturue,thouglsafter this, the line of his lle were long extended , yetth>| é “nature|10 Sermon preached | hature of his life wasbuta death , becaule lhe wasdead in doome, forhethat makes hiawfelfeIyable vnto punithment » isvn-| |der punifbsment fi now re y tamen fententia |itmotin deed yet indoome. And in this refpeet faieth Saint Anbrafe , Alan from| |che veri adkof his eating the forbidden |fiuite may be tightly fated to haue died jinitantlic , becaufe heneuer after lived one day, houre, or moment, wherein he was not obnoxius vnto death. we commonlie fay ofthens that haue fuckin fome ftcong and violent poy(on ,adlumcll,heis adead| man , becaufe though as yer he breath, yetilay allieleand loc he is fone dead:$o |may we ay of dam , and as of Adam 5 0 ‘of euerie fone of Adam , who haue all fiv- [ea in the inne of Alam , hic mortuus ft, heisadead man, becaule though as yet |he live , yet hauing dranke his deadlie {bane he mult furelie die, | For euer fice the finne of Adam , a5 fooneas man beginnes tolive hee begins 4 perpetuall iourney vnto death , And| pessoa faieth Sain Aufl buts nee at Cosflantinnple, | rerdeathat the yeeies ende, then hewas | atthe beginning, to morrow ehento day, | to day then yefterday, by and by theniult i now, and now then alitle bef orc, each’ ! partoftime (ifcime lave partes) that we paffe , cuts of fomuch trom ourlife sand the remainder fill dectealeth , ronionte| 4 peiia Cait Saint. fen mover inf, ante Yvewsenteadolyfenciamoritur pueritia , rceniente intventnte mortar adolefcetia 5 venionte fone= tte marie vents cenete mare wait amnis tary when childhood commethon, intancie dieth , when adolelcencie com- meth childhood dieth , when: youth com- meth adole(eencie dieth , when oldeage| commeth youth dieth , when death com-| meth all and euery age dieth, fothatlooke | howmany degreesofages we defireto line fo manie degrees ofdeath we defire to die, aske an olde man where is his infancie where is his childehood ? where ishis ado- lofeencie? whereis his youth? fhal he not fay true if he anfwere , alas all thete are Jdeadandgone , what{peake Lofages? ¢- uerieyeere, moneth , day hovre , of out liteA Sermon preached tows, and weate dead with them , what theelore elie 1s our who'e te, but slow death usu | what iseacry day cherot butas* Petros S415. |Taethadegree vito death, whatiseuerie moment therof buta mocion voto deal ture | Wheucestisthat * Gregori comparesthe Titegl man vitoaSaylourina py for ashe thatayledh whether he thane or fit or lie or walke,isalwayeswafted onwards by themotion ofthe fhippe: fois with v6, whether we wake or whether we Aleepe , whether we walk or whether we talke, whether we fc or whether we li, svhether we will whether wenill, by times moments we ae cried forewardes tis. | mo out ene, and as "Seneca faieth quo Eve |e mrinar ws devery ay yforecery | day we loofe pare of oulite exe qu gut cam ceinns ota dee and our lite fuen then decrafeth when i increaleth cop ne, |Patalel with that of * Saint Aufl iba Sa mea quits maga ittoto mays decfitge> | gant magia onto mis ad mart ace dt, my le the morestinereafeththe mor itdccieaieth che nioreitis lengahened the note icisthorencd, and the longer {live thenearert approach vino death y Forall ourlie indete is but alving desthy or tomakerbe beitofit, itis no beter then acontinuallpafage vino death, wherein fone cannethes tay nor flake his pace,but [al runoe in one aod the fame insnacr, with one and rhe fame (peede , tor the hore liver runneth hissace no later then tice that liveth long, both runne alike, | ooth make fpeede aie, the dierenceis {the frtt hath not fo latre to runneas the jlater lisone thing torunne further a- nother to runne falter, he thatliues long runneth further, burnotamomenctalte, Jeuetie man hatgeneth ynto death alike ‘though one havea lefler way to goe chen theothes, And hence w is that though all men |nabecul hatyetaltanenotbe ane aiuall ynto death , but fom inthe moc. ning, othersinthe woontide,othersin the eaening of theicage 5 yet allin ome one| houre or other «For howfoeuer there may | i | B4 Sermon preached at Confamtnapl Ts may be fome diflerence of tyme y yet thereisno vacertaintie of the ende , but fooner or laterit is certaine all thall ome tebgoas.'to an end . Thame affiredy , fh holy Tebow we bring me onto death, whichis the “boule appointed for alee lining, a8 a bauen for tip Temay be whew a thip is come tro the mouth of the hauen,a blatt drweth, it backe againe: bur thither it will arrive ‘atthe lafty fo mutt wee yall of vs) at the’ | gates of death, Ones (faiththe Poet) mua | nnet more caeondafemel via eth, Death isthe end of aand once the way of death is to bee troad of all . For as all ftares |roue om he Ea dhe Wt and all the riuers runne into one Sea fo all men | raul vnto one home, the houle of death, King | which therefore the * Prophet in a pro- Jofi.23-14| yerbiall manner calleth the way ofall the Jearh, Andasall teeshaue their death, t |cither they fall through the tempelts ot | | pindes,o¢ rend in funder through the vio- { lence ofthunder, or wiheraway through | thelength oftimesfallon eathare nfor- 16.516 |eall, All fh, faith the Prophet, waxeth old as bo [44 gomnt y a garment whether it bee |worne or whether it lie folded in achelt, peritheth at length, if e bee not woine| jit will foone bee motheaten, if worne, it will fooneinto rages. Anas the leaues ona thicke tree, fome fal,and fome grows! {fo is the generation of fleth and bioud,| Jone is borne, and another diech :whicl| the Heathen Poet well faw, though hee Homer. hime were blind, in that verte of bis, | which Pyrrbus Blenfir aboue all other yer fesfomuch commended: ne eer th pt ‘Tale genus eft haminn quale ef falorfach | is the generation of men as of Jeafes, fo one peritheth & commetato his end,and| another tifeth vpn his place, And asthe| eafe buddeth, {pringeth, floritheth, wax- eth old and sithereth away: fo man is borne .groweth , forifheth , waxeth old, | and vanifheth away; and as many leates are nipped in the bud : fo many men are cat of in their youth, talequidon onus cf Sominam qualeffiliron, So then fac as a! leafeis,fuch isa mans there sno leale but16 | “A Semon preached at lengih withereth and thereisno man |but at length dyeth; the wind bloweth, |and cheleatefadeth , death with his pelti- Jferous breath approacheth » and man’ |dieth. Who can ftopp the wind tha it blowe nor? who ean binder death tha it comenot? Whatone writeth wits ofthe Gram. ‘marian is true of eueriefonne of Adan,that being able to declive allother nounes in euetie cafe, could decline deathin no cafe. Js was neuse Oraou fo eoquenttat could perfvade death to fpare him, ne~ |uerGibberfo mightienor monarch fo po- tent, that could withftand him « News the faite Therfeites the foule , Selym the | cruel! ,Solyman the magnificent , Craflas Ithe tich , Irus the pote Damztas the: peafane, Agamemnon the Prince yal fall downe at deathsfect,it he command, we | mult away,no tearesyno praiers;no threat- ‘ning, no intceatings will erue the ume: [Ho fife o deafe, fo inexorable is death. “There are meanes to tame the moft ‘ierceand favage bealts, meanesto breake| “a Conan. 7} chehard marble, and ro molline the Ada- | | mant, butnot any one thing to mittigate deaths rage, ‘ee, faith Saint Aue, iguibus, condi, ferry refftarreibus, refi | * Aug Po tar Inperys™ renisconarors eo guise rei | Fpeswates, the fword,may bee relied, ahd Kings and Kingdomes may be rel feds bt wheadeat onmeth who ea refilk it? non miferetur inopwm ( (aithY Saint} , Bernard ) non rexerctur dinitas, Death pitieth| conch nat the pootyregardeth notthetic, fee rethnotthe might, {pareth notany, Teisin mavs power indeed ro {ay vata | rey death, asfometne King Cont aid yao the Sea, when it begaune to flow. Seal Jcommand thee that thou touch not my feet : but hiscommand was bootleffe, for} he hadnofoonerfpakeehe word, butthe firging wave dathed him:So may man} fay voto death whenitapprocheth,Death Iconimand thee not o come neere me: bueno force, death will ike him, and no more povier hath man to keepe backe death thatic trike nor,then themightet King on earthto keepe backe theSeathae\ D it38 Bech | witecntam ith 5° _A Serio preached lafhnow: The Sea-wall have his fuxe, and death willhivethis‘courle,anigiom obrinentj they both keep their old woot, fincethe fst divifion of waters, the Sea hath beene accuftomed Ye ebbe and ow, whohatlveuetshindiedle2 and fincethe frit corruption ofnature, death hath been aceuftorned to flay and dettroy, who hath refitteie® Orker ciftomes hade'and may Besibiithed aKirig may cominand , and itis done; but what Monarch fo abfolure?| what Emperour oipotdne; that couhias beogarte'in bis dominions this: cuftcinie ot| dyin? Iewas a cultome among the Car= thaginitus to° acifie hismane Aéfh, but thi scuttoaresisubobihied>' Twas a bit Iednwéidioamionig theTndians to eat mians ett bu this:etMomeis'abolifhed too, avaty ter siinietne aid fhintiall Santdines ty se world ile beese but they arcotinay bedbolifhed. But this cu: Romeof dylogy there yas niuer yer any Prinses fete feud -ot Heed of thar could abollh. "For ‘this ‘oniition’ which the ‘the condition of al 4 times a Conflaninople timesremaineth fill, Thou lhalt die che death, no man, nomeanes ean abolih it No not length of dayes,nor wifedome, nor riches, nor honour, nor beauties not | Greogeh, no notthatexcellent grace and giltot bolineite and pictie. The Antient, Father and Paciarhes belts the Roe luued very long, fome 700, fome 860. fome goo. yecres.and more , and yet at lengthot all and euery one the conclufion isshe died. Salozon was a wile King , the wileftthat ever was, hee knewthe nature of all fimples,ftom the very Hylope to the Cedar, and:therefore if any ,farely lhce aboue-others tould:haue preleried Ihivflfefroim death, and yee of hime id {aid in the end,be dieds Sampfonwasindued with esesordiary Abrengeh, ab onetime hes flew a thouland with the aw bone of an Affe; and yet hee dyed Danid. wasianiawatter Gods ovine heart and yerhe died: Mes faw Ged face toface, and yet hee died. ThiePrephets Were indued with agreatmeafute of fanc- tification, yecthePiophee* Zaclaryioines Da them 19 "Dacha20 ASermonpreached ‘themall together in one itate of mortali- ty,your Fathers where are they ? and do| theProphets liv for ever? What fay [the Prophets? Chuift lefus himfelfe che Sonne| of God, theonelyfonne, the Sonuein ‘whom hee was well plealed, more wile then Salomon, more mightie then Sam/an, mote holy then Dad, and all the Pro- phets, though heeknew no finne in him {elfe, yet for taking on himthe burthen of | our fines, became fubieét to the fame condition of mortaltie with vs, and hee| yedallo, And that goe no further, but come home vato my TextSare who lived]. abundred twenty and feuen yeares, and was asthe Hebrewes myitically expound the numbers, fo chatt-and innocent at twenty yeates oldyas fhe wasatfeuen,and fo faire ata hundred yeares old,as fhe was attwenty ; yetneitherher wiledome, not her beauty, not herchaftty, could ought availe her but heere yo fee the conclut- onis, ThenSareh ded, Hany thal obiedt, but Bioch and Ela died not, Lanfwere, Weknow not, Trather| thinke| «at Canfbantinaple thinke they did, and that Hissin his Bery Chariot had his bodie burnt, and Bnoch who in his yeeres matched the dayes of the funne 365. was without paine diffol- jued when God tooke his ‘oul ‘to heauen, or ifthey died not, yet as Origin faith, the general is not therefore falle becaule GOD hath difpenled in fome particu- lats,though one or two died not, yetthis isan vniuerfall ruth of all mento bee re- sciued and duely pondered, Itisappoin-, ted vnto men hat they thall once dis, And is it indeed * appointed yntomen |* that they thall once die? Is there but one ‘way forallthe earth o goe, one doore, | deaths* doore for all eheliuingto tarne| into ® how neerely then doth it concerne | ¥S, 0 bethinke our flues of this way, to it our feluesforthisiourney , and euenin this lifes to take care foranother hfeabet- terlife eternal life. A man that knowes| for certaine hee mult religne his dwelling jhoufe, within a moneth, ora weeke, or a day, is very filly and fimple, ithetakeno order for procuring fome other habitat. D3 ont 2 eb, ‘Kine J 23 om 1a A Sermon preached fon, that when he is putoutof his owne houféshe may haue another to couerhis head in: fo willit bee with vs, who inha- bite thefe houfes of clay, whofe foundati- “Tob. onis the duft, weknow for certaine wee ‘hall leaue them, low foone wee know not, perhaps to morrow; perhaps to day, perhapsthisvery houre, we ate ily then |and vnprouident, if wee take no care for ssacg, | prouiding otber houfes, What faid *Saine Sei Ea, Bernard t0 his foule Ad bue dome giden| | babes (O-anima ) fed certa eo, quoniam tn bre 10 (cme) cara oft domvsena xii prox sidelines plies ena, frig exe , ponends, Ory foulethoubalt yet ahoufe todwelia, bytbe;aflured thy houtewill hortlyfallandmoudee, and vaefleyhou. | prouide thee before hand of fome ether. houte,caytive, forelorne and naked that: thou beexpofed voto thewinde,the rine, and the cold :alas, who can tand in pre. jifence of this Aommytemped happy ther-{ forexhsies happy thaltthou be my ule, chen ty. con(cieneetell hee, thou cant fay vato thy:Glfe in: faith, and full afi ance, ‘at Conffantinopl, tance T how that if my earthly bone of this Tabernacle be deftroyedsl have abi of Grd, that iy a boule not made with bas, bua ecernall he beanen Cor 5. Againg,is it appointed voto mea that | they mutt once die ? Oh that wee could ty one of vs(as We ou fonder ths, and dally and ‘with our elues, of thistheame, We mult] it) feriowlly| duly ponder '|dic. Doubtlefle this vould caule vs 10 feare God while vee lie, thatvve mighe finde favour at his hands when wee die. For who fo fareth the Lord, i fall gc wall | with bim athe lal, and be hal finde Fancur at | dedayof i dea. 123] | Beck. 2. It would moueys coimbrace the) ‘ood, and. refufe the euill, remerabri a sat as Precious is the death of the Saints in the igh of the Lord: fo euillisthe death ot inners”. 3. It would abate in vsthe plumes of| lourpride,and humble vs farré below the Niniuites, and Ahab, confidering, chat Earth we are, and into earehree fhallretrne a | |e, end why art thou pron O earth and pier" 4 Bec ree‘Sermon preached 4: Itwould worke in ys atrueremorle. and forrow for our fomer, laying before Joureyerthefayingofour Saitou Fal “Lakers. |yourepenalfyou alike peri 5 It would breed in vs adiftafte and lke of earthly things, Faeexin cot stemniay aid Saint Trome, qui fecgiat mo- rar, 8 Bf when hee wasteady td fochuoger contemned his biehight, Br * Ges s.32 | morior quid mubi proderunt primogenita, * Loe 1. val dey what then chi bith rightto mee? whereascontaivile they thatdreame ofa long life weafare vp themfeuesinearth” 6. Ic would expell out of our heats aocor and hatred procure lous anda- rite teonte abdreconce vsto ourbr-| ‘atten, wiles we arin the way" leing a ‘greement will be too late when wee at| nee delivered tothe laylrs 7. Itwould make vs watchfullof our wayes,andlearnevs Dani rae + Lard lee how mine en nd mesure of dae Piss. | hae dt,” le me kuow bo long bane tlie, |aed why would hee know thie Tht be i nigh Lake se at (onflanineple. 25 might apply bis beart to wifedome, for inthe rane ter is noney O Lord that merch aa ee roe. | 8. Lallly , this confideration chat we | mult once die, would be a good motive | unto vs to learne by time how to die, for that which atleogth wee muftecefirily | | doe, we willifwee be wife learoe by time! | how to doe,among all other works which we ate todoe:todie, though iebee the aft, isnot the leaft.Yet miferable (fay two Jeamed Hethens ) a thing it is in the] fipet houre of death notto know howto die, [“°"""* Letvs therefore, lviftian brethren, 2+ boue al things labour for this knowledge, ‘hileswelive le vslearne how tody.that fo when death hall fpreadhispale colour uerour faces, wemay intertaine ienotin| hhorrour but in honour, not asa lof; but anaduantage, as a doore opening to faluation, nota gate leading to deftruai- Jon. Nowit you thall askeme, but how| :muitwe learn todie ?I will lead youto| another of your owne profelsion , to a0) ancient Hermite for an anfwere. It tap E penedASermoripreacbed ‘a Conplantneple. pened dhat'a Marchant man (like your felues)uauelling through a Foret epied neere a little Cell, an olde Hermite of whom he was inquiltiveto know what hice made there # The Hermite antwered, My fonne Llearne to die« fee ‘Mar. What needes that, (ecidg whe- ther thou wilt or no thou muft {horely die? Her, And thisis that troubleth me, feeing mult fhordy.die, and'yet know ‘not haw to die. Mar:. But what is it'to know how to die? Her. To: know how odieistocfchew euili,anddoe good, ac- cording to that of the Plalmitt, Decne a male fa bougn. Mer Father, what doctt | thoweatethatthou art{o long lived Hl. |Teacthebettmest. Mar. But who prepa- reth it? Her. The belt Cooke , hunger. Mer. What are thy meditations and dil. courles ? Hr. 1 call to minde the time valycoufider in the bitternes of my foule, Fowthauefpevemy former yere, and wheel find hat Ihave done well hanke my God , wherell, Horeow and-repent Mer, Art thou rich ? Her. I haue more . then| thenIwould, to wi, this bodie of mine. Mer, Whatthen, wouldett thou die? Z would willingly die well ehat Insight ob-| taine eterall lite, May. Canft thou is thratme how to die well, and to live eter- nally? Fir. Lan, what isthy profes on? Mo: LamaMarchane. Hr Lfthow wilt play the true Marchane,, and buy the greater fortheleffe the beter for the worte, lookevp to heauen behold iis better and greater chen the vvhole earth, (ella and buy thar ll shy fins, fellehy pleafures, fell chy profits, buy this one fewell, and tothisend, cathy bread vp- onthe waters, make thee friends of the varighteous Mammon, by doing good : sow the good which the Lord requireth oftheeis( asthe* Prophet wienetfeth) To | doe indgemene 5 to lve nercy, and take with the Lard our Gad, this doe and thou thal hhaue eternal lie, Mr. So may Hiveas follow thy counfell: Farewell, Hr. Goe in peace, ‘Thefe and the like good fruits, good motions, good affedions, the conf- E2 | derstion “Mic 6,ASernon preached deration of our end &edilfolution would {ngenderinvs, and happy, yea thrice hap- pyvare they thar thus coutider. And to etyou forward hercin, confider Ibeleech you confider with your (elues what you! are? what yourlifeis? Whar youare, the! Poet telleth vsyam ir etyens: Manisa tha dow, adreame, ora dreaming fhadow. What your lifeisdailie experience thew~ “tao. th Iisa cupourthat foe Yan fot, adie (leale carried with euerie winde, a fleepe |fed with imaginasie dreames, a Tragedie |oftranlitorithings ic pale awaie ikea | poft in the night, like a fhipintheSea, | likea Bird in che aire, whofe tra the aire clofeh : concerning the fhortnelfethere- of, the Heathen Poet could aie, A man is butamanofa daie old, the kinglie Pro- phir fad, je was butafpan long sof and [Salomon ai, Its alife of daies ; bb, Ela, ‘Payi,compare it toa bubble, afleepe 3 booth ,a thepheards tent, which euetie | daieis renewed : yea, they come fofarre at length that they compare it to a thought, whercof there may bee a thou fand fandin one day. Bur what need werhele refemblances, fith wee can ture ovr felues no waie, but fomething there is which may put vsia minde of our morta- lie. Can you enter your Counting-how fs, and cat ie vpon your houre-glalle,® and not confider that as the houre pat- fethyfo doth our life Can you fitia your chaires by the fire fide, and fee a great { ct Conptantnaple 39, quantitie of ood wrned into favoake and athes,and ot conlider with the Po- ety Sicin on Laine vertiter ons bono, So | ‘mau, no nian will iddenlie become fou walks forth into the fields, and fee le wighered, fome alveadiecome,and not , Jconfider with the* Prophet, That all fyb. *' it grafnan al ee grafeheree ste fae. ero te fell? Canyoueee the aire noue| | due wind beatin your aes, and wo | confider the breath of man is in bisno-| Aris, lop his™ nottils and his breath is +f, 228 gone, and chat the Rrongelt tenure of your lifeis but by apuile ot winde ? Can you fron the riuers bank, & not contider| E3 that ;30. A Sermon preached at Confiantinople. thacas the river runneth, and not vetur- eth, fo doth yourlife2 Can you thootin the felds, and not confider, that as the “aerow flieth in the aire, fo (witdlic doe. | yourdaiespafle ? Orif wee like Hlor(e ‘and Mule without vaderttanding to con- fider this, yet | am fure wee cannot beefo| feofetete, as notto coutider that which e- \ueriedaes light prefenteth to our view. | To daie out fuperiours , to morrow ourinfenours, next daie our equalls, one while our friends,another while ou foes aretaken fromvs,andlite from them.And | mae notthe fame happen vnto anie one, or euerie one of vs, which happeneth vo- to themsate we more ee then they ? eis |agood comparion of one who likeneth death voto an Archer that thootes fome- |timebeyond vs , not fparing our faperi- ouss,fometime thort of vs fiking our |infesiours fomtimeat our right hand de- riving vsot our hiends, fometime at our Fee hand biting our toes and now and thenithitsthe markeit fel, and wee are dead aswelas others. And ‘And furele it we goe no futher then our ownefelues, and contider how manie difeafes we continuallie carrie about vs, what aches affect our bones , what heaui- uefle ourbodies , what dimnefie ourcies, what deafevelle our eares, what trem bling our hands, what rottennefie our teeth, whatbalnelle our head, what grai nes our haires All and euetieone of thee, asfo many loud alafums would found vn-| t0 vs, Death is neere: or if none of thefe did affest vs within, yethow many thou |fand dangers doe daily threaten vs with. out, and ieemeto thew vs prefent death ? Goe into the hip, there is buta foots * thickneffe betweenethee and death. Sit «on horlebacke in the Mlipping of ene! foot, thy lifeisin danger # goe through che treet of the Csi, euew how mnie tiles are ypon the houfes, to fo manie + perils art thou fabiect: If there bee an Tron toole in thy hand or thy friends, «the harme is teadie prepared show ma-, } niewilde beatts thou feeft, they ave all «armed to thy deftiucion, If thou mea “tol Calin,| 32 ‘ASerman preached ‘to that vppe thy felle ina garden, well | fenced, where may appestenedhing |* what | v8 9 re | ‘at Conftannple full (hviekings? what hideous howlings what heat bleeding fobs # vwhaebiow | drawing fighs doe they veer and al ior jourward manifeftation , of their inward | contriltation :and this excefsiue, vamea-| “urable,immoderate lamentation the A-| | poftle condemneth ; and good reafons! there are why wee thould not forrow be- | youd a mealure whereof the ult may bee. | Fictt, Dinina colwatas the divine wvill,! ra which humane veil mul fabri and conforme it elfe, Now nothing is donevvithout the diaine vvil,vvithourita Sparrow, falleth notto the ground,much |* Mt. lefle aman : why then O bale manjdo- eftchou five againt the pleafare of che ott high God#* why rather aiett thou aot vith Chnit, Not a ull, buts thou wiltmy Father. Hatha matter power of his feruang faith Saint * Andro, to lead him vvhether hee wyill? and hath not God | cower man 2 Placeat ergo bomini faith the! Heathen * Sena quid Deoplcetthete-|- nin, fore leeman be pleafed with the diuine wil ad Lala and plealure, and thus refolue with him He fale | i | "Belge *Defde colHob A Sermon preached {elle, thatGod alwaies calleth him out of thislite when he sat hisbedithe be good thathecurne not euil if euilehac he wax not worfe, | Secondly, Dine aguita diuinerightand| equity itis reafonaad equity thar whacis receiued vpon bare lending thould be re- Rored at demanding, as the holy man lob confelied. Is lawiull foreuery one tore quire hisowne ; now, all that we haueour very life and being is not our owne, but "PG r00|Gods: hemadevsyand not we our felues, | nee may with good equity recalls when hee pleateth, Wee fee how patiently the greatelt Batha, either in Port or abroad, yeeldeth hisnecke totheBow-fring atthe hatmaum andcommand ot his ing, whe- theritbe right or wrong; for why (aye |ne) Lam bis flaue, my hfe was long agoe_ athis di(pote; itis through his clemencie that! lived vatill now. And thal wee be leffe obedient ynto our good God, whofe aues we ate, whofe alliseuer iuft2 Nay, [rather letsbethankeulvto him thathe | hath lent vs our life fo long. So was Saint Berard, | ~ ‘at Conftaninople 1 Bernd, who alter bis mouramg tor bs) brother Sutras, comforts himielle a Jbreakech foreh into this acknowledge-| | menslgratus duit ffenn offi, may | notbe vathankefull an [Lam rather to reioyce that I had fuch’a |brother,then to foreow that lott himfor fPrasguragtichouas ade Thiedly, Fatena lias, the beneficot tory, the departed, forfrom how many eulsis) Pi. Ihe freed that dyeth ia the* Lord? How | 4?" reat the benef, Csi hewedhwhere| fbn 4 | heGaith, it you * losed me you would re joyce becautel go tomy Father: andii we oueour friend indeed , wwe would rather reioycethen too much grieue athis death, forliee is departed from vs, he isgone ont! ofthe word, hee hath lft se eat but heeis gone vate Chait; heis ensred | the Citie of God, the celeftallIerufalem ; [Now ego ani fed prem, fda Felgen | therelore the godly deceated are not loft) forever,but let for ative, notgone away | nally from vssbut onely gone to Ged be- | foreys. | H3 Fourt-|54 +P, "Feel a8 *Teealia sae pa, ‘Sermon preached | Fourthly, Flsusinutlzas, the voprofita- J blenes of exceftiue weeping, torasa moth the garment, a worme the wood, fotoo auch forrow hurteth the heart stherstore the wile man as hee exhorteth tw weepe for the dead; fo he couutelleth to comfort our lelues againetor ourbeavinell, for o! hheauinefle commeth death, and the hea- eile of the heat breaketh the trengeh, The latks, Rfiredlia generar, the gene- {rall Refurection, we put notoff our appa- tall fith Lad. Fines, vawilling'y becaule we thinke to pur them onagaine ; fone ‘ther let vs be vawilling to lay afide our bo- |diewhich aftera whilewe thallrefame a. Jgaine. And as we greiue notat che etn ithe Sunde, beeute we know it wall i |againe, Sollet vs not forrow atthe depat- | ture of a foule, which vee knovy willre- turneagaine. Forvvhy (lath * Tealian) | touldelt thou too impatiently greive at ithe departure of him wvih- whome thou belecueit thortly co meeteagaine! Heeis| | otto bee lamented, wo is gone before hee is onely wanted tora ime, and his at Conftantnople i want is with patience to bee borne, Cur ei rmeerté fear able nom max Jb | queris? For why fhouldelt thow immode- rately lament his abfenceywhom chouthy felfe rypit foone follow after? and all of vs thall (urely meet againe atthe generall re- faredion, Wemayindeed{athS leon, with for them, becaufe we want them, but wee muft not weepe out of meafuretor jthem, becaule they ae with God. Love {grant compellsvsto weepesbut laithfor. ids vsto weepeimmoderately, and ther- tore Paulines faith, that wemay, notwith- | fanding our futh, performe to the dead the duties of loue; yet we multfich,not- withftanding the duties of love, aford to our lelues the comforts of faith, And thus Abrabam wepttor Sarab here; loue intorced him to weepe, but faith rettrained bien | from exceeding the bounds of moderate lamentation, | You fee then that wee are to weepe, for the death of our godly friends de- patted, but withall you fee how fpa-) Finge vee ought to bee in weepinge,| H4 con-|fg 4 Sermon preaced | | conlidering our good hope that arealiue, |and thei good hap that ae dead. Aud} this thatdead bodiesor rather that adr, that Cov dite roermbus, tor her fleth and bones by thistime are turned into quit and thes, which isthe prefentfpedtacfé&¢ob- ett of our eyes, & which fome of you per- haps euen at thisinttans, ferioully think ofjothers fo much lament for. If i Lay, thould receive againe her foule, vntie her winding knots,breake throughher Coffin, &c{tand vp betore you, he would preach & ‘fay the fame vaio youswespe you pleafe, for my departure, or this thal! bea token | of your afedtion ; but weepe not to | moderately, or this willargue your cretion : for know, that though I bede- | parted, yet lam notperithed, but am ra- |therperledted. 1 am now inthe ftate of perfedtion , where I feele no infirmitie, | where I am not tempted vnto finne, but | fing a continuall Halleluiah co the Lord.1 am now wherel behold the glorious Ma- eftie of the Trinity, where looke omehe amiable countenice of my Sauiour, where | at Coe Lenioy the tweetfociety ot Saints and An- | | gels where Uhaue ciety without loath jlomoelle ; loue, withour hated ; peace, | | without difcord; ioy, without forrow ; «= jtcroall bliffe, without ende or inter ‘million : aud therefore {pate teats for ‘mee y weepe not too much, for the | more you weepe , the mote’ you dif ‘quiet and ditturbe me. This would the fouleof this dead body fay, itiehovld re- turneagaine :but he's pat (peaking,and herfoule returning, vntill che generall re- turne ofall. Wee will heteforeleaue her| to her happinetle, and pafl othe thied | fubieét of ourfad difcourte, whichis, the Lotof humane Life ; and thats pilgri-| mage on earth. The feof manisapilgrimage| oncant. ‘Now Man may be fuid to bea ftranger anda pilgrimeon earth, citherin refpectof) bis(ouleywhichis not of the earth, bun by divine infution sori refpect of the whole man, which was fometime the Citizen of Paradife, but now a wanderer vpon the| face ofthe vvhole earth ,or molt properly, I in8 | ASerman preached \inrelpedtotthe heaueuly Hiow/ien,from /vvhence,as allo from the Lord, the taith. full here on earth (vvhofe conuertation is Phils. |sn¥ Heauen) are ftrangers as long as they +1,Cocs, [areinthe* body. Whence Satne dugufiie rnferreth, Ont boro eft aduena nafeendo, incl ciend, gui compet migrare marie |do = Euery man isa torreiner by birth and a tranger by life, becaulehe is compelled to depart hence by death. Therefore faid Archana the Hite Lam a firanger | and a forreiner among you ;among them! | yea, onthe whole earth, for his vwbole life | was pilgrimage on extth,ashisgridcild | aco calleth both ic and bis ovne ; The whole courfe of my pilgrimage (ayth hee vato Pharaoh) is an hundred and ehivtie | veares,few and euill haue the daies of my ihe ‘bene, and I haue notatrained yntothe |yeates ofthe feof my fathers in the daes| [Gen.47. of their pilgrimage. And Paulbringme in| Hi. | holeCaalogueotpilrinesintheeler N85. lyenth to the Hebrews, bel, Enoch, Noab, Abraham and the reftat length concludeth pn Allthefe died in faith,and confeffed' that a Conflorineple, | $9 Fs they were rangers and plgrimes al | theearh, vpon which Saine igyfinein- | tereet re Cnfisealoosachs Gian, that in his owne houle, and in his owne Countrie, acknowledgeth himfelte —— |tobea pilgrime. Our Countie is aboue, there we (hall beno ftrangers, butheree- uuerie manis a ftranger, even in his owne hhoule. Letno man deceiue himfelf, he is j aftcanger, Plt nai hlper of, whether hee | willor no heis ltranger.Now if this were thelot of Gods dearett children in olde time, wemay not ookefor a permanent Citie here. ‘We fee then where we muft make the| beginning of all godlineflenenin deny-| tng this World, and acknowledging our | felaes to bee bur pilgeimes in the lame | Contider, ath the Prophet Wy, Abrabam [ti 1.2. ‘your father, and Sarab that bare you ;con fider chat Abrahem was a fteanger and a pilgrim on earth, he had not (o much and ‘where he liued as mighe (utfice forthe bu- vill of his dead, for io hope of futre things he delpiled the prefent, and in cer 12 ineASernen preached taine expectation of greater good io the lifeto come, helttle reckoned the good of| this prefentlite, a fhame tovsthat lie va- der grace, it we comefhort of himthat i toed before the law. You would thiake him an vatoward{onne, thatbeing fentby his father snto forraigne Countries, with this charges to learne the tongues, to ob- | feruethe manners, and to hearken alter the fate of the Land,and be prouided alwais toretutne when hee thal eall hi backe et notwithttanding being out of fight pliyesout ‘ofmind, aad fisdowne and e-| uen furetsypon the diuerfitie of plealures, isinamoured withthe beauty of le de lighed withthe pide of Spit Fram snuff him with fine thle, England mult fit him with new fathions, India mutt guily him wich gold, Arabia perfume him with fiveet fmels, a5 though the world were | madeto behisminion , butleatt of any is /his Father remembred, and worft of all is his charge of bbfecuancy performed,what i then can we thinke of our felues be loued, whome God our heavenly father ‘at «at Conflantneple hath fer abroad in this world, as in a for- raigne Counttie to obferue the Heauens, which is the Booke, and the ftarres whieh ateo many golden Characters of his glo- tie, to view the earth whichis a large ta- ble, and the omaments thereof fo many footelteps of his power and out ot all theleto learne vnto our felues,thatwemay beable to declare nto others the good nelle of God, and tn the end to be willing to returne vnto him againe when he ca leth, Yet forall this wean no foonerbe outof kenning, but out of caring too,and | euen glut our felues vvith wvorldly vai ties, sifearth not heaven were oure~ fternallhome. This my belouedisa great| negligence,amadneffe, afoolith frenzie, Tknow not what tocaltit, buteuena tale, lingof our felues afleepe in the cradle of| this vvorlds fecuritie, Againg, if wee bee pilgrimes hereon earth ve oul leaine to dae 2s pilgrmes doc. u's mon, faith Saine (oprian, peregrd confltaus properee in patriams regredi , What | pilgrime doth not make fpeed to returne| 13 home ona A Sern preached ‘home into hisowne Countrey, who halt- ning o file homewards doth not with {oraprofperouswinde,thathee may fpee- dily imbrace his long defired friends and parents and whatate wee but pilgrimes ‘onearth ? what is our countrey, but Para- dife2 who areourparents? but the Patri- arches? why make vee not hat? why ‘runne we not voto them, that weemay Hee our countrey, falute our parents ? an) tnfinite number of acquaintance exped vs there: our parents, our brethren and fi- ‘ers » our children, our kindred, our ‘friends , that are alreadie fecute of their! owneimmortalitie, butyet felicitous for our fafetie, what ioy, what comfore will it betolee,toimbrace them. What celett- all pleafures are there without all feare of ying? and with certane eternitie of li- | wing’? there is the glorious quire of the | Angels, the exultant number of the Pro- jphets, the bllied company of the Apo-| filessthe crowned troupe of Martyrs, the triumphant focitie of the Saints : who whiles they liued here as outof their own countrey i at Config. T |counuey werecoutranmalj women 0r| bbut are now heiees to.acrowine anid ic vp-| ponathrone bletcd tor ever Thirdly , are wee pilgrimes on earth: Letmg beleech you then beloved asthe * Apolle beloughs his beloued Deu belowcd befeech you as rangers and pilyimes, abfhaine from lly ljhs Which fight again thejode. Fora pilgrime will Keepe on fil |th Kings high way, and neuer uae to |by paths site fees fome quarreling hee Maies not to hearken to them ; it he mecta| ‘wedding , hee curnes not to accompany them: but keepes on his way fill beeaule hes apilgrime, Al parian upirat ad patria ted, ligheth alter his ownecountey, and hafteneth vato his owne home, hee earneth nothing but his food and bis ap- parll, he will not trouble himieie with any other burthen:, Resinet quad alimentun, rejcit quod iypedinentim , hee youchtafeth onely ih Pazar, to cartes food, but cafteth offal other thingsashindracescLet > the voluptuous man who turneth afide! loutof the way ynto dalliance, letthe co™| uetous|54 ASernon preabed {etous man, who ath ever a greatlacke at his backe remember this |) Latly, if wee bee plgsimes heere on earth, wehaue but few friends and many oes, letvs be then carefull to procuge God ‘to be our friend,fo allure we our felues,our| fenemiesthough they hates, (hall neuer| hhauethe power to hurt s,our God whom | weferue will proteé vs. | And now from this fubiect of pilgri. ‘mage, letme lead youto the home ot pil- | grimes, andthe houfe of death ;thisisthe | graue,which asitis the end of all our pil- | grimage, fo fhallit be the periodand end jot my difcourte | tnd Abrabam fai, give me a pofifion of bu- riall with yon, that Tmay bury my dead ont of xy ght. Whence obferue, “Thatthe bodies ofthe dead are tobelo- lemnly buried, andhonored witha grave, | Theiniundtion hereof by God himtelfe, |wasas ancient withina litle as Adam : for |eueninParadie, prefent!y vpon the fll, |tbeLord is vate him,From earth wert thou jie end iach hore ge ‘An And the God of nature eemeth cohave impreffed this fence in all che living, for hutiall of the dead thereby teffying their hope of the future refurreétion and lite, For the burying of bodies is like the fowing of feed, which men commit to the ‘earth, but with certaine hopethataferitis ‘once corrupted it will ie againe, And therefore butiall among molt men( 1 {peake not of Canibals nor Antropopha- gi: who are rather beatts thea men for the gusarehergaue )batheuerbeane oleninly and religioufly practifed, Trueltist welooke feo yolunes ‘fold heathenifh Philofophers, and read fongs of Poets, wee fhall ade that they’ | genetallycontemoed the refpedt of buri= all. Among Philofophers looke vpon Dis- {genes the Cynicke that bad his dead body [thould be ca to the dogs & fowles ofthe ite, and being anfivered by his fiends, that (oic(hould be rent and torne sheein coffe , why then fet a ftatle by mee and; Twill beat them away withit : ruth (fay) they ) you yous lle all bee fenfeletes} K why|6 Sern preahed ‘why then, quoth hee, what need I feare rearing of his humour was Menppusand moftof theCynicks. Ti in his quelti- ons Tofulane, recordeth this anfwere of SThendoras ot Crene vito Lyjimachus , cha |chreatued him cheerofle. Lecthy Courti- ‘ersfearethat, aid he, but as for me care not whether f rot in the ayre, or ia the earth + foalfo (aid Secrates in Places Dia logue called Phado, And as for Poets,La- nin his feuenth Bookeof the Pharfaian ‘wareefpeaking of thedead that Gxfar for- bad fhould be buried or burned, after hee had delivered (as his cuftome is ) many worthy and graue fentences concerning thismatter: af length hee fpeakech vato |Cofar tous ' | Nid apis bac iray tabefie cadswera flat, | an ragus and fire, placid nara reepat | (onda fina. | Inthisthy wrathis wortles alli one Whether by fire or putrefadtiqn, Their carkafes diflolue, kind nature i, Takesallinto her bofome. Anq| cat Conplartnaple And alittle after, -—~- Capit oinnig tellus Que genaitscal tegitur qui non babee nar, Earths offpring till returnes into eatths worn, | ‘Who wantsagraus, heauen {erueth tor his tombe. And o the declaimeria Seca, Nature glues euetie man a graue, to the {hip wracks, che water w in heeis loft, the’ bodies of the crucified drop from thei erofles voto their graues tofe that ate) burned quicke, thete vere punithment ex+| tombs them. And Fizgil who appointsa| place in hell for the vnburied : Yer in u-| chile, bis words thew how fall the late | ‘of agrauc is, | Nec eamulan cao, ipl matararelos, | Iveigh no tombe, | nature intombesthe meanelt. | And heaceicisthatthe heathens obie quious vnto thefe Philofophers and Poets,| as vato 0 many Prophets and Oracles, haueno. more clteemed the bodies of dead, then ofthe earkafle of an Ade: but fome of them haue throwne their dead Ka bodies 78 ASermonpreaced I |. «| bodiesvatothe foules of the aire, to be deuouted , as the Parthians nd Iberians : | cothers vnto dogs, as the Maflagites and 1 Hircanians: others vuto filhes, as the Lo- tophagoi and the Ichthyophagoi: others ‘ynto men themfelues & of bodies of men, hraue made tombes of men, as theIndi- ‘ans, Padeans, Iedonians, ‘and thofe of Seythia. Yet we Chiitians thould be no imita- tours of their barbarous inhumanitie, nor} contemneand caft away the bodies ofour dead, chiefely of the sighteous and faith- full, whomthe holy Ghof, ath Saine 4u- (fy vledas organesand inftruments vate {all good workes. For if the Law will vs, seDes faith Saint nbrofe,to couer the naked [enitin’’ how muchrather cugbrwe to incre the | We-Tobsas.' dead;and if loue and kindnes moue vs to, | |accompany our friends fome part of the| ‘way, when they fetforwardso trauellin- | |to farre Countries how much foonerin | | theiriourney vato the celeftial manfions, | ja they fhall neuer retume againe? And if the garmentorring of ones father, 2s a Conpantneple 1 asSaint Auer aid, bea o much the more| Jefteemedot his potter, by how much! they held him deere in affection, then are not our bodies tobe defpuled, fecing wee ‘weare them more neere vato out ielues, theaany ring or attire whatfoeuer. And therefore he tuneralls of the righteous in time of old , were performed with azea- lous care, their funerals celebrated, and their monuments prouided , and they themfelues in their lfe time would lay a charge vpon thei children and acquaiu-| tance, concerning the burying or tranfla-| ting of their bodies. cab athis death char! ged his fonne oiph, to carrie his body va! to the Sepulcher of is Eldersand not to leaue ic in * Egypt, and Jyeph himfelie commanded is bretlven that they Gould remember, and tell heir pofter- tie that whew they went away into the Gand of Promife, they thould cane his bonesthither with them. *Take in bury- iugthedead well pleaed che Lord,as the Angell tcltiied. And the Lord himlelie being to rile againe the third day, com. K3 mended | 9 “Gear Tobe.