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A pattern for all, especially for noble and honourable persons, to teach them how…A patterne for all, especially for noble and honourable persons, to teach them how…
A pattern for all, especially for noble and honourable persons, to teach them how to die nobly and honourably. Delivered in a sermon preached at the solemn interment of the corps of the Right Honourable Robert Earle of Warwick. Who aged 70 years 11. months, died April 19. And was honourably buried, May 1. 1658. at Felsted in Essex. By Edmund Calamy B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury.A patterne for all, especially for noble and honourable persons, to teach them how to die nobly and honourably. Delivered in a sermon preached at the solemne interment of the corps of the Right Honourable Robert Earle of Warwick. Who aged 70 years 11. months, died April 19. And was honorably buried, May 1. 1658. at Felsted in Essex. By Edmund Calamy B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury.
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1658
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A SERMON Preached at the Funeral OF THE Right Honourable ROBERT EAR… › Doctrine 3: Doctrine 3.
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Doctrine 3.
1That rich, great, noble, and honourable persons must die, ⟨p. 11⟩as well as others. These all died. Abraham a Lord and a mighty Prince or a Prince of God, as he is called, Gen. 23. 6. One who had three hundred and eighteen trained servants in his family. Gen. 14. 14. One who was very rich in silver and gold and in cattle, Gen. 13. 2. even he died. And Isaac his Son and heir a person not only gr•••, but very great, even to the envy of those who dwelt near him, as it is Gen. 26. 13, 14. even he died. And so did Jacob the grandchild, a man of honour, and great renown, one who is called a Prince, and as a Prince had power with 2God and with men and prevailed over both. These all died. The Cardinal of Winchester (commonly called the rich Cardinal, who procured the death of the good Duke of Gloucester in the reign of King Henry the sixth, and was shortly after struck with an incurable disease,) when he understood by his Physicians that he could not live; murmuring and repining thereat, cried out, Fie? will not death be hired? will money do nothing? must I die that have so great riches? If the whole realm of England would save my life, I am able either by policy to get it, or by riches to buy it. But yet all would not avail, to keep him from dying of the same disease. What man is he that liveth 3(saith David) and shall not see death? The Hebrew is, What strong man liveth and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? What's become of Alexander the great? Pompey the great? Charles the great? Are they not all dead? This day we have a sad example before us of the death of a very great, and most Noble person. Wise men die (saith David) as well as fools, and great, as well as small. The mortal sith (saith one) is Master of the Royal Sceptre, and it moweth down the lilies of the Crown as well as the grass of the field. These all died.