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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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And die they must though never so unwilling. I ⟨p. 12⟩could tell a doleful story of a great man, who when he saw there was no remedy but he must die, cried out in a lamentable manner, let me live the life of a toad rather than dye. But yet he died. And of another, who when he saw he must die, caused himself to be carried to the place where his bags of gold and silver were, and taking them up in his arms, and hugging them, was heard to say, must you and I part? but part they did though unwillingly. Rich men, and Noble-men must die whether willing or unwilling.
And die they must though never so unwilling. I ⟨p. 12⟩could tell a doleful story of a great man, who when he saw there was no remedy but he must die, cried out in a lamentable manner, let me live the life of a toad rather than dye. But yet he died. And of another, who when he saw he must die, caused himselfe to be carried to the place where his baggs of gold and silver were, and taking them up in his armes, and hugging them, was heard to say, must you and I part? but part they did though unwillingly. Rich men, and Noble-men must die whether willing or unwilling.
And when they die they must carry nothing out of the 1world with them. Naked they came out of their mothers womb, and naked they must return thither. They brought nothing into this world, and it is certain they can carry nothing out. And therefore when a rich man dies the ordinary saying is, what hath he left behind him! for he cannot carry any thing with him. There is a famous story of Saladin the great Sultan of Egypt, who when he was dying caused his coffin to be carried thorough the camp where all his 2soldiers were, with this saying, Saladinus totus Asiae Dominator ex tanto imperio tantisque opibus, &c. Saladin the great Ruler of all Asia, of all his Empire, and all his wealth carrieth nothing out of the world with him, but his coffin and his winding sheet. Death is the greatest of Levellers. It levels the mountains with the valleys. The Skeletons and bones of great men have no inscriptions, or titles of honour put upon them. Diogenes told Alexander that he could find no difference between the bones of his Father Philip, and other mens bones. When the Chess-men are put into the bag they are all alike. There is no difference between the dust of an Earle, and of a beggar.