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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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1The only use I shall make of this is, To beseech those who are great in estate and in honours to remember ⟨p. 13⟩that they must die as well as others. Though they be as 2Gods upon earth, yet they must dye like men. It is no easy matter to persuade rich and noble persons to remember their mortality. Lewis the eleventh King of France in his last sickness commanded his servants not to name the word Death unto him; But when he saw there was no remedy, he sent for the Holy water from Rhemes, together with Aaron's rod, as they called it, and other holy relics, thinking therewith to stop deaths mouth, and to stave him 3off; but it would not be. O miser (saith one thereupon) hoc assidue timés quod semel faciendum est? hoc times quod in tuä manu est ne timeas? Pietatem assume, superstitionem omit; mors tua vita erit, & quidem beata & aeterna. O miserable wretch, why doest thou daily fear that which one day must come to pass? why doest thou fear that which is in thy power not to fear? leave off thy superstitions, labour after true piety, and then thy death will become life, yea a most blessed and eternal life. If I be not mistaken this was one reason why Ahashueroah would 4not suffer any clothed with sackcloth to enter his Court gates; least his excessive mirth and jollity should be damped, and interrupted by the sad thought of death. The wise man tells us, O death how bitter is thy memory to one who hath great possessions! And indeed if the not thinking of death, could free you from the stroke of death, it were worth the while not to think of death. But whether you think of it, or not, death will come, and by not remembering of it your lives prove to be full of abominations, and death is made a trap-door to let you down into eternal damnation.
1The only use I shall make of this is, To beseech those who are great in estate and in honours to remember ⟨p. 13⟩