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A30445	A sermon preached at the funeral of the most reverend Father in God, John, by the divine providence, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, primate and metropolitan of all England, who died at Lambeth the 22nd day of November, in the 65th year of his age, and was buried at St. Lawrence Jewry, in London, on the 30th of that month, Anno Dom. 1694 by ... Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1694 (1694)	Wing B5902; ESTC R22882	18,942	42

Iames the Second and found in his Closet With an Introduction and some Animadversions by Edward Gee Chaplain to their Majesties 8vo Dr. Patrick now Lord Bishop of Ely his Hearts-Ease or a Remedy against all Troubles with a consolatory Discourse particularly directed to those who have lost their Friends and Relations To which is added two Papers printed in the time of the late Plague The sixth Edition corrected 12mo 1695. Answer to a Book spread abroad by the Romish Priests Intituled The Touch Stone of the Reformed Gospel wherein the true Doctrine of the Church of England and many Texts of the Holy Scripture are faithfully explained 1692. 8vo Nine several occasional Sermons since the Revolution 4to Exposition of the Ten Commandments 8vo A Vindication of their Majesty's Authority to fill the Sees of the deprived Bishops in a Letter occasioned by Dr. B 's refusal of the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells 4to A Discourse concerning the unreasonableness of a new Separation on Account of the Oaths to the present Government With an Answer to the History of Passive Obedience so far as relates to them 4to A Vindication of the said Discourse concerning the Unreasonableness of a New Separation from the Exceptions made against it in a Tract called A brief Answer to the said Discourse c. 4to Geologia Or a Discourse concerning the Earth before the Deluge wherein the Form and Properties ascribed to it in a Book intituled The Theory of the Earth are excepted against and it is made appear That the Dissolution of that Earth was not the cause of the Universal Flood Also a New Explication of that Flood is attempted By Erasmus Warren Rector of Worlington in Suffolk 4to The Present State of Germany By a Person of Quality 8vo Rushworth's Historical Collections The Third Part in two Volumes Containing the Principal Matters which happened from the Meeting of the Parliament Nov. 3. 1640. to the end of the Year 1644. Wherein is a particular Account of the Rise and Progress of the Civil War to that period Fol 1692. A Discourse of the Pastoral Care By Gilbert Burnet D. D. Lord Bishop of Sarum 1692. The Character of Queen Elizabeth Or A full and clear Account of her Policies and the Methods of her Government both in Church and State her Vertues and Defects Together with the Characters of her Principal Ministers of State and the greater part of the Affairs and Events that happened in her time By Edmund Bobun Esq 1693. 8vo The Letters of the Reverend Father Paul Councellor of State to the most Serene Republick of Verice and Author of the Excellent History of the Council of Trent 1693. An Impartial History of the Wars in Ireland In Two Parts From the time that Duke Schomberg landed with an Army in that Kingdom to the 23d of March 1691 2. when their Majesties Proclamation was published declaring the War to be ended Illustrated with Copper Sculptures describing the most important Places of Action By George Story an Eye-witness of the most remarkable Passages 4to 1693. Dr. Iohn Conant's Sermons 1693. 8vo Of the Government of the Thoughts By Geo. Tully Sub-Dean of York 8vo 1694. Origo Legum Or A Treatise of the Origine of Laws and their Obliging Power as also of their great Variety and why some Laws are immutable and some not but may suffer change or cease to be or be suspended or abrogated In Seven Books By George Dawsus Feb. 1694. Four Discourses delivered to the Clergy of the Diocess of Sarum Concerning I. The Truth of the Christian Religion II. The Divinity and Death of Christ. III. The Infallibility and Authority of the Church IV. The Obligations to continue in the Communion of the Church By Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum 8vo 1694. A brief Discourse concerning the Lawfulness of Worshipping God by the Common-Prayer in Answer to a Book intituled A brief Discourse of the Unlawfulness of Common-Prayer-Worship By Iohn Williams D. D. 4to 1694. A true Representation of the absurd and mischievous Principles of the Sect commonly known by the Name of the Muggletonians 4to 1694. Memoirs of the most Reverend THOMAS CRANMER Archbishop of Canterbury Wherein the History of the Church and the Reformation of it during the Primacy of the said Archbishop are greatly illustrated and many singular Matters relating thereunto now first published In Three Books Collected chiefly from Records Registers Authentick Letters and other Original Manuscripts By Iohn Strype M. A. Fol. 1694. A Commentary on the First Book of Moses called Genesis By Simon Lord Bishop of Ely 4to 1695. The History of the Troubles and Tryal of the Most Reverend Father in God WILLIAM LAUD Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Wrote by himself during his Imprisonment in the Tower To which is prefixed the Diary of his own Life faithfully and entirely published from the Original Copy And Subjoined a Supplement to the Preceding History The Archbishop's Last Will His Large Answer to the Lord Say's Speech concerning Liturgies His Annual Accounts of his Province delivered to the King and some other things relating to the History Published by Henry Wharton Chaplain to Archbishop Sancroft and by His 〈◊〉 Command Fol THE BISHOP of SARUM'S ENT-SERMON Before the KING 1694 5. PRINTED By His Majesty's Special Command

agree with his Obligations here He neither aspired nor hearkned to the Motions of a further Advancement and all that he desired upon this Happy Revolution was such a Change as did considerably lessen his Income but delivered him from the invidious load of having two Dignities He bore this in the former Reigns because the practice was common And he was enabled by it to go far in his Charities But as he intended to put a stop to that Abuse so he resolved to set an Example to others in it Thus he went on while his Enemies were still endeavouring to beat down a Reputation which gave him as they thought too great an Authority How fatally this grew to be hearkned to and how much it was entertained I chuse rather to suppress than to lament that so this Discourse may have the more of his own Air in it And may be as free from resentment as his Mind was But I must now give you the last Scene of the Struglings thro' which this holy Man past but out of which he is now escaped He did truly rejoyce in the happy Deliverance of these Nations he could not but observe those amasing Steps of Providence that accompanied it and hoped it was a beginning to great Blessings that were to follow it Many of those who had longed for it and wisht well to it did of a sudden start back And some in high Stations of the Church would neither openly declare for it nor act against it according to the Authority of their Characters One of which they certainly ought to have done If they did then judge it so unlawful as they would now represent it they ought to have thundered both with their Sermons and Censures against it especially in the first fermentation when a vigorous Opposition might have had considerable Effects and would have made them look like Confessors indeed to which they afterwards pretended They did it not But left their Authority intirely with their Chancellors who acting in their Name and by their Commission were the same Persons in Law with themselves Oaths were tendred to others and taken by them in their Name which they thought unlawfull and yet would scarce say so much even in confidence to any of their Clergy that asked their Opinions about it Both concealing their Principles and withdrawing from the publick Worship of the Church and yet not daring to act or speak against it They hoped at this rate to have held their Sees and enjoyed their Revenues while in a silent but fearful manner they still adhered to an Interest with which as one of them writ they could no more part than with their Interest in Heaven Thus did they abandon the Government of the Church We were in such a Posture by their means that neither our Laws nor our Princes could bear it long And therefore the same Authority mdae their Sees void that had displaced the Non-conformists in 61 and the Popish Bishops in the beginnings of Queen Elizabeth's Reign Our Sovereigns after a long forbearance beyond the term prefixed by Law resolved at last to fill the vacant Sees And that great Judgment which they have shewed upon other occasions made them soon settle on him as the fittest Person to steer this Church It is well known how long and how earnestly he withstood this Not from any feeble or fearful Considerations relating to himself He was not afraid of a Party nor concerned in such Censures and Calumnies as might be thrown upon him He was not unwilling to sacrifice the quiet of his Life which he apprehended might soon decline and sink under so great a Load The Pomp of Greatness the attendance upon Courts and a high Station were indeed very contrary to his Genius But tho' these were grounds good enough to make him unwilling to rise higher in the World yet none of them seemed strong enough to fix him to an obstinate Refusal That which went the deepest in his own mind and which he laid out the most earnestly before Their Majesties was That those groundless prejudices with which his Enemies had loaded him had been so industriously propagated while they were neglected by himself that he believed that he who as his Humility made him think could at no time do any great Service was less capable of it now than ever But their Majesties persisting in their Intentions he thought it was the Voice and Call of God to him and so he submitted Yet with a heaviness of Mind that no Man knew better than my self But as he engaged in it he formed two settled Resolutions from which he never departed The one was That whensoever the state of their Majestie 's Affairs was such that he could hope to be dismist from that Post he would become a most importunate Suitor to be delivered from it The other was That if the Infirmities of Age should have so overtaken him that he would not go thro' the Fatigue and Labours of it then he would humbly offer it up to Their Majesties And he charged some of his most particular Friends to use all freedom with him in this matter if they should observe it before it were perceived by himself Thus did he enter upon this last Scene of Life how much he applied himself to it and how faithfully he went thro' it and how constantly he proposed and promoted all good designs in it is so well known that I need not enlarge upon it He enjoyed more privacy in it than in the former parts of his Life for while he lived in or near this great City his acquaintance was so much desired and his conversation was so much valued so many came to him or sent for him that his time was almost wholly given up to the Labours of his Function or the endearments of Friendship And he chose rather to live to the good of others than to himself So that his Studies were by this means much broken for he thought that to do an Act of Charity or even of Tenderness and Kindness was of more value both in its self and in the sight of God than to pursue the pompous Parts of Learning how much soever his own Genius might lead him to it But in his last Years the Post he held and the place he lived in set him more at liberty from that Croud which he had suffered to break in upon him formerly This Privacy was for most part imployed in considering what could be done for the good of the Church and the advancement of Religion and Vertue In his minutes of leisure he was looking over his Sermons and giving them their last touches His Thoughts were indeed chiefly raised to the best Objects for he gave himself much to Prayer and Meditation He had one great encouragement in that high but Invidious Station Which was not only the constant favour of Their Majesties but that which gave him a support of another nature since the other was only Personal and so was less regarded by one