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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57126	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable Denzell Lord Holles ... by Samuel Rayner ...	Reyner, Samuel, b. 1622 or 3.	1680 (1680)	Wing R1233; ESTC R15340	10,925	32

There is but one instance only to the contrary that doth at present occur to my thoughts and that was in good Hezekiah's time Which by the way lets you see how necessary it is to the well-being of any Nation that not only the Prince himself be good and vertuous but that his Nobles be so too Otherwise his single goodness and uprightness may not be able to stave off judgments from his people and consequently we may learn hence what a Blessing great men may be the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I mean though they be not the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the greatest of all if they be such as they should be And on the other side what a Plague and Pest they may be to the Community when the good Prince for want of Better is forced to make use of them I say the Instance that I was speaking of is in good Hezekiah's time Who though he himself was one of the best Kings that ever swayed the Jewish Scepter yet he was yoaked with such a Company of Princes and Nobles as scarce a worse Character can be given to any than that is which is given them Mic. 3.9 10 11. They did abhor judgment and pervert all equity they built up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity The heads thereof did judge for reward the Priests thereof did teach for hire and the Prophets thereof did divine for money No marvail therefore at that which follows Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field and Jerusalem shall become heaps and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forrest And if you ask me how I know this was in Hezekiah's time why the Prophet Jeremy tells me so Jer. 26.18 Besides thirdly God is pleased sometimes to prorogue and put off the executions of his judgments upon sinful Nations which are otherwise ripe enough for ruine for the sake of some few of those that fear his name especially if those persons be such as be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 2.2 such as have power in their hands and zeal enough in their hearts to do service for him answerable to their Power The Sodomites were ripe for ruine when as yet God would have spared them if there could but have been found ten righteous men amongst them And the destroying Angels we know could not execute that commission that they had against them till righteous Lot was removed from them Gen. 19.22 Nay a time there was when one such good man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that could and would have executed judgment for God would have saved the City of Jerusalem from destruction Jer. 5.1 Some good men there were in Jerusalem at that time there is no doubt It is more than probable that Jeremy himself and Baruch were there But alas they were poor Underlings men of inferiour rank that had little or no Power and Interest Alas they could not defend themselves from the wrongs and injuries that were done unto them much less could they avenge upon others those daring abominations of theirs that were haling Gods Judgments down upon Church and State If there had been but a few such men among them that could and would have executed judgment for God as Phinehas did they might have done more towards the rescuing of all from ruine than a great many Jeremies and Baruchs could do They like Noah Daniel and Job might deliver their own souls by their Righteousness Ezek. 14.20 But it must be some Phinehas or other some one or other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that by executing judgment for God upon his Enemies must be able to stay a publick Plague The Psalmist tells us that there was a time when God was so far provoked against Israel upon their making of the Molten Calf that he was even resolved upon their destruction And had certainly brought it upon them had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach to turn away his wrath lest he should destroy them Psa 106.23 Ay here is a man of God indeed as Moses is called Deut. 33.1 here is a man of God indeed I say that can hold the hands of the Almighty that can dare to put himself into the Breach even when Heaven it self is making the Assault Gen. 32.28 One that is such an Israel and Prince with God hath such Power with him and Interest in him ut non nisi Mosis permissuirasci possit Deus God cannot punish a Rebellious people over whom Moses is set I speak it with reverence before he have as it were asked Moses 's leave to do so For so you find he bespeaks him Let me alone saith he that my wrath may wax hot against them that I may consume them Exod. 32.10 I have now done with my Text and I shall ease you of the trouble of a longer attendance here when I have spoken two words more One of that Honourable person whose Corps is brought hither now to be Interred the other to you especially of the higher Quality who are mournful Attendants upon this sad Solemnity For the first It was mine unhappiness I confess that I was one that had but very little personal Acquaintance with this Noble Lord deceased And that which adds to it is this that I have received no Instructions no none in the least very necessary you will all judge upon such an Occasion I have received no Instructions I say from those that had opportunity of knowing him better Some of whom might have been so kind if they had pleased as to have imparted some at least of their Observations to me For the want of which therefore it will be but a very lame and imperfect account that I shall be able to give you either of him or his Actings unless any man will be so unreasonable as to expect that I should speak either by Fiction which in truth is beneath me or else by Inspiration which is as much above me Yet as the Sun in the Firmament casts forth such a brightness by his Rayes as that there is none but is enforced to take some notice of it though they cannot so well Philosophize about it as some others can that have made it the subject of their studies So this Honourable person whose Corps lies here before us did move in such an Orb and did shine with so much Brightness in it as that no one can be such a stranger in this our Israel but he must of necessity have heard something of his Fame His Birth and Parentage was Noble and Honourable he being a second son of the Illustrious House of Clare And that is some Incentive to honourable undertakings to derive ones Pedegree from honourable and vertuous Ancestors A great and noble mind will scorn to dishonour them so far as to debase it self to unworthy Actings My Lord was Noble by Birth and no doubt he knew it and did set a due estimate upon it But withal he knew that Nobility by Patent alone it