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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

of this Apostle of the Gentiles if Modern Examples are proposed to you that so you may learn to follow them as they followed the Apostles of Christ still allowing that vast distance that is between even the greatest of those that minister in Ordinary Functions and men inspired whose Commissions were unlimited and their Assistances proportioned to the Services to which they were called and to the Times in which they lived I do now return to the sad Occasion of this present Assembly to consider how truly these words give us the Character of him over whom we do now mourn and upon whose account we ought also to rejoice His first Education and Impressions were among those who were then called Puritans but of the best sort Yet even before his mind was opened to clearer thoughts he felt somewhat within him that disposed him to larger Notions and a better Temper The Books which were put in the hands of the Youth of that time were generally heavy he could scarce bear them even before he knew better things he happily fell on Chillingworth's Book which gave his mind the ply that it held ever after and put him on a true scent He was soon freed from his first Prejudices or rather he was never mastered by them yet he still stuck to the strictness of life to which he was bred and retained a just value and a due tenderness for the men of that Persuasion and by the strength of his Reason together with the clearness of his Principles he brought over more serious Persons from their Scruples to the Communion of the Church and fix'd more in it than any man I ever knew But he neither treated them with contempt nor hatred and he disliked all Levities and Railings upon those Subjects This gave him great advantages in dealing with them and he still persisted in it how much soever it was either disliked or suspected by angry men As he got into a true method of study so he entred into friendships with some great men which contributed not a little to the perfecting his own mind There was then a Set of as extraordinary Persons in the University where he was formed as perhaps any Age has produced they had clear Thoughts and a vast Compass great Minds and Noble Tempers But that which gave him his last finishing was his close and long Friendship with Bishop Wilkins He went into all the best things that were in that Great man but so that he perfected every one of them For though Bishop Wilkins was the more Universal man yet he was the greater Divine if the one had more flame the other was more correct Both acted with great plainness and were raised above regarding Vulgar Censures But if Bishop Wilkins had a Talent so peculiar to himself that perhaps never man could admonish and reprove with such weight and authority and in a way so obliging as he did so no man knew better than this his great Friend the art of gaining upon mens hearts and of making themselves find out that which might be amiss in them though the Gentleness and Modesty of his Temper had not so well fitted him for the rough Work of Reproving Having dedicated himself to the Service of the Church and being sensible of the great Good that might be done by a plain and edifying way of Preaching he was very little disposed to follow the Patterns then set him or indeed those of former times And so he set a Pattern to himself and such an one it was that 't is to be hoped it will be long and much followed He begun with a deep and close Study of the Scriptures upon which he spent four or five Years till he had arrived at a true understanding of them He studied next all the antient Philosophers and Books of Morality Among the Fathers St. Basil and St. Chrysostom were those he chiefly read Upon these Preparations he set himself to compose the greatest Variety of Sermons and on the best Subjects that perhaps any one Man has ever yet done His joining with Bishop Wilkins in pursuing the Scheme of an Universal Character led him to consider exactly the Truth of Language and Stile in which no Man was happier and knew better the Art of preserving the Majesty of things under a Simplicity of Words tempering these so equally together that neither did his Thoughts sink nor his Stile swell keeping always the due Mean between a low Flatness and the Dresses of false Rhetorick Together with the Pomp of Words he did also cut off all Superfluities and needless Enlargements He said what was just necessary to give clear Idea's of things and no more He laid aside all long and affected Periods His sentences were short and clear and the whole Thread was of a piece plain and distinct No affectations of Learning no squeezing of Texts no superficial Strains no false Thoughts nor bold Flights all was solid and yet lively and grave as well as Fine so that few ever heard him but they found some new Thought occurred something that either they had not considered before or at least not so distinctly and with so clear a View as he gave them Whether he explained Points of Divinity Matters of Controversy or the Rules of Morality on which he dwelt most copiously there was something peculiar in him on them all that conquered the Minds as well as it commanded the Attention of his Hearers who felt all the while that they were learning somewhat and were never tired by him for he cut off both the Luxuriances of Stile and the Length of Sermons and he concluded them with some Thoughts of such Gravity and Use that he generally dismissed his Hearers with somewhat that stuck to them He read his Sermons with so due a Pronunciation in so sedate and so solemn a manner that they were not the feebler but rather the perfecter even by that way which often lessens the Grace as much as it adds to the Exactness of such Discourses I am sure I have before me many Witnesses to what I say The World has already seen such Essays of this and shall I hope see so much more that I need say the less on this Head He saw with a deep Regret the fatal Corruption of this Age while the Hypocrisies and Extravagancies of former times and the Liberties and Loosness of the present disposed many to Atheism and Impiety He therefore went far into this Matter and as he had considered all the antient and modern Apologies for the Christian Religion with an Exactness that became the Importance of the Subject so he set the whole Strength of his Thoughts and Studies to withstand the Progress that this was making In order to that he laboured particularly to bring every thing out of the clearest Principles and to make all People feel the Reasonableness of the Truths as well as of the Precepts of the Christian Religion When he saw that Popery was at the root of this and that