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A30854	The life of the Right Reverend Father in God, Edw. Rainbow, D.D. late Lord Bishop of Carlisle to which is added, a sermon preached at his funeral by Thomas Tully, his lordship's chaplain, and chancellor of the said diocess of Carlisle; at Dalston, April the 1st. 1684.	Banks, Jonathan.; Tully, T. (Thomas), 1620-1676.	1688 (1688)	Wing B669; ESTC R13606	38,322	158

both by sympathizing with the Losses of others and by his particular Sufferings The Royal Martyrs death was that which in a terrible manner opened the Eyes of all those who before would not or could not see that under the Masque of Piety Rebellion Lorded it over Loyalty when one of the most horrid Villanies that the Sun ever saw in this Nation was perpetrated in open Day A Pious King and one who held his Crown of none but his Great Creator first haled to a Tribunal an Act not to be paralleld in all preceding Ages who when he had justly deny'd that Usurped Power before whom he was Conven'd after he had suffered all the Indignities that the deluded Rabble and the ruder Souldiery could throw upon him was Beheaded upon a Scaffold purposely erected before his own Palace An Act so heinous that it could not be equalled by any thing but by the Malice of His Majesties Enemies from whom it had its Original In the fall of this tall Cedar the other Trees of our Forest were rudely shaken and thô they were not all hewn down by the fatal Ax yet were they sore cut their Boughs and Branches at least lopt off unless that some of the Shrubs escaped because their Lowness excused them from the Levelling Stroke Thus several Persons truly Noble both for Descent and proper Merit attended their most Gracious Sovereign in his Sufferings even to his Fall and their Death whose greatest Crime was that for which disinterested Posterity will have them in the highest admiration their Loyalty Because they could not consent to Usurpations in the Civil Government and to Innovations in the Ecclesiastical they must be Martyrs or taught to obey in that new way of Gospelling by Pike Gun and Dragoons This among many other Confessors was the Fate of our Dr. Rainbow who for refusing a Protestation against the King in 1650 lost his Mastership of Magdalen which he had hitherto kept by the powerful ●ntercession of his Noble Friends and which he was very willing to sacrifice rather than to make a Sacrifice of his Conscience to those Anakims which had nothing to Entitle them to the Government but Violence and Rapin. He had been a Mourner before this in the general loss of the Nation in the horrid Murther of their Gracious Sovereign and was a particular one in the Interment of that truly Religious Lady the Lady Susanna Countess of Suffolk the History of whose Vertues is far from being Apocryphal Nor did she want a faithful Historian in Doctor Edward Rainbow who in May 13. 1649. made her Funeral Sermon in a pathetical and moving Air but did it as far from Flattery as she was above it since he spoke nothing but what he believ'd and was not her Orator to present her Vertues in a gaudy Dress but her faithful Historian to deliver what he knew upon good grounds to be true Dr. Rainbow being exiled from Magdalen College by the Order of the Rump Parliament which College now became a Mourner for losing her Orthodox Governour was Presented by the Earl of Suffolk to a small Living a● little Chesterford near Audley Inn in Essex in 1652 which he accepted when he saw no probability of that dark Cloud 's dispersing which still hung ove● this then distemper'd Nation But he who had lost the Mastership of a College for his Loyalty was resolved not to stain his Conscience by a base submission to those Usurpers in the acceptance of that place and therefore held it only by my Lord of Suffolk's Presentation without being setled therein according to the prevalency of those Licentious Times by their Tryers In which privacy since we have found him setled we will see how he manages in that Critical Juncture after I have subjoyned That it was in this Year of 1652 that he married Mrs. Elizabeth Smith his Predecessors Daughter who without Flattery I speak it were so happy in each other that those who had the longest Acquaintance with them never heard an harsh Word fall from them against each other A Felicity rarely to be found and which ought to be mentioned to their Honour and which doubtless was a true sign that they were both unfeigned Votaries to Vertue In this his Recess a place much more agreeable to his Inclination than Merit did Dr. Rainbow continue for some years And thô he was so far retired from the Noise and Bustles of those Tumultuous Times yet he knew he could not retire out of the piercing Eye of the Almighty with whom he had to do He knew it was as much incumbent upon him to do his duty there as in a more conspicuous station and therefore thô he could not openly use the English Liturgy yet he used some of those excellent Prayers of which it is compos'd and that not only in his private Family but also composed such Prayers as he used in the Church out of those in the Liturgy and so gradually brought the Ignorant People to affect the Common Prayers a little transformed and altered who disliked the Common Prayer Book it self they knew not why Nor was he satisfied with his own Practice alone in this Case when therefore he lodged one Night at a Clergyman's House an old Acquaintance of his who then used other Prayers in his Family he out of civility to him commended his Friends form of Prayer but advised him for the future to use the Prayers of the Church for there were none other like them Nor did this Pious Doctor look upon his constant Preaching to be a sufficient discharge of his duty and that which would serve to clear him when he was to give an account of his Stewardship to his great Master He believd That many of his Hearers came to Church purely out of Custom and Form and consequently that their Attention was not very profitable and advantagious to their Souls in minding what was delivered to them from the Pulpit and therefore often went to their Houses to Catechise and instruct them and to those who were indigent he often gave Mony to oblige them to attend to his Instructions thereby making their Temporal Necessities to contribute to the supplying their Spiritual Wants A double Charity for which I doubt not he hath long since met with a double reward from the Liberal Dispenser of all good things In this place did our Dr. Rainbow reside pleased with his present condition and his Parishioners no less pleased with him till April 1659 when the Rectory of Benefield in Northamptonshire valued at 200 l. or 300 l. per Annum and of the Gift of the Earl of Warwick fell Vacant and was profered him by the said Noble Earl which he utterly refused because the Tryers with whom he was resolved to have nothing to do were then in power till there was sent him a Presentation from the Earl of Warwick with an Assurance That he might be possest of Benefield without going to the Tryers Which last Favour had been procured him by the

Interred on Tuesday following in Dalston Church yard April 1. 1684. as he had desired upon his Death-bed His Herse was attended with a great multitude of the Gentry the Clergy and other Neighbours Mr. Thomas Tullie his Lordships Chaplain and Chancellor of the Diocess of Carlisle Preaching his Funeral Sermon As he had requested That no Pomp nor State should be used at his Funeral no more than any Elogium should be made of him such was his rare Modesty and Humility So did he desire to be buried in Dalston Church-yard and to have a plain Stone laid over his Grave with no other Inscription but that such a Day and Year died Edward Bishop of Carlisle Which accordingly was performed These his two last Requests are a declaration to the World in his last Moments how little he valued the Pageantry of Funeral Pomp and all Monuments which were not built upon the sure and firm Basis of Piety We have now seen him laid in the Chambers of the Dust let us draw the Curtains about him leaving his Body to repose till the last Trumpet shall awake him to the general Resurrection of the Just He left no Works in Print but three occasional Sermons the two former of which are scarce to be got The first of these Sermons and which hath been already twice mentioned was Preached at S. Paul's Cross on Sept. 28. 1634 Entituled Labour forbidden and commanded and which to all Persons that peruse it without prejudice will sufficiently evince That the late Dr. Rainbow could cloath his Thoughts in all the gaiety of expression suitable to a great Audience when he judged it convenient The second was at the Funeral of Susanna Countess of Suffolk Preached May 13. 1649. on Eccles 7. 1. which was printed together with some Elogies in praise of that Vertuous young Lady which were composed by his two intimate and no less Learned Friends Dr. S. Collins Regius Professor of Divinity in Cambridge and Dr. James Duport Greek Professor there and his Successor in the Mastership of Magdalen and Deanry of Peterborough The third was Preached at the Interment of Anne Countess of Pembroke Dorset and Montgomery at Appleby in Westmorland April 14. 1676. with some Remarks on the Life of that Eminenr Lady on Prov. 14. 1. In his Youth he had a rich Vein in Poesy in which appeared somewhat of Ovid's Air and Fancy tempered with the Judgment of Virgil but none of his Poetical Exercises and Diversions have been published but a Paper of Verses upon the Frontispiece of Mr. Henry Isaacson's Chronology which acurate Chronologer was our Bishops particular Friend and had formerly been Amanuensis to that living Library while he was alive the Reverend and Learned Bishop Andrews and another Paper on Mr. Shelton's Art of Short-Writing Of the Honour of the former of these Poems printed without the addition of any Name in 1633 he was robbed by the Publisher of Mr. Richard Crashaw's Poems Entituled Steps to the Temple and ascribed by him to that Ingenious Epigrammatist But he having no Title to it but what the modest silence of Mr. Rainbow gave him I have recovered it to the true Owner by a Melius inquirendum and subjoyned it here The Frontispiece of Mr. Isaacson 's Chronology explain'd IF with distinctive Eye and Mind you look Vpon the Front you see more than one Book Creation is God's Book wherein he writ it Each Creature as a Letter filling History is Creation's Book which shews To what effect the Series of it goes Chronology is the Book of History and bears The just Account of Days and Months and Years But Resurrection in a later Press And New Edition is the sum of these The Language of these Books had all been one Had not th' aspiring Tower of Babylon Confus'd the Tongues and in a distance hurl'd As far the Speech as Men o' th' New-found World. Set then your Eyes in method and behold Time's Emblem Saturn who when store of Gold Coyn'd the first Age devour'd that Birth he fear'd Till History Time's Eldest Child appear'd And Phoenix-like in spight of Saturn's Rage Forc'd from her Ashes Heirs in every Age From th' Rising Sun obtaining by just Suit A Spring 's Ingender and an Autumn's Fruit. Who in those Volumes at her motion Penn'd Vnto Creation's Alpha doth extend Again ascend and view Chronology By Optic Skill pulling far History Nearer whose hand the piercing Eagles Eye Strengthens to bring remotest Objects nigh Vnder whose Feet you see the Setting Sun From the dark Gnomon o're her Volumes run Drown'd in Eternal Night never to rise Till Resurrection shew it to the Eyes Of Earth-worn Men and her shrill Trumpets sound Affright the Bones of Mortals from the Ground The Columns both are Crown'd with either Sphere To shew Chronology and History bear No other Culmen than the double Art Astronomy Geography impart Another POEM upon Mr. Shelton 's Art of Short-Writing To the Author his Friend upon his Art of Short-Writing FOrtunate Art by which the Hand so speeds That Words are now of slower birth than Deeds Dissembling Age that Faith so often breaks Learn hence to do more than the Proudest speaks Speak not the Author's Praise his Art commands Our Tongues should be more cripled than our Hands Nor can we scape this Spight his speed affords From being over-taken in our Words What shall become of their Divinity Which scatter'd through two hours Tautology Gathered by these Characters must hence Endure the doom of such as can speak sense But that thine Art 's a Friend to Repetition Their hourly Breath they 'd damn the next Edition Print then that Praise which Volumes cannot hold But in thine own compendious Figures told Figures which make us duller-handed think Words from the Speaker's Mouth dissolve to Ink And fall upon thy Papers or thy Quill Made of some nimble Tongue gave thee this Skill Still may that full-fledg'd Pen with moisture spring Snatch'd from the Eagles not the Gooses Wing But that which would have been most useful to the Church of God if it had pleased the Almighty to have granted him Life to finish it was a Treatise call'd by him Verba Christi or The Words of Christ His design in it was this He considered how great an Eye-sore it was to all good Men to see Christians persecute each other and as violently as those of the same Religion had been Persecuted in former Ages by the grossest Hereticks by Jews or Heathen Infidels His desire therefore was to make enquiry I now use his own Expressions into the Causes and Reasons why Christians should be so animated against one another and having fix'd it in his Mind and Judgment that all reasons of this and indeed of the decay of Christianity in general were to be resolved into this one namely the not duly attending unto the Words of our Saviour not only his Precepts and Doctrins but all his Sayings He therefore thought it not an unprofitable Task to bring into one Body and