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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63706	Clerus Domini, or, A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministerial together with the nature and manner of its power and operation : written by the special command of King Charles the First / by Jer. Taylor.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.; Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. Rules and advices to the clergy of the diocesse of Down and Connor.; Rust, George, d. 1670. Funeral sermon preached at the obsequies of the Right Reverend Father in God Jeremy Lord Bishop of Down.	1672 (1672)	Wing T299; ESTC R13445	91,915	82

stands in no need of an Encomium and yet his worth is much greater than his fame It is impossible not to speak great things of him and yet it is impossible to speak what he deserves and the meanness of an Oration will but fully the brightness of his Excellencies But Custom requires that something should be said and it is a Duty and a Debt that we owe only unto his Memory and I hope his great Soul if it hath any knowledge of what is done here below will not be offended at the smallness of our Offering He was born at Cambridge and brought up in the Free-School there and was ripe for the University afore Custom would allow of his Admittance but by that time he was Thirteen years old he was entred into Caius-Colledge and as soon as he was Graduate he was chosen fellow Had he lived amongst the ancient Pagans he had been usher'd into the World with a Miracle and Swans must have danc'd and sung at his Birth and he must have been a great Hero and no less than the Son of Apollo the God of Wisdom and Eloquence He was a Man long afore he was of Age and knew little more of the state of Childhood than its Innocency and Pleasantness From the University by that time he was Master of Arts he removed to London and became publick Lecturer in the Church of Saint Paul's where he preached to the admiration and astonishment of his Auditory and by his florid and youthful beauty and sweet and pleasant air and sublime and rais'd discourses he made his hearers take him for some young Angel newly descended from the Visions of Glory The fame of this new Star that out-shone all the rest of the Firmament quickly came to the notice of the great Arch-Bishop of Canterbury who would needs have him preach before him which he performed not less to his wonder than satisfaction His discourse was beyond exception and beyond imitation yet the wise Prelate thought him too young but the great Youth humbly begg'd his Grace to pardon that fault and promised If he liv d he would mend it However the grand Patron of Learning and Ingenuity thought it for the advantage of the World that such mighty Parts should be afforded better opportunities of study and Improvement than a course of constant preaching would allow of and to that purpose he placed him in his own Colledge of All-Souls in Oxford where Love and Admiration still waited upon him which so long as there is any spark of ingenuity in the breasts of men must needs be the inseparable Attendants of so extraordinary a worth and sweetness He had not been long here afore my Lord of Canterbury bestowed upon him the Rectory of Uphingham in Rutland-shire and soon after preferr'd him to be Chaplain to King Charles the Martyr of blessed and immortal Memory Thus were preferments heaped upon him but still less than his deserts and that not through the fault of his great Masters but because the amplest Honours and Rewards were poor and inconsiderable compar'd with the greatness of his Worth and Merit This Great Man had no sooner launch'd into the World but a fearful Tempest arose and a barbarous and unnatural War disturb'd a long and uninterrupted Peace and Tranquillity and brought all things into disorder and confusion but his Religion taught him to be Loyal and ingag'd him on his Prince's side whose Cause and Quarrel he alwayes own'd and maintain'd with a great courage and constancy till at last he and his little Fortune were shipwrackt in that great Hurricane that overturn'd both Church and State This fatal Storm cast him ashore in a private corner of the World and a tender Providence shrowded him under her Wings and the Prophet was fed in the Wilderness and his great worthiness procur'd him friends that supplied him with bread and necessaries In this Solitude he began to write those excellent Discourses which are enough of themselves to furnish a Library and will be famous to all succeeding Generations for their greatness of Wit and profoundness of Judgment and richness of Fancy and clearness of Expression and copiousness of Invention and general usefulness to all the purposes of a Christian And by these he soon got a great Reputation among all persons of Judgment and Indifferency and his Name will grow greater still as the World grows better and wiser When he had spent some Years in this Retirement it pleas'd God to visit his Family with Sickness and to take to himself the dear Pledges of his Favour three Sons of great hopes and expectations within the space of two or three Months And though he had learned a quiet Submission unto the Divine Will yet the Affliction touch'd him so sensibly that it made him desirous to leave the Countrey And going to London he there met my Lord Conway a Person of great Honour and Generosity who making him a kind Proffer the good man embraced it and that brought him over into Ireland and setled him at Portmore a place made for Study and Contemplation which he therefore dearly lov'd and here he wrote his Cases of Conscience A Book that is able alone to give its Author Immortality By this time the Wheel of Providence brought about the King's happy Restauration and there began a new World and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the Waters and out of a confused Chaos brought forth Beauty and Order and all the Three Nations were inspir'd with a new Life and became drunk with an excess of Joy Among the rest this Loyal Subject went over to congratulate the Prince and Peoples Happiness and bear a part in the Universal Triumph It was not long ere his Sacred Majesty began the settlement of the Church and the great Doctor Ieremy Taylor was resolv'd upon for the Bishoprick of Down and Conor and not long after Dromore was added to it and it was but reasonable that the King and Church should consider their Champion and reward the pains and sufferings he under-went in the Defence of their Cause and Honour With what care and faithfulness he discharg'd his Office we are all his Witnesses what good Rules and Directions he gave his Clergy and how he taught us the practice of them by his own Example Upon his coming over Bishop he was made a Privy-Councellor and the University of Dublin gave him their Testimony by recommending him for their Vice-Chancellor which honourable Office he kept to his dying day During his being in this See he wrote several excellent Discourses particularly his Disswasive from Popery which was receiv'd by a general approbation and a Vindication of it now in the Press from some impertinent Cavillers that pretend to answer Books when there is nothing towards it more than the very Title-page This great Prelate improv'd his Talent with a mighty Industry and managed his Stewardship rarely well and his Master when he call'd for his Accounts found him busie and at his