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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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