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A67184	A sermon at the funeral of the right honourable Henry, Earl of Warrington, Baron Delamer of Dunham-Massy, Lord Lieutenant of the County-Palatine of Chester, and one of the Lords of their Majesties most honourable Privy Council preached at Bowden in Cheshire / by Richard Wroe ...	Wroe, Richard, 1641-1717.	1694 (1694)	Wing W3728; ESTC R12138	16,713	33

the Law was much concern'd though he had much more reason to have consulted his own safety by a seasonable absence than to have added to his Indisposition by bringing it with him to the House and there wrestling with it tho fasting and empty and would not leave it when afresh seiz'd with it till his Strength though not his Spirit and Courage fail'd And when he could no longer resist the Attacks of his Disease which proved a Fever of the Spirits which is dangerous to most and was to him fatal he then but not before left off what he had all along pursued the Honour of Justice the Vindication of the Laws and the Good of his Countrey and whoever does so is a Patriot while he lives and will survive in the memory of good men when he dies His behaviour in his last Sickness I wish I were so happy as to be able to account to you from the knowledge and observation of those that were Witnesses of it especially from that Reverend Person the Pious and Learned Dr. Horneck who was called to administer the last Office of Ghostly Counsel and Comfort to him but doubt not but it was suitable to the Religion he profest becoming his Profession and worthy of his Character For he had a true Value for Religion and such Notions of it as became a Great Mind informed by God's Word and assisted by his Spirit His Zeal against Popery was far from being without Knowledge and his Love and Charity for all Protestants with his warm Endeavours for their common good and safety were conspicuous to the World Yet this I cannot but say for the Honour of our Church as well as in his Praise that notwithstanding the Liberty for Protestants of different Persuasions given by an Act of Parliament in the making and advising of which he had no inconsiderable share yet he kept constant to our Communion frequenting the Publick Ordinances and Administrations and using in his Family the Publick Offices and Service appointed by the Church And his Example was not only an Argument to prevail with others but a Credit to the way he profest manifesting on all occasions a real esteem for true Goodness and the influence that his Religion had on his Actions and Conversation Of which I shall mention two or three Instances which never fail to accompany the true spirit and vital energy of sincere Religion 1. His forwardness to discourage Vice and Immorality And that not only among his Servants and Domesticks but elsewhere in the Neighbourhood where his Frowns might check or his Authority command The Disorders too frequently allowed in Houses of publick resort no sooner reach'd his ears than they received a sharp rebuke from him with a severe caution for the future to restrain their entertainment of lewd Company or of any at unseasonable hours the common and too fashionable Vices of Drink●ng and Swearing were as much discountenanced by him in others as they were far from his own practice Now a Magistrate both rebukes and commands with Authority that makes his own Patern the Copy for others to write by 2. His desires of reconciliation and a b●tt●r correspondence where differences and animosities had been too much fomented too long retained Perhaps a proneness to passion may not altogether be excused yet is less blameable where it 's the effect of temper and constitution nor is of so malevolent an Influence where accompanied with a readiness to forgive and be reconciled to which he was so far from nanifesting an averseness that there are some that hear me that can name the Instances of his great Condescention and Benignity in pardoning and passing by Injuries and being reconciled upon easy terms when it was in his power to have ruined those who professed Enmity against or mis-understood him and greatly to have profited himself by taking those advantages which the Law would have given him Nor was this true Greatness of Mind expressed only in Relation to matters of Scandal and Calumny but even to the most visible Attempts against his Life That which most sensibly affected him was the Grudges and Animosities which had so unhappily divided the Interest of this County in which he made so great a Figure I say affected I will add afflicted him too having heard him passionately bewail the ill effects of them and heartily wish that he were able to redress them and I think there is not any that will witness against him that ever he made use of the Authority that this Government entrusted him with to widen the Breach or heighten the Discontents but rather endeavoured to apply Lenitives than Causticks and carried his Power and Interest with so even a Balance that none could justly take offence unless such as were less disposed to Unity and Agreement than he was 'T is too common in the world to see Power and Authority exercised meerly for the advantage of a Party or to carry on the projects of Ambition and Self-design or perhaps the worse attempts of Revenge and Malice whereas it is designed more for the good of others than the advantage of those that are intrusted with it and they only act like God the Fountain of Power who dispence the influence of their Authority in acts of Bounty and Kindness and to serve the ends of Peace and publick Good Would those that survive this Great Man pursue the same methods and heartily join in the Endeavours of Unity and Accomodation they might hope to see what I dare say he would have rejoiced to behold the Union of different Parties and Interests happily cemented in a kind Correspondence and friendly Agreement 3. His regard to the Sacred Oracles of God the Holy Scriptures the Rule of our Duty and Guide of our Actions and his care in reading and consulting them to cull out such Directions as might be useful upon all occasions and applicable to the several emergencies of his Actions To which end he had drawn up several Heads above an Hundred in number in a large Book for that purpose and under them had noted with his own Hand such places of Scripture as were properly reducible to them whence he might furnish himself with Rules and Instructions that he might still act agreeable to the directions of God's Holy Word An example so much the more Commendable and Remarkable as possibly more rare in persons of his Station and variety of Avocations and would to God it were not too epidimical a mistake not only in Men of Honour but of Parts and Wit yea and Learning too to lay aside the Bible as a dull insipid Book fit only for the Clergy to consult or melan●holly folks to pore on Alas they little know the worth of it that slight or disesteem it but they that diligently consult it as the Rule of life and manners the more they read it the more they admire it and as David and all Good men have experienced it find it a Lanthorn to their feet and a Light to their