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A53333	The blessedness of good men after death a sermon preach'd at the funeral of the Revd. Mr. Henry Cornish, B.D., who died on Sunday, Decemb. 18th, in the eighty ninth year of his age and was interred on Thursday, Decemb. 22d, 1698, in the Church of Bisiter, in the County of Oxford : with a preface to rectifie some misrepresentations &c. in a late pamphlet, entitled Some remarks on the life, death, and burial of the said Mr. Cornish / by John Ollyffe ...	Ollyffe, John, 1647-1717.	1699 (1699)	Wing O286; ESTC R7832	31,135	36

singular Reason and Rhetorick together must needs have knock'd it down in an instant Now I must own to this Reflector That these wise Thoughts never came into my Head and if they had I should certainly have sent them packing as soon as I had observed them For I should certainly have disdained to have trifled in this manner These Topicks might serve the turn for a young Declaimer of whom if he can but shew a little Wit it is not expected that he should talk much Reason But doth this Reflector think that to talk of Holy Places and Holy Consecrated Ground and of the contrary Prophaneness of a Common and Unhallowed Barn and the Threshing-Floor would be of such mighty force to bring Dissenters to Church Would not this rather have offended than perswaded them Doth not he know they have but little Opinion of such Holiness and Consecration And yet that they chuse to Worship on the Threshing-Floor not because they think it best but for want of a more convenient Place And because they are willing to have their Dead Carcases that are without Sence or Feeling brought to be Buried in the Church Ground among their Forefathers which they think is a convenient Repository for them doth he think that this would do the mighty Feat to perswade them to bring their Living Souls to Church to Worship there when they think they can do better elsewhere Doth not be know that 't is the Service that they take Exception against and not the Walls or Seats or Ground or Earth And it is impossible that He should trifle so as to imagine that the Better Sort of Dissenters should think that if they should be too soon admitted into the Bosom of the Church they could by no means live up to the Rules of it Doth he think that they take the Rules of our Church to be stricter than those of their own Or that they should think that their chusing to be Buried at last in the Church Ground would Atone for their long Absence from the Church Service and that this being their final Action would determine their Salvation Would not they take this to be a downright Affront to them that we should take them to be such silly Creatures Of all Men living if I were to Discourse of this Matter I would not come to this Reflector to suggest Heads or Arguments to me for it Certainly it is a thousand times better quite to hold one's Peace than to talk thus quite cross to the Business These are rare and singular Thoughts and I dare say are none-such of their kind and this last especially He took for a notable piece of Wit and Ingenuity it being no doubt his own most genuine Off-spring and was so taken with the mis-shapen Fancy that he could not chuse but make much of it and then by all means must produce it to open View that all may admire it But a little Charity and Judgment withal which this Reflector hath taken great care not to betray too much of had most certainly finally determined it out of the way Now at last He adds That the Ceremonies are few and inoffensive the Prayers are Devout and pathetically Good the Sermons are Practical and Plain I know nothing that this Reflector hath said to the purpose but only this But if he had also a little farther set out the inoffensiveness of the Ceremonies the goodness of the Prayers and the usefulness of the Sermons it would have been no doubt so much the more effectual But it looks as if he least descended upon this He slights it over so quick For this Reflector is only for Rare Antique and Unusual Things a little plain honest Truth is not so agreeable to his roving and high-soaring Fancy Doth he think that such general Affirmations only would have been so powerful to perswade Or that his or my telling them so which perhaps they have heard an hundred times over would upon a sudden convince and alter their Minds and change their relish of Things If I had been to Discourse of this Matter I think I ought to have gone a little deeper into the Controversie taken it to pieces and unravelled its Parts to break the force of Objections But was that a Time or Season for all this Would not that have been a pretty undertaking at a Funeral Besides there are many Books writ about these Things and many and long Disputes Printed about them And if these do not prevail I don't believe that the slight Flurts of this Reflector's Rhetorick or the most that I could say will ever do it For I have no such mighty conceit of my Abilities that way whatever this Reflector hath of his We have Disputed long enough And we know the time when some Severities have been used too And yet we see that all hath had but little Effect I think therefore we were all better yield what we can and shake Hands and Love one another I have now said what I intend to say in this Matter If the Reflector be not satisfied herewith it will be in vain for me any farther to attempt his Satisfaction I shall not presume to give him any Advice but let him alone to take his own Measures Yet I shall not refuse any from him provided he be happier in advising another time than in what he hath done already But if He intends to Dispute or Criminate on I shall leave him to enjoy himself in his own Humour but I intend to give my self no farther trouble about it To conclude 't is a great comfort to think of that State and Place where all Imperfection shall be done away and where all Differences and Contentions shall be at an end where I hope yet to meet this now angry Brother and do most heartily pray that both He and I and whosoever hath any Ill will to me in this World may by the free Grace of God pardoning our Sins and accepting us in Christ Jesus be at last received into the Embraces of our Blessed Lord and may Live and Joy together in the most satisfying Fruition of his everlasting Love And in the mean time if to Preach up the Doctrines of our Holy Religion with Zeal Fervour and Earnestness in order to the preparing of Men for this be Cant Noise and Assurance I beseech the God of Heaven to give me more of it Amen ADVERTISEMENT THE Author hath also Published a Thanksgiving Sermon for the Delivery of this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power A Brief Defence of Infant-Baptism with an Appendix wherein is shewed That it is not necessary that Baptism should be Administred by Dipping The Minister's Last-Advice to his People being a Farewel Sermon Preached at Almer in Dorsetshire at the Author 's leaving the said Parish Rev. 14 13. I heard a Voice from Heaven saying unto me Write Blessed are the Dead which Die in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their Labours and their Works do