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cause_n	believe_v	church_n	faith_n	2,838	5	5.7579	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48839	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Reverend Father in God John late Lord Bishop of Chester, at the Guildhal Chappel London, on Thursday the 12 of December, 1672 by William Lloyd ...	Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.	1672 (1672)	Wing L2703; ESTC R20363	15,451	37

in his conversation His discourse was commonly of Useful things it never caused trouble or weariness to the Hearer Yet he would venture to displease one for his good and indeed he was the man that ever I knew for that most needful and least practised point of Friendship He would not spare to give seasonable reproof and wholesome advice when he saw occasion I never knew any that would do it so freely and that knew how to manage that freedom of speech so inoffensively It was his way of Friendship not so much to Oblige men as to do them good He did this not slightly and superficially but like one that made it his Business He durst do for his friend any thing that was Honest and no more He would undertake nothing but what well became him and then he was unwearied till he had effected it As he concerned himself for his friend in all other respects so especially in that which went nearest to him of all earthly concernments He would not suffer any blot to be thrown or to ly upon his friends good name or his Memory And that Office I am obliged to Requite in giving some account of that which has been spoken by some to his disadvantage I shall neglect for he did so any frivolous reports but that which seems to have any weight in it as far as I have observed is that he had not that zeal for the Church that they would seem to have that object this He seemed to look upon the Dissenters with too much favour to their persons and ways As to the persons No doubt that goodness of Nature that true Christian principle which made him willing to think well of all men and to do good or at least no hurt to any might and ought to extend it self to them among others But besides he was inclined to it by his education under his Grandfather Mr. Dod a truly pious learned man who yet was a Dissenter himself in some things Not that he had any delight in contradiction or could find in his heart to disturb the peace of the Church for those matters He was so far from it that as I have frequently heard from this his Grandchild and others when some thought their dissents ground enough for a War he declared himself against it and confirmed others in their Allegiance he profest to the last a just hatred of that Horrid Rebellion Now his Relation to this man and conversation with those of his Principles might incline him to hope the like of others of that way And when he found them farther off from the unity of the Church he might possibly overdo through the vehemence of his desire to bring them off of their Prejudices and to reduce them to the Unity of the Church in which his Grandfather lived and dyed Why might he not hope the same of other Dissenters As for himself he was so far from Approving their ways that in the worst of times when one here present bewailed to him the Calamities of the Church and declared his Obedience even then to the Laws of it He incouraged him in it he desired his friendship and protected both him and many others by an interest that he had gained and made use of chiefly for such purposes How he demeaned himself then is known in both Universities where he governed with praise and left a very grateful Remembrance behind him How in the next times since I cannot speak in a better Place And when I have named this City and the two Universities I think he could not be placed in a better light in this Nation There were enough that could judge and he did not use to disguise himself I appeal to you that conversed with him in those days What zeal he hath exprest for the Faith and for the unity of the Church How he stood up in defence of the Order and Government How he hath asserted the Liturgy and the Rites of it He conformed himself to every thing that was commanded Beyond which for any man to be vehement in little and unnecessary things whether for or against them he could not but dislike and as his free manner was he hath oft been heard to call it Fanaticalness How this might be misrepresented I know not or how his design of comprehension might be understood Sure I am that since he came into the Government of the Church to which he was called in his Absence He so well became the Order that it out-did the expectation of all that did not very well know him He filled his place with a Goodness answerable to the rest of his life and with a Prudence above it considering the two extreams which were no where so much as in his Diocess Though he was as before very tender to those that differed from him yet he was as before exactly conformable himself and brought others to Conformity some Eminent men in his Diocese He endeavoured to bring in all that came within his reach and might have had great success if God had pleased to continue him But having given full proof of his Intentions and desires it pleased God to reserve the fruit for other hands from which we have great cause to expect much good to the Church He was in perfect Health in all other respects when a known Infirmity from an unknown cause that had been easier to cure than it was to discover stole upon him and soon became Incurable He was for many days in a prospect of Death which he saw as it approached and felt it come on by degrees Some days before he died he found within himself as he often said a Sentence of Death In all this time first of Pain then of dreadful Apprehension At last in the presence of Death Who ever saw him dismaid Who ever found him surprized or head a word from him unbecoming a wise man and a true Christian It was my Infelilicity to be so engaged that I could not duly attend him and so deceived with vain hopes that I believed him not dying till he was dead But at the times I was with him I saw great cause to admire his Faith towards God his zeal for his Church his Constancy of mind his Contempt of the World and his Chearful hopes of Eternity I have heard much more upon these heads from those that were with him Some of you may have heard other things from other men It hath been the way of our Adversaries to entitle themselves to dying men even those whose whole life was a Testimony against them Thus after the Death of our Famous Jewel the Papists were pleased to say he dyed of their Religion Militiere hath ventured to Insinuate the same of our late King of blessed glorious memory Mens tongues and pens are their own But lest they should abuse them and you and the Memory of this worthy Prelate as they have abus'd others Though nothing needs to be said to such Groundless Calumnies I declare and that upon most certain grounds That he died in the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Communion of the Church of England as it is by Law established He died only too soon for the Church and for his Friends But for Himself he had lived long enough He has liv'd long enough that dies well For whatsoever he wants of that which we call time it is added though it adds nothing to Eternity As for us that are now to try how we can bear the want of those many blessings we enjoyed in him What shall we say We must submit to the Will of God Our Comfort is that we shall follow and come together again in due Time Till when Farewel pious and virtuous Soul Farewel great and excellent man Farewel worthy Prelate and faithful Friend We have thy Memory and Example Thou hast our Praises and our Tears While thy Memory lives in our Breasts may thy Example be fruitful in our Lives That our Meeting again may be in Joy unspeakable when God shall have wiped away all Tears from our eyes FINIS