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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57957	A funeral sermon preached at the obsequies of the right reverend father in God, Jeremy, Lord Bishop of Down who deceased at Lysburne August 13th, 1667 / by Dr. George Rust.	Rust, George, d. 1670.	1668 (1668)	Wing R2362; ESTC R17604	18,875	46

he plac'd 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 Vphingham 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 engag'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 supply'd 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 judgement 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 judgement 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 Moneths 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 embrac'd 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 Consciences A Book that is able alone to give its Author Immortality By this time the wheel of Providence brought about the Kings happy Restauration and there began a new World and the Spirit of God mov'd 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 People's 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 Jeremy 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 mannag'd his Steward-ship rarely well and his Master when he call'd for his Accounts found him busie and at his work and employed upon an excellent Subject A Discourse upon the Beatitudes which if finisht would have been of great Use to the World and solv'd most of the Cases of Conscience that occurr to a Christian in all the varieties of states and conditions But the All-wise God hath ordain'd it otherwise and hath call'd home his good Servant to give him a portion in that Blessedness that Jesus Christ hath promised to all his faithful Disciples and Followers Thus having given you a brief Account of his Life I know you will now expect a character of his Person but I fore-see it will befall him as it does all Glorious Subjects that are but disparag'd by a commendation One thing I am secure of that I shall not be thought to speak Hyperbolies for the Subject can hardly be reach'd by any expressions For he was none of Gods ordinary works but his Endowments were so many and so great as really made him a Miracle Nature had befriended him much in his Constitution for he was a person of a most sweet and obliging Humour of great Candour and Ingenuity and there was so much of Salt and fineness of Wit and pretiness of Address in his familiar Discourses as made his Conversation have all the pleasantness of a Comedy and all the usefulness of a Sermon His Soul was made up of Harmony and he never spake but he charm'd his Hearer not only with the clearness of his Reason but all his Words and his very Tone and Cadencies were strangely Musical But That which did most of all captivate and enravish was The gaiety and richness of his Fancy for he had much in him of that natural Enthusiasm that inspires all great Poets and Orators and there was a generous ferment in his Bloud and Spirits that set his Fancy bravely a work and made it swell and teem and become pregnant to such degrees of Luxuriancy as nothing but the greatness of his Wit and Judgment could have kept it within due bounds and measures And indeed it was a rare Mixture and a single Instance hardly to be found in an Age for the great Tryer of Wits has told us That there is a peculiar and several Complexion requir'd for Wit and Judgment and Fancy and yet you might have found all these in this great Personage in their Eminency and Perfection But that which made