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A sermon preached at the funeral of the R' Reverend Father in God, Bryan, Lord Bp. of Winchester, at the Abby Church in Westminster, April 24, 1662 by Henry, L. Bp. of Chichester.
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King, Henry, 1592-1669.
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serv'd when I say by these Juggles they had got off some of the wisest Heads in the State and Highest in the Church Nay when they had struck the Vena Basilica emptying the Blood of the Principal Veyn which gave Life and Spirit to the whole Kingdome how well those abused People have thriv'd and the Trades improv'd Themselves feel to their utter undoing and we all see God grant this Unvaluable this Guiltless this yet unexpiated Blood with many Thousands besides shed since the last eruption of our Civil War be not charg'd upon the Heads of every one of us who survive It is the Positive Law of God Gen. 9 6. He who sheddeth Man's Blood by Man shall his Blood be shed And I know not what Power upon Earth can dispense with it If there be any who frame excuse or by Sophistry and False Reason endeavour to Palliate the Crime let them take heed lest they pluck down the Guilt upon Themselves This Loud crying Sin will not easily be silenced The Tongue of Blood is never hoarce by long crying Gen 4.10 I have heard the Voyce of thy Brother Abel's Blood crying to me from the Ground saith God And This Blood though shed so many hundred years past Cryes still Heb. 11.4 Indeed how can it be otherwise Psal 56.8 He who Bottles every Tear shed in sorrow or contrition and who numbers every drop of water distilled from the Eyes of His servants shall He not much more keep a Tale of every Drop of Blood Certainly He will and in His Calculation each Drop hath its just value to bring a fearfull recompence upon the Heads of all their Murtherers Surely I have seen yesterday the Blood of Naboth and the Blood of His sons 3 King 9 26 and I will Requite Thee saith the Lord. 'T is an Asseveration He sees to Pity It and He sees to Revenge it upon all the House of Ahab It is ever in Conspectu ejus In his sight So precious is the death of His Saints He puts a price upon Their Loss in His Revenge and He puts a price upon Their Virtues in His Reward You see how God looks down upon His servants 2 Reward with what Aspect He beholds their Sufferings here They must now look up to Him from whence cometh their Salvation Psal 121.1 The Apostle directs their Eye Hel. 12.2 Looking up to Jesus the Authour and Finisher of our Faith who for the Joy set before Him endured the Cross c. There needs no better Reward than to be in Conspectu Domini Psal 16.11 In Gods sight In Thy sight and in Thy Presence there is fulness of Joy for evermore The Pain of the Cross was eas'd to that poor dying Man Hanging upon it in the promise of his Saviour Luke 23.43 Hodiè mecum eris Thou shalt be where I am Those who can summ up the Sorrows of a Miserable Life may best collect the Blessings of the Life to come It were a vain thing for us on Earth to attempt the defining of those Joyes in Heaven which be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eye hath not seen nor Tongue can utter nor Heart conceive Them This onely is the dictate of our Faith and best Evidence of Those unseen Joyes That the Beatifica Visio The Sight of God will both recompence all the Crosses laid on us and supply all the Comforts which we wanted upon Earth That Blessed Vision whereby we shall see God not under the Dim Cloud of His Promises but in the Clear Light the Performance of His Reward We must know for all this Luke 16.26 there is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A great Gulph betwixt our expected Bliss and us Deut. 1.19 Perhaps A Red Sea and a Terrible Wilderness are enterpos'd and must be passed through before we can arrive at the Land of Promise Happy shall Those be who are nor afraid to wade through a Red Sea discolour'd by their own Blood if God's Honour or His Cause require it nor faint in the apprehension of a Wilde Great Desart if He think good to lay that tedious probation upon their Patience Let this assurance Cheer both Their and Our dejected Spirits we shall undoubtedly receive the Reward if we Faint not Heb. 12.3 And what contempt soever we endure in the Eyes of Men we shall finde a full Reparation In the Sight of God I Have done with the Text. And now according to the Custome of a Funeral You will expect I should say somewhat concerning the Subject of it I confess My self an ill Herald and unversed in These Displayes It being the first time which brought me to perform this Office for the Dead And if God so pleas'd I wish from my Soul I might have missed it now I cannot but remember at this Time was a Twelvemonth in the Highest Celebrity which our English Court can Boast the Solemn Feast of St. George held at Windsor His Infirmity Forced Him by Particular Licence and Approbation of His Soveraign to Depute me unto That Office which in That place properly belong'd to Him I little thought that in a Mournfull Solemnity where Himself became the Subject I should the following Year and the very next Day after that Triumph be Deputed to this Last Service at His Grave But thus You see how Joyes and Sorrows by course exercise their several Jurisdictions over us And how the Greatest Triumph Earth affords is attended at the Heels by such a Gastly follower as Death That I heartily Lov'd and from the converse of many younger years Valued the Owner of that Dead Relick lying before me is a real Truth For that cause Ye therefore must not expect any large Panegyricks from me lest happily Yee might think He needed them Though Praise be a fit Gloss set upon Desert there is danger at least suspicion in the excess As unskilfull Painters by laying on too much Varnish dead the Colours and marr the Piece they would set off Indeed in any Mournfull Arguments Invention is commonly most free where with least interest and Concern it looks upon the Object Passion or Affection mingling with them render it too serious for any Rhetorick but Sorrow This I profess to be my Case And if it would not betray more of the weaker Sex than is fit for me to own I could make good the words of St. Augustine Potius libet flere quà m aliquid dicere My Eyes could easily prove more fluent than my Tongue Yet lest Ye fail of all Ye look for As the Evening Sun immediately before his Set Unites and in some short flashes casts forth his Beams before he bury them in that Cloud wherein he Sets I will briefly summ up the Passages of His Life even from his Youth which was His Sun-rise unto the Declination of His Age which brought Him to this Bed of Darkness He was Born of Worthy and Virtuous Parents His Education was in This Famous School