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A63706	Clerus Domini, or, A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministerial together with the nature and manner of its power and operation : written by the special command of King Charles the First / by Jer. Taylor.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.; Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. Rules and advices to the clergy of the diocesse of Down and Connor.; Rust, George, d. 1670. Funeral sermon preached at the obsequies of the Right Reverend Father in God Jeremy Lord Bishop of Down.	1672 (1672)	Wing T299; ESTC R13445	91,915	82

England but that was because he judg'd her and with great reason a Church the most purely Christian of any in the World In his younger years he met with some Assaults from Popery and the high pretensions of their Religious Orders were very accommodate to his Devotional Temper but he was alwayes so much Master of himself that he would never be governed by any thing but Reason and the evidence of Truth which engag'd him in the study of those Controversies and to how good purpose the World is by this time a sufficient Witness But the longer and the more he considered the worse he lik'd the Roman Cause and became at last to censure them with some severity But I confess I have so great an opinion of his Judgment and the charitableness of his Spirit that I am afraid he did not think worse of them than they deserve But Religion is not a matter of Theory and Orthodox Notions and it is not enough to believe aright but we must practise accordingly and to master our passions and to make a right use of that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and power that God has given us over our own actions is a greater glory than all other Accomplishments that can adorn the mind of Man and therefore I shall close my Character of this great Personage with a touch upon some of those Vertues for which his Memory will be pretious to all Posterity He was a Person of great Humility and notwithstanding his stupendious Parts and Learning and Eminency of Place he had nothing in him of Pride and Humour but was Courteous and Affable and of easie Access and would lend a ready Ear to the complaints yea to the impertinencies of the meanest persons His Humility was coupled with an Extraordinary Piety and I believe he spent the greatest part of his time in Heaven his solemn hours of Prayer took up a considerable portion of his Life and we are not to doubt but he had learned of S. Paul to pray continually and that occasional Ejaculations and frequent Aspirations and Emigrations of his Soul after God made up the best part of his Devotions But he was not only a Good Man God-ward but he was come to the top of S. Peter's gradation and to all his other Vertues added a large and diffusive Charity And whoever compares his plentiful Incomes with the inconsiderable Estate he left at his Death will be easily convinc'd that Charity was Steward for a great proportion of his Revenue But the Hungry that he fed and the Naked that he cloath'd and the Distressed that he supply'd and the Fatherless that he provided for the poor Children that he put to Apprentice and brought up at School and maintained at the University will now sound a Trumpet to that Charity which he dispersed with his right hand but would not suffer his left hand to have any knowledge of it To sum up all in a few words This Great Prelate he had the good Humour of a Gentleman the Eloquence of an Orator the Fancy of a Poet the Acuteness of a School-man the Profoundness of a Philosopher the Wisdom of a Counsellor the Sagacity of a Prophet the Reason of an Angel and the Piety of a Saint He had Devotion enough for a Cloyster Learning enough for an University and Wit enough for a Colledge of Virtuosi and had his Parts and Endowments been parcell'd out among his poor Clergy that he left behind him it would perhaps have made one of the best Dioceses in the World But alas Our Father our Father the Horses of our Israel and the Chariot thereof he is gone and has carried his Mantle and his Spirit along with him up to Heaven and the Sons of the Prophets have lost all their beauty and lustre which they enjoyed only from the reflexion of his Excellencies which were bright and radiant enough to cast a glory upon a whole Order of Men. But the Sun of this our world after many attempts to break through the Crust of an earthly Body is at last swallowed up in the great Vortex of Eternity and there all his Maculae are scattered and dissolved and he is fixt in an Orb of Glory and shines among his Brethren-stars that in their several Ages gave light to the World and turn'd many Souls unto Righteousness and we that are left behind though we can never reach his Perfections must study to imitate his Vertues that we may at last come to sit at his feet in the Mansions of Glory which God grant for his infinite mercies in Jesus Christ To whom with the Father through the Eternal Spirit be ascribed all Honour and Glory Worship and Thanksgiving Love and Obedience now and for evermore Amen FINIS a Valer. Maxim l. 1. c. 1. b Dion hist. l. 54. c A. G●ll. l. 10 c. 15. d Ibid. Lib. 3. De praescript c. 40. Hujus sunt partes invertendi veritatem qui ipsas quoque res sacramen●crum divin●rum in idclorum mysteriis aemulatur Tingit ipse quosdam ●ique credentes fideles suos expiationem delictorum de la●acro re-promittit sic ad● initiat Mithrae signat illic in frontibus milites suos celebrat panis oblationem imaginem resurrectionis inducit subgladio redimit corouam Quid quod summum Pontificem in unis nuptiis statuit habet virginos bab● continentes Qui ergo ipsas res de quibus sacramenta Christi administrantur tam aemulanter affectavit exprimere in negotiss idololatria utique idem eodem ingenio gestiit potuit instrumenta quoque divinarum rerum sanctorum Christianorum sensum de sensibus verba de verbis parabolas de parabolis profana amulae fidei attemperare e Censor de die 〈◊〉 l. c. 1. f Sueton. in Vespas L●● decad 1. lib. 10. Lib. 4. de factis dict Socr. Stromat 3. Lib. 4. praepar Evangel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In ordinat Episc. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Sam. 10. 5. 10. Acts 3. 24. 1 Sam. 19. 18. Iliad 〈◊〉 vide 1. li. Eustath Pla●tus in Ruden● Cicero lib. 2. de leg Tertul. adv Psychicos c. 13. Ibid. Lib. 3. Annal. Lib. 〈◊〉 Annal. * Strab. Ge●g lib. 17. | Aelian var. hist. l. 14. c. 34. Ioseph Antiq. l. 14. c. 16. Caesar. com de bello Gal. l. 6. Eustath in ●●iad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P●rphyr citat ex Eurip. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 John 20. 21. Vide Socrat. li. 1. c. 7. Sozom. l. 1. c. 20. James 5. a In Ioh. 20. b Ibid. c In 1 Zim 4. d Homil. 26. in Evang. e Quaest. 39. Matth. 28. 19 20. Apud Tacitum lib. 8. Arist. lib. 4. Polit. c. 4. A. Gellius lib. 19. c. 10. Barthol in l. Iudices Cod. de dignit l. 12. Bald●● in l. nemini C. de adv advers judi● Lib. 8. c. 26. In exhort ad castitatem Lib. 4. c. 9. Lib. de