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A67564	The Christians victory over death a sermon at the funeral of the Most Honourable George Duke of Albemarle, &c. : in the Collegiate Church of S. Peter, Westminster, on the XXXth of April M.DC.LXX / by Seth, Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Ward, Seth, 1617-1689.	1670 (1670)	Wing W818; ESTC R12260	16,635	40

and heroical designs to raise them above all worldly things and bring them to a Rational contempt of Death And this is that Theory which Christ hath delivered concerning the state of the Vitâ functi But Secondly Christ hath not only delivered but he hath also assured the world of the truth of this Theory He confirmed the truth of his Doctrine the Divinity of his precepts the certainty of the Rewards and punishments of the world to come the infallible performance of his promises and his threatnings Not by giving the world a set and series of imaginary principles of vain Philosophy and Science falsly so called engendring strifes and everlasting disputations Not by bare Assertions and confident Repetitions only as did the Epicureans of old And as is the manner of some in our daies who have taken up their principles amongst our selves Not by Phantastical obscure Ratiocinations concerning Numbers Vehicles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the like But by evidences plain and convincing by proofs sensible and experimental partcularly accommodate to the eviction of the truth of the matter in question and to the conviction of all mankind By raising Lazarus and others from the dead he at once gave an experiment of the immortality of the Soul and of the Resurrection of the body of the capacity of eternal Rewards and Punishments Of all his Doctrines he gave infallible sensible undeniable proof by the purity of his Precepts The Sanctity of his Life The Testimony and witness of his Death By fulfilling all the Prophesies concerning him By his Predictions and his Miracles By a thousand several instances of supernatural Wisdom and Power By his glorious Resurrection his Visible Ascension By sending down the Holy Ghost on the Apostles By enabling his Disciples and his Followers to work Signs and Wonders in one word by innumerable Arguments Thus the Captain of our Salvation the Author and Finisher of our Faith hath cleared the Foundation and Principle of Heroic Actions in exhibiting to the World the Grounds and Causes of a just and rational contempt of Death ANd now blessed be his Holy Name who by his Grace applying those Principles to the hearts of the Professors of Christianity is pleased in all Ages to raise up Christian Heroes for a Testimony to the energy of his eternal Gospel And in particular Blessed be his Name who in our Time and in our Nation hath been pleased to raise up that Great and most Honourable Person the Illustrious GEORGE Duke of ALBEMARLE that Great and most eminent and uniform despiser of Death That Glorious Performer of Heroic Actions Concerning whom I am obliged though very briefly and scantly to speak His Country the source of many Gallant men His Extraction from a generous ancient eminent Family His early Addiction to Arms the School wherein he was trained the degrees by which he ascended His youthful essays His virile Performances both at Sea and Land in Forreign Countrys in England Ireland Scotland All memorable and such as will be great in Story shall not detain you The little which I intend to speak shall take its Epocha from that time when God was pleased to raise him up to be our Deliverer to call him forth and show him openly upon the Theater of the World making him a spectacle to Angels and to men Since this time if we shall well consider him in every Circumstance I conceive I may without flattery or partiality pronounce 1. That a greater Action hath not been performed than that of the Restauration 2. That a greater Person than He concerning whom we are speaking hath not b●●n produced in many Generations And these are the two things which I shall propose to your Observation To enter into the places of Rhetorick and to expatiate in a formal Panegyrick were to violate your patience and offend the manes of him to whom we perform this parentation He was a man Great of Performance little of Speech no lover of wast words or fine composed Orations but a great Affecter of what was short and plain easie and inaffected In compliance with this Character of him I shall briefly and plainly intreat you to consider That for a man to exert an Heroical performance two things are requisite 1. There must be the exercise of Vertue Prudence Fortitude Iustice Temperance and their subordinate vertues in an eminent manner And 2. There must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 something divine and extraordinary An eminent opportunity an Object Arduous and Honourable And a Success that may have in it an evidence of something supernatural Consider how all these Circumstances were combined and constellate in that marvellous work of the Restauration 2. Moreover seeing that Honor est in honor ante and lies in the Apprehension of Spectators who alwaies have one eye on the prosperity as well as an anoth●● 〈◊〉 the merit of a person And who do not give a final Judgment ante obitum supremaque funera Therefore to estimate the greatness of this Person I shall intreat you to consider 2. The perseverance of his vertue 3. The Felicity wherewith it was attended 1. For the Glory of the Restauration The greatest advantage of Honour with God and Man which can befall a Military Person is not to slay his thousands or his millions but to be made a Repairer of the Breaches of his Country and a Restorer of paths to dwell in For this there must be Opportunity if there be no breaches there can be no repairer For this God gave him Opportunity How great alas were the Breaches how gaping how desperate were the Wounds of these sinful miserable Nations Hell had broke loose upon us and Confusion had obtained and held a Dominion of 20 years The Flower of our Nobility Gentry c. cut off by the Sword of the Rebellious How were the mighty fallen I may not stand to make a gradation of our miseries Quanquam animus meminisse horret Yet I must repeat it the King and the Priest the best of Kings a most excellent Prelate fell under the Swords rather under the Axes of an impious Rebellion The Sun was turned into Darkness the Moon into bloud the Stars thrown from their Orbs. Our Religion abolished our Foundations overturned our Laws abrogated The Government of Church and State dissolved the Governours Banished imprisoned murdered Instead of Religion Atheism and Infidelity Fanatick Rage and wild Enthusiasm Instead of Liberty and property the voice of Sequestrations and Plunders Decimations Transportation Imprisonment were heard in the Land Our Kings and our Princes were among the Gentiles the Law was no more the Prophets received no Vision from the Lord. How often did his Majesty attempt a Restitution How often was he disappointed He came to his Own but his Own received him not they said This is the Heir Come let us Kill him and the Inheritance shall be ours God permitted them to fill up the measure of their Iniquities to baffle every attempt for a Restitution He suffered them