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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59884	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Richard Meggot D.D. and late Dean of Winchester, Decemb. 10th, 1692 at Twickenham by William Sherlock ...	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1693 (1693)	Wing S3355; ESTC R11116	9,300	33

between his two Cures which did not lessen his Preaching but made the Benefit of it the more diffusive For indeed he was an admirable Preacher not for Noise and Lungs but for well digested useful pious Discourses delivered with all that becoming Gravity Seriousness and a commanding Elocution as made them sink deep into the Minds of his Hearers and made them hear This I speak with Assurance and Confidence in this place which was so long blessed with his Labours with what fineness of Thought perspicuity and easiness of Expression instructing and entertaining Images of Things he expounded the Doctrines and inculcated the Laws of our Saviour how plainly he Taught with what Vehemence and Passion he Exhorted with what tender Sharpness he Reproved remember how he used both to Please and Instruct to Chide and Shame you without making you angry how he has warmed and chaffed your Minds into the most pious and serious Resolutions and sent you home from this place wiser and better then you came and if you grew cold and suffered your good Resolutions to die again consider I beseech you what Account you have to give As he grew in Years it was necessary by degrees to ease his Labours he could not Preach so often but yet continued to Preach And yet had he not Preached at all or much less then he did he had not ceased to be a very useful Pastor to the Church for he was a Man of great Experience and great Prudence and Fore-sight fit for Government and Counsel who knew Men and Things was dexterous in his Applications zealous without Passion or Peevishness steady and resolved without violent Oppositions and needless Provocations who served the Church and the Truth with little Noise and without making many Enemies And I am sure at such a time as this there is more need of such Men and a much greater scarcity of them than of good Preachers But he was not only a good Preacher and a prudent Guide but a very good Man he Preached continually by his Life and Example his Conversation was Innocent Entertaining and Useful he was a true sincere Friend very Courteous Affable Civil to all Men but never pretend Friendship where he had none he was ready to do all good Offices was Liberal Generous and Charitable a Man of a true publick Spirit who scorned to serve himself to the Injury of others who hated little Arts and Tricks mean and servile Compliances he was an open and generous Enemy if we may ever call him an Enemy who never wished never intended any hurt to any Man but my meaning is that when any Dispute and Quarrel happened as such things will sometimes happen he was open and undisguised any Man might know what he disliked and had no reason to fear any thing worse from him than what he would tell them In a Word he was a very good Christian and that made him good in all Relations and that Crowned all his other Labours he took care as St. Paul did Lest while he preached to others he himself should become a cast-away And now he is gone to rest and we must all shortly follow him God grant that we may all so run our Race and finish our Course that when we depart this Life we may rest in Him as our hope in this our Brother doth and may receive that Crown of Righteousness which God the Righteous Judge will at that Day bestow on all his faithful Servants and on all those who love his Appearing FINIS Books Published by the Reverend Dr. Sherlock Dean of St. Pauls Master of the Temple and Chaplain in Ordinary to Their Majesties AN Answer to a Discourse entituled Papists protesting against Protestant Popery Second Edition 4to An Answer to the Amicable Accommodation of the Differences between the Representer and Answerer 4to A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of the Reverend B. Calamy D. D. 4to A Vindication of some Protestant Principles of Church-Unity and Catholick-Communion from the Charge of Agreement with the Church of Rome 4to A Preservative against Popery being some plain Directions to unlearned Protestants how to dispute with Romish Priests In Two Parts with the Vindication in Answer to the Cavils of Lewis Sabran Jesuit 4to A Discourse concerning the Nature Unity and Communion of the Catholick Church First Part. 4to A Sermon Preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London on Sunday Nov. 4th 1688. 4to A Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and Ever Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation of the Son of God c. The Second Edition 4to The Case of the Allegiance due to Soveraign Powers stated and resolved according to Scripture Reason and the Principles of the Church of England Sixth Edition 4to A Vindication of the Case of Allegiance due to Soveraign Powers c. 4to A Sermon Preach'd at White-Hall before the Queen on the 17th of June 1691. being the Fast-Day 4to A Practical Discourse concerning Death The Fifth Edition 8vo A Practical Discourse concerning a Future Judgment Third Edition 8vo A Sermon Preached before the Honourable House of Commons at St. Margarets Westminster January 30th 1691 92 4to A Sermon Preached before the Queen at Whitehall Febr. 12th 1691 92. 4to The Charity of Lending without Usury and the true Notion of Usury stated in a Sermon Preach'd before the Right Hounourable the Lord Mayor at St. Bridget's Church on Tuesday in Easter-week 1692. 4to A Sermon Preach'd at the Temple-Church May 29. 1692. and Printed at the Desire of the Bench-Table of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple 4to A Sermon Preached before the Queen at White-Hall June 26th 1692. 4to Printed for W. Rogers