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A30445	A sermon preached at the funeral of the most reverend Father in God, John, by the divine providence, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, primate and metropolitan of all England, who died at Lambeth the 22nd day of November, in the 65th year of his age, and was buried at St. Lawrence Jewry, in London, on the 30th of that month, Anno Dom. 1694 by ... Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1694 (1694)	Wing B5902; ESTC R22882	18,942	42

Iames the Second and found in his Closet With an Introduction and some Animadversions by Edward Gee Chaplain to their Majesties 8vo Dr. Patrick now Lord Bishop of Ely his Hearts-Ease or a Remedy against all Troubles with a consolatory Discourse particularly directed to those who have lost their Friends and Relations To which is added two Papers printed in the time of the late Plague The sixth Edition corrected 12mo 1695. Answer to a Book spread abroad by the Romish Priests Intituled The Touch Stone of the Reformed Gospel wherein the true Doctrine of the Church of England and many Texts of the Holy Scripture are faithfully explained 1692. 8vo Nine several occasional Sermons since the Revolution 4to Exposition of the Ten Commandments 8vo A Vindication of their Majesty's Authority to fill the Sees of the deprived Bishops in a Letter occasioned by Dr. B 's refusal of the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells 4to A Discourse concerning the unreasonableness of a new Separation on Account of the Oaths to the present Government With an Answer to the History of Passive Obedience so far as relates to them 4to A Vindication of the said Discourse concerning the Unreasonableness of a New Separation from the Exceptions made against it in a Tract called A brief Answer to the said Discourse c. 4to Geologia Or a Discourse concerning the Earth before the Deluge wherein the Form and Properties ascribed to it in a Book intituled The Theory of the Earth are excepted against and it is made appear That the Dissolution of that Earth was not the cause of the Universal Flood Also a New Explication of that Flood is attempted By Erasmus Warren Rector of Worlington in Suffolk 4to The Present State of Germany By a Person of Quality 8vo Rushworth's Historical Collections The Third Part in two Volumes Containing the Principal Matters which happened from the Meeting of the Parliament Nov. 3. 1640. to the end of the Year 1644. Wherein is a particular Account of the Rise and Progress of the Civil War to that period Fol 1692. A Discourse of the Pastoral Care By Gilbert Burnet D. D. Lord Bishop of Sarum 1692. The Character of Queen Elizabeth Or A full and clear Account of her Policies and the Methods of her Government both in Church and State her Vertues and Defects Together with the Characters of her Principal Ministers of State and the greater part of the Affairs and Events that happened in her time By Edmund Bobun Esq 1693. 8vo The Letters of the Reverend Father Paul Councellor of State to the most Serene Republick of Verice and Author of the Excellent History of the Council of Trent 1693. An Impartial History of the Wars in Ireland In Two Parts From the time that Duke Schomberg landed with an Army in that Kingdom to the 23d of March 1691 2. when their Majesties Proclamation was published declaring the War to be ended Illustrated with Copper Sculptures describing the most important Places of Action By George Story an Eye-witness of the most remarkable Passages 4to 1693. Dr. Iohn Conant's Sermons 1693. 8vo Of the Government of the Thoughts By Geo. Tully Sub-Dean of York 8vo 1694. Origo Legum Or A Treatise of the Origine of Laws and their Obliging Power as also of their great Variety and why some Laws are immutable and some not but may suffer change or cease to be or be suspended or abrogated In Seven Books By George Dawsus Feb. 1694. Four Discourses delivered to the Clergy of the Diocess of Sarum Concerning I. The Truth of the Christian Religion II. The Divinity and Death of Christ. III. The Infallibility and Authority of the Church IV. The Obligations to continue in the Communion of the Church By Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum 8vo 1694. A brief Discourse concerning the Lawfulness of Worshipping God by the Common-Prayer in Answer to a Book intituled A brief Discourse of the Unlawfulness of Common-Prayer-Worship By Iohn Williams D. D. 4to 1694. A true Representation of the absurd and mischievous Principles of the Sect commonly known by the Name of the Muggletonians 4to 1694. Memoirs of the most Reverend THOMAS CRANMER Archbishop of Canterbury Wherein the History of the Church and the Reformation of it during the Primacy of the said Archbishop are greatly illustrated and many singular Matters relating thereunto now first published In Three Books Collected chiefly from Records Registers Authentick Letters and other Original Manuscripts By Iohn Strype M. A. Fol. 1694. A Commentary on the First Book of Moses called Genesis By Simon Lord Bishop of Ely 4to 1695. The History of the Troubles and Tryal of the Most Reverend Father in God WILLIAM LAUD Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Wrote by himself during his Imprisonment in the Tower To which is prefixed the Diary of his own Life faithfully and entirely published from the Original Copy And Subjoined a Supplement to the Preceding History The Archbishop's Last Will His Large Answer to the Lord Say's Speech concerning Liturgies His Annual Accounts of his Province delivered to the King and some other things relating to the History Published by Henry Wharton Chaplain to Archbishop Sancroft and by His 〈◊〉 Command Fol THE BISHOP of SARUM'S ENT-SERMON Before the KING 1694 5. PRINTED By His Majesty's Special Command

to me only but to all that love his appearing The Words of my Text run in Figures taken from the Olympick Games where there were Wrestlings a Race was to be run and all was to be performed according to the Laws of those Games that were esteemed the greatest and noblest Diversions of those Ages Iudges were appointed to declare the Victors and to give them the Prize They were crowned with Garlands and had very extravagant Honours done them Those Exercises being esteemed the best Preparations to Military Glory so that the World thought they could not do enough to encourage them According then to that Stile the Importance of which was at that time well understood St. Paul here comforts himself with this That he had fought a good fight or rather the good fight which he elsewhere calls the good fight of faith He had been bred 1 Tim. 6. 12. up with the Prejudices and sowred with the Passions of the Iews and of the Pharisees in particular but by the mighty Hand of God he was delivered from both and afterwards he preached that Faith which he had formerly persecuted but with another Spirit he studied to gain the Iews with a Spirit of Meekness and Charity he judged favourably of them that they had a zeal of God tho not according 10. Rom. 2. to knowledge he prayed for them and complied with them as far as he could without betraying the Principles and the Liberty of the Christian Religion 1 Cor. 9. 20. and he was willing not only to have died but to have become an Anathema or Execration for 9. Rom. 2 3. them He was indeed reproached and persecuted by them with all possible Injustice and Cruelty yet he was not changed or provoked by all that opposition But tho he became all things to all men yet when the Truth or Honour of the Christian Religion was concerned he gave them not place 2. Gal. 4 5. by subjection he yielded no ground to them no not for an hour He had Enemies of another sort likewise those who endeavoured to corrupt the Christian Religion by the Prophane Mixtures of Paganism and Idolatry For tho he had large Thoughts concerning the Idol Feasts and Meats offered to Idols yet 1 Cor. 8. he could not bear with those that were the Enemies of the Cross of Christ and that were studying to cover themselves from it by those base Compliances with Heathenish Practices His opposing Idolatry had often raised Storms against himself that were like to have proved fatal to him as at Lystra Ephesus and in other places yet he never Acts 14. 19. gave over declaring against it and warning all men to forsake those vanities and to serve the living God He had also many False Brethren to deal with men that envied him that studied to disparage 2 Cor. 10 11. his Person to detract from his Authority and that endeavoured to raise Factions against him but tho he was glad that Christ was preached at what rate 1. Phil. 18. soever even by these spiteful men and tho in meekness he instructed those that opposed themselves yet when occasion required it he asserted the Dignity 1 Cor. 5. of his Character with great Boldness and exerted 1 Tim. 1. 20. it in some severe Acts of Apostolical Jurisdiction With all these different sorts of men he was engaged and among them he fought the good fight He finished his course he run the race that was set before him with patience as he finished it with joy He was a Pattern in all respects both in what he did and in what he suffered in his Personal Deportment as a Christian and in his Labours as an Apostle He durst make his Appeals to all the Churches where he had laboured as well as to God who knew how holily justly and unblameably he had behaved 1 Thes. 2. 10. himself among them He wrought with his own hands 20. Acts 34. to support himself that so his Labours in the Gospel might be the more successful and be liable to 1 Cor. 9. 18. less exception He went about laying himself out wholly in that Work Preaching in season and out of season and as he himself said publickly and from 20. Acts 18 20. house to house yet he was all the while reviled to the degree of being esteemed as the filth and the off-scourings 1 Cor. 4. 13. of the earth and we have a large Catalogue 2 Cor. 6. 11. given us of the Imprisonments Whippings Stonings and other Persecutions through which he past His Body was exhausted with his constant Labours and his Zeal for all the Churches burnt him up inwardly so that without and within his Life was a continued Scene of Labour and Sufferings yet through all this he went undaunted and unshaken and was so unstained in the whole Course of his Ministry that he knew he could with assurance appeal to what his Companions 2 Tim. 3. 10. in Labour had observed of his manner of Life Finally He had kept the faith either his Faith that he had plighted to God when dedicated first by the Vow of Baptism and afterwards separated to the work of the Ministry by the Imposition of hands He had been true to that Faith and to those Vows Or by the faith may be meant the purity of the Christian Doctrine which he had received as a trust from the Lord Jesus and had delivered it faithfully to the Churches as he had received it 1 Cor. 11. 23. Neither corrupting nor suppressing any part of it 20. Acts 27. but declaring to them the whole Counsel of God And though some through weakness and others through 2 Pet 3. 16. malice might have wrested his words yet he had never handled the word of God deceitfully nor of men 2 Cor. 4. 2. sought he glory He was neither ashamed nor afraid 1 Thess. 2. 6. of the Cross of Christ. He asserted the great 1 Cor. 15. Truths of Religion when he saw them struck at with an Authority and Zeal proportioned to the importance of them while in lesser matters he left men to the just freedoms of Human Nature 14 Rom. to be governed by those great measures of Discretion and Charity a care to avoid scandal and to promote Edification and Peace Decency and Order So far I have opened the Importance and Extent of the words of my Text. They carry in them a threefold Character of the Struglings and Difficulties of the Life and Labours and of the Fidelity and sound Doctrine of this great Apostle It was no presumption in him to propose himself as a Pattern to be followed by others as he was a follower 1 Cor. 11. 1. of Christ and he bids them mark such as they saw followed the Example that he set them which was far from claiming any equality with his Master So I hope it will not seem to derogate from the dignity

that considered himself very little was that he perceived in them such serious Designs so true a Zeal and so right a Judgment in all the concerns of Religion and of this Church that he often said he did not think that any Age had produced Princes who understood the true Interests of our Church so well and were so much set on promoting them as Their Majesties were A zeal he observed in them that was so tender and yet so well guided that he did indeed expect greater Blessings from it than so corrupt an Age is either capable of or can well deserve and hope for But God seemed to have a great Work to do and they seemed to be proper Instruments for it This did animate him to cast about and project a great variety of Designs every one of which was always graciously received and well entertained But as this was the greatest so it was almost the single Satisfaction that he enjoyed in his Elevation while he was from other hands assaulted with the most boisterous the most injurious as well as the falsest Calumnies that Malice could invent And yet how false soever these were generally known to be the Confidence with which they were averred joined with the envy that accompanies a high Station had a greater operation than could have been imagined considering how long he had lived on so publick a Scene and how well he was known It seemed a new and an unusual thing that a Man who in a course of above thirty Years had done so much good so many Services to so many Persons without ever once doing an ill Office or a hard thing to any one Person who had a sweetness and gentleness in him that seemed rather to lean to excess should yet meet with so much Unkindness and Injustice But the returns of Impudence and Malice which were made to the Son of God himself and to his Apostles taught him to bear all this with submission to the Will of God praying for those who despitefully used him and upon all occasions doing them good for Evil. Nor had this any other effect on him either to change his Temper or his Maxims tho' perhaps it might sink too much into him with relation to his Health He was so exactly true in all the representations of Things or Persons that he laid before Their Majesties that he neither rais'd the Character of his Friends nor sunk that of those that deserved not so well of him I love not to say Enemies but offer'd every thing to Them with that sincerity that did so well become him that Truth and Candor was almost perceptible in every thing he said or did his Looks and whole Manner seemed to take away all suspicion concerning him For he thought nothing in this World was worth much Art or great Management With all these things he strugled till at last they overcame him or rather he overcame them and escaped from them He has now finished his course An Exemplary one it has been His Life was not only free from blemishes which is but a low size of Commendation it shined in all the Parts of it In his Domestick Relations in his Friendships in the whole commerce of Business he was always a Pattern easie and humble frank and open tender-hearted and bountiful kind and obliging in the greatest as well as in the smallest Matters A decent but grave chearfulness made his Conversation as lively and agreeable as it was useful and instructing He was ever in good Humour always the same both accessible and affable He heard every thing patiently was neither apt to mistake nor to suspect His own great Candour disposing him to put the best Constructions and to judge the most favourably of all Persons and Things He past over many Injuries and was ever ready to forgive the greatest and to do all good Offices even to those who had used himself very ill He was never imperious nor assuming And tho' he had a superiour Judgment to most Men yet he never dictated to others Few Men had observed Humane Nature more carefully could judge better and make larger allowances for the Frailties of Mankind than he did He lived in a due neglect of his Person and contempt of Pleasure but never affected pompous Severities he despised wealth but as it furnished him for Charity in which he was both liberal and udicious Thus his Course in the private Vertues and Capacities of a Christian was of a sublime pitch his Temper had made him incapable of the Practices either of Craft or Violence In his Function he was a constant Preacher and diligent in all the other parts of his Duty for rho ' he had no care of Souls upon him yet few that had laboured so painfully as he did in Visiting the Sick in Comforting the Afflicted and in setling such as were either shaking in their Opinions or troubled in Mind He had a great compass in Learning what he knew he had so perfectly digested that he was truely the Master of it But the Largeness of his Genius and the Correctness of his Judgment carried him much further then the leisure that he had enjoyed for Study seemed to furnish him for he could go a great way upon general hints Thus he lived thus he run and thus he finished his course He kept the faith If Fidelity is meant by this no man made Promises more unwillingly but observed them more Religiously then he did The sacred Vows of his Function were Consciously pursued by him he reckoned himself dedicated to the Service of God and to the doing of Good In this he lived and seemed to live to no other end But if by keeping the faith be to be understood the preserving and handing down the sacred Trust of the Christian Doctrine this he maintained pure and undefiled Even in his younger days when he had a great Liveliness of thought and finess of Imagination he avoided the disturbing the Peace of the Church with particular Opinions or an angry Opposition about more Indifferent or doubtful Matters He lived indeed in great Friendship with men that differed from him He thought the surest way to bring them off from their mistakes was by gaining upon their Hearts and Affections And in an Age of such great Dissolution as this is he judged that the best way to put a stop to growing Impiety was first to establish the Principles of natural Religion and from that to advance to the Proof of the Christian Religion and of the Scriptures which being once solidly done would soon setle all other things Therefore he was in great doubt whither the surest way to perswade the World to the belief of the sublime Truths that are contained in the Scriptures concerning God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and concerning the Person of Christ was to enter much into the discussing of those Mysteries He feared that an indiscreet dwelling and descanting upon those things might do more hurt then good He thought the