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A85863	A sermon preached in the Temple-chappel, at the funeral of the Right Reverend Father in God, Dr. Brounrig late Lord Bishop of Exceter, who died Decem. 7. and was solemnly buried Decemb. 17. in that chappel. With an account of his life and death· / Both dedicated to those honorable societies, by the author Dr. Gauden.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing G371; Thomason E1737_1; ESTC R202119	101,763	287

of this world not to his torment or consumption but to his honor and consummation This chariot and horses are sent for him as those Joseph sent to Jacob to bring him out of a land of famine Gen. 45.27 to a place of plenty Divine Omnipotence oft makes different use and ends of the same methods and things Same death but different fates of good and bad the death and departure of good and bad out of this world may seem and is most what the same as to the visible way and manner but vastly distant as to the last fate and end as the fool that is the wicked dieth saith Solomon so dies the wise that is the holy and good man there Eccles 2.15 16 is one end to them both by sword or plague or famine or sickness or prison or torment the fire of feavors and the fire of fagots consumes martyrs and malefactors Gods witnesses and the devils witches yet it shall be well with the righteous that fear before God Eccles 8.13 Luke 16. ●2 but not with the wicked Lazarus died and Dives died the one on the dunghil the other on his purple and imbroidered bed but the Angels carried Lazarus to Abrahams bosom to a refrigerating fire and the devils attend Dives as a malefactor to hell that is to a scorching and tormenting fire wicked men are swept as dung from the face of the earth by whatever death they die never so placid and pompous Iob 20.7 Mal. 3.17 without any horrors and pangs in their death but good men as Gods Jewels are made up and laid up in his best cabinet be their deaths never so horrid and painful Tares and wheat are both cut up by the same hand but the one to be cast into unquenchable fire Matth. 13.20 the other to be gathered into everlasting Mansions As the terrors of God and afflictions even to death it self in what way soever God orders our glorifying him Rom. 8.28 become blessings and work together for good to those that love God so to wicked men Psal 6● ●2 their table is a snare their prosperity cumulates their misery the blessings they enjoy or rather abuse soure as sweet-meats in summer curses to one death is as the blastings of the breath of Gods anger to consume them the Lord is not in that fire which devours the ungodly save only in his power and vengeance which gives this cup of fire and brimstone to drink Ps 11.6 To the other it is as a gentle breath or sweet refreshing gale when God takes their souls to him as he did Moses's with a kiss as some Rabins interpret that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deut. 34.4 Moses died super os Domini at the word or upon the mouth of the Lord. This way of Gods providence to Eliah The Analogy of Eliah's departure to his life by fiery chariot and horses to take him out of the world to glory is remarkable for two things First The Analogy and proportion the Talio or recompence wherewith God testifies his approbation of Eliah's temper as to that high and heroick zeal which he ever shewed to the glory of God and true Religion he had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 flagrantissimam animam a most flaming soul not to be quenched or damped in Gods cause● he was as a sacred Salamander impatient of any cold or lukewarm or halting or dough-baked constitution in Religion he had not onely wrought miraculous execution of Gods vengeance by fire 2 Kings 1. to chastise the military insolence of some but he had pleaded Gods cause against Baal and his Priests by fire which came down from heaven and decided the controversie whether the Lord or Baal was God a fire not to be obstructed 1 Kings 18.17 damped or quenched by all the effusion of water upon the Sacrifice and Altar giving hereby a reflexive character and commendation of the magisterial and irresistible and unquenchable zeal wherewith Eliah carried on the interests of God and Religion against all the terrors and threats of Ahab and Jezebel also against the ingrateful levities and Apostacies of the people of Israel many times God suits mens deaths to their lives and tempers as he did this milde but majestick Bishops such as are of meek and calme spirits oft die without any great pain sometimes without any yea I have been very credibly informed of one Mr. Lancaster a very milde grave and worthy Minister who died about twenty years past that there was so loud and sweet a consort of musick heard by him and those about him for above half an hour before he died that the good man owned it as a signal token of Gods indulgence to him thus to send for him and to sweeten his death by so heavenly an harmony with the close of which he gave up the ghost On the other side men of high choler of unmortified and unsanctified passions do not only give themselves much trouble in life but many times their deaths are full of no less terror than torment especially if they die in their vigor or before time and infirmity had much mortified and emaciated their natural strength and temper Secondly The honor done Eliah by this fiery convoy The manner of Eliah's departure by chariot and horses of fire was a notable instance of the great value and honor which God would set upon him as his Prophet of whom the world was not worthy and yet it thought him not worthy to live 1 Kings 18 18 Ahab the King hates him as a publick enemy and troubler of Israel Jezebel the Queen abhors him a woman implacably desperate the Court Parasites are all generally to the same tune except good Obadiah the common people as always are pleased with any liberty that lets them plough and sow buy and sell novelty and apostacy hating all men that are out of favour persecuted and unprosperous though never so pious On all sides good Eliah is driven to fly into wildernesses to prefer wilde beasts before vile men Quorum societas omni solitudine tristior whose society was more sad than any solitude yet this poor yet precious man 1 Kings 19.4 who was even weary of life and petitioned to dye out of a despondency of minde in desperate times God not onely sets miraculous marks of his favour upon him by frequent intercourse of Angels to him and by working wonders by him and for him while he lives thus persecuted and despised of men but he must not die an ordinary death either with that squallor pallor or pain which usually attends the sordidness of sickness and those languishings with which the souls of poor mortals usually take their leave of their bodies as prisoners do of their sad and nasty prison no such an extaordinary pomp and honor must be had at his vale and departure as shall declare him to all ages a man as high in Gods favour as Solomon was in Davids 1 K●ngs 1.33

were not likely to have made a Liturgy of straw and stubble 2. For its excellent matter which is divine sound and holy besides its method which is prudent and good 3. For the very great good he saw it did as to all sober Christians so to the common sort of plain people who what ever other provision they had of their Ministers private abilities yet they were sure every Lords Day at least to have a wholesom and compleat form not only of Prayers but of all other necessaries to salvavation set before them for faith holy life and devotion in the Creeds Commandments Lords Prayer with Confessions and Supplications admirably linked together and fitted to the meanest capacities the want of which he saw was not supplied by any Ministers private way of praying or preaching which in very deed are but small pittances of piety or fragments compared to the latitude of religious fundamentals and varieties contained in the Liturgie the want of which he judged would induce a great ignorance as he saw and said to me a little before his death it had done already among the ordinary sort of people in Countrey and City whose souls are as precious to God as others of greater parts and capacities whose appetites were not to be flattered and deceived with novelties but fitted and fed with wonted solidities by which they would thrive look better as by the use of plain and repeated food which is as their daily bread than those that delight in greater varieties and dainties which may seem more toothsom to wanton palates but are not more wholesom or nourishing to honest hearts who are commonly less licorous in Religion and best content with what is best for them § Not that he was such a Formalist Verbalist and Sententiolist as could not endure any alteration of words or phrases or method or manner of expressions in the Liturgie to which either change of times or of language or things may invite he well knew there had been variety of Liturgies in Churches and variations in the same Church he made very much but not too much of the English Liturgie not as the Scriptures unalterable but yet he judged that all alterations in such publick and settled concerns of Religion ought to be done by the publick spirit counsel and consent of the Prophets Prince and People However this was a concluded Maxim with him That the solemnity and sacredness of consecrating those Christian mysteries of the blessed Sacraments were not to be adventured upon Ministers private abilities tenuities or distempers but by a publick and uniform spirit among Preachers and people all should say Amen to the same Prayers and receive the same mysteries under one form of consecration in which nothing should be defective or superfluous § His personal and occasional abilities for prayer were answerable to his other gifts and graces both for matter method utterance discretion and devotion full fervent and pathetick upon his own and others spirits not coldly formal and stark nor yet wildly rambling loose and broken but judicious apt grave and of so moderate an extent as suited the weight of the occasion the capacity of the auditors and the intensiveness of his own heart his prayers were not the labor and product only of lips lungs and tongue but of his spirit and understanding he minded not the glory but grace of prayer As to the Government of the Church by Episcopal Presidency His judgment of Church government by Episcopacy to which Prince and Presbyters agree he was too learned a man to doubt and too honest to deny the universal custom and practice of the Church of Christ in all ages and places for Fifteen hundred years according to the pattern at least received from the Apostles who without doubt followed as they best knew the mind of Christ This Catholick prescription he he thought so sacred that as it did sufficiently prejudge all novel presumptions so nothing but importune and grand necessities put upon any Church could excuse much less justifie the cutting off those pipes or the turning of that primitive and perpetual course of Ecclesiastical Ordination subordination and Government into another channel Nor did he understand the method of those new Vitruviusses who would seem Master-builders though they are yet but destroyers when they affect to have all timber and stones in the Churches building of the same shape size and bigness when the Church of Christ is compared to a body which hath members of different forms use and honor 1 Cor. 12. § Yet this worthy man had nothing of secular pomp or vain ambition in his thoughts meerly to bear up or bolster out a formal and titular Episcopacy with Goats hair like Michols image No he exacted worth and work And where true Bishops did the duties and good works belonging to the principal Pastors of the flock he thought they deserved double honor as Fathers and Governors among good Christians both of revenue and reverence § Yet he did not judge the principal dignity or authority of Episcopacy to depend upon its Secular advantages but on its Ecclesiastical custom and Apostolick institution and however no man was more ready to condescend to any external diminutions and comely moderations that might stand with a good conscience and prudence as tending to the peace and unity of the Church yet no man was more firm resolute and immovable from gratifying any Sacrilegious Projectors or proud Factionists or peevish Novellers to the reproach of the Church of England yea and of the Catholick Church in all the world which had its Bishops every where before it had its Bible or its Scriptures compleated In the matter of Episcopacy he differed little from Bishop Vshers moddel of the ancient Synodical Government only he thought the petulancy of mens spirit in these times beyond the primitive simplicity did require all prudent advantages of Order and authority which might consist with piety and true policy as antidotes ought to be heightned to the measure of the poison they are to encounter § He approved not a leveling party among Ministers Only he could never be induced so far to forsake the principle of all Reason Order and Government in humane societies or to disown the remarkable differences which God and Nature age and education experience and studies industry and grace did make between Ministers no less than other men as to think that neither work nor rewards of honor and estate may be proportioned to their different worths but that the youngest Schollar yea the meanest Schoolmaster if they can but now and then appear in a Pulpit and take Orders as they best fancy shall presently in all things of publick honor and Ecclesiastick authority run parallel to the greatest Schollars and gravest Divines so that either a beardless and juvenile petulancy or more aged but empty gravity shall in all points be level and justle with the most venerable worth and accomplished learning of those that are capable to