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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43776	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable Robert Earl and Viscount Yarmouth, Baron of Paston and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk by John Hildeyard.	Hildeyard, John, b. 1662 or 3.	1683 (1683)	Wing H1982; ESTC R28072	19,112	41

and dying Persons and he the well and sound He received with great desire the Absolution of the Church from the mouth of the Minister who sate up all night with him and some few hours after About eight a Clock in the morning fetching one single Sob he died and sweetly reposed himself in the Bosom of the Blessed Jesus He died a Good Christian as he had lived like a Gentleman his own wish and often repeated Expression He died a True and Loyal Protestant a sound Member of the Church of England he departed in her Faith which they of Rome call Heresie and they of Geneva Popery His Death was such as Augustus used to wish for himself an Euthanasia a Civil Easie and Well-Natur'd Death Thus was he taken from our Eyes in the same manner the Jews say Moses was by a Kiss of Gods Mouth A Death indeed but Gentle and Serene without Trouble and Amazement without Impatience and Temptation And in the very Point of Death he seemed to taste of the Sweet of Eternal Peace that Happy Rest of the Life Above where he sits among them That are about the Throne clothed in White with a Crown of Gold upon his Head And let it be our Care so to live that every one of us may have a Place within the Rounds there to sing Eternal Halelujahs to him that siteth upon the Throne To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost Three Persons and One God be all Blessing and Honour and Power and Glory for Ever and Ever Amen Glory be to God on High POSTSCRIPT READER IT not being in may Power to keep this Sermon any longer from going abroad I thought good to Advertise Thee now thou hast perused it that there is nothing omitted nor added to what was said in the Pulpit But having there not said all that was in my Papers I present thee with this Postscript to shew thee That the Five Corporations in the County of Norfolk as earnestly strove to have a Share in this most Noble Peer as those Cities intimated in the Sermon did to have a Right to the Birth of Homer Thetford The First that called him Hers was Thetford who chose him her Representative in that Happy Convention that brought in his Gracious Majesty whose Reign God grant may be Long and Prosperous out of his almost Twenty Years Exile where this Honourable Lord then Sir Robert Paston offered up his First Fruits of Loyalty in putting it to Vote as I am credibly informed What Day should be set for his Sacred Majesties Restauration His Majesty being set upon the Throne our Noble Earl served in the succeeding Parliament for Rising Rising where as the Sermon tells thee he put the Vote for two Millions and an half For which he was celebrated in a Peotical Pamphlet under the Character of Maximillian Paston The Honourable House of Commons having that Bill sent it up by him to the House of Lords at whose Bar he presented it to His Majesties own Hand and that Night received Thanks for it from the Kings own Mouth Not many Years since he made a Visit to Kings-Linne Kings Linne where he was welcomed with a most extraordinary Reception and Magnificent Feast and upon their Invitation given him he honoured that Loyal Town with taking up his Freedom amongst them Yarmouth enjoyed him several Years their Lord High Steward and gave him when admitted Yarmouth a Reception answerable to that Character and made him a very Noble Present Norwich was as near in Service and Affection to his Person as it stands in Situation to his House Norwich took all Occasions of manifesting their High Esteem of him always gave him a Welcom in a Body when he came into the County Four times chose his Eldest Son William Lord Paston now Earl of Yarmouth their Burgess in Parliament and at last Vnanimously resigned their Charter to their Most Gracious Soveraign by the Hands of this Noble Lord and his Son Whose Affections are as great to that City as his Fathers were And in Memory of their many Obligations to his Father and himself is pleased to own himself their present Recorder It were but just here to tell thee with what Courage this Young Gentleman in all those Parliaments opposed the then growing Faction who as it now appears had then contrived a most Bloody Conspiracy against the Sacred Life of our King and his Royal Brother together with all that dar'd when they were in the height of their Ruff appear to be Loyal But being to give the Just Praise of the Dead I shall only tell thee that the whole County of Norfolk shewed at once the Value and Honour they had for this our deceased Lord when in their Address from Thetford Assizes 1682. to his most Sacred Majesty to Congratulate his Royal Highness the Duke of York's Return to Court the whole Body of the Gentry subscribed their Thanks for setting this Lord in Lieutenancy over them owning the Happiness of the County to the Prudent Management of this their Loyal Lord Lieutenant Thus died our Noble Earl upon the 8th of March 1682. who was born upon the 29th of May. 1631. As if Nature had eminently designed him to follow his Soveraign in all Future Services Whose Birth was on the same Day in the Year preceeding He lived most Beloved of all and died by all most Lamented and with great Appearance and Concourse of all Degrees of Men was Honourably Interred at Oxnead WHERE GOD GIVE HIM A JOYFUL RESURRECTION FINIS ERRATA Page 27. line 3. for enclined read enlivened The same Page line 4. for real read zeal

I must say he spared no Cost no Pains as themselves can witness to make the World believe that he loved them Most of the Tables in his House have been often spread together for their entertainment and all his Friends employed to bid them welcome Nay his very Sleep to my knowledge was often broke to find out ways how best to serve them And he commended the Care of the City with his last Breath to all his best Friends and the Blessing of God who takes care for their Reputations as for their Lives and by the Orders of his Providence confutes the Slanderer that the Actions of the Just may be had in Everlasting Remembrance Therefore the Mouths of Slanderers stopt the Memory of our Lord shall be Embalmed in Honour And so I am methodically almost at unawares brought to my last General his Piety He was great in the Favour of God great was he in his Piety Piety Such was his Piety that he always whatsoever Business happened opened and shut the Day with the same Key of Prayer in private unto God and seldom mist whatever Company he had Publick Service in his Chappel where without regard to his Ease of Body or greatness of Quality I never saw him otherwise than Kneeling at Prayers and Standing at Hymns well knowing that the first resembles our Fall with Adam and must be humble the other puts us in mind of our Rise with Christ and so must be a Posture of Praise and Thankfulness And what in this profane Age wherein Men generally neglect it or if not only take it to qualifie themselves for some Place or Preferment will hardly be believed yet can be proved by many Witnesses What great strictness he did use what holy Preparation he did make when Sacrament days came and to him they never came too often He always sequestred himself from all Business and Company a day before at the least And these were his own words That he feared that Act of Parliament which designed so much good would in time take away the Reverence due to that Holy Ordinance and make it a formal thing only to be done of Course But it was not so with him for as my instructions tell me he received this Holy Communion as his Viaticum just before his Passover not long before his death with as much Comfort as Devotion Had I not Been too long already I would branch his Piety into as many Particulars as I did his Worth But why should I mention the Parish Church at Oxnead where he lived which he adorned and beautified Why should I speak of the Chappel in the House which he built and consecrated to the Service of God Why should I mind you of that Rich and Noble Plate he furnished God's Altar with were I silent they should remain as Jacobs Pillars lasting Monuments of his Piety and to the Generations yet to come the Stones out of the Walls shall speak his Praise as the Noble Fabrick of the Free School in North-walsham plentifully endowed doth to this And the weekly Lecture maintained there by the Bounty of his Ancestors hath transmitted the Honour of their Piety down to us Let the Tongues of the Poor the Relief of the Widdow the Succour he gave the Fatherless the Clothing of the Naked speak his Charity Indeed he was made up of Pity and Tender-heartedness of Christian Kindness and Compassion As to that Charity which implies Forgiveness of Injuries he was most Eminent Injuries and Vnkindnesses at present made deep Impressions gave sudden wounds to his tender Heart where all things were so contrary but upon his recollecting of himself whether they were by mistake or out of Malice it was the same thing or the same nothing in his Account or Memory I told you how Tenacious his Memory was but if it were to lay up an ill turn it took no hold but let that slip into Forgetfulness After some as I intimated had set to work all their Engines and like the Roman Retiaries spread their Nets to entangle him whom otherwise they could not destroy He often protested to me Though he feared not their Contrivances yet he heartily forgave the Contrives And when I saw him last he repeated the Saving with this Addition So far he forgave them that he had forgot the Particulars And at his very Hour of Death it seems declared He was in perfect Peace and Love with all the World and so was ready to resign his Soul to God that gave it his Life to God who had preserved it with particular Marks of Favour and Providence None of the least whereof was that wonderful Rescue which was effected for him by no less than a Divine Hand when on the ninth day of August about eight years ago a knot of Villains beset him in the Night shot five Bullets through the Coach and one into his Body but proved not Mortal For which Deliverance he kept an Anniversary Thanksgiving upon that day unto his death and now keeps a Jubile with his Deliverer for evermore But you 'l ask Had this good Lord no Faults was he all Vertue all Sweetness all Goodness I answer He had Infirmities he was no Angel yet let not that Customary Sin contracted in his younger time of Swearing be his Reproach for he hath often bewailed it and with abundance of Tears in his Sickness about four years since lamented it in himself and ever since utterly abhorred it in all others I have seen him shake his Head sit Uneasie and at last withdraw when he hath heard some Young men extravagantly imbellish or rather imboss their Discourse like a Face with Carbunkles with wicked and unprofitable Oaths He did it more than once when last amongst us He had his Failings and indeed were it not for some Grains of allowance given in what Pieces could there be weight in none of Mortality surely but they are impure Flies that feed upon other Mens Sores and they have too much Corruption in themselves that love to hear of the Corruption of others His Faults Frailties Sins and Infirmities so much by him bewailed and through his True Repentance buried in the Grave of Christ in whom was his Strength and Hope his Faith and Salvation I doubt not but your Christian Charity will think fit to bury with him in a deeper Grave the Grave of Oblivion whilst his Vertues shall live and flourish and find a perpetual Monument in every one of your Hearts And here now I bespeak my Excuse for not insisting much upon the great Affections he bore unto all his Relations None understood Relations more non observed them better I left it to the last because my Instructions tell me after he commended his Soul to God in the Church her Prayers which during his whole Sickness he devoutly heard twice in his Chamber every day he gave Counsel and administred Comfort to them about him his dear Consort his beloved Children his respected Servants as if they had been the sick