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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51442	A narrative panegyrical of the life, sickness, and death, of George ... Lord Bishop of Derry in Ireland as it was delivered at his funerals in the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity (commonly called Christ Church) in Dublin on Friday the 12th of January, Anno Domini 1665/6 / by R. Mossom ...	Mossom, Robert, d. 1679.	1666 (1666)	Wing M2864_VARIANT; ESTC R14435	6,183	19

A NARRATIVE Panegyrical Of the Life Sickness and Death OF GEORGE By Divine Providence Lord Bishop of DERRY IN IRELAND As it was delivered at his Funerals in the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity commonly called Christ Church in Dublin on Friday the 12th of January Anno Domini 1665 6. By R. Mossom D. D. and Dean of the said Cathedral Church London Printed by Tho. Newcomb and are to be sold by Timothy Garthwait at the Kings Head in St. Pauls Church-yard 1665 6. A Narrative Panegyrical of the Life Sickness and Death of George Lord Bishop of Derry who departed this life at Dublin on Friday the 29th day of December Anno Dom. 1666 5. Men Brethren and Fathers IN Conformity to the ancient practice of the Primitive Saints and the continued Custom of Christs Church we are here met in this present Congregation to perform the Funeral Rights due to the Body and the Memory of the Right Reverend Father in God George by Divine Providence Lord Bishop of Derry lately deceased A Bishop he was by Divine Ordination Lord Bishop by Royal Commission This our Elisha's double Mantle of Honor so well consistent are these two A Lord Spiritual and the Spirit of the Lord which Spirit of the Lord may make the Honor immortal and yet not the Person For that whereas Men of high Dignity either in Church or State are for their Light and Influence aptly called Stars I may say of the Right Reverend Personage whose Funerals we celebrate I may say of him in a better sense then Lipsius did of Origen Stella utinam non caduca A Star he was I wish he had not been a falling one But why should I thus wish seeing he is advanced by his fall for in an happy exchange of Mortality for Glory this Star is become sixt fixt in the Firmament of Heaven the Society of the Blessed leaving behinde him on Earth the character of O 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for that he was a Blessed Assertor of Loyalty a Blessed Champion of the Faith a Blessed Patron of the Poor a Blessed Father of the Church and therefore now a Blessed Saint in Heaven The memory of whose name shall be venerable to all Posterity in the Annals of the Churches Worthies Waving what might be said of his ingenuous Education his Academical Degrees and those esteems in Oxford which brought him to Lambeth Made Domestick Chaplain to the then Lord Archbishop of Canterbury lately Martyred of whom in the Church and in the Tower he had a President suitable to his Principles of being actively zealous and patiently resolute in the Kings Cause and in the Churches Service Waving all these I begin my Commemorations of him where I first began mine Acquaintance with him and that was not long after the Death of Charles the First King and Martyr Our first meeting was in the Fiery Furnace of the Churches Persecutions and of those things I may speak the more knowingly Quorum magna pars fui as having then a great share with him in those Sufferings though indeed such was the Power of Divine Providence restraining the fury of those Flames that they scorched not his Garments nor an Hair of his Head perished notwithstanding he stood in the face of the then prevailing Factions and was daily threatned with Surprize and Imprisonment For some years he hovered like Noahs Dove over the Waters of Confusion sometimes Preaching in the Countrey and sometimes in the City sometimes in private and sometimes in publick as he found opportunity offered to promote Piety and perswade Loyalty At length Divine Providence receives the Dove into the Ark an House is provided near Fleetstreet in London and in the House an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an upper Room is prepared after the manner of Primitive Devotion which upper Room becomes an Oratory fitted for the Preaching of the Word and Administring the Sacraments with a constant use of the Publick Liturgy of the Church And here I cannot but recount with joy amidst all this Funeral Sorrow what were then the holy ardors of all fervent Devotions in Fastings and Prayer and Solemn Humiliations Ay in Festival and Sacramental Solemnities O the lift-up praying and yet sometimes down-cast weeping eyes of humble Penitents O the often extended and yet as often enfolded arms of suppliant Votaries Upon days of Solemnity O how early and how eager were the Peoples devotions that certainly then if ever the Kingdom of Heaven suffered Violence so many with Jacob wrestling with God in Prayer not letting him go till he gave them a Blessing and no Blessing would answer the importunity of all these but that Soveraign Blessing of these Kingdoms and Churches a King restored to His Throne and that King Charles the Second restoring with His Throne both Churches and Kingdoms And now the Shepherd which kept this Flock even in the midst of Wolves that Priest that then served at the Altar amidst all the variety of State Confusions Instructing Supporting and Encouraging by Precept by Pattern and by Prayer it was Dr. George Wilde afterwards by Divine Providence Lord Bishop of Derry the Personage deceased And whereas some good Obadiahs did then hide and feed the Lords Prophets it was his care to communicate to others relief what himself received for his own support Many Ministers Sequestred many Widows Afflicted many Royalists Imprisoned and almost Famished can testifie the diffusive bounty of his hand dispensing to others in reliefs of Chariry what himself received of others in Offerings of Devotion Notwithstanding that Wing of Providence which was over him for his protection yet did he sometime suffer Surprize and Imprisonment but Nubecula fuit cito transivit it was a small cloud and soon passed over and if at any time the Persecution was so hotly pursued that his mouth for a while was stopt yet even then as Maldonat says of John Baptist that Miraculum non fecit magnum fuit John indeed did no miracle yet was he himself a great Miracle so may I say of this then Loyal Doctor Concionem non fecit magna fuit when he Preached no Sermon yet was he himself in the pattern of Patience and Piety a good Sermon After this when His Majesties safe Return the Universal joy of these three Kingdoms did at once open the Subjects hearts and the Churches doors to Loyalty and the Liturgy together then did the deceased leave his private Oratory in exchange for the publick Temple And sure I am such was the strength of his merit and interest as could undoubtedly have procured him preferment in England equal to that he had in Ireland Yet this I know when he had in his deliberate choice whether to accept of the Bishoprick of Derry or some other of equal Dignity that which would have been the Argument of anothers refusal was the very reason of his choice even the difficulty of the service as zealously intending what might promote not so much his Dignity as Gods glory not so much his