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A47043 A sermon at the funeral of James Margetson, D.D. late Arch-Bishop of Armagh, and Primate of all Ireland preached at Christ Church, Dublin, Aug. 30, 1678 / by the R.R. Father in God, Henry, Lord Bishop of Meath ; whereunto is added a funeral oration on that occasion, in the name of the University of Dublin, at the herse of him their Vice Chancellor. Jones, Henry, 1605-1682. 1679 (1679) Wing J947; ESTC R2425 32,409 51

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God for so hath he no Superior so is he not substituted and so not receiving from any but having in himself all power originally Not therefore as God 2. But as Man is this understood of Christ as he is the Son this day begotten so is this by the Father given him that he have the Heathen for his Inheritance And to the Son hath the Father committed Judgment because or as he is the Son of man and he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the World in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained Thus as man is Christ in this considered 3. Yet not simply as man for no man no more than man were capable of that Rule The first man Adams Dominion although large Thou hast put all things under him yet was that limited to the lower creatures not reaching to Angels which were above him he being made a little lower than the Angels but there was to be a man indeed more than man a second Adam Christ whose Dominion was in that enlarged and that Limitation in the other withdrawn For repeating that to Adam thou hast put all things under his feet to which there was before an Exception it is now thence thus argued as to Christ in that he hath put all things in subjection under him he left nothing that is not put under him no not Angels Christ being set at Gods right hand far above all principality and power and might and dominion Angels and Authorities and Powers being made subject unto him This Kingdom therefore thus given unto Christ is understood of him as the Mediator God and Man as God he hath that power in himself originally as man he receiveth it and as that man who is God he exerciseth it Christ therefore the Mediator God and man is the King and this his Kingdom that of his Mediatorship Thus hath been shewed what this Christs Kingdom is and how he is in that considered II. See next his work in that Reigning and Subduing these respecting his Subjects and those as Good and Bad. 1. As to his good Subjects over them and in them is his Kingdom in righteousness and peace and joy in the holy Ghost He calling them by his word and Spirit and ordering gathering and perfecting them by Grace for Glory 2. But as to Enemies and rebel Subjects these doth he tread under his feet these are Satan Sin the World and Death Of these the last only Death is here named that answering the Resurrection here principally intended this also being the last of Enemies For when all other cease and have no more that they can do Death still holds In Death Satans power over the Godly ceaseth and he that is dead is freed from sin And as to the World the utmost that this can do is to kill the Body and after that hath no more that it can do But death after all holds and that until the Resurrection which being an hindrance so far to Gods Kingdom it is therefore esteemed and reckoned in the number of Enemies although to those who are Gods many ways happy and being an enemy it shall be destroyed and the last of those which shall be destroyed As to these Enemies being destroyed 1. By Christ our King are they already in himself overcome and having spoiled Principalities and Powers he made shew of them openly triumphing over them in it his Cross and in himself 2. All these are by Christ meritoriously vanquished for us 3. And in us also is here power through Christ by Sanctification yet but gradually and imperfectly over Sin it not reigning so in us as formerly and over Satan also have we our victory by Christ He the Prince of Peace bruising Satan under our feet and over the World our great Enemy is our victory by Faith in Christ And even Death although terrible yet is it not so to Gods Children over which we can in Christ insult triumphantly 4. In our Souls also separated in death have we our victory over all these our enemies only what then yet remains of Deaths dominion as to the body for a time in the Grave 5. But in that great day of the general Resurrection shall the last enemy Death be destroyed the Soul returning and the body quickned and both joyned to live for ever in Glory Thus of Christs Kingdom and the work of it that taking up this world to the Resurrection he shall reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet II. See now the state of the Church after the Resurrection and thenceforth to Eternity This is here expressed by 1. Christs then delivering up the Kingdom to the Father 2. The Son himself then subject to him who hath put all things under him 3. And God then All in All. I. Christ then delivering up the Kingdom to the Father Obj. This with what is also said of Christs reigning till he haih put all enemies under his feet may seem to limit his Kingdom and his Reign to one certain work and to a certain time as if that work being done and that day or time over then and thenceforth were his Kingdom to cease and determine which were contrary to that said of his Kingdom never ending Res For clearing this the Kingdom of Christs Mediatorship so here considered is two fold 1. His Kingdom of Grace 2. His Kingdom of Glory These answer the double state of the Church Christs Kingdom as here and hereafter now Militant after Triumphant To the Church here on Earth militant answers that called Christs Kingdom of Grace to his Church Triumphant in Heaven answers his Kingdom of Glory I. As to his Kingdom of Glory that shall never end so shall he reign for ever and ever This is the voice from heaven and how can that Christs Kingdom end when ours with him shall never end II. It remains then that this be considered as to this Kingdom of Grace Under this is the state of the Church here Militant this is only for this world and with the world shall this end Grace makes way for Glory and gives way to Glory and shall end in Glory of this Kingdom of Christ is to be understood this his delivering up the Kingdom to the Father And how is that 1. This Christs delivering up the Kingdom to the Father is answerable to the end for which that Kingdom was by the Father to him his Son committed That was to order it and to establish it to order it as to his good Subjects and to establish it as to his Enemies the Rebellious As if a King should send his Son with power to reduce Rebels risen up against him which being done those enemies subdued and all ordered and settled in peace then he returns and delivers up the Kingdom to his Father free from all disturbances every thing being cast out of his Kingdom that did offend the Father then taking to himself his
second in his happy return were all those mists soon scattered for which the year 1660 may be ever reckoned happy then was the face of all things in Church and State changed gloriously his Majesty returning to his people and to the Throne of his Royal Ancestors Then were our Judges restored as at first and our Counsellors as at the beginning A description of happy times then was the Church out of Confusion and deformity thereby returned to her former Beauty and Order and then were the breaches in Gods House repaired its scattered Members recalled and fit persons sought out for supplying and filling up those vacancies which the wickedness of those dismal times had occasioned Among those was this pious Person sought found and brought forth and by his sacred Majesty returned into Ireland Where An. 1660 he was appointed to sit as Archbishop in the Metropolitical Chair of this Province of Dublin After an 1663 on the decease of that learned and worthy Prelat Primate Bramhall he was removed and promoted to the Archbishoprick of Armagh and Primacy of all Ireland In which succession he was numbred by common Computation the 97th but otherwise the 102 from St. Patrick justly accompted the Apostle of Ireland as to its general conversion Nor did his Honors there stop but those were after followed with what he accompted justly an addition to the greatest His being also chosen Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dublin This he held to his last whose deserved praises in that and in all hath been elegantly celebrated in that learned speech in name of that University at the Hearse of him their late Vice-Chancellor to which I refer Nor can I neither must I pass lightly over this now mentioned Colledge and University of Dublin whom I have the honour to own my Mother An honour is this place to this City and Kingdom this house having sent out persons considerable in their several capacities Hence have proceeded some sitting at the Helm in the chiefest places of Government and State Some being for Seats of Judicature and others for military Conduct at home and abroad eminent And for the Church this one house hath yielded more than fifty Bishops and Archbishops not to speak of lower dignities who were also of excellent parts and to be remembred and this within the space of 85 years since 1593. the year of this Colledge being first planted the like if I mistake not not being found in the Register of any one House in the adjoyning famous Universities taking in all their time together some claiming more then 800 years Antiquity Among whom let our famous and Learned Primate Usher be before all remembred He was the first Scholar that lodged in that House and that was there entred he was the first Graduat that thence proceeded the first Fellow first Proctor and first Divinity-Professor of its own Stock And was after Vicechancellor more than 40 Years to his Death And let this House and City also partake of his Honours and be in him honoured It is accompted an Honour to a Place its having to boast of some eminent Person or Persons thence descended Of Zion it shall be said that this or that Man was born in her in this City was this man Born and in this Colledge bred and here only Strangers speak of him abroad as an Honour to his Country and to the Church and to the World also So Spanhemius Gerardus Vossius Bochartus and Simplicius Morus Paulus Testardus Blessonsis Arenoldus Boetius c. And at home our learned Prideaux Davenant Sr. Roger Twisden Sr. Henry Spelman Mr. Selden and others And even among those of the adverse party although principled generally against speaking well of those in profession contrary yet are some found even of them admirers of him I mention only Henry fitz-Simons a learned Jesuit who Anno 1599 being a prisoner in the Castle of Dublin he being there as a Bear tied to a Stake and wanting some to bait him they are his own words he then challenged any of the Protestants to dispute with him for which was singled out this our James Usher then but middle Batchelor in this Colledg of 6 Years standing which were the Years of the Colledges then standing also The Jesuite at first Sight of that his Antagonist despised his Youth as did Goliah David But buckling and the question being de Antichristo after that days Trial of him the Jesuit would have no more to do with him not well liking such baitings yet giving an accompt of some passages of it after concludes it thus of him that he was Acatholicorum Doctissimus I conclude this with what had bin indeed instead of all the great honour which he had by the famous University of Oxford who in a solemn convocation ordered 16 eminent Persons of whom 6 were then Doctors together with the Vicechancellor and Proctors of the University to have at the charge of the University his Effigies cut and that with an elogium fitting him to receive and the University to give both to be prefixed to his Annotations on St. Ignatius his Epistles then in the Press To the Act of the convocation in that I refer the Elogium being this Jacobus Usserius Archiepiscopus Armachanus totius Hiberniae Primas Antiquitatis Primaevae peritissimus Orthodoxae religionis vindex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 errorum malleus in concionando frequens facundus praepotens vitae inculpatae exemplar spectabile Rob. 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Vicecanc I add that most learned Person 's first Work de ecclesiarum Christianarum successione statu which was by him published an 1613. and was by Archbishop Abbot of Canterbury presented to King James with these words see Sr. the eminent first fruits of the Colledge of Dublin That House was then of twenty years standing and that learned Work the first that came from any there And he himself the happy first fruits of that University All which concerning this learned Person I borrow from and owe to that short collection of his Life given by Doctor Bernard in his Funeral Sermon Apr. 17 1656 hoping the enlarging that may hereafter be the work of some happy pen that nothing of those precious Fragments be lost some Baskets yet remaining to be filled If his memory be now by time almost worn out here among us let this serve in some sort to refresh it or if envy in some would have it lost and his esteem lessened here let it be remembred which was spoken by our Lord of himself and true of others that a Prophet is not without Honour save in his own Country and in his own House and let it suffice that it be left to Strangers to value what is ours which we our selves do not But know that therein you suffer your selves to be robbed of an Honor to this University to this City and to this Church and Country And from such beginnigs