frowned on sin and smiled on goodness § This affliction only that noble Society had that having tasted a little of that Manna and honey 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some seven or eight times they were not permitted longer to enjoy the full and durable blessings of so sweet so plenteous and so heavenly repast In which he so dispenced his divine store and provision as St. John wrote to youngmen and Fathers to children and old men in his first Epistle so this Apostolick Bishop and Preacher at one Sermon both pleased the young Gentlemen and profited the Antients teaching the first there to know their duty and the second to do it preparing the one to live holily the other to dye happily § But this rich banquet was not to last long a little of Bishop Brounrig was a great deal for any one congregation to have In Michaelmas Term next following his bodily infirmities began to prevail against the strength and willingness of his mind not permitting him to preach in publick save only on the fifth of November which was his last though he did preach in private almost to all that came to him and were capable of his converse even till he was much spent and weary as I have heard him complain God was pleased to exercise him with bodily pains His bodily paines and infirmities indispositions and distempers sometimes with sharp fits of the stone and hydropick inclinations which made the chariot of his body which was somewhat plethorick and corpulent drive heavily though those fiery horses his fervent spirits were still agile and able But under all these God supported him with his grace and a spirit as always humble devout and pious so for the most part sociable serene and chearful till he had lived to his Sixty seventh year Then with age sickness increased with great failings of spirit The Will he made which gave him the alarms of approaching death but before this while he was yet in competent health of body and serenity of mind he made his Will which bears date as Mr. Thomas Buck his Executor told me two years before his departure A Will much like that of St. Austin or other Primitive Bishops not loaden with great and pompous Legacies of money but rather with testimonies of a pious grateful and charitable soul That little he had of estate was distributed either as tokens of respect love and gratitude to his ancient friends or as agnitions of his nearest deserving kindred and relations or as requitals to a well-deserving Servant or as charitable reliefs to the poor he was pauperior opibus but opulentior moribus as Chysologus speaks of St. Lanrence § If any man quarrel that he gave away no more by Will The reason is he had no more He wanted not a large heart or liberal hand no man was further from covetousness which is never so unseasonable as when a man is dying Nor was he wanting to be his own Executor chusing rather in secret to give much while he lived than to leave more when he died If this be his defect that he gave not great sums as the renowned Bishop Andrews or other Bishops and Clergymen sometime did to pious and charitable uses to Colledges Libraries Hospitals when Bishops and other Churchmen injoyed those rewards and revenues which the piety and Laws of the Nation had proportioned to their places and merit truly it must be imputed to the injuries and privations of the times for no tree would have born more or fairer fruit as in other so in this kind than this fair and fruitful figtree if he had not been blasted not by Christs word as a Bishop or as barren but by the fatal curse of the times No Christian would have done more good works of this nature or more advisedly than this wise and venerable Bishop Si res ampla domi similisque affectibus esset if his estate had been answerable to his mind And yet he had discouragements enough as to such works and charitable donations wherein the Sacrilegious sauciness of some mens spirits who dare make bold to take from God and never ask his leave is such that liberal souls are even nonplust how to place any durable and great charity in so safe a way as the Cormorant and Vulture of avarice or publick necessity and State frugality will not in time seise on it as a prey sic rapitur fisco quod dabatur debetur Christo One would have thought that no times would have made a prey and spoil of those Ecclesiastial revenues which Henry the Eighth's luxury and avaricious prodigality had spared but we see Joel 1.4 the catterpillar will devour what the canker-worm and locust and palmer-worm have left The pious improvement of his interals of health In all his vacancies from pains and bodily infirmities he was frequent in preaching in celebrating and receiving the holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper in his private retirements much in reading cheifly the Scriptures of later years in meditating and in prayer besides his social joyning with others in family duties in which as he willingly and devoutly used the Liturgy of the Church so far as it was fitted to publick and private necessities so he either added of his own or admitted from others those pious and prudent prayers which more nearly suited with the private devotions and condition of those that were present § His willingness to dy in these distracted times He had more frequent infirmities as gentle Monitors a little before his death of which he would speak to my self and others in a kind of familiar sort as one that by dying daily was well acquainted with death He would say That it was a very cheap time now to die there being so little temptation to desire life and so many to welcome death since he had lived to see no King in the State no Bishop in the Church no Peer in Parliament no Judge in the Land yea and no Parliament in any freedom honor power or being worthy that name Omnia miles all power was contracted to the pummel of their sword or the barrel of their guns the Soldier was all in all in that black interregnum or horrid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which had neither form nor power of any legal government in England in that dark day departed this great light All Church and State being reduced to military arbitration and presumption he saw nothing remained of order or honor love or Law Reason and Religion in any publick and social correspondency yea new feuds and quarrels like boils from unsound bodies were daily breaking out and continuing the fires of civil Wars like those of hell and Tophet to be everlasting and unquenchable There being no thought of the way of peace but to avoid it § This made him willingly gird as St. Peter did his coat to him that he might be ready to lanch into that dead sea when Christ should bid him come to him He only hoped
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. â—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 6â— â—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 causeâ— 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 Kâ—ngs 1.33
THE R R d FATHER IN GOD RALPH BROWNRIG L â— B â— OF EXETER Who Died aged 67. Decem 7th 1659. 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. GAVDEN 2 Cor. 4.18 The things that are seen are temporal but the things that are not seen are eternal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plato Aliud est vivere moriturum cum Platone aliud mori victurum cum Paulo Hieron Ep. Nepot LONDON Printed by J. Best for Andrew Crook at the Green-Dragon in S. Pauls Church-yard 1660. To the Reverend Dr. GAUDEN these present SIR YOur Sermon preached at the Funeral of the late eminent Bishop of Exceter hath been and is of that general acceptation that those that heard it or have heard of it do consent in their earnest desires of us to write unto you for its publishing The honor in it due to that learned Prelate as a memorial of him the great benefit which will arise to the Church both in the present age and future the seasonableness of the manifestation of his judgement in several subjects and the happy fruit which may be reaped by the Reader in the imitation of his exemplary life and pious conversation to Gods glory and the good of souls these do sufficiently of themselves bespeak your inclination to it But we do also make it our request that you will be pleased with all convenient speed to print it which as it will satisfie the expectation of your many other Friends so will it much oblige Your very affectionate Friends and Servants N. Bernard Edw. Young Tho. Buck. Grays-Inn Decâ—â—b 23. 1659. TO THE Honourable Societies OF THE TEMPLES HAving endeavored Honorable and worthy Gentlemen if not to adorn yet at least to do some right to the memory of the reverend and renowued Bishop Brounrig by those justa Parentalia praises which are most due to his accomplished worth for his holy obedience to the Word of God for his conformity to his blessed Saviour for his loyalty to Soveraign power for his love to his Country for his compassion to the Church for his zeal to the Reformed Religion for those sighs prayers and tears by which he encoutred the sins and miseries of this Nation for his exemplary merits to all that were or would be good and lastly for his particular favour towards me of which I am ambitious to express a most grateful sense Yet I finde still something of further duty and discretion incumbent on me which must be discharged by this Preface or Epistle to which your name is inscribed wherein first I am to justifie my own so large and liberal commendation of the Bishop Secondly I am to give an account of your particular merit as to this Dedication Thirdly I am to crave your patrociny for my vindication § For the first My own Veracity as to what I have wrote 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without envy flattery or partiality of this excellent Bishop I believe I have the attestation of all good men who either personally knew or have been fully informed of his worth if they have eyes able to behold and bear the resplendency of all moral vertues in an excellent man of all intellectual abilites in an excellent Schollar of all sound Divinity in an excellent Divine of well chosen well handled well applied and well practised Texts in an excellent Preacher of all gravity prudence circumspectness and candor in an excellent Governour of sincere and operative graces in an excellent Christian Lastly of all these concurrent compleated and cumulated in an excellent Bishop who was indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in in all points of humane and divine perfections such as he should be § All ingenious persons who are not overgrown with the Antiepiscopal Jaundise who have not envious odious jealous and implacable eyes against all Bishops and most against the best will readily subscribe to what I have written Yea I know there is such a cloud of witnesses as forbids me solicitously to avow my own integrity and truth on either side § First For my self I am as much an enemy to flattery as a friend to civility Parasitisme differs as much from just and comely praise as Divels do from good Angels The first is black as hel the second beautiful as Heaven I fear nothing whatever I do or say or write more then that base fear which either prostitutes to servile adulation of vice or is overawed from just commendation of vertue even in Bishops I do profess with Greg. Naz. commending St. Cyprian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have spoken and written as to the verity and eminency of the patern nothing to any compliance or partiality I was not to dress up an Ulyssis with Homer or an Aeneas with Virgil after a poetick freedom and flourish of invention but to represent to the unworthy world a most worthy Bishop and to reproach the imprudence and ingratitude of the age by letting it see in this particular what an admirable Bishops it had extirpated what accomplished abilities it had suppressed what useful merits it had discountenanced not onely by not rewarding but by depriving of such rewards as they had both deserved and obtained by Gods blessing and the munificence of the Prince and Nation I was to set forth a chief Pastor of the Church conformable to Christs cross as well as serviceable to his flock having not only the crown of crucified affections but also crucrifying afflictions yea and of crucified vertues by the indignities of the world nay and of self crucifying graces too by his own humility for while he was eminent in all men that had eyes to see true worth yet in his own eyes he was nothing and Christ was all in all to him § Secondly They knew not Bishop Brounrig who knew not how far he was from either active or passive flattery As he abhorred both so he needed neither He was far above them being so full and overflowing with reall and solid worth that he was not capable as lanck bladders of any empty and aiery distentions he had as Plato saith of one Gorgias 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A soul and life that wanted fictitious comendations no more then burnished gold or polished marble doth need any paint or colouring § Such deceitful decorations and spurious prayses are for their Sepulchers who affect to be reputed worthies when they have done nothing worthily who would be recounted for great Rabbies and Reformers when indeed they were but Abaddons and Apollyons of all things civil and sacred ambitious when dead to be called Patriots and Fathers of their countrey yea Saviours and Preservers of Religion when they have sought to sacrifice both fathers and children to the Molochs Chians and Remphans Idols and Images which they
set up and their fathers never knew There are that hope to be venerated as the Divels in India not for the good but for the mischeife they were able to do § For my part I would not for a world profane those sacred texts of The righteous perish or The memory of the just shall be blessed or Blessed are they that dye in the Lord or Pretious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints and the like by preaching them over those whose doings are as noysome as their carkasses who deserve to be buried with the buriall of an Ass Though violent and vile men should make their graves with the rich and the Noble yet their Monuments built with untempered mortar made up of the bones and blood of men will sooner rot then their corps § No flattering Confectioners can make Mummy to impartial posterity of those abominable livers whose names are written in the dust and deserve to perish as their own dung when they give no evidence to the present age by their piety or repentance that the name of God is gravn in their hearts or their names are written in heaven No venal pens and mercenary tongues can keep after ages from cursing and detesting their memories who like Nero or Hierostratus or Raviliaac or Borgia and other monsters of men seek renown by their enormities and study to equal their vilanies to their abilities whose dying is not times digesting them to mature honour but it s spewing them out to everlasting shame and abhorrence § But where useful virtues and real graces do appear in any never so poor afflicted desolated as the Martyes and Confessors of old and latter ages were every just man and ingenuous Christian will be not only ready to bring sweet odors and spices to their burial but they are ambitious to embalme their names and memories to a perpetuity of honour Though proscribed and banished though undone and destroyed by the injuries of the age in which they lived as were Ignatius Cyprian Athanasius Chrysostom Boethius and many others among the Christians yea and among Heathen too as Epaminondas Aristides Themistoeles Scipio Affr. and others whose ingrateful Countrys did not hinder the gratitude of posterity as to persons that deserved longer life and better usage § Yea not onely among the Heathens such extasies of admiration transported them to the superstition of an imaginary 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or deification of the dead whose deserts they thought purchased for them an immortality Divinity or Godship of a lower form lesser edition and latter creation But even Christians at first indeed with moderation and caution afterwards by an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or excesse of veneration did canonize those as Saints or divi holy honorable and happy men and women who by exemplary piety and patience had sealed to the truth and peace of Christian religion hereby recommending the imitation of their graces and vertues to all men both good and bad to reprove the one and improve the other § For not onely well disposed persons are well content to see themselves encouraged by the commendation of those whose worthy steps they follow But even those that are no great valuers or followers of vertue themselves no nor praisers of it in others while living are yet content to lay aside the poyson of their envy and sting of their calumny towards them when they onely live in their deserved reputation for goodness whose rewards even vicious men are prone to fancy they may more easily obtain if they have but a mind to commend them when dead § Nor is this fallacy without some shew of reason For vertue is prone to adopt those for her children who have any value or respect for her even in others As by pittying so by praising we are secretly allured to practise things praise-worthy As evil speech corrupts good manners so good speech is apt to mend evil manners yea as to smother or calumniate or coldly commend anothers virtue argues little consciousness to it in ones self So it is the surest token of grace and vertue to love admire and adore them First in the highest perfection of the Divine Idea Secondly in the clearest image or representation of them Jesus Christ Lastly in the more familiar instances of them among mankind where they are like the Sun-beams in watery reflections infinitely more remisse indeed and less glorious than in the original but yet more visible and condescending to humane capacities § And such they were in this Ilustrious Bishop however he were eclipsed by the fatal darkness of the times yet the pregnant demonstrations of his worth were publikely attested as by that love and reverence which all good men payed him while he lived so by that honorable and ample concourse of many Eagles to his corps and Funerals which were attended by Noblemen by Gentlemen by Judges by Lawyers by Divines by Merchants and Citizens of the best sort then in London These flocked to his Sepulcher these followed the Bier these recounted his worth these deplored their own and the ages loss of him These reproached those who had occasioned or cast any diminutions upon such extraordinary merits and such accomplished Bishops For he was not the onely Phenix of his age and order who had been deplumed and almost reduced to ashes by the inordinate flames of the times But I need no more to justify any so ample commendation of this excellent Bishop whom none could with truth or Justice disparage § My second work in this Epistle is to give the world an account of your particular merit as to this Dedication wherein I am commanded in modesty not to insist upon your so propense and unanimous favour expressed towards my self which chalengeth its proper time and place for my thankeful acknowledgment because the present Subject affords me reason more than enough Nor could I have been other than extreamly injurious both to the Dead and the Living the venerable Bishop and your honorable selves if I should have dedicated this work to any other than your selves Since not onely to you they were by me at first for the main delivered by word of mouth which I know more coveted to hear than well could by reason of the great crowd and concourse of attendants who may claime of me this Justice and compensation of their defeats but to your honourable Societies above all men living the venerable subject and occasion of my labours this reverend Bishop next God did cheifly bequeath and dedicate himself both living dying and dead § If he had lived longer you had been that happy Society which should have been honored and blessed with his presence and residence with his praying and preaching with his grave counsel and holy example The golden remains of his pretious life and strength were yours he was so just and grateful as to own and requite your love and respects to him who had so highly deserved of him When he dyed and was to put
Lastly in the name of the blessed God and the Son of God whose servant Minister and prophet this holy and learned Bishop was I am I say in the name of all these to return you deserved thanks that in the darkness and terror of these last and perillous times you were pleased to express the esteem and respect you had to the worth of this reverend person and the dignity of his Episcopall function Inviting him to such a kind and hospitable reception as was very acceptable and welcome to him because from persons of your worth And although considering his merit and quality you are so ingenuous as to think it was a kind condescention in him to be your honorary preacher yet he esteemed it as an honour and preferment to him And the more because super omnia vultus accessere boni he thought he saw in the serenity of all your countenances the propensity of your generous hearts and unfeined affections to him May you never want a Prophets reward Peroration and Comprecation may your love and respect to him be inscribed on the lasting monument of his great and pretious Name may his renowned memory outlast his mortal remaines which he desired to deposite among you in this Temple May his excellent example be to you and posterity as his presence was while yet alive a sacred charm against all sinful rude unchristian and unmanly debauchery also an incentive to piety learning vertue and true honour So will you never repent of the honour you did him at the last act of his life and in him you did it to your selves and your worthy Societies and in that to the whole Nation Expiating for your part the diminutions and indignities undeservedly cast upon this and other good Bishops by those that knew not how to use or value him and them not understanding at what distance themselves stood from the learned sacred and useful worth of such venerable men § If you please to add to your former favours while he lived among you this last of giving order and leave to adorn your Chappel with any Monument for him you need be at no more cost then to inscribe on a plain stone the name of BISHOP BROUNRIG This will make that stone Marble enough and your Chappel a Mausoleum It onely now remaines that we beg of God Supplictaion to God whose providence sets before us by such great examples of virtue and piety the possibility of being really and eminently good That he would please to give us grace to value and to follow them with high esteem chearful love and constant imitation that at length we may attaine to that crown of glory whither this holy man and others are gone before us non amissi sed praemissi as Cyprian speaks not lost but outstriping us as St. John did St. Peter to the Sepulcher of our Lord Jesus Christ who by dying for us hath suffered sanctified and sweetned death to all true beleivers To this blessed Saviour with the eternal Father and holy Spirit be everlasting glory Amen A good name is better then pretious ointment and the day of death then the day of ones birth Pro. 7.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naz. Or. 23. Ille and Deum honoratus satis ille opulentus satis adveniet cui adstabunt continentia misericordia patientia charitas fides super omnia Christus Lactant. l. 5. Inst ΕΠΙΤΑΦΙΟΠP. M. S. Augustius solito Virtutum exemplar Sitibi tuisque imitandum velis Mox Moriture Lector Subtus positas ne pigeat contemplari EXVVIAS RADOLPHI BRUNRICI S.T.D. IPSWICI peramaeni Icenorum oppidi Parentibus honestis Tantoque Filiobeatis orti Infantulum terrestri orbum coelestis teneriùs fovit Pater Piaque literaturâ penè ad miraculum imbutum Per omnes Academiarum gradus eductum Ad Aulae Catharinae praefecturam Ad saepius repetitam Procan Cantab. dignitatem Ad Exoniensis Episcopatus Honorem CAROLI Regis favore evexit Quem afflictissimum fidelitate inconoussa coluit Vir undique egregius Doctior an melior dubites Famâ per omnem aetatem immaculatâ immo splendida magnificâ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 olim per biennium at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nec conjugii spretor nec coelibatui impar Severus ubique castitatis exactor Tam vultus quà m vitae majestate venerandus Quod enim vultu promisit optimum vitâ praestitit Tacita Sermonum urbana morum sanctitate non jucundus minus quà m utilis Supercilii non ficti non elati non efferi Humillima granditate cuncta gerens Credas nec conscio tantas cumulasse dotes Naturam prodigam benignamque gratiam Adeo omne tulit punctum idque levissima invidia In Concionibus sacris frequens dominator In disputationibus scholasticis semper Triumphator Barnabas idem Boanerges Tam pugno quà m palma nobilis Suavi terrore venerando amore ubique pollens Beatâ uberrimi ingenii facundiâ Honorum omnium votis expectationi nunquam non satisfecit Quadratus undique Deo Ecclesiae Sibi constans A mobili rotundâ aevi figurâ penitus abhorrens Scienter sapienter semper bonus Reformarae olim in Anglia Religionis priseae doctrinae Liturgiae Regiminis Ecclesiae integrae Contra Veteratores Novatores omnes aequanimus at acerrimus vindex Serò nimis pro temporum morbis remediis Episcopali sublimitate meritissimè auctum Bellorum et Schismatum late flagrantium incendia Optimum Antistitem una cum Coepiscopis omnibus viris ut plurimùm innoxiis eximiis Totâ ecclesiâ Rege Repub. mox deturbarunt Deturbatum facultatibus penè omnibus spoliârunt Jacturam ingenti ut decuit animo tulit de Sacrilegis non spoliis sollicitus Queis non minus carere quà m rectè uti didicerat Tandem ipsa obscuritate illustrior factus Generosae Templariorum Societatis amore allectus Concionatoris Honorarii munus ibidem suscepit Nec diu proh dolor sustinuit Quum enim Testamentum condiderat Quale primaevi solebant Episcopi Gratiarum in Deum Benignitatis in amicos Charitatis in omnes copia refertum Anno Aetatis Sexagesimo septimo Iniqui inquieti ingrati seculi mores Jamque merito recrudescentis belli minas Laetus fefellit Et ad meliorem Dominum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christiana plenus Optata 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beatus Libens migravit Decemb. 7. 1659. Haec verò venerandi Praesulis ramenta aurea Amplissmique viri parva compendia L. M. C. J. G. S. T. D. Magnalia ejus quae nec marmor breve Nec Tabula prolixa nec mens mortalis capiet Beatae Aeternitati Silentio consecranda 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ΕΠΙÎΙΚΙΟΠITe nunc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vestros recensete greges Multis Sectarum maculis variegata pecora Si quos inter vostros Gigantum fraterculos Vilis plebeculae vilia mancipia Pares similesve invenistis Heroas Primaevis nuperisque nostris Episcopis Usserium volo Mortonium Potterum Davenantium Hallum Prideaxium Westfeildium Winneffum Brunricum Alios meliori seculo fato dignos Extra irae invidiaeque vestrae aleam nunc positos Heu tandem pudibundi vobiscum recolite Aurea quae in ferrum mutastis seculaâ— quando Nec merita praemiis deerant nec praemia meritis Quantum à bellis à mendicitate à miseriis A rixis ab hodiernis vulgi ludibriis Tranquilla beata ista distabant tempora Quae molles nimis nec ferre nec frui potuistis Icti afflicti prostrati Phryges tandem sapite Deumque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Authorem Moribus Catholicis antiquis colite Ut quantum à Papae tyrannide plebis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 differat Primaeva paterna Episcoporum Praelatura Sine fuco sciant fruanturque posteri BRVNRICI memores Praesulis Angelici FINIS