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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27571	A funeral sermon preached on the occasion of the Right Honourable the Earl of Sh--y's late interment in Dorset-shire by W.B. a godly minister (though unworthy servant) of Jesus Christ.	W. B.	1683 (1683)	Wing B211; ESTC R37047	7,468	16

Fortune the High and Meritorious Dignities conferred upon him his Prudence Magnanimity and Height of Spirit his Proving and Zealous Prosecution of the Late Plot and faithful Adhaesion to the Crown when the Crown was kind to him and Promoted him But why should I thus descant on the wonderful perfections of this Man who was as Eminent for Religion as for his Politicks He was a Faithful Zealous Man in Holy Worship which is a strange unheard of thing in a Statesman And yet notwithstanding all these extraordinary Endowments of the Mind the Wicked of the World take occasion to traduce him and detract very injuriously from his Worth His Religion is termed Atheism his way of Worship Sceptical and Prophane the droppings of his Tap occasioned by his Hydropick Distemper is render'd as the miserable consequence of a young Debauch his Care for the Welfare of the Nation is reckon'd Treason And is it not strange that this great Person the desire of Mankind while living should be so miserably Crucify'd after his Death Is it not a Paradox to a Wise and Understanding Man to find a Person so disingenuously abused when he is not in a capacity to vindicate himself How wonderfully is he exposed to the scorn and contempt of the World in Doggrel Ballads Visions Dialogues c. with a number of Pamphlets that circulate the Gown in Derogation of his honour But I think 't is time to leave off lest I 'm thought too fulsome a Panegyrist We 'll therefore descend to the Second Position and shew you Secondly That a Tory-ranting Roaring kind of Behaviour here makes a Man's Name Stink and Rot as my Text has it after Death When People are Debauch'd in Principles and have wickedly forsaken the True Protestant Interest which word True-Protestant is miserably ridicul'd by young Tory Whiflers or as the Ingenious Historian Mr. Care has it Dull Nos'd Tories I say then their Reputation sinks in the World and their Names when they are Dead are as nauseous to Mankind as their Putrify'd and Rotten Bones When People follow strange Devices and Worship false Gods what the Devil can become of their good Names They must suffer in their credit after Death that in their Life time commit such vile Abominations They blindly frequent their Hallowed Steeple-Houses and Persecute us because our tender and squeamish Consciences will not permit us to Conform with them They teeze us with their Spiritual Bumms and Religious Kid-nappers the Informers Carp and Crow over us and expose us publicity in Courants Dialogues c. but I shall not be censorious as the wicked are The end of such Men will be Tragical and their Memories hateful to future Ages Let the wicked Beloved tickle and please themselves and laugh at our Persecutions as the cunning Observator does the time will come when the Wind and Tide is on our sides when Almighty Parliaments shall again flourish that we shall handle them for their Insolence in setting forth so openly the Practices of our Party I doubt not but this slurring Observator I say will be dealt with by some of our Ingenious Youngsters of the Neighbouring Academy the young Men of Newington are profound found Sophisters I can assure him and can handle an Argument most dextrously They 'l Confute his Dissenters sayings they have read Divine Milton and Knox and know how to settle the State and Reform the present Irregularities of the Government they are Popular Men and have the very Hearts of the People of God They can match him with their Philosophical Windmils and Flying Chariots in opposition to his screw'd Guns and Pistols and his scurrilous story of our Brother at Bath though it may be true I grant you Such Men as these I say who expose the Righteous and endeavour to make their Names odious in this World will by a strange though just course of Providence be made wonderfully ridiculous themselves and their Names in the Words of my Text will Rot and as I may say Putrify But Beloved I would not willingly transgress on your Patience too much to go beyond the decent limits of a Sermon I shall therefore make Application of what has been said and enforce some practicable business to your consideration Let us who are the Meek of the Earth the Sober and Godly Party endeavour to live up to those excellent Rules that are Weekly prescrib'd to us by our Godly Ministers let us persevere in our holy Resolutions let neither Persecution Reproach or Contempt any way deter us from meeting and serving God in Private and then there 's no doubt of it we shall have success proportionable to our hopes and in the Scripture Phrase we shall Inherit the Earth What though we are miserably discomfited by late unhappy disappointments What though the Patron of our Cause be Deceased and has left the Hot-headed Multitude without Order all things at Random and Confusion Who knows but some cunning Politick Person of Quality as the Remarquer on Jovian or the Author of the Elegy on Stafford may interpose and vindicate our Cause in the Declension of its Age Such as these both good Logicians Historians and profound Politicians into the Bargain would manage the concern bravely if they would but take the Reverend Mr. John n in the room of that sottish Bestial Satyr of Salamanca who has Debauch'd our Cause to be their worthy Chaplain and Mr. Hunt their Secretary Lord what a Blessed Reformation might suddenly follow All our concerns would again flourish and spread into every corner of the Land and then we should see the Blessed Revolutions of Forty One again then true Piety would flourish and grow in fashion once more there would be no Swearing and Blaspheming no Adultery and no complaining in our streets Fast ye therefore my Beloved but not as the Wicked do and pray ye to the Lord for this happy change for our deliverance is nigh and the Salvation of his People is at hand Lastly Let me put before your Eyes the great Example of our late Deceased Patriot consider how industriously zealous he was for the True-Protestant Interest what Indignities and Shame he underwent purely on the account of Religion what difficulties he passed through to reduce this Haughty Monarchy into Order and Subjection if possible and to settle it on the solid Foundations and firm Establishments of a Common-wealth He left no means unattempted to make the Nation flourish for he condescended to men of low Degree he Conversed with Carpenters and Bricklayers that he might carry on the work of the Lord powerfully and successfully All this he did to keep a good Consciences as some think and to purchase a good Name for many Generations Let the Wicked my Friends talk of his Fatal descent into the Regions of darkness of his Congratulations with the Joyner and the black Catalogue of the damn'd Fraternity we ought charitably to put good Constructions on Mens actions and hope at least that he is at rest and that his Memory will be Honorably Celebrated amongst True-Blue-Protestants I am sure his Heroick Achievements and Noble Actions deserve to be faithfully Registred and to be carefully transmitted to Posterity Let the Wicked and Perverse talk of stinking Guts and Garbage and say That his Name shall Rot and be odious to future Ages Yet let us follow his Blessed steps and stand stiff and firm in our Holy Resolutions to cherish the True-Protestant Cause and never leave it and forsake it Then our Names shall be famous here on Earth and we shall sit down at last I hope with St. Stephen with our Friend Deceased and with Bradshaw Ireton and Hewson in the Kingdom of H FINIS

how detracting how malicious and envious they are They hate us because in truth we are more Holy than they If we will not swear we are precise forsooth if we refuse to frequent lewd Drinking-houses we fall under the censure of being Formal and Starch'd All our Righteous dealings are evilly interpreted What If a Brother or Sister through the infirmities of Nature to which we are all subject unadvisedly tread aside and walk in the Ungodly's Paths Lord what a clutter is presently made of it what grinning and sneering there is amongst the wicked Adversaries If the Spirit is frail and weak sometimes and the Flesh becomes too too Predominant I say if a couple of our Fraternity should by the powerful influence of Flesh and Blood chance to fall if they should lovingly embrace one another in the Fear of the Lord and zealously Act that which indeed is a Great Sin suppose it be known Why you cannot imagine what noise there is made about it Nothing less than a white Sheet and Wand a Pilgrimage bare Footed and bare Legged up to the Parsons Pew And this is the Anti-Christian Penance that is so severely destined to our Godly Party for a trifling miscarriage a small cracking of one of the Commandments And yet our Adversaries I speak it calmly and without Passion are bold in their Wickedness they can Rant and whore it away without contradiction Unless now and then a couple or so is hampered in Bridewell to Play with Hemp a little only to deter and frighten others If the Wicked would but take our Saviour 's Advice and be ruled by him we should have a pleasant World If no one should cast Stones but the Innocent and Guiltless a Man might stand with security in the Pillory or Market-place Hang Houses of Correction and the Whipping Posts There would be no hurling of Stones or Pelting with Orange Pills I 'le warrant it But Men are Partial Beloved now adays and Censorious too if we Preach most powerfully and press things home effectually to Mens Consciences why you hear what they say they say we are Hypocrites that our Discourses are nothing else but a Gypsie-like-Canting that the unutterable Groans of the Spirit are mere Satanick Effusions that our Prayers are the effect of a Distemper'd Brain and promoted by Devilish Enthusiastick Raptures That our Sighs at the time of our Worship is an Imposture a Holy Cheat an Artificial Sobbing on purpose to seduce filly Women Thus are our good Works evil spoken off by Men of Unsanctified understandings If we Pray zealously and are familiar with God in our Ejaculations the Wicked say we are sawcy and tumultuous in our Petitions If we talk of any assurance or certainty that God is on our side they ask what Intelligence what Gazetts we receive from Heaven If we are Transported now and then and speak that which indeed may be Impertinent or Incoherent as to desire God Almighty to Ride Post to help a Sick young Man at Sea or such like things as these why this is no great harm It would be Interpreted by modest Men only the Exuberance as I may so say of Fancy or the over-flowings of Invention but now 't is term'd Prophaneness and words bordering upon Blasphemy Thus do they pester and teeze us who are the Meek of the Earth Vexat censura Columbas if to be short a Brother of ours was once engaged in a temptation which was wholly irresistible as may be evident by the violent and sudden Insurrection of the unruly Member What Could there be a more charitable piece of Humanity in a Godly Sister than to strive to allay his eager Appetite and stroak down the Member that is troublesome and uneasie A Bull-like Fortitude must be tam'd at Moor-fields or at some other convenient Pastures But to return to my Text and tell you the means and methods how to fortify your Reputation against the virulent attempts and reflections of evil and dangerous Tongues and secure a good Memory after Death For in the Words of my Text The Memory of the Just shall be Blessed their Name shall flourish in the Earthy their Memories shall smell sweet and blossom to suture Ages Let malice do its worst and envy cast all its cutting Darts upon us yet let us persevere in our Godly resolutions and then we may bear the indignities of our Enemies without repining The only way that I can propose to you is to be unconcern'd at their sneering Calumnies let them laugh and expose us publickly we can grin in secret at them and traduce them likewise Let us be unconcern'd I say at all their malice for the only Pillar that can support us under the present circumstances of affairs is a Bare-fac'd well compacted Impudence That 's the only guard that I know against the lashes and violent Persecutions of inveterate and malicious Tongues But it 's time to recollect my self and return to Discourse of the Worthy Person whose Memory we now Celebrate To be silent in his Praises I know will not be resented well or approved of by the rest of my good Friends I shall therefore consider this Great Man in a Two-fold capacity 1. As he was a Publick Man and an Eminent Minister of State 2. As he was a Private Man and an extraordinary Christian And Thirdly I shall shew how justly he may challenge this word Just in my Text. But pray let not this be Interpreted a Punn As to his publick concern in the World and his making so considerable though crooked Figure in it I must needs say that all these Advancements and Dignities therein were the Purchase of his own Wit and extraordinary Qualifications That he was a Person highly Descended and wonderfully if not miraculously qualified for publick Administration of Affairs is I hope generally confessed That he had a vast Gigantick Soul crowded up and Coop'd in a Pigmy's Tabernacle yet so Brisk and Active that Prometheus stole half the Fire from Heaven to enlighten it He had such a Soul so bold and daring that he became as the Elegy has it the Dread of the Crown and yet the Friend of it too He was a Strenuous Defender of the Royal Prerogative witness those many excellent Speeches of his in his Chancellorship And yet not so stiff neither but when after his Degradation he began not to love the Court so heartily as before he then adhered to the Majesty of the People and defended the High and Mighty Plenipotentiaries the Multitude then he wisely consulted with the Uncontroulable Rabble to support Magna Charta Liberty Property c. From this solicitous Care of the Nations Good sprung that never to be forgotten Model of the Association the Spawn of the Holy League and Covenant Who therefore can sufficiently Lament this Worthy Person the publick Pillar of the State the Moses the Conductor of the People nay without Prophaneness the Puny Saviour of the Nation What could I repeat concerning his worth the Exaltedness of his