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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26661	A sermon preached at the funeral of ... Mr. Georg Ritschel, late minister of Hexham in Northumberland by Mr. Major Algood ... ; with an elegie on his death.	Algood, Major, 1641-1696.	1684 (1684)	Wing A925; ESTC R20315	9,968	25

he was a Nathaniel one in whom there was no guile cordial and faithful without baseness and low dissimulation and loved a true friend as himself As for his learning it would require a more able encomist then my self but in magnis voluisse sat est His memorie was great his judgment greater and his paines in study all most infinite so that I may truly say of him had he but had encouragement conveniently and opportunities answerable to his great parts he might have bin a great light to this northern corner of the land made himself the envie of this age and a shadow to obscure learned men about him Had he not bin more then ordinarily learned when he came a young man into England the famous universitie of Oxford renowned thoroughout the civilised part of the whole world had not taken so much notice of him nor had some learned men there contracting an intimacy with him at his first comeing to that place continued a correspondencie with him till a little before his death From Oxford he came to the deservedly renowned and antient corporation of Newcastle upon Tine where he was master of the free Schoole for several yeares and how he behaved himself in that station I appeale to those that knew him there Being wearied out with that toilsome employment he removed to this town of Hexam famous in the time of the saxons and yett in history for that it was then a Bishops seate and enjoyed ten Bishops successively John of Beverly who as some historians note was the first master of Arts of the Universitie of Oxford being placed as the second Bishops here now made famous againe by enjoying the Learned Ritschell as its vicar for above twenty yeares together He is now dead yett he lives amongst learned societies and will I doubt not to many generations in his imetaphysicks prized so highly abroad that Germany but of late desired the reprinting of them and they were so with some addition By his other books concerning the rites and ceremonies of the church of England published immediately after his majesties happy return he shewed what stamp he was of that he was an enemie to all innovation in the church This seasonable defence of the church of England was very pleasing to that famous 〈◊〉 of the same Dr. John Cosins late Bishop of Durham especially being performed by a forreigner born and he did ever after him a venerable respect I hope for what I wish that God will stir up some of the reverend fathers of this church to cast a favourable eye upon his two hopeful sons both educated in Oxford and reward them for the fathers paines But that which did crown all his other excellencies was his piety which was singuler In his familie he was a Joshuah he and his house serveing the Lord dayly what he was in the church I need not inform you but call your conscienses to wittness hopeing that you will nevers forgett those good instructions he sowed amongst you so plentifully I may as well as any give this testimonie of him he had not much of the form nor outside of religion but was very carefull for the power therof and the essential parts which might make him truly be rather then seeme religious Such was this wise this worthy this learned and religious gentleman who on weddens day sevennight was sodainlye struck with a fatal palsie which brought him in a weeks time to the end of his journey that he might go home and rest from his labours By what means I know not but it seemes some way God did conveigh it to his spirit that his dissolution drew nigh before ever death made any shew by any natural signification Whether he did it designedly or not is more then I can say but I find that the last sermon he preached might very well have passed for his own funeral sermon takeing in a prophetick way for his text 2 Tim. 1 12. For the which cause I allso suffer these things nevertheless I am not asshamed for I know whom I have beleeved and I am persuaded that ' h is able to keep that which I have committed unto him unto that day nor was this onely his last text but these words the very last that he spoke I know whom I have beleeved c. commending his soule now to God to whom he had before committed it and resting on Christ with a firm certaintye of salvation Thus did he shutt up his dayes as he lived so he dyed piously and religiously and this may be some ease to his sorrowful relations some guide to our life and death He is gone before we are following after God of his infinite mercie enable us to travaile thorough a life of cares and miserie so that at last we may come to a long and ever happy home To which God c. FINIS An Elegie upon the Worthy and Reverend Mr. Georg Ritschel c. Vivitur ingenio LEt no fond tears bedew thy herse Bid the favorite Muse rejoyce And with triumphant verse The musick imitate of thy exalted voyce Bid her do something to comply With the empyrean poetry 2. From noisy mirth tumultuous pleasures free Let her ascend like thee Above the bounds of this tempestuous air Above the storms of grief or clouds of care There in smooth thoughts and notions best refined Enjoy the serene 〈◊〉 of the mind 3. Alas our ●●llow wings in vain Attempt that airy leight And tired with too sublime a flight To their connatural earth return again Thy mind was all of purest flame And well could bear that place from whence it came Thy strong devotion and thy lofty witt This did to heaven-assend that brought heaven down to it 4. Tell how thy spatious soul could fathom all Which we august and sacred call And all the joy contain which from them spirings And yet desend so low As after this to know The least affections of the meanest things 5. Evanid matter could not scape thy eye Though in a thoms and shapes conceiled it lye Prote●s of nature to thy sharper sight Chaos it selfe was light To the its in most secrets it betrayed And shew'd a midst the gloomy shade Th' imperfect Embryo of the world unmade 6. Thou sowest that hidden chain With which we strive in vain And in the midst of seeming liberty When most we boast of being free No more then prisoners at large remain Thou knowest the laws of nature and of fate Nay what is more of fancy too And kept within thy view What ever God or poets did create 7. Enjoy thy fruitfull contemplations now For they the same continue still And thy enlarged understanding fill Nor one poor grain for humane frailty allow 8. Enjoy thy fate and if our low affaires Can touch thee not disturb thy breast Nor interrupt thy eternal rest Look upon us whom empty cares And frivolous doubts unquiet keep Nor yeild to better thought or thoughtlesse sleep So may our suns slide softly as thine away And our 〈◊〉 dyes let in an everlasting day I. H.