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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57353	A sermon prech'd in the cathedral church of Norwich, at the funeral of the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward, Lord Bishop of Norwich, who departed this life, July 28, 1676 by B. Riveley ...	Riveley, Benedict, 1627 or 8-1695.	1677 (1677)	Wing R1548; ESTC R14652	19,829	38

ruddiness is put into Deaths pale Cheeks since the effusion of Christs blood by his being made a Curse Death becomes a blessing that which was the punishment of Vice proves the security of Virtue which was the instrument of Justice the token of Mercy which was the dissolution of Nature the completion of Grace Now Death is no longer the Saints loss Phil. 1. 27. but their gain it turns to great account 't is put into their Inventory among their riches Death is yours 1 Cor. 3. 21. 'T is no longer the grim Serjeant of their Judge but their humble Servant their officious Black and Slave to hold by the Hangings on their Clay Wall till their Princely Spirit enters the Presence Chamber of the great King the Grave is no longer their Prison but their House their resting place from their labours their hinding place from the storm yea 't is Janua Vitae Porta Coeli their only passage into the eternal state of bliss and glory This is the victory of Christ This is the effect of Christianity it doth not quite kill Death but it makes that Death shall not kill us * There is a killing with death threatned Rev. 2. 23. it does not cause us not to dye but it certainly keeps us from being damned it wo'nt prevent our coming to a Grave but it will mightily chear us in our passage thither and so embalm us when we come there that not a hair of our heads shall everlastingly perish O Sirs I let us be able to know Death and a Grave Vse after this comfortable rate not foolishly to presume with Agag but groundedly to hope with holy Souls That the bitterness of Death is past Let us approve 1 Sam. 15. 32. our selves living Members of the great conquering Head Jesus Christ and so his victory will be our victory We shall be Conquerors too through him that loves Rom. 8. 37. us and Death shall have no more dominion over us than it had over him Let us endeavor an hearty and universal performance of the conditions and terms of the New Covenant which are Repentance from dead Works and Faith in Jesus Christ that we may thereby assure to our selves the said promises and priviledges of the same Covenant This way the Saints of God have alwayes come by their courage against and their comfort in a dying hour This hath carried them to their Graves with the same unconcernedness wherewith they pass to their Beds every night This made a holy David not afraid to pass through the valley of the shadow of death This made Psal 23. 4. a holy Job to claim Kindred of the worms and rottenness I have said to Corruption Thou art my father and to the Worm Thou art my mother and my sister Job 17. 14. And to speak as familiarly of his going to the Grave as if he were a going to his Home I know thou wilt bring me to the House appointed for all Living So much for the first sort of Notion which Job here professes to have of his own Mortality viz. comfortable and chearing pass we to the next kind of Notion thereof which is reflexive and applicatory I know thou wilt bring me to death and to c. II. Job not only has a general Notion of Death as the way of all Flesh and of the Grave as the House of all Living but he has a particular Notion of both referring the case to himself He knows that as none can no more can he put in Plea or Barr against his coming to the Dust and being ere long a Tenant in that dreery Habitation yet common repository of the Grave From whence we may please to know thus much too viz. That Good and Holy Men are not only convinc'd Doct. and knowing of other folks dying but particularly of their own To know that all must dye is a Lesson that few are ignorant of he is a very dullard that is not come so far This Nature teaches Law obliges to common Experience and Observations ratify and confirm There were but two that we read of Enoch and Elijah and they upon extraordinary priviledge not for ordinary example that balked the Grave in their passage to the other World All others have laid their Heads down upon a green Turf and dwelt with Worms and such like creatures of an Equivocal Production The Sons and Daughters of their own Flesh and Bones in a House of Dirt and Rottenness And there is a Must for this as that wise Tekoite said We Must needs dye there 's necessity for it thus 2 Sam. 14. 14. far from the original Law of our Nature and from the consequential Law of our sin so that if God and Nature can hold us to conditions we must needs dye I. Supposing Man innocent he was yet mortal in his Nature he was an excellent creature as he came out of Gods Hands but yet but a Creature 't was never put into his Nature that if he fell he should not break he was a mixture of Heat and Cold of Dryness and Moisture compos'd of corruptible qualities and materials only there was a possibility of not dying through the Divine Favour and the Almighties supportation He grew upon an immortal Root there was his security but cut off from that by his own degeneracy he soon wither'd and shew'd what he was II. In which laps'd condition if you further consider him Death is made his Doom as 't was his Nature before and as to the stroke of it there is now no remedy though as to the sting of it there be ' T is appointed for men once to dye 't is now Stature-Law Hebr. 9. 7. and has been executed through all ages and will be so to the end of the World Your Fathers where are they and the Prophets do they live Zach. 1. 5. for ever that is in this world where is Abraham the Father of the Faithful and David the Man after Gods own Heart and Lazarus the Friend of Christ the Patriarchs and Apostles Men of all sorts under both Oeconomies of the Old and New Testamant have long since tasted Death If ever there had been any dispensation from dying I suppose Christ would have brought it along with him but I find no such thing in the whole Gospel Charter 'T is said there is no condemnation to them that are in Rom. 8. 1. Christ Jesus but 't is not said there is no Death Just as God dealt by the Serpents in the Wilderness so did Christ with Sin and Death in the Gospel-state he did not presently destroy all the Serpents but took care that whoever was stung with them should be healed No more did Christ make Sin to be no Sin or Death to be no Death but he provided Pardon and Salvation Balme and Cure in his own Bloud he did not keep Men altogether from dying because he could do his Redeeming-work better without it for it is more to the honour

of Norwich as Members of this Diocess and as surviving Pupils of this Holy and Reverend Father whose Soul is with God but his Body still with us Once hugely useful yet by and by to be laid up in the common Repository of the Grave as an useless piece of Clay 'T is a great though no sudden change you have liv'd to see The Mitre and the Crosire both laid in the dust Your Master Elijah taken from your head to day A great Man fallen in Israel Death has play'd a mighty Prize and triumph'd over Learning and Authority and sweet Nature and Goodness and great Experience and Wisdom and an honourable Age at one blow God has smote our Shepherd and we are left for present as a scatter'd Flock What shall we do now Why you have done well already in your sad and solemn Procession to this place to condole your Loss to bring this your true Friend part of his journey towards his long home Once Angels disdain'd not to carry a poor Lazarus towards his eternal rest and therefore the best of you being but Lazars of sin and misery have done nothing beyond your Duty in paying those your last Respects to your departing Angel He had your Prayers while he liv'd and he deserves as well your Tears now he 's dead And herein most of all you have reason to sorrow as the Ephesian Elders did for St Paul that you shall see his Face no more you shall feel his Hand no more you shall hear his Voice no more But is this all you can afford to hear a Sermon at the Funeral or sprinkle a Tear upon the Herse of so eminent a Servant of Christ and of your Souls Have you nothing but a little Rosemary and Bayes wherewith to perfume nothing but a few bring drops wherein to preserve so excellent a Memory Shall this great Light go out as a Gloworm at the Hedge bottom with no greater noise than you can make with your eyes I hope not so but rather that you will remember him that had once the Rule over you and has often spoken to you the Word of God that you will follow his Faith acknowledge the Gifts and Graces of God that were in him and the good that has been done to you by him That you will transcribe his excellent pattern into your Lives dress by his Glass and walk in the light of his Fires In a word I hope that you will hear him and love him and reverence him and obey him as long as he Preaches to you and then I am sure you can't cease to do so now for Dead as well as Living he is still a Preaching Bishop His Coffin is his Pulpit his Grave is his Temple and he still teaches you though he sayes never a word viz. by his pious and mostinstructive example left unto the world by his fair character and good report easily and deservedly obtainable from others concerning him Now he is in Heaven he lives in his good Name upon Earth as when he was upon Earth he liv'd by his good heart in Heaven Death has but done us a courtesie by breaking the Box to make the precious oyntment of his Fame to have a more fragrant and diffusive savor What St Paul in his famous Funeral Oration for departed Saints Hebr. 11. sayes of Abel perfectly agrees to him he has obtained witness that he was righteous and being dead yet speaketh that is not with his own lips too cold and stiff God knows though Priests yea Bishops lips either to preserve or to derive knowledge but by the lips of others that knew him and can bear faithful Testimony to his Virtues and Memory Among whom I have the happiness to be able to profess my self one though of all others most unfit most unworthy to be the Encomiast of so great a Person Vir nec taoendus nec dicendus A Man of whom I can't be silent without detriment to the Church and dishonour to God and yet a Man of whom I can't speak without loss to his merit and diminution to his worth O then for another Elisha to follow this our going Elijah with his due Acclamation and Eulogy My Father My Father the Chariots of Israel and the Horsemen thereof O now for one of his own Order and Spirit and measures of Learning and Grace to write and tell his Story But since this is rather our wish than our attainment I see no remedy but you must be content with an Eccho for a Voice with a rude Draught for a fair Effigies only with this additional promise from your deficient Orator That what he wants in skill he will make up in faithfulness neither flattering him he speaks of nor fearing them he speaks to though there should chance to be among them some of that peevish and ill humor as to make a scruple to commend the Dead though never so deserving but none at all to calumniate the Living Concerning this our Deceased and justly to be Commemorated Lord and Father I shall dare to recommend thus much as true to succeeding Generations viz. That he was a Person in whom all was generally good allowing for humane srailties and many things were excellent and exceeding remarkable Of which only Materials I shall compose his following Character As for other Ornamentals and Additionals Et Genus Proavos Et quae non fecimus ipsi I shall lightly pass them by To tell you of his Birth Place of his Gentile Extraction of his Liberal Education of his Advantageous Institution of his Gradual Promotions and Employments in the University in the Countrey in the City in the Church To tell you of the several great Ranks wherein this great Light did both shine and burn To tell you how he pass'd the state of his Childhood the course of his Studies in his Youth and how he arrived at the Episcopal Chair and Dignity in his old Age. These being things wherein I am not so fully informed as 't is fit I should be ere I relate them to others and whereof he himself being of a singular Modesty and Humility was not wont to speak and whence we can receive but little benefit though exprest I say being such things I shall choose not to be more particular in them The Pearl needs no Art 't is beautiful enough in its own Lustre 'T is not painting the Prophets Sepulchre that I intend but describing the Prophet himself that you may know in him you had a Prophet of the Lord amongst you and neither the dust of his Feet while alive nor the dust of his Grave while dead may be us'd as a Testimony against you unawares First then He was universally good That is proportionably fitted and qualified to all his capacities both as a Man as a Christian as a Minister and as a Bishop I. He was a good Man Nature had before indu'd him much in his constitution he was of a most sweet and obliging temper of great candor meekness and ingenuity