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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26728	Hieronikēs, or, The fight, victory, and triumph of S. Paul accommodated to the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas, late L. Bishop of Duresme, in a sermon preached at his funeral, in the parish church of St. Peter at Easton-Manduit in Northampton-shire, on Michaelmas-day, 1659 : together with the life of the said Bishop / by John Barwick ...	Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1008; ESTC R16054	101,636	192

and other infirmities compell'd him to it In this also he was a true disciple of St. Paul who had taught him by precept to endure hardness as a good souldier of Jesus Christ and by his own example 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to keep under his body and bring it into subjection lest when he had preached to others himself should become a reprobate So that hence you may clearly see how true a Disciple of this great Apostle this Reverend person hath been in all his actions both as a Christian and as a Bishop 2. And I could shew you the like of his sufferings if the work were not too hazardous as well as too great for this time For Action and Passion are Relative terms the one cannot be truly understood without reflecting upon the other and therefore I must forbear to speak of his Christian sufferings that I may the better conceal the unchristian doings of them that brought those sufferings upon him All that I shall say in this particular is this wherein I cannot wrong his Reverend brethren so much as single him altogether from them that when the Accuser of the Brethren had got a permission to vent his whole malice in Calumniating the Bishops of this poor afflicted Church he could not lay any personal fault to the charge of any one of them all that he could object against them was either their office as Bishops or that wherewith he deluded the giddy multitude to think was a failing in the exercise of that office though now it is evident to most men that will be content to lay aside their groundless jealousies that it was a timely foresight of that mischief and a providential care to suppress it which we now see when it is too late hath almost utterly ruined this once flourishing Church But as for this Reverend Bishop in particular there was never any thing laid to his charge by those that brought his sufferings upon him but only that he was a Bishop And whatsoever he suffered upon that account he well knew was not for evil doing but for conscience towards God and consequently for righteousness sake which made him with St. Paul rejoyce in his sufferings even then when he suffered the loss of his estate and liberty and which he valued much more the loss of the free exercise of his function in the Church in a word the loss of all things his life only excepted and for that he escaped very narrowly too in one of those I know not what to call them which contrary to common sense were voted no Tumults But the best was he valued it not in so good a cause as this was for he was wont alwayes to sweeten all his sufferings to himself with blessing God that no man could take from him either his Mortality or Immortality 3. And let this suffice though much more would be requisite to have spoken both of his fight and of his course whereof the one is now fought and the other finished and yet blessed be God for it he hath kept the Faith in both which was the third and crowning act in St. Paul wherein he was so carefully imitated by this Reverend Prelate who was faithful to God both in his duty as a Christian and in his office as a Bishop till the very last gasp and gave a full testimony of both by his actions while he had strength and power to express either 1. Witness his late Ordinations of Priests and Deacons here among you whereof some here present received the benefit and many more can give the testimony and wherein he was so exceeding careful when he durst not trust either his eyes or his memory that he gave the words of benediction as they were read unto him by some of those that assisted him in those solemn offices 2. Witness also his great care and earnest prayers of which likewise there be several witnesses here present that the sacred order and succession of Bishops might never fail in this poor afflicted and distressed Church 3. Witness likewise his very great and high esteem of the sacred Liturgy of the Church of England which I may justly say attended him to his very grave and did not expire with his breath For I had an express and particular command from him not to omit nor so much as transpose as he had observed too frequently to be done by others the reading of the Lesson taken out of 1 Cor. 15. which the Church hath prescribed to be read at the Grave and which being read there while the mouth of the grave is open upon those that hear it and while such a spectacle of mortality is before their eyes he said could not but have a greater influence upon their souls then any Funeral Sermon he had ever heard preached 4. Witness moreover his exceeding great fervour and devotion in prayer whereunto he seldome answered with a single Amen and at which duty he never kneeled upon a Qushion I think in all his life nor ever prayed but upon his knees till he was confined to his death-bed and even then would never lie with his Cap on his head if he either prayed himself or any other prayed by him while he had strength to pull it off with his own hands 5. Witness lastly that great consolation and devotion which he had and used in partaking the comforts of the Church to prepare him for his long journey I speak not only in respect of the Holy Eucharist it self as his viaticum but also of those preparatives which he used before it in the presence of many who are now here present as to the Profession of his Faith the stirring up of his hope and the exercise 1. of his charity in forgiving all that ever had done him any wrong 2. of his humility in desiring all men to forgive him though he could not remember he had wronged any 3. and last of all of his repentance wherein he was so exact and punctual as not to neglect that great benefit and comfort which every truly pious and humble soul doth reap from the Keyes of the Church in the Ministery of absolution duly performed which he both desired and received And when he had been partaker of these comforts himself he made all those that assisted him in them partakers of his Blessing upon them and prayers for them It is an infallible sign the soil is good when the seed that is sown doth not only forthwith spring up as that did which fell upon stony places but also bringeth forth fruit with patience in an honest and good heart as that did which fell upon the good ground and as the case was here For he did not only receive the seed with joy for the present but retained it with much comfort in the time of his greatest temptation even to the very last gasp which was two dayes after For while he was able to speak he testified the fruit of it by