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A63741	Dekas embolimaios a supplement to the Eniautos, or, Course of sermons for the whole year : being ten sermons explaining the nature of faith, and obedience, in relation to God, and the ecclesiastical and secular powers respectively : all that have been preached and published (since the Restauration) / by the Right Reverend Father in God Jeremy Lord Bishop of Down and Connor ; with his advice to the clergy of his diocess.; Eniautos. Supplement	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1667 (1667)	Wing T308; ESTC R11724	252,853	230

and that I may feel the same effect of my repentance which she feels of the many degrees of her innocence Such was her death that she did not die too soon and her life was so useful and excellent that she could not have lived too long Nemo parum diu vixit qui virtutis perfectae perfecto functus est munere And as now in the grave it shall not be enquired concerning her how long she lived but how well so to us who live after her to suffer a longer calamity it may be some ease to our sorrows and some guide to our lives and some securiry to our conditions to consider that God hath brought the piety of a young Lady to the early rewards of a never ceasing and never dying Eternity of Glory And we also if we live as she did shall partake of the same glories not only having the honour of a good Name and a dear and honour'd Memory but the glories of these glories the end of all excellent labours and all prudent counsels and all holy Religion even the salvation of our Souls in that day when all the Saints and among them this excellent Woman shall be shewn to all the World to have done more and more excellent things than we know of or can describe Mors illos consecrat quorum exitum qui timent laudant Death consecrates and makes sacred that person whose excellency was such that they that are not displeased at the death cannot dispraise the life but they that mourn sadly think they can never commend sufficiently FINIS THE Whole Duty OF THE CLERGY IN LIFE BELIEF AND DOCTRINE Described and pressed effectually upon their Consciences in Two Sermons on Tit. 2. 7,8 Preached in so many several VISITATIONS By the Right Reverend Father in God JEREMY Lord Bishop of Down and Connor LONDON Printed for R. Royston Bookseller to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1666. Imprimantur Hae duae Conciones Tho. Tomkyns RR imo in Christo Patri ac Domino D no Gilberto Divinâ Providentiâ Archi-Episcopo Cantuariensi à Sacris Domesticis THE Ministers Duty IN LIFE DOCTRINE SERM. IX Tit. II. 7 8. In all things shewing thy self a pattern of good works In Doctrine shewing uncorruptness gravity sincerity Sound Speech that cannot be condemned that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed having no evil thing to say of you AS God in the Creation of the World first produced a mass of matter having nothing in it but an obediential capacity and passivity which God separating into classes of division gave to every part a congruity to their respective forms which in their distinct Orbs and Stations they did receive in order and then were made beauteous by separations and a new Oeconomy and out of these he appointed some for Servants and some for Government and some to eat and some to be eaten some above and some below some to be useful to all the rest and all to minister to the good of man whom he made the Prince of the Creation and a Minister of the Divine glory So God hath also done in the new Creation all the world was concluded under sin it was a corrupt mass all mankind had corrupted themselves but yet were capable of Divine influences and of a nobler form producible in the new birth here then Gods Spirit moves upon the waters of a Divine Birth and makes a separation of part from part of corruption from corruption and first chose some Families to whom he communicated the Divine influences and the breath of a nobler life Seth and Enoch Noah and Abraham Job and Bildad and these were the special Repositories of the Divine Grace and Prophets of righteousness to glorifie God in themselves and in their Sermons unto others But this was like enclosing of the Sun he that shuts him in shuts him out and God who was and is an infinite goodness would not be circumscribed and limited to a narrow circle goodness is his Nature and infinite is his Measure and communication of that goodness is the motion of that eternal being God g. breaks forth as out of a Cloud and picks out a whole Nation the Sons of Israel became his Family and that soon swell'd into a Nation and that Nation multiplied till it became too big for their Country and by a necessary dispersion went and did much good and gained some servants to God out of other parts of mankind But God was pleased to cast lots once more and was like the Sun already risen upon the earth who spreads his rays to all the corners of the habitable World that all that will open their eyes and draw their Curtains may see and rejoice in his light Here God resolved to call all the World he sent into the high ways and hedges to the corners of the Gentiles and the high ways of the Jews all might come that would for the sound of the Gospel went out into all Lands and God chose all that came but all would not and those that did he gathered into a fold marked them with his own mark sent his Son to be the great Shepherd and Bishop of their Souls and they became a peculiar People unto God a little Flock a new Election And here is the first separation and singularity of the Gospel all that hear the voice of Christ's first call all that profess themselves his Disciples all that take his signature they and their Children are the Church an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 called out from the rest of the World the elect and the chosen of God Now these being thus chosen out culled and picked from the evil Generations of the World he separates them from others to gather them to himself he separates them and sanctifies them to become holy to come out not of the companies so much as from the evil manners of the world God chuses them unto holiness they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 put in the right order to eternal life All Christians are holy unto the Lord and g. must not be unholy in their conversation for nothing that is unholy shall come neer to God That 's the first great line of our duty But God intends it further All Christians must not be only holy but eminently holy For John indeed baptized with water but that 's but a dull and unactive Element and moves by no principle but by being ponderous Christ baptizes with the Holy Ghost and with fire and God hates lukewarmness and when he choses to him a peculiar People he adds they must be zealous of good works But in this affair there are many steps and great degrees of progression 1. All Gods People must be delivered from all sin for as Christ came wholly to destroy the works of the Devil so he intends also to present his Church as a pure Virgin unto Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without scandal without hypocrisie without spot or wrinkle or any such thing For to be quit from sin

cement Governments to establish Peace to propagate the Kingdom of Christ to do hurt to no man to do good to every man that is so to minister that Religion and Charity publick Peace and Private Blessings may be in their exaltation As long as it was thus done by the Primitive Bishops the Princes and the People gave them all honour Insomuch that by a Decree of Constantine the Great the Bishop had power given him to retract the Sentences made by the Presidents of Provinces and we find in the Acts of S. Nicholas that he rescued some innocent persons from death when the Executioner was ready to strike the fatal blow which thing even when it fell into inconvenience was indeed forbidden by Arcadius and Honorius but the confidence and honour was only changed it was not taken away for the condemned Criminal had leave to appeal to the Audientia Episcopalis to the Bishops Court This was not any right which the Bishops could challenge but a reward of their Piety and so long as the holy Office was holily administred the World found so much comfort and security so much justice and mercy so many temporal and spiritual Blessings consequent to the Ministries of that Order that as the Galatians to S. Paul men have plucked out their eyes to do them service and to do them honour For then Episcopacy did that good that God intended by it it was a Spiritual Government by Spiritual Persons for Spiritual Ends Then the Princes and the People gave them honours because they deserved and sought them not then they gave them wealth because they would dispend it wisely frugally and charitably Then they gave them power because it was sure to be used for the defence of the innocent for the relief of the oppressed for the punishment of evil doers and the reward of the virtuous Then they desired to be judged by them because their Audiences or Courts did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they appeased all furious Sentences and taught gentle Principles and gave merciful Measures and in their Courts were all Equity and Piety and Christian Determinations But afterwards when they did fall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into secular methods and made their Counsels vain by pride and dirtied their sentences with money then they became like other men and so it will be unless the Bishops be more holy then other men but when our sanctity and severity shall be as eminent as the calling is then we shall be called to Councels and sit in publick meetings and bring comfort to private Families and rule in the hearts of men by a jus relationis such as was between the Roman Emperors and the Senate they courted one another into power and in giving honour strived to out-do each other for from an humble wise man no man will snatch an imployment that is honourable but from the proud and from the covetous every man endeavours to wrest it and thinks it lawful prize My time is now done and therefore I cannot speak to the third part of my text the reward of the good Steward and of the bad I shall only mention it to you in a short exhortation and so conclude In the Primitive Church a Bishop was never admitted to publick penance not only because in them every crime is ten and he that could discern a publick shame could not deserve a publick honor nor yet only because every such punishment was scandalous and did more evil by the example of the crime then it could do good by the example of the punishment but also because no spiritual power is higher then the Episcopal and therefore they were to be referred to the Divine judgment which was likely to fall on them very heavily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lord will cut the evil Stewards asunder he will suffer Schisms and Divisions to enter in upon us and that will sadly cut us asunder but the evil also shall fall upon their persons like the punishment of quartering Traitors 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 punishment with the circumstances of detestation and exemplarity Consider therefore what is your great duty Consider what is your great danger The lines of duty I have already described only remember how dear and pretious Souls are to God since for their salvation Christ gave his bloud and therefore will not easily lose them whom though they had sinned against him yet he so highly valued remember that you are Christs Deputies in the care of Souls and that you succeed in the place of the Apostles Non est facile stare loco Pauli tenere gradum Petri You have undertaken the work of S. Paul and the Office of S. Peter and what think you upon this account will be required of us S. Hierom expresses it thus The wisdom and skill of a Bishop ought to be so great that his countenance his gesture his motion every thing should be vocal ut quicquid agit quicquid loquitur doctrina sit Apostolorum that whatever he does or speaks be doctrine Apostolical The ancient Fathers had a pious opinion that besides the Angel guardian which is appointed to the guard of every man there is to every Bishop a second Angel appointed to him at the Consecration and to this Origen alludes saying that every Bishoprick hath two Angels the one visible and the other invisible This is a great matter and shews what a precious thing that Order and those Persons are in the eyes of God but then this also means that we should live Angelick lives which the Church rarely well expresses by saying that Episcopal dignity is the Ecclesiastick state of perfection and supposes the persons to be so far advanced in holiness as to be in the state of confirmation in grace But I shall say nothing of these things because it may be they press too hard but the use I shall make of it upon occasion of the reward of the good and bad Steward is to remind you of your great danger For if it be required of Bishops to be so wise and so holy so industrious and so careful so busie and so good up to the height of best examples if they be anointed of the Lord and are the Husbands of the Churches if they be the Shepherds of the flock and Stewards of the houshould it is very fit they consider their danger that they may be careful to do their duty S. Bernard considers it well in his Epistle to Henry Archbishop of Sens If I lying in my Cell and smoaking under a Bushel not shining yet cannot avoid the breath of the winds but that my light is almost blown out what will become of my Candle if it were placed on a candelstick and set upon a hill I am to look to my self alone and provide for my own salvation and yet I offend my self I am weary of my self I am my own scandal and my own danger my own eye and mine own belly and my own appetite find me work enough and therefore God help

Slanderer could tell a story yet none could prove that ever he received a Bribe to blind his eyes to the value of a pair of Gloves It was his own Expression when he gave glory to God who had preserved him innocent But because every mans Cause is right in own eyes it was hard for him so to acquit himself that in the Intriques of Law and difficult Cases some of his Enemies should not seem when they were heard alone to speak reason against him But see the greatness of Truth and Prudence and how greatly God stood with him When the numerous Armies of vexed people Turba gravis paci placidaeque inimica quieti heaped up Catalogues of Accusations when the Parliament of Ireland imitating the violent procedures of the then disordered English when his glorious Patron was taken from his head and he was disrobed of his great defences when Petitions were invited and Accusations furnished and Calumny was rewarded and managed with art and power when there were above 200 Petitions put in against him and himself denyed leave to answer by word of mouth when he was long imprisoned and treated so that a guilty man would have been broken into affrightment and pitiful and low considerations yet then he himself standing almost alone like Calimachus at Marathon invested with enemies and covered with arrows defended himself beyond all the powers of guiltiness even with the defences of Truth and the bravery of Innocence and answered the Petitions in writing sometimes twenty in a day with so much clearness evidence of truth reality of Fact and Testimony of Law that his very Enemies were ashamed and convinced they found they had done like Aesops Viper they licked the file till their tongues bled but himself was wholly invulnerable They were therefore forced to leave their muster-rolls and decline the particulars and fall to their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to accuse him for going about to subvert the fundamental Laws the way by which great Strafford and Canterbury fell which was a device when all reasons fail'd to oppress the Enemy by the bold affirmation of a Conclusion they could not prove they did like those Gladiatores whom the Romans call'd Retiaries when they could not stab their Enemies with their Daggers they threw Nets over him and cover'd him with a general mischief But the Martyr King Charles the First of most Glorious and Eternal Memory seeing so great a Champion likely to be oppress'd with numbers and despair sent what rescue he could His Royal Letter for his Bail which was hardly granted to him and when it was it was upon such hard terms that his very delivery was a persecution So necessary it was for them who intended to do mischief to the Publick to take away the strongest Pillars of the House This thing I remark to acquit this great man from the Tongue of slander which had so boldly spoken that it was certain something would stick yet was so impotent and unarmed that it could not kill that great Fame which his greater Worthiness had procur'd him It was said of Hippasus the Pythagorean that being asked how and what he had done he answered Nondum nihil neque enim adhuc mihi invidetur I have done nothing yet for no man envies me He that does great things cannot avoid the tongues and teeth of Envy but if Calumnies must pass for Evidences the bravest Hero's must always be the most reproached Persons in the World Nascitur Aetolicus pravum ingeniosus ad omne Qui facere assuerat patriae non degener artis Candida de nigris de candentibus atra Every thing can have an ill name and an ill sense put upon it but God who takes care of Reputations as he does of Lives by the orders of his Providence confutes the slander ut memoria justorum sit in benedictionibus that the memory of the righteous man might be embalm'd with honour And so it hapned to this great man for by a publick Warranty by the concurrent Consent of both Houses of Parliament the Libellous Petitions against him the false Records and publick Monuments of injurious shame were cancell'd and he was restor'd in integrum to that Fame where his great Labours and just Procedures had first estated him which though it was but justice yet it was also such honour that it is greater than the virulence of tongues which his worthiness and their envy had arm'd against him But yet the great Scene of the troubles was but newly opened I shall not refuse to speak yet more of his troubles as remembring that S. Paul when he discourses of the glories of the Saints departed he tells more of their Sufferings than of their Prosperities as being that Laboratory and Crysable in which God makes his Servants Vessels of honour to his glory The storm quickly grew high transitum est à linguis ad gladios and that was indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iniquity had put on arms when it is armata nequitia then a man is hard put to it The Rebellion breaking out the Bishop went to his Charge at Derry and because he was within the defence of Walls the execrable Traitor Sir Phelim ô Neale laid a snare to bring him to a dishonourable death for he wrote a Letter to the Bishop pretended Intelligence between them desir'd that according to their former Agreement such a Gate might be deliver'd to him The Messenger was not advis'd to be cautious nor at all instructed in the art of Secrecy for it was intended that he should be search'd intercepted and hang'd for ought they car'd but the Arrow was shot against the Bishop that he might be accused for base Conspiracy and die with shame and sad dishonour But here God manifested his mighty care of his Servants he was pleased to send into the heart of the Messenger such an affrightment that he directly ran away with the Letter and never durst come neer the Town to deliver it This story was published by Sir Phelim himself who added That if he could have thus ensnar'd the Bishop he had good assurance the Town should have been his own Sed bonitas Dei praevalitura est super omnem malitiam hominis The goodness of God is greater than all the malice of men and nothing could so prove how dear that sacred Life was to God as his rescue from the dangers Stantia non poterant tecta probare Deos To have kept him in a warm house had been nothing unless the roof had fallen upon his head that rescue was a remark of Divine Favour and Providence But it seems Sir Phelim's Treason against the Life of this worthy Man had a Correspondent in the Town and it broke out speedily for what they could not effect by malicious stratagem they did in part by open force they turned the Bishop out of the Town and upon trifling and unjust pretences search'd his Carriages and took what they pleas'd till they were asham'd to take more they