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Occasional sermons preached by the Most Reverend Father in God, William Sancroft ... ; with some remarks of his life and conversation, in a letter to a friend.
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Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.
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in Private and in Public His Behaviour was always exceeding Grave and Composed and when-ever present at the Public Service of the Church he had not only a Habit of Seriousness visibly dwelt upon his Mind and Spirit but a Reverend and Profound Humility which appeared in the great Devotion of his Heart In a Word he had all the Virtue and Qualification both of a Great and of a Good Man he was a Wise Prelate a most Learned Divine an Universal Scholar a Just Man a Faithful Friend an Excellent Councellor a Kind and Tender Master to his Servants a great Benefactor to others a Thankful Beneficiary where he was obliged himself a Zealous Asserter of his Religion against Popery on the one side and Fanaticism on the other and in short all the single Perfections that make many Men Eminent were United in this Primate and render'd him Illustrious Thus I have ventur'd in hast to give you my Thoughts of this most Reverend Prelate while he lived and I am confident you earnestly expect at the same Time I should say something how he Died. All that I shall observe is that his Retirement into the Country was wholly in order thereunto that he might lay his Remains in the very same Soyl where he first received his Being His Time was spent most in Preparation for his great Change which he expected with the same Joy and Pleasure of Mind as others are wont to do their Advancements to Honour and Greatness The World was what he never Loved but only for those Opportunities it gave him of doing Good He parted with his Life with the same Submission to Divine Providence as the Christians of Old did with an humble Chearfulness and Resignation of Spirit He spent most of his Time in Private Devotion and Charity in daily Prayers to God for Himself and the whole World in Reading and Meditations and whatever Duties are necessary for a Good Man and a Dying Christian. He was some Months before he Dyed seized with a Fit of an Ague which confined him to his Bed for many Weeks The third Fit proved so exceeding violent that it was in great Likelihood to have Mastered his Nature and Constitution and Carryed him off every one about him thinking and His Grace likewise finding His Strength so far gone that it seemed impossible for him to have Grappled with another However it was diverted though against his Inclinations by the Cortex Peruvianus being more desirous to Dye than Live He was for many Days in Prospect of Death which he saw as it approached and felt it come on by Degrees and to the very last Minute of his Expiring Breath having placed Himself in a posture of Dying and Ordering the Recommendatory Prayer in the Service of the Visitation of the Sick to be read to him He immediately Resigned his Spirit to Almighty God and thereby gave all that were about him great Cause to Admire his Faith towards GOD his Zeal to his Church his Constancy of Mind his Contempt of the World his Universal Charity to all Mankind and his Chearful Hopes of Eternity He Dyed on the Twenty Fourth of November between Twelve and One of the Clock and was Buried on the Twenty Seventh between Eight and Nine very Privately as He himself Ordered it in Fresingfield Church-Yard on the South-side as near the Wall as they could Lay Him A Place indeed of his Own Chusing Sixteen Years Since at which Time he was Nominated to the See of CANTERBVRY But before his Instalment he took a Journey down into SVFFOLK to see his Relations and his Native Place and then told his Friends they should Bury Him There in Case He should Dye in that Country Though afterwards he Changed his Intentions and made a Place for his Interment in his own Palace at LAMBETH But upon his Deprivation and Return to the Place of his Nativity he Re-assumed his former Resolutions and Disposed of his Body as above mentioned and his SOVL into the Arms of his Dearest SAVIOUR What then Remains for Us but to Preserve the Memory of his Great Virtue always fresh in our Minds and Express as far as we are able the Copy of them in our Practice for this will be the best Way of Remembring the Dead which brings in most Advantage to the Living and the truest Way to Honour Him is to Imitate what was so good and highly Commendable in Him When the Piety and Humility the Justice and Charity and all the other Excellent Endearments of this Great Person are kept Alive and shewn in the Conversation of those that Survive Him It is only these Virtues which have Carried those that have gone before Us and which can Carry Us too in the End to a joyful Resurrection Thus Worthy Sir I have at your Request ventured to give you a brief Account of this most Excellent Prelate and am very Conscious to my self the Character I have given you of Him is Infinitely short of his Extraordinary Merit I might have insisted upon many Peculiar Passages of the Life and Actions of this Great Man which would have been more Honourable to him there being no VVay so Advantagious of drawing out Excellent Persons as by shewing the Draught which they have made of themselves their own most Commendable Actions making them more truly Illustrious than all the Paint and Varnish of an abstracted Eloquence Especially because this is of more Use and a better Help to Imitation But I have chosen rather to give you my Thoughts of Him in the General not doubting but some more Perfect and Larger Account will in due Time be Published concerning Him However I have this Satisfaction that you will I am sure Accept of my poor Endeavours herein having obeyed your Command with the same Chearfulness and Readiness wherewith you are wont to Oblige Sir Your Most Humble and Obedient Servant M. M. A SERMON PREACHED In S. Peter's Westminster on the first Sunday in Advent at the Consecration of the Right Reverend Fathers in God JOHN Lord Bishop of Durham WILLIAM Lord B. of S. Davids BENJAMIN Lord Bishop of Peterb HUGH Lord Bishop of Landaff RICHARD Lord Bishop of Carslile BRIAN Lord Bish. of Chester and JOHN Lord Bishop of Exeter By the Most Reverend Father in God William Sancroft Late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Apoc. 1. 20. Septem Stellae Angeli sunt Septem Ecclesiarum LONDON Printed by T. B. 1694. REVERENDO IN CHRISTO PATRI AC DOMINO D no. JOHANNI EPISCOPO DUNEâ—MENSI EOQUE NOMINE JURA HABENTI COMITIS PALATINI SACRAE THEOLOGIAE PROFESSORI VETERIS SCRIPTURARUM CANONIS ADSERTORI ET VINDICI ECCLESIAE PETROBURGENSIS EX DECANO DVNELMENSIS DECANO DESIGNATO DIU CANONICO JAM ETIAM 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ANGLIC ET FILIO ET PATRI OPTIMâ— ROMANAE HODIERNAE ET NUPRAE OPPUGNATORI STRENVO VETERIS ET PRIMITIVE UT CATHOLICAE DMIRATORI PERPETUO CVLTORI DEVOTISSIMO 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 VIRO Qvl INUTRIUSQUE FORTUNAE SEU DURIS SEU LUBRICIS EODEM
our serious Amendment we have no Rainbow to assure us that we shall not again be drencht in that horrible Tempest Though the best Naturalists say That great public Fires are a proper Remedy for the Plague Yet God if he be Angry can send a ruffling Wind into the very Ashes of our City blow them into the Air and turn them as those of the Egyptian Furnace into a Blain and a Botch and a Plague-sore upon us Nay even out of those dead Ashes can He raise yet a fiercer Flame to consume what still remains As the Lightning comes out of the East saith our Lord and shineth even unto the West so shall my coming be sc. to destroy Ierusalem and where ever the Carcase is will the Eagles be gathered together Matth. xxiv Fire is the Eagle in Nature nothing in the Elementary World mounts so high to its place and stoops so low to it's prey The two properties God himself ascribes to that Bird Iob xxxix 27 30. And if we still refuse obstinately to be gathered like Chickens under our Lord's Wing he can again let loose this Bird of Prey this Eagle of Heaven upon us and from the East where it began before flie it home like Lightning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 even to the utmost West to seize and to devour where ever there is the least Quarry remaining Or if this move us not let us remember that we have another City upon the Waters a floating Town of moveable Forts and Castles the Walls and Bulwarks of the Nation stronger than those of Brass the Fable speaks of As we desire that God would ever fill their Sails with prosperous Gails and still bring them home with Honor and Victory and good Success Let us take heed that we fight not against them too Our Sin like a Talent of Lead may sink them to the Bottom our Lusts and Passions and Animosities may fire them our Drunkenness and deep Excesses may drown them our Vollies of Oaths and Blasphemies may pierce them nay our Seditious Murmurings and Privy Whisperings may blow them over For God is Piorum Rupes Reorum Scoâ—ulus a Rock to found the Just upon but a shelf to shipwrack and confound the Unrighteous And yet all these are but the common Roads and ordinary Instances of God's Displeasures But he hath also besides and beyond all these unknown Treasures of Wrath vastâ— stores of hidden Judgments for who knows the Power or the extent of his Anger laid up in those secret Magazines where his Judgments are when they are not in the Earth reserv'd as his dreadful Artillery against the time of trouble against the day of Battel and War as he speaks himself Iob xxxviii 23. Oh let us take heed of treasuring up to our selves Wrath against that day of Wrath and the Revelation of his Righteous Iudgments And now what shall I say more if all that hath been said hitherto prove ineffectual The Text affords yet one Expedient as the Chaldee Paraphrast may seem to have understood it Because thy Iudgment saith he not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in the Hebrew but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Iews call it and St. Iude from them The Iudgment of the great Day because that Judgment though not as yet in the Earth is yet fixt and appointed and prepared for all the Earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Hebrew it self too for rather than in the Earth therefore most certainly if at all or for any thing the Inhabitants of the World will learn Righteousness But if they put far from them this evil day too as if they had made a Covenant with Death and with Hell if they finally refuse to come under God's Discipline and to take forth to themselves Lessons of Righteousness here they shall then be made themselves great Lessons and dreadful Examples of God's Righteousness to all the World If they will not glorifie God in these Fires as they ought nor walk in the light of them let them remember that there are Fires without Light where none glorifie him but by suffering the Eternal Vengeance of their Sins There must they learn by saddest experience who obstinately refuse the more gainful Method 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That 't is a fearfull thing to fall into the Hands of a living God For our Enemies here must die and our storms at last blow over and our Fires you see though never so great in time go out and vanish But God lives hath a Worm too that dies not for those that live not as they ought and a Fire that is not quenched The Babylonian Furnace seven times hotter than usual a cool walk to that all our Vulcans and Aetnas our Heclas and Andes faint Types and shadows of it the great Conflagration we so lately trembled at and still bewail but a spark to that infernal Tophet but a painted Fire to that dreadful Mongibel even Everlasting Burnings From which God of his tender Mercy deliver us All and give us Grace in this our Day the Day of his Judgments so to learn Righteousness and so to do it that at the last and great Day of Judgment when he shall come again to Account with us for all our Learning and for all our Doings we may through his Mercy receive the Crown of Righteousness for his sake alone who so dearly bought it for us even Jesus Christ the Righteous To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be ascribed by us and all the Creatures in Heaven and Earth Blessing Honour Glory and Power henceforth and for evermore Amen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS Die Jovis 24 Octobris 1678. ORdered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled That the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury be and is hereby Appointed to Preach before the House of Peers in the Abbey-Church at Westminster on Wednesday the Thirteenth Day of November next being the Day appointed by His Majesty for Solemn Fasting and Humiliation to implore the Mercy and Protection of God Almighty upon the King's Majesty and His Kingdoms IO. BROWNE Cleric Parliamentorum A SERMON PREACH'D To the House of Peers November 13th 1678. Being the FAST-DAY Appointed by the KING TO Implore the Mercies of Almighty GOD in the Protection of His MAIESTIES Sacred Person and His Kingdoms By the Most Reverend Father in God William Sancroft Late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury LONDON Printed by T. B. 1694. Die Iovis 14 Novembris 1678. ORdered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled That the Thanks of this House be given to the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for his Pains in Preaching before the House of Peers in the Abbey-Church Yesterday being the Day Appointed by His Majesty for Solemn Fasting and Humiliation and that His Grace be desired to Print and Publish his Sermon then Preached IO. BROWNE Cleric Parliamentorum A SERMON PREACH'D To the House of Peers PSALM Lvii. ver 1. In the Shadow of