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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30290	The way to peace A funeral sermon on Job 22.21. Preached upon the decease of the right honourable Elizabeth, Countess of Ranalagh. By Daniel Burgess.	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1695 (1695)	Wing B5719; ESTC R224017	30,595	82

The Way to Peace A FUNERAL SERMON On Job 22.21 Preached upon the Decease Of the Right Honourable ELIZABETH Countess of Ranalagh By DANIEL BURGESS London Printed by J. D. for Jonathan Robinson in St. Paul's Church-Yard and Brab Ailmer in Cornhill 1695. To the Right Honourable RICHARD Earl of Ranalagh And to his most Vertuous Daughters ELIZABETH Countess of Kildare Lady FRANCEL and Lady KATHERINE Jones My Lord and Ladies I Have performed this small Service to the Memory of one deserving to be had in everlasting Remembrance The Part of it which concerns her Heavenly Vertues claimeth as its undoubted Right and is sure to have your most honourable Testimony Although the whole be so blemish'd with the Author's Imperfections that it deserveth his Blush and needeth your Pardon A Pardon whereof he despairs not because through your overflowing Affection unto the Deceased You have pleased to honour me with many great Favours And because as every one seeth the Greatest and the Best Persons be not the hardest to please My Gratitude shall ever keep my Prayer ascending to the Almighty for your noble Family Whereof so renowned Relatives as your Lordship 's incomparable Mother the Illustrious Roger Earl of Orrery and the immortal Mr. Robert Boil have long ago obliged me to be a true Votary May your Redeemer's Grace hold you safe upon the Precipices of your Prosperity And make your secular Grandeurs to become Testimonies of his present Favour and Pledges of your future Felicity May your Persons and Off-spring be Blessings to this World And when you are Translated to the next May you carry the Peace of God with you and leave the Praise of Men behind you Thus prayeth Your Honours most Obliged and most Obedient Servant DANIEL BURGESS A SERMON preach'd upon the Decease of the right Honourable ELIZABETH Countess of Ranalagh Job 22.21 Acquaint now thy self with Him and be at Peace thereby Good shall come unto thee THE Lion hath rored who will not Fear Death hath this Year bin indeed the King of Terrors And we are deaf unto Thunder if yet we do not Hear and Fear The Excellent of the Earth it hath taken from this Earth Yea the Mighty Instruments and glorious Ornaments of our Weal Open your Volumes O ye antient Records and name us if ye can such a MARY as this Kingdom and World hath lost in this Year Such a Cedar such an Olive such a Vine such a Guardian-Angel Blessed be the Father of Mercies he hath continued to us the nursing Father of our Country But of what a Mother hath he bereaved it You have heard and joined I hope in the National Groans such as spake Church and State to be half-expiring You have seen the whole Realm turn'd into a House of Mourning And now I need not tell you the Lion still rores Our offended God hath not yet done with us No but is still Writing bitter things against us and hath stained the Glory of this Month with additional Darkness Removed another burning and shining Light of our World another rare Exemplar of Christian Piety You do know what a Princess thereof is fallen for you know the Lady RANALAGH is deceased My business hereon is not to sound an Encomium but preach a Sermon For we need to be Instructed she needs not be Praised It is well enough known how nearly Diamonds do imitate the Stars of Heaven how far the Moon out-shineth the Lamps which surround her and how vastly this Elect Lady did excel the Commoners of the Houshold of Faith It is true an utter Silence of her Sanctity would be Sacrilege To bury so much of Heaven in dark Oblivion would together rob God of Praise and his Church of Profit Yea the World of a due Debt For Saints Examples be their Legacies to the whole World and when they are by any means detained it is no less a Number that is defrauded of so rich a Treasure Wherefore as a more compleat Memorial of this Lady From Mr. J. J. her Reverend Pastor is expected from the fittest Hand there shall not be wanting what will be of some import in this Sermon This whose Theme is the Text which she bound about her Neck wrote on the Table of her Heart held fast and kept as her Life As that which when she Walked did Lead her when she Slept did Keep her when she Awaked did Talk with her The Text which she thought eminently-apt to give Subtility to the most Simple and to the most Indocile both Knowledg and Discretion The Text which I have hoped through the inspiration of the Holy Ghost to find such at this time Inasmuch as it presents both the Whole Counsel of God unto us and our Whole Encouragement from God to follow it The Counsel is One and All to Acquaint our selves with God And the Encouragement is no less Peace and all Good from Him Familiarly the Hebrews do speak Imperatively when they mean Futurely Be at Peace is as much as Thou shalt be at Peace And an Indefinit in re necessariâ is an Universal Good shall come unto thee is plainly All Good shall come unto thee These Particulars run without more ado into this Position Acquaintance with God is the way to Peace and all Good The Inclination unto Peace and Good is as universal as our Nature And so is the Capacity of it for unto All that will accept it on his Terms it is offered by God's Grace His Offer is unquestionably sincere and no Man is Miserable but by the Fault of his own Will Never perished any Adult Reprobate but by being Obstinate And as to Man's Desire it is most apparently Eager witness its Pursuits of all imaginary Good and its Flights from all apprehended Opposites It is not as the Sand of Africa Sol● Feritas calet Tertullian Cold and Barren but as it 's said of Scythia tho all things beside be frozen to Death yet the Barbarity therein is hot as Fire So must we say of Lapsed and unrenewed Man his Lust after Happiness is still most Flagrant though all right Vnderstanding of its Nature and of the way to attain it and of the Necessity of attending to the Divine Oracles to learn both be utterly Extinct By means hereof the many and next to All do seek Peace where it is not to be found Grope for it in the furrows of the Field hunt for it in Parks trade for it in Ships flatter for it in Courts fight for it in Battels Not averted from the Folly of their Toils by the Frustration of their Hopes while the Earth saith of Happiness It is not in me the Sea saith It is not in me and imperial Crowns do say as demonstratively We have not the Gem you look for But as more silly Birds than the Historians they continue to flock unto the Painted Grapes And as under Inchantment keep flying at Impossibilities without shame of Disappointment The Truth I have proposed is Divine Eye-salve Which if the good