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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92748	Funeral sermon at the interrment of the very great and noble Charles late Earl of Southeske who died at his castle of Leuchars in the shire of Fife, upon the 9th. of August. And was interr'd at his burial-place near his house of Kinnaird in the shire of Angus, upon the 4th. of October 1699. By R.S. D.D.	Scott, Robert, D.D.	1699 (1699)	Wing S2081; ESTC R229815	16,859	28

all the Deliberation and Digestedness a very little time before his Death as he used to do in the time of his Health with all Demonstration of Kindness taking by the Hand all that were about him committing them to God Pardoning and praying for all his Enemies and heartily Blessing his Hopeful Son One Passage did very much instruct the Christian Magnaminity al 's wel as Moral Fortitude of his Mind when the Surprize of a very excuseable Passion made his Dearest and truely Noble Consort break out in some kind deep Resentments at her Thoughts of his parting from the World He thus expressed himself as with a Challenge Why should not I resign my Soul unto God at His pleasure All the Greatness and Wealth and numerous Circumstances of Temporal Felicity were not so much as in his View The seriousness of his Devotions al 's well as the Fortitude of his Mind left no place for such low and mean Thoughts To this add a singular Instance of that orderly and digested Regard which he payed to God all that Night over before it pleased God to call him out of this Mortal Life As oft as Prayers were offered for him the returns of which were very frequent and that most Just and Righteous Conclusion of our Requests in the Words of our Blessed Lord and Saviours form of Prayer which rectifies all our undigested Thoughts sounded in his Ears he pulled off the thin Covering of his Head with which he was abundantly discovered when it was upon him and with the profundest Devotion joyned in the Petitions thereof Here is a Chain of Virtues made mention of before you hanging about this Great and Noble Personage Virtues have always their proper Lustre where ever they are to be found but set forth a greater deal of Beauty and Glory when made Conspicuous by so high a Station like Pallas or Minerva sitting upon a Triumphal Arch and commanding the profoundest Regard from all their Votaries passing by them upon the common Level of the Earth O! What Obligations ly upon Great Men to be Virtuous provocking to Imitation the Multitudes of such as stand upon a lower Ground considerably reforming the World putting common Debauchry Dissolutness of Life to the Blush And by so doing greatly advancing the Kingdom of God But to live this Digression I say here is a Chain of Virtues Meekness and Humility Twins of Paradise fit for the Fellowship of Jesus and meet to enter into the Societies of the Blessed without which they cannot abide in these Regions of true Felicity more than Lucifer in Heaven or Adam in the Garden of Eden Justice Charity the two profitable Hand-maids of Human Society Ministering to the present Exigences of his lower World without which neither could the Poor Subsist nor the Rich be Happy Again here are Prudence Fortitude and Temperance The Philosophers have left us little to say of these only they Treat them likeways with respect to this Life and the constituting and carrying on of a Temporal Happiness and summum bonum under the Sun But in the other World our Prudence shall be swallowed up of a perfected Wisdom whereof it is but a Spice or Syre Fortitude shall lose it self in a fearless and inconcussible State And Temperance shall surrender its Dominion to a total Exemption from the use of the Creature To all these add Pure and Holy Devotion and this is a lasting Tribut payable to our Great Lord and Maker as in this World so in that which is to come And now with this Climax or Chain of Virtues in their different Positions and Gradations in their proper Exercises and Operations did our Great and Noble Friend and Fellow Christian shew himself forth in the World Having them so closs hanging about him and knit unto him that so long as he was capable of Communion with Us and the common Union of Soul and Body was allowed to subsist they shined forth with a Meridian Brightness Only the last of these as most becoming his Business of appearing before God seemed in the last place totally to possess his Soul and to shew forth a great work of God upon his Heart making him to breath forth a total Abnegation and cheerful Dereliction of all the enjoyments of this Life And in this manner did he spend his Time in the approaches of Death as he had done for a considerable time before having also received the Holy Eucharist from the Hand of one who was Worthy and had right to Celebrat and Administer it Thus did he in the strength of a firm Mind and in the returns of continual Devotions wait for the coming of his Lord uttering these Words and never any after them Into thy Hands O Lord I ecommend my Spirit Thus this Noble and Excellent Personage with this upright Job whose Patience in a most lively manner he transcribed as in the course of his Life where he wanted not singular enough tryals so most Eminently in his last Fatal Sickness was brought unto Death and to the House Appointed for all Living What was Great and Noble about Him either in the Extract or Alliances of his Family where there wants no Ground enough to Celebrat his Greatness we cannot so much consider the Subject of a Funeral as the work of a Pencil And therefore recommends you to his Escutcheon where you will find the Ensigns Armorial of the Noblest and Greatest Families of this Nation Or if there were any Faults or Failings in his Life As what Man liveth and finneth not that is as little my Business What I have already said of Him seems to speak Him more than a Penitent even a Favorite of Heaven and yet boasting of no Attainments but in the wonted Humility of his Soul throwing himself intirely upon the Merits of the Blessed Jesus the only true and solid Plea of the best of Christians And here we shall leave Him where we hope to be found in the day of our Appearrance And what now remains but the last Duty of his Noble and Honourable Blood Friends To commit his Body to the Dust since his Spirit is returned to God who gave it And Blessed are the Dead which Die in the Lord from henceforth for they rest from their Labours and their Works do follow them FINIS