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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57957	A funeral sermon preached at the obsequies of the right reverend father in God, Jeremy, Lord Bishop of Down who deceased at Lysburne August 13th, 1667 / by Dr. George Rust.	Rust, George, d. 1670.	1668 (1668)	Wing R2362; ESTC R17604	18,875	46

inconsiderable Estate he left at his Death will be easily convinc'd that Charity was Steward for a great proportion of his Revenue But the Hungry that he fed and the Naked that he cloath'd and the Distress'd that he supply'd and the Fatherless that he provided for the poor Children that he put to Apprentice and brought up at School and maintain'd at the University will now sound a Trumpet to that Charity which he dispersed with his right hand but would not suffer his left hand to have any knowledge of it To summ up all in a few words This Great Prelate he had the good Humour of a Gentleman the Eloquence of an Orator the Fancy of a Poet the Acuteness of a SchoolMan the Profoundness of a Philosopher the Wisdom of a Counsellor the Sagacity of a Prophet the Reason of an Angel and the Piety of a Saint He had Devotion enough for a Cloyster Learning enough for an University and Wit enough for a Colledge of Virtuosi 〈…〉 and had his Parts and Endowments been parcell'd out among his poor Clergy that he left behind him it would perhaps have made one of the best Diocese in the World But alas Our Father our Father the Horses of our Israel and the Chariot thereof he is gone and has carried his Mantle and his Spirit along with him up to Heaven and the Sons of the Prophets have lost all their beauty and lustre which they enjoy'd only from the reflexion of his Excellencies which were bright and radiant enough to cast a glory upon a whole Order of Men. But the Sun of this our world after many attempts to break through the Crust of an earthly Body is at last swallow'd up in the great Vortex of Eternity and there all his Maculae are scatter'd and dissolv'd and he is fixt in an Orb of Glory and shines among his Brethren-stars that in their several Ages gave light to the World and turn'd many Souls unto Righteousness and we that are left behind though we can never reach his perfections must study to imitate his Vertues that we may at last come to sit at his feet in the Mansions of Glory which God grant for his infinite mercies in Jesus Christ To whom with the Father through the Eternal Spirit be ascribed all Honour and Glory Worship and Thanks-giving Love and Obedienee now and for evermore Amen FINIS Books and Ser 〈…〉 written by Jer. Ta late Lord Bishop of Down and Conor ENIAUTOS A Course of Sermons for all the Sundays of the year together with a discourse of the Divine Institution Necessity Sacredness and Separation of the Office Ministerial in folio 2. The History of the Life and Death of the Ever-blessed Jesus Christ the 3d. Edit in fol. 3. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living in 8. 4. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying in 8. 5. The Golden Grove or 〈◊〉 of daily Prayers fitted 〈◊〉 days of the Week together with a short Method of Peace and Holiness in 12. 6. A Collection of Polemical and Moral discourses in 〈◊〉 newly reprinted 7. A Discourse of the Nature Offices and Measure of Friendship in 12. new 8. A Collection of Offices or forms of Prayer fitted to the needs of all Christians taken out of the Scriptures and Ancient Liturgies of several Churches especially the Greek together with the Psalter or Psalms of David after the Kings Translation in a large 8. newly published 7. Ductor Dubitantium or the Rule of Conscience fol. in two Volumes 10. The Doctrine and Practice of Repentance describing the necessities of a Strict a Holy and a Christian Life Serving as a necessary Supplement unto the Rule of Conscience 11 ` 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Supplement to the ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or course of Sermons for the whole 〈◊〉 All that have been 〈◊〉 published since the 〈◊〉 to which is adjoyned his Advice to the Clergy of his Diocese 12. The Worthy Commu 〈…〉 cant or a Discourse of the Nature Effects and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lord's Supper Printed for J. Martin 13. A Discourse of Confirmation in 8o. new 14. A Dissuasive from Popery in 8o. new First Part 15. The Second Part of the Dissuasive from Popery in vindication of the First in 4o. new A Funeral Sermon preached at the Obsequies of the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Down All sold by R. Royston

are several faculties in the Soul of Man that are conformed to several kinds of objects and according to that Life a Man is a waked into so these faculties do exert themselves and though whilst we live barely an Animal Life we converse with little more than this outward World and the objects of our Senses yet there are Faculties within us that are receptive of God and when we arrive once unto a due measure of purity of Spirit the Rayes of Heavenly Light will as certainly shine into our minds as the beams of the Sun when it arises above the Horizon do illuminate the clear and pellucid air And from this sight and illumination the Soul proceeds to an intimate union with God and to a tast and touch of him This is that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that silent touch with God that fills the Soul with unexpressible joy and triumph For if the objects of this outward world that strike upon our senses do so hugely please and delight us What infinite pleasure then must there needs be in those touches and Impresses that the Divine Love and goodness shall make upon our Souls But these are things that we may talk of as we would do of a sixth Sense or something we have no distinct Notion or Idea of but the perfect understanding of them belongs only to the future state of Comprehension Lastly we shall have our Knowledge and our Love which are the most perfect and beatifying Acts of our Minds employed about their noblest objects in their most exalted Measures For a Man to resolve himself in some knotty Question or answer some stubborn Argument or find out some noble Conclusion or solve some hard Probleme what ineffable pleasure does it create many times to a contemplative mind We know who sacrific'd a Hecatomb for one Mathematical Demonstration and another that upon the like occasion cry'd out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a kind of Rapture To have the secrets of Nature disclos'd and the mysteries of Art reveal'd but above all the Riddles of Providence unfolded are such Jewels as I know many searching and inquisitive Spirits would be willing to purchase at any Rate when we come to Heaven I will not say We shall see all things in the mirror of Divinity for that it may be is an Extravagancy of the Schools nor that any one true Proposition through the concatenation of Truth will then multiply it self into the explicit knowledge of all Conclusions whatsoever for I believe that a Fancy too but our Knowledge shall be strangely enlarg'd and for ought I can determine be for ever receiving new Additions and fresh Accruements The Clew of Divine Providence will then be unravell'd and all those Difficulties which now perplex us will be easily assoyl'd and we shall then perceive that the Wisdom and Goodness of God is a vast and comprehensive Thing and moves in a far larger Sphear than we are aware of in this state of narrowness and imperfection But there is something greater and beyond all this and S. John has a strange Expression That we shall then see God even as he is And God we know is the well-spring of Perfection and Happiness the Fountain and Original of all Beauty he is infinitely glorious and lovely excellent and if we see him as he is all this Glory must descend into us and become ours for we can no otherwaies see God as I said before but by becoming Deiform by being changed into the same Glory But Love that is it which makes us most happy and by that we are most intimately conjoyn'd unto God For he that dwelleth in Love dwelleth in God and God in him And how pleasant beyond all imagination must it needs be to have the Soul melted into a flame of Love and that Fire fed and nourish'd by the enjoyment of it 's Beloved To be transported into Ecstasies and Raptures of Love to be swallowed up in the embraces of eternal sweetness to be lost in the Sourse and Fountain of Happiness and Bliss like a spark in the Fire or a beam in the Sun or drop in the Ocean It may be you will tell me I have been all this while confuting my Text and giving you a Relation of that which S. John tells us does not yet appear what it is But my design has been the same with the Holy Evangelist's and that is to represent unto you how transcendently great that State of Happiness must needs be when as by what we are able to apprehend of it it is infinitely the object of our desires and yet we are assur'd by those that are best able to tell That the best and greatest part of the Countrey is yet undiscover'd and that we cannot so much as guess at the pleasure of it till we come to enjoy it And indeed it is impossible it should be otherwise for Happiness being a matter of Sense all the words in the World cannot convey the Notion of it unto our Minds and it is only to be understood by them that feel it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But though it does not yet appear what we shall be yet so much already appears of it that it cannot but seem the most worthy object of our endeavours and desires and by some few Clusters that have been shewn us of this good Land we may guess what pleasant and delightful Fruit it bears And if we have but any reverence of our selves and will but consider the dignity of our Natures and the vastness of that Happiness we are capable of methinks we should be alwayes travelling towards that Heavenly Countrey though our way lies through a Wilderness and be striving for this great Prize and immortal Crown and be clearing our eyes and purging our sight that we may come to this Vision of God shaking off all fond passions and dirty desires and breathing forth our Souls in such aspirations as these My Soul thirsteth for thee O Lord in a dry and barren Land where no Water is O that thou wouldst distill and drop down the Dew of thy Heavenly Grace into all it's secret Chinks and Pores One thing have I desired of the Lord that will I seek after That I may dwell in the House of the Lord all the dayes of my Life and behold his Glory for a day in thy Courts is better than a thousand and I had rather be a Door-keeper in the House of the Lord than dwell in the Tents of wickedness All the Kings of the Earth they are thy Tributaries the Kings of Tarshish and of the Isles bring Presents unto thee the Kings of Sheba and Seba offer Gifts O that we could but pay thee that which is so due unto thee the tribute of our Hearts The Heathen are come into thine Inheritance thy holy Temple have they defi'ld Help us O God of our Salvation and deliver us and purge away our sins from us for thy Name 's sake O that the Lord whom we seek would come to his