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A30854	The life of the Right Reverend Father in God, Edw. Rainbow, D.D. late Lord Bishop of Carlisle to which is added, a sermon preached at his funeral by Thomas Tully, his lordship's chaplain, and chancellor of the said diocess of Carlisle; at Dalston, April the 1st. 1684.	Banks, Jonathan.; Tully, T. (Thomas), 1620-1676.	1688 (1688)	Wing B669; ESTC R13606	38,322	158

Piety and real Worth. His Father Mr. Thomas Rainbow was a Reverend Divine noted for his Learning and Vertue who after his being educated at Christ's College in Cambridge was first presented to the Rectory of Bliton above-mentioned and then to that of Wintringham in the same County of Lincoln situate upon Humber that great Aestuarium where so many Rivers meet e're they pay their Tributes to the Ocean Both which Places were conferr'd upon him by the Worshipful Family of the Wrays of Glentworth And he is said to have well deserved such Advancement being a Man who preached as well to his Parishioners by his exemplary good Life as by his sound Doctrin and when he dy'd thô I cannot learn certainly when that was left the Odor of a good Name behind him Nor was his Mother Mrs. Rebecca Allen Daughter to Mr. David Allen Rector of Ludbrough in Lindsey-Coast aforeseid an unfit Consort for so Worthy a Man. For to many of those good qualifications of a Woman mentioned by the wisest of Kings she added that of the knowledge of the Scriptures even in the Original Languages being trained up by her Father to the understanding of the Latin the Greek and the Hebrew So that if the Female Sex Eustochium and others have been so much commended by S. Hierom for their great Skill in the Sacred Writings the Praise that this excellent Matron merited in this kind ought not to be forgotten Which is also a pregnant instance that the other Sex is not incapable of some of the most profound Studies and not altogether unfit to walk in the most retired Paths of Learning Our Edward Rainbow had the Name of Edward given him from his Godfather Mr. Edward Wray of Rycot who was younger Brother to Sir John Wray the elder and who was a great Courtier and Favourite of the elder George Duke of Buckingham by whose Interest Mr Wray married the Heiress of the Honour and Fortune of the Lord Norris of Rycot and to whom joyntly with his Brother Sir John Wray his God-Son Mr. Rainbow afterwards dedicated his first printed Sermon Preached at S. Pauls Cross Entituled Labour forbidden and commanded But to return whence we have digressed a little From such pious Parents who can doubt but Edward Rainbow met with a good Education Goodness is diffusive of it self by Nature and most especially when seated in those of so near a Relation as Parents to Children The sense of their Duty in the first quickens their desires of propagating their Vertues in their Off-spring as well as continuing in them their Names to Posterity And accordingly this vertuous Couple took great care early to instil into this their Son the Principles of Religion a great and cordial Love for his Heavenly Lord and Master and a just Fear to offend him in the breach of any of his Divine Commands They taught him to aspire to the possession of that Celestial Country where that love for true Piety would be as unbounded as that God who is the Original of it And doubtless the early cultivating of so hopeful a Plant was not ineffectual as the Sequel shew'd He had been taught that this Life was but a Pilgrimage and what would be the conclusion of minding his walking therein soon which made him hasten his pace to Heaven-ward For Travellers never hasten so much as when they expect good Lodgings at their Journeys end His Infancy being past about Nine years of Age he was sent to Fillingham a Village in the so often mentioned County of Lincoln where his Grandmother Allen and his Ant Peachel his Mothers Sister lived At which place he begun to lay the Foundation of Secular Learning which his Parents observing him to be very capable of improving to a considerable height sent him in A. Dom. 1619. to the publick School of Gainsborough and from thence in April 16●0 to Peterborow in Northamptonshire to be one of the Scholars of Dr. John Williams who was then Prebend of that Church And it was upon his account that Edward Rainbow was sent to Westminster School in June 1621 Dr. Williams old Mr. Rainbows great Friend being advanced to the Deanry of Westminster and the Bishoprick of Lincoln and consequently had thereby better opportunities to gratifie his Friends Son in Westminster where he then chose to reside In all these short Stages of his Youth he was so far from frustrating the Hopes which his Parents had conceived of him that the great Proficiency under his several Masters adorned with his meek and obliging humor easily gained him the Favour of his Instructors and the Esteem of his more diligent School-Fellows In which state he continued till fitted for the University and then he was sent to Corpus Christi College in Oxon in July 1623. at the Age of Fifteen where his elder Brother John was admitted and died Fellow of that House He had before this viz. in March 1621 lost his dear Mother which loss gave him all the disturbance that a dutiful Son was capable of for the Death of so prudent and tender a Mother and whom he never mentioned without Honour Nor did she dye lamented by him alone but by all those who were acquainted with her extraordinary Parts and religious Conversation and who were not generally Enemies of or Strangers to true Vertue Having paid the Debt due to the memory of his good Mother I am obliged to resume the Thred of his History and consequently to mention that during his stay in Oxford he applied himself to his Studies with that attention which became the Son of so Learned a Father which course he held on in Magdalen College in Cambridge whither he was transplanted in June 1. 1625 and that upon the following occasion The Right Honourable and truly Noble Lady Frances Countess Dowager of Warwick and Daughter to Sir Christopher Wray sometimes Lord Chief Justice of England as she inherited her Fathers Liberality who had been a great Benefactor to the last mentioned College of Magdalen in giving Lands and Moneys to it for the Founding a Fellowship and two Scholarships so did she also inherit the kindness of her Family to that of Edward Rainbow and therefore in her life time did him that honour to nominate him one of her Scholars there Upon which account as hath been already hinted he removed from Oxon thither and was admitted into that College and Scholarship at the time above-mentioned He took his Degree of Bachelor of Arts there in Anno Dom. 1627 and commenced Master of Arts in 1630 a Year which is sufficiently remarkable in History for the Birth of our late Gracious Sovereign Charles the Second and for the descent of Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden into Germany where till death put a Period to his Martial Atchievments Victory seem'd to be his constant Attendant In July after he had proceeded Master of Arts he was sent for to teach the Free-School at Kirton in Lindsey Coast three or four Miles from Bliton which was profered

works do follow them WHen Moses died God himself Interr'd him with the expence of a Miracle * Deut. 34. 6. and bestowed the highest Title of Honour upon him in this Epitaph Moses my Servant is dead Josh 1. 2. And here we have a Voice from Heaven directing John the Divine to write a Text proper for the Funeral of a Prophet in Israel such an one as gives us the sad Occasion of paying him the last Office of our Duty and Charity at this Mournful Solemnity Sad it is to us For knowest thou not that the Lord hath taken away 2 King. 2. 3. thy Master from thy head to day as the Sons of the Prophets said of Elijah But to him who lived to Christ to dye is gain and the day of his death better than the day of his birth The one brought him into a Vale of Misery where his days were to be few and full of trouble the other we hope has advanc'd him to a Region far above assaults of Mutability where his Happiness shall be as Eternal as God the Author and the Object of it Where they who dye in the Lord shall sing an everlasting Requiem to their Souls nothing of the busle of this life attend them but their Works and they from thenceforth as saith the Spirit rest from their labours Some Criticks read the words thus Blessed are the dead that are in the Lord which die within a while 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And then by the Connexion this Verse seems to have with the former which speaks of the patience of the Saints by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we render Labours they understand Persecutions and so take the Text to be a particular Prediction of the bloody and severe Tyranny under Dioclesian when they were happy most happy who were gathered unto their graves in peace where the wicked cease from troubling that their eyes should see all the evil which was coming upon the Church of God. Now thô perhaps this may be the Strict and Primary meaning of the Heavenly Voice yet the words are but too applicable to our present Times even in this sence for thô we are not now under the Persecution of Heathen Emperours but have Kings for our Nursing Fathers yet 't is Scripture still All that will live 2 Tim. 3. 12. godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer Persecution Satan has his Agents even in the outward visible Church Have not I chosen you twelve and one of Joh. 6. 70. you is a Devil and these have so much of the Hellish temper and Complexion of their Father that they rejoyce and triumph in running down all the practices of an Holy life which in the Judgment of the Holy Ghost if perhaps they have heard whether there be any Holy Ghost or no is looked upon as Persecution as plainly appears by comparing Gen. 21. 9. with Gal. 4. 29. in the case between Ishmael and Isaac I hope some mens Consciences will tell them what Unchristian opposition this most Pious and Right Reverend Prelate has been forced to contest with purely for his steady resolution of Religiously executing the weighty Charge of his Sacred Function and so save me the ungrateful task of doing it But I shall take the Words in the most obvious and easie sence as they in general import the Blessed estate of those who dye in the Lord. And to handle this in the best method I am able to reduce my hasty and troubled Meditations to 't will be requisite that I first explain what it is to die in the Lord. After which I shall endeavour to shew wherein the blessedness of that Estate consists Which I shall illustrate First by representing unto you the Emptiness and Dissatisfaction of all Worldly Enjoyments from which they are delivered suggested in these words for they rest from their labours Secondly by shewing that positive and superabundant Satifaction that glorious recompence of Reward which they shall meet with in a better World couched in these words and their works do follow them First then What it is to die in the Lord. To die in the Lord is to die in the true Christian Faith. But then by Faith we must not mean the bare profession of an Historical belief but the Cordial and Sincere Embracing of the Promises of the Gospel upon the Conditions they are offered to us This is so comprehensive a Subject that it implies the whole Duty of Man and cannot be fully described unless I should either present you with the Original the New Testament or with the lively transcript of it in the History of our departed Fathers life in which the Severest Eye might gratisie its Curiosity in viewing those refined stroaks which the Pencil of God had drawn upon his Soul in beholding with Veneration the awful and Majestic Character of his Maker Signally imprinted upon all the Powers and Faculties of his Mind 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 'T was indeed an Instructive sight to those who had the honour and happiness of his more immediate Converse to see the many Originals of Christianity which lay scattered and dispersed in the Writings of the Apostles and Evangelists elegantly contracted in the System of his Actions unto a perfect Man of God unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ How exemplary was his Meekness in bearing the rudeness the Insolence and Indignities of some whom the common Obligation of Religion as well as the more special Tyes of their peculiar Subjection might have taught more duty and observance How familiar was his Converse and of how easie Access was he to the meanest Christian treating them more like Brethren than Sons in Christ Having always before his eyes both the Command and Precedent of his Saviour He that is greatest among you shall be your Servant With Math. 23. 11. how tender and compassionate a sence did his Bowels earn upon the Necessities of his poor Brethren whom he freely relieved with the most enlarged Heart and open hand O how often have the Loins of the naked blessed him for being warmed with the fleece of his Sheep His Job 31. 20. Liberality and Charity were as Extensive as the obligation of his duty His Riches consisted most in good Works he was indeed a faithful Steward who carefully employed the Talent God intrusted him with to the use and service of Christs Members upon Earth for the only Usury he ever put his Mony too was in thus lending to the Lord which he did not out of any Pharisaical affectation of Popularity or Applause to avoid that he so industriously studied a modest Secrecy that his left hand knew not what his right hand did By which means he lost indeed what he never valued the Fame and Reputation of it being seen of men looking up rather unto him who then saw him in secret and will one day reward him openly How admirable was his Humility both in his Civil and Spiritual Capacity which his earnest desire

grace and perfection of the Will Could they but secure unto us the Vnum necessarium the blessed Hopes of an immutable Felicity in the next World when we leave them behind us and bid them Adieu for ever which is the only Foundation whereupon we may build a firm peace and uninterrupted comfort I grant they were richly worth all the Care Anxiety and Toil we expend in the prosecution of them But alas they are meer Emptiness and nothing so phantastical and airy that they delude our Embraces when we think to enjoy them most As for Riches the Eye is not satisfied with them Eccles 4. 8. thô we labour and bereave our Souls of good first to procure and then to keep them and after the Poor Wretch hath spent himself in drudging for them he shall leave them in Jer. 17. 11. the midst of his days and at his end shall be a Fool. And pray what is Honour that Idol of Worldly men We know that an Idol is nothing in 1 Cor. 8. 4. the World so is Honour too too thin and too airy to yield any solid real satisfaction It puffs a man up indeed and blows him a little bigger than his Neighbour but the Timpany renders him uneasie both to himself and others and when God sends him a Thorn in the Flesh it pricks the Bladder and the gawdy Bubble vanisheth This is Pharaoh and all his multitude Ezek. 31. 18. And as for Pleasures such I mean as the Voluptuary calls so why grant the Epicure which yet he rarely meets with a lucky concurrence of all that can possibly advance a delight the Spirits are presently exalted into a Rapture and so the goodly Transport dies in a moment leaving Penitential Nature to repair the damage and Prodigal expence of a short Extravagance What profit then hath he that hath Eccl. 5. 16. laboured for the Wind So little Satisfaction can the Creatures afford which themselves groan and travel in pain under the bondage of Vanity the primitive Curse of Sin. Indeed had Man been created like the Angels in Heaven all Soul and Spirit and not tyed to the cumbersom luggage of a Body he had then been free from all the Troubles and Calamities which attend a Mortal State. But since we are doom'd to dwell in these Houses of Clay whose foundation is in the dust Every man in his best Estate is altogether Vanity And yet while we do Sojourn in these tottering Tabernacles the Natural Respect we bear to the Noble Guest that lodges in them puts us to a vast expence and trouble in Repairing the Decays and patching up the Ruines of them This indeed is but good Husbandry But when I observe the prodigal and luxurious Ornament some bestow upon this mean Cottage I can hardly hold from asking them Socrates his Question What do you mean to make your Prison so strong And yet when they have done all the Tenure of them is but for life under an Arbitrary Lord and how soon that Lease may expire we none of us know perhaps this Night may our Souls be required of us However at the furthest the Age of Man is threescore years and ten or if he Psal 90. 10. come to fourscore years yet is his strength then but labour and sorrow so soon passeth it away and we are gone Thus much concerning the Blessedness of their Estate who dye in the Lord in their being delivered from the Toyl and Fatigue the Emptiness and Dissatisfaction of things below The second and last Topic I purposed to shew it from was that positive and superabundant satisfaction that glorious recompence of Reward which they shall meet with in another World couched in these words and their works do follow them When Man apostatized from the Allegiance he owed his Maker he fell under the Power and Dominion of Sin and Sin delivered over the Captive Rebel to the Bondage and Tyranny of Death which gnawed revengfully upon his Flesh in the Grave and tortured his polluted Soul upon the Eternal Rack of Anguish and Despair in Hell Hell originally prepared for the Arch-Rebel of Heaven the great Leviathan of Sin and his Accursed Train but now become the common Gaol of Men and Devils Such a Prince of Terrors is Death when arm'd with the poysonous Sting of Sin. But the Captain of our Salvation has conquered Death and disarm'd it of that power it had got over us by Sin. See how the Apostle triumphs over it in the Lesson appointed for this Solemnity O Death 1 Cor. 1● 55 56. where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Victory The Sting of Death is Sin and the strength of Sin is the Law i. e. There is nothing makes Death like a Serpent able to hurt us but Sin without which the Grave is but a Bed wherein we take a long Lethargic Sleep And that which impowers Sin to do us mischief is the Law which prohibits it and consequently involves us in the Curse due to our Guilt But thanks be to God who giveth us Ver. 5● the Victory thrô our Lord Jesus Christ Blessed be the Father of Mercies who by what Christ hath ●one for us hath gotten us the Victory over Sin and by this happy Conquest has made Death only a Silent passage to a glorious Immortality where they who dye in the Lord shall for ever for ever enjoy such Divine Transports of Soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which it is not lawful for a man to utter 2 Cor. 12. 4. said the Eloquent S. Paul when the over flowing sense of them rapt him into Extasie Blessed Souls which always behold the Face of God in whose presence is fulness of Joy for evermore A sight even a bare sight able to transform us into his own likeness and make our Faces like the face of Moses too bright and dazling for any mortal Eye to look upon We shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 Joh. 3. 2. Blessed are those that-stand before the Lamb of God in his Throne of Glory that are admitted into the Society of the Cherubims and Seraphims those sprightly Choiristers of Heaven where nothing is heard but the voice of Joy and Gladness There 's no Sin to stain their white Robes of Purity or eclipse the glorious Emanations of Light which they receive from the Sun of Righteousness no Jealousies or Fears to disturb their Enjoyments neither can any imperfection taint that state where God shall be all in all 1 Cor. 15. 28. Surely now the Blessedness of dying in the Lord is so ravishing a Contemplation as even to make S. Johns Wish the language of all our Souls Come Lord Jesus come Rev. 22. 20 quiokly And indeed the happiness of our future Life is not fully and sensibly revealed unto us but seems on purpose to be hid with Christ in Col. 3. 3. God that we might not be too restless and impatient under the burden of Mortality