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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50543	A sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, at the funeral of the Reverend Doctor Hardy, Dean of Rochester, June 9th, 1670 by Richard Meggott ...	Meggott, Richard, d. 1692.	1670 (1670)	Wing M1620; ESTC R793	12,108	39

found a House scarce one in these Parts so Ruinous which all by his means much at his Charge is reedifyed and so improved that now there is scarce one so fair and goodly At his Deanery he found the Cathedral with the Stamps of the Reformation upon it wast and much spoyle This by the industrious Employment of his Great Interest in the Gentry of that County added to seven thousand pound which he and the Chapter disbursed freely he repaired and adorned in some good measure At Leyborn a Living he was but a little while possessed of He findeth the same occasion for his Munificence and Benefacture a ruinous House again And that found him the same He hath well repaired it although it was a Place where his Circumstances if God had given him longer Life would not have allowed him to have made any stay yet his Successors Good was a sufficient Motive to him As he made his Preferments better so his Preferments did not make him worse He continued the same the same humble affable obliging Person he was in his least Condition Yea to the confutation of the clamorous Rabble he was the same constant diligent Preacher Insomuch that I think I may adventure to say there was not a Lords Day where ever he was whereon if Sickness hindered him not he was not at least once in the Pulpit God grant them as much Grace as they have cause to repent who have any way maliciously aspersed him For although I am not so partial as to believe him without his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let the that escape all themselves cast Stones at him Yet as to grosser Miscarriages I am highly perswaded that not Truth and Reality but Rage and Design were the movimenta Mechanica that set their Tongues in going Not only Charity but common Reason thinketh no evil where it findeth Evidences of Good And in him were very many In his Behaviour in his Family He was a Joshua He and his House serving the Lord Dayly Morning and Evening worshipping with the Solemn Devotions of the Liturgy In his sense of Mercies He was an Hezekiah writing upon the Wall when he was recovered of his great Sickness and every one of the Years after that God added to his Life He kept that Day on which it seised him religiously in Fasting and Prayer In his Converse and Friendship he was a Nathaniel one in whom there was no Guile Cordial and faithful without Baseness or low Dissimulation In his Preaching the Court the City the Country all from Dan unto Beersheba know he was an Apollos an Eloquent Man and mighty in the Scriptures Such was this Worthy Person who on the 28 th of May last past was taken suddenly and fatally In a moment quantum mutatus ab illo How strange a change was there That Head which was the tenacious Receptacle of so much useful Learning is now the stupified Seat of a Disease Those Eyes which had read through so many sorts of Books cannot now by any means be kept open That Tongue which dropped things sweeter than the Honycomb cannot now pronounce an ordinary Sentence That Person whom so many of all Degrees and Ranks of People so rejoyced to see is now become a sad and doleful Spectacle His Distemper being of such a Nature you cannot look for any thing from him in his Sickness For though he had his Apprehension which he discovered when any thing was said to him and in a very particular manner when Prayers were put up for him yet he had not Expression He could not so much as make a Will or call his dearest Friends by their Names Thus he lay notwithstanding all the Care and Art of the great Aesculapius of this Age his Condition being more and more hopeless while the First of June at Night when to the Grief of his Friends the Loss of the Church but I hope the great Gain and Joy of Himself his great change came and he fell asleep And now he is gone to his Long Home how many Mourners go about the Streets I need not here break out into David's Apostrophes at the death of Saul to beg Lamentations or publish a Brief for Tears perhaps no man of his Quality and Station have had more to weep over him His disconsolate Widow weepeth that She hath lost so Dear and Tender a Husband You of St. Martins weep that you have lost so Able and beloved a Pastor The Poor and necessitous weep that they have lost so importunate and effectual an Advocate His crowding Auditors from all Parts weep that they have lost so practical and melting a Preacher His Friends and Acquaintance weep that they have lost But I must forbear This is but to open the Flood Gates to a soft and troublesome Passion We must improve such Providences as these to more manly and Christian Purposes You that loved him and who that knew him did not You that loved him must shew greater and better Tokens of it You that loved him stand fast in the Truth which he delivered to you being dead he yet speaketh that ye henceforth be no more Children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of Doctrine You that loved him mortifie all the Lusts which he so pathetically did forewarn you of Remember the Words that he spake unto you while he was yet with you You that loved him exercise all the Graces perform all the Duties which he so faithfully did exhort you to knowing that you all among whom he came Preaching the Kingdom of God shall see his Face no more Finally you that loved him prepare to follow him Let the Meditation of his so sudden change be one Motive to all the rest which you have All the Days of your appointed time 〈◊〉 wait for your own That so he and we are all the Children of God who now at sundry times and in divers manners are parted sorrowfully may meet together again joyfully to enjoy the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one another for ever and ever Vnto this King Eternal Immortal Invisible the Only wise God be Honour and Glory for ever and ever Amen FINIS