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A26728	Hieronikēs, or, The fight, victory, and triumph of S. Paul accommodated to the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas, late L. Bishop of Duresme, in a sermon preached at his funeral, in the parish church of St. Peter at Easton-Manduit in Northampton-shire, on Michaelmas-day, 1659 : together with the life of the said Bishop / by John Barwick ...	Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1008; ESTC R16054	101,636	192

I cannot but hope that what I have yet to say in the person of this dead Prelate will have so much influence upon you all especially of the Laity as not to return without some fruit I confess I have done with my own Sermon it is more then time I should but I have still another to preach to you from this Reverend Bishop and in this I can easily presume upon your patience though I have almost wearied it already When I call this a Sermon which now I am to deliver I speak not without my warrant For when St. Gregory preached his Forty Sermons upon the Gospels he penned them all but read no more of them himself then eighteen by reason of some bodily infirmities the rest were read by his sub-Deacon or Notarie and yet all of them were then received and ever since esteemed and reputed as St. Gregories Sermons and in this sense it is that I call that which now remaineth the Bishop of DURESMES Sermon though I read it to you It is indeed the most solemn and elaborate Sermon he ever made being a profession or Declaration of his Faith with some wholsome instructions and directions to all good Christians within the Church of England though it be more particularly directed to those within his own Diocess By the time you have heard it you will finde it to be a rich supply for many things which otherwise I could not have omitted to speak concerning him It is a thing he did with much deliberation and not without some consultation with some of his Reverend Brethren and others as to the form and manner of it and when it was fitted exactly according to his own thoughts and desire he solemnly published signed and sealed it in the presence of five witnesses and annexed it as a Codicil to his Will and afterward when the shrinking of his small estate compelled him to alter his will to what it is now at his death he declared this to be a part of it which before was only a Codicil in the presence of other witnesses so that upon second thoughts it was not only owned by him but also ratified and confirmed more solemnly then before It followeth in these words 1. IN the first ages of the Church it was a very excellent custome that whensoever any was Consecrated Bishop of any Patriarchal or chief see he should by an Encyclical Epistle give an account of his Faith to his Brethren of the same order and dignity for the better strengthening of that Catholick Communion which the Bishops and Churches then had and still should preserve among themselves And this by the way was an homage as well payed as received by the Bishops of Rome in those times which is a sufficient evidence of a Coordination but could never have consisted with their now challenged Monarchy in the Church 2. And though the reason be different the design is no less necessary in this last and worst age of the Church for all Bishops whomsoever to leave some Testimony of their Faith to the world when it shall please God to take them out of it that so neither their Names may be traduced after their death nor any weak Brother misled by fathering any false opinions upon them whereof they were no way guilty 3. And this I think will be as necessary for me to perform as any other of my order in some respects though not so necessary in some other which is the cause both why I leave this short account of my self to the world and why it is no larger 4. For though I have sufficiently declared my self to the world both by my life and labours to be a true Orthodox and sincere Christian and Protestant according to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Primitive Church professed also and practised in the Church of England seeing I have been a writer above fifty years and have passed through all the orders of the Church Deacon Priest and Bishop and have been Rector of three Churches Prebendary in one Dean of two and Bishop of three Diocesses successively yet I cannot think my self secure from the malignancy of false and virulent tongues and pens after my Death more then I have been in my life and the rather because I have sustained the heavy Office of a Bishop so many years in the Church which some perverse people make criminal in it self and have by my writings discharged a good Conscience in asserting the truth against the opposites on both sides for which the Father of Lies will not be wanting to stir up enemies against me 5. I do therefore here solemnly profess in the presence of Almighty God that by his grace preventing and assisting me I have alwayes lived and purpose to die in the true Catholick Faith wherein I was Baptized firmly believing all the Canonical Scripture of the old and New Testament and fully assenting to every Article of all those three Creeds commonly called the Apostles Creed the Nicen or Constantinopolitan Creed and the Athanasian Creed which in the ancient Church were accounted the Adequate Rules of Faith and have accordingly been received as such by the Church of England 6. As for Counsels that are free and general consisting of competent persons lawfully summoned and proceeding according to the word of God Such as were the foure first viz those of Nice Constantinople Ephesus and Chalcedon I do reverence them as the Supream Tribunals of the Church of Christ upon earth for judging of Heresies and composing differences in the Church And as I utterly condemn all Heresies that have been condemned by any of them so I heartily wish that all the present differences in the Church of God might be determined by such a free general Counsel as any of those foure were already mentioned 7. The composers of those ancient differences in the Church were Bishops as it cannot be denied concerning which order I profess to believe that ●t was instituted by the Apostles who were infallibly inspired by the Holy Ghost and approved by Christ in the Revelation of St. John and consequently to be of Divine institution as I have made it evident by a little Treatise already printed and could still further manifest it by some papers not yet committed to the Press And I had never sustained the burthen of that Office above 40 years in the Church if this had not been alwayes my judgment concerning Bishops I pray God restore them again to those poor afflicted parts of his Church where either the Office or the Exercise of it is wanting 8. That the Bishop of Rome hath any more power over Bishops then other Primates and Patriarcks have in their several Sees respectively is a thing which I have often and largely disproved in my writings All that the Ancient Church did allow him was a priority of order but no supreamacie of Monarchical power And I heartily wish that this and all other differences now on foot between us and

adoration this day and from henceforth for ever more Amen Amen Amen A SUMMARIE ACCOUNT OF THE HOLY LIFE AND HAPPY DEATH Of the Right Reverend Father in God THOMAS LATE LORD BISHOP of DURESEME Added as a supplement to the Sermon preached at his Funerall By the same Author Eccles 7 1. A good name is better then precious Ointment and the day of Death then the day of ones Birth Claudian Antiquos Evolve duces assursce futurae Militiae LONDON Printed for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivy-lane 1660. The LIFE and DEATH OF THOMAS Lord BISHOP OF DURESME The Preface 1. AS the death of Gods Saints is precious in the sight of the Lord So will the memoriall of their lives also be in the hearing of all that are really his people And of all his Saints none can be more precious to him nor should be to us Then those that are most peculiarly honored with that title by the spirit of God in holy Scripture Those that are by him called unto and imployed in some holy office as well as qualified with Sanctifying grace like Aron who was Gods high Priest and for that reason is emphatically stiled the Saint of the Lord. 2. If there had not been something that is sacred in the office of a Bishop even as it is distinct from the order of Priest-hood the generall councell of Chalcedon could not as we know it did have adjudged it Sacrilege to take down a Bishop to the degree of a Priest And whatsoever that was it was in this person over and above his sanctity of life and sacredness of his other inferiour orders of Ministery in the Church And therefore I may represent this reverend Bishop to the world as a Saint or holy person for his Calling as well as for his life without any prejudice to the truth and thereby oppose that current of Sacrilege which some of late yeares hath much improved who will not allow him the title of a Saint nor none else that is not of their own sect or faction I have already upon another occasion made some short essay of it and this is only to supply what the largeness of the subject and shortness of the time would not then permit me to speak 3. And in this I must disclaim all thoughts of by ends or any other designe then only by asserting the truth to be just to him and charitable to others That neither his enemies may wrong his good name nor his friends want some small preservation of his memory Nor both of them the benefit of his good example 4. I know his charity while he lived had a speciall eye upon his enemies and so shall mine have now he is dead in convincing them also as far as I am able of their great injustice as well as uncharitableness against him and the rest of his Reverend Brethren in vilifying their persons and contemning their sacred function to the high displeasure of Almighty God the great scandal of Christian Religion and the extream hazard of the Church of England by opening so wide a gap to Schisme and Heresy and even Athesme it self 5. How those that so zealously affect the exterpation of Episcopacy can arrogate to themselves the title either of Christians or Protestants is a thing that may justly be questioned seeing Bishops were planted in the Church together with Christianity even by the Apostles themselves as is evident from the concurrent suffrages of all antiquity And that the first Protestants from whom all the rest derive that title did clearly profess in their confession of Auspurgh their willingness to submit to their Bishops even of the Romish Church provided they would not impose upon them such new and unjust burthens as had not been received by the custome of the Catholick Church Which none of our present English Bishops ever did but the quite contrary was objected against them for their greatest crime 6. I know that many of the seduced people have repented of these errours already and I hope the rest may be brought to repentance when they see what persons they were both for life and learning who sustained the office of Bishops at that time when the cunning and malice of the Divell did so unjustly incense the rude multitude against them I shall confine my self to this one instance leaving the rest for others as occasion shall require who was in as great an hazard of his life in one of those tumults as any and yet there was as little objected against him by those that raised them as against any of the rest 7. And in what I say of him I shall keep my self to the exact rule of truth both for his sake and my own and the Readers and the end I cheifly aime at without either flattering his memory or omitting those passages of his life which may cheifly qualify his example for our imitation Only I must beg my Readers pardon if the length of his life and multitude of his imployments and greatness of his learning and christian concealement of much of his piety necessitate me to omit many things I could not learn and pass over somethings I know and fall much below his merit in what I relate for brevities sake 8. Having premised thus much I presume the Reader will expect no Panegyrick but only a bare and that also a short narrative of his life for the information of posterity and conviction of his enemies rather then for any solace to his friends who could not but know him well enough seeing he was a burning and shining light for so great a number of yeares here amongst us And what I say shall for methods sake be reduced to these three heads 1. A plain Narrative of the principall passages in his Life 2. A breif Catalogue of his works 3. A short Character of his person and Qualities CHAP. I. A plain Narrative of the principall passages of his Life 1. HIs Coat armour and pedigree will shew him to be of the same Originall and Stock with that eminent prelate and wise states man John Morton Bishop of Elie and Lord Chancellor of England afterward Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Cardinall by whose contrivance and management the too Houses of York and Lancaster were united Whereby that issue of blood was stopped which had so long and plentifully flowed within the bowells of this our Native Country And from hence the judicious Reader will conclude his Ancesters could not be obscure at lest since this Cardinals time for such persons as he was seldom left their kindred without some considerable preferments If I were so good an Herald as to trace up his pedigree to those times it is possible it would reach to Thomas or John Morton whom the Cardinall made his Heires as being Sones to two of his Brothers Sure I am that Sir Thomas Morton of Dorsetshire who reckoned his descent from one of them sought him out and acknowledged his kindred and desired his

acquaintance presently after he appeared in Print and long before he ascended to any considerable eminency in the Church 2. I am inforced to fetch my compass thus far about and when I have done to sit down with probabilities by his great modesty and humility who would not receive nor so much as look upon a very fair and large descent of his Pedigree when it was presented unto him though he liberally rewarded the person that presented it And therefore I shall say no more concerning his progenitors and had not said thus much but that his Seall at Armes will warrant me in it 3. The place of his Birth was the antient and famous City of YORK where Constantius the Father of Constantine the great died in the armes of his Son and where some say the said Constantine the first Christian Emperour was born perhaps we must understand it as Emperour rather then as Constantine for questionless he was there first declared Emperour I might say more for the honour of that City but only that it is unnecessary as well as extrinsecall to the subject of my writing who needs no such advantages to add any luster to him 4. His Parents were Mr. Richard Morton Citizen and Mercer of York and Mrs. Elizabeth Leedale his wife who inriched the World with him on Tuesday the 20. of March Anno. Dom. 1564. He being the Sixth Child of Ninteen begotten and born of the same Parents His Father was so eminent in his calling that there is not at this day nor hath been for many yeares by past any Mercer in that City who were not his Apprentices either immediatly or mediatly His Mother also was a Gentlewoman of a very good family descended from the Valvasours by her Mothers side And by whom not only the Valvasours but the Langdales also and other Gentlemen of eminent worth in Yorkshire acknowledged themselves to be of his kindred 5. Nor were his Parents less memorable for their Piety and Wisdom then for these outward respects One fruit whereof we have in the Education of their Children though I shall instance only in him of whom I now write Who by their care and providence was brought up in piety and learning First at York under Mr. Pullen and afterwards at Hallifax under Mr. Maud of whom he alwayes spake with great reverence as a grave man and a good Scholemaster 6. It would be too great a digression to speak of his Scholefellowes whom we may presume to be some better some worse Otherwise I might mention Sir Thomas Cheek on the one side not long since deceased venerable for his great worth and Age and Guy Faux on the other infamous for his Dark lanthorn and villanous intention to blow up the King and Parliament in the Pouder treason both which were his Schole-fellowes at York 7. How well he profited in learning both at Schole and in the University will appear by his own writings without my observation And though it to be true in him which was written of S. Remigius that from the time of his first capacity of learning he out-stripped even those that were his superiors in age both in excellency of parts proficiency in learning and maturity of morall virtues Yet was he not as the fault is too common cast as an abortive either out of the Schole into the University or out of the University into the Church For he took root in the Nurserie at Hallifax till the Eighteenth year of his age before he was transplanted into the garden of the University 8. But in the year 1582. he was sent to Cambridge and there admitted into St. Johns College wherein were so many Eminent Scholers at that time as he was wont to say it seemed to be a whole University of it self The Master of the College was Doctor Whittaker whose learned writings have declared his worth in the world and whom he was wont to quote for that saying His first Tutour was Mr. Anthony Higgon afterward Dean of Rippon a good Benefactour to the College otherwayes and in him not only to the College but also to the University and the whole Church of Christ But he being called out of the College to other more weighty imployments in the Church left this his Pupill to the Tuition and care of Mr. Henry Nelson afterward Rector of Hougham in Lincolnshire who lived to see his Pupill pass through all the other Dignities he had in the Church till he came to be Bishop of Duresme and a good many yeares after 9. But I shall proceed in due order In the beginning of November 1584. he was chosen Scholar of the House into a place of Constables foundation as it is called peculiar to his own Native County of York In the year 1586. He took his first Degree of Bachellor of Arts Dr. Tyndall president of Queens College being then Vicechancellor and Mr. Smith of Corpus Christi College and Mr. Cowell of Kings College being Proctours And three years and some Moneths after viz. Anno Dom. 1590. Thomas Preston Dr. of Law and Master of Trinity Hall being Vicechancellor and Mr. Moutlow of Kings College and Mr. Betts of S. Peters College Proctours he took his next Degree of Master of Arts having first performed all Acts and exercises respectively requisite to each degree with great approbation and applause 10. He continued his studies in the College at his Fathers Charge after he was Master of Arts above two years And then viz. Mar. 17. 1592. he was admitted Fellow into a place of the Foundation of Dr. Keyton which I cannot mention without his honour to those that rightly understand the nature of that Foundation For the said Dr. Keyton having founded two Fellowships and two Scholarships in St. Johns College under these Qualifications First that the persons be elect and chosen of such as be or have been Choristers in the Chappell of Southwell And 2. if none such be found able in the University aforesaid then for I use the very words of the Foundation the same Fellowes and Scholars to be chosen of such persons that be most singular in manners and learning of what County soever they be that be then abiding in the said University Upon this second branch of the Qualification was Mr. Morton chosen into one of those Fellowships And that meerly for his worth against eight Competitors for the place who were otherwise all as capable of it as he and most of them better befriended Which he was wont to recount with greater contentment to himself then his advancement to any dignity he ever enjoyed in the Church And about the same time he was chosen Logick Lecturer for the University Which place he discharged with much art and diligence as may appear by his Lectures fair written which I find among his papers after his death 11. And now having laid so good a foundation in Arts and Sciences we may look upon him in the next place as a builder in Gods

Church And for his qualifying thereunto he did not as is now too frequent run before he was duly called and sent but according to the method of holy Church was admitted to the sacred order first of Deacon in the same year 1592. and the next year after of Priesthood by Richard Howland then Lord Bishop of Peterburgh who had formerly been Master of the same College whereof he then was Fellow 12. Having thus received his commission from God and his Church he was very ready to assist others in the way of Charity but not too forward to take upon himself a particular cure of soules And accordingly we find him for about five yeares after this continuing in the College prosecuting his own privat studie and reading to such young Scholars as were committed to his care and Tuition 13. In the year 1598. Dr. Iegon Master of Corpus Christi College being Vicechancellor and Mr. Moon of Katherin Hall and Mr. Sutton of Kings College Proctors he took his Degree of Bachellor in Divinity And about the same year being presented instituted and inducted to the Rectory of Long Marston foure miles distant from his Native Citty of York he betook himself wholly to the Cure of Soules there committed to him which he discharged with great care and diligence And yet he did not intermit his higher studies for the generall good of the Church while he attended it And to that end he had alwayes some person to be his assistent whom he knew to be pious and learned as Mr. John Price and Mr. Matthew Levet who were both formerly his Pupills in Cambridge the former afterward a prebendary of Leichfeild the later of Duresme and also Subdean of Rippon 14. And this assistence was the more necessary because his great parts and worth would not suffer him to enjoy his privacy in a Country cure For first he was made choyce of by the Earle of Huntington then Lord President of the North to be his Chaplain for his dexterity and accuteness in disputing with the Romish Recusants For it was Queen Elizabeths express command to him to convince them by arguments rather then suppress them by force and this she expressed as his Lord-ship was wont to say in the words of the Prophet Nolo mortem peccatoris 15. But the Earle dying presently after he returned again to his privacy at Marston where he continued not long before the Lord Sheffeild who succeeded as Lord president commanded him to hold a publick Conference before his Lord-ship and the Councell at the Manner house in York with two Romish Recusants who were then prisoners in the Castle the one was Mr. Young a Priest the other Mr. Stillington a Lay-man Which he performed with great satisfaction to the Auditory among whom were many of the chief Gentry and Clergy of York-shire I have heard there is still in some mens hands a true relation of that conferrence in writing But he would never suffer it to be Printed because he and his Adversaries engaged themselves by mutuall promise not to Print it but by common consent which he never could obtain from them though he earnestly desired and sought it 16. In the year 1602. began the great Plague at York at which time he carryed himself with so much heroicall charity as will make the Reader wonder to hear it For the poorer sort being removed to the Pest-house he made it his frequent exercise to visit them with food both for their bodys and soules His chief errand was to instruct and comfort them and pray for them and with them and to make his coming the more acceptable he carried usually a sack of provision with him for those that wanted it And because he would have no man to run any hazard thereby but himself he seldom suffered any of his servants to come near him but sadled and unsadled his own Horse and had a private door made on purpose into his house and chamber 17. The next year following the Lord Ever being sent Embassadour extraordinary by Queen Elizabeth both to the Emperour of Germany and King of Denmark he made choyce of him and Mr. Richard Crakanthorp famous also for his learned works in Print to be his Chaplaines And Mr. Morton being desirous to improve himself by seeing forraigne Kingdomes Churches and Universities did willingly accept of the employment 18. He had leave from the Lord Embassadour while he stayed at Breme to visit some of the chief Cityes and Universityes of High Germany In which travell while he was at Mentz he fell into a very familiar acquaintance with Father Mulhusinus a learned Jesuit who gave him a Book of his own writing inscribed with his own hand pro Domino Mortono and also with Nicholas Serarius another learned Father of the same Society and Rector of the College there who afterward mentioned him with civility in a Book he wrot against Joseph Scaliger Both these were so well satisfied with his learning and piety as to treat him with much courtesy while he stayed there and to desire his prayers when he departed thence and that ex animo too when he pressed them to know whether it was not merely out of civility and complement I cannot say he found Beccanus in the contrary temper at Colen though he left him so For being gaulled with some Arguments in a disputation between them he sleighted his prayers as of one whom he miscalled an Heretick I only instance in this to shew that many learned men of the Church of Rome and some even of the Jesuits order do not in their hearts and privat discourses condemne us of the Church of England for Hereticks whatsoever ever they publickly write or speak out of designe and policy 19. His stay in these parts was the shorter because the Embassadours commission determined at the death of the Queen But however he improved his time so well partly in furnishing his own library with Bookes at Frankfurt and else-where but chiefly in his conversation with learned men and in his forraign observations that he alwayes very highly valued that oppertunity 20. At his return he was sollicited by Roger Earle of Rutland to be his domesticall Chaplain Which profer he was the more willing to accept for the privacy he hoped to enjoy in a place where he was not known for making use of that Treasure of Bookes he had got in his travells And the rather because thereby he was brought so much nearer to London then before whither he must have many occasions to travell for the putting forth of such Bookes as he had in designe to write For it was not long after that he Printed the first part of his Apologia Catholica of which and the rest of his works I shall speak more particularly hereafter 21. About this time it was that the Arch-Bishop of York Toby Matthews that most exquisit preacher conferred upon him a Prebend in that Metropoliticall Church 22. In the year of our Lord 1606. Dr. Clayton

the Church of Rome might be decided by the doctrine and practice of the Church for the first five hundred years after Christ for that hath been my design in all my writings 9. If I had not believed upon sufficient evidence that the succession of Bishops in the Church of England had been legally derived from the Apostles I had never entred into that high calling much less continued in it thus long And therefore I must here expresly vindicate my self from a most notorious untruth which is cast upon me by a late Romish writer That I should publickly in the House of Peers the beginning of the last Parliament assent to that abominable fiction which some Romanists have devised concerning the Consecrating Matthew Parker at the Nags-head Tavern to be Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for I do here solemnly profess I have alwayes believed that Fable to proceed from the Father of lyes as the publick Records still extant do evidently testifie Nor do I remember that ever I heard it mentioned in that or any other Parliament that ever I sate in 10. As for our Brethren the Protestants of forraign reformed Churches the most learned and judicious of themselves have bewailed their miserie for want of Bishops And therefore God forbid I should be so uncharitable as to censure them for No-Churches for that which is their Infelicity not their fault But as for our perverse Protestants at home I cannot say the same of them seeing they impiously reject that which the other piously desire And therefore I cannot flatter those in this Church who have received their Ordination only from meer Presbyters so far as to think them lawfully Ordained S. Hierom himself reserved to the Bishop the power of Ordination 11. Seeing therefore I have been as I hear so far misunderstood by some among us as to be thought to approve of their Ordination by meer Presbyters because I once said it might be vallid in case of Necessity I do here profess my meaning to be That I never thought there was any such Necessity in the Church of England as to warrant it where blessed be God for it there be so many Bishops still surviving And therefore I desier them not to mistake my meaning in that saying 12. Wheresoever there is a formed Church there must of necssity be some set form of Gods worship Otherwise it will quickly fall in peices as wofull experience hath taught us And of all formes of Gods worship in the whole Church of Christ none in my judgement did ever exceed the Leiturgy of the Church of England both for decency edification and devotion in all the severall offices of it If the Assemblers themselves that first laid it aside could have found any faults in it their modesty was not so great if we may judge of it by their other actions as to have concealed them from the world 13. Having thus far prevented the uncharitableness of others against my self I do here from my heart protest my unfained charity to all the world and more particularly both towards those Papists and perverse protestants whom I have so much endeavovred to undeceive both by my Sermons conferences and writings It was only their errors whereat I was offended I have alwayes loved and pittied their persons and prayed and laboured for the right informing of their minds and the eternall salvation of their soules 14. But yet my common charity to them must not supersede my more particular love and obligation which I have to those truly humble and meek soules in the Church of England and more especially in my own Diocess of Duresme who still stand firm upon the foundation of a sound faith and continue obedient to the doctrine of Gods word and discipline of his Church without wavering either to the right hand or to the left 15. And my earnest exhortation to them is that they would still continue their former affections notwithstanding all temptations to the contrary both to the doctrin disciplin government and form of worship of this poor afflicted Church Which if I did not believe to be the securest way for the salvation of their soules I had not ventured my own upon the same bottom 16. This is the onely Legacy I now can and the best I ever could leave them beside my prayers Wherein I commend them all to the blessing of almighty God and to the glory of his saving grace in Christ Jesus I have appointed two Copies of this my Legacy or Declaration to be written The one whereof I do hereby order to be annexed as a Codicill to my will and the other to be delivered into the hand of my beloved Chaplain Mr. John Barwick to be published in print after my death Both of which I have signed sealed published and declared this 15. day of Aprill in the year of our Lord 1658. In the presence of Tho Duresme Thomas Saunders Iunior John Barwick Cler. Joseph Draper Cler. R. Gray Evan Davies And now you have had His Sermon as well as mine and may see by it he hath not ended his fight though he hath ended his life For by this he hath set a guard upon his memory after his body is in the grave I might in this thing fitly compare him to Abel before the flood who being dead yet speaketh Or to Samson under the Law Who slew more at his death then in his life but only that I have made choyce of St. Paul for the pattern now under the Gospell It is the Gospell rule not to kill but to save With St. Paul to build up the Church of lively stones the soules of men and not with Sampson to pull down the house upon our selves and others To this it was that St. Paul engaged in all his fights both in what he did and what he suffered and in this it was that he was looked upon as a pattern and presedent by this reverend Bishop How many thousand soules the Apostle hath gained even since his death is known only to God And so is it also how many may still be brought in by this crowning act of this deceased Bishop They have each done his part in their severall rank and degree according to the proportion of their abilities And God in mercy will I hope supply the rest both to them and us They have severally fought a good fight they have finished their course they have kept the faith and henceforth is laid up for each of them a crown of righteousness and so there will be for us also if we follow their good example For it is no peculiar reward to them or any other in particular The Lord the rigteous judge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will give or render it not only to them but as it followes in my Text to all those that love his appearing To him therefore with the Father and the Holy Ghost three persons and one God let us render as is due all glory honor prayse power thankesgiving and