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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

betwixt them which continued for several years before it was compleated by the Conjugal Tye by reason of the Iniquity and the Threatning of those to give them a soft Epithet Cloudy Times In the Year 1639 our Mr. Rainbow was chosen Dean of the College which Office he discharged with great care and prudence discouraging and punishing the Vicious and encouraging the diligent and sober young Students Upon the 20th day of April he fell into a dangerous Swoon so that that Day wherein he first drew Breath had like to have proved the day of his death And hence after his Recovery he had Meditations suitable thereto to be seen in his Diary I have already mentioned what Favour he had gained of the Earl of Suffolk one of whose Ancestors had founded that College Consequent of the high Opinion that Earl had of Mr. Rainbows Integrity in making a Settlement of his Estate in the Year 1640 he did him the Honour among other Trustees to make him one as remembring not only how careful a Tutor he was over his Sons but how happy an Instrument he had that year been in reconciling a Difference betwixt himself and his Eldest Son. This great Trust Mr. Rainbow because young undertook with some unwillingness but he discharged it afterwards with all imaginable Fidelity therein not proposing to himself the least improvement of his own private Fortunes but the Advantage of that Noble Family And while he continued therein after the death of Earl Theophilus which happened in June in the Year last mentioned thô his Care for the Estate of his Honourable Charge was great yet was it no less for the great Concern of their Souls without which the other had been less valuable and over whom agreeable to his Function he was very watchful and diligent and God was not wanting to bless his Pious endeavours therein with a suitable Return Which Happiness was not confined to those Noble Youths he had under his peculiar Tuition but extended to other young Persons of the Nobility who frequented that Family For he observing some Extravagancies in them too incident to men of their Figure and who meet with many Temptations and especially with one that of Flattery the bane of Youth wrought so upon their Spirits by his cogent Reasons and insinuating Rhetoric that they gratefully accepted of some Prayers composed by Mr. Rainbow which were suited to their particular condition as was apparent by some Papers seen after his death And those Noble Persons had ever afterwards a just veneration and a true kindness for him Hence became he so much the Favourite of the Families of Suffolk Northumberland Warwick and Orrery And since I have mentioned the last I cannot forbear to add that he who first bore that Title hath in his Divine Poems which he wrote in his declining years bating the difference of the Languages outstript those of Prudentius who also composed his in his old Age in the richness of Fancy and in delicacy of Expression And as he had in other Topics composed for his diversion shewn that he wanted not a chast and elegant Style even when he treated on less severe and serious Subjects so hath he in those his Poems on the Festivals acquired a Reputation which will never be deny'd his Merit till Wit and Judgment be exil'd the World no more than Posterity can without the higest Injustice refuse the Title of a most acurate Experimental Philosopher to his yet surviving Brother and our Bishops Friend the Honourable Mr. Robert Boyle a Gentleman who is no less happy in and respected for a sweetness of Temper than for his Ingenuity And the present Age seems so much in love with his Philosophical Experiments and Discourses upon them by which he hath signalized himself to the greatest part of Europe that even a Critic of another Nation not very ready to bestow Complements upon others but when even compelled thereto by Truth cannot deny but that his Experiments and Reflexions have always an Air of Solidity To which may be justly added that as he hath enriched Natural Philosophy with his choice Observations so hath he in contradiction to the trite Objection of such Students being near Neighbours to Atheists made that dear Mistress an Handmaid to Religion But I now forget that I trespass against the Readers Patience by this long digression as well as hereby offend this Religious Gentlemans Modesty for which after I have craved pardon of both I shall return to Mr. Rainbow whom we shall according to the Series of his History find ready to attend the young Earl of Suffolk James to the Long Parliament in October 1640. A Parliament a small part of which afterwards under the specious pretence of a thorough Reformation brought one of the best of our Kings Charles the Martyr to the Block and laid waste that Church of England which hath been long the Glory and Bulwark under God of the Reformed Religion and the Envy of the Romish In 1642 Mr. Rainbow had the Honour to Marry the Right Honourable Algernoon Earl of Northumberland to the Lady Elizabeth Howard His great Friend Dr. Henry Smith dying and the Mastership of Magdalen College become thereby vacant in October 1642 Mr. Rainbow having formerly had a Promise and Grant of that Place upon the first vacancy from the Right Honourable Theophilus Earl of Suffolk was now admitted into it with the concurrence of his Son Earl James And now seeing himself set upon an higher ground and consequently his Actions thereby exposed more to the Public view and censure his next and chief Care was to discharge his new Trust conscientiously and therefore having while he was a Fellow of that same College taken notice that some very hopeful young Men had upon their being too early Advanc'd fallen from their former studious and vertuous course of living into Debauchery He upon his accession to the Mastership resolved not to admit any man to a Fellowship who had not first commenced Mr. of Arts that their longer stay before their Preferment might give the College a clearer demonstration of their Worth and they thereby might become as it were Probationers for three Years He took the Degree of Dr. of Divinity in the Year 1646 when his chief Question on which he made his Thesis was That Ecclesia Anglicana tenet omnia ad salutem necessaria A Point which he durst defend in the worst of Times when that Church was so much oppress'd for asserting her Loyalty to God and the King for her agreement with the Primitive Church in not rebelling against a lawful Magistrate and in owning the Jus Divinum of the Episcopal Hierarchy and Liturgy But that Black Storm which occasioned by the Sins of this Nation then surfeiting of Ease and Plenty was permitted a while to hover over our Heads in Black Clouds broke out at last in dreadful Thunders upon our Trembling Israel and tore down all that oppos'd its way In this common Calamity Dr. Rainbow had his share