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A36346	A sermon preached in Christ's-Church, Dublin, November 18, 1693 at the funeral of His Grace Francis Lord Archbishop of Dublin / by the Reverend Father in God Anthony, Lord Bishop of Meath.	Dopping, Anthony, 1643-1697.	1694 (1694)	Wing D1913; ESTC R171817	11,211	22

A SERMON PREACHED IN CHRIST's-CHURCH DVBLIN NOVEMBER 18. 1693. AT THE FUNERAL Of His GRACE FRANCIS Lord Archbishop of DUBLIN By the Reverend Father in GOD ANTHONY Lord Bishop of MEATH Printed by Joseph Ray on College Green and are to be Sold by the Booksellers of Dublin 1694. II COR. V. 1. For we know that if our Earthly House of this Tabernacle were Dissolved we have a Building of God an House not made with Hands Eternal in the Heavens THE Words that I have read unto you are a Reason render'd by the Apostle of something before discoursed of and if we look into the preceding Chapter we shall find that he is there rendring an Account of his Sufferings for the Gospel and his chearful Submission to those Sufferings on the hopes of being better Rewarded in another World It was the Contemplation of those Eternal Joys which God hath prepared for those that love Him that made him run through so many Dangers and endure such a Numerous Train of Misfortunes with so Heroick and Undaunted a Courage as he did That made the Primitive Christians despise the Swords and the Axes the Racks and the Tortures of their Persecutors that taught them to sing in the midst of the most scorching Flames and expire in the midst of the most cruel Torments with as much Serenity and Unconcernedness as if they had been Reposing themselves on a Bed of Roses For they had an Eye to the Recompence of a Reward hereafter and were as certain of enjoying it as if they had it in actual possession They look'd upon all their Sorrows and Afflictions as light and easie in respect of that far more exceeding and eternal Weight of Glory that was ready to Crown all their Labours 2 Cor IV. 17. They look'd not at the things that were seen which were able to affright them with the Terror of their Appearance but at the things which were not seen at that invisible state of Joy and Comfort which was abundantly sufficient to comfort and refresh their Spirits in the height of their greatest Sufferings And when their Persecutors were tormenting of their Bodies and exercising all the Cruelty upon them that the Wit and Rage of an Enemy could invent they were so far from shrinking back or complaining under their Pains that they looked upon them as an hastening of their Joys and an Emancipation of their Souls from the dark and melancholy Prison of their Bodies Being well assured that when the Earthly House of their Tabernacle was Dissolved they had a Building of God prepared for them an House not made with Hands Eternal in the Heavens By the Earthly House of this Tabernacle we are to understand the frail and mortal Body of Man which the Apostle calls an Earthly House and a Tabernacle because of its similitude to them It is compared to an House because it is the Habitation of the Soul that is lodged within it our Bodies being only given us for the Entertainment of our Souls and the more easie exercise of their Operations And so much the Stoicks have instructed us out of their Philosophy whilst they compare the Body to a Casket but the Soul to a rich and pretious Jewel that is lodged within it It is called an Earthly House because it was first framed out of the Dust of the Earth and must again return to its first Principle and it is resembled to a Tabernacle not only in Conformity to the Phrase and Idiom of the Jews and the Pythagoreans who do frequently call it so in their Writings but also because of its Mutability Uncertainty it is the nature of a Tabernacle to be removed from place to place and it is the Nature and Constitution of our Bodies to be subject to Changes and at last dissolved and pulled in pieces By the House not made with Hands Eternal in the Heavens we are to understand that state of Dignity and Immortality to which our Bodies shall be advanced in another World which is therefore called a Building of God because it is of his ordering and preparing An House not made with Hands because not subject to Changes and Decays and it is called Eternal in the Heavens to denote the place and the perpetuity of it our Immortal Bodies shall be placed in Heaven and shall be no more subject to Dissolution or Corruption So that the sence of the Words may be explain'd by this short Paraphrase We Christians do certainly know that our Bodies shall be Dissolved into Dust and Ashes and we do not in the least doubt but that after their Dissolution they shall be raised up again to a state of Immortality and Incorruption and placed in the Heavens where they shall no more be subject to Decays and Alterations From the Words thus Explain'd I shall raise these following Observations 1. That these Bodies that we carry about us are only the Outward Shell or Covering of some more Excellent Thing that is lodged within them 2. That they shall be Dissolved and pull'd in pieces 3. That after their Dissolution they are not to remain Eternally Rotting in the Graves but shall be Advanced to a better state than they enjoyed before to a state of Immortality and Eternal Happiness 4. That the Place or State in which they shall be fixed is the Heavens above 5. That we Christians have the highest Reasons and the strongest Arguments to induce us to believe all this for we know and are assured That when the Earthly House of this Tabernacle is Dissolved we have a Building of God an House not made with Hands Eternal in the Heavens 1. I bgin with the first particular That our Bodies are only the Outward Shell or Covering of some more Excellent Thing that is lodged within them For the proof of this I shall only insist on such Arguments as do arise naturally out of the Text They are here compared to an House and a Tabernacle now the Notion of an House doth imply some Person or another that is to inhabit it no Man being so Unreasonable as to Erect it but with a respect to this End and out of a Design to fit it for the Conveniencies of some to dwell in it And the Notion of a Tabernacle doth imply the same thing and direct us to the same Sence and Meaning We read in the Old Testament of the Tabernacle of the Testament and of the Tabernacles of the Shepherds the former directs us to the Presence of God that was pleased to dwell in it and for whose Honour and Service it was Erected And the latter points us to the End and Use for which those Tabernacles were Erected namely For the Conveniencies of the Shepherds that were to lodge in them It is so likewise in the state and condition of these mortal Bodies that God hath given to the Sons of Men which are only prepared for the Receptacle of our Souls to be an Help meet and convenient for them and to serve as a ready Organ or

his Sickness till the violence of an Appoplexy discomposed his Reason and rendered all farther Meditation useless to his Expiring Soul And now that he has submitted to the Laws of Death and is become a Captive to the King of Terrors it will I presume be desired by some and expected by most that are present at this Mournful Solemnity that some short account should be given of his Life and Actions who had the peculiar Talent of Concealing Himself and of being known to None so well as to God and His own Conscience and happy is that Man who can so order his Actions and the whole Course of his Life and Conversation as to have them approved by his own Conscience and to be able to appear with Confidence at the Tribunal of the Searcher of Hearts whatsoever Censures and Opinions the vain World may either make or entertain of them 'T is the Affirmation of St. John That if our Hearts condem us not then have we Confidence towards God we need not fear that he will lay any thing to our Charge that we are not guilty of but may appear before him with a modest Assurance of his Approbation of all that is good in us and of his Pardon for these Infirmities which we could not help I shall not pretend to give you an exact and entire History of his Life and Actions which have been so much in the View and Observation of the World by the several Eminent Stations that he has passed through in the Church but shall only confine my self to some short and imperfect hints and leave the rest to the Sober Reflections of such as were his Intimates and Familiars He was Born in Gloucester-shire in the Year 1629 and Educated in the Free-Shool of Gloucester where he made such early and nimble advances in Gramaticall Learning that by Thirteen Years of Age he was fit to be Admitted into Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge A Society Famous for the Education of Men of Parts and Learning and happy in Three of its Members Men of Great Learning and Fiety of Great Prudence and Moderation the late Reverend Dr. Bedle Bishop of Kilmore together with the Late and Present Most Reverend ArchBishop of Canterbury from thence he was Elected into a Fellowship in Gonvill and Caius Colledge in which Society he continued till the Restoration of the Royall Family applying himself with so much Industry and Application to the Knowledge of all the several parts of Useful Learning that if I am not mis-informed in my Accounts he obtained the Reputation of a good Mathematician an excellent Crittick in the Greek Tongue and was looked on as one of the most Eminent Persons of his Standing in the University He was well skill'd in the Old and the New the Aristotelian and Cartefian Phylosophy and as he took a particular fancy to the Platonick and the Stoical Phylosophy the one tending to the Explication of the Christian Doctrines and Institutions and the other to the Reformation of the Immoral Lives of the Heathen World so he had fully Imbibed all the Principles that those Institutions could instruct him in and gave a convincing Evidence of the Power of those Principles and the Influence they had upon him in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the great Composure of his Mind and the Moderation and Undisturbedness of his Passions No man ever yet saw him Angry at any Injury or Affront that was offered him nor Disturbed in his Thoughts by any cross Accidents that came in his way but he remained Unmoved like a Rock in the midst of Angry Billows they only broke themselves into Fragments by Dashing on the Outward Man but could make no Impression on a Mind that contemned the exterior Blasts of Fortune and understood the Art of Calming the Force and Moderating the Impetus of them In the Year 1660 he was Invited into Ireland by that great Master of Parts and Learning of Eloquence and Ingenuity the late Reverend Pious and Learned Dr. Taylor Lord Bishop of Down and Connor a Person that had all the Requisites and all the Indowments of a Schollar and a Gentleman a Great Phylosopher and an Excellent Divine a Sublime Wit and an Admirable Preacher and had besides that the advantage of so Obliging a Conversation that as one that knew him well affirmed of his Discourses they had all the Pleasantness of a Comedy and all the Usefulness of a Sermon This was that Great and Worthy Man that first Invited your Diocesan into Ireland and I take it to be no small Character and Advantage to this Deceased Person that so Great a Master of Learning so Exemplary a Person for Devotion so Wise a Discerner of Spirits and so Able a Judge of the Abilities of Others did pitch upon your Departed Archbishop as a Person worthy of his Care and Favour By him he was first Admitted into the Orders of Deacon and Priest as if he had thereby a fatidical and presaging Spirit of the growing hopes of that Plant which he had first planted in the Lords Vineyard And as it is natural to all Husbandmen to intend the cultivation of that Plant which answers their Pains and Expectation so he soon afetr procured his Advancement to the Deanary of Connor from whence by the Unexpected Kindness of the Lord Chancellor Hide he was Removed to the Deanary of Ardmagh and had a Patent sent him for it out of England without any seeking or application of his own In this Dignity he continued discharging the Office of a Dignatary and a Private Minister with all Faithfulness and Diligence till in the Year 1667 he was Advanced to the Bishoprick of Lymrick from whence by gentle and easie steps he was removed to Kilmore and Ardagh and at last to the Dignity of a Metropolitan in this Province And all these Promotions fell upon him as he affirmed he knew not how otherwise than by the Providence of God and the Kindness of his Freinds that negotiated his Removals without his application for them 'T is an argument of an Extraordinary Providence as well as of great Merit that Preferments drop into the mouths of some when others are forced to court like Coy Mistrisses and after all meet with Disappointment But you have had the honour of an Archbishop that has been rather courted by Preserments than a Soliciter of them which ought therefore to give a due Value and Esteem to his Memory and Reputation I need not put you in mind of his Actions and Behaviour in so publick a Theater of Promotion you are all witnesses of them as well as my self and are able to contradict any Narrative that is not founded upon the greatest Candour and Veracity you know that he has walked according to the Character of the Apostle by Evil Report and Good Report that some of his most innocent Actions have had the Misfortune to be misrepresented and thô it is not possible for Men in his Eminent Station to walk