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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51401	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable Roger Earl of Orrery, who dyed the 16th of October, at Castle-Martyr, and was buried at Youghall in Ireland the 18th of the same month, in the year 1679 by Thomas Morris, M.A. ...	Morris, Thomas, M.A.	1681 (1681)	Wing M2812; ESTC R16333	20,753	48

in the words of the Text will yield us some relief in this matter Indeed considering all his Vertues and Accomplishments how pious a Christian he was how loving a Husband how careful and tender a Father how loyal a Subject how faithful a Friend how wise and vigilant a Statesman how good a Patriot of his Country how kind and just a Neighbour how charitable to the poor how noble a Master in his Family how ingenious and learned a Person in his discourses and converse and in a word how great a Lover of all Vertue and Goodness and Hater of all Vice and Impiety in all which he was so eminent that though he hath left behind him many Peers in his honours yet 't is to be feared few in his vertues considering I say all these things in him we might have reason never to have lest grieving and lamenting our loss of so excellent a Person But considering withal from what great pains and labours he now rests and what future evils he may be taken away from and to what an happy state of bliss he is now advanced where he doubtless enjoys the comfortable fruits of the good works he hath done though we have indeed lost one of the Pillars and Patriots of our Country and one of our best Friends yet we have reason humbly to acquiesce in the good will and Providence of God lest by our overmuch grief and sorrow we shew that we repine at what God hath done distrust his good Providence and envy the happiness of our noble Friend an happiness which a voice from Heaven declares they are possessed of that dye as he did saying Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord the very hearing of which methinks is enough to quiet and calm the most tumultuating passion upon this account And now that we may see we are not deluded in this matter with vain shadows and appearances of comfort I shall lead you to the considerations of those things in this noble Person which from what hath been said will appear to be a great relief to us this way And to let pass those many things that might be said of him in all which should I be particular I shall be thought to compose a Volume rather than a Sermon all that I shall say shall be only what will be pertinent to our present comfort which I shall digest into this following order shewing 1. What reason we have to believe this noble Person dyed in the Lord and consequently is blessed 2. What labours he now rests from 3. What good works of his follow and entertain him with unspeakable joys 1. That this noble Person died in the Lord these things following sufficiently declare viz. His Faith his Repentance and his sincere obedience to all Gods Commandments First His Faith For as he was by Baptism initiated in the true Faith so he continued firm and stedfast in it to the end He believed with all his heart and soul as he would often phrase it all the truths of Gods Word and would often declare He expected salvation in and through none else but Jesus Christ alone because he would say Acts 4.12 there is none other name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved And this Faith of his was not an idle speculative Faith but truly active and working which he would often say was the only true saving Faith for it made him severe against all vice and impiety and a lover of all vertue and goodness it made him also employ the utmost of his great Parts in the rigorous defence of all those religious truths which he believed Gods Word contained against all the incroaching errours of all Parties and this not only in his common Discourses but sometimes with his Pen too neither did his Faith make him a talkative Christian only but it influenced all his actions also so that his whole life seemed to be but one continued Argument of his firm belief Secondly His Repentance He did not only believe but with tears often lamented and repented of all the sins he could charge himself with which though they were not many for he generally led too strict a life to be guilty of very many yet those that he was guilty of through surprize anguish of his Distemper or frailty he had so tender a Conscience that he was immediately sensible of them and would with tears in his eyes heartily beg God's pardon for them and by many expressions testifie how much grieved he was for offending God but by a sinful word as all that were near him can abundantly witness And this his sorrow for sin which wrought this repentance in him never to be repented of made him watch and pray and zealous against those sins he had been any time through frailty guilty of all which are sound marks of unfeigned repentance if we will believe what the Apostle says concerning the fruits and effects of godly sorrow in 2 Cor. 7.10 11. Thirdly His sincere obedience his sound faith and unfeigned repentance could not chuse but bring forth the saving fruits of obedience in his life and conversation Hence it came to pass that he was truly zealous in his life for the honour of God and Religion which zeal of his enkindled in him an holy indignation against the common crying sins of the Age viz. drunkenness whoredom prophane swearing and cursing oppression schism atheism c. For which abominations he would say The Land mourns and God will certainly visit Besides all this it made him most religiously devout in all the Duties and Services of publick and private Worship it made him frequent in good and edifying discourses and in heavenly ejaculations and prayers and that even amidst his greatest pains it made him charitable to the poor humble and modest temperate and sober just and peaceable forgetful and forgiving of injuries and in a word it made him do all things that Christ had commanded him not out of any bye and sinister ends but in pure obedience to Gods will and out of a respect to God's Glory and his own souls salvation Now what do all these things else but testifie that he lived and dyed in the Lord For they who being baptized into the true Faith live and dye in it repenting of all their sins and obeying sincerely all Gods Commandments are the persons who from what hath been said appears dye in the Lord and then this noble Person who so dyed must needs be blessed as such in the Text are declared to be Having therefore now this assurance of the blessed state this noble Person now is in let us next take a view of the Particulars wherein it consists and therefore 2. We next come to consider the great labours he now refts from And here we shall find That besides those labours and evils which 't is common to all that dye in the Lord to rest from as from sin and the troubles and horrours of it from crosses and afflictions c.

there were some that were more peculiar to this Excellent Man which he now happily rests from and they are those of his body and mind First The bodily labours and evils which he now rests from are the pains of the Gout under which he laboured near thirty years or more and I leave it to all those that ever have had the least Fit of that acute Distemper to declare what an happiness 't is to be wholly freed from the pains of it Secondly As for those labours of his mind which he now also happily rests from they are those which either his great Employments and Parts engaged him in about affairs of State and about composing those publick Works to which the World is no Stranger or which the sad apprehensions he had of the evils hanging over our heads exercised him with These and the like are those great labours he now rests from which we may well think is at least some small part of that felicity which he now enjoys But this being but the negative part of his happiness we will stay no longer upon it but proceed to that positive part of it which now fills him with infinite exultations and joys and this brings me in the last place Thirdly To speak of the good works of this noble Person the joyful sense and reward of which doubtless accompany him into his separate state And these are so many and so worthy of imitation by all that survive that though I cannot be so injurious to your patience as here to name them all yet neither can I be so unjust to his excellent worth as not to name and recommend some of the most considerable of them 1. And first let me begin with his works of piety and declare his religious deeds And here we shall quickly find how much Religion hath been beholden to this Excellent Man who not only with his tongue and pen hath most notably defended it against atheism superstition and errour but hath made it his business to encourage the life power and practice of it in all places and companies where he had any thing to do of which we find these evidences He hath erected in those two Houses which he built two several Places to worship God publickly in adorning them as much if not more than his own Dwellings a work calling aloud for imitation in this Kingdom where to the shame and I fear decay too of Protestantism so many hundred Parish Churches lye yet in their ruine But whatever others could do it seems this Noble Mans devout Soul could not endure to live in a place where God had not a publick House as well as himself And as he took care that God should have Places of publick worship so did his piety lead him to take care also that there should such Persons serve in them whose lives should be an honour not disgrace to their Profession Neither was his care of Religion confined to his Chapels only but was extended to all other places persons and things abroad reproving and discountenancing all that did in their words and actions affront Religion and commending and encouraging all the friends and promoters of it and that others might be religious as well as himself he took care that even in the School and Almes-house which he built those wholesom Orders should be set up and observed that might oblige all of those Societies to live religiously and vertuously Neither did his piety lye only abroad in these outward things and publick matters but it made him look home to his own Family also to see that piety there should flourish ordering that there should be publick Prayers in his Family constantly twice a day and commanding me to give him an account of any that upon my admonitions would not leave off the vices they were guilty of that he might immediately discharge them from his house for he would say Such would bring judgments on his Family And as for his Children he was always careful to have them brought up in all Vertue and piety putting them upon the performance of religious Duties in their early and most tender years To give one Instance amongst many of his care this way I am credibly informed That when he sent his Sons to travel he told their Governour He had rather he should bury them beyond Sea vertuous than bring them home vicious adding this That vice must be crush'd in the Egg else 't will soon become a Serpent Neither had he a care of his Children only but of his meanest Servants also whom he commanded to be constant at Family Prayers ordering the Younger to be catechized and the Elder he would himself often mind of coming to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and would always give them time to fit and prepare themselves for it He would often say The meanest Scullion hath a soul to be saved as well as I. And 't would be well if all Masters did imitate him in this which if they would there would be more Religion amongst Servants than I fear there generally is amongst a great many Thus then these are some of the works of piety which this noble Man did and now that he is dead I question not but that the joyful sense of them hath accompanied him into his separate state and renders him blissful there where doubtless he received the welcome of that faithful Servant who had well employed his Lords Talents and so is entred with him into the joy of his Lord. Matth. 25.21 2. Next let me speak of his Works of Charity in which we shall find him wise and liberal doing all things in this kind to the purpose and with cheerfulness As he was always careful to bestow his Charity on those Persons only that were true Objects of Charity and would be strict in that matter as became a wise and good man so he was very readily bountiful to those whom he found so nay he would often give to the less deserving persons rather than miss of being charitable to the truly deserving And in these deeds of Charity to Strangers in distress to the Poor and to decayed Gentlemen and Ministers he was many times so private that his left hand scarce knew what his right hand did he was so far from withholding his Charity from those to whom it was due that he would often make an enquiry in the Neighbourhood where he dwelt for any in want to relieve them and so would seek out for those that others run from Neither was his Charity private only but he hath left a publick and eternal Monument of it in an Alms house which he built for the maintenance of six poor men and as many poor women and hath liberally endowed it for ever And herein I wish he were imitated by the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom especially where there is generally so little provision made for the poor that I fear many perish for want of timely relief Now these and many more being the Deeds