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

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