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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

Holy Spirit and Wisdom and grant that I may improve my left Talent and all the remaining Moments of my Life to gain a comfortable assurance That Death shall open a Gate to let my Soul pass out of the old Prison of this Body into that Freedom to which the Son of God gives right even to the glorious liberty of the Sons of God. O that I might so preach him in his Kingdom of Grace that I may be one thô the meanest in his Kingdom of Glory Meditations on Jan. 30. 1652. after a Recovery from a Cold with a Cough LOrd thy Mercy is most seen in Judgment when it is not lengthened to Eternity If I had not now felt the smart of this one Twig of thy Rod I had utterly persevered in an incorrigible Disobedience But by this Touch thou hast graciously healed me of that giving me time and opportunity to look up at thee now admonishing by thy Finger From this I see nothing but the sweetness indulgence and mercy of a wise Father In my self nothing but the stubbornness and rebellion of a perverse Child O how have I abused a longer reign of Health for now well nigh Thirty years If I should write all his Meditations I might transcribe a good part of his Diary You have here had a Specimen of his private Devotion in the next and last place we shall consider whether his Liberality to the Poor and Needy was agreeable to his Sacred Character or no. In examining his Actions by the Test of this Vertue we shall find that he left a large Inventory of charitable Deeds And as Nerva Coesar was called Pater Patrioe the Father of his Country by reason of his gentle and kind Government so might he be termed Pater Pauperum the Father of the Poor for his liberal Donative to them unto whom his Compassion was never deny'd nor his Hand closed up without something to warm their Hearts and chear their Spirits and what was still more obliging what he bestowed was with a free heart taking pleasure in the good Offices he did any of those Mystical Members of Jesus Christ To descend to particularize the several methods of this Bishops Charity after he came to be so would look something like Flattery such variety did he use in the dispensing the Goods of Fortune to his Indigent Brethren since the Proverb in these Dregs of Time proves too true which asserts the great disuse of that most extorting Usury when the Use out-strips the Principal To proceed He usually gave 20 s. to the Poor at Carlisle when it was his turn to Preach there that his Liberality might tempt them to listen to his Doctrin His Allowance to the Poor of Dalston Parish within the Limits of which Rose Castle stands was 30 s. a Month besides what was given them at his Castle-Gates and to Sick People not to mention what was given them at Sacraments and upon other occasions In Dear Years when his own stock of Corn was spent he ordered Barley to be bought at 12 s. or 14 s. per Bushel and to be given to the Poor which came then in such great numbers to the Gates that the Porter who served them having sometimes the curiosity to tell them affirmed that he often serv'd Seven or Eightscore People in one and the same day He allowed Mony to a School Master for teaching Eight Poor Children to Read at Dalston He put out Poor Boys to Apprentices In Pensions to Poor Scholars at the University and to some Indigent Persons he gave 32 l. per Annum constantly for several Years To which may be added his share with other Bishops in yearly Pensions to Forein Converts and to other publick Charities as the Rebuilding of S. Paul's Church to French Protestants large Sums c. Nay his Charity was often so extensive that he forgat his own Secular Interest to lend unto God by his Largesses to the Needy At his Death he gave to the Poor of eight or nine Parishes and in some other Modes of Charity which amounted to the Sum of 200 l. And what that pious Prelate left his Widow punctually performed For as she loved him entirely so did she shew her true respect for his Memory in enlarging his gift And thus that Religious Couple as they strove whether should love more so did they rival each other in Charity Moreover I should be injurious the memory of this good Bishop if I should not further add that besides these Public Acts of Liberality his Charity was yet in some respects so secret according to our Blessed Saviour's Advice that he kept a Private Purse for that end and that so private that even his dear Consort the Partner of all his Joys and other Counsels was a Stranger to it not knowing how he disposed of it till he himself discovered to her a little before his death whereabout 20 l. of that Mony lay which he desired might be given to three or four of the French Protestants or to some decayed Gentleman of honest Conversation and that without naming of him Which his Loving Consort accordingly performed This last Act is not only a plain demonstration of his extensive Bounty but how far he was from that pompous and ostentous Charity which is made by too many the foundation of Merit in another Communion And as his Kindness was unlimited to the corporal Wants of the Needy so no less compassionate was he to those who went astray from the true Fold To such he used lenity and mildness endeavouring to bring them into the way by strong Argumenrs and soft Words convincing their erronious Judgments by Reason and Scripture rather than by affrighting them with Corporal punishments out of that by-way into which they had fallen by mistake As to his own Practice none could be more observant of the Rules of the Church of England than he was thô he pitied the Errors of others who differed from him in Opinion To conclude May this mean Monument which I have erected to the Memory of this Right Reverend Prelate suffice to continue his Name and the History of his Vertues to succeeding Ages and that thereby the lustre of his Pious Actions may so shine forth in this debauched and profligate Age that others may be induced to Copy after so fair an Example serving God faithfully and sincerely in this Life and enjoying him eternally in that which is to come Ephes 3. 20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us unto him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all Ages World without end Amen FINIS A SERMON Preached at the Funeral of the Right Reverend Father in God Edward Lord Bishop of Carlisle REV. XIV 13. And I heard a Voice from Heaven saying unto me write Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their

nor break the Prison of our Bodies to redeem our Souls into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God. Dii coelant homines ut vivere durent quam sit dulce Mori So then the same blessed Providence of God which in mercy to his Church continued our Departed Father so long among us has now in mercy to himself translated him to the Church Triumphant and exchanged his Mitre for a Crown for a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory And he who turn'd many to Righteousness now shines as the Stars for ever and ever Thus I have done with the Doctrin of my Text and shall only beg your patience for a short Practical Inference or two and then you shall see this Right Reverend Prelate pay his last Debt to the Law Dust thou art and unto Dust thou shalt Gen. 3. 19. return The first Inference shall be for such as are more particularly concern'd in the Loss of a great and worthy Friend a dear and kind Relation which I draw from the Consideration of the blessed Estate of those that are departed in the Lord And 't is this in the Apostles words that ye sorrow not as others 1 Thess 4. 13. which have no hope Were we Heathens and looked upon Death as the Annihilation of our Souls or Sadducees who deny that there is Luke 20. 27. any Resurrection or Papists who dream of a frightful place called Purgatory we might then justly either bewail the utter perishing of the Dead or the Misery of their State. But since we believe the Spirit that they are blessed in resting from their labours and that their works follow them what reason have we to lament the End of that Life which is the Period of our Misery and the beginning of a happy Eternity Ay but said the Jews when our Saviour wept over the Sepulchre of his Friend Lazarus See how he Joh. 11. 36. loved him Alas they mistook the cause of our Saviours Tears which flowed only from his Compassion to poor Lazarus who was now again to lanch into the deep after he had weathered the Harbour where his Soul was at Rest 'T is like indeed we would have been glad to have enjoyed him longer he was so kind a Friend but is it not preposterous to commemorate the kindness of a Friend with so high an Argument of Ill nature as to repine at his being happy sooner than we expected God was more merciful to him than it seems we should have been that would have kept him longer out of Abraham's Bosom only that we might have hugged him in our own Could he but look down as low as us he would certainly say Daughters of Jerusalem weep not for me but weep for your selves I am comforted having received the Wages of my Labours in the Evening of my days but you are tormented that have the heat and burden of the day to bear Wherefore comfort one another with 1 Thess 4. 18. these words The other Inference is the common concern of all that hear me taken from the Consideration of the toil and labour of this World viz. to wean us from too passionate love of it 'T is so Childish an Infirmity to doat upon Shadows and catch at them that methinks we should blush when we are become men not to have put away such Childish things but still to walk on in a vain shadow and disquiet our selves in vain But thô we have all of us sufficiently experienced the Cheats and disappointments of a false uneasie World yet the Magnetism of the Earth does so powerfully attract our Affections that thô we live long and see not the Grave yet we are apt to complain with Theophrastus of the shortness of our days and are still crying O spare me a little as if we were in love with impotence and pains and loath to retire to the only place where the weary be at rest But if all Arguments drawn from the Vanity of what we pursue be ineffectual to convince us of the folly of it yet certainly 't is a Perfidiousness below the Ingenuous Spirit of a Christian basely to Espouse his Soul to what he most solemnly renounced in his Baptism That were equally our Sin in prevaricating with God who will not be mocked and our Misery too in meanly placing our Affections upon the Sordid things below that bear no proportion to the Appetites of a Rational Agent because they are too capacious and sublime ever to be satisfied with any thing less than the full Display of GOD himself in the glory of all his Attributes But this I say Brethren the time is 1 Cor. 7. 29. short it remaineth that both they that weep be as thô they wept not and they that buy as thô they possessed not and they that use this World as not abusing it for the fashion of this World passeth away And I pray God give us Grace so to pass thrô things Temporal that we finally lose not things Eternal for the sake of Jesus Christ who is the Resurrection and the Life To whom with the Father and the Eternal Spirit of Grace be ascribed all Power Glory and Praise for Ever and Ever Amen FINIS