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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29158	A sermon preached at Helmingham in Suffolk, June 30th, 1694, at the funeral of L. Gen. Tolmach by Nicholas Brady ...	Brady, Nicholas, 1659-1726.	1694 (1694)	Wing B4177; ESTC R19560	11,768	36

her for whose sake and safety he accepted it before and exposed himself readily to a voluntary banishment rather than he would be a spectator to those miseries which were about to exercise his native land and to which he could then apply no remedy since that how vigoroysly did he contribute his assistance to our late happy Revolution and how firm and unalterable has his adherence been to the best of Princes and of Governments and all this without being acted by those little motives of advancing his fortune or his figure in the world but receiving all his deserved preferments as the favours of a Prince whom he valued more for his personal vertues than for his royal Bounties and only esteeming them as the instruments and opportunities of being more signally and successfully useful to his Country How freely ever after did be expose himself to danger whensoever her honour or advantage called upon him till at last he sealed his tenderness for her with the highest expression of it that could be given Greater love than this has no man that he lay down his Life This did he for his dear Country fighting in her cause against her most powerful and most inveterate enemies and testified a sensible concern at his Death that he had not another life to sacrifice for the advancement of her interest and the service of his Prince and he met with a grateful return of love since few if any have ever had the happiness to be so much the Darling of all sorts of people or to be attended to their grave with so general a sorrow But Thirdly Let us consider him as a Souldier and here we shall find him vigorous and active surprizingly brave in the most dangerous emergencies and eagerly catching at all opportunities in which he might signalize his Courage without forfeiting his Judgment If all the other actions of his life were silent Athlone would speak both his Valour and his Conduct an action in which I know not whether was more wonderful the Attempt or the Execution both of them were admirable and both his own I appeal to those who were under his Command if he ever refused to take the first Essay of danger or addressed to them in other Language than that of the great Julius who requited and expected nothing more from his Legions than that they would follow where he led the way and yet with all this ardour of an invincible courage he was not of an uneasy turbulent disposition or overapt to be engaged in idle quarrels for as the sweetness of his nature and the politeness of his education hindered him from offering an affront to any man so the modest sense which he had of his own just merit would not suffer him to suspect that he was designed upon by others the Fire then of his temper worked calmly and regularly like that vital warmth which cherishes the body and is subservient to the great ends of health and liveliness whilst that of too many others resembles the malignant heat of a Feaver which boils up into folly and distraction He loved all Souldiers he lived amongst them and he died like one and since he was no less beloved by them I have hopes that the desire of revenging his death may prove a sharper Spur to their future Undertakings than even his presence formerly and great example that so the just anger which his loss works in them the loss of a Patron as well as of a Leader may send thousands of our Adversaries to wait upon his Ghost and make Sampson's character be applicable to him that the Enemies which he destroyed by his Death were more than those which he slew in his Life Thus have I acted like that Painter who drawing the picture of a young Noble-man some days after he was buried was fain to fall vastly short of the beautiful Original and could only copy out a very faint resemblance in like manner have I dealt with my present subject giving you only some imperfect lines by which you may be just able to guess at the party Such then as fame and your own knowledge will more fully decipher him was this Great man who is now but a cold neglected lump of Clay Death which is the end of all men has asserted its Jurisdiction over him also I mean over as much of him as could dye for his unblemished reputation is exempted from mortality Death has no farther dominion over him Tho his carcass must be consigned to worms and putrefaction yet the memory of his great actions shall for ever live and flourish in whatsoever parts of the earth an accomplished Gentleman a zealous Lover of his Country or a deserving Commander is remembred with respect the name of Tolmach who was eminently all these shall never fail of an honourable mention Let us then attend him to his Grave with decent expressions of a manly sorrow let no mixture interfere of weakness or esseminacy nothing unbecoming the person we mourn for but let us take our leave of him at the Dormitory of his Ancestors with the Prophet's Lamentation Alas my Brother And let us who are yet living so duly and seriously lay to heart not only his end but that of all men else that whensoever this common lot of mankind shall as it once must be ours in particular we may leave behind as he does the odour of a good memory and only exchange this life for a better Which God of his infinite mercy grant we may all do through the merits and mediation of our blessed Redeemer to whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit be ascribed all honour power might majesty and dominion henceforth and for evermore Amen FINIS