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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

betwixt them which continued for several years before it was compleated by the Conjugal Tye by reason of the Iniquity and the Threatning of those to give them a soft Epithet Cloudy Times In the Year 1639 our Mr. Rainbow was chosen Dean of the College which Office he discharged with great care and prudence discouraging and punishing the Vicious and encouraging the diligent and sober young Students Upon the 20th day of April he fell into a dangerous Swoon so that that Day wherein he first drew Breath had like to have proved the day of his death And hence after his Recovery he had Meditations suitable thereto to be seen in his Diary I have already mentioned what Favour he had gained of the Earl of Suffolk one of whose Ancestors had founded that College Consequent of the high Opinion that Earl had of Mr. Rainbows Integrity in making a Settlement of his Estate in the Year 1640 he did him the Honour among other Trustees to make him one as remembring not only how careful a Tutor he was over his Sons but how happy an Instrument he had that year been in reconciling a Difference betwixt himself and his Eldest Son. This great Trust Mr. Rainbow because young undertook with some unwillingness but he discharged it afterwards with all imaginable Fidelity therein not proposing to himself the least improvement of his own private Fortunes but the Advantage of that Noble Family And while he continued therein after the death of Earl Theophilus which happened in June in the Year last mentioned thô his Care for the Estate of his Honourable Charge was great yet was it no less for the great Concern of their Souls without which the other had been less valuable and over whom agreeable to his Function he was very watchful and diligent and God was not wanting to bless his Pious endeavours therein with a suitable Return Which Happiness was not confined to those Noble Youths he had under his peculiar Tuition but extended to other young Persons of the Nobility who frequented that Family For he observing some Extravagancies in them too incident to men of their Figure and who meet with many Temptations and especially with one that of Flattery the bane of Youth wrought so upon their Spirits by his cogent Reasons and insinuating Rhetoric that they gratefully accepted of some Prayers composed by Mr. Rainbow which were suited to their particular condition as was apparent by some Papers seen after his death And those Noble Persons had ever afterwards a just veneration and a true kindness for him Hence became he so much the Favourite of the Families of Suffolk Northumberland Warwick and Orrery And since I have mentioned the last I cannot forbear to add that he who first bore that Title hath in his Divine Poems which he wrote in his declining years bating the difference of the Languages outstript those of Prudentius who also composed his in his old Age in the richness of Fancy and in delicacy of Expression And as he had in other Topics composed for his diversion shewn that he wanted not a chast and elegant Style even when he treated on less severe and serious Subjects so hath he in those his Poems on the Festivals acquired a Reputation which will never be deny'd his Merit till Wit and Judgment be exil'd the World no more than Posterity can without the higest Injustice refuse the Title of a most acurate Experimental Philosopher to his yet surviving Brother and our Bishops Friend the Honourable Mr. Robert Boyle a Gentleman who is no less happy in and respected for a sweetness of Temper than for his Ingenuity And the present Age seems so much in love with his Philosophical Experiments and Discourses upon them by which he hath signalized himself to the greatest part of Europe that even a Critic of another Nation not very ready to bestow Complements upon others but when even compelled thereto by Truth cannot deny but that his Experiments and Reflexions have always an Air of Solidity To which may be justly added that as he hath enriched Natural Philosophy with his choice Observations so hath he in contradiction to the trite Objection of such Students being near Neighbours to Atheists made that dear Mistress an Handmaid to Religion But I now forget that I trespass against the Readers Patience by this long digression as well as hereby offend this Religious Gentlemans Modesty for which after I have craved pardon of both I shall return to Mr. Rainbow whom we shall according to the Series of his History find ready to attend the young Earl of Suffolk James to the Long Parliament in October 1640. A Parliament a small part of which afterwards under the specious pretence of a thorough Reformation brought one of the best of our Kings Charles the Martyr to the Block and laid waste that Church of England which hath been long the Glory and Bulwark under God of the Reformed Religion and the Envy of the Romish In 1642 Mr. Rainbow had the Honour to Marry the Right Honourable Algernoon Earl of Northumberland to the Lady Elizabeth Howard His great Friend Dr. Henry Smith dying and the Mastership of Magdalen College become thereby vacant in October 1642 Mr. Rainbow having formerly had a Promise and Grant of that Place upon the first vacancy from the Right Honourable Theophilus Earl of Suffolk was now admitted into it with the concurrence of his Son Earl James And now seeing himself set upon an higher ground and consequently his Actions thereby exposed more to the Public view and censure his next and chief Care was to discharge his new Trust conscientiously and therefore having while he was a Fellow of that same College taken notice that some very hopeful young Men had upon their being too early Advanc'd fallen from their former studious and vertuous course of living into Debauchery He upon his accession to the Mastership resolved not to admit any man to a Fellowship who had not first commenced Mr. of Arts that their longer stay before their Preferment might give the College a clearer demonstration of their Worth and they thereby might become as it were Probationers for three Years He took the Degree of Dr. of Divinity in the Year 1646 when his chief Question on which he made his Thesis was That Ecclesia Anglicana tenet omnia ad salutem necessaria A Point which he durst defend in the worst of Times when that Church was so much oppress'd for asserting her Loyalty to God and the King for her agreement with the Primitive Church in not rebelling against a lawful Magistrate and in owning the Jus Divinum of the Episcopal Hierarchy and Liturgy But that Black Storm which occasioned by the Sins of this Nation then surfeiting of Ease and Plenty was permitted a while to hover over our Heads in Black Clouds broke out at last in dreadful Thunders upon our Trembling Israel and tore down all that oppos'd its way In this common Calamity Dr. Rainbow had his share

of being Interr'd among the meanest of those that own the same common Saviour and Redeemer will testifie to all Posterity As for the Pageantry of Funeral Pomp and the Artificial voice of Monuments he looked not upon them as Ensigns of Honour but rather as Trophies erected by Death in memory of that fatal Victory Sin got over us in the Garden of Eden when we became like the Beasts that perish But thô his Merit and Vertue do loudly call for all the Justice Oratory can do them yet I dread to disturb his Sacred rest by prophaning the Religion of his last peremptory dying Command that I should to express my self in his own words be very sparing in any Character of him But yet the Modesty of the dead must not rob the living of the comfortable and happy Influence the manner of his death may have upon every one that hears it My Text leads me directly to that And indeed his was such a Ravishment to all that beheld it that their Hearts grew warm within them ready to break out into that pathetic Expression of the Apostle Let us also go that we Joh. 11. 16. may die with him And whenever thou O God the Lord to whom belong the Issues of Life and Death shalt call us to follow him O let us die the death of this righteous person Num. 23. 10. and let our last end be like his 'T was admirable to observe with what submissive Humility and chearful Devotion he received his last Sickness as the Messenger of Death How steadily he maintained a Divine temper of Mind without the impertinent and vain interruption of Secular Concerns vigorous Ejaculations fervent Prayers holy Meditation seasonable prudent and pious Advice were the constant Employment of his heavenly Soul till his weak and languishing Voice concluded the Period of his life with this pious and submissive Expression God has now taken from me the use of my Tongue but I desire you all to employ yours in Prayers to him for me This sweet disposition of Spirit was so pleasing to God that he therefore seemed to dissolve his earthly Tabernacle without either pain or sickness on purpose that the Troubles of a Body might not interrupt the Calmness and Serenity of his Soul. Thus he lived Copying out through the whole tenor and series of his Actions the Noble draught St. Paul has left of a good Bishop 1 Tim. 3. adorning his Sacred Function with the glorious variety of all those Graces which qualifie the Man of God to bear the Character of Ambassador from Heaven And thus he died in the Lord. Is not he then blessed Yea saith the Spirit And this leads me in the second place to shew wherein the blessedness of that Estate consists And First In being delivered from the toyl and fatigue the emptiness and dissatisfaction of things below To read the many Noble Discourses the Heathen Philosophers have transmitted to Posterity of the emptiness and insignificancy of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the outward enjoyments of Life those Toys and Bables upon which we fool away the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the precious time God has put into our hands to secure unto our Selves a blessed Eternity were sufficient to give any thinking man an Eternal disgust against them So little happiness could those refined Wits and great Masters of Reason find in the fluttering Pomp of temporal Grandure But if you are not satisfied with the Authority of the Heathen thô herein they uttered the genuine Oracles of Nature why then let us refer the Determination of the Point to Solomon a person peculiarly qualified to be Judge in the Case both in respect of the Excellent Spirit of Wisdom that was in him and because he is one that stuck not to gratifie his Curiosity in trying all Experiments of that Nature for he gave his heart Eccl. 1. 17. to know madness and folly as well as wisdom And what was the result of all Why after this glorious and potent Monarch had made Silver in Jerusalem as Stones for abundance and 1 King. 10. 27. 1 King. 11. 3. had taken him a thousand Wives and Concubines erected him Magnificent Buildings planted him delicious Vineyards fruitful Orchards pleasant Gardens adorn'd with Lillies more splendidly arrayed than he himself in all his glory after he had gotten him great Possessions Numerous choice of Men Singers and Women Singers and the delights of the Sons of Men and denied himself nothing that his Eyes desired nor withheld his heart from any Joy and having thus contracted unto himself an Epitomy of the Worlds glory he might well ask What can the man do that cometh after the King yet this King confesseth that when he had looked on all the works that his Eccl. 2. from ver 1. to ver 13. hands had wrought and on the labour that he had laboured to do behold all was vanity and vexation of Spirit and there was no profit under the Sun. Believe it if Solomon whom both Nature and Art so highly conspired to divert and please yet Nauseated all as Vanity 't were but common Prudence in us to set our Hearts at rest who have neither the thousandth part of Solomons Grandeur nor of his Wit neither to improve the small stock we have to the best advantage Yet say we had all the Kingdoms of the World and the glory of them as they were most artificially drawn to the life in a tempting Landskip presented by Satan to our Saviours Imagination yet since all that is in the World is but either the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes or the pride of life i. e. Pleasure Riches and Honour as we are told by S. John who liv'd long enough in the World to know what it afforded 'T is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Grand Fundamental Error and folly of our whole lives to look for any happiness in the Enjoyment of them Human Beatitude consists in the gratification of those Faculties which make Man i. e. Intellect and Will the perfective qualifications of which are Truth in the Understanding and Rectitude or Holiness in the Will. Now could any of the fore-mentioned Enjoyments make a man either more Wise or more Vertuous than his Neighbour Could they secure us from being impos'd upon by false Notions Ignorance and Error and Enlighten the darkness of our Minds with clear Conceptions of Truth that Secret of the Most High GOD with certain knowledge of the admirable Works of Nature and GOD the Mysterious Author of them or with Prudence in the rational Conduct of our Actions which would be the Glory and Ornament of our Understanding Could they redeem us from the shameful Captivity of sordid Appetites and Vile Affections which like Rebel Vassals dethrone the Sovereign Goodness that should Reign within us Could they restore again that generous Magnanimity Temperance Justice and Universal Complacency in what is good and honourable to its Empire in the Soul which would be the