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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96940	The servant doing, and the Lord blessing. A sermon preached at the funeral of the right honorable Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of the upper bench in Ireland. Who deceased 2. Ianuary anno 1658. By Edward Worth D.D.	Worth, Edward.	1659 (1659)	Wing W3619; Thomason E974_3; ESTC R207667	15,516	39

determined by Scripture in Civil by the Laws of the Land To which purpose he would often say That if men were left to themselves their lust and interest in things civil would be their Law their fancy and temptation in things sacred their Bible When every man did that which was right in his own eyes all was wrong done Disorders in Tribes as in Benjamin in Cities as in Gibeah in Families as in Micah's The result of this principle In those days there was no King in Israel Judg. 21. 25. but every man followed the light within him did that which was right in his own eyes Secondly His Lords glory was his chief end § 3 1. Not his own glory His juice was not put forth in leaves and suckers but fruit The character of a real Saint might be rightly applied to him He was more than he shewed yet shewed more then most who are called Saints do 2. Not his own profit Others may talk of Self denial he practis'd it And though ascended to the top of the Tree yet fill'd he not his own pockets but shak'd down the fruit Nor was he onely a Servant in relation but § 4 did service in action He was not a loyterer but labourer in that station wherein God had set him Gods service in this age is most what lip-service his was life-service He was a Doing Servant And a so doing a Servant Faithful and wise § 5 1. He was faithfull as faithfulness is opposed to heresie A Catholick Christian expressly refusing in a dark and gloomy day to leave the ark for a Cock-boat A Protestant of the best edition that is not superstitious nor factious not idolatrous abhorring Sacriledg nor sacrilegious abhorring Idols Not enlarging the windows of Truth to weaken Peace nor enlarging the pillars of Peace to obscure Truth In a word whether we respect God or Man Church or State he was a lively transcript of the Protestant Religion Which was so fixt in his heart that at the time of his death if we may call it a death in regard his soul seem'd rather to be given up by him than taken from him at the time of his death he expressed his deep sense and sorrow That even the Pulpit often eccho's reflections against the Protestants indulgences to Hereticks censuring those as Goats if not Dogs and Swine and excusing these as weak or straying sheep Secondly He was faithfull as faithfulness is § 6 opposed to Hypocrisie A plain-hearted Iacob a down-right Nathaniel an Israelite indeed without guile even when and where guile was the fashion He dared not look one way and row another as Watermen use but he dared speak as he thought and do as he spoke as good men should use Thirdly He was faithfull as faithfulness signifies § 7 an act of the heart resting on Christ Thus even when he drew nigh the harbor he not onely anchor'd himself on that Rock but also provoked others thereto His words were My confidence is alone in Christ and his merits can you say so too Esse Phoebi dulcius lumen solet jamjam cadentis How pleasant are the beams of the setting Sun how pretious the faith-expressions of this setting Saint Secondly As he was faithful in doing so was § 8 he wise Not to speak of that gift of wisdom which fitted him as a Iudge for the Bench or as a Councellor for the Board because this Glow-worme may shine on a dunghil The Children of this world may thus be wise in their generation but Luke 16. 8. that grace of wisdom which by right means guides to right ends the supreme especially wherein true wisdom consists and wherein such was his eminence that in vulgar speech the Honourable title of honest is prefixed to his titles of Honor. Few mention his name without some Eulogie The honest Lord Pepys or the good Lord Pepys This faithfulness and wisdom Sword and § 9 Buckler he so exercis'd as a Ruler in the Lord's houshold that it might be said of him as 't was of Nerva He had done nothing in publick on account whereof he might be afraid to live private I speak before Rulers and possibly such as § 10 may find it necessary to take work out of his sampler wherefore I shall presume in some instances in things sacred and civil First in things sacred as a ruler over Gods § 11 houshold He not onely desired but endeavoured First That a Candle might be set up in every Candlestick Secondly That this Candle might be lighted and give forth its light to the whole house Thirdly That this light might be maintained and Oyl duly Ministred First That a Candle might be set up in every Candlestick Distinct Ministers in distinct Congregations As fixed Starres not wandring Planets For this reason among many others he would no less freely then frequently declare his judgement against the maintenance of Ministers by Salaries As that which left them at large like those of old sine titulo without relation to or dependance on any particular charge or people And as that which opened such a door to pluralityes tot quots Nonresidens as never was since the world was Many Parishes yea some Barronies in this way not supplying one Minister nor he regarding to supply them Never such a way to feed the Shepheard and starve the Sheep a little experience might possibly have proved never such a way to starve both shepheard and Sheep Secondly He both desired and endeavoured § 12 that each Candle might be lighted that Gospel-Ordinances might be administred by all Gospel-Ministers and this light not put under a bushel to the prejudice of the whole House He would often express his grief that so many Shepheards in this Land in this City especially should sheer the Fleece yet not own their Flocks as sheep yea disown them as not sheep Or if they feed them once or twise a week in a green pasture yet as that no less good then great Bishop Vsher expressed it not feel how they thrive This was to him and should be to us a lamentation and for a lamentation Thirdly He both desired and endeavoured § 13 that the Candles lighted should be maintained and Oyl duly ministred To which end from his first coming into this Land he put forth his utmost for recovering to the Ministers their proper and legal freehold the Tithes And would often say that he did not understand how any could scruple to receive Tithes in specie who did not seruple to receive salaries out of Tithes He was a faithful and wise Ruler in civil § 14 things aswel as sacred Both as a Master in his own Family and as a Magistrate in the Commonwealth First as a Master his Servants were not like slaves but lower friends Quid servus Amicus humilis Secondly As a Magistrate the Chief Iustice He might shake his lap with Iustice Samuel and say whose Ox or Ass have I 1 Sam. 1213 taken Abstinuit alieno ut siquis unquam as was spoak § 15 of one formerly None ever freer from tit-ting the ballance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so strict so severe a Justice that he seem'd uncapable of a temptation of doing Injustice And herein as his faithfulness was like the § 16 primum mobile so his wisdom was like the Coelum Chrystallinum that tempered the violence of that motion to due time and season both in his particular and general calling as a Ruler and as a Servant as a Iudge and as a Christian First as a Iudge 'T is said that a Iudge must not pass sentente either lying or running but sitting i. e. with a patient speed and a speedy patience Thus he abhorred delayes in judicature as that which turned judgement into vineger rashness as that which turned it to wormewood both to be shunned by a due fermentation as the Jews speak by observing due seasons for acting As a Christian he incorporated the dayly Acts § 17 of Religion in proper seasons that soe the duty might revolve with the times revolution These were to him as to Job more then his 23. Job 12 necessary food as he had his eating and drinking so his praying seasons and for the solemn seasons of publique worship none more observant At which season God bearing him witness as § 17 Abel whilst he was serving God God served him with a call to the Vpper Bench. Servus ad legem fit judex or a summons to the Vpper-House Henoch the seventh from Adam walked Gen. 5. 24. with God was translated anno sabbatico Thus the Lord translated this Henoch to compleat that sabbath in Heaven which he began on Earth And with the new year enters eternity in a new place state and work but in his old company the Lord God who coming finds him whom he finds welcoming him God finds him doing here he finds God blessing there Where for the present we must leave him and where 't is his happyness for ever to be left for Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing FINIS