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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36854	A sermon preached in the metropolitical Church of Canterbury, October 17, MDCLXXII, at the funeral of the Very Reverend Thomas Turner, D.D., dean of the same church by Peter du Moulin ...	Du Moulin, Peter, 1601-1684.	1672 (1672)	Wing D2567; ESTC R10909	12,567	32

and decent splendor in the house of God advancing the good of the place wheresoever he presided what ever toil or censure or money it cost him Of which he hath given magnificent memorials to our Church and Library It is memorable that in thankfulness for a great deliverance from an imminent danger he vowed and dedicated to our Holy Table that costly Folio Bible with covers of beaten silver double gilt His behaviour at Pauls hath given many signal testimonies how much he preferred the honour of Gods house and the benefit of the Society before his private emolument The fair house which he lately built there for his successours having little hope to enjoy it himself and yet spent the better part of a thousand pounds upon it is a great proof of that truth and a lasting monument of his magnanimous and publick spirit In all the relations of a Son a Husband a Father a Kinsman or a Friend he ever acquitted himself with singular wisedom constant piety and almost unparalleled generosity Take him any way you shall find in him a right tetragonismus a firm cube equal on all sides I cannot but once more touch his superlative bounty to the poor who therefore were his constant attendants appropriating to him Christs saying to his Disciples The poor you shall have alwayes with you But his secret alms were far greater then the open Thereby indeed Christ was a gain unto him and the promise for this life made good The liberal soul shall be made fat and the greater promise of the heavenly kingdom to them that have fed and clothed Christ in his members is now fulfilled to him But may I not say that as Christ was a gain unto him he was also a gain unto Christ Why Hath not Christ said In as much as you have done it to one of the least of my brethren you have done it unto me Mat. 25 To Christ then he hath brought as much gain that way as any of his time and means His memory be ever blessed for it for so is his glorious soul Having then seen how Christ was to him a gain to live Let us see now how Christ was a gain to him to die which is the end that crowneth the work His good life was a continual preparation to a good death But he made a particular preparation for it without any design For when he preacht in his last course which was the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity being in perfect health he took for his text Into thy hands I commit my spirit Thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth His excellent Sermon he delivered with full vigour continued in that vigour four daies longer But on the Friday after that Critical or rather Prophetical Sermon he fell sick of the sickness of which he dyed And when his sickness began he could say that he had preacht his funeral Sermon How well did he teach us then to commit our spirits unto God while we live by a full resignation submission and obedience unto his holy will that in our death we may with confidence and joy commit and give up our spirits into the hands of our Redeemer that God of truth who will faithfully preserve perfect and glorifie the souls that have committed themselves to his keeping With these thoughts God armed his servant against his last combat at hand The sharp assaults of his disease the stone after thirty years of good health were not terrible enough to shake his constancy or give him any dreadful apprehensions except of living No man ever feared death more then he desired it Yet with all submission and resignation to Gods heavenly will No word so frequent in his mouth as Cupio dissolvi esse cum Christo I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ To which he would pray the company to say Amen The reading of a Penitential Psalm to him would melt him into tears of contrition and he would repeat it after the reader And when he said nothing he practised St Pauls precept Pray continually Wherefore he desired often that the prayers of the Liturgy when they were said near him should be shortened assuring his friends that he had said them all already to himself But he did not limit his devotions to the Liturgy but entertained himself with God with high and savoury expressions of his own with such a strength and serenity of mind that in his greatest weakness and in his sorest pains scarce did he speak one ill placed word to the last minute When his throat and tongue were most grievously parched being asked how he felt himself he answered that his soul was athirst for God for he had Davids longing to refresh and satiate his weary soul with the fountain of Gods life and the fatness of his house The day before he surrendred his blessed soul into the hands of God he received the Holy Sacrament very devoutly conquering his aversion against any thing offered to him to swallow And although he had not been able to take down any arid nutriment scarce any liquid in forty eight hours yet he forced himself to receive the Viaticum The innocent gayety of his humour which made his company so singularly agreeable to all sorts of men did not utterly forsake him to the last He would smile at his dear relations when he saw them flatter themselves with hopes of his recovery two or three hours before his death telling them pleasantly that what he took to please them would not do the work Yet was he extreme tractable to any thing prescribed however contrary to his discerning judgement of his own condition And when he was desired for Gods sake and for his and his friends conscience to submit to some painful applications but an hour before he expired he put forth his whole strength of body which was as well built as most in the world and raised himself twice in his bed to their admiration for it seemed that it was more the strength of conscience than that of his limbs that made him thus active He would be sure to thank any one most affectinately that prayed by him directing his friends to the use of the Liturgy or to call upon God in the words of the Holy Spirit either places of the new Testament or of the Psalms Most of his discourse was ghostly fatherly heavenly counsel And about an hour before his last breath he gave his blessing to all his by the imposition of his most reverend hand And gave up the ghost with the greatest Christian magnanimity and yet with the deepest sence imaginable of godly sorrow working repentance unto salvation not to be repented of So ended the life of that excellent man That great owner of those two heroique vertues Humility and a Publick spirit And of whom it may be said That never was Clergyman freer from Pride and Covetousness After such a life and such a death he deserved to have two banners carried before and after his herse The one inscribed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To the honour of him that lived well The othe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To the honour of him that dyed well And the proper elogy on his Tomb is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christ is a gain unto me both to live and to die FINIS