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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43464	A sermon preach'd at the funeral of the Honourable Col. Francis Collingwood, and of his lady who were both interr'd in St. John's Church, in the island of Nevis in America, May the 29th and May the 31st, 1699 / by Tho. Heskith ...	Heskith, Thomas.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1623; ESTC R12027	10,155	32

And therefore if we keep not a strong guard upon all our Passions if we pray not daily for the assistance of Divine Grace and for the conduct of God's Holy Spirit it 's a thousand to one but we fall from our Integrity and Vertue For a little Leaven our Saviour tells us leavens the whole Lump And that Saying of St. Paul is an experimental Truth That evil Communications corrupts good Manners Vice and Irreligion are of an infectious nature and they will as certainly destroy the Life of Godliness as the Plague will destroy the Body For without that Sovereign Antidote of assisting and confirming Grace 't will be impossible to keep any considerable Fellowship with the Sons of Wickedness and at the same time not to be infected by them Let good Men use the greatest Cautions in this Case imaginable let them set the strongest Guards let them put on the whole Armour of God and when they have done all they can they 'll find it no small difficulty to keep themselves unspotted from the World i. e. from the evil Communications and Corruptions of it The best Men in the World if they converse much in it will receive a Tincture from it Thus we find that the Holy Patriarch Vice-Roy of Egypt by conversing with that Court had learn'd to swear by the Life of Pharaoh The power of Example's strong especially when it 's back'd with Earthly Grandeur and Secular Interest when those that fit at the Helm of Government love vitious and irregular Lives their very Example is a authentick Copy for the rest to write by So that for this end and for several other Considerations tending to this purpose God is pleas'd oftentimes to remove pious Men out of this World lest their Innocence should be sullied and their Vertue debauch'd by the wicked Practises of the Ungodly But it 's high time that I should enter upon the last thing proposed which is to consider the Character of that Honourable Gentleman and his Lady which are lately taken away from us and to conclude the Discourse with an Application of the whole to our present Circumstances And to speak without Flattery I do not know but that God hath taken away a great part of this Family that their Eyes might not behold the Evil which he 's resolv'd to bring upon this Place This I must confess is a weighty Saying but I wish that there were not so many Reasons as there are to engage us to the belief of it Let us not flatter our selves For that Government or Body Politick whose Head and Members are unsound and sickly must needs be near its Grave its Ruine and Destruction Iniquity will certainly be the Ruine of any People if the Mercies of God and a serious Repentance prevent it not But that I may do all possible Justice to the Memory of this deceas'd Hero it 's needful that we consider him in all his Qualities First As he descended from the Loins of an Honourable Family a Family as antient as most in the North of England But that which makes it the more illustrious is That it hath not wanted for some Ages such Men as have been serviceable to the Crown and Government of England And I think I may say that among all the Braves that have sprung from that Family this Hero of whom I have the sad occasion to discourse at this time is none of the Least especially if we consider him under that Notion of a Soldier or of an Officer So soon as he left the Schools which was in his earlier Years his Genius rather prompting him to follow Mars than Minerva the Camp rather than the College He was sent with very powerful Recommendations into the Army where he had not been long until he was Commission'd to have a pair of Colours in which Post he behaved himself with all that Affability and Sweetness of Temper that his Society and Conversation was courted by All as if he had been the very Darling and Delight of Mankind And as he grew in Years so his Conversation became the more winning and obliging And in every Step of Honour the King was pleas'd to advance him to he behav'd himself in all respects as a brave and prudent Officer And which is very remarkable the Advancement of his Honour never alter'd the Sweetness of his Temper he retain'd the same Modesty the same Humility and Evenness of Mind when he arriv'd to that Honourable Post in which he died as he did whilst he was in an inferior Capacity What the Maiden Queen made use of for her Motto might very properly be applied to our Hero Semper idem No State or Condition of Fortune whether prosperous or adverse could change or alter the Disposition of his Soul He kept the same evenness of Mind and firmness of Temper amidst the Rocks and Shelves as he did when his Sails were fill'd with a prosperous Gale His Soul was too great to be sunk by Adversity too firm and steady to be turned away by the swelling Tides of Prosperity But I must not only consider him as a Civil or Moral but as a Military Person as a man of bravery and honour and to make good this part of his Character I shall only instance in two Particulars not but that upon every occasion when he was call'd to it he gave signal Proofs of his Conduct and Courage And these two shall be in that of Landen and Namure two great and illustrious Instances indeed both of them I am sure beyond the reach of Malice and probably the latter beyond that of Imitation As for that of Landen notwithstanding the great Inequality and Number of his Enemies he bravely charg'd in the face of them and as bravely maintain'd his Ground until at length being overpower'd by their Numbers he was forc'd to retreat in order to save the remains of a shatter'd Regiment But as for the Latter when he was ordered to attack one of the Glacy's of the Town of Namure With what cheerful Countenance did he receive the Command With what a pleasant Air did he head that brave Body And with what an unconcern'd bravery did he march through a field of Blood and Wounds How lightly did he esteem the hazard and boldly despise all these Engines of Death that were planted against him for his ruin Nay With what a fearless Presence of mind did he endeavour to make good his Post when fifty fell at his right hand and fifty at his left The Greatest Monarch in the World I mean his Royal Master beheld the Action with these two contrary Passions of Delight and Fear with Delight to behold the unparallel'd bravery of such an Attempt of Fear lest he should be depriv'd of so great an Officer The truth of it is the glory of that Day and Action is so much his own as neither Time nor Envy shall be able to obliterate the Fame thereof The Maes and Sambre shall sooner leave their Channels and the Sun and Moon