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authority_n	book_n	church_n	faith_n	2,919	5	5.3557	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63706	Clerus Domini, or, A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministerial together with the nature and manner of its power and operation : written by the special command of King Charles the First / by Jer. Taylor.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.; Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. Rules and advices to the clergy of the diocesse of Down and Connor.; Rust, George, d. 1670. Funeral sermon preached at the obsequies of the Right Reverend Father in God Jeremy Lord Bishop of Down.	1672 (1672)	Wing T299; ESTC R13445	91,915	82

exhort and press the people to a devout and periodical Communion at the least three times in the year at the great Festivals but the devouter sort and they who have leisure are to be invited to a frequent Communion and let it be given and received with great reverence Every Minister ought to be well skill'd and studied in saying his Office in the Rubricks the Canons the Articles and the Homilies of the Church that he may do his duty readily discreetly gravely and by the publick measures of the Laws To which also it is very useful that it be added that every Minister study the ancient Canons of the Church especially the Penitentials of the Eastern and Western Churches let him read good Books such as are approved by publick authority such which are useful wise and holy not the scriblings of unlearned parties but of men learned pious obedient and disinterested and amongst these such especially which describe duty and good life which minister to Faith and Charity to Piety and Devotion Cases of Conscience and solid expositions of Scripture Concerning which learned and wise persons are to be consulted Let not a Curate of Souls trouble himself with any studies but such which concern his own or his peoples duty such as may enable him to speak well and to do well but to meddle not with controversies but such by which he may be enabled to convince the gainsayers in things that concern publick peace and a good life Be careful in all the publick administrations of your Parish that the poor be provided for Think it no shame to beg for Christs poor members stir up the people to liberal alms by your word and your example Let a collection be made every Lords-day and upon all solemn meetings and at every Communion and let the Collection be wisely and piously administred ever remembring that at the day of Judgment nothing shall publickly be proclaimed but the reward of alms and mercy Let every Minister be sure to lay up a treasure of comforts and advices to bring forth for every mans need in the day of his trouble let him study and heap together Instruments and Advices for the promoting of every vertue and remedies and arguments against every vice let him teach his people to make acts of vertue not only by external exercise but also in the way of Prayer and internal meditation In these and all things else that concern the Ministers duty if there be difficulty you are to repair to your Bishop for further advice assistance and information FINIS A Funeral Sermon Preached at the OBSEQUIES OF THE Right Reverend Father in God JEREMY Lord Bishop of DOWN Who deceased at LISBURNE August 13 th 1667. BY GEORGE RUST Lord Bishop of DROMORE LONDON Printed for R. Royston Bookseller to the King 's most Excellent Majesty 1672. A Funeral Sermon 1 JOHN 3. 2. It doth not yet appear what we shall be GLorious things are spoken in Scripture concerning the future Reward of the Righteous and all the words that are wont to signifie what is of greatest Price and Value or can represent the most enravishing Objects of our desires are made use of by the Holy Ghost to recommend unto us this transcendent State of Blessedness Such are these Rivers of Pleasures A fountain of living water A treasure that can never be wasted nor never taken from us An inheritance in light An incorruptible Crown A Kingdom the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Christ The Kingdom of Glory a Crown of Glory and Life and Righteousness and Immortality The Vision of God Being fill'd with all the fulness of God An exceeding eternal weight of Glory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Words strangely Emphatical that can't be put into English and if they could they would not be able to convey to our minds the Notion that they design for it is too big for any Expressions and after all that can be said we must resolve with our Apostle It does not yet appear what we shall be At this Distance we cannot make any likely guesses or conjectures at the glory of that future state Men make very imperfect Descriptions of Countries or Cities that never were there themselves nor saw the Places with their own eyes It is not for any mortal Creature to make a Map of that Canaan that lies above It is to all us that live here on the hither-side of Death an unknown Countrey and an undiscover'd Land It may be some Heavenly Pilgrim that with his holy thoughts and ardent desires is continually travelling thitherward arrives sometimes near the Borders of the promis'd Land and the Suburbs of the new Ierusalem and gets upon the top of Pisgah and there he has an imperfect Prospect of a brave Countrey that lies afar way off but he can't tell how to describe it and all that he hath to say to satisfie the curious Enquirer is only this If he would know the glories of it he must go and see it It was believ'd of old that those places that lie under the Line were burnt up by the continual heat of the Sun and were not habitable either by man or beast But later Discoveries tell us that there are the most pleasant Countries that the Earth can shew insomuch that some have plac'd Paradise it self in that Climate Sure I am of all the Regions of the Intellectual World and the several Lands that are peopled either with Men or Angels the most pleasant Countries they lie under the Line under the direct beams of the Sun of Righteousness where there is an eternal Day and an eternal Spring where is that Tree of Life that beareth twelve manner of Fruits and yieldeth her Fruit every Month Thus we may use Figures and Metaphors and Allegories and tell you of fruitful Meads and spacious Fields and winding Rivers and purling Brooks and chanting Birds and shady Groves and pleasant Gardens and lovely Bowers and noble Seats and stately Palaces and goodly People and excellent Laws and sweet Societies but this is but to frame little comparisons to please our childish fancies and just such discourses as a blind man would make concerning Colours so do we talk of those things we never saw and disparage the state whilst we would recommend it Indeed it requires some Saint or Angel from Heaven to discourse upon the Subject and yet that would not do neither For though they might be able to speak something of it yet we should want ears to hear it Neither can those things be declar'd but in the language of Heaven which would be little understood by us the poor inhabitants of this lower World they are indeed things too great to be brought within the compass of words Saint Paul when he had been rapt up into the third Heaven he saw 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 things unlawful or unpossible to be utter'd and Eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor can it enter into the heart of man to conceive what God hath prepared for them