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A30445	A sermon preached at the funeral of the most reverend Father in God, John, by the divine providence, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, primate and metropolitan of all England, who died at Lambeth the 22nd day of November, in the 65th year of his age, and was buried at St. Lawrence Jewry, in London, on the 30th of that month, Anno Dom. 1694 by ... Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1694 (1694)	Wing B5902; ESTC R22882	18,942	42

that considered himself very little was that he perceived in them such serious Designs so true a Zeal and so right a Judgment in all the concerns of Religion and of this Church that he often said he did not think that any Age had produced Princes who understood the true Interests of our Church so well and were so much set on promoting them as Their Majesties were A zeal he observed in them that was so tender and yet so well guided that he did indeed expect greater Blessings from it than so corrupt an Age is either capable of or can well deserve and hope for But God seemed to have a great Work to do and they seemed to be proper Instruments for it This did animate him to cast about and project a great variety of Designs every one of which was always graciously received and well entertained But as this was the greatest so it was almost the single Satisfaction that he enjoyed in his Elevation while he was from other hands assaulted with the most boisterous the most injurious as well as the falsest Calumnies that Malice could invent And yet how false soever these were generally known to be the Confidence with which they were averred joined with the envy that accompanies a high Station had a greater operation than could have been imagined considering how long he had lived on so publick a Scene and how well he was known It seemed a new and an unusual thing that a Man who in a course of above thirty Years had done so much good so many Services to so many Persons without ever once doing an ill Office or a hard thing to any one Person who had a sweetness and gentleness in him that seemed rather to lean to excess should yet meet with so much Unkindness and Injustice But the returns of Impudence and Malice which were made to the Son of God himself and to his Apostles taught him to bear all this with submission to the Will of God praying for those who despitefully used him and upon all occasions doing them good for Evil. Nor had this any other effect on him either to change his Temper or his Maxims tho' perhaps it might sink too much into him with relation to his Health He was so exactly true in all the representations of Things or Persons that he laid before Their Majesties that he neither rais'd the Character of his Friends nor sunk that of those that deserved not so well of him I love not to say Enemies but offer'd every thing to Them with that sincerity that did so well become him that Truth and Candor was almost perceptible in every thing he said or did his Looks and whole Manner seemed to take away all suspicion concerning him For he thought nothing in this World was worth much Art or great Management With all these things he strugled till at last they overcame him or rather he overcame them and escaped from them He has now finished his course An Exemplary one it has been His Life was not only free from blemishes which is but a low size of Commendation it shined in all the Parts of it In his Domestick Relations in his Friendships in the whole commerce of Business he was always a Pattern easie and humble frank and open tender-hearted and bountiful kind and obliging in the greatest as well as in the smallest Matters A decent but grave chearfulness made his Conversation as lively and agreeable as it was useful and instructing He was ever in good Humour always the same both accessible and affable He heard every thing patiently was neither apt to mistake nor to suspect His own great Candour disposing him to put the best Constructions and to judge the most favourably of all Persons and Things He past over many Injuries and was ever ready to forgive the greatest and to do all good Offices even to those who had used himself very ill He was never imperious nor assuming And tho' he had a superiour Judgment to most Men yet he never dictated to others Few Men had observed Humane Nature more carefully could judge better and make larger allowances for the Frailties of Mankind than he did He lived in a due neglect of his Person and contempt of Pleasure but never affected pompous Severities he despised wealth but as it furnished him for Charity in which he was both liberal and udicious Thus his Course in the private Vertues and Capacities of a Christian was of a sublime pitch his Temper had made him incapable of the Practices either of Craft or Violence In his Function he was a constant Preacher and diligent in all the other parts of his Duty for rho ' he had no care of Souls upon him yet few that had laboured so painfully as he did in Visiting the Sick in Comforting the Afflicted and in setling such as were either shaking in their Opinions or troubled in Mind He had a great compass in Learning what he knew he had so perfectly digested that he was truely the Master of it But the Largeness of his Genius and the Correctness of his Judgment carried him much further then the leisure that he had enjoyed for Study seemed to furnish him for he could go a great way upon general hints Thus he lived thus he run and thus he finished his course He kept the faith If Fidelity is meant by this no man made Promises more unwillingly but observed them more Religiously then he did The sacred Vows of his Function were Consciously pursued by him he reckoned himself dedicated to the Service of God and to the doing of Good In this he lived and seemed to live to no other end But if by keeping the faith be to be understood the preserving and handing down the sacred Trust of the Christian Doctrine this he maintained pure and undefiled Even in his younger days when he had a great Liveliness of thought and finess of Imagination he avoided the disturbing the Peace of the Church with particular Opinions or an angry Opposition about more Indifferent or doubtful Matters He lived indeed in great Friendship with men that differed from him He thought the surest way to bring them off from their mistakes was by gaining upon their Hearts and Affections And in an Age of such great Dissolution as this is he judged that the best way to put a stop to growing Impiety was first to establish the Principles of natural Religion and from that to advance to the Proof of the Christian Religion and of the Scriptures which being once solidly done would soon setle all other things Therefore he was in great doubt whither the surest way to perswade the World to the belief of the sublime Truths that are contained in the Scriptures concerning God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and concerning the Person of Christ was to enter much into the discussing of those Mysteries He feared that an indiscreet dwelling and descanting upon those things might do more hurt then good He thought the

maintaing these Doctrines as they are proposed in the Scriptures without entring too much into Explanations or Controversies would be the most effectual way to preserve the Reverence that was due to them and to fix them in mens belief But when he was desired by some and provoked by others and saw just Occasions moving him to it he asserted those great Mysteries with that Strength and Clearness that was his peculiar Talent He thought the less mens Consciences were entangled and the less the Communion of the Church was clogg'd with disputable Opinions or Practices the world would be the Happier Consciences the freer and the Church the Quieter He made the Scriptures the measure of his Faith and the chief Subject of all his Meditations He indeed judged that the great design of Christianity was the reforming Mens Natures and governing their Actions the restraining their Appetites and Passions the softning their Tempers and sweetning their Humours the composing their Affections and the raising their minds above the Interests and Follies of this present World to the hope and pursuit of endless Blessedness And he considered the whole Christian Doctrine as a System of Principles all tending to this He looked on Mens contending about lesser matters or about Subtleties relating to those that are greater as one of the chief practices of the Powers of Darkness to defeat the true ends for which the Son of God came into the World and that they did lead Men into much dry and angry work who while they were hot in the making Parties and setling Opinions became so much the slacker in those great Duties which were chiefly designed by the Christian Doctrine I have now viewed him in this Light in which S. Paul does here view himself and have considered how much of that Character belonged to him I have reason to believe that he went over these things often in his own Thoughts with the same prospect that S. Paul had For tho' he seemed not to apprehend that Death was so near him as it proved to be yet he thought it was not far from him He spoke often of it as that which he was longing for and which he would welcome with Joy Now the black part of this Discourse comes on me I cannot avoid it tho' I know not how to enter upon it or how to go thro with it He kept nothing in reserve for his last hours He was still ready waiting for them so he could not be surprized tho every Body else was The first Attacks came upon him while he was in that Imployment in which he delighted most at Church and in the Worship of God he bore them with his usual neglect of himself And tho' his Countenance shewed he was ill he would neither Interrupt nor break off from those Sacred Exercises nor make hast to look after his Health Ah the unhappy Neglect of a Life that deserved so well to be carefully preserved The sit came on slowly but seemed to be fatal All Symptoms were melancholly It soon turned to a Dead Palsie The Oppression was so great that it became very uneasie for him to speak but it appeared that his understanding was still clear tho others could not have the advantage of it he only said that he had no burden on his Conscience All Remedies proved ineffectual He expressed no concern to Live nor fear to Die but patiently bore his burden till it sunk him on the fifth Day and in the sixty fifth Year of his Age. Thus he Lived and thus he Died. Now he has received that Crown of Righteousness which he lookt for from the hands of that Righteous Iudge to whom he often made his Appeals and who knew the sincerity of his Heart and the Integrity of his Life There he is now at rest got beyond the strife of Tongues and the Pride of Man into those Regions of Peace and Blessedness May we all who stay behind learn so much from what we saw in him and heard from him as to follow him thither and so to possess our Minds and to govern our Lives while we are in this our Pilgrimage that when the Terrours of Death may overtake us the prospect of a Blessed Immortality beyond it may so support us that we may not only overcome all those darkning and oppressive Fears but may finish our Course with Joy and pass into that State of Life and Glory where with Angels and Saints we shall always behold the Face of our Heavenly Father and we shall be ever with the Lord Let us both exhort and comfort one another with these words Come Lord Jesus even so come quickly FINIS BOOKS Printed for RICHARD CHISWELL ANGLIA SACRA sive Collectio Historiarum Antiquitus Scriptarum de Archiepiscopis Episcopis Angliae a Prima Fidei Christianae susceptione ad Annum 1540. in duobus Voluminibus per Henricum Whartonum Fol. 1691. Censura Celebriorum Authorum sive tractatus in quo Varia Virorum Doctorum de Claris. Cujusque Seculi Scriptoribus Iudicia traduntur Unde Facilium Negotio Lector dignoscere queat quid in singulis quibusque istorum Authorum Maxime Memorabile sit quonam in pretio apud Erudiios semper Habiti Fuerunt Opera Thomae Pope-Blunt Baroneti Fol. V. Cl. Gulielmi Camdeni Illustrium Virorum ad G. Camdenum Epistolae cum Appendice V●●ii Argumenti Accesserunt Annalium Regni Regis Jacobi I. Apparatus Commentarius de Antiquitate Dignitate Officio Comitis Marescali Angliae Premittitur G. Camdeni Vita Scriptore Thoma Smitho S. T. D. Ecclesiae Anglicanae Presbytero 4to Jacobi Usserii Armachani Archiepiscopi Historia Dogmatica Controversiae inter Orthodoxos Pontificios de Scripturis Sacris Vernaculis nunc primum E●ita Accesserunt ejusdem Dissertationes duae de Pseudo-Dionysii scriptis de Epistola ad Laodiceos antehac ineditae Descripsit Digessit notis atque auctario Locupletavit Henricus Wharton A. M. Rev. in Christo Pat. et Dom. Archiepisc. Cantuariensi a sacris Domesticis 4to Dr. Burnet's now Lord Bishop of Sarum Vindication of the Ordinations of the Church of England 4to History of the Rights of Princes in disposing of Ecclesiastical Benefices and Church Lands 8vo Life of William Bedel D. D. Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland 8vo Some Passages of the Life and Death of Iohn late Earl of Rochester 8vo A Collection of Tracts and Discourses from 1678 to Christimas 1689 inclusive In 2 Volumes 4to Pastoral Letter to the Clergy of his Diocess concerning the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to K William and Q. Mary 4to Ten several occasional Sermons since 1690. The Iesuits Memorial for the intended Reformation of England under their first Popish Prince Written by Father Parsons 1596. And prepared to be proposed in the first Parliament after the Restoration of Popery for the better Establishment and Preservation of that Religion Published from the very Manuscript Copy that was presented by the Jesuits to the late K.