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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59759	A sermon preach'd at the funeral of the Right Honorable Sir Maurice Eustace Kt. late Lord Chancelor of Ireland at St. Patrick's Dublin the fifth day of July 1665 : together with a short account of his life and death / by W.S.B.D.	Sheridan, William, 1636-1711.	1665 (1665)	Wing S3233; ESTC R32139	29,923	53

with an Extasie of admiration and behold and learn the quintessence of all Loyalty from this Worthy Patriot nay such a Loyalty as is rarely found drain'd from all its baser mixtures of particular interest or selfish design for whereas a man should have thought that a person so deeply suffering and highly meriting should have been impatient and greedy of reward he on the contrary acquiesces in the general good of the happy revolution and accounts himself more than rewarded for that he lives to see his lawful Prince restor'd to his undoubted Rights And when His Majestie desires him to be Lord Chancellour and one of the Lords Justices of this unfortunate Kingdom with an Augmentation of sallery he not onely refus'd it modestly and in complement as some men are wont to do those things which they most defire that they might be prest with the greater earnestness on them but uses his utmost power to avoid it And at last being convinc'd that His Majesties service should be highly advanc'd by his acceptance he embraces it with this thankful acknowledgement and unfeigned protestation which I hear give you in his own words Most Gracious Soveraign Your Majestie has this day committed to my charge the greatest trust in Your Majesties three Kingdoms by delivering unto me the custody of Your Majesties Great-Seal which is the grand security of the lives and estates of Your Majesties good people there and which is more if more can be Your Majestie has thereby constituted me to be your own Representive to personate Your Self in Your Majesties most high and honorable Court of Chancery in Ireland to distribute Your own Conscience by moderating the rigour of Your justice according to the rules of equity and good conscience among Your good people there And good God! Who is sufficient for these things as the great Doctor of the Gentiles said in another case Most glorious Sir I must needs confess my unworthiness of so great an honour as well as my inability to make any suitable acknowledgement But this I promise that no man shall discharge that great trust with more faithfulness then I shall I will by Gods help preserve clean hands no bribes shall stick to my fingers no poor man shall be wearied out of his right by long attendance and my chief endeavours shall be to preserve a clear conscience towards God and man In a word to use that Royal expression in Magnâ Chartâ confirm'd by Your Majestie in this present Parliament as it was in thirty Parliaments before Nulli Negabimus nulli vendemus nulli deferemus jus And this I do promise to Your Majestie in the presence of God and of Your Majesties most Honourable Privy Council And truly he was so punctual in performing hereof that I dare challenge any except those sordid and wayward spirits who will never learn to speak well of the dead to lay the least breach of this to his charge or to find the least injustice or partiality in any of his proceedings unless they will be so disingenuous as to accuse him of some slowness in dispatch of business towards the latter end of his days which were rather the effects of his age and indisposition and the fear of doing injustice occasioned thereby than the products of his choice I should too much injure his memory if I should pass by in silence his great zeal and cordial affection for the Church of England whose both Doctrine and Discipline he so impartially weighed that his being a zealous Professor of the true ancient Catholick and Apostolick faith in no Church in the whole world so purely taught as in that was not so much due to his Education as it was to his election And how constant he was in the Publick Worship of God after this manner which our Adversaries on the one hand call Heresie and on the other Popery most of you are no less eye-witnesses of than I am of his Family and private Devotions Hitherto you have heard but very little and that too very disadvantagiously related of the morning and noon of his days but that is yet behind which most concerns you to know as well for your imitation as his praise For since it is the evening that crowns the day and that all the miscarriages and defects of a vitious life are expung'd by a pious and penitent death it concerns you to have a more particular account of his behaviour therein And therefore no sooner did God by a fit of the Palsie send him this Message as to Hezekiah Thou shalt dye and not live but immediately calling for his Chaplain he resigns himself up to God with the prayers of the Church and by his pious reflexions and heavenly ejaculations proceeding from a soul repleat with fervour and devotion he sufficiently prov'd that he was better able to instruct and prepare his Chaplain for death than his Chaplain was to prepare him And then finding his distemper to encrease and little hopes of having fifteen years added to his days after this tolerable preparation of his conscience he betakes himself to the setting of his house in order that his thoughts being wholly wean'd from the world he might with the more advantage spend the remainder of his time in stating of his accompts with God And here I can never sufficiently admire and adore the unspeakable goodness of God towards him that although he died of such a disease in which men are cut off as it were at a blow yet he had so perfect use of his reason memory and speech though he was sometimes defective in the last that there is not one word in his whole will which is not of his own dictating or at least of his approbation for he very well knew how advantagious it was to his Family to make his Testament so clear and perspicuous as that it may draw no Law Suits after it And in the reviewing of his estate he bequeaths not the least part of it to the Church but leaves all his Impropriations amounting at least to six or seven hundred pounds a year as a pious Legacy unto it and twenty pound a year towards maintaining of an Hebrew Lecturer in the Colledge by which he has for ever consign'd this great truth to all worthy Personages That as they love God at the same rate they are to make provision for his Priests And now after he made such disposals of his estate as are just and honourable pious and charitable and that can never be question'd unless by a strange sort of people whonever think any thing well done that tends not to the gratifying of their own covetous pretensions He gives his Phisitians a dismiss and summons all his forces to assist him in perfecting of his repentance and in trimming and snuffing of his Lamp that it might burn the brighter and cast the greater lustre he leaves no sluttish corner unswept in his Soul nor parlies with any one beloved sin but thrusts them all out of doors to make