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A85863	A sermon preached in the Temple-chappel, at the funeral of the Right Reverend Father in God, Dr. Brounrig late Lord Bishop of Exceter, who died Decem. 7. and was solemnly buried Decemb. 17. in that chappel. With an account of his life and death· / Both dedicated to those honorable societies, by the author Dr. Gauden.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing G371; Thomason E1737_1; ESTC R202119	101,763	287

than others according as they were settled by civil compacts and politick agreements or constitutions of State where the Laws of the Land give any stop restraint or limit to Princes power and proceedings by putting some co-ordinate and cautionary power into some orderly way and legal procedure whereby to vindicate or assert the rights of Subjects there he judged the great Arbitrator of just and unjust lawful and unlawful was the Law of the Nation as Mans and Gods Ordinance which who so brake Prince or People was a transgressor against God and Man who so pursued was unblameable in which case the Lawyer was to go before and the Divine to follow as to resolution of conscience § But for Subjects who were once by publick consent of Laws and many oaths bound to the limits and inclosures of obedience and legal subjection for these to affect a liberty under pretence of Religion as Christians or of any common priciples and natural freedoms as men beyond the established rules and boundaries of the Laws this he thought such a fanatick fetch as would undo and overthrow all Government for where is there any Christian State so setled in which some men will not quarrel with the Laws as too strait-laced for their either spiritual or natural liberties their consciences or conveniencies that is for their lusts and licenciousness their ambition or covetousness or their revenge and discontents § People ungoverned their own greatest oppressors He found by reading and experience that no Tyrannies and Oppressions of any lawful Prince were ever so heavy upon any Nation as when it turns its own Tyrant and fals under a popular self-oppression by inordinate and immoderate affectations of liberty and oppositions to legal and setled Soveraignty as was evident in the passionate Apostacy of the Ten Tribes from Davids house pretending Solomons exactions when it is better to be oppressed by one wise Prince than to be left to popular liberties which ruine Church and State § He judged as one true God is beyond ten thousand Idols so was one Lawful Soveraign with a wise Council and a settled Law beyond all the many headed and many handed Hydra's of any popular parity or other forms of Government whatsoever § For he had observed that warlike and populous Nations are much more crushed and bruised with their own weight like heavy bodies when they fall from an higher station or posture then when they are only bastonadoed with a cudgel or not mortally wounded with a sword which blows have as far less pain and expence of blood or spirits so greater possibility and speed of recovery § Though he was a very learned and well-read Schollar yet he had not studied Marianas or other Jesuitish Catechisms as to those reserves in point of civil subjection and obedience by which they allow either one great Pope or many little ones to dominier over Soveraign Princes or chief Magistrates upon any account of Christs Kingdom and spiritual power § He was more versed in the Bible of the Bishops translation than in any Papal glosses or others Annotations § However being a Father of the Church he thought it became him to be a very dutiful and obedient Son to the King as Father of his Country in England who was under God Grandfather of Church and State by a Law that invested him in a Soveraignty or Monarchy subject to no power on earth § This he judged the safest way as to inward and outward peace in conscience and prudence for men and Christians for Church and State Accordingly when O. P. with some shew of respect to him demanded his judgment in some publick affairs then at a nonplus his Lordship with his wonted gravity and freedom replied My Lord The best counsel I can give you is that of our Saviour Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods with which free answer O. P. rested rather silenced than satisfied When he had accepted to be a Bishop I think he had sinned if he refused Gods call to that Office and honor being so able so worthy What damps and distances he found from some Ministers after they saw he was an eclipsed Bishop and so willing to have done good as in all times so in such a time as that was the Amphibian Ministers who could live in Presbytery or Episcopacy as their interest led them when they saw the Northern tempest strong the tide to turn and this good Bishop with others not likely to enjoy the estates and honors of their Bishopricks Then O then began some of those Preachers whose Darling Crown and Triumph whose almost adoration and Idol Dr. Brounrig had sometimes been now they began to withdraw from him to keep a loof and at distance to look as strangers on him and to be either afraid or ashamed to appear before him such a reproach and maul his very presence constancy and gravity were to their popular and time-serving inconstancies that many became his enemies because he persevered in the truth they once asserted and had now deserted by the confutation and conversion which tumults and arms had made on their spirits more than any new reasons and arguments § Others were so peevish and spiteful against him not as Dr. Brounrig but as an unfortunate Bishops that to revenge their own sin and folly on their betters they after the Lystrian levity Act. 14.18 19. endeavored to stone him and other Bishops whom they once had reverenced as Gods consenting to and applauding his expulsion out of the House of Lords out of the Colledge and University yea and to his deposition as much as humane power and malice could from his Episcopal Office and Authority which yet he failed not while he lived as he had power and opportunity to discharge § If he had as a Bishop met with better times as to Christianity or worse as to Heathenish barbarity so as to have shined fully and steadily in one of those golden Candlesticks of the Church for which he was fitted I make no doubt but the most benign influence of so able so affable so amiable so consciencious so compleat a Bishop would have wrought as great effects in any Diocess where he lived as Gregorius Thaumaturgus is said to have done in his Scythian Bishoprick where when he came first to them he found but fifteen Christians when he left them he left but so many Heathens or Infidels amonst them Bishop Brounrig was as likely as any man to have been a Thaumaturgus to have wrought miracles in this age if they had been so just moderate and wise as to have made use of his oracular wisdom in grand and publick concerns or to have trusted to the counsels of such Schollars as much as of Soldiers § His publick prudential ability Possibly other men and Bishops might have as much learning but few that ever I knew had his incomparable clearness candor solidness sweetness dexterity eloquence and great

no mans reproach or shame so kept at a most severe and sacred distance from the Mountain of holiness the name of God and true Religion which if petulant wit like a beast presume to touch it is to be stoned to death Afterward His taking deg●ees in the Vniversity when he first deserved and then took higher degrees he made all men believe that he was more an honour to the degrees he took than they were to him and the University thought it self did then commence when Mr. or Dr. Brounrig was invested with any degree of honor So great an expectation all good men had of him and so great satisfaction in him for this he had above most men Et felix eximium bonorum omnium votis doctorum expectationi satisfacere great expectation is commonly querulous and injurious as a coy Epicure or squeemish Glutton that can only feed on curious dainties but toward him it was civil and modest like a good stomack or honest appetite it set off and commended the good chear he always provided for it he had so great ingenuity and candor with his great abilities that envy it self as on a smooth and polished globe could not fasten its teeth on him § I cannot but observe among his other learned and accurate performances in publick that the subject and Text Phil. 1.29 was prophetick and prepatory to his after-sufferings upon which he chose to preach his Latin Sermon when he took the degree of Batchelour in Divinity Vobis autem datum c. To you it is given in the behalf of Christ not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake which incomparably learned eloquent and pious Sermon he afterwards was to fulful indeed by suffering with Christian magnanimity patience and charity as well as he had accomplished it by preaching most excellently on it thus quod docuit verbo firmavit exemplo he was to make his doctrine good by his practice taking up the cross of Christ as his crown and following him § His preferment in the Church He was afterward preferred to be Prebend of the Collegiate Church of Eli now so horridly desolate and ruined that it may well add to its name the other words of our Saviours passion Lamma sabacthani crying out to the Nation why have you forsaken me and other Cathedrals which were your glory and your Saviours honor even in the sight of Infidels This Dignity he obtained by the favour and love of the then excellent Bishop of that Seat Dr. Felton a very holy and good man he had also a good Living at Barlow not far from Cambridge where in a Country village this good Scribe well-instructed for the Kingdom of heaven brought forth out of the good treasury of his heart things both old and new the ancient mysteries and fundamental truths of Christian Religion in the modern and more accurate method of revived and reformed learning condescending in his Preaching and catechizing to ordinary capacities and fitting his net to the fish he was to catch He oft deplored the disuse and want of Catechizing as if there were no babes in the Church for milk but all must be fed with strong meat which they cannot digest or with bones which they cannot pick. § In the Vniversity Master of Catharine hal After this he was chosen Master of Catharine Hall a small basis or pedestal for so great a Statue and Coloss of learning piety and prudence to stand upon yet then and there this great Lamp began to be set and to shine in a sphere more proper for his parts and proportionate to his lustre who had a soul not fitted for a cottage but a Colledge Nor only for a Colledge but for a Palace nor for a Palace so much as for a Kingdom § God saw him at present more worthy to preside in the Schools of the Prophets than to rusticate as Elisha sometimes did among plain people that follow the Plough not that their souls are less precious but plainer and blunter tools will do their work § Nor was this change of his Province an effect of his own ambitious stickling or seeking as I have heard him tell it but an influence of Gods providence upon the minds of some worthy men who were ashamed in behalf of the University and the age not to see Dr. Brounrig preferred and imployed in some way most proper and proportionate to his well-known abilities And however this offer met at first with some clouds and oppositions from above yet at last the good hand of God upon so good and deserving a person cleared the heavens and dispersed all the prejudices that some then in great place had mis-conceived against him When he had quiet possession of that Mastership it was wonderful to see how the Buildings the Revenues the Students and the studiousness of that place increased by the care counsel prudence diligence and fame of Dr. Brounrig who had such an eye to all that he over-saw none frequenting the studies and examining even younger Schollars that they might be encouraged both in learning and piety § Fixed now and rarely fitted for that Academick way of life his Mother the University seemed even proud of such a Son his very presence and speech had a venerable and lovely majesty with them his looks were a Law of modesty and gravity He did oft bear and discharged most usefully and acceptably to strangers and others the highest Offices and honors of the University both politick as a Magistrate or Justice of Peace in his being Vice-Chancellor and litterate as a Schollar Hemade the Comitia Convivia Commencement Acts to be banquets and feasts in which he as Gamaliel presided a Father and Maderator He kept up very much His temper in point of conformity to the Church of England as good learning and good manners so the honor of Orthodox Divinity and orderly conformity he kept to the Doctrine Worship Devotion and Government in the Chuch of England which he would say he liked better and better as he grew elder and then best of all when he saw the vipers of factions seising upon her out of the fire of her tribulation but not able to do her any harm either as to confute her doctrines or to condemn her constitutions with any shew of reason § Neither in her prosperity nor in her adversity did he indure that any man great or small out of faction pride popularity or novelty should worship or recede from its excellent orders If any out of scruple and tenderness of conscience was less satisfied with some things no man had a more tender heart or a gentler hand either to heal any little scratches or to supple any wonted obstinacy or to win any minds to the peace of the Church who were capable ingenious and honest he drew all by the filken cords of humanity and humility Reason and Religion not by the cart-ropes of rigor and imperiousness he would convince though he did