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A43843	A sermon preach'd at the funerals of that worthy personage George Purefoy the elder of Wadley in Berks, esq., who was buried by his ancestors at Drayton in Leicestershire, April 21, 1661 by Jo. Hinckley.	Hinckley, John, 1617?-1695.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2048; ESTC R13342	21,835	39

name in story neither have his forefathers been men of renown only for greatness and valour but famous too in the Congregation for truth in Religion And herein he out-went his Father Abraham for his Father Terah served other Gods Joshua 24.2 Neidid he degenerate from them which made him the more to be honoured by good men As I have had alwaies an high esteem of the Ancient Fathers and Writers of the Church So I have accounted that there is a tribute of reverence respect to be given to ancient families in the State especially such like the Romans and some * Tamerlande did so when he was about to ingage with his enemies to the intent his courage might be roused up others who often read over the Noble Acts of their Ancestors than they might be inflamed to do the like Such as do not stain that honour they have received but rather transmit it to posterity with advantage Therefore the word which is translated Nobles signifies white ones Jer. 27.20 to shew that such as are brought up in Scarlet should not imbrace dung-hills and defile their garments in the mity puddles of any dirty and ignoble practice This Worthy was a white one indeed for though there was an orient lustre in his birth yet his new birth did out-shine and dazle the glory of that virtuibus quam natalibus vel tantis nobilior His vertues were a better ornament unto him than his cout of Armes The * Gra●i●●s ●ol● nomen pietatis quam potestatis Tertul. name of piety was more sweet than that of a Gentleman as Theodosius gloried more that he was a Christian than that he was an Emperour that was best in his account which did rather conduce to make him good than great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anton. lib. 8. As the least in the Kingdom of Heaven that is of glory is greater than the greatest of the Sons of men upon Earth so the lowest degree of saving grace is better than the highest excellencies of Stock or State These are poor low beggarly trappings empty husks glorious bubbles as they are destitute of goodness and Truth in the inward parts But we shall take the dimensions of his worth the better if we consider him in his general capacities Moral Politick and Divine As a Man a Magistrate and a Christian 1. In his moral capacity as a Man and here I an amide such a throng of personal excellencies that I know not to which to turn first should I rehearse them all the remainder of your patience would utterly be exhausted should I passe them all by in silence I should wrong both his worth and your expectations if I should speak of this or that without taking notice of the rest this would be as Tacitus of Agricola injuria virtutuns a wrong to his other vertues notwithstanding this triple-horned dilemma I shall like a traveller cast a transient eie upon those magnificent structures where I must not dwell Who knew him that did not also know his exemplary temperance His very heart rose against debauchery in others and if at any time he was condemned into the company of intemperate persons his delight was no more than a Marriner takes in his shipwrack or a poor slave in his gally Just so he was not only no swearer but fieared an oath Eccle. 9.2 His veracity and fidelity in words and promise were no lesse observable He accounted it the greatest reproach to boggle or falsifie in either How curteous and affable to all quot verba t●● aromata His words were even perfumed with lenity and condescention to men of the meanest rank So far as he could without making himself cheap and exposing his authority to contempt ex ore ejus Cap. 23. non tam verba quam mell● fluxisse videantur in the words of Vincentius he spake roses and hony dropped from his lips or in the words of a better author In his lips were the Law of Kindnesse Prov. 31.26 I have gone as high as I can yet I am narrow and short in expressions revocetur ab orcis Tullius Here 's work for another Cicero neither was he of the number of them who salute complement and set a garland of fragrant words about one's head yet all that while aim at the fifth rib that so innocent and credulous men may fall a Sacrifice to their dissimulation He first of all acquainted me with a court-like Aphorisme out of a latine * Written by Henry Vmpton Manuscript by him but it was with no small dislike It was this many are omnibus benigni paucis familiaris nullis emici Kind to all familiar with few but true friends to none I might ad de much concerning his judgement and understanding in several ingeuous and liberal studies as History Herauldry but above all in that art of all Arts Divinity of his well regulated Charity alwaies making a judicious choice of the objects upon whom he bestowed it But I shall consider him 2. In his pollitical capacity and herein first as a subject of this Kingdom and hence I commend unto you for a pattern worth your immitation his peaceable disposition and submission to lawful authority Obedience and Humility are the signes of an honest Man said he ‖ Ki. James in his speech at the conference at Hampton-Court that spake like an Oracle When Bellona first beat up her unhappy Drums and spread abroad her bloody streamers he so far abhorred those proceedings that he procured a licence of his Majesty of happy memory to travel beyond the Seas And when the Seas were as tempestuous as the Land he chose rather to bury himself live in a private and obscure concealment of himself as * Ah potius bello patiaris in isto te Caesar putet esse suam Lucan Pompey once resolved to do in a tender compassion of Rome rather then behold much lesse joine his hand in the rending the bowels of his own Country When a little before his death some were telling the animosities and discontents that were abroad as we are all too apt to be Athenians in sick mens Chambers though we now injoy those mercies which not long since we could not hope for unlesse from his hand who hath bestowed them and would have thought them cheap though purchased with a torrent of blood he plainly told me that the anger of male-contents arose from the leven of their own ambition angry they were but it was with with Agrippina because they did not reign themselves Many dying men as Jacob and others have had prophetick spirits and so had he As Naturalists have observed that some * Talpae morituri aperiunt oculos creatures see clearest when about to die when I told him that it was us ual with way ward men if they have not every punctilio they desire presently like so many children they are unthankful for what they have He gave an Adaequate and full consent thereunto as comprehending his