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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

not own never suppose him to be author of sin or the procurer of our damnation For God cannot be tempted neither tempteth he any man God is true and every man a lyar Let no Preacher compare one Ordinance with another as Prayer with Preaching to the disparagement of either but use both in their proper seasons and according to appointed Order Let no man preach for the praise of men but if you meet it instantly watch and stand upon your guard and pray against your own vanity and by an express act of acknowledgment and adoration return the praise to God Remember that Herod was for the omission of this smitten by an Angel and do thou tremble fearing lest the judgment of God be otherwise than the sentence of the people V. Rules and Advices concerning Catechism EVery Minister is bound upon every Lords day before Evening Prayer to instruct all young people in the Creed the Lords Prayer the Ten Commandments and the Doctrine of the Sacraments as they are set down and explicated in the Church Catechism Let a Bell be tolled when the Catechising is to begin that all who desire it may be present but let all the more ignorant and uninstructed part of the people whether they be old or young be requir'd to be present that no person in your Parishes be ignorant in the foundations of Religion Ever remembring that if in these things they be unskilful whatever is taught besides is like a house built upon the sand Let every Minister teach his people the use practice methods and benefits of meditation or mental prayer Let them draw out for them helps and rules for their assistance in it and furnish them with materials concerning the life and death of the ever blessed Jesus the greatness of God our own meanness the dreadful sound of the last Trumpet the infinite event of the two last sentences at doomsday let them be taught to consider what they have been what they are and what they shall be and above all things what are the issues of eternity glories never to cease pains never to be ended Let every Minister exhort his people to a frequent confession of their sins and a declaration of the state of their Souls to a conversation with their Minister in spiritual things to an enquiry concerning all the parts of their duty for by preaching and catechising and private entercourse all the needs of Souls can best be serv'd but by preaching alone they cannot Let the people be exhorted to keep Fasting days and the Feasts of the Church according to their respective capacities so it be done without burden to them and without becoming a snare that is that upon the account of Religion and holy desires to please God they spend some time in Religion besides the Lords-day but be very careful that the Lords-day be kept religiously according to the severest measures of the Church and the commands of Authority ever remembring that as they give but little Testimony of Repentance and Mortification who never fast so they give but small evidence of their joy in God and Religion who are unwilling solemnly to partake of the publick and Religious Joys of the Christian Church Let every Minister be diligent in exhorting all Parents and Masters to send their Children and Servants to the Bishop at the Visitation or other solemn times of his coming to them that they may be confirm'd And let him also take care that all young persons may by understanding the Principles of Religion their vow of Baptism the excellency of Christian Religion the necessity and advantages of it and of living according to it be fitted and disposed and accordingly by them presented to the Bishop that he may pray over them and invocate the holy Spirit and minister the holy Rite of Confirmation VI. Rules Advices concerning the Visitation of the Sick EVery Minister ought to be careful in visiting all the Sick and Afflicted persons of his Parish ever remembring that as the Priests lips are to preserve knowledge so it is his duty to minister a word of comfort in the time of need A Minister must not stay till he be sent for but of his own accord and care to go to them to examine them to exhort them to perfect their repentance to strengthen their faith to encourage their patience to perswade them to resignation to the renewing of their holy vows to the love of God to be reconcil'd to their neighbours to make restitution and amends to confess their sins to settle their estate to provide for their charges to do acts of piety and charity and above all things that they take care they do not sin towards the end of their lives For if repentance on our death-bed seem so very late for the sins of our life what time shall be left to repent us of the sins we commit on our death-bed When you comfort the afflicted endeavour to bring them to the true love of God for he that serves God for Gods sake it is almost impossible he should be oppressed with sorrow In answering the cases of conscience of the sick or afflicted people consider not who asks but what he asks and consult in your answers more with the estate of his soul than the conveniency of his estate for no flattery is so fatal as that of the Physician or the Divine If the sick person enquires concerning the final estate of his soul he is to be reprov'd rather than answer'd only he is to be called upon to finish his duty to do all the good he can in that season to pray for pardon and acceptance but you have nothing to do to meddle with passing final sentences neither cast him down in despair nor raise him up to vain and unreasonable confidences But take care that he be not carelesly dismiss'd In order to these and many other good purposes every Minister ought frequently to converse with his Parishioners to go to their houses but always publickly with witness and with prudence lest what is charitably intended be scandalously reported and in all your conversation be sure to give good example and upon all occasions to give good counsel VII Of ministring the Sacraments publick Prayers and other duties of Ministers EVery Minister is oblig'd publickly or privately to read the Common Prayers every day in the week at Morning and Evening and in great Towns and populous places conveniently inhabited it must be read in Churches that the daily sacrifice of Prayer and Thanksgiving may never cease The Minister is to instruct the people that the Baptism of their children ought not to be ordinarily deferr'd longer than till the next Sunday after the birth of the child lest importune and unnecessary delay occasion that the child die before it is dedicated to the service of God and the Religion of the Lord Jesus before it be born again admitted to the Promises of the Gospel and reckon'd in the account of the second Adam Let every Minister

time and counsel and gentle usages But if he separates from the Church or gathers a Congregation he is proud and is fallen from the Communion of Saints and the Unity of the Catholick Church He that observes any of his people to be zealous let him be careful to conduct that zeal into such channels where there is least danger of inconveniency let him employ it in something that is good let it be press'd to fight against sin For Zeal is like a Cancer in the Breast feed it with good flesh or it will devour the Heart Strive to get the love of the Congregation but let it not degenerate into popularity Cause them to love you and revere you to love with Religion not for your compliance for the good you do them not for that you please them Get their love by doing your Duty but not by omitting or spoiling any part of it Ever remembring the severe words of our Blessed Saviour Wo be to you when all men speak well of you Suffer not the common people to prattle about Religion and Questions but to speak little to be swift to hear and slow to speak that they learn to do good works for necessary uses that they work with their hands that they may have wherewithal to give to them that need that they study to be quiet and learn to do their own business Let every Minister take care that he call upon his Charge that they order themselves so that they leave no void spaces of their time but that every part of it be filled with useful or innocent employment For where there is a space without business that space is the proper time for danger and temptation and no man is more miserable than he that knows not how to spend his time Fear no mans person in the doing of your Duty wisely and according to the Laws Remembring always that a servant of God can no more be hurt by all the powers of wickedness than by the noise of a Files wing or the chirping of a Sparrow Brethren do well for your selves do well for your selves as long as you have time you know not how soon death will come Entertain no Persons into your Assemblies from other Parishes unless upon great occasion or in the destitution of a Minister or by contingency and seldom visits or with leave lest the labour of thy Brother be discouraged and thy self be thought to preach Christ out of envy and not of good will Never appeal to the judgment of the people in matters of controversie teach them obedience not arrogancy teach them to be humble not crafty For without the aid of false guides you will find some of them of themselves apt enough to be troublesome and a question put into their heads and a power of judging into their hands is a putting it to their choice whether you shall be troubled by them this week or the next for much longer you cannot escape Let no Minister of a Parish introduce any Ceremony Rites or Gestures though with some seeming Piety and Devotion but what are commanded by the Church and established by Law and let these also be wisely and usefully explicated to the people that they may understand the reasons and measures of obedience but let there be no more introduc'd lest the people be burdened unnecessarily and tempted or divided IV. Rules and Advices concerning Preaching LEt every Minister be diligent in preaching the Word of God according to the ability that God gives him Ever remembring that to minister Gods Word unto the People is the one half of his great Office and Employment Let every Minister be careful that what he delivers be indeed the Word of God that his Sermon be answerable to the Text for this is Gods Word the other ought to be according to it that although in it self it be but the word of Man yet by the purpose truth and signification of it it may in a secondary sence be the Word of God Do not spend your Sermons in general and indefinite things as in Exhortations to the people to get Christ to be united to Christ and things of the like unlimited signification but tell them in every duty what are the measures what circumstances what instruments and what is the particular minute meaning of every general Advice For Generals not explicated do but fill the peoples heads with empty notions and their mouths with perpetual unintelligible talk but their hearts remain empty and themselves are not edified Let not the humors and inclinations of the people be the measures of your Doctrines but let your Doctrines be the measure of their perswasions Let them know from you what they ought to do but if you learn from them what you ought to teach you will give but a very ill account at the day of Judgment of the souls committed to you He that receives from the people what he shall teach them is like a Nurse that asks of her Child what Physick she shall give him Every Minister in reproofs of sin and sinners ought to concern himself in the faults of them that are present but not of the absent nor in reproof of the times for this can serve no end but of Faction and Sedition publick Murmur and private Discontent besides this it does nothing but amuse the people in the faults of others teaching them to revile their Betters and neglect the dangers of their own souls As it looks like flattery and design to preach nothing before Magistrates but the duty of their people and their own eminency so it is the beginning of Mutiny to preach to the people the duty of their Superiors and Supreme it can neither come from a good Principle nor tend to a good End Every Minister ought to preach to his Parish and urge their duty S. Iohn the Baptist told the Souldiers what the Souldiers should do but troubled not their heads with what was the duty of the Scribes and Pharisees In the reproof of sins be as particular as you please and spare no mans sin but meddle with no mans person neither name any man nor signifie him neither reproach him nor make him to be suspected he that doth otherwise makes his Sermon to be a Libel and the Ministry of Repentance an instrument of Revenge and so doing he shall exasperate the man but never amend the sinner Let the business of your Sermons be to preach holy Life Obedience Peace Love among neighbours hearty love to live as the old Christians did and the new should to do hurt to no man to do good to every man For in these things the honour of God consists and the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Press those Graces most that do most good and make the least noise such as giving privately and forgiving publickly and prescribe the grace of Charity by all the measures of it which are given by the Apostle 1 Cor. 13. For this grace is not finished by good words nor yet by good works

stands in no need of an Encomium and yet his worth is much greater than his fame It is impossible not to speak great things of him and yet it is impossible to speak what he deserves and the meanness of an Oration will but fully the brightness of his Excellencies But Custom requires that something should be said and it is a Duty and a Debt that we owe only unto his Memory and I hope his great Soul if it hath any knowledge of what is done here below will not be offended at the smallness of our Offering He was born at Cambridge and brought up in the Free-School there and was ripe for the University afore Custom would allow of his Admittance but by that time he was Thirteen years old he was entred into Caius-Colledge and as soon as he was Graduate he was chosen fellow Had he lived amongst the ancient Pagans he had been usher'd into the World with a Miracle and Swans must have danc'd and sung at his Birth and he must have been a great Hero and no less than the Son of Apollo the God of Wisdom and Eloquence He was a Man long afore he was of Age and knew little more of the state of Childhood than its Innocency and Pleasantness From the University by that time he was Master of Arts he removed to London and became publick Lecturer in the Church of Saint Paul's where he preached to the admiration and astonishment of his Auditory and by his florid and youthful beauty and sweet and pleasant air and sublime and rais'd discourses he made his hearers take him for some young Angel newly descended from the Visions of Glory The fame of this new Star that out-shone all the rest of the Firmament quickly came to the notice of the great Arch-Bishop of Canterbury who would needs have him preach before him which he performed not less to his wonder than satisfaction His discourse was beyond exception and beyond imitation yet the wise Prelate thought him too young but the great Youth humbly begg'd his Grace to pardon that fault and promised If he liv d he would mend it However the grand Patron of Learning and Ingenuity thought it for the advantage of the World that such mighty Parts should be afforded better opportunities of study and Improvement than a course of constant preaching would allow of and to that purpose he placed him in his own Colledge of All-Souls in Oxford where Love and Admiration still waited upon him which so long as there is any spark of ingenuity in the breasts of men must needs be the inseparable Attendants of so extraordinary a worth and sweetness He had not been long here afore my Lord of Canterbury bestowed upon him the Rectory of Uphingham in Rutland-shire and soon after preferr'd him to be Chaplain to King Charles the Martyr of blessed and immortal Memory Thus were preferments heaped upon him but still less than his deserts and that not through the fault of his great Masters but because the amplest Honours and Rewards were poor and inconsiderable compar'd with the greatness of his Worth and Merit This Great Man had no sooner launch'd into the World but a fearful Tempest arose and a barbarous and unnatural War disturb'd a long and uninterrupted Peace and Tranquillity and brought all things into disorder and confusion but his Religion taught him to be Loyal and ingag'd him on his Prince's side whose Cause and Quarrel he alwayes own'd and maintain'd with a great courage and constancy till at last he and his little Fortune were shipwrackt in that great Hurricane that overturn'd both Church and State This fatal Storm cast him ashore in a private corner of the World and a tender Providence shrowded him under her Wings and the Prophet was fed in the Wilderness and his great worthiness procur'd him friends that supplied him with bread and necessaries In this Solitude he began to write those excellent Discourses which are enough of themselves to furnish a Library and will be famous to all succeeding Generations for their greatness of Wit and profoundness of Judgment and richness of Fancy and clearness of Expression and copiousness of Invention and general usefulness to all the purposes of a Christian And by these he soon got a great Reputation among all persons of Judgment and Indifferency and his Name will grow greater still as the World grows better and wiser When he had spent some Years in this Retirement it pleas'd God to visit his Family with Sickness and to take to himself the dear Pledges of his Favour three Sons of great hopes and expectations within the space of two or three Months And though he had learned a quiet Submission unto the Divine Will yet the Affliction touch'd him so sensibly that it made him desirous to leave the Countrey And going to London he there met my Lord Conway a Person of great Honour and Generosity who making him a kind Proffer the good man embraced it and that brought him over into Ireland and setled him at Portmore a place made for Study and Contemplation which he therefore dearly lov'd and here he wrote his Cases of Conscience A Book that is able alone to give its Author Immortality By this time the Wheel of Providence brought about the King's happy Restauration and there began a new World and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the Waters and out of a confused Chaos brought forth Beauty and Order and all the Three Nations were inspir'd with a new Life and became drunk with an excess of Joy Among the rest this Loyal Subject went over to congratulate the Prince and Peoples Happiness and bear a part in the Universal Triumph It was not long ere his Sacred Majesty began the settlement of the Church and the great Doctor Ieremy Taylor was resolv'd upon for the Bishoprick of Down and Conor and not long after Dromore was added to it and it was but reasonable that the King and Church should consider their Champion and reward the pains and sufferings he under-went in the Defence of their Cause and Honour With what care and faithfulness he discharg'd his Office we are all his Witnesses what good Rules and Directions he gave his Clergy and how he taught us the practice of them by his own Example Upon his coming over Bishop he was made a Privy-Councellor and the University of Dublin gave him their Testimony by recommending him for their Vice-Chancellor which honourable Office he kept to his dying day During his being in this See he wrote several excellent Discourses particularly his Disswasive from Popery which was receiv'd by a general approbation and a Vindication of it now in the Press from some impertinent Cavillers that pretend to answer Books when there is nothing towards it more than the very Title-page This great Prelate improv'd his Talent with a mighty Industry and managed his Stewardship rarely well and his Master when he call'd for his Accounts found him busie and at his