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mercy_n	judgement_n	sin_n	sinner_n	2,057	5	7.5058	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

but it is a great building and many materials go to the structure of it It is worth your study for it is the fulfilling of the Commandments Because it is impossible that Charity should live unless the lust of the tongue be mortified let every Minister in his charge be frequent and severe against slanderers detractors and backbiters for the Crime of backbiting is the poison of Charity and yet so common that it is pass'd into a Proverb After a good dinner let us sit down and backbite our neighbours Let every Minister be careful to observe and vehement in reproving those faults of his Parishioners of which the Laws cannot or do not take cognizance such as are many degrees of intemperate drinkings gluttony riotous living expences above their ability pride bragging lying in ordinary conversation covetousness peevishness and hasty anger and such like For the Word of God searches deeper than the Laws of men and many things will be hard to prove by the measures of Courts which are easie enough to be observed by the watchful and diligent eye and ear of the Guide of Souls In your Sermons to the people often speak of the four last things of Death and Judgment Heaven and Hell of the Life and Death of Jesus Christ of Gods Mercy to repenting sinners and his Severity against the impenitent of the formidable Examples of Gods anger pour'd forth upon Rebels Sacrilegious Oppressors of Widows and Orphans and all persons guilty of crying Sins These are useful safe and profitable but never run into Extravagancies and Curiosities nor trouble your selves or them with mysterious Secrets for there is more laid before you than you can understand and the whole duty of man is To fear God and keep his Commandments Speak but very little of the secret and high things of God but as much as you can of the lowness and humility of Christ. Be not hasty in pronouncing damnation against any man or party in a matter of disputation It is enough that you reprove an Error but what shall be the sentence against it at the day of Judgment thou knowest not and therefore pray for the erring person and reprove him but leave the sentence to his Judge Let your Sermons teach the duty of all states of men to whom you speak and particularly take care of Servants and Hirelings Merchants and Tradesmen that they be not unskilful nor unadmonished in their respective duties and in all things speak usefully and affectionately for by this means you will provide for all mens needs both for them that sin by reason of their little understanding and them that sin because they have evil dull or depraved affections In your Sermons and Discourses of Religion use primitive known and accustomed words and affect not new Phantastical or Schismatical terms Let the Sunday Festival be called the Lords day and pretend no fears from the common use of words amongst Christians For they that make a business of the words of common use and reform Religion by introducing a new word intend to make a change but no amendment they spend themselves in trifles like the barren turf that sends forth no medicinable herbs but store of Mushromes and they give a demonstration that they are either impertinent people or else of a querulous nature and that they are ready to disturb the Church if they could find occasion Let every Minister in his charge as much as he can endeavour to destroy all popular errors and evil principles taken up by his people or others with whom they converse especially those that directly oppose the indispensable necessity of a holy life let him endeavour to understand in what true and useful sence Christs active obedience is imputed to us let him make his people fear the deferring of their Repentance and putting it off to their death-bed let him explicate the nature of Faith so that it be an active and quickning principle of Charity let him as much as he may take from them all confidences that slacken their obedience and diligence let him teach them to impute all their sins to their own follies and evil choice and so build them up in a most holy faith to a holy life ever remembring that in all ages it hath been the greatest artifice of Satan to hinder the increase of Christs Kingdom by destroying those things in which it does consist viz. Peace and Righteousness Holiness and Mortification Every Minister ought to be careful that he never expound Scriptures in publick contrary to the known sence of the Catholick Church and particularly of the Churches of England and Ireland nor introduce any Doctrine against any of the four first General Councils for these as they are measures of truth so also of necessity that is as they are safe so they are sufficient and besides what is taught by these no matter of belief is necessary to salvation Let no Preacher bring before the people in his Sermons or Discourses the Arguments of great and dangerous Heresies though with a purpose to confute them for they will much easier retain the Objection than understand the Answer Let not the Preacher make an Article of Faith to be a matter of dispute but teach it with plainness and simplicity and confirm it with easie arguments and plain words of Scripture but without objection let them be taught to believe but not to argue lest if the arguments meet with a scrupulous person it rather shake the foundation by curious inquiry than establish it by arguments too hard Let the Preacher be careful that in his Sermons he use no light immodest or ridiculous expressions but what is wise grave useful and for edification that when the Preacher brings truth and gravity the people may attend with fear and reverence Let no Preacher envy any man that hath a greater audience or more fame in Preaching than himself let him not detract from him or lessen his reputation directly or indirectly for he that cannot be even with his brother but by pulling him down is but a dwarf still and no man is the better for making his brother worse In all things desire that Christ's Kingdom may be advanc'd and rejoyce that he is served whoever be the Minister that if you cannot have the fame of a great Preacher yet you may have the reward of being a good man but it is hard to miss both Let every Preacher in his Parish take care to explicate to the people the Mysteries of the great Festivals as of Christmas Easter Ascension-day Whitsunday Trinity Sunday the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary because these Feasts containing in them the great Fundamentals of our Faith will with most advantage convey the mysteries to the people and fix them in their memories by the solemnity and circumstances of the day In all your Sermons and Discourses speak nothing of God but what is honourable and glorious and impute not to him such things the consequents of which a wise and good man will

exhort and press the people to a devout and periodical Communion at the least three times in the year at the great Festivals but the devouter sort and they who have leisure are to be invited to a frequent Communion and let it be given and received with great reverence Every Minister ought to be well skill'd and studied in saying his Office in the Rubricks the Canons the Articles and the Homilies of the Church that he may do his duty readily discreetly gravely and by the publick measures of the Laws To which also it is very useful that it be added that every Minister study the ancient Canons of the Church especially the Penitentials of the Eastern and Western Churches let him read good Books such as are approved by publick authority such which are useful wise and holy not the scriblings of unlearned parties but of men learned pious obedient and disinterested and amongst these such especially which describe duty and good life which minister to Faith and Charity to Piety and Devotion Cases of Conscience and solid expositions of Scripture Concerning which learned and wise persons are to be consulted Let not a Curate of Souls trouble himself with any studies but such which concern his own or his peoples duty such as may enable him to speak well and to do well but to meddle not with controversies but such by which he may be enabled to convince the gainsayers in things that concern publick peace and a good life Be careful in all the publick administrations of your Parish that the poor be provided for Think it no shame to beg for Christs poor members stir up the people to liberal alms by your word and your example Let a collection be made every Lords-day and upon all solemn meetings and at every Communion and let the Collection be wisely and piously administred ever remembring that at the day of Judgment nothing shall publickly be proclaimed but the reward of alms and mercy Let every Minister be sure to lay up a treasure of comforts and advices to bring forth for every mans need in the day of his trouble let him study and heap together Instruments and Advices for the promoting of every vertue and remedies and arguments against every vice let him teach his people to make acts of vertue not only by external exercise but also in the way of Prayer and internal meditation In these and all things else that concern the Ministers duty if there be difficulty you are to repair to your Bishop for further advice assistance and information FINIS A Funeral Sermon Preached at the OBSEQUIES OF THE Right Reverend Father in God JEREMY Lord Bishop of DOWN Who deceased at LISBURNE August 13 th 1667. BY GEORGE RUST Lord Bishop of DROMORE LONDON Printed for R. Royston Bookseller to the King 's most Excellent Majesty 1672. A Funeral Sermon 1 JOHN 3. 2. It doth not yet appear what we shall be GLorious things are spoken in Scripture concerning the future Reward of the Righteous and all the words that are wont to signifie what is of greatest Price and Value or can represent the most enravishing Objects of our desires are made use of by the Holy Ghost to recommend unto us this transcendent State of Blessedness Such are these Rivers of Pleasures A fountain of living water A treasure that can never be wasted nor never taken from us An inheritance in light An incorruptible Crown A Kingdom the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Christ The Kingdom of Glory a Crown of Glory and Life and Righteousness and Immortality The Vision of God Being fill'd with all the fulness of God An exceeding eternal weight of Glory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Words strangely Emphatical that can't be put into English and if they could they would not be able to convey to our minds the Notion that they design for it is too big for any Expressions and after all that can be said we must resolve with our Apostle It does not yet appear what we shall be At this Distance we cannot make any likely guesses or conjectures at the glory of that future state Men make very imperfect Descriptions of Countries or Cities that never were there themselves nor saw the Places with their own eyes It is not for any mortal Creature to make a Map of that Canaan that lies above It is to all us that live here on the hither-side of Death an unknown Countrey and an undiscover'd Land It may be some Heavenly Pilgrim that with his holy thoughts and ardent desires is continually travelling thitherward arrives sometimes near the Borders of the promis'd Land and the Suburbs of the new Ierusalem and gets upon the top of Pisgah and there he has an imperfect Prospect of a brave Countrey that lies afar way off but he can't tell how to describe it and all that he hath to say to satisfie the curious Enquirer is only this If he would know the glories of it he must go and see it It was believ'd of old that those places that lie under the Line were burnt up by the continual heat of the Sun and were not habitable either by man or beast But later Discoveries tell us that there are the most pleasant Countries that the Earth can shew insomuch that some have plac'd Paradise it self in that Climate Sure I am of all the Regions of the Intellectual World and the several Lands that are peopled either with Men or Angels the most pleasant Countries they lie under the Line under the direct beams of the Sun of Righteousness where there is an eternal Day and an eternal Spring where is that Tree of Life that beareth twelve manner of Fruits and yieldeth her Fruit every Month Thus we may use Figures and Metaphors and Allegories and tell you of fruitful Meads and spacious Fields and winding Rivers and purling Brooks and chanting Birds and shady Groves and pleasant Gardens and lovely Bowers and noble Seats and stately Palaces and goodly People and excellent Laws and sweet Societies but this is but to frame little comparisons to please our childish fancies and just such discourses as a blind man would make concerning Colours so do we talk of those things we never saw and disparage the state whilst we would recommend it Indeed it requires some Saint or Angel from Heaven to discourse upon the Subject and yet that would not do neither For though they might be able to speak something of it yet we should want ears to hear it Neither can those things be declar'd but in the language of Heaven which would be little understood by us the poor inhabitants of this lower World they are indeed things too great to be brought within the compass of words Saint Paul when he had been rapt up into the third Heaven he saw 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 things unlawful or unpossible to be utter'd and Eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor can it enter into the heart of man to conceive what God hath prepared for them