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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	doctrine_n	england_n	6,989	5	6.3346	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58818	A sermon preach'd at the funeral of Sir John Buckworth, at the parish-church of St. Peter's le Poor in Broadstreet, December 29, 1687 by John Scott.	Scott, John, 1639-1695.	1688 (1688)	Wing S2072; ESTC R14391	14,116	40

Mind in the knowledge of Men and the management of Humane Affairs His Education furnished him with a fair opportunity of seeing the World as well abroad as at home and of prying into the Intrigues of Commerce and into the Manners and Interests of Men whence he drew so many wise and useful Observations as rendred him a Prince among Merchants and an Oracle of Trade insomuch that he was thought worthy to be chosen Deputy-Governour of that wise and great Company of the Turky Merchants and was perhaps as much consulted by his Superiors about the Interest of the English Trade and the Mysteries of Commerce as any one Merchant of this City or Nation Thus for his Intellectuals As for his Morals I believe that all that knew him will allow him this Character That he was a Gentleman of great Integrity and Fidelity to his Trust of exact Justice and Righteousness in his Commerce and Dealings That he was a studious and successful Peace-maker And great part of his Time before he was called up by his Prince into a more busie and active Station being spent in Arbitrating differences between Man and Man in which he was so expert so impartial and prosperous that I am apt to think he cemented as many broken Friendships reconciled as many Quarrels and adjusted as many Differences which otherwise might have flamed out into destructive breaches as most of those blessed Peace-makers that are gone before him Consider him in his respective Relations and there all that knew him I am sure will allow him to have been a Faithful a Loyal and useful Subject to his Prince a kind and obliging Husband to his Lady a tender and a wise Father to his Children a prudent careful and benevolent Master to his Servants and in a word a wise Counsellor a faithful Friend and a just and diligent Correspondent As for his Religion he was a hearty Protestant of the Church of England which upon mature Judgment and upon thorow Information he preferred for the Loyalty of its Principles the Simplicity of its Doctrines and the Primitive Purity of its Worship and Discipline before all the Churches in the World and what his Judgment was of our Church he visibly exprest by his constant attendance upon the Publick Offices of our Religion upon the Lord's day from which he never absented but when he was either detained by Sickness or some very urgent and unavoidable occasion and in which he always demeaned him with all the profound Reverence and Devotion that outwardly expresses a Mind inspired with a Pious Sense of its Duty and of the awful presence of the great Majesty of Heaven Thus he Lived and as for his Death though it was accompanied with all the Circumstances that could render a man fond of Life and make him play loth to depart though he had a plentiful Estate a loving and beloved Wife dutiful and hopeful Children and these all of them happily disposed off and setled in the World to his own Hearts content To leave all which at once seems a very hard Chapter to a mind not well resolved yet all these together had no such effect upon him Indeed not long before his Death though then in perfect health he seemed to have an Aboding of his approaching Fate for having to his hearts desire disposed of his only Son in Marriage who was the last of his Children undisposed he hath been often heard to say That now he thanked God his business in this World was finished and that it was high time for him to think of his Departure into the other and when soon after he was seized with his last Sickness he bore it with an invincible Courage and Constancy and though the last part of it was extremely painful to him he underwent it without Complaint or Murmuring with a Mind that seemed intirely resigned to the Soveraign Disposer of all Events And when he perceived the approaches of Death and found that he was going off this Stage of Mortals he never shew'd the least sign of Regret or Reluctancy but took a solemn leave of his Friends and which was much harder of his dearest Relatives who stood lamenting and weeping about him and this with a Mind very serious indeed but in all appearance very calm and composed And finally he gave up the Ghost like a brave Man and a good Christian with a firm and undaunted Mind and as one that had placed his main hope on the other side the Grave and did expect to exchange an uneasie Mortal Life for an Immortal one of Pleasure And therefore though I make no doubt after all but that as a Man he had his Faults and he that hath none let him cast the first stone yet I am sure he had his Vertues and those very eminent ones too And therefore it will highly become us who survive in Charity to cast a Vail over the one and in Piety imitate and transcribe the other That so with him and all our other Christian Brethren departed this Life in God's true Faith and Fear we may have our final Consummation in Bliss and Glory through Jesus Christ our Lord To whom with the Father and Eternal Spirit Three Persons and One God be ascribed all Honour and Glory and Power and Dominion for ever and ever AMEN FINIS