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A26728	Hieronikēs, or, The fight, victory, and triumph of S. Paul accommodated to the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas, late L. Bishop of Duresme, in a sermon preached at his funeral, in the parish church of St. Peter at Easton-Manduit in Northampton-shire, on Michaelmas-day, 1659 : together with the life of the said Bishop / by John Barwick ...	Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1008; ESTC R16054	101,636	192

one as St. Paul did here both in the fight of faith and course of Christianity And that again both as a private Christian and as an Apostle of Christ for the word running is a Metaphor that is applyed very significantly to both in holy Scripture St. Paul himself will be his own Expositour as to this particular in his Epistle to the Galatians where we finde that both they to whom he wrote who were private persons had run well and that he himself who was an Apostle of Christ had not run in vain Every servant of God is obliged to run the way of his Commandements when God hath set his heart at liberty but the task is doubled upon St. Paul as an Apostle of Christ because his office was concerned in it as well as his person And accordingly it is the expression of holy David that the word of God runneth very swiftly and both the Prophet Isaiah and this Apostle tell us that the feet of them that bring the glad tidings of the Gospel of peace are very beautiful Nay so swift are they and so beautiful that what the Psalmist speaks of the Heavens the most beautiful and swift of all Gods visible creatures is by St. Paul applyed to the Apostles their sound is gone out into all the earth and their words into the ends of the world and St. Chrysostome seemeth to give the priority to St. Paul before all the rest of the Apostles in this particular when he compareth his course to that of the Sun which we know cometh as a bridegroom out of his Chamber and rejoyceth as a gyant to run his course nay he preferreth it before that of the Sun for the purity of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and before that of a Bird for the swiftness and when we consider how much the light of the Gospel is to be preferred before the light of the Sun and in how short a time this holy Apostle had communicated it to all the world from Jerusalem round about to Illyricum we shall finde more of admiration in the work then of Hyperbole in St. Chrysostomes expression though he was a most excellent Oratour 3. And now I have done with those two acts which had immediate and particular relation to the Olympick games St. Pauls fighting and his running The third and last which now follows doth not as I told you import any thing peculiar in it self and yet it is of very great importance it denoteth only a super-addition of constancie and perseverance to both the other fighting and running I know very well that some expositours understand the word Faith in the common and ordinary literal sense as it signifieth the Christian faith or sound doctrine which this blessed Apostle kept inviolable though Demas and others had forsaken him in the defence of it and some would not so much as endure to hear of it But yet others and better interpreters will not allow this to be the immediate signification of the word For in my apprehension it is very strange that this word should be taken in the ordinary literal sense when all the rest of the context both before and after it must of necessity be interpreted by an Allegory It is true indeed that if by the word Faith we understand fidelity as sometimes it signifieth in holy Scripture it will be very pertinent to this place even in the literal sense and will also perfectly consist with the Allegory seeing that the faith or fidelity of any one that either fought or ran in the Olympick games obliged him to constancie and final perseverance without which there was no hope of getting the victory or obtaining the Crown for which they contended And that this is the genuine sense of the word in this place is not only probable by these reasons here alledged but may be further confirmed by the opinion of the most and best interpreters both ancient and modern and these latter again both of the Roman and Reformed Churches If you desire an instance you may have it in St. Augustine and Primasius among the Ancients and among the late writers in Cornelius a Lapide and Calvin to say nothing of the rest And now that we have seen the meaning of the word let us see how well the Apostle performed the work and that was in such a way and manner as became him to do and will become us to follow him in it For it was not the black brand of Heresie which the Jewes would have cast upon him nor the reproach of a Babler under which he suffered among the Athenians It was not the information of Ananias the high Priest nor the accusation of Tertullus the Orator It was not the conspiracy of the confederates at Jerusalem nor the fury of the zealots at Lystra or Ephesus It was not the subtilty of Elymas the sorcerer nor the violence of the Magistrates at Philippi It was not the splendour of the civil pomp in Agrippa and Festus nor the terrour of the military power in the Governour of Damascus It was not any of these nor all these nor any other thing whatsoever no not the fear of death it self that could stop him in his course or divert him from his fight while his life continued He was constant in both till his mortality put on immortality and this life was swallowed up of a better He did not give over the fight till such time as he had got the victory nor cease his running till he had obtained the prize but he kept the faith till his faith was turned into fruition he was faithful in the work till he received the wages or at least till he had got so good assurance of them as he could say in full confidence Henceforth is laid up for me a Crown of righteousness c. 2. And this would bring me to the second general part of my Text but only that there still remaineth a second and more peculiar part of my task upon this first I have held you hitherto only with a Sermon I must now make it 1. a Funeral Sermon for this Reverend Prelate and 2. such a Sermon as may be useful to our selves by some brief application though I hope the former will in part supply the latter And here I know some will expect that I should as the manner is give you an account of his whole life from his cradle to his grave but therein I must be forced to frustrate your expectation Such a thing may be done where the life is but of a few years and most of that life not so much a living perhaps as a being in the world But in this case such a thing cannot be expected with any reason after so long an exercise of your patience considering of how long continuance his life hath been an hundred years wanting five and how much of that time he hath imployed in the eminent and

the Church for of that rank I must conceive those to be who by their Schism cut themselves off from her Communion And such were those Phanaticks who in a tumultuous manner assaulted the Bishops going to or coming from the Parliament at the beginning of our troubles thereby then declaring that Schism which since they have more avowedly professed Yet these even in the heat of their zeal spared the life of this reverend Bishop as a good man though they had once the opportunity and wanted neither will nor power to have pulled him in pieces as a Bishop of which I have already given an Account 6. What I here prove by particular Instances might be demonstrated a priore by taking in another Ephscopal Quality which was in him a Bishop must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which though it be rendred Sober is not of necessity to be understood of that sobriety which is opposite to Drinking which was provided against in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though that also was very conspicuous in him but must be taken in that other sense as Sobriety signifieth Prudence in moderating the passions of the mind and reducing them under the rule of Moral Vertues which are said by the Philosopher to be knit together in Prudence This in it self maks a mans soul very beautiful but when it is seasoned and elevated and enlivened by the Grace of God it makes it like the Kings Daughter all glorious within The former is never more conspicuous then in Government but without a superaddition of the later there can be no such thing as the Government of souls in order to eternal salvation which is therefore called by the Father the Art of Arts and Science of Sciences And yet both of them were in this reverend Bishop in no small measure as is evident to the world so as I need not stand to prove it 7. By the former of these he had learned even from a Heathen Philosopher that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Secular Rulers and much more Spiritual were like so many Diamonds wherein if any spot appear it will make them liable to be slighted and spoken against And by the later that the least spot upon the pure linnen of the Ephod would be conspicuous that a small crack in Aarons Bells would quite damp the sound And therefore to secure the outward Acts of his great office he began first with the internal actions of his own soul He took the Apostles Method for his direction to take heed first to himself and then to the stock whereof the Holy Ghost had made him overseer He was no stranger to that maxim which St. Bernard taught Pope Eugenius the fourth formerly his Disciple though then his superior that the government of the Church though it be a work both spiritual and necessary may by continual attending to it somewhat abate if not quite choak the spirit of inward devotion and that the charity of a Bishop towards the Church may divert or at least cool somewhat of the heat of that charity which a devout soul should carry towards God Which made this good Bishops Charity begin at home in the purifying of his own heart and rectifying his life that he might in all things shew himself a pattern of good Works and become both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 blameless in this life and irreprehensible in his office Because as the same Father tells us a Bishop must be the pattern of righteousness the mirrour of holiness the samplar of piety and another before him that others may sometimes finde an excuse for their sins but a Bishop cannot and a third before them both that it is a fault in a Bishop not to be the best of men 8. From this root of Christian Prudence as it knits together all Christian Virtues did also proceed those several branches of other Episcopal Qualities which were so conspicuous in this Reverend person And in the first place that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which St. Paul requires in every Bishop which the Latine renders by the word Modesty and the English by Patience and may possibly signifie both if we examine the word by the opposition it hath to those four Negative Qualities with which it is there environed A Bishop must not be a striker nor so much as a Brawler but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Patient and again he must not be given to filthy Lucre nor so much as Covetous but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a person of Equity and Moderation And so the case was in this reverend Bishop in all these particular instances 9. He was neither striker nor brawler but patient He was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 even to St. Hieroms pitch of the sense of the word Sine jurgio not quarrelsome so much as with his tongue much less with his hands In the greatest trial of his temper that ever he had the news of the Vote that the Revenues of the Church were to be sold which was much more harsh to him then any thing which did or could concern himself all he returned was in the words of that Mirror of Patience The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away Blessed be the name of the Lord which he repeated three times over before the company he then was in and how often afterward in private for presently he retired himself to his prayers is known only to the searcher of hearts And yet for all this command he had over his own passions in this great triall I have often heard him plead for or at least extenuate the passion of Old Eli who upon the mention that the Ark of God was taken by the Philistims fell from off the seat whereon he sate and brake his neck and died 10. Again he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as that is opposed to being covetous and greedy of filthy lucre and of this we have a convincing testimony from the emptiness of his purse at his death which afforded him only the discharge of a moderately decent burial with a very little or no overplus If all the men of England had been of his temper we might have said of them as Anacharsis of the Grecians that they made no other use of money then only to account with And this appeared by his very exemplary Hospitality Liberality and Charity to the poor 11. Hospitality is a Duty enjoyned to all men which are able to perform it both by St. Peter and St. Paul And the later of these two great Apostles makes it a Characteristical note and consequently an indispensable Qualification of a Bishop in his Epistles both to Timothy and Titus which of necessity must presuppose an estate wherewith to perform it To reconcile these together and shew how Hospitality may be a common duty of all Christians and yet peculiar to a Bishop we must take in St. Hieroms distinction of the