,1VIanhislá/l d'rogre/s. them, he lent great fums unto them ; by the good employment whereof theywere nabled to recoverthemfelves and pay him. So liberal a Patronhewas, thathenot my freelybefowed all theBenefices that fellin hisgift,buc was alto at all the-charge ofinftitution, induElion, compofition, firff fruits, and whatfoever burthen fell up. on the Incumbent: Such patterns ofPatrons, we may rather with than hope for af- ter him; what fhalli needto addmorcconcerninghim,vhote birth wasilluftriousl rs education liberal, his Patromony.great, his Matches finable, his life exemplary, and his death comfortable ? Singlevertueswemeet within many,but filch combina- ions as were in him, fucia affability in inch gravity, full humility in -filch eminency, filch patience infuch trials, filch temperanceand moderation in filchabundance, as we have jolt caufe tobiefs God for in him, fo we have great caufe to pray for in o- thers of his Rank. In his tender years he was let as a choice Plant in the famous Nurfery ofgood learning andReligion, the Univerfity of Oxford, where living as a Commoner in Corpses Chrifti Colledge, under the care and tuitionof Doctor Se- affian wenleld; he very much thrived and grew above his equals both in grace tand in knowledge, gaining to himfelfas much love, as learning. After he was re- moved- from thence,hefell into very great troubles, as well before as after the death of his Father, bist the Lord delivered himout ofall : There croffes and afflictions fervid but as Flies to brighten thofegiftsand graces inlaim,which fhined afterwards molt brightly in hismore fetled eflate,and eminent employments,being chofenDe_ 'puty Lievetenant in wilt-(hire ; Commifiioner in three Shires, Four times High - Sherifl,andoften,Knight for the Shire inParliament;in all which places ofimportant negotiations and_great truly, he fo carried himfelf, that all menmight fee in all his a&ions, hehad a íhciali eye to theMotto inhis Efcouchiori, Jeay bonnecaufe, for with Mary he alwaycs chofe the good part, and flood upfor thetruth, which he confirmed with his Taft breath. You haveheard what he was in publick, but what was he in private ? we have feen him in the Sun, how demeaned hehimfelf in the Iliade I True, Religion is like theprecious [tone Garamantites, which cafleth no great luftre. outwardly, but femperictus habeataurëas Otitis: but wemay difcern as it weregolden drops within. Three of thefeafter 1 have prefented to your view, I will then let free your patience, and giveyour forrow full feopc to vent it fellin tears.The.firil ofthefe wastendernefsofconfcience,which is one of the moll infal- lible tokens' and marks of the ChildofGod ; fo tender was he,that he would under- ; take no bufinefs before he was fully perfw.aded ofthe lawfulnefs thereof, both by ' cleartexts òfScripture, and theapprobation of molt learned and confcientious Di- vines;' he Made fcruplemotonly ofcommitting the lealt known fimbut ofimbarking into anyaction whichwas queftianable amongthofethat love the tGuçh in fancerity. And therefore, although God beeffed himwith great wealth, anditore ofcoin, yet he never put it to Ufuryor Interefl thereby to increafeit, for he held-the toleration of the Law in this Kingdom to be no fuffiicient warrant for any violationof the divine Law, die diftin hionslatelycoyncd, of toothlefs and biting Ufury heno way allowed, judging truly, that all Ufury according to the I-IebrewEtymology; is bi- ting, and hathnotonly teeth; but Addersteethenvctrcemed; forall Ufury if it bite not our Brother asper accidens fometimes it maynot, yet it biteth theconfcienceof all filch who have any rcmorfe offin. The fecond r urea guste, was Chriflian eom_ paflion; whereby he took telheart the affliliions of-lofph,and mifery of L,Maruf, whofe'foteshe cured with themolt precious balfñnum he could buy forhis money. What Pliny writeilt ( lib. 3z. c. 8. Attain ufus eft Tbynni recentiores adt'pe ad alcersi) on the Fill' in Latin Thyfnurát, that it is a foveraign remedy against manyl difcafes, and cureth all kind ofulcers; was truly verified in him ; for he furnifhed' himfelf with the bell cordials and the rareftmedicinal receipts;and 'when he heard of any poor,(ck, or hurt ; he not only font them money s butBetar, andbalfamuw, ! thinking nothingcould coil him toodear, whereby hemight fave the life,or recover1 thehealth ofthe poorefl memberofChrift Jefrts. In theyears ofdeath and ficknefs, hefern provifionto all Parithesabout him; and thrice a weekrelieved a hundred it tuft at his gate :. neitherdidhis compaffion'dic withhim; for inhis Will andTe- ffamentconfirmed by him the daybefore hisDeath,hebegheathed'divers Legacies to the 483
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