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<P>THE LIFE and DEATH OF Mr. Ignatius Jurdain, ONE OF THE Aldermen of the <HI>City of Exeter;</HI> Who departed this Life <HI>July</HI> 15^t^h. 1640.</P>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;al. 37.37.</BIBL>
<P>Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;al. 112.9.</BIBL>
<P>He hath di&s;per&s;ed, he hath given to the poor, his righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e endureth for ever.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>1 Cor. 15.55.</BIBL>
<P>O death where is thy &s;ting? O grave where is thy victory?</P></Q>
<P>Drawn up and publi&s;hed by <HI>Ferd. Nicolls,</HI> Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel at <HI>Mary Arches, Exon.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Tho. Newberry,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his Shop at the three <HI>Golden Lions</HI> on Corn-hill by the Royal Exchange. 1654.</P>
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<HEAD>TO The Right VVor&s;hipfull <HI>Simon Snow</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Major</HI> of the <HI>City of Exeter,</HI> the <HI>Aldermen,</HI> and the re&s;t of the <HI>Common Councel</HI> of that <HI>City.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Honoured Sirs,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Have had many <HI>thoughts</HI> heretofore, and &s;ome of late, to publi&s;h a &s;hort <HI>Narrative</HI> of the Life, and Death of Mr. <HI>Ignatius Jurdain,</HI> a Worthy Mem|ber of your <HI>Society;</HI> and the latter might have been &s;tifled as the former, had not the <HI>&s;olicitations</HI> of &s;ome friends, both nearer and farther off, <HI>excited</HI> me to carry on my <HI>purpo&s;e</HI> to <HI>performance;</HI> And having &s;et about this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e and brought it to &s;ome i&s;&s;ue, I have taken the boldne&s;&s;e to pre&s;ent it unto you; and I &s;uppo&s;ed, that it would not be <HI>unacceptable</HI> to you, he being for a long time of your <HI>Society,</HI> and an <HI>honour</HI> thereunto as unto the whole <HI>City:</HI> His <HI>Name</HI> (no doubt) would have <HI>lived,</HI> and that in great e&s;teem, though this <HI>&s;mall memorial</HI> of
<PB REF="3">him had never &s;een the light; but yet hereby many may take notice of more particulars, then formerly they have heard of, and take occa&s;ion to recount many more <HI>re|markable,</HI> and <HI>prai&s;e-worthy qualifications</HI> that were in him, then have come to my Knowledge: I might have added many more things, but I have omitted them, partly be|cau&s;e I was not a&s;&s;ured of the <HI>certainty</HI> of them, and part|ly becau&s;e I declined <HI>Per&s;onal reflections,</HI> which would have &s;ounded very har&s;hly in the eares of many. That which hath been done (though with much weakne&s;&s;e, and not an&s;werable to his worth) hath been out of a de&s;ire to <HI>honour</HI> him, that was &s;o <HI>zealous</HI> for the <HI>advancing of Gods glory,</HI> and to &s;et his <HI>example</HI> before your &s;elves, and others for <HI>imitation:</HI> For the good examples of holy men are as the <HI>light &s;ide of the cloud,</HI><NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Heb. 12.1.</HI> Perk. in loc. N. Annot. in loc. Dyk. Dec. of the heart. c. <HI>12.</HI></NOTE> to give light to others, and to <HI>direct</HI> them in the <HI>Wilderne&s;&s;e</HI> of this World towards the <HI>heavenly Canaan.</HI> I know you have a <HI>&s;urer and a &s;traighter rule, and a brighter light</HI> to direct you, then any <HI>humane examples,</HI> the <HI>infallible and unerring Word of God,</HI><NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119.105. Prov. 6.23.</NOTE> P&s;al. 119. &amp; Prov. 6. <HI>whereunto you &s;hall do well to take heed as to a light that &s;hineth in a dark place,</HI><NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 1.19.</NOTE> 2 Pet 1. But yet <HI>God</HI> him&s;elf would have us to ob&s;erve the <HI>commen|dable examples</HI> of <HI>good men,</HI> and to &s;et them before us for our <HI>imitation and pattern,</HI> as<NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg">Prov. 2.20.</NOTE> Prov. 2. <HI>To walk in the way of good men,</HI> and <HI>to be followers, or imitators of them,</HI><NOTE N="(e)" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 4.16. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> 1 Cor 4. but we may not follow the be&s;t of men in all things but with a limitation, as they follow that <HI>exem|plary Rule Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI><NOTE N="(f)" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 11.1.</NOTE> 1 Cor. 11. And I know not, whether I &s;hould pre&s;&s;e the imitation of this <HI>renowned Worthy,</HI> in all things, as in his &s;o early ri&s;ing in the morn|ing, to <HI>enjoy communion</HI> with <HI>God</HI> in <HI>holy meditation,</HI> the bodily temper of mo&s;t not being able to bear it, &s;o that we may herein rather <HI>admire</HI> then <HI>imitate</HI> him. He was
<PB REF="3">(as I conceive) of an <HI>Heroical and rai&s;ed &s;pirit,</HI> elevated above the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ab&s;it verbo invidia.</NOTE> ordinary rank of true Profe&s;&s;ours of Reli+gion; for as <HI>Heroical vertue</HI> (as the Morali&s;ts<NOTE N="(g)" PLACE="marg">Ari&s;t. E|thic. lib. <HI>7.</HI> c. <HI>1.</HI> Piccol. Philo&s;. Grad. <HI>6.</HI> c. <HI>1</HI>&mdash;<HI>6.</HI></NOTE> &s;ay) ex|cells <HI>moral vertue</HI> in an <HI>high and eminent</HI> degree; &s;o there is a kind of <HI>Heroical</HI><NOTE N="(h)" PLACE="marg">Keck. S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t. Eth. lib.;. c. <HI>5.</HI></NOTE> <HI>&s;piritual vertue,</HI> as <HI>Abrahams Emi|nency in Faith,</HI> and the like I may &s;ay of this <HI>Holy mans inten&s;ivene&s;s</HI> in zeale for <HI>God,</HI> that excels the ordinary <HI>vertue</HI> of Chri&s;tians.<NOTE PLACE="marg">(i) <HI>2 Pet. 1.3.</HI> Called to glory and vertue.</NOTE> I know that &s;ome did much un|dervalue him, as a man of meane and low parts; they would acknowledge, that he was an hone&s;t well mean|ing man, but weake, and beneath tho&s;e that were accounted wi&s;e men; but &s;uppo&s;e that his naturall, and acquired parts were not &s;o great as &s;ome others, yet for his <HI>zeale and courage</HI> for the <HI>truth and cau&s;e of God,</HI> his <HI>clo&s;e communion</HI> with <HI>God,</HI> and <HI>indignation again&s;t &s;in,</HI> I dare boldly &s;ay, he did excell the mo&s;t of men: And they that have greater parts of <HI>knowledge and wi&s;edome,</HI> &s;hould be provoked by his example, to act the more <HI>vi|gorou&s;ly</HI> for God, for every man mu&s;t give an account of the <HI>improving</HI> his <HI>talents</HI> for the<NOTE N="(k)" PLACE="marg">Mat. 25.15.</NOTE> behoof of the <HI>Lord,</HI> that hath intru&s;ted them therewith, remembring that of our <HI>Saviour</HI><NOTE N="(l)" PLACE="marg">Luk. 12.48.</NOTE> <HI>Luke</HI> 12. <HI>To whom much is given, of him &s;hall much be required.</HI></P>
<P>There be <HI>three things,</HI> which in the en&s;uing <HI>Narrative,</HI> you &s;hall find very <HI>commendable</HI> in him; his <HI>Piety, Ju&s;tice and Charity,</HI> wherein I &s;hall crave leave to commend him to your <HI>imitation,</HI> and if you &s;hall exceed him there|in, I know no good man that will blame you, though I cannot &s;ecure you from the <HI>Scorpion like la&s;h</HI> of the <HI>viru|lent tongues</HI> of wicked men.</P>
<P N="1">1. For his <HI>Piety,</HI> all that knew him, and did not look upon him with an <HI>evill eye,</HI> will give te&s;timony to it; and it will be your <HI>honour</HI> to &s;tand up zealou&s;ly for <HI>God,</HI>
<PB REF="4">and to <HI>walk &s;incerely and uprightly before him,</HI> and as <HI>under his eye,</HI> who <HI>&s;eeth</HI> not only all your <HI>actions,</HI> but your &s;eeret <HI>intents, purpo&s;es and de&s;igns,</HI> whether you look with <HI>a &s;quint-eye</HI> upon your <HI>&s;ini&s;ter &amp; &s;elf-ends,</HI> or with a <HI>&s;ingle eye aime at his glory,</HI> in all your <HI>undertakings:</HI> And you &s;hould let it appeare, that you are on the <HI>Lords-&s;ide,</HI><NOTE N="(m)" PLACE="marg">Exod. 32.26.</NOTE> now &s;o many <HI>Apo&s;tat &s;e and revolt,</HI> yea, <HI>deeply</HI><NOTE N="(n)" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 31.6.</NOTE> <HI>revolt from him,</HI> I &s;peak it not in way of doubt or jealou&s;ie of you, for many <HI>ble&s;&s;e God</HI> for your <HI>&s;tedfa&s;tne&s;s in the faith,</HI> in the&s;e declining dayes; and your <HI>con&s;tant attending</HI> upon the <HI>Lords holy Ordinances</HI> both on the <HI>Sabbath</HI> and <HI>Week dayes</HI> is very <HI>exemplary,</HI> not onely to tho&s;e of inferiour rank in this <HI>City,</HI> but to others that either &s;ee, or hear of your <HI>forwardne&s;&s;e</HI> therein. But <HI>Holine&s;&s;e</HI> &s;hould appear al&s;o in the <HI>whole cour&s;e</HI> of your <HI>conver&s;ation,</HI> both in your <HI>publike admini&s;trations of Ju&s;tice,</HI> (for <HI>you judge not for man but for the Lord,</HI> 2 Chron. 19.<NOTE N="(o)" PLACE="marg">2 Chr. 19.6.</NOTE> And the <HI>Seat of Ju&s;tice</HI> is the <HI>place of the Holy,</HI> Eccle&s;. 8.<NOTE N="(p)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Eccl. 8.10.</HI> N. Annot. in loc. Pemb. Expo&s;.</NOTE> the <HI>Holy One, or Holy God;</HI>) and in your more <HI>private conver&s;ing</HI> with men, and mo&s;t <HI>&s;ecret retirements, Holine&s;&s;e to the Lord,</HI> that under the Law was <HI>engraven</HI> upon the <HI>High Prie&s;ts Miter,</HI> and to be <HI>worn upon his forehead,</HI><NOTE N="(q)" PLACE="marg">Exod. 28.36.</NOTE> Exod. 28. &s;hould now be written on <HI>things of common u&s;e,</HI><NOTE N="(r)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Zech. 14.20.</HI> N. Annot. in loc.</NOTE> Zech. 14. you &s;hould <HI>con&s;e|crate</HI> your &s;elves and all your actions to the <HI>&s;ervice of</HI> the <HI>Holy God;</HI> the more <HI>&s;incere</HI> and <HI>con&s;tant</HI> you are herein, with the greater <HI>comfort</HI> you will give up your <HI>account</HI> unto the <HI>righteous Judge,</HI> when you &s;hall be called unto it; and your <HI>account</HI> drawes very nigh, <HI>Jam.</HI> 5.<NOTE N="(s)" PLACE="marg">Jam. 5.10.</NOTE> <HI>Behold the Judge &s;tandeth before the door.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> 2. His <HI>impartial admini&s;tration of Ju&s;tice</HI> again&s;t Swearers, open profaners of the Sabbath, unclean per|&s;ons and other &s;candalous Offenders wherein he &s;hewed him&s;elf another<NOTE N="(t)" PLACE="marg">N h. 13.17.</NOTE> <HI>Nehemiah</HI> and<NOTE N="(u)" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 106.30.</NOTE> <HI>Phinehas,</HI> will but
<PB REF="4">mind you of that, which I have cau&s;e to be per&s;waded, that you re&s;olve to do; And you have <HI>advantage</HI> to do more, in &s;ome re&s;pects, then he had, becau&s;e many of tho&s;e di&s;orders and <HI>pollutions</HI><NOTE N="(w)" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 56. 2-6.</NOTE> of the <HI>Sabbath,</HI> (the removing of which found great re&s;i&s;tance in tho&s;e daies) have been, for many years, taken away, and yet I dare not &s;ay that he was the <HI>fir&s;t</HI> that brake the ice, and &s;et upon the <HI>reformation</HI> of abu&s;es upon the <HI>Lords holy day;</HI> for I am informed by one, that was an <HI>Active Officer</HI> in the redre&s;&s;ing of tho&s;e profane abu&s;es, that his imme|diate<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mr.</HI> John Sheere, <HI>Major.</HI> A.D. <HI>1616.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Predece&s;&s;our</HI> in the <HI>Office</HI> of the <HI>Majoralty</HI> did <HI>begin</HI> to <HI>reform</HI> &s;ome open <HI>profanations of the Sabbath;</HI> Whe|ther any did attempt it before, is more then I can learn, it being long before my coming to the <HI>City.</HI> But <HI>God</HI> hath a <HI>perfect Record</HI> of all things that are done by men, e&s;pe|cially for his <HI>names &s;ake,</HI> whether men take notice of it or no.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> 3. And for his <HI>Charity</HI> and <HI>beneficence</HI> to the <HI>poor</HI> and other <HI>pious u&s;es;</HI> I leave it to your &s;erious con&s;ideration, how far he was a <HI>pattern</HI> to you therein, if you think it too much to do as much as he did, yet <HI>liberality</HI> and <HI>for|wardne&s;&s;e</HI> in well-doing is left as a <HI>charge</HI> upon you by <HI>God</HI> him&s;elf,<NOTE N="(x)" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 6.17, 18.</NOTE> 1 Tim. 6. and <HI>he would not have you to forget it,</HI> Heb. 13.<NOTE N="(y)" PLACE="marg">Heb. 13.16.</NOTE> &s;eeing it is <HI>well-plea&s;ing</HI> to him; And you will be <HI>no lo&s;ers</HI> by it <HI>here</HI> but <HI>great gainers;</HI> the more <HI>free</HI> you are this way, you may expect that the <HI>Lord</HI> will deal the more <HI>freely,</HI> and <HI>bountifully</HI> with you, or yours, you have his <HI>Word,</HI> and that's as good as any <HI>bond</HI> for you.<NOTE N="(z)" PLACE="marg">Prov. 11.24 25. Eccle&s;. 11.1&mdash; P&s;al. 37.26. E&s;ay. 32.8.</NOTE> &s;ee Prov. 11. Eccle&s;. 11. P&s;al. 37. and E&s;ay 32. And this will <HI>f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">rther your account,</HI><NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">Phil. 4.17.</NOTE> Phil. 4. in the <HI>great day</HI> of <HI>reckoning,</HI> for then the Lord will take &s;pecial notice, not &s;o much, of that which you have <HI>laid up</HI> for your &s;elves, or yours, as of that, which you have
<PB REF="5"><HI>laid out</HI> for him, and his. But I am here prevented in pre&s;&s;ing one point of <HI>Charity</HI> upon you, for providing for the poor; for in your late act of <HI>Charity,</HI> &s;hall I tearm it? or <HI>Ju&s;tice and Mercy meeting together,</HI> I mean the erect|ing of a <HI>Work hou&s;e:</HI> You have taken the be&s;t care that the ranging and di&s;orderly poor might be &s;et on work, and &s;o be better provided for by their <HI>own labour,</HI> then by being <HI>relieved</HI> at mens doors; and <HI>that no</HI><NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 144.14.</NOTE> <HI>complain|ing,</HI> by that clamorous &s;ort of idle people, may, for the future, <HI>be heard in our &s;treets.</HI> The Lord &s;trengthen your hearts and hands for the perfecting of that <HI>righteous and charitable work,</HI> and for the<NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 41.1. <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>Pi&s;c. Qui pru|denter &s;egerit. Gen.</HI> Tran&s;la|tion, Judgeth wi&s;ely. <HI>Ain&s;w.</HI> Pru|dently atten|deth.</NOTE> <HI>wi&s;e con&s;idering</HI> the condi|tion of the impotent <HI>poor,</HI> that they being re&s;trained from begging, may have no ju&s;t cau&s;e of <HI>complaining</HI> to <HI>God</HI> or <HI>man</HI> by rea&s;on of <HI>want. God</HI> hath <HI>honoured you</HI> above many, I be&s;eech you let it be your chiefe&s;t care to <HI>honour him,</HI> in the faithful di&s;charge of your <HI>duty</HI> unto him, and of the <HI>tru&s;t</HI> committed by him unto you, that this <HI>City</HI> may be truly &s;tiled <HI>the faithful City,</HI> E&s;ay 1.<NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 1.26. <HI>Fidelis in aeter|num.</HI> The City's Motto.</NOTE> and we may &s;ay with the Prophet, Jer. 31.<NOTE N="(e)" PLACE="marg">Jer. 31.23.</NOTE> <HI>The Lord ble&s;&s;e thee thou habitation of Ju&s;tice and mountain of holine&s;&s;e;</HI> This is the &s;incere de&s;ire of him that is willing to &s;ign him&s;elf</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sirs, <HI>Yours to be Commanded in the &s;ervice of the Go&s;pel,</HI> Ferdinando Nicolls.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Exon.</HI> <DATE><HI>Decemb.</HI> 24. 1653.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>TO</HI> The READER.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Good Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IT is a truth which alwaies God hath made good in his providence, <HI>that the memorial of the ju&s;t &s;hall be ble&s;&s;ed;</HI> therefore &s;ince the <HI>Canon</HI> and rule of faith, or tho&s;e Authentick records which we call <HI>The Scriptures,</HI> have been clo&s;ed up: The Lord hath &s;tirred up in every age &s;ome that could <HI>handle the pen of the writer,</HI> to continue the memory of his eminent and faithful &s;ervants to po&s;terity with prai&s;e and honour. It would be vain in a ca&s;e &s;o known, to tell you particu|larly what hath been done in this kind, by <HI>Dorotheus, Sophronius, Jerome, Gennadius, Epiphanius,</HI> &amp;c. and by modern Writers without number; the Ancient Church had her <HI>Diptychs</HI> or publick Tables, wherein the names of per&s;ons mo&s;t noted for piety were recorded; and though the modern <HI>Canonization</HI> u&s;ed among the <HI>Ro|mani&s;ts</HI>
<PB REF="6">be ridiculous, and &s;ome <HI>Sainted</HI> that were<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Hominum mon&s;ira&mdash;heu quam multi inter ho|mines Scripti &s;unt in Sancto|rum albo qui in arcano dei con|&s;ilio de&s;cripti &s;unt in reprobo|rum nigro: quam multi &s;unt ac quorum imagines ardent cereis, qui ip&s;i ardent in flamma! <HI>Molinaei Hy|pera&s;pi&s;tes.</HI> pag. <HI>48.</HI></NOTE> &s;carce <HI>men,</HI> and their <HI>legends</HI> bundles of lyes the very &s;tain and infamy of Chri&s;tianity; yet there is no rea&s;on that the true Saints, <HI>Gods Worthies,</HI> &s;hould be defrauded of their publick honour, and buried in ob&s;curity and &s;ilence without any Monument of their worth, and reli|gious eminency: e&s;pecially when we do con&s;ider how much <HI>Gods glory</HI> is concerned in the credit of his &s;ervants, as al&s;o the <HI>profit</HI> of others; partly that they may be ac|quainted with the ancient wayes of the Spirit, and tho&s;e <HI>Good old pathes</HI> wherein the Children of God walked and enjoyed communion with him: partly that they may be provoked by their examples to follow them in <HI>faith</HI> and <HI>patience,</HI> and <HI>heavenline&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>&s;trictne&s;&s;e</HI> of conver&s;ation; we &s;ee many times that <HI>examples</HI> work more then <HI>pre|cepts,</HI> not onely as they <HI>convince,</HI> but as they do <HI>encou|rage:</HI> they convince more, becau&s;e they are <HI>real,</HI> we look upon <HI>precepts</HI> as <HI>words</HI> &s;poken of cour&s;e, wherein Reli|gion may be counterfeited at a cheaper rate; therefore <HI>Noah,</HI> though <HI>a Preacher of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</HI> is &s;aid to con|vince the world by <HI>preparing An Ark,</HI> Heb. 11.8. and <HI>they incourage,</HI> becau&s;e in them we &s;ee, that the exerci&s;e of <HI>godline&s;&s;e,</HI> though <HI>difficult,</HI> yet is <HI>po&s;sible,</HI> when men that are <HI>&s;ubject to like pa&s;sions,</HI> and have the &s;ame intere&s;ts and Concernments of fle&s;h and blood that we have, can be thus <HI>mortified, &s;elf-denying, heavenly, holy:</HI> now <HI>examples</HI> have this force, not onely when the Saints are <HI>alive,</HI> and liable to pre&s;ent notice and ob&s;ervation, but <HI>after their death,</HI> when tran&s;mitted to po&s;terity by faithful records; yea then many times they work more, their infirmities being buried with them, and their lives do then rather <HI>in&s;truct</HI> then <HI>Exa&s;perate,</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Pa&s;citur in Vivis livor, po&s;t fata qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;cit.</NOTE> living Saints &s;tanding in the way of intere&s;ts are more hated, and looked upon with
<PB REF="6">prejudice, but u&s;ually there is a greater e&s;teem of the dead; how often do Gods Children live <HI>envied,</HI> and die <HI>Sainted!</HI></P>
<P>All this is prefaced <HI>(Reader)</HI> to induce thee to a more &s;erious con&s;ideration of the pre&s;ent memorials of that holy man, Mr. <HI>Ignatius Jurdain,</HI> in &s;ome &s;en&s;e, <HI>the Wonder and Phoenix of his Age and place of abode;</HI> concerning who&s;e <HI>piety</HI> and frequent communion with God, his <HI>con&s;tant heavenline&s;&s;e,</HI> his <HI>charity</HI> in <HI>giving, lending,</HI> and <HI>en|tertaining,</HI> his <HI>doing ju&s;tice</HI> with <HI>impartiality</HI> and <HI>diligence,</HI> thou wilt have a more particular account in the en&s;uing &s;tory; only give me leave from my &s;elf to &s;ugge&s;t a few pa&s;&s;ages and ob&s;ervations: 1. That for his temper he was a man of <HI>a rai&s;ed Zeal</HI> and <HI>Heroical &s;pirit,</HI> one of tho&s;e <HI>rare examples</HI> which the Lord giveth the World now and then, and therefore his actions are not to be mea&s;u|red by an ordinary &s;tandard. 2. Seldom or never did any come into his company, but he would di&s;cour&s;e with them about holy things, asking the younger <HI>how they ho|ped to be &s;aved?</HI> the more grown if they profe&s;&s;ed Religi|on, <HI>whether they had any a&s;&s;urance?</HI> which if they denyed, he would tell them that <HI>he was even a&s;hamed of them; in good earnest</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>I would &s;tudy the promi&s;es, and go into my clo&s;et and lock, the door, and there plead them to God, and &s;ay, that I would not go forth till he gave me &s;ome &s;ence of his love.</HI> 3. His entertainment at his Table was <HI>free</HI> and <HI>&s;ufficient,</HI> but <HI>frugal</HI> and <HI>&s;ober;</HI> if his Wife at any time excu&s;ed the &s;lenderne&s;&s;e of it, he would &s;ay,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Humilis cibus &amp; t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">nius potus|&s;unt divitiae Chri&s;tianorum, Hieron.</NOTE> <HI>Brown bread and Kennel water is good fare with the Go&s;pel.</HI> I have often heard him &s;ay &s;o, there is &s;omewhat a like &s;aying of Mr. <HI>Greenham's,</HI> and po&s;&s;ibly Mr. <HI>Jurdain</HI> might bor|row it thence, it &s;uiting &s;o well with the temper of his &s;pirit. 4. <HI>A formal man</HI> had once preached a Sermon
<PB REF="7">at the Cathedral about <HI>heaven,</HI> the di&s;cour&s;e was for the mo&s;t part <HI>frothy,</HI> and beneath the dignity and worth of &s;uch an argument, Mr. <HI>Jurdain</HI> was pre&s;ent as well as my &s;elf, after Sermon I went to his hou&s;e, (being to re|ceive a Letter from him for <HI>Oxford</HI>) after many good in&s;tructions he asked me, <HI>if I had been at the Sermon that morning?</HI> I told him, yea; and <HI>did you</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>hear tho&s;e wonderful things which God hath provided for them that love him?</HI> and &s;o readily picked out all tho&s;e pa&s;&s;a|ges which were any way &s;ub&s;ervient to u&s;e and profit; 'twas wonderful to me, to &s;ee how an holy heart can draw comfort out of any thing: the Sermon as <HI>Mr. Jur|dain</HI> repeated it to me, was another kind of Sermon, and &s;eemed to be very &s;avoury and &s;piritual: I remember with what warmth and vigour he &s;pake of it, even to this day, and hope that I never &s;hall forget it. 5. This is not to be forgotten, his &s;ending a Letter to the <HI>late King,</HI> and expo&s;tulating with him about his &s;etting forth the Book concerning &s;ports and recreations on the Lords day, which was inclo&s;ed in another to the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Exeter,</HI> to de&s;ire him to convey it: and notice being gi|ven to the Bi&s;hop that Copies of it were divulged (po&s;|&s;ibly by the tran&s;criber) he thought he could not conceal it with &s;afety, and therefore carried it to the King, who when he had read it, in a great Anger &s;aid <HI>he would hang him;</HI> But the Bi&s;hop (a pious man) fell upon his knees, and be&s;ought his Maje&s;ties pardon, alledging, <HI>That God had not a better &s;ervant, nor his Maje&s;tie a better Subject in the whole Land:</HI> When the Bi&s;hop returned from his moneth of attendance, <HI>Mr. Jurdain</HI> went to vi&s;it him, and after civilities pa&s;t, the Bi&s;hop &s;aid, <HI>Ah Mr. Jurdain would you put me upon &s;o hot a &s;ervice? you know there are many eyes upon me:</HI> (meaning the Archbi&s;hops faction, who
<PB REF="7">&s;u&s;pected him as a favourer of <HI>Puritans</HI>) <HI>Yea my Lord</HI> (re|plyed M <HI>Jurdain</HI>) <HI>there are eyes upon you, the eyes of God and his holy Angels to &s;ee how you di&s;charge your Office and Duty as the Kings Chaplain and a Bi&s;hop of the Church.</HI> 6. Now and then, when he had lei&s;ure, he would often go to his neighbours &s;hops, and admoni&s;h them to take heed that the cares of the World did not deadden their &s;pirits to heavenly things, telling them, <HI>If they had many thou&s;ands it would not &s;till the cry of con&s;cience, purcha&s;e the lea&s;t fo|vour from God, not &s;o much as ea&s;e the pain of the teeth, or keep off one fit of an ague, yea if mony were thrown to the dogs they would not &s;o much as &s;mell at it.</HI> 7. He would often per|&s;wade his fellow-Magi&s;trates to a liberal provi&s;ion for the poor: and when they would ask him <HI>where they &s;hould have money?</HI> he would An&s;wer, <HI>God will provide, rather then the poor &s;hall want let us &s;ell our Gownes.</HI> 8. When he di&s;tributed money to the poor with his own hands in a time of great infection, and &s;o &s;ome asked him if he were not afraid of the plague, <HI>What</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>afraid of Gods vi|&s;itation! let us fear rather the plague &s;ore of our own heart.</HI> 9. In his troubles in the Star-Chamber, when one told him, he was &s;orry the <HI>Lord-Keeper</HI> was again&s;t him, he An&s;wered, <HI>I have a greater Lord-Keeper then him, the Lord is my keeper, I &s;hall not be afraid.</HI> 10. 'Tis not ami&s;&s;e to ob&s;erve what others thought and &s;aid of him; I remem|ber a godly man ob&s;erves of him, <HI>that in every bu&s;ine&s;&s;e</HI> (though in &s;ome he adventured far) <HI>the Lord carried him thorough with reputation,</HI> and &s;o compares him with an|other of great parts, who though godly was alwaies foi|led in every undertaking: Drunkards and frequenters of the Ale-hou&s;e were afraid of him, he was their <HI>u&s;ual bug|bear;</HI> their <HI>Memento</HI> in the middle of their exce&s;&s;e was, <HI>It is time to be gone, Mr. Jurdain will come by and by:</HI> the
<PB REF="8">ordinary &s;ort of men were convinced of his integrity: I have over-heard men carnal and vitious at a time of election of Burge&s;&s;es for the Parliament, &s;peaking to one another, <HI>if you choo&s;e any choo&s;e Jurdain, he will be right for the Common Wealth, and do the City &s;e vice:</HI> he was twice cho&s;en Burge&s;&s;e for the Parliament, and twice Ma|jor of the City, and once Deputy Major in a time of great infection and pe&s;tilence: The reverend Mini&s;ter that preached his Funeral Sermon (from whom you have the di&s;cour&s;e of his life) &s;aid, <HI>Look upon his Will, and you will think him the riche&s;t man in this City;</HI> though ma|ny exceeded him in e&s;tate, but few or none in making provi&s;ion for the poor; delinquents &s;eldome went from him without conviction: A Noblemans &s;ervant that had &s;corned him being brought before him, and con|victed of having &s;worn ra&s;hly three times, Mr. <HI>Jurdain</HI> demanded his Fine, and &s;hewed him the hainou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the &s;in, with which the man was calmed, and though he came from his Companions braving, yet he returned with the acknowledgment that he was a <HI>faithfull Ju&s;ticer,</HI> and when they asked him what <HI>Jurdain</HI> did to him, he An&s;wered, <HI>he gave me good Law, and fair words.</HI></P>
<P>Good Reader, by this ta&s;te thou maye&s;t judge of the Man, thou wilt be better acquainted with him, when thou ha&s;t read over the en&s;uing Collection of the pa&s;&s;a|ges of his life, drawn up by an able and faithful hand, who hath been carefull that nothing &s;hould be in&s;erted of which he had not &s;ufficient evidence, and that many things might be omitted which could not be divulged without reflection on particular per&s;ons; whatever is lacking of con&s;equence may be &s;upplyed in another Edition.</P>
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<P>Thus much I thought good to &s;ignifie to thee, de&s;i|ring the Lord to help us more and more to be followers of them <HI>who through faith and patience have inherited the promi&s;es.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thine in the &s;ervice of the Go&s;pel, <HI>Thomas Manton.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Life and Death of M. <HI>Ignatius Jurdain</HI> one of the Aldermen of the City of <HI>Exeter,</HI> who died <HI>July</HI> 15^t^h <HI>Anno Domini</HI> 1640.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>memory of the ju&s;t is ble&s;&s;ed,</HI> &s;aith wi&s;e <HI>So|lomon Prov.</HI> 10.<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">Prov. 10.7.</NOTE> he leaves a &s;weet me|morial behind him, though, while&s;t he lived, he was vilified and defamed, and loaden with reproaches, yet when he is departed this life, his name is as a &s;weet and precious Oyntment, even unto tho&s;e that formerly could take up his name as a Proverbe of reproach, but e&s;pecially to tho&s;e that honour|ed him in life and death.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His memorial is ble&s;&s;ed.</NOTE>This <HI>Eminent Saint, this holy and ju&s;t Man</HI> is a Real proof of that doctrinal A&s;&s;ertion of <HI>Solomon; his memoral is ble&s;&s;ed,</HI> and they that in his life time undervalued him, do now (or &s;eem at lea&s;t to) make an Honourable mention of him; but he now lives with much honour in the hearts of tho&s;e that &s;aw and acknowledged that true worth which was in him, when he was de&s;pi&s;ed by the men of the World; but there may <HI>a genera|tion ari&s;e which knew him not,</HI> and that which hath been received by tradition may be forgotten. That therefore his name may live, when others, that maligned him, dye, or their names rot,
<PB N="2" REF="10">and that he may be a pattern of Piety and Charity to &s;uc|ceeding generations, it hath been thought fit to commit to writing, and to publi&s;h to the world tho&s;e &s;ingular graces, and memorable acts that did &s;hine forth in him both living and dying; And it is not unworthy our ob&s;ervation, that God &s;tirred up the &s;pirits of divers well affected Chri&s;tians about one and the &s;ame time, to de&s;ire the publi&s;hing of the Life of this <HI>renowned Worthy of the Lord,</HI> whom &s;ome may <HI>Envy,</HI> and others <HI>Emulate,</HI> but few are found that in all things do or can <HI>imitate.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The place of his Birth.</NOTE><HI>Ignatius Jurdain</HI> was born at <HI>Lyme-Regis in the County of Dor&s;et,</HI> (that little Town &s;o famous for the long Siege by the Kings forces, and for repelling the mo&s;t furious a&s;&s;aults of tho&s;e that beleaguered it,) and it may add to the fame of it, that <HI>this man was born in her;</HI><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 87.5. As it was an honour to be born in <HI>Zion,</HI> &s;o it was an honour to <HI>Lyme</HI> that he was born there.</NOTE> He was &s;ent by his Friends to <HI>Exeter</HI> when he was young, where he was to be brought up in the profe&s;&s;ion of a Merchant; and being &s;ent to the <HI>Ile of Garn&s;ey</HI> about the age of fifteen years, God, who by his pro|vidence brought him to that Place, did by his Grace effectu|ally call and Convert him; So that for after time he re&s;olved to be like that <HI>wi&s;e Merchant in the Go&s;pel,</HI><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Math. 13.46.</NOTE> <HI>to part with all for that Pearl of great Price,</HI> when many others did make it their great work and their highe&s;t de&s;ign, to get the pelfe of the World, and to load <HI>them&s;elves with thick clay d.</HI><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Hab. 2.6.</NOTE> And in te&s;timony of his thankfulne&s;&s;e to God, he left by Will a con|&s;iderable Legacy to the Poor of <HI>Lyme,</HI> where he was born, and to the Poor of <HI>Garn&s;ey</HI> where he was New-born.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His Conver|&s;ion in his younger years.</NOTE>God &s;ea&s;oning his heart with Grace in his younger years, the General cour&s;e of his life did for the future relli&s;h of it, as <HI>wi&s;e Solomon hath ob&s;erved</HI><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><HI>Prov. 22.6.</HI> Quo &s;emel e&s;t imbuta recens Horat. Quintil: Jn|&s;tit: Or at. l. <HI>1.</HI> c. <HI>1. His Private Life.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Prov.</HI> 22. in the general, and in him we have a particular and approved in&s;tance. As he was trained up in Religion from his youth, &s;o he continued, not only in the <HI>form and profe&s;&s;ion,</HI> but in <HI>the Life and power of it,</HI> untill his old age, and death.</P>
<P>What was more &s;pecially worthy ob&s;ervation in his private cour&s;e, before the time of &s;hewing him&s;elf in his publick Office of Magi&s;tracy, I cannot give any certain account, it be|ing &s;o long &s;ince; and there being but few living, that either did ob&s;erve his holy conver&s;ation, or that are able and wil|ling
<PB N="3" REF="10">to give de&s;erved te&s;timony to it; Few things are record|ed of John (Bapti&s;t untill the <HI>day of his &s;hewing unto I&s;rael,</HI> viz. in his publick Mini&s;tery, Luke. 1.<NOTE N="(f)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Luke 1.80.</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">. Spanh. Dub. Eu. T. <HI>2.</HI> Dub. <HI>100.</HI></NOTE> And but little of our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour him&s;elf until the time of his publick mini&s;tery. And therefore it is the more excu&s;able, if the former part of his life be pa&s;&s;ed over, and we come to the time when he was Magi&s;trate, and the chiefe&s;t Magi&s;trate, the Major of the City; I know not whether the City did more honour him in chu&s;ing him to be Major, or he the City in his zealous and faithful di&s;charge of his office and publick tru&s;t.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His Publike life in his Magi&s;tracy.</NOTE>But I intend to limit my relation to his Acts and doings as a Magi&s;trate (yet therein he was mo&s;t exemplary to all that &s;ucceeded in that place of dignity, or the like in any other Ci|ty or Corporation) but &s;hall declare that which hath been partly ob&s;erved and te&s;tified by men of known Fidelity<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Te&s;tes fide digni.</NOTE> and Integrity, and partly noted by mine own experience and ob|&s;ervation; which that I may the more di&s;tinctly record, I &s;hall refer all to three heads, his <HI>Piety, Ju&s;tice and Charity,</HI> &s;hewing how he honoured God therein; and then how God honoured &amp; pre&s;erved him, when he was about his work.</P>
<P N="1">1. To begin with his <HI>Piety,</HI> wherein he was mo&s;t eminent; there have been few men ob&s;erved <HI>to walk &s;o with God as Enoch.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1. His Piety.</NOTE> Gen. 9.5. and <HI>before him,</HI> as it was enjoined to Abraham, Gen 17. and to hold &s;o <HI>con&s;tant and clo&s;e communion</HI> with him as he did. It was his con&s;tant practi&s;e,<NOTE N="(g)" PLACE="marg">Gen. 5.22. Chap. 17.1.</NOTE> for many years to|gether even to his old age, to ari&s;e betwixt two and three of the clock in the morning, and that in the colde&s;t &s;ea&s;on of the year, and then to meditate and pray in &s;ecret until &s;ixe a clock, the appointed time of the morning Sacrifice in the family; when he was called from &s;ecret devotions to the exerci&s;e of religious family-duties (rare and unparalled example of all that I have known or heard of;) And that at any time he had over&s;lept him&s;elf (as he accounted) and did not ri&s;e untill four a clock, he would much bemone him&s;elf for that he had lo&s;t &s;o much time of &s;weet and comfortable communion with God. And had he not experimentally found much &s;weetne&s;s in this his &s;piritual conver&s;e with God as David did,<NOTE N="(h)" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 104.34.</NOTE> P&s;al. 104. he could not have continued &s;o con&s;tant therein; And he thus awaking with God and renewing his acquaintance
<PB N="4" REF="11">with him from day to day, no marvaile that he did walke whith him all the day long.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His Sincerity.</NOTE>His care was to <HI>walk very exactly and &s;incerely</HI> according to the Apo&s;tles direction<NOTE N="(i)" PLACE="marg">Eph. 5.16. <GAP DESC="foreign"> See Dr. <HI>Pro&s;tons</HI> Sermon on that Text.</NOTE> Eph. 5. but though he &s;tudied to approve him&s;elf to God, and <HI>to walk as in the &s;ight of God</HI><NOTE N="(k)" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 2.17.</NOTE> 2. Cor 2. yet he could not e&s;cape the malicious cen&s;ures of men, if he did all in Hypocri&s;ie; he knew that he had the imputati|ons of di&s;&s;embling and hypocri&s;y ca&s;t upon him (by men void of charity and &s;incerity) but the <HI>te&s;timony of his own con&s;cience</HI> did more comfort him, then the <HI>uncharitable cen&s;ures</HI> of men deject him, and he had wont, upon that occa&s;ion, to take up the words of Job Chap 27.<NOTE N="(l)" PLACE="marg">Job 27.5.</NOTE> <HI>Till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me;</HI> and many have often heard him to profe&s;&s;e, that he would not willingly &s;in to get a world, though <HI>the evil which he</HI><NOTE N="(m)" PLACE="marg">Rom. 7.25. His &s;incerity que&s;tioned.</NOTE> <HI>would not do that he did,</HI> (as it is incident to the be&s;t of men Rom. 7.1. and he did bewail it with griefe of heart. The <HI>&s;incerity hoth of his intentions and actions</HI> have been que&s;tioned, and &s;ome have not been a&s;hamed to &s;ay, that under colour of doing ju&s;tice and providing for the poor, he robbed the poore, and helped to keep his own hou&s;e with that mony, which was due to the poore. But for that fal&s;hood which was charged upon him, there's none could ever better clear him from it then him&s;elf, not only his <HI>con&s;cience witne&s;&s;ing for him before God,</HI> but his books (wherein he kept an exact record of the mony which he received for &s;wearing and drunkenne&s;&s;e according to the penaltie of the law) and the Officers that di|&s;tributed the mony te&s;tifying <HI>his uprightne&s;&s;e</HI> before men; &s;o that he might truly &s;ay with Jacob, Gen. 30.<NOTE N="(n)" PLACE="marg">Gen. 30.33.</NOTE> <HI>My righ|teou&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;hall an&s;wer for me,</HI> and &s;o it did herein both before God and men.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His Con&s;ci|ence in the exerci&s;es of Religion.</NOTE>He was a man that made <HI>Con&s;cience of all exerci&s;es of Religi|on</HI> both in private and publick, his frequent di&s;cour&s;es of hea|ven and the way thereunto, and a&s;&s;urance of intere&s;t therein, did declare, that his <HI>heart and conver&s;ation were much in heaven.</HI> Matt. 12.<NOTE N="(o)" PLACE="marg">Mat. 12.34, 35.</NOTE> And he had wont to take occa&s;ion to confer of &s;piritual and heavenly things with all &s;orts of men that he did conver&s;e with; One &s;hould &s;eldom hear him &s;peak <HI>but of hea|ven and heavenly things,</HI> his heart was &s;o full of heaven, that he could not but utter and breath it forth in his di&s;cour&s;es with
<PB N="5" REF="11">men, and e&s;pecially with tho&s;e who&s;e hearts and faces were towards heaven, when he was at Table receiving his daily food, he did u&s;ually <HI>mini&s;ter occa&s;ion of holy di&s;cour&s;e,</HI> &amp; divert vain and unprofitable talke, to edifying &s;peeches that might <HI>mi|ni&s;ter grace to the hearers</HI> Eph. 4.<NOTE N="(p)" PLACE="marg">Eph. 4.29.</NOTE> and to take <HI>occa&s;ion from earthly things to &s;peake of heavenly,</HI> as from the &s;weetne&s;&s;e of the Creatures to &s;peak of the infinite &s;weetne&s;&s;e which is in God, from fea&s;ting on earth to the <HI>&s;itting down with Abraham</HI><NOTE N="(q)" PLACE="marg">Mat. 8.11.</NOTE> <HI>I&s;aac and Jacob in the Kingdom of heaven,</HI> and fea&s;ting with God and his ble&s;&s;ed Saints there, and when the Table-cloth was ta|ken away, he would often &s;ay <HI>[In heaven there's no taking away, here we are &s;oon &s;atisfied and cloyed, but there will be &s;uch a fea&s;h that we &s;hall be continually delighting our &s;ouls in it, without any cloying].</HI> And his manner was to clo&s;e his meales with the &s;inging of &s;ome &s;hort P&s;alm.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His Reading good Books.</NOTE>He delighted much in reading <HI>good and holy books,</HI> but e&s;peci|ally the <HI>Book of books the holy Scriptures,</HI> wherein he mo&s;t de|lighted, he had taken therein the property <HI>of a godly per&s;on</HI><NOTE N="(r)" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 1.2. P&s;al. 119.97.</NOTE> P&s;. 1. and P&s;a, 119. <HI>The word of God was his meditation all the day long;</HI> yea day and night, he did <HI>not onely read the &s;cripture more then twenty times over, but he read it with &s;pecial ob&s;ervation</HI> (as appeareth by the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Starres in the margent. <HI>S. Senen&s;. Bibl. l.</HI> 3. or &s;uch like &s;ignal notes&punc;</NOTE> a&s;terisks and markes in his Bible) and application to him&s;elf. The like cour&s;e he took in reading over that <HI>u&s;eful book of Mr. Rogers his &s;even Treati&s;es,</HI> and other practical bookes wherein he was very conver&s;ant; and his collections out of &s;everall Authors do abundantly te&s;tifie; And he took &s;o much delight in reading that <HI>voluminous and excellent book of the Acts and monuments of the Church, &s;et forth by Mr. Foxe, commonly called the book of Maertyrs,</HI> that up|on occca&s;ion, he told a Friend, that he had read it &s;even times over.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His Zeal.</NOTE>His <HI>zeal for God and his glory,</HI> and again&s;t Idolatry, Pro|phanene&s;&s;e and other evils, whereby God was mo&s;t highly di&s;|honoured, was mo&s;t eminent and remarkable. He was a man of an <HI>Antilaodicean</HI> temper; he had well Learned the Apo&s;tles di|rection.<NOTE N="(s)" PLACE="marg">Rom. 12.11. <GAP DESC="foreign">, not <GAP DESC="foreign">, as in &s;ome Copies.</NOTE> <HI>Rom.</HI> 12. <HI>To be fervent in Spirit, &s;erving the Lord, and not the time.</HI> He was not like another<NOTE N="(t)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ignatius Ioiola</HI> the founder of the Order of the Je&s;uites. <HI>Camerar. Hi&s;t. Ob&s;. l.</HI> 4. <HI>c.</HI> 9.</NOTE> <HI>Ignatius</HI> that
<PB N="6" REF="12">was a man of fire, that was &s;et on fire of hell to promote the cau&s;e of the Prince of darkne&s;&s;e; but he had an holy fire kindled in his heart from heaven, whereby he did burn with zeal for the advancing of Gods glory, and an holy indig|nation again&s;t &s;in and error; he would (if it had been po&s;&s;i|ble) have burned up all the dro&s;&s;e and filth, that did cor|rupt the truth of God, and was contrary to the way of holi|ne&s;&s;e. And therein he was very like unto<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Eu&s;eb: Hi&s;t. Eccl. l. 3. c. 30. Hi&s;t. Magdeb. Cent. 2.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">.10. Fox's Acts &amp; Monuments in the 3. of the Ten Per&s;e|cutions. He was a &s;trict ob&s;erver of the Sabbath.</NOTE> <HI>Ignatius the Martyr.</HI></P>
<P>He was a <HI>very &s;trict and con&s;ciencious ob&s;erver of the Chri&s;tian Sabbath, the Lords day;</HI> He did then ri&s;e very early as on other dayes (if not earlier) and did &s;tir up tho&s;e of his family to an early ri&s;ing on that day, &s;aying <HI>This is Gods day, and as we do expect that our &s;ervants &s;hould ri&s;e early to go about our work on our dayes, &s;o God expects our early ri&s;ing on his day, to go about his work and &s;ervice]</HI> And he did then very carefully attend up|on the Lords holy Ordinances; the <HI>feet of them that di&s;penced the Go&s;pel were very beautiful in his eyes.</HI><NOTE N="w" PLACE="marg">Rom. 10.15.</NOTE> <HI>Rom.</HI> 10. more beautifull then their faces to many others; he was one of tho&s;e <HI>Saints that &s;ate down at Gods feet to receive his Word</HI><NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Deut. 33.3. Act. 22.3. Chap. 21.16. <HI>Sene&s;co &s;emper aliquid addi|&s;cens.</HI></NOTE> Deut. 33. <HI>as Di&s;ciples at the feet of their teacher</HI> Act. 22. and he was very de&s;irous and willing to learn of any that came with the Lords me&s;&s;age unto him; he was <HI>a M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;on, an old Di&s;|ciple Act.</HI> 21. A Di&s;ciple when he was old; <HI>it never entred into his heart to cast off: Ordinances,</HI> no not when he had attain|ed an high degree of Perfection; He was <HI>a con&s;tant noter of Sermons,</HI> even when he was old, not for his own benefit alone, but for the good of his family, to whom he did con&s;tantly re|peat the Sermons. And if he found him&s;elf overtaken with drow&s;ine&s;&s;e in hearing the Word (an infirmity incident to age,) his manner was to &s;tand up, and to row&s;e up him&s;elf that he might hear the more attentively; He knew that <HI>Reli|gion</HI> con&s;i&s;ted not <HI>in hearing and repetitions and Profe&s;&s;ion,</HI> but in <HI>practi&s;e,</HI> and therefore his care was to dige&s;t his hearing and knowledge into an holy conver&s;ation.<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>Ignat. Epi&s;t. ad Rom.</HI> His exciting of others to good</NOTE></P>
<P>And being <HI>de&s;irous not to go to heaven alone,</HI> but to draw others with him, his u&s;ual cour&s;e was, when he went with his family, to attend upon the Lords holy Ordinances, to give an exhortation to his children and &s;ervants: <HI>[that they &s;hould con|&s;ider
<PB N="7" REF="12">into who&s;e pre&s;ence they were going, and whom they were to hear, even that great God, to whom they were to give an account of every word which they did hear, and be careful to lay it up, for their practi&s;e; and not &s;ay, my Father or my Ma&s;ter would not afford me the time, for if they did, he would prote&s;t again&s;t them in the day of Judgment;]</HI> And as he was going to the Congregation on the Week dayes, he would often find &s;ome of the Country people come to the Market early in the morning, and he would ask them where they did live, and they an&s;wering five, or &s;ixe, or more miles off, be thereupon did take occa&s;ion to &s;hew them, how vain a thing it was to pur&s;ue the World, and to neglect the care of their precious &s;oules, and ask them <HI>[how they could ri&s;e &s;o early to get the world, and not ri&s;e as early to get intere&s;t in Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and to attain the favour of God, and a&s;&s;urance of eternal happine&s;&s;e;]</HI> And then he would look back upon his family and &s;ay, <HI>[here you &s;ee the&s;e people can ri&s;e betimes to get a little part of the world, and your will hardly ari&s;e early to get the a&s;&s;urance of the favour of God, which is far better then the whole world.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His &s;peaking of the Serm|ons which he heard.</NOTE>After his return from Sermons, <HI>he would be &s;peaking</HI> to tho&s;e that went with him, <HI>of what they heard,</HI> exhorting them to be mindful of it, and put it in practi&s;e, and one of the company being troubled at the hearing of him to pre&s;&s;e &s;uch things upon them, told him that he had heard many good Sermons<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The name of the Cathedral.</NOTE> at St. <HI>Peters,</HI> but never heard one at <HI>the great Conduit</HI> before; to whom he replyed, [<HI>Sirs, are ye troubled to be put in mind of the Word of God, I pray God the time come not when you are in hell, that you wi&s;h you had not only practi&s;ed the Sermons which you heard at</HI> St. Peters, <HI>but had received good coun&s;el from the VVord at the great Conduit al&s;o.]</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His A&s;&s;urance.</NOTE>Thus by his diligent attending upon and carefull applying the means of grace, and Gods ble&s;&s;ing upon them, he attained a very great mea&s;ure of a&s;&s;urance, a kind of <HI>Plerophory,</HI> &s;uch as the Apo&s;tle &s;peaks of,<NOTE N="(z)" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;&s;. 1.5. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> 1 The&s;&s;. 1.5. <HI>much A&s;&s;urance:</HI> and<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">Col. 2.2. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> Col. 2. <HI>Full of a&s;&s;urance, of under&s;tanding,</HI> by which he was carried as with a full faile to holy duties: If we con&s;ider the mea&s;ure and the con&s;tancy of it, there be few Chri&s;tians that have attained &s;o much. A&s;&s;urance was much in his tongue and heart, and it was that which he earne&s;tly laboured for, and obtained by fervent prayer and diligent u&s;e of the means. God
<PB N="8" REF="13">gave him the<NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">Rom. 8.16.</NOTE> <HI>Te&s;timony and</HI><NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg">Eph. 1.13.</NOTE> <HI>&s;eal of his Spirit,</HI> and &s;o a&s;|&s;ured him of his eternal love in Chri&s;t, of his adoption and eternal happine&s;&s;e in heaven. God gave it as part of his re|ward for his &s;incere and faithful &s;ervice.</P>
<P>He had &s;ometimes <HI>more then ordinary illap&s;es and incomes of the Spirit</HI> for the &s;trengthening of his a&s;&s;urance:<NOTE PLACE="marg">His extraordi|nary Com|forts.</NOTE> Ile in&s;tance one particular alone; He being at a Sermon, and attending heed|fully to tho&s;e di&s;cerning and differencing marks of upright|ne&s;&s;e which were then laid down, and one mark being more powerfully pre&s;&s;ed, and coming fully home to his condition, he being in a deep and &s;erious meditation, and reflecting upon him&s;elf, and finding it to be truly in him, it &s;eemed to him, as if one &s;truck him upon the &s;houlder, incouraging him and &s;ay|ing, Be of good chear, thou art the man; upon which he had pre&s;ently &s;uch inward joyes and ravi&s;hings of Spirit as were unexpre&s;&s;ible.</P>
<P>And as he obtained, &s;o he <HI>carefully kept his a&s;&s;urance</HI> by free trial of him&s;elf and his &s;piritual e&s;tate towards God;<NOTE PLACE="marg">His keeping his A&s;&s;urance.</NOTE> he had wont to try him&s;elf by all the marks of &s;incerity which he found in the Scriptures, heard in the Mini&s;try of the Word, or read in the writings of godly Divines, and thereby he did clear up his evidences for heaven; and he did not only daily try his e&s;tate by &s;ome marks, but he kept a narrow watch over his heart and wayes, and &s;o his a&s;&s;urance was pre&s;erved. And he kept it a long time together, for 30. years or more: And being asked whether he never met with any temptations of doubting of his e&s;tate towards God, he gave this an&s;wer, [That he had been and often was &s;orely a&s;&s;aulted by Satans temptations, which were &s;et again&s;t his faith and a&s;&s;urance, and that he had been foiled in re&s;pect of the application of &s;ome particular promi&s;es, but he was not driven from his holdfa&s;t of Chri&s;t, or from the a&s;&s;urance of his intere&s;t in the Covenant of grace, but &s;till he acknowledged, that his a&s;&s;urance and all his ability in &s;piritual things was <HI>through Chri&s;t that &s;trengthened him,</HI><NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg">Phil. 4.13.</NOTE> Phil. 4.]</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His exciting others to get A&s;&s;urance.</NOTE>As he had this a&s;&s;urance in him&s;elf, &s;o <HI>he was very forward to &s;tir up others to get this a&s;&s;urance;</HI> there were &s;carce any that he met with, if he &s;uppo&s;ed that their faces were heavenward, but he would be que&s;tioning with them about their a&s;&s;urance,
<PB N="9" REF="13">blaming them if they did not labor for it, &amp; encouraging them to &s;eek for it. And when &s;ome did ask him how they &s;hould get it, he gave this an&s;wer, [<HI>That they &s;hould importunately &s;eek it of God, and not give him any re&s;t untill be granted it unto them; I would</HI> (&s;aid he) <HI>lock or bolt my door, and beg it of God, and I would never give him re&s;t untill I had obtained it;</HI> and then, that they &s;hould daily try them&s;elves by &s;ome marks, and three he did often mention as trying him&s;elf thereby: 1. A &s;incere de&s;ire to fear the name of God, as<NOTE N="(e)" PLACE="marg">Nehem. 1. <HI>ult.</HI></NOTE> Nehem. 1. 2. A &s;in|cere endeavour to do the will of God in all things required,<NOTE N="(f)" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119.6.</NOTE> P&s;al. 119. 3. A <HI>full purpo&s;e of heart to cleave to the Lord,</HI><NOTE N="(g)" PLACE="marg">Act. 11.23.</NOTE> Act. 11. And the&s;e he did not onely &s;peak of, but pre&s;&s;e with much earne&s;tne&s;&s;e, as longing that others &s;hould partake of that high priviledge and heavenly gift with him&s;elf.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">He feared not Death.</NOTE>From this a&s;&s;urance it was, that he was &s;o <HI>fearle&s;&s;e of death;</HI> he knew that <HI>death was an enemy,</HI> as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith,<NOTE N="(h)" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 15.26.</NOTE> 1 Cor. 15. but that through Chri&s;t it was a friend to open the gate to heaven. Whereas death is as Bildad &s;aith,<NOTE N="(i)" PLACE="marg">Job 18.14. <HI>N. Annot. in. loc.</HI></NOTE> Job 18. <HI>the King of terrours</HI> to fle&s;h and blood: and as<NOTE N="(k)" PLACE="marg">Ari&s;t. Ethic. lib. <HI>3.</HI> cap. <HI>6.</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> on that was led by the light of Nature &s;aid, That it was the mo&s;t terrible of all terrible things; yet he being a&s;&s;ured of his intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, it was not &s;o to him, for he<NOTE N="(l)" PLACE="marg">Vid. Gryn. Di&s;p. Theol. de Mortis metu.</NOTE> looked upon it as ha|ving lo&s;t its &s;ting in Chri&s;t. He made it &s;o familiar to him by his continual meditating of it, that he was &s;o far from fea|ring it, that he did delight in the &s;peaking of it, earne&s;tly de|&s;ired it, and with joy expected it; whereby he di&s;covered his great<NOTE N="(m)" PLACE="marg">Calvin. In&s;tit. l. <HI>3.</HI> c. <HI>9.</HI> &sect; <HI>5.</HI></NOTE> proficiency in the School of Chri&s;t. It was his u&s;ual &s;aying, [That if death were offered on the one hand, and the Kings Crown on the other, he would take the Crown and throw it into the Kennel, and chu&s;e death far above the<NOTE N="(n)" PLACE="marg">The &s;ame &s;pirit breathed in him, as in <HI>Ignatius</HI> the Martyr. <GAP DESC="foreign">. <HI>Ignat. Epi&s;t. ad Rom.</HI></NOTE> crown;] for he knew he &s;hould be a gainer by it, for he &s;hould obtain the <HI>crown of life and glory,</HI><NOTE N="(o)" PLACE="marg">He had a de&s;ire to have dyed for Chri&s;t, as <HI>Ignatius</HI> of old, <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Ignat. Epi&s;t. ad Rom.</HI></NOTE> Jam. 1. 1 Pet. 5. And that he <HI>feared not,</HI> but rather<NOTE N="(p)" PLACE="marg">Jam. 1.12. 1 Pet. 5.4.</NOTE> <HI>hoped for death:</HI> It appears by this, that when the Plague was very hot in the City, and he being
<PB N="10" REF="14">in the highe&s;t place of Authority there at that time, and the poor flocked about his hou&s;e for relief, though he would not cau&s;ele&s;ly expo&s;e him&s;elf to danger; yet being in the di&s;charge of his duty he feared not the plague, but he often profe&s;&s;ed, <HI>[That if the Plague &s;hould (by Gods dispo&s;ing) &s;eize upon him, he would have ki&s;&s;ed and welcom'd it as the Me&s;&s;enger of death;]</HI> Nor was the meditation of death then in his mind onely in times of danger, but at all times, there was not a day when he did not &s;peak of it; and not onely when there was occa|&s;ion offered of &s;uch di&s;cour&s;e, but he would take occa&s;ion to &s;peak of it; as if he were invited to a Fea&s;t, he would tell the Me&s;&s;enger, <HI>[That he would come if he did live &s;o long:]</HI> And when he went out of his hou&s;e upon publick or private bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e, he would as it were take a &s;olemn leave of his wife tel|ling her, <HI>[That he knew not whether he &s;hould return to his hou&s;e again.]</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His Medita|tion of hea|ven.</NOTE>But <HI>his mind</HI> was not &s;o much upon death <HI>as upon hea|ven</HI> (to which he was a&s;&s;ured that death would be a pa&s;&s;age for him) &s;ure his heart was much in heaven, or heaven was much in his heart, as appears by his frequent di&s;cour&s;e of it both day and night; for<NOTE N="(q)" PLACE="marg">Matth. 12.34.</NOTE> Matth. 12. <HI>Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth &s;peaketh:</HI><NOTE N="(r)" PLACE="marg">As <HI>Ignatius</HI> of old had the name of Je&s;us &s;o deeply en|graven in his heart, that he could not but make frequent mention of it, <HI>H. Magd. Cent.</HI> 2. <HI>c.</HI> 10.</NOTE> All that knew him (and looked upon him with an unprejudic'd eye) would &s;ay, that he was a mo&s;t heavenly minded man, a man that lived as much in heaven, as mo&s;t that ever lived upon the earth: When in the night he looked upon tho&s;e <HI>bright lights of heaven,</HI><NOTE N="(&s;)" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 32.8.</NOTE> Ezek. 32. the firmament adorned with tho&s;e <HI>&s;tars of light,</HI><NOTE N="(t)" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 148 3.</NOTE> P&s;al. 148. he had wont to rai&s;e up his thoughts and his &s;peech much higher, to the glory of the highe&s;t heaven, &s;aying, <HI>[If this heaven be &s;o glorious, how doth the heaven above exceed in glo|ry, where God alone &s;hall be the light; and yet the righteous &s;hall &s;hine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father,]</HI><NOTE N="(u)" PLACE="marg">Matth. 13.43.</NOTE> Matth. 13. The&s;e are but &s;ome few heads of his Piety, to which much more may be added, and they that knew him will mer|vail, not that &s;o much is &s;aid, but that no more.</P>
<P N="2"><MILESTONE N="2"> 2. He was <HI>as eminent for Ju&s;tice, as for Piety;</HI> when he was advanced to the chiefe&s;t place of Government in the City,<NOTE PLACE="marg">His Ju&s;tice.</NOTE> to be the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">A. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. 1617.</NOTE> <HI>Major of that Honourable Corporation,</HI> he was an <HI>ex|emplary
<PB N="11" REF="14">Magi&s;trate,</HI> not only in the year of his Majoralty, but ever after &s;o long as he lived; he looked not upon it as a <HI>place of honour</HI> onely, but as <HI>an office of tru&s;t,</HI> wherein he might honour God, and do Ju&s;tice to men, and reform tho&s;e evills which abounded then in that place: He did not glory &s;o much in having the Sword carried before him, (though it were a &s;ingular honour to that City,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Henry</HI> the &s;eventh.</NOTE> that the <HI>Kings Sword</HI> &s;hould be taken from his &s;ide and delivered to the Major to be carried before him, as a &s;ignal te&s;timony of his favour, and their loyalty and courage in the in&s;urrection of <HI>Perkin War|beck.</HI>) as he was de&s;irous to draw forth the <HI>&s;word of</HI><NOTE N="(w)" PLACE="marg">Rom. 13.4.</NOTE> <HI>Ju&s;tice again&s;t evil doers, and not to hold it in vain,</HI> Rom. 13.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His impartial admini&s;tring of Ju&s;tice.</NOTE>He was ob&s;erved to be one that did impartially admini&s;ter Ju&s;tice, and without re&s;pect of Per&s;ons did puni&s;h evil doers, of what quality or condition &s;oever they were that did tran&s;|gre&s;&s;e the Law; whether they were of the City, or &s;trangers that came thither, they &s;hould not (if complaint were made to him) e&s;cape condigne puni&s;hment, &s;uch as the Lawes of the Land, or cu&s;tome of the place did award.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">An in&s;tance of it.</NOTE>To give but one in&s;tance of many; there was a <HI>Gentleman of quality</HI> (who&s;e name I &s;pare) that was complained of for &s;wearing five Oathes, and other mi&s;demeanors, thereupon Mr. <HI>Jurdain</HI> &s;ent a Con&s;table with a Warrant to bring him before him, but the Gentleman gave the Con&s;table mena|cing termes, &s;o that he dur&s;t not execute his office, where|upon M. <HI>Jurdain</HI> &s;ent one Con&s;table more, who brought the Gentleman to him, and he being in his Court when he came, after divers good admonitions given him, and telling him, that though he were never &s;o great a Gentleman, <HI>[That he could no more go to heaven &s;o long as he took &s;uch cour&s;es, than he could eat that &s;tone,]</HI> (pointing to a great &s;tone in his Court) he required him to pay five &s;hillings for &s;wearing, which he did, as al&s;o to give in &s;ureties for his good behaviour; but this the Gentleman refu&s;ed to do, &s;aying, he was a &s;tranger; thereupon Mr. <HI>Jurdain</HI> bad the Con&s;tables to carry him away to pri&s;on, till he &s;hould find &s;ureties, which they did, and as he was going into the pri&s;on door, he de&s;ired to return back again, and he would give baite, which he did; and then ha|ving
<PB N="12" REF="15">received many good in&s;tructions, (though he were a man of a very high &s;pirit) gave him many hearty thanks, with pro|mi&s;e of amendment for the future.</P>
<P>The <HI>Bridewell</HI> could witne&s;&s;e how many di&s;orderly per&s;ons were &s;ent thither by his Warrants, more then any other of the Ju&s;tices of his time.</P>
<P>And the <HI>Stocks and whipping Po&s;ts</HI> could te&s;tifie, what Swea|rers, Drunkards, unclean Per&s;ons, and &s;uch like notorious of|fenders were puni&s;hed principally by his executing of Ju&s;tice. And if any of the Offenders, that were liable to the cen&s;ure and penalty of the Law, de&s;ired to be &s;pared, he would tell them, <HI>[Here be my Children whom I dearly love, and if any of them &s;hould commit &s;uch offences, they &s;hould &s;uffer as you mu&s;t do, and therefore I cannot remit of the penalty of the Law.]</HI></P>
<P>How fair pretences &s;oever they made, he cau&s;ed the Law to be executed on them; yea and the more &s;everely becau&s;e of the greater di&s;honour that redounded to the name of the holy God thereby.</P>
<P>When &s;ome &s;candalous Offenders, (who&s;e names I omit) for the gro&s;&s;e &s;in of Uncleanne&s;&s;e were accu&s;ed and que&s;tioned before the Court, and &s;ome for by-re&s;pects did plead for them to have them &s;pared, he de&s;ired that the Watchmen that were at the Gates to keep out the Plague (it being a time that the &s;ickne&s;&s;e was in &s;ome neighbouring Townes) &s;hould be called home, <HI>for the Plague was in the Guild-Hall of the City;</HI> and he told them, that <HI>if they did not execute the Law upon them, he would complain of them to the Councel Table;</HI> and thereupon af|ter much conte&s;t, there was order taken for their &s;evere and ju&s;t puni&s;hment.</P>
<P>He was <HI>very vigilant</HI> (e&s;pecially in his Majoralty, when the Government of the City lay mo&s;t upon him) both to <HI>prevent and remove di&s;orders,</HI> &s;o that he would go with the Con&s;tables in Per&s;on to &s;earch for idle and di&s;orderly per&s;ons on Sabbath dayes at night, and at the end of the A&s;&s;izes and Se&s;&s;ions, and Fair weeks.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His Zeal again&s;t Swear|ing.</NOTE>He did not onely <HI>execute Ju&s;tice,</HI> but he &s;hewed him&s;elf very <HI>zealous therein,</HI> and the greate&s;t indignation again&s;t tho&s;e evils whereby God was mo&s;t highly di&s;honoured, as <HI>&s;wearing</HI>
<PB N="13" REF="15">and <HI>Sabbath-breaking;</HI> &s;wearing was mo&s;t odious to him; and had there been a greater penalty then was at that time ap|pointed by the Law of the Land, he would mo&s;t gladly have inflicted it. But he puni&s;hing as many as were brought be|fore him, &s;truck &s;uch an awe into mo&s;t, that &s;ome that lived then in the City, and near the place of the greate&s;t concour&s;e of people, the Corn-Market, ob&s;erved, that they did not hear an oath &s;worn for many years together.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">A notable in|&s;tance of it.</NOTE>I have heard it credibly related, that being &s;ummoned to appear at the Star-Chamber, for an act of Ju&s;tice, wherein it was &s;uppo&s;ed that he went &s;omewhat beyond the &s;trict letter of the Law, (of which I &s;hall hereafter give an account) and being in the pre&s;ence of &s;ome of his Judges, and hearing them to &s;wear divers oaths, he told them, <HI>That they mu&s;t pay for eve|ry oath that they had &s;worn, or otherwi&s;e he would make it farther known.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Again&s;t the Profaning of the Sabbath.</NOTE>When he was <HI>Major,</HI> he did much <HI>reform the open profaning of the Sabbath;</HI> for whereas the Fullers had wont to &s;et their Mills a going on the Sabbath, he put a &s;top upon them for that whole day, knowing that that day was fully to be dedi|cated to God and his wor&s;hip and &s;ervice; and whereas it was u&s;ual to &s;ell fruit and herbs, and other things on the Lords holy day, and Bowling and Cudgel-playing, and other pro|fane pa&s;times were then much u&s;ed, by his zeal and vigilancy, and the care of good Officers under him, they were wholly removed, though not without much reluctancy and oppo&s;i|tion, and<NOTE N="(x)" PLACE="marg">He con|tended with unrea&s;onable men, as <HI>Paul</HI> with bea&s;ts at <HI>Ephe&s;us,</HI> 1 Cor. 15.32. <GAP DESC="foreign">, and as <HI>Ignatius</HI> the Martye from <HI>Syria</HI> to <HI>Rome. Ignat. Epi&s;t. ad Rom. &amp; Epi&s;t. ad Tar&s;.</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> danger at the fir&s;t; for there were Commotions and Tumults, and great re&s;i&s;tance, but by his con&s;tant zeal for God and his day, they were &s;uppre&s;&s;ed and quel'd.</P>
<P><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">His Con&s;tancy in the execution of Ju&s;tice.</NOTE>And not onely when he was Major, but ever after being a Ju&s;tice of Peace; And he continued &s;o for 22. years: he was much employed in the execution of Ju&s;tice, &s;ometimes the whole day from morning to night; he did not only exe+cute Judgment in the<NOTE N="(y)" PLACE="marg">Jer. 21.12.</NOTE> morning (after he had been with God in the mount of heavenly meditation) but all the day
<PB N="14" REF="16">long; <HI>as Mo&s;es &s;ate to judge the people, and the people &s;tood before Mo&s;es from Morning to the Evening,</HI><NOTE N="(z)" PLACE="marg">Exod 18.13. His Mercy in Judgment.</NOTE> Exod. 18.</P>
<P>He was not for <HI>Judgment</HI> onely, but for <HI>Mercy</HI> al&s;o, and he &s;hewed mercy to the &s;oules of tho&s;e that were brought before him as tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors of the Law, and to be puni&s;hed according to the Law, for he would labour to convince them of the hainou&s;ne&s;&s;e of their offences, that he might bring them to the &s;ight of their &s;ins, and to repentance for them.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His encoura|ging of Offi|cers.</NOTE>He did much encourage the Officers under him to the dili|gent and faithful di&s;charge of their duy; (and they &s;tood in need of it, meeting with much di&s;couragement from &s;ome others) and finding them &s;omewhat backward, through timo|rou&s;ne&s;&s;e or other by-re&s;pects, to execute his Warrants upon men of high place, he would encourage them to be active and forward in doing their duty, and tell them in good earne&s;t, (for that was his u&s;ual word) <HI>That if he had as good a Warrant from God, as they had from him to apprehend offenders, if he were required to apprehend the devil him&s;elf, he would not be backward to put it in execution.]</HI></P>
<P N="3"><MILESTONE N="3"> 3. He was not more famous for <HI>Ju&s;tice,</HI> then for <HI>Charity,</HI> both in his life,<NOTE PLACE="marg">His Charity.</NOTE> and at his death: In his life-time he was a man free-hearted, and open-handed, he was a great friend and Patron of the poor; he was another <HI>Job</HI> in that re&s;pect, he could truly &s;ay with him,<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">Job 30.25.</NOTE> Job 30. <HI>Was not my &s;oul grieved for the poor?</HI> it was no doubt; and the bowels of his compa&s;&s;ion did yearn towards them; he was an <HI>Advocate,</HI> and did ear|ne&s;tly plead for them, and e&s;pecially for <HI>Gods poor,</HI> hone&s;t poor men, who&s;e hearts and faces were &s;et Godward and hea|venward, and his hands were very open to relieve them; he did that for them which few others of far greater e&s;tate had hearts to do.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His care for the Poor in the time of the Plague. <HI>A. C.</HI> 1625</NOTE>His Care for the poor was mo&s;t remarkable in the time of the great Plague in the City (which was 28. years &s;ince;) for, in the Majors ab&s;ence being cho&s;en his Deputy or Liev|tenant, he &s;eeing the deplored condition of the City, accepted of it: And then he wrote divers Letters to many Townes in <HI>Devon&s;hire,</HI> and &s;ome in <HI>Dor&s;et,</HI> and <HI>Sommer&s;et&s;hire,</HI> and by that means procured divers &s;ummes of Moneyes, for the &s;up|plying the Wants of the many hundreds of poor that at that
<PB N="15" REF="16">time were in a very di&s;tre&s;&s;ed condition; I have it from the relation of one that was a neer neighbour, and diligent ob&s;er|ver of his care for the publick good of the City and for the poor, that he had &s;een morning after morning coming to his door &s;ometimes thirty, &s;ometimes fourty, fifty, or three&s;core, or more; &s;ome wringing their hands, and crying that their husbands were dead; others that their wives were dead, others that their children were dead, and that they had not any thing to bury them: Some again, that their Families were &s;ick, and they had not wherewithal to relieve them: Others, that they had divers Children, but they had no bread, nor money to buy it for them; &s;ome cryed for bread, &s;ome for Phy&s;ick, &s;ome for &s;hrouds. And he not onely gave them the hearing, but <HI>his bowels yerned</HI> towards them, and <HI>his hands were &s;tretched out</HI> for their relief: For, &s;tanding within his Shop. With his own hands he gave &s;upplies unto them all, and &s;ent them to their homes for the pre&s;ent; and then the next morn|ing there was a renewing of the &s;ad complaints of the poor, and his renewing of his charitable care of them, and &s;o Morn|ing after Morning for near three moneths, untill the Major came into the City.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His care for poor Hou&s;e-keepers.</NOTE>Be&s;ides his great care to &s;upply the wants of the poor that came unto him, he had a <HI>&s;pecial respect to poor Hou&s;e-keepers and Trade&s;men,</HI> &s;uch as were a&s;hamed or unwilling to make their poor and &s;ad condition known, and a peculiar care of the Godly poor, concerning whom, he would advi&s;e with the Con&s;tables and Church-Wardens of every Pari&s;h, and ac|cording to their need would proportion &s;ome relief and help unto them, and &s;end it by the hands of the Con&s;tables or Wardens.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His con&s;tant care for the poor.</NOTE>And his care for the poor was not onely very great at that extraordinary &s;ea&s;on, (as their exigents did require) but &s;o long as he continued in the Land of the living; and he was &s;o <HI>con&s;tantly ver&s;ed</HI> in this great <HI>work of Charity,</HI> that he did it as it were <HI>naturally,</HI> as the Apo&s;tle &s;peaks of <HI>Timothy,</HI><NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">Phil. 2.20. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> Phil. 2.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">An A&s;per&s;ion ca&s;t upon him wip'd off.</NOTE>But though he did <HI>well,</HI> yet he <HI>heard ill</HI> for this, and it was by &s;ome ca&s;t in his teeth that he made beggars: And when
<PB N="16" REF="17">he was asked by a man of place and e&s;tate, what he would give to keep the poor from begging; (&s;uppo&s;ing that he would not be &s;o forward therein as he was in relieving them) he freely offered a great part of his e&s;tate, on condition that the other would do the like; but he could not obtain that of him to follow him.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His Ho&s;pita|lity.</NOTE>He was <HI>given much to Hospitality,</HI> he did <HI>not love to eat his mor&s;els alone by him&s;elf,</HI> as<NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg">Job 31.17.</NOTE> Job 31. he did well remember the Apo&s;tles direction,<NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg">Heb. 13.2.</NOTE> Heb. 13. <HI>Be not forgetful to enter|tain &s;trangers,</HI> he was mo&s;t loving and friendly to them, and &s;uch e&s;pecially as did <HI>&s;uffer for their con&s;cience &s;ake;</HI> as tho&s;e godly Mini&s;ters that were &s;ilenced for Non-conformity (al|though his judgment was in a good mea&s;ure &s;atisfied in that point) to him they did continually re&s;ort, and by him were kindly entertained; So that by the profaner &s;ort, he was cryed out upon as the Arch-Puritan; and by tho&s;e that took Religion to heart, honoured with the title of <HI>Gaius mine ho&s;te, and of the whole Church,</HI><NOTE N="(e)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom. 16.23.</HI> N. Annot. in loc.</NOTE> Rom. 16. And he is much com|mended for his ho&s;pitality, (if it be the &s;ame <HI>Gaius</HI> as it &s;eems to be)<NOTE N="(f)" PLACE="marg">3 Joh. 5, 6.</NOTE> 3 Joh. 5.6. <HI>Beloved thou doe&s;t faithfully, what&s;oever thou doe&s;t to the brethren</HI> (thy neighbour Chri&s;tians) <HI>and to &s;trangers which have born witne&s;&s;e of thy charity before the Church.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Legacies in his Will.</NOTE>But if we con&s;ider <HI>his la&s;t Will or Te&s;tament,</HI> we &s;hall &s;ee very rare and unparallel'd acts of Charity: As he gave one third part of his temporal e&s;tate to his Wife, and another third part to his Children; (according to the cu&s;tome of the City) &s;o out of the other third part he left very large Lega|cies, e&s;pecially to the poor: I &s;hall omit many Legacies given to Mini&s;ters and others, and point at &s;ome more re|markable; I will deliver it in the words of his Will, <HI>[Fir&s;t I give to all the poor of this City and County that have pay of Pa|ri&s;hes, and al&s;o tho&s;e which dwell in</HI><NOTE N="(g)" PLACE="marg">There were &s;even or eight of them.</NOTE> <HI>Almes-hou&s;es, I give five &s;hillings to each to be paid at my burial; I give to one hundred poor people more ten &s;hillings to each, to be given to &s;uch as my Over&s;eers &s;hall think to have mo&s;t need, the hone&s;t poor to be chiefly looked unto. Al&s;o I give to the poor of</HI> Lyme <HI>where I was born, and to the poor of</HI> Garn&s;ey <HI>where I was new-born, five pounds to each place:</HI>
<PB N="17" REF="17">(which accordingly was done by tho&s;e Over&s;eers) <HI>Al&s;o I for|give all the moneys owing to me, if it be under the</HI><NOTE N="(h)" PLACE="marg">The&s;e &s;maller &s;ums to the poor were very ma|ny.</NOTE> <HI>value of twen|ty &s;hillings each.]</HI> And after in a Po&s;t&s;cript <HI>[Al&s;o my Will is, and I give now more to fifty poor people of this City and County, by twenty &s;hillings to each by my Over&s;eers, or mo&s;t part of them.]</HI> Thus out of that e&s;tate which God had given him, he gave again by way of gratitude to God, I mean to the poor, who are Gods Receivers: God gave him and left him a competent e&s;tate, (after his many and great lo&s;&s;es) and which was more, he gave him an heart <HI>to honour</HI><NOTE N="(i)" PLACE="marg">Prov. 3.9.</NOTE> <HI>him with his &s;ub&s;tance,</HI> and to lay it forth as it became a faithful Steward, in the &s;ervice and for the honour of his Lord who had intru&s;ted him with it.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Apology for his Charity.</NOTE>I know that &s;ome do <HI>wonder,</HI> and others <HI>&s;harply cen&s;ure</HI> him for his <HI>extraordinary charity</HI> and liberality, and e&s;pecially for that he left no greater portion of his e&s;tate to his Wife; but this may be &s;aid in his defence, That the &s;treight and <HI>clo&s;e hearts</HI> of men are not a fit mea&s;ure to mea&s;ure his <HI>large heart</HI> by: And be&s;ides, God had opened his hand, and given very liberally to him ble&s;&s;ings &s;piritual and temporal; and e&s;peci|ally &s;piritual, the graces and comforts of his Spirit: and he having &s;o &s;weet a Communion with God above mo&s;t other men, what mervail if he did more for God then other men? And concerning his Wife, as he left her the third part of his e&s;tate, &s;o likewi&s;e Executrix of his Will, and there had much more come unto her then did, had not &s;ome debts (which he accounted good) failed and come &s;hort of his and her ex|pectation: be&s;ides, he did a&s;&s;ure him&s;elf, that her<NOTE N="(k)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Sir</HI> Simon Baskervill.</NOTE> Brother then living, a man of great e&s;tate, would be ready to &s;upply any of her wants.</P>
<P>Thus you have &s;een <HI>what he did for God;</HI> and we are next to con&s;ider <HI>what God did for him.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">What God did for him.</NOTE> Be&s;ides all tho&s;e graces which were eminently in him, whereby he was enabled to act &s;o zealou&s;ly and vigorou&s;ly for God, which were the free gift of God, and that A&s;&s;urance which he had, which was a part of his reward; The Lord <HI>advanced</HI> him from a mean and low e&s;tate, to <HI>the highe&s;t place of dignity</HI> in the City; his beginning was but &s;mall, as appears by his an&s;wer to tho&s;e that threatned
<PB N="18" REF="18" MS="y">to follow him with Suits, that they would not leave him worth a groat; he chearfully replied, [<HI>That he &s;hould be then but two pence poorer then when he came fir&s;t to</HI> Exeter, <HI>for he brought but &s;ix pence with him thither:</HI>] And yet, by Gods ble&s;&s;ing on his labours, he got a competent and comfortable e&s;tate, whereby he did maintain a large Family of Children and Servants, kept ho&s;pitality, was liberal to the poor, and open-handed to any pious u&s;e, more then tho&s;e that had far greater e&s;tates: but when he had the greate&s;t temporal e&s;tate, he &s;et no high e&s;timate upon the&s;e fading peri&s;hing things, he &s;et them not up in his heart (as the men of the World u&s;e to do) but trod them under his feet; and he did u&s;ually &s;et them very low in his ordinary di&s;cour&s;e, and e&s;pe|cially when he was &s;peaking of heaven and heavenly things: And yet he did not forget to acknowledge Gods goodne&s;&s;e in be&s;towing any of the&s;e outward things upon him; He found by experience the <HI>uncertainty of riches,</HI><NOTE N="(l)" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 6.17.</NOTE> 1 Tim. 6. and <HI>that they had wings and would fly away,</HI><NOTE N="(m)" PLACE="marg">Prov. 23.5.</NOTE> Prov. 23. but he did not run after them, crying, as they that u&s;e to &s;et their hearts upon them, but &s;aw <HI>Gods</HI><NOTE N="(n)" PLACE="marg">Job 1.21.</NOTE> <HI>hand in taking as in giving,</HI> and &s;o was quiet and content, having experimentally learned in a good mea&s;ure that great and difficult <HI>le&s;&s;on, to be content in any e&s;tate,</HI><NOTE N="(o)" PLACE="marg">Phil. 4.11. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> Phil. 4. by vici&s;&s;itudes and changes of e&s;tates God did exerci&s;e his faith and patience, and Contentation.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His advance|ment to the Majoralty.</NOTE>Having pa&s;&s;ed through the &s;everal Offices, he a&s;cended at la&s;t to the highe&s;t place of honour in the City, to be <HI>Major</HI> there, wherein (as hath been &s;aid) he demeaned him&s;elf as it became a <HI>Chri&s;tian Magi&s;trate,</HI> and his ambition therein was highly to honour God who had honoured him. And after|wards he was cho&s;en to be a Burge&s;&s;e for the Parliament,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Burge&s;&s;e of Parliament.</NOTE> wherein his zeal for God, and again&s;t the corruptions of the times was abundantly manife&s;ted. He was a great &s;tickler to have the Bill pa&s;&s;ed for the puni&s;hment of Adultery with death; but tho&s;e times would not bear it, &s;ome of the Law|makers knew &s;ome &s;pecial rea&s;on for it.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His honour in the hearts of Good men.</NOTE>God did not only advance him to places of dignity and honour in the eye of the world, but gave him an <HI>high place in the hearts of his people;</HI> and if it be true which the<NOTE N="(p)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ari&s;t. Ethic. l.</HI> 1.6.5.</NOTE> <HI>Morali&s;t</HI>
<PB N="19" REF="18">notes, that honour is in the Per&s;on honouring; then he being advanced in the hearts of men, (as he was e&s;pecially in the hearts of good men) he was highly honoured, and therein God made good his promi&s;e to him,<NOTE N="(q)" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 2.30.</NOTE> 1 Sam. 2. <HI>Such as honour me I will honour.</HI> And his name was very precious in the &s;ight of tho&s;e that knew his worth, while he lived, and &s;ince his death.</P>
<P>I acknowledge that he was <HI>a by-word</HI> to many,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A by-word to Others.</NOTE> and that his name was taken up by way of reproach, but they were &s;uch as were upbraided, and reproved by his holy and gracious conver&s;ation, and reproved by his holy and gracious conver|&s;ation, and he knew that his <HI>Lord</HI> and <HI>Ma&s;ter</HI> did &s;uffer much more in this kind, that this was a <HI>chip of that cro&s;&s;e</HI> which he mu&s;t and was willing to bear, and he was well content <HI>to drink of this bitter cup after his Ma&s;ter,</HI> and with him <HI>he did de&s;pi&s;e that &s;hame</HI><NOTE N="(r)" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12.2.</NOTE> which the men of the world ca&s;t upon him, nay accounted it his <HI>honour to &s;uffer &s;hame for the name of Chri&s;t,</HI> as the Apo&s;tles did,<NOTE N="(&s;)" PLACE="marg">Act. 5.4. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> Act. 5. But &s;ome brought &s;hame upon them&s;elves, that thought to ca&s;t contempt and &s;corn upon him: Among other in&s;tances this one was remarkable, That being cho&s;en Burge&s;&s;e for the Parliament, not without much oppo&s;ition, and going up to <HI>London</HI> to clear his Election, at which time there was an accu&s;ation &s;ent up again&s;t him by a man of no mean place and power, That he was the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ho&s;pes Schi&s;|maticorum.</HI> The very ex|pre&s;&s;ion in the Letter.</NOTE> <HI>ho&s;t of the Schi&s;maticks.</HI> It was pre&s;umed by &s;ome that he would be &s;ent back with di&s;grace. And therefore there was a Sermon prepared by one to jeer him at his return, this being the text,<NOTE N="(t)" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 114.5</NOTE> P&s;al. 114.5. <HI>What ailed thee&mdash;thou Jordan, that thou wa&s;t driven back?</HI> (Thus men of profane &s;pirits will dare to make the Sacred Word of God to &s;erve their own ba&s;e ends and lu&s;ts,) but Mr. <HI>Jurdain</HI> was confirmed in his place to which he was cho&s;en; and &s;o &s;hame was ca&s;t into the face of the pro|phane &s;corner, and the <HI>Sermon,</HI> or invective rather, became <HI>abortive.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">God &s;tanding by him in his troubles.</NOTE>And as he &s;tood up for God, &s;o <HI>God did &s;tand by him,</HI> and a&s;&s;i&s;t him, and carry him through many troubles and dan|gers that did threaten, and even compa&s;&s;e him about. One act of Gods Providence among others was mo&s;t notable, in
<PB N="20" REF="19">delivering him out of his troubles. He having done an act of Ju&s;tice in puni&s;hing an unclean Per&s;on (who&s;e offence was aggravated by &s;ome heinous circum&s;tances) being moved with indignation again&s;t the offence, he went (it &s;eems) be&s;ides the Letter of the Law in &s;ome circum&s;tance. And thereupon &s;ome friends of the Per&s;on puni&s;hed (being &s;tirred up with indignation for the di&s;grace that reflected upon them, more then for the di&s;honour done to God, and the foul blot that was ca&s;t upon Religion) did re&s;olve to pro|&s;ecute him to the uttermo&s;t for it, and they put him to great charge and trouble. When the matter came to a final deci|&s;ion in the Star-Chamber, it was much feared by many of his friends, and through the boa&s;ting of his Adver&s;aries, that &s;ome heavy cen&s;ure &s;hould have been pa&s;&s;ed upon him to his cru&s;h|ing and undoing; and when friends failed him on earth, he flees to heaven for &s;uccour and defence, he cryed to God in <HI>Davids</HI> words,<NOTE N="(u)" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 22.11. Ver&s;. 19.</NOTE> P&s;al. 22. <HI>Be not far from me, O Lord, for trouble is neer, for there is none to help; and O my &s;trength, ha&s;te thou to help me:</HI> And he &s;et apart an Evening, and a great part of the night, for <HI>fa&s;ting and Prayer,</HI> that he might <HI>engage God on his &s;ide,</HI> who had the <HI>hearts of all men,</HI> even <HI>the greate&s;t in his hand to turn them as he plea&s;ed,</HI><NOTE N="(w)" PLACE="marg">Prov. 21.1.</NOTE> Prov. 21. And behold the next morning <HI>a real and gracious an&s;wer</HI> from heaven, he was acquitted and commended by the Lord Keeper, and God &s;tirred up the hearts of divers of that high Arbitrary Court to &s;peak in his behalf; <HI>Thus the Lord was a very pre&s;ent help in trouble to him,</HI><NOTE N="(x)" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 46.1.</NOTE> P&s;al. 46. And after that he was freed and came home, he piled up the books and papers of all the pro|ceedings in that vexatious bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, under his Cupboard in his Parlour, which was the place to which he did u&s;ually re&s;ort: (and where he had that daily &s;weet heavenly Com|munion with God forementioned.) And being asked the rea|&s;on why he left &s;o many papers and books to lye in that man|ner; his an&s;wer was, <HI>[The&s;e I keep in my &s;ight as memorials and Monuments of Gods mercy in freeing me from my troubles.]</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e are the principal things that came within mine ob&s;er|vation, or notice from others that well knew this Saint of God, &s;o <HI>eminent for Piety, Ju&s;tice, and Charity,</HI> and zealous in
<PB N="21" REF="19">all, in the general cour&s;e of his conver&s;ation: Many parti|culars have been omitted, but by that little which hath been &s;aid, you may<NOTE N="(y)" PLACE="marg">Ex pede Herculem. A. Gell. Noct. Att. l. <HI>1.</HI> c. <HI>1. His Sickne&s;&s;e.</HI></NOTE> ghe&s;&s;e at the great worth of this holy man.</P>
<P>I come now to the la&s;t <HI>act of his life, his &s;ickne&s;&s;e, and the pe|riod of that, his death:</HI> In his &s;ickne&s;&s;e which was very painful, he being &s;orely afflicted with the Stone and the Cholick, he manife&s;ted more then ordinary Patience,<NOTE PLACE="marg">His patience.</NOTE> not opening his mouth in any word that might &s;avour of any repining or di&s;|content at his pre&s;ent condition, but meekly and patiently &s;ub|mitting to Gods afflicting hand, and waiting for his long ex|pected and de&s;ired di&s;&s;olution:<NOTE PLACE="marg">His Faith and A&s;&s;urance.</NOTE> He did then much <HI>act faith in Je&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> and his gracious Promi&s;es, and his <HI>a&s;&s;urance remai|ned un&s;haken,</HI> though Satan was then bu&s;ie with him by his temptations; but <HI>being &s;trong in the Lord, and in the power of his might,</HI> he did re&s;i&s;t him: Some of his neare&s;t friends, that ob&s;erved his confident a&s;&s;urance in the cour&s;e of his life, of his happy e&s;tate in heaven after death, did &s;uppo&s;e that Satan would have &s;et upon him with &s;o much violence as to have &s;haken his a&s;&s;urance, and, no doubt, he had will enough to do it, but God, who had him in his chain, would not permit him to do it; but he went out of the world as a <HI>Conquerour</HI> out of the field, being victorious through Chri&s;t over all his &s;piritual enemies. I may not omit one particular in his &s;ick|ne&s;&s;e, which was, his taking all occa&s;ions of exhorting and encouraging others to con&s;tancy in the faith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">His Exhorta|tions to others.</NOTE> zeal for God, and making &s;ure of heaven; and his &s;pirits beginning to fail him, he would &s;ay, <HI>[I cannot speak much more to you now, remember what you have heard from me in my health;]</HI> And he was willing to <HI>incite others</HI> that were ab&s;ent to the di&s;charge of their duties; He in&s;tance onely one particular, that the <HI>Major of the City,</HI> that then was, &s;ending to vi&s;it him, he called the Me&s;&s;enger unto him, and &s;aid <HI>[Remember me to Mr. Ma|jor, and tell him from me, that he have a &s;pecial care of the&s;e three things; To do Ju&s;tice, to provide carefully for the poor, and to make &s;ure of heaven;]</HI> His gracious &s;peeches in the time of his &s;ick|ne&s;&s;e were many, and more then I can, or were fit here to ex|pre&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His Death.</NOTE>Having <HI>fought the good fight of faith and fini&s;hed his cour&s;e,</HI> he
<PB N="22" REF="20">&s;weetly and quietly re&s;igned up his &s;oul into the hands of his ble&s;&s;ed Saviour and Redeemer; He departed this life July 15^t^h.<NOTE PLACE="marg">On the Sab|bath.</NOTE> 1640. being the Chri&s;tian Sabbath, <HI>The Sabbath was his delight</HI> on earth, and on that day God gave him to enjoy an <HI>Eternal Sabbath</HI> with him in heaven: As he had &s;weet <HI>Communion</HI> with God in the u&s;e of <HI>Ordinances</HI> for many years on that day, &s;o he went to enjoy an <HI>immediate Communion</HI> with God on that holy day: And <HI>after all his labours he en|tred into re&s;t, that glorious re&s;t in heaven,</HI><NOTE N="(z)" PLACE="marg">Heb. 4.11.</NOTE> Heb. 4. His depar|ture hence was in the 79.<NOTE PLACE="marg">His Age.</NOTE> year of his age and, according to his account for the new birth, in the 65^t^h. year, for &s;o long he reckoned &s;ince the time of his effectual Calling.<NOTE PLACE="marg">His Funeral.</NOTE> His <HI>Funeral</HI> being kept &s;ome few daies after, there hath not been any man known to be <HI>more lamented</HI> then he, the lo&s;&s;e being &s;o great not to the City alone, but to all the&s;e We&s;tern parts, the <HI>in|fluence of his example</HI> as a zealous Magi&s;trate and Chri&s;tian <HI>reaching far and neer.</HI></P>
<P>I will conclude this Story of his Life and Death with that which was the text of his Funeral Sermon,<NOTE N="(a)" PLACE="marg">Act. 13.36.</NOTE> (Omitting only the name of <HI>David</HI>) Act. 13. <HI>After he had &s;erved his own gene|ration by the will of God he fell on &s;leep;</HI> He &s;leeps in the Lord, and <HI>will ri&s;e gloriou&s;ly in the Morning of the Re&s;urrection,</HI><NOTE N="(b)" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 17. <HI>ult.</HI></NOTE> P&s;al. 17. and<NOTE N="(c)" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 49.14.</NOTE> P&s;al. 49.</P>
<P><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Being dead he yet &s;peak|eth.</NOTE>But though he &s;leeps the &s;leep of death, yet, <HI>being dead</HI> with <HI>Abel he yet speaketh,</HI><NOTE N="(d)" PLACE="marg">Heb. 11.1.</NOTE> Heb. 11. His zealous conver&s;ation &s;peaketh zeal and fervency to this <HI>Laodicean</HI> and luke-warm generation, and be&s;peaks all Chri&s;tian Magi&s;trates, e&s;pecially tho&s;e of that City where he lived, and all the Saints in all places to imitate his Piety, Ju&s;tice, Charity, and all tho&s;e gra|ces which did &s;hine forth in his holy and gracious conver&s;ati|on. Ile &s;hut up all with that voyce from Heaven, Revel. 14.13. <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed are the dead which dye in the Lord, from henceforth, yea &s;aith the Spirit, that they may re&s;t from their labours, and their works do follow them.</HI></P>
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