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A43854	A faithfull remonstrance of the holy life and happy death of Iohn Bruen of Bruen-Stapleford, in the county of Chester, Esquire ... by the late reverend divine William Hinde ...	Hinde, William, 1569?-1629.	1641 (1641)	Wing H2063; ESTC R14489	155,350	254

a soule from death and shall hide a multitude of sinnes So Abigail may draw David by her wisedome and wholesome counsell from his bloody passion and intended cruelty and cause him to repent and refraine yea to blesse the Lord for her comming and counsell too So was Monica Augustines mother humbled and reclaimed by her maide So Monica vid. Aug lib. Conf. l. 9. cap. 8. calling her Meribibulam So did Augustine in a Rhetorick Lecture convert Alipius by a similitude taken from the vaine games wherein hee immoderately delighted Alipius thinking that Augustine aimed at him whereas Augustine then did not so much as thinke of him which made Augustine to admire the wisdome and goodnesse of God who was working graciously though secretly for Alipius his correction and reformation when neither of them had any thought of it August confes l. 6. cap. 7. Vt apertè tibi Domine tribueretur ejus correctio per me quidem illam sed nescientem operatus es That his conversion or reformation might evidently be ascribed unto thee O Lord Thou didst worke it indeed by me but by me not knowing what I did at that time either for him or from thee To which purpose hee addeth this also a little after Vtens tu Domine scientibus c nescientibus Possidon in vi●●… Aug. cap. 15. ordine quo nosti ille ordo justus est de corde lingua mea carbones ardentes operatus es quibus mentem spei bonae adduceres tabescentem sanares Thou O Lord using men both witting and unwitting in what order thou knowest and that order is just didst raise up out of my heart and my tongue burning coales wherein thou mightest so scorch the minde of good hope that thou mightest heale it And so did the Lord inflame the heart of this young Gentleman with burning coales of his Word and Spirit which he raised and reached out unto him from the heart and mouth of his companion and friend that the drosse of Popish errors was consumed and his soule so healed that the treasure of Gods Word was ever after better esteemed and entertained by him And here I could wish with all my heart A worthy example for young Gentlemen that our young Gentlemen following the good example of these two both in the University and Countrey would have more care and make more conscience of their company and so frame their studies and courses that either by doing good upon their fellow students and companions or receiving good from them by converting some from their errors and confirming others in the truth See Aschams Schoolemaster p. 21. by causing some to returne from their wicked way and others to turne unto God and walke in his wayes they might shew forth better fruits of love one to another and reape sweeter comforts in their happy fellowship and society one with another Examp. sir Iohn Cheke D. Redman But I will turn my wishes into prayers unto God for them and for their Tutors and Governours that have charge and should have care to looke unto them and this is all the good that I can do them Aug. ad Festum Ep. 167. Nam phrenetici nolunt ligari lethargici nolunt excitari Sed perseveret c. CHAP. VI. He was much like Galeacius cap. 7. His proficiency at Oxford but small WHat and how great his proficiency was in learning during his abode in Oxford I cannot well tell only I conjecture it could not be much because the time was but short the meanes but small for his helpe and impediments many to his hurt and hinderance in his studies especially those two which are blocks in the way and great ones too and do dull the edge of many young Gentlemens desire and delight in Universitie studies namely idlenesse The causes of it and remisnesse at home in their fathers houses and ignorance of the true grounds of Grammar which they should have beene throughly acquainted withall in the countrey before they had beene sent up to the University Of this minde was Master Ascham Aschams Schoolemaster li. 2 in fine sometimes Schoolemaster to Queene Elizabeth who in his booke of training up of youth in the Countrey to make them fit for the University hath this saying to the same purpose As I began plainly and simply with my young Schollar So will I not leave him God willing untill I have brought him a perfect Schollar out of the Schoole and placed him in the University to become a fit Student for Logicke and Rhetoricke and so after to Physick Law or Divinity as aptnesse of nature advice of friends and Gods disposition shall leade him Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius Some unfitnesse for learning Plato lib. 3. de Repub. p. 425. Edit Steph. 1578. His sufficiency not great for great imployment cannot be made of every peece of timber neither is every mans metall of gold but some of silver some of brasse c. as Plato hath observed in setting forth the variety of mens natures and dispositions as they are fitted for diverse studies and imployments I will not say that this young Gentleman of whom we speake was in his naturall disposition of the best timber and temper to make a Schollar nor of the best metall to make a man of the best rank for great imployments but I am well assured that the Lord was pleased upon such grounds of nature and learning as he had given him to lay a good foundation of a better building begun in his youth and reared up in his riper age than all the gold and silver either of nature or of art could otherwise have purchased or provided for him It is the wisedome and goodnesse of our God when he will furnish men with his graces and imploy them in his service sometimes to neglect and passe by such as are noble by birth Yet such as God chose to shew his power in comely for their person excellent for parts both of nature and of learning and otherwise in mans judgement very accomplished persons for such and such places and to make choice of some other of a middle or a meane estate of inferiour parts and gifts and very unlikely in the eye of reason to compasse any great matters or performe any good services either to God or man And this he hath done formerly Calv. in Act. 1 26. and daily doth both in publike and in private persons and callings that all might know their sufficiency to be of God and the efficacy and fruit of all their desires and endeavours not of themselves but from him also that so as good reason is he that worketh all might have the glory of all both now and ever I have read of that admirable man Galeacius Caracciolus As in Galeacius Marquesse of Vice in Italy that being but a youth and a meane Schollar and little studied and but lately entered into the Schoole of Christian

short time he was so well provided and furnished with honest and faithfull godly and gracious servants both men and women that he had now as Paul saith Philemon had once a Church in his house And no marvell seeing for continuall supply there were many that were religious who would willingly offer themselves and make meanes to be admitted into his house and to do him service untill they were like Davids host a great host like the host of God 1 Chron. 12.22 A full houshold and gracious family where Husband and wife parents and children governours and servants are all either truly religious or at least such as do orderly and duly submit themselves to all duties of religion in the family Now for the ordering and using of his servants he did reckon of such as most faithfull ever unto him as he found ever most faithfull unto God as did Constantius when hee purged his Court. And such he did much esteeme and entirely affect as his brethren and fellow servants in and under Christ Jesus 2. For the using of his servants Yea he made them somtimes as his companions in his familiar and kinde usage of them sometimes as his counsellours to advise conferre consult and resolve with them in matters of conscience or of other importance somtimes as his comforters in afflictions and tentations that he might so receive some comfort and refreshing from them Some of speciall note as Old Robert Among the reft he had one of speciall note an old disciple like Mnason as a father in his family to the rest of his servants his name Robert Pasfield but better knowne by the name of old Robert a man utterly unlearned being unable to read a sentence or write a syllable yet was he so well taught of God that by his own industry and Gods blessing upon his minde and memory he grew in grace as he did in yeeres and became ripe in understanding and mighty in the Scriptures Yea he was so well acquainted with the history of the Bible and the summe and substance of every Book and Chapter that hardly could any ask him where such a saying or sentence were but he would with very little adoe tell them in what Book and Chapter they might finde it Insomuch that he became as a very profitable Index to the family to call to minde what they had learned and to recover what they had lost by slip of memory and not onely so but a godly Instructor and Teacher of young professors also to acquaint them with the Word and to exercise their hearts unto godlinesse by the precepts and examples thereof which he constantly did both at home and abroad as he had leisure and liberty so to do Now if that which I have often heard be true that Bonus Textualis is Bonus Theologus A good Text-man is a good Divine then may Old Robert in our countrey proceedings be allowed for a Divine and a Doctor also He had many other good parts in him a good gift in prayer and praise very willing and well able to conferre of good things carefull to heare the Word read or preached and to help his own and his friends memories by repetitions and some other means as of a strange Girdle which as I shall shew you he had framed for himself to that purpose The Girdle was of leather long and large Old Robert his Girdle for help of his memory so that for compasse it would go twice about him This for the help of his memory he divided into severall portions and parts as a Carpenter doth his Rule and allotteth every Booke of the Bible in their order to some of those divisions As Genesis to the first Exodus to the second c. Then for the distinction of the Chapters of every Booke he annexed a long point or thong unto the severall divisions and made knots by fives or tens thereupon to distinguish the chapters of that book he had also other either points or rushes to divide the chapters into their particular contents or severall parts or verses as occasion did require This instrument of his owne invention hee framed and used as others do their pen and writing for the better helpe of his understanding and reliefe of his memory in his hearing of the Word preached which he did with so good effect and fruit in observing all the points and Scriptures alleadged in a Sermon and binding them upon the points and partitions of his Girdle as he heard them that in repeating of the Sermon afterwards he himselfe had great benefit and many other professors much comfort and helpe by his handling of his girdle and fingering the points and divisions of it A matter of such wonder unto all that ever saw it and heard him repeat a Sermon by it that his worthy Master thought the girdle worthy to bee kept and reserved in his Study as a monument of Gods mercy and old Roberts both piety and industry that he might bee known to have beene neither idle nor unprofitable in partaking of the blessing of the ministery A reb uke to mindlesse and carelesse persons This man and his girdle shall rise up in judgement against many of greater place than himselfe who being both mindlesse in observing and carelesse in retaining what they heare or have heard in the preaching of the Word will neither stirre up the graces of God which are in them nor exercise the naturall parts aright which God hath given them nor practise any artificiall helpes of their owne or other mens invention for reliefe of their owne weaknesse both in minde and memory and for supply of other mens wants according as their necessities may require Hence also may we raise a just rebuke of many of better parts who having many helps both by arts and tongues Logick and learning Art of memory writing by characters or otherwise And to such as use not their skil and other faculties aright doe not yet set themselves and their gifts a worke in any good course to make the best benefit of that which they heare for themselves that so they might be more profitable unto others according to the places and callings wherein the Lord hath set them CHAP. XIX His familiar conversing with old Robert THis old Robert though but a servant yet being rich in grace his Master did so much esteeme and affect that he would as often as conveniently he could have him neare unto him he would often goe to the Hop-yard or threshing-flore where commonly his businesse lay to talk and conferre with him and sometime for his owne exercise to take some part and portion in the labour with him also This he did for their mutuall comfort and contentment in provoking one another to holy duties and communicating such things as they had read or heard for increase of godlinesse and goodnesse one in another Such is the nature and temper of humility and sincerity The master never a whit the more abased