Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	acquaintance_n	young_a	youth_n	16	3	8.0565	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48790	Memoires of the lives, actions, sufferings & deaths of those noble, reverend and excellent personages that suffered by death, sequestration, decimation, or otherwise, for the Protestant religion and the great principle thereof, allegiance to their soveraigne, in our late intestine wars, from the year 1637 to the year 1660, and from thence continued to 1666 with the life and martyrdom of King Charles I / by Da. Lloyd ...	Lloyd, David, 1635-1692.	1668 (1668)	Wing L2642; ESTC R3832	768,929	730

Charity it self Charity suffereth long and is kinde beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things I can truely avouch this Testimony concerning him That living in the same Colledge with him more than twenty years partly when he was Fellow and partly when he returned President I never heard to my best remembrance one word of anger or dislike against him I have often resembled him in my thoughts with favour of that Honourable Person to him whose name sounds very near him who being placed in the upper part of the World carried on his Dignity with that justice modesty integrity fidelity and other gracious plausibilities that in a place of trust he contented those whom he could not satisfie and in a place of envie procured the love of them who emulated his Greatness and by his example shewed the preheminence and security of true Christian Wisdom before all sleights of humane policy that in a busie time no man was found to accuse him so this good man in that inferiour Orb which God had placed him demeaned himself with that Christian clemency candor wisdome and modesty that malice it self was more wary than to cast any aspersions upon him I shall willingly associate him to those other Worthies his Predecessors in the same Colledge all living at the same time to the invaluable Bishop Iewel Theologorum quas Orbis Christianus per aliquot annorum Centenario produxit maximo as grave Bishop Goodwin hath described him The greatest Divine that for some former Centuries of years the Christian World hath produced To the famous Master Hooker who for his solid Writings was surnamed The Iudicious and entituled by the same Theologorum Oxonium the Oxford of Divines as one calls Athens The Greece of Greece it self To the learned Dr. Reynolds who managed the Government of the same Colledge with the like care honour and integrity although not with the same austerities He willingly admitted and was much delighted in acquaintance and familiarity of hopeful young Divines not despising their Youth but accounting them as Sons and Brethren encouraging and advising them what Books to read and with what holy preparations lending them such Books as they have need of and hoping withal that considering the brevity of his own life some of them might live to finish that Work upon the Creed which he had happily begun unto them This was one of the special Advices and Directions which he commanded to young men Hear the dictates of your own Conscience Quod dubitas ne feceris making this the Comment upon that of Syracides In all thy matters trust or believe thine own soul and bear it not down by impetuous and contradictuous lusts c. He was as diffusive of his knowledge counsel and advice as of any other his works of mercy In all the Histories of Learned Pious and Devout Men you shall scarcely meet with one that disdained the world more generously not out of ignorance of it as one brought up in cells and darkness for he was known and endeared to men of the most resplendent fortunes nor out of melancholy disposition for he was chearful and content in all estates but out of a due and deliberate scorn knowing the true value that is the vanity of it As preferments were heaped upon him without his suit or knowledge so there was nothing in his power to give which he was not ready and willing to part withal to the deserving and indigent man His Vicarage of Saint Nicholas Church in New-Castle he gave to Master Alveye of Trinity Colledge upon no other relation but out of the good opinion which he conceived of his merits The Vicarage of Wetney near Oxford after he had been at much pains travail and expence to clear the Title of the Rectory to all succeeding Ministers when he had made a portion fitting either to give or keep he freely bestowed it upon the worthy Master Thomas White then Proctor of the University late Chaplain to the Colledge and now incumbent upon the Rectory A Colledge Lea●● of a place called Lye in Gloucestershire presented to him as a Gratuity by the Fellows he made over to a third late Fellow there meerly upon a plea of poverty and whereas they that first offered it unto him were unwilling that he should relinquish it and held out for a long time in a dutiful opposition he used all his power friendship and importunity with them till at length he prevailed to surrender it Many of his necessary friends and attendants have professed that they have made several journeys and employed all powerful mediation with the Bishop that he might not be suffered to resign his Prebendship of Winchester to a fourth and upon acknowledge that by their continuance he was disappointed of his resolution herein he was much offended that the Manus mortua or Law of Mortmain should be imposed upon him whereby in former days they restrained the liberality of devout men towards the Colledges and the Clergy But this was interpreted as a discourtesie and dis-service unto him who knew it was a more blessed thing to give than to receive But that which remained unto him was dispersed unto the poor to whom he was faithful dispenser● in all places of his abode distributing unto them with a Free Heart a Bountiful Hand a Comfortable Speech and a Cheerful Eye How dis-respectful was he of Mammon the God of this World the Golden Image which Kings and Potentates have set up before whom the Trumpets play for War and Slaughter and Nations and Languages fall down and worship besides all other kind of Musick for jollity and delight to drown if it were possible the noise of bloud which is most audiable and cries loudest in the ears of the Almighty How easily could he cast that away for which others throw away their lives and salvation running head-long into the place of eternal skreekings weeping and gnashing of teeth If it were not for this spirit of covetousness all the world would be at quiet Certainly although the nature of man be an apt soil for sin to flourish in yet if the love of money be the root of all evil it could not grow up in him because it had no root And if it be so hard to a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God and the Narrow Gate which leads unto life then he that stooped so low by humbleness of mind and emptied himself so nearly by mercifulness unto the poor must needs find an easier passage doubtless they that say and do these things shew plainly that they seek another Country that is an Heavenly for if they had been mindful of this they might have taken opportunity to have used it more advantageously His devotions towards God were assiduous and exemplary both in publick and private He was a diligent frequenter of the publick service in the Chappel very early in the morning and at evening except some urgent occasions of infirmity did excuse him His private

Sickness to prepare for death some years before he died he did so inure himself to devotion That all th● days of his appointed time he waited until his change should come expecting at all times that which might come at any time and must come at one time than which nothing more certain nothing more uncertain He died at Venice 1646. Marmora Arundeliana Quae nec annorum series nec fl●mma vorax toti minitans rogum orbi Ne● popularium rabies abolere queant Virtutes nempe aere perenniores In Piam memoriam Thomae Comitis Arundeliae Surriae ex saecunda nobilitatis stirpe maxima nempe Howardorum familia oriundi Thoma jam nobiliori Cui generosa mens rerum hominum peritissima ad Intimae rationis potius quam exteriorum morum Normam composita ●ui verbum juramentum erat jus fas vitae duces Sancti pectoris recessus more Imperatorio pauca dixit sed for●ia nobilio●i beatus Laconismi utpote ●ui quot verba tot sententa quot sententiae ●ot sacrament● in vicinium tam potens ipse quam in ipsum Rex mensa magnus elimosinis ne vel Insimo injuria notus sed summis beneficio Illius familia collegium erat ubi disciplinam vivebant bonae Indolis Iuvenes non luxum THE Life and Death OF Sir FRANCIS CRAWLEY THIS Gentleman who with Zorastes laughed at his birth and death was born at Lutton in Bedford-shire the very same day and hour as it was computed that Ploiden died at London the very reason why his Father recommended so earnestly and he embraced so willingly the study of the Law than which no study more knotty he would say to the Novices that were first admitted to it none more pleasant to the Ancients that had experience in it wherein he profited as he might have done in any profession since very happy in those two qualities Secrecy and Celerity the two great wheels of considerable performances improving faster than fame the wings of industry surprizing men beyond those of fame His deterity in Logick in the University promised him an able Pleader at the Inns of Court It was his observation that the fashioning of a Mans Head to the minute subtilties of a Sophism opened and fitted it to entertain the distinct and least circumstances of a Case He wore a signet Ring wherein was Ingraven his famous Ancestors Picture with better success than Sc●pio Alsricanus did that which carried his Fathers Face which was taken off by the people of Rome because he was unworthy to wear his Fathers Portaiture that did not follow his Pattern it being not fit his Picture should go without his Virtue One part of his time he spent with his Acquaintance and the other with his Books the one bringing him to practice as the other enabled him for it He studied the English Nobility and Gentry for his pleasure observing their Alliance in Heraldry and for his profit noting their correspondence in Interest being as able to put suitable Persons together to make a Party as any Herald was to put Kindred together to frame a Pedigree His Study was like his Converse rather well contrived than toilsom his Art not his Drudgery his soft and fair went far in Labyrintho properantes ipsa velocit as Implicat He is not the likeliest man to run out of a Maze that runs fastest He was as rich in his observations of his own age no remark being missed in his Table-book as he was in his History of Former Ages Happy in himself more in his Relations especially those he called his Blessings as if peculiar to him his good Wife and excellent Children of whom he was loving not fond One point of his devotion was remarkable that he never met a person subject to infirmities but in stead of deriding them in the other man he blessed God that he had not occasion to grieve for them in himself And another of his instructions to those about him notable that it s not the least a man skillful to have so much command of him● self as to be contented to submit to the commands of others The Courtesies he bestowed were gifts never remembred by him those he received loans never forgotten The Discourse he loved was that which had left of other mens vices and most of their virtues without censure of Superiors scorn of Inferiors vain-glory or a supercilious reservednesse when men are rather Riddles than Company in the persons themselves Liberal he was of every thing especially of good advice covetous of doing good He would hardly receive an ill opinion of any and more hardly expresse it He dispensed Justice to his friends not as a friend but as a friend answering when it was told him that that was not the way to be rich That it would never repent him for being the poorer for doing justice He neither incouraged an ill-inclined person by overmuch mildnesse nor discouraged a well-inclined one by extream severity He could pardon a man that he caught in a mistake for it was a common frailty commending in him the acknowledgment of it as a great virtue the noblest thing that St. Augustine did was his Retractation but reject him that stood in it as a hopelesse wretch a man he called not constant but obstinate it being more to justifie a fault than to fall into it His Apparel was neither mimically in fashion nor ridiculously out neither vain nor singular His short divertisement fitted him for business rather than rob●bed him of time he would say to his Sons That they who make recreation a business will think business a toil To be without an estate and not want to want and not desire to manage well a great estate and to bear a mean to be sensible and patient not to grow great by corruption nor to grow proud with greatnesse not to ebbe and flow with a mans condition and to be neither supercilious nor dejected to take the changes of the world without any change in a mans self not to defer death but sweeten it to be neither loath to leave the world nor afraid to give account for it were qualities that he admired in others and lived to be Master of himself He never commended a man to his face but before others to create in them a good opinion of him nor dispraised any man behind his back but to himself to work in him a reformation of himself avoiding the appearance of evil left he should do ill unawares or hear ill undeservedly He could not with patience hear what was unseasonable or unsavory arguing want of goodnesse or judgment Speak well was his rule or say nothing so if others be not bettered by thy silence they will not be worse by the discourse Being more intent upon knowing himself than letting others know him he found that the greatest part of what he knew not was the least of what he knew He was as careful that others should be

remember another His industry was great in the mornings attending his Philosophy and in the afternoons Collecting Materials for such subjects as he would receive satisfaction in his body strong his natural and artificial memory exact his fancy slow though yet he made several sallies into Poetry and Oratory both to relieve his severer thoughts and smooth and knit his broken and rough stile made so by the vast matter it was to comprehend being taught by Ben Iohnson as he would brag to rellish Horace but judgment sure his nature communicative A good Herald as appears by his Titles of Honor a great Antiquary as he shewed by his Marmora Arundeliana on Drayton's E●dmerus his many ancient Coins and more modern rich in his Study and in his Coffers a skillful Lawyer discovered by his Observat on Fleta tenures Fortesne modus tenendi Parliamentum and his Arguments being the readiest man in the kingdom in Records well seen in all learning as is evident in his History of Tyths comprehending all Jewish Heathen and Christian learning on that subject his Mare Clausum against Grotius his Mare Liberum containing all the Laws Customs and Usages of the World in that point his Vxor Hebraica de Synedriis Lex naturae secundum consuetudines Hebraick being Monuments of his insight in the Jewish learning his books de Diis Syris being an instance how well he understood how the Heathen Fables was the corruption of Sripture-truth and how the Gentile Learning might be made subservient to Christian Religion his Book of Tyths Printed 1616. gave offence for the Preface of it disparaging the Credit of our Clergy in point of learning and for the Matter prejudicing their interest in point of profit though answered by Sir Iames Temple for the legal and historical part Mr. Nettles of Queens Colledge Cambridge a great Talmudist for the Judaical part by Mr. Mountague and Dr. Tilsley Archdeacon of Rochester for the Greek and Latine learning with the Ecclesiastical History the fiercest storm saith one that fell on Parsonage Barns since the Reformation but he omitted that 28. Ianu. 1618. before four Bishops and four Doctors of Law and a Publick Notary he tendred his submission and acknowledgment for his presumption in that Book under his Hand in these very words My good Lords I Most humbly acknowledge my error which I have committed in publishing the History of Tithes and especially in that I have at all by shewing any Interpretation of holy Scriptures by medling with Counsels Fathers or Canons or by whatsoever occurres in it offered any just occasion of Argument against any right of maintenance of Iure Divino of the Ministers of the Gospel beseeching your Lordships to receive this ingenuous and humble acknowledgment together with the unfeigned protestation of my grief for that through it I have so incurred both his Majesties and your Lordships displeasure conceived against me in behalf of the Church of England Iohn Selden Which his submission and acknowledgment being received and made an Act of Court was entred into the publick Registrie thereof by this Title following viz. Officium dominorum contra Joh. Seldenum de inter Templo Lond. Armiger I am loath to think that the Play Ignoramus Acted at Cambridge 1614. to make some sport with Lawyers was the occasion of this History published 1616. to be even with Divines but apt to think that the latitude of his minde tracing all parts of Learning did casually light on the Rode of this Subject handling it as he did all others with great freedom according to the Motto written in all his books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The foresaid Submission was accompanied with an humble Letter afterwards with his own hand to Bishop Laud wherein many expressions of his contrition much condemning himself for Writing a book of that nature and for Prefacing such a book with insolent reflections of that kinde And this Letter seconded with an Apology in Latine to all the world to clear himself from the least suspition of disobedience to Government or disassection to the Church and that Apology backed with a Dedicatory Epistle to Archbishop Laud expressing great reverence to his Function and an honorable respect to his Person for his great design for the advancement of Universal Learning and the truly Catholick Religion whereupon the recommended him for Burgess to the University of Oxford in the Long Parliament which and an intimate acquaintance with the honorable Io. Vanghan Esq of Troescod to whom he Dedicated some of his Books and Bishop Vsher who Preached at his Funeral he reckoned the greatest honors of his life He was outed that Parliament to use his own words by those men that deposed his Majesty Dr. Mathew Grissith born in London bred in Brazen-nose Colledge in Oxford Lecturer at St. Dunstans in the West under Dr. Donnes inspection whose favourite he was Minister of Maudelins Fish-street London by his donation For telling the Citizens that they sent in their Bodkins Thimbles c. to furnish out the Cause as the Children of Israel did their Ear-rings and Jewels only these had a Calf for theirs whereas they were likely to have a Bull for theirs and for a Sermon at St. Pauls about the peace of Ierusalem Sequestred Plundered Imprisoned in Newgate and forced to fly to Oxford whence he returned continuing Prayers and other Ordinances in London according to the Established Laws of the Church of England during the Usurpation enduring seven violent Assaults five Imprisonments the last of which was at Newgate 1659. for a Sermon Called fear God and honor the King Preached at Mercers-Chappel pardon one big with his Loyalty if he Longed for his Majesties Restauration before the Design of it was ripe he died Minister of the forsaid Maudlin Parish Lecturer of the Temple London and Rector of Bladon in Oxford-shire where he departed Octob. 14. Anno Aetatis 68. Domini 65. having broken a Vein in the earnest pressing of that necessary point Study to be quiet and follow your own business and ventured his Life at Bazing-house where his Daughter manly lost hers To whom I will subjoyn his neighbor Mr. Chostlen of Fryday-street Assaulted in his house Sequestred Plundered Imprisoned first in one of the London Compters and afterwards in Colchester-Goal And gentile Mr. Bennet of St. Nicholas Acons who as Bishop Vsher would say he Preached Perkins so long till he was able to imitate him Preached Seneca and St. Bernard so much till they attained a sententiousness as happy as theirs and art of Preaching that is of Collecting Composing and Delivering their discourses by having those things whereof they themselves had onely some imperfect confused Notion fully and clearly represented to their view from the discoveries that other men have made after much study and experience Dr. Tho. Howel born at Nanga-March near Brecknock in Brecknock-shire bred Scholar and Fellow of Iesus Colledge in Oxford smooth and meek in his Conversation and his Sermons by both gliding

who upon the relation of his condition said Take I pray my counsel I have taken notice of your walking more than twenty miles a day in one furlong upwards and downwards and what is spent in needless going and returning if laid out in progressive motion would bring you into your own Country I will suit you if so pleased with a light habit and furnish you with competent money for a Foot-man A counsel and kindness that was taken accordingly He died 1649. leaving several Manuscripts to several friends to publish but as Aristotle saith against Plato's community of Wives and the educating of Children at a charge what is every mans work is no mans work Sir Simon Baskervile and Dr. Vivian two Natives and Physicians I think of Exeter City in Devon-shire and Studients of Exeter Colledge in Oxford that never took Fee of an Orthodox Minister under a Dean nor of any suffering Cavalier under a Gentleman of an 100 l. a year but with Physick to their bodies as Dr. Hardy saith of the worthy honest and able Dr. Alexander Burnet of Lime-street London a good Neighbor a cordial Friend a careful Physician and a bounteous Parishioner who died 1665. and deserveth to be remembred generally gave relief to their necessities Anthony Lord Gray the eighth Earl of Kent was a conformable Minister of the Church of England at Burback in Leicester●shire 1939. when he was called as Earl of Kent to be a Peer of the Parliament of England at Westminster The Emperor Sigismund Knighting a Doctor of Law saw him slight the Company of Doctors and associate with Knights when smiling at him he said I can make many Knights at my pleasure when indeed I cannot make one Doctor This Earl excused his attendance on the Parliament by his Indisposition not liking their proceedings and continued in the Church-service approving its Doctrine and Discipline for which he was looked on with an evil eye and by God with a gracious one for making like a Diamond set in gold his greatness a support to goodness his Honors not changing his Manners and the mortified Man being no more affected with the addition of Titles than a Corps with a gay Coffin Of which temper was Mr. Simon Lynch born at Groves in Staple-Parish in Kent bred in Queens Colledge in Cambridge and made by Bishop Ailmer his Kinsman Minister of North Weale a small Living then worth 40 l. a year in the foresaid County with this Incouragement Play Cousin with this a while till a better comes who profering him Brent-wood-weal three times better afterwards had this answer That he preferred the Weal of his Parishioners souls before any Weal whatsoever Living there 64. years where he kept a good House and brought up 40. Children and dying 1656. Mr. Ioseph Diggons bred in Clare-hall Cambridge in the Reverend Dr. Paskes time for whose sake he gave that Hall 130 l. per annum as he did for the King and Churches sake for which he had suffered as much as a wary man could 700 l. to distressed Royalists Sir Oliver Cromwell who having made the greatest entertainment to King Iames that was ever made Prince by a Subject at his house at Hinchinbrooke Huntingtonshire having been the most honest dealer in the world no man that bought Land of him being put to three pence charge to make good his Title Was to his cost a Loyal Subject beholding the Usurpation of his Nephew God-son and Names Sake with scorn and contempt He died 1654. Sir Francis Nethersole born at Nethersole in Kent bred at Trinity Colledge Cambridge Orator of the University Ambassador to the Princes of the Union Secretary to the Queen of Bohemia eminent in his actions and sufferings for the Royal Family and disposing what great misfortunes left him to erect a School at Polesworth in Warwick-shire for the Education of such as might serve their Soveraign as faithfully as he did his Mr. Chettam born at Cromsal in Lancashire a diligent reader of Orthodox mens works and hearer of their Sermons the effect whereof was his exemplary loyalty and charity giving 7000 l. for the Education of forty poor children at Manchester from six to fourteen years of age with Diet Lodging Apparel and Instruction 1000 l. to buy a Library 100 l. towards the building of a case for it and 200 l. to buy honest and sober books for the Churches and Chappels round about Manchester leaving Dr. Iohnson lately Sub-Almoner and an Orthodox man one of his Feoffes and very Loyal Citizens his Executors Mr. Alexander Strange Bachelor of Divinity born in London bred in Cambridge Minister of the Church of England at Layston and Prebend of St. Pauls who built a Chappel and contributed towards a Free-School in Bunting-field a Mark-town belonging to the said Layston giving for his Motto when he had laid the foundation before he was well furnished to finish it Beg hard or beggard He went to enjoy the peace he loved to make by being the no less prosperous than painful in compounding all differences among his neighbours Decemb. 8. Anno Domini 1650. Aetatis 80. Mr. Michael Vivan a loyal and therefore persecuted Minister in Northumberland at the hundred and tenth year of his age when much broken with changes and alterations between those that would not leave their old Mumpsimus and those that were for their new Sumpsimus had of a suddain his Hair come again as white and flaxen as a childs a new Set of Teeth his Eye-sight and strength recovered beyond what it was fifty years before us an eye-witness hath attested Septemb. 28. 1657. who saw him then read Divine Service without his Spectacles and heard him preach an excellent Sermon without Notes And being asked by the said Gentleman how he preached so well with so few books as he had and lived so chearfully with so few acquaintance answered Of Friends and Books good and few are best Mr. Grigson a Citizen of Bristol who notwithstanding that he paid 300 l. for his Allegiance bestowed as much more on charitable uses saying He liked only that Religion that relieved men when poor not that which made them so in those times when it is a puestion which was sadder That they had so many Poor or that they had made so many Rich. Mr. R. Dugard Bachelor of Divinity a native of Craston-Fliford in Worcestershire a Kings-Scholar under Mr. Bright whom he always mentioned as gratefully as Mr. Calvin did his Master Corderius at Worcester Fellow of Sidney-colledge in Cambridge An excellent Grecian and a general Scholar the greatest Tutor of his time breeding young Gentlemen with a gentle strict hand neither cockering them with indulgence nor discouraging them with severity in the mean between Superstition and Faction zealously did he promote the Kings Cause to satisfie his conscience yet warily so as to secure himself to be a good Benefactor to his Colledge giving it 120 l. and the Library 10 l. and a good help to the distressed Cavaliers