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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

thy poore children do humbly beseech thee graciously to assist us by thy holy Spirit in this our morning exercise that we may faithfully perform the same to thy praise and our comfort and that for Christ his sake our onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen This set forme of his short prayer before his Morning and evening exercise In a set forme I doe the more willingly set downe that they may see how farre they were deceived and what wrong they did him who held him to bee an utter adversary to all set formes of prayer who might also have received their answer and beene evidently refuted to their faces if they had but observed his ordinary practice every Lords day in the publike assembly where he did reverently accommodate himself to the publike prayers of the Church and religiously joyne together with Minister and people in the celebration of Gods service Certainly hee was not ignorant A set form of prayer justified that when our Saviour Christ taught his Disciples to pray hee gave them liberty to call upon the name of God their Father even in that set forme of prayer which he prescribed and in the same words when you pray say Our Father c. And yet for all that he knew well enough that he gave the Spirit of prayer also unto them and unto all believers children of the same Father that they might enlarge themselves according to those grounds and frame all their sutes after that forme and therefore hee gave this direction unto them After this manner pray ye By our Saviours institution of the Lords prayer and By his owne practice Mat. 26.44 Our Father c. yea Christ hath left us his owne blessed example for the warrant of both when in his Agonyhe praied three times using as the text saith the same words and when after his farewell sermon to his Disciples hee prayed for himselfe his Disciples and all true believers unto the worlds end in great variety of words and for many gifts and graces in particular which yet are not all mentioned but are all for substance contained in that patterne of true prayer None precisely bound to the letter of the Lords prayer but to the matter al. Peter Martyr hath made a collection of holy prayers out of Davids Psalmes and M. Perkins hath gathered together S. Paubs prayers out of his Epistles in both which there is great variety both of matter and words much exceeding the letter of the Lords prayer yet is there no Petition or thanksgiving in either of them which may not fitly be reduced to some parts and heads of the Lords Prayer For my part I shall never blame him that seeketh to help his understanding memory Set prayer a help and affection by such meanes if he bring new affections to renewed petitions and set his heart a worke to seeke more seriously for the best things such as the godly labours of good men have in print set before him But if any man will rest in his booke prayers and never strive to speake unto God out of his owne heart by his owne Spirit which teacheth every true child of God to cry Abba Father Heart prayer best of all Rom. 8. and helpeth our infirmities that wee may stand before him as his children Such a man in my opinion comes farre short of the power and practice comfort and fruit of true prayer and is not much unlike to an impotent and weake man that being lame of his limbes and having meanes of helpe and recovery tendred unto him had yet still rather use a paire of crutches borrowed of his neighbour to goe withall as he can than betake himselfe to his owne legges and feet to walke in his way which the Lord hath appointed for him as he might and ought to doe CHAP. XXIII AFter this short prayer because wee are all commanded to sing Psalmes unto God 2 His singing of Psalmes to testifie our rejoycing in him to instruct our selves in his mercies and judgements words and works and to make melody in our hearts before him as also to quicken our soules to praise and thanksgiving hee therefore did usually call the whole family to sing some of the Psalmes such as hee named unto them with grace in their hearts unto the Lord which they ordinarily performed with such melodious and sweet voices and affections himselfe beginning the tune and the rest in a sweet accord and harmony joyning with him as if they had desired to sing Davids Psalmes His delight in singing of Psalms not onely with Davids Harpe but even with Davids heart also With this exercise of singing of Psalmes hee was much delighted and oftentimes so ravished in his spirit with holy and heavenly joy in singing and sounding forth Gods praises that his heart would even spring and leape in his body as John Baptist did for the joy of Christ in his mothers belly Hieron in Epitaphio Fabiolae yea he was so much affected with the praising of God in this kinde that hee tooke the word Halelu-jah which is the title of nine Psalmes and the song of the Quire of Angles for his Poesie and usually writ it in the first leafe of all his bookes with his owne hand to provoke and draw on others into the fellowship of Gods praises with him and to set it forth as an impresse or character of his chiefe desire and delight Amalaris de officio m●ss●c 13. to have the praises of the Lord in his heart or in his mouth in his care or in his eye continually When the Psalm was ended 3 His reading of the Scriptures he read a Chapter himselfe out of the Bible keeping an orderly and constant course in his reading to make his family better acquainted with the order and matter of the Scriptures and to season their hearts with some portion of Gods Word in the morning as a preservative against all unfavoury thoughts noysome lusts rotten speeches and ungodly workes all the day after This hee knew was Gods holy Ordinance from which neither Kings in peace nor Commanders in warre were exempted wherewith all Governours of families are expresly charged Deut. 6.6 7 8. Deut. 17.18 19. Ios 1.7.8 Deut. ●1 18 19 20 2 Tim. 3.14 15. Ioh. 5.39 wherein both elder and yonger have beene exercised and whereunto all sorts are by our blessed Saviour exhorted Search the Scriptures c. And this hee duly performed with such reverence and conscience as might to his power best become the solemnity of the action which they had in hand and the majestie of his presence before whom they stood Now because he knew that all planting and watering was in vain unlesse God himself gave the blessing of increase and that the Prayer of faith availeth much for that end if it bee fervent hee therefore with all his family bowing the knees of their hearts as well as the knees of their bodies before the throne of grace did in