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A60568	The life and death of Mr. William Moore, late fellow of Caius Colledge, and keeper of the University-Library as it was delivered in a sermon preached at his funeral-solemnity, April 24, 1659, in St Maries Church in Cambridge / by Tho. Smith ...	Smith, Thomas, 1623 or 4-1661.; Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4231A; ESTC R566	10,541	34

that faith into which he was baptized the true ancient catholick and Apostolick Church of England whose doctrine is contained in the 39 Articles the Book of Homilies and our * LITURGIE which he lookt upon as the onely probable medium to reunite the shatter'd pieces of decaying Christendome In this Religion he lived and in this he died commending his soul in my hearing to God with a loud voice in those our prayers which a Erasmus and b Gilbertus Cognatus say do savour of an Apostolical spirit and while both his hands and eyes were lifted up to heaven his soul peaceably departed Thus died Mr Moor as David in a good old age threescore and ten full of days I will not say riches and honour but full of that which David saith is far beyond them peace of conscience and joy in the holy Ghost Shall I tell you how he added to his true faith vertue 2 Pet. 1. 5 as that word signifies courage and constancy in well-doing and conforming our actions to the rule which our consciences approve He would oft say That if men would generally take courage and shew themselves bare-faced without mask or vizard and profess what they do indeed beleeve it were the onely way to secure themselves and all others and make those few that be factiously bent unable to hurt them but that foolish fear hath always betrayed and brought evil upon men from the time of the Gnosticks till now To this vertue he added patience an admirable submission to all manner of Superiours though perverse a most meek and quiet spirit under what governours Ecclesiastical or Civil soever Which I note the rather because I see some men write large books and many disputations to prove that the members of the old English Church are not to be suffered in any civil society which books and disputations are in my opinion far better confuted by such lives as Mr Moors then by volumes And to patience how did he add brotherly kindness A true Samaritan Every man was his neighbour loving to all I cannot say to his enemies because I never heard he had any for he walkt so far from offence toward God and man that he attracted the love or wonder rather even of the froward And though in these unhappy times difference in religion as 't is the nature of it hath caused a vast difference in most mens affections yet I cannot hear of any one man that spoke one single word against Mr Moor nor do I remember that I have heard him speak ill of any one man or woman but I have heard him in general blame the men of this age for pulling down and looking into other mens faults more then their own He would say that he had oft heard an apt proverb After a good dinner let us sit down and BACK-BITE our neighbours the discourse of most men now adays being nothing else And I confess I have seen him very oft both in sickness and health upon the mention of schism heresie or sacriledge shake his head and profess that he would not have had the least finger in the ruin of the Church of England for a million But let us go to the Colledge Ask those who were his contemporaries in Gonvile and Caius concerning him and you shall hear them beside all this wonder at his contentedness his joy in the most private condition the most mean and toylsome employment from first to last Though he had as many fair opportunities for preferment offered him as any man yet he slighted them all trampling this world under his feet saying that since he was but a passenger here it was a folly not to behave himself as a traveller in an inn a madness to set his minde on such things as there is no use of at his journeys end adding that God sent no man hither to get money His contemporaries will tell you how far he was from disturbing the peace of the Society wherein he lived from beginning or fomenting any faction or sedition in the House That he never asked any Fellow for his vote nor politickly as the custome is enquired before hand what other men would do in any election nor spoke one word for any pupil of his own either to get a scholarship or fellowship and yet even lately he had five or six senior fellows at once in Caius Colledge his own pupils but he went on his own road chose that man whom he in his soul thought fittest for the place fall how it would so his vote oft stood alone doing no man any good And though some laughed at his singularity he had his reward within and above which told him that a time would come ere long when it would be declared by strange effects that wealth was never the greatest happiness nor worldly policy the best counsellour that to lie and forswear for a good cause was no piety and to do wickedness for the glory of God was ill worshipping him In a word that there would come as sure as that God is true a day of visitation when we shall all be judged not by the flexible rules of our factions or interests non est judicium Dei sicut hominum but by the straight regularities of the Word of God by the rules of S. Paul and justice and charity by the laws of the nation and our local statutes And thus he brought up his pupils not choosing the richest such as be ordinarily the tulips of the University stay a while onely to show themselves see fashions but such as were of the choicest parts though never so poor and such as he thought he was likely to do most good upon with whom he took more pains usually in one day then many do in a moneth knowing that doing good to them he did good not onely to single persons but sometimes to whole families whole parishes whole Counties he made it his business to principle them in true Religion as well as learning And now here be pleased to behold and admire the strange blessing of God upon his precepts and example though I know many scores of his pupils some in this and some in other nations yet I never knew any who continued not firm to those good principles which his Tutour Moor instilled into him quo semel est imbuta recens notwithstanding all the temptations of schisme and heresie on the right and on the left both from Rome and Amsterdam {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} except onely one I should transgress the bounds though not of your patience yet I am sure of the time if I should tell you now of his almes which are almost incredible Where is the poor man from whom he turned his face or where the poor pupil that ever he turned from the Colledge for lack of money and yet what almes he gave was in the most private manner he could devise {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} how communicative was he how

THE LIFE and DEATH OF Mr WILLIAM MOORE Late fellow of Caius Colledge and Keeper of the University-Library As it was delivered in a Sermon preached at his funeral-solemnity April 24. 1659. In St Maries Church in CAMBRIDGE by THO. SMITH B. D. his successour HINC ◆ LVCEM ◆ ET ◆ POCVLA ◆ SACRA Printed by John Field Printer to the University of Cambridge 1660. To My ever-honoured Friend CHARLES SCARBOROUGH Doctour of Physick and the rest of Mr Moors pupills Most dear friends and fellow-pupils I Here present unto you a description of our Tutour as it was taken in short-hand I beleeve that Mr Smith towards the end of whose Sermon this was inserted would have been persuaded to have printed this whole Sermon if M●Moor's executours had not told him how they observed that in such discourses the onely thing regarded by the Reader is the life of the person especially in these times wherein few minde any thing but news I remember that when our Tutour had read over a book writ by D H. he said That if he had been to write a tract on that subject he would have said the same things with that authour And therefore I here make bold to send you also the last words of Dr Hammond which are newly come to my hands because I have heard some who were intimate with them both say that they knew no men more like in judgement and temper then M Moor and that holy personage So that if you desire our Tutours works you may be pleased to read this Doctours till his shall be published which I hope some of his pupills will do ere long and not leave all the toyl to Mr Smith I have transcribed many of them but am leaving England and so must commend them to you and you to God beseeching you to pray for me and to look upon these not onely as the last words of my Tutour and Dr Hammond but of me also unless you hear further from the unworthiest of your fellow-pupills Charles Bertie Middle-Temple May 8. Anno CAROLI II. 12o THE LIFE and DEATH OF Mr William Moor Reverend and beloved BE pleased to suffer me who never yet commended any man out of the pulpit to say a little of this Mr William Moor newly interred here * before us under that very stone whereon he was wont to kneel down in prayers to Almighty God He was a person who had that of Solomon continually before his eyes Eccles. 9. 10. What ever good thy hand findeth to do do it with all thy might for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdome in the grave whither thou goest or rather he had the life of the Blessed Jesus in his daily meditation and practise You can scarce name the good or piece of knowledge or wisdome wherein he was not eminent one of the ablest that ever I met with not onely in the knotty pieces of Divinity Cases of conscience and Chronologie and all ingenuous sciences especially History and all kinde of Antiquity which if any thing must bring the men of this age to their wits again when all is done but also in Anatomy Physick Mathematicks and the like Those who are the most eminent for all these now in England being of his education But above all I must admire his piety to God signified in every particular that I could observe And I think I had more the happiness of his company and so greater opportunities to note his behaviour of late years then any here present except his own family having been with him almost every day for these seven years last past Cardinal Bellarmin in his second book of Dying well and eighth chapter is so ingenuous as to blame those Romanists who begin with their Sacraments when they have done with their Physick and saith Sacramentum conferretur aegrotis quando periculosè aegrotare incipiunt that 't is a very dangerous custome though it is seldome otherwise that men send not for the Priest till the Physician hath given them over This our friend quite contrary to them and such as Asa sought to the LORD first and then to the Physician To the LORD and that after a strict examination of his soul in those two main parts of divine worship Prayer and the Holy Eucharist No sooner had the disease seized upon him in an extraordinary manner but straight he spoke of the sixth chapter of St Johns Gospel and those {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} mysteria and told me and divers others that he was of his good friend Mr Herbert Thorndikes minde concerning that chapter viz. That it must needs be a prediction of the Holy Eucharist which the first Nicene Council thought the most necessary viaticum and after them the whole Christian world not excluding Calvin Zanchy and others of the Reformed till some late novelists arose who would perswade us that Christ had no true Church upon earth before these times And he received the body and bloud of our Saviour with expressions of as much outward reverence as ever I beheld which several here present can witness and doubtless his external deportment was but a necessary consequence of his inward devotion Which also appeared by his zeal and frequency in prayer to Almighty God not omitting to humble himself in a decent {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} dedicate to that purpose as you know the Primitive Christians did through every day of his life even when he was not able to go but crept and was led to it not omitting the very last day of his pilgrimage when he could not without help move his foot over the threshold As he testified his reverence to God in doing so in suffering Though his sickness was very painfull caused by an ulcer in his bladder yet who ever heard him complain in that or any other trouble All that I heard of it from his mouth was this When one told him that he could not but be in great pain he answered My Saviour was in far greater pain for me In his sickness he spent the most of his time in reading and meditating on the passion of Christ desiring to throw aside other learning and to know nothing else but Jesus Christ and him crucified and this knowledge was his ballast kept him steady and couragious for he never abhorred any thing more than the humours of this age simulation and dissimulation so that if ever any man had a window into his heart that all the world might know his most secret thoughts Mr Moor had In these changing times wherein men pride themselves in menstrua fide anniversaria as Tertullian speaks in a religion that alters as oft as the moon or take up with the year at most and then persecute their neighbours for not being as very Protei as themselves who dare whisper that Mr Moor was not constant to that religion which upon a strict rational examination he took up in his younger days sticking close to