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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30945	Memorials of Alderman Whitmore, Bishop Wilkins, Bishop Reynolds, Alderman Adams ...	Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1681 (1681)	Wing B798; ESTC R35314	15,360	50

true Reason and continue malevolent to the Memory of him that is gon if you can I pass on to his Learning Writing Preaching Living 1. He was an excellent Scholar He had a great stock of natural Parts and endowments to which he added an indefatigable Industry and God gave a plentiful Benediction His skill in the Greek Tongue got him his Fellow-ship in Merton College in Oxford in Sir Henry Savils time And what a rare Humanist he was and how well vers't in the Polite parts of Learning his juvenile piece upon the Passions abundantly testifies 2. And indeed he was an admirable Writer for wit judgment and fancy of all which there seems to be a curious mixture in his Books 3. Moreover he was a Great Divine and in his Time a most celebrated Preacher For his Divinity I need only say He was a true continuer of the name of Reynolds in the Church of England and for his Sermons they met with the Approbation both of Prince and People Scholars Gentlemen and Citizens all ranks of Men have given their honorable Testimony to them He was a Man of God throwly furnished to every good word and work He had the Art of saving Souls if ever any had 4. But above all I must not forget the Virtues and Graces wherein he did excell For he was as good a Liver as he was a Preacher or a Writer All his other good qualities were adorned and both greener and riper years were seasoned with the Piety of a Saint His youth was not observ'd to be stain'd with the vices of that Age and when the Church brought him her Miter God had Crown'd his Head before according to that of Solomon The hoary head is a Crown of Glory if it be found in the way of righteousness But more particularly his Humility Meekness Patience Charity are remarkable in him 1. He was cloathed with Humility and 't was his upper Garment and cover'd all the rest of his Accomplishments He had mean thoughts of Himself and was content that others should have so of him too and though his face shone yet he would not know it There was no leven of Pride or ill Humour or Surliness or Ambition in him no difficulty of access nor affectation of distance if you had but the face of a Gentleman or the habit of a Clergy-man all Ceremony must be laid aside in order to Converse Doubtless he was a great Judge of Learning and yet the most candid Auditor of Sermons in the World he was never heard to censure any body though he himself has not been spared 2. Neither was there wanting in him the Ornament of a meek and quiet Spirit whereby he became a true Copy of the Grand Exemplar and Bishop of our Souls 'T is an usual saying among some such a thing would vex a Saint but truly what would vex or ruffle or discompose this holy Man was a hard matter to determin 'T is scarce remembred that ever he was seen in Passion For forty nine years together wherein He and his Consort liv'd in married state not many words worthy of the denomination of Angry have been observed to drop from him This I can assure you He had his share both of Injuries from Men and of Afflictions from God and he was sensible of them always with the preservation of his Religious Integrity and the exercise of Meekness towards Men and of Patience towards God 3. And I may truly say that in him Patience had her work Though toward the latter end of his Life his days were full of pain nights of weariness yet he knew that by Patience he was as well to wait as to endure and that he was to honour the Soveraign of his Life and Death as well by tarrying his leisure as by bearing his hand His repeated Prayer to Heaven was that in his utmost Extremities he might not be provoked to speak dishonorably of God and when through some fierce exacerbation of his disease he was constrain'd to make some noise and outcry he would presently subjoyn Though he did roar he did not murmur 4. As the Complement of all the rest His Vniversal Charity to the Persons and Souls of Men was so conspicuous that the world could not deny it but was forc'd to call it Compliance All the doubt may be concerning his Charity to the Poor and Needy because the excellency of this Virtue lies in the secrecy of its Practice Dayly and hourly were the Emanations of his Charity while he liv'd but most of them running like streams under ground til he was dead Many were the Gifts he scattered to the bringing up of poor Children at School to the maintenance of poor Scholars in the University to the supportation and encouragement of ancient foundations of Piety and Learning to the relief of visited places in his Diocese to the supply of the wants of poor Ministers Widows to the Augmentation of small Vicarages in his Gift Add the several shares that Southampton the place of his Birth Merton College the place of his first Preferment Northhampton the place of his first Ministerial Employment Norwich where he departed had you cannot want a sufficient evidence of his abundant Charity Lastly God was pleased to do him an extraordinary kindness an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a gentle Death the last sand in the Hour-Glass falling with no less difficulty than wherewith he expired IV. Sir Thomas Adams Alderman of London Obiit 1667. From Doctor Hardy 1. THere is no less then a Three-fold obligation laid upon us of publishing the excellencies of those who have done worthily and been Famous in their Generations Hereby we glorifie the Lord in his Servants and that is Piety we honor the Dead in their Memory and that is Equity we benefit the People by their Examples and that is Charity I shall not say more of this Worthy Person then what not only very credible Information but for the most part my own personal knowledge will warrant me having had the honor of more than Twenty Years acquaintance with him Fifteen whereof he was the Chief Inhabitant of that Parish wherein I was an Unworthy Laborer 2. His very outward aspect was amiable nay venerable and his presence as the appearance of some bright Star having a pleasing influence upon all that looked upon him But could you have viewed his inside beheld that virtuous Soul which inhabited his comely Body how would it have ravished you and yet though we could not directly we might reflexively and that both from his words and works The Lips of the Righteous feed many to wit with wholsome Counsells and Comforts keeping as it were an open Table for all Comers such were his Lips with which as well nay better than with his Bountiful Table he fed not only his Children and Servants but all who conversed with him Among whom I can truly say I never went to him but I did or might come away better'd by his gracious and prudent discourse Nor