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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55005	Memorials of godliness & Christianity in three parts : with a brief account of the authors life / by Herbert Palmer.	Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647.	1670 (1670)	Wing P240; ESTC R27526	31,188	143

admirer of and having great knowledge in the Scriptures which he took great delight in when young and highly honoured whilst he lived He kept a perfect Diery of all or most of the passages of his Life He often set whole days apart to humble himself in private by Fasting and Prayer He took the degree of Batchelor of Arts in the year 1630. and in 1632. he was taken in by the the Vniversity as a Vniversity Preacher In the year 1643. he was called to be one of the Assembly of Divines and some time after elected as Pastor in Dukes-Place from whence he removed to New-Church in Westminster where he was the first Minister that preached there in both which places he was highly and greatly esteemed of and by all his Auditors that were professors of piety During also his Ministry at New-Church he was a Lecturer at the Abbey Church in Westminster and so painfull was he in the service of God that he never declined any Ministerial exercise that he was requested to perform whether in publick or in private He was of a loving friendly disposition courteous and affable in his carriage towards men of the lowest rank or degree April 1644. he was constituted Master of Queens-Colledge by the Earl of Manchester where he caused the exercise of Sermons to be continued in the Colledge Chappel weekly all the year where also he endeavoured to promote Learning by his constant exhortation of the Scholars to sedulity in their studies purchasing also by his own moneys many Authors which he gave to the Library and maintained at his own charge divers poor and necessitous Scholars He was a man of a publick spirit laying out himself for God greatly self-denying and very Zealous for and in the things of God His freedome and faithfulness in reference to the publick affairs may appear by the Sermons he preach'd before the Parliament at Westminster Divers of which are now in Print His Temperance and Sobriety were great as well in his Apparel as in his Dyet The good works he did while living commands us to praise his liberal charity and charitable liberality The time of his sickness was not long his distemper having little to feed on he whilst in health spending himself so much in the service and work of God His humility his patience in sickness his faith upon God and submission to Gods will did most eminently discover themselves while sick His deportment therein being holy and heavenly and his discourse full of such expressions that discovered where his heart was One exhorting him to cast the burden of his sickness upon God he made this reply I should do very unworthily if when I have Preached to others that they should cast their burden upon God I should not do so my self Anno Christi 1647 in the 46 year of his age he returned his Soul into the hands of God And for his body it lyes buried in the New-Church at Westminster and thus he lived and so he dyed and now he 's dead his works do live Vivitur post funera virtus ANd thus kind Reader you have a brief Epitome of the Life of that Reverend Learned Laborious Pious and Painfull Divine who is the Author of this small yet sweet and precious Treatise from the perusal of which I 'le not detain thee by long or tedious digressions of my own begging only acceptance of what may be well and pardon for what is ill done from all but carping Momuses whose favour not expecting I plainly declare I no more value or care for their censures than I prize or esteem the flatteries of fond and foolish Parasites HE that desires to see a larger Account of the Life of this Reverend Divine let them peruse it as Written by the Learned Mr. Clark in his Book of Lives Of making Religion ones Business MY true Friend It hath been an usual saying with me would God I could ever have the feeling of it in my self That the Character of a godly man is to make Religion his business I will now a little descant upon it so as to set down what I should and would do in this kind I shall set a copy at least to teach my self and provide a remembrancer to quicken my frequent dulness 1. I desire to have my Affections all moulded by Religion and towards it my thoughts and words and deeds to be all exercises of Religion and my very cessation from works commanded by Religion and limited and circumstantiated by Religion my eating drinking sleeping journeying visiting entertaining of friends to be all directed by Religion And that above all I may be serious and busie in the acts of Religion about the Word Prayer Praises Singing Sacraments not only that the duties in each kind be performed but religiously performed with life and vigour with Faith Humility and Charity 2. To these ends I desire my heart may be possessed with these two fundamental principles 1. That Religion is the end of my Creation and of all the benefits not only spiritual but temporal which God bestows upon me 2. That Religion is my felicity even for the present though derived from that eternall felicity which is now laid up for me and to be hereafter possessed by me in Heaven So glorious is that felicity that from the first moment of our interest in it it casts a lightsome gladsome brightness upon the soul even many years sometimes before the enjoyment of the fulness of it like to the Sunne shedding forth his fore-running beams to enlighten all our part of the world many minutes before his full light offers it self to our eye 3. When I speak thus of Religion to be Felicity I mean it of God and Christ the object of Religion without whom Religion is but an empty Name a pernicious errour But as Religion is to know God and him whom he hath sent Jesus Christ it is eternal life begun now here below but never to end in any time or place 4. I wish these thoughts may meet me first in the morning as worldly-minded mens businesses do them that I may count all things but interruptions till my mind be settled in its course for that day and that my mind be so setled and habituated in these purposes that it may be readily in order ordinarily and only need time for solemn performance of religious duties and for extraordinary projects 5. Specially I wish as I am bound by millions of eternal obligations That I may love the Lord my God Christ Jesus my Redeemer with all my heart with all my soul with all my mind with all my strength to the utmost extent of all these phrases and that to make my mind more apprehensive of them I may not prophane any of them by using to say in slight matters I love such a thing with all my heart or I will do such a thing with all my heart It may seem a nicety to check such a phrase But I read this morning Pro. 7.2 Keep my