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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