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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33462	Capel's remains being an useful appendix to his excellent Treatise of tentations, concerning the translations of the Holy Scriptures : left written with his own hand / by that incomparably learned and jucicious divine, Mr. Richard Capel, sometimes fellow of Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford ; with a preface prefixed, wherein is contained an abridgement of the authors life, by his friend Valentine Marshall.	Capel, Richard, 1586-1656.; Marshall, Valentine.; Capel, Richard, 1586-1656. Tentations.	1658 (1658)	Wing C471; ESTC R5922	60,793	168

best friends wisht it had been otherwise but there will be something of humane infirmity cleaving to us all Yet the times are to be considered and the nature of a many with whom he had to deal that could no more away with a down-right blow then some can away with sound doctrine And let me say this that know it there 's never a prudent heart but it might have pickt sweet out of that that some did most of all distaste a Erasmus hurt the Pope more by his jesting then Luther by his ruffling This man gave a deadlier blow to the iniquiry of the times in his jocular way then the best of us all can do in our most serious undertakings Let me further adde he would be as serious as any man living upon a just and fit occasion and would be as tender to troubled spirits as heart could desire Vrbanus Regius having one dayes converse with Luther said it was one of the a sweetest days that ever he had in all his life Some can say as much of this rare man when they had him as all might have had him in the right vein 3. In that faithful advice and counsel he would give to all of all sorts upon all emergent occasions It was said in old time they shall ask counsel at Abel b and so they ended their matters The common conflux of almost all in our parts hath been still to his house Oyntment and perfume rejoyce the heart so did the c sweetnesse of this man by his hearty counsel He was to thee as another N●sior I found him ever a most faithful Achates and therefore I made him as Tully did his Atticus my constant Asylum for many a year together The light I had from him was a good cynosura His dexterous counsel the Ariadne's threed that led me out of many a perplexing Labyrinth He was as that famous Augur in d Homer that could see things past and present and shrewdly guesse also at those that were to come e Old mens counsels they say are young mens lances f Calvines were very prosperous so were his Many a young Beginner and tyred conflicter fetcht all their best weapons out of this mans Armory 4. In his preaching the Gospel so freely for the most part of his last twenty years Freely he had received and freely he would give Not that he thought it unlawful for a Minister to take maintenance orto take that maintenance that hath been publickly set aside in this land for that He paid himself and very duelie too all the whole time of his preaching thus freely to One that did not much in the work of the Ministry and He did it upon this ground al o because He knew it to be His due I dispute not his point with those that be hampered in opinion but heartily wish them with all those that in these times be so extreamly defective in their practice to consider what hath befallen from the pens of pious men that have been far enough off from being this way interessed Master a Cartwright writes sharply I confesse they that take away the tythes of the Ministers and turne them to their own use would doubtlesse crucifie Christ Himselfe again if he were here upon Earth b Beza speaks of some that leave Christ as the souldiers did which crucified Him either stark naked or but sorrily clad so to do saith he is not to love God but the goods of God more then God Doctor c John Rainolds saith our Ancestours provided Houses Glebe-land Tythes and other profits fot the maintenance of Pastors and a little after he saith The Churches goods allotted to the maintenance of Pastors and Teachers are not profane but sacred and therefore the sin of them that purloine them is sacriledge not theft wherein God is spoiled a 'T is a snare to devour that that 's holy and after vowes to make enquiry Anan●as and Saphira were made a dreadful spectacle for nimming of a little of that that was set aside for God The Eagle fired her whole nest by one poor piece of flesh pluckt from the Altar I can propose this the more freely because 't is well known I never had one mites worth in tythes in all my dayes nor do I desire it The people of this land are cursed with a curse and will not see the cause of it their robbing of God Mal. 3. 8 9. in tythes and offerings When shall we prove God and see if he will not pour us out a blessing Mal. 3. 10. It would be a great joy to some that shall get nothing by it to hear the Israel of God tuning it out once again before the Lord b I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house I haue not taken away ought thereof for any unclean that is common use saith c J●nius For then they might say with heart and hope Lord look down from thy holy habitation and blesse thy people and the Land that thou hast given us Deuter. 26. 15. The practise of this knowing man will sway with some that was such a burning and shining lamp The more to be admired that it blaz'd so long and so clearly too without any of this sublunary oyle His minde was so well a-paid with his small gaine in Physick together with what he had of his own temporal estate that he would accept of nothing for his preaching of any man living though never so much pressed and tendered He took not himself bound as the case stood to the labour of the Ministry there being another incumbent in the place What he did was meerly in love to God mens souls He met with many diversions the tempests of the times His own domestick troubles age creeping one store of sick and sad people recourse of all sorts so that he had scarce an houre a free for study yet nothing would take him off from this employment till God took him off from all his labours 5. In his living down the iniquity of the times He did not onely cry it down in his publick preaching but gave it a more deadly blow in his contrary walking Noah condemned the world more by what he b did then by what he said The way this man took put some to a stand caused others to relent and repent and set some the more on in the good and right way whilest they had his pattern that could not be contradicted Now that He 's gone we have an harder taske but God will carry on his owne work 7. For his self-denial This is in every mans mouth but hardly to be had in any mans practise Selfe hath ever been is and will be the great Diana for all mens faire pretences We read of him that could give golden a words but when it came to the point he would not mar his inheritance Self hath too great a stroke in the best of us all both Preachers and Professours