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cause_n	death_n	die_v	life_n	5,110	5	5.0778	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30441	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Honourable Robert Boyle at St. Martins in the Fields, January 7, 1691/2 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1692 (1692)	Wing B5899; ESTC R21619	22,132	38

Inward motion to it by the Holy Ghost and the first Question that is put to those who come to be Initiated into the Service of the Church relating to that Motion he who had not felt it thought he durst not make the step least otherwise he should have lyed to the Holy Ghost So solemnly and seriously did he judge of Sacred Matters He was constant to the Church and went to no separated Assemblies how charitably soever he might think of their Persons and how plentifully soever he might have relived their necessities He loved no narrow Thoughts nor low or superstitious Opinions in Religion and therefore as he did not shut himself up within a Party so neither did he shut any Party out from him He had brought his Mind to such a freedom that he was not apt to be imposed on and his Modesty was such that he did not dictate to others but proposed his own Sense with a due and decent distrust and was ever every ready to hearken to what was suggested to him by others When he differed from any he expressed himself in so humble and so obliging a way that he never treated Things or Persons with neglect and I never heard that he offended any one Person in his whole Life by any part of his Deportment For if at any time he saw cause to speak roundly to any it was never in Passion or with any reproachful or indecent Expressions And as he was careful to give those who conversed with him no Cause or Colour for displeasure so he was yet more careful of those who were absent never to speak ill of any in which he was the exactest Man I ever knew If the Discourse turn'd to be hard on any he was presently silent and if the Subject was too long dwelt on he would at last interpose and between Reproof and Rallery divert it He was exactly civil rather to Ceremony and though he felt his easiness of access and the desires of many all Strangers in particular to be much with him made great wasts on his Time yet as he was severe in that not to be denied when he was at home so he said he knew the Heart of a Stranger and how much eased his own had been while travelling if admitted to the Conversation of those he desired to see therefore he thought his Obligation to Strangers was more than bare Civility it was a piece of Religious Charity in him He had for almost Forty years laboured under such a feebleness of Body and such lowness of Strength and Spirits that it will appear a surprizing thing to imagine how it was possible for him to Read to Meditate to try Experiments and to write as he did He bore all his Infirmities and some sharp Pains with the decency and submission that became a Christian and a Philosopher He had about him all that unaffected neglect of Pomp in Cloaths Lodging Furniture and Equipage which agreed with his grave and serious course of Life He was advised to a very ungrateful simplicity of Diet which by all appearance was that which preserved him so long beyond all Mens expectation this he observed so strictly that in a course of above Thirty years he neither eat nor drank to gratifie the Varieties of Appetite but meerly to support Nature and was so regular in it that he never once transgressed the Rule Measure and Kind that was prescribed him He had a feebleness in his Sight his Eyes were so well used by him that it will be easily imagined he was very tender of them and very apprehensive of such Distempers as might affect them He did also imagine that if sickness obliged him to lie long a Bed it might raise the Pains of the Stone in him to a degree that was above his weak Strength to bear so that he feared that his last Minutes might be too hard for him and this was the Root of all the caution and apprehension that he was observed to live in But as to Life it self he had the just indifference to it and the weariness of it that became so true a Christian. I mention these the rather that I may have occasion to shew the Goodness of God to him in the two things that he feared for his sight began not to grow dimm above four Hours before he died and when death came upon him he had not been above Three hours a Bed before it made an end of him with so little uneasiness that it was plain the Light went out meerly for want of Oil to maintain the Flame But I have looked too early to this Conclusion of his Life yet before I can come at it I find there is still much in my way His Charity to those that were in Want and his Bounty to all Learned Men that were put to wrastle with Difficulties were so very extraordinary and so many did partake of them that I may spend little time on this Article Great Summs went easily from him without the Partialities of Sect Country or Relations for he considered himself as a part of the Humane Nature and as a Debtor to the whole Race of Men. He took care to do this so secretly that even those who knew all his other Concerns could never find out what he did that way and indeed he was so strict to our Saviour's Precept that except the Persons themselves or some one whom he trusted to convey it to them no body ever knew how that great share of his Estate which went away invisibly was distributed even he himself kept no Account of it for that he thought might fall into other hands I speak upon full knowledge on this Article because I had the honour to be often made use of by him in it If those that have fled hither from the Persecutions of France or from the Calamities of Ireland feel a sensible sinking of their secret Supplies with which they were often furnished without knowing from whence they came they will conclude that they have lost not only a Purse but an Estate that went so very liberally among them that I have reason to say that for some years his Charity went beyond a Thousand Pound a year Here I thought to have gone to another Head but the Relation he had both in Nature and Grace in living and dying in friendship and a likeness of Soul to another Person forces me for a little while to change my Subject I have been restrain'd from it by some of her Relations but since I was not so by her self I must give a little vent to Nature and to Friendship to a long Acquaintance and a vast Esteem His sister and he were pleasant in their Lives and in their Death they were not divided for as he lived with her above Fourty years so he did not outlive her above a Week Both died from the same Cause Nature being quite spent in both She lived the longest on the publickest Scene she made the greatest Figure in all the Revolutions