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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77664	A rare paterne of iustice and mercy; exemplified in the many notable, and charitable legacies of Sr. Iames Cambel, Knight, and alderman of London, deceased : worthy imitation. Whereunto is annexed A meteor, and A starre : or, Briefe and pleasant meditations of Gods providence to his chosen, of the education of children and of the vertue of love; with other poems. / By Edw: Browne.	Browne, Edward.	1642 (1642)	Wing B5105; Thomason E1109_1; ESTC R208421	51,495	182

be possible to prevent them Their death is a plaine prognostication of some evils to come and should bee as a trumpet to awaken others out of the sleepe of sinne Many of the wicked rejoyce when the godly are taken away from them they love their roomes better then their company they hated them and their profession in their life time because as they say they are not for our profit and they are contrary to our doings they checke us for offending against the law it grieves us to looke upon them for their lives are not like other men and therefore at their death they are glad that they are rid of them when indeed they have greater cause to howle and weepe for the miseries that shall come upon them The righteous need not to imitate the ungodly practice of Herod who being ready to die and thinking that his death would be a great joy to many shut up in prison some Noblemen in every town and required his sister Salome and her husband Alexa that so soone as he was dead they should kill those Noblemen and then all Iudea would lament his death The Lord himselfe doth often make the death of the righteous to bee lamented by sending of extraordinary judgements immediately after their death When Noah entred into the Arke the world is drowned with the floud when Lot departs out of Sodome it is burnt with fire 2 In this respect also the righteous have no cause to feare death but rather to desire it for what is it but an ending of some troubles and a preventing of others They may with Paul desire to be loosed to be with Christ which is best of all It is true which Salomon saith That the day of a mans death is better then the day of his birth For the day of a godly mans birth is the beginning of his miserie but the day of his death is the end of his miserie Indeed the day of a wicked mans death is the most wofull day that ever be●ell him for he is not taken away from the evill to come but he is taken unto evill to bee tormented in hell for evermore And therefore hee feares death as much as a malefactor feareth a Serjeant that commeth to carry him to prison where he is like to abide till the day of execution That is true in them which the Divell said Skin for skin and all that ever a man hath will he give for his life And as the Gibeonites were content rather to be bondmen hewers of wood and drawers of water then to bee killed by the Israelites as other nations were So they had rather indure any kinde of miserie then to die as others doe because they feare a worse estate after death and therefore must bee pulled from the earth with as great violence as Ioab was pulled from the hornes of the altar unto which he had fled as to a place of refuge But the godly knowing what an happie exchange they make by death they desire to die so soone as it pleaseth the Lord. Indeed none ought for the ending of present calamities or preventing of future miseries to shorten their owne dayes as Saul did by falling on his owne sword nor yet for the present enjoying of eternall happinesse procure their owne death as Cleombrotus did who reading Plato his booke of the immortalitie of the soule cast himselfe headlong from a wall that he might change this life for a better He onely who gave life must take it away and the Lord may say to such I will receive no soules which against my will have gone out of the body the Philosophers which did so were martyrs of foolish Philosophy Yet seeing that death freeth the righteous from present and future miseries they may be most willing to die so soone as the Lord calleth for them and when death approacheth may say with Simeon Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace 3 Lastly in this respect we must learne not to mourne immoderately for the death of the righteous Though wee received great comfort and enjoyed some benefit by them while they were alive as I did by my late Master Sir Iames Cambel yet seeing that death is an advantage unto them we should ●ee content patiently to bear our owne losse in respect of their great gaine If two friends should lie in prison together or should dwel together in a strange Countrey where both of them were hardly used were many wayes injured endured great want and sustained much miserie though they loved one another dearly and the one were an he●pe and comfort to the other yet if the one should bee taken from the other and brought to his chiefest friends and among them be not onely freed from all such miseries as before he had endured but also bee advanced to great preferment will the other which is left behinde him be discontented at it Will he not rather wish himselfe to bee there with him in the like then desire that either hee had stayed with him or might returne againe This our life is as a prison or strange Country in which wee indure great miserie and may every day looke for more if therefore our dearest friends bee taken from us freed from these miseries and advanced to great glory with Christ and his Saints in the Kingdome of heaven wee have no cause to wish that either they had stayed longer with us or might returne againe unto us but rather desire that wee might quickly goe unto them to bee glorified in like sort Though we may thinke that they died too soone for us yet they died not too soone for themselves for the sooner they come to rest and happinesse the better it is for them Their condition is farre better then ours for they are freed from miserie we are reserved for further miserie they are already arrived at the haven of eternall rest and we are still tossed on the sea of this world with troublesome waves and dangerous tempests they have ended their journey with lesser travell and making a shorter cut and wee are yet travelling with wearisomnes in our journey If any one of them could speake after their death he would say unto them which weepe for him as Christ said to the daughters of Ierusalem Weepe not for me but weepe for your selves and for your children because of the dangerous dayes that shall ensue Or as Christ said unto his Disciples If ye loved me ye would verily rejoyce because I goe unto the Father But if examples doe move any thing at all I may apply all that hath beene spoken to this present occasion A righteous man is perished a mercifull man is taken away for God hath made me seriously to consider and lay close to my heart the losse of my late ●udicious loving Master Sir Iames Cambel Therefore for a memoriall of him I have presumed to set forth his unparallel'd Legacies Which though they be unskilfully performed yet God may work such an effect in

so it falls and as man lives so for the most part he dyes except God worke a miracle as he did at the houre of death upon the Thiefe upon the Crosse And the most safest way to judge of a mans actions while he lived is to consider his behaviour at his death yet let us take heed how we rashly judge any as is before specified and rather judge charitably of all then uncharitably of any But Christs words are most certainly true that a bad tree cannot bring forth good fruit neither can a good tree bring forth evill fruit for men doe not gather grapes of thornes nor figges of thistles therefore by their fruits you shall know them Now it was not my happines to bee with him at the houre of his death neither did I continue long in his presence during the time of his sicknesse because I had given him just cause of offence by some misdemeanours And likewise because I was sensible of my great losse of him in whom I thought my livelihood did consist for I did ever doubt that he would not bestow upon me any great benevolence at his death because he was so willing ●o doe mee good in his life Yet this I can testifie that he as Hezekiah having set his house in order by composing of his Will did prepare himselfe for death shall I say a month or two nay I may affirme a yeare or two before he died during which time hee seldome went abroad but kept in his house and spent his spare time in reading the Bible and other good bookes and in singing of Psalmes and especially the 39. Psal which he did often sing with very much chearfulnes And upon Newyeares day last perceiving his houre draw neere sealed his Will and went quietly to bed as to his grave from which place he would not be removed till the houre of his death which was upon the Wednesday following betweene six and seven of the clocke in the morning And one thing I cannot but observe that when any came to visit him during those foure daies viz. from Saturday to Wednesday and demanded how he did he would answer Sick as a prisoner in hope which me thinks was a heavenly speech for hee knew his soule was imprisoned in a brittle house of clay out of which he hoped she should shortly bee delivered and carried by the Angels of God into a heavenly habitation to enjoy everlasting freedome which I hope hee hath found But all this while I have ceased to treat of Justice and Mercy which was the chiefe of my intention for though they may be comprehended in the other forenamed vertues yet they are more conspicuous and apparent in his many judiciary and charitable Legacies bequeathed in his last Will Testament which might I have leave to publish in his owne words and make a commentary thereon according to my fancy me thinkes I could describe Justice and Mercy in most lively colours For first unto his Lady Justice and Mercy met together Justice in performance of his agreement mercy in remembrance of his love But in this could have wished that mercy had exceeded justice for as she● hath beene a loving wife to him neere 24. yeares so it is wel● knowne that she is a charitabl● woman and for that cause Si● Iames made her the executrix o● his Will which otherwise he● would not have done For I am confident saith he in one clause o● his Testament that she will see thi● my Will really performed Secondly Justice appeares in his other bequests to his kindred and alliance In that hee hath given most to them he did least for in his life so that there might be an equivolence amongst all and none to take exception against the other Thirdly Justice appeares in his other bequests especially to his poore servants and retainers that he hath forgot none but remembred all in a lumpe of 300. pound to bee disposed at such times in such parcels and to such persons as his Lady pleaseth some of them being such as deserved nothing are his owne words in one clause of his will where they are thus mentioned And herein was a point of policy to keepe them under subjection in depending upon her favour After them hee remembers me with 20. pound on purpose to make me as I ever thought my selfe to be in some sort like Iacob to depend upon Gods providence on my owne endeavours that I should strive against such opposition that should be made against me in being an actor in the execution of these famous Legacies and if I shall deserve nothing for my paines therein according to Sir Iames his will I will have nothing But letting justice and mercy remaine with him in the actions of his life behold mercy shall flourish after his death And as she is over all Gods workes so she hath preheminence over all Sir Iames his bequests in a more eminent manner For hee hath not onely given ●eliefe to the poore and needy for the present but for the future So that these 7. workes of Mercy appertaining to the body according to this verse Visito poto cibo redimo tego colligo condo are accomplished by Sir Iames in his charitable Legacies for therein if you doe observe he hath visited the sicke given drinke to the thirsty fed the hungry redeemed captives and prisoners clothed the naked lodged the harbourlesse and buried the dead nay more hee hath not onely provided reliefe for the body but hee hath had regard to the soule according to this ve●se Co●sul● castiga solare remitte fer ora He hath instructed the ignorant corrected the sinner comforted the heavie hearted forgiven offences borne with the weake and prayed for all Therefore there is no question to be made but that he hath received his reward in part with an Euge bone serve well done good and faithfull servant come and receive the kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world for I was hungry c. First that poor children should be wel educated and brought up in good learning hee hath given one thousand Markes for the erection and maintenance of a Free-Schoole in the towne of Barking in Essex Secondly to keep youth from beggery and theevery which is begot by sloath and idlenesse the root of all evill hee hath bequeathed two thousand pounds for a stocke to keep such at labour and worke in Bridewell that they as others should labour with their owne hands and in the sweat of their browes eate their bread according as God commanded Adams posterity and this stocke is to be ordered and disposed by the advice and counsell of the sagest and gravest Senators of this City Thirdly to enable young beginners to goe on chearfully in their callings in workes of good husbandry he hath left thirteene hundred pounds to bee lent to poore freemen of the company of Ironmongers 100. pound a man upon good security at 4. li. per centum for a yeare Fourthly for the