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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71133	Some remarkable passages in the holy life and death of the late Reverend Mr. Edmund Trench most of them drawn out of his own diary.	Trench, Edmund, 1643-1689.; Boyse, J. (Joseph), 1660-1728.	1693 (1693)	Wing T2109; ESTC R7785	40,931	132

'em of another World their Spirits sinking and Remedies proving less effectual In all his Practice he was generously free from Covetousness not using any Tricks to encrease it nor unworthily seeking to or humouring his Patients weary of numerous though profitable Visits and industriously speeding their Recovery prescribing no more than he judg'd needful and frequently refusing Fees which even his Patients thought he might as well have taken He was still the same sincere plain-hearted Man free and open without Deceits and Tricks in his Calling and all other Affairs And sure he was the more Blessed of God otherwise considering he was no Politician apt to believe the best and trust as if others were as far from dissembling as himself he cou'd not have liv'd and brought up his Children as he did nor his Losses consider'd left such a Competence to his Widow and them He constantly persever'd in those good ways into which he was entred by his Parents and when they grew old and very infirm he made it more his business 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and that even when grey Heirs grew upon himself and his own Distempers increast the dissiculty of complying with others About 50 he was troubled with the Stone from which God's Blessing on his own Endeavours reliev'd him But then about 8 Years before his Death he fell into an incurable Jaundise accompanied for a while with a Scirrbus in his Liver frequent troublesome Itchings Aguish Shiverings of long continuance little and disturbed sleep violent Fits of the Colick great Appetite with ill Digestion and other very troublesome Symptoms He bare all with exemplary Patience and Contentment never that we cou'd perceive repining at such severe Dispensations nor ever praying for their removal nor yielding though importun'd to have one Day set apart to seek on his behalf When we wish'd him a good Night in his Fits he wou'd reply It should be good because it pleased God He wou'd rarely let any stay a Night by him affirming He was not alone but the Father was with him And with the Father he sometimes enjoy'd more Heavenly Communion which yet was not constant and long as his Peace and Hope were they hardly admitted any interruption but he generally long'd to be Dissolv'd and to be with his God and Saviour and spake thereof often with delight In the Year 65. when the Plague began to rage the Weekly Account amounting to about 3000 the importunity of Friends drew him with us to Dr. Drake's in Burnham 2 Miles short of Maiden-head where yet he was more in Reading Meditation and Prayer He exprest a still greater sense of the Love of God in Christ and of his truth and goodness in afflicting him He profest his Soul more establish't thereby with a powerful Conviction of all Creatures Vanity and rais'd to more vigorous actings of a realizing Faith in holy Heavenly Meditations That the sweetness and prosit thereof in his Retirements were such that he fear'd the return of his usual Employment and shou'd be afraid of losing his wearisom affliction without great assurance that Health should be as spiritually advantagious as Sickness professing his constant Judgment that the least Progress in Grace and Holiness was greater matter of Joy than the greatest Affliction of Sorrow He judg'd it very unbecoming a Christian for Sense so far to prevail against Reason and Faith as to raise any considerable Averseness from drinking of that Cup which his Sovereign Lord and tender Father most wisely prepar'd for his good Accordingly he desir'd his Friends to shew their Love in praying for a progressive sanctify'd Improvement of his Sufferings and not for their Removal and wish't 'em comfortably to believe there was no such harm in affliction as we are apt to imagine The Fire of London remov'd him first to an House near Stepncy and soon after to another in Crouched-Friars where he chearfully expected his deliverance by Death 1669. he grew consident of its approach Aug. 14. being his Wedding-day he rejoyc'd with some Invited Friends affirming it the last he should live on Edrth. October he spake of his sensible Decays as Tokens of his near desired Rest About the middle of December he caus'd his Will to be new drawn ordering particularly that Clause to be inserted That he commended his Soul on good Evidence into the hands of God adding that he left us much less than the World imagin'd but he hop'd God's Blessing with it having never wrong'd any Man of a Penny A Day after 14 before he died when I was discoursing of his dissolution he said He cou'd appeal to God through his infinite goodness that since his Youth he had walk't before him with an upright heart never wasting his Conscience with any gross sin that he comfortably believ'd his Regeneration by the Holy Spirit and saving Interest in his dearest Saviour and had accordingly enjoy'd a constant Tranquillity of Mind not without some short and seldom more ravishing Joys He then renew'd his oft repeated Charge of loving and serving God being dutiful to our Mother and helpful to our little Sister which yet he said he did not doubt of and to our great comfort Blessed my self and Brother blessing God also for us Perceiving his Distempers and sore Mouth to encrease he took a solemn leave of my Mother telling her with Joy he was going to his God and her God and that ' ere long they should meet to part no more After which he bid us not expect to hear much from him but believe his mind still the same Accordingly he persisted bearing patiently his grievous pains yet saying little tho' enough to signific his uninterrupted hope and joy till Friday 31. ●●●●mb 1669. when after some imperfect Words but 2 hours before of ●●ath and Christ and Pardon his Spirit return'd to his Heavenly Father and instead of a New-Year on Earth caused a glorious Eternity in Heaven 〈◊〉 lives still in the honourable Re●●●●rance of such as knew him ne●●● mention'd to my knowledge with reproach oft with Elogies of his Piety Sincerity Ability and Faithsulness as a Man a Friend and a Physician Some I doubt bad themselves commended his Goodness acknowledging the common though I think unjust reproach of his Calling cou'd not be fasten'd on him O may I by the help and to the Glory of Divine Grace imitate such excellent Examples and not degenerate from 'em but serve God with all my might according to my Father's Symbol In Simplicity and godly Sincerity My Grandsather was a Pattern of Humility and Meckness and yet of Resolution when there was a Cause of great Charitableness in Word and Deed especially to his Relations who had great Summs from him which yet his Children did not want He was likewise an eminent Instance that Doubts and Fears and horrid Suggestions may infest the truly yea the excellently Good and that great Losses and Crosses in Estate and Kindred may consist with God's especial Favour My Father set me a bright Example