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A60568	The life and death of Mr. William Moore, late fellow of Caius Colledge, and keeper of the University-Library as it was delivered in a sermon preached at his funeral-solemnity, April 24, 1659, in St Maries Church in Cambridge / by Tho. Smith ...	Smith, Thomas, 1623 or 4-1661.; Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4231A; ESTC R566	10,541	34

let thy Spirit of peace overshadow the minds of all contending parties and if it be thy will restore this Church to her pristine state renew her days as of old let her escape out of Egypt be so entire that not an hoof may be left behinde But if thy wisdome see it not yet a season for so full a deliverance Lord defer not we beseech thee such a degree of it as may at least secure her a being If she cannot recover her beauty yet O Lord grant her health such a soundness of constitution as may preserve her from dissolution Let thy providence find out some good Samaritans to cure her present wounds And to whomsoever thou shalt commit that important work Lord give them skilful hands and compassionate hearts direct them to such applications as may most speedily and yet most soundly heal the hurt of the daughter of Sion and make them so advert to the interests both of truth and peace that no lawfull condescension may be omitted nor any unlawfull made And do thou who art both the wonderful Counsellor and Prince of peace so guide and prosper all pacifick endeavors that all our distractions may be composed and our Jerusalem may again become a City at unity in it self that those happy primitive days may at length revert wherein Vice was the onely heresie that all our intestine contentions may be converted into a vigorous opposition of our common enemy our unbrotherly feuds into a Christian zeal against all that exalts it self against the obedience of Christ Lord hear us and ordain peace for us even for his sake whom thou hast ordained our Peace-maker Jesus Christ our Lord Prayer II. Evening O Most gracious Lord who doest not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men who smitest not till the importunitie of our sins enforce thee and then correctest in measure we thy unworthy creatures humbly acknowledge that we have abundantly tasted of this patience and lenity of thine To what an enormous height were our sins arrived ere thou beganst to visit them and when thou couldst no longer forbear yet mastering thy power thou hast not proportioned thy vengeance to our crimes but to thy own gracious design of reducing and reclaiming us Lord had the first stroke of thy hand been exterminating our guilts had justified the method but thou hast proceeded by such easy and gentle degrees as witness how much thou desiredst to be interrupted and shew us that all that sad weight we have long groaned under hath been accumulated onely by our own incorrigibleness 'T is now O Lord these many years that this Nation hath been in the furnace and yet our dross wasts not but increases it is owing onely to thy unspeakable mercy that we who would not be purified are not consumed that we remain a Nation who cease not to be a most sinfull and provoking Nation O Lord let not this long-suffering of thine serve onely to upbraid our obstinacy and enhanse our guilt but let it at last have the proper effect on us melt our hearts and lead us to repentance And oh that this may be the day for us thus to discern the things that belong to our peace that all who are yea and all who are not cast down this day in an external humiliation may by the operation of thy mighty Spirit have their souls laid prostrate before thee in a sincere contrition O thou who canst out of the very stones raise up children unto Abraham work our stony flinty hearts into such a temper as may be malleable to the impressions of thy grace that all the sinners in Sion may tremble that we may not by a persevering obstinacy seal to our selves both temporal and eternal ruine but instead of our mutinous complaining at the punishments of our sins search and try our ways and turn again to the Lord O be thou pleased to grant us this one grand fundamental mercy that we who so impatiently thirst after a change without us may render that possible and safe by this better more necessary change within us that our sins may not as they have so often done interpose and eclipse that light which now begins to break out upon us Lord thy dove seems to approach us with an olive-branch in her mouth oh let not our filth noisomness chase her away but grant us that true repentance which may atone thee and that Christian charity which may reconcile us with one another Lord let not our breach either with thee or among our selves be incurable but by making up the first prepare us for the healing of the latter And because O Lord the way to make us one fold is to have one shepheard be pleas'd to put us all under the conduct of Him to whom that charge belongs bow the hearts of this people as of one man that the onely contention may be who shall be most forward in bringing back our David O let none reflect on their past guilts as an argument to persevere but to repent and to make their return so sincere as may qualify them not onely for his but thy Mercy And Lord be pleased so to guide the hearts of all who shall be intrusted with that great concernment of setling this nation that they may weigh all their deliberations in the ballance of the Sanctuary that conscience not interest may be the ruling principle and that they may render to Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods that they may become healers of our breaches and happy repairers of the sad ruines both in Church and in State Grant O Lord that as those sins which made them are become National so the repentance may be National also and that evidenc'd by the proper fruits of it by zeal of restoring the rights both of thee and thine Anointed And do thou O Lord so dispose all hearts and remove all obstacles that none may have the will much less the power to hinder his peaceable restitution And Lord let him bring with him an heart so intirely devoted to thee that he may wish his own honour onely as a means to advance thine O let the precepts and examples of his Blessed Father never depart from his mind and as thou wert pleas'd to perfect the one by suffering so perfect the other by acting thy will that He may be a blessed instrument of replanting the power instead of the form of Godliness among us of restoring Christian vertue in a prophane and almost barbarous Nation And if any wish him for any distant ends if any desire his shadow as a shelter for their riots and licenciousness O let him come a great but happy defeat to all such not bring fewel but cure to their inordinate appetites and by his example as a Christian and his Authority as a King so invite to good and restrain from evil that he may not onely release our temporal but our spiritual bondage suppress those foul and scandalous vices which have so long captivated us and by securing our inward provide for the perpetuating our outward peace Lord establish thou his throne in righteousness make him a signall instrument of thy glory and our happiness and let him reap the fruits of it in comfort here and in bliss hereafter that so his earthly crown may serve to enhanse and enrich his heavenly Grant this O King of Kings for the sake and intercession of our Blessed Mediator Jesus Christ THE END The manner of Dr H's death D H. Hammond whose works both of charity and learning praise him in the gate was about the beginning of April 1660. seized with a fit of the stone which at first put him to acute pain but soon after changed it self into a languishment sorenes over the whole body attended with nauseatings and vomits usual symptomes in such cases and a suppression of urin for three days then a fit of bleeding c. Thus he remained till April 25 when a second fit of bleeding came After it succeeded a faintness which increased till one a clock at night which began a perpetual day to him and to us as great a darkness as the remove of such a luminary could create to the Church His disease though of the acutest kinde was in a manner without pain His soft departure would make a Christian in love with death for whereas at other times he was upon the like occasions subject to a lethargick stupor now he had his intellectuals perfect to the last and breathed out his soul in a Veni Domine Jesu FINIS * Not in Caius Colledge as he desired because Mr Dell would not suffer him to be buried by the Liturgy which was his last request * He was the last who read it in Caius Colledge-Chapel a De modo orandi Edit. Maire p 115. b Precum p. 302. fol.