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A52614 The life of Mr. Thomas Firmin, late citizen of London written by one of his most intimate acquaintance ; with a sermon on Luke X. 36, 37 preach'd on the occasion of his death ; together with An account of his religion, and of the present state of the Unitarian controversy. One of his most intimate acquaintance.; Nye, Stephen, 1648?-1719. 1698 (1698) Wing N1508; ESTC R4561 35,362 90

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of assistance than others and their condition being known sometimes we are able to assist them by our Counsel or our Interest much more effectually than by the Charity we do or can bestow upon them Before I pass to the next Scene of Mr. Firmin's Life I am obliged to take notice that by his first Wife he had a Son and a Daughter the former lived to man's estate but died a Batchelor about seven years before his Father The Mother of these two Children died while Mr. Firmin was occasionally at Cambridg managing there some affairs of his Trade her death was accompanied with this remarkable Circumstance Mr. Firmin dreamt at Cambridg that he saw his Wife breathing her last whereupon early in the morning he took Horse for London but on the way thither he met the Messenger who was sent to give him notice of her decease Another necessary Remark belonging to this part of his Life is that tho hitherto his wealth was no more than a competence considering his liberal humour and the multitude of his Acquaintance yet he was even then a most kind Brother Uncle and Kinsman Of which the Reader may take account in this following Transcript being the Copy of a Paper written by one of his nearest Relations and who hath lived with him above thirty years and was a great part of that time his Partner being a Person of great Sobriety Diligence Integrity and Prudence He had many Relations of several degrees who stood in need of his care and help to whom he was a very kind Brother Uncle and Kinsman besides the great pains he took to promote them as it lay in his way or power his loss by some of them for whom he advanced money and his disbursments for others of them amounted to very considerable sums a good part of which was not long after his first beginning in the World which was the greater prejudice to him because then his own circumstances required mony to carry on his Trade with ease and advantage Be sure he had then more occasion for his mony than when he was arrived to a very considerable Estate which he did not till about seventeen years before his death His Estate at about seventeen years before his decease was three times greater than when he died tho then considerable He might easily have increased it as much as he diminished it had he set his heart on Riches but those he never valued in comparison of doing good and I have often heard him say he would not die worth more than Five Thousand Pound Of his Liberalities to the Poor and the Deserving and the motives to them I may say enough hereafter But for his beneficence to his Kindred it proceeded not merely from the benignity of his Nature or natural Affection which however to cherish and improve is a great virtue but from his reverence to the Christian Religion For as he would frequently say that Passage of St. Paul to Timothy is to be read as it stands in the Margin of our Bibles He that provides not for his own KINDRED is worse than an Infidel so he was wont to give that Text as the reason of his Bounties to his Relations So far was he from that Deism of which some have been so over-forward to suspect him During the Imprisonment of Mr. Bidle at Scilly Mr. Firmin was setled in Lombardstreet where first Mr. Jacomb then Dr. Outram was Minister With these two being excellent Preachers and learned men he maintained a respectful and kind Friendship which was answered as affectionately and cordially on their parts Now also he grew into intimacy with Dr. Whichcot Dr. Worthington Dr. Wilkins Mr. Tillotson Dr. Wilkins was afterwards Bishop of Chester Mr. Tillotson for he was not yet made Doctor Archbishop of Canterbury but in their Dignity and to the very last Mr. Firmin had the same place and degree in their esteem and friendship that at any time formerly he had While Dr. Tillotson preached the Tuesdays Lecture at St. Lawrence so much frequented by all the Divines of the Town and by a great many Persons of Quality and Distinction when the Doctor was obliged to be at Canterbury where he was Dean or was out of Town either for diversion or health he generally left it to Mr. Firmin to provide Preachers for his Lecture and Mr. Firmin never failed to supply his place with some very eminent Preacher so that there never was any complaint on the account of Dr. Tillotson's absence And this Mr. Firmin could easily do for now there was hardly a Divine of Note whether in London or in the Country that frequented London but Mr. Firmin was come acquainted with him Which thing helped him much to serve the Interests of many hopeful young Preachers and Scholars Candidates for Lectures Schools Cures or Rectories for whom he would solicit with as much affection and diligence as other men do for their Sons or near Relations See here a Trader who knew no Latin or Greek no Logick or Philosophy compast about by an incredible number of learned Friends who differed so widely in opinion from him and were continually attacking him for his supposed Errors yet could they never remove him from the belief of the Vnity of God nor did their Importunities or his Resistance break off or so much as lessen the friendship between 'em certain arguments of the extraordinary wit and good address of our Friend Her late Majesty Queen Mary of most happy memory having heard much of Mr. Firmin's usefulness in all publick Designs especially those of Charity and that he was heterodox in the Articles of the Trinity the Divinity of our Saviour and the Satisfaction She spoke to Archbishop Tillotson and earnestly recommended it to him to set Mr. Firmin right in those weighty and necessary points The Archbishop answered that he had often endeavour'd it but Mr. Firmin having so early and long imbibed the Socinian Doctrine was not now capable of a contrary impression However his Grace published his Sermons formerly preached at St. Lawrence's concerning those Questions and sent Mr. Firmin one of the first Copies from the Press Mr. Firmin not convinced by his Grace's Reasonings or his Arguments from Holy Scripture caused a respectful Answer altho some have stretched one Expression too far entituled Considerations on the Explications and Defences of the Doctrine of the Trinity to be drawn up and publisht himself giving to his Grace a Copy of it I must not omit to do the Archbishop right against those who pretend that the Archbishop notwithstanding those Sermons was in his heart a Vnitarian For Mr. Firmin himself told me shortly after the Archbishop had publisht those Sermons that going to Lambeth and the Archbishop hapning to dine in private he sent for Mr. Firmin to him and said to this effect That the Calumnies of people had obliged him to publish his Sermons some time since preached at St. Laurence's against the Tenents of Socinus that he had