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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77900	The life and death of Sir Matthew Hale, Knt. late Lord Chief Justice of England. Containing many pious and moral rules for humane conversation. : Also, many remarkable sayings and worthy actions of the said lord chief justice. : And many other things worth the readers perusal. / Written originally by Dr. Gilbert Burnet, now Bishop of Salisbury.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1700 (1700)	Wing B5829A; ESTC R175615	23,651	17

afterwards he brought the Original Deed to the Lord Chancellor and did formally surrender his Office As soon as he was discharged from his great Place he returned home with as much Chearfulness as his want of Health could admit of being now eased of a Burthen he had been of late groaning under and so made more capable of Enjoying that which he had much wished for according to his Elegant Translation of or rather Paraphrase upon those excellent Lines in Seneca's Thyestes Act. 2. Let him that will ascend the tottering Sect Of courtly Grandeur and become as great As are his mounting Wishes As for me Let sweet repose and rest my Portion be Give me some mean obscure Recess a Sphere Out of the Road of Business or the fear Of falling lower where I sweetly may My self and dear retirement still enjoy Let not my Life or Name be known unto The Grandees of the Time tost too and fro By Censures or Applause but let my Age Slide gently by not ●…erthwart the Stage Of publick Action unheard unseen And unconcern'd as if I near had been And thus while I shall pass my silent days In shady privacy free from the Noise And bustles of the mad World than shall I A good old Innocent Plebeian Dye Death is a mere Surprise a very Snare To him that makes it his Life's greatest Care To be a publick Pageant known to all But unacquainted with himself doth fall He could not lie down in Bed above a Year before his Death by reason of the Asthma but sat rather than lay in it He was attended on in his Sickness by a Pious and Worthy Divine Mr. Evan Griffith Minister of the Parish and it was observ'd that in all the Extremities of his Pain when ever he pray'd by him he forbore all Complaints or Groans but with his Hands and Eyes lifted up was fixed in his Devotions Not long before his Death the Minister told him There was to be a Sacrament next Sunday at Church but he believed he could not come and partake with the rest therefore he would give it to him in his own House But he answer'd No his Heavenly Father had prepared a Feast for him and he would go to his Father's House to partake of it So he made himself be carried thither in his Chair where he received the Sacrament on his Knees with great Devotion which it may be supposed was the greater because he apprehended it was to be his Last and so took it as his Viaticum and Provision for his Journey He had some secret unaccountable Presages of his Death for he said that if he did not die on such a Day which fell to be the 25th of November he believed he should live a Month longer and he died that very day Month. He continued to enjoy the free use of his Reason and Sence to the last Moment which he had often and earnestly prayed for during his Sickness And when his Voice was so sunk that he could not ●e heard they perceived by the almost constant lifting up of his Eyes and Hands that he was still Aspiring towards that Blessed State of which he was now speedily to be possessed He had for many Years a particular Devotion for Christmas-Day and after he had received the Sacrament and been in the performance of the publick Worship of that Day he commonly wrote a Copy of Verses on the Honour of his Saviour as a fit Expression of the Joy he felt in his Soul at the return of that Glorious Anniversary There are 17 of those Copies printed which he writ on 17 several Christmas-Days by which the World has a Taste of his Poetical Genius in which if he had thought it worth his time to have Excelled he might have been Eminent as well as in other things but he writ them rather to entertain himself than to merit the Lawrel I shall here add one which has not been yet printed and it is not unlikely it was the last he writ it is a Paraphrase on Simeon s Song I take it from his blotted Copy not at all finished so the Reader is to make Allowance for any Imperfection he may find in it Blessed Creator who before the Birth Of Time or e're the Pillars of the Earth Were fix't or form'd did'st lay that great Design Of Man's Redemption and did'st define In thine Eternal Councels all the Scene Of that stupendious Business and when It should appear and though the very Day Of its Epiphany concealed lay Within thy Mind yet thou wert pleas'd to show Some glimpses of it unto Men below In Visions Types and Prophesies as we Things at a distance in Perspective see But thou wert pleas'd to let thy Servant know That that blest Hour that seem'd to move so slow Through former Ages should at last attain Its time e're my few Sands that yet remain Are spent and that these Aged Eyes Should see the Day when Jacob's Star should rise And now thou hast fulfill'd it blessed Lord Dismiss me now according to thy Word And let my Aged Body now return To Rest and Dust and drop into an Urn For I have liv'd enough mine Eyes have seen Thy much desired Salvation that hath been So long so dearly wish'd the Joy the Hope Of all the Ancient Patriarchs the Scope Of all the Prophesies and Mysteries Of all the Types unvail'd the Histories Of Jewish Church unridl'd and the bright And Orient Sun arisen to give Light To Gentiles and the Joy of Israel The Worlds Redeemer blest Emanuel Let this Sight close mine Eyes 't is loss to see After this Vision any Sight but Thee Thus he used to Sing on the former Christmas-Days but now he was to be admitted to bear his part in the new Songs above so that Day which he had spent in so much Spiritual Joy proved to be indeed the Day of his Jubilee and Deliverance for between two and three in the Afternoon he breathed out his Righteous and Pious Soul His End was Peace he had no Struglings nor seem'd to be in any Pangs in his last Moments He was Buried on the 4th of January Mr. Griffith Preaching the Funeral Sermon his Text was the 57th of Isa verse 1. The Righteous perisheth and no Man layeth it to Heart and Merciful Men are taken away none considering that the Right eous is taken away from the Evil to come Which how fitly it was applicable upon this occasion all that consider the course of his Life will easily conclude It has appeared in the Account of his various Learning how great his Capacities were and how much they were improved by constant Study He rose always early in the Morning he loved to walk much abroad not only for his Health but he thought it opened his Mind and enlarged his Thoughts to have the Creation of God before his Eyes When he set himself to any Study he used to cast his Design in a Scheme which he did with a great exactness of Method he