Honourable Earl of Manchester to be Pastor of Uttington in Lincoln-shire GReat was the Jewel hid within this field A Pearl more precious than the earth doth yield One grace surpasseth Gold and Gems as far As the Sun shining doth the brighter Star This parti-colour'd coat wrought such debate And caus'd thy brethrens envy their hate That from thy place and people thou wast sent To suffer sharp and severe ' prisonment Far worse than that of Joseph in the pit Who afterwards was sold to th' Ishmaelite And by that Merchant-man who came from far To the Kings Provost-Martial Potiphar Where he was prosperous yet by the wile Of her who would by sin his soul defile Was stript of 's coat to keep his conscience His feet were fettr'd for his continence Tell me bless'd Saint what was not this thy fate If thou wast not far more unfortunate For in his bonds good Joseph was more free Who favour found was loos'd honourably But 't was otherwise with thee dear brother Who wast sent from one prison to th' other 'Till death by a Habeas Corpus did remove Thy flesh to th' earth thy soul to heaven above In those thy bonds thou wast so comfortable As made adversity amiable For Divine Truth was girdle to thy loyns And uprightness the brest-plate of thy reins A Faith most firm a shield of thy defence And an incomparable patience Hope was the only helmet of thy head The Gospels peace did light thee to thy bed Thy feet thus shod thou fearest no surprize But could'st defend thy self ' gainst injuries Thou having gotten these to good degree Obtain'st a conquest over Calamity Sore were thy life's troubles sweet thy rest Thy smel 's as of a Field that God hath blest Richard Moore Vpon the Death of many Reverend Ministers since Bartholomew 1662. IF passion be a spur to poetry Sure it should teach me for to verifie Were there but Sympathy who can but weep To see so many Pastors laid to sleep What shall the poor Sheep do now these are dead But dread likewise they shall be scattered The Lord hath smitten many Cedars tall How should poor poplars chuse but fear a fall Are Israels chariots and horsemen gone How should we chuse but weep and make great moan Old Ash foreseeing what a dearth would be Of Sions Seers fell fell down suddenly Although it proved his death yet would he grieve And buried was on Barthol'mew Eve As father Ely bowed his aged head First when the news came thy two sons are dead But when he heard once that the Ark was lost It brake his heart his neck his life it cost Vines Naulton Cawdry Calamy went hence Like Nard and Camphire trees of Frankincense Still sending forth their aromatick scent Till twice extinct from us to Heaven they went Learned Vines went away as in a sleep And Zealous Naulton who was wont to weep Calamy for London he loved so well When in the Fire he heard her passing-Bell Cawdry crowded on Caryl White and Strong Gouge Gataker Hill whitaker and Young Gravely judicious Burges and Hall Who was Tom-tell-troth Baker and Burdall Pale death why do'st thou make such haste And the true Churches Treasure waste Tell me in truth what is there no reprieve That such renowned Worthies might survive See that a Supersedeas thou grant That such the Clergies benefit may'nt want Though thou accostest them with swiftest wing I 'me well assured thou hast lost thy sting They 're now made more than conquerors since dead And are triumphant who were conquered Their Captain Christ hath got the Victory And soon O Death will make an end of thee In the mean time thou canst not surely kill A Child of God but cure him of his ill His Soul 's above thy reach and in a trice When once dismiss'd shall mount to Paradice Nor hurt the Body only lay 't to bed In th' Grave or Coffin where it 's buried RICHARD MOORE De Immortalitate BRight Marble nor the gilded Monunuments Of valiant Heroes nor the rare Contents Of wealthy Monarchs shall out-last thy fame Immortal Scholar of eternal name Neither shall time thy praises e'r divide As learned yet as e'r was on our side Fierce Mars his Sword may Statues overturn And wealthy Cities into Ashes burn Spoil and deface the works of costly plates High Spires and Temples prized at dear rates Yet cannot blur nor these thy Works o'return Immortal Hall who sleepest in thine Urn Art dead do'st speak by Books thou 'st left behind Sight to the faithful eyes unto the blind Bright Orient Pearls to light through misty vales O're gloomy Mountains and obscurest dales When Kingdoms are o'return'd like Troys sad Town The brightest Gem thy lofty front shall crown Posterity Halls learned Name shall boast When this our Isle and Europe quite is lost Aeternitati Comparatum omne tempus breve Popham Gardiner An Epitaph on the never-to-be-forgotten Divine Mr. Thomas Hall STay Passenger in this cold dusty Urn Read carefully in reading see thou learn Life's brevity the shortness of mans days How soon his glory fadeth and decays How soon his honour 's brought unto the Grave How soon the worms their satisfaction have What does his Learning him at all avail When once his vital Spirits dying fail If literature could free learn'd Men from death This Golgotha and dormentorious earth Halls Skeleton should never yet have found Who did with copious works so well abound Genius of art thy loss we do lament Mellifluous Orator who still time spent In reading seeking hearing sapience But now alas from us he is snatcht hence That makes us weep weeping we do deplore Tears blur our writings we can write no more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Life's Shortness Life 's a bubble Full of trouble And a vapour Or a tapour Life 's a flower Lasts an hour Soon it blasteth Sooner wasteth Then think how soon Mans pleasures fly away Since all his life-times but a winters day Like to the flower that with the Suns uprise His bud unfolds and in the ev'ning dies His swift concurrent motions like th' Sun With winged paces suddenly are gone Then think on God on grisly death's strong hand How thy poor soul at Gods just bar must stand Therefore prepare his aid see thou implore When that thou com'st his bar to stand before 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Solon Have God in mind him serve with filial fear And think how soon thy dying time is near Lord shall my soul when body it doth die Lord-liking climb the heavens Canopie Then farewel Earth Place of my Birth Adieu vain Pleasures Heaven yieldeth Treasures Far better than this tottring Stage doth yield Where we can't act but presently are kill'd O grisly pale-fac't death why so unkind To take him hence and leave me here behind Because I am not ripe too green of years To full this Corn-field of destroying tares If t' were not so thou wouldest take me hence To Heaven above thy dear's ones recompence Where Saints do triumph when the prize they 've won When this my body may out-shine the Sun When Moses-like I view the three in one FINIS Books to be Sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and three Crowns in Cheapside In Folio SErmons upon the whole Epistle o◠St. Paul to the Colossians By Mr. John Daille translated into English by F. S. 2. An Exposition of Temptation on Mat. 4 v. 1 to the end of the 11 v. A practical Exposition on the third Chapter of the first Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians with the Godly Mans Choice on Psal 4. v. 6 7 8. By Anthony Burgess Forty six Sermons upon the whole Eight Chapter of the Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Romans 8 Sermons upon the whole fourth Psalm 10 Sermons upon the whole forty second Psalm 19 Sermons upon the whole 51 Psalm 9 Sermons upon the whole 83 Psalm All Five by Tho. Horton D. D. Left perfected for the Press under his own Hand a little before his Death XXVI Sermons upon several Texts of Scriptures By the Learned and Reverend John Donne D. D. Quarto's The Morning-Exercise against Popery or the principal Errours of the Church of Rome Detected and Confuted in a Morning-Lecture preached lately in Southwark By several Ministers of the Gospel in or near London Mediocria or the most natural and plain understanding according to the Scripture of the great Doctrines of Election Redemption Justification the Covenants the Law and Gospel and of Perfection Large Octavo Captives bound in Chains made free by Christ their Surety or the Misery of graceless Sinners and their Recovery by Christ their Saviour By Tho. Doolittel The Faithfulness of God considered and cleared in the great Events of his Word or a second Part of the fulfilling of Scripture By the same Author Speculum Sherlockianum or a Looking Glass in which the Admirers of Mr. Sherlock may behold the Man as to his Accuracy Judgment Orthodoxy The Childs Delight together with an English Grammar The true way of reading and spelling English Both by Tho. Lye Small Octavo A Religious Family or a Treatise in which is 1. The Beauty and Excellency of a pious and well-ordered Family described 2. The single Mans Family-Book faithfully prescribed By Phil. Lamb. Index Biblicus Multijugus or a Table to the Holy Scripture wherein each of its Books Chapters and divers Matters are distinguished and epitomized The almost-Christian Discovered or the False-Professor tried and cast By Matth. Mead. The Godly Mans Ark or the City of Refuge in the Day of his Distress with Mrs. Moores Evidences for Heaven By Edm. Calamy The true Bounds of Christian-Freedom By S. Bolton The sinfulness of Sin and the Fulness of Christ By Will. Bridge A Discourse against Transubstantiation or an Answer to the ordinary Question whether a Man may be saved in the Roman Catholick Religion By I. C. D. D.
life and light and health and strength and time and talents before dim eyes and sailing hands and feeble feet and sainting hearts through the infirmities of old age come upon you You are called Labourers and must not loyter Souldiers and must fight sea-faring Men and must hoise up Sails whiles the wind sits Husbandmen and must plow up your fallow ground Stewards and must give an account You have your task set and have played the truants too long already and if you do not hasten you will hardly have done your work before the Lord comes Therefore while it is called to day barden not your hearts Be not like little children that consume their Candle in play and Psal 95.8 Heb. 3.8 sport and are forced to go to bed the dark 7. Now since both the Text and the Time leads me to it I cannot but take notice of two Occurences of Divine Providence that have hapned to the Inhabitants of this Parish and to my self as concerned herein this present Month of April 1. The first was the Lords gracious goodness and the Kings Royal Indulgence in restoring me to my Ministry at this place who wâ—â— before civilly dead and here I have continued a year compleat with the love good liking of my Heâ—â—ers not without the opposition and contradiction of some who are envious at my preaching and cast contumelies upon my person but none of Acts 20. 23 24. these things move me Homo sum nihil haec à me aliena puto Only the fruits of the affliction and the success of my service Oh that I could see more of this that I might not complain of running in vain nor you of dry brests or a miscarrying womb My preaching I well know hath been in much weakness and in fear and trembling 1 Cor. 2.3 For as that grave Father told Libanius the Rhetorician Non Oratorum filii sumus sed Piscatorum we are not the sons of Orators but of Fishermen It is a sufficient excuse to say what you have heard came to you through an Earthen Vessel and therefore pray unto God who made mans mouth the dumb to speak and the blind to see that he would cause this light to shine out of darkness into your hearts that so the excellency of the power may appear to be of God and not of Man 2. The second Occurrence this Month is likewise memorable for the Death of Reverend Mr. Hall some-time a Preacher in this Place but a faithful Pastor in the Parish where he served as he said a double Apprenticeship of whom though I have said something heretofore yet I can never say enough His Life was a Transcript of his Teaching and his Soul was stored with a Treasure of many Divine Graces and Gifts which he hid not in a Napkin or put under a Bushel but expended for the publick good Yet having this Treasure in an Earthen Vessel the Lamp of his Life went out by enlightening others yet without waste for the savour of this Ointment hath yielded a sweet perfume in the CHURCH of GOD. The End of the Second Sermon His CHARACTER HE was a man of middle Stature his Hair blackish which he wore very short scarce to cover his ears his Face pale and somewhat long his Spirit brisk and lively active and able to bear the brunt of business and was seldom or never known to be cast down with discouragements though often menaced and imprisoned by Souldiers and pestered with Sectaries of all sorts His Eyes were sparkling especially when he was intent upon the delivery of matters of worth and weight The cloaths he wore were rather coarse than costly his carriage and behaviour courteous â—nd attractive his temper and constiâ—ution inclined him to choler and he would break out sometimes into passion â—ut would soon recal himself and that â—or the future he might not sin in his â—nger he would resolve to be angry â—or nothing but Sin One thing hath been observed in him he would be over-credulous say some in receiving Reports upon trust without examining the Truth of what was told him especially when it came from such as he had a good opinion of for Godliness which I impute not so much to his weakness as to the sincerity and simple plainness of his own heart his own words being the issues of his upright heart he judged so of other men For his judgment however it was in the matters of the world yet doubtless it was deep in the search and discovery of the Mysteries of the Gospel and of Godliness which he got by frequent Communion with God and walking in his fear all the day long and the secret of the Lord is with such as Psal 25. 14 fear him He could see more in these sacred Riddles by Prayer than by his Learning and much labour in Reading For his Judgment about Discipline he was of the Presbyterian Perswasion and happily he was held too rigid by his Brethren that dissented from him in this and though more more mildness and moderation was desirable especially towards Dissenters who serve the same God and seek jointly to advance the Interest of Jesus Christ in the power and purity of his Ordinances yet doubtless what he did was out of a zeal for the Truth which he took this to be And to my knowledg he I can witness that he gave a Legacy at his death to one who was of a contrary judgment to him in Discipline and Church-Order had a Catholick Charity for all such in whose hearts he perceived the Seed of true Grace to be sown though they differed far from him in Judgment for his love to the Saints was not grounded upon an identity of Opinion but on a sweet suitableness and harmoniousness in Grace and whoever he found to have in him aliquid Christi was the Object of his Love and though he had a hatred towards the sins of all were they never so great in place yet not to their persons which he would pity and pray for and reprove And as he was jealous over this houshold of God with godly jealousie so Prov. 4.23 in particular over his own heart which he kept above all other keepings with much Christian caution well knowing that if the Spring were clear the streams would soon clear themselves and lest the flesh should wax wanton and kick he would keep it down by severe mortification and abstinence giving himself much to private prayer and fasting Indeed he was at all times temperate in the use of the Creature even at Feasts he would feed very sparingly upon a few Dishes and would commonly rise from the Table before others had half-dined But of all other things he was most spare of his time which he esteemed a choice Treasure and the loss of it irreparable and what shreds of it he could scrape together from a double publick imployment he had he spent in writing Books In composing of which he studied very hard
tasted the bitterness of death No saith she nor never shall For Christ bath promised that they that keep his sayings shall never see death A Believer may feel the stroke but not the sting of death Ignatius going to suffer Martyrdom triumphed in this that his blood should be found among the mighty Worthies and that the Lord when he maketh inquisition for blood will recount from the blood of righteous Abel not only to the blood of Zacharias but also to the blood of mean Ignatius It was a sweet saying of holy Mr. Hall in time of his health That the sweet rescent of a well-spent life would be matter of singular comfort at a dying day He would have his Hearers learn to know and know to do do to die and die to live In his sickness he said I am now going where I shall have rest from Sin Satan and from all fear weariness watching and from all the evils and errours of a wicked world for I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at Job 19. 26. the last day upon the earth c. Oh let my life be nothing but prayer and praises since God had dealt bountifully with me and even whiles he was breathing out his last breath he spake thus All the joys of this life are nothing nothing to the joys that are in Jesus Christ Come Lord Jesus And though he be now dead yet he speaks to you not by his Words but by his Works by Precept and by President Oh labour to lead his life that you may die his death for if you tread in the footsteps of his Faith though death bring your body to Corruption yet shall it never bring your souls to Condemnation I am now closing up the second year of my Ministry among you And Lord what have I been doing here all this while that so few of this Congregation have been brought from death to life to embrace Christ by Faith and to lead a holy life and to live to him Shall I say with the Prophet I have spent my strength in vain and laboured for a thing of nought I hope better things of you and I am perswaded better of some of you and that I may the better prevail with you to live by Faith Remember who it is that speaketh to you viz. one that is esteemed as dead And will you not credit such a Witness It was the request of Dives to Abraham Luk. 16. 30 31. that dead Lazarus might be sent unto his five Brethren he thought that if one came to them from the dead they would believe and repent Such a sight or report indeed might work upon the fancy but it is the Gospel preached that must work upon the affections For my own part I do believe the Truth of the Gospel upon surer Grounds and upon better Authority than if I had received it from one raised from the dead For such a Testimony if it be only Humane can beget but a humane Faith and should it be more than this we might see cause to question whether it were Divine or Diabolical for even Satan can transform himself into an Angel of Light Therefore be building up your selves daily in your holy Faith by Arguments drawn from the Doctrine of your Salvation that more sure Word of Prophesie and so your Faith will stand not on the Wisdom of Men but on the Power of GOD. 1 Cor. 2. 5 The Life and Death of Mr. Thomas Hall who died April 13. Anno Dom. 1665. THomas Hall was born in St. Andrews in the City of Worcester about July 22. An. Dom. 1610. His Father was Mr. Richard Hall a Cloathier in that City of a competent Estate his Mother was Mrs. Elizabeth Bonner descended of an antient Family but that which truly ennobled her was with the Bereans she Acts 17. 11. diligently searched the Scriptures These two lived together many years God giving them a plentiful Progeny of Sons and Daughters three of which Sons were brought up Scholars and afterwards proved godly Preachers The Mother being to them as an Eunice to Timothy or Monica to Augustine 1 Tim. 2.5 a careful Instructer in their Youth and lived to reap the Fruit of her endeavours in her old age Magnum est Dei beneficium pios nancisci Parentes ac praesertim Matrem qua pene tota filiorum A lapide educatio dependet like another Bathsheba she did bathe them with her Tears and Instructions and with her Prov. 31. 2 warm and melting Supplications This Thomas was first set to the Grammar-School under Mr. Bright and thence sent to the University of Oxford and admitted into Bayliole Colledg whence through the neglect of his Tutor he removed to Pembroke and became Pupil to Dr. Lushington a good Scholar but whose Principles As Plato saith of him were so poysonous that he might have boasted with Protagoras that he had spent many years in corrupting of youth Having taken his Degrees he returned into the Country and for a while preached and taught a private School at the Chappels belonging to Kings-Norton But as yet he was a Foe and no Friend to Gods Truth and People whom he opposed under the notion oâ— Puritans But as it was with St. Augustine who before was vitious in manners and erronious in judgment going to hear the Eloquence of Ambrose was reduced from his Errours so it fared with him being about that time a diligent frequenter of the learned Lectures of sundry Orthodox Divines at Burmingham he had here a sure and safe foundation laid of the true Religion and from that time he favoured the sincere Milk of the Word of God and intirely loved those that were born and begotten unto God thereby Not long after he was called to supply the Cure at Kings-norton under his Brother Mr. John Hall who had it annexed to the Vicarage of Bromsgrove and a while after gave it franckly to him the Free-School was also added to it for his further encouragement for though it were a large Parish yet the great Tyths being impropriate he had but a small Sallary and could scarcely have subsisted had he not embraced a single life for this cause chiefly as he said Yet after God had set a seal to his Ministry this great people were much upon his heart who ever sought Work rather than Wages that he would never be perswaded to leave them though solicited with a promise of far greater preferment and was in the time of War often accused cursed threatned with death plundred many times and five times imprisoned at the least He was a very hard Student though of a cold rheumatick Constitution he would impallescere Chartis even hazard his life to get Learning and the choice Observations he met with in good Authors he inserted into his Common-place Book and by his great industry he acquired a good measure of knowledg in Arts and Sciences especially in Divinity of God and his Word and Works of
weak yet he was strong in the Lord and in the power of his might and did mightily admire the free Grace of God in Christ in separating him from his Mothers womb calling him by his grace and setting him apart for the work of the Ministry though unworthy of that high and holy Calling so many that walked worthy of their profession and received with the heart the form of Doctrine delivered to them And in his Sickness though sometimes he might be heard to groan yet never to grumble but would always justifie God and condemn himself and soon silence any mutinous and murmuring thoughts that might seem to arise in his heart upon their first sallying forth In the words of the Prophet Shall a man receive good from the hands of the Lord and not evil He counted his sickness and his sufferings light and momentany the glory to come weighty great and so joyous as too big to enter into the soul that the soul must enter into it often mentioning that passage of the Apostle For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh 2 Cor. 4. 17. unto us a far more exceeding weight of glory March 22. 1665 his dear sister Mrs. Eleanor Smith came to visit him and attended upon him to the very day of his death and wrote down in her Book the most remarkable passages that she heard from him Many of which you will have wound up in the ensuing Discourse He said he had done his work meaning that he had run the course of his Ministry and accomplished that last Work of his upon the seventy-first Psalm and now longed for his Dissolution Psal 71. and to rest with his dear Lord Jesus And though he rejoiced much that he had compleated his former Works yet this was the quintessence of all that he was going to receive his Reward and counted not his life dear unto him since he should shortly see the lovely face of his dear Saviour And as St. Augustine when he meditated of that passage of God to Moses Thou shalt not see my face and live Lord saith he then Tunc moriar ut te videam let me die that I may see thy face So this serious and sincere Servant of Jesus Christ having seen him by the eye of Faith was now ready to sing old Simeons Nunc Dimittis Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in peace Nothing troubled him so much as that he was going to a place where he was to have so great Wages for so little Work And he not only at the last as it was said to be the Speech of Bellarmine upon his Death-bed Tutissimam est iter ad Coelum per merita Christi but he wholly in his health and sickness relied on Christ for Justification Life and Salvation freely by Faith in his Blood Rom. 3.24 He told Mrs. Smith he much rejoiced at her kind coming to him especially at the hopes he had of her continuance with him to the last which might be a means to free him from all scandals that might be cast upon him by the Papists or Quakers who he knew would spare him no less at his Death than they had done in his life he thought they would not stick to say he died raging an Atheist or a Papist or cast the like Calumnies upon him as they did upon Luther or Calvin But said he being now in perfect memory I do declare I die a sincere Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ and do detest from the bottom of my heart all their erroneous Opinions and Practices He said he thought he had been under as much contest with Satan the World and the Flesh as ever any man for his time of which he had left a particular testimony to be printed with his other works This was I conceive his Life written by his own hand which I never had the happiness to see though I much sought after it for the compleating of this his Narrative He often did reflect upon the evil of the times the reigning sins whereby God was dishonoured viz. Profaneness Atheism Idolatry c. were very grievous to him and he took it as a choice Mercy that God would take him out of the world in such a time as this Lord said he what am I that thou shouldst think on me and give me rest in such an evil day He much desiâ—ed to wait upon the Lord without distraction and diffidence knowing that his time was the best but rather if it were the Lords will and pleasure he desired to be out of the body that mortality might be swallowed up of life he would say O Lord how long holy and just why drive the Chariot-wheels on so heavily I long Lord to come unto thee And as he was comfortable in his Sickness so he gave much sweet counsel and encouragement to Ministers and private Christians that came to visit him especially to such as he had begotten to God by his Ministry or had fitted for the service of God in his Church A reverend Doctor coming to see him and speaking comfortable words to him he told him he was going to his rest and hoped the Church of God would have rest and that God would raise up and refresh his faithful Servants in the Ministry and though there might be a sharp storm coming he conceived that it would be but short He advised his Visitants to stand fast in the Faith and not to shrink though a trying time should come he would have them to continue constant to their Christian calling and not to be carried away with the errour of the wicked to forsake their stedfastness but to grow in grace c. prepare for death and judgment A young Minister coming to see him he exhorted him to adorn his Ministry with a holy life which if he did not he might do more harm by his Example than by all the Sermons he should preach He called for the four Youths in the Family under his inspection and gave them wholsome instruction viz. to remember their Creatour in the days of their Eccl. 12.1 youth he warned them to keep Gods watch to abstain from youthful lusts to observe the Lords Day strictly and to be obedient to their Parents which if they did it would be well with them and they should be a blessing to Posterity and bid them remember these were the words of their dying Master and so he blessed them particularly in the Name of the Lord. Ordinarily such of his Parish that came to see him he would caution them not to procrastinate their repentance but to be serious in the matters of God and his Service to break off all delays and to embrace the tenders of grace the motions of the Holy Spirit and set upon the practice of good works and to do nothing that might interrupt the peace of a good conscience which would witness for them or against them testifying that what he had taught them was the Truth of Christ
Hall away Our reverend Pastor to a bed of Clay Tell me blest Saint in sooth how couldst So great a Master in Divinity Could not at least our sighs our pray'rs thou die Prevail that thou might'st live old Nestors and tears Injurious Fate because thou couldst not get years The Pearl Would'st therefore spoil the Cabinet What wilt thou put no diff'rence 'twixt faces Not spare th' Saints for their transcendent graces Sure thou art neither blear'd nor brib'd nor blind Thou tak'st the best and leav'st the worst behind T' should seem from Death ther 's no prescription then The Preacher dies as well as other men Had I but tears to spare that are not spent Upon my sins I would give Sorrow vent I 'd drench the earth wherein his body lies And fill the air with Lamentable cries I 'd wet his Coffin and would wash his Tomb Till I another Niobe become But stay my Muse what means this Lamentation Sure his was not a Death but a translation H'walk'd with God and he hath took him hence Not to his loss but to his recompence And yet he lives methinks I see him still In 's doing good eschewing what is ill ' Specially in th' works he hath left behind The pious product of 's Prophetick mind London look to 't he foretold thy burning Thy Plague and poverty for not returning If Gods House be not built within th' Nation Yours and ours will be desolation Seeing those City-Comets that God sent As in fiery Chariot t' Heaven he went Were 't not Ambition I could wish that he Had lay'd the lap of 's Mantle on me Richard Moore An Epitaph upon Mr. Thomas Hall WIthin the period of Davids Span Behold the Sepulture of this Grave man Who whiles he liv'd fear'd not th' face of any Good counsel living dying gave t' many And though he chastly led a single life Held his School's Children and his Church his Wife To which he did impart most liberally His Books in 's life unto her Library The residue almost of what he had He gave the poor to make their faces glade Th' heaven born Jewel's gone the Grave contains Within her womb only those few remains Which though entombed now abide they may Unto the last resurrection day The Soul will then again resume this dust To the habitation of the Just R. M. Vpon the Death of that dear Servant of Jesus Christ Mr. Thomas Hall THou need'st no Trophees to adorn thy Herse Thy virtues serve t' imbalm thy Name in Verse And this I 'll say since death hath stopt thy breath Thy life was Priest-like Prince-like was thy Death In Truths defence thou wast a brazen wall ' Gainst execrable heresies a Mawl Witness thy Guards which still unrouted stand ' Gainst Tom Collier and that sooty band What Guard the Font the Schools and Pulpit too Which of your Mothers Sons have done like you But yet thy Comments writ on sacred story Most justly may deserve the greater Glory On th' Prophets those thy Lucubrations And those on Paul Doctor of th' Nations Live and thy other works of Charity Now thou art dead with God follow thee Those thou hast begot cry out my Father Which by Sage advice to God did'st gather Some of all sorts of these it doth them ease To trail a tear at thy sad Obsequies With blubred cheeks and countenance wan They sit and sing this Epicedium Let sad April cease her wonted showers And mornful May forbear t'yield its flowers Since this fair Flower 's cropt and with dry eye So many do slight this sad Destiny Richard Moore Vpon the much-lamented Death of Mr. John Ley who was Chair-man of the Assembly of Divines and late Rector of Solyhull His Character THe grace of God which in thy name did shine Was a Divine Spark like generous Wine Which was infus'd in thee without asswage Into thy heart and parts even in old age Which shews to all impartial Judges how That thou hast kept the good wine until now How many Learned within the Nation Like Conduits run wine at th' Coronation Whose parts soon flag grow flat and faint and wast Whil'st thine like wine on th' LEE when old do last Like Mâ—ason an old Disciple's rather Like Moses was this Reverend Father For in old age he had a Sp'rit like him His strength did not abate nor 's eyes wax dim His Pentateuch in th' tipes was partly seal'd Till by this Pen unvail'd the truth reveal'd The Christian Sabbath was by him maintain'd Against all sorts who would have it prophan'd A learned Schoolman much for moderation One able to give Laws for disputation He was skill'd in th' Tongues curious at his Pen A most just Censor both of Books Men He was a Load-stone in 's lovely Carri'ge An Adamant for unconquer'd courage He 'd speak the truth where ere he had bin And lov'd the person but reprov'd the sin More than most are from passion h' was free More mov'd to pity than most are was he He weekly made provision for th' Poor That constantly attended at his Door He 'd sympathize with such as were in bonds And had great skill in setting broken bones A rare Casuist and hath been sent for far Toth'sick to see what their distemperswere And how to heal them by his heav'nly Art H' hath powred balm to many a broken heart And that which crowns the rest is yet behind 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 H' was high in parts and lowly in his mind Like God he had respect to men After the Good he saw in them This was the chief ingredient for which He prized any person poor or rich And such as these if they had need of them Should have his heart his horse his purse his pen. I wish no worse to 's Successor than he Just such another Rector there may be Richard Moore Vpon the much-lamented Death of Mr. Burdal Minister of the Gospel at Walshall in Stafford-shire WHat art thou dead too another Burgess a healing Barnabas and Bo'nerges Who could'st convert thy self to every form Of sp'rit and speech thy flock to reform When Rhet'rick and Metaphysicks would not do 't Thou sought'st by sound words to woo them to it Thy Speech was above Books or humane Art Thou melt'st the stone in many frozen heart More hard than that thou fear'dst would thee torment Till thy last sand was run and breath was spent These pains did not prevent thy powr'ful Preaching Or travel of thy mind in th' constant teaching And as thou trad'st with God in pray'rs and tears He gave thee a return above thy fears Thou dy'd'st in th' fiftieth year with little pain And an eternal Life in Heaven did'st gain Richard Moore Vpon the Death of that humble and holy Servant of Jesus Christ Mr. Henry Field born at Kings-norton bred up under Mr. Thomas Hall and sent to Pembroke-Colledg in Oxford and from thence removed to Christs-Colledg in Cambridg where he was Fellow and so preferred by the