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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77664	A rare paterne of iustice and mercy; exemplified in the many notable, and charitable legacies of Sr. Iames Cambel, Knight, and alderman of London, deceased : worthy imitation. Whereunto is annexed A meteor, and A starre : or, Briefe and pleasant meditations of Gods providence to his chosen, of the education of children and of the vertue of love; with other poems. / By Edw: Browne.	Browne, Edward.	1642 (1642)	Wing B5105; Thomason E1109_1; ESTC R208421	51,495	182

be possible to prevent them Their death is a plaine prognostication of some evils to come and should bee as a trumpet to awaken others out of the sleepe of sinne Many of the wicked rejoyce when the godly are taken away from them they love their roomes better then their company they hated them and their profession in their life time because as they say they are not for our profit and they are contrary to our doings they checke us for offending against the law it grieves us to looke upon them for their lives are not like other men and therefore at their death they are glad that they are rid of them when indeed they have greater cause to howle and weepe for the miseries that shall come upon them The righteous need not to imitate the ungodly practice of Herod who being ready to die and thinking that his death would be a great joy to many shut up in prison some Noblemen in every town and required his sister Salome and her husband Alexa that so soone as he was dead they should kill those Noblemen and then all Iudea would lament his death The Lord himselfe doth often make the death of the righteous to bee lamented by sending of extraordinary judgements immediately after their death When Noah entred into the Arke the world is drowned with the floud when Lot departs out of Sodome it is burnt with fire 2 In this respect also the righteous have no cause to feare death but rather to desire it for what is it but an ending of some troubles and a preventing of others They may with Paul desire to be loosed to be with Christ which is best of all It is true which Salomon saith That the day of a mans death is better then the day of his birth For the day of a godly mans birth is the beginning of his miserie but the day of his death is the end of his miserie Indeed the day of a wicked mans death is the most wofull day that ever be●ell him for he is not taken away from the evill to come but he is taken unto evill to bee tormented in hell for evermore And therefore hee feares death as much as a malefactor feareth a Serjeant that commeth to carry him to prison where he is like to abide till the day of execution That is true in them which the Divell said Skin for skin and all that ever a man hath will he give for his life And as the Gibeonites were content rather to be bondmen hewers of wood and drawers of water then to bee killed by the Israelites as other nations were So they had rather indure any kinde of miserie then to die as others doe because they feare a worse estate after death and therefore must bee pulled from the earth with as great violence as Ioab was pulled from the hornes of the altar unto which he had fled as to a place of refuge But the godly knowing what an happie exchange they make by death they desire to die so soone as it pleaseth the Lord. Indeed none ought for the ending of present calamities or preventing of future miseries to shorten their owne dayes as Saul did by falling on his owne sword nor yet for the present enjoying of eternall happinesse procure their owne death as Cleombrotus did who reading Plato his booke of the immortalitie of the soule cast himselfe headlong from a wall that he might change this life for a better He onely who gave life must take it away and the Lord may say to such I will receive no soules which against my will have gone out of the body the Philosophers which did so were martyrs of foolish Philosophy Yet seeing that death freeth the righteous from present and future miseries they may be most willing to die so soone as the Lord calleth for them and when death approacheth may say with Simeon Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace 3 Lastly in this respect we must learne not to mourne immoderately for the death of the righteous Though wee received great comfort and enjoyed some benefit by them while they were alive as I did by my late Master Sir Iames Cambel yet seeing that death is an advantage unto them we should ●ee content patiently to bear our owne losse in respect of their great gaine If two friends should lie in prison together or should dwel together in a strange Countrey where both of them were hardly used were many wayes injured endured great want and sustained much miserie though they loved one another dearly and the one were an he●pe and comfort to the other yet if the one should bee taken from the other and brought to his chiefest friends and among them be not onely freed from all such miseries as before he had endured but also bee advanced to great preferment will the other which is left behinde him be discontented at it Will he not rather wish himselfe to bee there with him in the like then desire that either hee had stayed with him or might returne againe This our life is as a prison or strange Country in which wee indure great miserie and may every day looke for more if therefore our dearest friends bee taken from us freed from these miseries and advanced to great glory with Christ and his Saints in the Kingdome of heaven wee have no cause to wish that either they had stayed longer with us or might returne againe unto us but rather desire that wee might quickly goe unto them to bee glorified in like sort Though we may thinke that they died too soone for us yet they died not too soone for themselves for the sooner they come to rest and happinesse the better it is for them Their condition is farre better then ours for they are freed from miserie we are reserved for further miserie they are already arrived at the haven of eternall rest and we are still tossed on the sea of this world with troublesome waves and dangerous tempests they have ended their journey with lesser travell and making a shorter cut and wee are yet travelling with wearisomnes in our journey If any one of them could speake after their death he would say unto them which weepe for him as Christ said to the daughters of Ierusalem Weepe not for me but weepe for your selves and for your children because of the dangerous dayes that shall ensue Or as Christ said unto his Disciples If ye loved me ye would verily rejoyce because I goe unto the Father But if examples doe move any thing at all I may apply all that hath beene spoken to this present occasion A righteous man is perished a mercifull man is taken away for God hath made me seriously to consider and lay close to my heart the losse of my late ●udicious loving Master Sir Iames Cambel Therefore for a memoriall of him I have presumed to set forth his unparallel'd Legacies Which though they be unskilfully performed yet God may work such an effect in

A rare PATERNE OF Iustice and Mercy Exemplified in The many notable and charitable Legacies of Sr. Iames Cambel Knight and Alderman of London deceased Worthy imitation Whereunto is annexed A Meteor and a Starre OR Briefe and pleasant Meditations of Gods Providence to his Chosen of the Education of Children and of the vertue of Love with other Poems By Edw Browne Psal 19. 1. The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handiworke Printed at London for William Ley at Pauls Chaine neere Doctors Commons M DC XLII The Effigies of the right wor ss Sr James Cambell Knight sometime Lo Mayor and Senior Aldrn̄ of London etc. To the Right Worshipfull his vertuous and religious Lady Dame Rachel Cambel Relict Executrix of the last Will and Testament of Sir Iames Cambel Knight and Alderman of London deceased And to the Right Worshipfull his honoured friends Sir Thomas Abdy Knight and Baronet and Mr. Iames Cambel Esquire joint Executors with the said Lady Grace and peace be multiplied Right VVorshipfull DEtraction that ugly deformed Hell-borne Monster hath of late cast her poisoning envious breath upon my best actions even upon these harmlesse papers and would faine beget in you an evill opinion of me and of my honest endeavours thereby to worke my utter ruine But I hope the Lord who knoweth the integrity of my heart and the cleannesse of my hands from doing wrong to any especially to my late Iudicious loving-Master will worke in you such an heroicall and magnanimous spirit that you will not be infected with such pestiferous venome your Worships knowing very well that such Detractors like ravenous Vultures eate and gnaw upon the very life and livelihood of others onely for their owne ends viz. that they may grow fat and rich thereby for they care not how they impaire the good name fame or reputation of others so they themselves may get honour and esteeme though there be little worth in them deserving the same Therefore for vindication of my credit in this particular which now lyes a bleeding I am inforced to publish that I intended to keepe private to shew to your Worships and all other my friends that I have beene so far from intending the least disgrace that as I am in duty bound so I have ever sought the honour of my judicious loving Master And I am confident if in these workes of mine he had found any thing to his disparagement hee would in his life time have showne me my errors upon my request which he never did as your Ladiship very well knowes And as it is very well knowne throughout this Citie that my Master in his life did much good to others especially in Iusticiarie affaires so I doe humbly acknowledge that he did alwayes delight to doe me good even to the day of his death And therefore I thinke it part of my dutie now hee is departed this transitorie life to expresse my thankfull heart for the same which I can no better way perform being I have alread●e been● so presumptuous as to cast my unlearned workes into the Presse then to publish without flatterie his many worthie and imparalleled workes to his never-dying memorie That they may bee a meanes to excite and stir up others of his qualitie to doe workes of charitie to the poore and judicious benevolence to the rich Yet I doe ingenuously confesse that they deserve to bee ingraven in Pillars of durable Marble by some learned and eloquent Cicero rather then by my rustick quill on these timeperishing papers For my workes I commit them to your gracious acceptance and judicious censure hoping that what I have done amisse herein you will be pleased favourably to passe by because you know the attractive cause from whence these cloudie and muddie vapours did arise therefore I doubt not but the sun-shine of your favourable aspects will expell such mistie exhalations and ever remain upon the poore and weake yet honest and willing endeavours of Your unworthy yet truly faithfull servant Edward Browne 19. Maii. 1642. A RARE PATERNE of Iustice and Mercy Exemplified in the many judicious noble and charitable Legacies given and bequeathed in the last Will and testament of that grave Iudicous Senator Sir James Cambel Knight sometime Lord Maior and senior Alderman of London who departed this transitory life upon Wednesday the fift day of Ianuary Anno Dom. 1641. and was buried in the Parish Church of Saint Olaves Iewry London the 8. day of February following being Tuesday Obiit sine prole Aetatis suae 72. THe memory of the just is blessed saith the Wiseman but the name of the the wicked shall rot And surely the righteous shall bee had in everlasting remembrance saith holy DAVID Yet the Prophet ESAY complaines That the righteous perish and no man considereth it in heart and mercifull men are taken away and no man understandeth That the righteous are taken away from the evill to come In consideration whereof that I may not be culpable of the like reproofe I will with the Psalmist marke the upright man and behold the just for the end of that man is peace For thereby I shall learn how to dye comfortably It may bee as a paterne or example to direct me and others in the houre of death For eth wicked they dye either sottishly impatiently or desperately First sottishly like blocks and idiots having neither penitent feeling of their sins nor comfortable assurance of salvation Being like to Nabal whose heart ten daies before his death died within him and he was like a stone Such men die like lambes and yet shall bee a prey for the devouring Lion they go quietly like fools to the stocks for correction Secondly others die impatiently who do not willingly bear the Lords correction deserved by their sins but rage fret and murmure as if God dealt too rigorously with them and through impatiency will use unlawfull meanes for their recovery as Ahaziah did who being sicke sent messengers to enquire of Baal zebub the god of Ekren if he should recover of his disease Thirdly others die desperately their consciences accusing them most terribly for their sins without any hope of pardon as Cain who said my sinne is greater then can be forgiven or Iudas who despairing of pardon for his sin in betraying our Saviour went and hanged himselfe The consciences of many wicked men lye quietly and never trouble them all their life time but are stirred up at their death and then rage and torment them like a mad dogge which is lately awaked out of sleepe But the righteous die most comfortably they beleeving in Christ and having repented of their sinnes are assured in their owne soules that all their sinnes are pardoned in Christ they wil make confession of their faith and give testimony of their repentance unto others for their comfort and example They will patiently endure all the paines of their sicknesse as Iob did knowing that all comes from the Lord and that it