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A26078 A theological discourse of last vvills and testaments by William Assheton. Assheton, William, 1641-1711. 1696 (1696) Wing A4046; ESTC R17297 32,407 122

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thereof as well in Matters concerning the Corporation as in electing of Officers and Management of their Revenues and impose Penalties on Offenders against the said Laws and recover the same to the use of the said Corporation And therein it is appointed that the persons thereby Constituted to be the first President Vice-President Treasurers and first Assistants should continue in their respective places until the second Thursday in November 1679. And from thenceforth until there should be a new Choice made of persons to succeed them And that on every second Thursday in November for ever or oftner if there be occasion there should be a General Assembly of the said Governors and the Major part of the Members then present might chuse a President Vice-President three Treasurers and Forty two Assistants who should continue for the Year following And that in case of the death of any of the said Officers within the Year others might be chosen at a General Assembly into their places And that such General Assembly might Elect such other person or persons to be Members and Governors of the said Corporation as they or the greater part of them shall think fit Provided That the President Vice-President and Treasurers above-named should before they enter upon their Places take their Oaths before the Lord Chancellor faithfully to execute their Respective Trusts And that all other the Members of the said Corporation before they act as Assistants and all succeeding Presidents Vice-Presidents Treasures Assistants and all other their inferior Officers should take the like Oath before the Persons by the said Charter impowr'd to administer the same And that the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Lord High-Chancellor of England Lord Archbishop of York or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Lord high-High-Treasurer Lord Bishop of London Lord Almoner and the Lord Mayor of London for the time being should be the Visitors of the said Corporation and settle all differences about the Government thereof and touching the disposition of their Revenues HAving thus publish'd this great favour of his late Majesty here are next set down the Forms of Subscriptions and also how any Legacy in Money or Houses and Land may be given by WILL to the said Corporation I _____ of _____ do promise to pay to the Governors of the Charity for Relief of poor Widows and Children of Clergy-men the Sum of _____ Sterling on or before the _____ Witness my Hand I _____ of _____ do promise to pay to the Governors of the Charity for Relief of poor Widows and Children of Clergy-men the Sum of _____ Sterling at the two usual Feast days of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Michael the Archangel by equal Portions during _____ The first payment to be made at the next of the Feast Days above mentioned that shall happen after the Date hereof Witness my Hand This may be inserted among LEGACIES in a WILL. ITem I give and bequeath unto the Governors of the Charity for Relief of poor Widows and Children of Clergymen the Sum of _____ Pounds to be paid to one of the Treasurers For devising HOVSES or LANDS ITem I give and devise unto the Governors of the Charity for Relief of poor Widows and Children of Clergymen and their Successors for ever all that my Messuage _____ and Lands Situate and being in _____ IT is thought fit and requisite to give notice That the Governors of this Charity by the assistance of many worthy persons who have bountifully contributed thereunto and whose names are Registred as Benefactors Have not only made some Purchases as a Yearly Bond but also distributed considerable Sums amongst poor Widows and Children of Clergymen And also several poor Children are Yearly placed forth Apprentices by the Direction and Encouragement of the Stewards It is therefore much hoped That considerable Subscriptions will still be made Gifts and Legacies bequeathed in all parts of this Kingdom Such a certain Method and Security being Established for the due Administration of this Charity so that nothing can be diverted to any other use All Persons who shall please to promote this Charity or have any thing to communicate concerning the same may direct Letters as occasion shall require to Mr. Thomas Tyllot the Register of the Corporation at Doctors Commons LONDON FINIS THE CONTENTS THE Design of this Treatise Page 2 That Divines may Discourse of Last Wills and Testaments and how Page 3 Directions concerning Last Wills and Testaments Ib. I. Make your Will in your Health Ib. For 1. If you defer it to your Sick-Bed you may possibly never make it at all Page 4 Or 2. It is then most commonly imperfect and Defective Page 7 3. Disturbing to the Dying Testator Page 12 II. Make a Christian Will. Page 15 III. Make a Prudent Will Page 19 Express this Prudence 1. In the form of Words and Phrases in which the Will is Drawn and Composed Ib. 2. In the Subject-matter of the Will the Distribution of an Estate whether Real or Personal 20 IV. Make a Just Will Page 24 The nature of Restitution Page 26 The Reason of it Page 30 V. Make a Charitable Will Page 33 It is the Duty of the Clergy earnestly to move Sick and Dying Persons to be liberal to the Poor Ib. Charity commanded by St. Paul Page 35 By St. James Page 40 By St. John Page 41 By our B. Saviour Page 43 And in the Law and the Prophets Page 47 Motives to Charity 1. Charity to the Poor makes us like unto God Page 51 2. It is an Act of Justice Page 53 3. 'T is the most proper expression of our Gratitude to God 4. 'T is an Act of Prudence and of great Advantage to our Selves I. With Respect to this Life 1. To Preserve 2. Increase 3. Sanctify an Estate Page 62 c. II. Charity shall be rewarded in the Life to come Pleas and Pretences to excuse the neglect of Charitable Distributions Plea I. Pressing of Charity is Popish Answ Page 78 Plea II. The Laws have provided for the Poor Answ Page 80 Plea III. My Estate is but small Answ Page 82 Plea IV. I have Wife and Children to provide for Debts to be paid Answ Page 83 Plea V. There are so many Objects of Charity I may give away all my Estate Answ Page 87 Plea VI. I will remember the Poor when I Die Answ Page 91 Plea VII Charity is often abused Gifts and Legacies are Perverted Answ Page 95 Poor Widows and Children of Clergymen most humbly recommended Page 97 An Abstract of the Charter for Relief of Poor Widows and Children of Clergy-men Ib. Catalogue of some Books printed for B. Aylmer A Conference with an Anabaptist Being a Defence of Infant-Baptism In 8 vo price 12 d. A Theological Discourse of Last Wills and Testaments In 8 vo price 12 d. A Short Exposition of the Preliminary Questions and Answers of the Church-Catechism Being an Introduction to a Defence of Infant-Baptism Price 2 d. Directions in order to the Suppressing of Debauchery and Prophaneness 2 d. A Discourse against Blasphemy Being A Conference with M. S. Concerning 1. The Rudeness of Atheistical Discourse 2. The Certainty and Eternity of Hell Torments 3. The Truth and Authority of the Holy Scriptures 2 d. A Discourse against 1. Drunkenness 2. Swearing and Cursing 2 d. These are the price of each of these small books single but for the encouragement of those that are so charitably inclined to give away some quantities of them they may have them at ten shillings a hundred At Brab Aylmer 's in Cornhill These above all Writ by the Reverend William Assheton D. D. Certain Propositions by which the Doctrine of the H. Trinity is so explained according to the Ancient Fathers as to speak it not Contradictory to Natural Reason Together with a Defence of them in Answer to the Objections of a Socinian Writer in his newly printed Considerations on the Explications of the Doctrine of the Trinity Occasioned by these Propositions among other Discourses in a Letter to that Author A Second Defence of the Propositions By which the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity is so Explained according to the Ancient Fathers as to speak it not Contradictory to Natural Reason In Answer to a Socinian Manuscript In a Letter to a Friend Together with a Third Defence of those Propositions in Answer to the Newly published Reflections contained in a Pamphlet Entituled A Letter to the Reverend Clergy of Both Universities Both by Edward Lord Bishop of Glocester Lately Printed the Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New With Annotations and Parallel Scriptures To which is annexed the Harmony of the Gospels As also the Reduction of the Jewish Weights Coins and Measures to our English Standards And a Table of the Promises in Scripture By Samuel Clark Minister of the Gospel Printed in Folio of a very fair Letter and good Paper the like never before in one Volume The Four Last Things viz. Death Judgment Heaven and Hell practically Consider'd and Applied in several Discourses By William Bates D. D.
more I have it ready for you V. Append. to Mr. Mede's Life p. 37. The same as to the Dedication of a Tenth Part is reported of the Lord Harrington Dr. H. Hammond Mr. Joseph Mede Mr. John Parker with several others PLEA VI. Pray do not suspect my Charity but have a little Patience with me Give me leave to enjoy my Estate whilst I live and those who best deserve it shall have it when I die Amongst other Items in my Will there is so much left to the Poor and this I hope may excuse me from any further Importunities ANSWER Though it seems you are resolved to part with nothing whilst you live but to keep the Staff in your own hand as you phrase it yet you fairly promise to do some good at your Death And thus far 't is well for better late than never but let me be so faithful to my Office to remind you That the Charity you intend at your Death must not excuse you from being Charitable in your Life-time for to give you a true State of the Case 't is with Charity as with Repentance You must repent at your Death For Repentance as well as other Graces must be exercised upon your Death-Bed But 't is much hoped you do not then begin to Repent For a Death-Bed Repentance is neither comfortable nor safe Repentance then is the work of your whole Life For Daily Sins must have Daily Repentance However though there will be occasion for Repentance all your life long yet when you come to Die you then revise and finish your Repentance i. e. you then exercise these Penitential Acts with all the vigor that you can and most earnestly beg pardon for your imperfect Repentance And thus it is with Charity You ought indeed to be Charitable at your Death whereby you may supply your former Defects and may still be doing Good when you are removed into another World but this Death-Bed or Testamentary Charity doth not exclude but suppose the Charity of your preceding Life As we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all men Gal. 6. 10. Now this Expression As we have opportunity denotes Two Things 1. Life and Time to do Good 2. Wealth and Power to do Good And both these may be wanting if you neglect the present season 1. You may resolve to be very Charitable at your Death by Bequeathing such and such Legacies to the Poor but either Death prevents you and your Will is never made or else you are diverted by the unseasonable clamours of others who will be very importunate to discourage your Charity But 2. Suppose you are fixt and firm in your Resolution of doing Good at your Death it may then possibly not be in your Power for Riches make themselves Wings And the Wealth of an Age may be gone in a Moment For to omit Modern Instances he who this Day hath the Wealth of Job may to Morrow need his Patience And therefore Withhold not Good from them to whom it is due when it is in the power of thy hand to do it Prov. 3. 27. PLEA VII I have both Ability and Inclination to be Charitable But am troubled to observe How Gifts and Legacies are abused and how often the Intentions of Pious Donors are Perverted ANSWER That this may not discourage your Charity please to Consider That there is nothing fixt and certain in this World and if you dare not be Charitable because your Gift may be abused for the same reason you must neither Purchase nor Bargain because you may be cheated Use therefore the best Caution and take the best Advice you can and when you have so done leave the Success to God And then though the Wickedness of others should pervert your Charity yet God who is faithful will Reward your good intention And the better to avoid Abuses Finish your Charity in your Life and depend not too much upon Executors and Trustees But lest you should not Personally settle your Charity in your Life make choice of such Executors as are of Ability as well as Integrity and in Modern Language who are Responsible as well as Honest And if your Charity is not so large as to raise a Foundation of your Own there are then several eminent Foundations in this Kingdom upon which you may safely Superstruct and securely place your Charity without the least hazard of its being perverted viz. The Colledges and Halls in our Two famous Universities Oxford and Cambridge The Five noted Hospitals in London and Southwark viz Christ's Hospital St. Bartholomew's Hospital St. Thomas's Hospital Bridewel-Hospital Bethlem-Hospital Besides these there is another late Foundation which because as yet not so generally known I shall more largely describe and with a most Affectionate Concern thus Commend to your Charity ALL those Honourable and Worthy Persons who are inclined to Dedicate and Bequeath some part of their Estates to Charitable Uses They are most humbly Petitioned To Remember Poor Widows and Children of Clergymen And the better to promote so Pious a Work it was thought fit here to Publish An Abstract of the CHARTER Granted by his late Majesty King Charles the II. of ever Blessed Memory for Erecting a CORPORATION for Relief of Poor Widows and Children of CLERGY-MEN Dated July 1st 1678. HIS said late MAJESTY having taken notice That divers Charitable Persons had appeared very forward in contributing to the relief of such of the Widows and Children of Loyal and Orthodox Clergymen as were poor and of the good effect the same hath had and taking into his Princely Consideration the great Sufferings of many of the Clergy in England for their Loyalty Was graciously pleased by his Charter under the Great Seal of England to Ordain Constitute and Grant That the Persons therein named and their Successors to be elected as is therein expressed Be one Body Politic and Corporate by the name of The Governors of the Charity for Relief of poor Widows and Children of Clergymen And that by the same name they should have perpetual Succession and be capable to purchase have or take Mannors Lands and Hereditaments c. not exceeding the yearly value of Two thousand Pounds and all manner of Goods and Chattels and to dispose thereof And by that Name to Plead and to be Impleaded in All Actions c. And to act all other Matters and Things as fully as any other Body Politick in this Realm can do And that the said Governors should have one Common-Seal And his said late Majesty did further Grant to the said Governors That There should be a President a Vice President three Treasurers and forty two Assistants Members of the said Corporation and that they or any five of them whereof the President Vice-President or one of the Treasurers to be one should be called The Court of Assistants of the said Corporation who should have the management of all the Affairs of the said Coporation and should make Laws and Ordinances for the good Government