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A51305	Letters on several subjects with several other letters : to which is added by the publisher two letters, one to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock, Dean of St. Paul's, and the other to the Reverend Mr. Bentley : with other discourses / by Henry More ; publish'd by E. Elys.	More, Henry, 1614-1687.; Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1694 (1694)	Wing M2664; ESTC R27513	57,265	148

Young you know that Greek saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whom God loves dies young See the Book of Wisdom Chap. 4. Vol. 10 11 c. The Vanity Wickedness and Miseries we are incident to in this Body of Flesh you cannot but think of But if you could by chearful persuasions of the happiness of the departing into the other World cause her to be pleas'd or desirous to leave this I know not but it may contribute her mind being thus chear'd to the bettering the state of her Body and help on a Recovery if she be at all recoverable But no doubt but whatever shall happen from the Providence of our gracious God will be for the best to whose Guidance and Assistance I commend you and rest Dear SIR Your Affectionate Friend to serve you Hen. More C. C. C. March 13th 1684. An Epitaph on the Truly Vertuous L. M. F. who dyed May 10th 1687. MAid Wife and Widow she did always shew Her Business was to give to all their due To God her Husband and her Children dear She gave her Soul her Love her constant Care Her Husbands Death of all her Children too And ev'ry thing that mortal Men can call Woe With Christian Patience she did undergo On Earth she met whatever could molest To fit her Soul for everlasting rest In Solitudinem Cui aliquot Mensibus assuevit priùsquam sibi innotuit Praestantissimum Virum Optimum amicorum H. M. è Vitâ discessisse Scilicet Humani Generis consortia vito Angelico ut valeam me Sociare Choro Arctiùs Amplector te nunc Coelestis Amice Nulla venit sine te Nox mihi nulla dies In Somno Visa est Species Morientes Amici Ah quanto Exardent Pectora Amore mea Me placidè aspiciens Flammantem hac voce repressit Irruat in Mentem Passio nulla Tuam POTERIS NEC MORTE REVELLI SIR YOurs of Feb. 29th I have receiv'd c. There is no pleasure comparable to the not being captivated by any external thing whatsoever but to reserve himself entire for the service of God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Your Judgment touching the drinking of Wine is true and will stick with you the better since it is built upon experience Amongst your other Verses I more particularly like that Distich I do but think my Friends are Good but know My Love is good which I on them bestow That Faith and Belief in the Power of God to become holy c. it is the great Gift of God to you that you are to acknowledge with all Humility and Thankfulness for it is of main importance for the making a man good and it is a sign of a great measure of simplicity of Spirit that a man will own such a Doctrine for it is a sign he seeks no Excuses for the Evil he commits but openly lays the fault at his own door and exposes himself to the more severe and envious Censures of other men But here a man must be sure to attribute all to the Power of God and that not only rationally and verbally but feelingly and sincerely and to confirm the truth of his Profession by a most profound and exemplary Humility of mind and conversation Whether it be in the Power of all men to believe this so important Doctrine is a Question more uncertain but the Belief theréof being of that great importance for holiness of Life it is very ill done of any Man to oppose it I wrote to our Friend Mr. D. the last time I wrote to you and superscrib'd it according to his direction but I know not whether it carry'd my Letter to him if you know whether he has receiv'd it or no and would give your self the trouble of sending me word thereof in your next you would thereby oblige Your affectionate Friend and Servant Hen. More C. C. C. March 13th SIR YOur last Letter I have receiv'd but your former long one tho'I enquired after it at the Post-house yet I cannot recover it I am glad you and Mr. H. are so well satisfied with my Expositions I hope Mr. D. is well tho you have not heard from him of late Your chearful Paraphrase of my 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were enough to revive him You have Translated it very well saving your mistake in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by which I intended I truly Live in Answer to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If you be so long in Translating one after the other as I was in making of them it will be some years For I wrote 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when I was Undergraduate but my 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after I was Master of Arts. My Enchiridion Ethicum with the Translation of the Greek has been out these two Months at least I am glad my pains are so well accepted as you intimate it is the only reward I am sensible of It is an excellent Text your Friend chose out of Ieremiah and very suitable to his purpose I am glad you have your Health so well and that you do so well bestow it Your associating or not associating in the Circumstances you name you must your self be judge of according as you find your self in a capacity to do good thereby and receive no harm A man must feel his way in such things I see nothing amiss in that Passage of your Divine Solitude There 's a good lively strain in both your Paraphrases but the English seems the more easie and nearer to the Copy I am much straitned in time which has made me scribble so fast and leave off so soon and have a line or two to write to Mr. D. to see if he will speak to his and Your affectionate Friend and Servant H. More C. C. C. Jan. 8 1669. SIR THe Year is expired and yet I have not answer'd yours of the 9th of October which I hope you will excuse especially I having now the opportunity of wishing you a happy New Year I am glad my Enchiridion Metaphysicum gave you that satisfaction The Poetical Heat it stirred up in you is sound and good and the Verses handsome The other two parts of my Metaphysics will be less needful when my Writings are Translated into Latine In the first part I have done what is most proper for me to do in what follows there would be but what either others or my self have said already but if I live to publish my second Volume viz. the Philosophical no new thoughts touching this Metaphysical Subject shall be lost but I will contrive them in some form or other to go along with the Philosophical Volume I am now altogether taken up with Translating my Writings into Latine If you see Dr. T. again I pray you remember my service to him Dr. Barrow is a very worthy Person and that Discourse you mention very good and christian That saying of yours touching the eternity of the World is as true as handsome as my judgment is now but heretofore

I thought so much of the goodness and power of God that I did not so much consider the incapacity of the Creature If it please God I live to finish the present Task I am taken up with it is likely enough I may write such a Practical Treatise in English which I have long since call'd the Safe Guide but whatever becomes of me I doubt not but God will stir up those that will assist his true Church and the main ends of Religion Nothing more for the present but that I am Dear SIR Yours Affectionately Hen. More Jan. 2. 1671. SIR I Have receiv'd yours of Nov. 10. I was so full of business that I was fain to defer the answering of it till now I told Dr. Cudworth what service his Sermon did you on that place of Scripture you mention That saying of Plotinus you have pickt out with Judgment it is very significantly exprest and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is that wherewith all men are in a manner always hurried scarce any attending to that which is more inward in the Soul her self and truly Moral and Divine Plotinus is raised to a great price it seems I bought one when I was Iunior Master for 16 shillings and I think I was the first that had either the luck or courage to buy him As for my Latin Translation my Theological Volume is now in the Press and I hope it will be finish't within this year or thereabout When this is out I intend God willing to set upon my Philosophical Writings to Translate them which wiil excuse me the going on in my Enchiridion Metaphysicum But I shall I believe in an Epistle give some brief Account of what I should have done if I had gone on whereby nothing new shall be lost I pray return my affectionate service wishing you both a chearful Christmass and an happy New Year I take leave and rest Dear SIR Your Affectionate Friend to serve you Hen. More C. C. C. Decemb. 27th 1673. SIR I Deliver'd your enclosed Book to Dr. Cudworth after I had run it over my self he returns his thanks to you for it who has also run it over but has not had leisure to observe things so closely and districtly as to spy out those points you intimate that you differ from him in I think you would do well distinctly and expresly to signifie them to him or me I asked him about his Second Volume but he says He hath so many both Colledge Occasions and Domestick that he cannot yet tell when he shall be in readiness to send the Papers of his Second Volume to the Press I wish you all good success in your competition for your Lecturers place in St. Clements and should be glad to hear that you have sped There 's good pious and useful sense in your Verses but that passage in which there is a Star and refers to Gregory the Great is notwithstanding dark and obscure to me Your Letter to the Chancellor of Denmark has things in it not unsuitable to his Condition and fit to be thought on in all Conditions For he that makes it not his business to enlarge his own Will and Desire is a real Prisoner in his inward Man tho' his outward be free to go where he will Whoever permits himself in any sin or is captivated with any thing but the love of God and true Vertue is his own Prison and Jailour And in those things therefore every Man is sincerely and impartially to examine himself and forthwith to break the Bands and Cords of whateverVanity he finds himself held with and cast them from him that he may become the faithful Servant of Christ whose service is perfect Freedom Thus with my kind respects committing you both to Gods gracious keeping I take leave and rest Your Affectionate Friend to serve you Hen. More December 2d 1678. SIR I Beg your pardon that I have not return'd my Thanks for your civil and pious Letter at this time it being almost a Quarter of a Year since I receiv'd it But I have been much taken up in business and have but so much leasure as to excuse my self Your Citations out of Savanorola are pertinent and pious and certainly he was a ve-Holy Man But Picus Mirandulanus has dress'd up his Life so that it looks like one of the rest of the Roman Legends He knew more than those Times would bear and 't was his honesty and courage that he would die in what he knew to be true I am glad you find so much benefit in being persuaded of that main point of Faith in the assistance of Christ's Spirit for the subduing our Corruptions There is little hope of any progress in the ways of true Holiness without it And they that have it possess a Jewel if they make right use of it and not entertain it as a true Notion only but as an indispensable Principle of Life that will remind us perpetually That it is long of our selves if we be not as we should be for as much as we are assur'd there is in readiness so powerful a supply of Strength and Grace from Christ if we will sincerely set our selves to resist our Spiritual Enemies As for the Query you put to me I think you are a little too early in forecasting about such things Let us speak what is true and do what is just and righteous and make it our business to kill and consume all remainders of Corruption in our Souls and Bodies in that condition we are and God will give us Wisdom when the time of suffering comes to do what is most behooffal No man can give Advice at such a distance either to himself or any one else I am sure I cannot what he is to resolve of But in general the safest way is that in which there is the greatest Self denyal and that no interest of his own stands in competition with the interest of Christ's Church and Kingdom Thus commending you to God's gracious Guidance and Keeping I take leave and rest Your Affectionate Friend and Servant Hen. More C. C. C. Feb. 2. 1681. SIR YOurs of Iune 23d came to Cambridge first but in my absence from thence was sent me to London which I brought with me hither again but I have been in such an hurry of business both at London and here since my return that I had no leasure to look out your Letter and peruse it till now I am glad you are so much gratified with my Philosophical Volumes The Copies in Quires is my Gift to you but if you will indulge so much to your own proneness to lay out your mony that way as to pay for the Binding you may follow your own humour in that if you be so minded The same party that you say declared to that French Gentleman that I wrote not satis terse I have heard from other hands that he has much commended my Latine Style So that these things are as mens Humours take them and searce