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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55386	A model for the maintaining of students of choice abilities at the university, and principally in order to the ministry with epistles & recommendations, and an account of the settlement and practise of it in the universities from the doctors there : as also with answers to such objections as are most plausible, which may be made against it : and with the names of the trustees.	Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679.	1658 (1658)	Wing P2841; ESTC R38154	17,545	32

such a work And also that it be approved at a meeting of the Trustees in London CHAP. X. Of the encouragement of Forreigners promotion of the Gospel abroad 1. AND because there is a great desire in many forreign persons to learn the English Tongue that so they may understand our English Divines and be the more able to preach practically and powerfully to their people which may much further the work of conversion and edification in forreign places if it shall please any to contribute any summe or summes to this end and with this desire it shall be faithfully employed to that purpose viz. To the maintenance of such forreigners as being poor are and shall appear to be most eminent for parts and learning and piety who shall be maintained in London or one of the Universities as shall be judged most expedient for so long time as shall suffice for the fore-mentioned ends FINIS The Names of the Trustees Christoph Lord Pack Robert L. Tichburne Sir Thomas Andrews Sir Thomas Foot Sir Thomas Viner Maj. Gen. Brown Alderman Frederick Alderman Allen Alderman Tompson Alderman Milner Alderman Laurence Alderman Higginson Alderman Warner Alderman Love Andrew Ricard Esq Colonel Gower Tho. Bromfield Esq Tho. Arnold Esq Theo. Biddulph Esq Walter Boothby Esq Will. Pennoyer Esq Walter Bigg Esq Martin Noel Esq Maurice Tomson Esq Dr. Thomas Cox Deputy Iohnson Mr. Iohn Iurian Mr. Henry Spurstow Mr. Maskal Mr. Keate Mr. Nath. Barnardiston Mr. Valent Wanley Captain Story Mr. Brinley Mr. Crumlum Mr. Bathurst Ministers Doctor Reinolds Doctor Spurstow Mr. Ash Mr. Caryll Mr. Calamy Mr. Iackson sen Mr. Case Mr. Slater Mr. Clarke Mr. Cooper Mr. Arthur Mr. Tayler Mr. Manton Mr. Ienkins Mr. Griffith Mr. Watson Mr. Lye Mr. Iacomb sen Mr. Iacomb jun. Mr. Bates Mr. Poole Mr. Whitaker Mr. Woodcock Mr. Vinck A word to the Rich that desire to give up their Account with comfort SUffer I beseech you one word of exhortation and with attention read a few lines which may be of everlasting concernment to you I will suppose I speak not to Atheists but to such as are possest with a belief of an eternal estate of infinite happinesse or misery not to fools but to wise men who would not wilfully neglect any thing which is necessary to secure them from the wrath to come It is also notoriously known that the wilful continuance in the neglect of any one evident duty or the commission of any manifest sin is sufficient to entitle a man to damnation notwithstanding any professions of Religion or practises whatsoever You cannot but know that many perish eternally not for any grosse wickednesse visible to the world but for slie and secret and unobserved omission sins and that these are the only sins which our Saviour formes a processe against in that famous representation of the last judgment Mat. 25. And amongst those duties which men are most prone to neglect are those which are difficult and costly and troublesome which made Christ pronounce it so hard for a rich man to enter into the Kingdome of heaven And therefore you that are rich had need double your diligence to make your calling and election sure And truly it is an unspeakable happinesse if the Lord give you hearts to consider it that your riches wisely managed may afford you a special and eminent evidence and assurance of Gods love and your own future happinesse forasmuch as if you freely lay out those riches that God hath graciously given you for his glory and the Churches good it may be a notable and sound discovery of a lively faith which can part with present comforts in hopes of those future and unseen consolations a fervent love to God and the brethren a resolution to part with all for Christ and a serious and true desire of salvation As on the other side it is a token of perdition when a mans heart is glued to his riches and the present evil world when a man is so destitute of charity that rather than part with his riches he will suffer bodies and soules to perish and the glory of God to be turned into shame I beseech you therefore by the bowels of God have compassion upon your immortal souls make you friends of the Mammon of unrighteousnesse throw not your selves overboard to preserve your riches from which you can expect no other requital but this that the rust of them shall rise up in judgment against you at the last day and this duty I may the more boldly exhort you to because if you make use of your reason you will find the performance of it is no way disadvantageous to you for as you will gain this excellent advantage besides eternal salvation that that portion of your estates which you lay out for God will be a means to sweeten and secure all the rest to you and your posterity so by the doing of it you will lose nothing of substance seeing that is most true and evident by daily experience which our Saviour saith That the comfort of a mans life consisteth not in the abundance of what he possesseth For what are riches but for use without which a mans chest hath as much good by his riches as he and how can a man use them but for his pleasure or credit or posterity or the like and who knowes not that many discreet men of competent estates between want and affluence enjoy more real pleasure in their estates than they that have ten times a larger portion and if a man look to his credit let any impartial man judge whether it more advanceth a mans reputation sordidly to hoard up his riches to the dishonour of Religion his own shame and contempt whereby he live lamented and dies desired or generously to lay them out in such waies as not only procure him favour with God but respect from men here and at last a Crown of glory that fades not away and if a man aims at posterity methinks this City hath afforded sufficient experiments to convince any ingenuous man that the leaving of vast estates to children doth commonly betray them not onely to the greatest wickednesses but also to manifold miseries which they that carry their sailes lower and whose estates are nearer the golden Mediocrity are preserved from I may added to all this that divers of you in this City may say with Iacob with may staffe I came over Iordan and now God hath made me two bands That God that hath brought down others hath exalted you that God that hath impoverished others hath enriched you and therefore if others owe their thousands to God surely you owe your ten thousands Remember I beseech you that hand that gave you your estates can recal them when he pleaseth and if you deny him the interest he can revoke the principal Remember you will not alwaies have such opportunities Ere long you and the poorest wretch must be upon the same terms now you have an advantage over them and a means